The wind blew from beneath the ground and hit Allen's face, cold and moist.
"If I were you, I wouldn't be standing in that kind of place." Edward said indifferently. The two of them were at the edge of one of the blocks. There was a stone fence here, and every ten meters, there would be a stone brazier carved on the stone fence. Of course, it wasn't as big as the two braziers in front of the arch, but there were many of them. One could imagine that when these braziers were all lit up, the entire city would be reflected in the bright flames. That scene would probably be difficult to describe with words.
Allen stood at the edge of the stone fence. One step forward and he would be in the void of the Earth Abyss. Below, there was a faint blue halo fluctuating, like a glowing river beneath the city. However, Allen could not see anything with his best eyesight, except for the ribbons of light that twisted like auroras.
At the edge of the city, there were platforms that extended into the void. The platforms were large and small and had different functions. On some platforms, wooden lifting equipment could be seen. On them, Allen saw cranes and coiled ropes. It looked like the residents of the underground city were collecting something from the abyss in the mountains.
Allen climbed over the stone fence and shook his head, "Let's go. There's nothing here except some tools of unknown use …"
"My lord, my lord." Young Abel ran over. Allen put a finger to his mouth and gestured for silence. Abel hurriedly covered his mouth and lowered his voice, "Miss Lucy asked you to go over. She seems to have found something."
Allen smiled at Edward and said, "Make a bet. This city was built by the people of Adahua Planet."
Edward shrugged his shoulders and ignored him. Abel smiled at the two of them. The youth followed behind them, but he seemed to be attracted by something and suddenly stopped. He walked to the stone fence and stuck his head out of the edge. The wind from the ground blew across his face. The wind was so strong that the youth thought he was going to be blown up. He subconsciously reached out to support the stone railing. He didn't expect that this section of the stone railing was probably in disrepair for many years. When he pressed down hard, the entire section of the stone railing fell outwards. Abel lost his balance and almost fell. A hand grabbed the back of his collar in time and pulled Abel back.
The broken pieces of the stone railing fell into the abyss outside the void. The sound faded away and only stopped after a few seconds. Allen shook his head and said, "Why are you being so clumsy? Be careful, everything here is older than your ancestors. Most of them are fragile. "
Abel bowed his head. "I'm sorry." He then raised his head and said hesitantly, "Sir, I think I saw something just now … I'm not sure, but it should be a living creature. Because it can move, and it's not slow either. "
Allen and Edward looked at each other. The latter pulled the young man over and said, "Maybe it's the cavemen that Ian mentioned."
Abel shuddered. "Those monsters that eat everything?"
"There should be nothing else here. Anyway, it's better for us to be quiet. You don't want to wake them up, do you?"
Abel shook his head.
Allen looked at the abyss before turning to leave. After he left, a gust of wind blew up from the ground, causing a rock at the edge of the city to fall. The rock rolled down the uneven mountain below the city, and after rolling for a few hundred meters, it was stuck in a crack in the stone. There were still blue streaks of light floating up from time to time. In the blue halo of light, a hand stretched out from the shadows on the side of the mountain.
The arm was covered in mud. It was as thin as a wooden stick, and its dry skin wrapped around its bones. A somewhat deformed palm spread out and grabbed the stone. Then a pair of eyes rolled out from the shadows. It had earth-yellow pupils and a brown pupil in the middle. He squinted his eyes and looked up. Suddenly, the arm retracted into the shadows like lightning, and the eyes in the shadows closed again.
The caravan rested in front of the square of a temple. In this underground city, there would be a temple every three to five blocks. The temple was usually located at the highest point of the block, and its symbolic significance was incomparably obvious. The temple that the caravan was currently in was undoubtedly the largest of the few blocks they had passed through. Not only did it have a plaza, but it also had an altar. There were even rows of ancillary buildings on both sides of the main temple.
Allen walked towards the stone steps leading to the main temple. Each stone step was made of flat bricks that were half a meter wide and ten meters long. However, under the corrosion of time, these stone steps, which used to be flat and imposing, were now covered with crisscrossing cracks. Allen came to the entrance of the temple. There was a stone tablet erected here, and Lucy was squatting beside it. Not far away, Adele sat on the stone steps with her sniper rifle in her arms, while Lola and Nairi stood behind Lucy.
"What did you find?" Allen asked.
"This city is a product of the Golden Rose Era." Lucy said with absolute certainty. She swept her hand across the pedestal of the stone tablet, where the rose pattern was engraved. "Ever since I entered the city, I've noticed that there are rose patterns in many places. It's worth noting that ordinary rose patterns have five petals, but these roses have seven. The seven-petal rose is the symbol of the empress … "
"But the more direct evidence is these words …" Lucy touched the words floating on the surface of the stone tablet with her hand. "That's right, they're ancient characters from Adahua Planet. I've learned them in the library, so I can't be wrong."
"What does it say?" Allen was already mentally prepared. After all, with the King Snake Base and a ruin like the Blood King's Tomb, he was no longer surprised to see another underground ancient city built by the people of Adahua Planet.
"It's just a poem praising the Rose Empress. There were many poems like this in that era. But it's mentioned here that the city is called … Taryn Aisha. "Lucy added," It means a hymn to the gods. "
"Taryn Aisha, a beautiful name." Allen nodded and looked at the ancient city in the darkness. "Then did it mention why such a beautiful city became like this?"
Lucy shook her head and said, "Maybe we can go somewhere else."
A moment later, they found an incomparably large crystal wall in the depths of the temple. There was a relief pattern on the crystal wall. It was a young girl with her eyes closed and her hands crossed, holding a scepter in her hands. The girl's gentle facial features were lifelike, and every crease in her dress reflected a different depth of texture under the illumination of the flames. Below was a patch of formed roses. The middle of the flowers was low and the two sides were high. The pattern was neat and symmetrical.
This crystal wall was embedded in the wall of the temple. From afar, it looked like a crystal gate. Lucy gently slid her hand across the crystal relief of the roses and sighed, "This is the Yano Crystal. We call it a crystal with a soul. In the era of the Golden Rose, scholars at that time discovered that the Yano Crystal possessed a massive amount of information storage nodes, and that subtle changes could occur within the crystal through certain stimuli … "
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