An illumination ball of light floated in front of him, moving in sync with Roland's advance.
He could be about twenty meters away from Roland, so he could completely illuminate the scene in front of him.
Don't underestimate this bit of distance. Many times, just this bit of distance could eliminate some ambushes or dangers.
The cave wasn't too wide, but it was wide enough for three people to walk side by side, so it didn't seem crowded.
A musty odor unique to mud rushed into everyone's nostrils, but they didn't pay much attention to it. They walked slowly, trying not to make too much noise, while vigilantly surveying their surroundings.
Judging by the shape of the cave walls, it should have been dug out artificially. Hawk walked forward while holding his shield, and after a while, he suddenly stopped.
Everyone froze for a moment, then assumed a fighting stance.
Hawk didn't say anything, just shook his head. Then he grabbed a handful of soil on the cave wall, sniffed it for a while, and tasted it with the tip of his tongue.
This action made the four people next to him feel a little uncomfortable, as if they had eaten mud themselves.
Hawk then threw away the soil under the puzzled gazes of the four people and said in a low voice, "I found it strange just now. The smell of this cave was a little 'fresh,' so I tasted the soil. This passage was dug recently, less than three years ago."
Jett's eyes widened. "Damn, you're a tomb raider in real life?"
"Get lost, I graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering," Hawk said in a bad mood.
Jett, however, nodded. "It's about the same, it's all digging."
"It's far from it, okay?" Hawk stood up and said helplessly, "One builds up, the other digs down, how can they be lumped together."
Then Jett discovered something strange. "Do students of the Department of Civil Engineering now have to learn the skill of using their tongues to taste how long the sand has been out of the ground?
"No, it's just a school specialty," Hawk explained. "The mentors of the Department of Civil Engineering in every university are different, and their specialties are different. For example, the talents who graduate from the Department of Civil Engineering in a certain university in Qing have an exaggerated level of personnel command and terrifying time control. They're best at using scientific human wave tactics to build large projects in a short period of time. It's a representation of the aesthetics of violence in civil engineering. "
"Our school's tutor isn't that powerful. He was originally from the Department of Archaeology. That's why he's very good at using simple tools and building materials to create unique buildings. Also, because he used to major in archaeology, he's used to tasting building materials with his mouth to see if they're up to standard. I've only learned a little from him. "
Jett said speechlessly, "F * ck, I suddenly feel that I, who only managed to pass the exam with mediocre abilities and no unique skills, is simply wasting my life."
Roland felt that it was quite normal. His mentor was quite good at artificial intelligence, but now that he had gone missing, Roland knew more or less what had happened.
The two of them chatted softly as they slowly walked forward.
Logically speaking, in this kind of situation where they didn't know if there was any danger ahead, they should remain silent.
However, it was not good to be too quiet.
As they walked deeper and deeper into the forest, the sounds of the wind, insects, and birds were all blocked out. In the passageway, if they didn't speak, they would only be able to hear their heartbeats, the sound of their light footsteps, and the sound of their bones rubbing against each other.
Lacking the reverberation of the natural world, such silence would force people to be annoyed and irritable, and those with poor psychological resilience might even be driven crazy.
So they kept talking softly, with Roland occasionally interjecting.
Before entering the dungeon, they thought they would encounter enemies along the way. Ghosts, for example, or monsters or something like that.
But in the end, they walked the entire passageway and came to a huge rock cavity without encountering any enemies.
In front of the passageway was a stone field, and in the distance, there seemed to be a faint stream of light, dim and bright.
Roland drove the two illumination balls of light to continue flying forward, and the five of them saw the situation in this space clearly.
It was a large square-shaped space, the ground paved with gray unknown rocks, and about a hundred black sarcophagi formed a semicircle around a flight of steps at the far end.
The steps were about a meter high, and above them was a large white sarcophagus, which was unusually conspicuous in the midst of the gray hue.
At the very back of the white sarcophagus was a tall white stele. Light blue, glowing veins slowly appeared on the stele, then slowly faded away, and so on and so forth.
This place was very quiet, so quiet that it was as if they were in a space of nothingness, and it was also very cold.
Hawk let out a long sigh, and a puff of white mist came out of his mouth. "This situation is a little familiar. If we walk over there, will those glowing lines turn into streams of light and submerge into our bodies? Then will a ghoul stand up from the white sarcophagus with a frost longsword and roar at us with unstoppable force? "
"You've played too many Maiden Scrolls," Jett joked with a smile. "And it's probably opened a laboratory."
Roland, Hawk, and Link all revealed enigmatic smiles at the same time.
Betta, on the other hand, asked curiously, "What's a Maiden Scroll?"
Roland froze for a moment and said helplessly, "Go out and search for it on the Internet, it's not easy for me to explain."
The other three let out soft chuckles.
As they joked and laughed, the five of them walked out of the passageway and cautiously entered the space under this square-shaped open space.
A ball of light flew into the air. Overhead was a columnar rock mass, and for the time being, there was no danger.
Among the hundred or so coffins, there was a passageway that divided the group of coffins into two sides.
The five of them walked over, and just as they set foot at the end of the passageway, they suddenly stopped. Previously, because the many coffins had blocked some of their line of sight, only now did they discover that at the end of this passageway, there were four corpses lying in the corner of the steps below the white coffins.
"Be careful, corpses mean danger." Hawk held his shield diagonally in front of him and walked forward slowly.
And at this moment, Roland's expression was very strange. He looked left and right a few times and suddenly said, "Wait, all of you, I feel something's wrong, not too comfortable."
As soon as the four of them heard this, they immediately retreated, surrounding Roland in the middle.
Hawk looked left and right hard, trying to find the enemy.
Jett began to cast status spells on himself, things like Brute Strength Enhancement, Agility Enhancement, Agile Body, and so on.
The atmosphere was tense for a moment.
Roland whispered, "Let's retreat a little first."
Everyone retreated as told.
Only after retreating to the vicinity of the passageway did the other four relax a little.
Under their puzzled gazes, Roland said, "I'm a Mage, and I can sense the mental power fluctuations of others within a certain range. When I walked up the passageway just now, I suddenly discovered that the surrounding coffins also emitted mental power fluctuations, probably because they were blocked by the sarcophagi, and they were very weak. I only reacted when I got closer. "
Everyone felt their scalps tingle and subconsciously looked at the group of sarcophagi in front of them.
Jett asked, "How many are there?"
"Almost all of them."
This time, the other four didn't want to speak even more. No wonder Roland's reaction was so strange just now.
Hawk was stunned for a long time before he sucked in a breath of cold air. "I knew the dungeon quest wasn't that simple."
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