Casting spells

Suspicion and mistrust would spread like a plague among sailors and soldiers, and might spread to the entire territory after returning.

As a person who thinks he has some brains, he doesn't want to be a bird in "Birds Eat and Die".

Obtaining windfall is certainly a good thing, but when the amount of windfall exceeds a certain level, what it brings is not luck but bad luck.

Zhang Cheng planned to take a small part back secretly first, and wait for Kuro Kerba to grow up to let him take care of the transportation.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and about two or three hours later, the sun finally set slowly from the sea level, and the dazzling stars hung in the night sky again.

Zhang Cheng, who had just returned from the camp, took a bowl of steaming seafood chowder, two slices of bread, some fried fish and grilled seabirds, and placed them gently next to little Celine.

I don't know if it's because of being hungry or smelling the smell of food. The girl subconsciously picked up the bowl and began to eat in small bites. While eating, she muttered words, most of which were in High Valyrian, which he couldn't understand. pronounce……

Chapter 164 Exploring the Ruins

After noticing that the little guy's mental state was not as focused as before, Zhang Cheng immediately asked, "How's the progress? What's recorded on these walls?"

"Hmm... so far I have only deciphered a small part, which is a bit like someone's suicide note." Celine Baratheon replied in a low voice while eating.

Her eyes were still fixed on the wall, and there were countless papers with scrawled handwriting around her.

You don't need to ask, these papers are all kinds of different translations of each word, and then combine other words and context in a sentence to infer what the sentence means.

In fact, since the letter itself is a form of writing that expresses specific meanings through pronunciation, which is very similar to pinyin, it is easy to cause ambiguity in the process of interpretation, just like the languages ​​​​of the most funny European countries on the earth, all derived from Latin language developed.

For people in these countries, the other languages ​​of the same language family are almost similar to the dialects of the Chinese dynasty, so don't think it weird to hear that Europeans can learn several or even a dozen languages.

As an alphabetic script used by an ancient lost civilization, High Valyrian also has exactly the same characteristics. In addition, no one really understands this language at present, so little Celine can only rely on the books of the Targaryen family. A small part of it, let's try to decipher the rest.

"Suicide note?" Zhang Cheng subconsciously turned around and glanced at the human bones piled up in the corner of the room.

The girl nodded lightly: "Yes! When the disaster happened, a flame mage who called himself Alvin was trapped with a dozen slaves. In order to survive, he... killed all the slaves one by one. fell, and then struggled for a month by eating corpses..."

At the end, little Celine couldn't help shivering, her eyes showing unconcealable horror.

For her kind heart, not to mention the extremely cruel behavior of cannibalism, just slaughtering people like livestock is already beyond the bottom line of her heart.

But in Zhang Cheng's view, as long as a person starves for six or seven days, the survival instinct in the subconscious will start to activate the animal nature hidden under the appearance of civilization.

When this beastliness reaches a certain level, not to mention treating the same kind as food, even more disgusting things such as excrement, cockroaches, mice, etc., will be desperately stuffed into their mouths.

Perhaps it is too absolute to say that 90.00% no one can resist the attack of hunger, but [-]% or more is absolutely right.

He didn't care about the girl's overreaction to cannibalism, and continued to ask: "What about the content of the suicide note? Did he mention the specific details of the doomsday catastrophe? Did he leave any detailed information about Valyrian magic?"

"I mentioned a little bit about the doomsday catastrophe. According to his description, first he heard loud shouts and screams, and then the ground shook violently. It didn't take long for deafening loud noises to reverberate over the entire city. He tried to open the door of the secret room, Go out and see what's going on. Unfortunately, the door has triggered some kind of protection, sealing it off completely. Also, he mentioned that the shock was originally coming from the southeast. As for Valerie The magic mastered by demihumans is all recorded on a huge dragon crystal slab, which is hidden in the deepest part of the tower."

After all, little Celine pointed to a giant dragon statue about three meters high not far away.

Obviously, this statue is the entrance to the deeper depths.

Hearing this, Zhang Cheng immediately walked up to him and carefully observed every detail of the statue.

After a while, he found that the red gemstone inlaid in the position of the longan seemed to be a little different from ordinary gemstones.

In order to confirm his guess, he raised his staff and poked it.

moment!

A hot flame spurted out from the dragon's mouth!

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and rolled in time to avoid the front of Lie Yan.

In just a few seconds, the stone slabs laid on the ground began to melt, turning into a pool of magma exuding terrifyingly high temperature.

"Damn it! Valyrians really like fire spells..." Zhang Cheng quickly pulled off the cloak that was lit, and complained through gritted teeth.

You must know that he has only started exploring the ruins for less than half a day, and he has already encountered two flame attacks, and there will definitely be more in the future.

No wonder many people say that Valyrian magic is blood and fire, and now it seems that it is true.

As the flames from the dragon's mouth gradually diminished and disappeared, a tunnel leading deeper appeared.

Unlike the previous ones, there is no light or gorgeous decoration in this tunnel, and there are only rough rocks on both sides.

Facing the heat waves emanating from the magma, Zhang Cheng bent down and passed through the dragon's mouth, which was only less than 1.5 meters long, and took out a pearl that exudes milky white soft light.

With the help of the faint light, he saw that the winding tunnel was like a spiral staircase, leading to a deeper place, and the further down, the higher the temperature of the surrounding environment, and some places even exceeded the limit of human endurance.

"Interesting, isn't it an active volcano down here?" Zhang Cheng narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself.

As a fairly cautious person, he has no plans to go deep rashly, at least he will not act rashly until he completes his preparations. Who knows what dangerous things are hidden at the end of the bottomless tunnel.

"Do you think there will really be a slate recording Valyrian magic down there?" Little Celine also came over at some point and asked curiously.

"Of course! How can a person who knows that he is going to die lie and deceive others? I'm just a little worried, is there anything else besides the slate." Zhang Cheng shrugged his shoulders and replied.

"Then when shall we go in?" the girl asked again with bright eyes.

Zhang Cheng smiled and stretched out a finger, shaking it in front of little Celine: "No, no, no, it's me, not us, you just stay in the camp. It's dangerous."

"Hey! That's not fair! I helped you find the entrance! You can't go on an adventure alone! You have to take me!"

As soon as he heard that he didn't intend to take him, the little guy quit immediately and loudly defended his rights.

For her, this trip is probably the most exciting and only adventure in her life, so she doesn't want to miss it anyway.

"Hahahaha! Fun? How do you know that I am enjoying the adventure? Remember those sailors and soldiers outside? Do you know why I brought them?" Zhang Cheng laughed and asked back.

Celine hesitated for a few seconds, then quickly shook her head: "I don't know..."

"It's okay, if I don't know, I can tell you. They are consumables, cannon fodder used to send death and delay time at critical moments!" Zhang Cheng's eyes shone coldly, and he directly broke the unrealistic fantasy in the girl's heart.

Chapter 165

Undoubtedly, Zhang Cheng's words completely overturned the image of a friend he had finally established in Celine Baratheon's mind, and the relationship between the two also plummeted to freezing point.

Even after dinner, the little guy never said a word to him, and hid in the corner alone, sulking, and secretly wiped away his tears.

In fact, the girl doesn't know that Zhang Cheng is actually ruthless and ruthless. What she saw before was just an illusion, a disguise to make herself look harmless in daily life, just like a chameleon who keeps changing his body. Table color to blend into the environment almost.

But Zhang Cheng didn't pay attention to a child who was upset, to be precise, he didn't have the energy to take care of anything.

Because not long after returning to the tent, the magic addiction that I hadn't had for a long time suddenly started to attack for some reason, and the whole person was enduring unimaginable pain.

In order to prevent the subordinates outside from noticing the abnormality, he had to bite a piece of wood, force himself not to make a sound, curl up tightly into a ball to resist this indescribable torment, and fell into a semi-conscious state of confusion several times. I didn't fall asleep until it was getting brighter.

I don't know how long it took, maybe a few minutes, maybe a few hours, when a loud shout outside the tent woke him up.