Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji felt that he was so stupid before.

He was deceived by his common sense. Because all along, no matter whether he was in the last life or suddenly transmigrated to this different world, basically all the doors he came across were the ones that rotated and opened and closed along the door axis. Whether it is a single door or a double door, it basically rotates back and forth to open and close.

Unexpectedly, in this elven relic that had been abandoned for a long time, and even became an ancient relic, he unexpectedly came across such a stone door that pushed left and right.

Wouldn't the elves find it inconvenient to push and pull such a heavy stone door from side to side?

Now that he knew how to open the stone gate, Zhao Ji was relieved. He put the torch on a fixed platform not far from the stone gate, providing enough lighting for this side. Then he picked up the long sword with some curly blades on one side of the upper part, put it into the scabbard, and hung it on the belt of the armor.

Stand firmly on both feet, and hold the solid stone carving in the middle of the stone door with both hands. Zhao Ji pushed Shimen towards the wall.

It was difficult to push at the beginning, probably because it hadn't been lubricated for a long time, but soon the lower half of the stone gate became smoother. Click, click, click, click.

The left part of the stone door shrinks into the wall. Zhao Ji estimated that there should be a space on the wall where the entire Shimen can be accommodated.

As Zhao Ji pushed the side of the stone gate, a gust of wind blew from the passage. Because Zhao Ji was wearing armor, he didn't feel the wind blowing. He only discovered it when he heard the whine of air flowing from the passage towards the ruins inside the stone gate.

After Zhao Ji heard the wind, he knew that the air inside and outside the ruins was not circulating before the stone gate was opened, and the air pressure inside the ruins should be in a negative pressure state. Because of the negative pressure, the air flows into the ruins through the channel.

Zhao Ji pushed half of the stone gate, which was big enough for him to get in and out, so there was no need to push the whole stone gate into the wall. After all, he can push the stone door in, but he has no way to pull it out.

There is no handle or the like on the entire stone gate that people can grab.

After pushing the left side of the stone gate open, Zhao Ji held the torch in his hand and looked inside the closed ruins of the stone gate.

Looking past the stone gate, there is still a long silver passage inside. The silver wall reflected the light of the torch, allowing Zhao Jin to see the far end of the passage clearly.

Zhao Ji found that there was another door about ten meters away from Shimen, and opposite to that door, there was also a door facing it.

I don't know what those two rooms are for. Zhao Ji doesn't plan to go in now. After all, it is a ruin that has been closed for an unknown period of time. Maybe this ruin has been closed when humans in this world just sprouted a little bit of civilization. Know how many years.

In the poems sung by the bards who occasionally performed in the tavern, the stories about the ancient elves all started ten thousand years ago. Zhao Ji didn't believe it before, after all, how could the events of ten thousand years ago be recorded so clearly.

But then Zhao Ji heard that elves generally live for thousands of years, and even high-level but rare elves are even immortal. The gods known and worshiped by human beings are not too shy. The natural gods even have consciousness from the birth of life wisdom on the planet, and the gods created by human beings also have a long history of at least ten thousand years.

The above-mentioned knowledge is a very common thing in life in the eyes of human beings in this world. But for Zhao Ji, it took him a long time to accept it.

Zhao Ji was not in a hurry to enter the ruins to explore. He first pushed the other side of the stone gate ajar, so that the air blown into the ruins along with the passage could enter more at once. Then he went out first, blew out the oil lamp in the middle of the passage, and left the ruins passage.

Going down the rope, Zhao Ji walked through the bat droppings at the bottom of the tree hole, and climbed up the other end of the rope to the outside of the tree stump.

He came out because he didn't want to wait in vain for the process of filling the ruins with fresh air, and because he discovered that he needed more lighting equipment.

He needed more containers of lamp oil to make more lighting equipment.

There is no lighting at all in the ruins, and it is pitch black. Before the elves left, they obviously took away the previous lighting equipment. Although the passage made of silver was very reflective, there was no original source of light, and the ruins were still dark.

He needed more torches and lamps than he had expected. He still has a lot of fire in the camp, but he has to cut down trees to make the lamp holders for the oil lamps.

Back at the camp, Zhao Ji first took off his armor and took a nap. The previous exploration made him quite exhausted, so now he will take a short rest to recover his energy.

After waking up, Zhao Ji saw that it was still early at noon, so he picked up an ax and went to the dense forest behind Jiagu to cut down a suitable tree. firewood reserves.

Zhao Ji split the trunks into knotted wooden pillars, and then used a dagger to dig a groove in the middle of these fresh trunks, and peeled off the bark of the trunks. Overall, this simple oil lamp is made as light as possible.

Every time one was made, Zhao Ji held the simple wooden lamp holder, which was actually not light, and climbed up and down the ropes, and put them in the passageway of the ruins for storage.

After making at least ten in one breath, Zhao Ji felt that it was enough. By the way, he also took all the torches to the passageway of the ruins. These torches are not simple torches made by himself, they are all authentic torches in the village, with longer burning time and more stable lighting.

After eating the barbecue at noon at the tree root camp, Zhao Ji put on his armor and birdcage again, and came to the passage of the ruins.

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Coming here again, Zhao Ji took off his gloves and felt the flow of air. Sure enough, this time there was no wind flowing in the channel.

The air in the ruins is estimated to be relatively normal. But he still has to be careful. This relic was left by the elves voluntarily. This can be seen from the fact that all the lighting equipment has been taken away. Therefore, Zhao Ji has to be careful about other things left by the elves, such as defensive traps some type of.

Coming to the half-opened stone gate again, Zhao Ji tied the birdcage with the bird on the spear, holding the torch in one hand and the spear in the other. Zhao Ji walked carefully and slowly into the stone gate. Not far from the stone gate, he put a newly made simple wooden lamp holder on the fixed position on the wall.

Light the oily string in the wooden lamp holder, and the bright light reflects off the silver wall and illuminates a long passage nearby.

The two left and right doors in front were also in the light, Zhao Ji walked over carefully and found that these two doors were also closed.

The two left and right stone gates are not big, at least compared to the left and right stone gates in the middle of the passage, they seem very small.

Zhao Ji couldn't see what the two houses facing each other were for, and there were no patterns or elf characters on the stone gate. Knock with your hand, den den den.

The voice is a little crisp, it seems that the two stone gates are not thick.

In no hurry to try to open these two stone gates, Zhao Ji walked a few steps slowly into the passage, set up a new lamp holder behind the two stone gates, lit it, and a good section of the nearby passage can be seen Cleared up.

When Zhao Ji set up the lamp holder that was relatively close to the interior of the ruins, the collision sound of various fragmentary tools and weapons hanging on his body was transmitted into the interior of the ruins along the passage, and Zhao Ji felt something was wrong with the echo from the sound. .

The sound in the passage is reflected, and generally resounds repeatedly, but the sound coming back from the depths of the ruins leading to the passage is a hollow and empty echo.

Difficult to walk along the passage to the inside of the ruins, is there an open place inside? Shouldn't it?

After all, he saw from the previous stone gate that only four elves appeared here, so the ruins shouldn't be very big. Unless this ruin has other other uses.

Zhao Ji, who didn't know what the ruins contained, decided to take a look at what was inside the stone gates on the left and right sides of the previous two passages.

The birds in the cage are in good spirits, which makes Zhao Ji feel more at ease. It seems that the air inside is relatively safe. Through the previous period of ventilation, at least in this long silver channel area, the air can be breathed normally.

Putting down the things in his hands, Zhao Ji pushed the stone door on the left, but it couldn't be pushed.

But this time Zhao Ji knew that the doors inside the elf ruins were all pushed and pulled left and right, and they couldn't be pushed directly. Zhao Ji pushed the small stone gate to the left. Sure enough, with the dry friction sound from the lower part of the stone gate, the stone gate was gradually pushed open by him.

Zhao Ji could hear the whining wind coming from the gap of the stone gate from the moment he opened the gap of the stone gate. It seems that the room inside the stone gate should also have negative air pressure. Once the stone gate is opened again, the air will rush inward.

Holding his breath, Zhao Ji opened the Shimen gate with a heavy breath to allow him to enter and exit, then he quickly picked up the torch and spear that were placed on the ground and retreated.

After waiting for a while, Zhao Ji estimated that the air inside the left stone gate had exchanged enough with the air in the passage, and then Zhao Ji approached there carefully.

Afraid of an ambush, Zhao Ji threw the torch into the inside of the stone gate, and following the light of the fire, Zhao Ji saw a small room inside the stone gate. There are no particularly obvious monsters or the like in it. He just picked the birdcage in.

He himself was at the gate of Shimen, but he picked up the birdcage with a long spear and let the birdcage shake around in the room for a while. After finding nothing strange, Zhao Ji took the birdcage back.

The bird in the cage was still alive and kicking. Zhao Ji added some drinking water to the wooden bowl in the cage, put down the cage, and walked into the house by himself.

Although the whole house is not big, it is actually not small either. It is a hexagonal house, and the stone door is just on one side of the hexagonal shape. A rough estimate shows that the house is at least more than 100 square meters, and the walls are not The silver-covered one in the passage is a pure stone wall.

Zhao Ji knocked on the walls to the left and right of the door, Dang Dang, the stone wall on the wall was still hard. There is actually nothing in the room, but there is a strange piece of furniture or equipment placed against the walls on the other five sides of the hexagonal space.

Zhao Ji couldn't tell the function and name of this thing, because this thing is made of bronze-colored metal. It is close to the wall, one and a half meters high, with a gentle **** connecting the ground underneath, and an empty space in the middle. There should be something here, but obviously, the elves took them all when they left here. Therefore, this unknown large piece of furniture and equipment was left here empty.

Zhao Ji approached a furniture instrument near him, and through some ancient wear and tear on it, he found that this thing might be a charging station for docking something that can move. In the middle of this space where unknown things were docked, there is something that looks like a socket.

This socket is full of crystals and gems, which surprised Zhao Ji. Although the technology in this thing may be more precious, to Zhao Ji, things like valuable gems are more important to him now.

Don't rush to buckle the gemstones of various colors embedded in the charging seat. Zhao Ji checked the five charging stations along the wall of the house, and found that each charging station was the same. Zhao Ji guessed that the five charging stations here might be the places where the former unmanned magic guards were charged. . This is close to the gate of the passage, which can be used as a station for the magic guards guarding this place.

Zhao Ji thinks so, of course, if not, then he has nothing to do, after all, it is impossible for him to ask those elves one by one.

In the middle of the room, Zhao Ji also found something tricky on the empty ground in the middle. The ground in the middle is obviously movable, and Zhao Ji can easily see it, but he has no way to get out the things inside the ground unless it rises up by itself.

It should rise up. After Zhao Ji found out that it was obviously a charging device, he judged that this ruin should have an internal energy supply. The elves know magic. It is estimated that they use magic to control the tools in these ruins, so he has nothing to do.

There is a strange thing in the middle of the roof above his head. Zhao Ji didn't realize that there was something on top of his head, but since he realized that the entire elf ruins have energy supply, he suddenly discovered that there is no energy inside the house. The pedestals for the mounts for the lighting tools are those in the previous passage.

Then there is only one possibility, the room itself has its own lighting method.

Zhao Ji raised his head to observe, and he said that the torch was also raised above his head and pointed upwards.

In the very center of the hexagonal roof, there is a metal hanging basket. The hanging basket is not a movable one, but a fixed lamp. In the middle of the hanging basket, there is a strange reflective thing.

But blocked by the metal hanging basket, he couldn't see clearly.

Zhao Ji thought about it for a while, and decided to get that thing down first to have a look. He returned the same way, and soon came to the entrance of the ruins passage, bent down and grabbed the upper part of the wooden ladder, and Zhao Ji lifted the wooden ladder up.

Holding the wooden ladder, Zhao Ji went all the way back to the room just now.

Extending the wooden ladder to the metal hanging basket at the top of the middle of the house, Zhao Ji found that he was still a step short.

Looking around, Zhao Ji focused on the five charging stations placed against the wall. I don't know if they are fixed on the ground or on the wall, UU Reading www. uukanshu.com Zhao Ji first pushed one of them.

Hyper, hyper, hyper.

It can be pushed, but the metal power station is quite heavy. The overall bronze-colored unknown metal is very heavy. It looks like it is only a few pieces of metal spliced ​​together, but Zhao Ji feels that there are at least two hundred in weight. kg weight.

After finally pushing the two charging stations to the middle of the room, and clamping the wooden ladder left and right, Zhao Ji tried it, and the wooden ladder was very stable after being clamped by the two charging stations, so he carried the spear on his back Climb up the wooden ladder.

The wooden ladder swayed from side to side due to Zhao Ji's weight. Zhao Ji was careful not to let it shake too violently, for fear that the whole wooden ladder would break from it. After climbing to the top of the ladder, there was still a section to go, but Zhao Ji was not afraid. He rode on the top horizontal bar of the wooden ladder, hooked his feet to the other horizontal bars below, straightened his back, and stretched out his hands to scoop it up. , and grabbed the reflective thing in the metal hanging basket.

Shaking the thing he was holding with both hands left and right, Zhao Ji found that the thing could move, but it was a bit heavy.

With a vigorous lift, Zhao Ji took off the reflective thing with both hands. Withdrawing his hands, he held it in front of his eyes and saw that it was a transparent glass or crystal the size of a head. The whole was a polyhedron with edges, edges and faces, and it was filled with an unknown aerosol-like semi-liquid thing. , half of which is the liquid flowing with Zhao Ji's movements, and the other half is the translucent mist floating on the liquid. And right in the middle of these half-liquid and half-aerosol is a huge curly flower.

Seeing this flower for the first time, Zhao Ji felt a little familiar. Where did he see such a big flower?

After all, if this curly flower is really going to unfold, he guesses it must be as big as one meter.