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And this valley is Sattar.

However, after arriving here, the temperature dropped sharply all the way. If it is said that it is sunny in Dugu City, but the temperature is low, then when we arrive here, the temperature directly drops below zero.

The dark sky, the howling wind and snow, looking around, there are either black rocks or white snow and ice.

The convoy stopped quickly. The snow ahead was too thick, and the car would only get stuck in the snow when driving forward. As a last resort, people had to get down and walk on foot.

Chapter 120 The Mage with Strange Painting Style

The cold wind whistling, the dark sky, the white snowflakes falling one after another, and the exposed black rocks together created a desolate and dead snow scene.

And in this small valley under the wind and snow, many tents have been set up in sheltered places, and bonfires are lit in front of the tents, bringing warmth to this cold area.

Do you think this scene is very familiar, ice and snow, valleys, tents, only one steam core is missing, and then the bonfire is changed into a steam hub, which is the daily strike of the White Left Madonna in the Ice Age, which is ridiculous.

However, not here.

The people here are not those thugs who still want to go on strike when the end of the world comes, not those white leftists who are full of coquettish manipulations, the temperature here will not drop to minus 150 degrees, and there will be no disobedient stubborn people, let alone There will be a cat eating chili and the chairman of a technology company.

The work here is just digging, or shoveling snow first.

Although due to road conditions and climate problems, it was impossible to organize a large-scale construction team to come here to carry out excavation operations, but because more than one mage came here, under the effect of spells, a lot of manpower and powerlessness were replaced.

Therefore, as far as the excavation speed is concerned, the speed of dozens of people here is no slower than that of a team of hundreds of people. This is still divided into three shifts.

With sufficient materials and manpower, the excavation progress has never slowed down, and so many people gather here, ordinary beasts have no courage to run over to die, and Charlotte even watched from a distance more than once, there are wolves After glancing here, he hurriedly turned around and left.

The rest is just a matter of time.

"call."

Standing on top of a stone pier, the black rocks under his feet are very flat and smooth, obviously man-made. It is already the third day in the Sattar Valley, and what Charlotte sees is a construction site in full swing.

The snow accumulated here has been removed and thrown away, and a concave shape has been excavated, and the workers are still brandishing various tools, and the accumulation is digging downward.

At present, after the snow has been excavated, there is frozen soil underneath. These lands that have been covered by ice and snow for many years have become very hard and difficult to dig.

Fortunately, this time is the time for the mages to appear on the stage.

The mages here are not those weak academics, but practical mages mobilized from Winterhold by Professor Tofter.

These mages are all tall and big, with an average height of more than 1.8 meters [-]. Everyone does not wear thick cold-proof clothes, but only thin shirts, most of which are short-sleeved, and the large muscles on the bare arms are impressive. There was no doubt that they were capable of killing a cow with one punch.

Well, this is the first time Charlotte has seen such a strange mage.

Fortunately, these mages who are more suitable for underground black boxing are still trustworthy in terms of professionalism. Although there are only ten of them, they are sneaky in one skill.

When the permafrost was too hard to excavate, these mages stood up intuitively, raised their hands and used [Fossil to Mud] to transform the permafrost into a quagmire, and then rolled up their sleeves and took two The shovel, and then summoned an ice element and stuffed one of the shovels into the ice element, while digging with the other shovel...

"What a mage with a unique style of painting!"

Seeing the mages on the construction site below, holding shovels, digging mud together with the ice elemental creatures he summoned, Charlotte was stunned for a while, and the impression of the mage profession in his mind was even stronger. It was broken by this scene.

"By the way, are they really mages? I feel that these Winterhold mages are much better than other workers in terms of physical fitness and physique?"

"... Well, the mages of Winterhold in Skyrim Province are quite unique among the mage group."

Karen stretched out her hand to press the skirt of the dress blown by the wind. In this cold climate, her dress was the same as before, still a thin black nun's dress.

Of course, not only her, Charlotte's attire did not change at all, except for poor Miss Ange le Carré, who was forced to change into a thick down jacket and wrapped in a scarf.

At this time, the young lady who couldn't stand the sudden drop in the weather would not catch a cold, but she couldn't stand directly upwind like Charlotte and Karen and let the cold wind blow like a spring breeze. Instead, she obediently stayed in front of the tent. Warm up by the campfire.

Sure enough, it would be good to have a higher cold resistance skill point.

However, Charlotte is self-aware, she is not afraid of the cold, and what is going on with Kallen beside her?How did she not need to wear cold clothes or use spells to resist the cold?

It's just that Charlotte didn't ask. On the contrary, when looking at the construction site, he caught some other people who didn't end the construction, but stood watching from the sidelines.

"I always feel...is there too many people?" Charlotte pointed at the middle-aged Nord man and the bodyguard beside him not far away. "They seem to have arrived yesterday, right?"

"I remember, that person seems to be called Ulfric." Karen glanced over there and said casually. "It is said that it is the sponsor of the college. He also helped to contact the workers who came this time. It is said that they want to follow this opportunity to earn some political capital and expand their network."

"After all, he is the patron, and it's not easy for Professor Tofter to refuse his arrival, as long as he can endure it, the living conditions here are not very good."

Yeah?A businessman came here on purpose... "So, has he ever looked for you?"

"Hmm? Oh, are you worried about me?" Karen turned her head straight after hearing what Charlotte said, and asked with a smile. "Don't worry, I don't care about a middle-aged uncle, Charlotte, you and An Jie are my favorite types!"

"No." Charlotte said dryly, casting a glance at the silver fur. "What I want to ask is that this is to earn capital and expand contacts, but apart from Winterhold College, isn't it just the three of us as representatives here?"

"I'm from the Hunter's Guild. It's not surprising that I didn't come to find me. After all, it's only a semi-official idle organization, but why didn't I come to you? Aren't you from the Church of Destiny?"

"...That's true of what you said." Kallen said strangely, frowning her pretty eyebrows slightly, which was rare. "The businessman named Ulfric never came to talk to me, not only me, but also Anjie... On the contrary, he often chatted with a captain named Larov who came over from Tongtong. They can't be gay, can they?"

"you sure?"

"Of course." Karen raised her head slightly and approached Charlotte. "In order to prevent An Jie from sneaking away, I kept an eye on her all the time, and even slept in the same tent forcibly, lest she come and attack you at night, woo woo woo."

"..."

Charlotte stretched out her hand in silence, and pushed Karen's head away.

Chapter 121 Under Sattar (Part [-])

"Huh." The cold weather made An Jie shrank her neck, wrapped her whole body in warm clothes, kept warm in front of the bonfire outside the tent, and looked at the burning excavation site in the distance.

Then she turned her head, and saw Charlotte jumping down from the high platform above her head, and landed gently on the snow.

This performance of being as light as a swallow and stepping on the snow without a trace made her mutter.

"It's not scientific at all."

The scene in front of her, which is extremely against the anti-gravity of Master Yuanli, made An Jie feel a little unbelievable. After all, this kind of falling from a high place, like a feather, did not cause any ripples. Even using the anti-gravity device herself It may not be possible to do it.

Moreover, not to mention today's technology, even the magical magic, it is quite difficult to do this kind of stepping on the snow without a trace and landing silently, as light as a swallow, at least most mages can't do it, You can only use the slow falling technique to slowly fall like a target.

bump.

Just as An Jie was thinking, a silver-haired nun wearing a black nun's uniform also jumped down along with Charlotte. Unfortunately, unlike Charlotte's light and silent fall, when this nun jumped down, Obviously, his skills were insufficient, and he couldn't crush Master Yuanli's coffin to death.

Then, with a bang, half of the silver-haired calf fell into the snow.

"...idiot." Looking at the silly and somewhat stupid Yinmao, An Jie grumbled expressionlessly. However, Yinmao, who has a more sensitive hearing, clearly and unmistakably caught An Jie's words in the sound of the wind, So he immediately put on a fierce look and rushed over.

"Anjie, it's not good to speak ill of people behind their backs." Yinmao acted cute, and when Anjie couldn't react, she hugged Anjie who was smaller than herself, and began to use the His bosom hugged her tightly.

"What are you doing?" An Jie, whose face was half pressed by Silver Hair with her chest, felt a suspicious blush on her cheeks after feeling the softness on her face, and cried out struggling. "let me go."

However, Silver Feather was unmoved, and Charlotte, who could theoretically save An Jie, shook her head after taking a look at the daily fight between the two girls, turned around and walked away.

In fact, he felt that these two girls were extremely suspected of being off-line and being cute in their daily life.For example, when I met An Jie in Novigrad, the shrewd image of this little lady was still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After arriving here in Tianji, she stayed with Karen, and her IQ was quickly lowered. Turned into a cute and stupid reserve character.

The active duty is Kallen.

It should be said that Anjie's own personality has similarities in this aspect, or is it that Kallen's own halo of descending wisdom affects Anjie?

Well, all the same.

"Found it, found it!!!"

Just when Charlotte was about to go to the excavation site, suddenly, bursts of surprised sounds came from there, accompanied by a huge uproar.

"Well, have you finally dug it?" Charlotte paused slightly, and looked dumbly at the crowd walking back and forth in front of her. "It really went well, good luck."

When she rushed to the Sattar Valley, Charlotte was mentally prepared that she might spend a week or two here.After all, it was excavating an underground ruins. Normally, it would be unreasonable not to spend more than ten days.

But I didn't expect it to be so smooth, and the ruins were excavated with just a little effort?Should it be said that the underground ruins are easier to dig, or that the excavators work very efficiently?

Considering that, after using the [fossil into mud] spell, a mage summoned an ice elemental creature to take a shovel while holding the shovel to shovel the soil without grace, I am afraid that the efficiency is too high. alright.

At this time, a large pit with a depth of more than ten meters had been excavated on the excavated site, and under this pit, traces of a man-made building were exposed, which immediately attracted the attention of all excavators.

Next, under the command of Professor Tofter, an archaeologist, first-level professor of Winterhold College, and many years of experience in excavating ancient Nord tombs, the excavators began to excavate along the periphery of the building traces. Soon, many bottles and jars of funerary objects were excavated from the soil.

This scene was even more exciting, and with continued efforts, half a day later, a ruin, or the gate of the underground ruins, was seen again.

A thick stone wall is inlaid on the soil layer, with collapsed stone pillars and intact but closed towers beside it, and on the top of the stone wall, there is a closed bronze gate with a peculiar pattern. decorative pattern.

Obviously, for an unknown number of years in the past, this relic hidden in the center of the valley, covered by permafrost and thick snow, has been staying here quietly, and it was not found until today.

Amidst the noise, Professor Tovdir, who was in charge of the excavation of the ruins, did not immediately ask people to open the bronze gate embedded in the stone wall.

In fact, when the bronze gate appeared, he directed the digging workers not to touch this place, but to dig in other directions, and he himself and the other Winterhold mages who came to work here surrounded the area together. past.

You must know that some underground ruins are not only full of dangers inside, sometimes even the gates are covered with various traps.It's like playing poison, it's just a trick, some ruins have first arranged various dangerous magic on the gate.

Although the Nords have been extremely resistant to magic since ancient times, it cannot be denied that dangerous magic will not be placed in the tombs of these ancient Nords, even if these magics may be lost due to a long time. Lost all power.

After confirming that there was no magic attached to the bronze door, Professor Tofter led the people back down, not planning to open the door immediately and enter the ruins.

"This is the Sattar Valley, and this relic will be named under Sattar for the time being." Professor Tovdir happily named the relic.

After the gate of the ruins appeared, the excavation can be said to have come to an end. The rest of the work is to open the gate, and after confirming that it is correct, arrange future exploration tasks.

Therefore, in theory, Charlotte's mission is about to end, not only him, but also Anjie and Karen.

"It is really troublesome for the three of you to come to this wilderness."

Facing Tovdir, Charlotte came to thank him personally, and replied with a wave of his hand. "fine."

"The next step is to open the door." An Jie said. "Then, professor, are you ready for candidates to enter the ruins next... And as an assessment, we also have to take a closer look at the situation inside the ruins so that we can report."

(The promised fifth watch has begun)

Chapter 122 Entering the Ruins (Part [-])

Things like underground ruins are sometimes not so easy to develop.

Especially those ruins with magical power can be said to be frightening at every step and dangerous everywhere. You don’t even know whether a seemingly innocuous mural in the ruins will activate after touching and teleport you into the furnace.

In addition, there are all kinds of traps, and people who are not strong enough and equipped enough will often be left underground and become one of the many dead bones in the ruins.

Fortunately, Professor Tofter, who is in charge of excavating the ruins here, is an expert from the College of Winterhold. He specializes in excavating ancient Nord tombs and has full experience in dealing with this aspect.

Ordinary workers are naturally not allowed to enter the ruins. Their job is to dig, not go in and die as cannon fodder. With their abilities, they may not even have the qualifications to be cannon fodder.

And those Winterhold mages who were summoned to help were keen to go down and dig first-hand, but considering that the ruins should be more than that, maybe the entrance is here, but judging from the collapsed stone pillars around here, there should be more There are other relic buildings.

So, in the end, except for a female mage named Brelina and several other male mages who were selected to go down with Professor Tovdir for investigation, the other mages were left behind and continued to carry out the missions in other places. Excavation work.

"By the way, do the three of you want to go down and see for yourself?" At this moment, Tofter suddenly sent an invitation to Charlotte, Karen and Anjie as witnesses.

"It seems quite interesting." Karen said, looking at the bronze door with interest. "And the energy source below is still unknown, um, well, Miss Ben will go down as well, and take a look at what's going on inside."

"...I'm not on the same side as this violent woman, so I won't go down."

An Jie shook her head. Although she has good skills, she is still an ordinary person in essence, unlike Charlotte and Kallen, who are supernatural beings who dress lightly and are not afraid of the severe cold even in the cold wind, so they don't plan to Go down, but stay outside.

After all, pistols and some special props are of little use in possibly narrow underground ruins, and her safety may not be 100% guaranteed by then.

Charlotte lowered her head and thought for a while, thinking that the work she came here was almost completed at the moment, and it seemed a bit thankless to go down to an underground ruin, so she opened her mouth and said. "Then I also..."

"He's going too." Before Charlotte could finish speaking, Kallen interrupted Charlotte's words directly, and leaned over, reached out to grab his right hand, and hugged him. "I went down with a girl, you, a man, can't let a lady go down alone..."

"right."

There was a smile of unknown meaning in those blue pupils, and looking at the smile on Kallen's face and those seductive lips, Charlotte immediately recalled that night in Solitary City, that With a light kiss, he was stunned for a moment, unable to say the rest.

And this pause caused Toftdir to misunderstand.

"Okay, I have to trouble you two more." The professor nodded. "Please pay attention to safety later, but we only go in a little bit, not too deep into it."

After finishing speaking, Professor Tofter turned around in a hurry and arranged for someone to open the bronze door.

"you……"

Originally, she didn't plan to go down, but after being teased by Karen, she had to go down to an underground ruin, and it was likely to be a large tomb, and Charlotte felt a headache for a while.

"Ah, ah, it's okay, I'll protect you at the worst." As she said, Karen hugged Charlotte's right arm tightly, and the softness of her chest was transmitted to Charlotte's senses instantly through the place of contact. among.

This soft touch defeated Charlotte's words again. He turned his eyes away in embarrassment, and his right arm was almost stiff.She moved slightly, wanting to pull her arm out, but she didn't think about this move. Instead, Karen increased her strength in her hug, holding on to Charlotte's arm.

And while Caroline hugged and pressed her soft chest against Charlotte, she turned her head secretly and stuck out her tongue at An Jie, like a vixen who stole a chicken.

Seeing this scene, An Jie, who had been maintaining a three-to-five facial expression, inevitably twitched her face, gritted her teeth slightly, turned her head with a cold snort, and stopped looking at this silver-haired man who was purely irritating. .

……

……

At the same time, Ulfric, who came here on the second day of the excavation of the ruins, stood far away at the periphery of the excavation site, and coldly glanced at the staff who were preparing to open the gate and go in for the first round of underground ruins. Explore Tolfdir.