Act 398 A coin(1/2)
The temple ruins of the goddess of business marked by Alisa are located in the deep valley, with a rugged valley winding and long in the sky, and dense forests are almost difficult to get involved. It is precisely because of this that she and Dalier have taken so long to arrive there.
It was midnight when the group arrived. Fang Zhu looked up at the sky and his eyes passed through the branches of the tree canopy. At that moment, the dense clouds and mist just blocked the moonlight, causing the entire valley to fall into a darkness where he could not see his fingers.
There are only some fluorescence of tiny insects and plants in the distance, distributed in the dark forest, with stars like starlight.
There is a ghost mushroom by the stream, and the water surface is reflected by rippling blue light. The water flows to the south and disappears into the water bay not far away. There is a dark shadow hidden on the shore. The bugs lurk under the water plants and clamoring in a low voice, making a monotonous sound.
Miya held a wind lamp in one hand, and installed a glowing crystal in the wind lamp. From time to time, she swept the light in the lampshade through the nearby water bay area and shone the shadow there - it was just a long gray meadow.
She held the star dagger with her other hand lightly, walking between the undulating roots and branches as if she was walking on the ground, and turned around from time to time to see if the boy behind her needed help. But Fang Yu had long been used to this kind of adventure life, and this level of trek would not defeat him.
He grabbed the slippery moss on the tree trunk with his magic gloves, and occasionally slipped, but in most cases he climbed up without much effort.
Besides, he was embarrassed to reach out and grab the hand that Miya handed over. He was the leader of the group, and everyone was watching.
But Miya looked at him and made him feel a little lit up. He had to pretend that he didn't see him and turned around and stretched out his hand to the ship's officer below. Seeing this, Silvede smiled, neither refused nor disliked the green moss marks on his hand. He grabbed his hand and climbed up with the force.
After she stood firm, she looked at the wolf girl beside her, and then she realized that Miya was also looking at her.
The latter thought for a moment, turned around and reached out, grabbed the sky blue below, and brought the little girl up. The poet enjoyed the feeling of flying through the clouds and was a little surprised, but she always had a sweet mouth and said thank you:
"Thank you...uh, Sister Miya."
Miya brought Jita up again, and the scholarly lady hurriedly thanked her.
Seeing that everyone else had come up, Fang Yu turned around and pulled off the goggles. Through the hidden visual connection device under the right eyepiece, he could see the image sent back by the clockwork fairy in front of him. He lifted his eye mask and looked in that direction.
A corner of the ruins above the valley is already vaguely visible.
But even so, it took them nearly half an hour to arrive at that place.
The ruins are located on a plateau, and the dense forest is slightly wider. After passing through the forest, there are only a piece of walls distributed between the clearings in the forest. There are knee-deep meadows growing between the clearings, which are undulating like waves with the wind.
The surface of the stone buried between the meadows has long been washed away by the wind and rain. The moment they arrived, the moonlight just popped out of the clouds, and the moonlight fell among the ruins, reflecting everything white.
Everyone saw Miss Nightingale who had been impatiently waiting here. The latter jumped down from a broken wall and came to them, but Dalier was not with her. Fang Zhu couldn't help asking, "Where is Miss Muppet?"
"She went to the nearby forest alone to see. Miss Muppet was worried that someone would lurk nearby," Alisa looked at the dense forest not far away. "Do you still remember the flexible arrangement during the day, the leader?"
Fang Rong naturally remembered it, but there was no big mistake to be careful, but he was worried about another thing. Although he had not encountered any dangers throughout the journey, in theory, she should not be separated from Alisa.
Alisa seemed to see his thoughts and shook her head: "You don't have to worry about Miss Ruddolls, the leader of the group, and the cats are top predators in the forest under the night."
Fang Yu sighed, naturally understanding that the other party was joking again, but there is still some difference between cats and lions?
And it was at this moment that the crystal on Alisa's neckline lit up, and her eyes lit up, "Look, she was just talking."
She looked in that direction and happened to see Dalier coming out of the woods. The other party looked at Fang Yu in surprise, "Mr. Ed, are you here?"
"Dalil, what are you getting?" Alisa asked.
Miss Catman shook her head, "I always feel that there are people in the woods, and the feeling of being monitored is lingering, but I went out to look around and found nothing unusual."
"Being monitored?" Fang Rong was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, such an episode happened to Alisa and the others during the period when they came.
Dalier nodded softly again, "Since Miss Alisa contacted you just now, I felt someone was secretly peeking, but no trace of anyone left in the forest." She stopped and said, "It is unlikely that I will make a mistake in my quest for the ash woodlands in the Temple-"
Fang Zhu looked at Alisa, but Miss Nightingale shook her head. The Nightingale was proficient in spy, and the shadow dancer was the best. But when it comes to passively sensing the hidden threat, the Ranger was more sensitive.
Dalier is a Ranger Knight, and Ranger Knight naturally has wilderness abilities.
Fang Ling immediately thought of a possibility - flexible construction. There are some means among the craftsmen to monitor the general communication of the communication crystal. Could it be that Alisa and Dalier were noticed when they contacted them just now?
There was no trace left by anyone in the forest, but what if it was a clockwork fairy? But he immediately shook his head and ruled out this possibility himself. His clockwork fairy's eyeliner was never left. If there were other flexible configurations in the forest, he would not have noticed it at first.
In fact, even when he was talking to Alisa and Dalier, Miss Tata helped him control at least half of the Clockwork Fairy Cluster. If she accidentally discovered it, she would notify him as soon as possible.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is no signal in the warning circle of the clockwork fairy, which should indicate that the surroundings are safe.
He couldn't help asking, "Is it an illusion?"
"Maybe," Dalier believed in her judgment and nodded. She did not find credible clues in the woods, so she could only make this judgment.
Although a summoner of her level is used to being cautious, she will not be suspicious. Indecision is also a taboo for the tour guide - if she cannot detect the enemy, there are only two possibilities.
One is that the potential threat does not exist, or is far superior to her. No matter whether these two situations are too much, it is unnecessary to think too much. If the enemy's level is really far superior to her, then no matter how cautious she is, it is actually not very meaningful.
So she nodded neatly.
Fang Yu then turned his attention back to the ruins, looked up at Miss Nightingale, where there were several moon-white pillars standing behind the wall, and vines were covered with cracks and cracks grew on the surface.
That column is the typical style of the Noumerlin elf, a bit like the Greek classical Corinthian column style, with the same exquisite relief and the more elegant style of the elves, but it has long been buried in the long river of time, and most of the columns have collapsed halfway.
Similar broken walls can be seen everywhere in the valley. This place may have been a city, or at least a temple group. It is imagined that the magnificent buildings of the past are distributed down the valley and extending to the valley outside.
Maybe it was once the mining area of the Noumerlin Elves, after all, the open-pit Mithril mine is quite rare.
His eyes wandered among these ancient buildings for a moment, but most of the magnificent halls were flooded by mud and sand, and the forests swallowed up the remaining buildings, growing on the surface of mud and sand, turning the temple of the past into a green ocean.
The only thing left is this main temple.
He could tell at a glance that the temple was in shape, with only the tall and magnificent pillars telling its past. The dome had long collapsed and turned into gravel between the meadows, with only the faint stars and the bright moonlight falling from the sky.
Alisa took them through the area where the main temple once was.
The remaining pillars there reflected the moonlight, hanging their shadows long on the ground. Between the rolling meadows, like shadows that cut green waves. They passed through the shadows and soon saw the Lord's statue standing here-
The stone statue has been damaged, but the image of the business lady is still clearly distinguishable. She still holds a balance in one hand. The style of the balance changes with time. Today's believers of the business goddess like to coat it with a layer of gold foil.
But on this stone statue, it is still the oldest style, with mottled stone statues, and half of the balances have long disappeared.
Fang Zhu looked up at the business goddess.
The statues of the elves also added a pair of pointed ears to Ms. Roman in accordance with their image. The business goddess is solemn and solemn, but in fact her image is just a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, and she seems to be a little playful.
She was wearing a long skirt with a leather pocket on it and a huge pocket on it. It is said that she referenced the image of the merchants walking on various continents of Aitalia in the early days. She put one hand on the leather pocket and the other hand held the flat.
No one knows how this business goddess has become a god, but she looks like a girl next door from the countryside, with two huge braids hanging down naturally. The carving man obviously has a clever craft, which makes the stones bloom with a soft luster, as if every strand of hair is clearly visible.
He turned around and realized that this is not the only one here.
On the southwest side of the main temple, another statue with a more blurred face stood, and its statues collapsed halfway-but Fang Zhu still recognized it at a glance, it was Marland, a lady of war.
On the other side, there is also the forest goddess Aimeya, and further away is Milera, the god of knowledge Angina, and finally the main god of the gods of the Orin - Oli.
This discovery surprised Fang Yu.
"Huh," the scholar's lady obviously also noticed the icons in the secondary positions. She looked over one by one, blinked her long eyelashes gently, and a surprising light appeared in her eyes, "These icons..."
"What's wrong?" Alisa noticed the abnormality between the two. "You have seen those icons too? But only Ms. Roman's icon has that thing under it..."
"No," Jita shook his head quickly, "Sister Alissa, these icons are not right."
"Um?"
Alisa was stunned. Although she was well-informed, she did not have such a deep understanding of the religious culture of Aitalia like Miss Scholars.
But Fang Zhu happened to know something because Miss Scape told him about some past related to the saints. During the July War, there happened to be a ruin similar to that here.
He spoke, "The temple of Etariya does not have this form. Although the saints of Orin belong to a divine system, their churches are mostly independent of each other. At best, the temples of Marland and Aimeya will be adjacent to each other."
Miss Nightingale suddenly realized.
She recalled carefully that she seemed to have never seen this temple. In those more prosperous cities, there were mostly separate areas as temple areas, with churches belonging to the saints of Orin, ranging from shrines to temples, but it was rare to hear that two gods were only under one roof.
The only ones she had seen were the icons of Ms. Forest and Ms. Justice. The two ladies occasionally share the same temple. This is because of the Goddess Alliance, which also has a goddess of life, Milera.
But Milera's believers like to build separate sacred temples.
She looked around, but still didn't think it was too inappropriate. Most of the callers lacked a clear sense of perception of a world with true gods. "But maybe this is the temple in the age of the Noumerlin Elf?"
Fang Yu still shook his head. It was not that he had seen the temple group of the Noumerlin elves. Although it was different from humans, it was not that big.
"Not that," Jita didn't agree with it. "Sister Alisa, even in the main temple, should be the sun god Oli, not the commercial goddess Roman."
"The temple of this place..."
The scholar hesitated for a moment, always feeling a little déjà vu, but he didn't know how to describe it for a while.
When Fang Zhu looked around again, he realized that the positions of the sacred images were somewhat subtle. Rather than being clear in the primary and secondary, they were circled into a circle with Roman as the starting point, Marland at the east end, and Olin opposite it.
Start from Milera and end from Angina.
He almost had an illusion when he watched this scene.
The most prominent of the saints of Orin are located here. Their images stand solemnly with each other and are circled together. The square leopard looks up again, as if seeing the huge vault that was a thousand years ago. The images of the saints whisper under this vault, plotting something.
He immediately shook his head and threw out the absurd illusion. The kingdom of gods of the saints of Olin is not in Aitalia. Their eyes can travel through time and space. If they really need conspiracy, they will not come to the material world to do so.
But that feeling in the dark still prompted him to go forward and look at the feet of the business goddess - or rather, Alisa had told him that there was something here, which was the purpose of their trip.
Fang Yu didn't know whether he was being pulled by the sounds in the dark or subconscious. In short, he saw the thing as soon as he looked up.
That was a silver coin.
The silver coins were embedded in the stone slab under Ms. Roman's feet. Thousands of years have not smoothed the patterns on its surface, but they are just lightly glowing, like a mirror in the moonlight. No wonder Alisa and Dalier noticed this.
In the long time, even the stone slabs were smoothed and smooth, but the patterns on the silver coin were still clearly visible, as new as before, as if they were embedded in the stone slab yesterday. Fang Yu subconsciously took a few steps forward and saw the true appearance of the silver coin embedded in the stone slab, and was shocked:
"This is……"
"Is this Ms. Roman's coin?" Miss Scholar had already whispered that name.
According to the sailors, the first of the many currencies minted on this continent was a coin favored by the ladies of business. Ms. Roman injected divine power into it and blessed it, making it more powerful than a secondary artifact.
To be continued...