Chapter 38: Traces of the Earth
(Sorry, the names in the previous chapters were used to be mixed up. The wounds of the earth mentioned in those chapters should actually be called the traces of the earth. The real wounds of the earth are far away in the desert. They have never moved to the country of mountains, and they have no plans to move in the future."
The Lord of the Sun, Hurent, whistling over the Yara Continent, leaving behind the still scorching temperature of early autumn and the brilliance of the world. Under the sun, all things in the world emit vigorous vitality and grow freely under the nourishment of the sun. However, some people prefer the figures of the three moonlight ladies. They would rather refuse the warmth of the sun and turn around to embrace the cold moon.
The sun gradually set, and the temperature in the wilderness in the mountains gradually decreased. The coolness of early autumn began to fill the wilderness bit by bit before the night came. On the meadow at the foot of Mount Pherrias, Panis emerged from a delicate small tent and stretched his waist under the dusk sky. Just after stretching his body, a piece of baked brown and soft bread flew towards him. Before the bread could fly, the attractive aroma of sugar and cream in the bread filled his nose. Panis was still holding his hands above his head, maintaining a stretched posture, just opened his mouth and turned his head, and the bread flew into his mouth.
"Woooooo, it's delicious." Panis muttered with a muddy face, "I'd love to apply some sour bamboo jam."
"You go and find it yourself, I can't make that kind of thing." Catherine, who was baking bread by a small fire, gave him a look and said angrily: "Do you still have to give you a cup of Calis' white wine? Add a little deep-sea caviar processed in Thousand Islands?"
"No. Sweet bread should be served with Doroland's champagne so that the taste will be coordinated." Panis said seriously: "And you should choose Leonard's sweet foie gras sauce. If it is served with deep-sea caviar, the sweetness of the bread will affect the fresh aroma of the caviar."
"Stop talking nonsense." Catherine glared: "Go and they all screamed. Today we should be able to enter the Earth Mark."
"I just heard Ike was already up," said Panis. "Lina and Vivian are fighting for a local war. Freya, listening to her heavy breathing, she should be trying hard to stuff herself into a tighter equipment. It probably will take some time."
"Mr. Panis." Panis turned around and saw Freya standing at the door of the tent, holding her hands in front of her chest, with a shy expression on her face. A watery light flashed in her eyes: "You, you actually heard the sound of someone changing clothes. So shy, you. You, you must be responsible for me this time and accept my passionate love."
The next moment, Panis had disappeared on the spot and appeared twenty meters away. He looked up at the sky and said as if nothing had happened: "Haha, the weather is really good today."
"The weather is good?" Ike happened to have come out of the tent with sunglasses, looked up at the sky, nodding, "It is worthy of being a person who even Mr. Clark praised, and he knows the knowledge of the underground so well. Indeed, this kind of light rainy weather tonight can make the air at the bottom of the Earth Mark become slightly wet and conducive to progress, and it will not make the ground too wet and muddy, but will have an impact on walking. It is indeed a good weather for falling into the Earth Mark."
"Ha, ha, it's Xiaoyu." Panis laughed dryly: "That's right, that's what I think."
"Stop making trouble. Come and have breakfast." Catherine was stunned and changed her mouth: "No. Come and have dinner."
During the five days after leaving Chongshan City and rushing to Mount Phirlias, the six people returned to their life of day and night. The reason is very simple. As the thought of Eke, who belongs to the crypt dwarf, can see the surrounding scenery clearly in the dark cave, but cannot adapt to the daytime sunlight. In the morning and evening, you can still rely on sunglasses to protect your eyes, but if it is noon, the strong light makes him feel very painful even through sunglasses. Therefore, in order to match his racial habits, everyone had to change their work and rest time again and adjust to night action. Fortunately, everyone's current physical fitness, even on a dark night, can clearly see everything around with the moonlight, and will not have any impact on the action.
"Since I've been here." Ike sat down next to the fire and took the bread handed over by Catherine: "Mr. Pannis, should you tell me in detail your plans? You must have a plan, otherwise, even if you consume a hundred years of life in the ground with the ground mark, you may not be able to explore the entire space."
"I do have a plan," Panis said, playing with the bread in his hand. "Actually, I told you from the beginning that our goal is within the area around Mount Phellias."
"Are you sure?" A strange expression appeared on Ike's face, which was as wrinkled as if it were as expected and uneasy as I was: "What is the range you are talking about? What are the characteristics of the goblin ruins you are looking for?"
Panis thought for a while, took out paper and pen from his backpack, and drew several lines and circles on the paper. Ike's eyes lit up and looked at Panis in surprise and said, "Just with the ability to draw maps, you are also qualified to explore the interior of the Earth Scarlet. This is the Nefa Olius Mountains, this is the Caracro Mountains, this circle is Chongshan City, and what about the circle in the north? Oh, look at the distance ratio, this is the wrought iron castle in the mountaintop city, and this shadow is the Darnais Plateau. This triangle is the Ferrias Peak of the Ferro Mountains. It's amazing, and the distance error can almost be ignored."
"Yes, this is the Peak of Phellias, which is the mountain in front of us." Panis pointed to the vaguely visible in the distance and said, "As for the range I mentioned, it's here."
"I'll do it, I'll do it." Ike was seriously lying on the simple map, using a measuring ruler to measure it repeatedly on the paper. After a while, he threw the ruler away and said with a contradictory expression of excitement and tension: "It's a little trouble now."
"What's the trouble?" At some point, Lina and Vivian had ended the little war between the girl and stood side by side behind Catherine. Vivian asked in confusion: "Isn't it good to narrow the scope?"
"It's not just a problem of the narrowing of the scope." Ike sighed and said, "I haven't briefly introduced the situation inside the Earth Trace."
"In fact, we have also entered a land mark area in the Glitter Forest." Lina seemed to have applied the template of the God of Light Priest Ketria, with a tone as kind as a real priest, and her expression was full of tenderness of loving all things: "But I didn't think there would be any strange danger at the bottom of the land mark. It looked just a deep pit. In my consciousness, the difference between these two places was just the depth of the pit. But when Panis and Vivien said, some professional books recorded that the land mark here on Mount Phellias was particularly dangerous and terrifying, which made me difficult to understand."
"Are you referring to the Dragon's Seal?" Ike showed obvious disdain on his face and said with a pout, "That is worthy of being called the Earth's Seal? Indeed, in terms of origin, it does belong to the Earth's Seal, but there is no comparison between the two in terms of scale or complexity."
"Then please give us a detailed explanation." Lina smiled gently: "If we can have a certain degree of detailed understanding of where we are going, it will also be of great help to our exploration."
"Okay." Although Ike was a little impatient with introducing this basic knowledge, Lina said it really makes sense, so he quickly accepted: "The marks of the earth are the symbol of the Ferrias Peak. In the country of the mountain, there is only this pit cave group with ground marks. No one knows the cause of the marks of the ground marks, but some people speculate that it should be related to groundwater veins and special soil. I don't know much about the specific academic things, but there is indeed a huge network of groundwater veins here. Around the Ferrias Peak, there are more than 30 ground marks, the largest one, with a depth of 1,300 meters and a maximum diameter of 870 meters.
The bottom of the cave is more than 600,000 square meters. The cave is nothing special, but many of these ground marks are connected by natural tunnels at the bottom of these ground marks. Those are the dry waterways before, and these dense channels intersect each other, as complex as spider webs. Moreover, in addition to these exposed ground marks, spider web-like tunnels are often connected to some hollow caves that have not yet collapsed on the ground. Some people suspect that all ground marks were like these hollow caves before, until the rock layer on the top collapsed by external forces, forming the ground marks that everyone sees now."
"But these are all superficial phenomena, and the traces of the ground are far from that simple." Speaking of the traces of the ground, Ike seemed very excited. He had to take a few sips to restore his mood before continuing: "The traces of the ground that the real explorers refer not only to the huge pits above, but to the dense paths below. The paths below the traces of the ground are estimated to be 17 or even twenty-one. The deepest place, according to my speculation, can penetrate two thousand to two thousand five hundred meters deep.
The area covered by each layer is also different. The larger the area covered by the lower reaches, no one knows what the lowest layer will look like, because no one has ever entered below the twelfth floor and can or may return. In these underground passages, in addition to the danger brought by the natural environment, there are also countless extinct monsters inhabited, including a large number of creatures that have been extinct in the First Age. The First Age was the golden age of divine creation. The monsters in that era were much stronger than the current monsters.”
Chapter completed!