It is tall and has a spire-shaped overall structure. High portal frame, round stone column, without top, with two staggered beams above.
The entire building is made of a finely polished turquoise-grey block of stone that fits perfectly. Each stone block is painted with colorful patterns of different shapes and a gray and white color pattern, which are spliced together to form a continuous picture.
Li Xin stepped out of the bushes and stepped into the building step by step along the steps.
The steps, too, were of the same stony quality, wide-cut, with hairy moss and light grass growing squeezed from the tiny crevices between the steps.
As Li Xin walked, she looked up at the same patterns as these various murals. They have been worn away by time and are very blurred, and only vaguely can see animals of different shapes and people with different movements.
Entering the hall, the first thing that catches your eye is a huge picture above, carved on the stone wall in the middle: many people, wearing feathers and animal skins, or kneeling or sitting holding things together, among them Standing a man holding a scepter.
Like some kind of sacrificial scene.
"Corian?"
Li Xin stood under the high stone door, looking at the figure standing motionless in the center of the lobby with her head turned back to her, after a while, she raised her voice and called out a sentence.
It took a few seconds for the blond boy to look back, and a pair of sky blue eyes stared at her from a distance. His expression seemed to be stunned, and he seemed to be caught in some distant memory.
"... Ninety-seven." He murmured, "I feel like I've been here before... But it doesn't seem like that, I'm not—" Kerian raised his head, turned around slowly, raised his hand in the air He swiped in the middle, mulling over his words in confusion: "This direction."
Li Xin stepped up and walked slowly around the inside of the building. The hall is open and empty, and you can see that there is nothing but the stone building itself.
It means that the task trigger point is not here.
The paintings on these stone walls are vague, but it can be seen that most of them depict scenes related to sacrificial activities.
This building should be an ancient altar.
At present, there are various indications that the core of the mission of this trip to the south is undoubtedly Kerian.
Perhaps, it has something to do with the mysterious background of the future legendary Sir Moros.
After turning around and not finding anything useful, Li Xin walked towards the stone gate that came in, and when she looked back, seeing Kerian still standing there, she said, "Go."
"...Let's go? Oh." Kerian responded in a daze, walking behind her.
The two walked down the other side of the low mountain when they came.
Li Xin tilted her head and glanced at Kerian who was looking back for the third time a few steps behind her, "What are you looking at?"
"Silver light..." Corian hesitated for a while, "I feel... especially when I was standing in that altar-room just now, it felt like the sky was full of silver light."
"What kind of silver light?" Li Xin asked with a click, splitting the dense plants in front of her.
"I can't tell." Corian said, "I feel very familiar, I even feel a bit like the silver light when I was a child, when I was running with my father."
"But it's been so long, maybe it's an illusion—it's very likely, because I'm not really sure if my childhood memories of those silver lights are real."
"But I do have a very familiar feeling here... Could it be that I'm actually a southerner?"
"Players kill [Shell Beach White Sand Island Grey Snake]*1, gain experience +100, and copper coins +10."
"Player kills [Red Snake on Baisha Island, Shell Beach]*1, gain experience +100, copper coins +10."
As Li Xin opened the way, she listened to Kerian, who was walking behind her, muttering.
The way down the mountain was easier than when he came. At least Kerian has been able to control his fear a little bit. He encountered a few badger and leopard monsters a few times, and he is no longer pale and about to faint. looks like.
The ground became flatter, the trees became sparser, and the shadow of the sea gradually filtered through the green leaves.
When the sea breeze is gentle and the waves are calm, the sea at sunset is undoubtedly beautiful.
Li Xin sat cross-legged on the rock above the high cliff, looking across the sea to other islands not far away.
"Go to those two islands tomorrow." She raised her arm and pointed. "Build a raft tonight."
Corian, who was sitting next to him: "… We're staying here for the night?"
Li Xin glanced at him lightly.
Corian closed his mouth. After a while, he got up and sighed, "I'll go catch some fish."
Based on risk factors, the mounts rented by the business firm will not go to the elite monster map, nor will they follow the player into the dungeon.
That is, after entering the shell beach, the dolphin beast that the two had when they came would no longer follow. Once the rental period expires, it will return to the business by itself.
At this time, the importance of contract mounts is reflected.
Li Xin carried the axe back into the woods, chopped down a dozen trees, chopped down the leeward grooves behind the rocks and dragged them back to the rock, and the axe acted as a hammer. frame.
When Corian came back with two or three cleaned fish, he turned the corner and saw two neatly built log cabins on the ground, a neatly yarded raft beside the house, and a quiet Li Xin, who was sitting in front of the fire in front of the house, was grilling meat.
He paused in footsteps and went over to sit next to her in silence.
After the two finished their dinner in the orange sunset, Li Xin chose a wooden house and went in.
There was nothing in the room but a wooden bed that she had taken a few minutes to cut out. Li Xin stood by the window, watching Corian sitting on the rock looking at the sea for a moment, and closed the window.
Exploring the entire Shell Beach is undoubtedly a long-term project, and you have to get along with Kerian day and night. And she couldn't stay offline for a while, that's why it was necessary to build two houses.
The night was spent peacefully with the sound of surging waves.
Li Xin pushed open the door and walked out. After a while, there was movement in Kerian.
…
The turquoise raft was launched, and Li Xin bent over and erected the large sails that acted as sails, sat on the flat raft with Kerian side by side, and drifted towards the next island.
"Unlock the map: Fishtail Island, Shell Beach, Bagdia Harbor. The map is being perfected..."
The level of monsters on this island is not far from that of Baisha Island. They belong to the transition level from the ordinary elite monster map outside the city to the next level map, which corresponds to the combat power of twenty or so players.
Ordinary players can't come, and most of the big guilds are busy pushing the suburbs. At this stage, there are almost no people coming to Shell Island.
When it was almost noon, the two found a minaret altar again in the middle of the island.
The same goes deeper and denser to the point where the trees and vines seem to pass from the mountain forest to the old forest in the deep mountains. There is also a level 40 elite monster guard, the same mural, gray and white patterns...
"There's that kind of silver light here too..." Kerian murmured, stepping inside.
Li Xin looked up at the tall tower-shaped building in front of him. Except for the grass and moss, its appearance was almost identical to the one on Baisha Island.
There are subtle differences in the interior of the stone gate—in the clothing and movements of the characters in the sacrificial picture in the middle.
Li Xin walked around the lobby, but still didn't get anything.
The two went to the next island.
"Unlock the map: Bagdia Harbor Shell Beach Coconut Island. The map is being perfected... "
After spending an afternoon, the two found an altar of the same type on the island for the third time.
Except for the fresco in the center of the hall, everything else is exactly the same as before.
"It should be the worship of the common god of different ethnic groups." Kerian stood under the stone wall and looked at it for a while before saying, "In the ancient times of the empire, powerful races often had many different groups of believers."
After a long day of running around, the blond boy looked exhausted.
"I just don't know which Turuno we are looking for."
"Go. Continue tomorrow." Li Xin nodded.
Coconut Core Island, as the name suggests, is rich in a kind of tree called coconut core. The fruit looks like a coconut, but there is a core inside, and the core can squeeze a special oil, which can be used for alchemy and medicine.
During the period from sunset to dark, Li Xin and Corian climbed almost all the coconut palm trees on the east coast beach and wiped out all the fruits.
"This thing can be sold for ten copper coins in the east!" Kerian said excitedly while sitting on a tree branch, his blue eyes gleaming swept away from the previous slump, holding a bunch of coconut cores in his arms and smiling brightly, "Fortunately I Marian's bag this time!"
Li Xin sat on another branch and added with a wink, "It can be sold for fifteen."
…
The two spent a full seven days in this way, walking all the dozens of islands in the shell beach.
All have minarets of the same type distributed, without exception, and have nothing but buildings.
Li Xin's level has been successfully raised to level 21 under such intensive spawning, and there are also a lot of blue and green equipment and various materials in the bag.
Over the past few days, the map of Shell Beach in Li Xin's hand has been perfected into a rough prototype. It is roughly divided into three parts: the outer islands, the floating island group in the middle, and the surrounding waters.
"Go back to the city for supplies. Go to the floating island tomorrow." Li Xin stood on the last independent island of Shell Beach, on the coast of Gray Reef Island.
A little wind was blowing in the air, and the strands of blond hair hanging from her hood were blown away.
With a face full of stubble, Kerian, who looked ten years older in just a few days, went to support the raft with a numb expression on his face.
In less than half an hour, the increasingly strong sea breeze blew the two to the vicinity of Baisha Island.
"Cough, cough, cough!" Kerian's blond hair was soaked through, holding the vertical stick on the raft that served as a mast, coughing and wiping his face in the rushing waves.
Li Xin, who was wrapped in a hood, sat cross-legged like a mountain, looking down at her panel.
Player [Nine Seven] (Title hidden +)
[Player Level]: Twenty-one
[Life]: 3576
[body]: 347.6
[Min]: 186
[God]: 880.7
[Gang]: 96
[Comprehensive Strength Value]: 1627.8
The cross-continental system has not yet been opened, so now all the names in her friend list are gray and unreachable.
Quest: Investigate the Turuno Clan (10/60 Days) (Unfinished)
The task time is getting more and more urgent.
The raft docked on Baisha Island, and Li Xin stood on the shore and gave a whistle. After a while, the sea water in front of him fluctuated, and the slippery head of the dolphin beast burrowed out of the water.