After the door of the basement was opened, what you saw were winding stone steps, which were quite similar to the one below the Snow Mountain Villa.
Jenkins glanced back at the chocolate, then stepped through the door. In the next second, he stepped on nothing, and then realized that the stone steps and passages seen behind the door were simply illusions, and in fact there was nothing behind the door.
He didn't expect to encounter such a thing at all, and fell down before he even screamed. Fortunately, there was a layer of soft cushions under it when it landed, otherwise Jenkins was likely to be knocked unconscious on the spot.
"Damn! How can I go up in a while? Can I only use real phantoms to move?"
The ordinary candle in his hand had already been extinguished, so he held up the miner's lamp and looked around.
The upper part is pitch-black, even the silver-blue light can't clearly illuminate it, and the left and right are extremely spacious spaces, which are like a large underground football field.
And Jenkins is not a cushion at all, but a big bed covered with mattresses, quilts and quilts.
In other words, when he fell from above, he just landed on the only card in the huge underground space.
"Why is there a bed here?"
Probably only Mr. Piscoe could explain it, but he couldn't be here now.
After jumping down from the **, Jenkins put on the monocle, looked for the aura with the real eye again, and then set off in the direction to the left.
Judging from the time of the fall, the current position is not too deep underground. But when moving in the chosen direction, it can be clearly felt that it is going downhill.
This kind of exploration is very boring, there is nothing around, only the regular sound of the soles of the boots colliding with the ground can be heard. Jenkins was so bored that he even controlled his footsteps, knocking out the tune of "Praise" all the way, which he learned from Fenny. But when the novelty wore off, even Jenkins thought it was stupid.
About half an hour later, the huge space began to shrink, and the left and right walls could already be seen. After walking forward for another ten minutes, there were traces of mining scattered around the wall, and Jenkins even found a broken mine manuscript.
"The miners found something amazing, and then Mr. Pisco sealed off the underground and dug a passage from under his apartment?"
He guessed like this, and then continued to move forward along the artificial traces. And the further forward, the more obvious the traces of mining, and even the wreckage of the mine car track appeared not far away.
This road gradually shrank into a real mine, but within a few steps it was completely blocked by boulders.
"Sure enough, it was blocked. It seems that I really accidentally dug up something amazing."
He didn't pay attention to the boulder, but took a few steps back and pressed his palm on the inconspicuous six-pointed star symbol on the wall. A faint light flickered for a while, and the stone steps leading underground appeared.
This reminded Jenkins of the seal he encountered in the Snow Mountain Villa, but unlike the Snow Mountain Villa, there were not very clear murals on both sides of the spiraling downward passage.
Due to the double persecution of time and oxygen, the original appearance of these murals is almost impossible to distinguish. As Jenkins walked down, he held up the miner's lamp and looked up. He could barely understand the whole process of the painting here and the sealing of the underground thing.
These pictures are repeated in a cycle, all telling the same story. In order to remember this event, the ancients used a very precious paint, otherwise these murals would not have survived for such a long time.
According to Jenkins' understanding, the story probably means that a group of people dug up a magical machine underground. After using their own means to modify the machine, the machine can produce various items. The ancient people who abused the machines later discovered that the things produced by the machines were extremely harmful, but they could not destroy the products and the machines, they could only seal these things up.
It sounds like the ancients dug up a "strange thing making machine", but fortunately, what Jenkins needs to deal with on this trip is the items made by the machine, not the weird machine that produced the items.
It took another nearly an hour to reach the lower end of the passage, and the further down, the more Jenkins could hear some subtle sounds. The voice kept calling Jenkins' name in a first-middle-last format.
But it never got the middle name right, and the word "Raidanput" was not difficult to pronounce, but Whisper never got it right.
A little worried about whether the cat above would be anxious, he finally saw that the stone steps stopped spreading downward in front of him. At the end of the stone steps is a narrow square space and an altar. The altar is filled with purple light visible to the naked eye. Runes and symbolic symbols that Jenkins can't understand flash on the surface of the altar. It looks like Audrey Miss mentioned the star map, but this scene is much simpler than Jenkins imagined.
"Miss Audrey seems to have mentioned this ancient form of sealing...with the help of the power of the starry sky..."
When he met the protoss for the first time, he had obtained a large amount of knowledge about the starry sky through the blessing of the protoss. It contained part of the history of humans borrowing the power of the starry sky, so after thinking for a while, it was determined that this sealed altar was made by humans in the 14th era.
The 14th century is a very critical time point, because mainstream archaeologists and historians believe that before the 14th century, humans had developed a steam industry no less than today.
The few remaining historical materials and relics discovered year by year show that humans at that time had begun to use the power of steam to transform the world. Even the current steam airships are improved from the ancient creations found in the ruins.
The ruins here refer to the ruins of a large city-state, not the seal ruins that Jenkins often visits, otherwise the world would have ended long ago.
The cataclysm at the end of the 14th century changed many things, the most important of which was the regression of the industrial level. After that, humans still controlled the power of steam, but due to years of war and various reasons, it never really developed. It wasn't until this era, when the mainland was basically peaceful, that the steam revolution started again after the oracle was sent down by the great righteous god [Skillful Craftsman].
While recalling the history, Jenkins began to get busy nervously. The method of strengthening the seal mentioned in Mr. Pisco's letter is not difficult, but it is very cumbersome.
Today is Monday, and he has to go to church to learn fighting at night, so the progress must be accelerated.