Richard walked to where Gro was, took a serious look, squatted down, and put one hand on the ground.
The soil on the ground surged, and under the influence of the spell, it seemed to be alive and actively moved away from the location touched by the palm. So it only took a moment for the thing buried underneath to be revealed, and it turned out to be a relatively well-preserved skeleton. Perhaps because the soil is relatively dry, the bones have not completely decayed, and a general human shape can be seen. In the soil around the bones, traces left by the collapse of the building can still be seen.
After observing for a while, Richard stood up, pointed around and said, "If there are no accidents, there should be a small village in front of this area. Let's clear it out together. Then we will be able to figure out what is going on."
Gro, who had just rested for half a minute: "..." Hey, this is too fast, don't be so anxious! I really can’t do it anymore. Can I let Nancy do it for a while
Just as he was thinking this, Gro felt a sharp gaze falling on his back like a knife, sweeping him back and forth, as if chopping him into minced meat.
Gro said in his heart that he was wronged and wanted to tell the other party: in the final analysis, all this is not his fault at all, okay? If the other party hadn't suddenly recognized Mr. Richard, there would be no need to work here at all!
However, things have reached this stage, so he should do more if he can. If he does more, the other party may be able to calm down and beat him less harshly in the future.
Oh, why is he so miserable!
With infinite grief in his heart, Grotto walked to Richard with heavy steps and dug up the soil again with his sword.
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Time passed, and another hour passed.
Compared with ordinary people, wizard apprentices have amazing fighting power, and their ability to work is naturally not weak, especially when there is a clear goal. What ordinary people would take several days to complete, or wizard apprentices can finish in one hour.
I saw that the corner of an ancient village had been cleared out at this time.
Although there is still a lot of work to be done before the entire village is excavated, a lot of information can already be collected.
At this time, Gro was as tired as a dead dog, leaning on a stone. He rested for a long time before he had the strength to speak. He looked at Richard and asked: "Huhu... Sir Richard, have you discovered anything about this village?" It should be the small village you were looking for."
"The small village of Artis." Nancy sat on a stone on the side and rolled her eyes.
"Uh, yes, the small village of Artis."
Richard carefully observed the cleared area and looked at the numerous corpses for a long time. After hearing what Gro said, he shook his head and said, "No."
"Ah, is it true?" Grotto screamed, "Why are you so sure?"
"Because according to my understanding, people in the small village of Yatis have an ancient nature worship. Everyone will carry a bracelet with a special emerald green stone. From childhood to adulthood, from birth to death, even after death, they will leave the bracelet into the coffin. This is one of the reasons why the original founder of Jungle Lodge called the wizard organization Jungle Lodge.
But no bracelets were found around the exhumed bones. Maybe the bracelet will rot and the decoration on it will decompose, but the stone will not disappear so easily. So, this is definitely not some small village of Atis. "
"So..." Gro said with difficulty to tell a cruel reality, "So... we have been digging for so long, and we dug the wrong thing?!"
"Yes." Richard nodded.
Gro: "..." Suddenly I wanted to die.
At this time, Richard suddenly said: "Although the digging was wrong, it is not without any harvest. Look at the buried bones, there are no scars or defects, they all seem to have died in a natural state."
"So?" Gro said weakly.
"Aren't you curious about what caused these people to die suddenly?" Richard glanced at Gro and asked.
"I'm not curious, I'm not curious at all." Gro shook his head, slid down from the stone he was leaning on, lay on the ground freely, and said feebly, "I just want to have a good rest now, I just want to Be quiet."
"That's up to you." Richard shrugged and said no more.
At this time, Nancy, who was sitting on the stone nearby, seemed to have had enough rest. She jumped down from the stone, approached Richard, took a look at the many bones that had been cleaned up, and asked proactively: "Just now, you told that idiot that the people here are... There must be some reasons for his abnormal death, do you know what happened?"
"It doesn't count as knowing, it's just a guess." Richard muttered, recalling the information he had previously detected from the Deep Blue Castle Library, and turned to look in a direction behind him, "If I remember correctly, this small village is not far from Taklimakan Lake. Not far."
"Taklimakan Lake?" Nancy's eyes flashed, "Is that lake? I do know that I, the trash next to me, and Teacher Macbeth have passed by on horseback several times before. I heard that that lake is also called the Lake of Death. Sea, the idiot next to me at that time was still wondering why there were plants since it was called the Sea of Death. Humph, the Sea of Death was obviously named a long time ago, no matter what it is now."
"Actually, it can't be so absolute." Richard said, "The Sea of Death is a name, but it also has a meaning, just like a person's nickname.
The name of the person may not match the person: for example, a thin man is called Bernie (meaning as strong and brave as a bear), and a prisoner in the dungeon is named Kent (meaning a handsome and great leader).
Nicknames generally describe a certain trait of a person: for example, if a person is nicknamed 'Madman', then he must have a crazy side; if he is nicknamed 'Blind', his eyesight or eyesight will definitely not be much better.
Therefore, I think the name 'Sea of Death' probably hides some information that the previous people wanted to pass on. However, later people did not pay attention to it, or perhaps the people who did pay attention died collectively due to a special accident, and no one understood the situation anymore. "
"So, what do you want to do?" Nancy asked.
"It's very simple. I want to take a look at this 'Sea of Death'. I've already checked it once before, and now I'm going to do another in-depth inspection to verify one of my conjectures." Richard said. After saying this without any hesitation, he just put his foot down and flew towards the south.
Nancy was stunned for a moment, then reacted the next moment and said quickly: "Wait for me, I'll be with you!" After saying that, she chased after Richard's figure who was already far away.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Gro, who was lying on the ground wanting to be quiet, finally became quiet. After being quiet for about ten seconds, Gro suddenly sat up, turned around and looked around, his eyes confused and said: "Hey, what's going on? Why are everyone gone? Hey! Wait for me, wait for me, What happened? Tell me, don't leave me! Huh hu..." Gro, who hadn't rested for long, squeezed out the last strength in his body and panted to catch up.
At this time, he was like an abandoned child weighing more than 120 pounds.
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