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Chapter 14 Footprints and Conjectures
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Tianyi and the count arrived outside the Colosseum. This place was not strictly regulated in the Middle Ages and was not protected by the government. Most of the time, you could come and go at will. (To be continued. 89 Free Novel Reading "").
Tianyi led the Earl to a stone wall of the Colosseum and stopped. He did not lift his hood, so the Earl could only see the lower half of his face.
"Well... I think this place is good." Tianyi said.
The count looked left and right, thinking: What are you doing? You pick a landmark building at random, stand under a stone wall, and tell me it’s good. Do you want me to bring a few people here, dig a big hole here overnight, and throw the treasure into it
"Master... this... is inappropriate." The earl expressed his doubts tactfully.
Tianyi knew that he had misunderstood what he meant, and showed a strange smile: "I am going to tell you something next. It must be very bizarre to you, but it is true, and you have to accept it as soon as possible."
The earl was mentally prepared for this situation. Anyway, after meeting Tianyi, he had seen at least two or three strange events that were beyond his understanding.
"Master, tell me," the count replied.
Tianyi said: "Under this Colosseum, there is a huge pyramid-shaped temple."
The earl's eyes were straight, his mouth was half-open, and the corners of his eyes were dancing involuntarily.
Tianyi continued: "I plan to start from here..." He pointed to his feet: "Dig a channel. If we keep vertically downward, we can reach the depth of 200 meters to 230 meters. An entrance to that temple.”
"Hmm..." The count just wanted to ask him at this moment, how to dig
In the Middle Ages, there was no engineering technology that could penetrate such a deep underground. And even if there was, Count Beauje, as a fugitive wanted by the Holy See and monitored by countless dark forces, would never be able to hire a man with hundreds of people. The engineering team is building a lot of construction work in the Colosseum, right
Tianyi didn't wait for him to ask this question, and said directly: "I can complete the construction of the passage by myself, and it can be completed in about three days. You just need to remember where we are standing at the moment, and in three days, you Take the treasure out of the temporary hiding place and find some loyal and reliable people to transport it. We will transport the treasure to the underground temple in batches and strive to complete the entire operation within a week."
After hearing this, the earl felt a little relieved. He almost forgot that the man in front of him was a wizard. How could it be possible for a master to dig a tunnel? Maybe he would boil a pot of eyeballs and mix in some cat urine. After chanting a few spells, a big snake came out from the center of the earth to help him open up the ground.
"Okay, I will definitely do it." After the earl answered, he thought of something else and said, "By the way, master, in the next three days, if anything happens..."
Tianyi interrupted him and said, "Just don't do anything abnormal. If everything remains as usual, there will be no danger."
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Vanessa followed the light of the flashlight and looked in the direction pointed by the consultant. After observing carefully for a few seconds, she almost cried out. (To be continued. 89 Free Novel Reading ""). On the wall on one side of the passage, on the irregular surface of the wall made of soil and stone, a human face-like imprint can be vaguely recognized.
"How could this happen..." Vanessa whispered to herself.
The consultant said to her in a matter-of-fact tone: "Someone must have stamped it with their face."
"You mean, more than seven hundred years ago, there was a person who used his face to crush the wall here?" Vanessa asked.
"Haha... How do you know that the owner of this face took the initiative to print his face on the wall?" The consultant smiled and said, "Also, look at the footprints on the ground."
Vanessa lowered her head and used her flashlight to shine on the stairs, but she couldn't see the hall at all. There were more than a dozen people walking in front of them, and their footprints were messy.
However, the consultant sees things differently from others. Under poor lighting conditions, he can see the only and inconspicuous "face print" on the wall, which is enough to show that there is nothing along the way. Information escapes his observation, memory and analysis.
"There are footprints going up." Vanessa understood as soon as the consultant came out.
She also identified a few upward footprints on the ground, but she just replied casually: "Isn't this strange? The Templar knights who transported the treasure had to return to the ground through this passage. Bar."
Seeing the lights in front of him fading away, the consultant said, "Let's follow the team first."
Vanessa followed him forward again, picking up the pace slightly.
The consultant explained as he walked: "This passage is undoubtedly affected by some special force. After it was closed, many traces left eight hundred years ago have remained intact. I noticed the problem of footprints as soon as I entered, which is almost the same as Our new footprints are similar, so they are of great reference value." In fact, the consultant has probably already guessed what is going on in this passage, because it is connected to the Darkwater Tribe's fortress, so it should be affected by the power inside the ruins.
Inside the Darkwater Tribe's fortress, living things cannot feel physiological needs, the passage of time, etc. This is a characteristic of facilities with the "eternal core" as the energy base. In fact, not only living things, but also materials in this environment , it will also enter a state similar to no space and no time. This passage is not even within the ruins, but it has already been affected. This situation will inevitably become more obvious after the expedition team actually enters the ruins.
The consultant continued: "It is hard to tell how many people were walking down. Everyone in our team was carrying equipment, and when the Templars were walking down, they should all be carrying treasures. Without knowing the weight data, In this case, it is very difficult to distinguish from the depth of the footprints. So I will talk about the upward footprints.
On all the steps leading up from the top of the passage to that face, I saw only the footprints of two people. But starting from the position of that face, there are three people so far. Then... the disappearing footprints probably belong to the owner of that face, and I saw that the footprints he came up with were only the soles of his feet landing on the ground. They were deep and powerful, and they took a long step, as if he was... "
"Escape?" Vanessa answered.
"Yes, run away." The consultant responded: "The scene I can imagine is that when the person escaped to the location where the face mark was left, something happened to him, causing his face to hit the wall. Please pay attention, There are no palm prints near the face. Whether a normal person is hit, pushed, or beaten, when his face hits the wall, his two hands will always instinctively protect the face, or at least support it on the wall. Well, but there isn't one there.
What's also puzzling to me is that the footprints disappeared but no body was left behind. If there was a headless body nearby and a head on the stairs not far away, then everything would make sense. For example, when he escaped here, he was beheaded and his head flew towards the wall, but there was no body... Could it be that he was eaten by something after death? "
"Don't be malicious and scary." Vanessa said in a bad tone.
"If we are participating in a courage test, and you happen to be wearing a swimsuit and holding my arm while walking forward, that would be the right time to scare people." The consultant's thoughts were moving very fast. In order to deny the other party, he gave an example in an instant. A time that you think is appropriate to be scary: "I'm just speculating now that it's your own problem to be afraid."
"Okay, I've convinced you." At this moment, Vanessa felt that the consultant was simply a freak. A normal person would only come to a conclusion by carefully examining, taking photos, and taking it back for analysis. This guy just looked at it as he passed by and got the same answer in his mind. That's all. He can instantly construct a scene like a courage test in his mind to use irony. If someone else said this, Vanessa would definitely think that this person has been molesting her for many years and has imagined n kinds of food. The scene of her tofu.
"Well... there are more footprints, which is interesting." When he was about to catch up with the large army in front, the consultant stopped again. He shined a flashlight at his feet: "Look, this is the fourth upward footprint, and the face print Like the owner, he is also running."
Vanessa glanced at it and asked: "What about the owners of the other two footprints? Even the two people who went up alive, did they also run up?"
"See for yourself." The consultant's flashlight tilted slightly to the side: "Can you see clearly? These two footprints exist all the way to the top of the passage."
"It's like walking normally..." Vanessa said doubtfully: "The people who were walking successfully left, but those who were running were interrupted."
"It's not surprising. People will run when there is danger chasing behind them." The consultant took a look at the walls on both sides and even looked at the slope above his head: "The fourth footprint is missing here, but he didn't leave anything behind. Other marks, of course, and no bodies.”
Vanessa thought for a while and said: "I guess something happened between the Templar Knights. Maybe there was a conflict. The absence of corpses is easy to explain. They may have died at the hands of ability users, and that ability person There is a way to destroy the body on the spot and eliminate traces.”
"Hmm... It's a reasonable explanation." The consultant nodded: "But there is one more unusual thing."
"What else?" Vanessa said.
"Judging from the footprints, the number of people who went down is unknown, but it should range from a few to a dozen people, and in the end only two people came up." The consultant paused and said: "But... no matter how you look at it, this is just It was probably the footprints left by the team that transported the treasure after one round trip. The footprints of the two people who got out alive were of different sizes, so it couldn't have been left by the same person twice." He looked back at Vanessa: "Of course. It’s not just a matter of one or two people missing. My question is... Can the Templars’ treasure be transported in one round trip? How many people are needed in total to transport it?”
Vanessa was also stunned, and her expression changed obviously: "Could it be that... there is another entrance to this ruins?"
The consultant shrugged and replied: "I don't know that, but it is obviously impossible for more than a hundred people to go down with a sack of treasure each. I am more willing to believe that there were only a dozen people down that year, and they had already Knowing that there was a narrow escape from death, they chose to take only the most valuable treasures among the treasures, and not too much gold and silver.
The two people who finally got out alive either divided the remaining gold and silver or hid it somewhere else. There is also a small chance that these two people returned to the ruins again and had to bring more treasures in. However, they failed to escape alive this time, so they did not leave any traces of their return the second time. Of course there are other possibilities, all kinds of probabilities. Just looking at the upward footprints, I can only speculate so much. "
Vanessa said: "Would you like to go to the front and lead the team..."
"It's not necessary. In fact, these are just what I saw and naturally thought about. What does the life and death of those people back then have to do with me." The consultant replied: "Besides, if I go to the front now, I can't see anything. Yes, based on my guess about the depth of the channel..."
"We found the entrance!" someone shouted from the front of the team.
The consultant tilted his neck and spread his hands.
Vanessa always thought that the other party was just a hacker who was a little weaker than herself and was quite clever. It was not surprising that someone with such strength could become the strategist of the Reverse Cross. But as she walked down the road, she only felt shuddering. This kid was not just a little "smart", he was not a normal human being at all.
"From now on, don't leave my sight. It's best to stay within five meters of me." Vanessa squinted at him: "If you dare to play any tricks, my ability can be activated no matter how far away you are. Please advise." Don’t put yourself at risk.”
"Okay, I don't care. This kind of surveillance is the treatment I deserve." The consultant smiled and walked down.
At this time, at the front of the team, the stairs at the end of the passage and the slope of the ruins formed a funnel-shaped angle, but the slope was not very steep. Although it seemed that the slope was a black metal wall, the material was no different from the tip of the pyramid. , it is also covered with small textures, but Dark Water’s unique eyesight can see through it. That wall is just a disguise, similar to a virtual projection. You can enter the ruins directly through it.
But the problem is that there is a relatively large space below this layer of projection. After passing through the slope, it will fall, about ten meters in height. There should be no problem if a person with equal-level abilities jumps when they are well prepared, but people below this level may get injured if they jump.
Anshui reached the end of the passage and stopped on the stairs. He did not go up to touch the slope of the ruins, but was thinking about what he should do. Because he has to play John DeSoto after all, so he can't mess around. It was impossible for him to turn around and say: "This wall is a projection. I can see through it, and I can visually detect the drop of more than ten meters below without using a flashlight."
If he did this, Suisside behind him would probably immediately ask, "What is the purpose of your coming to Earth?"
An Shui pondered for a long time and came up with a countermeasure: just pretend that he didn't know anything, step on nothing, and then quickly turn around and grab the ladder, so that others would pull him up, and the projection matter could be regarded as "unintentional" by him. "Chong" was discovered. When the time comes, I will go through the projection and pretend to throw a pebble or something, tell them the depth, and ask them to prepare the rope.
(To be continued. 89 Free Novel Reading "").
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