Brutus put the dagger back into its scabbard and knelt down again.
"What's the matter, Brutus?" Anil lit the torch, moved over, and squatted down with him to look at the ground.
Brutus did not answer Anil's question. He grabbed a handful of sand with his left hand and observed it. After a few seconds, he scattered the sand back to the ground.
"Let's not rush too deep into this place. I have a bad feeling." Brutus frowned, "Aren't you very lucky? Choose a direction first."
Anil pointed straight ahead: "I think it's okay to go straight."
After hesitating for a few seconds, Brutus nodded and led the three people forward.
"Ah! What is it?" Landers was startled by a chill on his neck. He nervously swiped the back of his neck with his hand.
The other three people stopped and drew their weapons and looked around cautiously.
Anil looked up at the pitch-black sky above his head, and then looked at the team members next to Landers: "Wade, help him take a look."
Wade used the light of the torch in his hand to look carefully at Landers' back, and then said: "There is nothing, I think it is dripping water."
"Do you think something is wrong?" Brutus also came over, lifted Landers' collar and rubbed his neck.
Landers replied: "That feeling is gone. I think it is probably water droplets."
"Do you think we need to examine one in detail?" Anil suggested. "Have Randers undress?"
"No, let's explore further for a while and then prepare to go back." Brutus rejected this proposal. He thought it was best for them not to stay here for too long. "Landers, if you feel something is wrong, you must
Want to say."
"Of course, there's nothing to hide." Landers waved his hand. He was not a child, so of course he knew what this feeling meant.
Wade looked around: "Do you think it's too quiet? We could hear sounds other than the sound of water and us before, but it seems like we haven't heard it for a long time."
After hearing what he said, Landers also said: "Yes, and the sound of water flow seems to be getting louder and louder."
Brutus looked at Anil and found that Anil was also looking at him.
After the two looked at each other, Brutus was the first to speak: "Let's go a little further."
"I agree."
After thinking about it for a while, Wade and Landers felt that they had already come this far and it would not be a big deal to go a little further, so they agreed with their opinions.
The four of them walked for a few more minutes and came to a rough earth staircase between two rock walls.
"Is this a staircase?" Anil couldn't believe his eyes. "It's incredible that there is such a thing here."
"And it's an upward staircase." Brutus also felt a little strange. He looked at the people beside him, "Shall we go up?"
Randall muttered without thinking: "Isn't this nonsense? We are here just to find a way out. Since we have the opportunity now, of course we have to try it."
Seeing several other people looking at him, Wade could only shrug: "Since you all plan to go in, then I will follow you in."
Brutus entered first, Anil walked behind him holding a torch, followed by Landers and Wade.
"Be careful!" Anil had quick eyesight and quick hands. He dropped the torch he was holding in his left hand and grabbed Brutus, who was tripped by something and almost staggered.
"Look at your feet! Where are the earthen steps from before?" Landers' eyes were attracted by the fallen torch - and then he discovered that their feet had at some point turned into a plank bridge deck diagonally upward.
The torch fell on the somewhat rotten wooden board, bounced up and rolled down into the gap between the two wooden boards. Through the falling firelight, they found that there seemed to be a bottomless abyss under their feet.
Brutus stabilized his center of gravity and said to the people behind him as he walked forward: "This is a kind of space magic. It is easy for us to get in, but it may be a little troublesome to get out. From my experience, it is better to go back the same way.
Instead, it may go in a big circle.”
The other three people looked at each other, and they regretted going straight up the steps.
But now that things have come to this, I have no choice but to bite the bullet and keep moving forward.
"Look at the left side. That looks like a statue?" Wade looked around and his eyes were completely attracted by the scene on the left. "How much is this worth?"
Brutus and others followed Wade's guidance and looked over. It was a statue completely carved from the starstone that Anil had mentioned before. Judging from its glowing outline, it should be a bust.
, I just don’t know whose face it is...
"This must be dozens of meters high," Landers said in admiration.
Anil estimated the distance and shook his head: "No, at least it is at least a hundred meters high. This is simply a spectacle."
"One hundred meters?!" Wade repeated the height in disbelief, "It would have cost millions of gold lattice to build such a huge statue. I think this must be a miracle, there are no living things except gods.
It’s possible to do something like this.”
Brutus looked at the statue in the distance and said firmly to Wade: "No, we humans can do it. Let's move on and be careful where we step. I think this may be a civilization relic, and we may be able to find it."
What a good thing, but it may also encounter unknown traps.”
"Maybe there is a way out." Anil added, his voice sounding a little eager to try, "Let's go."
Landers quickly followed Brutus and Anil Wade. He glanced at the statue in the distance a few more times, sighed slightly and followed the others.
Although the wooden suspension bridge under their feet always creaked from the sound of movement, fortunately it was still strong, and at least the four of them reached the other side without any danger.
Looking around, they saw a two-meter-high rock wall in front of them, and in the middle of the rock wall was a wide-open city gate.
After entering the city gate, Landers scanned the surrounding area and couldn't see anything moving except for them: "It seems that no one here can come out to greet us."
Wade watched the movements around him vigilantly: "I think if there were really moving 'people', they might not greet us in a friendly way."
Their neighborhood looked lifeless, and some of the houses facing the street had even collapsed.
"These two-story bungalows are only four meters tall in total. How short do people here have to be? The building materials are all stones from here, but they are nothing special." Anil walked to a house and used a torch to illuminate his sight.
Everywhere you reach.
"It's best not to tamper with things here." Brutus warned everyone, "It would be terrible if something is triggered."
"Of course I know, but everyone might as well remind themselves again." Anil walked back to the team, "Let's take a look at the center of the city next?"
The other three people had no objections to this, and Anil's proposal was passed easily.