Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 180: New clues
"Why is this place?" Saifeier said discouragedly. After spotting the special hill marked on the map, Lawrence and the others immediately stopped admiring the scenery of the lakeshore and rushed to the treasure location. When they ran there panting along the path by the lake, the two of them were surprised. The so-called treasure hunting spot was the spot called the treasure cave that the innkeeper said before.
"There is indeed something wrong." Lawrence also frowned. Since this place became a tourist attraction, there are no 1,000 or 800 extraordinary people who have been here. If this place is really a treasure place, the probability of good things staying in place is really small.
"Let's go take a look." Lawrence ran down the mountain with Syfiel who looked a little frustrated. "This is our goal anyway, how can we not go in and have a look at the door?"
When they approached, they found out that they had a closed door, because this place is now a tourist attraction, so for the convenience of management, a circle of iron fences was built around this place. And now because the fishermen's attack has just ended, this scenic spot near the lake is not open for safety reasons.
Fortunately, the hotel owner just told them some special news after knowing that they were going to visit here, so Lawrence quickly found the spare key under a paving slab at the door.
"It feels like there is nothing here, it's just an empty cave." When he opened the door and walked along a path to the entrance of the cave, Saifeier looked into the entrance and said.
Lawrence felt that Seifer's description was very accurate. This cave was not as twists and turns as he imagined, and it was full of all kinds of forks and traps used to defend against infiltration by outsiders. When he walked to the door, he found that he could get a clear view of the situation in the cave.
If it weren't for the previous treasure map, Lawrence felt that now he was very likely to feel that the group of scarlet sky remnants had no bright future after escaping here, so he simply ran away with his belongings.
After careful observation, Lawrence found that the cave was only more than three meters high, and it was a monolithic space inside. The overall area is equivalent to the total area of Lawrence's house on Lime Tree Street. If you stand at the entrance of the cave, you will find that visitors can see everything in the cave without entering the cave.
When he came to the entrance of the cave, Lawrence's first thing was to observe the entire cave by using the ability similar to the third-level magical mystic vision obtained after being stimulated by the bloodline. As a result, it was unexpectedly discovered that the cave was densely covered with magical auras like stars.
"What's going on?" Lawrence walked to the edge of the magical light at the entrance of the cave and carefully inspected it, only to find that the black stone mountain at the entrance of the cave was inlaid with some white translucent stones. And those magical auras radiated from these white stones.
"Magic marble?" Lawrence quickly recognized what these white stones were. In this magical world, many things would be soaked by magic into magical materials.
And this kind of magical marble inside is undoubtedly the best material for constructing various magic-related buildings. For example, a lot of such materials were used in the magic tower of the magic guild that Lawrence had visited before. However, the mana marble veins in this cave are very inferior. So no one found out here to mine this vein.
And the remnants of the blood-colored firmament that year hid things here, it should be hoped that the magical aura emitted from these magical ores confuses various magical investigation methods to hide their secrets. But this also made Lawrence decisively give up the idea of using magic to find treasure.
After walking into the cave, Lawrence and Syphile each held a large portable oil lamp and searched the entire cave a little bit. However, after searching every corner and corner for 20 minutes, They have to admit that this place really seems to be just an empty cave, nothing else.
"Obviously this is what is drawn on the map!" Saifei said with a frown when the two walked out of the cave with nothing. "Does it require any special requirements to reveal the treasures? For example, in the treasure hunts I have seen before, many treasures are hidden and no one can find them, but after chanting a certain spell or using a certain magic key, those treasures Will automatically appear in front of people."
"Spell, key--" Syfiel's words made Lawrence think, and then he took out from the space bag a gold pendant that was a little larger than a coin, and had a skeleton embossed on it and inlaid with red gems. If there is something that can be used as the key to this treasure, then this should be the only thing.
However, after the pendant was taken out, there was no response. It did not slowly float from the hand as Lawrence had imagined before, and then sent a light to open a certain secret door. Nor did they fly directly in any direction to take them to a hidden place. It just stayed quietly in Lawrence's palm.
"Hey, when did you buy this pendant? It looks very unique." Saifei looked at the palm of Lawrence's hand and said, "but it feels a bit too individual, not suitable for use. Carry on more formal occasions."
"I didn't buy this, you know my taste is not that special." Lawrence said after looking at the pendant in his hand to the sun, "This is something I found from an extraordinary place before. It was discovered in the same batch as the treasure map. I suspect this is the key to open the treasure. The only problem is that I don’t know how it is used."
"I think we can go into the cave again to find out if there is anything in the cave that can fit this pendant." Saifeier suggested. Lawrence thought for a while and there was no other way, so he walked into the cave with her.
"Hey, here—" After searching in the cave for more than half an hour, Lawrence found a groove at the entrance of the cave that he thought was the most unlikely. The groove was hidden by an axe or a chisel on the wall of the cave. In the traces.
If you didn't consciously search for it with this pendant, most people would not find the problem here at all, and would only think that this was a part of the traces that left the traces that made the traces a little deeper.
After the pendant in Lawrence's hand was inserted into the groove, he felt a little bit of extremely weak magic power flowing from the pendant. Then two rays of light shot out from the two rubies inlaid in the eye sockets of the skull, and projected a map on the opposite rock wall~lightnovelpub.net~ really cunning. "After inspection, Lawrence discovered that the bottom of this groove happened to be a piece of magic marble ore, and the original magic of the pendant must be activated by the magic of local marble ore.
"This is the map of this area." Because of the lake shore and the small Table Mountain on the map, Syfiel quickly recognized what the map was painted on, and after a brief identification, she pointed to the map. Speaking of where the red five-pointed star is painted. "If the map is correct, the treasure location should be on the deserted island opposite this cave."
Lawrence heard the words and recalled the surrounding terrain. The place where they are now is a lake bay. The trestle bridge they went to is the bottom of the groove of the lake bay. The cave under the hill where they are now is at the top of the lake bay side, and that place is small. The island happens to be at the entrance of the lake bay.
The small island is a pocket island only 100 meters away, about five to six hundred meters away from this cave. They had seen this small island from a distance on the road before, but they hadn't seen anything except the scattered plants on the island.
"If this is the case, let's go over and take a look." Lawrence suggested after thinking about it. "I remember seeing a small boat on the side of the road just now on our way."