- 161: 95. Guarding the Stump Waiting for Hare 2
- 161: 95. Guarding the Stump Waiting for Hare 2
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The rain of bullets continued until Kasha returned from underground.
Kasha shouted over the sound of the machine gun:
“Chief Officer! All the ancient relics that couldn’t be moved in time have been destroyed by me! The passage to the artifact repository has also been blown up by us! We must leave quickly!”
“Excellent!… All listen up, everyone get out of the underground river! I’ll cover your retreat! Quick, quick, quick! Don’t dawdle!”
Lieutenant Cavado roared orders.
After his body had grownrger, his voice naturally became louder.
The soldiers present all heard the Chief’s voice. Hurriedly, they picked up their light machine guns and bombunchers, retreating towards the entrance of the underground tunnel.
Lieutenant Cavado stayed at the rear of the team, slowing down the enemy’s pursuit with his light machine gun.
After the soldiers nearby had retreated into the underground tunnel, he finally disbanded his transformation, returning to human form, and with a ragged back figure, ran into the narrow entrance.
Following behind Cavado was a long string of metal skeletons, no less than three hundred of them, among them arge number of nimble skeleton hounds.
The size of the metal Big Skeletons was substantial, so naturally, they should not have been able to enter the tunnel entrance that only humans could pass through.
But the metal Big Skeleton at hand was different.
It surprisingly allowed its subordinates to disassemble its bones and carry its leg bones, rib bones, spinal bones, and skull to chase after Cavado…
After such arge group of the undead with a metallic coating left, no one or undead remained at the scene except for Nnd Lee.
Nnd Lee treaded lightly,ing out from behind the boulder where he had been hiding.
He listened carefully for any sounds, and apart from the flowing water, there was silence.
Nnd Lee slowly moved towards the tunnel entrance leading to the artifact repository.
He used his Deconstruction skill to clear the way. After confirming it was safe, he moved down the spiraling tunnel and reached the repository’s gate destroyed by the bomb.
This ce had already turned into ruins.
Chaotic stones had filled the entire tunnel, blocking the path and leaving no crevices for Nnd Lee.
Nnd Lee tried to move some of the stones but invoked a series of cascading stone slides, forcing him to abandon his n to manually dig open the tunnel.
“Seems like I won’t be able to know what the so-called true history is… what a shame.
Nnd shook his head slightly, ready to turn around and leave, when he felt an abnormal sound beneath his feet.
“Crack…”
It seemed like a stone chip had been crushed by him.
Nnd kneeled down and picked up the fragmented stone chip.
Feeling the raised pattern on the stone chip, Nnd casually cast Deconstruction.
[System Message: You are attempting to deconstruct the “fragment of an ancient relic”.]
[Based on your schstic skills, the energy points needed to deconstruct this item have decreased to 1 point.] [Do you confirm to proceed with the deconstruction?]
“The fragment of an ancient relic…”
Nnd murmured a phrase and kneeled down again to search around the nearby ground.
It’s possible that the soldiers had identally broken an ancient relic while moving them.
After searching for a while, Nnd found more than a dozen pieces of various-looking stone chips.
By putting them together, you could barely make out the shape of arge, potbellied stone urn.
Nnd returned to the bank of the underground river, opened his backpack, took out the coalmp, lit it up behind the boulder where he was hiding, and scrutinized the ancient stone statue in his hand.
From the ancient historical knowledge he possessed, this finely carved ancient relic, which was in good condition, should be a product of thete Tatis Ancient Dynasty.
Nnd knew that time was pressing and he didn’t have the leisure to perform archaeology, so he directly cast Deconstruction on the stone chipsbined together.
[System Message: You are attempting to deconstruct a “damaged ancient stone figure”.]
[Based on your schstic skills, the energy points needed to deconstruct this item have decreased to 5 points.]
[Do you confirm to proceed with the deconstruction?]
As Nnd saw that the consumption of energy points was notrge, he immediately chanted “Confirm Deconstruction”.
[Your degree of deconstruction of the “damaged ancient stone figure” has risen from 0% to 100%.]
[You have obtained the following deconstruction results:]
[1. Your Archaeology level has increased +1, reaching Level 9.] [2. You have obtained the basic information of this relic:]
[The history of this ancient artifact can be traced back to 120 years ago. It corresponds to thete period of the Ancient Tatis Dynasty, during the reign of Zorah Ill. Zorah Ill was thest king of the Ancient Tatis Dynasty.] [The pattern on the surface of the ancient stone statue indicates:]
[Zorah Ill’s Royal Knight Dure found arge amount of mysterious blood on the Springtime in, known as the “Land of Bountiful”. ording to Dure, this blood umted on the t in formed ake. The surface of theke was golden like wheat, and the water was as sweet as fruit wine with a tenderness like a maiden’s skin.]
[Upon Dure’s observation, this mysterious and noble blood came from a giant human figure suspended in the sky above the Springtime in. Every three to five days, fresh blood would slide down the human figure and fall into theke below.]
[Just as Dure was reporting this matter to Zorah Ill, new messages came from the Springtime in. Some said that the human figure in the sky fell into the Blood Lake below. The rising water flooded a lot of farnd, causing many farmers who relied on cultivation for a living to lose their homes.]
[Zorah Ill ordered Dure to confirm this message. A monthter, Dure sent an urgent letter confirming the authenticity of the message and requested Zorah
Ill to mobilize troops to suppress the rebel army causing an uproar around the
Blood Lake..]