"What are these vines blocking?"

Kain squatted down, pulled out a dagger, covered the blade with thought energy, and "swish" cut off a vine in front of him and pushed it away.

"A pattern."

Kain pushed aside the vines in front of him and found a strange pattern drawn on the ground blocked by the vines. The pattern was circular and divided into three inner and outer circles. The outermost circle had some curved lines drawn on it, which seemed to be a star.

sun.

The second circle is painted with many spikes, like a gear.

The innermost circle is a diamond-shaped stone that is blooming with light.

"Is it this kind of stone again?" The man in camouflage clothes frowned and looked at the pattern on the ground, and said: "The three ruins in the desert have stone carvings of this kind of stone, and they are also there now."

"Can you see anything?"

the man in camouflage asked.

"This is just a pattern, not a stone statue or carving."

Kain stretched out his hand and stroked the pattern carefully, trying to find any difference, but there was nothing. He pressed hard, but there was no response, and then stood up.

"It doesn't look like there's anything wrong with it, just keep walking."

Kain did not detect any danger, so he stepped forward, followed closely by the men in camouflage uniforms and soldiers.

Kain and the man in camouflage uniforms passed by one after another, and the soldiers also passed by one after another. Everyone was safe and sound.

"Ka...ka..."

And just as the team in the middle passed the pattern, a "click" sound came from the path under their feet.

"Boom~!"

Before they could react, the path beneath their feet suddenly collapsed, and the thirteen soldiers fell into the darkness before they even had time to scream.

"Gulu..."

The remaining soldiers and the soldiers in front all retreated a few steps, shining their flashlights on the cliff that suddenly collapsed in front of them, with cold sweat on their faces and throbbing throats.

"Didn't you say it's okay!?"

The man in camouflage uniform turned his head and stared at Kain with a gloomy look on his face.

"There is indeed nothing wrong with that pattern. The problem should be this road." Faced with the question from the man in camouflage uniforms, Kain looked calm and shined his flashlight into the surrounding darkness, saying: "In such a large space, there is nothing but darkness below.

None."

"But there is such a small road just for people to pass by. It was obviously built by ancient people."

"That pattern just now should be a trap sign."

"However, you didn't recognize that sign!" The man in camouflage uniform looked worried and gritted his teeth: "Aren't you an expert who specializes in studying the Barahona Dynasty? The Council of Elders gives you so much research funding every year, you are...

"

"I'm just a scholar, not omnipotent." Kain narrowed his eyes slightly, turned to face the man in camouflage uniforms, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and said, "Don't try to blame all the blame on me."

After speaking, Kain turned around and walked into the depths alone.

"Tsk, this bastard." The man in camouflage uniform bared his teeth and said, then turned to look at the soldiers on the opposite side who had not yet moved, and shouted: "What are you still standing there for?"

"Don't you have any rope!?"

"Throw it over here and I'll pull you over!"

In the second half of the team, a soldier came to his senses, quickly took the rope from his body, and threw it to the opposite side. The man in camouflage uniform reached out to grab it, and wrapped it around his arm and waist several times.

The soldier who threw the rope handed the rope to his companions, and everyone straightened the rope together.

"Come one by one."

The man in camouflage uniform gave an order, and a soldier walked out of the team. He held the rope tightly with both hands and fell backwards. His legs were crossed and hooked on the rope. Relying on the rope, the soldier jumped from the cliff more than four meters wide.

Climbed over slowly.

After a long time, it was the last one's turn, which was Ilumi.

Yilumi grabbed the end of the rope, jumped on the edge of the cliff, grabbed the rope, swung over, and hit the wall of the opposite cliff with a bang. He shook his head pretendingly, and then grabbed the rope and climbed up.

"Crack!"

When he climbed to the shore, two soldiers grabbed his shoulders and lifted him up.

"Walk."

Seeing that he had finally brought all the remaining people over, the man in camouflage uniform waved his hand and led the team forward.

The team kept moving forward, and after ten minutes of nervous walking, the team finally saw the end of the narrow path, a piece of flat land.

"Finally, I no longer have to walk on a single-plank bridge."

After setting foot on land, a soldier breathed a sigh of relief and said.

"It's not over yet, please be careful, Kain Sacrifice doesn't even know where he has gone."

A soldier beside him reminded.

Everyone was silent. During the journey just now, they took a cursory look and found that they had lost three teams just on the way. They didn't know how dangerous they would be in the rest of the exploration.

"I saw the sacrifice!"

A soldier at the front of the team suddenly shouted. Everyone took a closer look and saw that Priest Kain was squatting on the ground in front of a statue, shining the flashlight in all directions, as if he was looking for something on the ground.

"What are you doing?"

The man in camouflage uniform came to Kain and looked down at him subtly.

"Looking for the crystal."

Kain replied, then picked up a broken green crystal on the ground, held it in his hand, turned and walked towards the statue in front of him.

The statue is about four meters high. It is a giant stone sculpture dressed in sacrificial attire and only has its upper body.

Wearing a strange hat, the hat is inlaid with an oval green crystal the size of a football. Two arms stretch forward, holding a one-meter-large round stone plate with many broken green crystals placed inside.

, Kain placed the crystal in his hand.

Put the flashlight aside and shine it on the crystal inside the stone plate.

"I'm asking you, what's the use of picking up these crystals?"

The man in camouflage uniform walked next to him and asked again.

"Don't let me think you're talkative."

Kain said a word with a calm expression, causing the man in camouflage to stiffen, grit his teeth and shut up.

"Ka...ka..."

Many soldiers gathered around the statue and were on guard with their guns raised. The bright flashlights on their rifles were shining everywhere to avoid surprise attacks by any hidden creatures.

Ilumi stood as if nothing had happened and stood closest to the statue, looking sideways at Kain, who was comparing the incomplete crystals in the stone plate one by one, as if he was planning to repair these crystals.

Many soldiers didn't know what he was going to do, they just wanted to guard the surroundings.

"Well, we finally put it together."

After a long time, Kain finally put the broken crystals back together, and it turned out to be a small green crystal statue that was exactly the same as the giant stone sculpture holding it.

Kain gently pressed the crystal statue with both hands, straightened it up, and faced the stone sculpture.

But, nothing happened.

The man in camouflage clothes crossed his arms across his chest, wanting to see what he was going to do.

"I understand." Kain looked at the two statues in front of him, one large and one small. He suddenly raised his head and said, "Shine the top of your head with a flashlight."

The man in camouflage did not speak, he raised his rifle and aimed it above his head. The tactical flashlight on the rifle shone on the top of the statue.

But there is only a wall covered with vines above the head.

"Move three meters back."

Kain ordered, and the man in camouflage frowned and pointed his flashlight at the top of his head three meters behind, which was also a wall covered by a large number of vines.

"That's it, it's blocked."

Kain squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the wall there, and could vaguely see a ray of light from the vines.

"Come two people and knock down the vines there."

Kain pointed to the vines above the head illuminated by the man in camouflage uniforms and ordered to the soldiers.

"Yes, Kain Sacrifice."

Two soldiers walked out of the team, took aim with their guns, and pressed the trigger.

"Bang bang bang..."

The two soldiers fired ten times in a row, and the vines exploded with a "crackling" sound. The broken vines hung weakly from the wall and hung in the air.

It turned out that there was a hole in the wall there, and the vines blocked the hole.
To be continued...