Free Web NovelChapter 821: Chapter 504: Exploring the Ruins Cavern
Now he prepared to visit the ruins location to take a look; the ruins have long been buried underground.
However, since the Lion Skeleton Knights were stirred, it indicates a void has appeared underground.
Harboring questions within, Zong Shen followed the strategy guide’s navigation to the north.
After traveling five to six hundred meters, he arrived at the location marked by the navigation.
There was a large sinkhole here.
Its diameter was over ten meters, forming a funnel shape.
The deepest part was about three to four meters wide, but unfortunately, it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.
On the inside of the sinkhole, there were evident tracks of Skeleton Bone Horses passing through.
This indicated that the sinkhole led directly underground.
"Strange, why is there a sinkhole when the soil here is so loose?"
"It seems that the sinkhole looks like a cavern."
"No, only the surface soil is loose!"
Zong Shen squatted down, pondering as he stared at the sinkhole.
The soil beneath was very soft, only slightly firmer than silt.
Logically, not even a sinkhole, let alone a cavern, should form under such conditions.
Because the soil was too soft and lacked any support, unless there was a massive open-air collapse.
But when he looked carefully at the sinkhole, he made a new discovery.
The pitch-black soft soil was only about forty to fifty centimeters of the surface.
The soil layers below were normal gray-brown.
They appeared much more solid.
The color of the soil serves as an introductory card; it can initially convey some condition of the soil.
It seems that those Lion Skeleton Knights emerged from this sinkhole leading to the cavern below.
And that cavern was clearly formed from the original site ruins.
Regardless of whether it was a wooden hut or a tent, even after collapse, they could become basic supporting space.
Especially when there were dramatic geological changes.
Such as earthquakes or mountain floods, forming some space was normal.
Of course, all of these were just Zong Shen’s own analysis.
In fact, how this sinkhole and cavern were formed doesn’t really matter.
This ruin has undergone over ten thousand years of time, with unknown geological changes along the way.
The resulting scenarios are unpredictable.
At least for Zong Shen now, regardless of the ruins’ situation, all he can do is take them as they are.
Let alone ten thousand years, even a change over decades might bring significant transformation.
Zong Shen slowly stood up, reaching out to take out the {Magic Power Flashlight}, turning on its lowest brightness towards the bottom.
Then he began to take steps towards the bottom of the sinkhole.
The slope of the sinkhole was not very steep, and the soil layer below was quite solid.
The traces left by the Skeleton Bone Horses were also not as evident as on the surface. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm
He cautiously approached the mouth of the cavern, where some crushed soil slipped and fell inside.
Though the mouth of the cavern was pitch-black, when he shone the flashlight down, he discovered it was no deeper than four or five meters and was fairly gentle.
This was not surprising. Firstly, the Lion Knight Order’s site relics were buried due to geological changes.
Normal geological changes at most bury something about ten meters deep.
Secondly, those revived Lion Skeleton Knights could still freely travel between underground and the surface.
This indicates that the passage below must be gentle; otherwise, if it were a vertical drop of four or five meters, the Skeleton Bone Horses couldn’t have come out.
Zong Shen almost immediately had an answer.
"Let’s go in and take a look..."
He held the flashlight in one hand, while the other hand reached for his waist, where the {Hammer of Intracranial Roar} was hanging.
"Phew!"
After taking a deep breath, he decisively followed the gentle slope into the cavern.
The formation of this cavern likely had multiple causes.
Apart from natural factors, perhaps those revived Lion Skeleton Knights played a role too.
They don’t need to breathe and have brute force, so having a bit of space allows them to dig freely underground.
Therefore, this cavern connected at least a large portion of the ruins.
Regardless, having come down, a preliminary investigation was necessary.
After descending the gentle slope, there was an irregular tunnel about four to five meters in height.
The surroundings were pitch black, necessitating the use of the Magic Power Flashlight for illumination.
The cavern passage was eerily silent, cut off from the sunlight outside, with no sound passing through.
It was as quiet as entering another world.
Though adjacent to the lake, it was relatively dry here.
Zong Shen cautiously shone the flashlight forward.
The passage wasn’t very long, about fifty to sixty meters.
About halfway through, remains of the ruins appeared on the sides of the passage.
Zong Shen saw several wooden beams that had turned to a fossil state.
These beams bore some charring marks.
Below, some space was propped open, which had been solidified after burial.
This was further evidence that a landslide or earthquake likely caused the geological disaster here.
The burial occurred rapidly.
Before these wooden beams decayed, they were sealed, and the corresponding space was solidified.
However, the gap below the beams was narrow, allowing only one person to crouch and enter.
Such an entry point doesn’t allow the Skeleton Knights to exit.
Thus, it surely isn’t the revived place for the Lion Skeleton Knights; it most likely is part of the headquarters.
Zong Shen observed for a while before deciding to take a look inside.
He held the flashlight as he crouched and slipped through the gap beneath the wooden beams.
Upon entry, the internal space was about forty to fifty square meters.
The ground was covered in a layer of soil several dozen centimeters thick.
It appeared to be a wooden house.
The function was temporarily unclear, as Zong Shen couldn’t find anything useful inside.
Only some bones that were nearly petrified like jade.
These bones were a yellow-brown color throughout, with a jade-like luster.
Seeing such remains, Zong Shen couldn’t help but recall the skeleton he found under the crooked tree near his territory, which was headshot by the Blood-Burning Arrow.
The two had almost the same texture.
Evidently, these bones originate from the same era.
