Chapter 529: The Stone Statue |
"Is this the ruins Lisa was talking about?" Su Chen asked, looking at the ruins before him, which, apart from being slightly larger, didn't seem to have anything special.
Taking advantage of the recent lull in activity, Su Chen had brought his team to the ruins that Lisa had mentioned. It was here that Lisa had obtained a Warship and the Earth coordinates hidden within it. Initially, Su Chen had thought the Warship was left behind by the Qiluo Civilization, but upon closer inspection, he found no evidence of Qiluo Civilization's involvement.
His guess was wrong, so he had decided to personally visit this site and find out what was hidden here.
"Commander, our Scanning Simulation Imaging Technology is unable to scan the interior. It seems something is blocking the scan," Ju Ling reported, appearing by Su Chen's side.
This technology had always been practical, but its failure here made Su Chen realize that there was more to this place than met the eye.
"Bring Lisa over."
Before long, Lisa arrived. Su Chen instructed her to lead the way, primarily to find the location where the Warship had been.
Seeing this place again after so long, Lisa's expression was complex. If it weren't for the coercion of the person beside her, she wouldn't have wanted to enter this place at all.
"I can't guarantee that we'll be able to access that place for sure. We stumbled upon it accidentally back then," Lisa said.
Lisa fell silent and took the lead, this time wearing a full set of equipment. As long as she didn't do anything reckless, she should be safe.
Su Chen had Tanya lead the team with Lisa to explore the area. With Tanya's teleportation abilities, they could escape quickly if they encountered danger.
A group of about fifty people entered the ruins. At one point, Tanya keenly sensed that the spatial conditions in the area were somewhat unusual.
Although it appeared to be no different from the outside, the two spaces were separated. As for how they had entered smoothly, even Tanya wasn't sure.
Su Chen sat where he was and connected his vision to one of the Red Alert soldiers' eyes, immediately seeing their perspective.
It had to be said that before becoming ruins, this place must have been a massive city. The permanent population might have reached fifty million at its peak.
Some of the relatively intact buildings still displayed the city's style from ancient times, giving off a feeling of antiquity without the high-tech elements of the present. It seemed that the world's development level hadn't been very high back then, leading to this situation.
Lisa had been away from this place for over a year, and she didn't remember it very clearly. She had to stop and think about the direction to go every few steps.
Whoosh, whoosh!
As they walked down a broken street, a sudden barrage of cold arrows came from the shadows. The frigid gleam of the arrowheads raised the hairs on their necks. These were no ordinary arrows!
The rest of the team remained motionless, while Libra's duplicate used her Psychic shield to protect everyone.
Ping, ping!
The arrowheads struck the Psychic shield, and Su Chen clearly saw that Libra's duplicate's Psychic shield had visibly lightened in color.
In other words, if there were more of these arrows, they might be able to break through Libra's duplicate's Psychic shield.
Realizing there was no immediate danger, Tanya picked up one of the arrows. It appeared to be a single, seamless piece, showing no signs of being crafted separately.
Especially the arrowheads, which were covered in spikes, giving off a chilling aura at first glance.
"Such ancient weapons are rare even in the history of Yan Yun Star, and they are still so powerful," Su Chen recalled what he knew about Yan Yun Star's history. Such cold weapons usually only appeared during periods of chaos.
Tanya collected the arrows and urged Lisa to continue. However, it seemed that Lisa either couldn't find the way or something was amiss, as they encountered various traps along the way. These traps were ordinary, though, without any advanced technology.
This matched what Lisa had mentioned before. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to handle these traps.
"Have you forgotten the way you used to go?" Tanya stopped Lisa, who was about to continue forward, her expression stern.
Lisa looked panicked, continuously saying, "That can't be. I remember it clearly. We started from here, and this was the path we took when we entered. But these traps were triggered by us back then. Why are they here again?"
Re-triggered traps, and ancient ones at that, shouldn't have appeared again unless...
Someone had repaired these traps after they left!
Could there be others inside this ruin?
Thinking of this, Tanya realized that this mission might not be as simple as it appeared on the surface. Even though she lacked Psychic powers, she could still tell that Lisa wasn't pretending.
Why would a trap they had triggered before reappear?
Tanya didn't know, and Su Chen didn't know either. He continued to lead the team forward since these traps posed no threat to them.
As the team advanced, Lisa explained that when they had first entered the ruins, they had wandered aimlessly like headless flies. It was only when they encountered a strange stone statue that they received a hint and found the Warship. Otherwise, they might have all died there.
"Where is the stone statue?" Su Chen asked.
Lisa immediately led them to a dilapidated temple with only a broken entrance remaining. Most of the building inside had crumbled away.
However, not far from the entrance, there stood a life-sized stone statue of a man. The man in the statue appeared handsome.
"Where's the hint?" Lisa walked up to the statue and pointed to the base, where some text was inscribed: "Follow the direction guided by the god, and the faithful shall find redemption."
The man in the stone statue extended his hand, pointing in a specific direction. The text indicated that by following the direction indicated by the statue, they could escape from this place.
So, this stone statue represented a god?
The hint was quite vague, and only Lisa knew the specific details of how they had found the Warship.
Tanya looked at her, not needing to ask this time. Lisa spoke voluntarily, "Back then, we were in despair, and this sentence gave us our last glimmer of hope. We followed the direction indicated by the statue and kept going. It's strange to say, but we didn't notice anything special along the way, and we even walked out of the ruins. However, when we continued forward despite our fear, a small temple appeared."
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