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Chapter 210 Professor Gnorrison Bell's Investigation Notes

Griffith checked the surrounding situation and confirmed that there were no signs of danger.He reached out, pressed the buckle on Sonia's waist, and began to untie her safety rope.The girl hesitated for a moment, then stood on tiptoe and put her hands on the apprentice knight's shoulders so that he could reach out and untie the sling lock on his back.

The faint fragrance drilled into Griffith's mind, as refreshing as the green grass and garden in early spring.The girl Qianqianyu put her hands on her shoulders, a little more intimate than at the ball.

Beside them, Galadia jingled for a while without untying the rope, waiting for Griffith to come to help with a lonely face.

Griffith hurried over to help her.There is a subtle embarrassment in the air...

He looked at Galadia, his heart was beating like a marching drum, and the hand reaching for the lock behind her was a little nervous.I heard that some girls will ask a terrible question in this situation, and you can't answer it right.

Galadia's right hand was covering her chest, startled by the beating of her heart.Seeing those nervous and uneasy eyes, she turned her head slightly, and lightly pressed the hand on her waist.

"Yueguiguan, it's good if you don't get it," she said softly, "I heard that the knights in the finals are very powerful, and it's not worth hurting yourself."

"I'm fine too." Griffith said hastily.

Hearing this, the elf girl shook her head: "Those beautiful shells, grand ceremonies, and grand reasons are sometimes very pleasing, but there is no need to turn them into your own shackles and shackles."

Seeing that the prospective knight didn't understand for a while, she tapped on the silver breastplate with her slender fingers: "Griffith, in my eyes, you are the little sergeant who stood up for the strange villagers. The trainee knight who is eating something for dinner, the villain who is reluctant to buy an extra serving of honey.

"You are you first, and then the little knight in my story, aren't you?"

……

The ground of the ruins is not rough, and the old altars and settlements here have long been cleared from the road.After descending from the mouth of the cave, there is a semi-permanent camp a few miles away, leading to a different road.Group after group of expedition teams arranged ready-made lighting positions, potholes for collecting samples, and even left detailed travel records here.

"Some people say that Belomon is the name of a great ancient god," said the locally hired guide. "After his fall, the animals and plants in the ruins fell into madness and chaos until the purification team of the elves arrived. After many years With continued work, the danger and pollution here has been lifted."

The ventilation of this underground ruins seems to be good, and the flames of oil lamps and torches even sway with the wind blowing from nowhere.Not long after the expedition team advanced, they found that the interior of the ruins was surprisingly open, and the moss and rocks intertwined with silver, blue and scarlet were shimmering, like a galaxy floating in the sky.The silent underground is not completely dark. Layers of roads and caves are looming in the distance, extending to the depths of the ruins.

It's like a lost city that has been enchanted.

"Is this an underground canyon?" Sonia stared at the twilight and the outline of the cliff for a while, barely discerning the twists and turns of the terrain, "The rock wall clearly shows signs of erosion."

"Yes, it has been found that there is an underground river under our feet," Galadia flipped through the map and said, "Because the area of ​​the ruins is too large, the purification team that came here has not been able to complete all the exploration. However, not yet The proven part is in the depths we won't go, it's okay."

"Professor Bell of Pasha University and his team entered here before us, two weeks earlier than us," Sonia flipped through the camp records and noted the time and arrangement of their arrival, "This is I know a professor who often comes to my house as a guest and receives funding from my mother. They are regular long-term expedition teams, and we should not run into them."

The expedition team moved on.Along the way, you can see carefully marked signs on both sides of the road. When you raise your hand where you need lighting, you can find grooves for inserting torches or shackles for hanging oil lamps that have been dug out of the rocks.

Everyone walked in silence for a while, and Galadia suddenly said: "The purification team of my people usually consists of five members, and is assisted by dozens of aborigines. In a ruin of this size, the members of the purification team will Spread out, one of them must stay in the main camp.

"The camp is on a rocky platform a few days ahead. The supervisor is Bessarius, the extraordinary wizard of Sequence 6. He is a senior archaeologist and a powerful wizard. He has been in charge of Belomon recently. For the purification and protection of the relics, we can consult him for some academic opinions later, which will definitely help the report.

"According to Canaan, if Bessarius is not in the main camp, then members of the purification team Sif and the aboriginal Cretan will be stationed."

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Every time they walked a section of the road, Sonia and the others stopped to collect some rock samples and put them in small bags, then copied the murals and sculptures on the wall, recorded the investigation process, and used them as materials for writing reports.

Sonia collected a lot of samples. She sorted these things separately and put them in different bags, muttering in a low voice while sorting: "For testing, for collection, for promotion..."

The three girls took it seriously, making Griffith and Lana, who were in charge of the guard, feel like bad students who didn't learn much.

"We were bad students." Lana looked at it for a long time but couldn't see the way. Every stone was the same in his eyes. "When the time comes, we can just copy their reports."

"That's right," Griffith agreed deeply. "Come and synthesize all their reports, and the score may be higher than theirs."

The expedition that night did not go very far.The guides and helpers set up camp on a spacious platform and began to prepare for rest.

A faint light like a galaxy flickers on the dome of the cave. It is the light of crystals, ores and fungi in the gaps, calm and dreamy.

There seems to be a voice in the deep ruins calling them to discover the secrets here, but if you listen carefully, it seems like an emotionless tide and strong wind.

Although it is difficult to distinguish between day and night in the dark underground, the experienced guides still planned the departure time for the next day.

The expedition team went east along the corridor-like tunnel cave, and the interior of the ruins became more and more open, even making people feel that they were extending towards the foot of the hills and mountains on the edge of the swamp.

Like last night, Sonia stopped the team every time she walked a certain distance, and took another sample of the rock wall here.

The summer survey at Homenwalts is not for students to make great geographical and historical discoveries, but to focus on the research and analysis methods of occult and archaeological knowledge.Even if you just sample and study the fossil specimens and rock formations along the way, as long as you are diligent and talented enough, you can still get good points.

At this time, a group of moving figures appeared in the tunnel.Griffith and Lana were immediately on the alert.They drew their weapons and shouted at the approaching figure, "Who are you? Explain your identities."

The team coming in the dark was obviously taken aback.They didn't expect to meet heavily armed soldiers here, and they reported their identities in a panic.

They claimed to be sent by Professor Bell of the Department of Archeology at Pasha University.Professor Bell is conducting research work on other routes.However, a major discovery changed his plan, and he had to arrange for people to leave first.

"Professor Bell?" Sonia suddenly remembered something, she came to the front of the team and said, "I am Sonia de La Mole, the daughter of Countess Elena de La Mole, does Professor Bell have any questions?" Things need to be handed over to the Countess?"

Under the astonished eyes of a group of people, Sonia turned her head and explained: "Professor Bell's investigation was funded by my mother. If there are major discoveries, I will send her specimens and reports as soon as possible. His expedition team is in Long-term excavation in a relatively remote location of the ruins would not have encountered us."

"Oh—!" Galadia and Fiona were overjoyed, "That means..."

According to Sonia, the countess was also a curious occultist, and the professor's exploration work was funded by her.The professor probably doesn't know about Sonia's itinerary, but if he wants to send supplies and reports, he will definitely pass by here to the exit.

Sure enough, the materials sent by the professor included various samples and a notebook.After proving her identity and putting on the sharp Griffith and Lana, Sonia cut off the notebook and prepared to read it by herself first!
Since it was not far from the exit, the hired workers who transported the specimens and minerals left quickly, and went there to send pigeons to contact the cargo ship to pick them up.

Sonia opened the record and found that it was a record and atlas about excavation and fossil research.

"To the beautiful and wise occultist, Countess Hélène de La Mole,
"What an astonishing discovery, what an astonishing discovery!
"Our most important discoveries were found in rock fragments and faults. Clear stripes and wavy prints proved that the huge creatures that left these traces were ancient existences, and their existence can be traced back to the remote antiquity.

"Fossils from different faults show that these archaic organisms have undergone multiple evolutions, constantly adapting to new environments such as floods, droughts, and high temperatures. Newer fossils have degenerated again, and it is conceivable that their living environments have stabilized.

"In order to carry out the investigation work, we used the power of the spell to carry out several successful blasts, opening the way to the secret hidden in the ground; through a four-foot-wide hole that can accommodate a grown man, we entered a hidden cave. The limestone channel in the cave - this is the cave formed by the corrosion and hollowing out of the underground water veins before the formation of the Turan Swamp in ancient times.

"This hollowed out rock formation is more than ten meters high, extending extremely far in all directions, beyond the limit of what our human power can explore. There is a flow of fresh air in the cave, which shows that it is connected to a huge underground tunnel System, we have planned the investigation work and left it for future arrangements.

"There are many stalactites of amazing size growing here, many of which have been connected up and down to form stone pillars. We found a large number of shells and bones deposited on the floor of the cave. Not only were they not washed away by the floods that once flooded, they even blocked many passages , which brings great convenience to our excavation work.

"We were pleasantly surprised to find that these bones were all the remains of the ancient forests in the distant antiquity and even the mythical age before the First Epoch—the characteristics of cycads, palms and primitive angiosperms in the fossils mixed in the bones are clearly visible.

"The fossils and bones we found included known molluscs, crustacean shells, ancient fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, a very wide range of phyla and even species that were not in the collection of the Bayerand Museum , can be called omnipresent.

"As we've discussed before, the world has had many, many different creatures, most of which are extinct, but are still older than dragons.

"Your investigations into the ruins of Belomon have been reported with the highest enthusiasm and generous financial support. We report to you our work with great excitement, and the entire expedition scrambled to enter the passages in the crypt, damp , The darkness cannot conceal the fact that this place will soon become a glorious temple of mysticism, we will open a new door here, and reach the distant ancient times that we have not yet been able to see the whole picture.

"Gnorrison Bell."

(End of this chapter)