Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 164 The Surprise in the Hall of Bones

"Perhaps the secrets within this pyramid are far beyond my imagination."

Shi Ming recalled the hint given by the Eye of Intelligence when he first encountered the treasure map.

Perhaps, with it, you can find some great treasure and uncover the great secrets of an ancient place!

What secret?
Can it be called a big secret?

How big can a secret be that the Eye of Intelligence considers "big"?
Shi Ming was very curious about Yang Mi, but the most important thing right now was to find the treasure and explore it step by step.

After passing through a long passageway, the Sun Shooting Ship arrived at a spacious area inside the pyramid. If this tomb is likened to the Scorpion King's bedroom, then this hall is more like the first reception hall for guests upon entering.

It's a bit eerie.

At the top of the hall hung iron chains, beneath which something might have once been hanging, but it has long since decayed and disappeared.

"Could this be the so-called Hall of Bones?"

The Hall of Bones

It has been mentioned in maps and previous murals.

The Scorpion King was known for his ruthless methods towards his enemies. He would melt away the flesh and blood of enemy leaders, leaving only their bones, which would then be displayed as his spoils of war in the palace. However, Shi Ming never expected that after the Scorpion King's death, these collections would also be moved to his tomb. The bones of ordinary people hanging from those chains could not possibly have been preserved for thousands of years, and now they have long since turned to dust.

You wouldn't guess that this Scorpion King is a collector.

The skeletons hanging from the iron chains had all decayed, but Shi Ming still saw some skeletons that had not completely decayed in the corners and buried in the sand.

They do not appear to belong to humans. Their massive skeletons still have a faint luster, and although they are decaying, they are not completely weathered, making them quite conspicuous even in the darkness.

It's like a higher-quality collection.

Shi Ming shook his head.

There's clearly no treasure here, so there's no need to waste time right now. The most important thing is to find the final treasure location and achieve our goal for this trip.

go!
The Sun-Shooting Ship swayed silently in the sea.

As they swam through the main hall, they seemed to have disturbed something.
???

The skeletons scattered in the yellow sand actually emerged one by one from under the sand and automatically gathered together like building blocks, forming a creature like a bone snake. This creature seemed to have its own consciousness, completely piecing together its body, and a faint blue light shone in its eyes!
roar~
It sounded like it made a cry?
The map of the endless sea flashed through Shi Ming's hand and then he put it away.

It's not a sea monster!

No matter! Whether they are or not, what kind of trouble can these decaying old bones cause?!

A chilling greatsword automatically materialized in Shi Ming's hand. He nimbly stepped into the Bone Hall, then leaped, precisely slashing at the head of the bone serpent! With the Tranquilizing Pearl, even in the deep sea, he could fight with ease!
Click!

The ice sword sliced ​​through the seawater, and wherever it went, tiny fragments of ice quietly condensed.

And then, amidst the turmoil, they were all shattered.

Before the bone serpent could fully materialize, it was attacked again. The skull, which was already on the verge of decay, shattered once more, breaking into small pieces that scattered on the yellow sand flowing in from outside the pyramid.

"Can even rotten bones bounce around? What's the principle behind that?"

Before Shi Ming finished speaking, the fragmented skull fragments seemed to be summoned again, piecing themselves together into a perfect skull.

The eerie blue flames within the skull ignited once more!
This time, however, it was much more agile. It darted around the hall like a real snake, and with a fierce sway of its tail, the skeletal part of its tail swept towards Shi Ming.

“You don’t even have blood.” “I have absolutely no intention of killing you.”

The chill emanating from Shi Ming's eyes due to the use of Ice Annihilation materialized.

The air inside the protective shield of the ship's cabin was humid, and a layer of white frost covered his thick black eyebrows. He took a deep breath, and the ordinary ice sword in his hand, which was more than a meter long, rapidly expanded, turning into a huge broadsword that was two meters and two inches long in the blink of an eye.

The greatsword swung out, striking the bone serpent's body. The immense force shattered the serpent into pieces, which then crashed into the wall.
Then, the greatsword shattered into pieces by Shi Ming's attack, and the gleaming ice sword broke into nearly a thousand icy spikes.
Each ice spike shot towards a broken section of the bone serpent's bone, densely packed, piercing through its shattered remains and embedding them into the stone walls of the hall. Then, the cold air, upon contact with the seawater, froze them completely onto the walls.

On the walls of the Hall of Bones, a beautifully crafted bone snake relief has appeared.

It looks like a dissected specimen.

"Perfectly finished."

"This is true art."

He couldn't appreciate those abstract murals at all.

Shi Ming leaped back to Shooting the Sun, and was about to continue forward when he suddenly saw a blue crystal core fall down from the seven-inch mark of the snake bone.

"Oh?"

"There are also spoils of war?"

The eye of creation sweeps over it in a single glance.

[Puppet Core]

【Level: 3】

[The sorceress of Scorpion King III, following the method in the Divine Revelation Stone Tablet, created puppet cores. When these cores were integrated into the corpses of C-rank or lower ferocious beasts or sea monsters, the corresponding corpses could be transformed into puppet-like objects that obeyed predetermined commands until death.]

[Upgrade Requirements: 5000g of B-grade ferocious beast or sea monster flesh, 500g of blood.]

The core of the puppet?
How could ancient people from thousands of years ago have created such a thing? Was it created by that so-called sorceress based on the description on the Divine Revelation Stele? And what exactly is that Divine Revelation Stele? Could it be considered one of the "great secrets" mentioned by the Eye of Intelligence?
Shi Ming recalled many things about the stone tablet.

Legend has it that there is a mysterious stone tablet on Mount Everest, the only place in the world that can be considered a continent.

When the Age of Wandering first arrived, people discovered the secret of "awakening" by following the clues on the stone tablets and through their own exploration. In the protracted battle against the sea monsters, they gradually won a place for themselves.

Moreover, the inscriptions on the stone tablet were gradually deciphered by various research institutes.

The "List of Wonders of the Endless Ocean" deciphered by the Xirang Research Institute is part of the content on the stone tablet.

These two stone tablets,
I wonder if there's any connection?

Regardless, let's collect this puppet core first.

The Sun Shooting Ship nimbly turned to its target. Shi Ming didn't need to lift a finger; the power of ice annihilation erupted, and the scattered crystal cores on the ground sprouted a layer of ice crystals. Under the control of the ice power, they flew towards him. With a wave of his hands, the thing was stored in the system's warehouse.

Skillful use of the power of ice annihilation can, to some extent, free up one's hands.

"I wonder if there are any other spoils of war inside this main hall?"

"Creative Brain! Activate!"

His eyes swept across the entire hall.

(End of this chapter)