Struggle in the Steam Age

"Why is this place?" Safiel said a little discouraged. After discovering the special hill marked on the map just now, Lawrence and the others immediately stopped admiring the scenery on the lakeshore and rushed over to the treasure location. When they ran there panting along the path by the lake, the two of them were surprised. It was discovered that the so-called treasure location is the scenic spot called the treasure cave that the hotel owner said before.

"There is something wrong." Lawrence also frowned. Since this place became a tourist attraction, there are 800 or 1000 extraordinary people who have been here. If this is really a treasure location, the probability of good things staying in place is really low.

"Let's take a look." Lawrence pulled Safir, who looked a little frustrated, and ran down the mountain. "In any case, this is our goal. How can we not go in and have a look at the door?"

After they approached, they realized that they had been shut down, because this place is now a tourist attraction, so for the convenience of management, a circle of iron fences was built around this place. But now, because the murloc's attack has just ended, this scenic spot near the lake is not open for safety reasons.

Fortunately, the owner of the hotel just now told them some special news after knowing that they were going to visit here, so Lawrence quickly found a spare key under a paving stone at the door.

"It feels like there's nothing here, it's just an empty cave." When he opened the door and walked along a path to the entrance of the cave, Safiel said after looking into the entrance of the cave.

Lawrence felt that Safir's description was very accurate. The cave was not as crooked as he imagined, full of various forks and various traps to prevent outsiders from infiltrating. When he walked to the door, he found that he could have a clear view of the entire cave.

If it wasn't for the treasure map before, Lawrence felt that he might feel that the remnants of the scarlet sky had no future after escaping here, so they simply took their belongings and ran away.

After careful observation, Lawrence found that the cave was only more than three meters high, and inside it was a monolithic space. The overall area is equivalent to the total area of ​​Lawrence's house on Linden Street. If you stand at the entrance of the cave, you will find that visitors can have a clear view of everything in the cave without entering the cave.

When he came to the entrance of the cave, the first thing Lawrence did was to observe the entire cave with the ability similar to the third-level magical and arcane eyesight obtained after his blood was stimulated. As a result, it was unexpectedly found that the cave was covered with magical auras of various colors like stars.

"What's going on here?" Lawrence walked to the edge of the cave's entrance and carefully inspected it, only to find that there were some white translucent stones inlaid on the black stone mountain beside the cave entrance. And those magical auras are emitted from these white stones.

"Magic energy marble?" Lawrence quickly recognized what these white stones were. In this world full of magic power, many things would be infused with magic power and turned into magic materials.

And this kind of marble with magical power inside is undoubtedly the best material for building various magic-related buildings. For example, many of these materials were used in the magic tower of the Magic Guild that Lawrence visited before. However, the mana marble veins in this cave are of very low quality. So it was discovered that no one here exploited this vein.

And the remnants of the scarlet sky hidden things here back then, probably hoping to use the magic aura emanating from these magic ores to confuse various magic detection methods to hide their secrets. However, this also made Lawrence decisively give up the idea of ​​using magic to find the treasure.

After entering the cave, Lawrence and Safiel each held a large portable oil lamp and searched the entire cave little by little, but after spending a full 20 minutes searching every corner, They had to admit that this place seemed to be really just an empty cave, with nothing else in it.

"Obviously this is the place drawn on the map!" Saifier frowned when the two walked out of the cave without finding anything. "Could it be that some special requirements are required to reveal the treasures? For example, in the treasure hunting novels I read before, many treasures are hidden and no one can find them, but after chanting a certain spell or using a certain magic key, those treasures It will automatically appear in front of people."

"Spells, keys—" Safir's words made Lawrence fall into thinking, and then he took out a gold pendant from the interspatial bag that was a little bigger than a coin, with a skull embossed on it and inlaid with red gems. If there is anything that can be used as the key to open this treasure, then it should be the only one.

However, after the pendant was pulled out, there was no reaction at all. It didn't float slowly from his hand as Lawrence had imagined before, and then emit a light to open a certain secret door. Nor did they fly directly in any direction to bring them to a hidden place. It just stayed quietly in Lawrence's palm.

"Hey, when did you buy this pendant? It looks quite unique." Safir looked at Lawrence's palm and said, "But it feels a bit too individual, and it's not suitable for wearing Wear it on more formal occasions."

"I didn't buy this, you know my taste is not that special." Lawrence said after looking at the pendant in his hand facing the sun, "This is something I found from an extraordinary scene before. It was found in the same batch as the treasure map. I suspect this is the key to the treasure. The only problem is, I don't know how it is used."

"I think we can go into the cave again and find out if there is anything in the cave that can fit the pendant." Safir suggested. After thinking about it, Lawrence had no other choice, so he walked into the cave with her.

"Hey, here——" After searching in the cave for more than half an hour, Lawrence found a groove at the entrance of the cave that he thought was the most unlikely. in the traces.

If they didn't take this pendant to search consciously, most people would not be able to find the problem here at all, and would only think that it was just a part of the trace that was a little darker because of the shaking of the hands of those who left the trace back then.

After Lawrence put the pendant in his hand into this groove, he felt a little bit of extremely weak magic power flow out of the pendant. Then two rays of light shot out from the two rubies inlaid in the skull's eye sockets, and projected a map on the opposite rock wall.

"It's really cunning." After checking, Lawrence discovered that the bottom of this groove happened to be a piece of magic marble ore, and the original magic power of the pendant could only be activated by the magic power of the local marble ore.

"This is the map of this area." Because of the lakeshore and this small table mountain on the map, Safiel quickly recognized what was painted on this map. After a brief identification, she pointed to the map. The place where the red five-pointed star is drawn said. "If the map is correct, the location of the treasure should be on the uninhabited island opposite this cave."

Lawrence heard the words and recalled the surrounding terrain. The place where they are now is a lake bay. The trestle bridge they went to just now is at the bottom of the entire lake bay groove. The cave under the hill where they are now is at the top of one side of the lake bay. The island is just at the entrance of the bay.

The small island is a pocket island only 100 meters away, about five or six hundred meters away from the cave. They had looked at the small island from a distance on the road before, but they saw nothing except the scattered plants on the island.

"If that's the case, let's go and have a look." Lawrence suggested after thinking for a while, "I remember that we saw a small boat by the side of the road just now."