The strange rain stopped shortly after, and Schliemann decided to head to the ruins of the temple.
Hilpeter insisted on going anyway, and he gave the job of training the crew to Boatswain Gada.
But before setting out on the road, he discovered that Vivian had been ordered by Apton to stay in Antler City to prepare supplies for setting sail again. This made Hilpeter instantly feel droopy and lose motivation.
"If you don't go, you won't go! Stop wilting..."
Seeing Walter on the side, Hilpeter felt a lot more balanced. He got on his horse and said to his captain: "I will go wherever the captain goes."
This sentence was obviously imitated by Walter but failed to grasp the essence. When it came out of Hilpeter's mouth, it gave people a weird taste of two scoundrels trying to rob someone.
Going north out of the city, the post road was so muddy that the horses could only trot.
When passing the big hole dug yesterday, Schliemann chose to take a detour.
The trench that was originally filled was filled with pits due to the heavy rain, and water accumulated in many places. Several tenant farmers and soldiers were shoveling soil from their cars, trying to fill it up and compact it again.
They rolled up their trouser legs, stepped in the filled mire, pushed the cart, and tried to push out the one-horse carriage that had just finished unloading the soil and got stuck in the mud.
"Wait a moment, I'll change places, it's too slippery here."
"This is all mud, which side is not slippery? Hurry up, there are still many trips left!"
The coachman held the horse and complained about his teammate, but in the blink of an eye, he didn't know where his idiot teammate was, as if he had disappeared.
Schliemann saw the whole process of the peasant soldier disappearing. There was a big hole in the water, and the man was swallowed up and disappeared as if he had fallen into a manhole cover.
"Hey, hey, hey! Help! That person fell into the water!"
He shouted while reining in the reins, dismounted, and started running in the mud.
By the time he passed by, the man had already surfaced. He was spitting water and grabbing at it with both hands.
Hilpeter threw the rope over, and several people pulled him up.
"Why is there a hole in my grass?"
"It's normal for such heavy rain to create several craters."
"This is not a pit, it's just a hole."
"Did you leave a gap when you filled it with soil? When the water washed away, it turned into a hole."
Several people were talking in a flurry and slapped the man on the back. The man lay on the ground and coughed hard.
After Schliemann left a message of "be careful", several people set off on the road again with their legs in mud.
The weather was very good, the sun was warm and the breeze was refreshing. It was so good that it was hard to believe that it was after a heavy rain.
Only Schliemann and Ampton were chatting along the way, while Hilpeter and Walter who followed behind said nothing.
After a day's journey, several people arrived at the ruins of the temple.
Seeing the scene of numerous stone pillars, Apton frowned and froze for a long time.
"Don't hide it? Just say whatever comes to mind..."
"No, I always feel like it, but..."
"But what?"
"But it's not like..."
Schliemann rolled his eyes, took the torch from Hilpeter, and walked to the gap.
"Eh? I blocked this opening before I left. Who moved it?"
Hilpeter looked around and finally found the pile of dry branches next to the stone pillar.
"If you use this thing to block it, who can't see it?"
Schliemann said as he lit the torch and prepared to go down, but was held back by Hilpeter.
"Let me go ahead. After all, I've been here before."
Rotating down the stone stairs, they soon came to the corridor where Hill Peter killed Jimmy. Hill Peter was stunned when he looked at the large blood stain on the ground that had obviously moved.
"I swear I cut him in half with one strike!"
"I believe it, I believe it."
Schliemann muttered, squatting down and looking at the black blood stains. He suddenly remembered the black blood flowing out of Pato's eyes before he died.
They moved forward along the corridor, down, then forward and then downward, and saw a stone door shining with blazing white light, and a dark and withered arm extending out of the stone door.
Hilpeter let out a scream, which was filled with regret.
"I already chopped him to death, so why don't you come down and take a look..."
"If you come down and see, you will become just like him..."
Schliemann kicked the arm and it shattered into powder.
Several people walked through the stone door and were bathed in the blazing white light. Although the white light was dazzling, it was not hot.
Schliemann covered his eyes and looked around, and found that this was a small room, very simple, without any decoration. In the middle of this stone room, there was a protruding stone platform, and there was nothing on the stone platform.
"This place is just like the Flame God Sect, this light, this stone platform!
When Captain, you went to attract the attention of the church and the people, I sneaked into the secret room under their temple to steal the box. The secret room was exactly the same as this one! "
"Then it's the bastards from the Primus Cult who plotted against us. I refused their request for cooperation in exploration, and they sent Jimmy to board my ship..."
The clues were connected together, and Schliemann's eyes widened: "So, the god of the Primus Cult is going to resurrect the ancient god?! Hey! Ampton!"
The appearance of Upton startled Schliemann. Those blazing white lights fell from the dome of this small room, and they looked like dandelions with blazing white flames. They fell on Upton's face. , hand, seeped in, like a handful of huge snowflakes melting on Ampton's body.
Gradually, the blazing white light that shrouded the room disappeared, leaving only the flickering light of the torch.
"This... is the Heart of Glory?"
Ampton shook his head and said: "This is not, this is the scattered power of the Sun God."
Schliemann curled his lips. It seemed that the book of Timothy he was looking for was not here.
"Did you hear what I just said? The purpose of the Primus Cult is to resurrect the ancient gods."
"I heard it, but now neither you nor I have the power to stop them. If we want to stop them, we must first restore the royal family's rule over the mainland island of Valans."
Schliemann took a deep breath and let out a long sigh.
"I actually helped them...this is really..."
Schliemann's eyes widened as if he suddenly remembered something. He stamped his feet violently, ran out of the stone door and stepped onto the stone steps.
Ampton followed closely and asked Schliemann what he had remembered. Schliemann answered as he ran.
"If this place is the same as last time with the Flame God Cult, there should be something there, but it's gone now!"
"It should be buried in the trench!"
"No! Ampton! That pit the sharecroppers fell into!"
Ampton was silent, Walter frowned, and even Hill Peter, who had a linear brain circuit, understood it.
"Why does the Son of the Ancient God go to Antler City? It is looking for death. Only by dying can the things it protects be hidden."
