Our family is in decline

This move really frightened Lance. He thought it was the tomb robbing novels he read that had triggered the sand and stones to bury the place.

But in fact, the sand only started a little bit, and when it flowed out, it exposed the hole.

"Sea sand."

Lance grabbed a handful and found that it was ordinary sea sand, so he thrust the torch into the hollow.

The light of the torch illuminated this small space, and it seemed to be forcibly nested in it to hide itself. No wonder there was no switch. I am afraid that it was not intended to be easily opened the moment the brick wall was built.

The place is not big, there is not even room for one person, let alone too many things.

Fortunately, there was a simple crate placed in the sand that was washed out, and Lance felt that he had gained something.

When I took it out carefully, nothing happened like triggering the mechanism in the movie, only a little dull air was stirred up.

Lance couldn't wait to open it. The box was nailed shut, but he could easily open it with his bare hands.

Only then did I see what was inside...

Although there is a brick wall to block the outside and sand and stone to prevent moisture, after all, thousands of years have passed and the wooden boards on the main body have long since decayed. However, the box has completed its task and the contents inside are well preserved.

A package of unknown leather material was carefully opened and found to be a stack of manuscripts!

The contents of the box surprised Lance a little. Yes, the appearance of the words even surprised him more than the gold coins.

He seemed to have regained the feeling of being excited for a long time after discovering the Easter egg in the game.

After simply flipping through the manuscripts, Lance easily discovered the papers among them. The broken edges were all torn off from other places one by one. What made him even more troubled was that the writing on them was a rare ancient script.

But don’t forget that he is an archaeologist. Although it is impossible to understand everything, the deduction of the text is regular.

I didn’t have time to translate it slowly, but even Meng Daichai probably understood it.

It's a record in the narrator's voice, and Lance gets a glimpse into what happened back then.

There is no doubt that, as Lance had guessed before, the ancient gods coexist with this world. There may not be many geniuses who can discover this in the long history, but there definitely are.

Obviously there are people in this civilization who have discovered this situation and understand that the nature of the planet is actually a sleeping ancient god.

But the person who thinks he understands all this still occupies a very important position in civilization.

It's okay not to know some things, but once you know them, you will be entangled.

If we talk about ordinary people, or those who are not in the ruling class, such as Tamara or Margaret.

One is a Roma hawker who lives his life secretly and abducts, gets beaten up by everyone, and is hunted down by the organization.

The other is a down-and-out noble lady. It is not certain whether she can survive the next day in the power struggle.

Even if they knew it, that would be it.

It can be said that without Lance's intervention, the two of them might have disappeared without knowing when, taking this secret with them.

Even if there is another extreme character, that is the Witch of the Wilderness.

She was also overwhelmed by fear, and the only thing she could do was fungi, which only affected an area of ​​​​the wilderness. In the end, she was burned by Lance.

Even if you knew it, it wouldn't have much impact.

But it is the rulers who understand this. Their brains usurped by fear will use all their strength to "struggle" and then pull everyone into despair.

For example, the ancestor, after understanding everything, destroyed all his family property, and then pushed Hamlet into the abyss.

It can only be said that no matter how bad the bottom layer is, the impact will not be big, but if the top layer is bad, then you will die.

It's equivalent to removing a damaged limb, but if there is a problem with the brain, the entire body will be dragged into death.

As what happened next…

The great men of civilization began to study the ancient gods, but what greeted them was only despair.

When that person understands that mankind is destined to end in the future, so doomsday theory appears, and when the ruling class falls into pessimism, it instantly drags the entire civilization into an abyss.

They try to find a way out for themselves, even if they surrender to some existence and please an existence that they dare not even mention in the article.

Then the entire civilization turned around, and even if the doomsday only existed in their imaginations, they fell into madness.

The rulers of this civilization sacrificed the entire civilization in an attempt to survive with the power of the evil god, but in the end the civilization died.

Of course, not everyone is like this. For example, the author who wrote this once had a certain identity, but because he disagreed with their crazy plan, he was deprived of his identity and was thrown here as a coolie.

The author is unable to change anything, so I can only take this opportunity to record what happened.

All this came to an abrupt end in the text, and Lance didn't know what happened next.

But there is no doubt that it was that civilization that created the bay in the first place. Unfortunately, it was eventually transformed into a strange demon like a deep diver and became a descendant of an evil god.

And those high-level officials should be shamans, and even so, they still control the deep divers.

Everything about that civilization also disappeared into history, along with the magnificent buildings, exquisite statues, magical forging technology...

If Lance hadn't accidentally found this today, perhaps some geological change in the future would have sunk everything into the bottomless abyss, causing everything to be completely lost.

What's even more ironic is that they are all so stupid. On the contrary, although the world is in chaos, thousands of years have passed, and the end they thought has not yet come.

Seeing this, Lance was also quite emotional, remembering that the witch had chosen to transform into a fungus in order to survive after learning about it, and that civilization had chosen to be a dog for another evil god, turning into such a human-like and ghost-like appearance.

Both of them are enemies and they collapse before they even see each other. It's ridiculous!

One and two are both pessimistic, and even feel that they are worse than their ancestors.

At least the ancestor was not frightened stupidly after seeing the truth, but actually dared to get involved with the power of the ancient god.

He can also be considered a character.

But in Lance's eyes, the ancestors were just like the capitulators. If they couldn't win, they would give up all their illusions and join, without any thought of truly solving the problem.

Reason tells Lance that neither pessimism nor capitulationism is the solution to the problem. If he wants to save himself, he must find a new path.

Lance has lost the last of his respect for this civilization. To put it simply, a stupid ruler did a stupid thing after being frightened.

It reminded him of the civilization Alhazred said was ultimately destroyed because of its belief in evil gods.

There is a reason why the world has not developed for so many years.

The influence of extraordinary power is still too serious. Many civilizations have developed well and suddenly collapsed.

Even though there are churches suppressing extraordinary people now, he himself is an extraordinary person... Maybe one day something goes wrong with the Holy Flame and dragging everyone to death...

The story ended, but there were still a lot of documents. After briefly flipping through them, Lance discovered that it was the author who realized something was wrong, so he collected the information and wanted to pass on the knowledge of civilization.

And Lance felt the huge value in it, and his heart that had been silent became excited again.

Sure enough, no matter when or where, there are people with enough sense to protect the inheritance of mankind.

Unfortunately, this place was not suitable for him to study slowly, so he could only scan it roughly, and finally he found a map of the bay.

That's right, he was one of the people who built this place, and of course he knew the terrain here.

But after Lance studied it, he found that a lot of it was wrong. Geological activities, seawater erosion, and the bay had long changed under these conditions.

But it can still be seen that the planned area is finally not wandering around like a headless fly.

With the help of the map, Lance quickly found his current location, but he didn't expect that the mark above was just a warehouse.

Lance had nothing to say about this. After all, treasures are incorruptible stones to deep divers.

"The temple...could this be the place just now?"

"This is the entrance. That means there was no such hole before. It should be erosion..."

Lance was soon moving again, exploring what was left of the bay.

I had no hope at first, but unexpectedly I found some good things.

A strange-looking coral grows randomly in the slit at the corner of the channel. Shouldn't this kind of thing be on the bottom of the sea? Why does it grow here?

What attracted Lance's attention was not just such a simple reason, but because it contained a rich and strange aura.

Lance didn't waste any time and went straight to the sacrifice, leaving everything to the void.

He originally thought it would be good to gain some spirituality, but what he didn't expect was that the equipment exploded.

The shaman doesn’t even have explosive equipment. If you explode, you are more awesome than the shaman!

A piece of coral with a unique shape that can be held in the hand to play with the size of the coral. The lower half is cyan, with a rough stone texture, while the upper half is pink-purple with forks, but gives a warm and moist texture of flesh.

Lance played with it in his hands, and after feeling the power carefully, he realized how precious it was.

[Purifying Coral] has one and only one effect, and it is also the most important effect for all extraordinary beings.

That is to stabilize spirituality, reduce damage caused by spiritual fluctuations, and resist spiritual pollution.

Lance didn't need any of this, but...

"Someone needs it."

Lance muttered to himself and put the things away, then turned to look at the deep passage with a slightly confused look.

This area has been explored, the next step is...

At this moment, there was an inexplicable vibration, and then there was a loud noise, as if something was impacting the bay.

This discovery immediately drew Lance's attention away. He carefully felt the direction from which the movement came, and couldn't help but feel a little weird.

Isn't this direction the exit on the map?

Could it be that those deep divers have finally returned?

Lance has always acted swiftly. No matter what the situation is, he has to take a look. The bay is now his safe, and nothing can go wrong.

After losing the deep diver, the entire bay became quiet, with only the sound of water echoing around. Not to mention that there were unknown situations ahead. For anyone else, even walking would probably increase the pressure.

But Lance simply left it behind and walked quickly in the passage alone, with a familiar look as if he was home.

After all, he was the man who slaughtered the entire bay.

Soon he was approaching the location. The exit to the outside world was ridiculously wide, like a hundred-meter crack. The white light at the end of the space seemed to completely occupy his sight, making him unable to see the darkness around it.

Hearing the sound of waves coming from the other end, and feeling the faint sea breeze blowing on his skin, Lance couldn't help but speed up his pace.

But suddenly his footsteps stopped in place, and the noise of treading water quickly subsided. Only the waves pushed in by the waves outside were fighting against the ripples he had just stepped on.

He moved his eyes to the water in front of him with a bad expression. As his vision gradually adapted to the light, he could see that the waves in front of him were pushing up not only sea water, but also some dirty things.

Some scattered wooden boards also floated up and down with the water waves. They were of various sizes and numerous in number. They looked like they were torn and broken.

Lance looked around. On the road leading to the outside world, there was a sunken ship in the water that had lost its bow part. The entire front half was in the water, but the tail was raised.

As for the front half of the ship, the bow was found nearby, standing proudly. There was a beautiful bow image on it, with a beautiful girl carved out of wood.

The strange thing is that there are no barnacles attached to it, and Lance also felt extraordinary spiritual power from it.

The situation at the scene looked like the aftermath of a shipwreck disaster. It rushed in from the outside and then disintegrated. This was the source of the loud noise just now.

But he didn't think that a sunken ship that looked like it had been soaked in water would float up and smash him into pieces.

Because ordinary ships only have barnacles growing on the bottom of the ship, but the hull of this ship was already dark and covered with barnacles. It looked like it had been soaked for an unknown amount of time.

The ship was large and ferocious in shape. Lance could tell at a glance that it was definitely not a cargo ship, but more likely a pirate ship.

What makes people feel even more uncomfortable is that the bodies may have been thrown out due to the damage of the ship.

Because of being soaked in water, it can be seen that all these corpses have swollen and looked like giants.

The purple-gray drowned skin has begun to dissolve, and even the face has lost the restraint of muscles and can no longer hang on the face and has become loose.

The only clothes on his body were held up by swelling, and no one knew whether the tattered clothes would split first or whether the body would explode first.

There is also a difference between corpses. Lance can tolerate fresh corpses, but he feels uncomfortable with such rotting corpses just being in the same water.

But what made him realize that something was wrong even more was the evil smell on the ship.

When I was in doubt, I threw a [Sacrifice] to explore the way, but I didn't expect that something seemed to be touched this time. The corpse that had started to rot actually slowly got up...