Struggle in the Steam Age

"There is nothing else." The Tauren scratched his brain and said after thinking for a while, "We didn't move anything except the fountain. But according to the legend in the tribe, the group of humans who came from A lot of carved stones have been removed from this place."

After speaking, the tauren hunter led Lawrence and the others into the apparently leveled land. I don't know how this place has been treated by the elves, so there is nothing on the whole land except for some grass and small shrubs. It is so clean that it doesn't even look like being in a tropical rainforest.

"Look! This place used to be the pool, and we moved it away later." When he reached the largest ruin, the tauren hunter pointed to a small high platform in front of the ruin. Lawrence found a square groove on the high platform, which indeed looked like something had been placed there before.

"Then where are the carved stones that were removed?" Lawrence asked curiously. "Can you take us to take a look now, I want to see what's abnormal about those stones."

"Anyway, our priests didn't think there was anything abnormal about those stones. They even summoned the great ancestral spirits to investigate and found nothing wrong." The tauren shook his head slightly and muttered, " You humans often do things that are not normal, like taking a bunch of useless rocks from here."

But even though he said so, he still led Lawrence and the others to a place next to the largest building that seemed to be a pile of stones, and then pointed to the pile of stones that were still stacked there. "At that time, the stones that you humans took away were not much different from these stones, but they picked out all the parts that looked good in this pile of stones, and the rest were left because they were damaged."

Lawrence stepped forward to examine the pile of stones carefully, and found that the stones were all of very good quality marble with various colors. Most importantly, these stones are carved with various patterns. Although all those discarded here are some broken fragments, just by the exquisite patterns on these fragments, one can imagine how beautiful the whole building will be if the church is built.

Only the elves can make this kind of stone building give people an absolute light inspiration through their ingenious design and exquisite craftsmanship. Although humans and dwarves can build grand and magnificent buildings in terms of technology, they are in the The problem of aesthetics will definitely not give people such a light and light feeling.

Moreover, this pile of stones looks very scattered, which should be caused by the humans who came here before moving the piles of stones that were originally piled together to find what they wanted. And some traces on the ground also prove that some large stone components that were originally placed here before this place have disappeared.

"Who told me why these people took those stones away?" Narabi scratched the part of the mark left on the ground and asked curiously. "I think these stones weigh at least hundreds of kilograms, and at most even several tons. Why did those people spend so much effort to remove these stones? Is it because these stones are related to magic?"

"There should be no magic." Lawrence said after inspecting the stones left in place, "and the only reason those people took these carved stones away is because the artworks of the elves are too expensive, so they took them away." Those stones carved with various patterns were sold as elf art."

Although it sounds incredible, it is actually very reasonable. At least Lawrence had heard that many rich people and nobles spent a lot of money to buy various handicrafts made by elves. For example, he had seen a flowerpot carved by elves from colored marble in a noble manor before, and it cost 120 yuan.

So it is understandable that these beautiful stones are sold for a high price. After all, these things can be regarded as some kind of luxury goods, and the money they can be sold for can be considered even by those extraordinary people. It is not a small amount of income, and for the investors behind those extraordinary people, this income is likely to be one of the few incomes after they came to this island.

Before Lawrence came to this island, the island could be said to be extremely desolate, so it is understandable why the lords before him changed like a revolving lantern. Because no one wants to have the kind of job that not only makes no money but also loses a lot of money as a lord.

Therefore, it is understandable for a certain human lord to take out the stone carvings made by these elves and sell them for money after discovering them. It is normal for these people to raise a sum of development funds or to make a fortune before leaving.

I don’t know if the people who came to search it were too clean or the building hadn’t reached that level of construction at that time, so after Lawrence and Nora checked the entire building, they couldn’t find any words or badges representing the gods. , so there is no way to conduct further investigations other than to confirm that this church belongs to the elves.

It is normal to have no badges of gods, because those orthodox religious sites are often built after the site is built to determine the true identity of the religious site. At the same time, placing badges in religious places can also be seen as a ritual to sanctify the entire place.

But it is too strange that there are no texts or story-like painting reliefs related to the gods enshrined in religious places, because these things were built along with the construction of religious places. There should be no trace of construction progress.

"Could it be that the people who came before moved away the important things?" Nora flew to a section of the remaining low wall to check again, and then flew down and said to Lawrence. "I've searched almost all over here, but I didn't find anything recording this god, which is obviously abnormal."

"Probably not." Lawrence carefully inspected the traces dug out on the wall and denied the point of view of the little doll, then pointed to those traces and said. "You see, although the stones with patterns here were taken away by the previous people, it can be seen from the traces on the remaining stones that those stones that were taken away were only carved with some simple flower and plant patterns, no The things we're looking for..."

"Hey, big guy." After hearing Lawrence's words, Nora flew out and stopped the tauren hunter, and then asked what she hadn't thought about just now. "You tauren were the first to come to this place, so did you see anything in the middle of the largest room?"

As she said that, Nora pointed to a place near the back of the center of the main building where there was only a circle of severely weathered walls half a person's height left. That place is one piece above the ground, and if it is arranged according to the normal religious places, this place should be the place where the statues are placed.

"No." The tauren thought for a while and shook his head. "According to the legends handed down from generation to generation by our ancestors, when our ancestors discovered this place for the first time, they only saw a fountain constantly spraying water in front of the palace gate, but we didn't find any other things here. It looks like a finished product."

"Oh, so that's the case." Nora nodded after hearing what the hunter said, and continued, "I'm here with my brother to take a look, so you don't have to accompany us. We'll call you when we finish watching."

"Then I'll take a walk around, and you can just shout loudly when you need me." For tauren hunters, walking around is definitely more interesting than staying here and waiting for Lawrence and the others to check the ruins. Besides, there is no danger in this place. So he quickly left the clearing with his weapon on his back.

"What did you find?" Seeing the back of the tauren hunter getting farther and farther away, Lawrence began to use the connection in his soul to contact Nora. Because he knew that Nora had found an excuse to send the tauren away at this time, and she must have discovered something terrible during the inspection just now.

"There is a problem with this platform." Nora pointed to the small platform in the center of the building. "I felt a strange smell on it."