I Can’t Play This Game Anymore

After a round of inspection in the house, everyone was relieved that there were indeed no monsters hidden.

This house by the river is different from the other houses below.

Not to mention the unusual warmth in the house, there are not even any living facilities here, not even a simple stone bed, and there is a big hole in the roof.

The ground on one side of the house is full of stones, and the simple stone table on the other side is piled with rusty and broken cold weapons.

In the center of the house, a small stone well was built with stones. The well mouth is only thirty or forty centimeters, but the stone platform is still very wide.

A hot red light emanated from the mouth of the stone well.

Everyone leaned over to take a look, and the feeling of scorching came instantly. Eggplant threw the sea water on his body towards the small stone well platform.

The water droplets fell on it, making a "hissing" sound, and evaporated instantly.

Ji Han flashed over the well mouth, only to see a dazzling red light below, and felt his face suddenly burned.

Eggplant asked:

"Ji Han, did you see what it is?"

Ji Han shook his head and said:

"It's too hot. I only saw a dazzling red light below. It's probably magma or burning underground natural gas."

Chen Ke was surprised:

"Judging from the color, it seems to be underground magma. There may be an active volcano below, but it's so close, and it hasn't extinguished after a thousand years. The thousand-year-old fire under the sea is really unimaginable."

Song Qian picked up a stone beside her and said:

"It seems that they use the temperature of underground magma to forge metal weapons. These iron ores should be dug from nearby."

Eggplant scratched the weapons forged by the island residents on the table and said:

"They are all broken copper and iron. There is no craftsmanship and no level. Except for tetanus, they are useless. I thought I could get two treasures."

Ji Han was not willing to give up, and even scanned it, but it was indeed as Eggplant said, just a pile of scrap metal.

I couldn't help but complain: "These islanders are too warlike. They guard such a volcano to make weapons. You can't even collect some pearls?" Chen Ke approached the small stone well and said: "Anyway, at least I can warm myself by the fire. I'm going to freeze to death if I stay in the sea for so long." Everyone also came over to keep warm. Song Qian said: "I guess, since they can come to the bottom of the sea, they are not warlike people. Why do they make weapons? Could it be that after the island residents came here, they were attacked by the mermaids below. In order to protect themselves, they forged weapons to defeat the mermaids, but they were defeated in the end?" Ji Han thought about Song Qian's guess and replied: "What you said makes some sense, but why don't the island residents here rely on the power of the pillars to go back directly? And looking at the scale of the house construction, they don't look like they were defeated by anything." At this time, Chen Ke, who was leaning against the small stone well and facing the wall, suddenly stood up and said: "Hey, look here, there seems to be something." As he said, he wiped the wall closest to the small stone well with his clothes. The wall was probably covered with black dust because it was closest to the small stone well and stone platform for forging iron tools.

However, someone accidentally rubbed off a piece of the edge, revealing part of the pattern underneath.

It seemed that the wall should have restrained something, but it was covered.

Everyone helped Chen Ke wipe off the thick layer of black dust on it, and finally revealed the true appearance of the wall.

It was another series of simple drawings engraved on the stone, and there were as many as on the island temple.

There were still six drawings from top to bottom.

This time, there were not only drawings, but also a few small characters engraved on the last picture. Although it was hard to tell where the language was, at a glance, it looked a bit like the ancient characters seen on the walls of the underground tombs of the Black Stone Mountain in Crescent Lake.

However, the two places were more than 108,000 miles apart, and Ji Han estimated that there was no relationship between them, but the primitive characters and hieroglyphs were similar.

The first drawing seemed to be the scene of the island residents just arriving here. It only drew a huge bowl-like space with a river running through the middle and several small volcanoes distributed around it.

Ji Han nodded and said:

"It seems that when the island residents came here, the river was already here."

The scene depicted in the second painting is exactly the same as the previous one, the only difference is that the island residents are worshiping the river.

Qie Zi asked:

"Haven't these islanders seen a river? They don't worship it, do they?"

Chen Ke continued:

"Maybe it's because the river is glowing blue. After all, this is the first time I've seen such a river. They think it's a miracle?"

Ji Han shook his head and said:

"It shouldn't be that simple. Look at the third one."

In the third stone painting, the island residents have already started building houses around it. It seems that they have decided to settle here.

Pointing to the third painting, Ji Han continued:

"If they just found a glowing river, they would bring all the people on the island to live next to it. This is obviously not common sense. Living here lacks sunlight and food, they won't live long. The ancients should not be so stupid."

The three nodded and agreed with Ji Han's statement. This river is definitely not as simple as they thought.

Everyone saw the fourth painting, which was basically the same scene as the third one, the only difference was that the residents in the painting had all turned into mermaids.

Eggplant cursed:

"After they built their houses, the mermaids took over their houses?"

Song Qian shook her head and said:

"No, if there is a dispute with the mermaid, it will definitely be drawn, and this is too peaceful, as if it is..."

"It's like the islanders turned into mermaids."

Ji Han said what Song Qian wanted to say.

As soon as this statement came out, everyone frowned, although the idea was a bit unbelievable.

It can be seen that the scenes and residents in the third and fourth paintings are almost identical, except that the bodies have turned into fish. This seems to be the most reasonable explanation at present.

After seeing the fifth painting, compared with the previous one, the obvious change is that there are more houses and platforms have been built. It seems that the scale of the island residents has expanded.

Chen Ke concluded:

"It seems that the living standards of the island residents have improved significantly after living here. I really can't figure out how they did it."

Eggplant reminds:

"Not only are there more houses, but you see, in the fifth painting, the river is also narrower."

Sure enough, as Eggplant said, comparing the top and bottom, the river in the fifth painting is narrower than the first four. Eggplant's eyes are indeed poisonous.

It stands to reason that the painter could reproduce two basically the same scenes, and should not accidentally create such a big gap in the thickness of the river. In other words, the narrowing of the river is also the message they want to convey.

Next comes the last painting.

When they saw this painting, the expressions of the four people changed.

In the last painting, the river has become narrower than before, the mermaid residents on the bottom of the sea are fleeing, and a huge "hand" stretches out from the water wall at the end of the river.