Mysterious Murals in an Ancient Ruin
Shen Yu discovered this matter before Ji Wu reported it.
Because he was also involved in it.
The situation was as follows.
The strange creature he originally contained in the Vaser Dungeon needs to appear on Blue Star and become a Dungeon boss.
As a result, it was taken in before it could be born.
This caused the Dungeon to crash.
As a result, a minor collapse occurred in the space between the Vaser Dungeon and Blue Star.
However, Shen Yu is the master of the Vaser Dungeon space, so this collapse will not affect his space.
There was some turmoil only on Blue Star, and the location of the turmoil happened to be above an ancient ruin.
The collapse of that space happened to expose the ancient ruins to the surface.
Shen Yu thought, "Since I'm already here, what a coincidence."
So I added some ingredients.
This is also why artifacts related to the Contract Anomalist have been unearthed from there abroad.
The ruins were first discovered by a group of outdoor adventurers.
At the time, a ground collapse caused a small earthquake, and they were camping nearby and were quite frightened by it.
After the aftershocks subsided, as they explored their way out, they discovered this partially exposed ruin.
"Hey! Gore, we've struck it rich!"
"Is this a treasure trove? I wonder if there are any gold coins or gems inside?"
The crowd cheered and began digging with shovels.
As the entrance to the ruins was gradually unearthed, people discovered that the stone door, which had been buried underground for a long time, had some kind of pattern vaguely imprinted on it.
They all wiped the dirt off with their hands.
A completely unfamiliar and mysterious pattern was revealed.
Inside a standing square rhombus, a snake with its head and tail intertwined is coiled. Its head resembles a dragon, and its golden vertical pupils stare at you coldly and sharply.
The first glance at its pupils.
They could almost see it leap out of the pattern and bite down hard on their eyes.
The group gasped in surprise.
"Oh My God!"
"OMG!"
Upon closer inspection, the snake in the picture was still perfectly still in place; it seemed that the picture was so lifelike that it caused them to hallucinate.
"This..." Everyone was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "This pattern is really eerie."
"It's so realistic. Only a famous master painter of that era could have painted it so lifelike, as if it were about to leap out of the canvas."
"I almost thought it was going to jump out."
Me too.
"Given his painting skills, his surviving works must be incredibly valuable, right?"
"I wonder which painter it was?"
The group only discussed it briefly before forgetting about it; the buried treasure was what they desperately wanted.
Another excavation began.
The stone gate was probably damaged by the earthquake. After they dug a passage, several people could push it open to make room for one person to pass through.
Everyone was excited and squeezed into the ruins one after another.
The ruins were not large, and there was little treasure inside. They only found a lot of rotten grain and some medieval copper and silver coins.
These coins are highly valuable to collectors.
"Fuck, how come there are so many copper and silver coins, but not a single gold coin?"
"Everyone, come quick! I've found a stone slab!"
On the stone slab, several passages were inscribed in medieval language.
"At that time, I was in complete darkness, a foolish and ignorant beast, never seeing the light, until that person came and lit a ray of light for us beasts, allowing us to escape ignorance and become individuals."
"I have not accomplished anything particularly great, but I wish to leave my mark on the One great lord."
"He once saved us from monsters, monsters that were like tamed wild beasts, obediently groveling at his feet."
"Thank him for bringing us civilization, thank him for dispelling our darkness, thank him for illuminating our path."
Several murals were painted on the wall above the fallen stone slab.
In the first painting, they are being chased by monsters and are living a life of hunger.
The monster was depicted in a distorted and terrifying manner, using exaggerated techniques to make it hundreds of times larger than a human. The little people in the mural standing at its feet looked as tiny as insects.
A small mountain of bones was piled up nearby, showing that this monster was a ruthless killer.
In the second picture, the shrewd city lord offered a reward to brave warriors to slay the monster, but all of them failed.
Until one day, someone stepped into this place.
The third picture shows only a figure from behind, revealing the reward notice.
He defeated the monster all by himself.
The fourth picture shows a blurry line drawing of a tiny figure holding a holy sword, with a massive monster lying in front of him. The contrast between the two figures, with such a small body defeating such a huge monster, makes the person's strength seem incredibly powerful.
The crowd watched with expressions of amazement.
They couldn't help but take out various recording devices to photograph these exquisite murals that contained so many stories.
They continued reading.
In the fifth picture, the city lord has prepared a lavish banquet to reward the triumphant warrior.
In the sixth picture, the city lord, with a devilish smile, opens his arms and looks greedily at the warrior, while green potion, representing poison, is poured onto the dish.
The seventh picture shows blood everywhere, a banquet that vanished into thin air, and the city lord lying on the ground with a ferocious expression.
Finally, in the eighth picture, a person stands quietly with his back to the crowd, his head slightly turned as if looking at something, with countless indistinct, twisted, and terrifying things crawling at his feet.
Everyone who saw this broke out in a cold sweat.
Because they truly felt a cold gaze fixed upon them.
Just as they saw the eighth picture, and saw the figure with its back to them.
This strange feeling sent chills down everyone's spine.
Coupled with the recent strange occurrences, everyone thought they had encountered something supernatural, so they hurriedly fled from the ruins.
They only told the story of what had happened when they were asked by their relatives, still in shock.
Then, the news spread like wildfire, and some busybodies uploaded it to the internet, which caused a huge uproar overseas.
Initially, many people didn't believe what this group said, but when they produced photos of the murals, the matter truly went viral.
Some have analyzed that if the murals are genuine, then the monsters depicted in them might be the supernatural, and the supernatural has existed for a long time.
The person who can defeat the monster is naturally a superhuman with mysterious powers.
Because everyone was frightened, they did not take pictures of the last painting; only Gore had been recording the entire time, captured the painting.