"I really didn't expect the entrance to this ruin to open so easily." Lin Chenxing gave an awkward laugh.
Just moments ago, he had only meant to clear away the dirt around the ruin. He'd barely started digging when the entrance suddenly fell outward with a crash. It turned out the door had merely been embedded in the mountainside.
After the door fell, Lin Chenxing and the others saw no passageway, only another stone wall. The discovery left all five of them disappointed.
Just as they were feeling helpless, Xi Qing noticed a clue. The stones in the wall where the door had been were slightly different in color from those on either side, suggesting the two sections had formed at different times. The passageway was very likely behind that part of the wall.
After putting on a glove, Lin Chenxing punched the wall. Cracks quickly spread across it, reaching the boundary between the two colors before changing direction and following the seam.
As the wall began to crumble on a large scale, everyone stepped back a little and waited for the broken stones to fall. Behind the wall, a hint of the same blue-green color as the metal door came into view.
Once they had cleared a passage, a spherical metal cabin appeared before the five of them. Looking inside through the place where the door had come off, they could see a control console and a mechanical chair in front of it. The chair seemed to be capable of reclining flat and moving around.
A skeleton sat in the chair. Though it had withered and turned to stone, a closer look revealed that it closely resembled the metal statue they had discovered earlier. It clearly belonged to the same race. More precisely, the metal statue was a likeness