Meng Chengfei took an oil lamp out of his ring and lit it.
The wick flickered, making their shadows sway across the walls and floor, stretching and twisting them.
"I can't make sense of this in a hurry. Looks like Li Kang was trying to decipher these characters too, but his attempt backfired. He didn't finish deciphering them and ended up doing something to himself."
Meng Chengfei frowned as he looked through the sheets one by one.
There were not only characters on them, but illustrations too.
"Bandit Lord, can you read this?" Xu Ye asked.
Bandit Lord said, "I'll have to study it. Give me time, and I can crack it. The illustrations and rituals can serve as cross-references for these characters."
Xu Ye nodded silently and took a few sheets of yellow paper. Suddenly, Alice cried out, "Ye, I remember something! I can decipher some of these characters."
What?!
"Wait, let me think." Alice pondered for a moment. "Look at this picture. There are two races here. The short ones are Dark Goblins. The others are more than twice their size in the illustration. Those belong to the race of Three-Eyed Giants."
Goblins? Giants?
Xu Ye felt bewildered.
Could there be races on this planet unknown to humanity?
Had they lived here countless years ago, then vanished because of some incident?
Alice continued, "The date marked here is the Third Era. According to the descriptions on the paper, the Dark Goblins and Three-Eyed Giants were performing some kind of summoning ritual. They worshipped the Lord of Darkfall."
"The planet shaded so heavily in this picture is probably the Lord of Darkfall's homeworld. The place with the golden sun and crimson moon is Planet Earth, where we are now."
"Judging by the arrows and the positions on the altar,