After coming out of the village, Saira came up to the pony from a distance.
"What did you ask?"
"Five days further east, you will pass a place called Blackstone Flats. If you go further, you will reach Crow Valley. It is said that Morgana is right there."
Saira whistled. "Five days, our dry food won't last that long."
"There should be a village on the way. If that doesn't work, I'll go and exchange some food with someone."
"What can I exchange for it?"
Lin Ze took out a few Galleon from Undetectable Extension Box, and also took out a few short knives taken from the witch hunter.
"Money, weapons, whatever."
Saira glanced at the Galleon, and his eyes lit up. "Wow, is this gold? What a beautiful print!"
Lin Ze smiled, threw one to her, and asked her to take it and study it.
The two continued walking east along the ridge.
After crossing two low mountains, the variety of vegetation gradually changed, with fewer and fewer trees and more and more ferns.
The stone on the ground also changed from gray-white to deep iron-black.
In the early morning of the fourth day, Saira stood on a high slope and stopped.
"The front should be Blackstone Flats."
Lin Ze followed her line of sight and looked over.
There is a large flat valley at the bottom of the slope. The bottom of the valley is covered with black gravel from the size of your fist to your head. The surface of the stone has been polished by the wind and sand, and the sun shines with a layer of oily light.
There is a winding path in the center of Blackstone Flats. It can be seen that someone has stepped on it for a long time. The black stones on the road have been kicked to both sides, revealing the gray-white sand underneath.
Two people and one horse entered Blackstone Flats along the path.
The stones creaked under the feet, and occasionally gravel rolled to the side from under the feet, bringing up a small gray dust mist.
The pony walks very cautiously, testing each step with its hooves twice in advance.
After walking for more than half an hour, Lin Ze noticed some rocks on the roadside that looked like they had been turned up from deep underground and were filled with moist soil.
After the two walked forward for a certain distance, they found a pile of gravel on the side of the road. Mixed in the pile of gravel were several broken wooden piles. Black hemp ropes were wrapped around the pile heads, and the broken stubble was very new.
Saira used the tip of the knife to dig through the pile of rubble, and pulled out a palm-sized piece of iron. There were rust marks Scabbers on the iron piece, and a vague pattern remained.
She raised the iron piece to her eyes and looked at it, frowning.
"It should be the mark of a certain lord's mansion."
"The East The lord here?"
"Yes, only the lord can stamp his mark on the iron."
Saira stuffed the piece of iron into his pocket. "It seems the East someone from a certain lord here is nearby. Let's walk faster and try not to meet these people."
The two quickened their pace and took nearly an afternoon to cross Blackstone Flats.
Until the sun was about to set, the terrain in front suddenly broke off, and a steep cliff appeared in the field of vision.
Below the cliff is a canyon. Looking from a distance, the mouth of the canyon is very narrow, and the stone walls on both sides are dark gray.
"This is...Crow Valley?" Saira stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down. The bottom of the valley was dark, and a cold wind gushes out from the mouth of the valley.
The pony took two steps back, its ears stuck tightly to the back of its head, two puffs of thick air came out of its nostrils, and it refused to move no matter how much Sela dragged it.
"This guy... doesn't seem to be willing to go in..." Saira patted the horse's neck, but the horse kept backing up.
"You stay here and watch the horses. I'll go in and take a look first." Lin Ze said.
"You go in by yourself?"
"If anything goes wrong, I will come out naturally, don't worry."
Saira glanced at him and nodded.
Lin Ze and "Apparition" flashed for a few seconds before entering the valley.
After arriving in the valley, Lin Ze discovered that there were obvious carving marks on the stone walls on both sides, as if they had been artificially widened.
After walking more than a hundred meters further, the stone walls above our heads suddenly retreated to both sides, and the valley bottom suddenly opened up, and an open space about half an acre square appeared in front of us.
There is a stone building in the center of the clearing.
Strictly speaking, it is a short house made of black stone, square and square, with a flat roof covered with moss and low ferns.
There is no wood or iron on the house. The whole building looks like it grew directly from the ground.
The door was open. It was dark inside and nothing could be seen clearly.
Lin Ze raised the wand, and the fluorescent light illuminated a small patch of ground in front of the door.
The stone pillars on both sides of the door frame are engraved with dense characters, which are the same as those in the sentry tower. They should be in the style of the Eastern Tribe.
Just as he was about to take a step inside, there was a burst of soft footsteps behind him.
He turned around sharply.
Saira stood three steps behind him, holding a scimitar in his hand and looking a little embarrassed on his face.
"Didn't I ask you to watch the horses outside?"
"The horse ran away by itself." Saira spread his hands.
"Run away by yourself?"
"Yes... I shouted a few times, but I couldn't stop shouting at all..."
Lin Ze looked at her for a while, then laughed.
"Okay, now that you're in, just follow me."
He reached out and pushed open the half-open stone door.
The space inside the house is not large, just the size of an ordinary bedroom.
There is a low stone bed against the back wall. The bed is covered with several layers of old straw mats, which are black and moldy.
On the stone table beside the bed were a ceramic cup and several half-burned candles.
Several wooden boards were nailed to the wall, and hanging on the wooden boards were a few strings of dry Herbology and an iron bell that was so rusty that it was almost unrecognizable.
Other than that, the whole room was very empty, and it didn't look like anyone had lived in it.
Lin Ze walked to the stone table and saw a thin booklet lying on the corner of the table. The cover of the booklet was curled and blackened, and it could be barely seen that it was made of some kind of animal skin.
He opened the booklet, and the handwriting inside was so familiar that he was stunned for a moment.
It's the same as the words he carved on the boundary monument.
Lin Ze turned the booklet to the first page, and there was a short line written on it.
But... he can't understand.
Lin Ze turned over the booklet and read it twice, and finally put it in his pocket.
"It doesn't look like anyone has lived in this place." Saira stood at the door and glanced around the house.
"Yes, but from the looks of it, someone must have been here recently." Lin Ze pointed to the candle on the stone table.
The candle was half burned, and the wax oil condensed into a small gray-white hard lump on the table. The surface of the hard lump was very clean without much dust.
Lin Ze squatted down and looked under the stone bed. There was nothing under the stone bed except for some old black grass.
He stood up and patted the dust off his hands, his eyes falling on Saira.
Saira was facing inward, with his back to the light outside the door. The outline of his face was mostly covered by shadows, and only his gray eyes reflected a little fluorescence.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"It's okay." Lin Ze looked away and continued to wander around the stone house.