The moment after Lulunaka disappeared, Julius and Rei quickly walked over. They saw that the place where she was standing had sunk in, leaving only a pitch-black hole.
She was probably standing on something similar to a mobile platform, and then she went down.
Looking at the bottomless hole, Julius and Rei couldn't do anything. It would be difficult for them to follow her down. God knows how deep it was. There was no water to cushion their fall. If they jumped down, it would not be as simple as breaking their legs.
Moreover, Lurunaka had told them to wait here, but she didn't ask them to follow her.
Julius and Rei looked at each other, thinking that it was not a good idea to stand here and waste time, so they left.
"Let's see if there's anything valuable here," Julius suggested.
Rei nodded. "Well, I think, at least there's something that hasn't turned into garbage … probably." Rei's tone was not so sure. She didn't have much confidence.
"At least this garbage dump is much cleaner, and there's no disgusting smell," Julius said some comforting words, but soon he couldn't continue.
Although this former treasury looked decent, it was only slightly better than those disgusting garbage dumps in the Rat Path. Moreover, it had a strong smell, the smell of rust, mixed with the cold and damp air.
This place was more like a graveyard than a garbage dump … a graveyard for dead things.
Everything here had never been alive. They were decaying and dead, leaving only wreckage.
If these things were alive, then they were now emitting the smell of death. There was no smell of decay, but the pungent smell made people feel that they were really dead.
Julius raised his head and looked around. He felt that this place was lifeless, and only desolation was left.
There was not a single blade of grass here, like a dead land.
He didn't know why he suddenly had such a feeling. If it was him in the past, he would not be so sensitive.
While he was wondering why he had such a feeling, Rei had already started digging on the hill of treasures. "If only there were gems. No matter how bad the gems are, they can be exchanged for some money … Why are there only corroded gold and silver here?" She grabbed a handful of gold coins, but they no longer had the luster of gold.
These gold coins were not completely worthless, but they were just a little better than the gold coins of the Twin Eagles.
If they wanted to gain something, they would have to carry at least a big bag of these gold coins.
This was certainly not the first thing Rei considered. Her small hands continued digging in the wreckage like a mole.
However, a mole didn't have a pair of eyes that only rodents' natural enemies would have.
Julius looked at Rei's busy digging, and looked at the weapons in his hands.
The shield and sword were very heavy, and more inflexible than ordinary weapons. Moreover, their surfaces were covered with rust. Unless they were used to hit people, they could not be used as weapons at all.
He put these two things aside and picked up a spear.
The spear was heavier than the sword and shield, and with its length and shape, he didn't think it was for ordinary people … It was too long, and the shape of the spearhead was very strange, it was in the shape of a snake.
What were these weapons for? That was a very puzzling matter.
Perhaps Lulunaka knew, but she was no longer here.
While Julius and Rei were digging in the treasures, Lulunaka had already gone deeper underground.
She brought Julius and Rei to the treasures. This was already a world far away from the surface, but she was still going down, to go deeper into the underground world.
When the moving platform stopped, she came to a narrow and slanted passage.
When she came down from the platform, it made a disconcerting noise, and finally stopped — probably because it was broken.
Lulunaka, who lost the platform to go back, didn't panic. She just took a look and left.
She stepped on the slanted passage and slid down.
She hummed a little tune, looking like a little girl going out to play, but no little girl would come to the underground world that no one had ever set foot in.
How long had it been since she left here?
Lulunaka counted the time in her mind, and found that she couldn't remember. It seemed to be a very long story, so long that she almost forgot it.
But there was one thing she would never forget. Perhaps she was the last existence who still remembered what this place used to be.
It didn't take too long for her to reach the end of the passage.
It was still a hall, but it wasn't a treasury. There were no piles of garbage called treasures … Here, there was only a furnace.
This furnace was in the middle of the hall, connected to the ceiling and the floor. It was cylindrical, and even if five or six people surrounded it, they wouldn't be able to completely hug it.
Moreover, no one would be stupid enough to hold onto such a thing — because this stove was entangled by a snake bone.
This bone was even bigger than the bones of the snake guards. If it wasn't for the huge snake head, it might even be mistaken as a dragon's bone.
However, when a snake had such a size, it was no different from a dragon.
"Heh … So it's here."
Lulunaka looked up at the snake bone that could no longer move, and said with a sigh. "You should be the last snake of Inside's royal family … To think that you're going to sleep in such a place. You really chose a good place.
Who knows how many necromancers are still yearning for your remains … "Lulunaka looked at the eye sockets of the giant snake's remains. There was no light in its black eye sockets, and it was completely dead.
It didn't turn into an undead, but died just like that.
"Not turning into an undead is a great help, the last royal snake." Lulunaka walked over and patted its bones.
Its body coiled around the furnace, and its head was on the ground, blocking the part of the furnace that was connected to the ground.
"If you were still alive, I might have torn you apart … Although I like to grind bones into powder, it still hurts to grind an antique like you into powder."
Lulunaka's face had a rare expression of gentleness, which was completely different from her usual appearance.
Her expression looked like she was reminiscing about something that had already passed away.