Chapter 20: Lost Holy Scripture

The stone steps spread downward, and the flickering flames were not stable.

"Hiss..."

Xiao Jian suddenly shuddered.

There was plenty of sunshine on the ground, and he felt a little hot even with his shirt bare.

But when he went down to this "ancient tomb", there seemed to be a slight airflow in front of him, bringing cool air to his face... making Xiao Jian's surroundings suddenly become cold.

The flame of the torch was blown a little unstable by the wind, but it was more likely a problem with the torch itself.

After all, the cloth wrapped around the torch generally acts as a wick, and the fuel that really makes it burn is actually the oil stuck in the cloth.

If it is burned directly without oil, it will soon burn the wood, and then it will become a smoldering without open flames like cigarette butts or mosquito coils.

The clothes that Xiao Jian picked were made of pure cotton and chemical fiber.

Cotton material still acts as a "wick", and chemical fiber material forms a combustible material similar to grease after burning.

But chemical fiber is not as easy to burn as grease, so the flame on the torch is far from stable.

Fortunately, the stone steps soon came to the end - an open hall made entirely of stone.

The entire hall seemed to be dug out of a large stone.

In the center of the hall, there was something like a podium, and there seemed to be something on the podium.

On the stone walls around the hall, honeycomb-shaped tombs could be seen everywhere.

Almost all the tombs were empty, and there were traces of dragging and walking on the thick dust.

Xiao Jian walked around and checked all the tombs, but did not find any bodies.

Perhaps the owners of these tombs had already climbed up and turned into zombies that were "brushed out"?

This was a very reasonable inference.

Xiao Jian was even almost certain that the zombies that were constantly "refreshing" came from here.

After Xiao Jian confirmed that there was nothing in the tomb except dust, his eyes turned to the "podium" in the center of the stone hall.

Xiao Jian walked over slowly, very carefully, taking three steps and knocking on the ground from time to time with a fire axe, for fear of stepping on any traps or something like that.

However... there was no such thing.

He came to the podium smoothly.

There was a book on the podium, a book with a stone cover.

Xiao Jian observed it for a long time, and then poked here and there with a fire axe. After confirming that there was really no mechanism, he used a piece of cloth to pad it and prepared to turn the book...

But when Xiao Jian's fingers touched the stone cover of the book, even with a layer of cloth between them, a torrent of knowledge could not be stopped from pouring into his mind.

This feeling... is very familiar.

Just like the first time he came into contact with the "note" that said "survive".

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Jian digested the knowledge that had just been instilled and understood the use of this "??" Holy Book.

The "??" here are two very special characters, not Chinese characters, and there are no words or phrases in Chinese that can correspond to their meaning.

Just like you can't describe some abstract concepts that only appeared in the new era to the ancients.

According to its function, Xiao Jian simply translated it as... as...

... Forget it, call it whatever it is.

The function of this thing is a bit complicated, and it can't be translated too simply.

First of all, it has a certain card trading function.

Put a card on it, choose the exchange intention, and finally offer 100 or any other form of energy to the "Holy Book", and then...

...wait.

Yes, just wait.

You don't know the transaction object, what is on the other end of the "network cable", or even if the other party is a human.

In short, just wait like this, maybe there will be a response, maybe you can exchange it for what you want to exchange.

But it is more likely that there will be no response.

According to the knowledge that the "?? Holy Book" passed on to Xiao Jian, the success rate of "people" who used it before was very low, maybe only once in ten or twenty "years".

At this time, there was already a card in the card slot in this book.

It was a resource card with various gold, silver and jewelry painted on it, and the exchange intention was any grade of "God-given Heroic Spirit".

According to the knowledge passed on by the "?? Holy Book", this so-called "God-given Heroic Spirit" might mean "servant".

In other words, the previous owner of this "Holy Book" wanted to exchange all the gold, silver and jewelry of their tribe for a servant card of any star level.

And this transaction, of course, was not reached.

But it was this unreached exchange intention that made Xiao Jian learn something very important.

A tribe spent all its money just to exchange for a minion card of even 1, and no one was willing to exchange with them until the tribe was destroyed...

"... It feels a bit precious, what's going on?"

Xiao Jian was a little bit unconvinced about the "knowledge" passed on to him by the "Scripture".

Peashooter, Little Spray Mushroom, even Sunflower, Luminous Mushroom, are all minions of 1.

So many gold, silver and jewelry can't be exchanged for even one [Luminous Mushroom]?

"Huh..."

The sparks on the torch flickered, and the original open flame had a tendency to be unstable.

It seems that the chemical fiber materials are almost burned.

Xiao Jian walked around the "tomb" again. After making sure there was nothing else, he put the fire axe on his belt, held the heavy "holy book" like a slab in his hand, faced the stone hall, slowly retreated to the stone stairs, and finally stepped on the stone stairs to return to the ground.

"Huh..."

After returning to the ground, Xiao Jian breathed a sigh of relief, immediately threw away the extinguished torch, and returned to the plants with the slab-like "holy book" in both hands.

Xiao Jian sat cross-legged, with only two pages of stone "holy book" spread out in front of him.

On the left page of the "holy book", there is a rectangular shallow groove, which can just hold a card.

And what is stuck in it at this time is the resource card with various gold, silver and jewelry painted on it.

The right page of the "holy book" is covered with messy symbols...

Perhaps this is the text of the original owner of the "holy book", but the knowledge it passed on to Xiao Jian does not include "reading", so he doesn't know what is written on it.

After studying for a long time, Xiao Jian finally decided to try it.

He tapped his fingers and gently took off the useless resource card... He only felt a little resistance during the process, which was similar to the resistance of taking a bottle opener with a magnet off the refrigerator door.

And at the moment when the resource card was removed from the card slot on the "left page", the symbols that looked like text on the "right page" immediately disappeared and turned blank.

Then, Xiao Jian put the resource card with gold, silver and jewelry painted on it back and immediately felt a little resistance.

"Hmm... Need to sacrifice 100?"

Xiao Jian chose to sacrifice without saying anything.

Then, his sunshine value decreased by 100 points, and the card was successfully embedded in the card slot of the "left page".

"Then... make a request?"

Xiao Jian thought about it, using the knowledge passed to him by the "holy book", thinking of "salt" in his heart, while his right hand touched the blank "right page".

Then, a word "salt" appeared on the "right page" of the holy book.

Huh?

Chinese characters?

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