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Chapter 587: The Beast's Belly Village
"Lower the lifeboat and hang the mooring line."

Captain Peleus remained calm in the face of danger. The water in some fjords was too soft, full of silt and sand, making it difficult to fix anchors. The ships could only tie their ropes to the huge rocks on the surrounding land.

However, this method can generally only fix small boats with small displacement. It is still a question whether medium-sized exploration ships like the "Dog Riding Rabbit" can do it.

"Ricky, you come with me."

Millie Tang wanted to quickly understand the situation she was in, so she volunteered to climb down the rope ladder and get onto the lifeboat.

The four crew members rowed for 10 minutes and finally saw the wall on one side of the hull with thick protruding stone pillars on it. The crew tied the cable and hung it on the stone pillars.

Millie Tang carefully scraped off some stone chips with a knife and put them into a small bottle.

Although it has not been fully analyzed yet, judging from the texture alone, Milly Tang feels that these stones should not belong to flesh and blood creatures. Could it be that, as she guessed, the sea monsters are actually the manifestation of the will of the Source of No Source and have no entity?

Four lifeboats set out from different directions and hung up cables. The "Dog Riding Rabbit" was temporarily fixed in the route. Combined with the descriptions of the crews of the other three lifeboats, the wall was very far away from the hull. This route was wider than expected, and it was no problem for four exploration ships of the same size to run parallel at the same time.

"Captain Peleus, please take your men and wait for us on the boat. Let's go ashore and take a look at the situation. We can discuss how to attack when we come back."

The "Dog Riding Rabbit" was now his rear base. Liu Yonglu certainly could not let all the crew members land at the same time, so he took Shi Weitian and several of his men on two lifeboats to land.

The first thing Millie Tang did after landing was to take samples of the soil.

The soil was as black as the walls and smelled faintly of mold.

Kogan and Marquette Brown fixed and hid the boat, the little genius siblings and Mr. Shani prepared the oil lamp, and the exploration of the unknown land by the Foodie Team officially began.

"Mr. Rich, do you remember what I told you a week ago?"

Millie Tang walked in front holding Liu Yonglu's hand. Liu Yonglu nodded. The reason why they had been circling around the sea monster in the past week was because they did not want to step into the trap prepared in advance by the preacher on the ground.

Now that he has been swallowed by the sea monster, although he did not encounter any danger at the beginning, it does not mean that the other party is unprepared.

Liu Yonglu did not dare to be negligent. He put one hand in his pocket and held the black stone tightly.

After walking for about ten minutes, Liu Yonglu vaguely saw some lights coming from the distance. The brightness of the lights was not high, but there were quite a few of them, at least seven or eight clusters, and their distribution was extremely uneven.

"Put out the kerosene lamp first."

Marquette was experienced and quickly warned that the source of the fire was still unclear and that they should not easily expose their position:
“It felt like a bonfire that was artificially lit.”

Marquette exhaled the last puff of his cigarette and stomped out the butt. He was a little unsure. Judging from the brightness of the fire, it looked like torches lit in villages and towns, but...how could there be villages and towns in the belly of a sea monster?

After the kerosene lamp went out, everyone was once again plunged into darkness, with only the dim lights in the distance guiding the direction. Lin Brown walked to the front of the team to lead the way.

Although his eyesight is not good, his hearing is very good, which comes in handy at this time.

After walking for five or six minutes, Lin Brown suddenly stopped. He bent down and picked up a rectangular wooden board from the ground. The sound of stepping on the wooden board caught his attention.

Marquette turned his back and lit the lighter, using his body to block the light. By the light of the fire, Lin Brown could see that the wooden board had edges and corners, and it was definitely not formed naturally, but was planed out by intelligent creatures using tools.

"It's probably a village." Marquette said in a deep voice. Shi Weitian and the others nodded and deliberately lowered their footsteps.

Walking further, as expected, everyone saw the village's fence wall. The fence wall was very low, only half a meter high. The houses were as dilapidated as the surrounding fences. You could see the joints between bricks and stones where the wall paint had fallen off, and the low shacks behind the houses.

The lights seen in the darkness before were, as expected, torches lit in the village.

The presence of torches proves that there are living people. Even if they are not humans, they are some kind of intelligent creatures that can form social groups.

"Ricky, what should we do? Go in?"

Marquette was a little nervous. He had thought that there might be living creatures in the sea monster's stomach, but he didn't expect there to be such a large village inside.

Judging from its current size, there is no problem for this village to accommodate several hundred people.

Liu Yonglu shook his head. Since he had guessed that the Virgin Mary's preachers would set up traps in advance, he had to be extremely cautious in every step:
"Let's go around first and take a look at the situation."

A few people did not dare to enter the village, so they walked along the edge of the village. Fortunately, there were enough torches in the village, so even those who did not carry kerosene lamps could get enough light.

Several people crouched and walked forward in one direction. The further Liu Yonglu walked, the more frightened he became. He found that the strange village in front of him was larger than he had expected. It was a bit inappropriate to call it a village. The settlement in front of him looked more like a small town.

Today, the residents of the town seemed to have a unified arrangement. No one was at home in the houses in the outermost circle, but Liu Yonglu could still judge from the clothes hanging in the yard behind the houses and the axes leaning next to the firewood pile that these houses were indeed inhabited and had not been away for long.

"Captain, the people living inside should be humans."

Kogan pointed to the coarse cloth dresses on the clothesline. Indeed, judging from the styles of the clothes, they were all worn by humans, and the styles were somewhat similar to those of the Western Continent.

"Shhh."

Milly Tang interrupted Kogan's questioning, she could vaguely hear the voices.

Millie Tang is a professor of ancient linguistics. She can tell that these people are speaking Mosesad, but many of the pronunciations and wordings are older and closer to Rashu.

As for the content of the conversation, it seemed that an adult male was calling his wife at home to attend the rally.

No wonder everyone is gone.

Going around the fence on one side, Liu Yonglu saw a tall spire with a bronze bell underneath. This kind of building in Moses Sad is usually a church or monastery of the Virgin Mary sect.

Liu Yonglu still didn't dare to act rashly. He made a gesture, telling the other people from Shi Weitian behind him to wait until they returned to the starting position after going around in a circle before deciding on the next course of action.

The structure of the strange village is that the periphery, that is, the area where Liu Yonglu and his team landed, is relatively open, and becomes narrower as they go forward, until Liu Yonglu and his team reach the end of the village.

"Mi Li'er, you've come to the right place."

Liu Yonglu pointed forward, and Shi Weitian and his companions looked ahead and saw a huge, heavy bronze door embedded in the mountain not far away. There were intricate carvings on the door, and it was hard to imagine that anyone could open the door by their own strength.

This was not the first time Liu Yonglu had seen this door. He had seen it once in Victoria a few months ago.

In the Holy See's Chapel, this door is called the "Gate of the Sourceless"!
(End of this chapter)