Cloud Thinking

After hearing Helia's guess, everyone was about to look up at the statue, but suddenly they remembered that looking at the statue would cause hallucinations, so they kept their heads in a slightly uncomfortable half-tilted position.

"It feels like, with so many broken wings, it shouldn't be the usual two-wing or four-wing, but I'm not sure if there are eight or ten wings." Drummond responded, "But what if other winged people cut off all the wings, took out the bones and put them in the wooden box? It's still impossible to determine who this corpse belongs to."

"But no matter whether all these wings belong to one person or more, what is certain now is that there must have been such a person who was dismembered into small pieces after death. After the flesh and bones were separated, the bones were put into these boxes." Helia continued, rubbing her arms and feeling a chill in her feet. "What kind of hatred or grudge could have caused someone to treat her like this..."

"Yes, even the skull was smashed... Tsk tsk tsk, I don't know who he must have offended. He can't rest in peace even after his death." Drummond looked at the skull that could barely be figured out after being pieced together. When he opened the blind box, he couldn't tell which part of the bone it was.

After he said the last sentence, the whole place was silent. He realized belatedly that it was these psychopaths who disturbed the peaceful time after death! They were so mean that they would not even let go of the dead's things. There were hundreds of boxes lying there, but they had to smash them open and put them together to see what they were.

Now they are still pointing fingers in front of the corpse...

That's really damaging to one's virtue!

The skeleton couldn't do anything new now, and outside it was quiet and silent. I didn't know whether the winged people couldn't get in or had already left.

Helia wandered around, touching things here and there, trying to find something interesting. However, although the main hall looked majestic, its layout was extremely simple. Apart from the huge statue, there was nothing valuable.

Finally, Helia walked back to the feet of the statue and looked up. This angle would not allow her to see the face of the statue, so it was safe.

Logically speaking, humans cannot look directly at the true body of God, or they will go blind. Even pronouncing the name of God is a taboo and may result in being struck by lightning, not to mention the further offense of glimpsing the face of God. Even if you are not blind, God will poke out your eyes because you are offended.

Therefore, all the existing temples on the continent have statues carved and worshipped without faces or with faces imagined by people. This also means that the same god may have different images in different places. Believers from different places will even argue and fight about this, just to prove that the god they worship and believe in is the real one.

Maybe it was because of her clumsy hands, but Helia would use the legitimate reason of investigating clues as a cover-up. She tried to pull out the bird statue near the feet of the statue. As the god of the sky, Adalesi has birds as his followers, so there are all kinds of birds here, from small to large, arranged in an arc with the statue as the center, symmetrical on both sides, and the larger the bird, the farther it is arranged, but these birds are often carved more delicately and beautifully.

Helia grabbed the bird sculpture that was only as big as her feet closest to the statue with both hands, and tried to uproot the weeping willow tree with her body as Lin Daiyu. Unfortunately, it was a blessing from God that she could lift Theodore. She still expected to do such an offensive thing under the feet of the gods. If Adalaisi was still alive, she would be struck by lightning.

Since she couldn't pull it out, Helia tried a more tactful way. She twisted it left and right. Suddenly, a small clicking sound came from the bottom. "Huh?"

She twisted it in the same direction as before, making a clicking sound, until she could not twist it any further. Helia tried to pull it out again, and this time she pulled the bird sculpture out with almost no effort.

When Drummond heard some movement from Helia's side, he walked over there, turned his gaze from elsewhere and fixed it on Helia. Just as he was about to say something, he saw her pull something out like pulling a carrot, then turned around with confusion and surprise, looked at Drummond who was walking towards him, and happily held up his "trophy".

Drummond: ??? Isn't this the stone statue under the feet of the statue? ??? Can this thing be pulled out? ? ?

When he confirmed that this thing was not something that could be easily pulled out, Drummond was so nervous that he swallowed his saliva. Sure enough, the little princess's frail body contained great strength! Don't mess with her easily in the future...

"Dramon, this thing can be pulled out!" Helia handed the palm-sized stone bird statue to Dramon in a way of asking for credit, then stuffed it into his hand and pointed to the other side of the statue, "There is another one like it over there, let's go pull it out!"

"Well, you're quite strong..." Drummond praised insincerely.

"Oh, it's not a question of strength, it's a question of skill," Helia explained. She took Drummond to the stone bird statue on the other side of the statue, squatted down, held the pocket-sized bird sculpture with both hands, and tentatively turned it left and right until she heard the unclear click.

She raised her head and looked at Drummond, and slowly twisted her hand in the predetermined direction, "Did you hear me? There is a mechanism here, and it is stuck at the bottom. It can only be taken out by turning it to a certain position."

"Is there a mechanism here?" Drummond caught the key words.

Helia nodded. "Yes, there may be a hidden secret room here. Tell the others and explore around." After she finished speaking, she grabbed a stone bird statue that she had pulled out and smiled widely.

Hearing the noise, the others also gathered around. Looking at Helia holding a stone bird statue in each hand, Beavis couldn't help but complain: "Are you a house-destroying lunatic? Why do you destroy things everywhere..."

"What do you mean by tearing things down everywhere? I just felt itchy a few times. Don't call me a habitual offender." Helia retorted.

Mobichues outside the court: You are a repeat offender!!! You have taken as many as you want back home!!! And you are still trying to make excuses!!!

"So, everyone, spread out and feel around. You never know, you might find the mechanism!" Helia encouraged.

"What if it's a sneak attack?" Kalzer raised his hand.

"That means you have very bad luck. Remember to offer more sacrifices to the goddess of luck when you go back." Helia patted his head lovingly and advised.

If Drummond asked this question, Helia would probably say to him, "Then die, you deserve it. You are so unlucky, don't get close to me, so as not to pass on your bad luck to me."

Although this does nothing to improve the current living conditions, it is at least something to do. When people are trapped, they cannot just sit there doing nothing. If your body doesn't move, your brain will move, thinking about this and that, and in the end you will just scare yourself. It is better to find something to do to distract your attention.

But what Helia said was the right direction. After she pulled out the two stone bird statues, Britney discovered that the eyeballs of the two long-legged birds could be pressed down. Beavis discovered that the wings of a kind of bird could move. Drummond and Kalzer were trying hard to make themselves look less idle and picky.

Helia sat at the feet of the statue to rest, watching them buttoning left and right, and couldn't help singing in her heart: Please, don't button everywhere~ Fashion requires buttoning~ If you are not careful, you will miss it~ Oh oh!

No one knew who triggered the last mechanism, but Helia's butt suddenly felt empty and she fell straight down. Her calves, which were hanging outside, hung for a moment, and her head hit the wall with a bang. Then, under the action of gravity, her whole body fell through the hole that appeared out of thin air.

After making several free spins in the air, she hurriedly summoned Theodore. Fortunately, the entrance to the cave was very narrow, and Theodore was long enough to be stuck diagonally in the vertical passage. She held her wand with her hands and feet like a sloth. At this moment, she wanted to recognize Theodore as her reincarnated parents.

"Theodore, I'm sorry to have wronged you. When we get out, I'll ask the best craftsmen to repair it for you and use the most expensive paint to repay you for saving my life!" Helia muttered.

She raised her head and looked upwards. Maybe because she had just been hit on the head, and because things happened too suddenly, she was now very far away from the entrance. From this perspective, the entrance was only as big as a fist, and the light coming in was not enough to illuminate the surroundings.

She stretched her neck to look down, and saw only a dark patch below, with no way of telling how deep it was. She didn't care how deep it was, because based on her current position, if she hadn't taken out Theodore to prop herself up, she would have fallen into a pool of pulp.

"Beleyi! Are you okay?" A companion's call came from above his head, and then a small black dot appeared at the distant entrance. Judging from the voice, it should be Beavis, as he was the closest to him at that time.

"I'm fine! I didn't fall to death! My wand got stuck in the middle of the road!" Helia replied in a hoarse voice.

"Okay! Wait for us to get a rope to save you!" After the man said that, he disappeared at the entrance, leaving Helia to fight the darkness alone.

It was too tiring to hang like this. Her hands and feet were already sore, and she would have to fall down when she ran out of strength. So Helia took advantage of her strength and tried to turn over. Lying on the wand was much easier than hanging under it.

She unhooked her legs from the wand, leaving only her hands holding it, then did a pull-up with great effort, pushing half of her body over the wand, crossing one leg over it, using her belly to support it, and slowly adjusting her movements bit by bit until she was able to balance herself on the wand.

But just after she breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes, which had already adapted to the darkness, vaguely caught a glimpse of something strange. It was embedded in the rough and sharp stone wall at an arm's length away from her eyes, and was faintly flashing a dim white light in the darkness.

Helia crawled over like a reptile, slowly sat up by holding onto the wall, and stabilized herself on Theodore in an extremely strange posture. She reached out to touch the glowing thing and found that it seemed familiar, as if she had touched it somewhere before.

She raised her hand and summoned a small flame. The faint light instantly took the surrounding scene into Helia's eyes. Helia stared into the sunken eye sockets of the skull, not knowing whether she should say:

Hi……?

No wonder it feels so familiar, it turns out to be a human skeleton! It’s an old friend!

Helia leaned back a little, putting some distance between herself and the wall, trying to see if there was anything else besides the skull.

Below the skull was a stone wall with an uneven surface, with some white bones exposed from time to time. From what Helia saw, there were fingers, pelvis, leg bones and foot bones. It was probably a complete corpse.

Helia suddenly became curious. Could this vertical passage be filled with bones all around? Where would it lead to? Would it be a pile of dead bodies?

Without a wand, Helia could only summon a small flame. This was her life essence, so she could summon it directly by mobilizing the magic power in her body without a wand or spell. But other magic could not be done without Theodore.

She looked up at the hole that hadn't responded for a long time. After thinking for a moment, she felt that since she had already fallen down, it would be a waste of their time and energy to go and check it out if she didn't go and see what was there! So she decided to go down and take a look!

She first put away her wand and let herself fall freely, then immediately summoned her wand, held it vertically, and before she hit the ground, she quickly recited the spell that she had just reviewed in her mind many times, performing a levitation magic.

Sure enough, the falling speed gradually slowed down, but it was still continuing to fall. After all, it was a low-level levitation magic, and the speed at which she fell just now was too fast. She was already very satisfied that it could be slowed down to this extent. At least she could land steadily.

Before Helia could figure out how to land, she suddenly felt as if she had passed through an invisible barrier, just like when she entered the main hall before. Instantly, her falling speed increased sharply, and she was caught off guard and slammed into a rectangular box like a meteorite.

"Grass, grass, grass!" Fortunately, Helia hugged herself reflexively before landing, so she didn't fall into a pulp. However, her butt that landed first was not so happy, and she tried to use the pain to accuse her master of being unfair to her.

When Helia recovered from the pain, she summoned her little flame and looked around. She found that she seemed to have fallen into some extraordinary place. She was sitting on a flat, shiny black stone wide enough for two people to sit on, with walls on both sides that were two-thirds of her height. She knew where she had fallen without even thinking about it.

Coffin!!!