Chapter 259 Experienced Rice

After the ruins were exposed, Les immediately felt a familiar magic. After careful identification, he was sure that this was the trace left by his old friend who loved food.

Helga must have been here and left something here, or had a big battle with something here.

Seeing Les standing there with his eyes closed and not speaking, Daphne did not dare to disturb him, but just stood quietly beside him to observe the appearance of the palace ruins.

The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the ruins of the palace that had just been exposed from under the sand dunes, dyeing it with a layer of brilliant gold. The palace has strong ancient Egyptian architectural features. It is made of cubic stones with a side length of one meter. Something is brushed on the outside of the stone to make it look silver-white. Observing from the place where the coating fell off, these stones should be limestone.

The outermost side of the palace is four thick and large stone pillars. They support the top of the palace and are carved into the shape of human figures. Giant stone statues as high as 50 meters stand outside the palace in different postures. Standing at their feet and looking up at them, the shock brought by them is extremely impactful - they are not even as high as the toes of the statues.

Daphne couldn't help but think of the Slytherin statue in the Chamber of Secrets, and began to wonder if there were a few basilisks hidden in these statues? However, considering the existence of the ruins for a long time, she felt that even if there were basilisks, they would have starved to death.

The passage into the palace was naturally formed between the statues. Looking inside, the scene inside was dark and unclear. Daphne didn't dare to act rashly and walk over to check.

There must be many traps in this kind of ruins. Recklessness and carelessness will only bring death.

Just when Daphne and Astoria were waiting a little bored, Les opened his eyes.

"You can go in."

After confirming that this ruins was really related to Helga, Les was in a good mood and wanted to fly in now. But before entering the ruins, he still had a few things to tell Daphne and Astoria, two little girls who had no experience in exploring ruins.

"First, you must follow me obediently and never do anything unnecessary, even stepping on the floor tiles that I stepped on; second, you must tell me any abnormal phenomena you observe, and finally, try not to use magic inside, hold the wand in your hand, and be prepared - can you do it?"

He must explain these things to the two girls before entering the ruins, so as not to cause trouble.

Both of them nodded repeatedly and promised to do it. Seeing that the two of them had a very correct attitude, Les nodded with satisfaction. He was afraid that because he did not make it clear in advance, the two little girls would not realize the seriousness of exploring the ruins and treat the ruins as their own secret room.

Although the mechanisms in the ruins were most likely destroyed by Helga who entered before, they were only those hidden mechanisms that blocked the way. Helga would definitely find a way to bypass them to avoid triggering them.

"You can also observe the flow of magic power, which will help you find traps and dark rooms in the ruins." Les reminded the two of them. Although they could not act rashly, they still had the power to observe carefully.

Otherwise, you can't just follow me like a blind man, right? What can you learn from that?

After saying this, Les walked towards the palace.

Four stone sculptures formed three entrances to the passage, making it difficult to choose. You won't know where this passage leads to before you actually walk in.

But for Les, this is not a multiple-choice question. He walked directly to the passage on the far right, and then walked in first - behind this passage, Hufflepuff's magic power is the most residual.

After entering the passage, the giant stone sculptures on both sides completely blocked their vision, and the surrounding environment suddenly became dim. There was an indescribable power emanating from the stone sculptures on both sides, making the surrounding atmosphere subtle. Daphne couldn't help shivering, and Astoria's face turned pale. They even had an impulse to kneel on the ground and crawl forward.

"Don't be nervous," Les' voice sounded in front of the two people: "It's just a little psychological suggestion."

Les' words made the two people shudder. When they looked up at the stone sculptures again, the depression in their hearts had disappeared without a trace.

"Ancient palaces like to do these mysterious things. You will get used to it." Les said with a smile. As for why he is resistant to this kind of psychological suggestion, it is related to the fact that he has personally built many palaces of pseudo-gods.

Don't look at their bright appearance. After destroying the defensive magic, they will still become ruins if they are set on fire.

As they go deeper into the passage, the surrounding light becomes dimmer and the entrance of the passage has become a small bright block the size of a palm. Fortunately, the air is still fresh and there is no sense of pollution.

Les directly conjured up several balls of flames to serve as a lighting tool. Under the illumination of the flames, the scenes on both sides of the passage were also revealed. There were a bunch of reliefs on the stone walls. Daphne and Astoria couldn't see what they were, but they thought the scenes above were quite lively.

Following Les' instructions, after observing for a while with the flow of magic, Astoria found that the stone carvings on both sides of the passage were ordinary stones and there were no mechanisms.

After walking a few dozen steps forward, she finally found something strange.

"Les--"

"There should be a dark room or a hidden passage, and the mechanism on it has been cracked." Les said without looking back.

There will be no good things left behind the cracked mechanism, not to mention that Les knew the purpose of his trip very well.

Les led the two people to quickly go deep into the ruins, and occasionally stopped to explain to them the characteristics and cracking methods of these defensive mechanisms-Les had cracked some of these ancient Egyptian ruins in the past, so he had accumulated a lot of experience.

Soon, they entered the depths of the palace. Judging from the location, this part of the ruins is already under the yellow sand.

"Stop." Les stopped and motioned Daphne and the others to look forward.

A few dozen meters away, there stood two stone statues of dog-headed men with a height of nearly ten meters. Behind the stone statues were two closed doors.

"This is a trigger-type defensive magic. When we get close to them, if they are detected to have no authorized items such as 'access control', they will come alive and attack us." Les introduced very experiencedly.

"Then what should we do? Destroy the two statues first?" Daphne asked.

"Yes, but this is risky - what if the first round of attack fails to destroy them? There is a smarter way - we can just destroy their sensing devices directly."

For Les, there is no difference between the two cracking methods, but for the little wizard whose attack power is not enough, the difference is still very big.

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Ah, it's a little late... I'll write the next update as soon as possible.