Chapter 3650 The Culprit

There was still a faint rotten smell floating in the tomb passage.

The walls on both sides are carved with exquisite reliefs and painted with bright colors.

The human adventurer leader told me in a low voice that the color of the relief on the wall was much darker than before.

In other words, the reliefs and exquisite murals on both sides are oxidizing at a very fast rate, and it is likely that they will be weathered, damaged, or even disappear soon.

"Take your people to research first," I told Hathaway.

Hathaway had wanted to do this for a long time, but now that I had agreed, she hesitated. She immediately gathered people and started studying the relief murals on both sides of the tomb passage.

I followed a group of adventurers and headed deeper into the tomb passage.

At the end of the tomb passage is a spacious hall. There are many shelves displayed in the hall. Some shelves are filled with gold works of art, and some shelves are filled with dense rows of jade works of art inlaid with precious stones. Some shelves have neat rows of skulls, and each skull is inlaid with a dazzling gem.

After walking back and forth a few times, I pointed to the shelf filled with skulls and asked, "Does this have any meaning?"

"Sir, there is no explanation for the gem-encrusted skull in the historical documents."

The expert accompanying the team said.

"In your opinion, what do these skulls mean?"

Seeing the expert's expression of embarrassment, I smiled and waved my hand and said, "You don't have to feel any psychological burden. I'm just asking casually. You just need to answer casually. If you have any ideas, just say what you think. Don't worry, I There will be no punishment for words.”

Listen to what I said, and then think back to how I treated the old expert who talked back to me before. The expert who accompanied the team pondered for a moment and said: "I think so. The Peruvian Empire is a country that believes in the theory of destiny. According to the environmental analysis of this mausoleum, the Peruvian Empire during this monarch's time was already in decline. Perhaps their monarch believed that as long as they used sacrifices, the Peruvian Empire could regain its glory, so these The skull inlaid with gems is probably an item needed for sacrifice.”

"A sacrificial object?" I murmured, then picked up a skull and studied it.

Rather than me doing the research, I actually asked Odachi to help me with the research.

After some detection with the Odachi, it was determined that there was no soul fluctuation in the skull, but there were some magic fluctuations, probably related to the gems on the skull.

Based on Odachi's investigation, the conjecture of the experts accompanying the team was probably confirmed.

However, this does not necessarily mean that the guesses of the experts accompanying the team are correct.

What if the monarch had a penchant for collecting gem-encrusted skulls?

Although in comparison, the experts' conjectures are more appropriate and more consistent with the macro situation, my conjecture may not be impossible to be true. Don't forget, there is no shortage of guys with quirks in this world.

Putting the skull back far away, I ordered the adventurers to pack these things away. Then I walked around the hall a few times and stepped on every floor tile. Well, every tile was very solid and I couldn't tell what was underneath. Is there a secret room hidden?

But this also does not prove that there must be no secret space underground in the mausoleum. After all, the people who built the mausoleum are all skilled craftsmen. Maybe there is no way to prevent the tomb from being robbed forever, but it can be done so that the tomb robbers cannot detect whether there is something underneath the mausoleum. There are hidden secret rooms.

With the idea that no one should be missed, I asked the experts on the team to take out the detection equipment and start to detect whether there was a secret room underground.

Facts have proved that there is no secret room under the tomb.

"A little disappointed," I said lightly, leaning against the wall, "I thought there would be a hidden secret room like the previous mausoleum."

"Sir," the expert accompanying the team explained: "Most mausoleums may have two underground floors, three underground floors, or even more, but they will not specially prepare a secret room, mainly because the specifications do not meet the requirements."

"There are specifications for mausoleums?" I asked puzzledly, "Can't they be made in the style you like?"

The expert was a little speechless and pondered for a moment, then said: "You don't know, mausoleums all have specifications. A monarch's tomb must highlight his glorious life, and also provide shade for future generations and stabilize the king's aura, so the specifications of the mausoleum are from It has been determined from the beginning, and without special circumstances, it is not allowed to destroy the overall specifications.”

"If that's the case, why were the specifications of the previous mausoleum so weird?" I asked, puzzled.

"Have you forgotten? The previous owner of the tomb was the first monarch of the Peruvian Empire."

Don't mention it. If the experts didn't remind me, I would have forgotten about it.

Yes, since he is the first generation of monarchs, he must have many privileges that others do not have. For example, he can build mausoleums according to his own preferences, and he can force his subordinates to kill innocent people and use their bones to activate the altar. The body of the first-generation monarch was transformed into the body of a forest fairy.

Fortunately, the Massimoge family was cautious and did not completely complete the altar. This made the dream of immortality of the first monarch of the Peruvian Empire come to an end.

"Since there is no underground chamber in this mausoleum, let's search from room to room and move away all the valuable things that can be moved away. By the way, when moving away, remember to divide the types into categories. There are a bunch of magic equipment and enchanted equipment. It’s a pile, there’s a pile of valuable materials, there’s a pile of common valuables.”

The adventurers who obeyed the instructions honestly moved their things.

I did not send dwarf adventurers to monitor them. There is really no need. If they really want to steal some valuables privately, they will do so even if I send people to monitor them again. And even if they are exposed and caught, they will have an excuse. Excuse yourself, for example, saying I don’t trust them or something like that.

But if I don't set up surveillance and let them supervise themselves, there will be a lot of room for flexibility.

If they are greedy for things, then let them be greedy. Firstly, they will not be greedy for many things, and secondly, after they become greedy for things, their situation will be very bad.

If the valuables are with me, due to their status and strength, they can only remain silent and pretend that nothing happened.

But once the things are in the hands of this group of adventurers, people with evil intentions will have room to play freely.

Even though this group of adventurers is a relatively powerful group among human beings, there are many adventurers in Zephyr Continent who are equal to or stronger than them.

Once these people become interested in them, frame-ups, assassinations, and other dark methods will surely emerge in endlessly.

By then, these things that are insignificant to me will become the main culprits that lead them to death.