jdhmnovel Chapter 231 Weathered Stone Slab
Chapter 231 Weathered Stone Slab
The items that fell out of the pottery jar were not the food seeds or gemstones that Shi Qian had anticipated.
It was a stone slab, and not a small one at that.
It fell directly to the ground; it didn't appear as a dropped object.
Shi Qian stepped forward and tried to lift the stone slab, only to find that he could actually touch it.
"Is it because it's still a cube...?"
After turning the stone slab over, Shi Qian saw intricate and complex... characters on it?
It wasn't the Chinese he was familiar with, nor was it the pixelated text that appeared when enchanting in Minecraft, which was converted from English.
He couldn't decipher the writing on the stone tablet, but since the tablet could be stored in the system inventory, it was clearly not an ordinary item.
【A weathered stone slab with unknown writing】
It looks like it's been in this ruin for a long time; I wonder what it's been through.
Moreover, there are incomplete parts on the stone slab, and there seems to be other incomplete information in the corners.
Is it something like it can be pieced together with other stone slabs?
After rounding the corner, Shi Qian saw the box in the ruins.
Everything inside the box was normal.
A few gray stones, some horned melon droppings, this time with a name [Horned Shell (qiao)], followed by an empty book, and several ghostly sense objects.
"It seems the ruins here aren't very important..."
After all, it's just one box, and the box itself is so poor.
It feels like a type of relic similar in scale to underwater ruins.
The only thing of value is probably the stone slab inside the pottery jar...
But it seems like we need to collect a bunch of stone slabs for a jigsaw puzzle later.
Ruins...
It seems that I've only encountered them in the horned melon colony so far, so it's a bit troublesome to keep searching blindly.
Why not just go back to the biome you first encountered? He still remembers the coordinates of the ruins.
Clearly, despite the varying degrees of damage, the internal structure of the ruins remained unchanged.
Shi Qian then saw a pottery jar at a corner behind a patch of thorny shells.
This time, however, the design is different. It's no longer in the shape of a candle, and its height has also changed from one and a half blocks to one block, making it shorter.
Instead, it resembles the large face of a steadfast guardian, with even ears on the side of the pottery jar.
This time, only one side has the pattern, which seems to be based on the Guardian, since there aren't two faces.
After being broken, a new stone slab appeared on the ground.
Shi Qian didn't rush to put the stone slabs back into his backpack. Instead, he took out the stone slabs he had taken out earlier and tried to put the two pieces together.
Unfortunately, although the text above is the same, even the format is almost identical.
The missing characters are different; no matter how they are arranged, the two pieces cannot be put together.
However, this did not completely disappoint Shi Qian.
The fact that both stone slabs have the same missing corner inscriptions undoubtedly proves that they must be pieced together to understand their meaning.
and...
The final jigsaw puzzle will certainly be quite large.
These two horned melon groups are quite far apart, and the stone slabs they produce cannot be pieced together.
This at least proves that the total area of the pieced-together stone slab is not a small 3x3.
Otherwise, these two stone slabs could most likely have been joined together...
Although he only explored two ruins, the conclusions he drew still provided him with some information.
After turning the corner, the contents of the box were just as meager, but this time there was an additional plant species that could not be heard.
【Fluorescent Mushrooms】
He seemed to have seen this name in other games before he time-traveled.
Shi Qian scratched his head and closed the box.
While pondering how to quickly find new ruins, I noticed something.
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coordinate.
He is currently at a height of Y=78.
Whether it's the Overworld or the Nether, generally speaking, there might be another layer below this level.
He is currently in a horned melon grove, and the ground is deep slate.
Underground, the basic blocks should be the same.
Then let's just start drilling, since we can't find anything at the height of the portal anyway.
It would take quite a while to search through all the scattered ruins.
In addition, the language barrier makes the information really difficult to understand.
I don't know why the main world's negative layer is directly at level 78 here, the difference is... quite big.
There really aren't any other portals that are that much stronger.
Given that there's a mountain above the portal in the main world, this dimension might have three layers, one above the other.
There might be other creatures in other places, and if we can find out something else, then the trip will have been worthwhile.
When it came to drilling, Shi Qian immediately plunged down.
After all, even if you want to go to the top of the building, you still have to build blocks, so it's better to go underground and take a look first.
If there are underground ruins, their coordinates should be similar to those of ruins on the surface.
As it turned out, Shi Qian's guess was correct.
There are ruins underground.
Even the same style, the same location.
However, once you go deeper underground, the ruins here are noticeably more intact.
It wasn't even open to the elements, meaning that even the roof was intact and undamaged.
A building of this caliber shouldn't even be called a relic.
But why does Shi Qian still consider it a relic?
The reason is still that there's no one inside.
And the area surrounding this ruin is full of houses like these.
The buildings share the same architectural style, similar appearance, and are in roughly the same state of disrepair.
But there's no life...
Shi Qian felt this as he fell from the sky and floated slowly in mid-air.
The dungeons in the main world should not be called "ancient cities" at all.
Compared to the scale before us, that thing in the main world is at most a palace.
Only here can it truly be called a "city".
Because of the building's structure, it stretches as far as the eye can see.
The streets here are intricate and complex, unlike those in Westmoon City, the Crystal Empire, or even the cities within the Frozen Dimension for eleven years, where the ground streets and flowerbeds are orderly.
Although somewhat messy, underground, this environment actually possesses a genuine and grand beauty.
It's as if you can see through these houses how people built the city bit by bit in the past.
There was no direct planning; instead, it was expanded outwards little by little based on the increase in population.
Shi Qian turned around and went into the house where he had landed.
It's in the same position as the jars on the layer above.
But the stone slab...
Shi Qian put the three stone slabs together.
There are still no overlapping or connectable pieces.
He originally thought that if this house was the same as the one above, the stone slabs would also be the same.
But now it seems things aren't so simple.
What if every house here had a stone slab with a different inscription?