Chapter 1406 - The Grand Temple (2/2)

Lily, “…”

“Anyway, it’s better not to see the stone guards than to be chased and beaten by them,” Lorrisa interrupted, watching Lily and Vivian drifted away from the focus. “There seems to be some sort of magical reinforcement to this door. Maybe I can try to crack it…”

Before Lorrisa could finish speaking, she heard a loud bang coming from the side, and then the enchanted, impenetrable bronze gate fell apart. Amid the smoke, Hao Ren came out with two unfinished pieces of dynamite and asked, “What did you say?”

Lorrisa was at a lost for words.

“Ahem, you’ll get used to it. That’s how our landlord solved the problem,” Lily said, patting Lorrisa on the shoulder. “Blow it up and you’re good.”

Lorrisa was speechless.

The gate has been perfectly cracked by Hao Ren through technical means. Everyone was vigilant to follow Hao Ren into this ancient temple which had been sealed for thousands of years.

The flickering light of Flamejoy made the dark passage of the temple seem very gloomy, but other than this gloomy feeling, they did not see any enemy or anything that might turn into enemies.

The interior of the temple was grand and magnificent, but the furnishings were so simple beyond imagination.

It was the largest cluster of buildings in the city, supersized in form and scale from the outside, but lacking in decoration from the inside like a simple grotto. There were no exquisite stone statues, no sacrificial articles inlaid with precious stones and precious metals, and even the most common daily utensils were rarely seen. There were only dusty stone tables and stools and decaying wooden lamps in the room. Other than these ‘furniture’, there was not even a metal object found in the temple.

The monks who lived here might not even be able to survive, let alone worship the gods.

But it was certainly not like this at first as many of the rooms in the temple were apparently once used by monks, and Hao Ren soon found several ‘treasure vaults’ that had been emptied.

He was able to identify them as treasure vaults because the MDT found dust of precious metals and a few missing gems on the floors and walls of the rooms.

The central temple was not so simple and crude from the beginning. It was emptied.

But who did it?

“The city was destroyed by the crimson moon, and the moonlight has not dissipated to this day, so it’s unlikely that there were any future grave robbers,” said Y’zaks. “There are a lot of rooms in the temple, and the structure is very complicated. From the parts we have searched so far, we can confirm that it was completely emptied, so it should have been emptied by people who are quite familiar with the place, and it was organized and planned. I think it was the people of the city who did it.”

“A civilian mutiny?” Hessiana said and blinked. “The people at the bottom rebelled against the priests at the top and robbed the entire temple?”

“Not likely. If that happens, the damage to the temple will be much greater than what we see now.” Vivian shook her head. “And in the mythological age, it’s impossible for ‘mortals’ to rebel against the high priests. Even if the high priests were the servants of the old gods, their power would be too great for ordinary men to fight.”

“Then who ‘ransacked’ this temple?” Hao Ren frowned. “And only the grand temple was looted, while nothing’s lost in the smaller pyramids nearby.”

Vivian shrugged. “Who knows?”

As she finished, she seemed puzzled and looked at the end of the corridor.

“What’s wrong?” Hao Ren asked curiously.

Vivian blinked and said, “I thought I heard someone call me again…”