Chapter 1123 - Underground Coffins (2/2)

Simbady felt his chest constrict. Next to him was a beautiful little flower with pastel purple petals and fragile, delicate leaves. “This is… the Flower of Providence…”

“Is it very rare?”

“No… they used to be everywhere,” Simbady said in a low tone. “I never saw it before, but I’ve heard about the legend of Three Gods Emissary. It’s rumored that this kind of flower is coastal. Like a splendid purple ribbon, they used to be the most beautiful flower in the Southernmost Region.”

“There were flowers… in the desert?” Rex asked in astonishment.

“It wasn’t a desert here in the past. This land used to be covered with trees, meadows and rivers,” Simbady explained while shaking his head. “However, after the departure of Three Gods Emissary, this place gradually turned into a desert. That’s not my point. My point is, there’s a detailed description of the Flower of Providence in our documentation. Once these flowers settle at one area, they will never grow anywhere else. That’s why you don’t see them in the oasis. They should have been extinctive now…”

“I see,” Rex mumbled while clicking his tongue, “Perhaps the desertification didn’t spread to this underwater cave, so the Flower of Providence lives.”

“Is that really so?” Simbady wondered, getting even more confused. For some reason, he had a strong feeling that this cave used to be an oasis.

Meanwhile, the purple flowers around him became denser. Simbady did not think the presence of these flowers was a pure coincidence.

While Simbady was debating whether he should proceed with the exploration, he suddenly heard a gentle “crack” underneath.

Then a jet of flash erupted from the ground, creating a haze of light around him.

“What happened?” asked Rex in surprise.

“I… I think I stepped on something,” Simbady said, swallowing hard. “It seems to be a plank.”

“Is it a trap?” Rex said as he bent over and brushed away the grass and flowers around him. “Well, this is… haha… hahaha…”

The laugh reverberated across the cave, making all the hair on Simbady’s neck stand on end. “What are you laughing about? Oi, tell me what it is!”

“Haha, treasures! We’ve found treasures!” Rex said vehemently. “Look!”

To Simbady’s dismay, underneath the earth lay a densely-patterned stone tablet that emanated a soft glow. The light escaped from underneath his feet, making the entire tablet as transparent and luminous as a jade. The tablet was not as hard as it appeared. When Simbady stepped on it, much to his consternation, the surface of the tablet sank a few inches.

What was more incredible was that the dent magically disappeared on its own after Simbady removed his feet. Meanwhile, the light also faded away, as though everything he had just seen was an illusion.

“Is there any more amazing treasure than this?” Rex exclaimed in exhilaration while stomping on the “stone tablet”. “If I could send this tablet to the King of Graycastle, I’ll be the honorary explorer for sure!”

“But… it’s too big,” Simbady said apprehensively. Judging from the part above the ground, the “stone tablet” might be even larger than him and Rex put together. It was definitely not an easy task to transport it out of the cave.

“We’ll manage. I’m sure we can find a way to get this work. Perhaps we can look for some other exits? ” Rex suddenly broke off and then said, “Hey, looks like there’s another tablet here.”

Rex took a few steps in the directon Rex was pointing at and soon hit another similar “stone tablet”. In the soft light, more and more grayish white tablets floated out of the sea of flowers.

“There’s one here, and there as well…” The two men tried to count how many tablets there were as they marched forward but soon abandoned this idea.

It was not long before they noticed that the Flowers of Providence were gradually replaced with those jade-like stone tablets. Light erupted everywhere as they proceeded.

Then a giant wall blocked their way.

“Oh God…” Rex gasped.

Feeling a little cold, Simbady slowly raised his head and saw a stone wall loom over him in the soft light. Then they found out that it was not a “wall” but a pile of numerous stone tablets.

Some of them were broken and some slashed in half. However, most of the tablets were rectangular. The random way in which these tablets laid on top of each other gave Simbady an ominous feeling.

They resembled thousands of buried coffins.