A moment later, Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao were led to the building Xiao Xiao had mentioned.
From a distance, it had looked like a box, but up close, it had many inset structures, resembling building blocks, and appeared to be part of a larger structure. It was difficult to discern its true nature without a closer inspection.
Ye Feng tentatively tapped it a few times. There was no echo, and it seemed solid. Nevertheless, he cleared away some of the surrounding rubble and took out his Tang saber, beginning to cut into it.
"Clang~ Keng!"
"Crash~ Clang!"
After a rapid series of sounds, a large corner was sliced off the block-like structure by Ye Feng.
"Keng~ Pfft!!"
Another sound followed, a cutting noise accompanied by the echo of an empty cavity.
"Huh~ This looks promising!"
Ye Feng was delighted, and the Tang saber in his hand moved even faster.
"Big brother, there's a square thing inside. It looks like... the altar we saw in the Goblin Kingdom!"
As Ye Feng cut away a significant portion of the block-like structure, Xiao Xiao exclaimed in surprise.
"Mmm!"
Ye Feng nodded, widened the cut slightly, and discovered it was indeed a chamber-like space, quite large within.
In a corner of the space was a square altar with four black ram heads at its corners.
This altar was identical to the one Ye Feng had seen in the Goblin Kingdom. However, the eyes of the four ram heads were hollow, not emitting the eerie red glow!
"This chamber was originally underground, but for some reason, it flew up from beneath the ground and landed in these ruins..."
"Due to the sudden, large cavity in the ground over there, coupled with the interference of this pile of rubble... no one noticed it... they were just constantly exploring near that cavity..."
Looking at the messy contents inside the chamber, and the altar that had slid into a corner due to the tilt, Ye Feng put two and two together and immediately understood.
If Xiao Xiao hadn't discovered this, he would likely have continued searching near that cavity or assumed the treasure had already been taken, as something was clearly missing from that spot.
"It's quite dark in here!"
"Xiao Xiao, come on, let's go in and take a look!"
Ye Feng widened the opening enough for them to pass through, then took out his flashlight and walked straight in.
...
"Big brother, there's so little stuff in here. Besides that strange altar, there are only some scattered papers."
Xiao Xiao said as she handed the collected papers to Ye Feng, who had been studying them for a while.
"This..."
After Ye Feng's examination, he was greatly shocked.
According to the records, this was a research facility of the Brad base, and its research subject was the altar beside him.
"Starship... Super civilization... Stone of Hope from the City of Angels... Angelic Power... The last hope of the angelic civilization..."
"What is all this?"
Ye Feng flipped through an old, yellowed, handwritten piece of paper, looking rather dejected.
This paper was different from the others. It was handwritten in a hasty, almost illegible script, as if written in a hurry, like shorthand that only the writer could understand.
"Big brother, this altar is exactly the same as the one we saw in the Goblin Kingdom. The inscription on one side has been deliberately erased!"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao, holding the flashlight, spoke up.
"Indeed."
Ye Feng stepped forward and tried to cut it with his Tang saber, his expression one of surprise.
The Tang saber was repelled, unable to cut it!
"Clatter~!"
Suddenly, a sound of shattering glass rang out. Xiao Xiao had accidentally knocked over a small glass bottle in the dim light.
"Huh?"
Ye Feng, who had been on alert, frowned because nothing particularly dangerous seemed to have happened after the bottle broke.
"An empty bottle?"
Ye Feng squatted down and saw a zombie pattern on a shard of glass, a look of confusion on his face.
After all, all signs indicated that this chamber containing the altar was not simple, yet here was a seemingly useless empty bottle?
"Big brother, let's leave here?"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao spoke.
She looked at the broken glass bottle on the ground with a worried gaze. "Big brother, that bottle gives me a very uncomfortable feeling..."
"Mmm!"
Ye Feng nodded, trusting Xiao Xiao's intuition.
He then collected the documents and the altar into his spatial rift fragment and walked out with Xiao Xiao.
"Boom~ Bang!"
To be safe, Ye Feng directly blew up the chamber that housed the altar.
...
As dusk settled,
"Big brother, the zombies are acting strangely!"
"They're coming towards us from all directions, as if they know we're here!"
Xiao Xiao put away her binoculars and jumped down from the rooftop of a bungalow, speaking to Ye Feng.
"We made quite a bit of noise driving here, so it's normal for zombies to come this way."
Ye Feng's attention was not on this. He was intently examining a pure white, prismatic stone in his hand.
This prismatic stone was what remained after the altar in the Goblin Kingdom was destroyed by the Annihilation Formation.
"Altar... Starship... Super civilization... Stone of Hope from the City of Angels... Stone of Hope... Stone of Hope..."
Ye Feng's eyes lit up, and a bold idea formed in his mind. "Could it be... that this prismatic white stone is the Stone of Hope?"
"City of Angels... But even if this is the Stone of Hope, how can it be the last hope of the angelic civilization?"
Looking at the white prismatic stone in his hand, Ye Feng fell into thought.
...
For the next two days,
Ye Feng did not deliberately kill zombies. Instead, he and Xiao Xiao drove their off-road motorcycle directly towards the direction indicated by the treasure map.
It had to be said that Ye Feng's new method of "exercising" was extremely tiring, with constant soreness, numbness, and pain throughout his body, but his strength was improving rapidly, reaching Gold Rank Four.
...
On the third day,
Night was about to fall,
"Big brother, it's a full moon tonight!"
After dinner, Xiao Xiao looked up at the sky with excitement.
Although there were not many stars in the sky yet, she had already taken out her pen and paper, preparing to draw the last blurry part of the treasure map on this full moon night.
"Mmm!"
Ye Feng took out the treasure map, his expression equally expectant.
Soon, the sky turned completely dark.
Under the starlight, the three-dimensional treasure map reappeared. Just as Ye Feng had guessed, under the moonlight of the full moon, the previously blurry area at the destination of the treasure map finally became clear...
"Big... Big brother... Is that thing above the destination of this treasure map... the thunderstorm we saw before?"
Xiao Xiao looked at the flashing treasure map with great surprise.