Facing an Ancient God for a Year

Chapter 1830: Chapter 1805: Ancient Sanctuary

The feeling of autumn has arrived, but it seems like the crops were harvested a bit late.

This surprised Su Gao, who is a top hunter, for a reason.

A massive space that almost exceeded the material’s capacity, with an excessively uniform arrangement pattern. Apart from the narrow walkway in the middle, the entire ship’s belly was almost completely filled with that peculiar structure.

The lower end was rough ropes, and further up were human bodies wrapped in a layer of transparent gel, resembling amber.

And it was dried amber.

From this angle, these uniformly sized fruit-like parts were already as withered as desiccated mummies.

The bodies curled inside had almost no flesh and blood, the uniformly light-colored robes clung to them tightly, and outside, the golden transparent gel seemed to isolate them from everything.

The structure of ropes and humans alone numbered in the hundreds, and coupled with the color issue, it indeed somewhat resembled an autumn wheat field.

In addition, there were quite a few empty ropes.

The end of the ropes only had bits of broken amber left, with no human limbs in sight.

The uniform formation was disrupted in not just one place by such scenes, as if the people inside had long broken free and escaped.

And this wasn’t the most peculiar part. All these unfruitful ropes were also uniformly not maintaining that upright state, instead lying chaotically on the ground.

At a glance, the visual was truly odd.

After all, those fallen on the ground proved the ropes were soft, yet at the same time, others were supporting the human amber upright.

This completely contradictory scene suggested a plausible explanation that the amber was being lifted by water, and the ropes were merely pulling them.

Surprisingly, it maintained consistency with the earlier visual, except without the water, it closely resembled a sunken ship.

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”Did the attackers just now come from inside here?”

As Fu Qian silently observed, Su Gao had already taken a few more steps forward, scrutinizing the scene while seeking his opinion.

”Should be, but this way it feels even colder.”

Nodding in agreement with Su Gao’s idea, Fu Qian gestured to his back.

From the scene before them, this sunken ship seemed to have a special treatment in individual compartments, and they both had chosen a good landing point.

The two attackers earlier, suspected to be humans turned into aliens, could easily be linked to escaping from the amber.

However, at the same time, if each fallen rope meant one escaped person, theoretically, this place should be much livelier than it is now.

Yet, after dealing with those two, so far, there’s been no new incident, nor has any new opportunity arisen.

”It’s quite strange, maybe there are special gatherings elsewhere?”

Clearly never relaxing his vigilance, but gazing at the fog around, Su Gao couldn’t spot anything more.

”Shall we continue downwards?”

The next moment, she glanced up and softly consulted Fu Qian’s opinion.

”It does seem like the uppermost level.”

Tapping his shoe lightly on the ground, Fu Qian assessed the structure within his view.

Rationally speaking, this should be the topmost layer, but theoretically, traces of a meteor’s fall should be searched for upwards to align with common sense.

But let’s not forget this place already defies common sense in many ways, and more importantly, he’d already seen a path leading downwards.

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”Mr. Fu, what do you think this place is?”

Having gained acknowledgement, Su Gao unhesitatingly continued to take the lead.

And while threading through the ”field”, she made sure to try and comprehend everything before her.

”Although the entrance was opened earlier, I couldn’t attain a very clear understanding until the end. The only certainty is that the load of that strike was quite substantial.”

”You also did quite well.”

Even unclear about what exactly was being cut, being able to maintain that level of control, Su Gao’s echo power was truly formidable.

”Regarding the load issue, I tend to believe it’s due to the high power level maintaining this place, making it hard to destroy.”

Not stingy with praise, Fu Qian didn’t forget Su Gao’s initial reminder.

Quite high?

Though echoing her own point of view, coming from Professor Fu’s mouth, Su Gao regarded this as a double affirmation, worthy of deeper exploration.

”Ancient deities? Are these people their followers?”

Quietly examining the surrounding scene, she suddenly proposed a shocking idea at one moment.

”This would explain why the attire is so uniform, and why they appear mummified, as this place might have existed for thousands of years.”

Although just speculation, the sudden contact with possible ancient secrets, and the two targets she had just dispatched, who might have been ancient remnants from millennia ago, clearly left a special impression on Su Gao.

Though this wouldn’t affect her actions or thinking.

As they spoke, the two had reached the passage down, with no disturbances encountered in between.

”That night?”

And as she took the step downwards, Su Gao seemed to finally remember something, lightly inhaling, her gaze landing on Fu Qian’s face.

”Were they being protected by Him, enduring that Long Night?”

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”This possibility can’t be excluded.”

Fu Qian didn’t blindly affirm.

It was evident Su Gao still loved to learn, never forgetting to recharge while completing her duties, with a high historical sensitivity.

And the question she raised was exactly what he had been contemplating since entering.

Realizing that this place was actually a ship, and discovering these densely packed special passengers, a word surfaced in Fu Qian’s mind—ark.

Although so far, no similar mythological stories have been found in this world.

And the Long Night wasn’t a flood, seemingly incompatible with a huge wooden ship.

But one shouldn’t just look at the surface; at least the core of both was to hide, wasn’t it?

Moreover, in this world, powers surpassing common sense truly exist.

But such a hypothesis might suggest one thing, not all deities abandoned their followers during the Long Night.

Additionally, there are many more anomalies about this location.

”But apart from the uniform attire, I didn’t find any elements related to faith here, such as emblems, and having such a location appear so precisely within the Academy, isn’t it a bit too much of a coincidence?”

Upon receiving affirmations, Su Gao indeed lightly raised the question again.

”Good question. Speaking of which, in the upper echelons of the Night Watchman, is there anyone proficient in the type of miracle powers of the Benevolence Institute?”

However, Fu Qian did not rush to draw conclusions about her query but suddenly shifted the topic.