A carefree soldier king in the city

Chapter 274 Ancient Runes

He could have reached the summit in one go, but he didn't. He felt something was wrong, but he couldn't pinpoint what it was, so he proceeded cautiously.

Unlike grasslands, the dense forest is sheltered by branches and leaves, so not much wind blows into the forest. However, the mountain wind still blows the tree crowns and branches. It may not be visible from the ground, but from a high place, you can see that the lush and green tree crowns are almost swaying incessantly. It is difficult for an ordinary person to even stand steadily in such conditions, let alone leap and move forward in the forest like a monkey.

Seeing that he had easily leaped over the mountainside and gotten a few more centimeters closer to the halfway point, Su Haijun suddenly heard another muffled sound ahead, exactly the same as the one he had heard before.

Su Haijun's heart skipped a beat. He floated forward, grabbed a thick branch, and silently spun around, sticking to the trunk of the big tree in front of him. Then he slowly poked his head out and looked down at the ground below.

However, as far as the eye could see, there was still nothing but grass and trees. The dull sound rang out only once, and the forest returned to silence, as if nothing had happened. But it was precisely this silence that made him feel increasingly uneasy.

He frowned and pondered for a moment, then slid down the tree trunk back to the ground. He bent down again, pressed one ear close to the ground, and listened, but he still couldn't hear anything. It was quiet everywhere except for the sound of his own rapid heartbeat, like a thunderous war drum, ringing out one after another in this ancient forest.

After listening for a while, I still found nothing. It was eerily quiet, so quiet it was chilling.

Imagine a person suddenly finding themselves in a strange and deathly silent world. You can't predict what will happen next, just like suddenly falling into an endless abyss of darkness, being pulled down by the abyss endlessly. What would that feel like? Fortunately, he was skilled and daring, and had no fear.

But this place... is too eerie.

Su Haijun frowned deeply, his expression serious and alert, his divine sense extending as far as possible to perceive any potential danger in his surroundings. He found nothing, but his heart pounded wildly, unable to calm down for a moment.

After a moment, he gritted his teeth and continued walking. He proceeded cautiously, finally managing to bypass a dense thicket of jungle, when a flat area several hundred meters in diameter appeared ahead. In the center of the flat area seemed to be the ruins of a circular but extremely dilapidated altar-like structure. In the middle of this relatively flat mountain range, this flat area looked very abrupt.

After a slight surprise, Su Haijun gritted his teeth and walked towards the altar. As he got closer, he discovered that the altar was actually built with a unique type of white jade. Although it looked dilapidated at the moment, it still formed a sharp contrast with the surrounding scenery.

The broken altar was reduced to ruins, with nothing even remotely intact. The only relatively intact piece was a large jade platform in the center of the white jade altar, though it was missing two corners and its surface was pitted and uneven. It seemed as if something was placed on it.

Su Haijun frowned and slowly walked over, standing beside the jade platform. He could see clearly that the object on the broken jade platform was a fist-sized, transparent golden bead. It was unclear how many years had passed since then, but the golden bead had clearly lost its former color and was now emitting a rather pale golden light.

The bead had a rather peculiar shape, resembling a... egg, and a golden egg at that. Upon closer inspection, a thin, free-floating white line could be seen inside the golden egg, moving about as if it were alive.

"What is this? A dinosaur egg?"

He asked himself this question, but the golden egg didn't feel like an egg to him, and he couldn't figure out what it was.

"Senior, what is this thing?" he asked the evil one.

The evil one said, "I can't tell what it is. I've never seen this thing before. But what I can be sure of is that it contains a powerful energy."

He asked, "How powerful?"

"Enough to destroy the heavens and the earth."

"hiss!"

He gasped, "Really? I didn't feel anything at all?"

"Kid, don't you find it strange that there's an altar like this in this desolate wilderness, and that there's this thing on the altar?"

"It's quite strange."

"That's it. Judging from the appearance of this altar, it must be a very ancient altar, like one used to summon some powerful being."

"Hmm, that's possible. Senior, what do you think this altar is used to summon?"

"I really don't know this. I've never seen an altar like this before."

"Huh? There are words on this jade platform! Senior, do you recognize them?"

There were some strange characters engraved around the jade platform. Su Haijun looked at them carefully, but he couldn't recognize a single one.

"These aren't just words; they're clearly an ancient rune."

"Ancient runes? What runes?"

"do not know."

Su Haijun frowned slightly, thinking: If even the senior doesn't recognize the ancient runes, then where exactly is this place?

After a moment, he carefully and slowly reached out and grasped the golden bead. He felt a slightly cool sensation when he touched it, but there was nothing unusual about it.

He tried a few times to make sure there was nothing wrong, then he felt relieved. He then grabbed the golden egg and tried to lift it up with some force. He thought the golden egg would be very heavy, but to his surprise, in the blink of an eye, he heard a low thud, and the bead was lifted up by him with ease without any warning.

This startled Su Haijun. He instinctively grabbed the golden egg and jumped back a step. He wasn't startled by the ease with which he picked up the egg, but by the deep, muffled sound he had just heard, which was exactly the same as the sound he had heard the previous two times.

However, nothing happened afterward, nothing unusual occurred, and he breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the golden egg in his hand. He saw that the golden egg wasn't actually made of gold; it resembled the egg of some kind of animal. However, to his surprise, he felt something moving inside the golden egg. Upon closer inspection, he was immediately alarmed; there was a thin white line moving inside the golden egg, but he didn't know what this line was.