The Eastern Continent Swordsman
CH. 35 – Light Behind Ancient Ruins

Zhou Fu opened his eyes slowly to peek at the contents of the golden pipe in his hand. Shen Shen saw Zhou Fu's two eyebrows fused instantly after the young man looked at the contents of the golden tube. Zhou Fu shook his head several times while showing the contents to Shen Shen.

K O S O N G ! ! !

That was a word that seemed to be called by Zhou Fu when he found the golden tube he was holding turned out to contain nothing. Shen Shen Shen's hand grabbed the object and peered repeatedly into it before he finally shook his head in disappointment.

As expected, there must have been someone else who had taken it. Such was the sentence Shen Shen expressed through body language to Zhou Fu. Shen Shen then pulled Zhou Fu's hand, inviting the young man to explore the expanse of ancient relics drowned by the Luzon sea.

The two of them began to leave the Lotus Flower Pavilion and comb through the ancient relics there. It's just that, unlike the Pavilion that they saw first, some other relics turned out to only be in the form of ruins. Some ruins can no longer even be recognized how the early form of the building.

What is clear, at that time the rest of the ruins they saw was nothing more than a habitat of sea fish that are good at camouflage. In fact, several times, Shen Shen was seen tiptoed and shocked when a figure that he thought was a rock turned out to have flippers and a jagged mouth. The fish, shrimp, and octopus types occasionally mill about and made Shen Shen slightly shudder in horror. How not, the marine animals that live in ancient ruins it actually has a shape and a creepy color.

Look that!!!

Zhou Fu pulled Shen Shen's shoulder and asked the girl to look at his index finger sticking out. Shen Shen followed the direction of Zhou Fu's index finger, and was shocked when he saw several tens of meters away from where they were, there was a taper roof that was similar to the roof of the Lotus Flower Pavilion that they had left behind a moment ago.

How many pavilions are there in this place? Shen Shen Shen muttered inwardly. Let's get over there! Invite Shen Shen with sign language which was later confirmed by Zhou Fu. The two of them were now swimming towards a building whose roof part was similar to the Lotus Flower Pavilion.

Is correct. The building was a pavilion that was almost exactly the same as the one they had left behind a moment ago. The first step they did was to check the serrated teeth of the lion head statue that was on the roof of the pavilion.

As they suspected again, the lion head statue also has one tooth that serves as an opening lever. Without waiting for long, Zhou Fu pulled the lever and waited for the mouth of the lion statue to gap wide.

Chelleeeeeeek!!!

Zhou Fu's hand extended to the inside of the lion's mouth to pick up the golden pipe inside. When his hand lifted the golden tube, Zhou Fu's lips flashed a small smile as he felt that the tube was heavier than the previous tube.

This one must have it! Inner Zhou Fu was excited then immediately opened the tube, and of course, discovered its contents. Zhou Fu's eyes twinkled as he pulled the scroll inside the tube but a moment after, Zhou Fu's head again shook in disappointment. He handed the scroll to Shen Shen.

Shen Shen Shen's forehead wrinkled as it received the scroll that Zhou Fu had extended to him. Shen Shen didn't think it was a scroll that looked like an important letter. The roll is made of dried cowhide, then like scraped with hot iron to form a writing.

Shen Shen permeated the verses for a short time, making Zhou Fu even more agitated because he did not understand the contents of the scratches in the scroll he had just found.

After some time permeating the contents of the temple that I read, in fact Shen Shen's face showed greater anxiety than Zhou Fu. Shen Shen Shen grinned his dizzy forehead, puzzled over how to read the contents of the scroll to the illiterate Zhou Fu.

As much as possible, Shen Shen divided the contents of the scroll with hand gestures at Zhou Fu. Unfortunately, Zhou Fu still failed to understand what Shen Shen said through body language. In the end Zhou Fu asked Shen Shen to take the scroll with them and continue on the journey of exploring the ancient ruins.

Zhou Fu and Shen Shen Shen's journey finally came to a halt when they were blocked by a staircase leading underground. There were two poles that fell almost across and made access to the underground staircase closed. For a while, Zhou Fu was seen rubbing the collapsed section of the pole.

Let's leave this place! Zhou Fu pulled Shen Shen's arm, and invited him to swim straight ahead. Again, their eyes both found a structure that resembled a Lotus Flower pavilion. Their visibility was limited, the pavilion was only visible on the side of the lion's head. They could not guess how far the pavilion was from the distance they stood.

Maybe there's another scroll that can give us a clue! Tukas Shen Shen in sign language. Of course he wasn't sure if Zhou Fu understood it or not, which Shen Shen explained was now what attracted Zhou Fu to take him to the third lotus flower pavilion building.

Before they arrived at the place they were heading to, right on the right side of the two of them, there is a fairly large ruins that indicate if the ruins are the remains of a larger building than the others.

However, it was not the great ruins that stopped Zhou Fu and Shen Shen, but rather a quite terrifying sight that was clearly visible from within the ruins. The sinister sight that bothered their minds were the bright lights that lit up from within the darkness.

The bright light was lined up in pairs, blazing very sharply amidst the darkness of the ruins of the building. If observed carefully, the paired lights are a pair of eyes that have a diameter of about fifteen centimeters.

Of course, if his eyes were that big, the creature must be quite big. First of all, Zhou Fu gestured for Shen Shen to hide behind his back while Zhou Fu was trying to calculate the number of the paired lights.

Tens, not hundreds! In pairs of eyes, sometimes appear twinkling because it is blinking. Despite the blinking, Zhou Fu and Shen Shen were convinced that the creatures were watching the two of them from behind the darkness of the ruins.

Shen Shen seemed to be tugging at Zhou Fu's shoulders in fear and as if asking for Zhou Fu to do something immediately.