Yarra's Adventure Notes-Chapter 110 - 32 The Cat Killed by Curiosity_1

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Unlike Lina, who was leisurely taking in her surroundings, Pannis was standing in front of the door deep in concentration, searching the walls beyond the already opened double doors.

"What are you doing?" Lina asked Pannis curiously, "What are you looking for?"

"I’m looking for a button." Pannis pointed to the door they had come through. "Like the manual lock on that door, there should be one here too, but I can’t find it. It seems there isn’t one."

"Could the door be locked via another method?" Lina asked.

"Maybe, but it doesn’t matter now," Pannis replied.

"Let’s quickly search inside. If we don’t find anything, we should leave as soon as possible," Lina suggested, frowning. "Once we’re out, we should notify the Guild to deal with these dangerous magical beasts. If they’re all as powerful as that last Earth Walker, we can’t handle them."

"Why the sudden hurry?" Pannis questioned.

"I just realized it’s already midnight," Lina said gloomily. "Even if we head back now, dawn will be breaking by the time we get out. I have to officiate the closing ceremony of the festival tomorrow evening, so I need to get some sleep beforehand. We’re running out of time."

"Let’s quickly search then, hmmm, it seems this is a control room," Pannis said as he surveyed the new room. The room was quite small, only about twenty square meters. On one side of the room, there used to be a long table with several chairs. Now, there was only a pile of black powder, probably the remnants of wood that had rotted away over time. On the other side of the room, there was a metallic platform which connected to the wall. On its other end, it formed a half-hexagon shape with three equal sides facing different directions, each with a pile of black powder, likely where chairs had been placed.

The metal platform was not pure flat; it was a tilted surface that sloped at a twenty-degree angle. Each edge of the platform had a large square crystal embedded in the middle. As they gently touched the crystal, it suddenly lit up and numerous ancient goblin scripts appeared on its surface.

"What’s this?" Lina played around with the crystal out of curiosity. Each time she touched it, the ancient goblin script on the crystal surface would change rapidly. "This is pretty fun, it keeps changing."

"I suggest you don’t play with it," Pannis said, looking at Lina as if he was impressed by her courage. "A long time ago, I was part of an exploration of a goblin tech ruin. We encountered similar crystals there. All the devices in their ruins were controlled by these crystals. Be careful not to accidentally trigger a self-destruct mechanism or inadvertently release the creatures outside. If you do, even crying won’t help."

With a ghost-like face, Lina jumped away from the platform and glared at Pannis. "This is dangerous! Why didn’t you tell me earlier?"

Pannis’s mouth twitched. "How could I know your curiosity was so strong? You were treating it like a toy. I only glanced away for a moment..."

"Okay, I apologize," Lina raised her hands in surrender. "But if no one can decipher the script, how did you handle this during past explorations?"

"I’ve told you before," Pannis replied. "I am acquainted with one of the less than four people in the world that can decipher ancient goblin script. He was also part of that exploration."

"Four?" Lina wondered, "Didn’t you say it was less than three last time?"

"Did I?" Pannis blinked, unapologetically replying, "Well, I admit, I just made up a number."

Lina nodded and lifted her foot, "I could give you a ’made-up’ kick."

"Haha, I admit my mistake," Pannis surrendered with a laugh. "Stop fooling around, we need to keep going."

"Hey, clarify who is messing around here," Lina bickered with Pannis as they ventured further into the ruins.

They moved through the twenty-square-meter control room and reached another set of automatic double doors. Interestingly, Pannis finally found the manual control lock for the automatic doors. After crossing the automatic door and walking a few hundred meters, they turned a corner and found themselves at a dead end. Instead of a door or a wall, a massive rock replaced the original location of the corridor.

"What’s happening?" Lina looked at the rocks in confusion. "Could an earthquake have caused a collapse here?"

"Unlikely, it doesn’t look like a result of an earthquake," Pannis shook his head. He approached the rock, examined the boundary between the rock and the metal wall, then drew his sword and began stabbing the junction aggressively. After a few moments, he gestured to Lina. "Take a look at this seam."

Lina frowned after examining it, "It’s weird. On one side, it’s metal, and on the other, it’s rock. They’re clearly separated. It doesn’t look like an earthquake caused this. Instead, it’s as if... it’s as if someone ripped this part of the building and placed it here."

"Exactly what I was thinking," Pannis clapped his hands. "That was my suspicion too."

"But it’s impossible," Lina shook her head in disbelief. "Who could have the strength to rip such a huge structure and place it here?"

"There is one person who possibly could," Pannis held up a finger. "He could definitely do it."

"Who?" Lina asked incredulously.

"Yarra."

"What?" Lina stared blankly at Pannis, as if looking at a monster. "Say that again, I didn’t hear clearly."

"The Creator God, Yarra." Pannis repeated without a doubt.

"Don’t make jokes now." Lina couldn’t help but laugh, "Lord Yarra is not like us, idling away every day. He has already left this world to create another universe. How could he possibly come here to move a building?"

"I am not joking." Pannis said seriously, clearly not in the mood for jokes: "I genuinely think so."

Lina gradually stopped laughing and looked uncertainly at Pannis: "Are you serious? Why?"

"Think about it carefully, the Genesis Epic ’Song of Yarra’ actually mentions something about it." Pannis said.

Lina turned thoughtful, pondering the revelation. After all, in the Yarran World, the name of the creator god, Yarra, is supreme and not a good choice for making jokes. After some thought, Lina looked up: "Do you mean, after the end of the Third Epoch?"

"Exactly." Pannis nodded: "The end of the Third Epoch was due to the War of Gods. The world was shattered, the Yarran Continent was completely destroyed and exploded into fragments."

"Then, Lord Yarra, guided by the sacrifice of the Guardians, used the power of creation to restore the fragments of the continent." Lina continued.

"Wrong, not restoring." Pannis said firmly: "Simply using the fragments to reconstruct the continent, but there’s no guarantee that every fragment is in its original place."

"So, are you suggesting they could have been pieced together incorrectly?" Lina asked tentatively.

"It’s not wrong per se." Pannis countered: "There’s no need to ensure each piece is in its original place. It’s meaningless as long as it is ultimately restored to its original shape. In the Sighing Desert, a whole fragment was missing. What about the structures that were rebuilt there?"

"Wait a minute." Lina’s mood swung a huge arc in a few minutes: "What happened to the Sighing Desert? A piece was missing? It was reconstructed? It always felt a bit uncomfortable there with Goddess’s territory, now it makes sense, huh, how do you know this?"

"I also heard it as a rumor in a pub." Pannis laughed a few times under Lina’s skeptical gaze, and finally admitted, "OK, it wasn’t a pub rumor. I can’t relay the source, but I can vouch for its authenticity."

Lina nodded: "But what effect does this have on us right now?"

"It has no effect at all, only clarifying a mystery." Pannis shook his head: "The only gain is knowing that this is part of a building. As for where the remaining part is, no one knows."

Lina rolled her eyes and turned to walk back, still complaining, "Then let’s get moving. Don’t waste time. I want to go back to take a hot shower, then have a good sleep, and be refreshed to preside over the ceremony tonight."

Pannis followed Lina’s steps, "Hmm, you go back and sleep then, I need to leave for a few hours."

"Something happened? Need help?" Lina asked startled, while walking: "Why suddenly need to leave for a few hours?"

"You don’t need to, just dealing with some personal stuff, I will be back soon." Pannis said: "I estimate, I would be back just before or after your ceremony."

"Alright, you’d better hurry back." Lina nodded, agreeing to Pannis’s request. "I plan to leave for the Holy City immediately after the ceremony, not bother about their final celebration in the evening."

"Not attending the bonfire party anymore?" Pannis thought for a while, and then suddenly understood, "Oh, I see, it’s because of Vivian, right?"

"Yeah." Lina said with a smile, "That girl has been gloomy these past few days. If I don’t attend the party and rush back to accompany her, she should feel a bit happier."

"So why is she unhappy, can’t she wait until next year?" Pannis asked with confusion. freeweɓnovel.cøm

"I can’t tell you the specifics. Like me, if she tells you, that means she truly values you as one of her own." Lina smiled mysteriously.

"Actually, I can guess." Pannis sighed: "She probably doesn’t have a next year, right?"

"You wait for her to tell you." Lina refused to comment and changed the subject: "Look, we’re back in the control room. I really don’t want to pass those magical beasts again."

"Then you can stay in this half, then you won’t have to pass them again." Pannis was also lightening the mood, jesting.

"Be serious, would you?" Just as Lina was about to retort, Pannis suddenly covered her mouth.

"Shh, do you hear something?" Pannis loosened his grip on Lina’s mouth and whispered in a low voice.

Lina blinked, listened carefully for a moment, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. In a trembling voice, she whispered, "I heard it... Could it be, does curiosity really kill the cat?"

The sounds that emanated faintly were that of crystal shattering.