As Blaine penetrated the thick layer of snow bit by bit with Hawkeye's vision, this ancient secret would also be unearthed by him.
However, Blaine also slowed down as much as possible, because he had to examine the entire canyon. But as time passed minute by minute, second by second, Blaine still found nothing.
He continued downward. Although there was no snow below, it was all silt. After centuries of sedimentation, coupled with the pressure from the continental plates, this canyon had basically been covered by layers of rock and mud. Huh? In that case, perhaps it should not be called a canyon anymore, but a cauldron filled with dirt and snow.
Blaine was unwilling to give up, and Hawkeye continued to dive deeper. Now, Blaine was both excited and uneasy.
He was excited because he was finally about to learn the secrets behind all of this, but he was still uneasy about whether what he wanted was actually buried below.
Just when Blaine felt that several hours had passed and his vision had already dived several kilometers, suddenly, something green with a trace of decay attracted his attention.
It was not because it was particularly special, nor because it emitted some kind of energy that drew Blaine's attention. Rather, its shape was truly strange, and that strangeness carried a trace of familiarity.
Forget it. Blaine activated his energy shield, and his body instantly moved. He began to dive downward, and before long, he arrived near that thing.
Because only a small part of it had caught Blaine's attention, he had not seen what it was clearly. Most of it was buried in the mud, so he could not tell what it actually was.
In order to see clearly what this thing was, Blaine waved his hand and directly collected all the soil within a radius of more than ten meters into the Hunter's Space.
Just like that, a perfectly round hole suddenly appeared in the ground. Inside this cave, the root of a rotten ancient tree loomed before Blaine.
"My fuck!"
"What the hell?"
At first, Blaine had thought he had discovered something extraordinary, but in the end, it turned out to be a tree root that had almost rotted together with the mud...
It was just that this tree root was also unique. If one wanted to ask how Blaine had been attracted by a branch just now, then now Blaine could only say that the branch was too large. Because even after Blaine expanded the round hole to more than ten meters, he still could not see the full outline of this branch.
But no matter how large it was, this damn thing was still just a useless branch. Originally, he wanted to continue collecting the surrounding soil into the Hunter's Space, but when he thought that it was only a branch, Blaine kicked the nearly decayed branch in anger.
Blaine was about to teleport out and continue investigating. But in the next second, he frowned and remained where he was.
Because after Blaine kicked it, that branch, which was already about to rot, naturally shattered. But it was precisely the sound of it shattering that made Blaine especially alert.
The tree root was so large that it was nearly fifty to sixty meters in diameter, and its entire outline could not be seen clearly. What Blaine had seen just now was only a huge tree that had grown for thousands of years. But thinking about it carefully, what kind of enormous tree could grow a branch that was tens of meters thick?
What was more, seeing it as a branch was only Blaine's imagination and guesswork. As soon as Blaine kicked it, not only did the section beneath his foot shatter, but the cracks even extended to a place Blaine could not see—that is, deep into the soil.
However, roots that were about to be corroded by wet soil should not have been like this. Shouldn't they have been like sludge, sinking in with one step? But why did they shatter? What was more, the sound coming from deep within the soil was not the sound of tree branches breaking at all. Instead, it was more like the resonance of something striking some kind of metal.
This discovery made Blaine truly excited. He quickly urged the energy shield forward and rushed in that direction.
When that thing appeared in front of Blaine, his heart was shaken. Because what appeared before his eyes once again stirred up waves in his heart.
It was a throne. Yes, another throne. It was just that there were no corpses on this seat, nor was there an altar or anything like that. There was only a throne. It was not even made of Vibranium, but of branches.
Moreover, these branches had gone through thousands of years, yet they were still fresh and tender. They seemed like newly grown seedlings, exuding a green aura, forming a sharp contrast with the decayed branches from just now.
But why did a seat made of such branches give off metallic resonance? Also, who was this throne made for? Looking at these branches that would not rot even after being buried in the soil, Blaine knew that this thing had to be unusual.
But the strangeness was strange precisely here. Blaine used Hawkeye to scan several kilometers around the throne, but there were no other clues. Was it simply to build a chair here?
Suddenly, Blaine seemed to think of something. Then he quickly concentrated and let his mental power continue to sink into the throne.
Sure enough, directly beneath the throne, there was also a hole. A hole the size of a palm. Could it be that there was some connection between this place and the one beneath the Wakanda Vibranium meteorite?
Thinking of this, Blaine's nerves immediately tensed. One had to know that in Wakanda, Blaine had been knocked unconscious by the energy body left behind by the prehistoric Black Panther. There might be the same thing here. Just in case, Blaine could only summon all his attention.
"Shouldn't you show me something again?"
"But there's no one there?"
"No hints at all."
"You can't expect me to just go down."
While talking to himself, Blaine suddenly had a bold idea. When he had been in Wakanda, because he could not touch the Vibranium throne, he could not probe what was inside the hole.
But now, not only had Blaine touched this one with his hands just now, in order to check its authenticity, he had even kicked it. What did this mean? It meant that this time, there was no sense of crisis, and his danger perception had not been triggered. Did that not mean that this time, Blaine could truly see what was inside that hole?
Since he had thought of it, he would do it. Blaine stepped forward and directly embraced the throne, which was about the size of a car, with both hands. A throne made of these strange branches.
"Hah..."
Blaine snorted coldly, and his arms suddenly exerted force.
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