6. A long way

To say that the way to the ruins was long, dangerous and exhausting, to say nothing. To get to the ruins, Adam had to cross many dangers.

First he had to cross the arid swamp, which was a hellish desert. On the first day of his stay in the desert, he was unlucky, a sand storm hit him.

As a result, the storm pushed him away from the main road and he had to look for it. For more than a week he was looking for a way out of the desert. And when his water supplies almost ran out, he was able to get out of this sandy hell.

Further, Adam got into a huge swamp-forest. Although the whole Amphibian mostly consists of swamps, but it was the king of swamps. The air was so humid here that all of Adam's clothes got wet and he had to take them off and continue walking naked up to his torso.

But okay humidity, insects. They kept sticking to him and trying to bite off a piece. This applied to both small and large representatives. His chest was covered with a lot of mosquito bites and cuts from large grasshoppers.

There were also dangers lurking inside the swamp. Huge snakes and lizards swam in the muddy water, which more than once dragged him to the bottom, then to get a sword between his jaws. The sword was still useful to him, despite Yunan's words.

The swamp was big, but Adam hurried through it in five days. Then everything was much easier, because along the way there were settlements. On the way he met a city where every building is covered with gold. Why, there are even snail shells covered with gold!

Apparently it was a country town of the aristocracy, Adam couldn't think of anything else.

Having slept off in this likeness to the golden city, Adam was at his goal in two weeks. With the help of hitchhiking, even in another world, Adam was able to get here faster than he planned.

Ruins was not literally ruins. It was a huge plateau in which there were many well-preserved buildings. Time has buried them inside the plains, preserving them well, even too well.

Having set up a camp nearby, Adam began to explore. Most of the ruins were underground and it was impossible to get inside, but some were still on the surface and you could safely enter them.

First of all, it was necessary to inspect the buildings from the outside.

[ Ding ! Ding! ]

Adam knocked on the wall of the building a couple of times and to his surprise there was a clear metallic sound. He knocked a couple more times, but the sound remained the same.

( So the skin is made of metal ? Steel ? Duralumin ? Just covered with iron ? Interesting, very interesting. Current Amphibian technologies are not capable of such a thing. All of the buildings are made of stone, only the gates or weapons with armor are made of iron. Mostly they have the Iron Age now.)

Adam was also hooked on the pattern on the outer skin. There were blue stripes running all over the building, connecting to each other and curving all over the building. Adam also touched them, but did not feel anything unusual.

(The drawing is also strange, for the first time I see this. Were they made for decorative purposes or if there is some meaning in them? Plus, it is quite difficult to put drawings on a metal coating, were they imprinted in them during smelting?)

But most of all Adam was interested in something else, namely the strange symbols with which the buildings were painted. On one building they were the same, and on the other they were completely different.

"I've seen it somewhere before. But where ? Give me a memory, don't let me down. " – Adam grabbed his chin and tapping his foot peered at the symbols

" Language.....of course! The ancient Ambinian language !" - Adam slammed his hand on his knee and quickly reached into his bag

Adam also did research on language. For some reason, everyone in the Amphibian world speaks only English. Every species speaks it, without exception. And it's weird. If each of the species followed its own path of evolution, then how could they come up with the same language at the same time?

If we take the peoples of the Earth. Then each nation has its own language. English. Russian, Italian, Spanish, Swiss and so on. But why do all nations speak the same language ? This was also a mystery that Adam didn't have time for.

Adam took out a history book and compared the symbols in it with the symbols on the building. Everything was the same ! And most importantly, there was also a decoding of hieroglyphs in the book.

"Okay, that's what I need. I'll apologize to Olivia later for taking her book. But for now, Dad needs to translate this tex. Let's see what hides these buildings. "

For about an hour Adam sat and stared at these symbols, trying to translate them correctly. Most of the symbols are very similar to each other, the differences can only be in one squiggle or dot. He also built a convenient alphabet to translate this language much faster in the future.

The hieroglyphs themselves are located near the entrance to the ruins, skirting the passage and going along the entire length along the bottom. The language consisted mainly of emoticons, and this is not a joke, small squiggles, as well as a lot of dots and sticks.

After spending another hour of quick translation, Adam came up with the following sentence.

[ Processing Factory No. 1. The entrance of the old is forbidden ! At the entrance, the visitor is required to provide his card or royal consent. ]

" The factory ? And what does this shit interestingly recycle ? It definitely doesn't look like a factory in my understanding. Well, that's fine. It's still another world." – Adam flipped through his notebook and went to the next building

[ Toadbot Barracks. Only engineers and military personnel of the third rank are allowed to enter, the rest are required to provide permission to enter. ]

"Great, from medieval setting and magic, it quickly turned into mysterious fiction. Everything is much more interesting than I thought, let's continue. "

[ Workshop for the creation of Toadbots ], [ Strong point ], [ Command center ], [ Control room ].

"At first it looked like a factory to create some kind of robots, now it looks like a moving army. " – Adam sat in the shade of a tree and ate an apple, looking at all these ruins

" But they couldn 't just show up here , could they ? Such buildings are definitely not being built on the spot, they definitely moved somehow. Wheels ? Caterpillars ? Magic? Anything is possible, but I need to get inside and look around. Maybe I can find some clue. "

Adam dusted himself off, then took his sword and shield and headed to the Command Center. It was the whole building, which practically did not go underground.

The only problem was that the entrance was closed by a huge gate made of unknown material.

Trying to break through by force, Adam almost broke his sword as well as his hands. The doors were very strong, the materials of the current era could not break them. Adam sat down on the ground and looked at them.

" Usually such gates are closed during an emergency evacuation. So, they can definitely be opened somehow, but how? There is not a single crack, you can't pick them up. There is also no place where you could enter a password or slip a card. " - Adam tapped his chin with his finger

"My intelligence and strength won't work here. There is only one thing left, to use either more intelligence or more strength." - Adam got up and headed for the other buildings

"If I can't open them with the technology of the current era, then I use the technology of the past. " - Adam looked around and looked at the many buildings that dug into the plain

"I have a lot of time, perseverance, intelligence and my personal interest. The enemy also has a huge, strong and resistant door. " - He smiled and headed towards one of the buildings

" I think it's obvious who will win here. "

He lit a torch and went deep into the ruins.

(I have to find something useful. If it doesn't work, I have a plan G.) – Adam loses a small bag on his belt

( A plan called " Gunpowder " )

He smiled even harder and boldly stepped into the darkness. Here, he will definitely find something worthwhile.

[ Storage room. Be careful, there are a lot of explosives inside. ]

"Daddy loves to do " Boom. Boom " "