Lunchtime arrived.
In the Fox Mountain cafeteria, around each small stone table, sat groups of fiery red foxes, chattering away in their fox language as they ate and bragged.
"Ying ying ying aow aow!"
The White Belt fox clawed at a crispy egg roll, boasting about its discoveries from the morning... The column it dug up with inscriptions on it, according to Master, is an important document!
The foxes pressed their fluffy heads together, chattering away in a flurry of fox speak.
Previously excavated sites rarely had such inscribed columns.
These past few days, there seem to be a few more.
...
On one side of the cafeteria, Bai Mo sat by a table, clutching a crispy egg roll, eating while pondering.
"The scriptures left by the Emperor might really just be decorations."
The archaeological work on Fox Mountain proceeds from the outskirts of the Pill Palace towards the core area.
