99. Horcruxes
Doorway space.
On the lawn outside the cabin, a dagger that looked like it was cut from diamond was imprisoned in the air by an invisible force, unable to move.
It is tiny, only the size of a palm, and is divided into two parts.
Above is a flat handle with a hint of concave arc as if a cylinder had been cut off the sides, and below is a slightly rolled blade, thick at the top and narrow at the bottom, with a blade as thin as a cicada's wing.
The overall shape resembles a small crescent moon.
Simple and sophisticated.
"Bald man, what the hell is this?"
Chi Chuan scratched his head and asked, "Since I can take it in, it should mean that it is a dead thing, but why can I move it on my own?"
The bald brother's little face showed a solemnity.
It is clearly inconsistent with its usual stubborn temperament.
This expression is the second time Ichikawa has seen it so far, and the last time I asked it about stalagmites.
"Horcruxes. ”
"Soul, weapon?" Ikekawa asked, "Can you be specific?"
The bald brother stretched out his little hand, and the dagger obediently floated to its palm, looking harmless to humans and animals, just like a dead thing, "There is an immortal remnant soul attached to it." ”
"Soul?" Ikekawa became more and more confused the more he listened, "the soul of a man?"
The bald man nodded.
"The remnant soul is attached to it, and it is not enough to make such a big disturbance. It said, glancing at Ikekawa's bloodstained appearance, "But the source power stimulated its spirituality, resulting in the creation of the Horcrux. ”
It turns out that people really have souls after death...... Ikekawa didn't know what to say for a while.
"Bald brother, what is the source force?"
Last time, the bald brother had talked about what the world's origin power was, but he didn't understand it at all, and only figured out that the stalagmites were crystallized by this source power.
"Frankly, I don't know how to explain it to you. ”
The bald man looked up at him, "You can understand it as a mysterious power. Now that the source stone is out and the Horcrux is out, the outside world has changed greatly, right?"
"Source Stone?"
"It's the stalagmite you said. ”
"Oh......" Chi Chuan said lightly, "Isn't it just a big change, it was originally a good industrialized society, but now it is weird and endless, and it feels more and more mysterious." ”
"It's normal. ”
"Normal?" Ikekawa bowed his head in surprise.
"I have already said that the source power is a mysterious force, and once the source power of the outside world becomes full, it will produce a lot of abnormalities, which is not surprising. ”
"Isn't it like ......" Chikawa pondered and asked, "the aura in the Xianxia world?"
The bald brother has read a lot of comic books from the earth, and now he is still playing movies every day, and the movies on the earth are probably almost finished by it, so it should be able to understand it.
As expected, the bald man snapped his fingers, "That's right! ”
"So the source stone is similar to the spirit stone?"
Chi Chuan suddenly became excited, his eyes lit up terrifyingly, and he asked again: "Then if I keep taking it, will I be able to shatter the void one day and become an immortal?"
The bald brother squinted at him, as if he could penetrate his mind at a glance, "You still want to return to Earth?"
"Of course!"
Ikekawa clenched his fists.
How could he not want to be that his mother was now lying in a vegetative state in the hospital, giving birth to a human son, and he desperately wanted to be by his side, for which he could pay any price.
But only if there is hope.
The bald brother was silent, and after a long time, he said lightly: "I can only tell you that the so-called broken void is not impossible, as for whether it can return to the earth, it is not clear." ”
What a thing!
Ikekawa suddenly felt like he had found the direction of his life.
I also feel full of energy.
He never gave up on the idea of returning to Earth, but many things before told him that it was simply unrealistic, but now, the bald man gave him a glimmer of hope!
The mysterious source power is changing this world, and it seems that it is also raising the limits of force in this world, making it possible to cultivate into an immortal or a god.
I want to become an immortal!
I'm going to shatter the void!
He shouted in his heart, his expression extremely excited.
"Bald brother, you teach me to cultivate!" Chi Chuan's eyes burst out with dazzling brilliance, and he looked at the bald brother expectantly.
"I've taught you. ”
“...... Nope. ”
"Isn't it just striking iron?"
Chi Chuan glared and said, "That thing can be cultivated into an immortal?"
"No," the bald brother pointed to his nose and said angrily: "Do you think it's easy to cultivate to that kind of realm that can move mountains and reclaim the sea and shatter the void?
Chi Chuan was stunned and said in surprise: "So...... You're asking me to practice ironsmithing, are you building a foundation?"
"Yes. If the foundation is unstable, how can you build a tall building?"
"But...... You say that this iron-striking technique, even if there is a stone ...... The assistance of the source stone will also take 300 years to become small!"
"What, it's hard to practice?" The bald brother said with a displeased face: "I see that in those immortal cultivation stories of yours, there are not a few people who are trapped in some qi cultivation period for a lifetime." If you want to reach the top, how can it be so simple?"
Ikekawa was speechless.
"If you can't stand it now, I don't think it's better to stop practicing, and you won't dream of returning to Earth again. ”
"I practice, I can't practice!" Chi Chuan said with a sad face.
For the grand wish in his heart, no matter how hard and tired he is, he has to endure it, let alone 300 years, he will do it for 3000 years.
The bald brother turned his head, and the corners of his mouth curled.
"This dagger. It raised its hand and gestured, "Do you want it?"
"Of course I do!" Ikekawa nodded vigorously.
This crystal dagger is extremely sharp, and it is a bit indestructible - the golden spittoon was almost pierced by it, and it is definitely a sharp weapon to kill people and overachieve.
"Then find a way to submit it. ”
The bald brother is to the point, this thing has a remnant soul attached to it, as if it has thoughts, but it can't be used by temporarily imprisoning it.
Chi Chuan even dared to be sure that if he dared to take this thing out, he would definitely chase him and stab him as soon as possible.
"How do you submit?" he asked, hugging the bald man's shoulders as he walked around behind him.
The bald brother was obviously very useful, and he did not hesitate to point out: "But every Horcrux, there must have been an unforgettable thing on it, and because of this, the owner of the item, or someone involved in it, will not want to leave it until death."
"You can understand it as reluctance.
"Then when this remnant soul dies in the body, there must be some unfulfilled wishes, you have to find a way to figure it out, and then help it achieve its wishes, and in return, it will always follow you until death, never betrayed.
"This is one of the properties of Horcruxes.
"So in the future, if you encounter someone else with a Horcrux and want to take it, the only way is to kill them. Then you have to find out the origin of the Horcrux and try to help it fulfill its long-cherished wish again, it may have more than one wish, otherwise there is no way to control it. ”
I see.
Ikekawa sensed a lesson and quickly thanked him.
"Alright, this thing is here, you go out and find out where it came from, so you can probably figure out what it has unfulfilled wishes. ”
As he spoke, the bald man flashed to the door of the cabin.
"The True Color of Heroes" in it has just been put halfway.
"And the iron, I feel like you're going to make a breakthrough recently, and you'll have to be a little more diligent. ”
"Breakthrough?"
The bald brother obviously didn't mean to explain, and disappeared.
After Ikekawa answered, he also withdrew from the doorway space.
The six bright flashlights in the secret room were shooting in different directions, and they were already brightly lit.
Chi Chuan's sudden appearance startled An Qin, Qi Nan and Ye Dong.
They didn't ask anything, because they had already learned from Ming Ke and Lao Hu that there were some things that could not be said, and if they said them, they would become words that exposed secrets, and they also cited the examples of Sixth Brother and Brin.
"Huh, Xiaochuan, why are you so happy?"
"Yes, Brother Xiaochuan, do you feel very excited?"
Chikawa Shin said can I not be excited, buddy may go home!
"I found my direction in life. ”
"Isn't your direction Anqin?" quipped.
made An Qinqiao next to her blush, if she could fight, she would definitely give Qi Nan a small pink punch.
Chi Chuan knew that An Qin was thin-skinned, so he ignored Qi Nan's ridicule.
"What did you find?"
"We've just gotten up. ”
Let's find it together.
Whether or not you can use that crystal dagger for your own use depends on whether you can find something here.
Immediately, he began to look around:
This chamber was not large, at least compared to the hall above, much smaller, about a hundred square meters.
The rectangular layout, with the floor, walls, and dome, is no longer black, but made of marble-like masonry.
Apparently well designed.
The dome is a superimposed "Hui" shape, made of white stone bricks with natural patterns, built into layers of rectangular grids, from the outside to the inside, getting smaller and smaller until it becomes the size of a coffin.
The bottom of the coffin, which hung in the air and opened to one side, looked like a dark wooden door when viewed from below.
Down there are four walls, two of which are longer and covered with reliefs, beautifully carved and majestic, depicting scenes of battlefield fighting, in which the soldiers armed with guns and halberds are indomitable and bloody, and those open mouths seem to shout one word at the same time - kill!
The reliefs are not coherent, they are divided into several pieces, and the images of the soldiers in them may be different, but there are two things that are the same:
A flag fluttering in the wind.
A mighty knight with a majestic horse at his feet, wearing chain mail, and wielding a giant sword in his right hand.
There is a slightly abstract pattern on the flag, which at first glance looks like a crossbow, and at a closer glance it looks like a goshawk soaring with its wings outstretched.
On the two slightly shorter walls, one side is engraved with characters, which are very small and dense, and they are so dense that they cannot be seen clearly without approaching.
On the ground below the walls, there were a lot of dusty bottles and cans that were difficult to see the specific materials, including the two slightly longer walls, which were almost in a circle.
These are undoubtedly funerary goods.
The last wall also has reliefs, but on one large wall, only a human face is carved.
The face of a sword-eyed, heroic, young man.
Chikawa feels like he's fighting with himself, and he's quite handsome.
Underneath this wall is the core of the chamber.
Because...... There was a silver coffin.
On both sides of the coffin, there is a half-human-high stone sculpture of a goshawk spreading its wings, and the shape of their backs is very similar to the pattern on the flag in the relief just now.
"Silver coffin!"
Lao Hu walked towards the coffin and said with emotion: "It seems that this is the real main burial chamber." The silver coffin represents the identity of the tomb owner as a marquis second only to the royal family. ”
"What's going on with the fake coffin and the four-headed golden holy dragon suppression on it?" Qi Nan's melon seed face was full of confusion.
"I'm confused about this, too. The old man sneered.
Ming Ke didn't pay attention to the coffin, and walked to the opposite wall engraved with dense characters.
"This coffin is intact and has not been opened. After Lao Hu circled around the silver coffin, he turned his head and asked, "Lord Chichuan, do you want to open it?"
"Don't do it!"
Without waiting for Chikawa to talk, he saw that Lao Hu and Qi Nan were there, and Ye Dong, who had never seen a silver coffin in his life, wanted to come up and take a look, and when he heard this, he jumped away instantly.
Chi Chuan was still carefully looking at every corner of the secret room, and was about to say something when An Qin's voice came from the side, "Look at the extent of the erosion of these bottles and cans, they are at least hundreds of years old. ”
"It's obvious. Ikekawa responded. "What I'm thinking about now is the same as Sister Qinan, there is such a big tomb on it, but what does it mean to put the real coffin here, it looks like it's for theft?"
"Not really. ”
Lao Hu echoed: "Even if it is anti-theft, it is impossible to make it look black, and use the Golden Holy Dragon to make some suppression layout." I can't figure it out. ”
"I know why. ”
At this time, Mingke suddenly spoke.