Chapter 343: The Coffin of Time
After Ji Tianci saw the vertical coffin clearly, he knew that this must be Catherine's coffin, because a big cross was printed on the coffin lid of this coffin. The coffin was a wooden coffin, red throughout, except for the cross, which was white.
The coffin, which lies flat in the middle of the pit, is much more delicate, with mysterious and simple patterns printed on each side. The whole body is silvery-white, and it feels like wood but not wood, like iron but not iron, and even makes people feel that it is earth, flowing water, and flame.
In the center of the coffin lid was a square pattern, and Ji Tianci exclaimed as soon as he saw this pattern, "This is ...... Sinan?"
The square pattern is the compass of the Nine Shadows Ancient - Sinan. The pattern is divided into eight pieces by four wide long lines, and the two ends of each straight line are engraved with the Bagua symbol composed of three horizontal lines or broken lines, with "Wu" written directly above, "Zi" written directly below, "Mao" on the left, and "酉" on the right. Each of the eight regions is written with three lines of Nine Ancient Characters, the first line is written "Ten Heavenly Stems", the second line is written "Twelve Earthly Branches", and the third line is written "Twenty-eight Nakshatras".
The foreigners present did not know what was written in the square pattern, but they all felt that the pattern and text were very mysterious. Victoria and Anne had also studied these patterns and characters, but even if they found scholars from the Nine Shadows, none of them could recognize all the characters on the patterns, so they could only speculate that these characters were the characters representing the direction and time of Si Nan.
In the center of the square is a circle with a diameter of half the length of the entire tray, and above the circle is a black spoon, which is Sinan's magnetic needle. The tray is named "Division", and the magnetic needle is named "South", so it forms "Division".
"How can I open the coffin?" asked Victoria.
No, Victoria and Anne stared at Ji Tianci with strange expressions, "We were just about to ask you." ”
Hoffman snorted lightly, looked at the spoon in the center of Sinan and said, "In my opinion, this thing is the handle, just pull it away." ”
The spoon lay flat on the surface of the coffin lid, and it did look like a handle, and Hoffman reached out and grabbed the handle of the spoon.
"Wait a ......"
Before Victoria could dissuade her, Hoffman had already struck.
Ji Tianci stared at Hoffman, thinking that something tragic would happen. But when Hoffman grabbed the handle of the spoon with his right hand, nothing happened here, everything was calm.
Victoria sighed helplessly, "Sure enough, it's still the same." ”
Ji Tianci didn't understand what Victoria meant, and when he was about to ask, he finally discovered Hoffman's anomaly.
Hoffman's whole person is frozen, not the kind of settling like falling asleep, but frozen by time. Ji Tianci couldn't detect his breathing and heartbeat, and the hair on his body should have swayed with the flow of air, but at this moment, it was also alive, which was really weird.
Anne kicked Hoffman impatiently, and this kick was so hard that it kicked him straight into another coffin.
"What are you doing?"
Hoffman snorted softly, turned his head to look at Anne, and was still a little annoyed in his heart, but the next second, his expression suddenly changed, staring at Anne and asking incredulously, "How can your speed be so fast, I didn't see how you made a move at all." ”
Anne replied angrily, "It's not that I'm too fast, it's that you're too slow!"
"Am I slow?"
"Do you think that spoon is just an ordinary spoon? It changes the flow of time, and I held it all day and saw a completely distorted sight before my eyes. At that time, Victoria walked slowly in front of my eyes, but it was like an instantaneous shift, only an afterimage. It's been a whole day, and I feel like it's been less than a second. ”
Hoffman was shocked to hear this, and when he looked at the black spoon again, he couldn't help but tiptoe back. This thing is also terrifying, it can change time so slowly, if you freeze your opponent in battle, you can do whatever you want.
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and Hoffman asked again: "Can't you just smash the coffin open?"
Anne shook her head, "We've tried, the structure of this coffin is elusive, and any force that hits it will be reflected back. Or...... You're going to try it?"
Hoffman hurriedly waved his hand, "It's better for you to figure it out." ”
Everyone turned their eyes to Ji Tianci again, and Anne spoke: "The prophet said that you are the 'key', you must be the 'key', I believe you will have a way to open it." ”
Ji Tianci didn't answer, took a step towards the coffin, and carefully observed Si Nan on the coffin lid, even he thought that this Si Nan was the organ that opened the coffin.
The crowd waited with bated breath. Suddenly, Ji Tianci looked up and looked around again, and then he quickly moved his gaze to Si Nan again, "No! This Si Nan is pointing in the wrong direction." ”
"What's wrong?" asked Victoria.
"The spoon handle of this Sinan should be pointed to the 'unitary' character due south, but it now points to the east-southeast, close to the 'noon' character due east. ”
After Ji Tianci finished speaking, Victoria poked her head out and carefully examined the handle of the spoon, "The last time I saw it, it just pointed straight at the word 'noon' you said, and now it seems to have moved a little bit." ”
"When was the last time you saw it?"
"Almost 100 years ago. ”
Ji Tianci was taken aback, "It took a hundred years to move such a position, and it will take until Sinan walks to the word 'unitary', and I don't know what year and month it is." ”
The scene was silent again, and everyone carefully observed the coffin again.
Miller's eyes lit up suddenly, and he leaped out of the pit, and in less than two seconds, he jumped back again, with an extra metal dagger in his hand.
Without saying a word, he shot the dagger straight out, hitting the right side of the handle with unmistakable accuracy, trying to spin the spoon clockwise.
There was a "bell", the spoon did not move at all, and the dagger flew straight upside down. Miller's arm was numb, and he caught the dagger in a hurry.
Victoria looked at Miller with some amusement, "If this method had worked, we would have opened the coffin a long time ago." ”
Ji Tianci asked again at this time, "I heard Uncle Lu An say that you once had a connection with the prophet with the formation, how did you do it?"
Anne replied, "That's the formation of our blood clan to summon the demon lord, sacrifice the blood of the virgin, and awaken the demon lord in hell. ”
"Blood sacrifice?" Ji Tianci froze thoughtfully in place.
Anne was a little disappointed when she saw Ji Tianci's appearance, and sighed, "I think we should take the coffin out first and then study it carefully." ”
The others nodded, and were about to lift the coffin when another terrible crow was heard......
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As soon as Hoffman grabbed the handle of the spoon, Catherine in the Vatican knew that someone had invaded the monastery.
In St. Peter's Square, Catherine drew her sword from the quagmire, turned to Nikolai and shouted, "I have to go, the monastery has been attacked, and the real demon king is imprisoned there." ”
After speaking, without waiting for Nikolai to reply, Catherine turned into a golden light and shot in the direction she came, but her shield remained in the sky above the Vatican.
At the same time, the powerhouses of the Temple of the Gods rushed here again. Acrius held the spear of Zeus and Helina at the forefront. Helina wears the Aegis of Zeus in her left hand, but she holds a long sword of Nine Shades in her right hand. The two led a hundred Pantheon warriors into the Vatican, but they were not the strongest of the group.
A large number of white wires suddenly appeared in the sky, and these electric lights were entangled together, gradually outlining a human form. Judging by the outline, it was an old man, and in his hand he was holding a real thing, a hammer, a bright and rune-engraved hammer.
When Nikolai saw the old man, his eyebrows were happy, and he turned to Acres and asked, "You have awakened King Christian?"
Akris nodded, his expression a little strange, "The king himself woke up, but he didn't come to fight. ”
Christian is a legendary figure in the pantheon. Norse mythology has always been told about "Ragnarok", a battle of the end of the world, in which the gods of the Odin family fell.
Nowadays, the transcendence of Odin's god system in the Temple of the Gods is only a figure in the "post-twilight" era, and Christian is the transcendent who has experienced "Ragnarok". After that battle, he became the king of the Odin line, inheriting the hammer of Thor, but soon fell into a deep sleep.
Even when Yun Sheng wanted to come and grab his hammer, he didn't wake up from his coma. And at this moment, he rushed to help the Holy Church.
"Old Man Thunderbolt" appeared in the sky above the Vatican, but instead of paying attention to the battle situation in the square, he looked at a dark corner of Rome to the east, "Juggernaut, you should also appear." ”