31 Chapter 31
Those who were underground had already confused the time in the darkness and the insect lamp, when in fact it was dawning outside while they were sleeping on the spot.
The torrential rain has taken a rare breath of relief, allowing the remaining water to have a chance to buffer.
The Ugin Hanging Palace on the Great Rift Valley God Road was washed almost from head to toe, glowing with a heavy Wuze. The water on the eaves has not yet flowed out, and it has become a string of water curtains on the side of the corridor, dripping and dripping, and it seems that the dormitory is becoming quieter and quieter.
The bronze door at the end of the corridor creaked, and two chamberlains hurried towards Sinya's room with a thin figure.
"Ann, I've been up for a long time! Always waiting for you to tell the story! Sinia was lying on the bed and was restless, and rolled twice with the quilt, almost breaking the petrified arm, which made the two female officers cry out again and again.
The thin figure is the white rabbit boy Angel who was brought back by Kevin, and Sinia doesn't like to call people by her full name, trying to save trouble and remember, and always only call the first syllable. When he shouted "Ann" for the first time, Angel's ears turned red, and he said again and again: "Don't don't, that's a girl's name." β
It's a pity that Sinya, who is only four and a half years old, has a faint demeanor of her uncle when she was a child to some extent, and she takes these words as a deaf ear and disperses after a breath. The next day, they still only shouted one word, and Angel could only call with her.
Ever since her arm was petrified, Sinia couldn't get out and roll around. The attendants listened to Osvid's orders, and watched over her from morning till night, lest she stumble anywhere.
It is worse than death for such a young child to not be able to go out, especially when Osvid is not there, she has no place to cry, there is no place to make trouble, and the technical difficulty of hanging is a bit beyond her IQ, so she can only lie down obediently and accept her fate.
Because of this, Angel has to run to the Hanging Palace every day. Fortunately, in addition to liking to listen to stories endlessly, Her Royal Highness Sinia has not developed any other habits for the time being, and it is not difficult to serve.
"Yesterday's book was finished." Angel said, "What to listen to today?" β
Sinia glanced out of the door twice, and saw that the chamberlain stood respectfully at the door, and had no intention of coming in to catch her, so she quickly took out a book from under her pillow.
The sneaky appearance of such a big child looked a little funny, and Angel was embarrassed to smile too obviously, and only pursed the corners of his mouth. He took the book from Cinya's hand and flipped through two pages.
No kidding, the book is so tattered that it looks like it was just picked up from the trash. Angel turned the pages carefully, and just like that, he accidentally took down a few pieces of paper.
Angel: "......"
He carried the pages of the book, and his expression was slightly panicked: "Your Highness, to be honest, where did you find this book?" "If it's an ancient book or something, if you drop two pages, you can't afford to lose it even if you sell it!
Sinia lowered her voice and whispered secretly, "I stole it from my uncle's bookshelf last night." β
Angel's hand just shook.
Can the emperor's things be taken indiscriminately?!
Sinia immediately became justified again: "But my uncle said that I can't take anything in his study except for the ones on the desk, and I can look at everything else!" And this was put in yesterday, anyway, my uncle is not here, so it doesn't matter if I use it for a day! β
"Yesterday?" Angel asked.
The matter of Osvid's travels was not allowed to be spread out, and only those who frequented the Hanging Palace knew about it. Before leaving, he had arranged everything that should be arranged, so whether it was the Divine Officer's Hospital, the Medical Officer's Hospital, or the three major military camps, there were no problems, and they were operating as usual.
Yesterday, when Angel left the Hanging Palace, he happened to see the old man of the Divine Court trembling into the study, if I am not mistaken, this book is likely to be put into the study by the old man, after all, I heard him talk about finding a book for the emperor before.
Angel couldn't help this little girl, so she had to honestly pull a chair and sit down on the edge of the bed, holding the broken book like an ancestor and taking a cursory glance: "Your Highness, are you sure you want to listen to this?" It's all aboutβ"
How to dig up God's grave......
At least the two pages he casually turned were about the period of Emperor Besseman, and the strange disease spread in the palace, and the emperor couldn't bear to listen to the advice of the great elder of the Spirit Clan, and organized a group of people to go to the tomb of the god Phae, there was a missing page in the middle, but it also mentioned a lot of things that happened in the tomb of the god intermittently. It's just that the words are extremely exaggerated and distorted, and the posture doesn't seem to describe a certain historical fact, but like writing a mythological story, and the devil knows whether it's true or not.
After reading it, Angel couldn't help but turn back to the front and look at the cover.
"What's wrong?" Sinia rolled unwillingly on the bed, and seeing that Angel hadn't started for a long time, she couldn't help but tilt her head and pounce on him and asked, "Why don't you talk about it?" β
Angel simply closed the cover, "Why doesn't this book even have a name." β
"It's okay! I listen to stories, not names. Sinia waved her hand, "Speak!" β
"Okay. Thenβlet's start with Emperor Beseman taking people into the tomb of Phae. "Angel reads books very quickly, and he knows the content almost once he scans it. He raised his eyes and asked Sinya, "Do you know the tomb of Phae?" β
The little girl nodded, her dark eyes smiling crookedly: "I know, I know!" Uncle said there were the most powerful gods of the old times sleeping! β
Angel pursed his lips and smiled, looked down at the pages of the book, and said slowly: "The tomb of the god Phae is in the area of the Baektu Hills, under the Eternal Life Waterfall, where there is no sunlight and is obscure all year round, so it is a good place to sleep for a long time. β
"Why is it a good place to be in the sun?" Sinia couldn't help but interrupt.
"Because there is no light to disturb you, you can sleep for a long time and not wake up." Angel replied, and continued to speak slowly: "There is a group of loyal and simple elves there guarding the tomb gate for him, and no one should want to break in easily. The undead are steps, thorns are fences, and a heavy obeli is engraved with blessings for the living. Without a soul to pave the way, the tomb door will never open. β
Sinia interrupted again: "What does it mean that there is no soul to pave the way, and the tomb door will never be opened?" What do you mean by Bei...... Uh-huh, how did the emperor get in? β
The little girl, who could never remember a person's name, vaguely skipped the name of Emperor Besseman.
Angel said with a smile: "How do I know how Emperor Bei Mmmmmm got in?" He paused for a moment, and then said, "Maybe it's the soul that paves the way." β
"How does the soul pave the way?" Sinia asked.
"When you die, you have a soul, and if there are enough dead, you can pave a road." Angel replied.
Sinia still didn't seem to understand: "But...... But isn't God going to sleep there? It's like I'm lying in bed, how can I let everyone who wants to come in at the door of the room die there? How scary! Isn't that all souls as soon as you open the door? β
Angel tilted his head: "Then you just don't have to go out, you should have been sleeping all the time." β
Sinia muttered, "What does God think......"
"He didn't have to think about it, he was dead when the cemetery was built." Angel Dao.
Sinia looked up and thought for a while, but before she could figure it out, she waved her hand to reveal the question, "What if it's not dead?" Can you still enter without paving the way with your soul? β
Angel replied, "Then there is only one way. β
"What's the solution?"
"God Himself will open it."
The four-and-a-half-year-old girl suddenly became shrewd, she stared at the broken book, and saw her two eyes as cross-eyed, and then suddenly looked up, with the expression of a thief who catches a cat and a mouse, and pointed at Angel with a smile and said, "You make it up!" This page is obviously full of pictures, only one line of words, you have said so much, it has long been exceeded! β
Angel had red ears and looked embarrassed to be pierced. He scratched his head and admitted, "Well, God himself went to open it...... I guessed"
The second half of the winding path was so dark that you couldn't see your fingers, and it wasn't until you turned the last corner that you saw a little light, which was a worm lamp that Kevin had left here before.
The insect lamp hangs at the tip of the thorn branch, and because there is no wind, it does not move at all.
The quiet yellow light sprinkled on the obeli on the ground, reflecting the rusty, blurred handwriting on it.
In fact, only half of the monument is exposed to the ground, and the soil that was originally buried only to the base has become thicker and thicker over the years, gradually covering the lower half as well.
Kevin's footsteps were unhurried and silent, he walked to the obeli and squatted down, stretched out his slender fingers and pulled the dirt a few times, and soon pulled the untight layer of mud aside, revealing the other half of the obetall.
The other half of the monument has been rusted worse than the top, and the shallower carved characters have rusted away, except for a few extremely deep ravines, which still have traces, winding from the center like map lines.
Kevin stared at the winding ravines for a moment, then reached out and picked up the short knife at his waist, making a bloody cut on the tips of each of the five fingers on his left hand.
In order to prevent the wound from healing too quickly, he cut deep with each knife, and the blood beads almost fell into the mud in strings.
The pain in his fingers was much sharper than elsewhere, but he only frowned, and he looked like an old god was there again. He placed his entire left hand over the monument. The monument suddenly came to life, and the bright red blood seemed to be sucked out, flowing rapidly along the ravines, and soon covered the entire surface like a spider's web.
The rusty bronze tablet suddenly turned scarlet, as if it had just been refined from the forge, and some of the debris shook off and stuck to the thorn bushes, and in the blink of an eye it burst into flames.
The fire instantly soared extremely high, and the entire thorn bush was wrapped in a golden-red tongue of fire, which spread rapidly from the center to all sides, burning into a sea of fire.
In the beep of the sea of fire, the roars and screams of countless beasts and birds of prey loomed, far and near, as if coming from the end of hell.
Kevin stood in front of the sea of fire with an indifferent expression, and the crazy tongue of fire almost touched his face, but he didn't even blink an eye.
He was looking behind the fire.
It wasn't until there was a slow sound of gold and stone grinding in the darkness behind the scarlet that Kevin's gaze moved-
for the door of the tomb was opened.
The door had probably been sealed in dust for too long, and when it slowly opened, there was even the smell of rotting dust coming out of the fire.
Kevin took a puff and a lukewarm smile hung over his lips......
When he opened the door of the tomb alone, there was chaos by the fire in front of the cave.
Osvid woke up to the startled chatter of the night watchmen. The moment he opened his eyes, he felt an inexplicable "chuckle" in his heart. Not knowing if it was instinct or what, he almost instinctively glanced at where Kevin was lying where he was lying.
Empty!
The moment these two words crossed his mind, his body had already reacted first. He stood up almost bone-on-one, and without saying a word, went straight down the winding path. Behind him, a group of Ugin iron horsemen hurried to catch up, and the footsteps were scattered.
He is tall and long-legged, and it is very difficult for others to chase him when he runs in stride. Before he reached the corner, he saw a red light that was clearly extinguished.
It's on fire!
Osveld's face tightened, and he turned the corner in one step.
That moment of the scene will probably be something he will never forget-
He saw a sea of fire burning, howling spirits breaking through the ground, heat surging and blood shining all over the sky.
Kevin glanced at him in the writhing scarlet tongue of fire, then waved his hand nonchalantly, turned his head and walked into the depths of the fire, completely disappearing......