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The Temple of Mani in the Cambridge Oasis,.

Three thousand years ago, Manichaean Religion was also a smash hit religion in the Aegean Continent, no one knows how this religion developed in the Aegean Continent, there were rumors at that time, Manichaean Goddess had descended several times to the godhead, in the form of a physical messenger, in the world to show miracles, this ethereal and nonsensical rumor, once made the Manichaean Religion have a large number of fanatical and radical believers, and even many Beamon gave up the shamanic teachings and turned to follow the Manichaean Religion, but this religion is destined to be short-lived, the smoke and flames of the sea and land war, so that it suddenly returned to calm from splendor.

In the current Aegean Continent, there are many ancient temple ruins similar to the Mani Temple, recording the glory of the past and the decay of the present.

Looking at this huge temple covering an area of dozens of acres, Liu Zhenzhen really couldn't figure it out, this is a desert! Where did the original builders get so many blue-striped stones to build the temple?

"Although it looks a bit dilapidated, the overall structure of this Mani temple is still very strong." The knight of Pierrot, who led the way, saw that the gaze of the Divine Comedy shaman was always resting on the stone lintel printed with the common characters of the five continents of the "Temple of Oedipus", on which there was now a tuft of grass and a deserted bird's nest, so the knight hurriedly explained.

"With such a big gatepost, it is estimated that it will be able to withstand an earthquake." Liu Zhenzhen nodded, the outer corridor of the temple was supported by dozens of huge stone pillars, each of which was carved into the image of a half-naked beautiful bearded strong man, the male root part was half hidden and half visible, and the diameter was amazing------ here refers to the stone pillar.

"Even daggers can't be inserted into these gaps in the walls, and the builders of the year have taken a lot of painstaking work." Knight Pierrot smiled and pointed to the moss-covered steps, hundreds of steps, all the stone cracks as thin as a line, almost indisputable to the naked eye.

"All followers stop for a moment!" Liu Zhenzhen jumped up the steps and waved vigorously at the large group of priests and followers who were in a commotion: "Priests and guards, follow me into the temple together." ”

The priests rubbed their sour shoulders and backs, breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally could rest.

On both sides of the steps of this ancient temple are huge statues of monsters, carved from jade. The carvings are so exquisitely crafted that the young priests can't help but turn their heads to look at them, and they always feel that these monsters are ready to pounce on people. Although I know that this idea is a bit nonsense, I still have this feeling in my heart after all; The older priests had been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, secretly laughing at the performance of the rookies, holding their heads high and striding forward.

Stepping into the huge temple, Liu Zhenzhen only felt that his face was clamped, and gusts of yin wind fluttered past him, and several delicate bodies immediately hugged him behind him.

The ancient bronze oil pot on the road has been filled with animal fat, and the burning "crackling" sound, the startled bats on the top of the Yong from time to time "squeak" strange screams, through this long road full of moss after entering the main god exhibition, Liu Zhenzhen and the sacrifices appeared in front of a ten-meter-high Mani goddess statue. This Mani goddess has the face of a beautiful woman and the body of a lion, which happens to blend the two extremes of femininity and masculinity, not only is it not dazzling, but it is particularly indescribably harmonious.

This statue of the goddess Mani is half-crouching on the altar, holding the sky in both hands, each with a cluster of cyan flames rising high in the palms of his hands, and the two translucent cyan flames just form a cross angle of mutual trust, and the dim and strange fire light just illuminates the face of the goddess of the holy fire, covering this beautiful and beapping face with a layer of cyan light, exuding an inexplicable enchanting charm, a burst of arias, accompanied by the rolling of the green flames, echoing quietly in the entire temple, very magical.

At this time, the altar has been occupied by a large number of Beamon soldiers, except for the god of war Kampas, the iron-blooded soldiers do not seem to have much interest in other gods, no one even glances at this Mani goddess statue, a team of military uniforms and anti-staff officers and officers are each around a sand table, nervously holding a map and ruler to make deductions, and the communication soldiers next to them are holding quill brushes to record something.

Feeling that there seemed to be another group of people in the temple, several Beamon officers raised their heads, glanced at the priests with the arrogance unique to professional soldiers, and lowered their heads to go about their own business, this contemptuous action made the sacrificial group collectively burst into a cold snort.

"Your Majesty, please wait a moment, and I'll go to Lord Boban and Captain Karn at once." Pierrot saw the displeasure of the priests and hurriedly spoke.

"You go, this temple must have enough rooms, settle us down first, the sacrifice is not rude soldiers, we need to rest." Liu Zhen smiled, and his words immediately provoked more unruly and provocative glances from the Bimeng officers.

"It's weird! The two clusters of cyan flames on the idol could never have been lit by the Beamon officers who entered in advance, could it be said that this kind of flame would never be extinguished? This temple of Mani must have been built for many years, right? Joan of Arc asked curiously, "I don't know if you hear it, but every time the flame rolls, I hear an aria, like a sigh, as if it is a confession." ”

"I heard that too." Sissi nodded

"Sigh? Confide? How do I sound like a broken shoe moaning......" Liu Zhenzhen smiled, and as soon as a yellow sentence slid out, he immediately realized that there were still many sacrifices behind him, and quickly turned pale, "... Kindness... It was like the groans of pain from a soul being 'coerced' into being held in a dark cage. ”

As the person who knows the boss best, the four Ouchi guards and several militia leaders almost didn't laugh on the spot, Fei Luo and O'Neill deliberately laughed very loudly, and were trampled by the proprietress Helen, and many sacrifices also heard the mystery in it, and they all held back their laughter.

Mo'er was stunned by the cyan flames on the hands of the goddess Mani, and for a while, her face turned red and blue, and Liu Zhenzhen was pulled by the fruit fruit on her shoulder, and found Mo'er's strange appearance.

"It's also a little strange to me that this temple is at least three thousand years old." Golini blushed and interjected, "Logically speaking, how can a holy fire burn for thousands of years? Even if the fire beads are burning, it will definitely not take so long! This temple has been abandoned for at least a thousand or two thousand years, right? No one added to the burning, how could the flame stay burning for so long... It's weird..."

"Nothing strange!" Mo'er's face turned pale: "This cyan flame burns with a smell of holly, and there is a strange sound when the flame rolls, it is obviously the fuel oil extracted from the mermaid's fat, and the oil purified and refined from a mermaid's body is enough to ensure that it will not be extinguished for five hundred years, as long as the oil of twenty mermaids is refined, it is not a problem that the holy flame will not be extinguished for ten thousand years." ”

"Mermaids?" Golini's beautiful eyes immediately widened, and she obviously didn't quite understand what Mo'er meant.

The sacrifices are also a little confused, the mermaid is the king of the Xiyahai tribe. There is no doubt about the power of Haihua, who can go to the sea to kill a mermaid, and then refine the grease and bring it back to make lamp oil? That's not too difficult, isn't it? Twenty mermaids are even more nonsense, if the sea tribe is like this, it will not be a sea and land war, and it will wipe out a water tribe by Beamon.

"I'm not talking about the Thea Royals, I'm talking about 'freshwater mermaids'. The Seaer Mermaid is the 'Mermaid of the Sea' and there is a difference between the two. In a standard Avril tone, Mo'er gritted her teeth and said: "Many years ago, there were a large number of 'freshwater mermaids' living in the rivers and lakes of the Aegean Continent" These 'freshwater mermaids' are directly related to the mermaids in the Sea of Sea, and they belong to the noble mermaid family. ”

"Lord Mo'er, your tone really scares me." Master Zidan, the chief priest of the model, rolled his eyes without eyelids, his face was surprised, he obviously didn't expect that a little butterfly beauty who had returned from overseas for less than a year would learn about such an ancient secret, and Mo'er's tone sounded like a mermaid instead of a mandarin frey.

"'Freshwater mermaids'?" Liu Zhen pondered: "Then the 'Kou Tao Mermaid' can also be regarded as one of them, right?" ”

"To die, the Kou Tao mermaid can only be regarded as a mermaid at most, belonging to a mermaid, but not a mermaid." Mo'er smiled like a thaw and twisted her mentor's nose.

The eyes of the priests are straight, although this overly intimate tone and action belong to Avril's habitual behavior, but in the eyes of the idlers who don't know the inside story, it is to exacerbate some hearsay------ speaking of which, the erosive relationship between men and women under the Divine Comedy Shaman Richard crown and the ** style are far more famous in the kingdom than the title of Heavenly King Sacrifice.

"Wow... And their own apprentices... It's so beautiful......"

"Two generations of killing... It's really worthy of being a first-class sacrifice... My own mentor eats... By the way, I also ate Lori's apprentice......"

"You know what... I've heard that Your Majesty... Also with his two fairy dragon demon pets... It's so handsome... A modern version of the Legend of the Cowherd and the Fairy......"

Among the two hundred sacrifices, there seem to be many gossip lovers, and this slight private discussion, although the voice is small, but it also reaches the ears of several parties one by one.

"Ahem......" Helen saw that the eyes of the sacrificers around her were slanted, and quickly coughed a few times to remind Richard and the priests to pay attention to the image.

Mo'er and Liu Zhenzhen rolled their eyes at the fussing sacrifices around them.

"If you don't understand something, you can ask the sacrifice, and if you don't understand the sacrifice, you can ask the prophet... Dear Celestial Prophet Mo'er, I am really ashamed of your erudition, can you tell us more about what you mean by 'freshwater mermaid'? Why is there no 'freshwater mermaid' in the Aegean continent today? As Mourinho's daughter, Golini naturally didn't like to hear the word "** series", frowned, and quickly found a topic that she was interested in: "As for what you said, how cruel it is to use the fat of 'freshwater mermaids' to refine into lamp oil that will not be extinguished for a hundred years!" Has such a sensational tragedy happened in the Aegean!? ”

This topic was very fresh, and it immediately attracted the attention of many Beamon officers who were working, and the discussion just now also made the surrounding staff officers and officers secretly whisper for a while, and occasionally burst into a few ambiguous laughter.

"Lord Golini, the last appearance of the freshwater mermaid is probably traced back to three thousand years ago! The reason for the extinction of freshwater mermaids is that the fanatics of the Manichaean Cult discovered that the fat of the mermaid is used as fuel, which can not only ensure that it is not extinguished for hundreds of years, but also cause a wonderful flame to sing when burning------ Manichaean Cult is also known as the "Holy Fire Cult", these believers believe that as long as they find the eternal flame, they can also get eternal life under the protection of the Manichaean goddess. Mo'er bit her lip vigorously, with suppressed anger on her face.

"Do you mean that the extinction of the 'freshwater mermaid' in the Aegean continent is because of the Manichaean Cult ......" Golini shivered twice, unable to say any more.

"The Manichaean cult was a smash hit sect at the time, and all kinds of temples dedicated to the goddess Mani were built all over the continent, and although the mermaids of Thea could not be provoked, the 'freshwater mermaids' hiding in the lakes could afford to be provoked. In order to inherit the eternal flame, the entire continent has triggered a frenzy of hunting and killing 'freshwater mermaids'. Mo'er sighed: "Since the Aegean Continent Water Tribes belong to the Beamon Kingdom, the 'Freshwater Mermaid' has no strong warriors to protect itself at all, although the talent of the water system spell is superb, but the extreme disadvantage of the number and the madness of the national movement made the 'Freshwater Mermaid' finally come to the heart of life." “

"But... Why don't these 'freshwater mermaids' escape into the sea through inland rivers? You must know that many rivers in the Aegean continent lead to the sea! As long as they reach the sea, won't they be able to find their own people and ensure their safety? One of the priestesses asked curiously.

"My child, the salt concentration in the sea is very high, and the fresh water is not salty, whether it is a sea tribe or an aquarium, there is no problem to enter unfamiliar waters in the short term, but after a long time, it will definitely not be able to love, this is like the mammoth clan living in the ice and snow with their bare buttocks, and we can't stay long in Taimur to find Ya Snow Mountain in leather jackets." Liu's shocking erudition made the priestess nod suddenly.