Prologue
Athens, Greece. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The night was already deep, and the cool breeze rose from the Aegean Sea and blew thousands of miles onto the Acropolis, making the air a little cooler, and no longer the dry heat of the day.
If one were to patrol the six caryatids of the temple of Erechtheion, they would surely find a figure pacing back and forth at the foot of the tall and majestic caryatids, seemingly anxious.
Slightly strangely, the man was a little thin, wearing a Taoist robe, and holding a handful of dust in his hand.
Every time he paced to the end and was about to turn around, he glanced at the base of the wall at the foot of the caryatids, where for some reason there was a hole in the ground, pitch black, and he could faintly see that there was a staircase leading down, and around the hole was a circle of yellow paper, on which were painted blood-red crooked symbols.
The man in the robe glanced there, found that there was still no movement, sighed, then turned around and continued to pace in the other direction, back and forth, although he was anxious, he could only wait.
When he was once again closest to the entrance of the cave, he seemed to hear a strange sound coming from the cave, what seemed to be the low roar of a wild beast.
He was a little pleased, and stopped and looked at the entrance of the cave excitedly.
In a moment, the roar became clearer, with a few human voices in between.
Listening to the human voice, which seemed to be full of anger, he was even more happy, waving the dust in his hand, and grabbing the beast hair at the end of the tail with the other hand, showing a nervous look again.
At this moment of joy and sorrow, the temperature in the air was a little lower, and the cold wind blew out of the cave, revealing a hint of cold breath. The frost crept up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon the outer walls of the temple were covered in a thin layer.
The man hugged his shoulders with his arms and rubbed it a few times, but he still didn't do anything, but at the critical moment, he didn't dare to use his skills to keep warm, for fear of missing the big event later, so he could only endure the cold.
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"Seal the hole!" The man in the hunting suit followed the woman, and as soon as he leaned out of the tunnel, he hurriedly shouted at the man in the robe.
As soon as he finished speaking, a black mist appeared behind him, and a sharp claw stretched out from the black mist, and with the momentum of ten thousand jun, he was about to poke towards the hunter man.
Seeing that the sharp claw was about to grab the brim of the hunter's hat, it hit the barrier at the entrance of the cave with a "dang" sound, and the force sank, and the stone chips on the temple wall rose and fell.
The figure was blocked, the black mist was very angry, and stretched out a few sharp claws, clenched his fist and smashed it on the enchantment at the entrance of the cave, the sound of "dangdang" was endless, and every time the place where the fist fell would ripple in a circle, but the enchantment was unbreakable.
The fist of the black mist here smashed hard, and the debris on the wall fell in a row, but the yellow rune paper pasted at the entrance of the cave was firmly stuck on it, without a trace of meaning to fall. These are the sources of the barrier that blocks the black mist, and the man in the robe must have used some special method to fix these talismans on the wall.
"This prohibition is not enough, watch me add a little fierceness to it." After the man in the robe finished speaking to the two who were gasping for breath, he pinched a trick with his left hand, waved the dust with his right hand, put the beast hair on his left arm, closed his eyes, and recited words in his mouth.
After reciting the incantation, he suddenly opened his eyes, pointed forward with the sword in his left hand, and shouted: "The talisman seal has a spirit, and the seal spirit is away from the fire array, get up!" ”
After that, a pattern resembling a spider web suddenly lit up on the ground in front of the cave, and upon closer inspection, it was possible to discern that the lines that formed the spider web were actually strange runic patterns. When the talismans lit up, they swam on the ground as if they were alive, and after a few circles around the center of the cobweb, they squirmed towards the entrance of the cave. At first, it was very slow, but after the first runic seal pattern climbed the wall, the speed suddenly increased, and the hole was encircled in an instant.
As soon as the seal spirit was separated from the fire array, the originally colorless, formless and transparent enchantment also lit up together, shining brightly at the entrance of the cave along with the three of them, revealing a slightly convex shape in the middle.
The hunter nodded reservedly and teased: "It's a bit of a blockbuster cool visual experience, but I don't know how the effect is, is it amazing?" ”
The man in the robe smiled and said word by word: "Powerful~harm~?~?" Brother Fang, you have gone to the word "?", if you can't cure this exponential haze, I will have your surname. ”
Black Mist seemed to understand the Dao robed man's words, and was very resentful that he had compared himself to the haze, and roared angrily, and those sharp claws all converged in one place, turning into a huge fist, slamming into the glimmering enchantment.
"Knock~~" There was an earth-shattering loud noise, and the black mist's punch shook the ground, but the enchantment was still immovable, and the temple didn't know what material it was built with, but it also withstood this blow, and it was still just falling down.
However, because the qi machine was connected to the enchantment, the man in the Taoist robe was somewhat forced, his body shook, his throat was sweet, and he spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Yi Zhou!" The two of them, who had been watching the excitement from the side, were shocked and cried out, and the man in the hunting suit reacted faster, ran to the man's side, and held his crumbling body.
"It's okay, the backlash during the formation, just spit out this mouthful of blood." The man in the Taoist robe named Yi Zhou stood up straight with the arm of the man in the hunting suit, wiped the residual blood at the corner of his mouth with his wide cuffs, looked at the two people with a concerned face, and said with a smile: "Brother Fang, sister-in-law Fang, it's not the first time for me to fight this time, are you still so nervous?" ”
The man in the hunting suit didn't look over, didn't look at the man in the robe, and said softly: "Jiang Yizhou, my mouth is not clean, it's disgusting." ”
The robed man's body shook again.
Steady, he pointed to the hole in the wall and diverted the subject: "You see, it worked. As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a roar from the cave, and the three of them looked at it, and it turned out that the end of the fist of the black mist smashed on the enchantment ignited a cyan flame, and it was in pain and wanted to retract it, but the fist was firmly sucked on the enchantment, unable to move.
The cyan flames slowly spread, burning more and more, and the black mist cried out in pain, but no matter how much they struggled, it was to no avail.
"Hmph, stick to the fire, it will never be extinguished if you don't burn you out, weren't you arrogant just now? Let's show the master another arrogant one. Jiang Yizhou's face was pale, and he shook off the dust in a good manner, but he was still angry about the black fog punch just now.
The black mist ignored Jiang Yizhou's provocation, but surged at an extremely fast speed, separating the part that caught fire from the main body.
The detached part was quickly burned out, and the cyan flames on the black mist flying in the air struggled a few times, and were unwillingly extinguished.
Jiang Yizhou's mouth seemed to be stuck with an ostrich egg, and he couldn't close it for a long time, he turned his head to look at the man in hunting costumes, and asked in a daze: "Brother Fang, this product is really foggy?" ”
The hunter-dressed man shrugged: "Otherwise? ”
"I thought it was just a trick, and the monster didn't want us to see it for what it really was." Jiang Yizhou reached out from his wide sleeve, rubbed his chin, and his expression was quite serious, "Master Dao, I have been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for so many years, and it is the first time I have seen PM2.5 into essence, and the aura of this foreign country is so peculiar?" ”
"It should just be the demonic power that emanates, there is a very large consciousness in the dungeon, but it is sealed, and only a part of the demonic power overflows." The woman, who had been silent, thought for a moment and spoke, her voice very nice.
"Good girl, how powerful this demon should be." Jiang Yizhou sighed.
The three of them were still struggling with the origin of this black mist, but the scene in the cave had changed again. Because of the fear of that, the black mist no longer rushed forward, but another burst of extreme speed, and a huge eye came to them, staring at them coldly. After looking at it for a while, he closed his eyes, and slowly dissipated along with the giving.
"How do I feel that last glance is going to say, 'I remember you, don't leave if you have the ability, I'll call someone'?" The Dao-robed man opened his mouth and asked.
The woman nodded to show her sympathy, but the man in the hunting suit looked indifferent and sat down cross-legged: "I'm tired, I have to rest." Then he said to the robed man: "What, are you afraid?" ”
"Afraid of hair!" Jiang Yizhou patted his chest, saw the hunter in the hunting suit turn out a stone from his pocket, forcibly stopped the cowhide that was about to blurt out, and leaned over curiously: "This is what you got from below, didn't you say that it was a golden apple, how did it become a broken stone?" There was inevitably disappointment in his tone.
It was no wonder that he was disappointed, the man in the hunting suit was just an ordinary almost spherical stone in terms of color, shape and texture, probably because of the clammy and cold in the dungeon, and there was moss on it.
The man in the hunting costume turned over the stone in his hand, glanced at Jiang Yizhou, and said angrily: "What do you know?" Is it golden? This is indeed one of the 'Fire Stealers' shards, collect all seven shards and summon the Fire Stealer. ”
"Can the Fire Stealer grant any of the Collector's wishes?" Jiang Yizhou swallowed his saliva and asked tentatively.
"Yi Zhou, to be honest, did you look at my notebook again?" The hunter man put away the stone and asked with a pretended serious expression.
"Then this is not called the Golden Apple, it should be called the Dragon Ball." This time it was Jiang Yizhou's turn to roll his eyes.
The man in the hunting suit didn't stop it, and laughed out loud: "I've watched too much island animation, my brain is so big." Watch less in the future. ”
"Don't you watch it too?" Jiang Yizhou expressed dissatisfaction.
The man in the suit ignored him, took out the stone called the golden apple, and sighed, "I don't know if we can summon the Fire Stealer, but it can really help us unlock the secret we've been seeking." ”
"How do you untie it?" The woman who had been beside him looked a little lonely, sat beside him, and shook his hand.
"First of all, we need a key." A sinister smile appeared on the hunter's face.
Jiang Yizhou has been unable to adapt to his seamless expression switching like a face-changing, and he couldn't help but shudder when he looked at his gloomy expression.
However, the woman was vigilant, straightened her waist, and punched him: "Fang Xiang, I warn you, if you dare to experiment with your baby son, I will not finish with you." ”
Fang Xiang, that is, the man in the hunting costume changed his flattering expression and coaxed: "Who said that I was going to experiment with my son, don't guess." ”
"You swear." The woman expressed disbelief.
"I'll send four." Fang Xiang raised four fingers.
"That's pretty much it." After the woman finished speaking, she leaned back on him again.
"I said Brother Fang and sister-in-law Fang, although it is not in broad daylight now, but it is also a rare moon star, you are so blatant to show affection, are you not afraid of abusing my single dog?" Seeing that the two of them were snuggling up to each other, and hated that they couldn't sit until the sea was dry and the rocks were rotten, Jiang Yizhou coughed lightly and interrupted them with a loud voice.
Fang Xiang turned his head and saw his sad and angry expression, which was more serious than the internal injury, so he patted the woman's back and said softly: "It's time to go back, or it's dawn, by the way, wife, there are still red dates, right?" Go back and then boil and drink for Yi Zhou to replenish his blood. ”
The woman nodded.
"Isn't it, still drinking? I've been drinking it for a month, and my farts now smell like red dates. Jiang Yizhou had a bitter face, and while complaining, he walked to the wall of the temple and slapped down a brick on it, and the wall moved in response to the sound and slowly closed the hole.
"Don't drink? Then don't follow me next time. The two walked in front, Fang Xiang didn't look back, and a cruel word floated over from afar.
"No, we can still discuss." After taking the talisman seal that was pasted around the entrance of the cave before, Jiang Yizhou straightened his entire robe and trotted after him.
The three of them left, and the silence of the temple was restored, but another figure walked out from behind the temple, looked at the three people who walked away, and then looked at the statue of the girl in front of the temple, and grinned silently, the corners of his mouth grinning all the way to the root of his ears.
The statue on the roof of the temple was silent, calmly staring into the distance, as it had been for thousands of years.