Chapter 249: A New Discovery
"Look, it's the Guard!"
Just as Ye Nuan and Moxi were chatting, they were suddenly interrupted by a commotion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ye Nuan's eyes moved out instantly, and sure enough, in front of the crowd, she saw those figures that made her look familiar. It's not that she's familiar with those people, but she's just familiar with their appearance, the beastly human form, almost no different from the alien orc warriors she's ever seen.
These people have a chilling momentum on them, like a sharp sword that has been sharpened. Although they have suffered some injuries to a greater or lesser extent, the deterrent effect on their bodies has not diminished. As soon as I entered the temple, the originally bustling room instantly quieted down, and the falling needles could be heard.
I saw that the guards patrolled the temple with cold eyes, and after a while, they seemed to be sure of safety, and then they separated, revealing the central figure who was guarded inside.
"Ah, it's the priestβ"
"Oh my Godβ"
When countless people exclaimed that they were lucky to meet the priest of Vato City, the monks of the temple stepped forward, but their expressions were not as happy as those of the other civilians, but with a sense of worry.
"Lord Priest, please come here!" After a slight pause for a few seconds, the head of the monks said.
Then the group moved away from the eyes of others and went to the temple's meditation hall, as if they wanted to discuss something important. Ye Nuan's eyes narrowed slightly, not wanting to miss the story inside, and soon released his divine sense to chase after him.
"Priest, why did you ...... this time?"
An old monk with gray eyebrows had been sitting quietly in the hall for a long time, and when he saw the priest and the people who were following him, his eyes sank in an instant, and he asked slowly.
"This beast tide is too strange, and the losses of the avant-garde in the past few months are too serious, and the people behind have no time to make up for it, and there is no one available in Vato City now. It is really helpless to use this group of guards. The priest replied quickly.
His appearance is actually not prominent, a face with a not clear outline, thick eyebrows, hump nose, short eyebrows and eyes, no matter how you look at it, it is a more loyal face, but it is the thin lips that give him a sense of shrewdness. This priest's age is not too big, he looks like a human middle-aged, Ye Nuan can't judge the age of the alien orc yet, but judging by the strength of his vitality, this priest in Vato City is still in his prime. However, hearing his slightly heavy tone, Ye Nuan, who was hiding in the crowd in the distance and snooping with his divine sense, couldn't help frowning.
"What's going on outside the city now? Have you figured out the reason for the beast's early siege? The old monk asked worriedly. Although they were in the temple, they still knew a little about the situation inside the city of Vato, but when it came to the outer city, they no longer had the ability to go there to check it, so they could only ask the priests who had returned from outside.
Seeing the middle-aged priest, he shook his head and said, "Don't be optimistic, half of the original guards and samurai have already been killed or wounded, if we hadn't returned in time, the East City Gate would have been almost lost." If the situation is more serious, I will have to let the guards take action. β
Being in the inner city, Ye Nuan didn't know that the situation in Vato City was already so serious, they were now protected by a temple, but if the entire Vato City was lost, she didn't think that those wild beasts would let go of the people in this city. It's just that the guards in the priest's mouth are those who have the form of beasts? If, according to Messi, those people were originally orcs, and they could only transform after receiving the divine power of the priest, then what is the so-called divine power? Ye Nuan was very curious, and always felt that this was related to the future fate of the alien orcs, and only by figuring out the relationship between these things and those alien orcs who had wandered to the earth, could she return to the earth plane.
Just listening to the priest's words, the old monk was very opposed, "No, the mad beast is extraordinary, even if it has a human form, it will inevitably be injured." Once the tipping point is crossed, other natural people will die, and you may also be counterattacked. β
"There's no way, we can't wait for other reinforcements to arrive."
"But ......"
"We're fighting on our backs, and now I'm here just to let you take care of those natural people." The priest's words were irrefutable, and the old monk was silent for a while and could only nod.
After that, Ye Nuan saw that these people who had just come to the temple left the temple without looking back, and those natural people who were left behind looked a little anxious, and were placed in another secluded corner by the monks of the temple, and it just so happened that there was only a stone statue away from Ye Nuan's location.
After hearing the conversation between the priest and the old monk, Ye Nuan felt very surprised, especially when she saw these natural people, she couldn't help but turn her gaze to the Messi next to her.
However, probably knowing Ye Nuan's lack of common sense, Moxi shook his head again and again at the moment when he was targeted by the other party again, "I don't know these natural people, don't ask me." β
Well, Ye Nuan also knew that this salt seller couldn't know too much, and looked at the group of natural people not far away, her expression was slightly restrained, and she probably had to continue to dig deeper into the mystery, so she had to take a risk this time. So she once again separated a few wisps of divine consciousness from the sea of consciousness, and chased after the priest and others who had left before.
After leaving the temple, the humanoids with the form of beasts took out their weapons and surrounded the priests and moved forward. As soon as a beast strikes, the beastly humanoid figure raises its iron sword and slashes at it, or stabs the beast's soft underbelly with a sharp iron spear. Along the way, I don't know how many flying beasts were killed, and the group gradually moved to the city wall.
At the priest's signal, six men stepped out of the group, and then quickly jumped off the wall, swords, and struck. The mad beasts possess endless power, but they lack the use of tools compared to the alien orcs, so they are initially killed by the guardian sword, and finally stop the beast tide from moving forward. It's just that in the back, as the physical strength of the alien orcs decreases, the number of wild beasts continues unabated, and the two sides gradually become stalemate again.
An orc didn't notice it for a while, and was hit in the chest by a python tail more than five meters long, and immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood.
And at this moment, inside the temple, a thin young man suddenly coughed violently, his face was bloody, his hands pressed tightly to his chest, and not only that, but soon, his whole body convulsed, his limbs stiffened, and his eyes were full of pain that could not be concealed.
Seeing the tragic condition of his companion, the others surrounded the man, as if they wanted to help him relieve his pain, but there was nothing they could do. Some natural people were infected by his pain, and their faces turned pale, as if they were trying to echo, and some people began to cry out in pain, and the symptoms were almost the same as the person just now, but the place they covered was not the same, some were chests, some were legs, and some were holding their heads.
Their strange appearance attracted the attention of the people around them, and the temple suddenly buzzed with discussion, but because this group of people had some connection with the priests, they did not dare to approach.
The monks, who had been paying attention to this group of people, quickly ran over when they found the situation, and found that there were people among the natural people who were constantly wailing, and their faces had also changed. Soon after, a white-robed monk with a box on his back hurriedly ran out of the inner courtyard, followed by a young monk carrying a box. After looking around, they soon spotted their target and rushed towards it quickly.
The white-clothed monk was obviously a physician-like existence, but after seeing the symptoms of these natural people, they did not continue to diagnose at all, and the older monk said directly to the young man behind him, "Ata, feed them holy water." β
"Yes." The boy answered, then opened the suitcase, took out a stone bottle inside, poured the liquid into several small cups only three fingers wide, and fed them into the mouths of the natural beings whose bodies began to convulse and whose bodies were covered in cold sweat.
Because it was not far away, Ye Nuan could clearly feel the faint aura in the liquid, and he didn't know if the thing was naturally formed or artificially refined. It is very mild in nature and can improve the vitality of the person after taking it, but it is clear that it does not relieve pain.
Sure enough, although the faces of those natural people returned a little ruddy after taking the liquid, the pain did not diminish in the slightest.
Seeing this, the elder white-clothed monk opened the box he was carrying, and inside were several palm-sized stone bottles, somewhat similar to Ye Nuan's previous small jade bottles, but some gray powder of different colors were poured out inside. Using the so-called 'holy water' to mix a certain percentage of the ash, the white-robed monk smeared the ash one by one between the brows of the natural people.
What was also amazing to Ye Nuan was that after the natural people who were originally wailing were plastered, their voices gradually became smaller, and their faces became more and more peaceful, as if the pain had been withdrawn from their bodies. Could it be that there are any acupuncture points between the eyebrows of the orcs that can relieve pain after being stimulated by drugs?
Ye Nuan didn't know what the specific situation was, but why these natural people suddenly screamed in pain, and she had a faint answer in her heart. For example, the natural person who had the same appearance at the beginning covered his chest in pain, as if he had been hit in the chest, and before that, there happened to be an orc outside the city who was drawn in the chest by a giant python. The source of the suffering of the natural people in the back also seems to correspond to the injured parts of the alien orcs outside the city.
It was clear that the beastly humanoids who fought outside the city had a very intimate connection with the natural people in the temple, and could even share the pain, and if she guessed correctly, they should be contractors, just like Messi and Lunza. But the orcs, who already took on human form, were far more closely related to these natural beings than Messi and Lonza.
If ordinary orc contractors only make contracts in order to communicate with the outside world and survive in the group, then those guards seem to be more for fighting. Two people sharing pain is equivalent to having two lives, and they are indeed invincible on the battlefield. It's just that there are two sides to everything, so what are the disadvantages of such a change?
Of course, Ye Nuan would not ask these questions, but continued to pay attention to the battle situation outside the city.
At this time, there were fewer and fewer orcs around the middle-aged priest, and they had already integrated into the battlefield, struggling to kill those beasts that had already fallen into madness. Although the ancestors of the two clans were once extremely close brothers, as time passed, their clan slowly developed wisdom and constantly activated the abilities in their bloodline, and finally became alien orcs with unique abilities, and those beasts that stood still could only be reduced to their food in the end. This is natural selection, the so-called survival of the fittest.
However, this situation was changed hundreds of years ago, when the royal family and the priests they worshipped suddenly disappeared into thin air, and before they could find the disappeared people, the food that belonged to them began to go crazy. Every once in a while, these beasts would gather together to form a tide of beasts, frantically attacking their cities and preying on their people. And since then, they have not had any alien orcs with human form and beast form born, either natural people with only human form, or orcs with eternal beast bodies, whether it is attack power or creativity, they have plummeted, and the alien orc civilization has declined for a while.
"Ahh
After Ye Nuan saw an orc being bitten off his neck by a mad giant tiger, he found that a person in the temple screamed almost at the same time and swallowed his breath, and he had a ridiculous understanding in his heart.
The true contractors can not only share pain and ability, but more importantly, they also share life and death. It's as if each other is each other, but with two bodies. How amazing.
Suddenly, Ye Nuan turned his head to look at Moxi, "Why is the contractor called the contractor?" And why does it exist? β
Messi was stunned when he heard this, but quickly reacted and replied, "Hundreds of years ago, the royal family and priests all disappeared, and the only person with the ability to approach the priest received a foreshadowing from heaven after contributing the divine power of his whole body, saying that the alien orc clan would have a great disaster, and if I want my clan to survive forever, I must let the natural person and the orc establish a contract, and since then the orc continent has a contract order." How exactly it works depends on the bloodline inheritance, and I can't explain it. β
Ye Nuan frowned, she had never seen such a situation before, and even the memories of the three ghosts had no effect, so she could only explore it by herself.
After thinking about it, Ye Nuan could only take the risk of pouring his spiritual power into the natural person who had died, and the other spiritual power could drill into the orc whose neck had been bitten off, so that he could quickly find some clues. However, such a decision is not a small risk for Ye Nuan, because using mental power to search other people's bodies and souls requires complete concentration, and if there is an external attack at this time, she has no way to resist it. And the damage to her mental power is far more difficult to repair than the physical damage, but she can only take advantage of the current research on the relationship between natural humans and orcs.
However, this kind of monitoring method gets quite little feedback, the alien orcs are not the same as humans, the human body dies and the soul does not disappear at the same time, and even the soul may live forever without the body, but the moment the alien orcs die, their souls also fall and disappear into the entire universe, there is no reincarnation, and dying is really dead. (To be continued.) )