Qin Zheng moved his mind to put the gem into the main god space, and he was a little puzzled by Hill's abnormality. し

"The task we took on was simply an impossible task, and their goal was not Amethyst, but the Life Diamond!" Hill looked around at his companions, his voice was so fast that he couldn't hear clearly, and he gave the order without hesitation: "Let's leave the Amethyst Forest!" Everyone was very tired, and after hearing the order, they didn't hesitate at all, and they all cheered up and set off immediately.

Hill blessed them with the Wind Walking Technique, making their bodies as light as fallen leaves, and alleviating the pain caused by extreme fatigue, Qin Zheng led Hawkeye and the others to the edge of the forest again.

Charles didn't hear clearly just now, and couldn't help but ask Hill, "The gem that the leader was holding in his hand just now is the Life Diamond?"

When everyone heard the Treasure of Life, greed flashed in their eyes, but more worry.

There is a legend in the continent of Landis that whoever gets the Life Diamond has eternal life and is no longer afraid of the threat of death. People's thirst for life transcends all else, and they are always looking for ways to obtain eternal life, and even can start wars at will in order to compete for the ownership of the Diamond of Life.

This is not a gem that ordinary people can enjoy at all, and if others know that the Life Treasure Diamond has fallen into their hands, I am afraid it will cause countless troubles.

"I wouldn't mistake the Diamond of Life. Hill said with a complicated expression.

Qin Zheng had a flash of inspiration, and finally remembered where he had seen this gem, and his far-reaching memory gradually became clear.

In my memory - the day when Hou An succeeded to the throne of the Rising Sun was celebrated by the whole country, tens of thousands of people flocked to the square to worship, and at the grand coronation ceremony, the Pope of the Rising Sun personally placed the crown of the Holy King on his head and awarded him the scepter. All fanatical eyes were focused on the new Holy King, and his subjects cheered and went crazy for him, but few people paid attention to the old Pope on the sidelines.

Hearing that the Rising Sun Pope was nearly two hundred years old, Qin Zheng paid more attention to him. From Hou An's mouth, he learned that the Pope needed to pay for his life to perform the Great Prophecy Technique, which could only be performed once or twice with the limited life of human beings, and that he was able to continue his life because of the life diamond set on his head. The reason why Hou An mentioned these things was that he was very greedy for the life treasure diamond, and secondly, he wanted to show off in front of his friends as a talking point, but this rare treasure was owned by the Pope, so he just talked about it with laughter.

Looking back now, Hou An may not really be greedy for the treasure diamond of life, after all, he is very young, far from the age of death. The person who is really obsessed with greed is the helmsman behind the scenes of the Hou family, and it is also at the cost of life to win luck through the method of clever calculations, how can he not be tempted by the life treasure diamond that extends life?

The memories of the past couldn't help but arouse more questions in Qin Zheng's heart: How could the Life Treasure Diamond appear here? Why did Hill's face change so much after recognizing the Life Diamond? Could it be that the key that he didn't know was missing in the middle?

"We've been taken advantage of!" Hill's annoyed voice interrupted Qin Zheng's memories and startled the others. "When I first received the task, I felt that something was wrong, and when I arrived in the center of the Amethyst Forest and saw the deep pit, I should have thought of it. The temple was too harsh on us Landisians, not only monitoring our every move, but also restricting our range of activities, and finally treating us as pawns. ”

The crowd fell silent, and in addition to the sound of heavy breathing, stumbling footsteps, and the sound of boots rubbing against weeds, it was as if something was shattering in their chests. They suffered so much and almost lost their lives for this trip, and this result is really unacceptable.

Hill walked lightly through the trees and bushes, the glow of the crystalline light illuminating his beautiful face, half pale and half gloomy. "Maybe after crossing that door, he didn't plan to let us go back to Lantis. ”

"it!" Buck suddenly shouted, looking very agitated, tears wet his eyes. "Broken promises! They promised us! We're mercenaries and not brain-rotten ascetics, what do they think of us? Fuck him!"

Buck's crying infected everyone present, and he felt that the air in the forest had become more humid and dull, making people more and more unable to suppress the irritability and anger in their hearts.

As a good friend of Buck, Rex felt very uncomfortable, ran around a big tree to Buck's side, followed his footsteps and persuaded him: "Calm down, Hill saw through the conspiracy and didn't say that we can't go back." Besides......" raised his eyes to stare at Qin Zheng's back in front of him, and swallowed a mouthful of dry spit. "Besides, it is an oath and a promise that we follow the leader, we are the Lantis Eagle, destined to fly in the sky until the end of our lives. ”

"Eagle!" I don't know who said with a rough breath.

"Eagle!"

Soon more people responded, repeating monotonously after another, an invisible, condensed force breaking through the darkness of the night.

"Ciel," Qin Zheng couldn't figure out the crux of the problem, and desperately wanted to find a breakthrough. "What did you think of just now?"

"The task we received from the Temple of the Twilight Moon should be a kind of temptation by the Twilight Pope to the Pope of the Rising Sun. Ciel took a few deep breaths to ease the suffocation in his chest and continued, "If the people of the Temple of the Rising Sun were aware that we had been to the great pit in the heart of the forest, they would definitely do something...... Let's assume that if they find out that the rock-eating insects are dead in our hands, we will not live to the dawn...... How far is it?" His stamina had dropped so much that his mana was running out, and he was worried that his remaining strength would not be able to support his escape from the forest.

Qin Zheng tried to digest Hill's speculation, as if he had caught something all at once, and said absentmindedly: "It's already at the edge, and you can see War Song City when you go out." ”

"Good luck to us. Hill muttered.

At this moment, a blinding bright light shone down from the sky, without warning, overshadowing the light of the crystal, illuminating the dark woodland in a dead white, flickering a few times and disappearing, as if it had never appeared.

Just as Qin Zheng opened his mouth to say something, a dull rumbling thunder sounded endlessly in the distance, and the torrential rain followed. Bean-sized raindrops hit the leaves with a crackling sound, and the dense popping sound was like the beating of a drum by an army, and the sound of the rain flooded every inch of the land.

The sudden rainstorm made everyone's exhausted bodies no longer have an advantage with the help of the Wind Walking Technique, and their speed slowed down, their legs were deep in the mud, and it was difficult to move an inch. "That's not a good sign......" Randall's murmur quickly drowned out in the rain. He stopped, bent down, knelt in the muddy water, gasping for air, wiping the rain from his face with his hands, and the more rain flowed down the lineline that captivated his eyes, and poured down the bridge of his nose into the depression under his feet and mingled with the muddy water.

Qin Zheng found that Randall had fallen behind, so he stopped and gasped, the rain soaked the cloak, and the wet hair and clothes were tightly attached to his body, which was indescribably uncomfortable, and he raised his hand and pointed to Randall and said, "Hold on, there is still a mile to go." After running for more than an hour, I felt a little overwhelmed physically, and vaguely felt that Hill was right, and he was about to grasp the key.

One mile was more than five hundred and forty yards, and everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, hoping to make them have the strength to prop up their legs out of thin air and continue to move forward.

At the same time, in the center of the Amethyst Forest, four indistinct white shadows stood upright at the edge of the pit.

The huge open-pit was about a hundred feet in diameter, as dark as a portal to hell, and the torrential rain was pouring down, and lightning flashed overhead, illuminating the silhouette of the shadows, revealing four men in white cloaks.

"This is it. The old man stretched out his withered finger and pointed to the pit in front of him.

One of them pulled his soaked hood, revealing the face of a teenager. With a fair complexion and a delicate appearance, he looked up at the gray-black sky and let the cold rain fall on his face. "This rain...... It couldn't have come at a better time. He muttered, a thick exhaustion on his brow, for it had just arrived at the place when it began to rain, and the yellowish-brown cloudy rain poured into the pit like a waterfall, making it difficult to carry out the plan that had been made.

"It's easy to get sick after a long time in the autumn rain, so let's find a place to take shelter and wait for the rain to stop. ”

After the white-robed old man finished speaking, regardless of whether the three of them listened or not, he turned around with his cane and walked towards the foliage of the big tree, where the terrain was high and the vegetation was abundant, which was a good place to stay.

The three of them followed behind the old man as he said, the rainstorm came and went quickly, and this time was just the right time to take a break to recover the overdrawn physical strength.

The old man leaned his cane against the tree, took off his soaked cloak and wrung it out with his hands little by little, then shook off the cloak and asked as he wore it, "Is His Majesty the Pope alright?"

A person walked out behind the young man, pulled down his hood to reveal a middle-aged man's face, his eyes were sharp, his cheekbones were high, his face was thin and narrow, and he respectfully bent down and saluted the old man: "Return to the priest, Your Majesty's condition is very bad, we have come to pick fruits for Your Majesty this time, and we hope that the priest will help you one or two." ”

The old man didn't immediately express his position, and pointed at the young man with his cane and said, "The first level of the Martial Sect, do you know how to write the four words of self-immeasurance?"

The young man's cheeks were slightly reddened and showed a little embarrassment, and he lowered his eyes and replied respectfully: "Lord Priest, under the surname Hou, a single name and an character, as a candidate for the Rising Sun Saint King, this time I came here-"

"I don't care what your name is," the old man waved his cane lightly, unceremoniously interrupted Hou An's later words, and said with a normal face: "I have seen too many candidates for the Holy King, so many that I can't remember it clearly, let go of my shriveled brain, I would rather remember some beautiful scenery that can at least make me happy." ”

Hou An smiled stiffly and did not speak again. The priest was so highly regarded by His Majesty the Pope that he spoke harshly, and even if he was angry, he did not dare to show it, and he could not afford to provoke him, so he stood silently and listened to the conversation between the priest and the deacon.

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