In the dilapidated bell tower somewhere in the Tianlan royal capital,

At the moment when White was killed by Raymond, an old man with gray hair slowly opened his eyes in a wheelchair.

He lifted his eyelids, his brow furrowed slightly.

Eight Gothic enamel wall clocks hung on the walls, the one at the very edge that had suddenly stopped at that moment.

The old man pondered for a moment, and then said to the empty house,

"NO.9's life card is broken, go check on those people he has been in contact with recently."

"Yes."

The air rippled, as if a transparent figure flashed.

After the old man in the wheelchair said this, he slowly closed his eyes again, enjoying the warm sunlight comfortably, and he could faintly hear him muttering: "No captain-level person has been sacrificed for many years, and the Black Sea seems to be very lively recently..."

.....

The scene cuts back to the underground ruins of the Nigel Volcano.

Raymond kills White and begins to pack up the loot.

He gathered all the trophies on the more than a dozen corpses in this temple, which was the main team equipment of an entire high-level mercenary group, which was large and sophisticated. What daggers, longbows, swords, armor, staves, elite chain mail, enchanted inner armor... In the game, these pieces of equipment can be sold for a sky-high price.

However, for Raymond now, these things are too professional and can not be used much.

The only thing that made him feel comfortable playing was the sword of um Dashao's swordsman guard, a famous sword [Aoyagi] equivalent to [Tiger]. The sword body is slender like a willow branch, full of appearance, sharp and not weak.

However, he can only look at this sword now, and he doesn't dare to wear it with him.

Famous swords are all unique, and when you take them out, others can immediately know who the previous owner of this sword is.

After all, the murder is still unshakable.

The behemoth of the Giant Whale Chamber of Commerce is innumerable in the Black Sea, and it will be very troublesome if Raymond's killing of um is really exposed. Unless he can escape from the Black Sea, he will face a never-ending pursuit.

The last thing Raymond cleaned up was the corpse of um in the bug pile.

"Huh... Is this the Hexspace Ring? ”

He took his sword and picked away the disgusting pile of colorful insects, and found a storage ring on the finger of um on his left hand.

He wasn't interested in the bottles and jars that kept insects inside, but he found something very interesting in the ring.

A closed test tube containing an unidentified green liquid.

The True Eye probed and revealed such a row of information.

【Ackermann pathogen】

Explanation: Highly contagious mysterious virus;

"The Whale Chamber of Commerce would have this thing?"

Raymond looked at the virus tank in his hand and vaguely felt as if he had discovered some huge secret. He only knew that spreading the virus in the Black Sea was the plan of the world government, but he did not know who was the black hand who spread the virus in Philip Territory in the first place.

But now... What did he see?

There is such a pot of pathogens in the space ring of the eldest young master of the Giant Whale Chamber of Commerce!

"The time of the place where Suzanne got the treasure from the fat man's mouth should be when she was on the ferry... This um was able to rush to Poison Island in advance to lay an ambush, and he must have been near the Nigel Volcanic Islands before..."

"The guard on the surface is the Wind Wolf Mercenary Group, but it's actually a hidden captain of CP9..."

"So, this young man didn't come here specifically for the relics, but he had other things to do. Like what... Who's going to give this virus tank..."

Raymond's eyes rolled, normal people would never put such a can of dangerous virus that could infect them at any time by their side, so who did he want to hand it over?

Thinking of this, he carefully rummaged through um in the storage ring, and sure enough, he saw a secret letter.

There is no text on MeSign, and when it opens, it is a map of the Black Sea marked with a red cross.

None of the red crosses on the map have a ship island sign with the name of the territory.

"Maple Leaf Territory, Black Mountain Territory, Marco Territory... Does the red cross indicate any special meaning to these territories? ”

Raymond first looked at the coordinates of these territories, most of them were remote territories in the Black Sea, and he didn't understand the meaning of this secret letter for a while.

But suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately thought of something.

"That's not right! These territories... It seems that they are all territories that the revolutionary army has secretly controlled in recent years! ”

At the beginning, Raymond and Chapman chatted about the situation in the Black Sea, and also roughly mentioned the development direction of the Black Sea Revolutionary Army in recent years. The territories marked on the map were the areas where the revolutionary army had infiltrated most thoroughly.

"Could it be that ... The plague in Philip's collar last time was the ghost of the Giant Whale Chamber of Commerce? These guys are now ready to do it again and spread the virus in other areas? ”

Thinking of this, Raymond's face became a little gloomy, and he realized in his heart: "No wonder someone would spend such a large price to let those gangsters and hooligans traffick corpses into Philip's collar, it turned out that the Giant Whale Chamber of Commerce was doing it!" ”

"So... This um is also here to prepare for the task of spreading the virus? Who's going to take on this task..."

I thought about it for a long time to no avail.

......

Raymond packed up the loot from his corpse and cautiously searched the temple ruins, trying his luck to see if he could find a legacy such as the arcane secret method.

I didn't have time to take a closer look at the fierce battle before,

At this time, he found that there was a row of brightly colored and very well-preserved frescoes at the bottom of the altar. The ink on the mural glows in the firelight, giving it the hazy feeling of watching a 3D movie with the naked eye.

But looking at it, the vision on the mural suddenly appeared.

"This mural is so magical?"

Raymond focused his gaze on the mural, and found that the focus of his gaze was becoming clearer and clearer, as if it made people feel like they were there. The visual senses in front of you are like wearing VR glasses, allowing people to clearly see every scene in the mural.

He can even change his perspective at will and see any detail he wants to see.

Turning his gaze away, his vision immediately returned to normal, and the system did not indicate that he was under any mind control.

"Perhaps... Is there some kind of mysterious heritage hidden in this mural? ”

Thinking of this, Raymond's eyes flashed with joy.

He tried to look at the murals carefully next to each other.

This look,

It uncovers a secret history that has been sealed for thousands of years.

......

"This is the scene when the temple was built?"

Raymond looked at the flowers, walked all the way, and had a rough guess in his heart.

The murals chronicle an ancient civilization that has been buried in the long river of history.

Somewhere in the middle of the mountains, a group of naked slaves dragged and rolled huge blocks of stone from afar, dragging and rolling them with logs. It took them many years to build an imposing temple... Then craftsmen carved the eight huge stones erected in the temple into eight tall stone giants... In the next picture, they built a huge furnace to smelt gold in the mountain, shaping the three-headed and six-armed golden body of the god Nix...

After the temple was built, there was only one picture in the end.

The final scroll depicts a group of devotees dressed in sackcloth prostrate outside the temple praying.

There was only one person in the temple, a woman with a ghost-masked mask and a revered status.

She stood on the altar of the Black Stone and danced the "Dance of Sacrifice"...

......

"Huh... This high priest of the Nix civilization is actually a woman? Also, she was wearing a Mendelo mask? ”

Raymond looked at it with a strange expression.

The text on the fresco clearly states that this is the scene of the high priest worshipping the gods.

This is the wonder of this mural, if he wants to, he can even see the expressions of everyone in the painting.

At this moment, he looked intently, and he could clearly see that the mysterious totem painted on the back of the unobtrusive high priest was shining with purple light...

The Knicks civilization is a tribal slave civilization, and the priest is the highest status of the tribe, like the living king. And only eight of the countless priests were able to personally contact the gods and obtain the existence of oracles, and they were called "high priests"!

"Aren't the high priests in the few episodes revealed in the game information all men?"

Raymond smacked his lips.

"The Mendro clan is actually the bloodline inherited by the High Priest of the Knicks? The Mendelo mask is an exclusive ritual vessel for the High Priest? ”

Raymond looked at the row of ancient Knicks recorded behind, and his face became a little complicated.

He remembered that the player who got the mask in the game had triggered another ancient civilization in the Black Sea, and then handed over the mask to gain some inheritance. But now it seems that this Mendro curse mask is involved in the inheritance of a certain high priest of the Knicks, and the hidden quest line that can be unearthed is definitely not that simple!

"No wonder... This mask also has a [Divine Blessing] attribute..."Raymond swallowed, looking at the last recorded passage on the mural, and a cold sweat immediately hit his forehead.

"Those who are not high priests, trespassing on temples, are cursed to die!"

It is no wonder that after the temple was built, no one on the mural except for the mask-wearing high priest ever stepped into the temple, and even when he prayed, he knelt outside the temple.

It turned out to be a curse?

Thinking of the scene where White's people danced before, could it be because of the curse?

"And this temple is actually the temple of inheritance where the high priest lives... The 'Mountain Turtle Temple', one of the eight legacy temples of the Knicks period in the game expansion? ”

Raymond felt that his brain was a little insufficient.

The "Eight Temples" was just the official slogan of the game, after all, the entire Knicks civilization has disappeared.

But now there is a complete "Mountain Turtle Temple", one of the eight major temples, in front of him.

"I'm now... What to do? ”

Now Raymond felt a little embarrassed by his situation.

If you don't know the details of this temple, it is estimated that it is useless for him to ignore, and maybe he will really cut off the golden body with three heads and six arms.

But now I know that this is one of the eight major temples...

His instinct immediately made him understand that nothing here could be touched!

To put it mildly, even if there is really any inheritance here, it is not an existence that his current strength can touch at all. In the game, this situation has countless bloody lessons. Low-level accidental transcendents trigger high-level plots, and the chance of dying when triggered is extremely high!

Reason told him that if he didn't wear a Mendelo mask now, he would probably die a long time ago.

"You can't go home empty-handed, can you?"

Raymond was a little unwilling, and looked up at the three-headed and six-armed golden body in the center of the altar, and now he really felt like he had gone deep into Baoshan, but he was going to return empty-handed.

Just when he was still struggling, he suddenly turned his head sharply.

Because, just then, he heard the sound of water!

"What fell into that pool?! Could it be that there are monsters? ”

Hearing this, Raymond's heart rose with great vigilance.

Now he is a living person in this temple, a pool of stagnant water, how can there be the sound of water?

Click, the sword is unsheathed.

With a wary face, he slowly retreated and half-walked in the direction of the exit, and if something was wrong, he would immediately rush into the corridor.

But when he had just walked around the altar and looked into the distance, and saw the waterhole, his face froze again.

Because at this time, he looked at a pile of women's clothes by the waterhole, and when he looked closely, he was very familiar.

"Isn't that what Ilya's girl is wearing?"

The corners of Raymond's eyes twitched, and he suddenly had a bad premonition.

I'm afraid that the two brothers and sisters can't help but want to come down to hunt for treasure, and then they are controlled by that mysterious spiritual power... Committed suicide by diving?

"That's not right... If you commit suicide by jumping into the water, why do you take off your clothes? ”

Raymond thought about it again, his face became very strange again, and he didn't dare to rush forward.

But if it's really Ilya's girl who fell into the cold pool, she can save it, so she can save it.

Thinking of this, he overtook the Shenmu puppet and slowly approached Hantan.

But before I could take a few steps, suddenly the pool of water rolled, as if some monster had emerged from the water...

Raymond was startled, and just as he wanted to run away, he watched a head emerge from the water, and then the familiar and pretty face came into view again.

If you look closely, who is the girl who is not Ilya?

But at this moment, she didn't have a playful look on her face, her expression was solemn, and her face was three points cooler than the water in the cold pool.

"Did she really go down to take a shower?"

Raymond didn't want to describe the cold pool outside the temple so popularly, but the cold pool in front of him really seemed to be like a bathhouse, and there were even steps.

He watched in amazement as Ilya's girl slowly walked up from the pool, and with each step she stepped up, her body exposed a little more of the water... First the head, then the slender neck, then the collarbone, the chest, the lower abdomen, and finally the slender legs and bare feet.

But in three or two breaths, the girl walked out naked.

"Could it be that this girl is..."

Suddenly, Raymond's face changed, and he stared intently at Ilya not far away.

He didn't look at this girl's body, but looked at the mysterious and complicated totems that slowly emerged on her skin. If he remembered correctly, on the mural just now, he looked at the totem on the high priest's body like this!

"Ilya, this girl is the Nyx High Priest Inheritance?"

Raymond didn't dare to move, looked at the scene in front of him in a daze, and muttered, "It's not so coincidental..."

He immediately remembered the ancient spell that had been whispered in someone's ear when he opened the door of the ruins. Before, he thought it was the magic ban of a certain ruin that he had touched, but now it seems that it really came from the mouth of this girl!

"It seems that the purpose of the two brothers and sisters of Matthew this treasure hunt is not simple..."

Raymond watched from afar as Elijah stepped out of the cold pool and slowly walked towards the temple.

Suddenly, Ilya's fingers flicked.

Before Raymond could stop it, the Mendelo mask on his face fell off and flew into the slender jade hand.

Almost at the same time, a system prompt sounds.

【Ding! You have been eroded by mysterious spiritual power, suppressed by the transcendent rank, and you are not immune to this invasion... You're stuck in a state of stiffness. 】

"it!"

Raymond secretly screamed badly.

He found that his consciousness had lost control of his body again,

Motionless, like a wooden man.

On the other side, Ilya put the handy mask on her face.

From the moment she put on the mask, her momentum changed, and she gave Raymond's... It feels like coming to life from the mysterious high priest in the mural!

Ilya was facing Raymond right now, and the delicate and immaculate beauty was in full view in his eyes.

The mysterious pattern of the size of a fist emitting purple fluorescence on the back of her neck is also getting brighter and brighter, and the picture is shaped like a round sky, and the central quadrangle refers to the eight stars, and the eight corners point to the flame totem, the raindrop totem, the thunder totem, and the mountain totem... The eight elements of thunder, wood, darkness, metal, earth, wind, water, and fire gather...

With each step she took, her momentum rose a lot, and the pattern on her back became clearer. The purple streamer spread from both sides of the spine to the entire beautiful back, and in the blink of an eye, it was drawn into a streamer of mystical runes. The totem has been completed, and a sacred and inviolable holy aura suddenly emanates from Ilya's body.

"Octagram! The exclusive totem of the Great Sacrifice, the Divine Pattern Wind Demon Cave! ”

Seeing the totem on her back,

Raymond was really sure that this Elijah was the High Priest inheritance.

The priesthood profession has a sporadic tradition in the world of great navigation, and gamers are no strangers to it.

But the general priest totem only draws four-pointed stars, six-pointed stars... The eight-pointed star totem is exclusive to the eight priests!

Legend has it that the mysterious totem "Wind Demon Cave" represented by this element eight-pointed star can seal everything in an instant, and it is with this ability that the high priests communicate with the gods!

In the blink of an eye,

Ilya, wearing the mask of Mendro, had already walked barefoot to the altar.

She respectfully made a sacrificial salute towards Nikoskin's body, and uttered an ancient mantra in her mouth, like a song.

At this time,

The naked maiden on the altar danced,

It's the Dance of the Nyx Sacrifice to the Gods...