Chapter 31: The Ruins
"I don't have the ability to be too special, but I can kill the Fishman King by myself, and I sold a golden Fishman Scale to Harder earlier in the day."
Jiang Zuo said.
"Can you kill the Fishman King by yourself? Well, what do you want to know? ”
With a look of surprise in his eyes, Bartley nodded and said.
"How did you find out you were cursed in the first place? Is there a place in the ruins that you think could be the source of the curse? ”
Jiang Zuo asked.
"The source of the curse, most likely, is the altar in the ruins. Still, if you want me to say, it's probably the entire ruins. At first, only a dozen young people, including me, entered the ruins, and nothing happened inside, and we didn't notice anything unusual, until the people in the village began to get sick for some reason, and the people who left the village began to die violently, and we knew that we were cursed. ”
Bartley shook his head and sighed.
"I've heard that outsiders will be cursed if they enter the village? But not all, just a small group of people? ”
Jiang Zuo listened carefully and continued to ask.
"Yes. Over the decades, the village has also invited many powerful people to come and try to lift our curse, but it didn't work, but some people were also cursed and died suddenly. ”
Bartley nodded.
In order to lift the curse, the village offered a heavy reward.
At first, there were many people who came for the bounty, but later, no one was able to lift the curse, but some people died because of it, and gradually no one dared to come to the village again.
Jiang Zuo asked a few more questions next, and Bartley thought for a while from time to time before answering Jiang Zuo's questions.
After finally asking the location of the ruins and how to enter and exit, Jiang Zuo left the Cursed Village.
After leaving the village, Jiang Zuo walked in the direction of the ruins.
"Exploring the ruins has been cursed, the villagers have been inexplicably exposed, remote villages have been forced to isolate from the rest of the world, and some of the people who came to solve the problem have left alive or some have died violently...... This plot, how does it feel a little familiar. ”
Jiang Zuo stopped and looked back at the eerie silent village in the darkness behind him, and couldn't help but feel as if he had seen this plot somewhere.
I remember that it seemed to be a detective comic.
Since it is a detective comic, in the end, of course, there is the truth and the mastermind behind it.
What is the final truth?
Grass!
Forgot!
Wrong!
Jiang Zuo remembered.
It's not that he forgot, I don't know who brought this cartoon to the class and circulated it among his classmates.
The classmates in the class did not do the kind of bad behavior of deliberately marking "this person is the murderer" with a circle on people's heads, but when it reached him, they didn't know which god killed him, and tore off the page that revealed the real murderer!
If you are an ordinary person, you must ask your classmates if you see this, and you will know what the truth is.
But Jiang Zuo was just passing the time at that time to take a look by the way, and he didn't care who the murderer was.
Now that I'm in the Village of the Damned, I find that this plot seems to be very similar to the detective comics.
Although it may just be like, the plot of the game has nothing to do with the truth of the comics, but since it is rare to remember this, it is still necessary to know what the outcome of the comics is, or to be able to make a reference in the game.
After thinking about it, Jiang Zuoyuan went offline, searched on the Internet, and found a comic forum with a relatively high popularity.
I don't know what the name of the comic is, Jiang Zuo, but I remember the general plot, and it's not a problem to find out.
After making a post in the help area, Jiang Zuo returned to the game and continued to walk towards the ruins.
The ruins are not far from the village, and Jiang Zuo walked for an hour before coming to a valley, and the ruins are in the valley.
However, you can't enter the ruins by normal methods, and to enter the ruins, you need to touch some small mechanisms.
There is a pile of rocks in the valley, and there are seven statues of stone men with different mutilations.
Each statue is about a meter tall and is scattered all over the rubble, with each other not visible from each other.
The entrance to the ruins will only appear if the statue's position is moved so that the statue's gaze converges at the same point.
Since the seven statues could not see each other, it was not easy to get the statues' eyes to converge at one point, even if they knew how to enter.
According to Bartley, the sights of the six statues were actually converging, and the seventh statue happened to be moved by the villagers who had come to get some stones back to the village's building, and the ruins were discovered.
Jiang Zuo tried for a while, and finally opened the entrance to the ruins.
"This, it looks like a copy."
Looking at the black vortex that quietly appeared in the middle of the pile of rubble, Jiang Zuo touched his chin.
The ruins are clearly in another dimension, which is typical of dungeons in the game.
Each time the ruin entrance appears, it only lasts for one minute.
After opening it once, the position of the stone statue will be automatically shuffled, and it will take an hour to turn it on again.
While the entrance was still there, Jiang took a left step into the ruins.
Inside the ruins is a shattered space.
It was pitch black all around, and pieces of stone land were floating in the pitch-black space.
Jiang Zuo appeared on a stone ground at the edge, and behind him, there was an endless pitch-black space.
There are scattered floating rocks all around, which look dangerous, but be careful and you can still jump over them one by one to get close to the largest floating island in the middle.
These floating rocks and islands, with no trees, only the occasional yellow grass can be seen, which looks very desolate and dilapidated.
On some small islands, Jiang Zuo saw some broken metal utensils.
The utensils are completely destroyed and have no value.
Jiang Zuo was careful at first, but he quickly confirmed that, as Bartley had said, there were no monsters in the ruins.
If there are monsters, you don't need too many, just one or two, and none of the more than ten people who came in the village will be able to go back.
Jiang Zuo looked very carefully all the way, but did not find anything valuable.
This ruin is no secret for a long time, and the people who have been here do not know how many, and any treasures have already been discovered.
More than ten minutes later, Jiang Zuo landed in the middle, the largest floating island.
There are stone staircases on the island, and among the weeds lie a large number of stone pillars that are staggering, and there are some stone chests that have been opened in the middle.
Ascend the stone staircase, and at the top of the staircase, there is an ancient stone altar.
Naturally, there was nothing left on the altar, and all that was left were large rocks that were staggering.
Some of the stones that fell to the ground could see some ancient characters that they couldn't read, and some strange patterns.
"It's ......"
Suddenly, Jiang Zuo looked at the pattern on one of the stones, and his eyes narrowed.
Carved into the stone is a sacrifice that is being held.
The staff in the sacrificial hand, Jiang Zuo looked very familiar.
If you look closely, isn't this staff and the Fishman King Staff in his hand nine images?
Jiang Zuo hurriedly looked through other carved stones, and soon found a few more images.
These images are also various types of sacrifices, the necklaces and rings on the sacrifices, and the fish-man necklaces and fish-man rings on his hands, almost all of them are the same!