"Grandpa-" After seeing the back of the old man in front of the door of the altar of Gardir, Rachel subconsciously lowered her guard and ran to her grandfather, Cassis Gardir, putting aside all the resentment and doubts about the mastermind behind the scenes, and at this moment she only thought of her grandfather to express the joy in her heart.

Since childhood, Grandpa Cassis has influenced Rachel is the most profound elder, and Grandpa's knowledge and the gonzo he explained have laid the foundation for Rachel's character thinking, so Rachel has shown a strong side that she has learned from her grandfather's speech and demeanor since she was a child, and in the end, she can bravely shoulder the responsibility of the head of the family is also thanks to her grandfather's teaching since childhood, so that Rachel's admiration for her grandfather can be said to be far greater than her admiration for her father and brother.

But since the mysterious disappearance of Grandpa Cassis, even Rachel thought that he had died at the hands of the hunters, but he miraculously appeared in front of Rachel's eyes, how could this make Rachel's heart not difficult to control the excitement and joy from the heart?

"Hehe~ silly boy, grandpa is here, don't cry~ don't cry~" With a gentle smile, the old man with white hair turned around and patted Rachel who threw herself into his arms, the familiar smile and gentle voice suddenly made Rachel's usual strong support in front of the clan disintegrate, revealing the weak side that should have appeared at her age and cried bitterly, after all, she has endured too much during the time that Grandpa Cassis has disappeared...

Rachel, who was supposed to live carefree under the wing of her father's brother, had to accept the fact that her dear father and brother had died one by one, and as the last patriarch of the family to continue to survive when her father and brother were dead and her grandfather was missing, she shouldered the heavy responsibility of protecting the Tut clan as the last patriarch.

"Huh?" Just when Rachel was in pain in the arms of her grandfather Cassis, dozens of alien hunters who had been blocking the retreat appeared from the forest path, and instinctively revealed their coveting food to Rachel in Cassis's arms, and a large amount of viscous saliva secreted from his mouth dripped onto the ground, splashing a faint white smoke.

But these predators, who were supposed to be ferocious, flinched at this moment, just because of the gaze of Cassis that frightened these alien hunters back, and even frightened them to the ground, shivering in the direction of Cassis with a hoarse whimper, as if they were worshipping and begging Cassis for his forgiveness.

"Humph!" The humble gesture of the alien hunters caused Cassis to snort, although it was only a cold snort, but it was no less than a natural sound in the ears of the alien hunters, and the alien hunters who were instructed to stand up cautiously, and then detoured through the side door of the altar of Gardir to enter the altar, but this time they did not dare to look at Rachel at all...

"Grandpa?? This..."The humble posture of the alien hunters was all taken into Rachel's eyes, which made Rachel's excitement at the sight of Cassis gradually calm down, and after breaking free from Cassis's embrace slightly, she carefully looked at the face of the old man in front of her again.

According to the face of the old man in front of him, Rachel can be sure that he is his grandfather-Cassis Gardir, but at this moment, Cassis is not showing the slightest old state, not only ruddy complexion, but also height seems to have returned to the height of his prime, no wonder Cassis was able to hold the tall Rachel in his arms easily just now, the crutches in his hand are more like a decoration, except for the still pale beard, it is like a changed person...

It's really Grandpa Cassis himself, but it gives Rachel an inexplicably strange feeling...

"I know you have a lot of questions in your mind, but this is not a place to talk, let's go, and when you get inside, grandpa will answer them for you one by one." Looking at the confusion in Rachel's eyes and the slightest hint of vigilance, Cassis just smiled indifferently, and as soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and stepped into the interior of the altar of Gardir, which had long since lost its former glory.

Cassis's actions caused Rachel to hesitate for a while, but in the end she chose to take her grandfather's word for it, and followed him into the once sacred but now eerie altar of Gardir.

As soon as she entered the altar of Gardir, Rachel found that the murals in the cloisters on both sides of the door were a little dilapidated due to disrepair, many of the murals had peeled off from the cloisters, and there were a lot of scratches all over the place, which seemed to be the traces left by the alien hunters in the past, and the murals of the giants wearing cloaks and exuding supreme authority to repel the giant beasts had become incomplete and blurred, and Rachel could only reconstruct the original content of the mural through the memories in her mind...

Eyes were once again focused on her grandfather Cassis who calmly led the way in front of her, and Rachel felt very depressed in her heart. In the past, the altar of Gardir was a sacred place where the clansmen were allowed to pray for blessings in the past in specific grand festivals, grandfather Cassis and elder Garcia and the elders in the past were all extremely respectful of this sacred place, whenever the festival came, grandpa would always happily take himself and his brother to tell the legend of the giant in the mural, as if the mural contained countless stories tirelessly told for himself and his brother, and the daily maintenance of grandpa is also extremely serious and careful...

But the current situation is to completely overturn Rachel's memories, in the face of the dilapidated murals, the grandfather who used to cherish the painting as much as his life did not even look at it, and the fresco debris peeling off on the ground was even more unavoidable and stepped on directly, this phenomenon made Rachel unable to connect Cassis in front of him with the kind grandfather in his memory...

But now was not the time to ask, so Rachel could only withdraw her gaze, and then silently avoided the fresco debris that had fallen to the ground, and followed Cassis further into the main hall inside the altar.

As she continued to deepen, the sadness in Rachel's heart became more and more intense. Because with the continuous expansion of the road, there are no traces of frescoes on both sides of the cloister, but there is a thick sticky substance all over it, and these sticky materials are also wrapped in a lot of bones, emitting a foul smell.

Among these bones are the most characteristic of the Tut people, and they are the most numerous, the ribs between the chest and abdomen that are turned inside out show the pain they suffered before they die, and the eyes of some of the uncompletely corrupted corpses show the horror of the deceased, because they have obviously been selected to be parasitic hosts of the hoistines...

Holding back the desire to vomit, Rachel, who was already moist from the corners of her eyes, looked at the corpses on both sides that were fixed by the slime between the walls and was speechless for a while, but at this time, Rachel's feet accidentally touched the eggs under the wall behind her, which made Rachel, who was grieving the tragic death of her people, react in time and turned to look at the position of the eggs scattered on both sides behind her.

The tip of the egg that Rachel inadvertently touched quietly opened, and a vague figure of some creature appeared in the egg like a blooming flower, and this blurred figure was rolling between the mucus in the egg at the moment, and then in Rachel's frightened gaze, he opened his spider-like limbs, and burst out of the blooming egg, fully showing his posture in front of Rachel's eyes, and it was the nightmarish lifeform - the dough worm!

The appearance of the dough worm suddenly evokes the shadow of Rachel's childhood, and at this time, more eggs are moving, and the tops of the eggs are opened, as if they want to compete for the parasitic place...

"Quiet!" Just when Rachel's frightened moment was about to complete the parasitism, Cassis, who was walking in front, noticed Rachel's movement in time, and immediately shouted angrily at the wriggling eggs and the poised dough worm.

Hearing Cassis's angry shouts, the original breeding eggs gradually returned to calm, and the toothy and clawed dough worms slowly returned to their breeding eggs, and the breeding eggs on both sides of the wall regained their calm in an instant, if it weren't for the horror in Rachel's eyes that had not subsided, as if nothing had happened...

"Be careful, follow my steps." After drinking back from the dough worm, Cassis whispered a word of advice to Rachel, who was in a daze, and then turned to continue walking deeper into the altar.

"Tell me, Grandpa, please..."Cassis, who was about to turn around and lead Rachel into the depths, immediately paused when he heard Rachel's words, but did not turn to face Rachel.

"Please, tell me, it's none of your business... Please..."The tears in her eyes could no longer be suppressed, dripping down Rachel's cheeks to the ground, splashing a slight light sound, which seemed particularly crisp in this silent environment, and Rachel looked at the back of her grandfather Cassis with one last expectation, eager to get the answer she wanted.

Even so, she knew that the odds of getting the answer she wanted were slim...

“... Let's go, I'll tell you everything when we get inside, my granddaughter..."After a long silence, Cassis didn't answer Rachel's question directly, and didn't even mean to turn around to face Rachel, and after saying that, he dragged his heavy steps towards the depths of the altar.

This is not an answer, but it indirectly admits the conjecture in Rachel's heart, and hits Rachel's fragile heart hard, but now is not the time to be sad.

Rachel now wanted to know what was going on, so she reached out to wipe away the tears from her face, regained her former fortitude in front of her people, and followed Cassis's back towards the eerie altar.

There, there are answers to all the questions, the answers that Rachel desperately wants at the moment...

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(1st Update)