053 The Pioneers also have a name called cannon fodder
The three of them searched and summoned the magic circle in the square, and Zhou Han found that behind the broken house was a rock wall, on which there were obvious traces of artificial excavation. After tinkering with the rock wall for a while, he found an inconspicuous mechanism, Zhou Han studied for a long time to make sure that it was not a trap before turning it on, and at this time, at intervals on both sides of the rock wall, he would see the torches embedded in the stone wall turn from sparks to faint fire, and finally generate flickering torches. However, these flickering lights did not bring much light to the entire cave, but only made the atmosphere more gloomy and oppressive. A cold wind always blows from the depths of darkness, strong and weak, as if to warn intruders not to approach. In the dilapidated old house, Zhou Han and Meow Meow saw some messily placed stone benches and stone tables, which looked quite old, and most of them had been corroded and weathered.
After searching in several dilapidated rooms for a long time, the three of them each found some magic rune crests corresponding to the grooves of the stone platform of the square statue, and collected them all, and there were as many as twelve.
Meow Meow watched Zhou Han put the magic rune heraldics into the groove of the stone platform under the statue one by one: "Won't you open a secret passage like above?" It's endless......"
"I don't think they're that boring." Zhou Han didn't raise his head, and put all the twelve magic rune coats into the groove.
However, when Zhou Han put the last magic rune heraldic into the groove, the entire statue shook with a "boom", and the three of them felt that an unsettling atmosphere was gradually coming.
"Get out of the way." Zhou Han motioned for the second daughter to step back.
At this time, the statue was completely shrouded in blood-red light, and the light spread out like a red mist that instantly filled the entire square, and Zhou Han and the three retreated to the location of the old house in order to avoid the blood-red mist.
The statue gradually disappeared into the blood-red mist, and instead many crystals of pale red light appeared on the ground of the entire square, and then a brazier appeared on the periphery to enclose these crystals. A rectangular stone platform slowly rises from the ground from the place where the statue's stone platform is located, and on the stone platform lies a little girl who looks to be 7 or 8 years old with her eyes closed. The entire square was filled with a disturbing red glow in the glow of blood-red crystals and the flaming braziers.
The blood-red crystals on the ground slowly turned into grotesque magic runes, and statues of different forms slowly rose from the positions of the twenty-four braziers, both men and women, but their movements were all holding the braziers above their heads. The statues had no faces, and instead depicted large clusters of twisted magical runes in their original facial features, which seemed to reveal a sense of madness in terror.
In front of these twenty-four statues, priests wearing black cloaks and worshipping at the altar continued to appear, and in front of the altar slowly appeared a person with a blood-red devil mask on his face.
"Phantom projection?" Zhou Han immediately thought of the reason for the strange scene in front of him.
Meow Meow pointed to the altar and exclaimed, "Do you think that little girl looks like a female ghost before?" ”
Zhou Han had already found that the little girl on it was exactly the same as the little girl he had seen before when the altar was raised, but now he was more concerned about whether the scene in front of him was really an illusion or ......
The shape below the altar is roughly round, with a concave edge forming a tube, and there are zigzag dents around the altar that extend all the way to the ground. There were also strange magic runes depicted on the ground, and Zhou Han looked closely, and found that dark red liquid was constantly seeping out of the stones in those patterns, going up against gravity and finally converging in the body of the little girl in the center of the altar.
Meowth tugged at his sleeve, "Why don't you let the clone try?" ”
That's a good idea.
Zhou Han nodded, and let the comic transform into a clone and rush towards the altar position, and at this time, the worship ceremony of the black-clothed priests was almost over, and the high priest in the blood-red mask standing in front of the altar raised his hands and preached in a low and magnetic voice: "People of the God of Death! God gazes upon us. She has received our devout prayers and is comforted by our respectful offerings. We gather here to listen to the teachings of the truth. Open your mind to the dust and lift your head up from this world full of filth. Listen to God's guidance again and follow in God's footsteps into the beautiful real world......"
The black-robed priests who were worshipping in front of the altar raised their heads one after another, but still knelt respectfully on the ground, and then bowed down again and again, and the cloak on their heads fell off a little as they moved. Zhou Han saw that there were men, women, and children among them, all of whom were kneeling here with fanatical expressions, and there seemed to be only the blood-red masked high priest standing in front of the altar with strange magic lingering in his eyes.
“…… What we hear, what we say, what we do, and what we believe are all guided by God, and we are pioneers awakened from ignorance under God's guidance......" The High Priest recited with his hands outstretched: "...... We act in accordance with God's will to save mortals from the glorious evil of hypocrisy...... We will take back the authority of the gods from the wicked who steal the power of God and offer them at the feet of God, we will punish the sinners who have blinded God's sight and ears, and we will expose their sins to the world, and we will redeem the people of the world who have been blinded by illusions, and we will lead them from the filthy world to the kingdom of God...... O Almighty God of Death, we will pay everything for the sins of ten thousand years ago, and we will pay back our flesh and blood to prove our piety......"
The high priest spoke these crazy words in a strange tone, and as he spoke, he suddenly pulled out a dagger from his bosom! And with his action, the other black-robed people kneeling on the ground also took out the same knife from their arms, a sharp dagger, which was full of black magic runes, and a large group of people raised their daggers as if they were enchanted, and shouted in unison: "We will repay our flesh and blood to prove our piety...... Please accept our sinful spirits and guide us to the real world—"
"Tease—"
"Tease—"
At this time, an untimely voice sounded in the crowd.
"Intruder!"
"Blasphemer!"
Many black-robed priests found the clone of the combi, and released magic to it, and for a while, the fireball technique, ice arrows, magic arrows and other skills flew overwhelmingly towards the clone of the combi, and after a burst of bombardment, the clone whose health value was not high was instantly destroyed, which stunned the three people who were hiding in the distance and peeking.
"Holy! Not an illusion! Zhou Han was stunned and said: "Anyway, I think I can't think normally in this game, and the planning of Xingchen International is estimated to be like a black hole, and this rhythm can't keep up at all." ”
Meowth nodded: "+1." ”
"But what now? Are we going out or are we going to wreak havoc? Meowth then asked again.
"Let's see. Anyway, the pioneers throughout the ages have been cannon fodder, and if they don't do it, this ceremony will also kill themselves, and we don't have a task, so what can we do if we don't watch the play. ”
Meow pouted: "There is no normal means to take on tasks in the source of evil. ”
On the other hand, the appearance of the comic clones did not stop the ritual of these "cultists", only a series of knives were heard "puff puff" into the flesh, and these cultists stabbed daggers into their arms, and immediately blood flowed, but everyone pulled out the daggers as if they did not feel pain, and still shouted in unison in fanfare: "We will repay our flesh and blood to prove our piety...... Please accept our sinful spirits and guide us to the real world—"
One group of people fell down, their blood flowed on the ground, and was immediately absorbed by the strange patterns on the floor, and flowed backwards to the altar and mixed with those thick red liquids, and the little girl's white clothes on the altar gradually turned blood-red, and the little girl began to emit a bright golden-red glow as if she had really received divine grace, and the believers immediately fell into an even greater frenzy when they saw this scene, and some even began to harm themselves more severely: "...... Repay our flesh and blood as proof of our piety...... Please accept our sinful spirits and guide us to the real world—"
The knife stabbed into his body one by one, giving people the feeling that it was like stabbing a watermelon, and red flesh flew out continuously, but the fanatical believer didn't seem to feel any pain, and his expression didn't even change.
The three people in the distance were sweating profusely at this move.
"Cow**!" Zhou Han couldn't find a better adjective besides this word.