7 Four murals

The senses still played a role in the gloomy underground, and the soldiers of the Guard fell asleep under the constant onslaught of sleepiness.

As the three of them prepared to leave the room, as if to make a final salute, they looked back respectfully at the door of the room again before exiting the room.

It was silent outside, and no one else was in sight. "Look around the room." Milo said.

"Huh?" Nightfinch let out a puzzled voice, "The stone door is open. Milo and Erin looked in the direction she was pointing, and there was an open door on the other side, which they hadn't noticed just now, and wasn't as strange as the Night Sparrow.

"When I came in just now, it was blocked by a stone door, probably opened by Kelan." Nightfinch explained.

"Let's take a look." Erin said, yawning, she was a little sleepy.

"Let's rest after reading it." Melo said as she took a step, worried that Erin was too tired.

"The location of this room...... Nightfinch, as if remembering something, "is just below 'that' room." The other two realized that above the house was the room with the "weapon" device.

"But there's nothing here." Erin was the first to enter, but it was also empty, "Koran is not there either. ”

Nightsparrow and Melo also entered with torches, and sure enough, as Erin said, there were no furnishings. Still, they felt a slight difference: the color of the walls in the room!

"The walls here are earthy yellow, and the outside is black." Milo reminded.

"Well, will there be an inscription on the wall...... "Nightfinch said as she approached the wall directly opposite the doorway with a torch, "Wow! There really is! ”

Erin also posted it when she heard the voice: "This is a mural, what is the painting......" Milo also came, and the three of them observed the mural on the wall together: a group of laborers were sowing seeds and plowing the land, there were people building houses at the far end, and some people seemed to be striking iron and distributing tools to the laborers, and the neat array could be vaguely seen at the farther end, as if the army was training for battle.

Milo looked at the scene in the mural and said, "It's very similar to when Fengxing Town was built, but most cities developed like this. ”

"There are words here," Erin pointed to the ancient text underneath the mural, "Can Sister Nightfinch read it?" ”

Yeque looked at it and nodded: "I know this word, it means 'growth', it probably refers to urban development and construction...... I'm not so sure. ”

"Indeed, the content of the mural matches the word." Melo added.

"Look, there's a mural here, too." Erin said excitedly, pointing to the position on the right, and everyone noticed that there were two murals on this wall, one on the left and one on the right.

"This ......" The three of them couldn't help but feel a little worried when they saw the mural on the right. The mural clearly shows the two forces engaged in a battle, the battle is in full swing, the corpses are covered all over the ground, all kinds of weapons are scattered everywhere, there are birds fighting each other in the sky, I don't know if it is the transformation of the magician, and lightning and flames can be seen everywhere in the painting; The warriors on the battlefield were not only humanoid, but also had bodies as tall as giant spirits, and even some mechanical weapons that the three had never seen before......

"This scene is terrifying, isn't it?!" Erin's question was more like an exclamation, her gaze looked at the words beneath the mural, and asked Nightfinch, "Sister, I guess the word is 'war'." ”

Nightfinch's answer disappointed Erin: "It's not 'war', Erin, I don't recognize that word either......"

Erin stared at the mural and speculated, "Could it be 'death'?" ”

"Not really." Nightfinch shook her head, pondering.

"It's a 'test.'" A voice came from the door, and Koran walked in.

The three of them also hurriedly turned around and looked at her with puzzled eyes.

"Don't worry, I just went to the next room and had a look." Kelan understood the doubts of the three of them.

"'Testing'? These people are clearly fighting each other. Nightfinch cupped her chin and said, "And Kolan, did you open the door to this room?" ”

"We'll talk about the door later. Look at this mural—" Koran politely digressed and came to the wall to the right of the entrance.

The three of them also moved to the mural that Kolan was referring to, and it was a picture that made them even more frightened: the same battlefield, the flames burned the whole land, but the battle was a one-sided slaughter, and the corpses of the slaughtered party were all over the field, covering the whole picture; The slaughterers were all stout, tall, black-skinned, and even more bizarre, they had no facial features, and even their heads and torsos were square and angular; There are several places in the footage where the slaughterer is shown grabbing the throat of the vanquished, as if to ask something, and an invisible breath wafts out of the mouth of the vanquished......

"It's terrible...... Erin said with a frown, she had seen the battle scenes somewhat, but the mural in front of her made her extremely uncomfortable. Milo and Nightsparrow felt the same way, but they were now expecting Klan to say the meaning of the words beneath the mural.

"The word means 'harvest.'" Kelan stared at the words on the wall, her expression cold, as if she was also shocked by the contents of the mural.

"Then ......" Milo didn't like to look at the painting, and he thought that there should be another painting on the wall behind him, so he turned away.

"Well, there's that too." Kelan understood what Milo meant, and walked over, and the three of them also quickly left the wall on the right, really relieved.

Indeed, the mural on the left wall is much better: the rain watering the earth, the shoots coming out of the soil, and the lawn dotted with small animals......

"Are those puppies?" Melo squinted and looked closer.

"No, dogs and cats have tails...... "Erin said as she looked closely at the mural, when suddenly she exclaimed, "O my god of all sources! Is that...... That's ......"

"What is it?" Nightfinch asked in surprise, and Milo next to her was also frightened by Irene, but Erin's answer was even more terrifying-

"It's a baby!"

"Kolan! What does this painting say? What do the following words mean? ”

Kelan looked at the mural with a blank face and gave the answer: "'Rebirth'." ”

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The four murals, starting from the left wall to the middle wall and then to the right wall, are in the order of "rebirth", "growth", "testing", "harvesting".

……

Erin and Nightfinch couldn't stay sleepy and tired, and rested in the room on the second floor with the female guards, and the night watchman also drooped his head in boredom, after all, there was not much to be wary of in the building, and the male soldiers were resting on the top floor, and they would not bother them.

"Who?" The soldiers on the night watch noticed the movement.

"Me." Milo replied that he was coming down from the upper floor.

"Captain Entekman? Belch...... It's better not to go in, if it's called Erin......"

"No, no, I'm going down there." Milo didn't stop, and went straight down the stairs, taking an oil lamp with him. We can guess that he came to the room with four murals, and of course, there was another person here—

"Sure enough, you're there too, Kolan."

"Well, I'm still guessing when you'll be here."

Neither was surprised that the other was here.

"These four pictures are supposed to be the 'Curse of the Stars,' right?" Mello asked as he looked at the painting "Harvest", and he was particularly intimidated by the strange painting.

"I'm not sure," Kran replied, "but there's no other clue or information here." But......" Kelan paused slightly, "do you feel that these four murals are a complete cycle?" ”

"Loop?" Milo was puzzled.

"Hey, loop. As you can see, 'harvesting' doesn't look like a scene where a powerful force completely destroys another weak one. ”

"When you say that, it's really like. But why is it called 'harvesting'? Human life is not food. ”

"Maybe they want to take something important from the enemy when they destroy him. Going back to the previous topic, the reason why we say that this is a cycle is to look at the name of the mural on the opposite side - 'Rebirth'. ”

"So your guess is that this annihilated force has finally come back to life? Like those newborn babies crawling all over the place? Melo said, walking over to the mural of Rebirth.

"Well, that's right." Kelan affirmed Milo's speculation, "Obviously, this is a new beginning, and combined with the 'growth' mural that follows, we see how a new force has developed. ”

"What does 'testing' mean? Picturedly, it's like war. Milo said.

"Well, indeed." What is the connection between 'war' and 'testing'? Kelan pondered, and suddenly she gasped, her eyes flashing, "Could it be......

"To 'test' whether a certain force is strong in the form of 'war'?"

"Wait, wait......" Milo hurriedly waved his hand, "you confused me, what is the use of 'war' to 'test'?" ”

"In that case, you may know that in the horse farm of the Aube Empire, the way to select war horses is to let the horses compete with each other for speed and physical fitness; In the arenas of the Dragonon Empire, gladiators fought each other for honor and a chance to survive...... So, what if I want to know if a certain force has enough power? ”

"Oh, I see...... Milo nodded, and then he realized it, "then let's fight a war, so it's war." ”

The two of them suddenly brought Milo's mind back to the conversation between the girl and him at the haystack a few years ago, when the girl innocently said, "Some stars have begun to invade other planets for some purpose—like the djinn, who have come here to rob our stars, ah, no, planets...... The attack of the stars will not stop because all life is destroyed, and they will continue to hunt down the next generation and the next generation...... It's like a curse that will never stop......" Thinking about it, Milo closed her eyes, as if recalling the girl's words and the girl's voice and smile......

"Milo, what are you thinking?" Kran's voice interrupted Milo's thoughts, and he shuddered and opened his eyes.

Milo quickly picked up Klan's words, "Mm-hmm, I'm thinking: Djinn...... Are you here to 'test' us......" He thought back to what Heidi had said, and connected it to the topic now.

Kelan was silent, but his face became terrifying, and his eyes were fixed on the fourth mural—

Milo also sank his face and said, "Oh no...... after the 'test' is-"

"Harvest!" His eyes were fixed on the hideous and terrifying mural.