8 Showdown

A sudden fear enveloped the two in the room, both of whom had spoken or heard that the descent of the djinn was related to the curse of the stars, and now saw the contents of the mural here, and if the legend did come true, what was described in the "Harvest" mural was about to take place on this planet.

"It's going to be a massacre." Kelan said slowly, looking very bad.

Melo always looked at the "harvest" mural, the countless corpses, the battered vanquished, the terrifying black slaughterers......

"What the hell are these black square-headed guys?" Milo asked, knowing that Klan would probably not be able to answer, but he still asked.

"I don't know, don't you look like Shaling? Those dark shadows. ”

"It's kind of like it, but it doesn't feel like ......" Milo scratched his head, relieved from the nervousness and fear he had just made, he pointed to the door of the room and said to Kran, "Do you want to let them in?" ”

Kelan nodded, and said in the direction of the door, "Two friends, come in." ”

Erin's little head poked in through the door, and then the Night Sparrow appeared in the doorway. "You know we're out there?" Erin asked, surprised and puzzled.

"She's the second-ranked battle mage." "He's the 'Ghost of Tum City.'" The two responded almost simultaneously. "When you two followed Milo down and hid in the doorway, the two of us noticed." Kelan added.

Erin and Nightsparrow walked into the room, slightly embarrassed, after all, it was not a glorious thing to eavesdrop at the door and be discovered, so they didn't say a word. It was Kelan who broke the silence first: "Don't be restrained, you have also heard a lot about the 'curse of the stars'. If the conclusion we have just speculated is true, perhaps the 'test' is over and we are about to reap. ”

Erin and Nightfinch looked at each other, then at Milo, and whispered, "So you've always cared about things...... It's so terrible......"

"I'm sorry, Irene, I'm not ......"

"Don't apologize, it's not your fault......" Erin hurriedly explained, she didn't blame the other party. Apparently, she was indeed frightened by what the four murals showed, "That is to say – is our world going to end?" ”

"Not necessarily," said Milo firmly, "there was a soothsayer who predicted that I would lift the Curse of the Stars. ”

"A soothsayer? Do you really believe them? Nightfinch said with disdain, not looking down on Milo, but disgusted with the soothsayer himself.

Erin didn't ask any more questions, because she didn't think the soothsayer really played any good role, but she didn't know what to say.

"Kolan, can you tell us how you opened this stone door? Is it magic, or is it ......" Nightfinch digressed from the subject, asking her what she had been wondering about.

Kran took a deep breath, as if he was about to make a solemn speech. At last, she motioned for the other three to come with her, pointed to the diamond-shaped groove, and said, "You have all seen my precious charm, which my husband gave me, and I did not expect it to be the key to this door." ”

The three of them looked at each other, a little unable to believe their ears - why did Kelan's husband have the key to this place? How many secrets are hidden in this desert?

"When my husband was dying, he gave me this charm," Koran continued, "and he told me to 'take it to the desert...... At that time, I didn't even know where the desperate desert was. After his death, I began to study, travel, and grow my knowledge...... That was nearly fifty years ago. Later, I finally understood what a desperate desert is like, and the terrible fact that if you go deep into the desert, you will get lost. So in order to find my way into the desert, I went to the Alex City Library and worked as a librarian there, so that I could easily access all kinds of literature. But, as you can see, I didn't find my way in until I met you...... During my visit, Sylvia Anselson contacted me by letter - yes, Erin's former fiancé...... "Erin's eyes widened slightly in surprise, she didn't realize that Kran and Sylvia knew each other. "Sevia's letter says he knows how to enter the Desperate Desert, and the exchange for telling me how to get there is that I pass on my husband's research on the Curse of the Stars to him......"

"And that's exactly what you can't accept." Milo said, he remembered that the night before he met Sha Ling at the South Changling Pass, Kelan had told him about it.

"There were a few moments when I almost had to compromise," said Koran, with a long sigh, "well, I'm glad I persevered, and I met you—and I was very lucky." ”

"Why is that guy Saivia also interested in this 'curse'?" Nightfinch asked about Kolan, and when she heard Sevia's name, she was a little angry.

Kelan shook his head, I don't know, and then said, "I'm also going to have a showdown with everyone, let's get back to business." The four of them came to the room again and looked around at the four murals, "Although we can speculate about what is about to happen, new questions are coming one after another, let's try to summarize what doubts or problems are still there." Kelan took out a piece of paper, and several people wanted to continue to ask Kelan some questions, but she obviously didn't want to say anything more, so she began to raise her own doubts about the content in the mural.

"Will the black forces in the 'harvest' be our enemies? Their portraits look so weird. Erin asked the portrait she feared most.

Night Sparrow also found the point at once: "If it's 'harvesting', who will harvest?" Harvest what? ”

Mello also put forward his own opinion: "What is the matter with the baby in the picture of rebirth? Is it the last batch of survivors who were harvested? ”

"It could mean that all living things will be eradicated during the harvesting process, leaving only a blank sheet of paper for babies to rebuild a new civilization on the corpses and ruins." Kelan's response sent shudders down everyone's shoulders, "This possibility will always be there, knowing that many farmers will set fire to their crops when they change the type of food they grow. The example given by Kelan made the three of them even more frightened.

"In other words, these forces responsible for 'harvesting' want to make this killing an endless cycle of reincarnation...... "Erin linked the reasoning mentioned earlier, "and then the new forces are 'reborn', and then pass the 'growth' and 'test'...... Accept a new round of harvest...... O God of All Sources! It's horrible. ”

"Hey, as I said before, it's a cycle." Koran muttered.

"But it's useless to raise any doubts now," said Milo, who had recovered from the tension and analyzed it very rationally, "and we still don't have enough information at the moment, unless we ...... it."

"Unless there's a new clue," Kran added, "can you think of any clues?" Please exclude Sevia, I don't like to ask him either. Nightfinch shrugged, as if it should have been.

"There's a clue, but it sounds." Mello said suddenly, and the other three all looked at him, "Wind Chimes said that the map that guided her and us into the desperate desert......"

"Dragon!" Nightfinch and Erin said in unison, they seemed excited, but quickly calmed down again.

"It's a question of how to communicate with the dragon." Kelan poured a basin of cold water, "For hundreds of years, the dragon has always hidden itself, and even when it sank the invading enemy ships, it never actually showed its true body, and we don't know where the wind chimes met the dragon and how to meet them. It's still very difficult to put your hopes in the dragon, but ......" Kelan said, raising his head slightly, as if he saw a glimmer of hope, "It would be nice if I could see the memory of the wind chimes." ”

"What do you mean by seeing the memory of wind chimes?" Erin raised the trio's doubts.

Kelan didn't answer, he took out a black spell stone from his pocket and explained to the three, "Do you remember the Green Dragon Mercenary? What they're good at is mind magic. The three of them nodded, "This spell stone is called the 'Memory Probing Spell Stone', and it is a key item for the Green Dragon Mercenaries, which is why the Green Dragon Mercenaries are so famous, and I borrowed them from them when I evacuated Windrun Town during the Sand Spirit Crisis. ”

Nightsparrow asked, "What can this spell stone do?" Can listening to the name query a person's memory? ”

"Hey, it can give us a glimpse of human memory, and the Green Dragon mercenaries have used it to solve countless cases. So, I think we can use it to find the memories of the wind chimes and help us know how to find the dragon. ”

The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Wind Chimes are their friends and benefactors, is it disrespectful to explore her memories like this? But as far as they knew, it was clear that this was not the time to consider this, and the threat of the "Curse of the Stars" was there.

"However, to use this spell stone, you need a hair from the wind chime, or a part of the body, and obviously the former is easier to obtain." Koran continued.

"Hair? We really haven't ...... yet," Milo replied, and the three of them shook their heads at the same time.

"Ahh Erin suddenly shouted loudly, attracting the attention of the others, "When the wind chimes took me out of Anseison City, I left a strand of hair behind in a place full of grasslands. ”

"Really? That's great! Kelan couldn't hide her excitement, "Judging from the battlefield, according to her experience, Erin should be talking about the place where the Battle of the Black Gate took place, and she only needs to go there and find her hair." ”

"We'd love to go, but ......" Mello said as he tried to remind Kran that he and Erin were still wanted by Splet.

"Hey, I can go there, little Erin will describe what it looks like there, I'll go......" Kelan said as he spoke, and his voice suddenly stopped—

"Erin, Wind Chimes have a habit of hanging on the battlefield...... That ......"

Kelan raised his head suddenly! This action really surprised the three of them.

"That stone mound!" Kelan said loudly, and walked quickly to the door. Milo, Erin, and Nightsparrow rushed out as if they had come to their senses.

The night watchman on the second floor was also surprised when he heard a commotion below, and then saw the four people who came up in a hurry.

"This one!" Koran remembered the room where the stone mound was, "Be careful when you shine with a torch, don't burn it." She was referring to hair, of course.

"!! here" Erin shouted excitedly, and several people immediately gathered around.

On a flat stone in the stone mound lies a strand of long hair.

There was also a gold coin pressed on it, and the shiny reflection seemed to greet the four of them......