"Is there a record in the text?" I asked.

Shen Tangzhi shook his head: "You have also seen that this diary is incomplete, and many pages after that have been torn off. ”

"It could be something similar to my piece of blood jade, but ...... Isn't it too ...... to get it in this way?"

"Shit luck?"

"That's right."

"A lot of scientific discoveries come from chance, such as Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation, which started with an apple that hit him on the head."

"Your theory doesn't seem to hold up - you and I both know that Newton and Apple are just a story."

"Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared." Shen Tangzhi smiled, "Don't you often say that there are no accidents in this world, and all accidents are inevitable that have long been destined to happen." ”

"So, this 'Xixin' lady in this notebook is a 'prepared' person?"

Shen Tangzhi nodded: "The writer of the diary recorded his two dreams, one of which can be regarded as a memory of the process of his acquaintance with Xi Xin, and in the other dream, Xi Xin's brother Xi Che said a very important word in his mouth. ”

"Irrero."

"That's right. It's not the first time this word has come up — it's mentioned in K's text messages. ”

For this point, when I saw this paragraph of the diary, I had already begun to think about it, and since Shen Tangzhi mentioned it, I took out the note that K handed over to me through Zhang Hui.

After Shen Tangzhi and the others heard me explain the origin of this note, they were extremely curious about the content of the note.

The message on the note is divided into three lines.

The first line reads "Roanoke Island";

The second row is a series of numbers for the suspected year: [1585-1590], [1982];

The third line is two nouns, written below the two strings of numbers in the previous line: [Walter Expedition], [Irrejo Archaeological Mission];

Below the [Walter Expedition] and [Irrero Archaeological Group], there are dense cross symbols, there are a total of 23 cross symbols under [Walter Expedition], and 3 below [Irrero Archaeological Group].

"Royajok? I know this place! Hyde glanced at it, then pointed to the first line of text on the note.

Shen Tangzhi also nodded: "I've heard of it too." ”

"You know what?" The old knife asked me.

I replied: "Nonsense. ”

"Well, I don't know." The old knife scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Out of breath."

I found out about it when I looked it up on the Internet - of course, I wouldn't tell Lao Dao about this.

I told Lao Dao the story of the first colony in North America and its mysterious disappearance.

At this time, Hyde and Shen Tangzhi also finished studying the other contents of the note, and I finally said: "I originally thought that 'Ilrero' referred to a person's name, but now based on the words of 'Xiche' in this diary, it is speculated that 'Ilrero' may be the name of a certain god - Hyde, you are a doctor of paleoculture and anthropological linguistics, what do you think?" ”

Hyde shook his head: "I've done research on it for a long time, but unfortunately I haven't found anything. ”

I opened the notebook and found the original words in the diary - "We are all from the land of heaven and sea, the god we believe in, Baja Moore Ilrejo...... His creation of our world will destroy it. In the sea we have eternal life, and when we come to earth, we will sacrifice to the great Irrejo. 】

"Pay attention to this paragraph, the information in it and the information that K passed on to us can basically correspond. 'The Land of the Sea of Heaven' should be the 'Sea of the Heavens' as K said, and the full name of 'Irrero' should be 'Bahá Moore Irrero'...... It's just that this name obviously doesn't belong to Han culture, and it should be a god worshipped by other races. ”

At the same time as I said this, I suddenly thought that the ancient scroll in which Hyde and Shen Tangzhi came back from England, the girl in the painting also had crystal silver red hair, and she was definitely not of East Asian race, but of a different race.

I put forward another hypothesis: "Is it possible that the so-called Mongolian death worm is a subspecies of the earthly python?" ”

"Similar to the Titan Monty Python?" Shen Tangzhi immediately understood what I meant.

Dr. Findlay hypothesized that the ancient Scottish ancestors would use bagpipes to communicate with Ager, the serpent of the world, and master the technology of training and driving the Titan Python - the Ragnarok in Norse mythology, and even the final battle between the earthly python and Thor, all originated from the fear of Western European countries being dominated by the Titan python that infested the North Sea.

But the legend of the serpent, and the cult and even religion associated with it, is prevalent all over the world – and the legend of the Mongolian Death Worm may not be an exception.

Hyde also touched his beard and nodded, "Very interesting idea, Gee - this is most likely the truth of the mysterious Mongolian death worm legend - for the giant snake, not only will there be worship, but more likely fear. ”

The diary in the notebook, what I haven't checked yet, only the last few pages remain, and with many questions, I quickly read down.

[Diary 5]

19##年#月#日, Weather##

I don't know how long I have to live, the exit has been sealed, and all I have now is twelve candles in my backpack and about three days' worth of food in this dark dungeon.

Maybe...... I can't wait for that day to come, and I will end my life by myself, and it is up to me to make the final decision.

What I can do now is to record as much as I can about my experiences – when later generations read these words, I will be resurrected in a special form, like a Xiche.

When Xi Xin activated the 10,000-jin stone door at the exit, when her figure was finally obscured by the cold stone wall, I actually had a premonition, I didn't feel sudden, I just didn't know when this would happen.

When it finally happened, I felt a sense of relief that it was like this—even though my eyes were still bursting with tears, and at the same time, my heart was like a knife.

She tricked me into the inner sanctum, and accomplished her purpose while I studied the altar.

Recall, when we first met, the encounter on that rainy night, it seemed to be without warning, but it was actually a carefully laid out game, and I was the one who entered the urn.

Was the strange dream I had after I crossed the red mist an omen, or maybe it was a warning from Heiche who gave me a dream to warn me not to let her sister succeed?

Is the resurrection also a terrible thing?

I do not know.

But I'm going to face the horrors of death soon.

Another speculation is that Xi Che used this to make Xi Xin understand the way to resurrect him.

If that's the case, then I've done too many wrong things.

I shouldn't have told Xi Xin the content of that dream, nor should I have let Xi Che get that strange red jade, let alone listen to Xi Xin's words, and let Mr. Xu and Dr. Hedin follow Xi Xin's guidance and find this underground palace.

Everything is fate.

I didn't expect that the red jade was the key to open the dungeon, and when we found those huge long insect skeletons in the dungeon, I should also think that it was not the "dragon bone" that Mr. Xu judged, but the "Jiao bone".

The "cloud dragon pattern" carved everywhere in the dungeon is actually a "Jiao pattern", and the dragon totem pole above the altar is actually worshipping the terrifying giant snake.

I didn't even expect that the god they worshipped would be #####.

When the 10,000-pound gate fell, I actually had a chance, but I didn't move.

I saw Sixin's lips move, at first softly, like a prayer from a devout believer, her voice soft and graceful, with the exotic tone of an Indian monk chanting Sanskrit scriptures, but then her voice rose to a high pitch like a carol.

Her voice grew louder and louder, almost like it came from a human vocal cord—and I was now beginning to believe what Xi Che had said in her dreams: they were from the land of heaven and sea.

Then I began to feel the altar under my feet begin to tremble violently, as if there had been an earthquake, and the gravel and limestone on the ground around me slowly rose into the air, and a thin layer of red mist appeared in the air, which filled my eyes......

After Xi Xin's chant, I had a terrible feeling, which was very similar to the scene in the dream - except that in the dream, it was Xi Che who betrayed me, and in the underground palace, the betrayer was Xi Xin.

The only thing that comforts me a little is that Xixin's face is also full of tears.

And behind her, Xi Che, who was already a corpse, had already stood up.

……

This concludes the diary.

The pages that followed had all been torn off.

I can't help but wonder why this person who found this diary is so hateful?! Destroyed all the most important parts!

I said to Shen Tangzhi: "If the events in this notebook are real, they will definitely be recorded, and this is not a long time ago...... The diary mentions that their team once held an exhibition of cultural relics in Beiping, which is recorded in "Xu Xusheng's Diary of Journey to the West", which should have happened in 1931. ”

Shen Tang said: "We have looked for relevant information, but we have found nothing. ”

Hyde said, "I have read some of Dr. Wenya Hedin's writings, including the most important of all, 'Crossing Asia' – but unfortunately I haven't finished reading it. But because of the contents of this diary, I found the book "Crossing Asia" again, which clearly recorded that the joint adventure of Mr. Xu and Dr. Wenya Hedin was not the only one. ”

My eyes widened: "So ......"

"However, that adventure was in the middle of the ocean—the East China Sea, so ......," Hyde shrugged, "and it didn't match what he wrote in his diary." ”

I suddenly felt the urge to beat up this old fun-loving and self-righteous humorous British, this guy, what he said is not the same as saying it.

I was so angry that I didn't want to pay attention to Haide anymore, and turned to Shen Tang's way: "Section Chief Shen, I have now read all the contents of the diary. Can you tell me who wrote the diary and who discovered it? ”

"Yes." Shen Tangzhi was very simple, but I had a bad premonition, and sure enough, she continued, "The author of the diary is unknown, but the person who found it may be K." ”

"What?!"

I can hardly believe my ears, this notebook was also given to Shen Tangzhi by K!

What the hell does K want to do?!

I took a deep breath and calmed my emotions.

Intellectually speaking, in any case, the information brought by the diary in this notebook is extremely important.

Up to now, I have these fragmentary clues in my hands, because this diary is finally faintly connected by a thin thread.

First of all, my dreams, the black tower on the high cliffs, the mysterious and strange buildings in the sea, and the girl with the same veins as me......

In the message sent by K to Shen Tangzhi, the two keywords "Polar Sky Sea" and "Ilreruo" appeared for the first time......

After that, Shen Tangzhi and the others took out the mysterious scrolls left by Dr. Findlay from England, and the scene depicted on the ancient paintings was very similar to my dream, which should be the wonder of the "Polar Sky Sea".

Among them, Hyde even explains the reason for Dr. Findlay's disappearance - he may have set off to find the "Polar Sea", and he has another artifact in his hand, which Dr. Findlay says is the "key to open the door" - a transparent human bone statue in the image of a mysterious earthly python - or what Dr. Findlay calls "the serpent of the world".

Then, because of Li Yi's inadvertent mistake, he cracked the blank note that K handed to me through Zhang Hui's hand, causing the information on the note to appear, which mentioned the keyword "Irrero Archaeological Mission", which can be linked to other information, and let me know that this may also have something to do with "Roanoke Island".

Next, "Fake Yu Wei" appeared, and through the old knife, he deceived my blood jade "Yin and Netherworld Blood Book" - according to the clues I have been getting, this piece of blood jade that can open the "Gate of Life and Death" and "Yin and Yang Realm" is likely to be another key to enter the "Extreme Sky Sea", which should be the motive for "Fake Yu Wei" to seize the blood jade.

Now, Shen Tangzhi once again took out this ancient and mysterious notebook in my hand, although the content of the diary is incomplete, we can still piece together the general appearance of the event - the protagonist in the diary, following a Sino-foreign joint expedition team, into the Gobi Desert expedition, the purpose is to find the protagonist does not know "a certain ruin", in the process of avoiding the black storm, they strayed into the body of some unknown huge creature (I tend to my own judgment, this is some kind of ancient species of giant snake, It is also the so-called Mongolian death worm),After escaping from death,,They found a dungeon,In the dungeon,In order to save his brother,Xi Xin took the hero as a sacrifice,Locked it in the altar secret room in the dungeon,At the same time,Xi Xin's brother Xi Che,It seems that he is really resurrected。

All the events gradually became clear from the fog.

And all of this seems to be under K's control, and he has been guiding us in our quest for the truth, or rather, into his pre-designed trap.

No, maybe...... Not really.

K may not be in control yet.

The crux of the question is - is the woman who pretended to be Yu Wei and deceived my blood jade from K?

If not, then, in my opinion, this is a bit like a game between two parties, one of which is K, and the other is the force behind the fake Yu Wei, and we may be the ones who are inexplicably caught up in the whirlpool.