Chapter 38: The Enthronement Hall

Covered in blood, like a stinking wanderer, Marin shouldered the defender Kasumi shotgun and continued to walk, and after climbing a section, a wall about two meters high appeared in front of her.

There was a half-meter vent on the wall, and Marin spread his long arms and climbed up, and a huge ancient bronze bell came into view.

The bronze bell is covered in turquoise rust, and behind it is a seated statue of Queen Himiko, which resembles a seated statue of Kannon.

On both sides of the statue stood two bronze statues of men with fierce expressions and weapons in their hands, and when Marin saw this, he thought to himself:

"The Sun Queen and her Storm Warriors!"

Legend has it that Queen Himiko had powerful magical abilities to control storms and waves.

She has an army called the "Storm Samurai". In each battle, she raises storms to destroy enemy armies, making the Storm Warriors invincible.

In the same way, the Storm Knights have a great admiration for the queen and are extremely loyal.

The leader of the Storm Samurai is called "Storm General".

This position is very special, as both the commander of the army, the queen's personal bodyguard, and the only man who can get close to the queen, and the direct operator of the queen's succession to the throne. General Storm must be absolutely loyal to the Queen and be ready to give his life for her at any time.

Now that Marin has seen this temple, all kinds of clues that have come to him unexpectedly come to mind.

She remembered that Ji Xiang once told her that Queen Himiko would never marry.

In old age, the queen would select a number of young maidens to accompany her in the inner palace, and at the same time, officials would teach her various cultural courses, and these maidens were called "priestesses".

When the queen is dying, General Storm is in charge of holding a "fire ceremony" to select the queen's heir.

The chosen heir will enter the enthronement chamber with the queen to complete the enthronement ceremony.

The ceremony is used to select the official heir of the Queen.

The ritual was cruel, with the priestesses taking turns tying themselves to a pillar and burning them underneath, and if the woman was not chosen by the queen, she would be burned to death.

If a woman is the chosen heir, the queen will raise a strong wind to extinguish the flames and save her life, and the ceremony will end.

The ceremony is highly secretive, and only General Stormstorm and the Queen know how it is performed.

The ceremony was attended only by General Storm and several aides, not by the Queen.

The chosen heir and the queen enter the enthronement chamber, and the queen uses sorcery to infuse her soul into the heir's body.

After the ritual is completed, the body of the original queen dies, and the soul of the original queen lives in the body of the new queen, and the original soul of the new queen is cast out of the body or has been destroyed.

Therefore, the coronation ceremony is actually the process of replacing the Queen's soul with a new body. Therefore, all queens are actually the same soul, that is, Himiko, and the original souls of those queens are pitifully perished.

Hundreds of years ago, the queen was going to be crowned. The chosen priestess was named "Bright Moon".

Mingyue was elected to the palace very early and lived with the queen for a long time.

She gradually discovers the secret of the queen's coronation and succession, and discovers that what lives in the body of the current queen is an evil, twisted, and dangerous ancient evil spirit.

Being chosen as the heir means that her soul will be destroyed by this demon, and the flesh will blame it for its usurpation.

Mingyue was afraid of this fate, but she was powerless to resist.

In the end, she decided to pay the price with her life to sabotage the coronation ceremony and prevent the evil spirit from continuing to rule over the people of Yamatai.

So, she stole a dagger from General Storm, hid it in her cloak, and entered the secret room with the queen.

Just as the queen was about to begin to infuse her soul, she stabbed her body with a dagger.

When General Storm enters, Mingyue kills himself with a knife.

As a result, Mingyue destroyed the queen's existing body, and also destroyed her own body so that the queen could not use it, and the queen with her injured and dying body could not quickly find a new heir to complete the coronation.

In this way, Himiko's soul can only remain in its existing body.

The Queen's body died, gradually decaying, and became what Shogun Storm called a "half-immortal husk".

General Storm seppuku to apologize.

The Storm Warriors embellished the Queen's rotting face and body with paint and placed her on the altar...

Furious at the failure of his coronation, Himiko raised a huge whirlwind near the chamber and the altar, day and night, until today.

At the same time, she did not spare any ships and planes approaching the island, destroying them with a storm, causing refugees to continue to arrive on the island for hundreds of years.

After the failure of the coronation, the Storm Warriors swore to protect the Queen and the Chamber of Secrets.

Hundreds of years have passed, and the kingdom of Yamatai has long since declined, and the Storm Samurai still guards the queen.

Storm Samurai will kill anyone who comes close to the chamber (be they refugees, soldiers, or others), and after killing, they will pile the corpses together to eat the corpses and draw life to keep them alive for hundreds of years.

In the 1940s, the Japanese army landed on the islands with some scientists and built a number of military and scientific research facilities.

They hope to study the causes of the storm and find ways to control it in order to assist them in fighting the U.S. military in the Pacific.

The soldiers' exploration activities gradually descended from the outskirts of the island to the vicinity of the secret chambers, while the Storm Samurai kept watching, waiting for an opportunity to kill.

Eventually, only a small group of soldiers made it to the room in front of the coronation chamber and were quickly slaughtered by the samurai, who failed to enter the chamber and the army failed to complete their research program.

With the defeat of Japan, the soldiers on the island were abandoned, and all supplies were abandoned ...

Recalling the story that Ji Xiang told at the beginning, Marin called Quanzhong!

In the middle of the temple is a large stone coffin.

The coffin is 1.7 meters high, about 2 meters long, exquisite, Marin slowly stepped forward to check, only to see, the coffin is embossed around the lifelike little figure of the queen, Marin reached out and touched it, exclaimed:

"The first Sun Queen!"

"This is the ancient ruins of the Yamatai Kingdom!"

With that, he put his hands on the coffin board, and with a hard push, the coffin lid "quacked" away, revealing a dry corpse!

"You're really here!" Marin said happily.

As the thick smell of rancid dust wafted from the coffin, Marin choked and hurriedly took a few steps back, and exclaimed again:

"It's incredible, I thought Ji Xiang was telling a story, but I didn't expect the rumors to really exist"

With that, Marin lit his torch and walked to the edge of the chamber, looking up at the statue of the queen painted on the stone wall.

The statue of the god is vivid, a woman dressed in Tang Dynasty women's clothes is looking at the world with open hands to release infinite flames, and there are many smaller women under her feet who are scorching the flames, and Marin, who is observing carefully, mutters to herself:

"This is supposed to be a fire ritual?"

After seeing one mural, Marin moved on to the next.

The mural has a striking sun on the top, and below the sun there is a woman floating out of the dust, and behind the woman is the vast sea, and there is a lonely boat in the sea, and in front of the lonely boat is a small island, and there is a temple on the island.

Although Marin does not know archaeology, she has seen many rock paintings left by ancient humans in Africa.

Through careful thinking, she recalled the ancient book she had seen in Shilin earlier, and whispered:

"This is supposed to be a pilgrimage of foreign envoys to the ancient Yamatai kingdom by boat"

There was a clear temple on the mural, and Marin deduced about it, and then looked at the next mural.

The painting shows two people, one kneeling in front of a woman dressed in red with a bowl in her hands.

Behind the woman in red was a distinct, radiant sun, apparently Queen Himiko, who was also holding a large cup in her hand and pouring water for the maid...

Marin muttered:

"Pour water? This doesn't seem to be pouring water, but inheriting power! ”

"That's right, it's the inheritance of divine power! The legend is true! ”

Marin looked around with a torch and said excitedly:

"Enthronement ceremony! This is the Enthronement Chamber! The woman in the coffin may be Himiko's own body! Her soul failed to occupy someone else's body and was placed elsewhere for the Storm Warrior! ”

Thinking that Queen Himiko could occupy other people's bodies with her soul, Marin couldn't help but wonder if he and Marin would be soul swaps and switch bodies.

However, when she thought about it, she felt that something was not quite right, because, what was the purpose of Marlene's doing?

And he doesn't have any magical power to forcibly occupy her body!

At this moment, a roar suddenly came from above the bronze bell:

"She's There"

"Take her!"

Before she could say a word, several enemies poured out from all directions of the throne hall like a tide.

Seeing this, Marin, who was quick-eyed, hurriedly took out the defender's Xia shotgun and shot each of the fierce enemies!

"Puffy!" There were two roars, and the overwhelming power of the Xia bullet gun knocked the two of them away.

As soon as the front door was solved, two more knife hands rushed from behind!

Marin turned around, and turned around with two more shots!

"Ponpo"

In the blink of an eye, she killed four people, and the defender in her hand ran out of bullets!

She's not short of weapons, though!

I saw a man carrying her titanium ice axe and rattan bow, and without any hesitation, Marlin picked up his things, as well as the Beretta pistol!

At the same time, the enemies in the enthronement hall came one after another, two burly men armed with machetes and two white submachine guns, like tigers and wolves, rushed up, and the gunners covered Marin is a wild fight!

"Da Da Da" bullets whizzed by, like a raging storm towards Marin.

In an instant, the bullets rained down, and Ma Lin exerted all his strength, jumped up, and flipped behind the 1.7-meter-high stone coffin to dodge!