Chapter Eighty-Five: The Temple Guard
Along the way here, there are the most corpses in the temple, and after Scar led people to search around, he took back a thing and handed it to Liao Kai, which was a wooden plaque engraved with the word Liao, which was the belief of the Liao family, and at that time this thing was as important as the jade seal, which was a symbol of the identity and status of Baiyan Tusi.
They found Liao Gaogu's body, there were two holes in his chest, as if he had been penetrated by something sharp, Scar said that bullet holes were found in the stone wall of the temple, and there were traces of slashing with knives and axes on the ground, Liao Gaogu They should have been attacked here, and then fled from the temple, being chased all the way until they were all slaughtered
The ground of the entire temple is scattered with gold and silver nuggets, the amount is amazing, no wonder Liao Kai will be desperate to find this batch of treasures, and now he can't hold back the excitement at all when he gets what he wants, he doesn't care about what Scar says, put away the wooden sign and let people pack Liao Gaogu's corpse, and then tell Scar to start collecting the gold and silver nuggets on the transfer ground.
"The surnamed Liao found the treasure, and with his virtue, he probably cooked it to our rabbits and dogs, and before they paid attention now, hurry up." The general said to us in a low voice.
"The way back has been cut off by us, where can we go?" Tian Ji clenched his gun and looked anxious.
"I'm not afraid of Liao Kai, forty years ago, more than 100 people died here in vain, obviously not because of robbery, the people who went back were frightened and delirious, the only thing I can remember is the words of Kabo Yaroyi." I looked around and shook my head warily. "The priest said that anyone who trespasses into the forbidden land without permission will die, since this is the case, then who killed these people, and what scared Liao Haiqing, who escaped by luck, into like that, there must be something hidden here."
"There's something weird." Ye Zhiqiu took out the arrow he had found on the corpse before. "I have also seen the ornamentation on the armor of the magic flower mantis on this bronze arrow, which means that the people who made these arrows are also the people who domesticated and armed the magic flower mantis, but these bronzes are at least a few thousand years old...... Don't you think this is wrong, Liao Gaogu and those more than 100 people were killed by weapons thousands of years ago, and who is the one who used these weapons. ”
"I know." Tian Ji didn't know where to come back, and blurted out a serious one.
"Do you know who it is?" I glanced at Tian Ji and shook my head weakly. "How could you possibly know."
"Nonsense, just standing in the back, what's not to know." Tian Ji pointed behind us.
We turned our heads blankly, the light of the huge temple was extremely dim, and we saw people standing in the shadows around the temple in the direction of Tian Ji's finger, and I was taken aback before the gun was raised, it was pressed down by Tian Ji.
"Don't be surprised, they're all dead." Tian Ji raised his hand and held a bronze mask that was exactly the same as Liao Kai's body. "I just checked the temple and found that there were dead people standing all around, but I don't know what it was for, this thing was taken from the face of the dead."
We cautiously followed Tian Ji over, and then realized how big the temple was, and the darkness on all sides was full of people standing neatly, and they were fully armed like the magic flower mantis we encountered, wearing bronze armor and wearing a bronze mask on their faces, Liao Haiqing should have taken the bronze mask from here.
These men stood in unison, like a well-armed army, with swords, axes, spears, halberds, and bows and arrows on their backs.
"I'm afraid you won't believe it, I've checked that these weapons are the ones that killed these people in the temple." Tian Ji tapped the armor of a samurai in front of him with his fingers, and then removed the mask from his head, revealing a shriveled and dead face with his eyes closed. "But the strange thing is that these people seem to have been dead for a longer time than Liao Gaogu and them, I have dug graves and seen dried corpses before, how can it take hundreds of years to be able to dry like this."
We looked at that chilling face, and we looked at everyone standing here wearing such a mask on their faces, and I remember that the priest said that the three-eyed unicorn on the bronze mask was given to Chiyou by the ancestral god, and the full translation of the phrase Kabo Yaroyi means that the temple of the ancestral god that Chiyou guards, and the people who can wear these masks are the guardians of the ancestral god.
"In this way, these people have been here for thousands of years......" The palace lord frowned, looking at the corpses strewn across the temple in astonishment. Liao Gaogu should have known the rumors of the forbidden land of the Jiuli tribe forty years ago, this place is inaccessible and it is rumored that anyone who gets close will die, for Liao Gaogu, this is the most ideal place to hide treasures, they should have accidentally bumped into the ancestral temple of the Jiuli tribe, and then they ...... How could they be killed by someone who had been dead for thousands of years?! ”
"Could it be that someone killed them with the weapons of these guards?" I walked over to the guard and tried to grab my axe.
"Can you be clear-headed, you see that these guards are fully equipped, according to your meaning, someone took their weapons and killed Liao Gaogu and then returned the weapons." Ye Zhiqiu glanced at me speechlessly.
"Then can you explain why Liao Gaogu died under the weapon thousands of years ago?" I buried my head and concentrated on breaking the guard's hand as hard as I could, trying to test my suspicions.
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I haven't heard other people's voices for a long time, and under normal circumstances, Ye Zhiqiu will definitely argue with me to the end, I turned my head to look at them behind me in surprise, everyone's eyes were full of horror, and their faces were full of consternation, and I saw the gun in the hands of the general and Tian Ji and Gong Jue slowly rising up, but their eyes were not looking at me.
I seemed to realize something, and I chuckled in my heart, and turned my head stiffly, and the dry and ugly face under the mask of the guard, which was close at hand, was now open, staring at me with violent killing.
My fingers twitched involuntarily, these are dried corpses that have been dead for thousands of years, and I can still open my eyes, I only feel that my scalp is numb, and the cold sweat on my back comes out in an instant, my hand is going up, but I didn't use force, but I put it on the guard's weapon before, and now the spear in the guard's hand is slowly lifting.
I instinctively stepped back, but my frightened legs and feet didn't obey me at all, shaking so hard that the zombie-like guard came back to life, and I could clearly hear his low gasps in his snort and the low growl in his throat.
Bang!
Just as the spear in the guard's hand was raised, there was a gunshot behind him, the guard fell to the ground in response, and the palace lord quickly pulled me back, I was shocked, and my palms were full of cold sweat, and the gun held by the general was still smoking, but his face was pale.
The sound of gunfire alarmed Liao Kai and Scar, who were carrying gold and silver nuggets in the temple, and they all stood up vigilantly and looked at us.
"What's wrong?" Liao Kai ran over and asked.
No one answered him, the sound from the darkness startled Liao Kai, the guard who fell to the ground actually twitched a few times, and slowly stood up again from the ground, the general's marksmanship naturally needless to say, this shot hit the guard's head steadily, a bowl-sized hole was embedded in the guard's forehead, and we could even see the people behind through the hole.
But I didn't see a trace of blood, and what shocked us even more was that the burst wound was strangely slowly healing, until the guard's shriveled and terrifying face reappeared in front of us.
Liao Kai had already retreated behind us, and Tian Ji's voice trembled and muttered: "What the is this, you can't kill with a gun!?" ”
As the guard's wounds healed, he took a slow step forward, and the dust on his body fell off as if he were a dead corpse crawling out of a grave, and his open mouth let out a violent roar, saying out loud words that we could not understand, echoing in the temple and striking my heart like thunder.
Syllable!
"Don't be angry, we have something to say, I will return this thing to you, I don't mean to take your things." Tian Ji threw the bronze mask in his hand to the guard's feet, and then crutched Ye Zhiqiu next to him with his hand. "Translate it, see if you can talk, don't let you live or die as soon as you come up."
Ye Zhiqiu estimated that she was scared stupid, the dead people she had seen were all lying on their backs, where had she seen dead people who could move and talk, Tian Ji turned her around, and the whole person collapsed on top of me.
"What did he say?" Liao Kai asked Wen Ru in horror.
"I don't know, it seems to be the language of the priests." Wen Ru shook his head with a look of trepidation.
"Whoever trespasses into the forbidden land without permission and disturbs the rest of the ancestral gods will die!" I replied with a deep breath.
"How can you understand?" The palace lord asked in surprise.
I don't know the language of these priests, but when I was in the Jiuli tribe, the priests said the same thing when they warned us.
As soon as the guard's voice fell, the bronze spear in his hand was raised vigorously, and from all around us came the sound of heavy and loud steps, all the temple guards woke up, approaching us step by step, we retreated to the outside of the temple in panic, but the road had been blocked, and as we moved, all the guards were agile and agile towards us.
Suddenly, the temple gunfire was loud, and the scarred man shot and scanned the surroundings in a panic, there was no need to aim, countless temple guards swarmed from all directions, and the bullets could not penetrate the bronze armor at all, this was completely an undead army, once it got close, it was slashed under the random knife, and the entire temple fell into a bloody scream and slaughter.
I finally understood what happened to Liao Gaogu and them forty years ago, but I still didn't understand why Liao Haiqing and the survivors who escaped death were scared like that, even if these immortal and weird temple guards were enough to make people frightened, but they were far from scaring them like this.