Chapter 103: Self-denial
The complete bronze statue was split in two, and we took a step back, and inside the bronze statue was a human-shaped groove of an ice cube, exactly like the shape of the statue, like a huge ice coffin, but it was empty and there was no ancestral god we were looking for.
"What is this?" The general picked up a blood-red robe with a gun.
Obviously, there were people standing in it, and I have seen the robe that the general found, and it was the robe that I saw the ancestral god wearing in a trance just now, which means that what I saw was the fact that it once existed.
"This ...... This robe is too big, isn't it? "The field chicken unfolds its wide robe." Who can wear such a big dress. ”
My eyes fell on the jade carving, the ancestral god carved on it is much taller than the Jiuli people, before we imagined that it might be a kind of god worship and exaggerated shape, now I clearly realize that the ancestral god of Jiuli is indeed much taller than normal people, from the size of the ice trough at least more than three meters high.
It was completely different from the height of ordinary people, I hurriedly walked out of the passage, called for others to come and help, and opened the other eleven statues outside, and the result was the same, each statue had a humanoid ice trough inside, but now all that was left was a blood-red robe.
"The last sacrifice was in the Qin Dynasty, and we haven't figured out why the Jiuli people's sacrifice to the ancestral gods was interrupted, but now we understand, because ......" I took a deep breath and was shocked. The priest was right, the ancestral god had awakened and left the temple! That's why the sacrifices were stopped, and the secrets of the temple were annihilated. ”
"Qin Dynasty ......," Ye Zhiqiu lowered his head and thought for a moment. This span is as long as thousands of years, how can these ancestral gods survive in the statue for such a long time, and where did the ancestral gods go after awakening, judging from these robes, the ancestral gods are tall and different from ordinary people, and they should be extremely eye-catching, why is there no record of this aspect in history? ”
Tian Ji and I looked at the palace lord almost at the same time, coincidentally, we have already experienced such a bizarre thing, from the Kunlun Golden Gate of the ice coffin there are also five people who came back from the dead, and like the Moon Palace Nine Dragon Fang, mysteriously left the Kunlun Golden Gate, one of them is actually exactly the same as the palace lord.
"When the ancestral god left the temple, he took the key to open the temple." I took the bronze pillar from my body and sighed at a loss. "Without a bronze pillar, even if you find the temple, you can't enter, this temple hides the secret of the ancestral god, and the vital key should always be properly kept by the ancestral god, why...... Why did it appear to me, and who gave me the keys to the temple? ”
"I won't sneak on you if I want you to know." The general looked at me calmly. "Maybe someone wants you to reopen the temple, but I really can't figure out why."
"If we can go out and investigate these things slowly, what I want to find out most now is another thing." The palace lord stood on a statue and looked at me meaningfully.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"All the statues can be opened, but the joints are so seamless that even the snapped switches coincide perfectly with the statues, and even a closer look may not be noticeable." The palace lord looked at me with a confused expression. "Yes...... But how do you know that these statues can be opened? ”
I shook my head blankly, and in that short ten minutes I was like a dream, and the scene I saw was so realistic, as if I had experienced it myself, and the person wearing the three-eyed unicorn gold mask was saying something to me in words that I couldn't understand, and I could even see the man's blinking eyes.
For a moment I even felt like I had been to this temple.
But this is completely impossible, and I can't explain the palace lord's doubts at all.
Bang!
There was a loud crash outside the ice room, and my dazed thoughts were instantly pulled back, and everyone looked in the direction of the stone gate in horror, and every time they hit, they felt that the entire ice chamber was shaking the ground, and we had no weapons in our hands to defend except for the general.
There was a sound of such a heavy stone door shattering in the impact, and along with my heartstrings, there was no way out of the ice room, not even a place to hide.
"Statue!" I looked back and saw the statue that we had opened. "Hurry up and get inside."
The sound of the stone door shattering became clearer and clearer as the frequency of the impact increased, I pushed Ye Zhiqiu into the statue, at this juncture, she was still worried about Wen Ru, she had to ask Wen Ru to go in first, and when the statue where Wen Ru was hiding was closed, I asked Ye Zhiqiu to hurry in.
Outside, there are only me and the palace lord, Tian Ji and the general, I let them hide in immediately, no matter what it is outside the stone gate, it can hit such a thick stone gate like that, and it is not something we can resist in this closed ice room.
"No, the last person can't close the statue." Tian Ji just ran into the statue and suddenly folded back.
"You guys go in first, I'll close it." I said anxiously.
"And what do you do?" The palace lord shook his head and refused to enter.
"Somebody has to stay outside." The general grabbed my gun and pushed me by the collar into the statue.
"Good!" I knew that the general was planning to stay, so I nodded without hesitation and looked at Tian Ji and Gong Jue at the same time. "Why are you stupid, you don't think it's long, hurry in."
Tian Ji and Gong Jue probably guessed that no one moved, so I shook off the general's hand and pushed Tian Ji forward with one palm, and before he could react, the three of us had already sealed the statue.
I reached out to grab the palace lord, he stepped back, the palace lord is smart, he should know what I think, I turned my head and shouted at the general. "Get him in, I'll listen to you this time."
The general didn't say a word and stepped forward to pick up the palace jue, suddenly the general was stunned, the expression on his face was very shocked to look at the palace jue, I had never seen the general react like this, I can't describe it, but the performance was fleeting, and I couldn't help but throw the palace jue into the statue, I closed it together, and the palace jue's shout came from inside.
Only me and the general were left, I honestly walked to the statue, the general's face was calm, and his voice was a little calm: "Help me tell the shopkeeper what he explained, Wei Hu is fortunate not to be dishonored, and Zhiqiu will be handed over to you." ”
"If you have anything to say, you keep it for yourself to say to him." I suddenly reached out and grabbed the general's collar.
He should have reacted, knew what I wanted to do, grabbed my hand, and looked furious: "Lao Tzu is not dead yet, you don't need to pad Lao Tzu's back." ”
"Master is alive, it's not your turn to be an old thing." No matter how strong the general is, after all, his physical strength is not as good as mine, and he can't break my hand, and I am forced into the statue.
"Chaoge." This is the first time the general has called me by name, he has always called me a little bastard alive king eight calves and so on, I was stunned and looked at the general's face was very helpless, he also had a soft time, I didn't expect it to be a life and death moment, even his voice was full of twilight. "I've lived enough, this life is worth it, you listen to me, let me come for the last time, you are still young, and there are still many things waiting for you to do."
"You dragged me into the water back then, otherwise I guess I wouldn't have survived until now, and now the master will pay you back." My heart softened, but my strength did not lighten, one hand pressed the general into the statue, and the other hand pulled the statue and closed it with all my might.
"Little King Eight Calves, Little King Eight Calves......" The general struck heavily in the statue, and the curses that kept repeating became smaller and smaller, until at last I heard a choked sound from inside. If you want to have three long and two short, Lao Tzu will stay here with you. ”
I sat on the ground as weak as a broken shelf, leaning against the statue, holding the general's gun in my hand, and suddenly felt a heat in my heart, and my eyes were a little moist, following these rough old men who licked blood from the edge of their knives, and they would never teach me such a weak emotion.
Boom......
The sound of the stone door completely shattering made me have to throw away the untimely melancholy, wipe the bolt of the gun on the tip of my nose, and shouted calmly at the statue behind me: "I will exchange it for the five of you alone, this transaction is not a loss, if you think that the life of the master is not worth the price, you can make trouble." ”
There was no sound from the statue, and I knew that it was not that they were greedy for life and afraid of death, but that they were afraid of failing to live up to my fulfillment.
A sharp and piercing voice of anger came out of the stone door, the ruined stones were smashed open, and in the darkness, a giant worm with a creepy burn all over its body, wriggled and scaly body, slowly swam towards me.
I thought the Butterfly Queen had died in the flames, but it seems that I underestimated the guardian of this temple, and it chased through the sea of fire to find this place, and I didn't see the butterfly-faced people and the white insects behind it, they must have been burned to death by the fire.
Without thinking about it, I could guess how much it resented me just by looking at the spikes that all stood up on the queen's scales, those formidable black compound eyes with violent killing, and the trembling tentacles on its fat and ugly head, sensing any slight changes in the ice chamber.
The queen quickly locked my place, and I stood up against the statue, which is what it means to be a hero, in fact my legs trembled terribly, and in the pawnshop in all directions, they taught me to be happy and revenge, to teach me to be deceitful, to teach me to be slick and sophisticated, and to teach me to be scheming.
Only......
I didn't teach me how to be a hero, not to mention that I didn't want to be a hero at all, but now there is a group of people behind me who are worthy of my dedication to them, this may be the benevolence that Ye Jiuqing taught me, but now I understand that benevolence and righteousness need to be exchanged for life.
I smiled wryly at the corners of my mouth, and I raised my gun and pulled the trigger at the queen without hesitation, the bullet could not penetrate its solid scale armor, and I didn't expect a Springfield gun to knock it down, I shot as I walked into the corner away from the statue.
It was the last thing I could do for them, and I only hoped that the Queen wouldn't find anyone else hiding in the statue, and that the Queen wasn't afraid of my attacks at all, and didn't even dodge, the alternating sound of gunshots and bullets crashing against the scales in the ice chamber.
When the last bullet was fired, I retreated to the corner of the ice room, and the queen squirmed her huge body and let out an angry growl, and I took a deep breath to try to stand as straight as I could.
I remembered that sentence again, men are as determined as iron, I can't be like Ye Jiuqing and them, I can laugh at life and death, I can't be a person like them, but at least before I fall, I won't let this monster on the other side see my fear and cowardice.
I squeezed out an uninhibited arc at the corners of my mouth, hanging on the contempt and defiance, although my hands were still shaking violently, my head was raised, and the gun in my hand slammed down on the body of the queen opposite, its huge body shrunk for a moment, and suddenly stood upright in front of me, swinging its huge body and giving me a deafening hiss.
I think I really angered the Queen, and the two sickle-like tentacles on its back slowly rose up, covered with sharp serrations, and I could imagine what would have happened to me as the two tentacles slashed down with great force, and what surprised me even more was that the wounds on her body that had been burned in the sea of fire healed so quickly as the queen became angry.
This is a monster that we simply cannot defeat, or even provoke, it is the guard of God, and in its eyes there is no mercy and mercy, all I can see is killing!
Knock, knock, knock......
The slight tapping sound, accompanied by Ye Zhiqiu's shout, came from the statue opposite, and the palace lord was shouting my name, the queen's attention was instantly diverted from me, its tentacles were like the trembling tail of a rattlesnake, making a terrifying vibration sound and looking at the statue.