Wen Ru looked at me with a flustered gaze, it was definitely not fear, this is also what I have never been able to understand him, I have never seen fear in the eyes of this old man, sometimes I even feel that Wen Ru's cunning gaze reveals a youth that is not symmetrical with his age.

He didn't care about this temple that would make him famous in history, and I realized now that it was the owner of this temple that Wen Ru cared about, and that was probably the real reason why he was here.

We found plenty of ammunition for guns and ammunition from the parcels left behind by Scar's men, and Tian Ji collected a whole bag of explosives and grenades, and when we checked the ammunition and prepared to leave, the general withdrew a bullet from the magazine and handed it to me.

"What if, I mean just in case." The general looked at me solemnly and pointed to the stone wall behind him. "When I'm like these people, you should give me a ride."

I threw the bullet in the general's hand on the ground: "You have beaten me for ten years, it is not so easy for you to raise the corpse, and I will save my life for the rest of my life to see how I return it to you." ”

"You know that Lao Tzu is not afraid of death, but he dies in the hands of these things, and Lao Tzu does not look blind to death." The general glared at me, then turned to look at the pheasant. "Give me the package of explosives."

"Old man, if you want to be a hero, it's not your turn to rank seniority here." Tian Ji should have guessed that the general was thinking that in case of danger, he planned to stay behind the broken queen, shook his head and put the backpack on his back.

I pushed Ye Zhiqiu in front of the general, and I could still laugh: "The shopkeeper handed over Zhiqiu to you, don't worry about the corpse if you can still breathe, the shopkeeper said that you are reluctant, if you let go, who will protect Zhiqiu." ”

Hush!

The palace lord next to us raised his hand to interrupt us, he turned his head to look at the passage to the left of the stone room, his hearing was unusually sensitive, and he told us for a long time that the closer we got to the depths of the temple, the more faintly we could hear the roar, like the sound of something being activated all the time.

"And I heard a strange growl." The palace lord raised his hand and pointed to the passage on the left. "It's coming from over there."

"The guy in our hands, not to mention the God Slaughter and the destruction of the temple, even a janissary guard can't kill him, we can't just think of a way like this." Tian Ji said.

"Such a large temple has always had mechanisms in operation, and the place that controls these mechanisms is also the core of the temple, and it is also the weakest place, we don't have to fight hard with the guards, as long as we find the place in the temple that controls the mechanism." The palace lord nodded and looked at us calmly. "Destroying this place would destroy the entire temple."

The palace lord said that the only thing to worry about in this temple is that there will be no hidden deadly traps, because these undead and brutal guards walking through it are the best cordon.

We followed the palace lord to the whispering sound he heard, and gradually there was a thin layer of ice on both sides of the stone wall, and the temperature dropped significantly, and we seemed to be approaching an ice cave, the structure of the temple was very strange, and we walked through one stone chamber after another, each of which was the same size, and there was a door on each side that connected the passages in all directions.

The palace lord in front suddenly raised his hand, we all heard a piercing scream from the front, the condensed ice around the passage leading to the front was thicker, we walked forward like walking on thin ice, and found that the end of the passage was above a huge stone chamber, we quietly lowered our heads and poked our heads out, and were suddenly shocked by what we saw in the stone chamber.

Below the stone chamber is an ice chamber covered with thick ice, a huge giant insect is crawling in the middle of the ice chamber, the sound heard by the palace lord is from the mouth of this worm, those butterfly-faced guards are guarding the insects, and the tall guards are not as tall as the insects in front of the insects.

The giant bug was the same as we saw in the sacrificial room, but the guards guarding it seemed to be in awe of the bug, and the guards who had just hatched snuggled up next to the bug.

Then we see a janissary take the person he had caught before in front of the worm, and break open the man's mouth, and the disgusting mouthparts that protrude from the worm's mouth are inserted into the man's mouth impartially, and the man does not even have a chance to struggle, and from the tube-like mouthparts of the worm there are sections of something wriggling and forcibly pouring into the person's body.

"This insect is like the queen of the ant colony, it pours eggs directly into the human body and uses the living to hatch its offspring." Ye Zhiqiu lowered his voice and said timidly.

"In the myth of Jiuli, butterflies created human ......," Wen Ru took a deep breath and was dumbfounded. It seems that this rumor is biased, it is not the butterfly that created the man, but the queen who gave birth to the butterfly-faced man, no wonder the ancestors of Jiuli will have a very high totem worship of the butterfly, this insect queen must have existed for a long time. ”

"There's something wrong with this ice room." Gong Jue looked around and shook his head.

"What's the problem?" I asked, turning my head.

Gong Jue pointed to the ice chamber and told us that the temple was built up of stone chambers of the same size, and the ice chamber in front of us was exactly the size of two stone chambers, and there was a thick stone slab gap in the middle, presumably this ice chamber was isolated before.

"The queen is on a specific stone slab, if I guessed correctly, it was previously enclosed in an ice chamber, and when we entered the temple, the general accidentally touched the mechanism, which was the mechanism that activated the operation of the entire temple, and at the same time opened this closed ice chamber, freeing the queen who had been frozen." The palace lord said to us with a calm face. "Along with the queen is the Butterfly Guard, who will start laying eggs when she wakes up, but the host who needs to hatch these eggs ......"

"Sacrifice of the living!" I jerked my head up and opened my mouth in shock. "This is the reason why the ancestors of Jiuli came to the temple at a specific time, and the living people sent to sacrifice were prepared for the queen to lay eggs, and these living people were actually the indispensable carriers for the queen to hatch eggs."

"Look." Tian Ji pointed to the stiff and stiff butterfly-faced guards on both sides of the ice room. "It doesn't look like these guards are immortal, and although a long period of freezing will prolong their lives, they will still die eventually."

"That's why it's going to be sacrificed every 1,620 years, these monsters will also face death if they exceed the time, the reverence for butterflies in Jiuli mythology is deep-rooted, and even the butterfly is the mother, which can be seen because of this queen." Ye Zhiqiu said in fear.

"After every time the time is up, the descendants of Jiuli will respect the sacrifices passed down from generation to generation by the priests, and in the hearts of the Jiuli people, the butterfly queen has created the butterfly-faced people that they cannot match, out of awe and worship of this unknown fear, they also regard the queen as their ancestors, hoping that the Jiuli people can be as powerful as the butterfly-faced people." The palace lord nodded and whispered to us. "But after the last sacrifice, I don't know what the reason, the third sacrifice was not carried out at the specified time, so there will be a dead butterfly-faced person in the ice room."

"The priest said that the Jiuli Ancestral God is enshrined here, is it ......" Tian Ji frowned and was extremely surprised. Could it be that the ancestral god of Jiuli is this bug?! ”

"There is this possibility, otherwise the Jiuli people would not have worked hard to build this temple, let alone send so many living people to death for no reason." The general's face was resentful, and his voice was low. "The Jiuli people are just to keep this insect alive, no wonder the priest we saw last time, he firmly believes that the ancestral god will be resurrected, looking at him like that, he still expects this insect to help the Jiuli people make a comeback, fortunately...... Fortunately, these madmen have built the temple firmly, and if this worm leaves the temple, ......"

"No!" Wen Ru shook his head slowly. "Jiuli's ancestral god will definitely not be this queen."

"How not." The general glanced at Wen Ru. "I didn't see the Jiuli people offering it as an ancestor, and even sending so many clansmen to death, this is not it, so what do you say?"

"Look at the bronze armor on these guards, as well as the masks they are wearing, with the pattern of the three-eyed unicorn on it, the priest clearly said that the three-eyed unicorn pattern is a totem given to Jiuli by the ancestral god." Wen Ru calmly looked at the general. "Do you think a single insect can design and create such an intricate pattern, and besides, this temple is called in the language of the priests, Kabo Yaroyi, which translates to the temple of the ancestral god guarded by Chiyou, have you seen anything related to Chiyou until now?"

"He's right, the queen has always been enclosed in the ice room, that is, the queen will be released after the sacrifice begins, but the purpose of its existence is not to be worshipped to the ancestral gods, but to lay eggs." I took a deep breath and nodded. "In fact, it is estimated that the Jiuli people have not figured out the real reason for the sacrifice, in fact, the ancestral gods don't need their sacrifices at all, these living people are just provided to the queen to lay eggs and hatch butterfly-faced people, the reason for the existence of these saucer-faced people is just the sentinels of this temple, and like Chiyou, they are just guarding this temple."

"It's not the Guardian Temple, it's the owner of the Guardian Temple!" Gong Jue also reacted and nodded in realization. "Actually, it's very simple, the interval between sacrifices is specific, and it is impossible for a bug to calculate how long it takes to lay eggs to replace the guards of the temple, let alone instruct the Jiuli people to build a huge temple underground."

"So there is another ancestor god of the Jiuli clan?" Tian Ji seems to have figured it out.

"No matter what the ancestral god is, it must be extraordinary to be able to control this insect and there are so many butterfly-faced people, and we haven't touched the real secret in this temple." Gong Jue nodded and said.

"So what are we going to do now?" Ye Zhiqiu asked.

"What to do? I've found the nest, don't even wait for the pot end, these things will be repaid when they are released, and how many people will be harmed. The general slowly turned around and stretched out his hand to the field chicken. Dynamite. ”