Chapter 14: The Fire Temple
Clark's words hit Xu Mo like a thunderbolt, and he was as cold as he was empowered. Xu Mo has always been in control of everything in the mirror world, even if some things are out of control because of some of his principles and bottom lines, but he has not been out of his expectations.
But what happened before was different, and it was completely beyond Xu Mo's imagination. If a highly intelligent person like Xu Mo is used to being in control, one day once something beyond his control happens, he will fall into a frenzy.
If you develop this habit of being in control of everything in an extremely dangerous environment, then once something unexpected happens, it will amplify your anxiety, and even more seriously, it will turn into fear.
This is the situation that Xu Mo is encountering now, but his situation is even worse. The situation he encountered could no longer be said to be beyond his control, but it was simply unimaginable.
If Xu Mo can't find the reason for the matter in a short period of time, then even if he doesn't collapse mentally, he will have doubts and unconfidence in his layout and plan in the future. A person like Xu Mo, if he shakes his confidence in his own planning and layout, then his real collapse will not be far away.
However, fortunately, Xu Mo is not just a wise man who is good at layout and planning, he is also a tenacious and tenacious fighter. In the two fights with Terry, he was appreciated by Terry, not only because of the success of the layout, but also because Xu Mo does have the qualities of a true martial artist.
Terry and Clark may not be as good as Xu Mo in terms of scheming, but as top martial artists, these two people trust their instincts more, and they deeply feel that Xu Mo has the characteristics of a martial artist.
Xu Mo's quality may not be the fierce as the wind of Terry, nor the fiery fire of Clark, but it is like an old wine, deep and mellow, when you first drink it, it is as plain as water, but the aftertaste is extremely blazing.
This is also the most important reason why Terry chose to recognize Xu Mo, on the way to the Fire Imperial Temple, Terry and Clark had already noticed Xu Mo's changes. Although they didn't know why Xu Mo would judge the two of them in a short period of time, they knew that Xu Mo must have encountered a knot.
Terry chose to wait silently, he hoped that Xu Mo could overcome the knot on his own, while Clark, who was a little short-tempered, chose to stimulate Xu Mo's fighting spirit, obviously in this matter, Clarke's approach was more efficient.
After hearing Clark's words, Xu Mo smiled, and the gloom in front of him was swept away. Although it was already night, and the moonlight through the mountains and forests was sparse and not bright, there was no dark corner in Xu Mo's heart.
Oh, yes! For a long time, because of the strength of the opponent, Xu Mo had to rely more on his own wisdom to plan and plan. Relying on betrayal and calculation, he got the results he needed from various opponents bit by bit, and he gradually forgot what kind of person he was.
Although Xu Mo has a high IQ, he was not originally a person who relied on calculations and stratagems to achieve results, on the contrary, he was the kind of fierce fighter who had the courage to splash blood in five steps and exchange his life for his life. You can make Xu Mo bleed and bereave, but you can't stop him from returning a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood.
Whoever respects me by a foot, I will return his foot, and whoever hurts my loved ones, I will slaughter his family and destroy his country. This is Xu Mo's principle, he never thinks of himself as a wise man, he is just a puppet, a forbearing, vicious, ruthless, and fierce and fearless puppet.
What if it's out of control? What about unimaginable information? He also has a pair of fists, a dagger, and a fearless heart, the god blocks the killing of the gods, the Buddha blocks the killing of the Buddha, and his fists are his protectors.
"Thank you, Clark!" Xu Mo quickly caught up with Clark and said softly.
"Hehe, when you go back, don't forget to ask me for a 'reward'!" Clark pushed his sunglasses and said coldly.
"Samsara 228, you have been recognized by Clark, Clark Steele's favor for you has increased, your personal reputation has increased by 500, your total reputation has increased by 500, and your reputation with Clark has changed from indifferent → neutral."
The three of them walked for a while on the mountain road leading to the Hogoji Temple, and soon saw the torii arch in front of the Hogoji Temple on the top of the mountain. The three of them looked at each other for a moment, left the mountain road, and slowly dived to the top of the mountain under the cover of the trees next to the mountain road.
There is a memorial arch every ten meters in front of the Huoyu Temple, there are four in total, in front of the temple is a wide courtyard, some locust trees are planted around the courtyard, there are two small flower beds on the left and right in front of the door, and in the middle is a huge incense burner. The main entrance of the temple is extremely wide, and there is a stone statue of King Kong with angry eyes on each side of the door.
Looking in from the door, the temple has three entrances in total, and the main hall is a three-story ancient building with eaves and arches. The temple is not an ancient temple with historical traditions, but a folk religion established during World War II. The temple is not dedicated to the ancient Buddha or the traditional god Amaterasu. The god of fire worship is the god of fire in this myth and legend - the fire no kakuto.
The reason is that when the god of fire was born, he let his mother god Izanami hurt his mother, Izanami, and finally died in agony, and his father, Izana, was saddened by the death of his wife, and pulled out his ten-fist sword to kill the fire god Kakuto. Killed his mother and was killed by his father, and because of this, the fire of the Kakuto was regarded by many as an ominous evil god.
Although the Fire Imperial Sect believes in such an evil god, this temple is famous far and wide, and there are many pilgrims, because the temple's divination is very effective. However, today is an exception, the courtyard in front of the Fire Imperial Temple, the originally flat bluestone slab ground is pitted, and there are broken bluestone slabs and mudstone pits everywhere.
There are quite a few people, but all of them are dead. Among the dead were many members of the Fire Cult in red robes and red hoods, as well as black-suited guards armed with MP5 submachine guns, and some of them were also mixed in with people in variegated costumes.
These people wear everything, jackets, windbreakers, sweaters, shirts, suits, men and women, but they are all young and middle-aged without exception, with strong bodies, and there are no old and weak women and children.
The three of them scattered in the courtyard in front of the temple, checking the identities and causes of death of these people, Xu Mo frowned after looking at a few corpses, he already knew the identities of these people, and they were all reincarnated. According to a rough calculation, there are at least thirty reincarnators who have died here. Thirty reincarnators! Xu Mo was a little frightened, what kind of power, what kind of force could make these thirty reincarnators die here together.
Judging from the several worlds that Xu Mo has experienced before, there are generally two ways for the superstring space to send the reincarnator into a certain mirror world. One is to teleport to a no-man's land, where the Soul Imprint forms a Law Body, giving it the disguise of appearance and a certain amount of the currency of the world.
The other is to be like this King of Fighters world, directly teleport the soul imprint into a body that has been prepared a long time ago, and then use the law of space to transform this body into a law body, so that it has the identity and ** of this world.
Through the previous mirror worlds, Xu Mo had already learned that no matter which way the law body was constructed, after the reincarnation person died, the law of space would disappear from the body, leaving only the corpse of an ordinary person.
Xu Mo was able to identify that these corpses had once belonged to the reincarnation, but the reason was actually very simple. If it is the original inhabitants of the mirror world, then even if they are strong and powerful such as Terry and Clark, they will die after being injured in the vital parts of the body, such as the head and heart, but the reincarnation is different.
Xu Mo looked at these corpses, several of them were injured by the vital injuries of the body, but judging from the traces of the fight, after they were injured, they fought for a long time before they died, so the possibility that these people were immortal was ruled out, then only the reincarnation could do this.
While the three of them were looking for clues, Xu Mo's movements stiffened slightly, and his soul mark received a team communication again, this time the communicator was very close to him, because the message was colored green......