Chapter 678: The Legend of the Ferryman
"Oh?"
Kong Zhe was stunned for a moment, if he wanted to build a city a day, maybe some special awakened people could do it, but it would inevitably require extremely high rank and huge magic support.
"And after that?"
"After the 'City That Never Sleeps' was established, there were more and more human beings there. According to the records in ancient books, the black-robed people seem to have mastered the method of entering and exiting the two realms, so they can bring in humans from the outside world.
"Wait!"
Hearing this, Kong Zhe's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Is there a way to enter and exit in that book?" ”
From the moment they came to this world, there was a question in front of Kong Zhe: they came to this world to find Xiao Lei, but after finding Xiao Lei, how should they get out?
It's impossible to go back to the wasteland before and look for spatial rifts, right? Not to mention whether it can be found or not, after such a long time, the spatial fluctuations there may have stopped a long time ago.
So he has to find another way to get out, this issue is actually quite important, but Kong Zhe has been forced by the pressure of finding Xiaolei now, and he doesn't have time to think.
And now, since the little fox mentioned this, he naturally wanted to ask.
"Of course not."
The little fox shook his head directly: "Even if someone knows about such a top secret, it will never be recorded in the book, otherwise Loki would have messed up a long time ago." It's just ......"
"Just?"
The little fox hesitated for a moment, sighed before continuing: "It's just a rumor, not necessarily accurate...... Legend has it that in the city that never sleeps, every time midnight falls, a river from hell will appear out of thin air in a certain location, called the Weak Water River, and you can go to the outside world as long as you cross this river. ”
"Hell? Weak water rivers? ”
Kong Zhe was not only stunned, isn't this the Yellow Spring in ancient mythology? If you add another Nai He Bridge, you will have a three-piece reincarnation set. I don't know if I got the name at random, or if the legend really has some meaning.
Shaking his head, Kong Zhe continued to ask, "And then?" The river shouldn't be that easy to navigate, right? ”
"Yes, it is said that this river is full of evil weak water, and no matter what falls, it will sink, and it will not float anything, not even feathers, and any creature will directly turn into blood and bones and die if it sets foot in it."
The little fox explained: "But when the river appears, there will also be a ferryman rocking the boat by the river. Just get on the ferryman's boat and he'll take you to the outside world. ”
"Ferryman ......"
Hearing this, Kong Zhe blinked, the white-haired young man had told him before that the organization personnel were blindfolded when they entered and exited the headquarters, and they were sent in by water. Is the waterway here difficult to accomplish refers to the river?
In that case, wouldn't it be possible to get out just by finding the river?
Kong Zhe suddenly had an abacus in his heart. After all, he is from the age of technology, but he doesn't believe in legends such as hell and weak water, these things are just smoke bombs released by the black-robed man in order to create a sense of mystery, and the actual situation is not known yet.
"So, do you know where the river is?"
The little fox shook his head and sighed, "I have thought of many ways to investigate, but this is the biggest secret of the city that never sleeps, and it is naturally tightly sealed. Even those animal people who were lucky enough to enter the city that never sleeps had never seen the river exist. ”
"Oh?"
Kong Zhe was stunned for a moment: "You mean, any of you are still allowed to enter the city?" ”
"Hmm. The Black-robed people ruled this place a thousand years ago, and they haven't invaded any of our other territories since. Although the black-robed man is powerful, he has too few men at his disposal, and we have our own 'guardian power' among our clans. For thousands of years, there has been constant friction between the two sides, but no one can help the other. In the end, the situation gradually stabilized after the mutual agreement to avoid war, which constrained some of the actions of both sides, and there have been no major conflicts since then. ”
The little fox nodded and said: "And the most important article in the war avoidance treaty: the Sun Temple will no longer launch wars against other races, as a price, during the treaty, no animal people can take the initiative to attack people from the Sun Temple, and those who violate it can be disposed of at will by the attacked person, and others must not be protected, otherwise they will be guilty of the same crime." In addition, each village pays tribute to the temple every year for certain designated local specialties, and every year, the temple selects qualified children from among the newborn animal people to join the temple as messengers to teach them knowledge and abilities. ”
"This ...... It's not an equal treaty. ”
Kong Zhe couldn't help but shake his head, don't talk about paying tribute or anything, but it's a bit too much not to attack them, so if someone beats you, won't you just stand and be beaten? Just like the relationship between the ancient powers and the subject countries, in a sense, it is already unilaterally declaring sovereignty, and the people in the organization and the aborigines here are invisibly divided into high and low.
But these are all superficial constraints, in fact, the last one is the most critical. Every year, the Sun Temple transfers the geniuses from various villages, called messengers, and teaches them knowledge of the outside world, as if it were a favor to the animal people, but it is unknown what these children will be taught in the end when they stay in other people's territory from an early age.
Maybe when you grow up, you won't even be able to figure out where you belong to your race, and when you really fight in the future, you are likely to stand on the opposite side of your true compatriots.
Kong Zhe shook his head at the little fox and said, "To put it bluntly, this kind of treaty is just limiting your strength, without the genius of the next generation, animal people will never be able to grow up...... I wonder how your leaders could have agreed to such a treaty? ”
"Of course we know this......"
The little fox screamed a little excitedly, then his tone weakened and he sighed.
"We know now...... But where did the people of that era have this kind of awareness? Even if a few foresaw the future, they had to give in under the threat of constant slaughter. ”
For ordinary people, they will not be aware of the danger of this kind of treaty, and because of their curiosity about the outside world, there were even many people rushing to join the Sun Temple, and many of the promoted envoys would inevitably have a sense of superiority and look down on other villagers when they returned. This trend has not dissipated until now, and has even intensified. ”
"...... like this"
Kong Zhe nodded, roughly understanding the historical facts here. Seeing the little fox's gloomy expression, he changed the subject.
"So what? If the Temple of the Sun has such a high status with you, why do you still hate humans...... And, the Awoken? ”
"This ...... This also depends on people's ......"
The little fox froze when he heard this, he looked at the pedestrians around him, and then lowered his head slightly and said, "I don't hate humans myself, and you saved me...... I saved the little fox, so I will help you, this is the morality of the fox clan. ”
He said with a change in his tone: "But the others are different, there are too many vicious legends about humans and the Awakened here, if they know that you are human, they will definitely not give you a good face......"
The little fox talked about the past intermittently as he walked, all of which were trivial matters. After listening to it for a while, Kong Zhe understood it.
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is the influence of the Sun Temple, they seem to be deliberately guiding the direction of this world's speech, when educating those animal people and young children, they describe the humans in the outside world, especially the awakened as a very evil existence, claiming that they are people infected by evil gods, and if the awakened come to this world, it is likely to spread the plague, and then completely destroy the world...... Probably that way.
At first, this kind of talk was only spread among those children, but over time, the rumors spread more and more, and even became more and more chaotic, and now, the Awakened have become extremely evil in the hearts of most animal people, and will be shouted at by everyone in this world.
I understood it, but after hearing it, Kong Zhe was a little puzzled, why did the Sun Temple go to great lengths to make the reputation of the Awakened stink? Even if an Awakened person strayed into this world, it would be impossible to fight against the Sun Temple with the meager strength of just a few people, and it is only right that the two should not conflict.
It wasn't until the little fox's next words that he finally figured out the cause and effect.
Of course, there are still quite a few people who are skeptical of these rumors, after all, most people have never seen the Awakened at all. Until a few months ago, there were quite a few people in the village who were not prejudiced against the Awakened. However, in recent times, some special phenomena have begun to appear in our races: the bodies of a very small number of people seem to be corrupted, and some characteristics similar to those of the 'Awakened' have begun to appear, such as the body suddenly rising into the air, and then gaining power out of thin air, etc......"
The little fox said with a frightened face: "We animal people have our own heritage, every fox will be blessed by the fox god from birth, or have the strength to become a warrior who guards the village, or have the wisdom to become the elder who leads the clan, the fox god has guarded us for tens of thousands of years, which is why we have a natural rejection of this foreign force." At that time, after these people became awakened, people from the Sun Temple immediately came and killed them directly, and the strange thing is that these people did not even leave their bodies after they died, which completely convinced the villagers that the awakened were corrupted existences. So by now, there are almost no people who are friendly to the Awakened. ”
"That's ...... so"
Kong Zhe sighed and smiled bitterly.
What he said is indeed the characteristics of the awakened, the body is floating or something, and it is obviously the moment of awakening. The subsequent digitization of the body may be very acceptable to humans living in the Internet age, but for this more primitive world, and for the race that still pays attention to the 'dust to dust and dust to earth' after death, the corpse being recycled by the creator god or something is indeed a great disrespect to the local gods.
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