readx;? Ian never expected that the middle-aged man would bring him to the palace. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn this huge imperial capital, the palace is undoubtedly the most special place, although this is only the surface, according to Dennis, the rights of the four hunter families are actually greater than the rights of the royal family. The royal family is just a superficial ruler and does not have much real power.

But even so, the palace is still a place of supreme power and status. Even a high-ranking hunter like Ian, or a prince like Karan, had to be informed before entering the palace.

But this middle-aged man, who looked inconspicuous to Ian, could easily bring Ian into the palace. The guards guarding the royal gate just glanced at Ian, but didn't say anything, and opened the gate to let him go.

"You're not going to take me to the Emperor, are you?" asked Ian.

"Isn't it?" said the middle-aged man, "I'm not going to take you into the palace, the place I'm going to take you to is on the outskirts of the palace, but you have to enter through this door." I've been here many times, and the guards know me and know where I'm going. ”

Ian let out an oh and followed behind the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man walked fast, and Ian could only speed up, and the two of them shuttled through the high walls of the palace, and Ian didn't have a chance to take a good look at the magnificent buildings around him. can only follow the middle-aged man closely, for fear of being thrown off.

The two walked for about ten minutes before they walked out of the palace and came to a deep road. After walking for about five minutes, Ian saw a square platform, about a few dozen square meters and more than a meter high. The four corners are four white pillars, which are not straight, but curved inward, like four fingers.

Ian was about to ask what it was used for, when the middle-aged man stepped onto the platform. Ian had no choice but to follow, and then he noticed that a huge eye was carved into the floor of the high platform.

It's like a woman's eye because the eyelashes are long. The skill of the sculptor who carved this eye can be described as a masterpiece, and each eyelash is carved out thinly. The pupils and eyelids are also sculpted to lifelike, as if they could blink at any moment.

But I don't know if it's an illusion, Ian feels that the gaze that emanates from this eye is very unfocused. It's like the last moment of a sleepy woman in front of her eyes. The eyes are very beautiful, but just putting it here does not have the slightest sense of beauty, but gives people a sense of weirdness and unease.

"Keep up. ”

The middle-aged man's muffled voice interrupted Ian's reverie. Ian looked away from this eye and saw that the middle-aged man had descended from the high platform, and in front of him was a hemispherical building. It bears some resemblance to the former Great Hall Opera House San Diego, except that the building is blue, a jewel-like blue.

Ian walked up to the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man spoke slowly, his voice unusually hoarse: "Everything you want to know is inside." ”

Ian hesitated for a moment, but then said, "Thank you." ”

The answer isn't all rosy. The middle-aged man said, "You can completely ignore it and enjoy your current life." ”

Ian shook his head, said I can't do it, and walked towards the hemispherical structure. With each step closer to the hemispherical building, Ian's uneasiness increased, as if there was something terrible hiding in this building.

At first, Ian thought it was just his own mental work, so he took a few deep breaths and tried to relax the tension in his heart. However, he soon realized that this was useless, and the uneasiness intensified as he approached the hemispherical structure. When he reached the metal door, the uneasiness reached its peak, and he was almost out of breath.

At the same time, the dragon flame mark on his right arm also began to emit a burning pain.

The last time he had this reaction was when he was in Atlantis, facing the newborn Nartima.

Could it be that there is also a dragon king here?!

As soon as the idea was born in Ian's heart, he rejected it. You must know that the imperial capital is the headquarters of the hall, how can you allow a dragon king to be under your nose?

But if it weren't for the Dragon King, what was it that would make him feel so uneasy?

Ian didn't know, and he didn't want to speculate any longer. The middle-aged man said that the answer he wanted was here, so what was he waiting for? So he reached out and put his hand on the handle of the metal door, and pulled it back hard.

The metal door was slowly opened. The moment the door opened, Ian felt the temperature drop suddenly, and an icy air current blew from the building. The previous feeling of uneasiness froze in this air current.

Ian looked inside, and it was dark.

Ian took another deep breath and took the first step.

"Smack. ”

The sound of shoes touching the floor echoed in the darkness, like a simple syllable pressed from a piano key. Ian didn't hesitate, and immediately took the second and third steps, so the sound of "popping" turned into a variety of different syllables with high and low tones, and made up a melody.

Ian walked through the melody. There was no light in it, and I could only rely on the sunlight coming in from outside the door to barely see the direction. But as I went deeper and deeper, I could almost say that I couldn't see my fingers. Ian could only touch the wall and cautiously navigate the passage.

For some reason, it's much warmer inside than outside. Ian, who was cold, sneeze involuntarily. Like the footsteps that preceded it, the sound of sneezing echoed in the darkness.

Empty and lonely.

Ian walked in the dark for about a minute or so before finally seeing the light. At the end of the passage, there was a pale blue shimmer, gently projected on the ground. Ian continued to walk forward, and soon walked out of the passage and into a wide space.

The moment he entered the space, Ian noticed a light source with a faint blue light.

It is an oval-shaped space, about four or five meters high and more than a dozen meters wide. There was nothing on the ground except for some incomprehensible totems, but there were about dozens of blue crystals on the walls, like the ones seen in Atlantis.

It's just that the sapphire here has been cut into neat squares and fixed to the wall, emitting a faint blue light.

"There are so many crystals, there are really them"

Before Ian finished speaking, he suddenly noticed something, and his expression was dull for a moment. The next moment, fear grew wildly in his heart like mushrooms after a rain.

How is it possible, how is it possible, how is it possible!

Ian ran almost frantically towards the nearest piece of sappher.

Since the sapphire doesn't have a bright light source, Ian didn't notice it at first. But now he found that there was a person in every piece of sapphire crystal!

She has long light blue hair, closed eyes, and a beautiful face.

This is the person closest to Ian. Through the few centimeters of crystal, Ian could clearly see every detail of the woman's face in the blue crystal. He was sure that it was not an illusion, and it was impossible for an illusion to conjure up a woman's face down to the beauty moles at the corners of her eyes.

Ian suddenly realized something and ran to the next piece of sapprite.

The same long pale blue hair, closed eyes, and the same beautiful face.

Next piece.

It's the same.

Ian didn't know when he had returned to square one, and he sat down on the ground with a dejected face, holding his head tightly.

There were seventeen crystals in total, and there were seventeen women in the crystals, each with Messianic features.

"Because I don't want to lie in a crystal coffin. ”

The words that the Messiah had spoken to him a year earlier suddenly rang in his ears. He didn't understand what the Messiah meant then, and he doesn't understand it until now.

"It's not all rosy. The middle-aged man came behind Ian at some point, "Sometimes, it can be bloody and cruel." ”

"Why is this happening?"

"The Eye of Heaven is the destiny of the Messiah. The middle-aged man said softly, with anger, unwillingness, loneliness and despair, "No one can resist." ”

"I don't believe it!" Ian yelled, got up and grabbed the middle-aged man by the collar, and lifted him up, "Who the hell are you?!, why do you keep saying things to me all the time?!"

"Because, I'm the same person as you!"

The middle-aged man roared back, and spittle squirted into Ian's face.

Ian froze.

The middle-aged man broke free from Ian's hand and slowly walked to a crystal coffin. Reaching out and trying to caress the woman in the crystal coffin, with her eyes closed.

"My Messiah. The middle-aged man cried, "Kyle, I've come to see you." ”

At that moment, Ian only felt like he was going to suffocate.

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