Chapter 23: The Ash Wood Blood Sacrifice (11)
The trend of the times, the desire of the people, the torrent of history cannot be stopped, and it is impossible for Arouca to say anything, that will fall into the vast sea of people's war. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info leaned on Jofa and watched as everyone began to press the relief according to the deciphered sequence.
Before the last relief could be pressed, Sinong stopped moving, glanced at the crowd and said, "If there is danger, what should we do?"
Now Sinong only has half of the combat strength, and Jofa and Arouca have no combat strength at all, not to mention Henry's national division. Cui Hak patted his chest and said magnificently, "You take care of yourself, I'll take care of it." ”
National Master Henry nodded and said, "When there is only one choice, no matter how bad the choice is, it is a good choice." ”
Aruka wants to say that there is actually another option, which is to escape down the mountain and hide together, waiting for the Greywood Village to be destroyed by the Knights of the Green Lake. The explanation given by the Ring of the Gods is that the failure of the main quest will deduct the Ainos coins, and those who do not have enough coins will be thrown into hell. And in terms of the punishment for leaking information between the ends, the explanation given by the Ring of the Gods is that it is serious to erase. In other words, going to hell is not the same as obliteration, and there may be a glimmer of life.
However, considering the fear of hell among the people of the Overworld, he did not say anything. On the continent of St. Ainos, Hell is synonymous with horror. It is said that hell is full of devils and spirits, and there is no water or any food in the sky, and sinners will be worse off than dead when they enter hell, and they will be so thirsty and hungry that they can only drink their own blood, and after the blood runs dry, they will not die, and they will sink and suffer forever. But not everyone is afraid of going to hell, at least not in Aluca, and not even in some outlaws. It can be seen that sometimes lack of money and no woman are hungry than eternal sinking, which can make people more motivated to do things and do bad things. Otherwise, the Saint-Ainos Continent will become a paradise with a low crime rate of 0%.
Sinon bent down, his face heavy, like a saint confessing before the God of Light. He stretched out his finger and pressed it towards the relief, and a "click" sound sounded from the operation of the machine, and the relief fell.
Everyone waited as if they were facing a great enemy, not knowing whether the secret treasure of Ainos would be a curse or a blessing.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
......
Aluka gloated and said, "Alas, I told you earlier, and I am not wrong. Everyone calls it a secret treasure, can you get it out so easily?"
Sinong looked at Aluka sadly and said, "Then what do you say? Next time the Knights of the Green Lake come, will you go up and stand on top?"
"I feel like we're missing something," Arouca said. ”
Master Henry studied beside the statues of the four main gods for a while, and then said hesitantly: "Do you think that it is too redundant to draw the symbol of the God of Truth on the relief? If it is just to remind us to use the God of Truth to decipher the ciphertext, we can do it in a different way." I don't have much research on the God of truth, except that He symbolizes the transformation of reality and fiction, and there is truth in lies, and there are lies in truth...... Why don't we try to reverse the narrative?"
Xinong slapped his face and said, "I think what the National Teacher said is very reasonable. ”
Kindness...... That's what Xinon always says. No matter what others say, anyway, hold it first, and talk about right and wrong. Aluca felt that he had to learn from Cinon, but he felt that it was useless to reverse the narrative because it didn't change the principle.
Everyone tried a circle, and sure enough, it didn't work, and it was deadlocked again.
Aluka asked Joffa to carry him to the statue of the sun god and sit down against it. The wounds on his body hurt all the time, his physical strength was almost exhausted, and he was very tired from standing. The pain spurred Aluca's thoughts, and he began to ponder the relationship between Enos and the End. Was it Ainos who established the end of the world? Edward, the god of time, said that the name of this game of gods was chosen by some gods out of personal preference, which means that the gods participated in the formation of the end. What is certain, however, is that the gods all wield the power to create planes, such as the Sun God's residence hidden in the tunnel.
In this way, the planes where the ancient gods hid may have been created by the gods. Then the question arises, why did the gods create these planes? In order to gain more believers? No. In this dimensional world of the blood god, there are legends of the sun god and other main gods, but there are no followers of them. Ainos has a closer relationship with these planes than other main gods, and his incarnation appears here, and he is willing to be a prostitute of the Pope, is it because he has lost his memory? Why does there be a continent of St. Ainos in the main world, but no one knows which god Ainos is?
There are not enough clues, Aluka can't guess the truth, and he is not good at this kind of thinking in the first place. Some people are good at planning layouts, taking one step at a time to see ten steps, and the most powerful masters can control the overall situation, and each step affects the final result. Arouca is short-sighted, he can't move if he wants to, he will only cope with what is in front of him. Now that the matter before him was how to get the secret treasure of Ainos, Aluka refocused and began to think about the puzzle in the cave.
Why are there statues of the four main gods of the Overworld? Why not the gods of the lake, the mountains, the gods of lava, and the gods of thunder? Considering the cause and effect, Aluka felt that Ainos might really have lost his memory, and he didn't know where he went during the fifteen years of his disappearance, and he regained his memory, so he chose the statue of the god of the Overworld. He felt a hint of excitement, if his deputation was true, the gods might be no different from humans, at least they all had brains, otherwise they wouldn't have lost their memories.
However, this did not help the current situation, and Aluka forcibly retracted his thoughts, choosing to follow Henry's train of thought. Henry was right, the symbol of the God of Truth on the relief was a bit redundant. The god of truth, the virtual is the real and the real is the virtual, too philosophical, a bit like Chinese Taoism. Fiction and reality, reality and fiction...... With a flash of inspiration, Aluka reached out and grabbed the relief on the statue of the sun god, lifted it up, and actually pulled it out!
Everyone looked at Aluka in amazement, and Aluka reviewed the relief for a long time and pressed it back. He noticed that there were two card slots on the relief, and when he pulled them out, he paused slightly at a certain height, and it turned out that this was the answer. After normal people find that the relief can be pressed, they will think that the relief is used to press, and no one will pull out a relief. Replace it with a pillar with a handle, and normal people will definitely try to see if they can pull it out first. This takes advantage of the habitual thinking of people.
After Aruka explained it to the crowd, Trehack began to pull out the reliefs one by one, stopping when he reached the point where he paused. At the last step, Sinong stopped Trihaq and asked, "Are we really going to pull it out?" We are mercenaries and should trust our hunches. ”
Aluka couldn't do so much, he desperately needed to know the answers, and curiosity would kill the cat. He didn't speak, but looked at Sinong with a determined gaze. The others didn't have an idea and didn't speak. As a leader, Sinong must have the consciousness of responsibility, he gritted his teeth, pulled out the last relief and threw it to the ground.
This time it was done right, because the cave began to shake. In the small holes left by the four reliefs, orange-yellow light chips began to emerge, like fragments of crystal. The fragments floated in the air, converging into the center of the cave like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, condensing into a brown stone ball with lava flowing on its surface. The lines of fire jumped like bugs on the surface of the stone ball, cheering, and smelling of sulfur.
After a "click", the stone ball cracked in four stripes, each of which stretched out like a human limb. Then, two cracks opened in the center of the stone ball, and a little spark burned in the cracks. This was the finishing touch, and the stone ball came to life, scanning the people in the cave with a majestic gaze. Those who watched it shivered, as if they had returned to ancient times, and they were still a monkey, and they could only tremble in the face of the boundless power of the sky and the earth, the tsunami and thunder.
Strong, noble, and invincible to mortals, this is how everyone feels about the stone ball.
With a loud bang, the stone ball fell from the air to the ground, and the hard mountain rock was stepped out of the cracks, and you can imagine how miserable it would be for the flesh and blood to be touched by this stone ball. A cold sweat flowed from the top of his head, he had been a mercenary for decades, and he had killed countless mad and experienced bandits, some of whom were no less skilled than him, making him wander between life and death countless times. But never once, like this moment, gave him a fear of inevitable defeat.
A mercenary can't be afraid, he can't run away, his employer's life is his life, otherwise he won't be qualified to mix in the mercenary industry. A mercenary who has abandoned his employer is like a knight who has betrayed the gods, everyone shouts and beats him, and no one will trust him anymore. Trehack thought he had forgotten his fears, but now he felt like a coward and just wanted to turn around and run.
But here are his old friends, his own students and adopted sons, and anyone can run, but he can't. Trying to suppress his fear, Trehack whispered, "Don't move." ”
He didn't understand the advanced tactics of the enemy advancing and retreating, and the enemy retreating and advancing the enemy, but he regarded the stone ball as a fierce beast. Most beasts of prey do not eat dead bodies and rarely attack immobile prey. And without knowing the enemy, it is a mistake that only a novice will make. Knowing yourself and knowing that you are invincible, first of all, you must know the enemy's weaknesses in order to carry out an effective attack.
The problem is that the stone balls don't attack, and they don't attack either, so how can they find out the weaknesses?
As if he had made up his mind, Xinon looked at the others with a determined gaze and nodded. His combat power is not as good as that of Trihak, and he can't make a lethal attack when he discovers the weakness of the stone ball, so he can only be a test subject. If you change to an adventure party that doesn't trust each other and is unfamiliar with each other, everyone will die here. Sometimes, someone has to make a sacrifice. And willing sacrifice is always moving.
Seeing Xinong's movements, Aluka hurriedly said to Jofa not far away: "As soon as Xinon moves, you run out and call the gods, and he will definitely be able to defeat this monster." ”
Jofa was fighting with both legs, his face contorted and he nodded. Aluca was very worried about whether Jofa would be able to complete the mission, he didn't doubt that Jofa would escape alone, he was just worried that Jofa would be weak and weak.
As a result, his worries were completely unnecessary. With a loud bang, a boulder fell from the mouth of the cave, sealing the road to death. Aruka only had time to turn his head to look, and found the Blood God Priest standing at the mouth of the cave, a pair of lifeless eyes on his indifferent and shriveled face, staring at Aka with a playful and sarcastic gaze.
"Damn ......," Arouca struggled to squeeze a word out of her throat.
The sound of the boulder falling alarmed the stone ball, which raised its arms high and made a "boom" sound of the rock falling, and rushed straight towards Aluca. Every step of it shook and shook, the rocks were trampled out of one crack after another, and its huge body had a terrifying sense of oppression. Aluka felt like she was standing at the foot of the mountain, facing the rolling mudslide, and no one could resist the wrath of heaven and earth. There is nothing to be done, there is nothing to do, but to be swallowed up.
"Bastard, stop me!"
Trehack lunged forward and tried to intercept the stone ball. The long sword was like a cold star setting sun, and a slash exploded on the surface of the stone ball, bursting out of dazzling sparks, but only a gap was cut, and the stone ball didn't pay attention to him at all. He now wished that he had not an iron sword in his hand, but a knight's sword.
Seeing that Aluka was about to be trampled into pulp, a thin figure sprang out and kicked Aluka with a flying kick. Aluca's mood at this moment was not the joy of escaping, but the coldness of the dead silence, the boundless fear, the throat seemed to be blocked by something, and the chest was stuffed with panic.
When the stone ball appeared, he felt the strength of the stone ball, but he was not afraid. In his previous life, when he was a child, he once encountered a drunk driver, and the silver Passat knocked him into a meter high, and when he rolled over to the back of the car, his internal organs were in pain. He felt like he might be dying, but he wasn't scared either. He had been torn open by robbers and locked up in a water prison for days and nights, and as if there was nothing in the world that he liked, he wondered if there was anything in the world that could give him real fear.
Now he knows the answer. Arouca flew in the air, twisting his head and seeing a scene that made him jaw-dropping—Jopha stood in front of the stone ball in his place. Joffat was never a hero, he wasn't. As early as he ran to save Aluca, Jopha cried. His appearance was ugly, his nose and tears flowed down his face, his facial features were tangled together, his legs were weak and he couldn't stand, and he wanted to shout "Who will save me", but he didn't have time to shout, and no one had time to save him.
"No !!!," Aluka cried out in tears. But tears couldn't change reality, and Jofa didn't even have time to scream, so he was pushed up to the statue of the sun god by a huge stone ball. Blood spilled out like a fountain, staining the statue red, and Aluka felt the sun god smiling, smiling evilly. He suddenly had an urge to slap the sun god hard if he had the chance to meet him in the future.
You devout believers fought and died for the gods, where are you?