Chapter Seventy-Three: Grazing Humans
There was silence throughout the vault.
Everyone, including Yun Ze, didn't express an opinion, just looked at Castin silently, waiting for his next words.
"In the last time the Chosen Space, our free civilization divided the team into three teams, two of which you should have seen, but one team actually disappeared in the Chosen Space shortly after entering the Chosen Space."
"We thought they had died shortly after entering, but shortly after the Chosen ended, one of the third team returned and let us know the truth of the incident."
Yun Ze frowned, and his gaze fell on the gray-haired girl.
In that case, she should be the only survivor.
"That's right."
Castin said and looked at Yun Ze again: "The book she gave you before is one of the things she brought back, and the allusion I know is also known from some of the books she brought back." ”
"The book you brought back from the Sanctuary?"
The Black Bear had previously mentioned that there were books about human civilization in the Sanctuary, but the kind of books it was talking about were not written on paper, but on a carrier called Spirit Crystal.
Perhaps in that world, in addition to spirit crystals, there are other carriers for recording words.
"And what did they see in the Sanctuary?" Darav asked hurriedly.
"I don't know yet."
Castin shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You have also seen that her current state is very abnormal, she can't speak, she can't feel pain, and she can only make some simple reactions according to instructions."
For example, simple behaviors such as following, eating, and drinking water, and there is no way to communicate, so we don't know exactly what happens. ”
"Huh? So how did you know she came out of the Sanctuary? Nishinomiya Xiao questioned.
"When she appeared, she kept saying the words 'Sanctuary', 'Xenomorph', and 'Hometown', and she was surrounded by those things, and she was holding a roll of sheepskin in her hand, which seemed to record some words, which should be extremely important."
As he spoke, Castin took out a box from his pocket and put it on the table, but his hand pressed on the surface of the box, and said solemnly: "This is the sheepskin, and this is what I came here for."
It is true that the parchment contains the words, but it also carries a curse. ”
"Cursed?"
"Yes, as long as people look directly at those words for more than a second, no matter through any means, including but not limited to direct gaze, videos, photos, etc., they will fall into the same state as her, and they cannot be released."
Castin moved his palm away and placed the box in front of him: "That's why, we still don't know exactly what happened. ”
The vault fell silent again, and after a while, everyone turned their eyes to Yun Ze.
Since Castin dares to say this, it proves that free civilization has used many methods to crack the secrets of this sheepskin, but so far there has been no progress.
Then his purpose in bringing this sheepskin to Yan Huang is obvious.
Black bear!
No matter how many times they tried the method, they definitely didn't show this sheepskin to a high-level xenomorph, and even if they did show it to the xenomorphs, it was only some low-level xenos who had been transported from Yanhuang.
Those xenos who have no intelligence, even if they look at it, will not gain anything.
"Eh, wait!"
Before Yun Ze could speak, Daraf seemed to think of something, and turned his head to move his gaze to Castin: "Then what is the opportunity you told me?" A chance to break through level 20. ”
"Originally, I wanted to talk about it later, but since you mentioned it, it's okay to say it now."
Castin smiled helplessly and explained, "Since the place where she appeared is not where she originally was, we have stationed a small army in the same place to study the differences.
But then we found out that every 72 hours, there would be spatial fluctuations in that place, teleporting all the lives in the area to one place, and then teleporting those lives back after another 72 hours.
I was ordered to go in once with a squad. ”
"Is it the Sanctuary?" Daraf's eyes widened.
"Yes."
Castin nodded in acknowledgement, frowning slightly: "I also managed to break through level twenty there, but at the cost of fourteen level fifteen members." ”
"There...... What exactly does it look like? Nishinomiya Xiao couldn't help asking.
"Hell, there's real hell there!"
As if recalling something, Castin clenched his hands into fists, and his body couldn't help but tremble: "The place where we appeared is a jungle, and after walking out of the jungle, there is a plain, and there are different species grazing on the plain. ”
"Grazing? What to graze? ”
Yun Ze didn't doubt this behavior, with the intelligence level of high-level xenomorphs, this kind of behavior of grazing was not difficult.
But the question is, what is the object of xenograzing? Some low-level xenomorphs? Or is it that there are ordinary creatures in the Sanctuary?
"Grazing humans."
Castin squeezed four words out of his teeth, reached out and took out a few photos from his arms and took them on the table.
Yun Ze didn't stay at the door this time, but stepped forward to pick up one of them, and a chill instantly came to his heart!
Red moon, plains, a black-skinned wild boar about ten meters high.
A black-skinned boar lay on the plain, holding a bone whip in his left hand and half of the corpse in his right hand, letting the blood remaining in the corpse drip down, with an expression of pleasure on his face and chewing on the other half of the flesh in his mouth.
Not far in front of it was a group of humans, prostrate on the ground, without any cloth or anything else on their bodies, their eyes hollow like puppets, instinctively nibbling on the food of the plains.
The plain was not a forest or fruit, but a large mass of corpses, and there were aliens and humans in the corpses, and the food of those humans was the flesh and blood left on the corpses.
They are not so much human beings as human animals!
Yun Ze trembled and put down the photo in his hand, glanced at the photos in the hands of Daraff and Xigong Xiao, and found that they were all similar, but they were taken at different times.
In one of the images, there are no black-skinned boars, but the humans have not reacted, and are still foraging on the Plains of Flesh.
He forced the idea of going out and slaughtering the black bear, put the photo on the table, and looked at Castin in front of him: "How did you deal with it?" ”
"Kill it, I cut off its head with my own hands." Castin replied casually.
It seems that this black-skinned boar is the material for his quest to break through level 20.
"And then?"
Darav then asked, "Have you brought back all those people?" ”
"What can't be brought back, except for the people we have traveled through the past, only dead things can be sent back."
"So the purpose of your search for us is to let us pass?" Yun Ze frowned and asked.
"Yes!"
Castin immediately got up: "That wild boar's identity is only herding, but even so, its level has reached level twenty!"
Those truly terrifying existences in the Sanctuary are likely to reach the level of ninety, or even break hundred!
For humanity! For the sake of the future of Blue Star, we must not sit idly by!
As the top combat force of mankind, we should take this responsibility and be the vanguard of mankind! ”
The vault fell silent once more.
Everyone was thinking about the truth of what Castin was saying, and they were also thinking about whether they should agree to the other person.
Not to mention, there was another xenomorph invasion in Bluestar six days later, and it would be too risky if everyone present had gone there.
Yun Ze hesitated for a moment, then spoke again: "I have one more question. ”
"You say." Castin looked at Yun Ze.
"Xenos don't have a buff effect on our side, so if we go there, will the increase generated by the belief in the gods disappear?"
"It's not going to go away."
Castin immediately spit out four words, but his heartbeat couldn't help but speed up a little.
If the increase didn't disappear, how could he kill that wild boar at the cost of fifteen people?
This guy is really not easy to deceive.
I don't know if he will see through his true purpose, if he does, then he will have to find another way to kill him.
Trouble trouble, what a hassle!
Yun Ze vaguely sensed something, staring at Castin's eyes and not knowing what he was thinking.