[Captain, Jakar's leg bone was bitten off by the bladetooth fish, and the broken blade teeth and bone residue were stuck in the wound......]

[Captain, the temperature is rapidly dropping, and we must start a fire immediately...... But the fuel here is only the planks of the boat we crossed......]

[Captain, something is wrong with this place, why are there strange characters and murals of indigenous people all around?!] 】

[We, I'm afraid we didn't run to the sacrifice ground of the natives, right?! 】

I could faintly hear such a voice, and I could see the figures dissipate one after another.

Ian was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and woke up from his vision.

He slowly stood up and calmly said to the people who turned their heads to look at him: "If nothing else, this skeleton in front of me should be my father." ”

"Fourteen years ago, the first major storm in South Ridge, I was born at that time. At the same time, the Port Harrison Maritime Guard, the captain of which my father was the captain at the time, was so caught up in the storm that I could not even see the wreckage of the ship. ”

The boy was concise, but everyone had understood the origin of the bones in front of them.

"The Great Storm is a change in the ruins...... They were just like us, sucked in by the strange movement of the ruins of that time, and arrived here. ”

Isengard whispered to himself, "It's just that we were swept inside the ruins, and they were swept into the entrance of the ruins—but because of the storm, they couldn't get out, they couldn't get in, and they were blocked here by the ruins gate......"

"yes." Ian replied lightly, his tone calm, "They didn't die in the storm in the first place, they were just trapped here, but unfortunately, no one can be saved and escaped from it." ”

He didn't know much about his emotions at the moment...... After all, Ian is the 'Wisdom One' who awakened the memories of his past life, and before he awakened the Wisdom, both his parents in this life were dead.

Truth be told, Ian is indeed grateful to his parents in this life for having him born, and for doing everything he can to make him an adult...... Let him have the possibility of awakening his memory and solving the cheap uncle.

If it weren't for the good popularity of his parents and his mother's hard work, he would have died early before he grew up.

"Rest in peace for the dead." Bishop White Mist stepped forward and saluted the bones in front of him, he turned his head and said to Ian, "I know them, Ernesto, Jakal, Davian, Shar, and Mon Ironbone......"

The old man gave the name of each bone one by one, he didn't lie, he really knew everything, even if it turned into rotting bones: "It seems that they ended up in civil strife, and only Ernesto, that is, Ian, your father survived, but there was no cannibalism. ”

Ernesto gathered the bones of the others and ushered in his own death. He also adhered to human dignity until the end. ”

"If I don't mind, I'd like to purify them and take them back to Port Harrison Church Cemetery for burial."

Ian naturally has no reason to refuse, and he doesn't even have the right to refuse.

He was only a relative of one of the bones, and the bones of the others, no matter why they broke out into civil strife and fought each other, should be brought back to Port Harrison and asked their relatives to take them back for burial.

Therefore, he just watched as the White Mist Bishop exuded bursts of pure life essence from his body, like a white mist, enveloping all the bones.

And at this moment, the young man saw again, heard the voice of fourteen years ago, and saw the illusory silhouettes.

[Jakar is dead, the planks of the ship have been dismantled and the fire is lit, although the food is still enough, but I don't know how long this storm will last, and I don't know where we are in the South China Sea now......]

[Captain, the situation around here is very strange, this seems to be the holy place of the Tenglan Ministry, but at least no one has come to worship for decades...... It's a bit spooky! 】

[What's so gloomy, isn't it very simple that they didn't come to the sacrifice? It was the old viscount who crippled them all...... Huaiguang is on it, these murals are really blasphemous, how are they all cannibalistic corpses, it was really a wise choice for the old viscount not to make peace with them, and all these desecrating and filthy ceremonies should be destroyed]

[Alright, Maureen, now is not the time to think about this, you see, there is a door here, but we can't open it...... Hey, there's a skinskin booklet here, and a blue card? 】

Only six people were left here, and the rest of the escort was all killed in the great storm, and the terrible tsunami and hurricane blew the entire ship out of the sea, and only they held on to the planks of the ship, and drifted in the sea for a long time, and then were swept up by the whirlpool in the ocean.

But even if they were all alive, the fatigue and hunger caused by the drifting made everyone present anxious, plus they had been attacked by demonic beasts in the middle, and there were wounded, and the situation was even more troublesome.

And after the first deceased appeared, the morale of the entire survivor squad fell to the bottom.

Ian saw that a white man who was seven or eight points similar to himself had taken a dusty album of animal skins from the idol in confusion, as well as a blue card.

He read the words carefully, and then a stunned expression.

Time passed, as the flame slowed down, the light gradually dimmed, and everyone's spirits became more and more tense.

[Meng, put the knife down]

[I won't let go! Captain, I know, you're going to eat me! You're going to eat me! Just because I'm a mountain dweller, not an Imperial?! 】

[No one wants to eat you, Meng, you are also an Imperial. Let's be honest, if you really want to eat it, isn't Jackar's body right next to it? We dead people don't eat it, but we have to eat you, the living? Be obedient and put the knife down]

[But I heard it!] Someone is going to eat us, eat our brains, devour everything and our souls......]

【Captain...... The ancestors of the Iron Bones were priests of the mountain tribes, and their tribe was driven down the mountain after losing the struggle...... He may be right, I seem to hear it......]

[Morin, did you hear that too?] 】

[Captain, I am a believer in Huaiguang, I will never lie at this time, if I deceive you, I will be reduced to a dark hell forever, and I will never see the light!] 】

【Good...... Then I'll tell you]

As the others calmed the somewhat insane Mont Iron Bone, the captain and Maureen made their way to the other side of the campfire, where they whispered to each other.

In the captain's hand, there is a small animal skin manual, with handwriting that is not as beautiful as the natives, which is the instructions and warnings left by the ancestors of the former aborigines, which explain the story of the demonic parasites and the monster communities that destroy the gathering place, but unfortunately, the natives have never really tried to understand the history recorded in it, but only see it as a test and warning of faith.

Therefore, they enshrined it in front of the icons of their ancestors.

Captain Bai Zhimin read it, and he knew that he had the legacy of his predecessors, and the door behind it was the key to the true sacred land of the natives, but it would take four keys to open the crystal gate.

It's just that he knew from the worried description in the manual that around this cavity, there is a hidden underwater pipe, which is an underwater passage independent of the crystal gate, which can be opened with only a blue key, and it is a secret passage left by the Tenglan tribe so that his clan can be the first to return to the holy land in the future.

From there, they could probably bypass the sturdy crystal door and try to enter the ruins, where they survived.

But the demons lurking in the ruins, those strange brain-eating insects, may also be awakened and active by this great storm.

They are still beasts and have no wisdom, but if they get the flesh of their own and others, they get enough brains......

They even followed the door that they had opened with a blue key and left the ruins and came to this vast ocean......

[Morin, I still have an underwater breathing potion here, I will give it to you, you find the right time, try to go back to the port to find rescuers, and let the Viscount come and rescue us - the secrets here must not be known to too many people, especially the demons that may exist in the ruins...... We must not let them be unleashed! 】

【Captain...... It's better for you to go out, I'm not modest, it's true that I'm the best swimmer of all of us, but I remember that your child is about to ......]

[Morin, I believe you will not leave us behind, and if you want to find reinforcements, only you have the best chance of surviving the storm - as for my children, don't you think that ensuring that the secrets here are not revealed is also a kind of protection? 】

【…… I will never fail to live up to your trust! 】

[Hmm.] 】

The man gradually fell into deep thought in the dim light, he did not know what to choose, and in his knowledge, he only knew that the indigenous sacred site might be a labyrinth prototype, and that the labyrinth contained a vicious parasite that devoured human brains - it was not surprising, not uncommon in the whole world.

The question is, what should he choose? With the blue keycard, they can indeed try to venture into the labyrinth through the underwater passage, but then if they are eaten by the parasites inside, the secret passage they know will be discovered.

Demonic parasites can leave the portal they have opened.

At that time, it was they who unleashed the demons.

It's like those adventurers who unknowingly explore the labyrinth and bring disaster to their hometown.

[Someone talking in my head?! Who is it?! Who is it!! 】

[There are ghosts in this place, there are ghosts! It's going to eat us all! Eat them all...... But why, why do I not feel nasty, it seems that this feeling is not eaten, but integrated...... Hee-hee, hahahaha!! 】

[Sober up, Shar! Keep your mind! It's a monster eating away at your mind with psionic energy, it's very weak, just lift it up...... Damn, have you fallen into madness?! 】

[Captain, kill them, these people are crazy...... And, we really don't have food left......]

In the depths of the earth, there seemed to be a strange noise, as if some behemoth was repeatedly hitting the rock wall, hitting it in the same rhythm and rhythm, causing the earth to shake.

And with this shock, bursts of psionic energy fluctuations spread, causing everyone to fall into madness.

In the confusion, in the hunger, in the madness, in the fear of watching out for each other, everyone began to draw their swords against each other, and the man of the white people motioned for a shorter young man to leave, and then a person blocked the narrow passage of the chamber.

Until now, the White Man still had a chance, and he was still able to escape alone, open the underwater passage, go to the interior of the ruins, and risk his life.

This choice may bring disaster to one's own home, to one's wife and children; But it is also possible to survive and live a happy life with your own family.

Choose the continuation of 'Hope and Survival'.

Or, choose the death of 'despair and inevitability'?

Dead in this narrow, blasphemous, and eerie chamber of the sea?

He had to make a choice.

[I can't open that door anyway.] Even if we survive, if that parasite is released, the catastrophe it will cause is beyond Port Harrison to bear...... At least Evelyn and Ian won't be spared]

Raising his sword and facing his former comrades, he even thought with some relief in his heart: [Please forgive me for my selfishness, I can't survive with my comrades, but I have to do something...... Even if Ian wasn't born yet, I had to be an example for him......]

[If in the future, the Viscount and they find our bones, and they see us killing each other and devouring the corpses in order to survive...... Alas, my child...... I can't make him the son of a cannibal...... At least he can't grow up with this label of being discriminated against......]

[At least, even if I die, I have to die as a father who will make my children proud and full of glory]

Evelyn...... Ian...... I ......]

【I love you】

He didn't have time to think anymore.

Because the members of the convoy, who were already crazy, rushed up.

Their eyes were red and their expressions were frenzied, and their mouths were drooling with hunger, spitting out a foul and hot breath.

The Braineater's psionic powers weren't strong enough to cut over the earth and rocks to control their minds, but fear, despair, and hunger destroyed their sanity.

So lost the ego.

The man could only straighten his back, and he raised his sword.

Immediately after, he swung his sword.

In the light of the sword, the illusion dissipated.

At the same time, the pure white mist of life-like essence dissipated.

Bishop White Mist took a step back, signaling that he had completed the purification.

All germs, all toxins, and even the stench of decay are gone.

But memory doesn't.

Fourteen years later, the young man Bai Zhimin silently stared at the things that had happened on the other side of history, and the thoughts that had appeared.

Maureen still didn't return with rescue in the end, but who could blame him? That young man may have died in the aftermath of the Great Storm in the South China Sea, and the Huaiguang believer could not say that he would never lie, but at least he did not tell the slightest lie at that time.

"Father's ......"

The boy whispered to himself, then smiled, "I already know." I know the choices you made, the struggles and reflections, and the final relief and realization. ”

"I'm so proud of you."

"Thank you."

- I love you too.

If it weren't for Ernesto's insistence, I'm afraid the awakening of the hive would have been more than ten years earlier than it is now, and in that case, all history would have been changed.

At this moment, Ian is not only somewhat enlightened—his psionic powers can see not only the future, but also the past...... Those possibilities that no one knows, those lost histories that have been forgotten in heaven and earth.

The future is a choice that has not yet been made.

History is a choice that has been made, but forgotten.

His spiritual ability is to see these things that 'no one can know'.

Rustling.

Ian kneaded the leather and metal left behind by the natives into a rope to gather all the bones, and the boy carried them all on his back.

"Let's go."

He said with a normal expression, and then walked towards the exit of the chamber.

After the scanning of the silver chip and the perspective of the foresight horizon, he already knew that this place should be a nameless reef group very close to Odell Reef, and there is a hole in the reef group that winds deep into the bottom of the sea, and the Tenglan giant eel should have been the 'watchdog' used by the natives to guard the gate of the holy land, no wonder even if they have been parasiticized, those creatures that used to be possessed by the brain will not cause much harm to them.

But that's all in the past.

The white-haired boy led the team towards the exit of this ancient ruin, walking firmly.

- Whether it is a dragon or a worm, it is the obsession of a madman or the desire of a hive to look up at the stars.

- It is a sacrifice of generations, or a man's perseverance for the safety of his family.

The entanglement of the Sequoia Base from ancient times to the present spanning 1,600 years, involving the disputes and hatreds of nearly 100 generations, has finally come to an end today.

All the shadows of the past have been shattered, and all past causes and conditions have ended in death.

The light appeared in front of everyone, and the exit was already close at hand.

It's time to move into the future.

Lewen