Everyone looked at the old woman like a ghost, and even forgot to parade through the streets.

"Oops! Don't let it go! ”

I don't know who was the first to let go, and the wooden pole that bound Yevgeny fell backwards, and fell heavily to the ground, knocking Yevgeny to the point of starry gold and almost fainting.

When Goncharov and the others came to check on him, the residents rushed to the old woman's side and gossiped around her, and Adan listened for a while and finally reacted.

"The old man has been ill for many years, and the city wizard said that her soul was favored by the Lord God and was about to be taken away."

"Lord God? Which main god? Anatol or Nereida? ”

"It's Mikat Kasivatl." Pointing to the tents that looked like yurts and burned with torches on the mountains in the distance, Adan said: "As the god of death in Aztec mythology, Miktkasivatl had a high status in the Aztec Empire, and people preferred to seek the help of sorcerers when they were sick rather than doctors. ”

Goncharov quickly asked, "So, in the Aztec Empire, the status of wizards is very high?" ”

"Very highly, we believe that shamans are the medium of communication between God and human believers, and shamans will convey God's will."

"Wait."

Ulmit swallowed: "Is it a good thing or a bad thing that the soul is taken away by the main god?" ”

"It's an honor."

Pursing his lips, Adan said again: "The highest honor." ”

The faces of the crowd changed instantly, they thought that it was a good thing to save the seriously ill old woman in bed, and they could use this to gain the favor of the residents, but the situation was completely opposite!

No one knew what Mikat Kasivatl was, they had never heard of it, but it was predictable

There was a tingling pain in his back, and he slowly turned around, and the eyes of the surrounding residents were already extremely unkind, shooting like the tip of a needle, if Fang Cai just wanted to parade the streets to punish Yevgeny, then now it is the attitude towards the infidels.

Evgeny was no longer dizzy, jumped three feet from the ground, and shouted: "Run! ”

The first one rushed forward, and Evgeny was grabbed by Goncharov as soon as he rushed out of the two steps, and suddenly disappeared in the next second.

"They can't run far! Be sure to catch those infidels! ”

The residents picked up the guy and began to search angrily, and they guessed correctly, the teleportation distance of the heart of the jungle was only 3 kilometers, and soon Goncharov and others were found in the rental car store, after the traces were exposed, Goncharov could only order Ulmit to take his luggage and start the teleportation again, because there was no anchor left in advance, the teleportation location could not be fixed, except for the general direction, no one knew where the teleportation would go.

The angry residents did not give up, and more and more people joined the search team, even in the middle of the night, countless people still carried torches to search around, and the search area was no longer limited to the city, but spread to the surrounding mountains.

"Made! The group is catching up again! ”

On the mountain at night, Ulmit, who had just rested for a while, saw the torches approaching under the mountain, and couldn't help but curse.

They had been on the run for most of the day, running for dozens of kilometers, and their magic was almost exhausted, but they still couldn't escape from the residents.

The magic power of believers comes from the goddess, due to individual differences and different degrees of preference of the goddess, the amount of magic power is also different, the same is that the magic power needs to be asked for by the goddess, and the goddess will replenish the power remotely, and the farther the distance, the slower the mana recovery.

Theoretically, believers who live in the same city as the goddess should have inexhaustible magic unless the goddess's magic is exhausted.

Now Goncharov and the others are thousands of miles away, half a world away from the goddess, and the speed of mana recovery is terrifying, and it will take at least a day to get back to full.

Originally, there was no need to be so passive, Goncharov brought more than a dozen members of the Aurora Society on this trip, and the total amount of magic power was enough to solve more than ninety percent of the troubles, if one of the remaining ones was encountered, it was not something that Ulmit and others could solve, it had nothing to do with the total amount of magic power, it was simply a matter of strength.

But this time it's really a lack of mana, the heart of the jungle consumes mana very much, especially when multiple people teleport at the same time, for the goddess, the magic power consumed by teleportation is insignificant, but for ordinary believers, the consumption is huge, and it won't take a few times to fall into the embarrassing situation of mana exhaustion.

If you are in London at the moment, in Mosk, by the side of the goddess, of course you don't have to worry about the lack of magic, but they are not there!

"Bishop, I still have some magic that I can't waste any longer! Do it! ”

Looking at the torches that were getting closer and closer, Ulmit shouted for his life, he really couldn't hold it back, he had to run away again and again, as a shrinking turtle, since joining the Aurora Society, he had never suffered such a big grievance!

They can't run, they are hungry and hungry with their luggage, how can they compare with those who have the physical strength to climb the mountain all year round?

Whether it's terrain or physical strength, it can't be compared!

"Can't do it! We're here to preach, and once we do it, won't we be like the white people who set foot on this land two hundred years ago? ”

Goncharov categorically disagreed with Ulmitte's proposal: "Keep running!" Sooner or later, you can run out! ”

Evgeny's face turned pale with fright, and he kept apologizing: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault, if it weren't for me, I wouldn't have caused such a big trouble."

Surprisingly, no one blamed him, Ulmit even patted him on the shoulder and grinned: "No need to apologize, you can't be blamed for this, if you want to blame, blame us for not trusting you." ”

Evgeny showed a moved expression, and before he could speak, the bushes behind him suddenly 'banged', and Ulmit's face changed, and he hurriedly beckoned everyone to come around, ready to launch a magic and run away.

But the sound of talking from the bushes made Adan hurriedly shout: "Wait a minute! ”

"What's wrong?"

Adam did not reply, but shouted into the bushes, and then a figure stepped out of the darkness and into the moonlight.

Straw sandals in a long skirt, dark skin, and thick limbs, it was the middle-aged man who fell from the roof during the day, he had no weapon in his hand, and he looked back and said something in an excited tone.

"What did he say?"

Adan listened and translated: "I'm about to chase after me, I know a way to lead to the sanctuary, it's safe there"

"Sanctuary?"

"It's where wizards live." Adan said: "Wizards are very sacred, they cannot be disturbed easily, and if they go there to hide, they may be able to evade pursuit." ”

Ulmit reminded: "Bishop, he is in the same group as those people, will he deliberately lead us into a trap? ”

Goncharov looked at the man's muddy straw sandals, panting and heaving chest, and his skin scratched by the leaves, and said in a deep voice: "He came running, faster than the pursuers, I believe him, Adan, tell him, let's go with him." ”

"Yes!"

When things were going on, Ulmit knew that someone had to make a decision, and it was Goncharov who was qualified to make a decision, and once the plan was decided, it had to be implemented.

If the decision is wrong, that's Goncharov's problem, and if you don't implement it, it's Ulmit's problem.

Following the man, Goncharov and the others circled in the bushes, climbed over the ridge, and went back from the other side, and sure enough, they shook off their pursuers and came to the cliff behind the sanctuary.

The tent with the idol and the sorcerer was at the foot, and among the torches, someone was asking the sorcerer what to do, except for here, where the pursuit party covered the entire mountain, and Goncharov and the others were hiding in the very center of the search range.

"It's safe here."

Goncharov breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on a stone, took out a piece of bread and bacon and cut it, divided it in half to the man, and asked while replenishing his strength: "Why are you helping us?" ”

Under Adam's translation, the man said: "You saved my mother, and I don't want her soul to be taken away by Mikat Kasivatl. ”

"Isn't that an honor for you?"

The man shook his head: "I would not be proud of the god who took away my mother's soul, but my wife is that kind of person, she has always disliked my mother, and hopes that Mikat Kasivatl will take her soul sooner, and when my mother was sick, she was the one who invited the wizard." ”

At this, the man bowed his head, looked a little pained, and said to Goncharov: "I hope that you will take my mother and let her live in peace, and in return I will give my wealth, my blood and my heart."

In translating this passage, Adan knew that Goncharov did not understand the local customs, so he added his own explanation: "His mother's illness, which is not a disease in the eyes of others, but the favor of Miktkasivatel, when healed, will be considered to have defiled the soul, and has aroused the disgust of Miktelkasivatl, and will invite calamity, and although you have healed her, you will also have her stomach gouged out, and she will be punished in the same way as she treats the infidels, and I beg Mikat Kasivatel's forgiveness." ”

Looking at the man kneeling with his head bowed in front of him, Goncharov sighed: "Raise your head, stand up, I don't want your wealth, let alone your blood and heart." ”

The man was a little anxious, thinking that these costs were not enough, but Goncharov said: "The Church of Truth wants to establish a church in the Aztec Empire and spread the truth, if you want, you can come with us." ”

opened his mouth, the man muttered a question, Adan did not translate, but took the initiative to talk to him, and kept saying in a reprimanding tone, the man lowered his head and listened very seriously.

When Adan finished speaking, the man did not answer, but looked up at the moon as if praying for an answer.

Major decisions take time, and Goncharov did not rush to find answers, and after dinner, he asked Adan about Aztec mythology.

Before coming here, Goncharov had consulted many classics and learned a lot of things, but the reality was far more complicated and strange than what was in the book.

Aztec mythology believed that the world was born out of nothingness, created by a supreme deity, Ometheotel.

Ometelotel is like His name, a dualistic deity representing heaven and earth, cold and heat, light and darkness, order and chaos, with the male side called Omet and the female side called Omey.

After Ometel created the world, the two consciousnesses diverged, and both wanted to build the world with their own will, and did not want to be united again, so they split into two.

Not to be outdone, Omerit created the primitive sea monster Sippaktri and ordered Sippakli to kill humans, in order to protect humans, Omet began to teach humans knowledge, and used one foot as bait to lure Sipaktri to devour it, and successfully destroyed Sipaktri.

But by this time, Omeisi had already created more races, and Omet, who had lost one foot, could not defeat Omeis, so he turned into a god and fought Omei with the help of human power.

After a bitter battle, the gods and humans defeated Omeisi and sealed it, but the world without Omeisi is no longer complete, and for the sake of light, a god is needed to become the sun.

The first god to become the sun was the god of fog, named Tescatlipoca, who was the embodiment of the leg that Omet had lost his foot, and because it was mutilated, he could only become half a sun, and the world worked in this way for some time.

Tezcatlippoca's emergence as the sun drew the ire of the other legged deity, the Quetzalcoatl god Kett Sarkotval, who launched a war that smashed Tescatlipoca from the sky and ended the first solar era.

The Quetzalcoatl god Ket Sarkotwar became a new sun and began the second solar age, but as the years passed, people became less and less civilized, forgetting their reverence for the gods and no longer showing due respect to the gods.

The gods thought it was the fault of Ketcalkotval, and they chose Tlalocle, the god of rain, as the new sun, and the third solar age began.

The rain god Traloc was very cruel, completely different from the feathered serpent god Ketsalkotvar, and after becoming the sun, he seduced the beautiful goddess Sochiket Sarsar, drawing the wrath of his wife, the goddess of rivers and lakes, Charchihetliqua (the goddess of jade).

The goddess of rivers and lakes, Charchihetlique, approached the gods to complain, and after the gods consulted, they dismissed Tlaloc from the position of the sun, and the third solar era ended.

After many setbacks, the gods believed that only the gods who passed the test were qualified to become the new sun, but the moon god Tonatih, who could predict the future, was the first to pass the test with his special divine powers, deceived the gods, and became the new sun.

After Tonatich ascended the throne, he began to ask the gods for their lives, otherwise they would refuse to run in the sky, and Tonatich, who became the new sun, fused the power of the sun and the moon, and became extremely powerful, and the gods could not defeat him, and were swallowed up one by one, only the great god of war Vecchilopochtli, who was as bright as the stars, could resist Tonatich, in order to help Vecchilopochtli, the Aztecs had a sacred obligation:

'Wage a crown war against our enemies and sacrifice the blood and hearts of the captives to Vecchilopochelli so that he may overcome Tonatich and become the new sun. ’

Adan paused at this point: "There is a legend about the tribe that lived when I was a child, but it is not recognized. ”

"What legend?"

"It is said that Tonatich once explained to humanity that He saw a future in which the world would be destroyed in the Fifth Age, and that in order to save the world and save humanity, He had to devour the gods and become the supreme deity Ometotr. Many believed, but the clever Aztecs saw through Tonatich's plot and chose to help Vecchilopochtli. ”

(End of chapter)