Act Seventy-Six: Where King Arthur Really Is

"What's wrong?" Lu Mingfei noticed Nuo's strangeness.

"......" Nono withdrew his gaze from the coffin, "It's okay, I just don't think the coffin here is like a resting place, as if it's like a ...... I don't want the stuff inside to escape."

Nono sensed the strangeness of this golden coffin, which was priceless and exquisitely crafted, but he used two arm-thick iron hoops to tie the head and tail of the coffin.

Each hoop is attached to four thick iron chains, the ends of which are drilled deep into the rock.

Someone, whoever it was, seemed to be afraid that the bones in the coffin would come back to life, so they locked the whole coffin with an iron hoop and fixed it with iron chains. It was a coffin of great honor, but it was also an unbreakable cage.

There is a similar tradition in human history, in ancient Romania, where vampire tales were rampant, relatives would seal those who were thought to be likely to have been bitten to death by vampires in steel coffins and stuff bricks in the mouths of corpses, which would prevent them from being resurrected as vampires.

"Inside are all Knights of the Round Table who have used Burst Blood." Lu Mingfei said, "There's a reason why the Knights of the Round Table were so brave and good at fighting back then, because they all used Burst Blood."

"The Knights of the Round Table are all half-bloods?" Chu Zihang frowned slightly.

"Well, but only King Arthur was one step away." Lu Mingfei replied, "Talent is different, some people are destined to go so far."

"There's still a word for this." Natsumi crouched in front of the coffin and looked left and right, "But I don't understand."

There was a small piece of polished rock wall next to the cave, and there was some kind of ancient script carved on it that she couldn't read, Xia Mi had lived so long, and it stands to reason that there were no words she didn't recognize.

Even the "dead scripts" of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian cuneiform, which were long unused, could be recognized by the shape of the font from which civilization it probably came from.

But this kind of writing was not in her knowledge base at all, she thought it was dragon script at first, but no, every line was an angry snake, and all the strokes combined were like a group of irascible snakes, which she had never seen before.

Chu Zihang squatted next to her and watched for a long, long time.

"Senior brother, do you understand?" Natsumi asked, tilting her head.

"I don't understand." Chu Zihang shook his head, "I tried to analyze its structure with some semiotic analysis methods, but I didn't succeed. But it's almost certain that it's the name and date of birth and death of the person in the coffin, just like the tombstone."

"Keep going, maybe there's something new." He stood up and walked up the steps to the higher floors.

In each cave is a coffin, coffins of different textures, some carved with a single piece of granite, some with black iron, some with precious metals such as gold and silver, there is not a single treasure that is not priceless, each one is made of iron hoops, and then locked in the cave with iron chains.

Some of the coffins were large enough to fit a baby elephant, while the smaller ones could only hold the bones of a baby.

"Don't you think Avalon is weird?" Lu Mingfei stepped backwards up the steps and talked eloquently, "It has both the characteristics of life and death, and the towering dragon cypress tree is its "living" side; And the coffins full of mountains, the unverifiable bones in the coffins, are its "dead" side."

"It stands to reason that the Nibelungen is full of dead things...... Chu Zihang pondered, and Lu Mingfei seemed to be reminding of something.

Life and death, two diametrically opposed concepts, strike a balance on this eerie island.

Chu Zihang is not good at archaeology, and can only barely recognize that two of the coffins are products from the era of the "Second Theban Empire" in ancient Egypt, the coffins are carved from a single piece of granite, weigh several tons, and the surface is engraved with the unique bird-like characters of ancient Egypt.

The first golden casket is likely from the Sumerian period, the oldest recorded human civilization, when iron smelting had not yet been invented, but gold was more readily available.

As for those black iron coffins, they should be the products of the Heti civilization, and the ancient Heti Empire swept through Asia Minor with powerful iron swords......

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They were supposed to be located in the great royal tombs of the world, but they were brought to this Nibelungen by unknown people.

"It's not all Knights of the Round Table here...... Chu Zihang grasped the crux of the problem, and he looked up at Lu Mingfei reluctantly.

"Yes."

"There are other kings!" Chu Zihang tried to sort it all out, "Sumerian period......

"Like the golden coffin we just saw." Lu Mingfei said, "I just lied to my junior sister, but in fact, it wasn't Lancelot at all, it was probably Gilgamesh."

"The legendary hero king, Gilgamesh?"

"Who knows." Lu Mingfei shrugged, "I'm just making a guess, but that coffin is indeed Sumerian."

"It's like a King's Valley......" Chu Zihang whispered, "too many prominent people are buried here."

He had heard of the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, where 64 pharaohs were buried, and beneath the weathered surface was a glittering grotto containing the kings of the Munoyin, wrapped in gold.

Isn't this also a Valley of the Kings? The Colosseum-like ring, which was supposed to house the seats of the nobles, was replaced by the kings' caves, whose souls still seem to sit on the mountain wall, overlooking the Colosseum......

"Ask, why are there so many different periods, even legendary kings, and who buried them here?"

"Odin." Chu Zihang immediately replied after thinking slightly, "This was his testing ground, and these kings were all failed experiments that did not go down on the road to becoming a god."

"That's pretty much it." Lu Mingfei nodded approvingly.

"Why did Odin put them all in Avalon?" Chu Zihang was only puzzled by this, "Do dead people still have use value?"

"Senior brother......" Lu Mingfei paused, "If you knew how powerful Odin is, you wouldn't ask that."

"The dead are of great use to him, and there is a way to resurrect the long-dead kings and continue to fight for him." Lu Mingfei sneered disdainfully, "Otherwise, why is this place called Valhalla?"

"The rat hiding in the gutter never dares to show his true face, and whenever he needs to take action in person, it is his projection or doppelganger, and he hides in the dark to manipulate everything."

"What do you mean...... Somehow can he make the corpses of these kings become his clones?"

"Well, some very nefarious tactic."

"That King Arthur actually couldn't get out of his control until he died...... Chu Zihang thought of the awe-inspiring British Red Dragon, who would rather die than succumb to others, but still couldn't escape his fate?

Is this so-called fate really something that cannot be resisted? No matter how powerful your personal power is.

No, it's not like that, since that day, he has stopped believing in such a thing as "fate", and he has vowed to take his destiny into his own hands.

Chu Zihang took a deep breath and left all those miscellaneous chaotic thoughts behind.

After looking at all the coffins, they finally climbed to the top of the mountain wall.

As far as the eye can see, the sea water is constantly slightly undulating, the sky is always the same color, and the surroundings are always half-light and half-dark, like morning and evening.

Looking back at the center of the island, I don't know when the fog of the birds has disappeared into Stonehenge, and even the towering dragon and cypress trees are only exposed to the fog from the treetops.

Everything is between the real and the unreal, and standing here is like reaching the end of the world, and people suddenly have a world-weary heart, wanting to sit down and breathe slowly, and then turn into a stone statue.

Everyone was blown away by the beauty of this moment.

"I don't know how many people have been to this mysterious place since ancient times." Natsumi muttered.

Chu Zihang was slightly stunned, "Have you seen all the coffins?"

"That's right." Xia Mi looked back at him suspiciously, "What's wrong, senior brother

? Didn't we see them one by one?"

"What about King Arthur?"

Xia Mi was silent, as if she hadn't seen a coffin similar to King Arthur's burial along the way, and there were also Celtic periods, but the specifications did not match King Arthur's illustrious status, more like the coffin of an ordinary knight of the round table.

Chu Zihang thought for a moment, and suddenly shivered fiercely, "There is actually no body of King Arthur here?"

"Yes." Lu Mingfei replied, "But because of the peculiarity of King Arthur, his coffin ...... No, to be honest, he doesn't have a coffin, because he's so special, he can come out on top even among Odin's many test specimens."

"So his body is in a very secret place, I can't remind him, and reminding him will trigger some kind of mechanism that will cause the purpose of our trip to be frustrated."

"Senior brother, if you are really the one who was chosen, you should be able to realize it yourself."

"Enlightenment ......" Chu Zihang frowned and looked around the island, there were some things that had bothered him since he landed on the island, but he hadn't figured out what it was.

There was a vague feeling, but he couldn't hold on to it.

"The boundaries of the Nibelungen ......," Lu Mingfei said slowly, "I can only remind me of this, and I can't go on."

"Boundary, boundary......" Chu Zihang pondered.

Lu Mingfei didn't remind him again, but stood by and waited for him to come up with an answer, there are some things that Chu Zihang needs to figure out by himself, and blindly helping him will only hurt him and make him lose the opportunity to grow.

Growth is a very important word, Chu Zihang's personality is actually enough, but his heart is not yet matched by the power of the artifact, only ...... Only when he grows to a certain point can he truly unleash the power of the artifact, otherwise it will be useless even if he sends the "shield" to him.

"Boundaries!" Suddenly, he shouted, "I see!"

"What do you know?" Natsumi asked curiously.

Chu Zihang didn't answer Xia Mi, and silently started the warm-up exercise.

"Senior brother, you can say something!" Natsumi spun around in front of his eyes, "Hello? Chu Zihang? Tell me?"

"Don't bother him." Lu Mingfei pulled Xia Mi back, "Senior brother, he is at a critical moment of transformation."

"Oh, okay." Xia Mi honestly stood next to him, watching Chu Zihang do warm-up exercises, and then Chu Zihang ...... Jumped directly off the cliff in an upside-down position.

"Holy!" Xia Mi screamed, but it was too late, and when she rushed to the edge of the cliff and looked down, Chu Zihang had already disappeared under the water.

"This is what you call metamorphosis?!" Xia Mi turned around and asked Lu Mingfei viciously, "Transformation is equivalent to suicide? If you jump so high, you will have to break the steel and iron bones, let alone people!"

"Senior sister, it's chaotic to care." Lu Mingfei smiled, "That's right, senior brother, he has found the key to the problem, get ready, and then we have to jump."

"What is this?"

"Senior sister, it's true that you care about chaos, what are the characteristics of all objects in the Nibelungen? All are dead!"

"The water here is dead, too! It doesn't flow at all!"

"So Senior Brother, he won't be fine if he jumps down." Lu Mingfei looked at Xia Mi meaningfully, "Do you still need me to teach you this kind of thing?"

"You're high, you're amazing, okay." Xia Mi looked embarrassed.

"Shall we jump too?" Nuno was also doing warm-up exercises, looking very interested, as if she could rush down directly if Lu Mingfei nodded.

"Let me warn you first, senior sister, you can't jump by yourself." Lu Mingfei smiled, "The two of us have to jump hand in hand."

"Jumping into the sea also has a sense of ceremony, right?" Nono rolled her eyes at him, "Okay, whatever you want."

……

Chu Zihang felt that countless needles were piercing his whole body, and there were bubbles surrounding him in all directions, he kept sinking, but the buoyancy offset most of the weight, and he felt like he was floating in space. There seems to be an ancient voice hidden in the silence, the whole

The world seemed to be speeding away from him.

He let the feeling go, and didn't resist at all, until the sea lifted him up again.

He floated faster and faster, and rushed out of the water!

The warm air rushed into his lungs, and he opened his eyes to see a grand hall in front of him, and he was lying on the beach in front of the main hall.

"The Nibelungen of the Nibelungen ......," Chu Zihang muttered to himself, "It's amazing."

"That's right, senior brother, you've come to your senses." Someone said behind him, clapping at the same time.

Chu Zihang looked back, and Lu Mingfei, Nuo Nuo, Xia Mi, and Sherlock Holmes all jumped down with him.

"So this is ......," Chu Zihang said, "the boundaries of the Nibelungen are right."

When he jumped off the cliff, all the clues were connected in his mind, about the true face of the island, about its strange properties, Lu Mingfei's hints, King Arthur's special ...... When these clues came through, he had no doubt that the so-called palace of King Arthur was also a Nibelungen!

To actually reach King Arthur's palace, he had to pass through a physical interface, which was usually made of water, and the time he met Odin, the entire waterfront was washed over the entire coast by pouring rain, and the highway became a labyrinth.

And here, isn't the interface made of water the surface of the sea? The sea mirrors the whole of Avalon, and the entrance to the hidden level is on the water's surface.

The way to get to King Arthur's palace is as simple as jumping into the water.

"That's right!" Lu Mingfei raised his arms and shouted, "Go get what belongs to you!" The Chosen One!"

"That's enough." Nono held his forehead with a headache.