Chapter 262: Dead Land

The big monster died on the spot, and its huge body fell to the ground with a bang. The little prince was relieved and let out a long breath.

He didn't dare to take a big breath until then, and he had been holding his breath just now.

The crew members who had rushed from the docks to support were dumbfounded, the evil gods were gone, the queen was dead, and they had knives in their hands, and they didn't know whether to cut at me.

Don't cut it...... I killed the evil gods they sacrificed, cut them, I even killed the evil gods, and who are their opponents?

While she was hesitating, the priest ran out, and she also had a staff in her hand, but it was short, like a magic wand.

She pointed her stick at my head and mumbled something.

After hearing her words, the crew put down their knives one after another, and the residents who were hiding in the houses also came out one after another.

They surrounded me, and the little prince instantly became nervous again.

The priest approached, stood in the midst of the crowd, and said to me in the common language of the four countries, "They want to thank me for saving them from the control of the evil gods."

I was a little confused, and the priest went on to explain that they were not volunteering to worship the gods, but that they were locked up by the gods, and that if they did not hand in the sacrifices of the living as they wished, the inhabitants would have been slaughtered.

They also escaped, but the evil gods always caught up with them, and the transfer of the inhabitants in batches aroused its suspicion.

Once they fled to the river, and had already run away in a boat, but they were still overtaken by the little monster.

In the end, the boat was wrecked and people died, and the corpses in the river were carried ashore by them and hung in the city for public display.

They were closest to Sheng Yu, and they sent messengers to Sheng Yu for help, hoping that Sheng Yu could send an army to exterminate the evil god.

As a token of appreciation, they offered the Eye of the Forest, the treasure of their clan, which allows them to see everything at night.

Sound familiar to me, like infrared glasses?

The priest hated and said, "Sheng Yuguo, untrustworthy, deceived us of our treasures, and refused to fulfill our promise!"

I glanced at the little prince, and he nodded, indicating that it was true.

Sheng Yuguo deceived their treasures, they wanted to get them back, or come back and steal it, there were no martial arts masters among them, and it was too difficult to sneak into the palace treasury.

In their opinion, it is a shortcut for the show girl to enter the palace, and if she is only a palace maid, she will not be able to get close to the treasure house.

They choose to send a man to ascend to the highest or second highest position.

Go into the treasure vault openly and get something, and you won't be intercepted by the guards.

In Sheng Yu, only the emperor and empress can enter the treasury.

This treasure trove is not a place for silk and satin, gold and silver jewelry.

It is a place where the national treasure of Shengyu is hidden, and it is not a rare treasure, so it is not qualified to put it inside.

This group of self-proclaimed 'Celestial Eye Clans' selected a trained poisoner and sent her to infiltrate the palace on a mission to retrieve the treasure.

Of course, as long as she succeeds, the matter of sending troops to aid the Tianyan Clan and get rid of the evil gods can be completed at the same time.

So the task of the poisoner is to sit on the throne of the queen, and if not, then help her son ascend to the throne.

It sounds like their plan is outrageous, going to the palace to steal treasures and hiring a thief, isn't it much easier than ascending to the throne?

But they no longer trust outsiders, and if the hired people take the treasure away and don't give it to them, where will they go to find someone?

Unlike the Shengyu Palace and the Treasure House, they don't have long legs and can't run.

If one person fails, another person can be sent to continue the mission.

They have their ideas, and things have already happened, and everything is an afterthought.

I helped them solve the evil god by mistake, and they no longer pursued the matter of the little prince.

The priest also said that they had promised that if the little prince's mother completed her mission to help her people get rid of the evil gods, they would make her queen.

Now the promise is still valid, and he looked at me expectantly.

I looked at the little prince, he is the son of the poisoner, should he inherit the throne?

The priest seemed to read my gaze, and hurriedly added, "Whoever kills the evil god is the queen."

The little prince nodded again and again, and the way he had just been scared by the evil god was seen by the residents of the city.

Even if the priests agreed to him to be king, he could not agree that in the memory of his subjects, there will always be images of their king peeing his pants, and he will be on the throne like a pins and needles, like a thorn in the back, like a fish in the throat.

Besides, the people here don't pursue it, but Sheng Yu's side can't avoid the guilt.

I have come to bring him back to be punished.

I had no intention of the throne and politely refused, but the priests insisted on keeping their promise.

The priest first arranged for the corpses and destroyed houses in the city to be cleaned, especially the body of the queen, and a solemn funeral was held.

She asked us to stay for a few days and have something to discuss.

The little prince is like this, and it is really not suitable to go on the road immediately.

The priest entertained us to live in the palace, and the Celestial Eye did not say that they were married, and the queen had no husband, but she had a bunch of children.

Because of this, they will believe that the little prince is a member of their clan and should be dealt with according to their clan rules.

It doesn't matter who the father is, the children have the mother's last name.

When the children grow up, the boys will be kicked out of the house and go outside to live independently.

The girl stays at home and lives with her mother.

If there are no accidents, there will be no separation.

Of course, this is the rule of the royal family, and the common people, if they give birth to a boy, they will be raised by their biological father, and if they give birth to a girl, they will be raised by their mother.

I have observed them, and men are still engaged in most of the manual labor, including guarding, hunting, gathering, building houses......

Women do only light work or even do nothing.

The priest's explanation for this was that because the spirit birds only listened to the calls of the women, they brought them antidote grass on time every year.

The number of Tianyan clan is not large, and there are quite a lot of stories.

The priests were willing to let me know more about them.

She said that the ancestors of the Tianyan clan were 'cursed, contaminated with a toxin, and had penetrated deep into their bones.

This 'curse cannot be shaken off, it haunts them from generation to generation, from parent to child, child to child, from generation to generation, and no one is spared.

Fortunately, their ancestors found an herb that could alleviate the damage of toxins, but unfortunately it could only be relieved, not eradicated.

And where this herb grows, no one can reach.

Only the spirit birds of this forest can fly in and take out the herbs.

The spirit bird only listens to the calls of the women and ignores the voices of the men.

So every year, the women of the city, big and small, gather in the square for a call-out ceremony.

They would sing a song for a day in a row, and the birds liked it, and the next day they would go to a place where there were herbs and bring them an antidote.

However, the spirit birds only have enough for them for a year at a time, not a little more.

It is also for this reason that their Tianyan clan has always controlled the number of people.

This is the second secret that they can't leave the jungle.

But they won't tell outsiders, after all, it's a matter of life and death.

The priest sighed, shook his head, and said, "Although the spirit bird is spiritual, it is extremely aggressive and likes to eat people."

I suddenly remembered that on the way here, the four-eyed white bird I saw was carved on the top of the stone pillar.

The sound of women singing can only make it take the antidote, not make it give up its love of cannibalism.

In order to protect themselves, they still have to wear 'wooden intestines'.

The priest showed me her large intestine and asked me to touch it.

This thing looks like a pig's intestine, but it's actually a vine for plants.

Coming from that deformed forest, they found that as long as they wore it, the spirit birds would not attack.

The spirit bird is their life-saving bird, so it is also a cannibal, and the people of the Tianyan Clan have never thought of getting rid of the spirit bird.

What I care about is the antidote they eat, in

I've examined their bodies with abilities and found that they do have toxins in them.

But it's not like an ordinary animal toxin or a plant toxin, which, based on my experience of examining in the modern world, looks like radiation sickness?

I'm not sure yet, and besides, they don't know why their ancestors were poisoned, and now all the people think they're cursed.

They have been living in the jungle and have never left, but there is no radioactive material in the forest......

The image of the deformed forest flashed through my mind.

Maybe there is a source of radiation there?

"What? You're going to a sinkhole?" When the priest heard me, he was interested in the antidote and wanted to see it for himself, so he hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't go, you can't go, it's a dead place that you can't enter!"

"What's the danger?" I humbly asked.

"There is a dead air that never dissipates, no life can survive in the dead air, it is useless not to breathe, we have tried hundreds, thousands of times, many people have died, and none of them succeeded."

"Don't get excited, I'll go over and take a look, don't go into the dead place first, take a look at the periphery."

When the priest heard me say this, his expression relaxed, and he immediately arranged for someone to show me the way. ap.

The little prince has been freshened up, changed his clothes, and he is no longer so embarrassed, but his mental head is almost there, and his eyes are black, he has not slept a peaceful sleep these days, and he woke up from a nightmare on the night he lived in the city, the palace was not big, and he attracted a team of guards with his voice, and people thought he was assassinated.

The priest had assured him that he would be relieved of his punishment, that he should rest in peace, and that he would be given strings of sausages to save his life at any time.

I hadn't planned to take him there, but he didn't dare to stay alone in Stone Town.

Despite the priest's repeated assurances of his safety, he was still uneasy and afraid to stay with the Celestial Eyers.

He went out of the city with me, saying that he wanted to see the 'forbidden land' of the clan.

The guide led us on a very hidden road, and it would be an exaggeration to say that it was a road, and if we came, we would not recognize it as a road.

And 'the road was still covered with branches and plants.'

The guide cleaned up the plants in front, the little prince walked in the middle, and I was at the end.

It can be seen that the Tianyan clan has given up on going to the dead to find an antidote, this road should have been deliberately opened up, and then it was no longer used, and the plants grew on it.

But when building the road, it should have been done with special treatment, no plants grow on the road, all plants are higher than the road surface, and they grow in suspension.

This does not prevent them from covering the road tightly.

Only when clearing and felling can you see that there is a path underneath that there is no grass.