Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Sacrifice
"In this way, he is more suspicious."
Skylark's eyes were cold, "The C-level peak life masters are all missing, Dong Dashu and I mentioned that he is still a little short of the peak, and he is also missing, but Thirteen is still there." ”
This line of thinking is indeed correct, and Zhou Xu also feels that the suspicion of Thirteen is getting bigger and bigger.
"When Dong Dashu disappeared, didn't you notice anything?" The lark then asked, it stands to reason that with the [knowledge] of the subtle level of the order of the week, it is difficult for any abnormal life energy to hide from him.
No matter what method Thirteen used to take Dong Dashu away, there was always a surge of life energy when he made a move, right?
There was an extra stream of life energy in the wooden house next door, and Zhou Xu should have noticed it.
Zhou Xu shook his head slowly. "I didn't notice anything."
The lark's expression became solemn, "Could it be that the thirteen life patterns are similar to mine, and they can shield the fluctuations of life energy?" ”
"I don't know. But I know that the more assumptions we give him, the less likely he is to be a murderer. ”
After Zhou Xu finished speaking, he returned to the campfire.
It doesn't make much sense to guess, so many people get together tonight, if something happens again, you can always see what the situation is, right?
If nothing happens, then the thirteen most likely are the murderers, and because their identities are exposed, they dare not do it again.
It was a very difficult night, many people didn't sleep well last night, and tonight they have to lift their spirits.
Zhou Xu silently contemplated, Gao Hongzhen next to him fell asleep at some point, snoring, and the sky shook the sky.
Yu Jiaojiao didn't feel sleepy at all, she kept staring around, she was in a very bad mood all day today, after all, her good friends were gone.
Hu Xinxin was also contemplating, occasionally she would open her eyes, quietly glance at Zhou Xu, and then quickly close her eyes again.
In the middle of the night, when everyone was drowsy at their heaviest, a mutation suddenly happened!
On the opposite side of Zhou Xu, where Yu Jiaojiao was sitting, a large black gas suddenly appeared!
Yu Jiaojiao's face was full of fear for a moment, as if she felt something, and there was no movement, as if her body couldn't move!
Zhou Xu and Skylark reacted the fastest, and the two reached out and wanted to catch Yu Jiaojiao, but the black gas blinked and wrapped Jiaojiao!
The two of them each caught a wisp of black gas, Yu Jiaojiao disappeared in place, and then, screams sounded from all directions!
Cold! It's cold!
Zhou Xu touched the black qi, and felt as if his body and mind were about to be frozen, and an ominous aura poured into his heart, making him inexplicably afraid!
The lark was not much better, and his face was pale.
At this time, the large team of C-level life masters had already become a pot of porridge.
Just under the noses of many people, a mysterious black qi appeared, and once again kidnapped three life masters!
Counting Yu Jiaojiao, on the fourth night, four people disappeared!
"It's not a trial at all, this place can't stay!"
There were also people like Zhou Xu and Skylark who touched the black qi, and the whole person stood up in fear and said loudly.
"We have to get out of here! Those who disappeared are dead! They're all dead! ”
Another person followed, they just touched a wisp of black qi, and their hearts trembled, how could the person who was dragged away by a large cloud of black qi still be alive?
All the luck psychology disappeared at this moment, no one cared whether Thirteen was a murderer or not, whether he did this thing, many people discussed, and prepared to leave this mountain!
Zhou Xu looked at the lark and said solemnly: "That feeling is 'death', right?" ”
The lark clenched his fists, and the black aura was full of ominousness, making people tremble with fear, if you really want to describe it, it is indeed the feeling of death!
"Get out of here." The lark looked at the rest of the academy and suggested.
Dong Dashu and Yu Jiaojiao are gone, and everyone is more convinced of him.
"Okay, let's go at dawn!"
Everyone discussed, and some teams next to them couldn't wait for dawn, so they set off directly down the mountain.
What kind of fear is the most terrifying?
The answer is unknown.
In the previous three days, everyone could rationally analyze who the murderer was, trying to find the logic of the disappearance, but tonight after witnessing something indescribable, they instinctively realized that this was not something that could be stopped by human beings at all, and there was only one thought left for everyone, that is, to escape from here!
Before dawn, the huge crowd descended the mountain and left.
However, until noon, all the teams went around and found that they were still on the mountain.
It's like encountering a ghost hitting the wall, the compass is useless, the direction of the sun is useless, no matter how they go, they can't get out of this treasure mountain!
When dusk came, all the teams wandered in place, and the mountain, which they had previously regarded as a treasure, suddenly became a nightmare......
"What's going on? Why can't we get out of this mountain, do we have to die here? ”
"There's a good chance it's my turn tonight, damn it, let me out!"
Many people's emotions are collapsing, and the fear of the unknown is amplifying as the night comes.
Seeing that they couldn't get out of the mountain, Zhou Xu and his group returned to the wooden house on the top of the mountain.
The wooden house was built by Dong Dashu and proposed by Yu Jiaojiao, and now, neither of them is there.
Everyone's mood was very low, and Hu Xinxin quietly wiped his tears.
Although Yu Jiaojiao has a more flamboyant personality, she is actually very good to her.
Before, they ate and lived together, but now she is suddenly gone, which is really uncomfortable.
"Let's not sleep in the cabin tonight, everyone stays outside and takes care of each other." A senior suggested.
No one objected, but no one thought it would work.
After all, in front of so many people last night, the people who should have disappeared still disappeared, so what's the point of getting together?
The fifth night was spent in a depressing atmosphere.
The next morning, sure enough, five more people were missing!
No one was missing from the academy this time, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief and began to look for a way to get out of here.
Some people returned to the place where they appeared on the mountain, thinking that they might be able to go back from there, but unfortunately they tried for a long time and failed;
Some people continued to look for a way down the mountain, not sparing any corner, hoping that some mechanism would leave the place;
Others, like Zhou Xu, looked at the buildings on the top of the hill and began to pay attention to the mysterious ancient paintings and texts.
Zhou Xu followed the route he had previously explored and continued to study the stone carvings here.
He found that the content on the stone carvings was too rich, some places looked like deserts, and some places looked like ice fields, and it seemed that this ancient civilization occupied a wide area.
And no matter what kind of environment it is, it depicts strange animals that don't look like creatures on the blue star.
The intention of carving these animals and the environment is unknown, and Zhou Xu does not understand what this civilization is trying to express.
When it was dark, the people of the academy returned in vain, and they did not find a way out.
The rest of the team was also depressed, and as night fell, the atmosphere was very solemn.
On this night, six more people were lost.
Another night passed, and seven people disappeared again.
All the C-level masters who disappeared were C-level life masters, and the remaining C-level life masters were in a panic all day long, even the D-class life masters also felt like they had been sentenced to death, and when the C-level life masters were gone, it would be their turn!
The least pressure is on the other side of the Zhou Order, their cultivation is the lowest in all teams, and according to the current law, they will be the last to disappear.
Zhou Xu's whole heart was devoted to the study of the ruins, and on the eighth day on the mountain, he finally understood what was going on!
He called the lark and Gao Hongzhen and pointed them out some of the stone carvings he had found.
"Skylark, I remember you said that the place where you used to survive was in the air, like the scene depicted on the stone carving?"
Zhou Xu pointed to a stone carving, which is more abstract, but it can be seen that there is a platform on a pillar, and the platform is depicted with clouds.
Below the clouds, on the platform, there was a bird that spread its wings, but did not fly, and danced a very strange dance.
"The platform looks like it, but it's not a human on it." The lark frowned.
"It doesn't need to be a human, it just needs to be a living thing."
Zhou Xu said, and pointed to a stone carving for Gao Hongzhen to identify.
"It's a picture of some trees, and a swamp, and it does look like a place I've been." Gao Hongzhen nodded violently.
"In addition to these two stone carvings, there are many stone carvings along the surrounding stone square not far away, some of which are depicted in the desert, some in the ice field, and some in the sea, which is exactly the same as the environment in which everyone lived before."
Zhou Xu took the two of them to a relatively empty, stone-paved square, along the outer edge of the square, there are many carvings.
"At first, it was because of the strange and varied animals on the stone carvings, which confused my eyes. But it's much easier to understand if you simply classify them all as living things. ”
Zhou Xu walked to the center of the square and pointed to a stone slab.
The lark and Gao Hongzhen looked over and found that there were many animals depicted on them, all of which seemed to have appeared on the previous stone carvings, and they were grabbed by something like a hand, showing a painful expression.
On the other side, there was another group of creatures lying on their stomachs, looking up at the sky, and there was something in the sky that looked like eyes, and it looked evil and gloomy!
"What do these images remind you of, like a sacrifice?" Zhou Xu said seriously.
The lark's pupils shrank suddenly, and Gao Hongzhen asked in a daze, "Sacrifice?" Does it mean that we, like those creatures carved in stone, are to be sacrificed to this eye? What is this eye? ”
Zhou Xu calmly spit out two words. "Death."
The lark couldn't help muttering to himself, "Yes, some tribes in ancient times, some believed in fertility, and some worshipped death. For them, death is the most sacred thing. ”
"Yes, the civilization here may not be related to the Blue Star, but life and death are important matters for any race, sacrifice to the god of death, and this is the message that these stone carvings want to convey." Zhou Xudao.
If it weren't for the contact with that wisp of black qi, Zhou Xu wouldn't be sure what the civilization on this mountain worshipped.
"Sacrifice us to death?" Gao Hongzhen couldn't help but shudder, so the black qi that had taken away so many people before was the power of the God of Death?
"For modern humans, sacrifice is nothing more than an ignorant and backward tribal culture, but here, it seems to be real."
Zhou Xu smiled bitterly, this tree hole may not be a trial-type tree hole at all, but a ruin, a place used by unknown civilizations to sacrifice to the god of death!