Volume 1 Dark Rising Chapter 19 The Explorer – Tamar
After Kana's explanation, Taizhang could only suppress the suspicion in his heart.
At this time, he saw Zhou Chang wake up, and turned his suspicious eyes on Zhou Chang, and he asked Zhou Chang why those strange black qi appeared on his body.
Taizhang's question was what everyone wanted to ask Zhou Chang, although he couldn't see people clearly in the dark, Zhou Chang could still feel that other people's eyes were looking towards him.
In fact, every time Zhou Chang's body was filled with strange powers, his mind was blank, and the whole person fell into a state of semi-madness, not knowing what happened behind him. However, he already knew that as soon as he felt death, his body would flood into Mo Ming's power.
So, Zhou Chang told everyone what he knew.
"Sure enough, it's the power of the undead, you kid should be a descendant of the undead clan. Taizhang's voice changed from soft to cold.
Hearing Taizhang say this, it seems that one of Zhou Chang's parents is an evil undead, which Zhou Chang can't accept, an inexplicable anger jumped up sharply, and he glared fiercely in the direction where the voice came from, "Boy, you can eat things indiscriminately, and you can't talk nonsense." Your whole family is the descendants of the undead. ”
This is the first time that Zhou Chang has not called Taizhang 'Young Master Taizhang', obviously he is really angry.
Taizhang seemed to sense Zhou Chang's anger, and also felt that his words were a bit excessive, but he couldn't pull his face to apologize to Zhou Chang, so he shut up and stopped talking.
At this time, Angelina Che took over the conversation, "Zhou Chang doesn't necessarily have the power of the undead, it may also be necromancy." I once heard Zhou Chang say that Zhou Chang's grandmother was picked up by Zhou Chang in a mass grave. Maybe at that time, there happened to be a necromancer holding some kind of sacrificial ritual there, and there happened to be an undead qi invading Zhou Chang's body, so as soon as he felt death, the undead qi in his body burst out. ”
Compared with the statement of Taizhang's descendants of the undead, Zhou Chang was more willing to believe Angelina's words.
"Then, I was invaded by the qi of the undead, will there be anything wrong?" Zhou Chang remembered that his body had always been covered with a layer of hoarfrost for no reason recently, and he couldn't help but feel scared, seeing that Angelina said something was true, he couldn't help but ask her about the solution.
Angelina pondered for a while, and suddenly said, "The longer the undead qi is in the body, the more severe the erosion of the body will be, and those hoarfrost that appear on your body indicate that the symptoms should already be very serious, if you don't get treatment in time, I'm afraid you won't live for a few years." ”
According to the fat man's words, Miss Angelina is a beautiful and innocent girl, who has both the human virtues of honesty and kindness, and the virtues of the gods who love life and maintain peace. So, Angelina, who has so many virtues, will not lie.
Zhou Chang heard Angelina say this, his face, which had just recovered a little blood, suddenly turned pale again, and his voice trembled and said, "Then, who should I find to help me treat this strange disease?"
Angelina heard the panic in Zhou Chang's tone, and immediately comforted him softly: "Zhou Chang, you don't have to worry, my mentor Yalesa is a very powerful divine mage, who knows all the light god spells, and will definitely be able to remove the undead qi in your body." When we get out, I'll take you to the Twin Sacred Mountains to find my mentor. ”
After Zhou Chang heard Angelina's words, he couldn't wait to fly to Shuangsheng Mountain immediately and cure his strange illness. After thanking Angelina at the moment, she leaned against the wall to the side and closed her eyes.
After not knowing how long, the fat man finally couldn't bear the endless darkness, and he begged Angelina to use his staff to light up the cell.
However, Angelina's staff had been forcibly taken away by Froud when she was taken into the cell. A mage without a staff is like a commander without military power, and his ability is basically useless.
Not only Angelina's staff was taken away, but Zhou Chang's family heirloom iron sword was also taken away. and all the iron they had on them.
Angelina explained the reason to the fat man and apologized.
The fat man sighed and scolded, "Damn, I don't know when I can go out." ”
As soon as the fat man's words fell, a woman's voice came from a corner of the cell, "Don't dream, it's impossible for those who are locked up here to get out again." I've been locked up here for two years. ”
It was a woman's voice that spoke, and judging by her voice, this woman was about twenty years old at most.
An unfamiliar voice suddenly appeared, startling Zhou Chang and the others, and when they understood what she said, everyone realized that there were other people in the cell.
Because the cell was too dark, Zhou Chang and the others didn't put their minds on observing the cell, so they never found anyone here.
At that moment, he asked the woman who spoke about the origin of the woman and how many people were locked up here.
The woman seemed to have just woken up, yawned, and said lazily, "Before I came, there were three people locked up here, and they were all taken out in the first few months, and they have not come back yet. ”
After a pause, he said, "Who are you and why are you being locked up here?"
Angelina told them what happened along the way from Lubi City to here, and introduced Zhou Chang, Fat Man, Taizhang, and Kana one by one.
The woman saw Zhou Chang and they all introduced themselves, and she also told her story about how she was locked up here.
It turned out that the woman's name was Tamar, a Flolonian from the Inca Empire, and an explorer.
The Explorer is not an acquired cultivator, but an ability to inherit the bloodline. Those who possess the Explorer ability have a special ability to perceive memories that have occurred after the tracked person has come into contact with the object based on the item left behind by the tracked person. In addition, there are some unknown anomalies such as astrological positioning.
Because her brother Tashalu has disappeared inexplicably, Tamar uses tracking techniques to search around, and finally targets the Night City.
When she sneaked into the City of Dark Night, like Zhou Chang and the others, she was really startled by the terrifying scene in the city. Later, it was also a thick dark cloud that covered the sun, and suddenly countless demon soldiers poured out from all directions and captured her.
After Tamar was captured, she learned that the Queen of the Night, Heni Benfi, happened to meet her brother Tasharu when she went out to hunt for beauty. Seeing that Tasharu was strong and handsome, Heni Benfi took him back to Night City.
By the time Tamar found the Night City, Heni Benfi was tired of Tasharu and imprisoned him in Heni Benfi's palace for male pets. So Tasharu didn't know that her sister had also come to Night City and had been captured by Heni Benfi.
Originally, Henibenfi was going to kill Tamar, but Tamar told Henibenfi that she knew the words that looked like bones outside the door, and she could tell Henibenfi everything she knew, but asked Henibenfi to spare her life.
Although he lived in the city of night, he did not know the bone inscriptions outside the city, and driven by a strong curiosity, he agreed to Tamar's request for exchange.
Tamar read the bone text to Heni Benfi, and then asked Heni Benfi to release her.
After listening to Tamar's interpretation, a sly smile appeared on her face, and she said to Tamar, "I promised to spare your life, but I didn't promise to let you go. ”
As a result, Tamar was imprisoned in this dark cell, where two years passed.
After listening to Tamar's account, everyone sympathized with Tamar's plight and hated Henibenfi's insidious cunning.
Zhou Chang expressed deep interest in Tamar's ability to decipher the bone writings, and he asked Tamar what the bone writings meant.
Hearing Zhou Chang's question, the others also became interested in those bone characters.
Tamar pondered for a moment, and then suddenly said, "This is the language used by the ancient gods, and I saw it from a ruined ancient book. Actually, I don't know much, and what Heni Benfi's witch said is mostly my own guess. It is to the effect that it is about the war between the ancient gods and the origin of the Night City. ”
Speaking of this, Taizhang suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and suddenly asked Tamar, "Miss Tamar, did you enter the Night City from the gate of the mountain, or from the canyon at the other end?"
Tamar smiled and said, "Naturally, it's from the other side of the canyon. ”
Before Tamar's words fell, the fat man suddenly slapped his thigh and scolded, "Damn, it turns out that the scorpions that Lao Tzu saw were all illusions, I said, how can there be so many scorpions like sea water." I knew that Lao Tzu should have rushed out. ”
The more the fat man talked, the more he regretted it, seeing that the opportunity to escape was missed like this, he couldn't wait to slap himself a few times. However, after thinking about it, he complained about Taizhang and Angelina, two people with spells, these two people are just two tricks, and they are useless at the critical moment.
"What sea has so many scorpions?" Angelina didn't tell Tamar about their encounter with the sea of scorpions outside the city gates, so Tamar had doubts about the fat man's words.
Hearing Tamar say this, the fat man told him about the encounter with the sea of scorpions outside the city gate.
After listening to the fat man's words, Tamar frowned, "According to what you say, everything in this city may be an illusion. Angelina's sister said that the scorpion curse may also be an illusion. ”
"Then do you think this Night City is also an illusion?" The fat man saw that Tamar said that this was also an illusion, and that it was also an illusion, and he couldn't help but ridicule her.
Tamar didn't seem to hear the fat man's joking tone, and thought seriously for a moment, "Night City should be real, and the rest can't be sure." ”
Zhou Chang couldn't help but interject, "Then how do you know that Night City is real?"
"You should also see the huge statue of Hennie Benfei outside the city, I used mana to sense it, if it was an illusion, I couldn't sense any information at all, but I found my brother's whereabouts from it. Except for Henny Benfei himself, who would spend such a large amount of money to repair these huge stone statues for her. Tamar replied.
Hearing Tamar say this, everyone couldn't find a loophole in her words.
Time passed imperceptibly in the midst of everyone's conversation, and I don't know how long it was, and the sound of heavy footsteps came from outside the cell.
Listening to the footsteps, the people who come should be wearing armor or something. Soon, the voices grew louder and louder, and it became clear that more than one person came.
The sound of footsteps stopped outside Zhou Chang's cell, and only a 'squeak' sound was heard, and a small door half a meter long and wide set up under the iron door of the cell was opened, and then the sound of objects rubbing against the ground was heard. Then, with another thud, the small door was slammed shut.
As the sound of heavy footsteps faded away, Tamar stretched, "It's time for dinner so soon, hey, it's been another day." ”
Tamar said as she groped her way in the dark to the direction of the iron door of the cell, and soon she reached the iron door, squatted down and touched the ground, and found that there were six food plates, she picked up one food plate, and then said to Zhou Chang and others, "Come and eat." ”
As soon as he heard about eating, the fat man didn't think about it, so he rushed over, touched a food plate, grabbed the rice and fed it to his mouth. Apparently, he was hungry.
Everyone else touched a food plate, and in the dark, they couldn't see each other, and everyone had no scruples about eating it.
But Kana remained where she was, and did not move, and said to the people, "I am not hungry, so eat my portion." ”
Zhou Chang only said that Kana was still sulking because Taizhang suspected her, so he walked over to relieve her, remembering that she didn't eat meat, and said that this meal was all vegetarian and not fishy.
Kana said that she was not angry with Taizhang, but that she was homesick and felt uncomfortable, so she couldn't eat.
Kana didn't eat it, but the fat man was cheap, and the fat man, who had already licked her plate of food, picked up Kana's food plate and ate it unceremoniously.
Zhou Chang said with a wry smile while eating the food on his plate, "Miss Tamar, I finally know how you count the days in this dark place. ”
Tamar also smiled, "You don't have to learn from me, because you're all going to go out soon." ”
Hearing Tamar say this, everyone was shocked, and they all looked over to the place where she made her voice.