Chapter 17: The Sacred Ruins (6)
With the joint efforts of Sireth and Luo Mu, they easily solved the remaining two demons, the demons in this world are extremely weird, and after death, they will directly turn into ashes, and even the bones will not be left.
Cyris looked around vigilantly, and said to himself, "There should be no more," Luo Mu nodded, Ciris stuck out his tongue, and said to Luo Mu with his hands folded with some embarrassment: "I promise that the master will not let me move, and I will never move again!"
Luo Mu glanced at her, didn't say anything, squatted down, and gently turned over the fire in front of those people with the tip of his knife, even when the change happened just now, Luo Mu also paid special attention to it, this fire did not change much, and even those demons deliberately bypassed here, as if there was something in it that they didn't want to destroy.
Luo Mu frowned slightly, he didn't tell Ciresi, let him judge that there was something wrong with this fire, it was not just a few people looking at this fire, Luo Mu could clearly see that there was a trace of fear in the eyes of those people looking into the distance, these people may not know how long they have been dead, but that fear still lingers, combined with the posture of several other people, it is very likely that these people are afraid of something ahead, and then they burned something here!
So what exactly did they burn? Whether they burned it for fear of being discovered, or whether they wanted to destroy it, and much more is unknown.
Luo Mu gently flipped the ashes of the fire with the tip of the knife, and suddenly, a strange touch on the tip of the knife came, Luo Mu's hand slammed down, and then picked out the thing with great care.
Seeing this, Ciris also gathered curiously, but the shock just now made her also raise her vigilance a lot, although at this time, her hands were firmly gripping the hilt of the knife.
Luo Mu looked carefully, this thing buried in the fire looked like a charred stone, Luo Mu waved his hand, a swirling wind suddenly condensed on the stone, and the ashes on the surface of the stone were quickly cleared, revealing its original appearance.
The stone is about the size of two fists, the whole is black and blue, and it is very regular, like a pebble, but on the surface, it seems to be corroded, there are countless small holes, it looks pitted, Luo Mu did not hold the stone in his hand, but still dragged it with the wind, Ciris carefully looked at the stone in front of him, and suddenly said, "Eh, master, you see there is a crack here!"
Luo Mu felt through the wind energy that this strange stone was not heavy, at least it should be hollow, hearing Siris's words, Luo Mu turned the stone around, and sure enough, he saw the irregular gap, at this time an idea suddenly germinated in Luo Mu's mind, this idea suddenly made Luo Mu feel a chill down his spine, and Siresi glanced at Luo Mu, swallowed lightly, and said, "Master, you say... It's not going to be an egg, is it?"
Isn't it a strange snake-like creature that just came out of the bodies of those dead humans?
In this way, the faint breathing and heartbeat that Luo Mu heard at the beginning was likely to be the heartbeat of the snake living in the bodies of those people! Luo Mu and Sireth glanced at each other, both of them knew that this idea must not be far from the truth, these humans didn't know what they were dodging and trying to burn the egg, but the things in the egg escaped, and instead turned them all into incubation containers!
Luo Mu stood up, and Sirith asked, "Where are we going now?" Luo Mu turned his head and looked in the direction that those people were looking at with fear before they died, and said, "Go and see what drove them to a dead end."
The wind and snow in this world seem to never stop, Luo Mu also tried to fly just now, and was also pressed to the ground by a huge force, which made Luo Mu more vigilant about this world, he could clearly feel that this forbidden power did not belong to the soul array, but some kind of pure power, as if it was just to show its dignity.
Luo Mu and Xi Ruisi walked forward one foot deep and one foot shallow, thanks to Luo Mu's strong sense of direction, where the two walked, it didn't take long for the footprints to be covered by the snowflakes behind, and they couldn't distinguish the direction of the time, Luo Mu didn't have the ability to peel off the snowflakes layer by layer.
Luo Mu's physical fitness is not inferior to that of the ordinary Lige Soul Master, not to mention the physical fitness of Siris, Luo Mu suspects that the current Soul Rank Lige Soul Master may not be able to take advantage of Siris, the two naturally do not have to worry about the cold, after walking for more than an hour, Luo Mu felt that the terrain suddenly began to climb, and they encountered a mountain bag.
Luo Mu walked a few steps quickly, this mountain bag was not high, and soon the two of them crossed over, and then Luo Mu was stunned in place, and what appeared in front of him was a large expanse of incomparably vast ruins!
The ruins have been buried in the snow, but there are still many edges and corners of the ruins, there is not a complete house at all, all the houses seem to have been crushed by a huge thing, turned into a ruin, scattered things are covered with snow, but Luo Mu can still see the edges of many weapons sticking out of the snow.
This place was once really inhabited, and it is very likely that there was a great war that changed everything here into what it is now, and looking at the distance, it is very likely that the few people who were sitting around the fire just now ran out of here, and this ruin is extremely vast, conservatively estimated to be the size of a town, and it can be discerned from the clothes of those people, they should be ordinary people, not warriors.
Luo Mu and Sireth glanced at each other, then turned over the mountain and walked towards the ruins below, Luo Mu walked very slowly, it seemed that under the cover of the mountains, the wind and snow here have become much smaller, this ruin reveals a death-like silence, Luo Mu suspects that there is very likely that there are also the same demons just now, and Luo Mu knows that the demons they solved just now should have just been born, so the combat power is relatively weak, and they should be parasitic civilians.
But this is the first area where the battle breaks out, and if those weird snake-like demons are parasitic on powerful warriors, there is no doubt that they will become even stronger, and even if there are demons that have been born here for a long time.
Luo Mu slowly walked down the mountain, close to the houses at the foot of the mountain, Luo Mu walked through a few houses, he clearly saw the blood splashed on the house, Luo Mu lightly touched the blood stains on the wall beside him, Luo Mu's judgment on the coagulation of blood stains can even be accurate to the month in a short period of time, and the blood stains here have been at least a few years according to Luo Mu's judgment, and they have long been completely dried up and solidified on the wall, and it is even difficult to separate.
But Luo Mu looked at the snow in the distance, the snow here is indeed very deep, but according to time calculations, if the battle here happened a few years ago, and the snow has never stopped, then this ruin should have been buried a long time ago, with the current degree of snow is not accurate, Luo Mu guessed that in less than a month, even the broken walls here are invisible, so there is only one possibility, this heavy snow may have just begun to fall.
Luo Mu didn't know if it started from the moment they came in, or if it started with the theft of a baby in Lochmadi, but what made Luo Mu secretly frightened the most was that he had already walked through several streets, and even swept an area with the wind, but he didn't see any corpses!
If such a large town was destroyed by the war to this point, there would be absolutely countless dead people, and it was a huge project to remove all the corpses, and the area that Luo Mu had cleaned up did not see any traces of the corpses left by dragging them at all.
Luo Mu and Sires continued to walk forward, passing through the houses and streets that they don't know how many, and their eyes suddenly opened up, just now on the mountain because of the cover of the wind and snow, they couldn't see it at all, they only felt that there was a building still standing in the distance, and at this moment this building was presented in front of the two.
It was a church.
The church is not really magnificent, whether compared to Corvo's Mancoch Cathedral, or the countless cathedrals in the country of Halix, in terms of floor space and magnificence, the church in front of it is completely incomparable, but this church stands in this ruin, but it brings people a completely different sense.
This is the only building left in the ruins, the mottled façade and broken glass windows, in the wind and snow that shrouds the ruins, this church reveals the only warmth, full of the beauty of the dilapidation from top to bottom.
The chapel stood on top of a staircase, just below the stairs, countless warriors in tattered armor walked back and forth, Luo Mu could see that these warriors had long lost their minds, they may have died long ago, but for some reason, it seemed that because of their faith in life, they were still guarding this church here, and they didn't know what kind of force still supported their bodies.
Luo Mu looked at the patrol route of these warriors in front of him, there was no trace of them, and he didn't know what the strength of these warriors was, but looking at the weapons in their hands and their bodies that were still strong despite their clumsiness, Luo Mu did not have the confidence to rush through this crowd of hundreds and thousands unharmed.
But Luo Mu knew that in that small church, there might be a secret about this world, a secret about why they came here and how they went back, and he had to go there no matter what.
Luo Mu turned his head to look at Ciris who was stunned and asked, "What's the matter, master?" Luo Mu said, "Come here" Ciris was a little puzzled, but still got closer to Luo Mu, Luo Mu didn't speak, and directly hugged Ciris in his arms, Ciris was directly stupid, she stammered a little and said, "Master, this... I'm willing to be willing, but here... Isn't it a bad place here..."
Luo Mu didn't listen to what Sirith was talking about at all, he put the night robe on top of the two of them, and the unique skill "Night Darkness" belonging to the night robe was suddenly activated, and the bodies of the two became transparent in an instant.
Ciris was a little hot on her face, she knew that she was thinking too much, so she didn't dare to make a sound at the moment, and quietly lay in Luo Mu's arms.
Luo Mu controlled his body, even his heartbeat and breathing dropped to a very low frequency, this journey was not long, but the two of them seemed to have walked for a century, Luo Mu carefully avoided all the marching soldiers, and finally stepped on the steps in front of the church.
There were no more warriors patrolling here, as if it were a sacred place that no one could set foot on.
Luo Mu walked two steps quickly, and stepped directly into the door of the church, behind him the wind and snow outside the church door, and in front of the church was a small fireplace, the burning wood in the fireplace exuded a warm smell, and the whole church was slightly illuminated.
Luo Mu pulled the night robe behind him, and a voice sounded softly as if he had been waiting for them for a long time.
"Welcome to the Holy Ruins"