The atmosphere suddenly cooled down.
Cui Zuojing hurriedly cleared the siege, and Dong Zheng didn't say anything. The reason for his attitude was that he didn't want everyone to ask more questions, because he couldn't say anything anyway.
The gem was engraved with a spell. Dong Zheng had seen it before and helped explain it. After a short break, the group continued to explore, but this time Dong Zheng was no longer at the forefront, nor did he express any other comments about the box.
He knows too much, it's like taking a customs clearance secret or script. The more he talks, the more he does, and the more mistakes he may make.
The caves extend in all directions, and Cui Zuojing quickly got tired of walking around the old one. He yawned and muttered in a low voice: "When will it be a head?"
Dong Zheng replied subconsciously: "Come on, go two more intersections."
As soon as he finished speaking, several pairs of eyes glanced at him, and his eyes flashed with surprise. Dong Zheng realized that he had said something wrong, and his answer to Cui Zuojing's words had become a kind of instinct, and he paused. Shen said: "I have no reason to hurt you, and everyone wants to clear the box as soon as possible, right?"
"I'll trust you for now." Cui Zuojing shrugged, holding the knife and continuing to walk forward. As Dong Zheng said, after passing through two forks, a gate appeared in front of them, and the cave came to an end.
The two halves of the door were made into the pattern of the statue of Beth, and there was an octagonal vacancy at the navel, waiting for the gem to be placed.
"There will be an accident after you put it on, so be prepared, I'm going to let it go?" Cui Zuojing stood in front of the door and waved to everyone.
Dong Linhai stood beside Wang Que, Allen picked up Victor, Lin Hangzhi was in the corner, and Dong Zheng didn't move. He stood around Cui Zuojing two years ago and now he was standing around Cui Zuojing. Is he fighting himself
"Let it go."
Cui Zuojing pressed the gem into the vacancy, took two steps back, and after a few breaths, Bass's eyes lit up, and the slowly flowing liquid in the magic gem suddenly spun, forming a small vortex.
The muffled sound of the machine's operation came from the ground, and the ground was unstable and vibrated. Dong Zheng tightened his body and prepared for the opening of the door.
Ten minutes later, the vibration and sound gradually ceased, the light in Bass's eyes went out, and the heavy door opened to both sides, revealing the bottomless darkness to everyone, even the light of a flashlight could not penetrate.
The power of terror was brewing in it, and Dong Zheng had already noticed it, but he didn't say it.
A few seconds later, the powerful suction burst out of the door without warning, the hurricane rolled up, and everyone was about to be sucked into the door!
Suddenly screaming and exclaiming, Cui Zuojing stabbed the knife on the ground and held the handle tightly, grabbing the hand of Dong Zheng who was about to be swallowed by the side!
The figure of the white cat flew by, and finally was barely blocked by a stalactite pillar. Dong Zheng raised his hand to protect his head and face, knowing that this was just a portal, he didn't do much resistance and was sucked in.
When the sight darkened, the wind also stopped.
Dong Zheng fell to the ground and rolled for two laps. He got up, patted off the dust on his body, and looked around. He was directly teleported outside. The dense forest blocked the light of the stars and moon above his head, and a wolf was in the bushes. Staring at him, his scarlet eyes gleamed with greed, and he was about to pounce.
Dong Zheng didn't even look at that. He raised his hand, and the arrow shot out, directly piercing the wild wolf's head. The wolf only had time to let out a scream of dying, and then twitched and fell, and soon died.
Dong Zheng was about to recover the arrow when he suddenly saw something flashing behind a tree not far away.
The darkness in the forest was difficult to see, but this strangeness did not escape Dong Zheng's eyes. The core unfolded, and his mental power scanned every inch of the ground and sky. A figure was walking through the bushes. After escaping for a distance, he crouched down. The most lush places of vegetation, curled up into a ball and hid with bated breath.
Dong Zheng walked straight over, and the hand crossbow opened the branches and leaves covering its figure in the trembling of the opponent.
"Don't kill me!" The small humanoid creature with a fish head raised its fins to cover its head, praying desperately, it trembled and said, "I won't hurt you! Please don't hurt either. I!"
Dong Zheng was a little surprised. He recognized the fish-headed monster in a robe in front of him. He had seen a large corpse on the beach not far from the shore. The fish-headed body was this race.
"Don't be afraid." Dong Zheng moved his crossbow away from the fish's head and said, "Get up and talk."
The fish-man stood up tremblingly, obviously still very uneasy, Dong Zheng said: "Are you a fish-shaped sage?"
The fish-shaped sage said in surprise: "Yes, I didn't expect anyone to recognize me. Those people in the past regarded me as a monster."
Dong Zheng didn't say useless nonsense, and said directly: "I have seen many corpses on the southeast coast, and they are your kind."
"It's all those thugs!" The fish-shaped sage was immediately excited, and the cheeks beside his angry cheeks were violently opening and closing, "That group of savage thugs just don't want to hear us tell the truth, and they even killed me like that. Many compatriots!"
Dong Zheng understood in an instant: "Are those British people from four hundred years ago? What did you tell them? Is it about the blood of the devil?"
"How did you know?" The fish-shaped sage looked at Dong Zheng with surprise, and he trembled a few times again, shrinking his neck and becoming alert.
"I found the text left by the British Expeditionary Force in the depths of the underground cave. They said that a fish-headed man told them that the blood of the devil has unparalleled power, and many people in the team wanted to break the seal and release the devil. , the army officials executed those people."
"He also almost killed our entire tribe! We just told them some of the island's secrets out of kindness, and he treated us like this! Thinks we are devils spreading evil thoughts!" The fish-shaped sage waved it briefly He said excitedly, "We are the gods who came from the flood, in charge of the order of heaven and earth! Bringing knowledge to ignorant and ignorant human beings, how could it be the devil! The real devil is obviously they who despise life!"
Dong Zheng has seen the scene of piles of corpses with his own eyes. He does not agree with the way the expeditionary army did, but he can understand a little. They don't want the possibility of the demon god to come to the world one day, so they will be able to spread the effect of the devil's blood. The fish-shaped sages Kill them all, so that no one will listen to the words of the fish-shaped sage and release the devil.
"Are you the only one left in your ethnic group?" Dong Zheng asked.
"There are other sages, but we all hid ourselves after we noticed that new people came to the island." The fish-shaped sage said, "We are afraid that what happened in the past will happen again."
Dong Zheng: "Now you don't have to worry. I won't hurt you. On the contrary, I want to know more about the secrets of this island."
The fish-shaped sage did not feel malicious about Dong Zheng, and now he relaxed a little and said, "Then go to a safer place to talk."
Under the leadership of the fish-shaped sage, Dong Zheng walked through the bushy woods for half an hour, and saw the temple standing in the moonlight from a distance.
The fish-shaped sage climbed the steps and turned back to introduce Dong Zheng: "There is a temple in each of the four directions of the island, east, west, north, south, and seal. This is the Western temple."
Dong Zheng remembered that Cui Zuojing had said that he was a seal lifted in the Western Temple, and asked, "Which god is sealed here?"
"God of time, Ivern." The fish-shaped sage walked into the temple, "Few people know his name now, only remember what Cronus is, but only Ivern can control eternal time. Years ago, after he and the other gods sealed the demon gods, they left a blessing and left the island for us to guard."
The temple is empty, with many statues on both sides, all of which are very old, and there is a high platform in the middle. The fish-shaped sage took Dong Zheng into a narrow door on the side. There were beds, tables and chairs in the small room, which was obviously where the fish-shaped sage lived.
The fish-shaped sage was sitting by the bed, and Dong Zheng sat on the opposite chair at his invitation. He looked around silently and asked, "Do you know everything about this island?"
"After a sage dies, all the knowledge it has will be automatically passed on to other sages who are still alive, which gives everyone in our tribe a wealth of knowledge from ancient times. I dare not say that they know all of them. , but no other sage knows more than I do."
"I want to know about the blood of the devil." Dong Zheng said, "I have encountered a very difficult trouble, and I need more strength to restore everything."
"I can feel that there are powers in your body that do not belong to you. Those powers are very powerful." The fish-shaped sage raised his fin-shaped hand and gently placed it on Dong Zheng's forehead, saying, "You can only As a container for the time being, it is like an overfilled bottle, and there is always a risk of it bursting, because they were originally selected, not you."
Dong Zheng could only answer with silence, the fish-shaped sage smiled and said: "The demon god who was sealed in the ground by the combined efforts of several gods is extremely powerful, and his blood contains unimaginable power, but if you let it go Come out, the whole island will be destroyed, and the world will fall apart, even so, do you want to do it?"
"Yes." Dong Zheng whispered, "I have no other choice."
The fish-shaped sage shook his head: "I don't agree with your choice, but if you insist on doing it, it won't stop you, because whether it's sealed or not, this world won't exist for too long. This is the fate of the world. , when outsiders break in, everything will come to an end."
Dong Zheng's breathing stagnated. Could it be that the fish-shaped sage is an awakened NPC like Fix in [Good Neighbor]
"How did you know?"
The fish-shaped sage held his hands in front of his chest, looked at the ceiling, and his eyes seemed to penetrate the building and cast into the air, "I can feel, maybe this is the will of God, everything in the world has a beginning and an end, if there is a certain The Japanese world was really destroyed by the advent of the devil, and that was just the beginning of a new reincarnation."
It seems that the fish-shaped sage has not awakened, and Dong Zheng is a little disappointed. He thought he could learn more secrets about the truth of the pure white world from the fish-shaped sage. You and I are both believers of entropy" what kind of mystery does it contain
But it doesn't matter, there are more important things waiting for him to do at present, Dong Zheng said: "Can I ask you one thing?"
"Speaking."
"I have a friend who has the power of time sealed in him. I want to ask you to help him unlock the seal."