What happened after entering the ruins was obviously far beyond the imagination of Count Beauje and his followers. If a young person in the 21st century sees aliens, mutated creatures, ghosts, aliens, teleportation, superpowers, intelligent robots, or even gods or the end of the world, at least he can understand these things to a certain extent. Because he has seen similar things in science fiction movies and novels, or heard other people talk about such concepts.
But the people on earth in the fourteenth century were more willing to believe that the world was flat, and that there was a waterfall at the end of the world, or that there was nothing, just a cliff... Such a group of people came to the ruins of the Darkwater Tribe and experienced several collective experiences. Those who can remain calm after teleportation are considered to have extraordinary psychological quality.
Humanity is progressing, especially in the last few hundred years of history, we have made more achievements and breakthroughs than in the previous thousands of years, and the speed of this progress is accelerating. Although physiologically, our brains are almost the same as those of cavemen tens of thousands of years ago, the huge benefits that the information age has brought to us in our understanding of the world are immeasurable. Today's human beings have stood on the shoulders of giants since birth. Sadly, most of them, regardless of whether they are high or low, have chosen to live a mediocre life.
When a group of people led by Tianyi entered the ruins, the defense mechanism of the ruins was not activated at all. Its system thought it was just a visit from the "Telegrapher". In fact, apart from the Dark Water Tribe, Tianyi may be the only intelligent creature in the world that can control such ruins.
These ruins exist all over the world, but there are not many of them, no more than three on a continent. As a species that briefly ruled this planet, the civilization of the Darkwater Tribe only left scattered fragments of the Olmecs for future generations to speculate on. As for the ruins located in other continents, because they have no intersection with the local human civilization, and the humans of that era were unable to actively contact the Darkwater Tribe, no traces of them were left in either cultural relics or documents.
After more than a dozen space transformations, Tianyi had brought the count and his followers to the core.
Tianyi asked his followers to take the treasures out of the box and pile them at a designated coordinate. He himself took advantage of this moment to walk to the middle of the core room, took out the small cyan fragment from his body, and put it into the mouth of a giant standing stone statue with a human face.
This fragment was brought by Tianyi from the tunnel dug by Snake Flute a few days ago, into the core of the ruins and brought out. After he took out the fragment, the energy in the ruins continued to decline, but with the remaining With backup energy, the ruins can still maintain operation for a long period of time.
At this moment, Tianyi put the fragment back into the mouth of the colossus. The eyes of the colossus were filled with bright blue light, and the texture on the entire ruins wall became brighter.
"Just pile it there." Tianyi said loudly to the followers in the distance: "Yes, that's enough. You guys take a few steps back." He put his hand into the mouth of the giant statue, and after a few seconds , I saw that the black metal floor at the bottom of the treasures turned into flesh, "swallowing" the treasures in, and then returned to a solid state.
The surrounding followers were dumbfounded. When all the treasures were under there, they even walked over and stepped on the metal ground with their feet, wanting to hear if it was hollow underneath.
"Okay, now it should be time to kill." Tianyi announced without warning.
His words were like a biting cold wind, making everyone present feel as if they were falling into an ice cave. Fear, shock, and anger climbed onto the faces of those people.
The earl said in astonishment: "Master... you..."
"Don't worry, you will live as we promised during the transaction." Tianyi said nonchalantly.
His words were easily misunderstood, and the ten followers turned to look at Count Beauje, as if the master had betrayed them.
"Look, trust and loyalty are such fragile qualities." Tianyi said with a smile: "Just hearing the word 'deal', they thought that their lives were betrayed by you." He laughed so hard that his whole body trembled. : "I didn't even take action, I just said a few words. Look at the eyes of these people, Earl, at this moment, should you re-examine these subordinates of yours?"
The count yelled: "What on earth are you going to do?! Do you want to kill them? The treasure is not there yet..."
"Nothing yet?" Tianyi interrupted: "You want to say that they haven't all been transported yet? Hahaha... hahahahaha..." He shook his head: "Earl, you have a very poor memory. Do you still remember the first one?" What I said to you when we first met? It was the time when you tried to use one-third of the gold and silver in the treasure as a reward for me."
The count didn't know why, but his thinking at the moment did not fall into chaos, and he could still think relatively calmly. Tianyi's words at that time resurfaced in his mind...
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"Money! Mr. Earl, money... money... money. What a vulgar word. Many people think this word sounds so beautiful, and their eyes seem to shine with gold and silver. But you and I both know that wealth is The foul curse is the poison from hell, the wind that pushes you Templars to the abyss of destruction. I don’t want this as a reward."
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"You..." The earl's eyes widened and his hands couldn't help but tremble. He understood what Tianyi meant - those gold and silver were worthless at all.
Tianyi raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and the followers fell to the ground in unison, showing pain on their faces.
"What did you do to them?!" the count yelled.
"Atherosclerosis has occurred in their brains and hearts. Basically, cerebral infarction and coronary heart disease occurred at the same time, leading to sudden death." Tian Daodao: "Don't worry, when the snake eats their corpses, they will He has died long ago and there will be no pain.”
"What... snakes... eat corpses... you... ah!!!" The count's reason went crazy, and he roared, "You evil wizard! Why do you do this! I curse you! You madman!"
Tianyi said: "There is no way. Within seven days after the snake flute is activated, it must be given some sacrifices, otherwise it will be unhappy." In fact, the count could neither understand Tianyi's explanation at this moment, nor was he in the mood to listen. .
"Let's get out of here and enter the second step of the plan." Tianyi said and walked towards the teleported handprint symbol.
"Ah!!!!" The count took out a short sword from his waist and ran towards Tianyi.
Anger, sadness and panic have made this man unable to calm down any longer. He must do something, such as hacking the evil black-robed Eastern wizard in front of him to death, so that he can feel calm and safe.
"This behavior of yours is meaningless." When Tianyi spoke, Count Beauje stumbled strangely, fell flat on the ground, and gnawed at the mud. The dagger he was holding tightly flew out of his hand, drawing a strange arc in the air, and flew right in front of Tianyi. He caught it with one hand and held the hilt.
"Even if you kill me with this sword, so what?" Tianyi raised the delicate dagger with a gem-encrusted hilt in his hand and looked at it: "You can't change anything. Not only do your followers You will not come back from the dead, you will still be trapped in the ruins. If you cannot read the message on the wall, you will not be able to transmit it correctly, and the hope of escaping by luck or probability is very slim. In the end, you will just randomly Press the handprint symbols and keep teleporting until you starve to death in this place."
The count gasped and wanted to get up and try again, but was surprised to find that he couldn't stand up: "What's going on? My legs..."
"You obviously don't feel pain, but you can't move, right?" Tianyi followed his words and said, "Unfortunately, your right leg was broken by the fall just now. I advise you not to mess around again. move to avoid permanent disability.”
"Did you seal my feelings? Wizard!" the earl shouted.
"Actually, it's the function of this relic. It's just that you haven't noticed it. Carefully recall the feeling at the moment you fell. There is touch, but no pain and discomfort. It's very subtle, isn't it?" Tianyi seemed to be interested in playing with his hands. The dagger lost interest and threw the sword aside.
The earl knew that he could not defeat the people in front of him, so he said in a sad tone: "Why on earth did you do these things... Why did you kill them?"
"As we agreed in advance, the content of the deal is that I will help you hide the treasure and help you fake your death." Tianyi replied: "So they must die. Anyone left alive among your entourage will be killed." affect the plan."
The earl felt a buzzing in his head and exclaimed: "You still want to..."
"Yes." Tianyi took over the conversation: "The other three people must die too. Two of them are waiting for us in the passage and cannot escape my hands. There is another one... hum... I think he and the coachman, Now there are two bodies.”
The Earl felt as if his throat was being strangled by an invisible hand. Since Black Friday seven years ago, these brothers have been following him. They have been through life and death countless times over the years, sacrificing their lives to save others. But in the end, they fell. But he died so unjustly. Even others can't help but sigh and sigh, let alone the count. In his opinion, it was because he trusted the wizard in front of him too much that he killed these loyal subordinates.
Tianyi pressed the teleportation fingerprint, and a green light appeared in the room. When he pressed it darkly again, the two of them arrived at another place. Three wooden boxes and a short sword were scattered on the floor of the huge room. The ten followers were all dead, and torches were mostly scattered around their bodies.
Tian walked towards the teleportation fingerprint in this room and said to the earl: "Only the dead can keep secrets completely, Mr. earl. As long as you are alive, you cannot completely trust them. Maybe you think these people will not betray you, but that is just your wishful thinking The idea. In ten or twenty years, one day, they will tell their secrets. They don’t even need any coercion or inducement, because time will change them.
Haha... Time is like a cruel devil, but also like the most charming girl. Her charm can change everything, but her coldness destroys every miserable creature that can understand her existence.
Your men are not saints. When an ordinary person leaves this world, what he thinks about is definitely not loyalty to another person, let alone keeping a shocking secret in the coffin and keeping silent. He would only think that if he could leave something behind, or a sentence, even a lie that could influence future generations, as long as he could be remembered by others, then his life would not have been in vain. "
"Then you kill me too. In this way, you are the only one who knows about these treasures." The earl glared at Tianyi with a ferocious look: "If you don't kill me today, maybe one day I will also take the treasures away." The secret is leaked."
"I just want you to leak it." Tianyi's answer once again exceeded the earl's expectations.
"What did you say?"
Tianyi replied: "There are several useful things in this batch of treasures. But now is probably not the best time for them to appear on the stage of history. Therefore, these things need a safe place to be buried for a long time." , until the world needs them again."
"Why don't you just steal these treasures and put them in your damn bookstore that leads to hell!" the count cursed.
"Because I don't need it." Tianyi answered this question and made another transmission. When the light faded, he continued: "My bookstore contains the same type of superior knowledge as those treasures. And I plan to leave the few things in this batch of treasures for others to use."
"Does that have something to do with you collecting these things?" The count had already heard a message from Tianyi's words, that is, the wizard's lifespan is much longer than that of normal people.
"Hmph... Mr. Earl, this is what annoys me." Tiandao said: "Human beings, mutual trust is very difficult to establish, but it is easy to destroy it. Remember your followers were listening to me when I said that sentence about 'deal' 'After that, will we all look at you with that expression
This is human beings. As an individual, people always hope that others will think well of themselves, but they always think of others badly in their own hearts. When a person performs a good deed, ten people may misinterpret his behavior and think that he has other motives. When a person hopes to gain the trust of others, he often forgets that he always chooses not to trust others. "
When Tianyi walked towards the handprint symbol this time, he passed by the earl. The moment he passed by, he kicked out casually, causing the dagger that happened to fall in the earl's hand to slip out.
"Look, I can't relax for even a second." Tian Daodao said, "Your eyes have exposed your luck mentality. Your deliberate attempt to cover up your crawling towards the dagger seems funny to me, but in your heart you are still I was thinking that maybe I could successfully pick up the dagger and make a sneak attack." He sighed: "So, let's go back to your question just now...
Suppose you are the king of a small country, and you are determined to dominate the European continent, and even point your sword to the southeast to recreate the glory of Julius Caesar. But you still lack some decisive power.
At this time, I appeared in front of you, a strange man, a mysterious wizard, who seemed very capable, but you didn't understand me. Then, I took out a treasure and said that by using this, you can have god-like power, and I will give it to you for free. Will you believe me? Or will you easily believe me and use this treasure as a bargaining chip to risk everything you own
However, let us make another assumption... Suppose you have obtained the exact information from some intelligence channel or ancient legend. There is a batch of treasures. In addition to valuable treasures, there is also a very precious item. Treasures can give you extraordinary power. You spent a lot of hard work and finally took out this treasure from an extremely secretive and dangerous ruins. What kind of mentality will you have, and how will you choose? "
Tianyi finished asking the question and pressed another fingerprint symbol.
After the count reopened his eyes, he replied: "So... you want me to pass on the legend of the treasure, but in a very obscure way."
"Just use the old method of your Templars." Tianyi made a few random gestures: "Don't you have your own set of mysterious symbols? When you go up, leave some in the Colosseum as entrance passages. Tips for the coordinates. Anyway, the double cross symbol that activates the channel is the same as the sigil here. Anyone can activate it by touching it. Someone will find this place in the future... However, it is best to wait a few centuries for these treasures to be seen again. Introduction The concept of 'mechanized' civilization is still in its infancy, and I would like to observe its impact on human society."
"Why should I follow your wishes?" asked the count. He was immersed in sorrow and anger at the moment and was not afraid of death.
"There is always a way to guide you to follow my wishes, Mr. Earl, believe me, it's not too difficult." Tianyi smiled and said: "Remember the information dealer named 'Parrot'?"
"It's him!" the count shouted in horror, because when he heard the name, he instantly thought of the connection behind the incident.
"He died after he gave you the information about the bookstore. This problem must have been bothering you not long ago." Tianyi explained calmly: "Actually, Parrot was just an alcoholic. He once worked as a robber, but he is absolutely Not an information peddler."
"He was hired by you! What he told me was just the information you wanted him to convey! It was you! It was you who took the initiative to bring me into the situation from the beginning!" The count said tremblingly: "So... he gave me information that morning , was killed in the afternoon! He died because you silenced him!"
"No, I don't need to 'hire' him to do anything. He just made a deal with me." Tianyi replied: "Besides, I am too lazy to go out and kill a drunkard. You are the one who killed him. I’ve seen him too, that young man, Vollio.”
"What?!" the count said in shock.
"Is this worthy of your surprise? A young man was lying in front of a private clinic with wounds from a sharp blade at nightfall." Tian Dao said: "Obviously, he was injured because of something shady. Injury. What is that? Someone paid to kill someone? But if he was hired by someone, he should at least have a deposit on him, so he wouldn't be lying on the street, penniless, without even the medical treatment to save his life. I can’t even get the money out.”
The count's mental defense was completely defeated. When he heard this, he even doubted whether his dinner menu yesterday was also part of Tianyi's design.