Angel still remembered that although the cold ancient ruins in the outside world were called "ruins", according to Madeleine, there were no traces of buildings in that area, and even when someone dug three feet into the ground, no so-called ruins were found. .
At the beginning, Angel was also wondering, since it is called the Cold Ancient Ruins, why are there no traces of the ruins? Has it been completely eroded by the power of time
Now it seems that, combined with the corpse of Gusia that appeared here, and the large number of aboriginal cities they saw along the way, it just answered Greenwood's words.
Here, it may be the ancient ruins that have been covered in dust for tens of thousands of years!
The so-called "cold ancient ruins" in the outside world are just a platform leading to this place. The real ruins are in this sealed continent!
…
Although the location was roughly confirmed, how to leave was another question.
Angel looked at Greenwood. If the cold ancient ruins in the outside world are just a platform to this place, there must be a passage.
Greenwood shook his head: "I never thought that I would fall into the ancient ruins, nor did I inquire about the exit here, but in ancient times, if the aborigines could leave here, there must be a way."
There is a way, but I don't know where.
With nothing to do, he could only put his eyes back on Gusia's corpse, hoping to get some clues from him. After all, Gusia came in from the outside world.
Popota began to examine Gusia's body.
"Nothing is lost, the disposable space soft bag is still there, but there is some wealth in it, and there are many medicines to recover the injury. It seems that Gu Xia came to the abyss with all preparations, but unfortunately something happened halfway." Popota sighed. With a sound, he continued to tap out the energy and began to inspect the internal conditions of the corpse: "From the consumption of residual energy and some general traces, it can basically be judged that the time of death should be two months ago."
"There is damage to the internal organs, but it should not be the cause of death. It may be that the energy is not enough to resist the destruction of the physical body... Hey, there is a wound on the skull. It seems that it is not caused by energy. It looks like it was pecked out by some kind of creature."
Popota looked back at Angel: "Before Gusia disappeared, there shouldn't be these injuries, right?"
Angel nodded.
Popota stood up, "except for the wound on the skull, there is no other discovery, this should be a fatal injury."
The expressions of the two slowly became heavy, not a fatal injury caused by the outside world, which means that there is still some unknown creature here that killed Gusia.
Unknown creatures make them worry. However, Gusia's body also gave some other clues. From the time of Gusia's death, it can be roughly inferred that he died not long after he entered here.
In other words, the entrance to the Cold Ancient Ruins from the outside world might be near this area.
Popota: "You said earlier that Gusia suffered from hysteria, had auditory hallucinations, felt that someone was calling him, and then he disappeared. Could the person who called him be the one who killed him?"
"Hard to say."
Popota mentioned hysteria, which Angel recalled again
"After the disappearance of ancient West Asia, Brufen once talked to me about the Hangu site. He said that over the past few hundred years, at least thousands of people have disappeared at the Hangu site. The frequency is not high, but it accumulates. There are many.”
"Later, the Frost Moon Alliance did research and came to the same point: all the people who disappeared in the ancient ruins had a hysterical hallucination before disappearing. In addition to feeling that someone was calling in their ears, they could also see a figure. ." Angel recalled what Bruffin said at the time: "It was finally confirmed that the figure was a man wearing a black crow cloak. It was recorded in some documents that it was a death guide from the bottomless abyss."
"Bitter Rando!"
When Angel said the name, Greenwood immediately followed.
"you know too?"
Greenwood nodded: "Kurondo is the god of death, the subordinate of an ancient man who masters the rules of death."
"Ancient one? What is this?"
"Before the Ragnarok, the existences that have been alive, we call them the ancients. There are demons, demons, and even the aborigines. Kurondo himself seems to be an ancient."
Because of the limitation of his vision, Greenwood doesn't know much. The only thing he knows is that Ku Langdo is a person who specially guides the souls of the dead. grim Reaper.
"Since he is the guide of death, could it be this Ku Rondo who killed Gusia?" Popota asked.
Greenwood glanced at Popota, and didn't want to answer, but the shop owner was beside him, and he shook his head angrily, "I don't know, Ku Rondo's deeds are very far away from my life."
For a while, it seemed that the clues were broken again. In other words, the clues are too numerous to connect together.
"Whether it's Gusia who was killed by Kulangdo or not, it's the most important thing to find a way out now." Angel: "Let's continue here to see if there are any clues. If not, let's go to the wasteland. As I walk, I feel... I'm not far from the place that called me. Maybe there will be an answer there."
There are still many corpses in this town, but they have not found other useful clues. Occasionally there are human corpses, and they are basically apprentices.
In the end, still nothing.
"Since there is no clue, let's keep going." This time, they didn't take the gondola, because Angel had already sensed the distance to the calling land, which was very close.
The figures of their group walked into the dark rain and fog and disappeared.
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A deep footprint was stepped on the ground, the rain fell, and soon a pool of water accumulated on the footprint.
Such puddles of water footprints continued into the depths of the wasteland.
Angel, who had insufficient control over his strength, accidentally stepped on another hole. Greenwood and Popota, who were next to them, continued to walk forward as if they had not seen them.
This eased Angel's embarrassment a little.
"Shopkeeper, can you feel who is calling you now?" Greywood asked suddenly.
Angel shook his head. He just felt that he was getting closer and closer to the calling place, but he still couldn't sense who was calling him, was a life calling, or was he being guided by the continental pan-consciousness? These are still questions.
Went a few more miles.
The further he walked, the more intimacy Angel felt.
At the beginning, Gusia also disappeared because he felt that someone was calling him. Before, Angel also felt that Gusia's situation was very similar to his own.
But now that I think about it, they are still different.
After Gusia heard that he was called, he was hysterically rejected, which was the exact opposite of his own situation.
Having said that, Angel is still very vigilant. After all, Angel himself can confuse people's five senses and cognition. Maybe this kind of intimacy is an illusion created deliberately.
"In front, there seems to be a dark shadow?" Popota pointed to the front.
Angel raised his head and looked into the distance, the front was still obscured by the rain and fog, but among the shadows, there was indeed a black shadow that was not very tall, but looked tall and straight, standing still in the distance.
This is a wasteland, and I didn't even see a slightly larger stone along the way. Suddenly a dark shadow appeared, quite abrupt.
The shadows did not move, and they approached cautiously and cautiously.
When they got closer, they realized that the shadow was not a living creature, but a dry tree.
Standing alone in the wasteland, alone in the rain.
"I thought that there would be no plants in this continent, but I didn't expect to see a tree. Although it is withered, it at least means that the place was once covered with vegetation." Popota sighed and moved towards Go in the direction of the tree.
Angel was going to keep up, but Greenwood stopped him.
At this time, Popota had come to the vicinity of the tree. After turning around the tree for a few times, he realized that Angel and others had not followed.
He walked over again, and when Popota stood in front of Greenwood, Greenwood's eyes flashed with doubts, and he muttered in a low voice, "No, I feel something is wrong with that tree, and it seems to be left behind. A dangerous breath, how... "Are you going to be alright
Until then, Angel didn't understand the reason why Greenwood stopped him. It was estimated that he felt that there would be danger ahead, and Popota was used as a path-finding tool.
Popota ignored Greenwood, they were not a race and they didn't deal with each other.
Angel shook his head and walked in the direction of the tree. Now that Angel has stepped forward, Greenwood naturally followed.
When Greenwood came to the tree, he happened to see Angel take something from the dead tree and put it in the palm of his hand.
It leaned forward curiously: "What is this... feather?"
At this time, it was a black feather that was placed in Angel's palm. The down feathers are a little hard, and the color is like a deep void.
Popota also came over at this time. When he saw the feather on Angel's hand, he was stunned: "Where did you find this feather?"
Angel pointed to the dry branch.
Popota looked confused: "When I came here just now, I carefully observed it and didn't see any feathers."
"Are you sure?" Angel looked at Popota.
Popota said in a determined tone: "This tree is not tall. I have looked at it carefully, and there is nothing."
Popota is not going to lie about this kind of thing, that is to say, it is very likely that this feather just appeared
"When I came over just now, the first thing I saw was this feather, which was very conspicuous." Angel looked at the feather in his hand, and doubts flashed in his eyes: "Could it be that some kind of creature has been nearby, We didn't find out?"
It seems that only this answer can explain what is at hand.
For a while, the atmosphere was a little quiet.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from their ears:
"This is a gift from Kulangdo to you, please accept it, the savior of Yuantan Continent."