The moment the holy voice disappeared, the room was plunged into complete darkness, and the only light source was the blood moon outside the window.
An Wujiu felt the biting coolness, as if his whole skin had been peeled off, the cold wind was like a soft blade, slicing the flesh and blood piece by piece.
The coldness lasted for about half a minute, and suddenly, the lights came on one by one, forming a loop. The twelve of them stood right in the middle. This was not the small room just now, but a wider lamp hall.
There are also twelve lamps, which are placed on twelve lampposts. These lampposts are all carved from stone, and there are many images of gods, demons and animals on them.
The ceiling is as high as eight or nine meters from the ground, and there are exquisite paintings painted on it, but it is not the dome type of Europe, it is flat and made of bricks and stones, and there are exquisite and ancient murals painted on it, mostly in red and yellow. It is painted in green, green and three colors. At a glance, the colors are eye-catching and thick. The people drawn on it all wear hats made of bright feathers, just like primitive humans.
In the middle of the mural, and also in the middle of the ceiling, is not an ordinary gray stone, but a whole piece of cuboid black stone with a length of one meter and a width of half a meter, like an obelisk, with regular and smooth edges, almost the same as other stone bricks Not in an era.
The black obelisk is translucent, as bright as black crystal, and can reveal the crimson moon above the sky.
The sky was starless, and the red moonlight fell coldly. Through this black stone, a dark red shadow was cast on the ground in the center of the hall, which was extremely eerie.
An Wujiu found that each of them was no longer the clothes they had just entered, but had changed into coarse cotton and linen robes and black animal fur cloaks.
The wind and snow kept pouring in from the open stone gate in the west, and it was so cold that people's bones ached, and they stood shivering in the empty hall.
"Is there a door?" Shen Ti walked towards the open stone door, "It's freezing to death before the game is played."
He walked over and found that there were two door-high stone slabs at both ends of the open door that could be pushed, one on the left and one on the right. Judging by the thickness of the stone slab door, it took four or five people to push it.
But Shen Ti didn't call anyone, and tried it by himself.
"Be careful." Andrew said to him, "This door is too heavy, let me help you."
As soon as the words were spoken, Shen Ti pushed it all of a sudden, with a relaxed expression on his face, as if he was not pushing a heavy stone door, but a wooden door.
Strange in his heart, Andrew walked to another stone slab leaning against the wall and tried to push it, but the slate was heavier than he imagined. He pushed it with both hands for a long time, and remained motionless.
"Let me do it." Shen Ti said that he walked over, pushed the stone slab forward, pushed it to meet the other one, and blocked the door.
When he opened the door, he deliberately looked down.
They are on high ground, very high, and the outside is empty and flat. It doesn't look like modern times, it's more like a very early time, and it doesn't look like it's in Asia.
"I can't do anything else, I have great strength." Shen Ti turned around and smiled at Andrew.
Andrew also gave him a smile back.
"Why hasn't Shengyin given us specific rules for this round?" Megan couldn't bear the cold, stomping her feet back and forth on the ground, "Hurry up, I'm dying of cold."
An Wujiu looked down at the ground, and found that many pictures of the same type as those on the ceiling were drawn on the stone floor, all of which were brightly colored totems. Those people wearing feather crowns held spears and other weapons in their hands, as if fighting.
In addition, the sun appears the most, which is very suitable for the altar.
"I feel here..." Nan Shan habitually clasped his hands together. He looked around and gave a possibility, "This is very much like a temple."
"Temple?" Fujido Sakura hugged her arm and rubbed it, "What temple?"
Nanshan said: "I think this place is very similar to the buildings of ancient Egypt, Maya or ancient South America. They all liked to build temples with stones to worship and burnt their gods. In those times, human civilization was underdeveloped. Religion occupies most of human life, so various temples and shrines will be built in many places."
Fujido Sakura nodded, "So... this time the game is really related to religion."
An Wujiu listened to their discussion, looked around, and found that the side opposite to the stone gate was not a wall connected with the surroundings, but the left and right sides were a distance away from the north and south sides, more like a wall standing upright. stone screen.
Could there be something hidden there
An Wujiu thought about this, so he also walked straight towards that stone wall, he walked from the space on the right, the edge of this wall was exactly one person away from the north wall, An Wujiu walked through it, and turned his head slightly.
It turned out that there was a huge stone carving hidden behind the stone screen.
An Wujiu can't describe what this stone statue is, let alone what it doesn't look like, because it has everything on it, the scales are as hard as a dragon, the head of a jaguar, but it's not just this one head, this is just one of them, and There is a snake head that spits out split and entangled letters, and a head that looks like a human but is different from a human. The human face looks quite handsome, with a sun on top of the head. Although the eyes are stones, they are also bright. Incomparable. It was a face that did not match his body. He holds a spear tightly in his hand, but his body is like a soft bag, a meat ball that absorbs everything in the world. From the meat ball, tentacles protrude, the strong legs and claws of a lion, and the blood basin of an alligator Big mouth, tail and fins like swimming fish.
Except for the pair of wise eyes on the human head, this stone sculpture is full of snake eyes, or lizard eyes. In short, the pupils are slender, large and small, covering the whole body like raised pustules.
An Wujiu looked directly at the sculpture, and heard Lao Yu's voice next to his ear, hearing him say that he was missing, and he wanted to follow to look for it, and soon he followed.
"What are you doing hiding here!"
Lao Yu always felt threatened when facing An Wujiu, but when he saw An Wujiu staring at something intently, he followed his gaze, but when he saw it, his heart beat twice, Almost slapped on his aging chest.
What's this? !
He stared at the stone sculpture, as if his soul was tightly hooked by something, and he couldn't move his whole body. In an instant, countless indistinct images flashed through his mind, the changes that could not be stopped.
"Let's go."
He heard An Wujiu's voice, and suddenly, the feeling of being sucked disappeared.
Turning his neck stiffly, Old Yu looked at An Wujiu, the expression on his face was still calm, his eyes were extremely bright under the dim light.
"Let's go out."
The two walked out from the left and right sides of the stone screen, and the moment they left the stone sculpture, An Wujiu seemed to have removed a big stone that was pressing on his heart. This feeling is very strange, perhaps because in this religious copy, even if he does not believe in God, the gods will inevitably oppress him.
The rest of the people saw these two people coming out and were about to ask, but Sheng Yin was one step ahead of them.
"Hello, fellow survivors."
"This round of games—the Blood Moon Festival has officially begun. In this round of games, all of you are the twelve citizens selected by [Water City].
The water city was originally a rich and beautiful city. Every once in a while, the leader who governs the city and his subordinates will bring you abundant wealth and resources after returning from their trips. And you live in the city, on the plains and wide land. , born of water, you believe in the sun god and the rain god, and your life is stable and stable. "
But just two days ago, the high priest in the city observed the phases of the moon and found that the bright last quarter moon suddenly turned into a scarlet full moon. Through divination, he gave three prophecies to the people of the water city:
First, there will be a huge natural disaster on the second day of the blood moon. If it is not solved, the disaster will continue to spread, and the city will be wiped out. Second, the blood moon is brought by terrible cultists. Hiding among the twelve mid-level priests, trying to summon the evil god. Thirdly, these twelve mid-level priests must enter the temple, identify each other, and use each other's power to destroy the cultists, in order to relieve the disaster brought about by the blood moon. "
The altar continued: "The high priest closed himself in the glass pavilion in the water city after he made the prophecy. His first prophecy has come true. The day after the blood moon appeared, this warm, rich and snowless city A blizzard suddenly fell in the place, and the blizzard had already frozen dozens of city residents to death. Just as he said, among the twelve of you, there are four heretics who devoured their beliefs and turned their flesh and blood into the souls of wolves , in an attempt to devour the water city."
"In this round of the game, survivors, you have two tasks: first, find the four cultists among the twelve of you, and try your best to sacrifice them to the sun god and the rain god. If all the heretics are killed, the residents of the water city will escape the disaster of the blood moon and win the victory. On the contrary, this place will forever fall into dead ice and snow.
The second task is to protect the people of the entire water city, rescue them from the shadow of danger and confusion, and give them a free and peaceful future. "
After Shengyin finished speaking, he asked each of them to stand directly behind the lamp post in the hall of the temple.
An Wujiu followed suit like everyone else, he chose a lamp post at random, and stood on the steps of the lamp post.
"Now, ask men to hold out their left hand, and women to hold out their right hand."
"Put your hands into the burning lights."
Megan frowned, "What?"
Fujido Sakura suggested to her, "Let's do it."
In the blazing flames, An Wujiu seemed to be holding something, the burning pain made him unable to hold his hand tightly. He didn't take back his hand until Shengyin asked them to take it out.
Not a single bit of burn was left on his hand, An Wujiu subconsciously spread out his palm, wanting to see what he took out from the fire.
But there was nothing in his hand, but there were three faintly glowing characters printed on his palm.
[Gravekeeper]
"Now, you have obtained your own identities. No matter when, you are not allowed to reveal your identities to anyone else, except for the morning sacrifice every morning. At that time, the twelve of you need to discuss together and give Sacrifice objects of the day. The specific sacrifice rules will be released during the day.”
The words on the palm flashed past and disappeared without a trace.
"Now, enjoy your evenings, and maybe one of you won't see the sun tomorrow."