"It's already night now?" Jiang Cheng looked at the sky outside the door and said worriedly.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Ren Zhifei asked puzzledly.
Jiang Cheng looked at Ren Zhifei in disbelief and said, "Aren't you worried about the nightmare fog?"
"That's what you're talking about!" Ren Zhifei suddenly understood and explained: "There are some restrictions in the entire mountainous area that can prevent the arrival of nightmare fog. Therefore, it is much safer here at night than outside."
"Some kind of restriction?" Jiang Cheng repeated the word.
Ren Zhifei frowned and said: "The people in the camp can't explain what the restriction is, because this restriction can not only block the nightmare fog, but also prevent the strangers living in the camp from leaving the Linshan area."
"Preventing you from leaving?" Xu Dingjia heard this strangely and asked, "Didn't Lao Fang and you leave before?"
Ren Zhifei's expression was a little complicated and he replied: "Maybe our situation is special. In fact, there have been occasional cases of strangers leaving in the past, but these are only a few. The special thing about this restricted area is that it is not Forcibly preventing strangers from leaving, it suppresses the idea of leaving as a group in the camp. Therefore, our tribe has been living here for generations, with almost no contact with the outside world or even our own tribe."
"It doesn't feel like a good thing." Xu Dingjia said with a tangled expression: "The purpose of this ban seems to be to trap you here."
Jiang Cheng also felt a little strange and asked: "Now that you are aware of this, haven't you investigated the reasons for this ban?"
Ren Zhifei shrugged and said: "The history and secrets of the camp are hidden in the forbidden area. No one else is allowed to enter or exit there except the senior camp officials. Since the clan leader doesn't tell us, we can't ask more. Moreover, according to the camp Legend has it that the first person to raise questions later became the Apostle of Guixu. This made later people even more secretive about this issue. If I had not come back from the outside world, but was a native stranger in the camp, I would probably not I would like to mention this prohibition to you."
"Such a thing could happen." Although Jiang Cheng felt strange, he didn't care too much. After all, this was the business of the strangers in the camp and had nothing to do with him. What he cared about most was just to calm down the storm as soon as possible so that he could borrow the Holy Grail to save people. Since the nightmare fog will not appear in this area, and Ren Qing has brought enough manpower, it can be foreseen that there will be no difficulties in the next thing.
If everything goes well, it will only take these two days for the stranger to resolve the misunderstanding and return to the camp. Seeing that their plan was exposed, the Guixu believers should also hibernate again to restore temporary peace to this area.
Watching Ren Qing leave with a group of people and blending into the vast night, the camp that originally had few people became a little more empty.
Xu Dingjia said with emotion: "I heard that the battle between the strangers in the camp and the Guixu believers has a long history. It has been so long that no one knows when it started. Although the Guixu believers have endless tricks, the Strangers in the camp have never been truly defeated. Yes. The reverse is also true. No matter how hard the camp tries, it cannot eradicate the Guixu believers lurking in the crowd. Perhaps this time is just a fragment in the long history of struggle."
Listening to what Xu Dingjia said, Jiang Cheng nodded and looked away from Ren Qing's team.
At this time, Jiang Cheng began to notice the surrounding environment.
This camp is indeed much larger than Jiang Cheng imagined. Indeed, as Ren Zhifei said, although it is called a camp, it is actually the size of a town. Jiangcheng is now standing on a street. The buildings on both sides are dome structures. The walls and pillars are decorated with simple abstract patterns, which look somewhat similar to the patterns on the ruins walls. The most eye-catching thing was the geometric pattern on the dome. Jiang Cheng couldn't see the whole picture clearly from the ground, but it felt very familiar. Subconsciously, he looked at the Star of Enlightenment in his hand. Engraved on the surface of this ring was the Metatron Cube.
Xu Dingjia said: "If your guess is correct, the carving on the dome is the pattern of Metatron. Metatron is the patron saint of the strangers."
"God?" Jiang Cheng asked thoughtfully, "Could this god called Metatron also exist? Just like the god of ruins, Mithras?"
Xu Dingjia looked at Ren Zhifei, wanting to test him, and asked with a smile, "Do you know?"
"Of course I know!" Ren Zhifei certainly refused to admit defeat and said: "Metatron does exist, but it does not exist, and it is obviously different from the ancient gods."
Jiang Cheng listened carefully and asked: "So, Metatron is not an ancient god? Are there other types of gods? Do they exist or not? This mysterious description sounds like a religious statement. "
Ren Zhifei shook his head and said: "Actually, it's not a pretense. It's not difficult to explain, but it's a little difficult to understand. And this is the biggest difference from the ancient gods."
"You are just making a fuss now." Xu Dingjia urged, "Please explain clearly now."
Ren Zhifei rolled his eyes at Xu Dingjia and then said: "The reason why we say this is because Metatron is a god who exists in the future!"
"Exists in the future?" Jiang Cheng was very confused when he heard it. It was easy for the other party to say it, but not so easy to understand. "What does this mean?"
Xu Dingjia said, "The general meaning is that Metatron is a savior-like existence who will appear at some point to save the world corrupted by the ancient gods. Does this sound like a religious myth? "
Ren Zhifei protested: "It's not a myth, it's true!"
Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "I don't think it's that simple either."
"You think so too?" Xu Dingjia nodded and said, "That's right."
Xu Dingjia's reaction puzzled Jiang Cheng, so he asked, "What do you mean, this is right?"
Xu Dingjia said: "The reason why strangers firmly believe in the existence of Metatron is because of the real person."
"Precognition ability?" Jiang Cheng understood and said, "Could it be that Master Tiansheng had a premonition of Metatron's arrival?"
Xu Dingjia's expression was a little incomprehensible, and he said: "The ability of prediction among real people is different, and some of them have almost never spoken true words, but they are all very sure about this without exception. In other words, at some point in the future, At any time, such a god who is completely different from the ancient gods will really appear. The ancient strangers are a very rational group, and they will never easily believe things that cannot be verified. But as for Metatron, they seem to It was an instinctive belief that no one ever had any doubts about.”
"There is such a mysterious and magical thing." Jiang Cheng couldn't help but sigh after hearing this.
While they were talking, the three of them were already walking in the streets of the camp. Jiang Cheng looked around curiously. When he turned his head, he seemed to have caught a glimpse of something unusual.