[Milestone reached: Killing the High Table Mage] [Milestone Reward: Full Sense of Prophet] [Full Prophet Sense]: Active skill, rule-based spell, activated by consuming mental energy. When the target unit uses any spell, it can be copied by activating [Prophet Sense] and consume mana to cast the target spell. Copy validity time: one minute. Skill cooldown time: ten minutes. Note: Spells that are secret, limited by bloodline, or require a special medium cannot be copied. When the mysterious magic is dismantled and analyzed, there will be no more secrets in the world. When the water vapor dissipated, the moonlight finally shone through the gaps between the forest leaves again. However, at this time, only the three of Yin Xiu were left standing in the forest. The rest had either run away or fallen to the ground. Yin Xiu approached the translator and glanced at him.
This translator, who was not well versed in history, was hit by a stray bullet at some point and was lying on the ground helplessly panting, his chest heaving. Yin Xiu stood beside him and asked softly: "I'll give you a ride?" The translator's eyes were frightened at first, and then he whispered with relief: "Thank you..." "will not." Yin Xiu poked out with his kick, and there was a crisp explosion in the man's chest. He immediately tilted his head to the side and died quickly. Ma Xiaoyu was not idle at this time, checking the faces and clothes of these people in the crowd. "Do you know anyone?" she asked Liu Banxian. Liu Banxian shook his head, "This is the first time we meet these people. We only have one fate in this life." "It wouldn't be right if we saw each other more than once." Yin Xiu walked up to Krupp, not showing much interest in the decapitated body, and just rummaged through it quickly. First, he read some unhelpful memories through [Bloody Memories], and then found a not-so-exhaustive map from him. This is a topographic map of Changbai Mountain. There are various signs on the map, and contour lines of different lengths are drawn on it, which looks densely packed. "This is good stuff." Liu Banxian adjusted his sunglasses and said, "With this thing here, it will be much easier for us to find anything." He marveled, "I have to say, what these foreigners do is exquisite, every river and every stream is clearly marked." Yin Xiu glanced at him and pointed to the title on the map, "Do you recognize these words?" "what?" Liu Banxian took the drawing and looked at the location pointed by Yin Xiu, "The drawings for the Liaodong Governor's Mansion are privately owned and must be investigated." "That's it, that's it."
Liu Banxian smiled awkwardly, "These foreigners, even if they have the time, would never be able to draw such exquisite and detailed drawings, because for them, places of interest and landmarks are everywhere in Kyushu, and they can't finish them at all. !” Yin Xiu had no intention of discussing it with him. He just took the drawing and took out the compass from the side to compare it with their current position. I have to say that after losing Hai Dongqing, the three of them were like lost children in the mountains, unable to find their way. After holding the compass and looking at it for a while, Yin Xiu pointed to a place that represented a mountain range on the map, "We are here now." "Here? We are in a deep valley, right? It's completely different from the picture." Liu Banxian also took the compass and calculated it himself. After a while, he had to admit that Yin Xiu's calculation was correct. They were indeed in the area representing the mountains on the map. "But why is this?" Ma Xiaoyu asked puzzled. "It's very simple, just like those navigators who painted the area between the continents as a sea. In fact, there are countless islands and archipelagos distributed in the seven oceans. However, the navigators and sailors have never been there personally, so they have been hasty. Just draw a legend there and you're done. As for what exactly exists there, no one knows, and no one cares. Maybe some surveyors really passed by here, or simply looked at it from a distance and didn't find this valley. Otherwise, they would have discovered the secrets in this deep valley long ago. " "This happens all the time." Liu Banxian wiped his face. "I have heard of a lazy man who only eats and sleeps all day long. He neither works nor studies. He is lazy and unable to wake up all day long. One day, three gods passed by his door. Seeing him feeling so pitiful, the house was dilapidated and the food was not good, so they became kindhearted and decided to help him. So a god told him in a dream that there was a sum of gold buried under the locust tree in the yard and asked him to dig it out. But the lazy man just responded casually, turned over and continued to sleep. For several days, he did not take action. Another god was anxious and ran to ask him, why didn't you dig out the treasure? The lazy man replied: Too lazy to dig. " When Ma Xiaoyu heard this, she couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing, her flowers trembling. "But is it possible that the gold is actually just superfluous things to him. After all, with gold, he only used it to eat, drink and sleep. Now that he has lived the life he wanted, why bother working hard and spending so much time digging for that gold? " "It seems so." Yin Xiu nodded and gave Ma Xiaoyu a thumbs up, "Sometimes you really look like a philosopher." "In your eyes, what do I look like most of the time?" Ma Xiaoyu suddenly asked. "Well……" Yin Xiu thought for a moment, then solemnly said: "Like you." "You're talking nonsense."
Ma Xiaoyu rolled her eyes at him, with the smile still on her face. At this time, they had determined their approximate location and knew how far they were from the summit of Baiyun Peak where they originally wanted to go. "This is indeed the perfect place to be the home of the Big Red Snake. Whether it's the phase or the pattern of the five elements, it's very suitable." Liu Banxian sighed. "I don't understand this." Yin Xiu grinned, "But I think a big snake and the abandoned ruins seem to fit together particularly well. It looks like the giant beast guarding the altar of the ancestors in extreme novels. Perhaps it was an order from an ancestor's priest, or maybe it had lived here since it was a child and had some kind of memory and attachment. Anyway, it must be because of some ancient reason that this big red snake has regarded this place as its shelter and has been unwilling to leave for so many years. " "This story is too romantic." Ma Xiaoyu murmured. "romantic?" Liu Banxian touched his arm and smoothed the goosebumps on it, "The big red snake almost scared us to death just by showing a part of its body. I don't think it has anything to do with romance. Such a giant beast can only be with us. Words like horror and horror go hand in hand.” Ma Xiaoyu smiled, "Then maybe this is a feeling that we can't understand?" "It's entirely possible." Liu Banxian picked up the compass again and turned it around. The pointer of the compass also turned around. Finally, after a few turns, the pointer pointed in one of the directions. "Is there anything weird?" Yin Xiu asked. "It's so weird, so weird." Liu Banxian looked solemn, "There seems to be something very ominous there, but we have to get closer to find out what it is." "Just what I wanted." Yin Xiu wiped her hands, "It would be too boring to come to a place like this and just watch without going anywhere." "But such curiosity may kill us." Liu Banxian said. "But we don't have a choice now, do we?" Ma Xiaoyu had taken out the ruler from his coat and stretched it out. Yin Xiu also held the Wind-Mocking Sword horizontally in front of him, walked a few steps forward, and Ma Xiaoyu, one behind the other, covered each other and walked toward the dense forest pointed by Liu Banxian's finger. Liu Banxian was behind the two of them and put his hands on Yin Xiu's shoulders. It looked like he was supporting him from behind, but in fact it looked more like he was using him as a shield. The three of them walked towards the forest step by step. They were only halfway through when they heard some kind of thin sound, urgent and mysterious. Yin Xiu used his peripheral vision to look at Liu Banxian and asked him if there was anything wrong. However, Liu Banxian just raised his chin nervously, signaling for them to continue moving forward. So Yin Xiu exchanged glances with Ma Xiaoyu again, asking the other party to be more cautious. Yin Xiu moved forward and took the lead to explore the forest. At this moment, the sound intensified, and a black shadow as big as a bowl flew out and rushed towards Yin Xiu's door.
Yin Xiu immediately stretched out his hand to grab it, and the black shadow immediately settled down in Yin Xiu's hand and stopped moving. Yin Xiu brought the thing in her hand up to her eyes and took a look, only to find that it was just a frightened bird with wide eyes. A false alarm. Yin Xiu let go of the bird in his hand. The bird was in a trance, and then it remembered to run for its life, fluttered its wings and flew away, disappearing into the night sky. Then the three of them continued to stare at the forest in front of them. Taking a deep breath, Yin Xiu moved forward and stretched out the Wind-Mocking Sword in his hand. Only halfway out, he heard a crisp metal sound. The three of them couldn't help but look at each other. Yin Xiu was not in a hurry to retract the sword blade, but turned his wrist and gestured with the sword blade on the object it encountered. Then they heard a metal trembling sound. It was not harsh, but it made people feel a touch that resonated with it in their ears and bones. Yin Xiu immediately shook out a few sword flowers from the Wind-Mocking Sword, and the branches blocking them and the object immediately shattered and fell to the side. This time, everyone finally saw the original appearance of the thing - a bronze bell larger than the carriage. The surface of this bronze clock is covered with rust, mixed with the moss, weeds and vines, and the original color cannot be distinguished. The part that Yin Xiu touched just now happened to be between those vines, so it could make such a clear sound. If we paddled onto those debris, anyone calling us would just think we had encountered a pile of rocks or a pile of dirt. Ma Xiaoyu lit up the talisman paper and brought the firelight closer to the bronze bell. However, there was indeed too much covering on the surface, and he could only see the general shape, but could not see the details clearly. "What should we do? How about finding a magnifying glass?" Liu Banxian said. "Magnifying glass? I can't see much of a microscope." A flame ignited in Yin Xiu's palm, apparently activating the True Yang Life Fire. "Wait a minute, this is a treasure!" Before Liu Banxian finished shouting, Yin Xiu had covered the bronze bell with his hand, and the flames immediately spread, completely covering the surface of the bronze bell. "Real gold is not afraid of being refined by fire. What is it afraid of?" With a crackling sound and a series of burning smells, under the burning of the flames, the debris covering the bronze bell began to be burned to ashes and gradually fell off. The bronze bell revealed its original appearance, with its complicated patterns, exquisite craftsmanship that still looked sophisticated after three thousand years, and the lifelike birds and beasts. Everything shocked the Yin Xiu trio who observed it at close range. "The destiny black bird descended and gave birth to Shang." Liu Banxian murmured. This is not the meaning of the inscription carved on the bronze bell. In fact, Liu Banxian cannot understand it. However, not only him, but also Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu only had this thought in their minds at the moment. In the ancient times of the ancient kings, in the court and the public ruled by human kings, there may be many such bronze bells, arranged in rows after rows in a certain order. In front of each bronze bell, there is a dedicated person to serve, or a person. , or two or three. There must be a musician holding a mallet as thick as a bowl and striking the bronze bell at a specific moment according to the music score or some instruction.
One bell rang, followed by many bells. The harmonious and magnificent resonance shocked everyone's body and mind, calling out the nobles sitting in the palace, the soldiers holding swords and halberds, and the civilians and slaves kneeling below. They were shocked together and trembled with pleasure. Wait, slave? "I know why I sense its ominousness." Liu Banxian reluctantly took back his hand on the bronze bell and gave his own conclusion. "This bell should only be rung when offering sacrifices. In other words, it is a signal to call for sacrifices." "How did you know?" “By some kind of intuition and inspiration.” "What is the so-called sacrifice?" "Those slaves, those slaves were sacrifices." Liu Banxian said seriously: "Either to offer sacrifices to the gods, to pray for rain, to cure diseases, or to celebrate the king's triumph, birthday, or birth. Or just because there was some ominous omen on the tortoise shell, Shang gathered these slaves together, killed them, and used their blood and souls as sacrifices. And these people who became slaves due to defeat or punishment are the sacrifices needed for this sacrifice. Sometimes it may be one or several, but in some grand sacrifices, the number of slaves is not counted as "one", but as a team or a pit. " Liu Banxian's tone did not change, he did not exaggerate the atmosphere, and his mood did not change because of what happened to these slaves. After all, this happened three thousand years ago. Even if there is any resonance, it has been reduced a lot in this vast river of time. However, even though he was so calm, there was still a layer of coldness on the shoulders and backs of the three of them. "So, did the big red snake choose this place as its nest because the smell of blood attracted it?" Ma Xiaoyu twitched her nose, and the smell that had lasted for thousands of years seemed to have not dissipated. "No, I think that big red snake is the god being sacrificed here." (End of Chapter)