Cataclysm King

Chapter 175 Why do you want to kill me?

Ji Xun and the four of them left the blacksmith shop and ran around in the quiet and dark alleys, looking for some clues that might have been overlooked.

Some translucent and strange black ghosts occasionally float out from the walls of these dark alleys, water tanks, or under the bluestone slabs.

 【Polluted Singer】, 【Polluted Stone General】, 【Polluted Drowning Ghost】, 【Ignorant Night Wandering God】.

 The streets illuminated by lanterns are mostly filled with neutral monsters. The evil spirits are hidden in the alleys and occasionally jump out.

 At first they were frightened, but later they got used to it and the four of them didn’t take it seriously at all.

 With the influence of Old Man Xu and Ji Xun's "Xia Mucheng Necronomicon Affinity +15" aura, even if those evil spirits had the intention to attack, they seemed to be afraid of something, and they just showed their teeth and left in fear.

 The four of them walked along like this.

After getting used to this kind of environment full of ghosts, this ancient town thousands of years ago gives people a sense of tranquility and tranquility.

 It seems like it would be good to live here for the rest of my life.

 The four of them were wandering around aimlessly, just like taking a walk.

 But after walking for half an hour, I still had no clue.

As he walked, Che Er finally couldn't help but asked: "Mr. Ji Xun, what are we looking for now?"

Now that he has more contact, he also knows that the grandfather in the team is unreliable. The doctor lady rarely talks, and only Ji Xun seems to be the backbone.

Ji Xun shrugged: "I don't know."

 I really don’t know either.

 He really didn’t know what he was looking for until he came across accurate clues.

As he spoke, he glanced at Old Man Xu next to him and said, "Of course, if your grandpa can remember where we went two days ago, then he will know."

At this point, Catalina glanced out of the corner of her eye.

This one is hiding his thighs.

Cha Er asked directly: "Grandpa, do you remember what we came here for before?"

Old man Xu was stared at with high expectations from several people, causing his old face to look awkward. He picked out his earwax with a grass root and said vaguely: "Ah, why do I feel so familiar with this everywhere?"

Ji Xun also laughed when he heard this. He didn't have much hope that the old man would be able to keep up.

Besides, it’s not like there’s no clue at all.

He is an undercover agent of the Silver Moon Sect. Others may not know what is in this ruins.

 But he knew a lot.

The two most important clues currently known are that this Xiamu City was used to seal part of the **** of the Silver Moon Sect, and there is also a fragment of the Weeping Angel.

 So now as long as you find any one of the two clues, you may break the situation.

But compared to the clues he was looking for to break the situation, Ji Xun was more curious about what the old man was looking for when he came here.

Ji Xun deliberately did not walk in front. Catalina was also smart and smart, and they walked side by side.

 And Che Er was originally his grandfather's little follower, and he always followed behind.

 In this way, the three of them cleverly moved half of their bodies apart, allowing Old Man Xu to lead the way.

Although this old man subjectively cannot remember many things.

 But his crisis intuition and luck are very high.

Every action seems unremarkable, but if you carefully understand it, it is like seeing mountains and rivers, and it conforms to a certain law of the world's operation.

I don’t say that following Old Man Xu will definitely find clues, but at least it’s much better and safer than just a few people looking for it blindly.

 And the brain memory can be forgotten.

 But some body behavioral memories are more instinctive.

For example, at an intersection, according to Old Man Xu's temperament, even if he doesn't remember passing it, he will definitely choose the more advantageous one.

The four of them walked through the streets and alleys, and soon they came to a wooden bridge.

There are several lush pine trees at the head of the bridge, two red lanterns are hung on both sides, and water flows under the bridge.

Ji Xun walked over and took a look. There was a small waterfall under the bridge with a drop of more than ten meters.

 The cold wind blew up the water from the waterfall, making your face moist and moist.

 The environment is quiet and uniquely beautiful.

Katrina also stood on the edge of the guardrail, her eyebrows blinked slightly, a trace of confusion flashed across her crystal eyes, mixed with a trace of depth, and she murmured: "It feels so good."

Ji Xun chuckled: "Oh?"

Catalina was like a canary that escaped its cage and was released into the mountains for the first time. She felt an indescribable joy in her heart: "I have a feeling that if I really can't get out, I can be buried in the breeze and drizzle. good."

Ji Xun smiled and said nothing.

Misses from big aristocratic families always have some fancy ideas.

 However, this originally poetic feeling was suddenly broken.

After walking onto the bridge, Old Man Xu looked around and felt something. When he heard the conversation between the two just now, he suddenly thought of something, "Hey"

 This sound of surprise immediately attracted the attention of Ji Xun and the others.

Old man Xu really remembered something. He looked at Catalina and said in an uncertain tone: "Ah, I remember that this girl of yours really died."

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere froze instantly.

Katrina was also confused: "Am I dead?"

Ji Xun thought about it for a moment and felt that there was a lot of information in these words.

If Carter died, it should be what happened in the last flashback?

What happened that caused her to die?

 Is there any danger here?

However, what Old Man Xu said next made the expressions of the three of them freeze.

 He tried hard to remember what he was talking about and said, "Yes. Mr. Ji Xun killed it with his own hands."

  Ji Xun: “.”

 Che 2: "."

Katrina: "."

The three of them twitched their eyes.

 But the eyes of several people also fell on Ji Xun.

 What old man Xu said happened, it should have happened.

Ji Xun also asked in surprise: "Why did I kill her?"

Old man Xu's memory was obviously unreliable again, and he muttered: "How do I know? Maybe the young couple had a quarrel."

This is purely a wild guess.

Ji Xun was speechless when he heard this. He didn't talk about the nonsense and complained, "If you quarrel, you won't kill someone, right?"

Katrina turned her crystal eyes, but fell into deep thought.

She didn’t think Ji Xun would kill her for no reason, but it seemed that because time could go back, death became less scary.

She tilted her head and looked at Ji Xun, then raised the corner of her mouth and said curiously: "Your Excellency Ji Xun, I am also very curious, why do you want to kill me?"

Ji Xun shrugged.

I didn’t want to dwell too much on such a clueless issue.

 Instead, an idea flashed in my mind, as if this question had touched some memory.

This feeling is amazing.

As if he had experienced the same scene at a certain moment in time and space, everything felt inexplicably familiar.

Ji Xun immediately realized something: "Yes, it's 'time affinity'!"

He looked at the attribute "Time Affinity +18" on his attribute panel and suddenly realized that this entry might have worked.

The time-retrospection realm in this secret realm is also a kind of "low-latitude time" like the accelerated time realm on the train.

 Everything here is affected by the time domain.

Ji Xun thought: "It's not an absolute rewind! Because of my understanding of the law of time, some retroactive memories have not been completely eliminated!"

 Old man Xu looked at Ji Xun, whose expression suddenly changed, and guessed what he had discovered, and all looked at him.

 But the feeling of reappearing the memory disappeared in an instant, and Ji Xun's brows suddenly wrinkled.

 If you can’t catch it, go find it.

 Let the environment deepen the impression.

 He suddenly jumped off the bridge.

 The wolf claws protruded from his hands as he climbed rapidly on the rock wall.

 Because the feeling of déjà vu just came to mind, as if there was something important nearby.

Several people on the bridge saw what Ji Xun was looking for, and Catalina also jumped down, followed by the second car.

 Old man Xu shrank back as usual.

With my old arms and legs, I didn’t dare to jump off the bridge, so I just lay there and yelled: “Oh, be careful.”

Ji Xun searched around the rock wall but didn't see anything.

 Obviously the second car had better luck, and soon he shouted softly: "Mr. Ji Xun, come and see!"

Ji Xun walked over quickly.

A few people met under the waterfall, and then they discovered that there was an inconspicuous little stone statue in a very inconspicuous place behind the water flow.

What’s even more amazing is that, upon closer inspection, the stone statue is surrounded by mysterious marks and arcane chain restrictions, yet it seems to be integrated with the surrounding rock walls. This makes the statue seem to have some kind of magical power, making people forget that they have seen this stone statue and thus ignore its existence.

"Huh"

Ji Xun felt surprised and doubtful in his heart.

This feeling is not unfamiliar to him.

I had the same feeling when I looked at the fifty-two magical mysteries on the copper plate before.

The only explanation is that the legal level of this stone statue is so high that it exceeds cognition, and the brain cannot remember such an "indescribable" thing.

 Seeing this, Catalina and Che Er also had joy on their faces.

 They all know the key clues that may be found.

Ji Xun looked at this magical statue, narrowed his eyes slightly, and muttered: "I don't know how much time it took to find such a clue in such a large Xiamu City last time."

 The stone statue is so special, and it’s really hard to find it if you only have one day.

The ability to go so fast this time was entirely due to the humanoid navigation of Old Man Xu.

 But after staring carefully for a long time, the three of them could not see the reason at all. They all have such a stone sculpture in their visual senses, but when they want to describe it to others, they seem to have completely forgotten what they saw.

 Can’t even communicate.

As he was talking, Old Man Xu slowly climbed down with the rope, "What did you find?"

Ji Xun knew that the old man's role had come again, so he asked: "Senior, look at it, what's special here?"

Old man Xu also saw the statue at the first sight, and was amazed: "Oh, this is an old object from ancient times. It still has divine power left."

Ji Xun and others listened with serious expressions.

As soon as they opened their mouth, they knew that this statue was extraordinary.

Before the shock could appear in his eyes, Old Man Xu's tone suddenly changed and became very strange. He turned to look at Ji Xun: "Ji Xun boy, you...did you just write on it?"

Ji Xun had a question mark on his face: "???"

Old Man Xu read out the sentence directly: "Miss Carter, I'm glad you are alive. Tsk tsk. When you see this sentence, I can do what I promised you. Don't you think it's interesting? ?”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere suddenly solidified.

 There is only the sound of the waterfall in my ears.

Several people had astonished expressions as if they had seen a ghost.

 Even Ji Xun is like this.

Hearing this tone, he knew that this word was really left by him!

 But why did I write this sentence?

As a person involved, Catalina's expression became even weirder, and she reminded: "Your Excellency Ji Xun, it seems that you really killed me last time you recalled it?"

Ji Xun also thinks it should be.

 The literal meaning of this passage is that he promised her something and then left a note as proof?

As soon as I read this passage, I felt a strong sense of humor.

Ji Xun could even see a scene: he was carving this line with a sly smile on his face.

The entire Xiamu City will go back in time, but only the words on this stone sculpture remain.

 You can tell with your toes that there is something wrong with this stone carving.

 But it’s just this one line.

 There are no other clues.

Katrina didn't bother to worry about why she was killed last time, and asked in a very strange tone: "But... why don't you draw some useful clues?"

Hearing this, Ji Xun smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It has actually been engraved."

Katrina’s eyes were filled with confusion: “Huh?”

Ji Xundao: "The clue is that my current ability is simply not able to carve words on that stone carving. There is only one explanation, and that is that I had cracked the secret of time retrieval at that time. But I still chose to stop the last step of retracing time. Most likely it is."

  Katrina: "Resurrect me for the purpose of going back?"

Ji Xun nodded: "Yeah."

 Catalina's crystal eyes flashed with brilliance: Would this guy really care about my life and death and give up the chance to leave this secret realm?

Ji Xun knows his character very well, and he obviously feels that the key point is not who he is, but the "promise".

 But he did not explain, and added: "Maybe it's not just you, but also Che Er. Or maybe I feel that there is something else in this secret realm that has not yet been explored."

As for Old Man Xu, he felt that if the three of them were dead, the old man would certainly not die either.

Catalina seemed to understand, and said, "But why not leave some more direct clues?"

"because."

Ji Xun is really hard to answer.

Although he has no memory at all, he carved it by himself after all, and he can fully understand his state of mind when he wrote this line.

 He can’t say that it was a challenge he left for himself, right?

 In the same situation,

 Ordinary people will definitely leave clues for themselves.

 But Ji Xun knew very well that people knew him, but he didn't.

This time-traveling secret is one of the most amazing challenges he has ever experienced.

 Besides, depending on the situation, I have already cleared the level last time.

 If he could experience such a rare pleasure again, even if he might die, he would do it again.

 Perhaps you want to unlock a higher difficulty level?

 Probably so.

Looking at his expression, Catalina seemed to have guessed something, and said it for him: "Is it because you are convinced that you could break the situation last time, and you will be able to break it this time?"

ˆ “.”

Ji Xun smiled noncommittally.

It's a bit weird to have an atmosphere when you say this.

Just like before him, three pairs of resentful eyes looked at him: Why not leave some clues?

  But it is most likely so.

Last time, he was able to break the situation without engraving.

With so many favorable conditions this time, it is not impossible.

 Catalina looked at his expression and thought she understood it, but when she thought carefully about the context of that sentence, she seemed to see a deep contempt for death.

 She felt that she could not understand more and more, and thought to herself: "He is really a complicated guy."

 Ji Xunrui, whom I thought I knew before, was smart, calm and calm, but now that suddenly changed.

This guy actually has such a crazy side in his heart.

　　Obviously, Old Man Xu didn’t think as much as Catalina thought, and he wasn’t as attentive as a girl to think about a grown man’s thoughts.

He was lying on the statue and looking around. At this moment, he suddenly said: "Hey, there is a groove on the back of this stone statue."

The eyes of Ji Xun and the others were also attracted by these words, but they could not get close to the moon-like stone statue in the water, nor could they see it.

 Old man Xu made a rubbing of the groove on the back of the stone carving.

The second train driver said in surprise: "Isn't this the [Bronze Snake] pattern that the conductor gave me when I got off the train?"

The pattern printed out is a concave pattern, and the [Copper Snake] can be embedded in it.

 Looks like a key and a lock.

 But it must actually be an ancient seal of extremely high quality.

 Seeing this, Ji Xun and others understood instantly.

 But unfortunately, the pattern is a circular pattern of snakes connected head to tail.

 And they had only one bronze serpent in their hands.

“In other words, we are going to find another bronze snake now?”

"Um."

 “Strange, what’s under this seal?”

 “It’s most likely the remains of the Weeping Angel.”

"ah"

 Old man Xu and Che Er have both seen the Weeping Angel.

 The angel feathers were obtained from the Lionheart family, and Catalina may not be unaware of it.

Ji Xun has nothing to hide.

However, Catalina's focus was obviously something else. She asked again: "Although, I am still curious, why do you want to kill me?"

Even though he was resurrected retroactively, that means that guy was not hostile to kill him.

Moreover, he even bet with his life that he could be resurrected after a retracement.

This feeling is very special for a young lady who has lived in a top aristocratic family since she was a child.

Ji Xun smiled, but he really couldn't answer.

However, without thinking much, at this moment, something strange happened in Xia Mu City.

On the originally dark hillside not far away, like a mirage, an outrageous wooden building suddenly appeared out of thin air.

The wooden building is nearly 100 meters high, with carved beams and painted tiles, making it dazzling.

Through the window paper, you can see the shadows in the building. It seems that there are countless people coming and going, and it is very lively.

Although the architectural style is consistent with the wooden buildings in Xia Mu City, is the height too exaggerated?

Looking at the sudden appearance of the wooden building, Ji Xun and the others immediately realized what they were going to do next.

Ji Xun and the others soon arrived not far from the wooden building.

 Far away, I saw a group of people busy in front of the building, as if setting up a large formation.

Katrina recognized those people at a glance, and Shu asked in surprise: "Those guys are actually here too?"

 The leaders were none other than her cousin Kake, and Bai Wei from the Bai family.

Ji Xun also narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "It seems that we got here through another method."

 A few of them came here on the ghost train before.

 But not everyone can pass through the weird time realm on the train alive.

 At least it’s not something that a large army like the one in front of us can do.

 The only possibility is that those people have some other methods in their hands.

Katrina also frowned slightly and said in a serious tone: "Since that woman is here, I should have been discovered."

This was the first time Ji Xun heard Catalina use such rude words as "that woman". It seemed that the hatred between the two was not small.

 But I don’t think there is any harm in being discovered.

 In this secret realm, there are more disasters than people, and those guys may not be able to get benefits.

As soon as she finished speaking, just as Catalina expected, a chuckle came from the four of them: "Hey, Junior Carter is here too?"

As he spoke, the light in the distance was distorted, and a woman wearing a small white dress condensed into a figure.

Ji Xun's pupils froze slightly when he saw the way she appeared. He didn't understand how she appeared?

As Catalina said, the people of the Bai family are mysterious and very strong.

 (End of this chapter)