I Created the Myth of the Old Ruler

evening.

It rained heavily.

This long and mighty rain has become an eternal background sound. The flood accumulated in the mountains continues to pour down. The rain makes the soil soft and muddy, becoming a flash flood, washing every tree in the forest.

This scene even makes people who see it think that the cliffs where this villa is located are formed due to years of erosion.

In the room, Byron was eating food from a bowl.

Broth and bread are what servants usually eat, and Byron is not picky. As a gangster, he can talk loudly at banquets and brag with the cooks in the kitchen. He Gobbling it down made Shia hungry.

"Give me one too."

Shia asked a servant for a portion and ate it with Byron.

Byron tore the bread apart, covered it with soup, put it into his mouth, and smacked his fingers. It looked extremely delicious. Shia also followed suit and started eating.

"This bread has the same flavor that I used to eat on the edge of the Black Forest. Especially on a rainy night, it would be so comfortable to light a bonfire and eat bread with soup in the tent."

Shia commented.

“When you’re hungry, this is the staple food that can best satisfy you.”

Byron also nodded. .

When the two of them were full, Byron ordered a glass of red wine. He drank the red wine in the glass without any grace. He burped, then closed his eyes with satisfaction and pondered for a while.

"Gothe actually didn't tell me everything about this mansion in detail, but in order to make me act like a master, he still told me some secrets he discovered. You know, except for the tricks, I have to Only if I show a certain amount of precognition or extraordinary abilities will they believe that I can successfully summon spirits."

Byron said it quickly like a salesman selling insurance.

"For example, the paintings in this building are not decorations, but to suppress something. The reason why these paintings are used, uh, they are called Ancient Capital, right? The reason why his works are used is because they need to be suppressed. The forces represented by the East and West and the ancient capital are not consistent."

Hearing Byron's words, Stone didn't quite understand, but Lu Tan and Sia immediately looked at each other.

They have experienced the "Madman's Mouth" and know that the works in the ancient capital were created to please a sealed god, and that those works are contaminated with the aura of this old ruler.

Now according to Byron, the old rulers that the ancient capital pleased were not the same old rulers that were suppressed in this mansion, and were even considered hostile. This is worth savoring.

There are also different Old Ones in the Wasted City, and their existence may be more clear.

There are also several Old Dominators in the foreign land where Lu Jian is located, but according to Lu Jian's understanding, they have all been sealed. At least within Lu Jian's cognitive scope, there are no Old Dominators walking on the earth.

As for the abandoned capital, Lu Tiao is hard to say.

He once saw a woman wearing a cheongsam, hiding her face behind a fan. Although such dressing was everywhere in the waste city, at that time, Lu Tiao could clearly feel that something was wrong. Looking back now, maybe He is a high-ranking person.

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Also, the countless eyes when he saw the ruler of the abandoned capital did not match the old ruler sleeping behind the door guarded by the ancient capital.

The Wasted City may also have more than one Old One.

Moreover, Lu Jian guessed based on Byron's words that the degree of awakening of these old rulers was much higher than that of the great beings on the earth who were completely sealed and fell into a state of blindness and ignorance.

As for the existence that was going to be suppressed, Lu Tan thought of the identity of Taoist Heming and felt that it was either Fang Geng, the Lord of the Mountains, or the sealed mud monster.

"...So, just moving a painting can let the power of that thing leak out and cause some special events. I should have used this method to make Mr. Browning's family give up this thing." A mansion."

Byron was still talking while Lu Tan was thinking.

His strategy is very simple. Use the information given by Gothe to move the paintings to release the power of the suppressed guy. Slight contamination will cause people to have hallucinations. By then, the Browning family, who has no knowledge, will Their children will think this is a haunted house. At this time, Gao De offered to help sell it, and they can get this Rainstorm Villa at a low price.

It sounds very desperate, but it is actually very desperate.

Not to mention that the impact of pollution on people is irreversible, thinking that one can control the power of those great beings is a kind of arrogance in itself.

And weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is.

No one can guarantee that no one has moved these paintings before, and no one can guarantee that moving them will only cause "a little bit" of contamination. It is more likely that the paintings originally collected by Browning here have been difficult to contain the contamination. The overflow caused everyone's emotions to be amplified, their sanity to suffer, and there were hallucinations such as Lily trying to strangle herself and Stone shooting herself in the head.

Thinking of this, Lu Tan had a new understanding of the goal of this mission.

I'm afraid that the nine days of summoning the soul are not a ploy to resurrect Browning, but that on the ninth day after Browning's death, the seal here will completely fail, allowing the evil god suppressed in the mansion to emerge.

Only in this way can it match the difficulty of [Alienation].

Obviously, if they had just killed this very suspicious Byron, they probably would not have gotten this information. Everyone would just think that the people who caused the problem have been solved, and wait for the arrival of the ninth day with peace of mind. Sent directly under the pollution of the resurrected god.

But having said that, if we really act logically, after Stone obtains the location of Gothe's internal organs, it is absolutely impossible to believe Byron's words, and will only treat him as a monster. In other words, the more he has The more rational people are, the harder it is to find the problem, and only when their rationality reaches a certain level can they choose this path.

What seemed like an unreasonable choice turned out to be the most reasonable choice here.

This is probably part of the difficulty of this mission.

Therefore, Lu Jian and the others' current mission actually became to find the sealed nodes in this mansion and perfect them before the ninth day of the Soul Conjuring Night.

And the sealed node is probably Taoist Heming's "legacy" or "horcrux".

Thinking of this, Lu Tan suddenly had inspiration. He looked at Stone and suddenly raised a serious question.

"You said, we are here to attend Browning's funeral, so... where is his body?"

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