Odd Containment Specialist

"Send someone over to investigate first, let Fat Brother do it." Bai He said matter-of-factly.

"Oh, it's me again." Wulang said helplessly and aggrievedly.

He pulled up his ninja mask and stretched his hands and feet in place to warm up.

After finishing the stretching exercise, Goro nodded to Shirakawa, and then the invisible Rubik's Cube turned the space cube, leading to the sky above the center of the palace. The moonlight refracted to both sides, and a safe shadow road opened under Goro's feet.

Wulang moved sideways and quickly moved towards the palace with small steps, light and strangely stable.

Others were waiting quietly for Wulang's response outside the square garden. They saw him easily enter the shadow of the temple and then walked in.

After a while, he walked out of the temple again and waved to everyone: "It's okay, it's safe."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the temple one after another.

The inner walls of the temple are covered with luminous stones, and the interior is brightly lit.

A complex key-shaped stone cone hangs on the central altar-like stone platform, surrounded by ten half-person-high square pillars. A stone bowl is fixed on each pillar, and an obsidian dagger is placed on it.

"It seems that this is the core area." Bai He judged calmly.

"We seem to be the first ones to arrive." Liu Yilong said.

Bai He nodded: "It seems that it takes ten people to open this mechanism. There are only four of us in total, and there are only five of us including Ling Xiao. We still have to wait for the others."

Xia Shou sighed: "I understand why we sent so many people in at once. We were able to get here without any casualties. It's just good luck."

Everyone expressed their agreement with this statement with silence.

Although the battle with the moon beast was a near miss, if the corpse with a strange death shape did not reveal the details, they would definitely have to be illuminated by the moon beast's light once before they could guess the fatal mechanism.

"Everyone, let's take a rest. Maybe someone will come tonight. If no one comes in another two hours, we will return to the camp and wait until daytime to meet with other teams." Baihe said.

Kirigakure Goro picked a corner where he could see the three entrances to the temple and squatted down. He took out compressed biscuits and mineral water from his pocket and started eating.

Su Weiyu took out the lunch box containing the leftovers from the dinner and ate it too.

Xia Shou could not rest, so he walked to the door with Bai He and observed the obelisks outside.

He saw Bai He looking serious and asked aloud: "Brother Bai, you can't even understand this, can you?"

"Judging from the style, it is aristocratic ceremonial language, and I can understand part of it."

"Real or false!" Xia Shou said in surprise.

"You will also learn it in the future. Noble Sacred Language was the most common cryptic language in the 16th century. Although there are many variations, it has similar root words like English, so even if you encounter other versions, you can still guess part of it."

"I thought arcane languages ​​were all very difficult to learn."

"It is difficult to learn, but Noble Sacred Language is not a mysterious language in the true sense. You can think of it as a common translation language in the 16th century. Books recorded in this language are basically not original."

Xia Shou nodded and speculated reasonably: "So, these obelisks were left by people in the 16th century?"

"The high probability is that the wear and tear of this temple does not match the wear and tear of these obelisks. The temple should have existed for a long time, but the obelisks should have been erected there by later generations."

"What's written on it?" Xia Shou asked.

Bai He frowned, and after identifying one of the obelisks for a long time, he said:

"I can only get a rough idea. This part seems to tell a story. The protagonist's name is Tolu Oran. At the beginning, the protagonist was reading a book at home. It was a flashback novel, starting from the protagonist's ending and tragic situation. Start writing."

"At the beginning of the novel, the protagonist is chiseling a stone, and then there are a lot of descriptions of the stream of consciousness. The content is vague and there is no substantive plot description. It is all the protagonist's painful inner emotional expression. It is repeatedly emphasized that the protagonist encounters an incredible situation. , incredible things.”

"Well...then I don't quite understand this part, and then the protagonist wants to engrave his bizarre experience on a stone tablet to repent for what he has done."

"At this time, he first began to carve the story of his wife. In the story, he forced his wife to drink the glowing water, and then witnessed his wife's beautiful face rotting day by day, watching her flesh and blood slowly drain from her bones. Slowly, the process took half a year. ”

"Then, the protagonist of the novel continued to carve the stone, engraving how loving he and his wife were, how talented and beautiful they were, how well matched their family backgrounds were, how they had similar interests and hobbies, and how harmonious they were as a couple."

"I can't understand the next paragraph, and then...he, please note, is the protagonist in the novel read by Toru Oran, not Oran himself."

"The protagonist of the novel began to describe his son's suicide again, and then recorded that he was raped by his own son, but the wording... is not a word for the same gender, but a normal word between men and women. …It’s weird.”

Xia Shou couldn't help but frown: "Is it such a heavy taste?"

"It's not necessarily a heavy taste, it might be a metaphor. Anyway, Tolu Oran also felt that this novel was a blur, with only curious events but no causes and consequences. But for some reason, this novel attracted him to read it. Go on, I hope the novel can give a reasonable explanation at the end.”

"But in the end, there was no explanation for anything in this novel. He just finished reading it, then stood up from the wheelchair and walked out of the study."

"That's it?" Xia Shou experienced the same feeling as Tolu Oran, the protagonist of the stone tablet.

"Perhaps the rest of the story lies on the other three sides of the obelisk. Wait for me and go out to take a photo." Bai He took out his mobile phone, walked under the moonlight and quickly took photos of the other three sides of the obelisk before returning to the temple.

Xia Shou was eager to hear the next story, but after Bai He read it, he shook his head: "It's not the story of Olan anymore, it's about a traveler traveling to the future in a god's vehicle.

This god's vehicle is like a centipede, with countless steel round wheels and a very long body. Before it moves, it will make a very violent wind sound, but the sound is countless times louder than a hurricane.

Then black smoke will emit from its head, and its countless feet will begin to rotate, making a rhythmic, metal-colliding sound.

Finally, it moved forward along two parallel steel bars, with a lot of wood padded under the steel bars. "

"Wait, are you sure this isn't a train?" Xia Shou interjected, "When was the train invented? If I remember correctly, the first steam locomotive was built in the early 19th century, and the steam engine was developed at the end of the 18th century."

Bai He nodded and patted Xia Shou's shoulder again: "Don't think about it. If you get obsessed with studying this kind of thing, you will waste your whole life. There are a group of scholars in our bureau who have spent more than ten years just to study a certain passage. Just throw it in."

As soon as they finished speaking, the two saw a figure appearing in the woods opposite.

The man carried a big sword behind his back and dragged a huge animal head in his hand.

Xia Shou recognized it as the moon beast's head at a glance.

The visitor walked under the moonlight, approaching the temple slowly and slowly step by step. His sapphire-like eyes were extremely bright under the moonlight.

Xia Shou and Bai He both changed their expressions.

"Lin Tiandong...why can he walk under the moonlight?"