People in Zong Tomb, Jieling Pirates

Chapter 444 Another Altar

Author: Solitary and brave but also gentle

Chapter 444 Another Altar

"What do you think?" Seeing Chen Ziyan's reaction, Shirley Yang seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help but look back at the giant crystal wall behind her.

"I just thought about it, don't worry too much about it." Chen Ziyan did not give a clear answer, but shook his head slightly.

He knew that Shirley Yang had guessed what he was thinking, but it was just a flash of his mind and there was no need to explore it.

Shirley Yang nodded silently, but there was a surge in her heart.

Although Chen Ziyan didn't say it, she already had the answer in her heart. Chen Ziyan connected these bone fossils with the Demon Kingdom.

If these skeletal fossils are earlier than those of Demon Kingdom, there is nothing much to say, but if the order of the two is reversed, the problem cannot be underestimated.

Although they have not seriously discussed the specific time period when the Demon Kingdom existed, they have always had a tacit understanding that it was only a few thousand years ago at most, but the skeleton fossils in front of them now provide another answer.

If these bone fossils really appeared at the end of the Demon Kingdom, it means that the Demon Kingdom existed for a longer period of time than they imagined.

However, Shirley Yang was not given time to think. Before she could further think about the possibility of this conjecture, there was a sudden burst of intensive cracking sounds above her head. When she looked up towards the dome, she found that the dome had been shaking.

At this moment, cracks visible to the naked eye appeared on the crystal wall, and the crystal pillars hanging upside down on the crystal wall were already crumbling.

"There is no time to waste, let's go." Chen Ziyan also saw the changes in the dome and quickly reminded him.

Although they have come to another area now, they are still within the coverage area of ​​the dome crystal wall. If those conical crystal pillars like swords and halberds fall down, it will be like a heavy sword and giant spear stabbing down in the air.

Not to mention the sharp points, no one can bear the weight of these crystal pillars.

After hearing Chen Ziyan's words, the others immediately got out of their shock and hurriedly followed Chen Ziyan towards the depths of the canyon.

And at the moment they set off, the crystal pillars on the dome finally could no longer hold on and fell towards the ground like meteors. Chen Ziyan, who happened to look back and saw this scene, happened to see these crystal pillars exuding crystal luster.

, carrying a whine that pierced the air, it sank straight into the ground below, causing stronger vibrations than ever before, and cracks began to appear on the spar floor in the underground space.

Fearing that these crystal pillars like meteors and lightning would fall on their heads, Chen Ziyan and the others quickly increased their speed and walked quickly through the jungle made of bone fossils.

However, although their movements were fast, the shattering of the dome was carried out simultaneously, and there was no obvious difference between the front and back at all, so soon there were several cold rays of light above their heads.

Some of these crystal pillars fell far away from everyone, but some were very close. One of them, a flat crystal stone with sharp edges and half the size of a tabletop, fell in front of Chen Ziyan like a guillotine. If Chen Ziyan hadn't reacted in time,

, when he sensed the danger, he made an emergency stop. This crystal directly split the fossilized bone in two, so something had to be removed from him.

As a result of this situation, they must slow down and devote some of their attention to preventing dangers that may arise at any time.

Fortunately, except for Chen Ziyan who encountered a danger, everyone was cautious enough during the subsequent journey and avoided the danger in advance, so no similar situation occurred again.

When they arrived at the end of the canyon against the falling crystal pillars, what appeared in front of them was a wall, a thick stone wall that was connected to the entire canyon and blocked all the way forward.

If you don't look carefully, you may even have the illusion that this stone wall is one with the stone walls on both sides.

In front of Chen Ziyan and the others, there is a stone door that looks very familiar. The stone door has the same relief of eyes as in the temple, but the reliefs here all have eyes open. If it were not for the lack of paint, it would look more like

The giant blood-dropping eye on the giant crystal wall in front.

Because the crystals on the dome were still falling, Chen Ziyan and others did not hesitate and immediately pushed open the stone door and entered inside.

But when they entered, they discovered that it was not a city wall as they imagined, but more like a building.

Behind the stone gate was a wide hall, with dozens of stone statues of different shapes placed on both sides. They looked no different from what they had seen before or even in the tomb of King Xian.

At the end of the hall, there is a wide staircase. Even with the range of a searchlight, it is impossible to see where the staircase leads.

"Is there blood on the ground?" Hu Ba immediately discovered the problem as soon as he looked away from the stairs.

The road leading from the stone gate to the stairs was paved with a thick layer of bloodstains. Judging from the extent of the bloodstains, it is not difficult to imagine that it was caused over many years.

"It seems that 80% of these are the products of evil sacrifices." Wang Kaixuan touched his chin and expressed his opinion.

"The patterns on the ground around here are actually specially carved diversion channels, which should be used to guide the blood to the surrounding statues." After looking around with a searchlight, Shirley Yang expressed her opinion.

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Hearing this, Black Glasses said with a smile, "Isn't there another mechanism here that requires a sacrifice to be opened?"

However, he seemed to be speaking in a joking tone, but everyone present understood that this guy's true intention was not necessarily a joke.

And this is entirely possible. After all, according to common sense, the characteristics of sacrifices in a region or race are fixed. The sacrifices of the Evil Luohai people are full of cruel elements. It is not surprising that there is a blood mechanism here.

"If there is really an agency here, then there is nothing we can do. Just look at the scale of this blood stain. You can tell that if you want to feed this agency, it's not enough for all of us to be here." Chen Ziyan didn't take it seriously.

It's not that he thinks there is no mechanism here, but the reality is just like what he said. Even if there is a mechanism here, they can't crack it, and the hardware is not enough.

And don’t even think about catching fish in the wind-eroded lake now. The underground space outside is not only torn apart, but also devastated. There are three cracks waiting for you every step you take. You have to find the way back again. You have already run back and forth.

become delusional.

"Yes, the only one we can rely on now is ourselves." Shirley Yang said with emotion.

Although they can still move freely, the restrictions of the external environment have already appeared. Everything they encounter next can only rely on themselves. Unless it is something that exists here, no external force can be used.

"There should be nothing worth exploring here, so let's move on." Chen Ziyan said.

Since they found that the mechanism in the hall was powerless, he felt there was no need to find it. He might as well conserve his energy while he had this time.

More importantly, he was afraid that the stone statue here was a trigger-type mechanism. If so, exploring in detail here would just make himself uncomfortable!

Although Chen Ziyan didn't say it clearly, others could guess what he was thinking, so they all put aside their unnecessary thoughts.

After carefully passing through the hall, the group began to walk up the stairs.

The stairs were very wide, even if they stood in a row, it was more than enough. However, the material was a little special. The color was the same as the canyon outside, but the touch was close to jade. This discovery made Chen Ziyan feel a little wary.

He has now discovered that although the jades in the underground are common, they are not necessarily harmless. Many of them have special abilities, such as the fluorescent tunnels and twisted grottoes, but he has not understood the specifics of these abilities.

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So after encountering things made of other materials, he involuntarily became more vigilant.

It was unclear how many stairs there were. After walking for almost ten minutes, Chen Ziyan came to a special space again.

This is a semi-suspended stone platform. Under the stone platform is a bottomless dark cave, and on the stone platform there are two things similar to the pools at the Jade Mountain Altar.

However, Chen Ziyan was not sure that these two things were also pools, because the plans of these two things were smaller. A rough estimate was that they were only two meters long and one meter wide, which was more than one model smaller than the pool.

In the center of this suspended stone platform, there is a stone pillar that is half a person tall. On top of the stone pillar is a vessel that is integrated with the stone pillar.

Shirley Yang walked over and looked at the two stone objects and the stone pillar respectively, and finally focused on the stone bead, guessing: "Looking at the outline of the bottom of the vessel, it should be used to hold Muchen Beads.

Bar?"

Although it was a guess, it was easy to tell from her tone that Shirley Yang was more than half sure of this guess.

Chen Ziyan looked through his memory, but to his disappointment, there were deviations in relevant aspects. His memory could not give him much help.

So he went over and observed it carefully, and finally came to the same conclusion as Shirley Yang.

"It should be."

However, as a man of action, he didn't just stop when he came to a conclusion, but directly took out the Muchen Bead and gently placed it in the container on the stone pillar.

After shaking slightly twice, the Muchen Bead placed in the container quickly stabilized. Seeing this, Chen Ziyan couldn't help but nodded secretly.

This is indeed a device for placing Muchen beads. The Muchen beads fit perfectly with the bottom of the vessel, and there seems to be no gap at all.

"Then these two things that look like pools should be facilities for placing sacrifices." Shirley Yang then looked at the two stone objects next to them and said.

"But what are the sacrifices? And how come there are two of them?" Hu Bayi was a little puzzled.

According to his understanding, the sacrifices here will no longer be human beings, because the altar in Yushan uses slaves as sacrifices. If it is like this again, it will be a bit repetitive, so there is no need to install two altars.

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"Lao Hu, do you think the situation of the two altars can be explained by Feng Shui?" Chen Ziyan did not answer him, but asked this question.

He knew what sacrifices were needed here, and he also knew why there were two identical devices. The only thing he couldn't figure out was why they didn't build them all in one go at Yushan, but instead built two separate altars.

"In terms of Feng Shui..." Hu Bayi pondered slightly, and then said: "Actually, the situation that Feng Shui can correspond to is wrong. It can only be answered based on the most primitive theory. I also thought about this matter on the way, and finally I only came to one conclusion.

That means the altar here doesn’t need death energy.”

"Death?" Chen Ziyan thought for a moment and asked again: "You mean this place is a place of pure life?"

He knew that the entire underground space was full of vitality, but this vitality was not pure, and Yushan, as the Dragon Pearl, was a zone of chaos. Now that Hu Bayi said this, wasn't he saying that the vitality here was pure enough?

But before Hu Bayi could answer, Wang Kaixuan raised a question: "The vitality here is pure? Why do I think this place is the real place of death? Not to mention the gloomy atmosphere of this canyon, just say that we have walked all the way,

Apart from the bones that have been dead for who knows how many years, I haven’t even seen a green leaf.”

In his understanding, a place that is full of vitality must be full of greenery. This place obviously does not meet this standard.

Hu Bayi explained: "What you said is correct, but there is a saying called "No Ji Tai Lai". Due to the topography of some places, the purest will never be easily found. Here is the most typical example, if I guessed it correctly.

, the place where we are now is the place with the purest vitality, but the canyon outside is indeed the area with the least vitality in the entire underground space."

"Yin and yang are born?" Chen Ziyan asked.

"That's right." Hu Ba nodded: "Other than that, I really can't find another reasonable explanation."

"I think... I know what the sacrifices here are." At this moment, Shirley Yang's voice came from the side.

While Chen Ziyan was talking to Hu Bayi, she did not wait around, but began to observe the two stone facilities nearby.

When she saw the situation inside one of the facilities, she quickly found the corresponding clues and deduced the most likely answer.

Eye!

This is the answer Shirley Young found.

At the bottom of this stone facility, there are rows of circular grooves arranged very regularly, which reminds me that the Evil Luohai people believe that the eyes are the organs that store souls. In addition, there are countless dead bodies with their eyes gouged out outside the altar in front.

She naturally connected the two.

"What is it?" Wang Kaixuan asked immediately.

Now that it was at the last moment, he didn't want any unsolvable problems to arise.

"Eyes." Shirley Yang said softly.

"Eyes? Isn't this a big deal!" Wang Kaixuan immediately became anxious: "If we say it's bloodletting, we can still make it work, but who can do without eyes?"

While complaining, the fat man looked into the stone facility next to him.

"Hey, I don't have any grooves in this one!" The next second, this guy's exclamation rang out.

But before he could call the others over, Black Glasses blocked his thoughts: "Your function is different. Have you forgotten the two pools in the altar in front?"

"Alas!" This made Wang Kaixuan's newly found confidence extinguish again, and he stood up with a helpless sigh.

(End of chapter)