The Iron Ship Island of the Great Voyage

In a dilapidated bell tower somewhere in Tianlan Capital,

At the moment White was killed by Raymond, a gray-haired old man slowly opened his eyes in a wheelchair.

He raised his eyelids, his brows wrinkled slightly and then relaxed.

There were eight Gothic enamel wall clocks hanging on the wall. The one on the edge suddenly stopped at that moment.

The old man pondered for a moment and said towards the empty house,

"NO.9's life card is broken. Go check the people he has been in contact with recently."

"yes."

There were ripples in the air, as if a transparent figure flashed past.

After the old man in the wheelchair said this, he slowly closed his eyes and enjoyed the warm sunlight. He could faintly hear him murmuring to himself: "No captain-level person has died in many years. The Black Sea seems to be very dark recently."

It’s so lively…”

.....

The screen switches back to the underground ruins of Niguel Volcano.

Raymond killed [Rock Bear] White and began to collect the loot.

He collected all the trophies from the more than ten corpses in the temple. This was the main team equipment of an entire high-level mercenary group. It was large in quantity and sophisticated. What kind of daggers, longbows, swords, armors, spells, etc.

Staffs, elite mail armor, enchanted inner armor... these equipment can probably be sold for a sky-high price in the game.

But for Raymond now, these things are too professional and can't be used much.

The only thing that made him feel comfortable playing with it was the sword accompanying the swordsman guard of Young Master Umu. It was a famous sword [Green Willow] that was comparable to [Mihu]. The sword was as slender as a willow branch, very attractive, and extremely sharp.

A weak tiger.

However, he can only look at this sword now, but he does not dare to wear it with him.

Famous swords are all unique. When you take them out, others will immediately know who the sword's previous owner was.

After all, the murder has not yet come to light.

Behemoths like the Giant Whale Chamber of Commerce have countless branches in the Black Sea. If Raymond's killing of Umu is really exposed, it will be very troublesome. Unless he can escape from the Black Sea, he will definitely face a relentless pursuit.

The last thing Raymond cleaned up was the body of Young Master Umu in the pile of insects.

"Hey...is this the Hex space ring?"

He took a long sword and picked through the pile of colorful and disgusting insects, and unexpectedly found a storage ring on the finger of Wumu's left hand.

He was not interested in the bottles and jars containing insects, but he found something very interesting in the ring.

A sealed test tube containing an unknown green liquid.

When the Eye of Truth probed, it revealed such a row of information.

【Ackerman Pathogen】

Detailed explanation: Highly contagious mysterious virus;

"How can the Giant Whale Chamber of Commerce have such a thing?"

Raymond looked at the virus can in his hand, and vaguely felt as if he had discovered some huge secret. He only knew that spreading the virus in the Black Sea was the plan of the World Government, but he did not know who was the mastermind who spread the virus in Philip's Territory.

But now...what does he see?

There is such a jar of pathogens in the Young Master’s space ring of the Giant Whale Chamber of Commerce!

"The time Susanna learned the location of the treasure from the fat man was probably on the ferry... If Young Master Umu could arrive at Duzhang Island in advance to ambush, he must have been near the Niguel Volcanic Islands before..."

"On the surface, the guard is the Wind Wolf Mercenary Group, but in fact he is a hidden captain of CP9..."

"So, Young Master Umu didn't come here specifically for the ruins, but he had other things to do. For example... who should I give this virus tank to..."

Raymond rolled his eyes. A normal person would never keep such a dangerous virus around him that could infect him at any time. So who was he going to hand it over to?

Thinking of this, he carefully rummaged through Wumu's storage ring, and sure enough he saw a secret letter.

There was no text on the secret letter, but it opened to a map of the Black Sea marked with a red cross.

Under every red cross on the map, there is an island mark, marking the name of the territory.

"Maple Leaf Territory, Black Mountain Territory, Marco Territory...Does the red cross marking these territories have any special meaning?"

Raymond first looked at the coordinates of these territories. Most of them were remote territories in the Black Sea. He didn't understand the meaning of the secret message for a while.

But suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he immediately thought of something.

"No! These territories... seem to be territories that the revolutionary army has secretly controlled in recent years!"

Raymond and Chapman had a casual chat about the situation in the Black Sea and roughly mentioned the development direction of the Black Sea Revolutionary Army in recent years. The territories marked on the map were the areas where the Revolutionary Army had secretly penetrated most thoroughly.

"Could it be that... the last plague in Philip's territory was caused by the Giant Whale Chamber of Commerce? These guys are now preparing to repeat their same tricks and spread the virus in other areas?"

Thinking of this, Raymond's face became a little gloomy, and he finally realized: "No wonder someone would pay such a high price to let those gangsters traffic corpses into Philip's territory. It turns out that the Giant Whale Chamber of Commerce was behind it!"

"So... Young Master Wumu is here to prepare to hand over the task of spreading the virus? Who will take over this task..."

Thought for a long time to no avail.

...

Raymond packed up the trophies from the corpse and carefully searched around the ruins of the temple. He tried his luck to see if he could really find some inheritance such as the secret method.

The battle was so fierce that I didn’t have time to take a closer look.

When he was leisurely wandering around, he discovered that there was a row of brightly colored and well-preserved murals at the bottom of the altar. The ink on the murals showed a layer of fluorescence under the light of the fire, giving it the hazy feeling of watching a 3D movie with the naked eye.

But as he looked at it, strange phenomena suddenly appeared on the mural.

"Is this mural so magical?"

Raymond focused his eyes on the mural, and found that the focus of his eyes was getting clearer and clearer, as if people had a feeling of being immersed in the scene. The visual sense in front of him was like wearing VR glasses, making people clearly see

I saw every scene in the mural.

He can even change his perspective at will and see any details he wants to see.

Turning his eyes elsewhere, his vision immediately returned to normal, and the system did not show that he was under any mental control.

"Perhaps...there is some mysterious inheritance hidden in this mural?"

Thinking of this, Raymond's eyes flashed with joy.

He tried to look at the murals carefully in order.

At this look,

This revealed a secret history that had been sealed for thousands of years.

...

"Is this the scene when the temple was built?"

Raymond looked at it like a fleeting glance, looking at it all the way, and he had a rough guess in his mind.

The murals take time as the axis and record an ancient civilization buried in the long river of history.

Somewhere in the mountains, a group of naked slaves used wood to drag and roll huge stone bars mined from afar. They spent many years building a magnificent temple...

Then some craftsmen carved the eight boulders erected in the temple into eight tall stone giants... In the next picture, they built a huge furnace on the mountain to smelt gold, and created the god Nyx with three heads and six arms.

Golden body...

After the temple is built, there is only one picture in the end.

The last volume depicts a scene in which a group of believers wearing animal skins and linen clothes prostrate themselves outside the temple and pray devoutly.

There was only one person in the temple, a woman with a high status wearing a ghost mask.

She stood on the black stone altar, dancing the "sacrificial dance"...

...

"Hey... the high priest of the Nyx civilization is actually a woman? Also, she is actually wearing a Mendelo mask?"

Raymond took a closer look and looked a little strange.

The text on the mural clearly records that this is the scene where the high priest worshiped the gods.

The wonderful thing about this mural is that as long as he is willing, he can even see the expressions of everyone in the painting.

At this moment, he took a closer look and saw clearly that the mysterious totem painted on the back of the unknown high priest was shining with purple light...

The Nyx civilization is a tribal slave civilization, and the priests are the highest-status beings in the tribe, like the living kings. Only eight of the countless priests can personally contact the gods and obtain oracles. They are called "the Great Ones".

priest"!

"Aren't the high priests revealed in the game information chapter all male?"

Raymond smacked his lips.

"The Mendero family is actually the bloodline passed down by the High Priest of Nyx? The Mendero mask is the exclusive sacrificial instrument of the High Priest?"

Raymond looked at the row of ancient Knicks records at the back, and his expression became a little complicated.

He remembered that the player who got this mask in the game actually triggered another ancient civilization ruins in the Black Sea, and then handed over the mask and gained some inheritance. But now it seems that this Mendero Curse Mask involves someone from the Knicks.

The high priest's inheritance and the hidden quest lines that can be mined are definitely not that simple!

"No wonder... this mask also has a [Divine Blessing] attribute..." Raymond swallowed his saliva, looking at the last paragraph recorded on the mural, a cold sweat immediately broke out on his forehead.

"Anyone who enters the temple without being a high priest will be cursed and die!"

It's no wonder that after the temple was built, except for the masked high priest on the mural, no one has ever entered the temple. Even when praying, he knelt down outside the temple.

So there is a curse?

Thinking of the scene where White's people were dancing, could it be because of a curse?

"And this temple is actually the inheritance temple where the high priest lives...the 'Mountain Turtle Temple', one of the eight inheritance temples in the Knicks era in the game expansion pack?"

Raymond felt that his brain was a little insufficient.

These "Eight Temples" were just the official slogan of the game. After all, the entire Knicks civilization has disappeared.

But now, a complete "Mountain Turtle Temple", one of the eight major temples, actually appeared in front of him.

"I now how to do?"

Now Raymond felt that his situation was a bit embarrassing.

If he didn't know the details of this temple, he probably would have cut off the three-headed and six-armed golden body and taken it away.

But now I know that this is one of the eight major temples...

His intuition immediately told him that nothing here should be touched!

To put it bluntly, even if there is any inheritance here, it is simply not something that his current strength can touch. In the game, this situation has countless bloody lessons. A low-level accidental transcendent triggers a high-level plot, and there is a chance of immediate death.

Extremely high!

Reason told him that if he hadn't worn the Mendelo mask now, he would probably have died a long time ago.

“You can’t leave empty-handed, right?”

Raymond was a little unwilling and looked up at the golden body with three heads and six arms in the center of the altar. Now he really felt like he was going deep into the treasure mountain, but was about to come back empty-handed.

Just when he was still struggling, he suddenly turned around.

Because, at that moment, he heard the sound of water!

"Did something fall into that pool?! Is there a monster?"

Hearing this movement, Raymond felt very wary.

Now he is the only living person in this temple, and there is a pool of stagnant water. How can there be any sound of water?

Click, the long sword is unsheathed.

He walked slowly towards the exit with a wary look on his face. If anything went wrong, he would immediately rush into the corridor.

But when he just walked around the altar and looked into the distance and saw the pool, his face froze again.

Because at this time, he saw a pile of women's clothing beside the pool, and when he took a closer look, it looked familiar.

"Isn't this what that girl Ilya is wearing?"

Raymond's eyes twitched, and he suddenly had a bad feeling.

I'm afraid that the two brothers and sisters couldn't help but want to come down to hunt for treasure, and then they were controlled by that mysterious spiritual power... and committed suicide by diving into the water?

"That's not right... If you commit suicide by diving into the water, why are you taking off your clothes?"

Raymond thought about it again, his face became very strange again, and he did not dare to step forward rashly.

But if the girl who fell into the cold pool was really that girl Ilya, and she could be saved, I would just do it.

Thinking of this, he overcontrolled the sacred tree puppet and slowly approached the cold pool.

But before I walked a few steps, suddenly the pool water started rolling, as if some monster emerged from the water...

Raymond was startled, and just as he was about to run away, he saw a head popping out of the water, and then the familiar and pretty face came into view again.

Taking a closer look, who is that girl if not Ilya?

But at this moment, there was no playful look on her face, her expression was solemn, and her face was three times cooler than the water in the cold pool.

"Did she really go down to take a shower?"

Raymond didn't want to describe the cold pool outside the temple in such a general way, but the cold pool in front of him really seemed like a bathhouse, and there were even steps.

He just stared blankly as Ilya, the girl, slowly walked up from the pool step by step. Every time she took a step, a little more of her body came out of the water... first her head, then her slender neck, and then

Below are the collarbone, chest, lower abdomen, and finally the slender legs and bare feet.

In just a few breaths, this girl walked out naked.

"Could this girl be..."

Suddenly, Raymond's expression changed and he stared intently at Ilya not far away.

He was not coveting the girl's body, but he was looking at the mysterious and complicated totems slowly emerging on her skin. If he remembered correctly, the totem he saw on the high priest's body on the mural just now was this.

Like!

"Ilya, this girl is the descendant of the High Priest of Nyx?"

Raymond didn't dare to move rashly. He stared blankly at the scene in front of him and murmured: "It's not such a coincidence..."

He immediately recalled the ancient spell that someone had muttered in his ear when he opened the door to the ruins. Before, he thought it was touching the magic restriction of a certain ruins, but now it seems that it really came from this girl's mouth.

!

"It seems that the purpose of the two Matthew brothers' treasure hunt this time is not simple..."

Raymond watched from a distance as Ilya stepped out of the cold pool and slowly walked towards the temple.

Suddenly, Ilya lightly hooked his finger.

Before Raymond could stop him, the Mendelo mask on his face fell off and fell into the delicate hands.

Almost at the same time, the system prompt sounded.

[Ding! You have been eroded by mysterious spiritual power and suppressed by extraordinary levels. You cannot be exempted from this invasion... You have fallen into a state of immobility. 】

"Fuck!"

Raymond thought to himself, "Oh no!"

He found that his consciousness had lost control over his body again.

He was motionless, like a wooden man.

On the other side, Ilya put the Shunshou mask on his face.

From the moment she put on the mask, her whole body changed, giving Raymond... it felt like the mysterious high priest in the mural came to life!

Ilya's back was facing Raymond at this moment, and his flawless and beautiful back was clearly visible to him.

The mysterious pattern about the size of a fist on the back of her neck, emitting purple fluorescence, became brighter and brighter. It formed the shape of a round sky and a square, with eight stars in the center and four corners pointing to the flame totem, the raindrop totem, the thunder and lightning totem, and the mountain totem.

.The eight elements of thunder, wood, darkness, metal, earth, wind, water and fire come together...

With every step she took, her aura increased greatly, and the pattern on her back became clearer. The purple light spread from both sides of the spine to the entire beautiful back, and in a blink of an eye, it was drawn into a mysterious rune filled with light. The totem had already

Successfully, a sacred and inviolable aura suddenly emerged from Ilya's body.

"Eight-pointed star! The exclusive totem of the great priest, the divine pattern·Wind Demon Cave!"

Seeing the totem emerging on her back,

Only then did Raymond really confirm that this Ilya was the high priest's inheritance.

The priest profession still has sporadic inheritance in the world of navigation, and game players are no strangers to it.

But generally priest totems only draw four-pointed stars, six-pointed stars...the eight-pointed star totem is exclusive to the eight priests!

Legend has it that the mysterious totem "Wind Demon Cave" represented by the eight-pointed star of this element can seal all things in an instant. The high priests use this ability to communicate with the gods!

After a blink of an eye,

Ilya, who was wearing a Mendelo mask, had already walked barefoot to the altar.

She respectfully performed a sacrificial ceremony towards the golden body of Nicks, and recited an ancient spell in her mouth, like a song.

At this moment,

The naked girl on the altar danced,

It's the Knicks' dance to worship...