The sun is high

Alexandra and others who once "attacked" here are now silent.

In other words, they were already shocked by the sights before them and the conclusions that Xiuge and the others came to.

In fact, whether it was Van En hundreds of years ago or the world today, the dominance of human beings has never wavered in the slightest. Merlinle and the Legal Committee do not even have to expend any energy to maintain this concept, because this This point of view has long been deeply imprinted on everyone's thinking habits.

In other words, it is the sublime status of human beings, and there is no need for any redundant explanation.

It is precisely with the support of this deep-rooted concept that these human elites in the Ernst family were able to persevere in the terrible encounters in the past. They all believed that they were born as human beings and that human will and dignity are Powerful and noble, any tampering or offense to it is a blasphemy to the human race.

They had no time to understand everything here when they attacked here last time, but now, as Shuge's "vassal's vassal", they can also use Shuge's vision to see and hear everything here.

However, all of this had a considerable impact on their past beliefs and ideas.

Shuge was vaguely aware of the "emotional fluctuations" of Alexandra and others, and he understood this.

You know, in his past world, until the moment he died suddenly while working overtime, there were still countless people who believed that the earth was flat, or that birds had long been extinct, etc... These "older players" just felt extremely shocked. , instead of jumping up and exploding his emotions immediately, this is already very rational.

After all, cases like Wei Lin's are only a minority.

After all, as a professional magic scholar, she has already expanded her tolerance for all kinds of strange and new things for the sake of knowledge and projects.

In other words, we have already begun to study those lost magics, what else is unacceptable?

Such a discovery would only make her more excited and happy, but it might not be enough to shake her mind.

"Be careful, I can't see clearly what's ahead."

Xiuge lifted the fog of the messenger in the mirror that covered his eyes. There seemed to be a special layer of black veil in the open door in front of him. It fundamentally "shielded" all prying eyes, even those from the Dark Abyss Palace. Even with the strength, it is difficult to penetrate it.

Xiuge moved forward slowly, and he came to the edge of the door. However, the darkness still existed and did not weaken in any way due to the shortening of the distance. Xiuge frowned, picked up a stone from the side, and threw it away. It bounced towards the darkness ahead, and then it seemed to be swallowed up and disappeared in front of Xiuge's eyes. But soon, Xiuge heard a slight sound - the stone fell to the ground, which meant that this stone had fallen to the ground. Behind the layer of darkness is not a bottomless abyss, but rather like a downward staircase.

Shuge did not rush in. He made a "wait a moment" gesture toward Wei Lin, and then asked the members of the Ernst family: "Is this the same situation when you came here? ?”

"No, absolutely not!"

Bernhardt's answer was extremely positive: "There should be a very long staircase here, leading all the way down, and then there is the core of the secret ritual. We don't recognize that thing, but it looks like some kind of altar. Our capabilities were limited at the time and we barely managed to destroy part of it.”

"That's the part that connects the fourth and fifth underground floors?"

"It should be correct, and they have never been able to complete the repair. The specific reason is not clear."

After listening to Bernhardt's narration, Shuge nodded. He conveyed this information to Weilin, and the two immediately began careful experiments.

Soon, they roughly confirmed the characteristics of this dark barrier. It seemed to be some kind of ceremonial ground based on the mysterious ritual of Mother Earth. Its function was similar to those in major cities that can block city walls and entrance and exit rituals. The fields are basically similar. Stones, bullets, broken clothing, etc. can all pass through easily. However, when Weilin tries to make contact with her hands or magic, she will encounter obstacles again.

Shuge also tested it with the Touch of Charron and the Mist of the Mirror Messenger, but there was no way to pass both, and the attempt to violently destroy it also failed. It seems that passing this barrier requires a certain series of special qualifications.

Thinking of the previous black sun society casters who had transformed into rats, Xiuge had a guess in his mind. He snapped his fingers, called the running rat who was busy "visiting" the traces of his ancestors, and then directly picked it up It stood up, and under Xiuge's order, the blessing of the Earth Mother God it had absorbed and plundered before began to operate quickly. The dark yellow light and shadow gradually spread from its body along the magic connection between the two sides, and gradually covered Xiuge. The body surface of the character.

He reached forward.

This time, his palm successfully reached into the darkness.

Seeing this, Wei Lin sighed in disappointment, but she didn't say much.

She opened her magic book, tore off a few pages of the magic book neatly, stuffed it directly into Shuge's arms, and then attached several enhancement spells to him as before.

"Don't wait too long. If the situation is not right, evacuate directly...I won't help you with the protective ritual. It may cause unnecessary interference and impact."

She asked calmly, then turned and walked towards the mural next to her, and began to try to use magic to record these images on paper, without giving Shuge a chance to say thank you.

"All right."

Seeing this, Xiuge had no choice but to move forward alone.

When crossing this barrier, Xiuge felt like he was squeezed into a soft sponge. After breaking through the slight resistance, he successfully reached the space behind the barrier, which is the path leading to the core of the secret ritual. On the stairs.

There are magic lamps here, but the lights are very dim - they are set on the surrounding stone walls, and in the center is the huge altar described by Bernhardt. The entire altar looks like a large stone There are a large number of stone statues and stone tablets erected around the pit, but Shuge has no way of seeing what is in the large pit in the center of the altar.

There was an unpleasant smell permeating the air. It smelled like the smell of wet earth after a heavy rain, but it was many times stronger, reaching the point where people couldn't help but frown.

The running rat, which had been agitated because of the strange head, finally calmed down. It jumped from Shuge's arms to the ground, looked around curiously, and then ran down the stairs first.

Xiuge followed closely, and soon he stepped onto the huge stone altar.

A strange wave of magic power began to spread, which was similar to the power I felt in the walls of the Manor Hotel before, but now it became extremely clear. The flowing power was like the roots of plants and the blood vessels of animals, vigorously The vitality is constantly wandering and beating in it, which can actually give people a feeling of joy and joy.

However, the stone statues and monuments around the altar and the patterns on the ground did not make people happy at all.

Different from the sculptures and murals outside that depict creatures worshiping and yearning for the Mother Goddess of the Earth, most of the things engraved here are scenes of "sacrifice" and "killing". The creatures used as sacrifices are very diverse, with larger sizes. The larger ones will be specially made into stone statues, while the smaller ones will be engraved directly on the walls and stone tablets. Among them are the deep sea beasts that Shuge once saw in the dream of the rats, as well as the land that appeared in the murals before. Creatures.

"It seems that when a war occurs, the civilization at that time will choose to use 'prisoners of war' as blood sacrifices, but in peacetime, other lives that are also believers in the Mother Goddess of the Earth are also within the scope of the sacrifice selection..."

Xiuge looked at a headless stone statue in front of him. Although he had no head, judging from the body structure and the tail trailing behind him, he could tell that this should be a strong rat warrior or knight.

Obviously, for the sacrifices of believers, the racial requirements are very broad, or self-sacrifice is a kind of glory.

Snicki let out a slight cry, so Shuge walked over, and then he was stunned.

He saw a particularly short stone statue. Because it was sandwiched between two giant beast stone statues, it looked a little pitiful, but Xiuge still recognized the race of this stone statue at once.

This is a human being.

He was wearing rough clothing and armor, and his hands were tied.

This human stone statue's head is the only one that has been preserved intact, which makes it seem out of place, as if all sacrifices were accepted and only humans were excluded...

"Judging from the carving time and magic traces, these stone statues and the murals outside should be from the same period. In other words, this altar and everything here are actually obtained by the Black Sun Society from some lost ruins through certain means. 'Move here'."

"So it's not like humans didn't exist at that time, but humans at that time were extremely weak among many creatures and dependents, so their sense of existence was extremely low?"

Xiuge was thinking this way, but he couldn't help but recall the figure he last saw in the dreamland of the rats.

If his judgment was correct, the figure that could use something close to magical power seemed to be on the hostile side of the Earth Mother Goddess.

Ocean, magic, seemingly human, female...

Xiuge instinctively connected these clues together, and the conjecture he came up with sent shivers down his spine.

But this is just a guess after all, there is no definite evidence, and it is not helpful to the current situation, so Xiuge puts it aside for the time being and continues to explore forward.

Soon, he saw the traces of destruction that Bernhardt said. At this moment, Shuge couldn't help but be shocked by the resistance and strength of these members of the Ernst family, and he finally understood , why the members of the Black Sun Society have not been able to complete the repair of the secret ritual.

In the corner that was previously blocked by stone monuments and walls, he saw a huge slope that collapsed. This was a terrible scar that was gnawed alive by rats with their claws and teeth. The magic circuits that were originally set in it It has been completely destroyed, and a considerable part of it even fell into a deep pit near the rock wall...

It is unimaginable how large the number of rats involved in this work was at that time, and after that incident, there were finally very few of these family rat groups left, which is enough to prove the ferocity of the resistance at that time.

"The Black Sun Society transformed this slope into a simple staircase, which seems to lead directly to the big pit in the center of the altar?"

Xiuge nimbly climbed over the two broken statues blocking the way. He came to the staircase paved with a large amount of rubble. Through the perception of magic power, he basically confirmed that the center of the entire secret circuit was at Below this collapsed slope.

He was about to continue downward when Alexandra's voice suddenly came over.

"Xuge, we don't feel right."

Alexandra's tone was a little urgent: "There seems to be something underneath this deep pit... very familiar, yet very strange."

"You mean, all the family members who disappeared when they attacked the altar are here?"

"It's indeed their scent, but it's not right anymore!"

Alexandra emphasized: "It was very chaotic, very violent and painful, as if there were countless people crying."

The countess's tone became a little weak and panicked. Obviously her words were not overly exaggerated. The emotions transmitted based on the same source of magic had already affected her to a considerable extent.

Xiuge was hesitant. He didn't know what was under the pit that could make Alexandra make such a comment. However, at this time, the running rat as a summoned object seemed to be possessed. It began to eagerly convey its needs and thoughts to Shuge - if it wanted to go down, go down immediately, even if it means rolling down!

There seemed to be something there that had a fatal attraction to it.

"hiss."

Shuge frowned. He did not move forward immediately. Instead, he checked the magic and power he possessed as quickly as possible, confirming that the magic was operating normally and that important combat methods such as Charron's Touch and Hound's Fang were not affected. After receiving the influence of the altar, he began to move downwards along this simple staircase.

The brooding darkness reappeared, but now instead of forming a black barrier that obscured and cut off sight, they floated like thick fog beneath the light of magic lamps and illumination tricks.

When Xiuge reached the middle of the slope, he had already seen the thing hidden deep in the altar pit.

The running rat Snitch, who was running down happily, also stopped. It stood beside Shuge, and each rat stared blankly at the huge shadow lying in the center of the pit.

If Xiuge could describe the descendants of An Abyss in Salem City as an amorphous mass of mud before, then what he saw this time caused a new impact and challenge to his language ability. …