Chapter Five Hundred and Forty Seventh: Alien's Response
"The true god in the void, your most devout believers are here to offer you greedy souls, fresh flesh and the most primitive fear..."
At this moment, blood was floating on the ship, and all the crew members, including the helmsman, chief mate, and captain, all fell to the ground dying, groaning in pain.
Instigated by the captain, these crew members finally couldn't help but act on the cloaked old man, wanting to swallow the "treasure" recorded on the sheepskin chart. As for the authenticity of the treasure, there is no need to doubt it. If it is fake, how could this cloaked old man promise them ten boxes of diamond jewelry just to find this "unnecessary" existence.
Although there are nine boxes of jewelry missing now, they have obtained the sheepskin chart, and as long as they can find the island, they will take the initiative.
It's just that he never imagined that this lavish old man with a cloak was not as weak as he looked. As soon as they were about to start, this person already noticed it, and then they just chanted a few incantations, and many of them directly tore their stomachs and came out.
In less than a moment, the 20 or 30 people on the boat fell to the ground crying, their intestines twisted and knotted, and the blood in their stomachs was like a fountain, and everyone could clearly feel it. To the rapid loss of vitality.
The cloaked old man slowly took off his cloak and said something creepy.
"I originally planned to wait for you to find the island before ending you. Since you can't wait to die, then sacrifice you to nourish the true God and show me the way..."
Everyone was dying with their mouths wide open, and their hearts were extremely shocked, but they couldn't say a word.
They thought they were greedy and misestimated the enemy's strength and were killed, but now it seems that the other party has planned to kill them...
The old man had silver hair, good skin, and only a few wrinkles on his face. He looked as if he was only in his thirties or forties. He was energetic, and his eyes were sharp.
The old man took two steps, slowly raised his arms, propped up his wide gray robe, and took out a simple-looking cube from his arms—a box engraved with incomprehensible runes, emitting a pale yellow golden light.
Each side of the box is neatly divided into nine pieces...
The old man held the box reverently, walked solemnly among the crowd, and slowly bent over to place the strange rune box on the ground.
The box was soaked in the river of blood. After a while, the runes on the surface changed. The top cover of the box slowly opened, revealing a void inside.
Rivers of blood on the ground began to be sucked into the hollow along the gaps in the box, like an invisible monster sucking. All the blood on the ship was sucked by the box,
Like a stingy Grandet, not a single star will be wasted.
When the scattered blood was sucked, the crew members lying on the ground looked even more terrified.
Because they felt their exposed intestines being dragged against the box by an invisible force. An extremely absurd but true idea emerged from their minds, causing them to feel chills and fear.
The intestines were swallowed by the box little by little, and even the body was dragged and moved.
The mourning and fear spread on the ship, and the ship floating on the sea at noon actually revealed an eerie and eerie smell.
The screams gradually disappeared, and the box devoured all the offerings.
The old man was crawling in front of the box, and his tone was respectful: "I hope the gods can help me find Yuanwang Island as soon as possible."
A cloud of black gas suddenly spewed out of the box as deep as the abyss, and the black gas entangled the entire ship, and was carried on the boundless sea.
The top cover of the rune box was closed, and the runes that changed in darkness gradually lost their luster and returned to sleep.
thump—
The ship didn't float for a long time, suddenly there was a loud noise, the hull swayed violently, and then stagnated, obviously the movement caused by the grounding.
The old man put on his hood again, hid the box under the cloak, and walked out of the cabin, and was shocked to find that the scene in front of him had gone from the vast sea to the overgrown reef on the shore of an island.
The island is lush and green, surrounded by forests not far from the beach, and on this large island, you can also see the gradually rising terrain, from the beach to the top of the mountain from north to south. The top of the mountain stands, the sea is under the straight cliff, and the turbulent wave is like thunder slamming against the stone wall, and it does not stop for a moment.
On the highest mountain in the south of the island, a half-dome astrological platform is visible to the naked eye.
The old man's eyes lit up, it was right here.
Jump out of the boat, swim through the shallow water at the beach, drag your soaked robes to the island, and follow the muddy road all the way to the astrological platform on the highest peak in the southern part of the island.
About half an hour later, the old man successfully reached the top of the mountain.
The astrological platform made of volcanic rock is simple and mysterious.
The old man did not hesitate and walked straight into the astrological platform.
Inside the astrological platform, the surrounding walls are covered with stars, which are connected with each other by solid lines, forming a well-known star map constellation.
As the old man entered the astrological platform, the heavy door behind him gradually closed, and the light converged and the darkness became even worse.
The open-air star-gazing platform overhead is also covered with a layer of purple material at this moment.
As this layer of purple substance covered the dome, the bright sunny sky outside became dark, the blue sky turned purple-black, and the sunlight disappeared, replaced by bright stars that only appeared at night. During the day, the starry sky that cannot be detected by the naked eye is projected onto the ground of the astrological platform at this moment, giving people an immersive feeling of appearing in the cosmic starry sky.
On the astrological high platform like a shrine, one person gradually emerged.
"James, it took a lot of hard work to come to my remote island, I don't know what you have to do..." The old man wrapped in a plain robe, with a long white beard, leaning on his back and leaning on a bone staff, his face was withered, and his face seemed to be shriveled. bark.
The old man named James chuckled: "Qi, I don't think anyone knows the reason why I am here better than you. Xu Tianzhao and Augustine are still alive, but the luck of the dragon veins in Longcheng and Faye has changed. The energy of the dragon veins has been swallowed up by the sand capital, and the dragon veins of Fa Ye are now lingering, and it will be eaten up by the sand capital in less than a month. There is something wrong here! I can only see so much at my superficial level, but you are The top astrologers must have seen more..."
Referring to this matter, the old man named Qi sighed and pointed to the northwest of the sky above his head, where seven bright and shining stars were connected in a line.
But as 'Qi' waved his arm lightly, the four stars were dimmed, turned into meteors and disappeared, leaving only three stars that alternated between light and dark, but the light was much weaker than before.
James looked at the only three stars left in the starry sky in astonishment. After a while, he frowned and muttered in a low voice: "Alonso, Moros, Leng Guan... these are only three people, why did the fate star representing Augustine also fall? Well, he's still alive..."
Before James finished speaking, he suddenly froze, and there was a bold guess in his mind.
"Augustine is actually dead a long time ago, and now this is just a stand-in?"
‘Qi’ did not answer, and waved again.
A vision reappeared in the sky. A main star appeared in a place farther away from the original seven stars. The three stars that originally operated alone have now become the companion stars of this new star.
James opened his mouth slightly, and he was all too familiar with the position of the main star.
When the seven of them swore their allegiance to the prince, as a 'Qi' who was good at astrology, it was over.
After the seven of them conspired to kill the prince, the main star representing the desert prince disappeared.
But now another new star has appeared, more magnificent than the prince of the past, the invisible gravitational force has formed a rope, and the movement of the three stars is firmly in the hands. Under the terrifying gravitational force of the main star, the three stars are all approaching at a speed visible to the naked eye. Once they enter the limit of the main star's gravitational rigid body, there is only one result that will be completely swallowed up.
"The new star trend is unstoppable. The four stars that have fallen before are all from this person." Qi said, and it seemed that he had already accepted his fate. The general trend of astrology is irreversible. This main star has stirred the situation. Everything around the star field can only be surrendered. Those who do not submit will be crushed by the general trend and die without burial.
James had a gloomy face. He came to Aziz to find out the truth, and he did not intend to sit still.
"If it was done by one person, then Alonso, Moros, Lengguan, Augustine, combined with all the dragon veins that have dissipated in Dragon City, I have reason to believe that Xu Tianzhao has also been replaced by someone who can make such a big picture, and has the motive and the If you are suspected, then there is only Link."
Link, a man who changed the pattern of the wasteland by himself.
The Free Federation has been united vertically and horizontally for 40 years. Alonso, Leng Guan, and Augustine have also fought for most of their lives. Unexpectedly, a young man finally picked peaches, which is sad and lamentable.
James walked quickly to Aziz and asked the most crucial question of the trip: "Do you think there is a relationship between Link and the prince?"
Since Alonso and Moros died on the same day, James has smelled a little weird. After that, he stared closely at the situation in the wasteland in the dark, and witnessed the rise of Link and the dissipation of the Dragon City and Faye's aura, which made him feel extremely frightened, and made him think about forty-three years In the past, I felt more and more that Link had something to do with the prince.
Aziz did not answer the old friend, but asked instead, "If yes, how are you doing?"
James' face was gloomy. In the past, the seven of them could kill their masters for glory and wealth, but today they can naturally kill threats that are unfavorable to them in order to survive.
"If so...then I won't sit still, I can only take the initiative."
Link is powerful, and now he has unified the entire Free Federation. In the wasteland, he dare not say that he can cover the sky with one hand, but it is basically the same. What's even more hateful is that Link has indeed solved the problem of the survival of the bottom civilians. Extreme ideas cannot be spread, and other forces cannot absorb new people.
In this case, with the strength of James alone, and the forces that can be contacted in the wasteland, dealing with Link is simply a nonsense. Especially Link's personal strength, the Platinum Hotel dispatched The Shining Nightmare, and as a result, one death and one injury resulted in the loss of troops. This alone made some forces that were just around the corner died down and put away their thoughts that they shouldn't have.
"Now that Link's momentum has taken shape, you and I are just like a man's arm. It's better to find a way to cover up the secret and hide on the island to live for a few years." Aziz's words are already a real hammer for Link and the desert prince. Relationship.
During the period of stargazing in Aziz, it was found that Link not only replaced the original position of the main star, but even continued the pattern of the main star, and obtained a trace of luck that the desert prince dissipated, which basically confirmed the relationship between Link and the desert prince. relationship between.
James sneered and looked at the exhausted Aziz: "In the past, the aura was invincible, the blood of the last astrologer family in the desert dynasty, Aziz, who has been talking about rebuilding the family's glory, is dead? Now only What's left of you who are lingering and handing over your fate to others?"
Aziz sneered a few times: "I'm seventy-six years old, and I'm no longer middle-aged and bloody. Your aggressive tactics are useless to me. Besides, you don't know the astrology, and you don't understand how terrifying the general trend sweeping the wasteland is. Lin The situation is already established and it is unstoppable, what are you doing to stop him?"
James raised his arm, unfolded the robe covering his body, and then held the rune box in one hand: "Maybe you are too old, so old that you have forgotten why I appeared beside the prince in the past."
When Aziz saw the magic box, his expression was extremely shocked. Rao studied astrology all his life and saw the fate of the wasteland, but after seeing the magic box, he was still shocked.
James sneered: "I thought you had penetrated everything, but I didn't expect you to be surprised by something."
Aziz ignored his old friend, stood up tremblingly from the futon, looked at the magic box in front of him and said, "There are only a handful of things in the wasteland that can interest me, and this magic box is one of them. After all, this Things come from outside the sky, not the original things in the wasteland."
"Dean's box, according to legend, as long as you pay the price, the box will give you what you want. The preacher has been single for thousands of years. You are the last single of the Dean family, which is why you appeared by the prince's side. , how could I forget." Aziz recalled.
"It's a pity that Prince Zhi is not here..." James sighed lightly.
As the only orthodox heir to the desert dynasty, the desert prince has no ambition to fight for hegemony in his heart, and is devoted to artistic relics. The seven people around him are leaders in all aspects. With such a configuration, as long as he is willing to stand up and raise his arms and shout, there will definitely be a gathering of followers. With the strength of the seven people, the restoration of the desert dynasty is just around the corner.
"Although there is Dean's Box, it is still too difficult to compete with the general trend based on this thing alone." Aziz couldn't help shaking his head. If a magic box can change the situation in the wasteland, then James will not take refuge in the prince, nor will he remain anonymous.
"Everyone who has seen Dean's Box thinks that he is an alchemy device that can 'barter', but only those who have always owned it in the line of preachers know that it is a key. The key to higher civilization communication." James put Dean's box on the ground, then took out a dagger and cut his fingers, and began to draw blood runes on the ground.
"Fortunately, my ancestors have gradually figured out a way to summon a superior civilization over thousands of years. Since our power alone cannot stop Link, why not let the power behind the magic box take action... "
Aziz frowned slightly and couldn't help asking: "As far as I know, Dean's Box can only get what you want if you pay enough price. If you want to use this 'key' to summon a superior civilization, then you should consider Did you pay the price?"
James' blood symbol was drawn, and he opened his hands.
At this moment, the blood from the fingertips gurgled down and dripped on the blood talisman.
"The price...all of this..."
The magic box runes lit up, absorbing all the blood sacrificed by the preachers, and the blood runes on the ground turned into scorch marks.
The magic box was opened, and there was a soul-stirring echo inside.
"Servant of Alien, say your request..."
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