Chapter 683 Under the Deep Blue Lake

"How could this happen?"

Tian Lang looked shocked.

He was not born yet and did not see the mechanic jumping into the lake tens of thousands of years ago.

But at this moment, he witnessed the whole process of Mu You's body being torn into pieces in the lake. This scene was so clear that he could not find any reason to numb himself.

Mu You was not the son of the Moon Festival...

Their plan failed.

"Hmph, you will suffer for your own sins!"

The patriarch snorted coldly and waved his hand to the side: "Take down this traitor who colluded with outsiders, remember to catch him alive!"

Now that the Moon Eye has closed, it means that today's Moon Festival is over and the matter is a foregone conclusion. His anger has dissipated a little.

Next, it is time to settle the matter properly.

While Tian Lang was stunned, countless sentinels who surrounded him rushed up and pulled Tian Lang off the tree and pressed him to the ground.

This time Tian Lang did not resist.

The situation in the tribe had already reached a point where he was desperate. Mu You's appearance was his only hope. Now that his hope was shattered, the shock he felt was beyond words.

Tianlang was pinned to the ground by a dozen strong sentinels, unable to move.

In the distance, the tribe leader had already hurried over with a group of guards.

But no one noticed that behind the tribe leader, Elder Youman cast a look at this side from a distance and made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Behind the crowd that was holding Tianlang, a sentinel suddenly stood up, holding a sharp blade, and chopped off Tianlang's head.

"Stop! I'll let you catch him alive!" The tribe leader was anxious, and while shouting, he quickened his pace to rush over.

Unfortunately, the man seemed not to have heard it, and the knife in his hand not only did not stop, but accelerated.

Just when the knife was about to hit, Tianlang was about to die.

A loud roar sounded from behind, and Muro rushed out like a human-shaped Tyrannosaurus, knocking away the crowd along the way, stabbing out with the spear in his hand, accurately piercing the attacker's chest and nailing him to the ring wood behind.

"Get out of my way!"

Muro shouted and rushed into the field, dancing with a spear, forcing back other savages, and pulling up Tianlang on the ground.

Tianlang regained some reason and realized his situation. He hurriedly drew his bow and arrow and aimed at the savages around him.

The two were surrounded by a large number of savages, with nowhere to escape. They could only face the enemy back to back. Although they could not escape, they were not so easy to subdue with their combined strength.

At this time, the surrounding savages did not dare to approach easily, and could only hold their weapons, maintain the encirclement, and look for opportunities.

"Stop it, all of you! Don't you understand what I'm saying?"

The clan leader in the distance had already rushed over, cursing: "Everyone, step back, and you two, stand still! Whoever dares to start first will be guilty of the same crime as a traitor!"

Under the clan leader's command, the encirclement was expanded a little, and the scene was finally temporarily stabilized. The hidden parasites wanted to continue to attack, but unfortunately the two were too strong, and it would be difficult to kill them immediately. At this moment, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, they could only stop first, otherwise it would be too conspicuous.

"Clan leader, I have something to say!" Tianlang suddenly spoke, looking at the clan leader with a serious expression.

"You are a traitor, what can you say?" Youman shouted angrily, looking at the chief and said: "Chief, these two people killed their compatriots and destroyed the festival, which is already a capital crime. I think we should just arrest them!"

"No, let him talk!" The chief snorted coldly: "I want to hear what he wants to say."

"I did make a mistake, I should have stopped him..." Tianlang shook his head and sighed.

"Oh? Have you finally woken up?" The chief sneered, and at the same time he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He actually didn't want Tianlang to die. If Tianlang could turn back in time here, he could find a way to give him a chance to survive.

"Yes, I woke up. I shouldn't have placed the hope of the Son of the Moon Festival on outsiders. The person who jumped into the lake should not have been him from the beginning, but me!" Tianlang said with an annoyed face.

"What?" The chief's eyes went dark when he heard it. The other party's confession was a little different from what he imagined...

"So, chief, I want to apply to be the living sacrificer tomorrow night!" Tianlang suddenly raised his head and spoke firmly.

"Haha, according to the clan rules, you have been expelled from the clan. Do you think you are still qualified to be a living sacrificer?" Youman laughed.

Tianlang ignored Youman's ridicule, but looked at the clan leader steadily, waiting for his answer.

The clan leader looked at him with a strange expression: "I really didn't expect that you were deceived so deeply by that fool... What kind of magic potion did this kid give you? He actually made you confident that you can become the son of the moon sacrifice?"

"No, it's not that I can become the son of the moon sacrifice, but any member of the clan who jumps into the lake now can become the son of the moon sacrifice... except those parasites!" Tianlang said.

"What do you mean?" The clan leader was confused, but he didn't notice that the eyes of Youman and other elders beside him burst into dangerous light.

"I finally figured everything out! Mu You is right. The reason why the late king became the Son of the Moon Sacrifice was because the tribe was facing a life-and-death decision at that time. And now, the tribe has once again reached the node of survival. The reason why the Son of the Moon Sacrifice has not been born this time is not because we are not qualified, but because, in the previous three hundred years, all the places for living sacrifices have been occupied by parasites, and Yuehu has no chance to select the Son of the Moon Sacrifice at all!" Tianlang said loudly.

Of course, it is impossible for Yuehu to let a parasitic person become a spokesperson, and after so many years, no normal clan members have jumped into the lake. Even if Yuehu wants to choose a spokesperson, Yuehu has no choice, so it has been delayed until now.

Therefore, in theory, as long as a non-parasitized tribesman jumps into the lake, no matter what the conditions are, he should be able to become the son of Yueji!

"Three hundred years? What do you mean? Tell me clearly..." The patriarch was stunned. These words of Sirius made him instinctively feel that he was about to catch something.

But just when the clan leader was about to ask questions.

Behind the crowd, a concealed crossbow arrow suddenly shot out.

This arrow seemed to be aimed at Muro, but Muro's perception was strong and he subconsciously turned his head to get out of the way of the attack.

So the arrow passed through his neck and pierced the clan leader on the opposite side. It accurately pierced the clan leader's shoulder, and the huge force knocked the clan leader to the ground.

"Two traitors attacked the patriarch! They want to kill the patriarch! Kill them!" Someone shouted.

Among the surrounding sentries, several took the lead in launching the attack, and others followed subconsciously.

"Wait! Let him finish what he said..." The patriarch covered the wound on his shoulder and shouted hurriedly.

He himself could see clearly that although the angle of the arrow just now was hidden, it was definitely not shot by these two people.

Unfortunately, there was no chance. Seeing that the clan leader was injured and someone took the lead, countless savages swarmed up and killed Muro and Sirius.

"Bang!"

With a muffled sound, a cloud of blue smoke suddenly rose in place.

The poisonous mist took shape, enveloped Muro and Sirius in the blink of an eye, and quickly spread to the surroundings.

"It's the poison of the evil gall flower, retreat quickly!"

Someone immediately recognized the source of the poisonous mist, which was poisonous smoke made from highly toxic herbs. Inhaled into the body, it can corrode the internal organs in a short period of time. Because the attack occurs so quickly, there is almost no cure, even with the physique of a savage. I can't handle this level of poison.

The savages who had originally swarmed forward hurriedly retreated.

The poisonous mist spread outward for hundreds of meters before finally stopping.

The crowd surrounded the poisonous mist, only to hear bursts of movement coming from the mist, but they were unable to enter to check.

It wasn't until tens of seconds later that the poisonous mist gradually dissipated.

Everyone hurried back to the place, only to find that there was no one there, and both Sirius and Muro were missing.

"It's Sethia..."

The patriarch immediately confirmed this. Only a herbalist could use poison so skillfully, and the herbalist who would save the two of them at this time could obviously only be Sethia.

After confirming this, the clan leader secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Now he is sure that the arrow just now was aimed at him: someone in the tribe wanted to kill him, and they also tried to fish in troubled waters and poured the dirty water of killing him on Sirius and Muro...

Coupled with Sirius's words, he had already realized the problem: there seemed to be a traitor in the clan!

"In the past three hundred years, have parasites been jumping into the lake?"

Recalling what Sirius had just said, the clan leader felt sweat on his forehead. If this information was true, then the problem would be too big...

In the past, the mechanic incident, which was just an outsider jumping into the Moon Lake, had already caused the clan leader to resign under heavy pressure and apologize. During his term of office, there were more than 2,000 sacrifices for three hundred years. If it really happened They are all parasites, so he might even have to die to apologize, but he won't be able to repay this sin...

Thinking of this, the clan leader immediately wanted to give some orders, but suddenly felt dizzy.

"No, that arrow is poisonous..." When the clan leader realized this, it was already too late. His consciousness quickly faded and he fell unconscious on the spot.

…

"what happened……"

"Am I dead..."

…

Mu You looked at the darkness around him, his consciousness dim for a while.

At this time, nearly an hour had passed since he jumped into the lake just now.

The moment he entered the lake, he saw countless blue butterflies rushing towards him, as if he had not jumped into the Moon Lake, but into a sea of ​​butterflies.

Every drop of water in the sea is composed of countless blue butterflies down to the molecular level.

The moment he fell into the sea of ​​butterflies, countless miniature butterflies swarmed around him, biting and tearing all over his body, tearing his flesh and blood, biting off his bones bit by bit, and then ate away at him...until they swallowed up his entire body. The riot was finally quelled.

Of course, it might just be a vision when he was dying. In fact, he was simply corroded by the water of the Moon Lake.

Mu You died. The first second he entered Yue Lake, his body was gone.

But he did not die completely. His remaining consciousness did not die with his body, but turned into a blue butterfly and continued to sink until it sank to the bottom of the lake. It was sucked into the unclosed lake by a strange gravity. Eyes of the Moon.

Within the next hour, Mu You felt like he was falling in the darkness, falling constantly...

Below the Eye of the Moon, there seemed to be a bottomless dark abyss. He couldn't see his fingers. Mu You could not control his body and could only drift with the current and let himself sink.

He didn't know how long he had been falling. At a certain moment, he finally felt that he had sunk to the bottom. There seemed to be some light around him. Through the perspective of his soul, he could barely see some things clearly.

This is indeed a lake bottom, full of mud and sand, dark and turbid.

Mu You tried to flap his wings and fly along the bottom of the lake.

The entire bottom of the lake was empty, except for a body of red... clothes lying sideways on the muddy ground in the center?

Mu You was a little unsure. The clothes were only the size of ordinary human clothes. The surface seemed to be covered with scales, but it looked very soft.

Mu You landed on the collar of the clothes and found a human face carved from stone beside the clothes.

Most of this face was sunk in the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake, with only half exposed.

When Mu You looked over, the exposed eye of the figure suddenly opened and looked at him.

Then, a voice sounded from Muyou's consciousness.

"It seems that you are the one I was waiting for...you are finally here!"

"Are you... a mechanic?" Mu You tried to communicate with the stone statue. He had known for a long time that the mechanic was not dead. When he met a conscious 'person' at the bottom of the lake, he naturally thought of the mechanic immediately.

"Yes." The portrait's voice continued.

"What is our situation now? Dead? Or not dead?" Mu You was more concerned about his physical condition.

"We are not dead...our physical body dies, but our thoughts are lodged in a soul butterfly. The soul butterfly takes us to the bottom of the lake... All people who jump into the Moon Lake will experience this process, but their minds cannot stay for a long time. With the Moon Butterfly, it will completely die out in a day or two," the voice said.

"What about you? How did you survive?"

"Me? I was going to perish originally, but I chose to merge with Yuehu, so I have continued to exist until now... However, that's the end of it. The purpose of my existence is to wait for your arrival. Now Now that you are here, I can finally be freed..." The mechanic said with some relief in his tone.

"Wait for me? Why wait for me..."

Mu You was a little confused.

"It's a long story...have you seen that red suit?" the voice asked.

"I saw it...you said 'battle suit'? Could this be..."

"Yes, this is 'Chixiao', the ultimate Yuanchu battle armor I designed back then! I completed its model body, but it still needed the Moon Lake for final tempering, so I took it and jumped into the moon. lake."

"It turns out that my guess was correct. The tempering was indeed successful in the Moon Lake. The battle suit you see now is a complete Chixiao battle suit. After being soaked in the deep Moon Lake for tens of thousands of years, it still retains its shape. It is intact, its protective power, and all its functions are all the same as the ultimate armor of my dreams - except for one thing..."

"How big or small..." Mu You looked strange.

When he saw this armor for the first time just now, the reason why he didn't dare to confirm that it was Chi Xiao was because this armor was too small, only the size of a human being. How could a giant wear it?

"Yes."

The mechanic's voice was a little sad: "The tempering was indeed completed as scheduled, but it was not completed for me. During the tempering process, the volume of the armor shrank severely, causing my originally well-protected body to be directly exposed. In the lake water, it was completely corroded immediately.”

"In addition to this set of battle armor, I have also designed thousands of lower-level battle suit drawings based on the principles of this set of battle armor. The functions involve all aspects of production and life. These are the fruits of my life's hard work, and they are all stored in Red "In the core of Xiao."

"However, these low-level suits are the same as Chi Xiao. They will shrink during the final tempering process, and their form will be greatly reduced, making them unsuitable for giants to wear."

"And if you want to increase the scale of the armor to a size that the gods can wear normally, the materials will not be able to maintain a connection."

"It was also at that moment that I suddenly realized that this suit of armor was not prepared for us, the God Clan."

"At that time, I thought that the apocalypse was the enlightenment given to me by God, and that I was the chosen one to save my tribe. But in the end, I discovered that I was just a tool, and the meaning of my life was just to complete this set for Yuehu. Armor, and then wait here until it is handed over to its original owner."

"The original owner refers to... me?" Mu You asked uncertainly.

"It's not you, it's you. My hard work is not only on this piece of Chixiao, but also on the entire set of mechanical auxiliary systems developed in the process of creating it. These are not prepared for individuals, but for a group of people. The whole race is prepared.”

"Fool..." Mu You breathed out, understanding what the mechanic meant.

"But why?" Mu You doesn't really understand why Jie Lin went to such great lengths to trick the mechanic into working hard all his life to create such a mechanical system, only to hand it over to the Fool in the end?

Is it just for the Fool to use this mechanical system to fight against the God-Eating Beast?

Mu You doesn't think that this set of mechanical armor can play a big role in the fight against the God-Eating Beast, because not only does this set of armor need to be tempered by the Moon Lake, but the materials used are also materials from the Ring Forest. The combination of these conditions means that this kind of armor is destined to be unable to be mass-produced.

What's more, even if it is really effective, it should be used by the more powerful gods or ancestors to drive away the God-devouring beasts, and it will not be the turn of the Fool who was not even born at that time.

"Yes, this is also the question I was wondering at the time!" The mechanic's voice sounded: "Why, my life, and even my race, can only be reduced to the wedding dress of another unknown race. What is the reason for all this? Don’t we, the gods, deserve it?”

"I survived with this obsession and went all the way to the bottom of the lake. I was so angry that I wanted to ask Yuehu for an explanation. In the end, I even wanted to merge with Yuehu to find the answer to this question."

"Then, did you get the answer?" Mu You asked hurriedly.

"Yes, I got it!"

The mechanic's voice became a little excited: "At the moment of merging with the Moon Lake, I saw the truth. I saw the past, present, and even the future of this land, everything..."

"It was also at that time that I suddenly understood the Moon Lake and chose to obey the expectations of the Moon Lake. I did not dissipate directly, but continued to live in the form of a mind body... Until now, when I conveyed my life's hard work and the truth of the world to you, my mission has come to an end..."

Mu You swallowed his saliva: "So... what is the truth?"

He didn't expect that the mechanic actually knew the truth and was ready to tell him directly.

You know, this is something that even the God of Order has to keep silent about...

Mu You is very curious, what kind of truth will make the mechanic, who has been fooled by his life, suddenly change his attitude, and even prefer to wait alone at the bottom of the lake for tens of thousands of years, just to wait for his arrival.

"Don't worry, this is a secret that must not be known to the outside world. Only in the core of this ring forest, where the divinity can never reach, after eliminating all foreign matter, even you and I have completely destroyed our physical bodies, and only a group of consciousness is left to face each other honestly, I dare to safely pass on the 'truth' to you."

"Even after you leave Moon Lake and return to the divine world, this experience cannot exist in your memory, otherwise it may still be noticed by the outside world and lead to failure."

"So the next conversation we have, after you leave the lake, you will forget it completely."

"Ah?"

Mu You was stunned. If he is destined to forget all this, then what's the point of telling him the truth now?

"It makes sense!" The mechanic smiled: "Don't worry, the memory of this truth is not disappearing out of thin air, but is hidden in your time. At the right time in the future, you will remember everything here..."

"Okay...you tell it." Mu You exhaled, indicating that he was ready.

"The truth is..."

The mechanic slowly began to tell the story.

In the calm tone of the mechanic, Mu You went from calm to surprised and then shocked.

Hearing the end, his eyes widened and his heart was pounding.

He finally understood why the God of Order said that they were all just pawns...

From the mechanic, he learned a truth that overturned his three views.

And... a plan to deceive the world. (End of this chapter)