Chapter 1859 The Abyss Serpent Temple of the Mumu Tribe

With Joe's map instructions and the obvious landmark features, Leo easily found the location of the Mumu tribe hidden in the deep mountain valley. Although there was no map, Leo was able to find it in the end, but he had to admit that the Mumu tribe hid very deep, and even he would probably need several days to find it.

The location of the Mumu tribe is in a valley. The mountain walls at both ends of the valley are covered with thick vines. These vines and the leaves on the vines completely cover the situation inside the valley. At the bottom of the valley is a small river. The water from the mountains and surrounding highlands all converge here, making the water flow here extremely turbulent. Coupled with the sharp gravel and intentionally endless traps at the bottom of the valley, ordinary people can't survive in such a turbulent water flow.

The shape of the mountain where the valley is located is very strange, all of which are steep peaks and cliffs. Unless you are proficient in rock climbing, it is difficult to climb to the top of the mountain, so it is impossible to enter the valley where the Mumu tribe is located from the top of the mountain.

The Mumu tribe was built in the air above the canyon. They used a lot of wood and vines to build a layered aerial flatland. A rough count showed that there were hundreds of wooden houses of different sizes built on it. On the stone walls on both sides of the canyon, there were also many caves that could be lived in. This construction method reminded Leo of the indigenous tribes he saw in the Vanaheim Crack Plain. Although the architectural styles of the two were completely different, the construction methods were somewhat similar.

Judging from the number of wooden houses and caves, the Mumu tribe had at least more than 10,000 people. Such a large number of people was already considered a lot among the indigenous tribes in the New World. At least in the eyes of those colonists, among the tribes they came into contact with, there were only a handful of tribes with 10,000 members.

Although the Mumu tribe has a large number of people, compared with those greedy colonists, this number is not enough. Although the Mumu tribe is located in the depths of the jungle, this depth is only relative. They are still too close to the activities of the colonial development group. In the past, there were a large number of indigenous tribes in the coastal areas as a barrier to block the expansion of the development group. The Mumu tribe naturally did not worry about their own safety, but now all these tribes have retreated deeper into the jungle, which makes the Mumu tribe the front line. Therefore, even without the order from the Paho tribe, the Mumu tribe may choose to migrate.

When Leo found the Mumu tribe, the Mumu tribe was completely empty. From the remaining items in the tribe, it was obvious that they left in a hurry and did not have time to take away many things. They only took away food and other valuable things.

However, before they left, they cleaned the tribe very well, and the furniture in the house was arranged neatly, as if they could come back and move in at any time. I think they should have planned so, just leaving here temporarily, and when the colonial development group failed, they could come back here and continue their lives.

Leo quickly searched in the Mumu tribe and soon found what he was looking for, a cave similar to a temple. This cave was also the largest and deepest of all the caves on the rock wall.

The other caves on the rock wall were almost one person tall. After entering, there was an oval reception room that was not particularly large. There were also several caves similar to bedrooms connected to the reception room. The area of ​​these caves added up was not very large, not even as large as the simple residence allocated to Leo in Matou Bay.

However, the cave similar to the temple was very huge. From the outside, the entrance of the cave was very small, slightly larger than the entrance of an ordinary cave. After entering, there was a passage of 100 meters. The passage went deep into the mountain and was shaped like a trumpet. The further you went in, the larger it was. At the end, there was a huge oval cave with a horizontal diameter of more than 100 meters and a vertical diameter of 20 meters.

Such a huge cave was not formed naturally, but was dug by humans. The stone walls around the cave were polished to be extremely smooth. The amazing thing is that such a huge cave did not collapse. You should know that the stone here is not particularly strong. If the cave is too big, it will easily collapse. Therefore, other caves used for living are dug very small, and several stone pillars are retained in the middle for support. Unlike the temple in front of Leo, there is no supporting stone pillar at all, and it is supported by the elliptical dome.

In the middle of the temple is a statue of a sitting abyss snake. This statue is not simply carved from stone. The material of the statue seems to be gold with other precious metals added. This metal makes the statue strong and firm even if it is more than ten meters high.

In addition, the surface of the statue is wrapped with a layer of skin. This layer of skin is made of python skin using a special method. Judging from the size of each piece of skin, the pythons used are all giant pythons more than ten meters long, and at least one hundred of them are used.

It has to be said that one hundred giant pythons are definitely a huge fortune, whether placed in the indigenous tribes of the New World or in those colonies. This is enough to show how deep the Mum tribe's worship of the abyss serpent is.

However, the most noteworthy thing about the statue of the Abyss Serpent is not the material used for the statue and the giant python skin on the outside, but the eyes of the Abyss Serpent, because the eyes are made of a hollowed-out crystal ball, and the eyes are filled with unknown liquid. Hundreds of pairs of human eyes are immersed in the liquid, and what is even more strange is that these eyeballs seem to be able to remain alive, because when Leo came in front of the statue, all the eyeballs shifted their direction, looking at Leo, and changed the direction of the pupils as Leo moved.

For this reason, Leo couldn't help but feel curious about the liquid in the crystal ball. After all, it can keep the human eyeballs immersed in it alive and produce visual perception of objects. This is obviously not comparable to ordinary medicine. In terms of efficacy, the liquid here should be considered an extraordinary item, but it may not involve extraordinary power, which makes this liquid more valuable.

It is not difficult to extract a little liquid from the crystal ball, because when making the statue, the maker took into account the placement of the crystal ball and the need to replace the liquid and eyeball, so there is a hidden button near the eyeball of the abyss snake. Through the hidden button, a part of the eye socket of the statue is removed, and then the crystal ball is taken out and opened from the closed opening behind the crystal ball.

The moment Leo took off the crystal ball and opened the opening, he immediately smelled an extremely strong fragrance. Although it was a fragrance, it did not make people feel fragrant, but gave people a very stinky feeling. However, even if it was stinky, it could still make people feel very abnormally good, and after smelling it, some desires would arise in their hearts. These desires were not just the desires between men and women, but more of other desires, such as killing, ambition, etc.

This unique smell and the unique effect brought by the smell instantly evoked the corresponding memory information in Leo's memory bank.

"Saliva of deceit." Leo muttered, and then looked at the liquids with a responsible look.

Although the saliva of deceit sounds like the saliva of some creature, it is actually a special material produced by the abyss. This material only appears in places where the abyss snakes gather. It is said that it is a special liquid produced because the abyss snakes are full of all kinds of deceitful words when they talk to each other.

This liquid is one of the best materials for the abyss race to erode the world. It can make the user fall into various extreme emotions. Although these emotions are good and bad, once any emotion reaches an extreme point, then even the best emotions will become bad emotions. Therefore, anyone who takes the saliva of deceit will eventually be corrupted by the abyss, and this corruption is hidden, even the gods cannot detect it.

It is precisely because this liquid can perfectly create internal responses in that world in the early stage of invading the world, so when the various races in the abyss invade the world, they will try every means to get some to use.

However, the output of this liquid is very small. According to the relevant knowledge about the abyss snakes in Leo's mind, this liquid can only produce a standard wine glass in a hundred years, and the saliva of deceit in the crystal ball in Leo's hand is enough to create internal responses in four or five worlds.

So much treacherous saliva was used to soak the eyeballs and worship them as some kind of fetish. It must be said that this was a waste of natural resources, but Leo could understand this practice, because under the influence of the special laws of this world, even extraordinary items like treacherous saliva were also suppressed, and the suppression was so severe that people who smelled this liquid could only have a little emotional fluctuation, let alone corruption.

Although these treacherous saliva had no effect in the current world, they were still useful to Leo, because he could use these treacherous saliva to make some abyss potions that could not be made before. Leo was not very clear about the effects of these abyss potions, but he was looking forward to it.

So, Leo found a few containers that could store liquids, filled the containers with treacherous saliva, and then put the crystal ball back.

Afterwards, Leo looked around the temple again. He found that there were a lot of oil lamps carved on the stone walls around the temple. The oil lamps were of different sizes, and the oil inside was very special, feeling like human oil. There were some symbols carved on the lamp holders under these oil lamps. These symbols seemed to have nothing special except that they looked weird.

But after Leo carefully identified them, he found that these symbols should be blasphemous words of some kind of abyss superior race.

Blasphemous words are almost the special ability of most abyss superior races. After they are born, they will resonate with the abyss and then produce a blasphemous word in their minds. Whether this blasphemous word is read out or written down, it can infect the spirit of the person who hears or sees it, causing them to degenerate into the abyss family of the abyss superior corresponding to the blasphemous words.

What's interesting is that the Abyss Serpents, who are famous for their eloquence in the Abyss, cannot produce blasphemous words of their own, but they can speak the blasphemous words of all the superior races in the Abyss and produce corresponding effects. It's just that the creatures polluted by them will become their Abyss followers, rather than the corresponding Abyss superior races. Therefore, the superior races in the Abyss are also accustomed to calling the Abyss Serpents despicable and thieves.

Obviously, the blasphemous words carved on the bases of these oil lamps come from the Abyss Serpent corresponding to the statues. However, due to the special system of this world, these blasphemous words have lost their abilities, or more accurately, their abilities have been suppressed to almost nothing. However, if someone stares at these blasphemous words for a long time with full concentration, perhaps the blasphemous words can still produce some effects. As for whether the viewer can become a member of the Abyss Family, it is unknown.

The Mumu tribe has a close connection with the Abyss Serpent, which can be proved by the temple in front of them. Now the question is where the passage to the underground world is located. Leo has not found any clues yet.

He searched both sides of the rooms and caves of the tribe, but did not find anything useful, not even the text and patterns related to it. All the patterns that can be found are related to the Abyss Serpent, and all the symbols that look like text are some meaningless symbol fragments that split the blasphemous words.

However, during the careful search, he found that the Gaka he had domesticated had been made into a specimen and placed in a slightly larger house. This house should belong to the chief of the Mumu tribe. From the subtle marks on Gaka's fur, Gaka did not seem to have been killed by some weapons, because there were no scars on the fur. Only from the damage in the ear hole, it could be analyzed that there might be the cause of death.

This reminded Leo of the insect control ability of the Paho tribe. It seemed that only by controlling tiny insects to drill into Gaka's ears and then directly attacking its brain could it be killed without injury.

Afterwards, Leo could not find any clues in the houses and caves of the tribe, so he turned his attention to the small river in the canyon below the tribe, and jumped directly into the river to look for clues at the bottom of the river.

Soon he found some corpses and some burial objects stuck in the cracks of rocks at the bottom of the water. It seemed that the Mumu tribe worshipped water burial. They would throw the dead and the burial objects into the river below, and take the bodies away with the rapid water flow of the river, and finally bring them into the ocean.

Only a few unlucky people had their bodies stuck in the rocks and stayed here until they broke free one day and completed their water burial ceremony.

Although there were very few things found at the bottom of the water, it was very useful for Leo to find the entrance to the underground passage, because among some burial objects that sank to the bottom of the river and were not taken away, Leo found several bracelet-like jewelry, which were engraved with some sacrificial patterns, and these patterns depicted the entire process of sacrificing to the abyss snake in the underground world, and there were several landmark-like marks in the patterns, just like the map provided by Joe. As long as these landmarks were found, he might find the entrance to the underground world.