"This village once had an ancient history, but I don't know it very well. If there are old people here, they can tell you..."
As he walked, Martha gave Bruning a general introduction to the village.
As Bruning listened, he became more interested in meeting other people in the village.
But it's a pity that no one in the village knows where he has gone now, and he can't be seen at all.
The two of them walked along the tunnel to the place where the mysterious sculpture was previously stored.
"Here we are, right here."
Ma Sha pointed to a small cage in the distance and said.
At this time, the cage door is opened, and the mysterious sculpture cannot be seen.
"So small?"
Bruning was puzzled.
He always thought that the powerful existence that Ma Sha mentioned was something extraordinary.
As a result, the space used to store it was actually so small.
"That's right. Our ancestors were originally hidden here."
Martha pointed to the cage and said.
Bruning took a few steps closer to observe the cage.
"This cage is indeed a bit small."
"Also, why is it fully enclosed?"
Bruning was puzzled by this.
This cage is made into a fully enclosed model. Once the door is closed, you cannot see what is inside.
"No one can look directly at their ancestors, so..."
Masha was going to explain that it was because no one could look directly at their ancestors and their minds would be easily influenced by them.
The cage was then made fully enclosed.
But at this moment, he suddenly remembered someone.
That person can look directly at his ancestors.
"What's wrong?"
Bruning looked at Martha in confusion.
Why don't you say anything halfway?
Ma Sha came back to his senses and said: "That guy can look directly at his ancestors."
"You mean him?"
Bruning reacted and knew that Martha was talking about the copy of Hezhou.
"Yes."
Martha nodded.
Bruning was still confused: "How did he do it?"
"No one knows, we don't know why he can look directly at his ancestors."
Masha shook his head and said.
Bruning asked: "So he took away the ancestors?"
"That's not true."
Masha shook his head again.
Later, he continued to give Bruning the powerful power of his ancestors.
Bruning was amazed when he heard this.
I didn't expect that such a powerful existence was hidden in this small village.
It feels like the world is becoming more and more mysterious.
First came the appearance of those who contacted the evil god, and then came the pseudo-god organization.
But now, there are actually powerful beings like our ancestors.
"What is the relationship between the False God Organization and the ancestors of your village?"
Bruning looked at Martha in confusion.
Ma Sha shook his head slightly, indicating that he didn't know.
At this moment, both of them thought of one person.
That is the Hezhou clone.
Now if we want to find a breakthrough, the only way is He Zhou's clone.
Maybe he knows some additional information.
Bruning said: "I am going to contact him through the president of Shilong Company."
His intention is obvious. When the time comes, he will need Ma Sha to meet the Hezhou clone together.
Let's see if we can get more clues from He Zhou's clone.
"When will I contact him?"
Ma Sha asked directly.
"Contact him early in the morning."
Bruning looked at the time as he spoke.
It is now the early morning of the next day.
It will be dawn in about three hours.
Therefore, he decided to contact He Zhou's clone at dawn and have a good talk with He Zhou's clone.
"Then let's go back now?"
Martha asked.
Bruning stopped him: "Wait a minute, where can I see the appearance of your ancestors, for example, are there any drawings or photos?"
"This... doesn't seem to exist."
Ma Sha thought carefully and then shook his head.
"No? How come there isn't?"
Bruning was still puzzled.
Martha said: "Because ancestors can easily influence a person's mind, no one dares to look directly at their ancestors, not even in photos or drawings."
Upon hearing this explanation, Bruning nodded slightly.
This makes sense.
Since ancestors have extremely powerful power, they can easily influence people.
The people in the village will naturally be afraid.
This is very normal.
However, Bruning still couldn't figure out how the people in the village could see their ancestors since they couldn't look directly at them.
"By the way, there's a question."
Bruning said: "Since you can't look directly at your ancestors, how do you see the true appearance of your ancestors?"
"Because during the annual festival, we can worship our ancestors normally, and we can see what our ancestors look like at that time."
Martha replied.
"I see."
Bruning suddenly understood.
At this time, Ma Sha suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, there should be something related to the ancestors at the village chief's place."
"What?"
Bruning suddenly became interested.
He really wanted to know what the village chief had there.
What kind of things are connected with ancestors?
"Come with me, let's go to the village chief's residence and have a look."
"Walk."
The two led the people out of the basement and all the way back to the surface.
After arriving on the ground, the two went straight to the village chief's residence.
At the door of the village chief's residence, Ma Sha stopped.
He turned to Bruning and said: "There may be danger in the house, we'd better be prepared."
"What are you going to do?"
Bruning asked.
Ma Sha thought for a moment and said, "You guys wait outside, I'll open the door."
After all, he is a villager, and when faced with the relics of his ancestors, he is much stronger than outsiders like Bruning.
Another point is that the people in their village are all recognized by their ancestors, unlike outsiders like Bruning.
Therefore, it would be more reliable for him to open the door than for Bruning and others to follow directly.
"good."
Bruning nodded without objection.
Afterwards, he took the members of the special operations team and waited at the spot, while Ma Sha walked forward cautiously.
Everyone is on high alert.
Not long after, Martha arrived at the door of the house.
When he gently grasped the door handle, Bruning and others were immediately on high alert.
Then, under their vigilant gazes, Masha grabbed the door handle and slowly opened the door to the village chief's residence.
Everyone's eyes were all focused on the crack in the door, motionless.
Everything goes well from now on.
Martha opened the door as wide as possible without any obstruction.
In the distance, Bruning and others also saw anything strange.
In an instant, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Masha didn't say much, turned around and entered the village chief's house.
After entering, he first looked around, then turned around and said to Bruning and others: "It's okay, come in."
Bruning led people into the village chief's house.
After everyone stood still in the room, they carefully observed the situation in the room.
After looking around, Bruning didn't see anything strange.
But Masha suddenly raised his eyebrows.
Bruning observed this and asked, "What's wrong?"
"The relics of our ancestors are missing."
Ma Sha said with dull eyes.
"Ancestral relics?"
Bruning said doubtfully.
"Yes." Ma Sha nodded slightly, "The ancestors once left a painting in our village. It was the relic left by the ancestors. It was originally blamed on the wall of this room, but now..."
Ma Sha pointed to the bare wall as he spoke, "There's nothing on it."
Bruning and others all looked in the direction of Martha's finger.
Sure enough, there was nothing on that wall.
On the bare wall, there was nothing except the outline of a painting.
And from the outline of the painting, we can see that the painting Martha mentioned must have been hanging here for a long, long time.
Long enough to leave a mark.
It can be clearly seen that the wall where the painting was hung is obviously cleaner than the surroundings.
"Where will he go? Have he been taken away by the village chief and others?"
Bruning asked.
Ma Sha shook his head and said: "I don't know, but generally speaking, it is impossible for the village chief to take it off the wall."
"You mean, the village chief won't take the paintings out of the village?"
Bruning asked.
"Yes." Martha said with certainty.
"Who could that be?"
Bruning frowned in thought.
Ma Sha guessed: "I'm wondering if it could be that guy."
"Oh?" Bruning turned to look at Martha.
"But I'm not sure, after all, it's unlikely."
There was obvious uncertainty in Masha's tone.
"Why do you say that?"
Bruning asked.
"Because only the village chief can control the ancestral relics, and no one else can. If that guy can rob the ancestral relics, then he should be much stronger than me now, but..."
After listening to Martha's words, Bruning understood.
That means the He Zhou clone is incapable of snatching away the painting.
The only person who can take away the painting is the village chief.
Of course this is just speculation based on all known information.
If there are differences in the middle situation, then this conjecture may not be true.
For example, the Hezhou clone is indeed much stronger than everyone imagined.
"But I think the biggest suspect is that guy. The village chief probably won't take the painting out of the village."
Ma Sha said after thinking for a while.
Bruning said: "In short, this painting is not here now, there is no need for us to waste time here."
Ma Sha nodded and said, "Let's go back first."
Bruning heard the words and looked at the time.
Now another hour has passed since we were in the basement just now.
It will take nearly three hours to go back.
So now it's time to go back.
"Let's go."
Bruning turned and left.
A group of people followed him out of the door.
Everyone quickly arrived at the place where the speed car was parked and got on the speed car one by one.
Then the flying car slowly took off and flew all the way towards the military base northwest of Paradise City.
Martha and Bruning didn't speak to each other all the way until the plane landed.
But as soon as the flying car landed, Bruning went to make arrangements to contact the president of Shilong Company.
It wasn't until the morning that there was a response from Shilong Company.
Bruning sent someone to call Martha into the conference room.
"I'll talk to that guy later."
Bruning said to Martha.
Ma Sha asked: "What is his relationship with Shilong Company?"
"I don't know yet."
Bruning was actually not sure what the relationship was between Hezhou's clone and Shilong Company's Tian Benxiong.
However, judging from the last time Tian Benxiong refused to tell the whereabouts of He Zhou's clone, the relationship between the two should be unusual.
At this time, a staff member came to Bruning and said: "Commander, the communication equipment is ready and can communicate at any time."
"Okay, let's get through now."
Soon, a huge light curtain appeared in the middle of the conference room.
On the light curtain is the communication screen.
However, the communication has not been connected at this time, so only the signal interface is displayed above.
Not long after, the sound of communication connection sounded, and the signal on the screen obviously fluctuated.
After a period of movement, the picture on the light screen changed.
The familiar appearance of Tamoto Yu appeared on the light screen.
"Where are the others?"
Bruning asked directly.
Tamoto replied: "Right here."
With that said, he moved the copy of He Zhou in front of him so that Bruning could see it.
Finally, Bruning saw the He Zhou clone again.
And Ma Sha also saw the appearance of He Zhou's clone again.
At this time, the copy of He Zhou looked calm, as if he had expected all this to happen.
He looked at Bruning and Martha calmly, and then asked calmly: "So, you already understand everything you should know?"
"What do you mean, and what should we understand?"
Bruning asked rhetorically.
He Zhou clone smiled and said: "Now that things have come to this point, I don't think there is any need to pretend to be stupid anymore."
Seeing this, Ma Sha said: "I have said everything that needs to be said. Now I want to know if the ancestor's relics are with you."
"This question is not important."
He Zhou clone said lightly.
"Then what's important?"
Bruning asked.
Hezhou's clone looked at Ma Sha and said, "Of course it's the whereabouts of our ancestors."
Upon hearing this, Bruning also looked at Martha.
Martha became a little nervous.
Although he just said that he had said everything he needed to say, in fact, he did not say anything about the fact that he had stolen his ancestors.
And now, the thing that He Zhou's clone is referring to is obviously this.
On the light screen, He Zhou's clone looked at Ma Sha for a while and then said, "It seems you didn't say anything."
"What on earth happened?"
Bruning turned to look at the He Zhou clone and asked.
He Zhou's clone did not beat around the bush and said directly: "Of course it's the whereabouts of the ancestors. Ma Sha once stole his ancestors from the village and was interrogated by the whole village. That's why he left the village. He escaped.
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After saying this, he once again focused his attention on Ma Sha.
At this time, Bruning was carefully reviewing the words of He Zhou's clone.
He needed to think carefully before he could figure out what the clone of He Zhou actually said.
After all, the amount of information in the other party's words is quite large.
Soon, Bruning reacted and turned to look at Martha.
"Masha, have you stolen your ancestors?"
Bruning asked.
After Ma Sha was silent for a while, he nodded and said, "Yes, but that's not what I want to do. It's my ancestors who have influenced my mind. In fact, I don't know anything."
“Ancestors influenced your mind?”
Bruning looked at Martha seriously.
Ma Sha nodded heavily and said, "Yes, just like what I told you in the village, ancestors will affect people's minds."
The conference room fell silent.
Bruning did not expect that there would be problems on his side first.
On the light screen, He Zhou's clone said: "We won't mention these things for now. Let's talk about where our ancestors are now."