Chapter 180 The Coming of Silence (47): Death of Hit
Areas controlled by the three major churches of the Zine Empire/Lost Ones, the old Uko Province/new settlement area, Silent Highlands, and the "living area" behind the main palace of the "Silent Star Castle" of the Church of Hope.
Cardinal Melinare was in a terrible mood. For no other reason than yesterday, since the empire announced the launch of the "Advent of Silence" military operation, until today, she could always hear the sound of cannons at any time.
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The first time was when it was just dawn. Before she had time to take off the bandage on her face, she looked carefully and hoped that the Pope would personally use the sequence monster "MB-99: Seed of Shaping" to rebuild it for her, making it whiter and tenderer.
With a fair, beautiful, more lustrous and girlish face, a cannonball with a dull explosion unexpectedly landed on the edge of the fortress.
If it weren't for the two cardinals and the Pope of Hope who temporarily transferred some elite lost people from the northern battlefield to jointly construct a blue magic shield with ripples and ripples, I am afraid that the attack of this cannonball would have
It was enough to destroy a third of the fortress they had worked so hard to build.
And all day yesterday, while eating with the exquisite palace tableware left over from the Pusius Empire, while crossing the mud-covered ground leading to the "Crimson Moon District", and even going to the very rural place that smelled of feces.
When she met Dylan in Gan's dormitory to prepare for the "Spirit of Joy", she would accidentally hear the sound of cannons, and even each time there would be violent vibrations, like small earthquakes.
This continuous bombing not only tortured her mentally, but even increased the pressure suddenly, preventing her from making any valuable and correct judgments about the war situation.
Helpless, this morning, apart from checking the lookout tower high up in the fortress and the magic cover of the hemisphere, she had no intention of doing anything. Instead, she chose to sit under the scorching sun, with almost no life, not much.
"People" roam aimlessly on the ground of the fortress covered with bluestone bricks.
Until, in her mind, Sai came to mind, with blond hair, brown eyes, and a childish face that looked like a harmless child.
Thinking of this, her footsteps suddenly changed direction and walked deeper into the "living area".
Arriving near a slightly dilapidated palace with giant doors open on all sides at the front of the living area, Melina consciously tidied up her demeanor.
After all, her "lover" Dylan has returned here in the past few days. After the first meeting, she didn't even bother to seriously protect the "young dragon" that was all black and seemed to be carved by obsidian.
Instead, she hurried to the palace where she lived and changed into her favorite purple dress like a princess.
It was a dress that looked very expensive at first glance.
The deep purple hue implies the hard-to-obtain natural dye, and the layers of tiny gemstones covering it reflect the sun's rays from time to time, showing a colorful brilliance.
The neckline, cuffs and back are all covered with a layer of wolf fur, and even the swaying skirt looks graceful and luxurious, revealing an aura of wealth but not luxury.
For middle-aged men, this kind of beauty is enough and in line with the mood.
Lifting up her skirt and walking a few steps on the dusty palace ground in high heels, she looked up and saw two men, one tall and one short, kneeling in the middle.
A "man" praying to the strange statue in front of him.
Slowly and carefully walking forward for a few steps, and observing closely, Melinare recognized at a glance that the "person" in front of her was Sai from the Tenin sect, and the ones who followed her were in good and bad spirits.
Luo Nie, a young man with a mechanical body.
Melinare, who was holding her newborn chin, whose skin was still a little tender and could slightly reveal the blue blood vessels inside, did not want to disturb their prayers, or worship.
She was just very interested in the statue in front of her.
Searching through any books she had read about bishops and bishops in her memory, Melinaer did not find any description of such sculptures.
The sculpture didn't look very tall, it was only about one meter high. It was no wonder that the two children had to kneel down to worship it.
Its surface is very smooth, as if it has been washed by streams all year round. The surface has been covered by a layer of moss with a reflective effect, giving it a thick and sticky feel.
The upper body of the sculpture is an eagle's head, with an irregular ring pattern like a sun on top, while the middle half of the body looks like a human being, covered with a layer of gauze in the style of the ancient central empire, revealing the
Half of the abs and chest.
The middle finger and thumb of the right hand of the sculpture are close to each other, with the entire palm facing up, as if it is divination, which has the characteristics of Eastern religion.
But the front quarter of its lower body is made up of twisted octopus-like tentacles, the back quarter is two normal strong human legs, the left quarter is a straight machine, and the right quarter is
The last part is filled with weird, irregularly shaped rocks.
Except for the lower part, the entire statue is made of mahogany, and it does not appear to be very crudely made. However, which god the two children were praying for blessings from, Melina did not think clearly for a moment.
Her brain was running rapidly involuntarily, and Melinaer, who was even a little overloaded with thinking, suddenly noticed that a dull red halo appeared around the bodies of Luo Nie and Sai who were praying devoutly.
Moving his gaze back, the palace, which had originally been flooded with a bit of stubborn sunlight due to the huge doors on all sides, showed a standard and well-defined interlacing of light and dark, like two curtains of opposite colors forcibly spliced together.
But after a painful feeling as if her head had been opened and sharp objects were stirred inside, Melina found that the light around her began to quickly fade away, and the dark blue tone belonging to the long silent night enveloped the entire old and broken place.
The palace is trying to occupy an area that almost no one cares about.
Looking up numbly, Melinare actually saw a crimson moon, hanging high in the eternal universe, quietly shining on intelligent creatures who longed for power.
Beyond that, stars begin to occupy the remaining dark blue area.
In an instant, the palace turned into the night sky, leaving only the textured ceramic tiles with cracked patterns that she touched while wearing high-heeled shoes that didn't fit very well, allowing her to retain a slight sense of reality that was worthy of keeping her spirit from collapsing.
"Is it a sculpture with the ability to 'seduce'? Or are these two children sacrificing themselves in exchange?" Melinaer guessed wildly.
She was in no hurry to step forward.
On the one hand, she has seen too many lost people who sacrificed themselves to achieve certain goals. For example, ten years ago, a boy from the Hope Church sacrificed his limbs in order to enter the realm of gods, and finally died with a weird smile.
And what Luo Nie in front of her told her when she was awake was the [Hunter] Atwood who sacrificed his arms but was abandoned by the "God of the Forest".
On the other hand, she wanted to spy on the god behind the statue. Even the novelty brought by a weak power was enough to comfort her from the mental stress caused by the constant cannon bombardment in the past two days.
After a few seconds, she realized that everything in front of her was covered with a layer of gauze due to the brilliance of the crimson moon. With the dark blue tone, she couldn't help but feel a bit desolate.
Loneliness, indifference, sadness, desolation, and the sudden negative emotions made her a little depressed, as if she was saddened by a heavy boulder, like the god who could never push the stone to the top of the mountain.
Soon, reason told her that what she saw in front of her should have been unbelievable, at least it was very abnormal in the castle of the Church of Hope.
Her mouth moved, ready to ask the two people in front of her for more information.
However, she seemed to have temporarily lost the ability to speak, and she tried her best to make her vocal cords vibrate.
But in addition to the slight flow of air, there was also a sense of spiritual exhaustion that forced her to stop this stupid behavior.
After a moment, the statue in front of her made a crackling sound like a firecracker burning, like a burst of electricity passing through. During the sting, Melina realized that everything in front of her, outlined by mysterious power, had disappeared, except for
The two "children" have already stood up.
"I pray for the blessings of the gods and ask Mr. Hit to go to heaven. Although his sins are enough to make him fall into hell, the people in the wasteland can only deal with blood and fire. This is his helplessness. I hope the gods understand.
"Luo Nian's green voice came out from his throat, which seemed tactful but full of sorrow.
"Please ask the apostles of the Lord of Machinery at rank 6 and the fusions at rank 12 to listen to our prayers. Brother Luonie knows that he has been forgotten by the Lord of Machinery for too long. He has spent an extremely long time after leaving the embrace of the gods.
time. He does not ask for forgiveness from his creator, he only hopes that you can give us hope to live." Sai's childish voice then came out, with a sense of maturity that was unreal for a teenager.
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Hope, this is a prayer that lacks hope.
Melina suddenly realized that in most of the books she had read that explained the order of gods, most of them only focused on the first seven "seven first order gods". The information was complex and very detailed.
, but for even the top 15 gods, there are parts that are missing to the point of being almost nothing.
She remembered that number 13 is the goddess of light, and is easier to be forgotten and ignored than the Lord of the Dark Night, number 2. After all, the lost people of mankind now do not trust the light, and their respect for the dark night conveys their true feelings.
Profit-seeking mentality.
But she had never heard of number 12, and the name "Metamorphosis" was even more unfamiliar and unheard of.
Maybe this god is too powerful? Maybe someone deliberately concealed a lot of specific information? Just like the god "Daughter of Tool Yuan" in the center of Silent Highlands?
Until some buried, frozen books and relics are unearthed, will any insight into her existence be revealed?
Melinaer shook her head, with a sad smile on her lips.
She heard that some lost people tried to advance through direct contact with the gods, but they were not guided and were not prepared to sacrifice to the gods and enter a state of near death.
Therefore, most of them went crazy, and a few of them exploded to death, were roasted by the scorching sun, and were turned into a pile of powder after being blown by the icy wind at night, forever dissipated under the long night sky.
But Luonie and Sayi's prayers didn't seem to be for themselves.
After clearing the messy thoughts in her mind, Melinaer walked forward with an elegant posture, walked gently to the two of them, faced the back of the strange statue, and asked:
"Can you tell me what happened? Why are you praying to such a strange... strange statue?"
"Hit is dead." Sai responded in a low voice, trying to hold back the feeling of tears about to flow.
"I'm sorry, but I still want to know, is that the tall Sugra [Warrior] who protected you here and is not adapted to the environment of the Lost?"
Melina maintains a professional questioning style. When faced with things that urgently need to be understood, she sometimes chooses to use as complex and detailed a method as possible to match as much information as possible.
After being silent for a few seconds, Sai sighed softly, nodded slightly and said:
"That's him. Sister Melinal, you know, without the protection of the sequence medicine developed by humans, humans who come into direct contact with the wasteland will not only become superpowers or 'unintentional people', but their organs will usually be damaged.
Because it was corroded by the 'mysterious and extraordinary power', it rapidly aged, declined, and lost its activity. Brother Hit did not have the habit of regularly injecting medicine when he was in Socra. After all, there is a dark dome, and the humans below can live unscrupulously."
"But once he walked out of the 'greenhouse' and entered the wilderness, without the protection of the medicine, he persisted in pain for several days, and he finally died last night."
"That's right." Luo Nie took Sai's words and stroked Sai's blond hair gently, like stroking a cat's smooth hair, and sighed:
"His lungs seemed to be damaged and he lost the ability to obtain oxygen from the air. When we found him in the morning, he was staring at the ceiling with angry eyes and his mouth wide open, unwilling to leave this miserable world."
"He also wants to find the answer for his old friend De. He wants to know what kind of existence the god indirectly caused De's death is. He still has many secrets that he wants to explore.
In fact, he already knows the murderer who killed De, Laite Sugra, who is also the [Order] Miss Melinare's Church of Hope wants to invite. I have some knowledge of the secret hidden in him, so Miss,
Sai and I made an agreement yesterday."
"What's the agreement? Let's talk about it?" Melinaer asked curiously, looking at Luo Nie, whose mental state was up and down in front of her, and who seemed to be unusually awake today.
"We are going to enter the central area here the day after tomorrow. I am going to enter the Lake of Silence and find the legendary temple and arena. I am going to sneak into the Vita Water, open the realm where the god is, and question her personally." Luo Nie was abnormal.
replied firmly.
"What are you asking her about?" Melina suddenly felt that the Luo Nie in front of her was a bit childish, and asked with a wry smile:
"Let's not talk about your mental state. Let's talk about Sayi. Can he withstand the destruction of the power of the gods? Can you guarantee that he is not crazy? Well, even if you escape all punishment and actually come to the stone gate, you
Without understanding the true meaning of 'The Song of Confusion' and without the blessing of the red magic source, how can you enter there?"
"Fate will naturally arrange it." Luo Nie looked up at the location above the dilapidated palace where part of the mural of the Goddess of Fate remained, and explained:
"I have divined that we will meet the orderer, Laite Sugra. Besides, hasn't the old magician already found the correct direction to the realm of gods for me?
Moreover, the 'sad' in my body can no longer support this body for a longer period of time. When I really turn into a pile of scrap metal, what is the meaning of my existence?"
"But do you know? Luonie, death is easy, but living is worthy of praise and admiration. Therefore, it is not wise to commit suicide." Melina retorted firmly.