Claudia only felt cold all over. There were some things that she didn't even want to think about in detail, but besides her trembling body in fear, her thoughts... her thoughts were running uncontrollably.
How did the high priest know her name? She had never revealed her real name to anyone in the City of the Sun. Even Ibn mistakenly identified her as Princess Yamanlana at first.
Therefore, in theory, there are only two people who know her name in the City of the Sun...Otto and classmate Luo Qiu.
Otto has been captured by the high priest in front of her eyes. As for Luo Qiu, he is still out of touch... Could it be that, under the high priest's questioning, Otto has revealed everything, including that they actually came from the sun?
Things in the world outside the city are also...
No...that's not the case. In fact, there is another possibility!
She subconsciously didn't want to believe it, and even instinctively didn't want to verify it. Maybe the high priest in front of her was the same person as her father, Professor Xie Jiatu!
This can even easily explain many things, such as the artifact held by Princess Yamanlana... It is clearly a firearm made by humans outside. It was her father, Professor Xie Jiatu, who brought it to the City of the Sun and handed it over to the City of the Sun.
It was given to Princess Yamanlana, claiming that it was given by the true God.
For example, why is the name of a person like Aria called Ibn here instead of the high priest? He uses the same name both outside and here.
Even... the feeling revealed by the high priest at this moment made Claudia extremely familiar. Earlier, she quietly planned to slip away from the attic of the banquet. The first time she met the high priest, it was because
The emergence of this feeling made her throw herself into his arms without hesitation.
"You...who are you?"
Countless questions emerged in Claudia's mind, whether the man in front of her was the real high priest, the high priest disguised as a giant beast, or... the real Professor Xie Jiatu.
The high priest said calmly at this time: "Claudia, don't you believe me?"
"believe……"
Claudia only felt that dizzy feeling coming back again, extremely heavy... Her eyelids gradually closed, and eventually her vision went dark and she completely lost consciousness.
Her body also fell and did not hit the ground. Before that, the high priest took a step forward and held her body firmly.
"My name is Segatu." The high priest whispered in Claudia's ear: "No matter where I am, I have only one identity..."
He helped Claudia to the bed, took the pot again, and then slowly poured the liquid in the pot into her mouth.
Soon after, the high priest left the princess's palace and prepared to return to the temple.
"Tonight is much longer than usual." The high priest suddenly stopped and stared at the moon above the night sky.
The white-robed guard accompanying him stepped forward and said, "Perhaps it's because the longest day of darkness is approaching."
At this time, the high priest suddenly said: "When the longest day of night comes... it will be the day when the gods will be destroyed."
As the white-robed guard approached, he naturally heard clearly what the high priest said. His face suddenly changed slightly, and he looked at the man in black robe in front of him with shock and fear... Fine hairs still appeared on his forehead unknowingly.
beads of sweat.
"It's just a joke." The high priest glanced at it casually, and said in a surprisingly unserious manner: "After all, in the entire Sun City, I am the only one who can make such a joke... If even I could
If I don’t speak, how can you hear me?”
"High... High Priest?" The white-robed guard felt that even his back was beginning to feel cold at this moment.
But the high priest shook his head and walked away with his hands behind his back. Dressed in black robes, he quickly merged with the darkness before dawn.
…
…
Iben actually woke up halfway, but found that he was being dragged forward by that scary guy, and he fainted again in an instant.
Therefore, this was the second time he woke up... and his nerves had slightly adapted to the current fear.
Surrounded by stone walls, it was not dark, but even unusually bright...from the firelight, the light of the oil lamp! A huge shadow was now on the wall behind Iben's position, juxtaposed with Iben.
He looked at the huge shadow on the wall in horror, and his neck couldn't help but stiffen... He immediately bit his fingers, moved his eyes little by little, and finally saw the source of the huge shadow!
The light from the fire revealed that it was the terrifying guy who dragged him to this place!
Iben could only see the opponent's back clearly...its back was covered with rough gray long hair! Iben swore that he had never encountered anything with such hair since he could remember it!
It was facing away from Ibn, and seemed to be eating something... There was a pile of scattered gray bones next to it. Judging from the different extents of these bones, it was speculated that this terrifying thing seemed to be a living creature.
In this place, and has been for some time.
Are these...all human bones?
Iben's teeth couldn't help but began to tremble. He swallowed, and while this terrifying thing was eating on his back, he quietly got up, moved his steps, and headed towards what looked like a door.
Walk to the place.
After taking two steps, Iben looked back in fear and saw that the scary guy was still eating. He didn't care that he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued to move forward quietly.
After doing this several times, the exit door was finally in front of him, and Iben couldn't help but become more and more nervous... He stretched out his hand towards the door, preparing to push it open, and then run away desperately. He didn't want to fall.
for this monster's food.
But right now!
Bang!
The sound of something banging on the wall suddenly came to mind. Iben was startled. He instinctively squatted on the ground with his head on the pillow, and screamed in horror: "Don't eat me! Don't eat me! Me, me, me... I still have to eat you today."
I haven’t solved the problem in my stomach! I...I really don’t taste good!”
Cluck cluck...
Something seemed to have rolled to Iben's feet. When he opened his eyes, he saw that it was a bone that had not eaten all the flesh and blood on it... It looked like a leg bone or something!
Iben's eyes suddenly darkened, and he looked like he was about to faint again, when the scary guy with long gray hair suddenly stood up.
"If you fall asleep again this time, I will consider eating you."
"Don't... don't don't... don't eat... eat?" Iben first lay on the ground, begging for mercy in fear, but then he suddenly raised his head and asked, did he hear it correctly?
This scary guy can actually talk?
I saw the other party walking slowly at this time. Iben's eyes widened and his body trembled uncontrollably... But the other party's appearance gradually became clearer. He finally saw the other party's appearance clearly!
The long gray hair all over his body... turns out to be just the fur of an unknown beast covering his body. This guy is obviously a person!
A guy covered in animal skin and wearing a mask made of a strange beast's skull on his head. This beast's skull mask makes this guy look very scary... especially in a dark environment!
"You...you?" Iben opened his mouth. After learning that the other party was a human, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He collapsed on the ground as if all his strength had been drained. He pressed his palms on the rolling bones.
.
Iben subconsciously picked it up and looked at it, and found that these were not human bones... they seemed to be cow bones.
The other party did not speak, but sat down directly in front of Iben... Wearing animal skins and animal skulls, he looked much burlier than Iben, but the pressure still made Iben feel slightly relaxed.
Gotta get nervous.
For a while.
"This... this brother?" Iben tentatively asked the other party: "How... what do you call him?"
"Night Watchman." He said a name abruptly, "Just call me by my name, Night Watchman."
"Night watchman?" Iben nodded subconsciously, looked around randomly, and pointed around: "Here...is this?"
The night watchman's attitude made Iben a little unsure, but he still replied calmly after hearing this: "This is the basement of the former queen's palace."
"Ex-queen?" Iben jumped up in shock, looking a little frightened, and said exaggeratedly: "Here?"
The night watchman just glanced at him casually without reacting too much.
Iben calmed down, sat down again, and said to himself: "I heard that the former queen died suddenly, and no one knows the cause of death... There are many rumors that the former queen was killed by someone, and her
After death, the soul stays in the place where it once lived..."
As he said that, Iben quietly looked at the night watchman in front of him, and subconsciously said: "They say that scary things will appear in the former queen's palace... No, it won't be you, right?"
"I didn't know before." The night watchman said calmly: "Now, it's probably me."
"Who are you? Why are you hiding here, pretending to be like this, and scaring the people in the palace?" Iben couldn't help but frown and asked.
The night watchman said calmly: "Compared with this, why do you want to break in here... As a guard of the palace, don't you know that this is a forbidden area and no one is allowed to come in?"
Iben leaned against the wall with a playful smile and said: "Others are others and I am me. How is it the same? Brother, if you want to know, simply...tell me your origin first?"
But the night watchman shook his head, "Then don't say it... Anyway, if you stay here for a long time, you will definitely not be able to help talking... You seem to be the type who can't keep secrets."
You are just a big mouth... I mean.
Iben was not happy at this. He sneered twice and suddenly jumped up, "Wait a minute and see what you look like... you pretender! Today, Uncle Iben will teach you what it means to be a master!"
Three seconds later.
"It hurts, spare your life! Hero, spare your life! I was wrong...I was wrong, okay?"
"No!" the night watchman sneered.
At this time, he sat directly on Iben's body, picked up a piece of meat, and started to chew the bloody bones one by one.
How did Iben know that he was such a scumbag? He was killed on the ground in just a few moments... At this moment, he was about to cry without tears. He kept begging for mercy, and finally started talking about why he came here.
"...That's it." Iben stretched out his body with both hands, and tried hard to look back at the night watchman sitting on him behind him, "Brother...can you please stop sitting on me?"
"No." The night watchman threw away the gnawed bones in his hand, touched the blood on his mouth, and then asked calmly: "You said, besides you, there were three other people who sneaked into the palace with you.
There is even one among them who looks exactly like Princess Yamanlana... Where are they?"
"Didn't I say that?" Iben said helplessly: "I don't know why I passed out, and I have been running away to this place since I woke up... I don't know? Brother? Can you get up first, my waist
?”
The night watchman ignored Iben's croaking and muttered to himself: "Princess Yamanlana? Could it be...could someone else come in from outside?"
"Outside? What outside?" Iben said subconsciously: "Outside the palace? Who else is there besides us?"
The night watchman ignored it and stood up directly. Then he walked to the corner of the basement where there was a huge piece of cloth. The night watchman lifted the cloth and revealed the contents inside.
Iben had never seen many things here, but there was one thing that looked very familiar to him. Suddenly, Iben slapped his head and exclaimed: "God... artifact? You... you have it too
Artifact?"
Click!
The night watchman quickly loaded the bullet clip on the black pistol in Iben's hand.
"Brother, who are you?" Iben approached and asked nervously.
The night watchman glanced at him and pointed the artifact in his hand directly at Iben... and pressed it against his forehead. Iben subconsciously raised his hands, "Old... brother, I... I shouldn't ask, I shouldn't ask.
…”
But the night watchman suddenly said: "Iben, right?"
Iben nodded subconsciously, "Please tell me!"
The night watchman said directly: "Now there is an opportunity to make a lot of money... there is an opportunity to get huge wealth in front of you, do you want it?"
"Huge wealth?" When Iben heard this, he suddenly became energetic. He even forgot the fear caused by the artifact pressed against his forehead. His eyes lit up and he said, "What is it?"
"Accompany me to kill the high priest." The night watchman sneered at this time.
Iben blinked...and then passed out directly on the ground, motionless. The night watchman raised his foot without saying a word, and was about to step on Iben's crotch.
Iben quickly rolled to the side, got up in a panic, and said with a face like a bitter gourd: "Brother... you have to live to enjoy the huge wealth you said... Kill the high priest? Am I crazy?"
"If I say that as long as you can successfully kill the high priest, I will have a way to take you out of the City of the Sun, or even..." The night watchman said in a deep voice at this time: "How about leaving this desert?"
