The Age of Machines

Chapter 794

When [Book of Punishment] was put in front of Merinoli, she stopped sobbing, and stared blankly at the magic book in front of her. Lollipop noticed this expression, pursed her lips and asked again: "Do you know? Do you know this?" The origin of this [Book of Punishment]."

Merinoli suddenly stared at Lollipop, eyes filled with tears, with obvious hostility, she reached out to snatch the [Book of Punishment], Lollipop was one step ahead of her, and retracted the book, Merinoli's Fingernails brushed against the book, and Lollipop held the book in his arms and immediately backed away.Seeing the situation, the others wanted to step forward, but the civet cat stopped them.

"Look again. It's a dialogue mode now, and it's impossible to easily attack the player again."

They can only press down the worries in their hearts.

Merinoli clenched her fists and stared at the lollipop viciously. "Give me the book."

Lollipop frowned, showing vigilance. "This book doesn't belong to you, it belongs to Meredith. Even though you are her personal maid, I still can't believe it. This book should be very important."

"Give me the book! Human beings, that's not something you can control." Merinoli struggled to get up and grab it, but she had just gone through a battle, and she was already wounded and weak, so she just supported herself. The upper body lost all strength and lay on the ground again.

He didn't take his eyes off the [Book of Punishment] in Lollipop's arms for a moment.

Lollipop followed her words and replied, "I didn't think about mastering it. It's just that this is something that Meredith has entrusted to me, and I can't give it to anyone."

"You liar!" Merinoli screamed. "Lord Diss will not easily hand over the [Book of Punishment] to others. What's more, seeing that you don't have a clan pattern, how can an outsider have the ability to obtain the [Book of Punishment]?"

Family pattern?
Tanuki and the others noticed the word, and although they were puzzled, now was not the time to ask.This task was initiated by the [Book of Punishment] in Lollipop's hands, and only Lollipop could attract Merinoli's attention.

If any one of them went up to talk to them now, it would only destroy the mission.

"I am indeed not from your Gultz, I am just an adventurer."

"Liar! How could [Guru] let a strange human come in and out at will?! Who are you? Could it be that you are a member of the rebel army?" Merinoli said at the end, her hands were already on the ground. There were deep marks, and blood flowed from the fingertips, which was the expression of extreme anger.

rebels...

Ukiyo-e grabbed his hair, this is a movement that he only shows when he is irritable and extremely impatient.The civet cat glanced at him, probably full of questions, but he couldn't go up and ask them yet.

Lollipop shook his head, took a step closer and squatted down, keeping his eyes on her level. "I don't know what [Guru] you are talking about, let alone what rebels are. I was brought into this world to pursue the secrets that your Guerz was buried. I also got this book by accident, because My fault, I opened it."

Lollipop now begins to court her.

As he spoke, he held the book in both hands as if handing it to Merinole.She continued: "Now, I need to capture the beast that escaped from this book, and you..."

Merinoli's ferocious expression gradually changed.

"It also belongs in this book."

She was slightly taken aback.

A look of bewilderment and sluggishness.

Lollipop didn't speak again, and the snake girl seemed to be lost in memory.Lollipop can only wait patiently, and so can everyone else.

After a long time, Merinoli raised her head and exchanged a glance with Lollipop.The lollipop that came into contact with her eyes revealed a bit of surprise, and then she only saw the snake girl Merinoli propped up, her tail hovering, she half sat up and looked around.

After that, his eyes fell on Lollipop, and he glanced at Tanuki and the others. "I remember."

Although everyone was calm on the surface, their hearts were already turbulent.The wait is finally here, the first NPC in this space!
Lollipop asked: "Remember... what?"

Merinoli's mood was very stable at this time, and she was no longer as hostile as before, but she was still visibly wary of the lollipop.

"What proof do you have that you're not a rebel?"

She is still doubting the identity of Lollipop and the others.

The civet cat felt a little strange.

Lollipop doesn't know what can prove whether they are rebels, after all, they are all at a loss now.What is the symbol of the rebels mentioned by Merinoli?
Lollipop hesitated.

He took out the cold key from the package and opened it. "Can this be proven?"

Merinoli was stunned, and then took a deep look at the lollipop. "It can be proved that you take the key back."

Lollipop breathed a sigh of relief, and then waited for the snake girl to speak.One second, two seconds, ten seconds...

The atmosphere became quiet for some reason.

Lollipop was a little embarrassed, didn't this NPC take the initiative to ask? In desperation, Lollipop organized his thoughts and prepared to ask questions to pull out the task line.

At this time, the snake girl spoke.

"Where is this place?"

Several people were confused.

Lollipop said, "Gultz."

Merinoli pursed her lips and said in a firm tone, "This is not Goulds."

How could the Goulds in her memory be a primitive forest.The Goulds in her memory is the most prosperous and beautiful place.

This place is desolate, dark, and dead, like a capital of death.

"It's Goulds indeed." Day by day I couldn't bear it anymore.

Merinoli's eyes fell on him, and she stared at him closely. "You lied." With that appearance, he probably guessed something, but he didn't want to believe it. He would rather fabricate a world for himself than expose the cruel truth.

"This is indeed Gulz, and it is still Gulz that has been destroyed. Maybe 200 years ago, maybe earlier..." Lollipop said softly.

"Impossible!" Merinoli shouted in disbelief.Tears welled up in her eyes, and she began to sob softly, saying "impossible" incessantly.

Tanuki: "You have actually noticed it yourself. There is a force here that completely seals this space."

"Gultz has long been destroyed." Ukiyo-e looked at her and said coldly. "But you survived in this book. You are the only one who knows what happened before the destruction."

Merinoli paused, and looked up at them with her tear-stained face.

Rashomon walked up to her slowly, knelt down, and then said softly: "We came here to find out the truth here. Don't you want to find out what happened to Gultz hundreds of years ago?" what?"

Merinoli's reaction was obvious.

She didn't know that Goulds had been destroyed, and when her memory ended, this was a clue worth exploring.

She paused for a long time, her eyes gradually pulled back to her pupils and her spirits recovered.She looked at the lollipop, "When I saw the key in your hand, I knew that Goulds no longer existed." She lowered her eyes and suddenly smiled sadly. "Should have understood." It's just that she didn't want to accept it.

Lollipop doesn't quite understand. "Why?"

"That is the key of time and space. The key that can open the past and the future." Merinoli asked Lollipop, "Where did you get this key?"

"I... seem to be thrown to me by myself."

"What does that man look like?"

Lollipop shook his head, "He was wrapped in mist, I couldn't see his appearance clearly. He just appeared for a moment, then disappeared without a trace. Then, this key appeared by the door."

Merinoli seemed to understand something, but she didn't explain it.Everyone knows that there is no rush, and NPCs always like to play tricks.

After a few seconds of silence, Merinoli spoke again, but what she said was about Goulds.

Although she was Meredith's maid, she was treated like a sister by him, so she was named "Merry".Her status in Gurz can be said to be second only to Diss, the existence of priests.

"The Guerzili population is too complicated because it is not a unified ethnic group. There have been several large-scale internal struggles because of the selection of priests."

"Later, Master Diss held a selection in the name of [Gods], and the one with the strongest strength will be the priest. In the end, the three-headed bird [Ihodge] won, and this is also the priest lineage of Gultz later."

According to Gultz's customs, priests are not inherited, but selected.It is replaced every two years for the continuation of the divine power.But in the end, the most powerful three-headed bird won.Over time, the bird became Goulds' secondary symbol.

The snake represents wisdom, while the bird represents strength.

Their family emblem is a bird intertwined with a snake.On the family emblem, the number of bird heads represents the rank of the clan members in Goulds.

The three-headed bird divides the population here into levels.On the lower tiers, the bird has only one head.When the strict hierarchical management system starts, the taste here will also start to change.

Meredith's origins are actually unknown.But she has infinite power, so she is called "God's Apostle", and is also directly called "God" by a small number of people.

In fact, she herself does not have the power comparable to a god, but for the sinners who have been expelled from the abyss without power, her existence is already equivalent to a god.

It was only later, when she began to research ways to restore strength for these people one by one, after gaining strength, no matter whether it was a human or a beast, their ambitions would always expand.

Merinoli sighed slightly, "When the power of the three-headed bird grew to the point where it could fight Lord Dis, darkness began to grow inside Gultz."

then
The civet cat was puzzled, "I want to ask, what's the matter with the three moons?"

Merinoli shook her head, "I'm not too sure about this either. The three moons already existed in the abyss. But when the moons appear, Lord Diss' power will be strengthened."

Lollipop thought of the last mural.The positions of the three moons were reversed, and Meredith was burned at the stake.

"I want to ask a question," said Lollipop. "Whenever the moon appears, are there three at the same time, or one after the other?"

"Naturally, the moons don't appear at the same time. After the first moon appears at the beginning, the second moon will appear on No. 30 days after that, and the third round will appear [-] days apart."

"Will the moon disappear during this period?" I was surprised day by day.

Merinoli shook her head at him.Of course not.

"Don't you just never see the sun?"

"In Goulds, there is no night. Only when the moon appears, there will be a few hours of night. And once there is night, Goulds will become scary." Merlinoli said There was a look of fear in the back. "Thanks to Mr. Diss, we Guerz will be safe and sound during the few hours of the night when the moon appeared. Only after we survived the night of that day, we will usher in a baptism after that, which is also the grace of the gods. "

"What will happen in the dark night?" Tanuki was curious.

"Kill." Her tone was tinged with fear. "There is only killing in the dark night." After that, she stopped talking.

Lollipop They looked at each other.

No wonder the task Quinn gave them was limited to two hours. It turns out that the moon does not appear in the dark night.It is with the appearance of the moon that night falls.

But they are puzzled.

Because the three moons mentioned by Merinoli did not appear at the same time, but after one round appeared, the following moons would appear after a period of time.But what Quinn mentioned, it seems that when the time comes, the three moons will appear directly at the same time.

What's the secret in this?
Merinoli spoke again after a while. "The space key opens the connection between your world and this world, but the energy of magic is not enough to keep you here for too long."

If the magic power supporting the connection is gone, they will not be able to get out and will be trapped here.

Merinoli coughed. "I have to go back to the book."

"Why?" Lollipop looked down at the [Book of Punishment] in his hand.

Merinoli said softly: "I'm just an ordinary human being. No other race lives long. If it wasn't for Master Diss, I'm afraid I would have already..."

There is no need to say more about the latter.Human life is the shortest, and Diss sealed her in a book, saving her life.

"What exactly is [Book of Punishment]?"

"This book is very important." Merinoli looked closely at the lollipop, "I don't know who gave you the space key, but you have to be careful."

Lollipop froze slightly.

"His purpose is very strong. It shouldn't be a coincidence that he sent you here."

"What do you mean?" the civet cat asked.

Merinoli's body is gradually weakening at this time. As a task monster, she needs to return to the book sooner or later.Unexpectedly, the time would be so fast, and it was time for Merinoli to disappear.

"What exactly do you mean?" Lollipop asked anxiously.

"Because of time..." After speaking halfway through, a white light shot into the [Book of Punishment], and the place where Merinoli should have been was empty.

Several people sighed.

"Because of time what?"

This is the puzzle she left them.

(End of this chapter)