The Age of Machines

Chapter 795 Three Moons
"Beibei, come and see this."

Hearing this, Beixi put down the tree paper in his hand, walked around the rattan chair and walked to Wei Shengmo's side.They found nothing in the previous wooden house except for the scroll that recorded the origin of Goulds.All the way they went deeper into the interior of this place. There were actually very few houses on the way, and most of them were inaccessible. There were elves' secret words on the door, which is the so-called door lock.Except for the elves who live in the house who know their secret language, others are unknowable and unrecordable.Beixi and the others had no other choice but to search for clues in the wooden house they could enter.

But there are too few clues in the wooden house that can be entered, and it can even be said that there are no clues at all.

This area is the residence of elves, but judging from the wooden house, there should not be many elves.I don't know whether these elves went to perish with Guerz's destruction in the end, or left here. This is a puzzle left to them by time.

The two of them didn't see any corpses along the way.In the forest before, bones were still easy to see.Here, as if nothing has been experienced, the flowers, plants and trees are still well preserved, and the wooden houses are not damaged in any way.

But there was no sign of an elf, not even a corpse.

Of course, there is a saying that elves will not leave a corpse after death, they will return to nature, turn into wind, turn into trees... never be bound by the world.

The blood of the elves living here should be extremely pure.

The wooden house and the living environment are really integrated into nature.Elf Island is more or less stained with secular colors.

Wei Shengmo held a dilapidated brown leather notebook in his hand.When Beixi came, he opened it and handed one of the pages to her.It seems that something important has been discovered.

Beixi took over.

The text on it is in Elven language, but looking at other runes, it seems that it is mixed with the sayings of other races.Beixi didn't know the characters, Wei Shengmo could see her confusion, "Don't read the characters, just look down."

The notebook is not very big, because the text on it is densely written and the bottom half is full of pictures.Beixi's line of sight moves down, and there are three moons.

And it just so happened that she knew the elf language written on the side of the moon.In terms of numbers, it seems that the saying of the ancient elves has always been used.

Ninety days are marked next to the crescent moon.A half moon is 30 days, and a full moon is [-] days.Afterwards, an arrow of the crescent moon passed, and it was a black moon surrounded by stars.A half moon corresponds to a black half moon, but surrounded by raindrops.When the moon corresponding to the full moon is also black, the fire comes.

There is also a mark behind the pattern, a half moon.

The elves use half moons to represent the time.One and a half months equals two hours, two and a half equals three hours, and so on.

"This is..." Beixi looked at the notes and fell into thought.Wei Shengmo said from the side: "Turn to the last page and have a look."

Beixi flipped through the notes, this notebook is still relatively thick, and the last page does not have any text, it is a picture.A painting of a three-headed bird and a snake, surrounded by people in a raging fire.

"What is the three-headed bird?" Beixi turned back, and indeed there were no pages left, but turned forward, and there were several pages that were blank without a word written.

Except for this painting and the previous page about the moon, there are only words on the other pages, which are densely packed elven script and other scripts that Beixi doesn't even know.

Wei Shengmo got up and looked around the wooden house, there seemed to be nothing to search for. "Probably a force behind that is against that Meredith."

Beixi nodded in agreement, "Then because of the conflict between these two forces, other residents in Guerz were once caught in a raging fire." The fire on the painting can also be understood as war, killing.

In fact, elves advocate freedom and peace in their bones.Even the elves who were expelled.But in the elves, as long as the crime is not a heinous crime, they will be forgiven by the queen, and they will not be expelled from the elves.

But looking at the place where these elves live, it doesn't look like it can be built by unpardonable villains.

The two plan to leave.After thinking about it, Bei Xi still took the notes in his hand away.After leaving the wooden house, there was a road paved with cobblestones. They walked onto the street, and there were many exotic flowers and trees on both sides, among which there were several wooden houses.

Beixi saw the small dots of light shining on the wooden house, so the two of them didn't plan to go and search.Because I didn't know it at the beginning, but after a lot of experience, I also know that some doors have flashing light spots, which have magic seals.That requires the secret language of the elves to open.

Beixi and the others moved forward all the way. In fact, the destination of the two was the huge vine that shot straight into the sky.

They couldn't judge the specific location based on the map. Since they entered this space, the map had lost its function, and it was based on their experience along the way.

The closer you get to the vine, it seems that the houses built by the elves start to decrease.When this happens, the two can understand that the area where the vines are may be very important, and it is also what people often say [forbidden zone].

The two didn't encounter any wild monsters along the way, so they wouldn't waste too much time.Beixi didn't know how Lollipop was going. There were still 33 minutes left before the time given by Quinn.

"I didn't expect this map to be quite big." Beixi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.Although they can ride mounts, they now need to search for clues. If they ride mounts, it is impossible to find some hidden spots.

How much time is not enough.

Beixi was still flipping through the notebook while holding it. "What do you think the number of days behind the moon means?" She asked Wei Shengmo.

The two are now in the wild.

That is to say, the area without any houses, depending on the situation, they are getting closer and closer to the specific location of the vines.Weishengmo activated his perception ability, and then answered Beixi's question. "When did it appear?"

He was a little puzzled, it was indeed just his guess.

Bei Xi had no idea, and asked Wei Shengmo just for some inspiration.When the man said this, Beixi thought about it seriously, and it seemed to make sense.

"You said, does the first moon appear once ninety days later? Then the second half moon will be counted from the day after it appears, and it will reappear on No. 30, and the last full moon will be separated by [-] days?"

Wei Shengmo: "Why is the first moon ninety days long?"

Beixi looked at the pictures in the notes thoughtfully, Wei Shengmo glanced at the notes, and then focused on the surroundings of the two of them. The strange flowers and plants might come to life in the next moment, and then attack them.

Thieves can't relax no matter where they are.

But his mind was more or less focused on Beixi's entangled issues. Two people thinking together can always get results faster than thinking alone.

Beixi thought of the murals they saw at the beginning.

First meniscus, second half moon, third month.This is actually a gradual evolution process. The full moon is definitely the final form, but in the end, the three moons appeared together in the sky.That said, each moon represents something different.Appearing in succession for three months will either destroy the world or bring grace.She remembers...Huh?
"Amo, in the mural we saw earlier, is the moon in the fourth picture a crescent moon or a full moon?"

Wei Shengmo was taken aback.

"Full moon."

Beixi looked at him, "Are you sure?"

Wei Shengmo looked directly at her and said, "If I remember wrongly, I will let you kiss me."

Beixi looked at him speechlessly while holding the notebook.

The smile in the man's eyes seemed to overflow, Beixi glared at him.Then, he looked at the contents of the note in his hand, and pointed to the corner of the page, where there was a small three-month pattern.

"The first one is the crescent moon. Speaking of which, in the last seven pictures of the mural, the crescent moon is also in the first position. Then it starts to be a full moon, a half moon... But in this note, after the crescent moon It's a half moon, and then a full moon."

The sixth mural, that is to say, may be the sequence of the moon appearing in the normal order, full moon, half moon, and then crescent moon.

But in the seventh picture, Meredith was pressed to the stake, and the three moons above her head were the crescent moon, followed by the full moon, and then the half moon.

Now, the order of the three moon connections that Beixi found on this note has a new order.In the notes, the crescent moon is the first, followed by the half moon, and the last is the full moon.

Beixi couldn't help but frowned.

What exactly do these represent?
If the sequence of the sixth picture is normal, it will bring favor to Goulz, and the arrival of the apostle of God must be the appearance of Meredith.

In the murals I saw at that time, the first full moon appeared in the fourth picture.Then there was the appearance of the moon with fire.And then in the fifth picture, the heavy rain is majestic, and at the same time as the woman appears, a moon appears, and the shape of the moon at this time is half moon.The last sixth picture is the picture of the three-month series of appearances. People began to hold a ceremony to worship the heavens, and Meredith brought blessings.

The reverse order of the seventh panel may bring about death or destruction.

Then how to explain the order in this note?
Beixi closed the notebook and frowned. "Ninety days, 30 days, [-] days. Black moon, starry sky, rain, flames. Plus the half moon that represents time... Tsk. For the first time, I feel like my head is about to explode."

The three orders of the moon are enough to make Beixi lose his mind.

She now finds that maybe those murals are not as simple as they seem.Fire may not be fire, and rain may not be ordinary rain.As for the pattern of houses and birds in the first picture, the woman sitting by the lake in the second picture, the Meredith standing in the sky in the third picture, the people on the ground, and the coffin behind it, it is possible that all three murals have The profound meaning is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

Speaking of which, if according to the known clues along the way, when the three moons appear and people worship the heavens, the apostles of the gods will bring grace, then is it too early for Meredith to appear in the first few murals?
Wei Shengmo said: "It seems that the clues we got along the way were not obtained in one place."

"Hmm... so what do you mean?" Beixi pulled back her thoughts and looked at him.Wei Shengmo continued: "This place is very interesting. Although the scrolls we saw earlier said that Goulds is a place where multiple races gather and live, these residents still live in separate areas and do not live together on one piece of land."

Only elves live in this area, just like the area you entered at the beginning, only humans live.

Beixi understood his thoughts. "You mean that these races occupy their own land and do not invade each other. Because of the different races, they have different ideas about certain things, right?"

Wei Shengmo smiled: "I think these races have their own views. Although their views may be different, I think they must see the same things, such as the moon."

Because this group of people all lived on Juling Island, and all lived in the area of ​​Lake Berbers.

So what makes the frescoes different from these scrolls and notes?
Wei Shengmo said: "Either the person who carved the mural was deliberately misleading, or the mural itself was wrong, or..."

Beixi took his words. "Either we haven't found a truly comprehensive record of the three moons yet."

Wei Shengmo added: "The whole thing is actually a bit weird."

"What did you say?" Beixi fingered the notes, and the two were still moving towards the vines. Although they were talking at the same time, they both cast their perceptions.

Wei Shengmo lowered his eyes. "Tangtang said before that someone gave her that key."

Beixi remembered what Lollipop said.

"What do you think is the probability of accepting the task without direct contact with the NPC?"

"Zero." Beixi tilted his head, and the color of his eyes involuntarily deepened.

When some people get quest items in the wild, they must be able to receive the quest directly without talking to the NPC, and then go to have an in-depth dialogue with the NPC.

But the premise of this situation mentioned by the two is that it does not include that the NPC took the initiative to throw the crucial quest items of the quest directly to the player, and then from the beginning to the end, it never appeared or talked to the player.

"It seems that we have been used from the beginning to the end." Beixi frowned.

Wei Shengmo: "The purpose of that NPC is still unclear. Whether it is being used or not, what we are facing is a high-intelligence NPC. If it is an enemy, there will probably be a battle in the end."

Prosperity is a very strange game.

The autonomy of NPCs often exceeds the perception of many players, because some NPCs act too much like human players.They have intelligence, will take the initiative to talk to the player, can laugh, cry, and have the same complex emotions as the player.

In this game, NPCs are also a living part of the world.At the beginning of the game, this situation was not very obvious, and the NPCs were still rigid, with one question and one answer.

However, Shengshi's system is also constantly improving.

And the examples that best reflect Shengshi's technical authority must be these highly intelligent NPCs.

(End of this chapter)