The Age of Machines

Chapter 833

Civet cats are really good at observation.

Of course, this may have something to do with her being an archer, but as keen thieves and snipers, neither Rashomon nor Wei Shengmo noticed the difference between the people holding the books before and after, which shows how observant Tanuki is.

If this insight is put on PK, civet cat is really a terrible opponent.

"In other words, the person who took the [Book of Punishment] from us in the first place is dead. Look at that hand, it should be a woman." The hands that held the [Book of Punishment] at the beginning were slender, white and tender. Very small, not like a man's hand.

"Let's not be preconceived." Lollipop put the ring in the package. The ring should still be useful, and the system reminded her to carry it.

"After all, this is a game." Lollipop said again: "There are many things that deviate from common sense."

It is not possible to judge the other party's identity from just one pair of hands.There are not many clues given in the video, but it is known that the mysterious person left here.The system gave her instructions on the next step.

Ding, please continue to chase the mysterious man and take back the [Book of Retribution].

The arrows began to emerge again.

"Go in through this door." Ukiyo-e raised his scepter, impatiently waiting.

A group of people followed the arrow and gradually disappeared into another door next to the exit.After walking about ten meters, the line of sight changed from narrow to wide, and they came to a large hall.There is nothing in the hall except for a few golden pillars.On the ceiling of the hall, silver lines outline mysterious and ancient patterns, and stars are dotted on the magic circle. Beixi holds the magic lamp in both hands, and adjusts the light to a projection function. A beam of light hits the ceiling of the hall directly. , the silver thread began to flow, and those rigid patterns, stars, and magic circles gained life at this moment.

"What are these patterns?"

Beixi shook his head. The patterns and magic circles did not change in the places where the light beam did not shine.Still the same as before, Beixi fiddled with the magic lamp and said, "Turn on two more lights, and don't relax around."

"Let me come." The civet cat adjusted the switch on the edge of the magic lamp, and the light gradually changed from diffuse to concentrated beams. The civet cat held the magic lamp in both hands, facing the unlit spot on the ceiling.

"Tangtang, come here."

Lollipop responded and changed the status of the magic lamp.Beixi is in the middle position, the civet cat is on the left, and the lollipop is on the right.

"You have to move slowly, civet cat, you come first, slow down."

The civet cat nodded, and hit the light beam on the outermost area.After the light of the magic lamp turns into a beam, the range is very small, and it hits the ceiling in a circle with a diameter of one meter. Although the ceiling is not big, the range of the beam is still limited.

Beixi also shot light, and it landed next to the civet cat to perfectly connect with her circle. The two began to move to the right bit by bit, and the lollipop hit next to Beixi.In this way, a large-scale straight line is formed, and the change of the pattern can be clearly seen.

At first, the snake girl moved. She held a round moon, which was a full moon, and raised it above her head to face the starry sky. Then, as the light moved, the moon suddenly broke away from her hands, and the moon changed. Under the shining light, the moon has a black shadow. On the left and right sides, there is a half moon and a crescent moon. The light moves slowly, and the split shadows smile.

At this time, the wolf appeared.

The vigorous wolf has a pair of scarlet eyes. It threw itself on the moon, and the moon was dyed bright red.Then, the stars faded, night fell, and the flames spread across the earth.The snake girl descended slowly with something in her hands, and the bird and the man prostrated themselves on the ground, offering their respect.

"Wait, what's in her hand?" Bei Xi called to stop.

The beams of light were all concentrated on Snake Girl's hands. It was very tiring for them to keep their heads up, and it was a picture outlined by silver lines. It would take a little time to identify it. "That is, it should be something, magic weapon or something?" After all, the distance is still quite far, the ceiling is about five meters away from them, and it is somewhat tiring to keep looking up at those patterns.

This hall is very empty, the pillars form a circle, and there are vacant areas on both sides.The ceiling with those patterns in the center of the pillars was originally not many, but after the light was irradiated, those hidden patterns appeared one after another.

"Oh~ My neck hurts watching it." Rubbing his neck day by day, he decided to give up.

The pattern outlined by the lines is really not specific enough, that thing looks at Snake Girl as if holding a brick

Beixi asked the civet cat to move aside, and after breaking away from the pattern of the snake girl holding an unknown object, it seemed to return to the original pattern. Beixi shone the light beam again, and saw the original pattern for a moment, and then the thing quickly flipped and merged .

"It's a book!" Lollipop yelled.

"It seems to be [Book of Punishment]."

Merging books is an instant thing, no wonder they didn't see it clearly.

The snake girl held the [Book of Punishment] and did not open it, but merged it.The disaster subsided, the wolf pounced on the snake girl, and then disappeared into the moonlight.In the final pattern, the snake girl is sitting on the crescent moon, the full moon and the half moon revolve around her, holding the [Book of Punishment].

She is in control.

There are no more patterns, and the magic circle has stopped turning.

The three took back the magic lamp, and the snake girl in the pattern on it must be the mysterious [Meredith].

"She has had a relationship with the moon from the beginning."

The crescent moon and half moon are split from the full moon. If Meredith is the god who guards the moon, then the wolf that appears after that seems to destroy a kind of balance, so the disaster begins to befall Goulds, Meredith Had to come forward to eliminate the disaster.

Combined with the murals they saw in the old Goulds and some clues, the story is almost complete, right?
"Looks like the wolf is the culprit." He said day by day.

"But there are still a lot of things I don't understand."

Is Meredith alive or dead?
What important role does the [Book of Punishment] play? As for the wolf, where did it come from?

Finally, is there any other place besides this?
With the disappearance of Quinn, some of their previous expectations also disappeared in this endless conspiracy.

They get out of here and move on.

Walking out of the main hall, there is another long corridor.The dark corridor leads to nowhere, and the arrow points forward. It seems that they still need to walk for a while.

In the silent palace, there were only seven of them.The sound of footsteps kept echoing in the empty corridor. The location of the palace was already remote. There were no lights in the palace, not even candles.This palace has stood alone here for hundreds of years, and they are probably the only living people who have set foot here in these years...

Suddenly there was a small sound from behind, like something heavy rolling.Although it wasn't a loud noise, it was extremely abrupt when Beixi and his party didn't talk.

"Someone." Every day is a day because at the end of the line, he was the first to go to the place where the noise was made to check.It is another small corridor that can be passed through, but because the arrow is not pointing in this direction, they didn't pay much attention.

One day just turned around and ran over, the light of the magic lamp above the head illuminated the front of the dark corridor, first a potted plant came into view, and then the door of the room one meter away seemed to be opened, and an empty bottle was placed in front of the door , One day at a time, I walked in, picked up the bottle and looked at it.Then he walked to the door, and the light came into the room. It was a small storage room. At a glance, the things in the room could be seen at a glance, and there was no one there.

"One day?"

The voice of Rashomon came from the entrance of the corridor. Every day I didn’t enter the room, but I just looked in from the door. When I heard Rashomon’s call, I walked back a few steps every day, holding the bottle in my hand and saying : "It seems that this thing rolled out..."

Rashomon was surprised.

Lollipop stuck out his head from behind him, glanced at the open door in front of him, and said, "How could the bottle roll out of the room by itself, is the door open?"

One day is one day put the bottle in the room against the wall, and then close the door.

Walking towards the two of them, he rubbed his hair and said, "There was nothing when I came, and the door was open. This thing was also directly outside the door."

"Hey...have you looked in the room?" Lollipop asked.

"Just a storage room, just a bunch of crockery and empty shelves, no one there."

Lollipop glanced again, "Okay." After speaking, he returned to the team.

Rashomon was still not at ease, and the two prepared to leave side by side.There was another sound from behind, it was the sound of the door opening! The two were startled, and immediately ran to the entrance of the corridor, the sound of footsteps raised, and gradually drifted away.

"Hey, stop!"

One day at a time, he drank a lot, and chased after him without saying a word.

Rashomon originally wanted to hold back for a day, but the man just ran away.Beixi and the others in front were startled by his shout, and when they looked back, they found that only Rashomon was behind.

"Rose."

Rashomon showed a worried expression, and quickly said to Beixi, "There is a man who caught up in one day."

Hearing this, Ukiyoe and the others couldn't help frowning.

Although I understand the mood of the day, this is too risky.Without a map, once they separate, they won't be able to know the coordinates of each other. Moreover, there are many hidden dangers in this palace. If they encounter dangers every day, like Tangtang did before, it will be difficult to handle. .

"Stay here, I'll chase after you." Beixi issued a magic circle in his palm, and a metal beetle flew out and circled in front of Beixi's eyes, and then slowly landed on her fingertips.

Beixi looked at Rashomon. "You put it away, I and Yi Yi haven't come back in 5 minutes, you come and look for it again."

After the reconnaissance mechanical beast leaves its own mechanic, it remains in the hands of others who are also the mechanic, and will not disappear.

The beetle is kept here at Rashomon. At that time, they can follow the beetle to find Beixi. Of course, the time will not last too long. The mechanical beast only exists for 10 minutes.If Beixi and the others haven't returned within 5 minutes, then Rashomon and the others must find them within 5 minutes.

Otherwise, the mechanical beast will disappear automatically when the time is up.

Rashomon itself has no ability to maintain the time of Beixi Mechanical Beast.

This is not allowed.

Bei Xi chased after him, and Wei Shengmo glanced at them.

"Well, isn't the team leader catching up?" Lollipop was terrified by his cold gaze. In this situation, she thought Wei Shengmo would follow.

Wei Shengmo just looked at the dark passage behind and didn't reply.

The civet cat glanced at him, Wei Shengmo had no idea what he was thinking, neither could he see nor read.The first impression is that it will make people feel unapproachable, but seeing how he gets along with Beixi, he feels that he has another personality.

"Team leader?"

Wei Shengmo didn't respond to Lollipop's words at all. Although he was used to his attitude on weekdays, it still made people feel a little bit awkward.

Wei Shengmo's peripheral vision fell on Ukiyo-e for two seconds, and then he glanced at Lollipop and the others.

Rashomon didn't think Wei Shengmo was scary, Wei Shengmo kept looking back, he must have discovered something.Otherwise, with his temperament, he would definitely catch up with Beixi.

"Team leader, what do we need to do?" He asked naturally, and speculated on Wei Shengmo's thoughts.

This person's thoughts are probably even more unpredictable than Beixi's. Naturally, it doesn't mean that he is better than Beixi, but they have too little contact, and Weishengmo is too mysterious, so they can't guess anything.

Under the mask, the corners of Weishengmo's mouth are rising.

"catch him."

Leaving three words behind, Wei Shengmo's figure gradually faded, disappearing in the warm light of the magic lamp, and even the shadow also dissipated, completely melting into the air.

"Catch who?" Lollipop looked sideways at Rashomon.

It was Tanuki who answered her, with his index finger on his lips, "Hush!"

As soon as it fell, there was a "bang", Ukiyoe suddenly raised his eyes, waved the scepter, and the civet cat's bow and arrow were also pulled at the same time, the flames turned into a cage, the shadow struggled to break free, and shattered the flame cage , ready to flee, he had already met a gun barrel that was shining purple.

boom.

A bullet pierced his forehead.

Merff received another beating, and after the blood volume was emptied, he returned to the normal dialogue mode.

The civet cat looked at it carefully, and it was indeed the [Eagle King Merv] that he had met before.

"Why are you following us?"

Ukiyoe squatted in front of him, making a cold sound.

Manlf turned his head and snorted coldly, "I just want to come to the restricted area to see the situation."

"It seems that the black shadow that has been following us is you."

Merff didn't change his face, "I don't know what you are talking about."

Ukiyo-e chuckled: "It's all about this, and you still have to be stubborn? Tell me, did you steal... our things?" Ukiyo-e, who originally wanted to ask the Eagle King directly, changed his mind as soon as he changed his mind.If Merv didn't know about the existence of the book, wouldn't his speaking out be equivalent to revealing the news to him.

Whatever the purpose of this person's existence, it probably wouldn't do them any good anyway.

Marf looked at the humans in front of him with a half-smile.

"I saw it."

what?
Marv's smile widened, the corners of his mouth were split, and his smile was extremely weird.

"The one who took things from you, hehe."

(End of this chapter)