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On the river in front of the temple, Ryan was stopped by two guards. They were bare-chested and held unrefined spears in their hands. From their facial features, it can be seen that these two people should be the indigenous residents of the city-state itself. , rather than "citizens" like Richardson who were forced to stay.

Obviously, they are also different from the "citizens" whose memories were forcibly modified. They have coherent memories, and they can even recognize that Ryan's identity is not "citizens".

Ryan ignored the two spears in front of him, looked at the guards and said with a smile: "I am a foreign traveler, and I want to go to the temple to visit the priest, and I would like to ask the two of you to help me report the news."

The two looked at each other, and the obviously stronger guard on the right said in a low voice with a very heavy accent:

"Unless the priest orders, no one is allowed to enter the temple. The temple will only be open every night when there is a sacrifice. You can come back after dark. Everyone can enter the temple after dark."

Sure enough, they are natives, and their accent is similar to that of ancient Chinese. Ryan thought to himself.

I just don't know what kind of world this is in the eyes of these natives. Judging from the reactions of the two after he claimed to be a traveler, these natives probably also know the existence of the outside world.

While thinking, Ryan looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "I have something that the priest needs in my hand. The matter is urgent. Please help me to report the news. If the matter of the priest is delayed, I don't think you will want to see it." This happens."

"What does the priest need?" The native on the right showed a hint of anger. This person thought they were stupid. A traveler from outside claimed that he had something that the priest needed. Have you ever seen the priest? That's it. explain?Do you really think that our brothers are easy to deceive?

Without any warning, the spear in the guard's hand poked forward without hesitation, and the sharpened and flat spearhead brought a gust of wind, and quickly pierced towards Ryan's head.

There were cruel expressions on the faces of the two of them, as if they had already seen the self-proclaimed traveler, two huge, bloody holes were about to appear on his body.

But the next moment, their faces suddenly froze.

Ryan made a very funny gesture, just like the posture when taking pictures to say "Yeah". He stopped their spears with just two fingers, the index finger and middle finger. Failed to pierce.

Before the two of them could react, Ryan's gesture changed, and with a slight turn, he grabbed two spears.

The strength of these two guards is about the same as that of a first-order warrior, and they are stronger than ordinary people. The spears in their hands do not have any special effects. They are ordinary primitive spears. Poking yourself with a stick makes no difference.

The faces of the two changed, and they tried to pull back the spear, but found that the spear in their hands seemed to be suppressed by a boulder. No matter how hard they tried, it had no effect and could not be shaken.

Can't go in, but can't pull out.

Seeing this, the other guards raised their spears and rushed over.

"Your strength is no different from ordinary people to me." Ryan opened his hands lightly, looked at the two guards in front of him and smiled, "I do have something to ask Mr. Priest, please inform me."

"The visitor is a guest, I don't want to tear my face apart, but if I can't communicate, I don't mind going in by myself."

The moment they let go, the two guards suddenly took a few steps back and nearly fell into the river behind them. Several guards around also rushed over and surrounded Ryan, but they only surrounded him. No one dared to take the initiative. After all They just saw with their own eyes that the spears couldn't even pierce each other's skin.

The tall and strong guard on the right, who looked like the team leader, had an uncertain expression on his face, as if hesitating whether to go in and report.

"Do you really have what the priest needs?" He stared at Ryan.

"Of course, otherwise, why would I ask you to report? Wouldn't it be faster for me to go in by myself?" Ryan looked at the captain of the guard with a smile.

Although the strength of these guards is very weak, this city-state is extremely weird, and there must be something terrifying hidden. If possible, he will not take the initiative to conflict with the people in the temple.

As for the so-called things that the Lord needs to sacrifice, he really doesn't have anything, but he has the map given to him by the previous "Luo" in his hand. If the god enshrined in this temple is really the "Luo" he knows, he will definitely recognize it. The origin of the map.

If the "Luo" in the temple is not the "Luo" he knows, then he can only think of other ways, and trying to leave by force can only be the last resort, after all, he cannot get power here For recovery, every point you spend is one point less. If you are not sure, doing it is obviously the least cost-effective solution.

Staring at the smiling Ryan for a while, the captain of the guard put down the spear in his hand, and said in a deep voice to Ryan: "You wait here for a while, I will go in and report to the priest."

"You'd better pray that you really have what the priest needs. If you anger the priest, no matter how strong you are, you will die a miserable death."

"Please hurry up." Ryan said with a smile: "My time is limited."

The captain of the guard took a deep look at Ryan, put down the spear in his hand, and walked to the other side of the stone bridge.

The middle ring where the temple is located is completely surrounded by rivers, like a small island. The total area of ​​the island will not exceed the size of two football fields. In the center is a temple made entirely of stones.

Compared with the aristocratic area on the second ring road, the temple is obviously much more refined in terms of decoration and details. All the pillars are round stone pillars. I didn't recognize who the characters on the reliefs were, but Ryan boldly guessed that those engraved on those reliefs should be the angels of this unknown church.

Reminiscent of the distinct architectural distinctions in the entire city-state, a strange idea suddenly appeared in Ryan's mind.

The houses in the outermost circle are as rough as a hollowed out big rock, and there is no way to live in them. The aristocratic area in the inner circle is slightly better, but it is also very rough, and it can only be barely livable. Only God The details of the temple are most clear and exquisite.

This gave Ryan a strong sense of déjà vu. It was like when the computer screen was not rendered properly when playing a game.

In the online games in his previous life, at the beginning of setting up all games, a camera angle of view will be set first, that is, all the angles of view that the player can see on the screen at the same time, and the computer will only render the part that can be seen by the camera angle of view. Other parts are in an unrendered state.

This method can save a lot of computing power, which is somewhat similar to the state of this weird city-state, except that there is no "camera perspective", or the "camera perspective" is fixed on the temple.

Could this city-state not exist at all, but a virtual world "rendered" in some way?

Ryan was taken aback by this absurd idea that suddenly popped up in his heart, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems that it is not impossible at all, which can explain why he did not feel any space fluctuations, and even why there are Such a strange city,

In an instant, many thoughts flashed through Ryan's mind. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was most likely to be realistic, and almost all the problems encountered here could be explained by this.

Why aren't there any spatial fluctuations?
Because he has never left the same place, space fluctuations are naturally impossible to talk about. As for the more absurd time reversal, this possibility has never been considered by him.

This can also explain why Richardson said that he has never seen anyone leave here, how to leave a world that does not exist?

But new questions followed.

If this is really a "rendered" world, then when did he get caught?Why doesn't he feel anything?

While Ryan was thinking, the captain of the guard came over from the other side of the bridge.

"Master Priest promised to see you." The tall and strong captain of the guard said in a muffled voice: "Follow me, and you are not allowed to enter other places of the temple casually. My Lord Priest only allows you to go to the front of the temple, not to enter the temple. .”

"Huh?" Ryan, whose thoughts were interrupted, looked up at the other party, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't mess around."

Seeing the captain of the guard nodding, the guards next to him no longer stopped him, and let Ryan enter the stone bridge without worrying about the spear in his hand.

"Let's go." Ryan was half a step behind, followed the captain of the guard and walked in the direction of the temple, while carefully sizing him up from the corner of his eye.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it. After looking at it, he suddenly found that the other party's state was very weird, even weirder than Richardson. Richardson only had physical problems, but his soul still existed, but he was weaker than ordinary people.

And this captain of the guard. He couldn't feel a trace of soul fluctuations. In other words, it was as if this person didn't exist, or was an alchemy creation like a "doll".

This made Ryan more sure of his guess. There is a high probability that this world is really "rendered", but why is the rendering perspective fixed at the temple?Could it be that the "player" has been in the temple from beginning to end?

According to the captain of the guard, only priests would stay in the temple every day, right? Ryan frowned.

The stone bridge is not long, only about 50 meters. The two quickly crossed the stone bridge and walked towards the temple.

"Well, these stone pillars." Ryan narrowed his eyes slightly. After getting closer, the pillars around the temple gave him a sense of familiarity. He seemed to have seen these stone pillars somewhere.

Soon, the guard captain brought him to the temple.

"My lord priest asked you to wait here." The captain of the guard finished in a muffled voice, turned around decisively and left, and returned to his post.

Ryan looked at the back of the other party thoughtfully. Before he remembered when he had seen these pillars, a figure in a white robe walked out of the tall temple, with a hood on his head. , the facial features looming under the shadows.

"Are you a foreign traveler?" The man's voice was very calm, without any emotion, and he couldn't even tell the difference between male and female.

Ryan put his hands on his chest, bowed slightly to salute the other party, and then raised his head and smiled: "I am Ryan Dylan, a traveler from the outside world, and also a bishop of the Dawn Church."

While speaking, he quietly looked at the other person's facial features. The face under the hood had handsome features, which looked like a man and a woman, but it was expressionless. The brown eyes were very deep, completely different from the guard captain who looked like a puppet just now. Different, the strange thing is that he can't even tell the other party's gender.

After listening to Ryan's words, the priest did not have any emotional fluctuations. He still stood on the high steps, looked down at Ryan and said calmly: "You said you have something I need in your hand, take it out and have a look."

Ryan couldn't help but subconsciously froze for a moment at the other party's reaction. The priest, who was neither male nor female, just skipped it as if he hadn't heard the words Dawn Church.

Don't know, or don't care?

If it's the former, it's okay, but if it's the latter, it may be a little troublesome.

Even the top leaders of the other three major churches are unlikely to directly ignore the bishop of the Shuguang Church. After all, the bishop has already barely ranked among the top church leaders, and what he says has a certain weight.

After pondering for a moment, Ryan didn't make any moves, but turned his head to look at the city, and asked with a smile: "I do have something in my hand, but before that, I hope that Your Excellency Priest can answer me a question first."

The priest looked at Ryan and said nothing.

Ryan ignored him, but said to himself: "At first, I thought I was pulled into a closed secret territory handed down from ancient times, but later I found that there are no rules here, and the elements seem to be fake. Same, no reaction."

From the position of the temple, the houses on the third ring road in the distance turned into squares, which made Ryan more sure of his thoughts.

"So I started to think about a question." Ryan looked back at the priest and said with a smile: "I want to know, does this place really exist?"

"Have you finished?" The priest's voice was still emotionless. Seeing that Ryan hadn't spoken, he turned around and walked back to the temple. At the same time, he said calmly, "Since you don't have what I need, don't waste time."

"Wait!" Ryan yelled, seeing that the other party didn't mean to stop, he took out the moving map that "Luo" gave him before from the warehouse.

The moment the map appeared, he felt that the whole world seemed to stop literally. Everyone, including the priest, even the wind around him and the clouds in the sky seemed to have been pressed the pause button.

Ryan watched this scene in astonishment, and even forgot to ask what he wanted to say.

It seems that there is no need to ask.

With such a big reaction to this map, this temple is indeed related to the super strong man who calls himself "Luo" in the secret realm, no, no. The whole world has something to do with him.
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