The Witch's Taste

Chapter 397 Hunting Gods
After struggling through the gap in the glacier, Chen Ziang, who was carrying the Mandala Sword on his back, turned around and took Xia Zili's hand to help her pass through the narrow and cold tunnel.

Then there's Suzuna Tsukimiya.This girl was much thinner than Xia Zili, so she didn't put much effort and got through easily with just a twist.

"How much further is there?" she asked with a sad face.

"I don't know." Xia Zili said lightly, "If you can't bear it, you can go back first."

"Haha." Tsukimiya Suzuna rolled her eyes at her.

The three of them set off from the glacier research base and went all the way down. They didn't know how much effort it took.If we turn around from here and go back, wouldn't all our time and energy be wasted?

"It should be soon." Chen Ziang said in a deep voice, "He Yuanling should not be able to go too deep."

"Speaking of which," Suzuna Tsukimiya pondered for a moment, "How many more false gods do we have to hunt?"

"If each one is the same as the last one." Chen Ziang replied, "killing two more should be enough."

The so-called "false gods" are those who are ordinary people or lower-level races, but try to achieve gods without overestimating their abilities.

There are many ways to become a god, such as devouring the corpse and flesh of a dead god, stealing the power of a sleeping god, or absorbing the power of a sealed god. In short, a real god is basically needed as the source of power.

Guys who try to become gods through this method are generally called "false gods."The fire you can get by killing them with the Mandala Sword is very high, but they are not as unkillable as real gods - after all, absorbing the power of gods requires an extremely long process, which can easily take 10 years and millions of years. Once you start, and as long as you don't reach the last step, you can't truly become a god, you can only be regarded as a "fake god".

Among mystical scholars, there are also many powerful and ruthless characters who specifically target these false gods.

Of course, these guys are not here to kill gods, but to replace them... Of course, that's another story.

In order to save enough "funds to resurrect his wife", after Chen Ziang arrived in the empire, he traveled around with Zili Suzuna and others, looking for various "folklore", in fact, to find clues to these false gods.

In the vast territory of the empire, there are actually a lot of such suspicious and unverified news.It is said that the Mingjian of the Ministry of Rites, who is responsible for handling such matters, is faced with a huge amount of true and false information almost every day, so much so that he has to use artificial intelligence, divination and other means to screen out nearly 99% of the information. , otherwise the investigator team simply does not have enough manpower to confirm.

What Chen Ziang and others did was actually just to pick out 99% of the information.

In the ancient city of Enlank in the dream world, the camp altar provides a redeemable power called [blasphemous witchcraft].

After redeeming this power, you can obtain a lot of unclean knowledge related to the curse.

In the past, Chen Ziang was not interested in this power. What he needed was a power that could directly improve his combat effectiveness. Later, as more and more witches were around him, he switched to focusing on survival.

Now, in order to more effectively distinguish the real and mysterious clues from the many half-true and specious folklore legends, he spent the fire again to redeem this power.

As a large amount of taboo knowledge poured into his mind, Chen Ziang's inspiration also received a certain directional increase.In any so-called folklore - even if it was just a few words, he only needed to roughly scan the text to detect whether there were any mysterious traces in it - especially traces related to curses.

So far, everyone has completed nearly 150 "archaeological activities."Unfortunately, most of the clues were eventually traced and were found to point to some stationary mysterious source of pollution, such as relics of gods, corpses of lower races, or simply relics left by some alien races, etc.

There is no way to use the Mandala Sword to draw fire.

However, there were nearly a dozen archaeological activities that finally pointed to some living mysterious ancient beasts, demon sacrifices, and even false gods.

So far, Chen Ziang has used the Mandala Sword to kill four false gods with his own hands.

The killing process was extremely dangerous. Even with the aid of Xia Zili and Yuegong Suzuna, as well as life-saving skills such as blood-spotted pins and void traps, Chen Ziang almost lost his limbs, damaged his will, and even lost his life many times...

It can only be said that for the sake of my wife, no matter whether it is a mountain of swords or a sea of ​​fire, I have to bravely step through it.

In the narrow glacier gap ahead, Chen Ziang finally found a discarded backpack.

There was a strange stone doll inside, which was a cultural relic stolen by He Yuanling from the Colonial History Museum. It looked like a strange mantis.

"Now there is good news and bad news." Chen Ziang stared at the broken stone doll and suddenly said, "Which one do you want to hear first?"

"Hear the good news first." Tsukimiya Suzuna said first.

"The good news is that this stone doll is called 'Halakutarama'." Chen Zi'ang replied, "It is an ancient object unearthed from the Xinuma Star Region."

"More than 1600 years ago, the first colonial ship discovered and landed in the Xinumo star area and began trying to establish a permanent colony there." "There was a serious problem with the colonization process. Archeology believes that the civilization here was affected by some unknown force. The devastating blow caused the descendants of the colonists to gradually degenerate. Until more than 1000 years ago, they had completely degenerated into primitive tribes and worshiped a weird god named 'Halakutalama'."

"The old-fashioned plot." Tsukimiya Suzuna commented, "The colonists who knew nothing landed on an unknown planet and were quickly corrupted by the mysterious power above. In the end, all the colonists turned into fanatical believers."

"Well, they probably didn't become fanatical believers." Chen Ziang corrected her, "According to He Yuanling's notes, he believed that the 'devastating blow' in the history of Xinumo Star District seemed to be a serious alien plague. "

"A god related to the plague?" Xia Zili asked for confirmation.

"And it's a god we've known for a long time." Chen Ziang sighed and said, "The plague traveler is currently raging in the Aegelaos and Garcia sectors."

"As for this weird-looking stone doll, Halakutarama, who is worshiped by the natives of the Xinumo Sector, is actually the clone of the Plague Walker."

"Wait a minute." Suzuna Tsukimiya interrupted him, "So what we are hunting this time is a clone of a god?"

"This is the bad news I want to say." Chen Ziang nodded and said, "But the good news is that the clone of this god is sealed and is right under our feet."

"The sealed clones of the gods also possess the power of the gods." Xia Zili said worriedly, "The gods are not something we can deal with...and you should know the consequences of angering the gods, right?"

"Of course I understand." Chen Ziang nodded and said, "If you can't completely kill a god, don't anger him easily, because he will keep an eye on you for the rest of your life until he finds an opportunity to drag you into the abyss. among.”

"But I haven't finished my good news yet... It's not us who are trying to perform blasphemous rituals against the Plague Walkers, but He Yuanling."

"He should have analyzed the material of the stone doll and discovered that the stone doll came from the Beihe Star District, and then came all the way here. He couldn't really trace the origin of the folk culture of the Xinum Star District, right? A deep burial If you were a mystic scholar, what would you think about the clones of gods sealed under the glacier?"

"If I were a stupid and overestimating occult scholar," Tsukimiya Suzuna said, "Of course I would want to get some benefits from the past, but isn't Kawarei a folklorist?"

"He is a mystical scholar, just disguised as a folklorist." Chen Ziang replied, "If he really performs blasphemous rituals, tries to steal power from the seal, and transforms into a false god, then he is To bear the wrath of the Plaguewalkers.”

"If we help kill him, the gods will thank us."

"I don't want a thank you gift or a gift from a god." Xia Zili stood up, "Let's go."

The three continued through the glacier crevasses.As the depth gradually increases, the surrounding light becomes darker and darker.

"Speaking of which," Suzuna Tsukimiya suddenly said, "If we help you kill this false god and finally revive Xia Qingyu, what does that mean? Did we help resurrect a love rival with our own hands?"

Xia Zili smiled bitterly.She didn't like the term "love rival", but she couldn't deny it - even though the other person was her biological sister.

"Wrong." Chen Ziang reminded her, "Luzuna, you should think like this: If Xia Qingyu cannot be resurrected, I will not be able to let go of this matter for the rest of my life, which means that you cannot completely defeat her. On the contrary, if she is here Being resurrected with your help means that she owes you a huge favor. You can tease her about this for the rest of your life, and she has no way to retaliate and can only endure your humiliation. Bully."

"Well, I like this statement." Tsukimiya Suzuna immediately became excited and had already thought of seven or eight ways to humiliate Xia Qingyu.

Xia Zili looked at her with some pity, thinking that for a simple and innocent person like her, no wonder she couldn't even steal a house in her previous life.That is to say, we have to rush ahead of schedule in this life, otherwise we will not even be able to eat cold soup.

It doesn't matter, sooner or later there will be a chance to push her to the edge... But the urgent thing now is to resurrect her sister first and increase her weight on her side.

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Imperial investigator Shi Qinglian also began to gradually get involved in the glacier crevices.

These ultra-thick glaciers are good cosmic particle shields, so the Empire has built many leptonic research bases under the glaciers.The deepest base is about 3700 meters, but the depth of naturally formed glacial fissures is much deeper than that.

According to the information from the Director of Life, the North River region was not a polar planet hundreds of millions of years ago, but an extremely hot ocean planet.

Here lives an insect-like race of deep-sea inferiors called "Sharps".They have the ability to fly at sub-light speeds, and their activity trajectories cover the three star regions of Beihe, Xinum and Jianyun. Some artifacts of the Sharp Zerg tribe have been unearthed on these planets - research believes that they worship an unknown mysterious god. .

He Yuanling's footprints happen to be all over these three star regions. Could his target be related to the Sharp Zerg or even the unknown god?

Are Chen Ziang and others tracing He Yuanling's footsteps, plotting against the unknown god, or both?
Before entering the glacier fissure, she had already written a preliminary investigation report and sent all the found and connected clues to the headquarters of the Command Supervisor through the distant star chain.

If he dies in the end, at least the information will not stop here.The Ming Supervisor will set its sights on Beihe Star District, and more investigators will come one after another to stop your conspiracy to seize the gods!

(End of this chapter)