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The hot sun swayed on the sand, as if it had baked every grain of sand thoroughly, and it felt a little hot to the touch.The terrifying black storm has completely dissipated, as if it had never appeared before.The desert outside the cave returned to its previous appearance, dry, scorching hot, with occasional sandy breezes.Nothing seems to have changed, and it seems to have changed completely.

We drove the car between the continuous sand dunes, and slowly moved towards the settlement of the Ilias tribe.There is one less car in the marching queue, but two more camels.In addition to the camels, there is also a guide in the team.This guide can not only lead us to find Elias's residence like Arslan, but more importantly, she can also lead us into the almost completely closed rock group.Her name was Kanaguli—the Elias tribe we rescued that day.

In addition to the name, Kanaguli also told us a lot of things, including the agreement to take us into their tribe.It didn't happen because she was someone who couldn't keep secrets, or because we were coercing her.Strictly speaking, even if we take her life as a threat to let her lead us into that mysterious tribe, I don't think she will flinch in the slightest, and would rather die than obey.This is evident in her eyes, which can change according to the intensity of light.It is a light of faith that can surpass all beliefs.However, such a tight barrier was broken by Xiaoqian's sudden words.That night, Xiaoqian's behavior shocked everyone in the cave, including herself.

"Gilliac, Doc."

Xiaoqian slowly uttered an inexplicable language, which immediately made Kanaguli, who had always bowed her head in silence, suddenly raise her head, and looked at her in shock.Although there was no strong light in the cave at the moment, her pair of dark pupils still shrank a lot in an instant.It was as if he saw a woman who looked more like a monster than himself.

In fact, far from being as shocked as hers, we were even more shocked.At that time, our negotiations with Kanaguli reached an impasse.Although she is very grateful to us for saving her, she still refuses to answer any questions about the Ilias tribe.No matter how we try to persuade, how to formulate.Even when it turned into a threat in the later stage, she always shook her head and refused, with a very decisive attitude.In the end, she even lowered her head and kept silent, resisting all this with complete silence, showing a posture of "not speaking".I didn't expect the impasse to be broken so quickly.What's more, I didn't expect that the one who broke the deadlock was Xiaoqian, who had never spoken, and in a way that I couldn't understand at all.

"You..." Kanaguli stared at Xiaoqian for a while.Finally opened his mouth with effort.However, she only uttered a vague syllable and didn't continue. She just moved her lips stiffly, as if she didn't know what to say.

"Gilliac, Doc." Xiaoqian repeated the weird sentence again, and then said, "It means 'servant of the holy clan'. Right? Your tattoo." She pointed to her forehead.

"How...how did you know?" Kanaguli swallowed, her voice extremely dry. [

"I read it, it's clearly written on your forehead. Isn't it?"

"Read? You said read?!" Kanaguli sat up excitedly, and the pain of pulling the wound vigorously made her groan, but she couldn't care about these at all, and just asked like a "continuous cannon" Said: "Can you understand the 'Holy Words'? Who are you? How do you know this? Where did you come from?"

"I also want to know the answer." Xiaoqian murmured, with a wry smile on her lips, and asked, "What are these words called? Holy words?"

Kanaguli nodded, but did not speak.Xiaoqian then asked: "From the meaning of your words, it seems difficult to understand these words. Could it be that your clansmen also can't understand?"

"It's really difficult." Kanaguli paused, as if he was considering how to speak.After a long while, she continued: "Actually, none of our clansmen can fully understand the 'Holy Words', and even 'Caslo' can only understand part of it."

"Caslo? Is it a personal name?"

"No, it's a title, meaning 'chief'. He is the wisest among us." Kanaguli sighed, "This is our ethnic language, a language separated from the 'holy language' , is also the language we use every day. However, even this does not help us to master the 'holy language', we still know very little about the 'holy language'. This is very important to us, can you tell me How do you know the 'Holy Word'?"

Xiaoqian shook her head and said sincerely, "I'm sorry, I really don't know the reason."

"Then can you tell me, besides these, what other words do you know?" Kanaguli pointed to his tattoo.

"A lot," Xiaoqian thought for a while, knelt down and drew a few strange runes on the ground, and then explained the meaning of each rune one by one.

Kanagul listened to Xiaoqian's explanation very seriously, staring at the runes on the ground without blinking, sometimes bewildered, sometimes nodding vigorously in surprise.After Xiaoqian finished explaining all the runes he had written, Kanagul frowned and thought for a long time, then gritted his teeth, as if making some very important decision, and said:

"I have a request, can you go back to the clan with me?"

This invitation was a dream come true for us and all of us would have cheered if we had gotten it minutes before.However, under such a weird situation at this moment, no one can laugh.

I looked at Xiaoqian and asked for her opinion with my eyes.She nodded, looking very determined.Seeing this, I had no choice but to express my agreement to Kanaguli, and simply said a few words to tell her to take a good rest and recuperate, and then led everyone out of the cave.

When I came to the cave outside, instead of going back to the campfire, I pulled Xiaoqian to the side, and asked her softly what was going on with her strange actions just now. [

Xiaoqian smiled bitterly when she heard the words, and said, "I know I scared you, but I also scared myself. When I saw that tattoo, I knew it was a kind of writing, and I knew their meaning in my heart. The meaning is like reading Chinese. But I know that I have never seen this kind of writing before, and I don’t even have anything similar. I don’t understand how this inexplicable situation happened. These things are just It just popped into my head like a dream. I was terrified."

I sighed, stretched out my hand and hugged the trembling Xiaoqian in my arms, and hugged him tightly.Xiaoqian put her forehead on my shoulder and began to sob, her voice was suppressed, and people could clearly feel the fear and pressure escaping from her bones.

After a while, Xiaoqian slowly calmed down under my caress.Panting for a while, she left from my arms, raised her head and wiped her tears, and said, "I think, that mysterious Ilias tribe must be able to give me the answer, even if they don't, we should be able to get it from them." Find the clues. In fact, there are other things in my head, which are very fragmented. I don't know how to connect them or how to express them. Give me some time, and I will try to think through these things. These things are not only important to me, but also to us, especially to you!"

I looked at her in surprise, not knowing why.At this time, Xiaoqian unbuttoned my clothes, then gently opened the skirt, stroked the tattoo pattern on the right side of my chest with her fingers, and said: "The symbol in this circle is 'Yesado', It means 'the foundation of all things', 'divine creativity'. Do you understand that this so-called 'holy word' has a great connection with you!"

I looked down at my chest and was amazed.Xiaoqian slowly moved her finger away, and sighed: "Unfortunately, I can only recognize this one symbol now, and the other ones have no concept at all. Moreover, although I know the meaning of this symbol, I don't know its meaning." How should the meanings be concatenated or used. It’s like learning a new foreign language, knowing that a word is the name of a thing, but not knowing what the thing is and what it looks like. I think we can only Elias finds the answer."

I nodded and said nothing.The destination, which was already full of mystery, became even more mysterious because of these sudden problems.Regardless of the reason, we must contact them as soon as possible, and we must establish friendly relations with them as much as possible.Although we saved Kanaguli, how much can she help us in these matters?How to do it?

In addition, what is the relationship between Xiaoqian's current situation and her weird high fever not long ago?And is the cause of that high fever related to our experience in Shennongjia?I once saw some bloody runes flashing in her eyes when she was having a high fever. At that time, I felt that this situation seemed familiar. After thinking about it carefully, I recalled Xiaoqian's escape from Shennongjia. At that time, I accidentally came into contact with the round stone that originally stood on the top of the pyramid, and a similar situation seemed to have occurred at that time.However, the situation was very urgent at that time, and this kind of vision disappeared in a flash. I thought it was my own misreading, and I didn't care about it in a hurry to escape.Could it be that what I saw at the time was not an illusion?These runes are the kind of round stones that are causing trouble?What are those stones, and what kind of impact will they have on Xiaoqian?And is all this a blessing or a curse for us?

The icy night wind became more piercing under the infusion of several puzzles. I hated these endless puzzles, but I couldn't break free. I could only toss and turn helplessly under their ravages, waiting for the dawn irritably.

Tomorrow, the storm may pass, perhaps, it will become more violent.

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