ghost market

As the story progressed, the sky became darker and darker, and soon it was close to dusk.

Everyone in the room never left the room, and even the lunch was brought in by the waiter for simple settlement.Everyone is full of interest, everyone is engrossed, and everyone's expression changes with our ups and downs, sometimes tense, sometimes relaxed, sometimes puzzled, and sometimes suddenly enlightened.

Sudden bloody cases, the mysterious organization "Original Spirit Society", cruel and treacherous blood gangsters, and archaeological teams with different goals, we ran with our lives in the deep mountains of Sichuan; strange poisons that cannot be explained by science, and strange people hidden in the folk , mercenaries unknowingly involved in the mystery, the non-human race in the deep forest, we live and die in the dense forest of Shennongjia.

One by one, one after another, countless bloody and mysterious events are connected together, so that everyone who hears these experiences can't help but hold their breath, for fear that even a heavy breath will make them fall into the deep water. In the fog, it is difficult to extricate myself.Even as experiencers and narrators, we can't control our emotions, and we can't help but be tugged at the heartstrings by the events in our memory, and let out heavy sighs from time to time.

Too long, really too long.For months, we have been struggling in the fog, hovering on the verge of life and death.But we can't confide these things to anyone but our own team.For one thing, even if we tell such a weird thing, people may not believe it.Furthermore, there are too many secrets in these matters that are not suitable for unrelated people to know.

It is undeniable that Carter is an excellent confidant.Not only does he belong to a mysterious race deeply connected to these secrets, but he also holds some information that we desperately need to know.Talking openly and honestly with him would have been immensely beneficial, both for the purposes of our visit and for the mystery of my origin that we had been trying to unearth.not to mention.We also need an emotional catharsis to release the pressure.

Although there is still Arslan in the room who has nothing to do with most of the incidents, but when the situation is extreme, he can't take care of so much.The long-standing pressure on us is too heavy. Once it is poured out, it is difficult to contain it. We can only spit it out like a flood dam.Fortunately, Arslan is not ignorant, even if he knows more things, it won't have too bad an impact.And although my narration is as detailed as possible, I still hide some extremely core things more or less.after all.I can't really turn over all the cards at once.Not because of unbelief, but because of my cautious nature.

After listening to everything, Carter lowered his head and remained silent, as if analyzing the credibility of what we said.After a long time, he raised his head and told Kanaguli to get some lighting items, and then said to me: "Mr. We can help each other, but we don’t know how much we can help. We need to study it carefully. We need to talk about something more deeply. In this way, we will go to dinner first, and we will continue to discuss later.”

I nodded in agreement.I am happy to be able to achieve the current relationship with the Ilias tribe. Although the whole contact process is completely different from what I expected, it does not affect my information and satisfaction with the result.

Moments later, Kanaguri walked in with something that looked like a kerosene lamp.Seeing this, Carter invited us to have dinner downstairs, and stood up voluntarily.Lead the way for us in person.Along the way, Carter introduced this huge building to us scatteredly.Tells about some important events that happened here.During the period, he told me more than once that today's reception was a little neglectful, please forgive me.Although I don't know my past and identity myself, he is very sure that I must be from the "Holy Clan" and have a special status.According to him, they should hold a banquet of the highest standard for us as soon as possible to show respect.But at this moment, they can only treat them with simple meals, which is really inappropriate.

I told him that there is no need to worry about this matter, but he dared not agree. He stubbornly said that traditional etiquette cannot be broken, so let me forgive it for now.Tomorrow, the whole family must be notified to prepare carefully.Seeing this, it was inconvenient for me to make excuses again, so as not to cause his displeasure, so I just nodded my thanks and said some kind words.

After dinner in their restaurant, our group returned to Carter's room to talk again.As soon as I was seated, I put the topic on the "holy words" that both Xiaoqian and I were very concerned about.Carter obviously paid more attention to this issue than we did. After a few words, he took a pen and paper and asked Xiaoqian to draw down the runes he knew. Know what the runes mean.

Xiaoqian discussed back and forth with him for a long time, and after all the runes were finished, Carter sat back on his chair and sighed: "Oh! The 'Holy Word' is indeed profound and incomprehensible, Miss Xiaoqian Although I know a lot of runes now, but I don’t know their true meaning and usage, so it can’t be regarded as a real mastery!”

After a pause, he said again: "Mr. Mu, you said that you suspect that the reason for Miss Xiaoqian's situation is because of your experience in Shennongjia last time? Those round stones? Can you describe the details of those stones in detail? Details?"

I nodded and described in detail the round stones I saw in the mysterious ancient city of Shennongjia last time. I also recounted the situation when we escaped and Xiaoqian's "strange high fever" when he first arrived in Ruoqiang , in every detail.

Carter stood up after listening, and slowly paced around the room thinking.After a while, he walked to a bookshelf and searched for a while, then took out an ancient book and looked it up for a long time before he said, "It should be this one!"

He held the ancient book and walked back to the table, put the book in front of us and pointed to the words on the inner page: "Look here, here is a tool for storing information of the saints, called 'Sage's Stone' " Looking at our bewildered expressions, he suddenly remembered that we couldn't understand these books written in their ethnic language, so he patted his forehead and sighed: "Hey! I'm old! Sometimes it's inevitable to be confused!"

Laughing self-deprecatingly, Carter sat back on the chair with the ancient book and said, "Let me explain, this thing called 'Sage's Stone' looks similar to the round stone you described, and its function is to store information." , can be stored in the memory, and can also be read at will, just like computers in modern society. However, to control it, you need to have the "source blood" of the saints, or have the "recognition device" given by the saints, otherwise it will be It is no different from ordinary stones. Its storage and reading methods are not physical methods, but are transmitted directly in the form of thoughts, which means that the things that are thought in the mind are directly put in, or the things that are read out appear directly in the brain inside."

"Huh? Isn't this the same as my situation? Those characters just appeared in my brain suddenly." Xiaoqian said.

"Yes, that's why I think this is what you encountered." Carter nodded, "However, the strange thing is that according to the records left by our ancestors, this tool will turn into a red color when it is activated. There will be a lot of information on the sphere for those who plan to use it to choose. Although the description here is not specific, I don’t know how to operate it later. But just talking about this most basic startup state, you have not encountered it. Here we go."

"Well, it really didn't happen." I frowned and thought for a while, and then said, "However, it may be that we didn't notice it. The situation was very urgent at that time, and it took a long time for Xiaoqian to fall and touch the round stone." Short, and then I pulled her up immediately. I only saw her look a little dazed, and the bloody runes in her eyes flashed away. I thought I was wrong, so I quickly pulled her to escape. No time to pay attention to anything else."

Carter closed the book and said, "What you said is also possible. After hearing what you said, I think this is the most likely thing. I think so," he adjusted his glasses, Analyzed: "The reason why these two girls have the 'blood' aura of the saint clan, I guess it may come from you, it should be caused by you feeding them blood many times when they were poisoned earlier. And Miss Xiaoqian It is precisely because of this bloodline that the transmission of information was inadvertently activated when I came into contact with the 'Philosopher's Stone', which led to today's situation. Although I don't know how this so-called 'transmission' is It's true, but I think it must have something to do with the thoughts at the time. Do you remember what you thought at the time?" Carter looked at Xiaoqian.

"What did you think about? Running for your life...I couldn't think about anything else at the time," Xiaoqian frowned, then suddenly her eyes lit up, and she said in surprise: "That's right! We saw it on the obelisk in the ancient city before that." Many runes, I found that many of those runes were very similar to the tattoo patterns of the big wood, and I guessed a lot of things with him. Later, I kept thinking about what those runes were, and when I might run away subconsciously thinking about it.”

"That's right!" Carter clapped his hands, "My guess should be right, those runes you saw on the obelisk must also be 'Holy Words', you are thinking about those runes all the time , I want to know what they are. So, when you activate the 'Philosopher's Stone' unintentionally, these thoughts of yours become a kind of 'command'. It will naturally transmit the relevant things to you. However, because you have been exposed to it for a short time, the transmission may not be complete, or it may cause some uncomfortable reactions, such as you will develop a high fever afterward, etc. This should be the case. Now, our most important thing It’s about figuring out how much information you’re getting.”

Carter stood up from the chair as he spoke, walked to a bookshelf and rummaged through it.After a while, he came back holding a small wooden box in both hands, and put the box in front of us.

"Look at this, this book can help you confirm how much you know about the 'Holy Word'." Carter reached out and opened the box.

The moment I saw the ancient book in the box, I couldn't help being stunned, and my forehead was instantly covered with a layer of cold sweat. (To be continued..)