Dominate the Treacherous Realm

"You are not the benefactors now. In fact, even most of the benefactors do not understand the meaning of the so-called'essence'. Now you can regard it as a gift. You can only start to explore the destiny of impermanence in the future. I understand. Now go up the mountain, follow your own mind to the sacrificial ground on the top of the mountain, and you will see the holy thing."

　　 As she said, she gave up the road, seemingly not planning to accompany everyone up the mountain. Jenkins hesitated. In his eyes, the entire mountain had a strong purple aura. In other words, the mountain itself was a numbered item.

　　 He looked at Miss Audrey who was on the side. Miss Audrey obviously knew the origin of this mountain, but now there are so many people, she can't explain it easily.

　　Because there was no request to set off immediately, most people stayed where they rested for a while before getting up and heading towards the bare white ash stone mountain in front.

　　 Jenkins and Miss Audrey mixed in the crowd, walking forward with them. There is more than one way up the mountain. In fact, there is no so-called road on this mountain. What people need to do is to walk and climb as much as possible to what they think of as "high places", so the people around them will almost disappear after a while.

　　 When it was confirmed that there were no other people nearby, Miss Audrey began to explain this to Jenkins. In front of the two of them was a high stone ridge. As a temporary rest, they stood in the shadow of the stone ridge to enjoy the coolness:

　　 "It is not a mountain under our feet, but the [Vanxiang Impermanence Card-Mountain]. Jenkins, please tell me about all the meanings of'mountain' in the divination card."

　　 Jenkins thought about it:

　　 "Sublimation, difficulty."

　　 "It also means that even though the roads are different, the destination is unique."

　　 Miss Audrey said, seeing that Jenkins wanted to ask Vientiane Impermanence, she added:

"The Vientiane Impermanence card is one of the most mysterious gifts scattered in the material world. Even if the same card is in the hands of different controllers, it will play different roles. The current user is the oldest divination in our church. Home, she rarely does this. According to my memories and the information from the teacher, I am afraid that there is more than one holy relic on the top of the mountain. Fate will guide us to see different things. I saw it back then. It seems to be...a mirror?"

　　 she said uncertainly.

　　 "Then what is the nature of the so-called gifter?"

　　 This is not the first time Jenkins has come into contact with this term. Sarhi II said it again two days ago, and he also mentioned the existence of the suspected **** of death a long time ago.

"This is difficult to explain. For those who understand, explaining the meaning of this word is as difficult as explaining why one plus one equals two. This matter will be discussed when we leave here. I have a hunch that I am afraid that I will climb to the top of the mountain. Can find a way to leave this point in time."

　　 After a short rest, the two of them continued to set off. Although the journey is difficult and dangerous, there are no human-eating creatures on the mountain, and there are no malicious traps, so the trip is not dangerous. Surrounded by bare land and ashes accumulated on the ground, only a few flying birds occasionally flicked through the sky, making the scenery a little different, but in general, this kind of adventure is very boring.

　　 This mountain is not high. Even with Miss Audrey's body at this time, after a few breaks, she quickly reached the mountainside position they thought. The surrounding scenery is still the same, and the two can't see any other people who set off together.

　　 "The next road, let's not walk together."

　　 Miss Audrey said seriously when she stopped to rest. She was gasping for breath. For a young body, this amount of exercise is really uncomfortable.

　　 Jenkins remembered that Miss Audrey seemed to mention that before becoming a fortune-teller, she was just an ordinary girl from aristocracy, not a Valkyrie who could smash a ten-inch thick copper plate in a state of extreme anger.

"Although we don’t know why fate arranged for us to come here, the opportunity to witness our own essence is quite rare. We each have a different way to go. In my memory, this last half is very clear. I am I walked by myself. As for you, Jenkins, seize this opportunity. If this is indeed a past point in time, what you will get is an opportunity that is hard to come across even at our point in time."

　　 Jenkins knew nothing about the situation at this time, but since his teacher asked for it, he could only do it.

　　 Watching Miss Audrey walk to the upward ramp on the left, Jenkins stood there and looked at it. Instead of using the real eye to find the possible "sacred object", he looked up at the sky for a while, missing his cat. After Miss Audrey's figure disappeared completely, she proceeded in the direction where she left.

　　 During the next boring journey, Jenkins saw no one. Because without the drag of the young version of Miss Audrey, he can choose a high position as much as possible to move forward, ignoring the strange terrain, so the speed is faster.

　　 The more you head towards the top of the mountain, the more boring the surrounding environment becomes. The occasional extreme road environment is completely not difficult under Jenkins's super-high physical fitness. The most troublesome location he encountered was a road that suddenly broke. There is a bottomless gorge between the road ahead and the foot, as if the mountain had been split in half.

　　 But even so, he just made a run-up and then jumped sharply, and a fragile ice board was condensed in the air to borrow the force once, and he successfully passed the "difficulty".

Chapter 1734 Chapter 1707 The Epic of the Years

When the sun was about to come to the top of his head, Jenkins, who was climbing along the slope, took a rest with his legs supported. When he looked up, he finally saw a fuzzy low building in the distance, which seemed to be the woman who led everyone to the bottom of the mountain The so-called "sacrifice field".

　　 He speeded up his pace and found that there seemed to be no way up. A few steps forward, the whole view of the sacrificial ground, which seems to be completely spliced ​​with huge stones, is greeted with a white-gray exterior.

　　 Those boulders have not been polished, and the surface is uneven due to weathering. The crooked and slanted building made people doubt its safety, but when I walked in, I saw that the long boulders were almost integrated with the mountain, and I felt that the sacrificial site should have been here.

　　Fate believers like stone buildings. They believe that trees and metals have fate, but only stone does not, so they will not interfere with their destiny.

　　The sacrificial ground has a roof spliced ​​by giant stones, and the whole has a kind of inexplicable simplicity and vicissitudes of life. After stepping on the crooked and uneven stone bricks to enter inside, because the sun was blocked outside, Jenkins couldn't help but sigh for a long time because of the cold and cool feeling.

　　 There is no light source inside, and the stone-stitched building has no gaps to let the sunlight in. So he could only take out his candle and hold it in the palm of his hand, while looking at the giant stone statue standing on the edge of the sacrificial ground, while advancing deeper.

　　 The size of the space here is much larger than observed from the outside. When I finally reached the end, looking backward, the light shining in from the door has become smaller than the grain of rice.

　　 At the end of the sacrificial field is a high platform. Observed under the faint light of candles, it is also made of stone. On the high platform is a simple stand. On the top of the stand is a huge book that is closed. Just the length and width of the book is as long as the tail of more than ten chocolates.

　　 "It really is not the mirror that Miss Audrey said."

　　 He whispered, because the surface of the stone slabs that make up the walls of the sacrificial site was uneven enough to absorb sound waves, so there was no echo.

　　 walked around the front of the high platform to find the steps on the side, stood in front of the stone stand holding a candle and wanted to open the book. But before the hand touched the book, he stopped again, tilted his head and looked at the cover of the giant book without any words in the warm yellow flame of the candle. For some reason, an inexplicable feeling told Jenkins that he should never open it. it.

"This......"

　　 He retracted his hand and took two steps back, and all kinds of speculations continued to emerge in his mind. Suddenly, it was like a thunderstorm struck overhead, and a guess that was the least likely to occur appeared in Jenkins's mind:

　　 "This is not [Epic of Time], is it?"

　　 There is no logical speculation, but after thinking of this possibility, I feel that there is no other answer.

　　 His hand shook his back behind him, as if he was going to get away from the book on the shelf.

Jenkins has heard about the name of "Epic of Time" from many people through various channels, but without exception, those who have talked about this book and died, most of them think that through "Epic of Time" peeking at the traces of fate , Is to let yourself be controlled by fate.

The most obvious manifestation is the puppets sealed under the Snow Mountain Villa. They tried their best to get rid of their fate, but in the end they blew up and left Jenkins with important puppet legs, allowing him to synthesize that in the battle of the evergreen forest. sword.

　　 "No, I can't open it. Although the probability of "Epic of Time" is very low, I can't take this risk, and I don't want to read this book."

　　 He said to himself in his heart, staring at the book and stepping back step by step, as if if he didn't do this, the book would suddenly jump up and bite him.

　　 just hadn't retreated under the high platform, but there was another sigh behind him. Jenkins only felt a layer of goose bumps on the back of his neck, and he almost jumped up.

　　 It is too quiet here, so quiet that even his slight footsteps are particularly noticeable, so the sudden sigh really shocked him.

　　 Before he could look back, he felt a pair of cold hands hugging his head. He wanted to break free in shock, but his hands seemed to have unspeakable power, which made his whole person froze in place. The biggest action that can be done at this moment is to blink, and the cold hands placed on both sides of his head, while he can’t move, are sliding forward along his face a little bit until the two hands meet He was blindfolded.

　　The hands are cold, but they don't feel the cocoon, they are as smooth as silk.

　　 Jenkins’s real eyes can see through the entity to see the aura behind it, but this does not mean that his eyes can see the back of his head, so he can’t know what it is.

　　 The creature that appeared behind him at this moment was absolutely terrifying, and it didn't even matter whether it was a creature or not. Jenkins hadn't encountered such a situation where he could not control his body for a long time.

　　 He heard a slight breathing, very slight, just behind his head. The breathing sound gradually approached, until it stopped in his ear, and then the voice sounded, like a whisper in a dream, neither male nor female, without emotion, not even the tone fluctuates:

"Guess who I am?"

　　 "Do you have any disease~"

　　 This is what Jenkins thought in his heart, but because his mouth was not at his disposal, he couldn't say it at all.

　　 "Don't open that book."

　　 The voice said again, still unable to distinguish the characteristics of the voice owner:

　　 "You can't watch the epic of the time yet, even if your essence is already attracting it, you still can't..."

　　'S tone was very light, and there was air current passing by Jenkins' ears when speaking, making his ears itchy. He didn't know the purpose of the person behind him, nor could he think of who he would meet in this era.

　　 "But you must remember that your essence is not life, not death, and don't be confused by appearances. Your essence is your initial posture."

The first half of the sentence shocked Jenkins' heart, and the second half of the sentence directly reminded him of Sarhi II. Not long ago, Sarhi II also said similar things. The difference is that it was the king of the North who replaced a world outsider. The content recounted by the great ones.

"you......"

　　 The power of the soul affects the body after all, and it took all my strength to finally make a word appear in his mouth. But then the hands covering Jenkins's eyes moved again, one of them covered his eyes, the other gently and slowly stroked his face and slipped across his nose, finally covering his mouth with the palm of his hand.

　　 "Don't talk to me, don't think about my existence, and don't feel my form."

Chapter 1735 Chapter 1708 The Swimming Cat

The voice behind him was as soft as a whisper and a whisper. Jenkins tried to use his back to feel the figure of the speaker behind him. Unfortunately, although he covered his eyes and mouth with an almost intimate technique, the other party did not stick to him. On the back.

　　 The voice said again, this time saying his name:

　　 "Jenkins, there are no accidents in this world, only countless inevitable accumulations of other inevitables. The passage of time never changes time, it only complements time..."

　　 For this sentence, Jenkins, who experienced the Blacktown incident, agrees very much.

　　 "The reason why you are here at this moment is not to look through the epic of the years, but to meet me."

　　 This seems to imply that it was the woman behind him who brought Jenkins and Miss Audrey here.

　　 "Huh? Why do I think there is a woman behind me?"

　　 Jenkins thought suspiciously, and then Bence felt a heavy object on his shoulder, and then realized that it was the head of the man behind him. It wasn't that he took his head off and put it up in horror, but put his chin on Jenkins' right shoulder, like a dear couple talking.

　　 He felt hair brushing his neck, so he determined that the person behind him had a long-haired hairstyle. But he still can't determine the gender of the other party. After all, no one stipulates that only women have long hair in this world.

　　 "No, I didn't let you come here."

　　 As if seeing through Jenkins' doubts, the voice continued.

　　 "It is the epic of the years that invites you to come here, invites you to open it, invites you to leave your own content. And I just helped it accomplish this."

　　'S already soft language, at this moment, it is as difficult to distinguish as the babble in a dream.

"But it's not the time yet, don't touch it, don't open it. Jenkins, treat it as the scenery you encounter on the road, don't care, go ahead, the way back is ahead... and I , Will be waiting for you at the end."

　　 After speaking, those cold hands let go of him. When both hands were completely removed from Jenkins’ skin, Jenkins, who had regained his mobility, suddenly turned and looked behind, but behind him was the darkness in the sacrificial field, even if he was observing with real eyes with monocle Not any strange light.

　　 He was stunned there, and turned around for a long time, feeling an inexplicable sense of sorrow in his heart. But after a daze for a while, knowing that some things are destined to be unclear now, he imprinted the matter firmly in his mind, shook his head to adjust his mood, and then glanced at the big book on the shelf, according to The voice reminded me just now, bypassing the shelf and walking towards the stone wall behind.

　　 He walked forward without any hesitation, as if he couldn't see the obstacles ahead. When he was about to hit, Jenkins closed his eyes instinctively, but he kept moving forward, and then he stepped into the air as if he fell into the abyss...

　　 When the consciousness recovered again, I immediately felt surrounded by water. The spirit of life around him made him understand that he had returned to the lake in the evergreen forest, and at the same time he felt that his hand was being held tightly with Miss Audrey, as it was before the coma.

　　 "It doesn't seem that much time has passed."

　　 He thought in his heart that he wanted to pull his teacher to the surface with his body movements constantly. But the behavior that seemed to travel through time and space seemed to have brought some sequelae. When he moved, Jenkins felt exhausted, and even the hand holding Miss Audrey almost loosened.

"what happened?"

　　Miss Audrey obviously did not wake up, and under the premise that Jenkins could not go upstream, the two sank to the bottom of the lake again.

　　 Jenkins was shocked, thinking that the frozen lake water would condense into ice, at least the buoyancy would lift the two of them upwards, but at this moment, he felt abnormal fluctuations in the lake water above his head, and something was going downstream.

　　 He opened his eyes diligently in the water, and at the same time, with the convenience of [True Eyes], he looked up and saw that it was his cat who was swimming here.

　　"?"

　　 The cat moves very fast in the water, and in a blink of an eye it rushes to Jenkins's side. The small cat opened his mouth to bite the clothes on Jenkins' shoulders, and then let the four small paws swoop back and forth in the water. Obviously the figure is petite, but the cat's stroke of the water actually drove the two adults to start to move.

　　 Chocolate just bit Jenkins' clothes and brought them closer to the water. After a cat and both of them surfaced, it even bit Jenkins' clothes and tried to drag them to the shore.

　　 It’s just that the cat’s strength in the water is adequate, but once it gets to the shore, the body is bound by the silt under the feet, and chocolate is not enough to move two people in this situation.

　　 But fortunately at this moment, both hands grabbed Jenkins's free left hand, and the people holding the oil lamp approached the weird ceremony venue by the lake from the forest edge, which brought Jenkins and Miss Audrey to the grass on the shore.

　　 After leaving the lake, his physical strength quickly recovered. When he lay on his back on the grass, Jenkins even felt that he had recovered completely. He panted heavily, sat up and handed the soaked Miss Audrey to Miss Bevanna, who had pulled them ashore, and then cautiously bit his clothes with his mouth, as if hanging from his shoulder. The cat was picked off.

　　The flame quickly dried one person and one cat. Jenkins picked up his cat and looked at the innocence and curiosity in those big amber eyes. Some did not know what to say.

　　 "Chocolate..."

　　 "Are you guys playing something?"

　　 Aside, after leaving the lake, Miss Audrey also woke up, because she was wearing thin clothes, so Miss Bevanna asked people to stand farther away and don't let the lights shine. At the same time, the nuns of the Destiny Church who had been on the side of the venue were asked to find some clothes. They quickly brought an ordinary nun's gown to put on Miss Audrey.

　　 "Unexpectedly, you would like to play games like this with your students."

　　 Seeing that both Jenkins and Miss Audrey were all right, Miss Bevanna watched the female fortuneteller get dressed and took care of her hair, so she joked. Of course, although the situation just now seemed a little strange, Miss Befanna knew that the "water occupation" ceremony was being held here just now, otherwise she would not bring people over so soon.

　　 Miss Audrey glanced at her, obviously not ready to take this sentence. And the situation just now was really embarrassing. She was picked up from the lake with Jenkins in her drenched summer singles. This kind of thing would be misunderstood.

　　 Thinking of this young writer looking aside, Jenkins is holding his cat and looking at it with thoughtful eyes. The cat was cleverly held by Jenkins and looked at the writer's face with amber eyes.

　　 "Since you can swim...when you used to take a bath, what was the reason for your desperate opposition?"

　　 Jenkins knows that cats can swim, and that his cat can swim, but he never thought that he can swim in deep lakes so skillfully. Although he was saved by the cat just now, he shouldn't be too harsh on him, but thinking about the hardships of bathing the cat every time, Jenkins couldn't help but ask.

　　 "Meow~"

This is probably an answer, but Jenkins can't understand the chocolate meow at all, so he can only look at it with a frown. He can't do too much after being saved by his cat. He won't do this too much. Asked for the second time.

　　 At this point, the water-occupying ceremony couldn't go on. After taking a break by the lake, Miss Audrey instructed the nuns of her church to recycle the candles from the lake. Then I invited the two demigods of the [Church of All Things and Nature] here tonight to mobilize the spirit of life together with Jenkins to disperse the fluctuations of the strange spirit still surging in the ceremonial venue and the lake.

　　 After doing this, all possible sequelae are eliminated. Miss Audrey seemed to have gotten rid of the influence of that incident just now, but Jenkins still had a lot of questions.

　　 "Are you a demigod?"

　　 When everyone left the lake, Miss Bevanna suddenly asked. Jenkins, the two demigods of the Nature Church, the Sage Church and the Destiny Church were all taken aback, and Miss Audrey smiled reservedly:

　　 "Yes, you can see it."

　　 What happened tonight is very weird. Although it probably has nothing to do with the end of the era, it still needs to be reported. Jenkins just mentioned the matter to Miss Bevanna, and promised to hand in a report tomorrow. Then she found Miss Audrey and asked to talk about the matter. Of course she would not refuse.