Returning from the abyss

Chapter 141 Necessary Conditions for the Ceremony

On the circular platform, Mo Xiren stood up and walked slowly to the stone cup in the center of the platform.

"There are some necessary preparations for the dream entry ceremony."

Her tone was very patient, as if she was trying to persuade Lu Ning, and she also seemed to be showing off her own advantages.

"The first is the receptors of the four ceremonies. Four people must sit on the four stone chairs here to perform the ceremony. Of course, before proceeding, the four people must adjust the stone needles on the back of the chairs to be able to penetrate The location of the back of the head."

As Mo Xiren said, she tapped the back of her head with her finger.

"Second, there are four 'mysterious blood'. The four people who performed the ceremony poured them into the holes in the four handles of the blood sacrifice stone cup. Su Shengge and I have already obtained a share of this blood. Look at you It seems that it has not been obtained yet.

"The third is the time. From the moment when the demon encounters the devil to the moment of deep darkness, between six o'clock in the afternoon and twelve o'clock in the night, when the hilltop castle can be spied on by the world, the ceremony can be carried out.

"The fourth is the animal sacrifice. After the four people sat down, they cut off a person's head on top of the stone tablet, and let his blood pour into the hole in the stone cup.

"If so, the four receptors sit on the throne, and the stone needles will lead people into a crazy dream of blood and death. If they wake up from the dream, they will be given divine power. This is the dream ceremony."

"Sounds like some cult's ceremony." Chu Jianting said indifferently.

"Lu Ning, what do you think?"

"This is not a good thing, Chu Jianting's judgment is correct." Lu Ning stared at Mo Xiren's face, her voice became more dignified.

"You're right, how could this be a good thing? What you sacrifice so much is just a short-lived divine power that you can 'possibly' obtain. It's a black-hearted deal to buy a bottle of water with ten carats of diamonds." Mo Xi The man opened his arms slightly and looked at Lu Ning with a little sadness.

"—but we're dying of thirst."

The sincerity in her tone almost convinced Lu Ning.

"Let me tell you another fact, Qian Wanli is dead."

The boy who is good at computers?A face flashed in Lu Ning's mind.

"I watched him die with my own eyes. A long arrow pierced his neck. There was no possibility of him surviving. He was killed on the spot."

"Pig-faced man?"

"You should call them the Clan of the Moon." Mo Xiren said, "We investigated their base camp on the first day after jumping out of the time reset, and then Qian Wanli managed to find some documents and translate them... However, we didn't expect that their abilities would increase so much at night, and I was the only one who escaped in the end."

"Do you really care about other people's deaths?"

"Of course I care. I'm sorry... His talent had the opportunity to become my friend. In the end, nothing has changed. Only Lianren can stay by my side for a long time."

Mo Xiren turned his head away and smiled at his sister.

"Sister, you..."

"No, this time it's still an accident, I didn't design anything."

After blocking her sister's question with one sentence, Mo Xiren continued to say to Lu Ning: "I don't think there is trust between us anymore? That's okay, you can check these things later, I'm just here Just wait for someone who can perform the ceremony, if not today, then the next reset I hope you can come here with the necessary materials for the ceremony."

"I don't want to have this ritual."

Lu Ning said.

"You don't want to? This is our only chance to defeat those gods, Lu Ning, don't tell me you have to give up, only this will make me look down on you."

"I have my way of clearing the customs... In addition, you don't need to worry, I will convey your words to those who are willing to come up to perform the ceremony. Since you have been waiting here, that means that this is also a blind spot for time reset ?”

"That's right, and here, you can take a good look at what's going on outside until you faint."

Mo Xiren laughed.

Thunder came from the top of the mountain again, this time it was a continuous sound, Lu Ning did not look up, she and Chu Jianting sat on the ground, watching Mo Xiren's movements closely.

But until the battle on the mountain was over, Mo Xiren didn't do anything special, just walked back to the chair and sat down.

In the sky, the full moon gradually began to be stained as bright red as blood.

Lu Ning felt the changes in the surrounding light, and finally turned her gaze to the sky, and then she saw——

A gradually bright red moon is emitting an ominous light.However, at this moment, in the night sky that had been turned strange by the red light, thin lines spread like a network of blood vessels appeared. They overlapped layer by layer, gathered towards the direction of the moon, and then began to interweave and merge in front of the moon. It ended up being a bright red heart.

An incomparably great sense of fear is rising from her heart. Just watching the heart start to squirm slowly, Lu Ning felt screams and ravings coming from the deepest part of her brain.

Immediately afterwards, the heart covered the moon, casting even more scarlet light on this world, and all senses except vision were completely deprived at this moment, leaving only the world that gradually dissipated as the red light scattered.

Then, Lu Ning heard a heartbeat.

My heartbeat is still as calm as usual, beating with a subtle and harmonious rhythm.

Boom, boom, boom.

She counted silently, and then lost consciousness when No.15 heartbeat came.

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Time went back to nine o'clock in the morning.

Birdsong Mountain is even more secluded. When Lu Ning was awakened by a few birdsongs, she found that she was already in the deep mountains.It took her a while to confirm her position, and then she walked down the mountain path where there were no longer any stone steps.

Halfway up the mountain, she saw two stone pillars.

Different from the ones seen at night, these two stone pillars have long been dilapidated, and the erosion of wind and rain left traces of potholes on the stone pillars. One of them has even collapsed. There are no turtles and snakes on it, just an empty square platform.

But there is no doubt that this is where it was yesterday.

She didn't see Mo Xiren, and even the other three people disappeared. Now she can almost be sure that Mo Xiren lied in some crucial place again, but at least the aspect of avoiding the time reset is true.

What about the mountains?Now that it was clear that the hilltop castle could no longer be entered, what about the people who went to the castle last night?

Lu Ning crossed the mountain road and returned to the hunter's cabin before noon. After entering the room, she went straight to the closet.

Top hat, black trench coat with stand collar, two belts with gun holsters.

These were supposed to be worn by Shu Xingruo and carried up the mountain, but now they have been "restored".

In other words, the hilltop castle area still cannot avoid the reset effect.

Lu Ning was stunned for a moment, then took off the clothes.

For the tall Shu Xingruo, the hem of the windbreaker only reached the knees, but on Lu Ning, it was already halfway up the calf.She threw the tattered expedition jacket into the closet, tied the belt, and found two short shotguns from the house and put them in the holsters.

Then she rummaged in her backpack and took out a wooden box.

When meeting up the mountain, Cheng Wuling once took advantage of the crowd and stuffed the box into Lu Ning's hand.

The box is not too big, and it is divided into three areas. The largest one is neatly arranged with [-] rounds of shotgun bullets. A long strip of objects is wrapped in cloth in a narrow space on the side, and the remaining one is stacked. with a piece of paper.

She picked up the paper first.

[Lu Ning:
If you are reading this letter when the next day comes, then our plan to explore the mountain has failed.That's to be expected, and I hope you get the next few things right.

The twenty rounds of shotgun were provided by the hunters, and there is no need to return them after the time is reset.In addition, I will store the blood of the murloc with you. If you don't use it, you can return it to me the next time we meet.

In addition, I think Ning Yeyi's actions are already half successful, now we have to deal with the cursed part of our blood.Since most people can see the castle on top of the hill, it means that we are halfway through the scene and we are running out of time.But you still have plenty of time to make final preparations.

Find Zhao Chenshuang, or Ning Yeyi to confirm the progress.As a backup for the whole plan, what the three of you are going to do must be absolutely foolproof.A lot of people will die the day you read the letter - I don't want any of us to be drawn into it.

Finally, there is a simple map on the back of the letter, follow that to find Shen Xinyue, she is the last bargaining chip I have entrusted to you other than the three of you. 】

"You went back to the cell to rest..."

Lu Ning smiled helplessly, the one wrapped in cloth was naturally the tube of blood that Cheng Wuling showed her, and the shotgun bullets were probably exchanged by her with the hunter on some unknown terms.

There are so many rear arrangements.

She doesn't hate this feeling, and Cheng Wuling's way of thinking is quite consistent with hers in terms of being prepared, and this kind of situation where she can fight back at any time makes people feel at ease.

"Huh... let's go now."

Previously, Ning Yeyi and Zhao Chenshuang respectively proposed a verification concept based on the "blood" in this scene.

Ning Yeyi wanted to try to see if a time reset could restore a person's blood to one-third after two-thirds of it was exchanged for "rotten blood".By the way, she also wants to use this to create a person with completely "pure blood", that is, Lu Ning.

Use the dirty blood ritual to exchange the one-third of the "rotten blood" in Lu Ning's body, and then Ning Yeyi will not enter the moon lake cave to take refuge at night, but wait outside to reset the time. Generally speaking, this is the process .

"The rules of time reset include that things that cannot be reset will not be reset. But in this way, we can verify a problem by doing this - the blood on Lu Ning's body was exchanged for me. The part that is regarded as Lu Ning will not be reset, or will part of me be reset? If it can be reset, can we wash the blood through this method? But in this case, the level of the curse is very low .”

Based on this, Ning Yeyi planned to try some things that he hadn't had time to test.

(End of this chapter)