Returning from the abyss

Chapter 884 Under the Moonlight
After Gui Yaoying left, Lu Ning finished her piece of cake and left the restaurant.She took out her mobile phone and contacted a few people she knew, Ke Daolin and An Youxi couldn't be reached, and the strangest thing was that even Guo Xiao hadn't heard from her.In the other groups, Qin Zhilan didn't come to the press conference, so she was still able to get in touch, but she didn't care about the disappearance of her teammates, and she didn't know whether she had confidence in them or she had joined the new team psychologically.

Lu Ning thought for a while, but instead of calling Yin He, she greeted Xia Er and took out the key she got from Shu Zhenyan.

The key is guiding the direction, and Lu Ning can almost use this key to locate the Moonlight Valley.Potential field... The unique field formed by the mantra often carries the most unique nature of a mantra.For example, the ancient battlefield that Lu Ning has seen, is very powerful in a sense by constantly absorbing and reshaping the characteristics of life, but it is a pity that it is not awake.

If you want to enter the potential domain, you must find the door.

At the highest point of the entire film and television base, in the central No. 25 area, there is a futuristic tower.There is a door tightly closed under the high tower. There is only an imperceptible gap on it, and there is not even a keyhole. It is estimated that the door is opened by some sensor device?
But Lu Ning didn't intend to enter this door either.She took out the key, and it was clearly after two o'clock in the afternoon, but the sky suddenly became dark, as if clouds had covered the sun.But the sky was clearly devoid of a cloud.

What is...

A black ring suddenly spread in the sky, and it was not clear where it originally came from. The moment the ring spread, it smeared dense black glass shards on the sky, and the originally blue sky turned to gray in an instant, and a straight dark red beam of light It fell from the position where the sun was originally, illuminating the area not far away in an eerie way.There are many square pyramidal stone platforms with a base of about one or two square meters floating in the air, and a pair of skeletons are placed on each stone platform.

The races that Lu Ning saw on the ancient battlefield before all have a set of bones here.

She was still standing on the highest point, and there was a valley in front of her, but the word Moonlight Valley could not be associated with this place anyway.For a moment, Lu Ning wondered if she had come to the wrong place, or if this was the realm of some other mantra.

Charles has also tensed up, and Lu Ning can feel his tension.

"Where is this place? Where is the secret of this world?" Charles is still very professional, and Lu Ning knows that he is also the person sent to detect the peculiarities of this world, so bringing him in can be regarded as a smooth process.

At this time, in front of the two of them, red light particles slowly condensed into a line of words: [Go forward].

"It seems that the owner here has invited you." Lu Ning took a deep breath and waved forward, "Let's go over."

The terrain down the valley is not too steep. Although there is no formed road, there are no plants, boulders or other things blocking the road. It is easy for two people to walk forward.

More and more stone platforms appeared on the road. After walking about 100 meters, the bones on the stone platforms became bigger and bigger, and they became more and more different from ordinary white bones.A mass of sludge, a pile of white ash, a bunch of glass flowers... These "skeletons" are more and more like leftovers of different types of creatures, and the area of ​​the stone platform has also begun to increase.

After bypassing a cliff, the stone platforms became different again - a cross made of blood-red light was inserted on the bones of each stone platform, and Lu Ning was able to directly see the red light falling from the sky. .

"There is a high-speed airflow." Charles has already taken out a short ax with a sense of technology. A long green energy battery is embedded in the handle of the ax, and it is emitting a faint light.All his detectors have been turned on, and he is well aware of the changes in the surrounding environment.

In the area near the bottom of the red beam of light, there is a very flat ground that seems to have been scraped by a storm. The blood-red light carved a huge ritual plate with 64 sides on the ground, and there is a stone platform on the edge of each side.Although it doesn't look big from here, Lu Ning estimated that each stone platform there has an area of ​​about five times five.What was on the stone platform was no longer a skeleton, but a "creature" nailed to the stone platform by a large number of blood-red cross lights.

"Xiaer, are those things on the stone platform still alive?" Lu Ning asked in a low voice.

"No signs of life were observed, but this doesn't mean anything. It can only mean that there are no living cells and life movements in their bodies. There are still lives in this world that exceed this operating principle, and they cannot be used as evidence."

It's the same as not saying, but in this situation, Lu Ning thinks most of those creatures are alive, right?Some of them exist in myths and legends, such as angels, demons, cyclops, dragons, ghosts... No matter how huge their bodies are, they are all forcibly restrained to the size of a stone platform.

At this time, the characters made of red light appeared again.

[Come to my side. 】

This time, Lu Ning did not act immediately, but looked around, cleared her throat, and said loudly, "Mr. Guang Zhenyan, where is your body?"

The characters in the air were broken and reassembled to form new characters.

【In the center. 】

Is the center of the red beam of light?Not surprisingly, Lu Ning asked Charles to scan the surrounding area. The wind speed in the central area is so fast that it is almost difficult to breathe. It may be more dangerous to get close to it. After all, Lu Ning is an ordinary person here.Charles is a person with rich combat experience, but Lu Ning can't use the usual hints to get him to activate the ritual effect for himself.

"Let's take a walk over there first."

Against the increasingly strong wind, the two began to walk towards the red beam of light.The mantras on Lu Ning's body suddenly began to stir. She couldn't feel the emotions of these mantras, but they had no effect on herself.

move on.

When arriving at the stone platform, Lu Ning clearly felt a "breath" in deep sleep, which was different from the real breath. They seemed to be exchanging energy inside and outside through the red light, which was also affected by this disturbance. she.Immediately, she realized the effect of certain rituals in the knowledge of light, because in her current mortal body, she would not be able to perceive it if it did not involve the knowledge related to the mantra.

A lot of things are odd.

"It's too windy here."

After walking past the stone platform, the wind speed made Lu Ning a little unbearable. It's not that she can't walk, but it's not bad to try it out by showing weakness appropriately. She can see that after she said this sentence, the wind force obviously started weakened.

"It seems that the mysterious existence inside is quite kind." Charles whispered, "But it can't be really kind. Whether it's the way of speaking or the environment here, I don't believe it is harmless."

Lu Ning was also a little puzzled.The mantra alone is the "auspicious omen" marked in the distribution center, and it should be in a situation similar to that of White Harbor. Even if it is not completely beneficial, at least it should not have such direct malice.

Continue to approach... Lu Ning weighed it up, and decided to trust the classification of the distribution center for the time being, and continue to walk forward.

She saw the true demarcation point of the red light.Different from the light that escaped, the red light on the beam of light was as solid as a wall, and it was dazzling just by looking at it.Lu Ning felt a certain "momentum" gradually becoming stronger around her, stretched out her hand, and poked into the light curtain.

The chanting that was so weird that she couldn't make out the meaning flowed into her mind from her flesh and bones, and the blood-red luster flooded Lu Ning's vision.She seemed to feel pain, as if her limbs were pierced by rusty iron nails, and also felt warmth, as if her mother's hand was touching her forehead.Those emotions flowed in the body for a week, and then quickly transformed into a kind of joy, ecstasy, enlightenment——

【Follow me. 】

"Thank you, but I don't intend to believe in anything." Lu Ning smiled and answered.

[No need to believe, I exist. 】

"No, I know very well what the truth is. I will not step into your palace, even if this is your Moonlight Valley."

When Lu Ning finished speaking, clean white appeared in her red vision.

It was the only white cross among countless bloody crosses.It was surrounded by a gentle silver light, a large number of chains made of white jade were coiled around the cross, and the bottom of the cross pierced the ground, and cracks like spider webs spread beneath it.

Lu Ning looked to the side, but didn't see Xia Er.

[He has no key and cannot be seen. 】

"Do I need a key to see you?"

[Those who open it can be baptized and entered, and they are treated equally. 】

"What I just received was baptism? So what is baptism?"

[Dedicate a family and conclude a contract. 】

"I didn't agree."

[It's not what you should. 】

Lu Ning frowned, she seemed to know a lot of things, but how much information she could pry from here might depend on one's own ability, similar to that at White Harbor.As for the others, just try it first.

"Excuse me, those on the platform outside are all baptized existences?"

[For worshipers. 】

"Are they still alive?"

[I have changed my life, destined to live forever. 】

Lu Ning noticed that every time the light answered, the chains on the white cross would soak up some red.

"The book told me to come to you, saying that you may have something beneficial to me here. I do have some doubts... May I ask your Moonlight Valley, has anyone of my kind visited before?"

【when? 】

"I don't know the time conversion, can you tell me who came here the first three times?"

[For the first time, one emperor, nine vehicles, cattle and sheep sacrifices, in exchange for a hundred years of state.It regards me as a god, but I am not a god. I was not baptized, and only gave three skeletons around it, and there was no news after that. 】

[The second time, the three soldiers, all of whom were on the verge of death, fled with hatred and knocked on the door by mistake, hoping to exchange their lives for the death of their enemies.His life and death are of no value to me. After dying here, he is buried on the edge of the valley. 】

[For the third time, six people, all of whom had peculiarities, seemed to have found the path to the Moonlight Valley with the things they had gifted at the beginning. Two of them met me here, made an agreement, and then left. 】

"Six people? What kind of six people?" Lu Ning asked hastily.

[A human being like you. 】

Lu Ning found herself in a misunderstanding again.Previously, Guang's descriptions were all about people through certain characteristics, but they never talked about appearance, and the mantra would not distinguish the appearance of human beings.

"Sorry, what agreement did you make?"

[This is a secret. 】

"So, who is the clan dedicated to you?"

[It's also impossible to say. 】

The chain had already turned red, Lu Ning thought about it, and asked this question anyway.

"What would happen if those chains on you turned red?"

[I'm not here. 】

Lu Ning was slightly surprised when she heard this answer.

[Looks up. 】

Hearing these words, Lu Ning subconsciously looked up at the sky - where the bloody beam of light fell.

She sees a star.

Although it is very far away, it can be deeply imprinted in the pupil of the star.Its exterior is a large number of rings with sickle, saw blade and gear-like protrusions. These rings rotate at high speed on different orbital lines, seeming to protect the core of the star.

But that kernel doesn't look like it needs protection at all.The surface of the planet is made of flesh and blood, and the plants on it are covered with feathers like the wings of birds.There are a large number of cracks on the surface, and the edges of the cracks are covered with blood-red crosses in a solid state.

There is no life, a dead land.In the cosmic scene behind the planet, red and silver wings of light overlap and spread out, and the ends of all wings are slightly bent, pointing to the world where Lu Ning... is located.

At that moment, Lu Ning realized that she had made a mistake. It was true that she would not take the initiative to hurt others, but this did not mean that she could violate certain established rules.The distorted forms of the mantras that I saw near the coast were all blurred, and Lu Ning had never actually seen any of the mantras themselves, including the three on her body.

She had already closed her eyes as fast as she could, but the red and silver lights were still spreading wantonly within the dark field of vision.The knowledge in the brain began to surge, belonging to the mantra, belonging to oneself, belonging to the light that had just entered the mind, and those fragments that had been touched.

Apocalypse?Or is it crazy?It was difficult for Lu Ning to think about the difference at this moment. She quickly sorted out the knowledge fragments in her mind. Fortunately, as a tourist, she knew how to deal with excessive knowledge infusion in a short period of time.Although the process was very painful, she persevered.

The vast knowledge of rituals, the use of the three related knowledge of "baptism, dead body, and focus" mastered by Guang, and the history of the mantra that he has observed since he woke up after leaving the sea... although it is useless to Lu Ning.

【You can leave now. 】

"Uh...I..." Lu Ning clutched her head. Red and silver cracks of light were constantly being produced in front of her eyes. This was a helpless aftereffect, and it would probably occur intermittently until she returned to the distribution center.

[Light has always been in the world, and you can show its power.I reap the benefits of doing what is right. 】

Lu Ning stood up with difficulty, turned her head, and walked outside the light curtain.

She still hasn't figured out what Guang wants her to do, but her spirit is on the verge of collapse, and she can still think after that occasional direct look is her luck and her own accumulation is enough, maybe what she needs now is just a fight Solid sleep.

(End of this chapter)