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Chapter 254: Lunar Eclipse Festival! (Seeking monthly tickets!)

"Bird..."

"Disappeared mysteriously overnight..."

After listening to Yu Zhu's story, Yu Zhun frowned slightly.

The description of this mysterious disappearance overnight is exactly the same as the fate of the believers in the Seven Cities on the day the Eclipse Tower collapsed.

But what is the special meaning of flying birds?
As if he could see what Yu Zhun was thinking, Yu Zhu moved his lips, then took out a folded piece of recording paper and handed it to him.

"This is another poem recorded in Croesus's poetry book."

"When I heard this strange thing, I suddenly remembered a poem written by Croesus."

“I think there is a high probability that the two are related.”

Yu Zhun took it and opened it slowly.

Lines of text appeared before my eyes on the recording paper.

【Birds flying in the sky! 】

【You are the messenger of the lunar eclipse. 】

【Your flight never stops.】

If one day,

【You cross the boundary between day and night and disappear. 】

【Please take my wishes away! 】

Yu Zhun’s expression suddenly became serious.

Are flying birds the messengers of the eclipse god?
Moreover, the poem mentions that the flying birds disappeared, which also fits the current situation.

But...what do these last two sentences mean?
Yu Zhun looked at Yu Zhu who was standing beside him, "Is this the only poem about flying birds?"

"Yes." Yu Zhu nodded slightly, "And this is the first of all the poems."

"The first song..." Yu Zhun narrowed his eyes slightly.

If Croesus's collection of poems is used as an important clue in the dungeon strategy, then the first poem most likely corresponds to the origin of everything.

"Flying across the boundary between day and night..."

Yu Zhun pondered and murmured, "Dusk?"

He couldn't help but glance at the sky.

Unlike the previous three dungeon stages, in [Days of the Past], day and night will change normally.

It was daytime when they arrived at [The Day of the Past], and now it was dusk. The golden-red setting sun was slowly setting, and the last rays of the sun cast a golden coat on the Eclipse Tower, which had not yet been fully built.

This beautiful vision made countless believers present stop what they were doing and stand there to admire it, until the sun completely sank into the earth and the full moon rose from under the earth.

"Did you find anything?" Yu Zhu couldn't help but ask.

"No." Yu Zhun shook his head slightly.

He had not missed any details just now, but he did not find anything special at dusk.

"Could it be that the boundary between day and night has a deeper meaning?" Yu Zhun touched his chin, looking thoughtful.

"Dark Night can fight against the God of Lunar Eclipse." Yu Zhu glanced at the believers around him.

At the moment the moon rose, these believers performed the gesture of worship without hesitation, each of them was extremely pious.

It is said that in this place, dark clouds can never obscure the light of the moon, so in a sense, the night is equal to the moon.

The god of lunar eclipse is the incarnation of the moon.

"If the night represents the God of the Lunar Eclipse, then the day that is the opposite of the night..." Yu Zhun's expression changed slightly, "Could it be referring to the guy who replaced the God of the Lunar Eclipse and sent down the oracle?"

Yu Zhu couldn't help but let out a hiss.

"So what does the boundary between night and day represent?"

Yu Zhu's question once again stumped Yu Zhun.

He touched his chin and said nothing more.

The meal break was over quickly, and Feng Te found Yu Zhun and continued with the work that had not been completed during the day. On the other side, Yu Zhu followed the busy women, helping them while continuing to look for new clues.

"Tonight, we only need to engrave the patterns on three stone bricks and then we can rest." Feng Te looked at Yu Zhun and smiled.

"Only 3 yuan?" Yu Zhun was a little surprised. "I thought it would be more."

"This is for safety reasons." Font pointed to the window of the Eclipse Tower. "I wonder if you have heard of a strange thing that happened here. Occasionally, bricks will fall from the Eclipse Tower at night."

"But fortunately, the falling bricks will only cause injuries and no one will be killed."

"I heard about it." Yu Zhun nodded.

This was the first strange thing that Yu Zhu had just told him about, a rockfall that only happened at night. Unexpectedly, Fonte mentioned it again.

"Because falling rocks are dangerous, the seven high priests discussed and decided that all believers who carry bricks should only do so during the day."

"The stone bricks we carved at night were all transported up in advance during the day. Only three of them needed to be engraved with oracle patterns." Font paused, "If the carving was wrong, there would be even fewer."

"So that's how it is." Yu Zhun nodded in understanding, his heart moving.

He had already learned a general idea about the rockfall from Yu Zhu, but Yu Zhu had heard it from other people after all, and the information was passed on many times, so it was very likely that some of it had been missed.

If you ask Fonte again, you may find a lot of new details.

"After changing to daytime transportation, are there still cases of bricks falling?" Yu Zhun asked casually.

“It was obviously much less before, but it’s still there.”

"Is that so..." Yu Zhun looked thoughtful, "I heard that all the falling rocks are natural accidents."

"Is it really not someone who did this on purpose?"

"At present, it seems that they are all accidents." Font nodded slightly. "The high priests take this matter very seriously. After all, this is a tower built for the Lord of the Lunar Eclipse. Any accidents are a bad omen."

"They suspected that someone was doing this on purpose, trying to prevent the construction of the Eclipse Tower." Font's expression was serious. "So they conducted a detailed investigation, but each time they came back empty-handed."

Yu Zhun nodded slightly and was about to say something when his expression suddenly changed.

Not far ahead, a figure in a black robe stood by the window of the Eclipse Tower. The bright moonlight fell on his body, illuminating the face that made Yu Zhun's pupils suddenly shrink.

That is…

"Creosus?!"

Yu Zhun couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, and an incredible look appeared on his face.

Croesus is a bard from a thousand years later, how could he appear here?

"What?" Fonte looked at Yu Zhun in confusion.

Yu Zhun was stunned for a moment, then pointed at Croesus on the windowsill, "You didn't see him?"

Feng Te turned his head following Yu Zhun's instructions, his expression becoming increasingly strange.

"Is anyone there?"

Yu Zhun's pupils suddenly shrank.

Why couldn't Wundt see it?

Croesus is right in front of me!
and many more…

Night, bricks, invisible people...

Looking at Croesus's two hands resting on a stone brick, Yu Zhun's expression changed drastically, and he rushed forward and shouted.

"stop!!!"

"Clang-crack-"
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"Did you really see that it was Croesus who did it?"

Looking at the wounded who were surrounded by a large number of believers not far away, Yu Zhu lowered his voice and asked Yu Zhun beside him.

"I'm not mistaken." Yu Zhun rubbed his cheek vigorously, "That man has the same face as Croesus."

"But Croesus shouldn't exist at this time." Yu Zhu frowned, "This is a bit wrong."

"No, if we think about it from another angle, this might be a good thing." Yu Zhun looked at the wounded man. At this moment, the wounded man had been bandaged. His shoulder was pierced by the small stones splashed when the bricks fell and shattered, but fortunately he survived.

"I don't believe it's a coincidence that the two people have exactly the same faces." Yu Zhun paused for a moment, "The person who pushed the bricks off the tower must have a close connection with Croesus."

"This proves that Croesus is definitely not an ordinary native of the copy."

"The more important he is, the more crucial his clues are."

"You mean...those poems?" Yu Zhu looked at Yu Zhun.

"Yes." Yu Zhun nodded slightly, "I have some new guesses about the boundary between day and night."

"But I can't be completely sure of these speculations."

He reached a hand into his arms and touched something smooth and hard, his eyes flickered slightly.

Time passed little by little, and the believers who were unable to sleep because of the rockfall incident fell into a deep sleep under the comfort of the moonlight.

When the believers got busy again, it was already the next morning.

Fonte took Yu Zhun to continue carving the oracle patterns.

After successfully completing seven oracle patterns in a row, Fonte stopped the carving knife in his hand, looked at Yu Zhun beside him, and smiled.

"I have seen so many carvings of oracle patterns with you these past two days. Have you memorized this pattern now?"

"I've got that." Yu Zhun nodded.

With his memory, he could easily reproduce the patterns carved by Wundt just by looking at them a few times.

After all, this pattern is not as complicated as imagined.

"Then you will be the one to design the last pattern." Fonte laughed and pointed to another blank brick at his feet.

"The entire Eclipse Tower currently has a total of 9999 stone bricks engraved with oracle patterns."

"This is the 10000th piece, and the last one."

"Okay." Yu Zhun nodded, took the carving knife from Fonte, and started carving quickly.

Compared with Fonte, Yu Zhun's movements seemed a little unfamiliar, but the carving knife moved across the stone bricks without any mistakes.

Seeing this, Fonte, who was a little worried, couldn't help but nodded.

Yu Zhun's performance was better than he expected.

Soon, Yu Zhun's carving knife stopped at the last stroke, and an oracle pattern was successfully completed.

"Okay!" Font couldn't help but shout.

He was about to wave his hand to ask the believers nearby to help glue the stone bricks in place, but he saw that Yu Zhu's carving knife had not left the stone bricks.

“…Yu Zhun?”

"Nothing." Yu Zhun took a deep breath, shook his head, and the carving knife in his hand slowly left the stone brick.

Looking at the stone bricks he had carved with his own hands being stacked and glued together with the efforts of others, his eyes were somewhat complicated.

While carving, he was always hesitating whether to tamper with the oracle pattern.

If Yu Zhun wanted to, he believed that he could do something so well that even Fonte, who was so close to him, would not notice it at all.

The patterns on each brick are crucial to the lunar eclipse ceremony that will take place at night.

Therefore, as long as there is a problem with the texture of the stone bricks, the Lunar Eclipse Festival will be destroyed!

However, he ultimately didn't do so...

because…

Yu Zhun took out an irregularly shaped but very smooth stone from his arms and looked at it silently with his head down.

That was the key item [Relics of the Ancient City] given to him by Croesus in the [Dune of Sighs].

After realizing that Croesus was not that simple, Yu Zhun began to re-examine all his encounters with Croesus and the clues and props he had obtained from him.

Then, he suddenly discovered an amazing coincidence.

The broken lines on the [Ancient City Relics] are exactly part of the oracle lines among the thirty-six lines!

and…

Yu Zhun compared the lines on the [Ancient City Relics] with the corresponding parts of the oracle lines, and could clearly see that there was one more line on the [Ancient City Relics].

This is a pattern that has been tampered with!

If this pattern from thousands of years ago has been tampered with, it may mean that the original lunar eclipse sacrifice was not successful.

After realizing this, Yu Zhun made a bold decision.

Do nothing and cooperate with the construction of the Eclipse Tower.

If his guess is right.

Then the difficulty of this special copy is probably not as difficult as he imagined.
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"Ummmm--"

"Woo s ...

A low whisper echoed at the top of the Eclipse Tower.

In the center of the huge Eclipse Tower, on the altar that had already been carved, seven high priests sat cross-legged, chanting a special language used to invoke the power of sacrifice.

Countless believers around closed their eyes devoutly, assumed worship postures, gathered in circles around the altar, and chanted along.

The bright moonlight shone down, illuminating the people performing the sacrificial ceremony and covering them with a layer of sacred light.

Yu Zhu, who was watching this scene quietly not far away, couldn't help but pull on the corner of Yu Zhun's clothes, with a worried look on his face.

"Are we really not going to stop it at all?"

"Yeah." Yu Zhun nodded with a smile, "Don't worry, if you fail to get the perfect first pass, the worst that can happen is that you give up this special copy."

"I don't think you have the slightest intention of giving up." Yu Zhu couldn't help but roll his eyes, "You must be sure of it."

"There is still some confidence." Yu Zhun nodded, "About 70%."

Yu Zhu's expression suddenly became strange. She was about to say something but was interrupted by a light from the altar.

"Om-"

The entire Eclipse Tower trembled at a certain moment.

Then, the light on the altar suddenly burst out, like a sword piercing the sky, instantly piercing the full moon projected down from the sky.

At the same time, above the full moon, a streak of black quietly emerged and expanded at an extremely fast speed, quickly swallowing up all the white.

Seeing this scene, all the believers participating in the Lunar Eclipse Festival cheered at the same time.

In their view, the scene before them was so similar to the arrival of the oracle. Obviously, this was the response of the God of the Lunar Eclipse to them.

"Why is it a lunar eclipse?!"

Yu Zhu couldn't help but exclaim, and Yu Zhunzhen on the side breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sure enough, I guessed it right."

The next moment, a faint shattering sound was heard.

"Click——"

The sword light transformed by the Lunar Eclipse Tower pierced through the black moon in the sky, and there seemed to be a faint sound of something wailing.

The next moment, the darkness covering the full moon shattered into pieces, and the bright white moonlight once again enveloped the entire earth, bringing down countless vitality.

Yu Zhu looked at Yu Zhun blankly, and then suddenly pulled the corner of his clothes, "Tell me quickly, what's going on?"

Just as Yu Zhun was about to say something, a voice sounded from behind them.

"Let me explain."

Yu Zhu turned his head, and then his pupils shrank slightly.

"Creosus?!"

(End of this chapter)