Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 177 The Mystery of the Obelisk

"Send someone to investigate first, let's let Fatty go." Bai He said as a matter of course.

"Oh, it's me again." Wu Lang said helplessly and aggrievedly.

He pulled up his ninja mask and stretched his arms and legs to warm up.

After finishing the stretching exercises, Goro nodded to Baihe, and then the invisible Rubik's Cube rotated the space block, leading to the sky above the center of the palace. The moonlight refracted to both sides, and a safe shadow road was spread out under Goro's feet.

Wu Lang moved quickly towards the palace in a sideways manner, taking small steps, with an unusual degree of stability in his lightness.

The others waited quietly outside the square garden for Goro's response, only to see him easily step into the shadow of the temple and walk inside.

After a while, he walked out of the temple again and waved to everyone: "It's okay, it's safe."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the temple one after another.

The inner walls of the temple are inlaid with luminous stones, and the interior is brightly lit.

A complex key-shaped stone cone hangs on a central altar-like stone platform, surrounded by ten half-human-high square pillars. A stone bowl and an obsidian dagger are fixed on each pillar.

"It seems that this is the core area." Bai He judged calmly.

"We seem to be the first group to arrive." Liu Yilong said.

Bai He nodded: "It seems that this mechanism requires ten people to open. There are only four of us in total, and with Ling Xiao, there are only five of us. We have to wait for the others."

Xia Shou sighed: "I finally understand why so many people were sent in at once. We were able to arrive here without any casualties, purely by luck."

Everyone expressed their agreement with this statement with silence.

Although the battle with the Moon Beast was safe, if the corpse with a strange death had not revealed the details, they would definitely have been exposed to the Moon Beast's light once before they could guess the fatal mechanism.

"Everyone, take a rest. Maybe someone will come tonight. If no one comes in two hours, we will return to the camp and meet other teams during the day." Bai He said.

Kirigakure Goro chose a corner where he could see the three entrances to the temple, squatted down, took out compressed biscuits and mineral water from his pocket and started eating.

Su Weiyu took out a lunch box containing dinner leftovers from her backpack and started eating as well.

Xia Shou couldn't sit still, so he walked to the door with Bai He and observed the obelisks outside.

Seeing that Bai He was looking very serious, he asked, "Brother Bai, you can't possibly understand this, can you?"

"Judging from the style, it is the sacred language of the nobility. I can understand part of it."

"Is this true?" Xia Shou asked in surprise.

"You'll have to learn it later. Noble Sacred Liturgy was the most common secret language in the 16th century. Although there are many variants, it has similar roots as English, so even if you encounter other versions, you can guess part of it."

"I thought all secret languages ​​were very difficult to learn."

"It is difficult to learn, but the Noble Sacred Language is not a true mystical language. You can think of it as a common translation term in the 16th century. Books recorded in this language are basically not original."

Xia Shou nodded and made a reasonable guess: "So, these obelisks were left behind by people in the 16th century?"

"It is likely that the degree of wear and tear of this temple does not match that of these obelisks. The temple should have existed for a long time, but the obelisks should have been erected there later." "What's written on it?" Xia Shou asked.

Bai He frowned and examined one of the obelisks for a long time before speaking:

"I can only get a rough idea. This part seems to tell a story. The protagonist's name is Toru Olan. At the beginning, the protagonist is reading a book at home. It is a flashback novel that starts from the protagonist's ending and miserable situation."

"At the beginning of the novel, the protagonist is chiseling stones, and then there is a lot of stream-of-consciousness description. The content is vague and there is no substantial plot description. It is all about the protagonist's painful inner emotions, repeatedly emphasizing that the protagonist has encountered very incredible and unbelievable things."

"Uh... I don't quite understand this part. Then the protagonist wants to carve his bizarre experience on a stone tablet to repent for his actions."

"At this time, he first began to carve the story of his wife. In the story, he forced his wife to drink the glowing water, and then watched his wife's beautiful face rot day by day, watching her flesh and blood slowly fall from her bones. This process lasted for half a year."

"Then, the protagonist of the novel continued to carve the stone, carving how loving he and his wife were, how talented and beautiful they were, how well-matched their family backgrounds were, how they had similar interests and hobbies, and how harmonious their relationship was as a couple."

"I don't understand the next paragraph either. Then... he, please note, is the protagonist of the novel that Toru Olan is reading, not Olan himself."

"The protagonist of this novel started carving the story of his son's suicide, and then recorded the story of him being raped by his son. However, the words used... were not words used for the same gender, but normal words used between men and women... It was very strange."

Xia Shou couldn't help but frowned: "Is it so heavy?"

"It may not be a heavy taste, it may be a metaphor for something. Anyway, Toru Olan also felt that this novel was confusing, with only bizarre events but no cause and effect. But for some reason, this novel attracted him to read on, and he hoped that the novel would give a reasonable explanation in the end."

"But in the end, the novel didn't explain anything, he just finished reading it, then stood up from his wheelchair and walked out of the study."

"That's it?" Xia Shou experienced the same feeling as the protagonist of the stone tablet, Toru Olan.

"Maybe the rest of the story is on the other three sides of the obelisk. Wait for me, I'll go out and take a picture." Bai He took out his mobile phone, walked under the moonlight, quickly took pictures of the other three sides of the obelisk, and returned to the temple.

Xia Shou was looking forward to hearing the next story, but after Bai He finished reading it, he shook his head and said, “It’s not the story of Oran, it’s about a traveler who rides on the chariot of the gods to the future.

This god's vehicle is like a centipede, with countless round steel wheels. Its body is very long, and it makes a very violent wind sound before moving, but the sound is countless times louder than a hurricane.

Then black smoke will come out of its head, and countless feet will begin to rotate, making rhythmic, metallic collision sounds.

Finally, it moved forward along two parallel steel bars, with a lot of wood underneath. "

"Wait, are you sure this isn't a train?" Xia Shou interrupted, "When was the train invented? If I remember correctly, the first steam locomotive was invented in the early 19th century, and the steam engine was invented in the late 18th century."

Bai He nodded and patted Xia Shou on the shoulder: "Don't think about it. If you get obsessed with studying this kind of thing, you will waste your whole life. There are a group of scholars in our bureau who have spent more than ten years studying a certain passage."

As soon as the words fell, the two saw a figure appear in the woods opposite.

The man had a big sword on his back and was dragging a huge animal head in his hand.

Xia Shou recognized it as the head of the Moon Beast at a glance.

The visitor walked in the moonlight, step by step, approaching the temple neither fast nor slow, his sapphire eyes shining brightly in the moonlight.

Xia Shou and Bai He both changed their expressions.

"Lin Tiandong...why can he walk under the moonlight?"

(End of this chapter)