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Chapter 330 The Mystery of the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Country
Hearing the conversation among the villagers, Chen Ziyang stopped hurriedly, pricked up his ears, and listened in that direction.

Before that, he discovered from the murals on the stone steles carved by the king of the ancient kingdom of Migu that a turning point in the turn from prosperity to decline of the kingdom of Migu was that all the residents here dreamed of that huge blood-red eye, which should be the same thing he had seen before. The one that has been there several times.

After the appearance of that bloody eye, the painting style on the murals on the stele suddenly changed. The ancient country of Yumi was no longer a prosperous scene, but gradually declined, until finally the battle between people and trees broke out. The residents of Migu Kingdom all traveled long distances away from here.

It can be said that as long as you figure out the matter about this eye, you should be able to understand why the Migu Council has declined like this.

"I've heard them say that this eye is a bad omen, and many people who dream about this eye do not end well."

"Isn't that right? I've also heard that the first person who dreamed of this eye went mad. He seemed to have jumped into a well and died in the end. Others said he seemed to have hit his head on a wall and died. When he died, he kept talking about red eyes, red eyes, it was too scary."

"Then you said we also dreamed about this eye, will we be going crazy too?"

"Probably not. Now almost everyone in the city is dreaming about that red eye. Is it possible that everyone will go crazy? I don't think so."

"It's okay if it doesn't. I didn't think there was anything wrong at first, but when I said it like this, I also felt terrified. When the Holy Land is opened next time, we must send more sacrifices, and let the Holy Mother bless us to forget about the red one." Eye."

"What? Don't you know?"

"what?"

"I told you, you must not spread it to the outside world. I heard that the reason why we all dreamed of the blood-red eye? It has something to do with the Virgin."

"What? How is this possible? Didn't the Holy Mother bless us?"

"I just heard that, I don't know if it's true. They said that every year when the king led people to sacrifice blood in exchange for clean water, all the blood flowed into the ground, forming a pool of blood under the ground. The shape of the blood pool is the shape of an eye, so we can dream of this red eye."

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Listening to the conversation between the two, Chen Ziyang stood there in a daze. Although what the two said was a bit strange, he felt that it was very likely that the facts were similar to what the two described.

Although they may have heard many things from hearsay, and there may be some errors in word of mouth, Chen Ziyang felt that the facts should be quite different, and all of this had something to do with the woman in white.

After looking up at the imperial palace of the ancient kingdom of Mimi not far away, Chen Ziyang changed his previous thoughts.He decided not to look in that strange passage.

That passage is too long, even if you throw off your legs and run wildly, it will take a day to get to the end. I don't know if there is anything in it that I want to see, but the soul-suppressing paperweight can It is simply impossible to gain such ample time for myself, and it is very likely that this dreamland I am in will collapse in a short time.

Rather than spending time on useless walks, it is better to stay here and look for some clues from the villagers. This is more practical. After all, the time to open it up for yourself is just right. , just after all the villagers dreamed of that blood-red eye.

And this period of time was the period when the people of the ancient kingdom of Mimi were dissatisfied with the king, so that they broke out in conflict with the king. It should be the most appropriate time to look for clues during this period.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang changed his strategy. He put all his attention on people who seemed to be able to provide him with clues, and there were not a few such people.

Because of the incident of the bloody eyes, people in the entire ancient country of Mimi are now in panic. As long as three or two people get together alone, they will talk about it.

Chen Ziyang walked through the ancient country of Yumi, listening carefully to the conversations of these people, extracting the credible parts from them, discarding the exaggerated parts, and slowly sorting out the cause and effect of the matter.

When a feeling of powerlessness came from the pattern of the soul-suppressing paperweight on Chen Ziyang's right arm, he knew that the mana of the soul-suppressing paperweight had been exhausted, and the time for him to collect clues was over.

The surrounding scenery turned into nothingness again. This time, the collapse of the dream was unstoppable, but at this time, Chen Ziyang had collected many crucial clues.

Looking at the collapsed scenery around him, Chen Ziyang's brain was running fast. He organized all the clues he got together, and together with the pictures on the dozens of stone tablets, he slowly straightened out The cause and effect of things.

After the woman in white appeared, the drought in the ancient country of Yumi was completely relieved, but in exchange, the people of the ancient country of Yumi needed to inject a lot of blood into the diamond every year.And this task was naturally handed over to the king of the ancient kingdom of Yumi.

The king didn't know what kind of deal he had made with the woman in white, and he got eternal life, and all the people of the ancient Yumi kingdom knew about it.In their hearts, the woman in white is the Holy Mother, the mother who gave them the green in this desert, and has an extremely lofty status.

The Holy Land will be opened once a year, and the old king will lead those who voluntarily sacrifice their blood into it to offer sacrifices.Other people can also enter the Holy Land, but they can only walk to half of the Holy Land, which is where the blank steles are, which is why there are countless altars and jars in front of those steles.

Because ordinary people can only go there when they enter the holy place to worship, so they put all the altars and jars containing the tribute there. Over time, the front of each blank stele is full of jars.The holy place behind the stele can only be entered by blood sacrificers and kings.

Every year, the king will take people who voluntarily donate blood to the holy place to sacrifice blood.Although the people in the ancient country of Yumi were quite resistant to this point at the beginning, because from their point of view, people who like blood are all demons.

But because blood can be exchanged for clean water and endless vitality, so slowly, the attitude of the people in the ancient country of Mimi also changed. They no longer feel that it is shameful to sacrifice blood. On the contrary, there are many People voluntarily went to the holy place to perform sacrifices.

But as time went by, the blood needed by Our Lady increased year by year, and after the volunteers came back, one by one was more tired than the other, and even once, because the number of spontaneous blood donors was less, two people were He was directly sucked dry by the Holy Mother and died.

Although the people who had entered the Holy Land to make sacrifices all kept silent about the situation inside after returning, but because of these incidents, gradually, people in the ancient kingdom of Mimi came into conflict with the Holy Mother again, and all kinds of rumors and rumors spread all over the sky. , Some people say that the Virgin is a vampire, and some people say that the Virgin is a dryad.

But after all, these are all legends, because everyone who has entered the Holy Land has forgotten what they have seen and experienced.Others only know that after they came out of the Holy Land, they became skinny one by one, had no energy anymore, and their life span was much shorter than others.

Due to various reasons, gradually few people voluntarily went to the holy land to make sacrifices. This is very worrying for the old king, because the Holy Mother said at the beginning that if the sacrifice of blood is interrupted, the curse will come to this area. above the earth.

Although the king of the ancient kingdom of Yumi did not know what the content of the curse was, judging by the magic power of the Holy Mother, the curse was definitely not much better. He did not dare to gamble with the lives of all the people in the ancient kingdom of Yumi.

So from that time on, the old king changed his strategy.At that time, the ancient country of Yumi had developed into an important link on the Silk Road, with countless caravans and pedestrians, so the king of the ancient country extended his grasp to outsiders.

He kept promulgating one decree after another, enacting one law after another, and all those who violated it would be imprisoned, and they would be tried on the day when the Holy Land was opened.And the judge is the Virgin Mary.

To put it bluntly, after all these people became prisoners, they had to be taken into the holy place by the king on the day the holy place was opened. No one knew what happened there after that. The villagers in the ancient country of Mimi only knew that these prisoners had entered the holy place After that, no one came out alive. In their words, these people were all condemned by the Holy Mother.

At the beginning, this method of the old king had a very good effect. The laws he promulgated were basically aimed at foreign caravans, and few of them involved the residents of the country, so these laws of his were also obtained. With the approval of the residents of the ancient country of Yumi.

But with the passage of time, the appetite of the Holy Mother is getting bigger and bigger, and the prisoners caught every year can no longer satisfy its appetite, so the old king also issued many laws and regulations for the residents of the country, and because The laws here are too strict, and many caravans are unwilling to transfer here, and the lives of the residents of the ancient country of Yumi have also been greatly affected.

Dissatisfaction with the king and the Virgin is slowly accumulating, and almost all the residents of the ancient kingdom of Yumi are enduring it. They are waiting, waiting for the day when these grievances will explode.And that day is coming soon.

Almost overnight, all the villagers in the ancient country of Yumi dreamed of a huge blood-red eye.From that day on, strange things happened one after another.

The residents of the ancient country disappeared inexplicably, and a large number of residents became thin for unknown reasons, as if they had been sucked out of their blood. All of them could not lift up their spirits, could not use their strength, and some even became inexplicably slow. Slowly emaciated to death.

The old king blamed all this on the curse caused by not sacrificing blood to the Virgin in time, but it is clear that the people of the ancient country are no longer bewitched by the Virgin and the king, and they no longer believe these lies.

Although Chen Ziyang did not know the rest of the matter from the mouths of the residents, he had already guessed the rest of the matter through the patterns of the steles carved by the old king.

It is probably because the so-called Holy Mother's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and the old king can't satisfy its demand for blood. Coupled with the accumulation of so many years, the Holy Mother's mana is already very strong, so it directly affects the power of the Holy Mother. The minds of all the people in the ancient country of Mimi, or directly absorbed the blood from their bodies.

It can be said with certainty that the people of the Ancient Kingdom of Mimi chose to let the Holy Mother stay here, and they were already doomed to have their fate today. All the people are just domestic animals raised by the Holy Mother that can provide blood. .

This is why the people of the ancient country of Yumi would rather destroy their family and die than fight the Holy Mother to the end. Only in this way can there be the later war of people and trees, and the great migration of the people of the ancient country of Yumi.

Now Chen Ziyang finally understood why the person who left the sheepskin didn't want future generations to open up the treasures of this ancient country.

Because the Holy Mother's mana is too strong, although the Holy Mother was severely injured in the original battle, she did not die, but was waiting for someone who was destined to wake her up.By chance, Chen Ziyang became the person who could awaken the Virgin.

After all the distorted scenery around him disappeared, Chen Ziyang found himself back in that pitch-black space, and the woman in white was still standing in front of him.

Seeing that Chen Ziyang woke up, the woman in white was about to open her mouth to say something to Chen Ziyang, but suddenly, the woman in white froze.Because she didn't see that longing expression on Chen Ziyang's face.

The woman in white believes that after experiencing the dream she constructed, all people will dream of becoming a person like the old king, who can live forever and enjoy all the glory and wealth, so that they are willing to be their own servants and be controlled by themselves.

But how could she have imagined that, because of the soul-suppressing paperweight, not only did Chen Ziyang not be seduced by her, but he saw her true face clearly.

Although the woman in white felt strange, she still believed that the dream she had constructed was absolutely attractive, so after smiling at Chen Ziyang, the woman in white said: "Come with me, be my slave, I will give you Endless life, endless wealth for you, all of this, from now on."

After the woman in white finished speaking, Chen Ziyang suddenly felt a huge pulling force pulling him, and bright lights rushed into the surrounding darkness, illuminating his whole body brightly.

At this moment, Instructor Liu, who was waiting impatiently, suddenly discovered that the diamond under Chen Ziyang's body emitted a ray of light.

(End of this chapter)