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The searchlight bag is hung on a protruding stone platform indoors.

Lights illuminate the area including the altar.

A seven-person team, each wandering around the altar with a tool, to investigate possible organs and secret doors.

Zhao Mingyi took out the cloth from his bag, wiped the monocular magnifying glass he was wearing, and took out a portable blower to blow away the thick dust accumulated on the stone wall, revealing the hidden brick stone wall painting underneath.

"Come and see, is there a mechanical device here?"

Suddenly there was an exclamation from behind, Zhao Mingyi hurriedly turned around, only to see his teammate with two short blades on his waist. Was beckoning to him.

I ran over and wanted to take a look, but because I was far away, I hadn't walked a few steps yet. The corner over there was already surrounded by other teammates, and Zhao Mingyi didn't mean to force it to join in the fun. , Continue his own survey.

This team has gone through many expeditions, and they have already fully trusted each other. If they find something, they will never hide it.

After a while, only a sound of machine operation was heard.

"Damn it, why are these slates? Isn’t it nonsense that this stuff is hidden so well."

Someone tweeted, and then began to move the slates out, Zhao Mingyi Looking back, I saw that the person in the team who was in charge of this aspect of research put on gloves and walked over and ignored it.

The division of labor is clear, and things that are not within the scope of their own responsibility should not be mixed up.

After checking the remaining part of the area he was responsible for, Zhao Mingyi twisted his neck, wanting to loosen his muscles and bones.

Suddenly I felt something was wrong.

What about the voices of the teammates?

"I didn't find any abnormalities here, you see nothing...Hey, why don't you talk?"

Habitually report his situation, Zhao Mingyi turned his head I went to see the team members and found that they were still surrounded by the position where the mechanism was discovered just now.

Under the light, the six people stood around the slate, their upper bodies swayed slightly from side to side.

The black shadow that fell on the stone wall followed in a twisted state.

I yelled twice, but no one answered. I couldn’t help but browse knit. I wanted to lean over to check the situation, but when he walked halfway, these people stood up in unison and started walking towards the altar.

"What did you find...Hey, Abel, Li Tang, speak!"

Standing near where they squatted before, Zhao Mingyi glanced at it The stone slabs on the ground, with no difficulty, can see clearly the patterns drawn on the stone slabs by the light projected from the side.

Almost at the same time, a dizzying whisper sounded in Zhao Mingyi's ear, and the rays of light in his eyes gradually dimmed.

At this moment, Zhao Mingyi was awakened by the chaotic noise from the side, and he quickly closed his eyes and took a few steps back. Only then did he feel that his mental state had improved.

The experience accumulated over the years of exploration made him quickly realize that there is a problem with the slate, and the abnormal state of his companions obviously originated from this. He immediately took off the medicine hanging from his waist and poured it, and his spirit suddenly lifted. Turned around and planned to stop the comrades.

However, as he stepped forward, the six people on the other side suddenly speeded up their pace, leaped one after another on the altar in the Central Region, and went straight to the holy grail full of dark golden plasma.

"Wait, don’t get close to it, it’s dangerous..."

The nearest member has already knelt down beside the Holy Grail. Realizing that it was too late, Zhao Mingyi immediately pulled out the pistol and pulled the trigger according to the man's thigh.

He wants to awaken the other party's sanity with pain.

But what made Zhao Mingyi absolutely didn't expect was his behavior of hurting his teammates, causing blood from the wound to drip down the altar, and this change seemed to trigger a certain mechanism of the altar.

In the next second, the dark golden plasma that was originally in the Holy Grail seemed to be given life, split into six strands and rushed directly to the six closest people, and then went straight in from their facial features. !

Rao is a senior pioneer like Zhao Mingyi, and his scalp is tingling when he sees this scene.

This is just the beginning...

Through the light, Zhao Mingyi quickly discovered that several people who had been invaded by plasma convulsed violently in a very short time.

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Although they haven't become any grotesquely shaped creatures, these faces that were familiar to Zhao Mingyi's eyes begin to melt like waxy items being burned by fire.

Not long afterwards, it reunited into another face.

...

"They are crazy, and suddenly they seem to have changed people. They are singing a spell I have never heard before, as if they are completing a certain A prelude to ceremony."

"I don’t know if it’s an illusion or reality. I just remember that they were laughing. Someone approached me and he grabbed my arm...I think he I want to get me close to the Holy Grail, and my instinct tells me that it’s never a good thing."

"I am a human being and I will never become anything else. I want to live, as a human being, so I only I can wrong the right hand arm."

Taking a big sip, Zhao Mingyi's hand holding the wine bottle was shaking constantly, his empty cuffs swayed, but a decisive smile appeared on his face.

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"I survived, the only one alive!"

"How did you run out of the ruins, didn't they stop you?"

It seems to have thought of it What? Xu Jiu asked while looking for some photos stored in the phone.

"I didn’t know. I turned around and fled the room where the altar was. No one chased it out. I only heard some noise from behind. I wanted to guard them at the door, but when I went outside, I was really scared. The wound is bleeding continuously and urgent treatment is needed immediately. I can only choose to retreat. Fortunately, the road I have explored is marked."

After hearing Zhao Mingyi’s description of the situation at the time, Xu Jiu couldn’t help but recall Secret. Society's research results on the lunar crown sect.

He clearly remembers the ceremony content of the lunar crown sect mentioned by Max.

Only the part with the highest status in the sect is eligible to use the Holy Grail. Drinking the liquid in it, combined with Zhao Mingyi’s experience, does this mean that the nature of the sect is in doubt?

If this is a cult...

Don’t forget.

It is one of the dominant forces in Sky City!

"According to your statement, can I think that after you left the ruins, you did not confirm the lives and deaths of those people?"

Xu Jiu did not mention his thoughts to Zhao Mingyi, but Changed the subject.

"Yes, I did not dare to go back, and my physical condition did not allow me to stay in the special zone for a long time..."

"Do you think your companions , Are you alive or dead?"

Staring at the phone screen, turning it to Zhao Mingyi, Xu Jiu continued,

"This is the moon crown sect I got from other places. In the internal scene sketch, the Holy Grail was indeed found in it, but there was no liquid in it, let alone the slates you mentioned!"

"I don’t think they can... Are you referring to them with another face?"

Zhao Mingyi thinks that his companions must be dead, but he is not sure what the people affected by the blood did after that.

"That's right."

Xu Jiu doesn't think that Secret Society will deliberately conceal himself in such matters.

If Zhao Mingyi did not go back after escaping from the ruins, the items and bones that should have existed around the altar disappeared thoroughly.

There are only two possible reasons for this phenomenon.

One, other teams found the remains of the Lunar Crown in the Secret Society and moved forward and moved these things.

In Xu Jiu's opinion, the probability of this situation is not high.

The reason is very simple. The other exploratory teams were fed up and moved out six bones with mutations?

Isn’t it too cumbersome?

Furthermore, if someone moves out, there will definitely be corresponding intelligence circulated, and Zhao Mingyi was very concerned about this news during that time, and there is no reason not to know.

Secondly, those who were eroded by the dark golden plasma did not die, and left the ruins with slates and other things.

Almost at the same time that this kind of conjecture emerged in his mind, Xu Jiu couldn't help recalling his experience in the seabed city.

Those "angel" souls who live in the amethyst, do not know how many years are lurking, and will take the explorer's body as soon as they show up!

How similar is the behavior of the two?

It's just that there is an extra Xu Jiu in the seabed city, and Zhao Mingyi, who should have prevented this from happening in the Lunar Corona Ruins, has no ability to stop them.

Of course.

The above are all speculations made by Xu Jiu based on the information provided by Zhao Mingyi.

He could not be sure of what happened in the ruins that year.

"Is there any more information about the moon crown sect?"

It has been more than ten years, Xu Jiu did not intend to argue with Zhao Mingyi about the details at the time, but just continued Asked.

"Dreamland, these years may have been affected by that slate. After falling asleep, I will occasionally fall into strange dreams, which will make me fall into short-term madness, so I choose to live alone."

"What did you dream of?"

I have been dealing with evil spirits a lot, and Xu Jiu has now found out some patterns.

In his opinion, the things that appear in Zhao Mingyi's dream are very likely to have some connection with the moon crown sect.

"I used to think that dreams revealed some kind of information, so I planned to record the part that I could remember after waking up, but I didn’t remember much. Many times it was chaotic images, but recently In a few days, the dream became clearer somehow, and the things that appeared in it were no longer as vague as in the past, but the corresponding change in my mental state was also bad."

Standing up, Zhao Mingyi gestured. Xu Jiu waited a moment, he walked quickly towards the house, and soon came out with a cardboard box.

"Here is all the information about the crown sect and some sundries I have collected before, you I have solved the trouble that has troubled me for many years. I don't need them anymore. They are all yours. I hope it can help you."

Xu Jiu took the box and opened it, and glanced roughly.

There is a diary, a stone with strange inscriptions painted on the surface, and a folder that looks a little old, with some convex pages on the edge, which looks like a cut Traces of going up.

"The diary contains the information I recorded. This stone was obtained from a bone in a ruin that year. It looked like a body protection symbol, so I kept it with me. There are some effects, at least these years I have not been crazy...The remaining one is the notebook used by my team to collect various types of special area intelligence, and the moon crown sect is also in it."

As for Xu Jiu, who brought him back from the brink of collapse, Zhao Mingyi's sincerity is beyond doubt.

Not staying in the mountain within the valley for a long time, Xu Jiu put the things on the motorcycle, paid a sum of money, and set off for the special area.

He needs time to replenish the energy in the crystal of the sage, and this time the goal is to be closer to Wushan Gathering Point, a secondary high-level special area-Bladewind Canyon.

There is no way, there is too much uncertainty in the sub-special zone.

In case of being trapped too deeply, leading to miss Gao Banling's call or the evil seal plan of Secret Society, these two situations are not what Xu Jiu wants to see.

Before coming, Xu Jiu specially checked the surrounding special areas through Vanessa, and learned that there are a large number of alienated beasts in the Bladewind Gorge within the valley, which meets his requirements.

Hurry up, and finally arrived at the official outpost in Wusu near the special area around 1 pm.

He needs to find a place to eat, and take a look at the item he just got from Zhao Mingyi.

Unexpected excitement in the base.

Riding a motorcycle to enter the door, Xu Jiu looked at the rows of vehicles on both sides of the street, and there were a lot of people recruiting people with signs upright.

Due to the large-scale recruitment of special affairs bureaus in the major gathering points, the number of pioneer teams on Wasteland has dropped a lot, making the manpower very short. Xu Jiu's sight passed a few blocks. wooden token.

Not surprisingly, I want to hire some temporary workers. To put it bluntly, they are people who use money as cannon fodder.

Xu Jiu once considered participating in making extra money.

But now...The eight-digit deposit in the bank card makes Xu Jiu no longer worry about making money.

I randomly found a restaurant to sit down and asked the waiter to find out that the outer environment of Bladewind Canyon has changed abnormally recently. Some people say that there is some treasure inside, which has attracted many pioneers to try. one's luck.

Xu Jiu, who knows the reason, slapped his lips and mourned for three seconds of silence for these pioneers destined to go on an errand for nothing.

After ordering a few simple dishes, Xu Jiu first took out Zhao Mingyi's notes. After reading the first few pages, they were all babbling chaotic accounts. Xu Jiu didn't have much research on linguistics.

It is not difficult to guess why Zhao Mingyi has abnormal dreams recently.

Most likely is related to changes in the crown-level peculiar zone.

As the occultists of the Secret Society experienced, the evil energy in his body or head was also affected, which caused his condition to suddenly deteriorate.

It's just a miracle to be able to carry the evil energy and survive for so many years... Or is the body protection symbol he gave himself really useful?

Turning his hand to take out the stone that he had held in his arms before, Xu Jiu rubbed the inscription on its surface, looking like a slanted six-pointed star, with some weird lines embedded in the middle.

I checked the status of Spirit Vision and found nothing abnormal. After thinking about it, I put it back in my pocket.

Although I am not sure about the usefulness of this thing, Zhao Mingyi has carried it for so long without any problems, and Xu Jiu also decided to carry it with him.

Just as an insurance for yourself.

I can’t read those notes, so I just turn to the latest pages.

Zhao Mingyi clearly described some of the things he saw in the dream on these pages. Xu Jiu sorted it out, and there are nothing more than three pieces of information worth noting.

First of all, Zhao Mingyi clearly mentioned that he saw the blood moon in his dream!

This part of the content undoubtedly overlaps with the scenes that Xu Jiu previously predicted through his awakening ability, so Xu Jiu suspects that his dreams may be related to Sky City.

Secondly, whenever Zhao Mingyi enters a dream, he can always hear what someone is saying to him, but he can't understand the other person's language at all, let alone who is speaking to him.

But just last night, he finally saw the source of the sound.

A woman wearing a sun hat and plain dress, nearly two meters high.

The note clearly mentions that the man's back is thin and he has long white hair on the neck, which is definitely not what a man should have.

It's just a back view. When Zhao Mingyi wanted to see the other's face, the dream fluctuated and was forced to end.

Finally, Xu Jiu is quite concerned about it. Zhao Mingyi saw a huge pool of blood in his dream, in which dark golden liquid was flowing, and a large number of people flocked from all directions. The pool, dressed in clothes, jumped into it.

Beside the pool, there is also a huge machine.

It seems that there is a certain special energy in its central location, constantly overflowing with majestic energy!

Xu Jiu started thinking involuntarily whether this thing would be related to the crystal of sage.

With the extension of the clues.

Xu Jiu is more curious about the secrets hidden in this Sky City.