Full-Time Mage: Starting with Gengar, selected for the National Tournament

Chapter 161 Death's Punishment?

At dusk.

Back to Nazca.

From the helicopter, everyone could clearly see the strange lines and geometric patterns forming patterns on the distant ground.

"Look, doesn't that picture look like a monkey?"

Nan Jue pointed in a direction and spoke.

"That's true!"

Everyone's eyes widened.

They had previously trained on the ground.

Although I also noticed these lines.

But I just can't understand what it means.

Now, thousands of meters above the ground, looking down at the entire earth, I can finally see the whole pattern clearly.

"And over there, it looks like a spider!" Jiang Shaoxu also discovered the secret of the ground painting and pointed in a direction.

"Over there, that's the strange bird that attacked us before!!" Nan Jue pointed to another spot, where a pattern of a strange bird was formed by spiral lines.

Everyone looked terrified.

It's hard to imagine who laid out such precise lines, hundreds of meters long, on the ground to create this pattern.

"If I had known that these things were drawn on the ground, I definitely wouldn't have stepped into this place!" Jiang Yu said with lingering fear.

"Yes, it's a bit strange." Zhao Manyan nodded.

"It must be because we stepped into the painting of the strange bird back then and got tainted by the aura of misfortune!" Jiang Shaoxu said.

"But what's the reason? We didn't do anything, so why are we cursed by misfortune?" Mo Fan asked, puzzled.

At this time.

Chu Ming, who had been observing the strange bird geoglyph, noticed something unusual and remarked calmly, "Something's missing from the geoglyph!"

"Something is missing?"

"That's impossible," Mo Fan frowned. "We came here hoping to try our luck, but we've come up empty-handed."

"If you didn't take it, then someone else did." Chu Ming glanced at everyone. "In any case, the strange bird's eyes have been taken."

"Eyes?" Nan Jue looked closely.

"Does this strange bird ground painting have eyes?!" Zhao Manyan looked at it from left to right, but couldn't figure it out.

Chu Ming glanced at the sky and said calmly, "We've been fighting the monster bird legion all day. Let's set up camp on Mount Nazca and rest for the night. Tomorrow morning, you'll be able to see the results clearly."

Upon hearing this...

Ai Jiangtu frowned.

Nan Jue seemed to be deep in thought.

Zhao Manyan and Mo Fan were completely bewildered: "We'll see the results tomorrow morning?"

……

The next day, early morning.

When the sunlight falls on the Nazca Lines.

Nan Jue excitedly woke everyone up.

"The results are in!"

"Everyone, come and see!"

As the group emerged from the tent, they could see the strange bird-shaped landscape painting shimmering with a faint white glow under the morning light.

A strange white bird appeared before everyone's eyes.

Upon seeing this strange phenomenon, everyone's eyes widened.

"Look at the strange bird's eyes; they are dark there, but the rest of the surrounding area is bright in the morning light."

"Captain Chu is right, the strange bird is missing a piece of its eye; its eyeball has been stolen!"

Nan Jue said seriously.

"The reason for the demonic unrest is that the strange bird has lost its eye."

"No wonder we're being targeted; damn it, we've been framed."

Mo Fan muttered curses.

The mystery has finally been solved.

But no one could be happy.

The question now is, who stole that eyeball?

"Think back, when you first went to explore the Nazca Lines, were there any other people besides you, such as some locals?"

"Based on my deduction, the person who knows the location of the treasure in the strange bird's eyes is probably not an ordinary person."

"He must be very knowledgeable about the Nazca Lines."

"In short, the theft of the strange bird's eyeballs was committed by locals."

Chu Ming stroked his chin and looked at Mo Fan and the others.

Do the locals know about the ruins?

Suddenly, the image of a bearded man flashed through Zhao Manyan's mind, and he quickly said, "I remember now. Before we entered the ruins, an uncle specifically reminded us that this was a forbidden area and told us to leave immediately."

"Uncle? Is that so? I remember there aren't any towns within a hundred miles of here, so how did an uncle suddenly appear?" Mo Fan scratched his head and asked.

As soon as he said that...

Ai Jiangtu, Nan Jue, Jiang Shaoxu, Mu Ningxue, Nan Rongni, and everyone else looked at him with idiotic eyes.

"Fool!"

"That guy is a thief!!"

Mo Fan's lips twitched, realizing he had made a foolish mistake. He stubbornly retorted, "But even if we know he's a thief, he's been on the run for so long, we can't catch him now."

"Yeah," Zhao Manyan said, looking equally annoyed.

"Zhao Manyan, think about it again..." Nan Jue reminded him, recalling the ancient characters carved on the stone tablet at the foot of the mountain. "The origin of the Nazca Lines contains a terrifying power. If we don't get rid of this misfortune as soon as possible, there may be unimaginable curses and hidden dangers in the future."

"Okay, let me think about it again carefully." Zhao Manyan took a deep breath, becoming more and more anxious and under immense pressure.

The expressions on everyone's faces turned worried.

Chu Ming shook his head and said decisively, "No need to recall, that guy is at the Yare Mine!"

"How did you know he was at the Yare mine?" Mo Fan asked, puzzled.

"I'm asking you, why didn't the monster bird legion attack the city, but instead targeted you?"

"We've stumbled into the forbidden area of ​​the Earth Painting and become tainted by the aura of the curse," Mo Fan said.

"Alright, why did those Nazca apes that the Royal Mage mentioned yesterday attack a mine first?"

After listening to Chu Ming's counter-question.

Ai Jiangtu, Nan Jue, Jiang Shaoxu, and the others' eyes lit up, and they said in unison.

"He's also tainted by the curse!"

……

……

Da da da!

A helicopter landed on flat ground near the Yare mine.

General Mott rushed over in a panic, only to find that it was not the royal mage who had arrived.

Instead, Chu Ming, Ai Jiangtu, and the others were startled.

"Is it you?"

"What do you want to do?"

"You'd better shut up!" Jiang Shaoxu wasn't going to tolerate him.

"To make a long story short, something from where the Nazca Lines' eyes should be was stolen by a man from a mine, ultimately provoking the Nazca Monster's wrath," Nan Jue said coldly. "The disaster will only end when that thing is found and put back in its original place!"

"Nonsense..." The dark-skinned female staff officer standing to the side looked skeptical and wanted to refute.

Snapped!

Jiang Shaoxu slapped her across the face: "Shut up!"

"These are the photos we took." Nan Jue handed the phone to Mott.

"this……"

Looking at the missing eye in the painting of the strange bird.

Mott realized the seriousness of the situation and muttered in despair.

"This is death's punishment!"

"The entire mine was completely surrounded by monstrous apes. These monsters neither ate nor drank, and they stayed there day and night, guarding the place to the death, not letting anyone in or leave."

"The purpose is to appease the wrath of Nazca's Grim Reaper with the deaths of more than three thousand people at the mine."

(End of this chapter)