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Li Ang focused his attention on sensing the message from Mosi's avatar. The top area of ​​the temple had been destroyed by falling rocks above the cave, leaving only ruins and walls. Other than that, no traces of battle or dead bodies were found.

At the very center of the temple, there is an exceptionally large stone chamber. On the four walls of the room, there is a copy of a mural.

The first mural is hundreds of small people drawn with simple lines. They screamed and cried, looked desperate, as if they were afraid of something, kneeling on the vast land, worshiping a towering minaret .

Or rather, kneel down to the man at the top of the steeple.

The man was tall and tall, his face hidden under the hood, his arms were outstretched, and he held a blood-stained golden blade in his right hand. On the stone bed in front of him lay a young nobleman who had been disembowelled.

The reason why they were called nobles was that the disemboweled man was wearing luxurious white clothing and a snake-shaped ornament inlaid with gold and jade on the neckline, which contrasted sharply with the thousands of ordinary people who were dressed in simple clothes under the minaret.

The strange thing is that, despite being killed and sacrificed, the young noble didn't feel any pain on his face, but smiled calmly, as if he was satisfied with something great.

Above the heads of the sacrificer and the sacrificed is a blue sky.

It depicts two huge blood-red vertical pupils, as if the devil is spying on the world.

What does this mural express?

Li Ang frowned subconsciously. Judging from the primitive and barbaric behavior of human sacrifice, the age depicted in the murals was extremely old, at least before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. By sacrificing human animals, appease ghosts and gods, and worship ancestors.

However, the clothing styles of the characters in the paintings are obviously different from those in the Central Plains. And the sacrifices were not prisoners of war but nobles.

He looked patiently at the second mural.

On the second mural, the hooded man still exists.

He stood on the cliff with his arms outstretched, as if he was reprimanding something.

At the bottom of the cliff, thousands of civilians are digging the soil with tools, and some people in noble costumes hang in the air,

These people waved their arms and made various gestures, and the huge rocks that blocked the excavation process were broken and turned into smaller gravel, which were placed on the cart carried by the giant beast that was obviously a monster.

Monk?

Li Ang was greatly astonished. The movements of the nobles in the painting resembled the original magic techniques of the Yin and Shang Dynasties described in the classics of the academy.

No, even older.

Li Ang noticed that some nobles held human skulls in their hands, as if they were summoning the spirits of their ancestors to gain extraordinary power.

If this is the case, the age of the murals is even older than the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

Li Ang frowned and looked at the third mural, only to see that it was an inverted Babel structure building that went deep into the ground.

In each tower, there are many villains in different costumes and classes.

Like the previous two murals, the common people have simple lines and poor clothing, while the nobles have delicate lines, gorgeous clothing and more facial expressions.

Everyone looked terrified and uneasy, looking up at the top of Tongtian Tower.

In the sky above the surface, a huge gap was opened, and black light poured out from it,

Animals, demons, human beings, all creatures fell to the ground and died.

On the fourth mural, it is also the Tongtian Tower that goes deep into the ground, but this time the cracks in the sky and the black light are all gone.

All the villains who lived underground came to the barren surface, singing and dancing to celebrate their new life.

The above are the contents of the four murals, and there are some footprints left in the dusty space in the middle of the murals. It is not clear when it was left.

Li Ang rubbed his temples with a headache, full of doubts in his heart.

Jiuyou is definitely a barren land, much more desolate than Liyuan. I am afraid that only some extreme archaea can survive on the thick smoke from underground hot springs.

A civilization with monks and the ability to build underground towers is undoubtedly advanced. Why did they bother to go deep into the ground to build such a temple in Jiuyou Dark River?

Judging from the content of the murals, it seems that a certain prophet of an ancient civilization prophesied that the devil would spy on the world through a sacrifice.

This civilization believed in the content of the prophecy, mobilized the power of the whole country, dug down, and built the Tongtian Tower. I don't know how many years later, the doomsday is expected, and the creatures on the surface are wiped out.

And the ancient civilization that has been living underground has returned to the ground and become the only survivor.

Li Ang put down his arms and thought seriously: A civilization with monks who can build such a huge temple in the Nine Dark River may be stupid, but it is definitely not weak.

How much they trust the prophets and how much they fear the doomsday prophecy, they have to do their best to hide underground.

Could it be that they are Siyou people?

The Siyou people are an extremely mysterious tribe. Legend has it that they live in underground rivers and rarely interact with surface civilizations.

Except for a few eyewitness records that happened before the two Jin Dynasties and it was difficult to distinguish the authenticity,

Only some fish bones with obscure texts accidentally drifted to surface rivers may prove their existence.

When Li Ang was hijacked and half-forced by Crow Nine and entered the underground ghost market, he had indirect contact with Siyou civilization——

At that time, Shi Xingseng left a slate, claiming that he had foreseen that he would suffer death, and then used the secret method of Jingnianzong to erase most of the memories. The remaining memories were divided into three parts and placed in three different places, waiting for Shi Xingseng After waking up, use the lotus of the affliction to retrieve it.

The locations of the three locations are written in serpentine Siyou characters.

That stone slab is still hidden by Li Ang in the cave east of Chang'an City——Dongjun Tower has too few samples of Siyou's characters, and it is impossible to decipher it at all.

At that time, it was impossible for Li Ang to go to Dongjun Tower to investigate, and he was asking for trouble, so he put the stone slab on hold and did not follow the clues.

It is now known that Shi Xingseng, who lost all memory after his resurrection, has joined Zhaoming, if they are also tracking the traces of the Siyou clan

Li Ang stood up from the chair, left the Imperial Medical Office, and hurried to the Academy in a carriage.

To be on the safe side, it's better to inform the head of the mountain about the information.

The carriage was bumpy, and Li Ang took time to check the situation of the moray eel along the way—it was not only luck but also luck. Going upstream, successfully reached the signal area, and sent all the information back,

And it's not dead yet, it's dying wrapped around a stalactite pillar.

Li Ang was greatly moved, and immediately followed the positioning coordinates to ask other marine creatures to go to support, and the way of support was to feed himself to the moray eels.

As for the outstanding employees of Eel itself, it is natural to reward them.

Based on the principle of using it in death as long as it never dies, Li Ang decided to allocate more shares of mosi to strengthen this moray and let it return to the dark river to continue exploring.

Excellent young people should accept experience.

Not long after, Li Ang arrived at the school. Instead of looking for Xi Yangyu, who stayed behind in the school and had the most authority, he went directly to the Dongjun Tower, found the puppet machine servant Ati, and said seriously: I have important information to tell Shan. Long, please contact me.

The old man Shan Chang often disappeared, ranging from a few days to a few months. No one, including the sacrificial wine and the secretary, knew where he had gone, and there was no way to contact him.

Ati, who doesn't look like an ordinary puppet servitor, is the most likely person to contact the head of the mountain in an emergency.

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Ati, who was pushing a small cart to clean Dongjun Building, glanced at Li Ang calmly, and said lightly, I have no authority.

It is lack of authority rather than lack of ability. Li Ang noticed the key point of this sentence, emphasized his tone, and said seriously: It's really important.

Ati stopped in his tracks, stared at Li Ang with hollow and deep eyes, and said suddenly: If you can pass the Suanni furnace test, you may have authority.

When is it time to try again?

The corners of Li Ang's eyes twitched. The test he received was far more severe than that of ordinary school tours. Not only did he have to completely defeat the phantoms of high-level opponents in the Cloud Patrol Realm created by the Suan Ni Furnace, but he must not suffer any injuries on his body, even Being rubbed is considered a failure.

Seemingly seeing what Li Ang was thinking, Atti pushed the cart again, walked along the corridor, and said calmly: Excellent young people should accept experience.