Mystery: emerging from the wilderness of knowledge

"Why are you so slow?" Dak said while maintaining an extremely standard polite smile on his face.

"It took me some time to look for candles." Derrick responded calmly.

He and Duck walked side by side, walked back to the table with each other, and sat down each.

Duck took out a small cloth bag from his waist and asked with a smile: "Would you like some freshly dried dome nuts?"

"No, no need."

Derrick shook his head cautiously, because his nerves were too tight, causing his voice to be hoarse and stuttering.

"Ok."

Dak took out a black fruit from the small bag and stuffed it into his mouth, making a clicking sound when he bit it.

There was silence in the room, only the sound of Duck chewing the black fruit echoed.

After Derrick hesitated for a moment, he took the initiative to talk:

"Did you encounter any monsters while exploring the half-ruined temple?"

"There were quite a few, but they were not very powerful. We eliminated them easily."

Dak paused for a second, then a smile formed on the corner of his mouth and said:

"We found some strange plants in the temple. They are like the mushrooms we talked about in the general course. They grow very brightly and make people full of appetite at the first sight."

"Eating it can bring spiritual improvement and physical strength. If paired with grilled monsters, it will emit an unimaginable fragrance."

While he was talking, he took out a palm-sized mushroom from the small cloth bag on the other side. It was bright and crystal-clear and dotted with dark golden spots.

Just by seeing it, Derrick's mouth was already secreting saliva, and his appetite was aroused, making it difficult to control.

"Here you go." Dak smiled enthusiastically and handed over the mushroom in his hand.

"Okay" Derrick resisted the urge to stuff the mushroom into his mouth immediately, and reluctantly opened his mouth and said:

"I'll try it tomorrow."

Dak didn't say anything. After pushing the mushroom in front of Derrick, he continued eating the black doom fruit.

Derrick took his eyes away from the mushrooms with difficulty and continued to chat with Dak about other topics:

"Did you discover anything during this exploration?"

Duck stopped eating, his expression became very serious and he replied:

"We found many murals, coherent murals. Do you still remember the statue in the temple?"

"The newly discovered murals record relevant content. The builders of the temple believed that the statue represented the Lord who created everything, the omniscient and omnipotent God. When the great disaster came, the Lord bore most of our sins. , so His image changed from upright to upside down, from walking freely to being nailed to the cross!"

“We are not abandoned people, we are the favored ones of the Lord!”

Derrick listened silently, without any rebuttal or doubt.

But Dark's attitude towards the statue almost showed that he had sincerely believed in the true Creator.

Dake and the others have been completely contaminated.

"If what is recorded in that temple is true, we can regain the Lord's response by changing some of the symbols and corresponding honorific names during sacrifices."

Duck kept talking, becoming more and more excited as he talked, and even started to wave his hands.

Derrick's brows gradually furrowed. He no longer had the energy to listen to Duck's words. He found it increasingly difficult to resist the temptation of the mushroom. It seemed that his body would break through the shackles of reason at any time and swallow the mushroom into his belly. .

No, I can't eat, I have to hold it back. Derrick was panicked for a while, and he kept thinking about what he should do to deal with it.

"I'll get you a glass of water."

Derrick tried his best to make his voice as calm as possible, without revealing any abnormalities.

Then he walked aside, deliberately slowed down his movements, and recited the honorable name of the Fool in a low voice:

"The Fool who does not belong to this era, the mysterious master above the gray fog, the King of Yellow and Black who controls good luck."

Backlund, Minsk Street 15.

Just after having a sumptuous dinner prepared by the undead chef at Renekton's, and returning to his home, Klein heard an illusive and low prayer sound in his ears.

"The male voice, is it Little Sun? Or is it Mr. Hanged Man?"

Renekton was a little confused, but he quickly closed the door and window of the bedroom and walked four steps backwards into the gray mist.

Derrick took advantage of the action of pouring water and silently recited Mr. Fool's honorable name twice, but received no immediate feedback.

After a little hesitation, he bit the bullet and said in a deep voice:

"Sorry, the water at home is a little cold. Let me boil some hot water again."

"It doesn't matter, we are all extraordinary, it doesn't matter to us."

Dak ate the doom fruit and said in a nonchalant tone.

Derrick didn't know how to answer for a moment, and his right hand was already quietly pressing on the hurricane ax at his waist. As long as Dark made the slightest movement, he would violently attack.

"I prefer hot water." Derrick answered in a dry voice.

If I summoned a holy light to illuminate the darkness now, would it attract the attention of those responsible for spying on me?

As long as there were other people here, Derrick felt that he wouldn't be so panicked.

Derrick hesitated for a moment, then saw Dak take two steps forward, looked over with some confusion and said:

"What are you doing?"

Derrick opened his mouth to make up a random reason. Suddenly, thick gray mist surged in front of his eyes, and a crimson light rose. He saw the true appearance of his room at this moment:

Duck's expression suddenly became gloomy, and there was a hint of bright red in his blue eyes!

The doom fruit he had been eating also revealed its true appearance. It was a human finger, a bloody finger!

Where the bright mushrooms were originally placed, a blood-stained scalp with short black hair appeared!

The next moment, a majestic golden figure carrying twelve pairs of jet black wings appeared in Derrick's eyes, and the other party wrapped him in layers of wings.

Derrick felt that the panic, fear, and other emotions in his heart were all suppressed, and reason took over again.

"What are you doing?" Dak's voice became even colder. His eyes were staring directly at Derrick, and the hidden malice seemed to surge out at any time.

Derrick did not answer, but clasped his hands in front of his chest in a prayer gesture.

A ray of light fell from the sky, and the sacred, clear, brilliant and pure warm light instantly illuminated the entire room.

The purification ability of the Holy Light seems to naturally restrain the abnormalities in Dak's body. The doom fruit in his hand, the bright mushrooms on his side, and even Dak himself all sizzled under the illumination of the Holy Light, and there were bursts of black smoke. rise.

Duck's clothes were suddenly pushed up into bulges.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! The bloody flesh strips penetrated Dak's clothes and rushed towards Derrick in front.

Derrick quickly picked up the hurricane ax and slashed forward.

puff! Several bloody strips of meat were cut off and fell to the ground. There were even rough skin with body hair on these strips of meat.

Then more bloody flesh strips came in, directly wrapping the hurricane wind tightly around it.

Derrick very decisively let go of the right hand that was holding the hurricane ax and quickly retreated. At the same time, he held his hands in front of his mouth and nose, making a prayer gesture.

Silently, a clear beam of light burning with flames fell out of the air and hit the bloody flesh.

"Ah~" Dak, who had turned into a monster, let out a scream that was more like a roar, and many bloody flesh strips were burnt black, broken and fell.

All these changes happened almost in an instant. The next moment, the bloody flesh strips of Dak's incarnation seemed to be angered and launched a swift counterattack.

Derrick's expression suddenly changed, and he quickly made evasive movements to the side and back.

The expected attack did not fall on him. After Derrick steadied his body and looked around, he found that Dak, who was waving bloody flesh strips around him, was wrapped in a dark viscous liquid that came from nowhere. His entire figure looked like It's a cat in an opaque bag.

The surrounding shadows continued to spread and twist, and soon the monster that Dak had turned into was wrapped into a huge black chrysalis.

Derrick quietly watched the person who suddenly appeared, and understood that this was the person responsible for secretly monitoring him.

I didn't know what to say for a moment, so I could only stand silently, watching the other party quietly, wondering how the other party would deal with Dak who had turned into a monster.

The monitor glanced at the scene in the room and took a breath when he saw the pale fingers scattered on the floor and the blood-stained scalp with short black hair.

Then he used his extraordinary ability to manipulate the shadows outside to form tidal fluctuations, thereby notifying the chief in the round tower.

"Dakta was quietly contaminated while exploring the temple. I think other members of the exploration team should have the same problem!"

Derrick hesitated for a moment before speaking out to remind him.

"Someone will deal with them." The monitor responded with a heavy and hoarse voice.

The two fell into silence again until the leader of the six-member council arrived.

At the top of the round tower, in the chief's room.

Colin Iliad, the gray-haired Chief of Silver City, quietly listened to Derrick's description of what had happened before, nodded gently and said:

"Why did Dak go to you in the first place? Instead of returning to his own home and waiting for an opportunity later."

Derrick lowered his head in confusion and said in a dull voice:

"Perhaps it's because I went to see them when they were still in isolation at the training ground and had some interactions with him. Moreover, Dak and I were already relatively familiar people."

Thinking of Dak, who used to have a cheerful personality and always had a bright smile, Derrick's mood inevitably dropped a bit.

"How did you discover his abnormality?" Colin continued to ask expressionlessly.

"That mushroom was the bloody scalp. When Dak handed it to me, it looked like a mushroom to me."

"It has an abnormal attraction, attracting me to eat it all the time. I thought this was abnormal, so I quietly recited the name of a great being, and He allowed me to see the real scene in the room. "

"The monitor was also involved in what happened next."