Pirates of the Skeleton Scepter

Jiang Liu was in an unfamiliar and dark environment, and he knew that he should not act rashly at this time - the fog, the ruins, the giant tower... Everything on this island is so weird, but it is impossible for him to just stay in the tower obediently like this. inside.

Jiang Liu raised his head and looked at the surrounding environment: the place where he is currently standing is like a passage, and there are egg-sized stones inlaid on the walls on both sides at intervals, faint fluorescent light emits from these stones, illuminating the the entire channel.

Jiang Liu also found very abstract murals engraved on both sides of the wall. He took a quick look and found that these murals were basically similar to those outside the tower, and they all told a story about a battle.

Taking a deep breath, Jiang Liu boldly walked forward.He tried his best not to make too much noise under his feet. Every step he took was careful and cautious, cautious and cautious. After all, no one knew what kind of mechanism would be in this tower.

Jiang Liu went down the road quite smoothly, and soon, he saw an open stone gate in front of him.He carefully looked around the door, and then walked lightly into the stone room.

The entire stone room is very empty, only a huge stone platform is placed in the center, which is very conspicuous, and some small stone slabs are placed on it, arranged in a circle.Jiang Liu took a closer look and found that these stone slabs were arranged in a pattern similar to the gossip, with the larger ones on the outside and the smaller ones in the middle; looking again, he found that the arrangement of these stone slabs looked like a small maze.

Jiang Liu walked around the table, intending to secretly note down the layout of these stone slabs.However, at this moment, he felt a strange fluctuation coming from behind him.

When the danger really came, Jiang Liu was not so afraid. There was a slight breathing sound behind him, and Jiang Liu was sure that it was a "person" who planned to attack him.

Since it's not a monster, it's much easier to handle.Jiang Liu pretended to be studying the stone slab, stood still in front of the stone platform, and a silver needle slipped out of his sleeve...

"drink!"

Accompanied by a sound of breaking through the air, the wooden stick hit Jiang Liu hard on the back of the head with a sharp force.Jiang Liu turned his head to avoid the attack, raised his right hand as soon as he turned around, and quickly stabbed the visitor's arm with a needle.

"what--"

A crisp exclamation sounded in the cave, and the sneak attacker sat down on the ground, folded his arms and wailed—"What did you do! My hands, my hands are so numb!" His arms seemed to have been bitten by poisonous insects It was painful and numb, and I couldn't exert any strength.

"It's you."

At this time, Jiang Liu also saw clearly that the person who attacked him was the island boy who was caught by them before.

The young man stared at Jiang Liu fiercely, like an angry little beast.Those eyes full of hatred made Jiang Liu very puzzled and puzzled, he just came to this island, didn't he?Why does the young man in front of him seem to have a deep hatred with him, with an expression of wishing to tear himself to pieces.

"Hey, why did you attack me?" Jiang Liu raised the thick wooden stick in his hand. It was used by the boy to attack him. If it was hit, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Huh!" The boy turned his head arrogantly, and after a while, a word came out of his mouth angrily. "You are all robbers! Shameless invaders!"

"Bandits? Invaders?" Jiang Liu looked at the boy helplessly, "Did you misunderstand, we just set foot on this island."

"I saw!"

"What did you see?"

"Your ships, and your flags, you are pirates!"

"So what?" Jiang Liu didn't intend to hide his identity, "We are indeed pirates, but I am not a robber or an invader."

"Pirates don't have any good things! Aren't you here just to rob our treasures!"

"Treasure!" Jiang Liu's eyes lit up when he heard this. Sure enough, according to the banshee's instructions, the gem should be on this island!

The boy was startled to realize that he had said the wrong thing, so he quickly shut his mouth, biting his lower lip tightly with an annoyed look on his face.Damn it, he was too careless, he actually revealed the secret casually, this is too bad, if the greedy pirates know that there are treasures on the island, they will not leave!

"Hey, what's your name?"

To the boy's surprise, the "pirate" in front of him didn't immediately ask him about the whereabouts of his treasures. Instead, he seemed to be more interested in himself and asked his name with a friendly face.Hmph, it's definitely a fake, so he won't be fooled.

"Why are not you talking?"

Jiang Liu blinked. Although he was not as handsome as Irean, he was not a vicious person either. It seemed that the little guy had a deep prejudice against pirates.

"Is your hand almost unconscious? I'll untie the acupuncture points for you."

Jiang Liu said while trying to hold the young man's hand, but the young man slammed him away with his body and ran to the other side of the stone room.

"Go away! Damn pirate, don't touch me!"

The force of the impact was not small, and Jiang Liu fell hard. When he got up from the ground with his waist supported, his face turned pale.

"You forced me to do this."

"You, what are you going to do——" the boy stared wide-eyed, and as the river approached step by step, he also slowly sank into a corner.

"What are you doing! Go away, don't come near me! Don't come over—ah!"

After an earth-shattering scream, the boy lay down on the ground in a big shape, and Jiang Liu held down his arms and legs and gave him several needles. It was as if all the strength in his body had been sucked out. Now he couldn't move, as if A poor frog with its limbs pinned down.

"You, what kind of magic did you use on me!"

"Hmph!" Jiang Liu imitated the young man's haughty look just now, with his hands on his hips, his neck stuck, and he exhaled two puffs of air from his nose.

"You, you—the patriarch is right, you pirates are all demons! Fierce, brutal, murderous demons!"

Patriarch?An idea flashed in Jiang Liu's mind. Indeed, judging from the huge city ruins outside the tower, there should be many aborigines living on the island. Why didn't they even meet a single person along the way?Are those islanders hiding too well?The city seemed to have been deserted for at least ten years. What made the islanders abandon their original homes?Where do they live now?

The only possibility is that they live in the forest. The boy looks a bit like a little wild monkey in the forest; however, it is not ruled out that they live in a cave.

"You... do you live in the cave?" Jiang Liu asked tentatively, but unexpectedly, the young man strongly resisted.

"You live in a hole like a mouse!" The young man roared angrily, and his whole face was flushed red because his movements were restricted by the river flow.

"If it weren't for the clansmen going to worship the gods at this time, how could you have stepped into our city, and you would have been killed by the guards long ago!"

Worship to God?our city?

Jiang Liu repeated the boy's words, and was immediately taken aback. "You said you and your people live in this, this city? There are many people?"

"Are you afraid?" The young man raised his head triumphantly, "When the clansmen come out after offering sacrifices to the gods, your time of death will arrive!"

"Hey..." Jiang Liu stared at the young man seriously, "Your lies are too false, this city has been deserted for at least ten years!"

"You! You're a liar!" The young man became furious, gnashing his teeth and roaring at Jiang Liu, "Our Mata clan are descendants of brave men, and we have always lived on Tia Island, living a peaceful and peaceful life! Ten years ago there were A group of pirates landed on the island. They deceived us with a hypocritical and friendly appearance, and wanted to seize the treasures that our Mata clan has guarded for generations. Fortunately, the patriarch discovered their evil purpose and drove those villains out! Now you Come, I know that you have the same purpose as those pirates before, you all want to destroy our city and seize things that should not belong to you!"

"I……"

Jiang Liu was rendered speechless for a while by the young man's words. Indeed, the purpose of their going to the island was to seize gems, and there was nothing to refute if they were called robbers by the young man.

It's just that there are too many doubts in the boy's words. Since the boy said that he and his people have been living in the city, why can't Jiang Liu see any traces of people living in the city?Not only him, but even Irean and Leo thought that there was no one living here. Could it be that their eyes were blinded by something?

"Hmph!" The young man turned his head and looked directly at Jiang Liu with a sneer on the corner of his mouth. "Although I don't know how you got here, it doesn't matter, your companions have been led into the maze by me, and they will not be able to leave the temple alive!"

"What did you say!" Jiang Liu was furious, and grabbed the boy's skirt. "What maze? What did you do to my companions!"

"Let me tell you, this is the temple where we sacrifice to our ancestors, enshrining the treasures handed down from our ancestors. In order to guard against villains like you, a huge maze was built around the temple. Only people with good intentions can See through the maze and reach the sacrificial room in the center of the temple! And those who are full of evil desires will lose themselves in the maze, kill each other, and never get out for the rest of their lives!"

"Scared!" The young man looked proudly at the silent Jiang Liu, held his head up and continued to talk. "When the ritual is over, the clansmen will be able to find you soon, and then..."

The boy found that Jiang Liu didn't listen to him seriously. On the contrary, after looking around the room, his eyes landed on the regularly distributed stone slabs. People must have discovered something.

"This is... a map?"

Jiang Liu just asked a soft question, which immediately drew a fierce reaction from the young man. D_A

"No, no!" The young man shook his head like a wave drum, Jiang Liu raised his eyebrows, knowing that he had guessed right.

From the very beginning, he felt that these stone slabs were placed here very abruptly, and there were some poles similar to the activation mechanisms around the stone room. Since the boy said that he led Ireon into the maze, then this place should be some kind of control room. .

The giant pagoda should be the temple that the young man talked about. Jiang Liu remembered that there was nothing special about the outside of the tower, and there was no entrance; nine out of ten, the mechanism that opened the entrance was activated from the inside of the tower.

"Hey, is there another way to the maze here?"

The young man stared at Jiang Liu, and now he kept his mouth tightly shut, fearing that the more he said, the more wrong he would be.

From the young man's expression, Jiang Liu knew that there must be a passage leading to the maze in this stone room. He has memorized the layout of the maze, and now the first thing is to find Irean and the others. People, when the ritual of worshiping the gods is over, won't their group be caught by others?

"Don't tell me I'll find it myself."

Jiang Liu muttered, recalling the organ he had accidentally opened before.The walls are carved piece by piece. If there is a secret door, one of them must be able to move, but this piece must be located in a place that is very difficult to be noticed.

According to this way of thinking, Jiang Liu leaned down and looked at the location of the stone wall and the floor one by one, but found nothing.He glanced at the young man inadvertently, and found that the young man's eyes were flickering, and his gaze was aimed at a corner beside him from time to time.

Jiang Liu's eyes were very sharp, and he immediately got up and walked back to the corner where the boy stayed; .

Jiang Liu bent down and searched for a while, and sure enough, he found a square connecting stone wall in the corner, which was very suspicious, because there was no relief carved on it.

Jiang Liu pressed down on the stone slab hard, and then he heard a series of "clack-cluck" sounds of mechanism activation and a boy's loud cry——

"don't want!"

Same as last time, Jiang Liu felt the floor under his feet sank, and he was half as short.He had been prepared for a long time, and when the mechanism was activated, he jumped off the evacuated floor; but he suffered from the young man who couldn't move his limbs, and before he had time to exclaim, he fell down and fell heavily on the floor below. .

"Ouch..." The boy let out a low cry of pain, and then felt someone tap on his shoulder, and slowly, the stiff limbs gradually regained consciousness!

"You...you idiot!" Realizing that he could move, the young man hurriedly got up from the ground with his numb hands and feet, pointing at Jiang Liu with trembling fingers, furious.

"You want to kill us! This is a labyrinth, a labyrinth!"

"Don't worry, I have completely memorized the map of the maze."

"Nonsense, I remember it too!" The boy jumped angrily, "Of course there is nothing scary about ordinary mazes, but this is different! Temples are magical!"

"Magic power?" Jiang Liu was also taken aback, "Could it be that there are human-eating monsters in it?" D_A

"Worse than a monster!" The boy said with a trembling voice, pointing to the unknown skeletons scattered in a corner of the maze, "See, those people are trapped here forever because they can't get out of the maze. It is said... It is said that the people who died here , the soul will be trapped in the maze forever, they will hinder other people who break into the maze, and people will never find a way out!"

As soon as the young man finished speaking, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew up in the maze, and the gloomy blow sent chills down the spine. The young man and Jiang Liu shivered at the same time, and the young man hid behind Jiang Liu in fright.

Jiang Liu forced himself to calm down. He carefully avoided the skeleton. During this time, the young man was holding on to Jiang Liu's clothes.In his eyes, the frightened look of the young man was much more pleasing to the eye than when he was showing his teeth and claws.He walked forward cautiously according to the map in his memory. After turning a few turns, Jiang Liu's face gradually became serious.

When they returned to the starting point again and saw the familiar skeleton, the boy almost cried out—they are back to the original point!

"It's strange... I obviously walked straight ahead, but why did I come back in the end?"

"I told you that the temple has magic power!" The young man hid behind Jiang Liu, not daring to look directly at the skeleton in front of him.

Jiang Liu thought for a while with a sullen face, and then stepped forward to observe the skeleton carefully.Seeing this, the boy hurriedly grabbed his hand, and said eagerly, "What are you doing, don't approach them casually...they will be cursed!"

Jiang Liu picked up the broken clothes on the skeleton with a wooden stick, glanced at the scars on the skeleton, and roughly guessed the cause of death of the other party. He should have been killed by the opponent with a sharp weapon after fighting with someone.

This made him very puzzled. He remembered that the boy said that his people would not kill in the temple. As for those foreigners who sneaked into the temple with evil intentions, the temple with magic power would naturally trap them.

Since there is no need for the Mata tribe to deal with the "invaders" by themselves, what happened to the sword wounds on these corpses?

Jiang Liu bent down to see clearly, when suddenly another gust of cold wind blew by, making a chill come from the soles of his feet.Jiang Liu staggered back, and at this moment the young man grabbed his hand firmly, urging Jiang Liu to leave quickly with a trembling voice.It's also rare that the boy didn't take this opportunity to escape by himself. In his opinion, the maze is more terrifying than Jiang Liu, who may be an enemy beside him!

Jiang Liu was careful this time, and used gravel to place a small stone formation around the corpse.

"Let's go!"

This time they walked very fast, and the young man led Jiang Liu to the front almost at a trot. Jiang Liu's eyes were fixed on the roads on both sides, making sure that there was no fork in the road, and he did not turn back inexplicably.

Relying on the map in their minds, Jiang Liu and the boy were indeed heading all the way to the center of the temple, but just when they felt that they were about to go out, the strangely dead corpse appeared in front of them again!

When Jiang Liu saw the exact same stone formation in front of the corpse, his heart suddenly turned cold, and cold sweat flowed down in an instant.

"W-how... came back again... We, we..." The young man was a little incoherent in fright, and Jiang Liu's face was not much better.He was flustered, and when he looked at the black eye sockets of the skeleton in front of him in a panic, he felt even more creepy.

"What, what should I do... I don't want to die here!" The young man's voice was full of tears, and he completely lost his previous arrogance. He grabbed Jiang Liu's arm with both hands, for fear that the other party would leave him I ran away alone.

"Don't worry... we shouldn't be trapped here." Jiang Liu took a deep breath, remembering what the boy said before, "You said that your people are all worshiping gods in the temple at this time, then they are very likely will find us."

"No way!" The young man shook his head with a look of despair, "After offering sacrifices to the gods, the clansmen will leave along the passage on the top of the tower. The labyrinth in the temple is a forbidden area, and no one enters at all."

"how so!"

When the boy said this, Jiang Liu was immediately dumbfounded. He had hoped that the boy's clan would find them, but now it's all right. If they can't find the exit, they may really be trapped to death here.Could it be that these dead souls are really causing trouble?

"What should we do...will we die here..."

"You can't sit still." Jiang Liu gritted his teeth, "Let's go again! Let's walk slowly this time, and feel the movement under our feet or around us. I don't believe there are no flaws."

The boy nodded quickly, and followed Jiang Liu into the maze again.They walked slowly this time, leaving as many marks as possible along the way.

The two of them just walked all the way, the sound of their footsteps seemed particularly ethereal and ethereal in this empty passage.

"Hey...you...you talk." The young man tugged on Jiang Liu's sleeve, a little unable to stand the silent and oppressive atmosphere.

"Say what?"

"Say... say..." The young man was dumb, and couldn't think of what to say for a while. He looked at Jiang Liu, and when his eyes touched the other's clear black eyes, he couldn't help but blurted out: "You, your appearance is very strange."

"I'm from Tang."

"Sugar Man? What's that?"

The boy's wide-eyed and surprised look is very cute, and Jiang Liu couldn't help but smile.

"I am a citizen of the Tang Dynasty from another world, so I am called a Tang person."

"Another world? What is that?"

"This..." Jiang Liu blinked, and couldn't explain why for a while. He himself was still a rookie, and he didn't understand what the so-called new world and different world were.

"This... is the world beyond the island." It should be correct to explain this way.

The young man still half understood, he stared at Jiang Liu with his eyes wide open for a long time, then lowered his head feebly. "Since I was a child, I have never left here... Patriarch, he forbids us to leave the island without permission." He pouted his lips and said loudly as if complaining.

"Other clansmen can go to the beach to play, but I am the only one who was ordered not to step out of the city. Even the clan's most grand ritual, the patriarch doesn't allow me to participate..."

The boy didn't leave while talking, squatting on the ground and sobbing softly. "Originally... I thought that catching your patriarch would treat me differently, but... I was trapped here..."

"I'm so useless, really useless at all... That's why everyone keeps ignoring me and looking down on me... I just want to prove myself and prove that I can be helpful..."

The soft touch fell on his shoulders, carrying the warmth of his body, the young man raised his head and saw Jiang Liu sitting down beside him.

"Don't say such things." Youyou sighed, and a trace of pain flashed in Jiang Liu's eyes, "People will always find the meaning of living in this world. Don't underestimate yourself, at least for your relatives, you are unique."

"My parents died when I was born..."

Jiang Liu patted the young man's shoulder lightly, "So you, like me, have no relatives in this world."

"Your parents also died of illness?"

"No, they were killed."

"what!"

"Don't worry, I personally avenged them..."

Jiang Liu looked at his hand, and memories flooded into his heart like a tide, from the heartbreak when he received the news of the death of his family; Carried too many things.As a result, the moment he fell into the sea, what he thought of was not death, but liberation.

But now the young man's words brought back the pain in Jiang Liu's heart: he failed to fulfill his filial piety, his parents died first, even if he could kill the enemy with his own hands, what was lost would never come back.

As his thoughts turned, in an instant, the dazzling scarlet slid across Jiang Liu's eyes, and his hands were so red that they were covered with blood!Jiang Liu was startled immediately, and looked at his hands intently, but there was nothing unusual.

"Hey, what's the matter with you?" Seeing that Jiang Liu didn't respond for a long time, just staring at his hand in a daze, the young man couldn't help feeling a little worried, and pushed him lightly.

"It's nothing..." Looking away, Jiang Liu shook his head lightly, "I just remembered some unpleasant memories." Maybe I just misread it.

"Then...how did you become a pirate?"

"Well, it's a long story." Jiang Liu couldn't help but sigh when thinking of the encounter with Irean and the others.

At the beginning, he wanted to jump into the sea to seek death, but he did not expect to meet Irean by chance and become a member of his pirate group. It really is unpredictable.

He didn't hide anything, and told everything about himself and how he was rescued by Irean and became a pirate. The young man listened carefully, but he forgot to be afraid.

"So, you are not the kind of cruel pirates?"

Jiang Liu shook his head. At least Irean never gave any inhumane orders. During his stay on the ship, he never saw Irean robbing any merchant ships. It seemed that Irean was only interested in adventure and being praised. Interested in the miraculous treasure.

"That's it... If you are really not bad people, I will intercede with the patriarch and ask him to let you go." The young man patted his chest with a proud face, "Don't worry, our Mata people are not unreasonable people, as long as You are not villains coveting the treasures of the island, so we will not harm you."

"That's good... But if you want to explain the situation to the patriarch, you have to find a way out first."

"That's right..." Remembering that he was still trapped in the maze, the boy sighed and fell back to the ground. "Hey, I don't know when and what month I can go out."

"Don't worry, didn't you say that people trapped by magic are greedy people?" Jiang Liu patted his knees and stood up, reaching out his hand to the boy. "As long as we don't have greed in our hearts, I believe we will go out. By the way, I don't know your name yet. My name is Jiang Liu, what about you?"

"Yourien."

"Come on, we have to keep going."

"Um."

The boy named You Rui'an grabbed Jiang Liu's hand and stood up vigorously. Suddenly, he let out a soft cry, pointed at the passage ahead and yelled.

"The road ahead has just changed!"

"what?"

Jiang Liu looked forward in the direction of his fingers, and he found that the road ahead was a bit different—originally, there were strange shapes of flowers, birds, insects and fish carved on the stone walls on both sides of the passage, but at this moment, some tall and thin people were carved on the stone walls on both sides of the passage. Thin human with a spear.

"Just now...the road ahead seems to have diverged..." Urian's face was a little pale, he stammered and moved behind Jiang Liu carefully, "I thought my eyes were blurred, but the passage ahead is indeed twisted For a moment, and then a different path appeared..."

Jiang Liu stared at the front with wide-eyed eyes, and a fresh air flow blew from the depths of the passage, dissipating a lot of the stagnant air surrounding him.

Ever since he set foot on this island, Jiang Liu has always had an uncomfortable feeling in his heart. After entering the giant tower, this feeling is especially obvious, very depressing and uncomfortable: it seems that the pain of hundreds or thousands of people has been fully recharged at once. When it came to him, he was almost out of breath.

"Want...to go?"

Urian timidly glanced at the seemingly endless passage in front of him, and seeing Jiang Liu nodding, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk forward with him.

The more he walked in, the depression and oppression in Jiang Liu's heart became smaller and smaller. He almost dragged You Rui'an forward at a trot, until finally, a stone gate blocked their way.

"Huh? This is it?"

Julian stared at the stone door in front of him. There was a protection totem of the Mata tribe painted on the door, which needed to be guarded by the totem, indicating that the inside of the gate was a very important place for the Mata tribe.

Compared to You Rui'an's shock, Jiang Liu lay on the door and gasped for breath.He could feel a greater squirming energy on the other side of the door, making him almost out of breath; yet there was a reassuring feeling and a warm breath approaching.

Jiang Liu didn't know what was wrong with him, his mind was very confused, and his breathing was a little difficult.Just as he was clutching the lapel of his chest and taking deep breaths, there was a sound of a mechanism above his head, and a figure jumped down from above.

The man bowed to cushion, put one hand on the ground, exhaled and landed firmly on the ground.

Jiang Liu stared wide-eyed at the person who suddenly fell from the sky in front of him—it was actually Leo!

Seeing Jiang Liu, Leo's eyes just flickered for a moment, the expression on his face was not too turbulent, but he looked very embarrassed: the clothes on his upper body were all torn, there were still some bloodstains on his arms, and the black dragon on his neck The tattoo has been completely exposed and clearly visible, like a huge dragon entrenched on Leo's chest and neck.

Immediately afterwards there was another dull sound, and the stone door in front slowly rose up, revealing a passage.

"Jiang Liu!"

Irean's surprised voice appeared on the other side of the passage, and he also gasped when he saw Leo's appearance. The two exchanged a look, and Leo quickly grabbed Jiang Liu and dragged him into the stone gate.

"Let's go, I'm coming after you."

"What?" Jiang Liu was dragged forward in a daze by Leo, while Irean pulled the vigilant Julian past him, and then pressed the mechanism on the other side of the stone gate, and the stone gate quickly and slowly closed superior.

In a hurry, Jiang Liu glanced at the way he came, and saw a cloud of mist, which quickly filled the entire passage like a tide.

"It won't last long."

"Well, get your stuff and go quickly."

Leo hummed lightly, and Jiang Liu found that his free left hand was tightly pressing on his abdomen, and traces of bright red blood flowed out from between his fingers.

"What are those things? What's coming after you?"

Jiang Liu couldn't help but grabbed Leo's arm and asked, but Leo kept his face sullen and silent. Helplessly, Jiang Liu had no choice but to turn his gaze to Irean.

Ireon shook his head at him. "Don't ask, it's not a good thing." His eyes flickered, and his blue eyes aimed at the young man next to him with special meaning.

From Irean's eyes, Jiang Liu seemed to see a trace of sympathy and pity.

"Where are we going? What is this place?" Jiang Liu asked out of breath while being pulled forward by Leo.

Even though he was injured, Leo's pace was still very fast, which made Jiang Liu, who had already run a long way, unable to keep up with the rhythm.

"This is the temple where the Mata tribe worships. In front of it is the center of the temple, where the Mata tribe worships treasures." Leo took the initiative to answer Jiang Liu's doubts. "The stone carvings outside the tower tell the story of the warriors killing the siren. We deduce that this is the island where the descendants of the warriors live in seclusion."

It was the first time Jiang Liu heard Leo say so many words in one breath.

"That's right, there is still a follow-up to the legend of the siren." Irean took Leo's words and continued. "In order to reward the bravery and fearlessness of the warriors, the God of the Sea brought his descendants to the center of the sea, and gave the Mata a sacred land that is inviolable. In order to thank the gods, the Mata built a huge tower for sacrifice. At the same time Enshrine the Siren Gem, which symbolizes glory and bravery, in the center of the temple for generations.”

"I'm right." Irean suddenly stopped, and his blue eyes looked straight at the surprised boy.

"You...you really want to take our family's treasures!" Urian immediately stepped back, turned around and distanced himself from Jiang Liu, and angrily shouted at Jiang Liu, "Damn it, liar! I still believe you!"

"I……"

Jiang Liu just wanted to explain, but Irean shook his head to stop him.

"That's right, we are pirates, and robbing other people's treasures is a matter of course in our eyes. I never said that we are good people."

"Ireon?"

Shaking his head, Irean signaled Jiang Liu not to speak. "Let us take away the gems. It may not be a bad thing for the Mata people. Even if the Mata people don't want to compete with the world and just want to live a peaceful and comfortable life, as long as there is such a thing...you can't get it forever. rest in peace……"

In the last sentence, Irean's voice was so low that it was almost a whisper, but Jiang Liu heard it clearly. For some reason, his body shivered involuntarily, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, but he couldn't grasp anything.

"Go, I'm coming." Leo frowned, his face was ugly, and he looked very uncomfortable.The lower than normal body temperature was transmitted to Jiang Liu's body through their overlapping hands, making the other party shudder involuntarily.

Seeing him like this, Irean didn't dare to delay, and quickened his pace.

After passing through another huge stone gate, what appeared in front of them was a blue spiral staircase, which seemed to be able to reach the top of the tower.

Along the way, the young man kept looking at Jiang Liu and his party with hatred and resentment. He even held on to the stone gate with both hands to express his disgust and protest against Irean.

"All your people are at the top of the tower." Irean's calm words finally made the young man let go.

"Bah!" Julian stared at the amber eyes, bit Irean hard, and then nimbly slipped out of Irean's armpit like a little monkey, and disappeared at the end of the stairs in two or three.

"Yourien!"

Jiang Liu anxiously called out to the young man, but when he turned around, he saw Irean's eyes full of contradictions and sadness.

"People cannot live in a false environment, they must learn to face reality, even if this reality is the great pain and despair that can send people to hell."

Irean twitched the corners of his mouth and stepped up the stairs.

Jiang Liu froze for a moment, then followed in Irean's footsteps.There was a thin layer of dust on the blue stone steps, and Julian's footprints were clearly printed on them, as if they hadn't been used for a long, long time.

There was a strange smell in the air, and the higher one went, the more pungent the smell became.Jiang Liu couldn't describe the smell he smelled, like the musty smell from an old attic full of rotten items.

"Boom!" Along with the sound of falling, Julian's terrified scream came from the end of the stairs.

Jiang Liu's heart trembled, and he hastened to catch up——

The broken stone gate stared at everyone like an opening in the night.There are many indistinct symbols engraved on the huge arch, and the breath of fear flows out of it like a gray mist.

"You Rui'an!" Jiang Liu saw the young man sitting on the ground paralyzed in fright at a glance. He walked over to help You Rui'an up, but was stunned by the scene in front of him!

— Bones!

Looking around, the room was full of white bones, densely piled up on the top of the tower, and there were many skinny bones belonging to underage children!

Even in front of Jiang Liu, lay a bone that seemed to be his mother.It was holding a baby's skeleton in its arms, right in front of it was the stone gate where Jiang Liu was, and Bai Sensen's finger bones were still holding on to the crack of the door, as if knocking on the door with the last bit of strength in despair.

The clothes and ornaments worn on the bone were very familiar. Jiang Liu's eyes darkened, and he found that these tattered clothes with strong ethnic characteristics were exactly the same as those worn by You Rui'an!

"This is... Could it be that they are the Mata people!?" Jiang Liu finally understood what the strange feeling has been surrounding him since he stepped on the island.

The enigmatic fog that lingers on the island all year round, died in sleep