On the circular platform, Mo Xiren stood up and slowly walked to the stone cup in the center of the platform.
"There are some necessary preparatory conditions for performing the Dream Entrance Ceremony."
Her tone was patient, as if she was trying to convince Lu Ning, and also seemed to be showing off her advantages.
"The first is the recipients of the four rituals. Four people must sit on the four stone chairs here to perform the ritual. Of course, before proceeding, the four people must adjust the stone needles on the backs of the chairs to be able to penetrate The position of the back part of the head.”
Mo Xiren said, tapping the back of his head with his finger.
"Second, there are four portions of 'mysterious blood', which were poured into the holes of the four handles of the blood sacrifice stone cup by the four people who performed the ceremony. Su Shengge and I have both obtained a portion of this blood. Let's see how you look. It seems like I haven't gotten it yet.
"Third, it's time. From the moment when you encounter the devil, when you go deep into the netherworld, between six o'clock in the afternoon and twelve o'clock at night, when the castle on the top of the mountain can be observed by the world, the ceremony can be carried out.
“The fourth is animal sacrifice. After the four people sit down, they cut off a person’s head on top of the stone tablet and let his blood flow into the hole in the stone cup.
"In this way, four recipients sit on the throne, and the stone needles will lead people into a crazy dream of blood and death. If they wake up from the dream, they will be given divine power. This is the dream ritual."
"Sounds like some kind of cult festival." Chu Jianting said indifferently.
"Lu Ning, what do you think?"
"This is not a good thing. Chu Jianting's judgment is correct." Lu Ning stared at Mo Xiren's face, her voice becoming more solemn.
"You're right, how could this be a good thing? What you sacrificed so much for is just a 'possible' temporary divine power. It's like a black-hearted transaction of using ten carats of diamonds to buy a bottle of water." Mo Xi The man opened his arms slightly and looked at Lu Ning with a hint of sadness.
"—but we're dying of thirst."
The sincere emotion in her tone almost made Lu Ning believe it.
"Let me tell you another fact, Qian Wanli is dead."
That boy who is good at computers? A face flashed in Lu Ning's mind.
"I watched him die with my own eyes. A long arrow penetrated his neck. There was no possibility of survival. He was killed on the spot."
"Pig-faced man?"
"You should call them the Moon Clan." Mo Xiren said, "We investigated their base camp on the first day after the time reset, and then Qian Wanli managed to find some documents and translate them... However, we did not expect that their abilities would be enhanced so much at night, and I was the only one who escaped in the end."
"Do you really care about other people's death?"
"Of course I care. It's a pity...His talent would have given him the opportunity to become my friend. But in the end, nothing has changed. Only Lianren can stay with me for a long time."
Mo Xiren turned his head and smiled at his sister.
"Sister, you again..."
"No, this time it was still an accident. I didn't plan anything."
After blocking her sister's question with one sentence, Mo Xiren continued to say to Lu Ning: "I think there is no trust between us anymore? That doesn't matter. You can verify these things in the future. I'm just here. Just waiting for someone who can perform the ritual. If it doesn't work today, then I hope you can come here during the next reset and bring the necessary materials for the ritual."
"I don't want to perform this ritual."
Lu Ning said.
"You don't want to? This is our only chance to defeat those gods. Lu Ning, don't tell me you want to give up. Only this will make me look down on you."
"I have my own ideas for clearing the level...and you don't need to worry. I will convey your words to those who are willing to come up to perform the ritual. Since you have been waiting here, that means that this is also a blind spot for time reset. ?”
"That's right, and here, you can take a good look at what's going on in the outside world before you faint."
Mo Xiren laughed.
Thunder came from the top of the mountain again, this time it was a continuous sound. Lu Ning did not raise her head to look. She and Chu Jianting sat on the ground, watching Mo Xiren's movements closely.
But until the battle on the mountain ended, Mo Xiren didn't do anything special. He just walked back to the chair and sat down.
In the sky, the full moon gradually began to turn a blood-red color.
Lu Ning felt the change in the surrounding light, and her eyes finally turned to the sky, and then she saw——
A gradually turning bright red moon is emitting an ominous light. However, at this moment, a thin line spread like a network of blood vessels appeared in the night sky that had been changed by the red light. They overlapped layer by layer, gathered in the direction of the moon, and then began to intertwine and merge in front of the moon. Eventually it turned into a bright red heart.
An extremely huge feeling of fear was rising from within. Just watching the heart begin to slowly squirm, Lu Ning felt the sounds of screaming and murmuring coming from the deepest part of his brain.
Immediately afterwards, the heart blocked the moon and shed more scarlet light on the world. All senses except vision were completely deprived at this moment, leaving only the world that gradually dissipated as the red light scattered.
Then, Lu Ning heard the heartbeat.
My own heartbeat was still as gentle as usual, beating with a subtle and harmonious rhythm.
Boom, boom, boom.
She counted silently, and then lost consciousness when the fifteenth heartbeat came.
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The time returned to nine o'clock in the morning.
Birdsong Mountain was even more secluded. When Lu Ning was awakened by several birdsong, she found that she was already deep in the mountains. She took a moment to confirm her position, and then walked down the mountain path that no longer had any stone steps.
Halfway up the mountain, she saw two stone pillars.
Different from what was seen at night, these two stone pillars were already in tatters. The erosion of wind and rain left traces of pits on the stone pillars. One of them had even collapsed. There were no turtles or snakes on them at all, just empty square platforms.
But this is undoubtedly where it was yesterday.
She didn't see Mo Xiren, and even the other three people were missing. Now she was almost sure that Mo Xiren had lied about some key point again, but at least the avoidance of time reset was true.
What about the mountains? It's now clear that the hilltop castle is no longer accessible, so what happens to those who headed to the castle last night?
Lu Ning climbed over the mountain road and returned to the hunter's cabin before noon. After entering the house, she went straight to the closet.
Top hat, black stand-collar trench coat, two leather belts with gun holsters.
These things that were supposed to be worn by Shu Xingruo and carried up the mountain have now been "restored".
In other words, the mountaintop castle area still cannot avoid the reset effect.
Lu Ning was stunned for a moment and took off the clothes.
For the tall Shu Xingruo, the hem of the windbreaker only reached the knees, but when worn on Lu Ning, it was already halfway up the calf. She threw the tattered adventure jacket into the closet, tied the belt, found two sawed-off shotguns from the house and put them in their holsters.
Then she rummaged in her backpack and took out a wooden box.
When they were meeting up the mountain, Cheng Wuling took advantage of the crowd and stuffed the box into Lu Ning's hand.
The box is not big, and it is divided into three areas. The largest one has twenty shotgun shells neatly arranged. A long strip-like object is wrapped in cloth in a narrow space on the side, and the remaining one is stacked on top of each other. Holding a piece of paper.
She picked up the paper first.
[Lu Ning:
If you are reading this letter as the next day approaches, it means that our plan to explore the mountain has failed. This is also expected, and I hope you can do the next few things well.
The twenty rounds of shotshells are provided by the hunters and do not need to be returned after the time is reset. In addition, I will store the fishman's blood with you. If you don't use it, just return it to me the next time we meet.
In addition, I think Ning Yeyi's operation has been half successful. Now we have to deal with the cursed part of our blood. Since most people can see the castle on the top of the mountain, it means that we are halfway through the scene and we are running out of time. But you still have plenty of time to make final preparations.
Find Zhao Chenshuang or Ning Yeyi to confirm the progress. As a backup for the entire plan, what the three of you have to do must be foolproof. On the day you read this, a lot of people will die - and I don't want any of us to be involved.
Finally, there is a simple map on the back of the letter. Follow that to find Shen Xinyue. She is the last bargaining chip I entrusted to you besides the three of you. 】
"You should go back to the cell and rest..."
Lu Ning smiled helplessly. The one wrapped in cloth was naturally the tube of blood that Cheng Wuling showed her, and the bullets were probably exchanged by her with the hunter on unknown terms.
There are so many escape routes arranged.
She didn't hate this feeling. Cheng Wuling's way of thinking was quite consistent with hers in terms of being prepared. This situation of being able to fight back at any time made people feel at ease.
"Huh... let's go now."
Previously, Ning Yeyi and Zhao Chenshuang each proposed a verification concept based on the "blood" in this scene.
Ning Yeyi wanted to try if two-thirds of a person's blood was exchanged for "rotten blood" and whether time could be reset to restore it to one-third. By the way, the person she wants to use to create completely "pure blood" is Lu Ning.
The dirty blood ritual was used to exchange one-third of the "rotten blood" from Lu Ning's body. Then Ning Yeyi would not enter the Moon Lake cave to take refuge at night, but would wait outside for the time to reset. Basically, it was such a process. .
"The rules of time reset include that things on those who cannot be reset will not be reset. But in this way, we can verify a question-when the blood from Lu Ning's body was exchanged for me, was it actually changed? Is it considered that Lu Ning's part will not be reset, or is part of me reset? If it can be reset, can we use this method to cleanse the blood? But in this case, the level of the curse will be very low. .”
Based on this, Ning Yeyi planned to try something that he had not had time to test.
