Clara didn't know what the patriarch saw on the moon. She only knew that the power of the moon god brought back by the patriarch was poisonous, and it was also extremely poisonous.
Every tribesman who comes into contact with the power of the Moon God will be like being poisoned. They will gradually lose their mind, become crazy, unable to communicate, and eventually die.
Originally, the moral level of their group was quite high, at least higher than the average level in the United States. However, after being poisoned, their moral level declined rapidly, and they even secretly began to arrest innocent people for bloody sacrifices to the moon god.
Until the end, even the clan leader herself went completely crazy. She turned herself into a cocoon and spread the power of the Moon God to every clan member.
Absorb their spirit and reason, and build a large network to continuously spread the power of the Moon God, like some kind of virus, infecting everyone.
Originally there were many people in the group who had doubts about the power of the Moon God, but in the end they were all infected and poisoned, and everyone lost their minds and turned into a mental hospital.
Clara couldn't just watch the entire clan being destroyed like this. She tried to kill the clan leader but failed. In the end, she could only use the power inherited by the saint to separate the entire Moon Temple from reality before the power of the Moon God spread out. Drag it into the shadows to prevent the spread of the power of the Moon God.
All Moon God believers were trapped in the Moon Temple by Clara. Their bodies and spirits have been contaminated by the power of the Moon God, but their souls are still pure.
So Clara exiled their souls to live outside to avoid being corroded and contaminated by the power of the Moon God.
This is why after Akimiya Yue and others came to Bolt Castle, the Moon God believers they met all had enthusiastic and good characters, because Clara had taken away the dark elements in their souls.
Mia and Nina are two of the few people who can remain conscious under the influence of the power of the Moon God.
But they believed in the words of the clan leader and believed that through the power of the Moon God, the entire clan could gain immortality and become powerful.
To a certain extent, the two of them were crazier than ordinary Moon God believers, so not only were they not grateful for what Clara did, but they led the believers to surround and suppress Clara in the Moon Temple.
Clara has also been trying to bypass them to destroy the patriarch who has turned into a cocoon, but has been unable to succeed, and the two sides have been in a stalemate.
Clara didn't know how to solve this problem. She could only try her best to trap the Moon Temple and hope for a miracle to happen. Fortunately, she had inherited the inheritance of the Saint and could live for many years without worrying about the end of her lifespan.
Over the years, the two sides have even reached a tacit agreement to hold a sacrifice to the moon on the 15th of every month to allow the souls outside to return to the Moon Temple.
Mia and Nina used this method to ensure that the souls of believers would not escape the control of the moon god, while Clara hoped that these souls would not leave the body for too long, causing damage.
During this period, many people mistakenly entered the Temple of the Moon. Although this place was stripped of reality by Clara, making it impossible for the people inside to get out, Mia was able to use the power of the Moon God to corrode some tiny holes. , drag people outside in.
Clara initially hoped that these outsiders could help her break the current deadlock, but later she discovered that almost all of these outsiders had been corrupted into believers of the Moon God, and no one was on her side.
In the end, Clara simply stopped showing up and hid in the Temple of the Moon.
Before the few people in Qiugong Yue, the last person to enter the Moon Temple was Ellie.
She does not believe Mia and Nina's brainwashing, because she is an undercover agent sent by the Shadow Religion, trying to find the whereabouts of Clara in the Temple of the Moon.
Unfortunately, her identity was discovered by Mia and Nina, and she was quickly arrested.
Clara only had time to send Ellie's soul out, and her body remained in the Temple of the Moon.
Under the protection of the power of death, people in the Moon Temple will not die. In order to force Claira to come forward, Mia and Nina have been torturing Ellie and killing her every seven days.
Clara was not fooled, and she sealed away Ellie's memories of the torture, allowing her to live in Bolt Castle like the rest of them.
But Ellie still remembered her undercover mission, so she kept secretly running to the library to look for clues about the Moon Temple.
It's just that because of the death of the body, her memory will be cleared during this period, and she will go to the library again seven days later and repeat her previous actions.
Qiu Gongyue finally revealed that Mia had a lot of scars on her body, allowing Ellie to finally recall everything she had suffered. It happened to be the fifteenth day of every month. Under strong stimulation, her soul ran directly back to the moon. In the temple.
Finally, the appearance of Qiu Gongyue allowed Clara to finally see the dawn of a solution to the decades-long tragedy of their group, so she showed up again and again to help Qiu Gongyue out of danger.
And this is what Mia expected. On the first night when Qiugongyue came to Bolt Castle, Mia used the power of the moon god to drag Qiugongyue's spirit and soul into the Moon Temple, just to Lure out Clara who has been hiding and eliminate her completely.
After listening to Clara's story, all the observers had a question in their minds.
Qiu Gongyue even asked directly: "Why do you and Mia think I am the key?"
It was only her first day at Bolt Castle, and Mia actually thought she could lure out Clara, who had been hiding, and Clara was actually lured out because of her.
"Because when Mia saw your face, she knew that you were special, and she knew that I would not miss the opportunity to contact you."
Clara turned around and stared at Qiu Gongyue's face: "Mia's guess is correct. When I see your face, I feel nervous and excited. I have to contact you even if I risk the risk."
"What's wrong with my face?"
Qiu Gongyue subconsciously touched her face. Since she gave up her identity as a killer, she has never put on a mask for herself and has always acted with her true colors.
Xu Cheng also turned to look at Qiu Gongyue's face. Maybe it's because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. He felt that her face was really something that never got tired of looking at. The more he looked at it, the more beautiful it became. She was not inferior to goddesses like Yin Lisabai and Amaterasu. .
But no matter how beautiful she is, she’s not worthy of Mia and Clara’s attention, right?
Are these two people just looking for looks?
Narumi Nagumo spoke from the side what was in Xu Cheng's heart: "You are not scheming female ketones, are you?"
"Don't make such a joke to a centenarian like me."
Clara rolled her eyes at Narumi Nagumo, then stopped and said, "The answer is right here."
Only then did everyone realize that she led them through a complex maze-like environment and came to a secret room.
With a gentle creaking sound, Clara opened the door and walked in first.
The others followed closely and found that the secret room was empty, with no furniture, only a lifelike oil painting hanging on the wall.
Everyone subconsciously looked up at the oil painting, and then all showed surprised expressions. Nagumo Narumi even blurted out: "Sister Yue, why are there your paintings here?"
The composition of this oil painting is a bit like the Mona Lisa's smile. It depicts an extremely beautiful Asian woman, exactly like Akimiya Yue.
After Xu Cheng was surprised, he thought it was Mia or Clara who secretly painted it, but when he looked carefully, he discovered that this painting was at least hundreds of years old and was definitely not made recently.
Qiu Gongyue also saw the long history of this painting, couldn't hide the shock in her eyes, and subconsciously turned to look at Clara.
"Is the person in this painting me? Or is it someone who looks exactly like me?"
Clara did not answer Qiu Gongyue's question, but walked over and reached out to touch the oil painting: "This painting has been hidden in this place. Ordinary people are not qualified to see it. When I was a child, because it was After awakening the saint's physique, she was brought here by her teacher. According to the teacher, her teacher, her teacher's teacher, including the heirs of saints in the past generations, have all seen this painting. This painting has a history of hundreds of years. , every heiress comes to see it, it has become a tradition.”
Qiu Gongyue took a step forward: "This is definitely not me, who is she?"
She was convinced that in her short life of just twenty years, she had never been to North America before.
"have no idea."
"What do you mean, you don't know?"
"Yes."
Clara slowly turned around and said to Qiu Gongyue: "No one knows who the person on this painting is. Some say she is the first saint, and some say she disappeared with the shadow goddess. That saint, no matter who she is, she is related to the Goddess Cult, this is something that is certain."
Clara walked up to Qiu Gongyue: "Now you know why Mia and I both think you are the key to breaking the current deadlock, right?"
Akimiya Yue's appearance is exactly the same as this oil painting from hundreds of years ago, and it is very likely to be related to the Goddess Cult. As the last heir of the Saint, Clara will definitely take risks after seeing Akimiya Yue's face. contact with her.
It was precisely because of this that Mia could not wait to drag her into the Temple of the Moon on the first day when Qiu Gongyue came to Bolt Castle.
Qiu Gongyue looked up at the oil paintings on the wall and felt very strange.
"this painting……"
Xu Cheng took a step forward and stood side by side with Qiu Gongyue: "Do you feel as if the painting is you?"
He is very familiar with Qiu Gongyue, and his observation skills are also very strong now. Judging from various details, the oil painting in front of him is obviously Qiu Gongyue himself.
Qiu Gongyue nodded. She also felt that the person in the painting was herself, not someone else who looked exactly like herself.
But how is this possible?
Unless someone can accurately predict that the person Qiugong Yue will be born hundreds of years later, and paint for her hundreds of years later.
Xu Cheng had another guess in his mind. Could it be that Qiu Gongyue traveled hundreds of years ago for some reason and then left this painting?
This is not impossible, because Xu Cheng once went back twelve years ago to protect Bai Yuelin.
Clara saw the couple in a daze and asked, "How is it? Did you see anything?"
Xu Cheng came back to his senses: "You have been here for more than a hundred years and haven't seen the problem. Now you expect us to find any clues with just two glances?"
"Different."
Clara's eyes fell on Qiu Gongyue's face: "No one exactly the same has appeared before. I believe that her coming here is not an accident, but an arrangement of fate."
"If you can tell anything just by looking at it, take it off and check it first."
Nagumo Narumi said as he leaned over and took the oil painting off the wall.
Clara didn't stop it. This painting was hung here. It had been inspected countless times. After so many years, it was not certain whether it was the original or not.
Nagumo Narumi checked the oil painting over and over, but found nothing wrong.
She quickly lost interest and handed the oil painting to Xu Cheng.
Xu Cheng also took it over and checked it with his super powers of observation. He found nothing wrong with it. It was just an ordinary oil painting.
Finally, he handed it to Qiu Gongyue: "Take a look?"
Qiu Gongyue took it and looked at the painting up close, which gave her an even more wonderful feeling.
Her eyes were unconsciously staring at the eyes on the oil painting. Inside and outside the painting, two people with exactly the same appearance were looking at each other.
Gradually, Qiu Gongyue felt that her consciousness was becoming blurry and the whole world was spinning.
When she regained consciousness, she was surprised to find that she was in a dark environment where she couldn't see her fingers. Both the oil painting in her hand and Xu Cheng and the people around her had disappeared.
After so many changes, Qiu Gongyue's psychological quality was extremely strong and she did not feel panic.
It would be fine for others to come into contact with oil paintings, but problems would arise when it was her turn. This painting might have been tailor-made for her.
"who is it?"
Qiu Gongyue tried to shout to the surroundings, but the sound spread out without being reflected back. This place should be extremely empty.
Her hands burst out with fierce energy, rubbing against each other and igniting them, creating a raging flame out of thin air.
The light of the flames illuminated the surrounding area for more than ten meters, but more than ten meters away it was still as dark as thick ink, and even the light was swallowed up.
At this moment, Qiu Gongyue felt the mysterious runes under her belly become slightly warm.
This rune can withstand a blow from the Moon God, which is mysterious enough, and now it is even related to this mysterious oil painting.
Qiu Gongyue tried it and found that the runes would generate heat when they faced a certain direction.
She cheered up and headed in the direction pointed by the runes.
She didn't know how long she had been walking when a faint light suddenly appeared in front of her. She subconsciously speeded up her pace, but soon stopped again.
There was a person standing at the end of this ray of light. Under the light, a clear outline of his figure was revealed. Unfortunately, because his back was facing the light, his face could not be seen clearly.
Qiu Gongyue asked warily: "Who are you?"
"Find me... wake me up..."
A disembodied female voice suddenly reached Qiu Gongyue's ears.
She was startled and asked loudly: "Who are you?"
"Shadow and death...have never left..."
"Wake me up...it's your duty..."
The female voice was disembodied and getting farther and farther away.
Qiu Gongyue hurriedly chased after the opponent, but no matter how she chased, the figure in front always kept a sufficient distance from her.
