The ship Victory continued to move forward, and soon saw an island on the dead sea.
The island is lined with trees and flowers, making it look full of life.
A stark contrast to the surrounding dead sea.
Jiang Linxian drove the ship and quickly reached the coast of the island.
Pull up to the island's stone pier.
Jiang Linxian didn't expect that there would be a dock on this island, so he couldn't help but frown.
After getting off the boat, Jiang Linxian asked several crew members to tie Steve up ashore, and took several crew members into this island full of life.
When Bernard stepped on the dock, his face showed a long-lost excitement.
"Sure enough, the curse has been lifted." Bernard thought to himself.
He followed Jiang Linxian's steps and walked into the island.
Helena of the Explorer also quickly disembarked, taking only a few crew members with her to follow.
The island is very beautiful, full of charming vegetation and flowers, full of warmth and peace.
Jiang Linxian felt as if he had arrived on a fairy island.
Many exotic birds are flying in the woods, and the faint fragrance of flowers swirls around the island.
A waterfall falls from the sky, vertically falling from the sky like the Milky Way, which is extremely spectacular.
The beautiful picture of this island at this moment seems incompatible with its name.
Jiang Linxian walked and observed. It seemed that this Alcatraz Island was different from what he imagined.
After walking for about half an hour, Jiang Linxian saw a quaint courtyard where the waterfall fell into the deep pool.
At the main entrance of the courtyard, there was a thick layer of extremely white fog.
Even if the courtyard door is currently open, the scene inside cannot be seen clearly.
Jiang Linxian walked up to Steve, raised his chin with a flintlock gun, and asked curiously: "Are you sure there are ghosts and gods here?"
"Haha." Steve chuckled twice without answering.
Seeing that he couldn't find any information, Jiang Linxian continued walking deeper.
He soon arrived in front of the courtyard.
"Go in." The nine-tailed ghost fox glanced at Jiang Linxian and walked in first: "I don't see any danger at the moment."
Jiang Linxian nodded. At least the prompts did not remind him, indicating that there would be no danger. Otherwise, even if he was affected by the power of the rules, the prompts would warn him urgently.
He stepped into it, passed through the thick white fog in front of him, and walked in.
As he entered, the thick fog behind him quickly dissipated, and when he turned back, only a high wall remained.
Bernard and other crew members also walked in.
"This courtyard looks very big." Helena couldn't help but say as she raised her head and glanced around.
In the courtyard, there are hills, streams, various plants and flowers interspersed among them, and many classical buildings scattered in an orderly manner.
And in the middle is a majestic building, emitting green smoke from birds.
Jiang Linxian withdrew his gaze and ordered the members to follow.
They walked through winding gravel roads and arrived at the marble-paved square.
In front of them was a huge and magnificent temple.
The green smoke of birds that Jiang Linxian first saw came from this temple.
"It turns out to be a temple." Jiang Linxian stared at this simple building, his thoughts changing rapidly.
There is actually a temple on Alcatraz Island.
And it's still hidden in the courtyard.
This was something he never expected.
From the outside of Alcatraz Island, the courtyard was only as big as a deep pool, but when they walked in, they found that there was a whole other world.
Just like the current temple, it was at least several times larger than the courtyard they saw outside.
Sure enough, there is a universe within.
Jiang Linxian sighed for a moment and walked towards the temple. Since he was already here, he had to go in and take a look.
The temple is filled with incense and light smoke. Inside the open main door, a huge statue is enshrined.
What Jiang Linxian was thinking of was that the huge statue in the temple was not the Buddha Guanyin, but a strange-looking creature.
It has three heads, each with only one huge eye and no other organs, making it look very ferocious and terrifying.
Under the head, there was a fat body like a meat ball, with layers of rotten flesh stacked on top of each other, and many arms sprouted from the meat ball.
There are more than three hundred.
Jiang Linxian glanced at it and felt his fingers trembling.
"What is this?" Jiang Linxian frowned and whispered curiously: "Is he the ghost and god of Alcatraz Island?"
The other crew members also didn't know, they just looked at the huge statue curiously.
Behind him, there were several low-ranking crew members who began to tremble, and then fell to their knees involuntarily.
And kept kowtowing.
His mouth was trembling and mumbling: "Master Ghost, Master Ghost, Master Ghost..."
Bernard and Helena looked at the actions of these crew members with curiosity.
Don't understand what they are doing.
Helena shouted several times in an attempt to wake up the crew members who seemed to be bewitched, but to no avail.
[In view of the general environment,
They couldn't help but look at Jiang Linxian aside, as if waiting for his reaction.
"Maybe he was confused." Jiang Linxian replied.
He was also very curious about the strange behavior of these crew members, so he could only find one reason.
When he tried to pull up the crew members on the ground, he found that he could not pull them up at all.
It was as if their knees had roots growing out of them, entwined on the floor of the temple hall.
"Ignore them for now, let's find Steve's heart first."
Jiang Linxian looked towards both sides of the temple. The walls on both sides were lined with rows of small grids made of black wood.
Standing in front of the statue and looking to both sides, there are at least hundreds or even thousands of these large and small grids.
And inside the small grid, there is a disk made of three tentacles.
On top of them, many are placed with a bloody heart.
The strangest thing is that these hearts are still beating, as if they are full of life and vitality.
In addition, in the middle of these tentacle discs where the hearts are placed, there is the name of the host of each heart.
They all seem to be the names of the creatures whose hearts are enshrined here.
"It seems your heart is here." Jiang Linxian glanced at Steve and prepared to find his heart.
After hearing this, the latter just looked blank and showed no emotion.
Even if Jiang Linxian holds his heart in his hands now, he will not show any expression.
Dang, Dang, Dang!
!
Creak~~~
A bell rang from the tower in the distance of the temple.
Immediately afterwards, the thick red-painted doors on both sides of the temple's main entrance closed when Jiang Linxian walked in.
The entire temple became pitch black.
Bernard and Helena observed the surrounding situation and were wary.
So far, the only ones able to move in the entire temple are Jiang Linxian, Helena, Bernard, the nine-tailed ghost fox, and the bound and sealed Steve.
And with the temple doors closed.
An oil lamp was lit on the incense stand enshrined in front of the huge statue.
Flames also ignited in the small black wooden grids embedded in the walls on both sides.
Those flames are the burning hearts inside the small grids.
They seemed to be lit by some mysterious flame, burning like a wick.
Jiang Linxian took one look and felt surprised
: "Black flame?"
"This is my first time seeing it."
The center of these flames burning from the heart is black, and the periphery of the flame is a scarlet light, as red as blood.
"This is the energy of death." The nine-tailed ghost fox was well-informed and said it clearly: "When the energy of death gathers to a certain extent, it forms a raw material that can be burned. This is the kind of flame that is ignited."
"Boy, do you still remember the ghost elixir I obtained in Jingxiang Ghost School? In fact, the principles are the same."
As the nine-tailed ghost fox explained, wisps of putrid and disgusting smell wafted over, which was exactly the smell produced by burning death energy.
"You mean these hearts should all be dead."
Jiang Linxian frowned and said.
"no."
"The heart is alive, it's just contaminated by the air of death."
"If the heart is dead, it should be like these shriveled objects on the incense stand, lifeless, like dead wood."
The nine-tailed ghost fox raised its paw and pointed at the disc on the incense stand.
On top of it were placed three shriveled hearts that were no longer alive, as if they had been drained of life.
"The ghosts and gods in this temple should use the hearts of living creatures as food to survive for a long time."
While it was speaking, lights lit up from the innermost part of the huge sculpture from the darkness that seemed like an abyss.
The lights moved slowly, coming out of the darkness.
After Steve saw it, his body suddenly froze, and then he started to tremble.
From the darkness, rows of young women came out holding discs in their hands.
There is a beating heart on top of the disk, which is burning with black fire and rising into clouds of black smoke.
If you observe carefully for a moment, you will find that the direction of the black smoke is the huge sculpture in front of you.
And these women who came out in small steps had outstanding figures, were slender and delicate, and all of them were extremely beautiful.
But their expressions all looked very stiff and stiff, as if they had no emotions, like zombies.
They were wearing uniform white gauze, and their snow-white bodies could be vaguely seen.
As this group of women came out of the darkness, they surrounded Jiang Linxian and others.
They formed a semicircle with Jiang Linxian and others as the center, and then sat on the smooth floor, motionless, like stone carvings.
"What is this?" Jiang Linxian frowned, having already taken out the Ghost Stick in the system space.
"It's the enshrined girl." Steve said with a trembling figure.
His eyes looked at the half-circle of expressionless women sitting on the ground, and finally landed on an extremely cold girl, revealing his deep gaze.
"Is your daughter inside?" Jiang Linxian followed his gaze and locked onto the girl holding the disk.
In appearance, he looks a lot like Steve.
Steve nodded and said nothing.
"Steve, you must know a lot about the ghosts and gods of Alcatraz. Shouldn't you reveal some information to us? Maybe I can rescue your daughter."
Jiang Linxian said, trying to dig out more information about the ghosts and gods of Alcatraz from Steve.
"You can't save me." Steve said with a cold face, "You will all die here."
"including me."
"Boy, what nonsense are you talking about with a Riddler like him? Do you want me to eat him so that I can break through to the Dream Demon level?"
"Not necessarily." Jiang Linxian also looked indifferent, staring at Steve, as if he was extremely sure.
"Haha, you are so ignorant." Steve sneered: "Do you know why I captured you and took you to Alcatraz Island to worship the ghosts and gods?"
"Because only by offering you to the ghosts and gods can I get my daughter back."
Steve said.
Those eyes seemed to want to eat Jiang Linxian.
"for
What am I? Rather than other creatures? Jiang Linxian asked.
"Because you are the one being taken care of by Natis, the ghost of the sea."
"And the ghosts and gods of Alcatraz Island have a huge grudge against Nadis, the ghost and god of the sea."
"Do you think that if I give the creature that the sea ghost Nadis is surrounded by to the ghost of Alcatraz Island, will it agree to get my daughter back?"
"So you've always had such a wishful thinking." Helena held a long knife against Steve's neck and said coldly: "Are you very sure that the ghosts and gods of Alcatraz Island will agree to your request?"
"For my daughter, even if there is a little hope, I will not give up." Steve looked at Helena coldly and said, "You will know when you have your own child."
"Then why did you enshrine your daughter to the ghosts and gods of Alcatraz?" Helena said coldly: "If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place?"
"You think I did it?" Steve said with red eyes, "You don't even know what happened!"
"Whether it's my heart or my daughter, I can't make the decision!"
"You came to Alcatraz Island and you haven't realized the seriousness of the problem!"
"The ghosts and gods here are not so easy to deal with!"
Helena was stunned by Steve's words and didn't know how to answer.
Jiang Linxian, who was on the side, squeezed the Soul Slayer Ghost Stick in his hand and asked, "Then how did your heart and daughter stay here?"
Steve glanced at Jiang Linxian with his one eye and said calmly: "My daughter stayed here voluntarily..."
"In order to save me, she voluntarily stayed here as a tribute to the ghosts and gods."
"My heart is also part of this deal."
"I tried to resist, but it was of no use."
"I lost an eye because of this."
"That's the parrot you saw."
"I put the shrunken eyeball into the eye of a dying parrot, which is the parrot in my body."
The parrot on Steve's shoulder suddenly flapped its wings and shouted: "I am innocent! I am innocent! I am innocent!"
Gululu...
As Steve told his experience, the huge and strange statue in front of him suddenly moved.
Jiang Linxian looked up and found that the statue was surrounded by clouds of pitch-black smoke.
Amidst the swaying lights and dancing shadows, this huge and strange statue has lost the stone as stiff as copper and iron on its body.
Like a giant monster resurrected from the abyss, it transformed into a rotten body exuding ugliness...
