The people in the underground had long ago confused time in the interweaving of darkness and insect lamps, and in fact, when they were lying there and sleeping, it was bright outside.

It was a rare break from the continuous rainstorm, which gave the accumulated water a chance to buffer.

The Ugin Hanging Palace on the Great Rift Valley God's Road was washed almost from head to toe, glowing with thick wuze. Before the water on the eaves had run out, it dripped into a string of water curtains along the promenade.

The copper door at the end of the corridor suddenly creaked, and the two inner waiters led a thin figure hurriedly towards Sinnia's room.

"Ann, I've been up for a long time! I've been waiting for you to tell a story!" Sinnia was restless even when she was lying on the bed. She rolled twice with the quilt, almost breaking the petrified arm, and the two female officials were shocked. whisper.

That thin figure was the white rabbit boy Angel brought back by Kevin. Sinnia told people that she didn't like to call her full name, so it was easy to remember, and she always called it only the first syllable. The first time she called "An", Angel's ears were all red, and he kept saying, "Don't, don't, that's a girl's name."

It's a pity that Sinnia, who is only four and a half years old, has her uncle's demeanor when she was a child to some extent. The next day when we met, we still only called one word, so Angel could only call her.

Since the petrified arm, Sinnia has not been able to go out and roll all over the place. The courtiers listened to Osved's orders and watched over her from morning till night, so as not to stumble anywhere.

Not being able to get out of the house for such a young child is a matter of life rather than death, especially when Osved is not around, she has no place to cry, no place to make trouble, and the technical difficulty of hanging is a little beyond her IQ, so she can only be obedient. Lie down and admit your fate.

Because of this, Angel has to run to the hanging palace every day. Fortunately, the little Highness Sinnia has not developed any other hobbies in addition to listening to stories endlessly, so it is not difficult to serve.

"Yesterday's book was finished," Angel said. "What are you listening to today?"

Sinnia glanced at the door secretly. Seeing the waiter standing at the door respectfully, she didn't mean to come in to catch her, so she quickly took out a book from under the pillow.

The sneaky look of such a small child looked a little funny, Angel was embarrassed to smile too obviously, and only pursed the corners of his mouth. He took the book from Sinnia's hand and flipped through two pages.

No kidding, this book is so tattered it looks like it's just been picked up from the rubbish heap. Angel turned the pages carefully, and just like that, she accidentally picked up a few pieces of paper.

Angel: "..."

He was holding the pages of the book, his expression a little frightened: "Your Highness, honestly, where did you find this book?" If two pages of an ancient book were dropped, he wouldn't be able to pay for it even if he sold it!

Sinnia lowered her voice seriously, and whispered in a whisper, "I took it from my uncle's bookshelf last night."

Angel's hands trembled.

Can the emperor's things be taken indiscriminately? !

Sinnia immediately became assertive again: "But my uncle said that I can't take the things in his study except the ones on the desk, and I can look at everything else! And this book was put in yesterday. Anyway, when my uncle was not there, I took it. It doesn't matter if you come for a day!"

"Yesterday?" Angel asked.

The matter of Osved's travel is not to be disclosed, only those who often travel to the hanging palace know. Before he left, he arranged all the arrangements, so whether it was the priest's hospital, the hospital's hospital, or the three major military camps, there was no problem, and they continued to operate as usual.

When Angel left the palace yesterday, he happened to see the old man from the priest's academy tremblingly enter the study. If I am not mistaken, this book is likely to be put into the study by the old man. After all, I heard him talk about finding a book for the emperor before. the book thing.

Angel Ao was no match for this little girl, so she had to pull up a chair and sit beside the bed, and glanced at the broken book as if she was holding her ancestors: "Your Highness, are you sure you want to listen to this? This book is all about —"

How to Dig God's Grave...

At least the two pages he flipped through were all about the time of Emperor Besselman. The strange disease spread in the palace. The emperor listened to the advice of the elders of the spirit clan, and organized a group of people to go to the tomb of Fae. page, but there are also intermittent references to a lot of what happened in the tomb of the gods. It's just that the words are extremely exaggerated and distorted. The posture doesn't seem to be describing a certain historical fact, but rather like writing a fairy tale, and the ghost knows the truth.

After Angel finished reading it, she couldn't help but turn back to the front and glance at the cover.

"What's wrong?" Sinnia rolled unwillingly on the bed. Seeing Angel's delay in starting, she couldn't help but tilt her head and ask him, "Why don't you tell me?"

Angel simply closed the cover, "Why doesn't this book even have a name."

"It doesn't matter! I'm listening to stories, not names." Sinnia waved her little hand, "Tell me!"

"Okay. Thenthen let's start with Emperor Besselman taking people into Fae's tomb." Angel read the book very fast, and he knew the content almost after scanning it. He raised his eyes and asked Sinnia: "Do you know Fae's tomb?"

The little girl nodded, her black eyes curled into a smile: "I know! My uncle said that the most powerful god of the old times was sleeping there!"

Angel pursed his lips and smiled, looked down at the page and said slowly: "Fae's tomb is in the Whitehead Hills area, under the Immortal Waterfall. There is no sunlight there, and it is always dark and gloomy. It is a good place to sleep."

"Why would it be a good place to be out of the sun?" Sinnia couldn't help interrupting.

"Because there is no light disturbed, I can sleep for a long time, and I won't wake up." Angel replied, and continued to say slowly: "There is a group of loyal and simple elves guarding the tomb gate for him. No one should try to break in easily. The undead are steps, the thorns are fences, and there is a heavy tablet engraved with blessings to the living. Without the soul to pave the way, the tomb door will never open."

Sinnia interrupted again: "What does it mean that there is no soul to pave the way, and the tomb door will never open? Then you said Bei... um, how did the emperor get in?"

The little girl, who could never remember names, vaguely skipped the name of Emperor Besselman.

Angel said with tears in his eyes, "How do I know how Emperor Bei En um got in?" He paused for a moment, and then said, "Maybe it's because of the soul to pave the way."

"How does the soul pave the way?" Sinnia asked.

"When you die, there is a soul, and enough people die to pave a path," Angel replied.

Sinnia still seemed to understand, "But...but isn't God going to sleep there? Just like me lying in bed, how can anyone who wants to come in at the door die there? How scary! Isn't that right? When you open the door, it's all souls?"

Angel tilted her head: "Then you just don't have to go out, and you should have been sleeping all the time."

Sinnia muttered, "What does God think..."

"He didn't have to think, he was dead when the cemetery was built," Angel said.

Sinnia raised her face and thought for a while, but she didn't understand, she waved her hand to open the question, "What if there are no dead people? Can you enter without paving the road with souls?"

Angel replied, "Then there is only one way."

"any solution?"

"God himself will open it."

The four-and-a-half-year-old girl suddenly became shrewd. She stared at the broken book, and saw her eyes as cross-eyed, and then suddenly raised her head with a thief expression of a cat catching a mouse, pointing with a smile. Angel said: "You made up! This page is obviously full of pictures and only one line of words. You have said so much, and it has already been exceeded!"

Angel's ears were red, and her face was embarrassed. He scratched his head and admitted: "Okay, I guess God will go to open it in person..."

The second half of the winding road was so dark that could not see fingers, and didn't see a little light until turned the last corner. It was a bug lamp that Kevin dropped here before.

The insect lamp hangs on the tip of the thorny branch, and because there is no wind, it does not move at all.

The quiet yellow light just sprinkled on the obelisk on the ground, reflecting the rusty, mottled and indistinct handwriting on it.

Only half of the stele exposed to the ground is actually. The soil that was originally buried only at the base has become thicker and thicker over the years, gradually covering the lower part.

Kevin's footsteps were unhurried and silent. He walked to the square monument and squatted down, stretched out his slender fingers and scratched the soil a few times, and quickly pushed the loose layer of mud to one side. , revealing the other half of the stele.

Under the damp soil all year round, the other half of the monument is more rusted than the top. The shallower characters have been rusted away, except for a few extremely deep ravines that still leave traces, like map lines. Winding away from the center.

Kevin stared at the winding ravines for a moment, then reached out and took off the short knife around his waist, and drew blood on the tips of the five fingers of his left hand.

In order to prevent the wound from healing too quickly, he made a deep cut with each knife, and blood beads were almost smashed into the mud in clusters.

The pain in his fingers was much sharper than elsewhere, but he just frowned, and he looked like the old god was there again. He put his entire left hand on the stele. The monument suddenly came to life, and the bright red blood seemed to be sucked out, flowing rapidly along the ravines, and soon covered the entire surface like a spider web.

The rusted copper stele suddenly turned scarlet, as if it had just been refined from the forging furnace. Some debris shook off and stuck on the thorns, and in the blink of an eye, it burned with a "boom" .

The fire surged so high in an instant, and the entire thorn bush was wrapped in golden-red flames, spreading rapidly from the center to the surroundings, burning into a sea of ​​fire.

In the beeping sound of the sea of ​​fire, the roars and screams of countless wild beasts and birds of prey are looming, suddenly far and near, as if coming from the end of hell.

Kevin stood in front of the sea of ​​​​fire indifferently, the crazy flame almost touched his face, but he didn't even blink.

He was looking behind the sea of ​​fire.

It wasn't until there was a sound of gold and stone rubbing in the darkness behind the scarlet that Kevin's eyes moved a little—

Because the tomb door is open.

The door had probably been covered in dust for too long, and when it was slowly opened, there was even the smell of rotten dust coming out of the fire.

Kevin took a breath, and a lukewarm smile hung on the corner of his mouth...

When he opened the tomb door alone, there was chaos by the fire in front of the cave.

Osved awoke to the startled chatter of the Night's Watch. The moment he opened his eyes, he felt an inexplicable "squeak" in his heart. I don't know if it was intuition or what, he almost instinctively glanced at the position where Kevin was lying.

empty!

The moment these two words lingered in his mind, his body had already reacted first. He stood up almost without a word, and went straight to the winding road without saying a word. A group of black iron cavalry hurriedly caught up behind them, and the footsteps were scattered.

He is tall and has long legs, and it is very difficult for others to chase after striding. Before he reached the corner, he saw a bright red light.

It's on fire!

Osved's expression tightened, and he turned the corner in one step.

The scene at that moment will probably make him unforgettable forever——

He saw the monstrous sea of ​​fire burning into pieces, howling undead breaking out from the ground, the heat wave surging, and the sky was full of blood.

Kevin glanced at him consciously in the twisting scarlet flame tongue, then waved his hand indifferently, turned his head and walked into the depths of the sea of ​​​​fire, disappearing completely...