Chapter 118 Ritual Prophecy

The last piece of information Zhou Yijue revealed was the numbering issue that An Wujiu was most concerned about.

"Could it be that the number on the back of our hand represents the model we were initialized in?"

After An Wujiu finished speaking, he wanted to deny himself, if this is the case, everyone here is No. 98, including Wu You Nanshan who has played with An Wujiu several times in a row, then he is not an outsider who has broken into other models. ?

Zhou Yijue thought for a while, "I thought of this when I found out that everyone's hands had numbers on them. Since it's already such a coincidence, I can't help but think in this direction."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the floating timer, and said to the two of them: "Time is running out, that's all I have to say, you can rest assured that I only put the information I have to achieve my own goals. Share it, so you don't have to doubt everything I say."

After Zhou Yijue finished speaking, he opened the door and planned to return to the room.

Hearing him talking about information sharing, An Wu Jiu was shaken for a while, but still shared an available information to Zhou Yijue.

In addition to telling him that everything here is not pure technology, but has more unknowable power, he also informed Zhou Yijue of the content of the human innovation plan.

"The altar is not a simple game, as you can see, maybe this place truly lives up to its name, it is a real altar." An Wu Jiu whispered.

Zhou Yijue was silent for a moment, then nodded, and before the corridor parted, he said to himself, "If you want to investigate further, go to Chauvin."

After he left, Shen Ti took An Wu Jiu's shoulder, "He doesn't seem to be lying this time."

"I think so too." An Wu Jiu said softly, "If Zhou Yijue keeps smiling, it is time for him to fool others."

Once he stops laughing and other emotions appear, that's the real him.

An Wu Jiu thought that Zhou Yijue would rush to tell him this information at this time, probably not only because of the serial numbers on the backs of everyone's hands during the sacrifice, but also because he knew that he might be the one who died tonight. , at least not in this game.

"Go back and rest." An Wu Jiu let Shen Ti take him to the door, turned around and leaned against the door, smiled at him.

But Shen Ti didn't turn his head and leave, but opened his arms and embraced him.

An Wu Jiu kissed Shen Ti's collarbone, buried his head in his shoulder and rubbed it, then heaved a long sigh.

"I know you're tired." Shen Ti raised his hand and gently rubbed An Wujiu's back, "No matter what happens, I will accompany you."

An Wu Jiu nodded in his arms, he knew this was not just a simple promise.

Shen Ti has always been like this.

He finally raised his head and put a kiss on Shen Ti's lips. The timing was just right. When he returned to the room alone, he had no vision.

Unable to see, An Wu Jiu did not draw the last card.

According to the words of the day, the only ordinary werewolf on the field is Megan. It should be difficult for her to target him tonight. The good people have obviously left the prophet and the witch. She must not let go of the guard who jumped out. grave man.

Not long after, the bloody arrow appeared in front of An Wu Jiu's eyes again, pointing in the direction he should go.

But An Wujiu was too lazy to test it, Matsuura Mori had no need to test it, since Andrew is a good person, Matsuura can only be a wolf.

Besides, An Wu Jiu didn't want to go through the process of smearing the autopsy again, so he touched the bed and lay down, closing his eyes.

Compared with the previous games, this dungeon is long and psychedelic, full of bizarre religious colors, both true and false, coupled with the gradual retrospective memories, many things are unclear.

As soon as I closed my eyes, those memories resurfaced. An Wu Jiu suddenly discovered a strange thing, if he really recovers his memory naturally, why is he still unable to recall his memories at the altar, these memories seem to have been arranged, when, in a certain A node restores a part.

For example, in this game, he can just remember what happened in his childhood and even his youth.

These all seem too "artificial".

If it is true that someone deliberately destroyed his memory, what purpose would such an approach want to achieve?

An Wujiu tried to imagine from that person's point of view.

Without memory, I wouldn't remember the terrible things that happened when I was a child, I wouldn't remember the pictures of my father dying in front of me, and I wouldn't remember the operation of those experiments and the torture I had been through.

It is undeniable that most of the memories he has are cruel and better to forget.

In this way, the other party's purpose seems to be well-intentioned, trying to make him live a life closer to "normal". Thinking of Yang Ming, and the man who matched the wrong match in this dungeon, they all seemed to have played against the self before the amnesia, so they were particularly fearful.

An Wu Jiu can't think of anyone who treats him so kindly, he would not hesitate to erase his original memories and implant new, peaceful ones so that he can be a good human being.

The only thing he could think of was the "scientists" who saw themselves as research subjects.

Maybe they did it just to be a control group before and after amnesia, and in their eyes, he was just one of the more special ones in this huge data set.

Or rather, one of many offerings.

Probably because he gradually accepted his own destiny, An Wujiu's heart suddenly calmed down, he stopped thinking about the past and why that evil god chose his family.

So God seems to have spared him a little night, and let him sleep peacefully until dawn.

When opened eyes again, vision had recovered, and it snowed outside again, dazzlingly white.

"Players, good morning."

The holy sound broke the quiet morning.

"Today is the day when the water city holds a festival, and all kinds of taboos in the city can be specially opened today, so the discussion of the morning sacrifice of the priests has also been changed from the morning to the afternoon. Perform exile sacrifices."

Shengyin paused, "Everyone enjoy this grand ceremony, you will definitely gain a lot."

His voice disappeared.

An Wu Jiu felt a little dizzy, he thought, maybe Shengyin and that rabbit are the same body, they may be the evil god.

When he opened the door, he thought he would see Shen Ti, but he didn't expect that the door was empty, An Wu Jiu turned his head and found Shen Ti leaning on the wall beside the door, as if he was still sleeping.

How can you sleep so soundly?

He squatted down and poked Shen Ti's cheek with his index finger.

There was no movement.

"Shen Ti."

He pushed.

Unexpectedly, Shen Ti actually fell to the other side.

An Wu Jiu's heart seemed to slump abruptly, he stretched out his hand and touched his heart.

Who knew that at this moment, Shen Ti suddenly laughed, grabbed his wrist, and fell into An Wu Jiu's arms with a smile.

"I lied to you!"

His eyes were full of crescent smiles, he hugged An Wu Jiu and pulled him up, seeing An Wu Jiu's expression changed, Shen Ti felt that his joke was a bit too much, "Scared you?"

An Wujiu shook his head.

"No? Then you really don't care about me at all." Shen Ti said with a smile, "What if I really die? Wouldn't you be sad?"

"Of course I will be sad." An Wujiu lowered his eyes, "So stop talking nonsense."

Shen Ti immediately said yes, and then kissed An Wujiu's forehead.

They walked outside side by side, An Wu Jiu didn't speak all the way, just listened quietly, occasionally responding twice. Before they reached the hall of the temple, they heard singing and dancing from outside.

"There seems to be a lot of people gathered in the Water City." An Wu Jiu said softly.

In the past few days, the once warm and humid water city has been immersed in the heavy snow for days and become lifeless. Today's festival has ignited the original enthusiasm and carnival here.

Due to the postponement of the morning sacrifice, everyone could not know who died last night. The eight remaining from yesterday were still present today. They looked at each other and became suspicious. No one knew whether it was a wolf or a dead man beside him.

Shengyin asked them to go down and participate in the festival with the city residents. Even if they didn't like the excitement, the task of the altar still had to be done.

The blizzard outside was even worse than yesterday, but An Wujiu saw from a distance those city residents were dancing in the snow with their bare feet, their frenetic dancing almost flattened the thick snow, and their feet were frozen. It must be blue and purple, almost the same as those stone carvings.

"Is it cold?" Wu You trembled while holding his arm.

"Are you cold?" Nan Shan proposed to take off his cloak and put it on him, but Wu You waved his hand.

"I don't need it." Wu You breathed a sigh of relief, the white mist blown out in front of his eyes, "You wear it yourself."

Shen Ti smiled and hugged Nan Shan's shoulders, trying to bring him along, "Oh, some children are really unscrupulous, aren't they?"

Nan Shan said with a smile, "No, no", while Wu You turned to ask An Wu Jiu with a sullen face, with displeased written all over his face, "Brother Wu Jiu, does it have to be him?"

An Wu Jiu opened his eyes slightly, "What?"

"Just..." Speaking of this, Wu You pulled up his collar to hide his unnaturalness, "I mean you have to like him, what is there in his whole body that you should like?"

An Wu Jiu raised his eyebrows, and once again accidentally answered a question, "Is it so obvious?"

Wu You sighed, "I can see all the things in your mind, only this one. But I just don't understand why, just him? Just him..."

Shen Ti pulled away his raised hand, "What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? Is there anyone in this world other than me who is willing to quarrel with a bitter and grieving child like you?"

Wu You: "Don't you think it's sensible that you quarrel with children?"

Shen Ti: "You admit that you are a child!"

Wu You:  …

Why haven't I changed my name to have nothing to say.

Nan Shan looked at An Wujiu and found that he seemed to have a natural barrier, separating him from the noisy two people, and was completely unaffected. Now he is going down the stairs while thinking seriously.

"Actually..." An Wujiu raised his head, "Many people would like Shen Ti."

Wu You turned his head when he heard the voice.

An Wu Jiu said seriously, "In terms of appearance, just from what I heard, Shen Ti has already been praised by many people."

He is also very honest, "When I saw him for the first time when I opened his mask, I thought he looked very appealing to me, and he was very special. Don't you think his eyes are beautiful?"

Wu You: ... that's enough.

He hates himself for speaking.

An Wu Jiu added: "Even if you don't look at the appearance, Shen Ti's character is also very interesting, smart but very good at pretending to be stupid, deceiving but sometimes very frank, although very sad but serious but also very attractive, right? ?"

The corners of Nan Shan's mouth couldn't fall.

The real candor is you, right?

He actually thinks that An Wujiu is also a very special person, not to mention the extreme two-sidedness, just his thinking of calculating and playing games on weekdays, and the frankness and loveliness now, the contradictions are very unified, this is because Nanshan is in You can't see it in others.

Thinking of it this way, she is really a good match for Shen Ti.

An Wu Jiu directly made the praised deity stunned in place, even forgetting to leave.

Zhou Yijue, who passed by and overtook him, laughed, and the laughter drifted into Shen Ti's ears, and he suddenly regained his senses.

Shen Ti never thought that he has so many advantages, the advantages in An Wu Jiu's eyes.

"I can't say anything else." An Wu Jiu smiled, "Maybe I just like someone special."

After he finished speaking, he realized that Shen Ti hadn't followed and was not around, so he turned around.

Shen Ti just raised his eyes and saw his clean, pure eyes in the snow.

But in the next second, An Wujiu raised his eyebrows and deliberately did something bad, "Those two sentences made you blush?"

Shen Ti immediately raised his hand to cover his face.

An Wu Jiu smiled, walked over and stretched out his arm towards him.

Shen Ti naturally embraced him in his arms, "Did you lie to me?"

An Wujiu shook his head in his arms and leaned against him quietly.

I thought would hug him, after all they were already behind the big ar, Shen Ti didn't expect that An Wujiu didn't seem to want to let go, but hugged him quietly, with his face on his chest.

"Is it cold?" He touched An Wujiu's cheek.

"not cold."

An Wu Jiu hugged enough and came out from Shen Ti's arms.

Shen Ti was keenly aware that something was wrong with him, but that feeling was fleeting, just when he was about to speak. A white object flew towards them at great speed.

An Wu Jiu has been trained to be sensitive to danger, so he tilted his head subconsciously, trying to pull Shen Ti away, but he didn't.

A snowball hit Shen Ti's side neck directly, and the snowflake shattered instantly and fell into his robe.

Behind him was Wu You's rare childish laugh, calling him an idiot.

An Wu Jiu watched the two of them fight again, and made excuses for Shen Ti in his heart.

After all, he's only recently become a human being, so it's normal to be a little naive.

Step by step he stepped in the snow, following them forward.

He had deliberately hugged him for so long just now, just to hear Shen Ti's heartbeat.

How many times they hugged each other and had intimate contact in the past, An Wu Jiu never noticed it, until today Shen Ti joked with him, he stretched out his hand to probe, only to find that he didn't have a heartbeat.

He didn't know whether it was the present moment or the normal state, so he just hugged him again and listened carefully.

Nothing was heard.

Shen Ti has breathing, pulse, and warm body temperature, but no heartbeat.

Before entering the city through the frozen lake, there were suddenly many more townspeople around them. Some of them held torches, some carried oil lamps, and many of them carried huge stone carvings and stone pillars together, and others danced around the stone carvings. The flowers here are all withered by the extreme cold, and they wrap withered vines into a wreath and wear it on their heads.

There are various kinds of stone carvings, but they are all like the avatar of the statue in the temple, only a part of it. The torch gradually turned blue, the blue dots were like aquamarine dotted on white velvet, An Wu Jiu followed the firelight and looked into the distance, and at a glance, he saw the glass room at the top of the tower.

Under the sunlight of the day, it shone like the most precious diamond.

In order to celebrate this grand ceremony, those city residents built countless red tents, and each household offered their own precious food. They walked forward tent by tent, Wu You was attracted by the red jelly-like food in one of the bowls, and asked the townspeople what it was.

"This is a piece of cactus that has been peeled off. My dear high priest, we marinated it with cochineal sauce, so it has such a beautiful red color." The young man said to him proudly.

"Cochineal bug??" Wu You almost couldn't help spitting it out. Facing the warm hospitality of the other party, he waved his hands again and again, and hurriedly slipped into the next tent with a dry smile.

"Welcome, my dear priests."

There must be an old woman sitting in the tent. She has a dark blue totem painted on her face. This totem covers the whole face and looks a little weird.

An Wu Jiu stared at her face and thought of Shen Ti's hand.

"This is fortune-telling?" Nan Shan picked up one of the stone cups, which contained two pieces of animal bones cut into strange shapes.

"Yes, that's right, your eyesight is really good." The old woman giggled, her face wrinkled, she eagerly solicited, and set out four stone cups, "Let me divination for you, It will be the greatest honor of my life.”

An Wu Jiu subconsciously wanted to refuse, but the other party has already acted and shook the stone cup.

Shen Ti was curious and wanted to see how she was going to divination, so he crossed his arms and stared at the old woman's movements.

She shook the stone cups one by one, and then added some strange potions in order, red and green, extremely sticky. The old woman stirred it with her index finger, so scared that Wu You thought she was going to eat it, but the next moment, the old woman threw a flint and set all four stone cups on fire.

When the stone cup was burnt out, she looked inside, raised her eyes again, and gave the four of them a weird smile.

"Okay." The old woman pushed out one of them and pointed to the guide fir, "This is yours."

There were indeed some words on the inner wall of the stone cup, but Nan Shan couldn't understand it.

The old woman explained to him directly: "This is written: Abandon, piety, cherish and believe."

When Nan Shan heard this, her heart moved slightly, "Is this the past or a prophecy?"

"Maybe both, maybe none." The old woman didn't stop, and launched a new one.

"This is yours." He pointed to An Wujiu, "Yes, it's you."

An Wu Jiu stood on the spot and nodded.

The old woman narrowed her eyes, looked at it carefully, and finally looked at An Wujiu with a smile, "You are also three words: desperate, repeating the same mistakes..."

"The last one," her expression changed. "Self-destruction."