Casting spells

"Sorry, I really don't know how to explain..."

Before the girl finished speaking, she saw the old professor come out of the bathroom and sit down on the opposite chair.

I saw that he first glanced at the other party with eyes full of contempt, and then sneered and mocked: "Are you threatening my students?"

"Hey! Old guy! Be careful what you say! We just want to find out the truth!" The bald man patted the table hard to warn.

"Idiot! Do you think the truth is still important in this state of affairs? What really matters is how to get out of the predicament and return to Los Angeles alive." Craig raised his head and looked at him without fear.

He is very clear that if he can't regain the dominance at this moment, then the days to come will be sad, so no matter what, he can't give in a little bit.

"Do you have a solution?" a 30-year-old white man in a white shirt tentatively asked.

Craig nodded lightly, and directly opened the ancient book and put it on the table: "Yes! Everything is recorded in this book, including this world, including the runes that block monsters from approaching, and even including going back. Methods."

"Fake! Give me the book!" Without saying a word, the bald man grabbed the book on the spot and began to flip through it quickly.

What's interesting is that within a few seconds, his face showed unconcealable embarrassment, and he cursed in a low voice: "Who can tell me what this crooked thing is? Why can't I read a word?" Understand?"

Hearing these words, the old professor raised the corners of his mouth involuntarily and raised his eyes: "That's the Sasanian Pahlavi language used in Persia in the Middle Ages! Even in the whole world, there are not many people who can understand it. And my student happens to be two of them..."

Chapter 659 Mysterious Ancient Book ([-])

Undoubtedly, in this confrontation between knowledge and violence, the old professor took the dominance of the survivors from the bald man by virtue of his rich life experience.

Because apart from him and Mansha, there was no other person in the restaurant who could understand the contents recorded in the ancient parchment book, let alone interpret what was written inside.

But when these ordinary people gathered together to study how to get out of the dangerous situation, Zhang Cheng, who was far away in Los Angeles, had already rushed to the scene of the incident, frowning and looking around at the fast food restaurant that disappeared out of thin air, ignoring those Busy cops and reporters.

After about 10 minutes, he stroked his chin and muttered to himself: "Interesting! No wonder the book has gone through many masters in the underground world, and no one has been able to find out the mystery in it. It turns out that it only reacts to ordinary people. , and then open a directional teleportation gate to transfer all nearby life forms and buildings away together. But the question now is, how can I find the location coordinates of the directional teleportation?"

Obviously, sending that ancient book out was a small attempt on his part.

Because I can feel an extremely powerful force from ancient books, but I don’t know why it can’t be activated, as if it has been falling into a certain state of sleep, and it must be awakened under certain circumstances.

Like most advanced magic items, this is a trigger condition set by the creator. If you don't know how to activate it, then the book is just an ordinary book, but once activated, it is equivalent to a locator and key.

Even with Zhang Cheng's current knowledge and magical power, he couldn't trace where the entire restaurant was teleported. There was no good way except to wait patiently.

You must know that he had expected a similar situation a long time ago, so he gave the girl a note with her phone number written on it.

If the other party tries to make this call, the positioning spell hidden in the note will be activated instantly, and he can use this opportunity to open a stable portal to go there.

Of course, if the other party never thinks of making a phone call until he dies, then he can only give up investigating the secrets hidden behind this book.

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At the same time, Professor Craig, who was far away in a world full of flames and magma, barely finished reading the entire book in more than three hours, and said to the survivors sitting around with a solemn expression: "Ladies and gentlemen, The place we are currently in is actually not the earth, but a place similar to a parallel space.

According to the description of the original dualist religions born in Central Asia and the Middle East, the world was born in an eternal struggle between two opposing gods, good and evil, light and dark.

In their struggle, the earth, mineral veins, animals and plants, and human beings appeared one by one.

But what is interesting is that due to the long-term struggle, some of the gods symbolizing light, goodness, and fire gradually merged with the gods symbolizing darkness and evil, and some spirit-like creatures were born. They did not have flesh and blood, but Appear in front of the world in the form of elements.

To keep these ill-tempered creatures from roaming around causing havoc, the God of Light built a prison for the most dangerous spirits.Icaret is one of them.

The Christianity that was born later absorbed these folklore stories and renamed it Ifrit. "

"So we are now trapped in a prison made by the gods? Those monsters outside that exude amazing heat are the fire elves? The biggest one is Icaret, or Ifrit? What about God and Jesus Christ? In the Bible Didn’t you say that God is the creator of all things in the world?” The waitress’ eyes widened, her face full of disbelief.

We must know that with the spread of monotheism including Christianity and Christianity, which were born from primitive Judaism, it directly led to the extinction of many ancient primitive religions, so that many people did not understand those real religions in ancient times. What is going on with thought and ideology is even more difficult to understand deeply.

The reason is very simple. Monotheism advocates an extreme idea. For example, there is only one God, that is, the Almighty Creator. For example, everything is either right or wrong, and there is no room for relaxation.

In such a humanistic and social environment, the people will either become irrational, completely blindly obey the so-called "canon", and regard it as a ruler that binds everyone's behavioral norms and moral standards, no matter how many clauses are recorded in it. Backward, how cruel the criminal law is, the most typical example is the Communist countries in the Middle East and Central Asia.

The other situation is the European and American countries with Christian thought as the cornerstone of society.

Because they have experienced the great geographical discoveries in the Age of Discovery, the emancipation of the mind in the Age of Enlightenment, and the advancement of productivity in the modern Industrial Revolution, they are relatively open in concept, but they still have the strong exclusivity of monotheism in their hearts.

For example, all countries that do not follow the one-person-one-vote system of elections in the Western world will all be branded as dictatorships; all regions that do not follow the universal values ​​and moral standards of the West will all be regarded as backward, ignorant, and cruel.

After all, the education, environment, and media propaganda they have received since they were young have implemented the strong exclusivity of Christianity, especially even if the United States enters the 21st century, when the supreme leader of the United States takes the oath of office, he still has to put his hand on the "Bible" to swear.

As a professor of archeology, Craig is undoubtedly very aware of the contempt and rejection attitudes of most Americans towards other religions, he sighed helplessly and explained: "Sorry, I am not a theologian, so I cannot answer your question. I can only tell you what is recorded in this book. In addition, the giant whose body is emitting lava from top to bottom is not Icaret. The real Icaret should look like a demon in appearance, with a pair of pointed horns on his head. The hands and feet are shaped like animal claws."

"Damn! Don't talk nonsense! I don't care about the god of light, God, Jesus Christ. I just want to know how to get back to Los Angeles." The bald man interrupted impatiently.

"We need to find something! A key to be precise! Here, the book has already described its appearance and its location. If you guessed correctly, it is almost the huge crater in the distance." The old professor raised his head and cast his gaze at the huge volcano that not only erupted hot magma a few kilometers away.

"Shet! You mean... we have to rush out? God! Are you crazy? Those flame monsters outside will roast us into charred corpses!" Another white youth who looked in his early 20s couldn't bear it. Live exclaimed.

"Don't worry! Remember the symbols carved on the outside wall before? As long as you write on your clothes and skin with a color-fast pen, the flame spirits will not attack us. Of course, if you are willing to stay here and wait until the water and food are cut off to live Starved to death, thirsty to death, then I didn't say anything..."

"Fake! Don't talk nonsense! Listen to the professor! Prepare more water! Let's go in half an hour!" The bald man raised the revolver in his hand and threatened loudly.

Sixty Chapters of the Mysterious Ancient Book (6)

Relying on the coercion of his size and guns, the bald man quickly mobilized everyone in the restaurant. About 10 minutes later, a group of people walked out of the gate cautiously, away from the monsters with flames or lava flowing all over their bodies. Pass it on.

As Professor Craig said, none of the monsters attacked, or even turned a blind eye to them.

After discovering this, everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief, quickened their pace and rushed forward. After a while, they rushed hundreds of meters away and stopped to rest, sweating profusely.

Don't think that it takes only a few hundred meters to get tired like this, and your physical fitness is really rubbish.

You must know that this is not normal temperature or high temperature in the usual sense, but a terrifying high temperature of more than [-] to [-] degrees. If there are flames and magma rivers nearby, the temperature will immediately rise by more than ten degrees, reaching an astonishing sixty to seventy degrees. Spend.

Generally speaking, if the ambient temperature is 36 to 37 degrees higher than the body temperature, it is an out-and-out high-temperature environment. If it reaches [-] degrees, it will bring a huge additional burden to the internal organs, breathing and blood circulation system. Staying in this environment A few hours under the temperature, people will suffer from heat stroke, faint, or even die from shock because they cannot lower their body temperature.

As for [-] degrees and [-] degrees, it can already be called an out-and-out death environment. Even if there is sufficient water supplement, people will start to lose their strength after one or two hours.

In the restaurant before, because there were still ice cubes left in the cold storage to cool down, everyone didn't feel too uncomfortable.

But now that they left the restaurant, they immediately felt the feeling of being in a steamer and a sauna room. It took only three or four minutes, and their bodies seemed to be burning with an eternal flame. Many people couldn't help but take Take out the bottled water and pour it in your mouth, face and body surface.

"Damn it! Stop it! Stop it! Don't waste water! We still have several kilometers to go!" Mansha immediately dissuaded loudly when she saw this scene.

Unfortunately, no one paid any attention to her.

The pampered Los Angeles citizens have long since lost the stoic character of the European immigrants, and have become arrogant and lazy. How could they have suffered this crime.

Just when the girl was about to say something, Craig waved his hand to stop him and said, "Don't waste your energy, let them go. Anyway, they are adults and have the right to be responsible for their actions. I think they can A quarter of them are lucky to leave alive."

"But...but these people are because of this book! We are here because of us! We are obliged to help them!" Mansha clenched her fists subconsciously, and a trace of unbearableness flashed in her eyes.

"No, child, our only obligation is to go back alive and announce this important discovery to the whole world. Seeing the rare elements and minerals contained in the hot magma around here is a difficult task for the entire human race Imaginary wealth, not to mention those flame monsters that only exist in myths and legends. Believe me, these things are precious wealth. No matter what other people do, you and I must go back alive. If my old bones persist Don’t stop, it’s all up to you.”