Bring home the Infinite World Boss

"What happened?"

Li Lingzhou asked in a deep voice.

Yin Shen followed closely behind, and all the remaining teammates followed, except for a few newcomers who were confused about the situation.

There are a lot of new people entering this world, which means that the difficulty is relatively not too great. The woman in local clothes who appeared at this time must be the NPC who gave clues. It is more down-to-earth.

Sure enough, the middle-aged woman raised her mottled and yellow face when she saw people surrounding her. People living in the desert always look older than their age, and she was no exception. Full of wrinkles, but when he spoke, his voice sounded no more than 35 years old.

"Are you... the pilgrims?"

Yin Shen and the others looked at each other, but no one said much.

The woman burst into tears and said: "Please help me, I have been waiting for you for a long time! Only you can... I beg you! I beg you!"

In the blink of an eye, the woman's eyes were red and swollen from crying. She clasped her hands and bowed to them. Yin Shen couldn't stand it anymore and asked, "This... auntie, what are you looking for first? We will help if we can."

They originally entered the second world to "help".

"Thank you...Thank you, you are really kind..." The woman kept repeating with her head down, as if she couldn't straighten her back.

"What happened here?" Li Lingzhou asked.

The woman sniffed and said, "This is a temple that has just been built—you know—but according to the original arrangement, when the construction was completed a month ago, the laborers should have been sent home. My husband is one of the laborers. He has lived here for a full year and seven months. For so long, we can only see each other secretly through the city wall that is not completely sealed. The same as him, and us There are more than 100 people in this city.

But we finally looked forward to the completion of the project, the pharaoh left, the city gates were closed, and now even the pilgrims you came here for fame have come, but these more than 100 people seem to have disappeared, and none of them came back. "

Yin Shen asked: "They didn't go home, and they weren't in the temple?"

The woman shook her head and sighed: "I walk around the temple every day, just fantasizing that I can hear some voices, but it's a pity..."

"Why don't you go in?"

"We also thought about it. After all, we are family members. Everyone is very anxious. But this is a temple, and the gods have already moved in. Except for laborers, only clean believers like you can enter the temple. Those of us Ordinary people naturally can’t do it.”

"So, you want us to go in and help you find your family?"

"Yes, yes!" The woman said gratefully, "I know you have your rules, I don't force it, I just hope you can help me see if they are still inside, if... if not..."

As she spoke, her eyes became so empty that it was unbearable to ask.What if her family is not inside the temple.

Li Lingzhou said: "Okay, we will help you. Where does your family live? I will find you if I have news."

The woman was overjoyed, pointing to a low-rise building that was smoking in the distance and said, "City, No. 59 West, there are children's graffiti on the house, it's easy to recognize."

Until she left, she kept repeating her thanks.

Yin Shen walked to the closed gate of the temple, stroked his chin and said, "Then let's go in now?"

Although they don't know what the meaning of "clean believers" is, all the clues point to the temple, and they must go in.

A boy wearing glasses saw them trying to push the door of the temple, he pushed his glasses legs back a few steps uneasy, just bumped into his friend, and the friend asked him, "What are you talking about?"

The boy smiled wryly, and said, "I played Temple Escape a few times before I came in, and I always felt that once the door was opened, something would come out of it, and I panicked."

"Tsk, look at your courage, but I think the first few are experienced, maybe we can paddle again, hey, what are your guides, you can always pay attention to them, people like them, Maybe three to five days will break the game."

The two murmured in the back for a while, Li Lingzhou and Sheng Yan had pushed the door open together, and a towering stone pillar could be seen.

The stone pillars are scattered all over the front hall of the temple. The climate here is hot, and it is estimated that the designers also took into account the need of the gods to cool off.

So long strips of stones were placed between the stone pillars to block the light, and spliced ​​into a structure like countless beams. At this time, the shadows cast by the setting sun were also striped, which inexplicably added a bit of darkness to the temple.

"Is anyone there?" Sheng Yan tried to shout, but echoes kept coming from the huge and empty temple, but no one responded.

"There are patterns on the stone pillar!" Someone said.

Yin Shen also noticed that he is more sensitive to patterns and colors. He has stood in front of a stone pillar and looked at it for a while. Most of the patterns in ancient times were used for narrative. The stone pillar is divided into several layers, and each layer has many dancers. The villain, surrounded by a more vividly colored figure, may be a symbol of a god.

"Do you understand theology?" Yin Shen asked Sheng Yan.

Sheng Yan shook his head quickly, and said, "Metaphysics and theology are two completely different things."

"Well, yes, I think you are an encyclopedia, so I tried to ask."

Sheng Yan said again: "But there are some characters on it, although I don't recognize them, they look very similar to ancient Egyptian characters."

"Yin Shen, come and see this."

Li Lingzhou brushed a knuckle lightly against a certain position of the stone pillar, and a purple butterfly danced under his finger, like a butterfly that just landed. Fly away from Li Lingzhou's fingers.

"Strange," Yin Shen looked closer and frowned, "How can there be butterflies in the desert?"

And how could the people here think of using a creature that they had never seen before as a totem carved on the sacred stone pillar?

"Go inside and have a look."

Li Lingzhou said that the decorations on the stone pillars along the way were roughly the same. Yin Shen roughly judged that the watercolor paint on them had been dried for at least a month, which coincided with the completion time mentioned by the woman just now.

"Ah! There are snakes!" Someone suddenly shouted.

"Snake? True or false? Where is it?"

One sentence caused great panic. Modern people have rarely seen snakes, and they also have an instinctive fear of this cold-blooded animal.

The person who first discovered the snake was still in shock. He stood on a stone and said, "Just... just over there, sticking to the pillar, and swam away."

Snakes are sensitive and quiet animals, and I'm afraid they were also disturbed by people like them.

"Don't panic, snakes don't take the initiative to attack people," Sheng Yan said, "Snakes, lizards, and mice are very common in the desert, so don't get distracted by these things."

Passing through this stone pillar, there is a huge main temple inside. The interior of the temple is solemn and empty, leaving enough space, but it also brings an inexplicable sense of depression.

"Is the most important thing missing here?" Yin Shen said.

Li Lingzhou said: "The statue."

It is obviously a temple, but there are no traces of worship inside. Some people say that the fifteen sculptures outside are the corresponding gods.

But it doesn't make sense logically. No one would put God on the outside to guard the door. This is simply blasphemy.

Sheng Yan said: "As far as I know, ancient Egypt was keen to build temples with double structures. Maybe what we are in is just an outer temple, a place for socializing and holding ceremonies, and there will be an inner temple inside. It's inside."

Yin Shen was stunned and said, "Go and have a look."

When they walked out of the outer temple, the sun had already disappeared into the horizon.But the temperature did not decrease, and the billowing heat wave still remained on the surface.On the west side of the backyard is a residential area. Clothes are dried on the open space, with traces of life.

"Is it the place where the laborers live?" Everyone guessed, thinking of the local woman's entrustment, they all ran towards that place, but they were caught off guard by a dull sound on the way.

"what happened?"

"Is there anyone else out there?"

"Would you like to go back and have a look..."

The tall outer temple blocked the view, but Li Lingzhou said: "The door is closed. It seems that we are allowed to live in the temple tonight."

"what?!"

Everyone was shocked, and the boy who just said that he played Temple Run ran back in disbelief, repeating: "I don't want to be here...I don't want to stay in the temple at night..."

The faces of the others were also a little ugly.

Li Lingzhou touched Yin Shen, gestured to the north, and said, "Inner Temple."

The distance between the inner shrine and the outer shrine is a hundred meters. The area is not large, but it is a bit higher than the outer shrine. The magnificent brown hall door is closed, like a hill without an entrance.

Yin Shen and the others went to investigate and found that the door could not be pushed open by force, and there was no lock, and the surrounding area was airtight.

"There must be special opening conditions."

Sheng Yan speculated that although he found nothing for the time being, it did not affect marking this place as one of the most important clue locations.

Go back to the west to join other people, and the boy who left just now has also returned.Sure enough, it was the sound of the door closing, and they were locked inside. Fortunately, although there was no one in the house, the doors were all open. Seeing that it was going to be night, everyone spontaneously divided into groups in twos and threes, and each guarded the house.

After nightfall, the temple is darker, and the sound of animals walking outside the window can be heard at any time, which feels like a snake.

The three of Yin Shen lived in a house on the outside. The houses in this place were very simple, with only four wall panels and a roof. They were all made of clods with insects on them. , fluttering slightly above the ground, it must be the bed.

"Why don't you even have a lamp? Sheng Yan, lighting should have been invented in this period, right?" Yin Shen asked.

Sheng Yan said: "Well, kerosene is used more frequently, but I also remember some anecdotes that there were actually light bulbs in ancient Egypt, and even some tombs had light bulbs that were on for 2000 years, until the door of the tomb was opened. off."

Yin Shen said: "I remembered, and I have seen it before, that's why there are visitors from space. The 'alien' still hides a secret at the ear of the Sphinx, but the current level of human technology is still not enough. Not enough to spot and open it."

Sheng Yan said: "I hope our world won't have anything to do with aliens."

Yin Shen initially thought that this house might be the residence of the priests in the future, but Sheng Yan said: "This is a temporary work shed for the laborers, and it will be completely demolished after the completion of the construction. As for the priests, they usually live in the outer temple. "

Yin Shen speculated: "However, the construction was completed a month ago, but the work shed has not been demolished, and all the people are gone. It's like... It seems that something happened suddenly, which caused the place to maintain the state at that moment. .

Moreover, there are more than 100 people, if I were their family members, I would not care about the rules of the temple. If my people are lost, I will break in to find them even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire, but these villagers really don’t know how to do it. Never stepped in. "

Sheng Yan said: "The power of faith will exceed your imagination, it is a constraint that we cannot understand."

"It's also possible, it's simpler," Li Lingzhou said, "It's not that they can't get in, but they really can't get in. Or, they will pay a certain price until they force their way in, such as death."

"It makes sense," Yin Shen had a flash of inspiration: "That's why she said that only clean believers can enter the temple, so if we don't meet the conditions of 'clean' or 'believer', won't we... die? "

Li Lingzhou nodded to him.

After a short rest, Li Lingzhou suddenly said, "Your other partner, why didn't that guy come?"

In the past few worlds, Zhuo Yizhuo had always been at odds with Li Lingzhou. Yin Shen originally thought that Li Lingzhou would not take the lottery to heart, but unexpectedly he asked.

So Yin Shen told him the truth, and Li Lingzhou understood: "It's been three months, it seems he doesn't want to go back."

"Impossible!" Yin Shen said, "It's... impossible for him not to be able to tell where his reality is."

"This has nothing to do with reality, Yin Shen." Li Lingzhou seemed to sigh, and said, "Don't you understand that the ferry is the only way to get rid of the second world, and only in that place do you have the right to choose?" .”

Sheng Yan rubbed his eyes, he didn't know why, the way he looked at the boss just now seemed to be softer than during the day, maybe it was affected by the dark environment.

But after the strange gaze moved away from Yin Shen's body, it returned to its original state.

Yin Shen didn't notice it, he paused for a moment, and said again: "Are you going to the transition too?"

He thought, with Li Lingzhou's ability, he absolutely shouldn't, but he heard him say, "I've been there."

"What's it like there?" Yin Shen asked again.

Li Lingzhou was silent for a moment, and did not answer Yin Shen's question, but said, "If you really want to know, it's best to see it with your own eyes."

Yin Shen was standing by the window, and he was about to say something when he was suddenly interrupted by a burst of light. He looked back and hurriedly said, "Wait! Look, a room is lit up!"

Not far from them, there was an empty house with dim but warm lights inside. Yin Shen and others came out to check, but found that this room was not the only one that was lit.

And just after they walked out of the house, their house was lit with fire.

The other teammates were also attracted by the strange scene, and they came out one after another. Li Lingzhou climbed up to the high place to count them, then frowned and said, "There are fifteen houses in total that are lit with fire."

"Fifteen again?" Yin Shen said, "So you want everyone to live alone?"

They did an experiment and found a bright room. After Yin Shen entered, the light was still on, but when Sheng Yan also entered, the light went out instantly.

Some people said: "It doesn't matter if there is light or not? I don't want to live alone. Who knows what danger is there. When the light goes out, it will go out. I can't sleep with the light on. I prefer more people to share with each other. There is a caretaker, what do you say?"

The speaker was a newcomer.

But after being bewitched by him, some people actually wavered.

Yin Shen took a look at him and said, "Then what if firelight is a kind of protection?"

The face of the person who spoke just now changed instantly, and there were timely hissing sounds around him, and snakes were constantly swimming.

The man shuddered, closed his mouth and did not speak again.There were two girls who entered the world for the first time. They were terrified at first, but they were persuaded to go back by the boy wearing glasses.

It's like a multiple-choice question. I've told you the answer clearly, but if you don't do it, aren't you a fool?

Coupled with the herd mentality of the crowd, many people looked at Li Lingzhou and saw that he was also staying separately from his teammates, so they followed suit.

Yin Shen couldn't fall asleep, the moonlight outside the window was bright, reflecting each other with the candlelight in the world, and sparklingly connected to form a Milky Way.

He got up and moved the stool to sit by the window. On the window sill was his pot of prickly pear. Yin Shen pulled the ball over and poked the distinct thorns casually.

It was a whistle coming from the window.

Yin Shen raised his head and subconsciously looked at Li Lingzhou's house not far away.

The other party also sat on the window sill at some point, stepping on the window sill, his lazy appearance was like a painting.

Yin Shen's eyes lit up, he smiled, worried about the late night, and said softly, "You haven't slept yet?"

His voice was so low that only his mouth was left, but Li Lingzhou could see it clearly. He nodded slightly, put his index finger on his lips and gestured "shh", then pointed to the moon.

Every world is a completely different adventure, a completely different life, and I don’t know if the moon in the second world is the same.But the last time I saw it, Yin Shenhe and He were sleeping in each other's arms, but this time, they were facing each other from afar.

There is a sense of fate that is separate from each other.

Yin Shen sighed softly. He looked at Li Lingzhou again, only to find that Li Lingzhou hadn't looked at the moon at all, perhaps not from the beginning to the end.

Li Lingzhou raised his hand and gently pressed the corner of his eye.

Yin Shen was taken aback, but felt that the finger was landing on his face. Under his scorching gaze, the mole that he had never noticed since he was a child was lit again. He saw Li Lingzhou smiling. For a moment, the tip of the tongue was slightly exposed unintentionally.

With a pain in his hand, the prickly pear pierced his skin.

But tonight, the moonlight is just right, far better than that day.