Chapter 218 The Greatest Betrayal

The low, echoing voice of Skeleton was long and far-reaching.

In a trance, Longjing Tea seems to have seen some kind of hallucination...

His ancient and rusted armor, the shape and the surrounding tombs looked so consistent and uniform. As if He should have been here in the first place—in the tombs of this ancient dynasty that had disappeared for nearly a thousand years.

His voice did not seem to come from the eyes of everyone.

It is like standing in the lost past and whispering to everyone in the future.

——At this moment, Annan is watching all this through the eyes of Longjing Tea.

Unsurprisingly, there are traces of the influence of the sacred thing on his body - but the players can't see it.

[You got a new tag "Low-Order Influence: Ancient Whispers"]

[If you don't remove it in time, you will fall into a random nightmare with the keyword "moth" after seven days (difficulty: hard)]

...【Ancient Whispers】.

Annan frowned slightly.

This is a low-rank, not commonly used in ceremonies, but a little cherished influence - because it is not easy to obtain.

This effect is acquired, and it is only obtained when an elderly person who is "more than twice the age of his maximum lifespan" tells "secrets that happened before the listener was born and have not been understood."

That is to say, it requires an ancient superhuman or ritualist who has used the life extension ritual many times and completely exhausted twice his original lifespan to trigger.

This is not the influence of the "bones" and "betrayal" fields that the skeleton masters.

And just from his age...

Since Annan can also gain influence, it means that even Annan doesn't understand the secret that Duke Bone is going to tell.

He concentrated his attention and listened to the secrets told by the underground nearly 2,000 kilometers away——

I saw Duke Bone walking alone in front of him, occasionally reaching out and stroking a tomb on the side of the road. Even if the tombs did not name the "inhabitants" who were buried there, that did not prevent the skeletons from identifying them.

Longjing Cha and the two companions walked side by side with their flaming hands, and were so nervous that they glanced at each other from time to time to confirm that the people around them were indeed still there. As if they would suddenly disappear in the next second.

The extremely faint light was quietly burning in the completely dark underground... and the cloak of the skeleton in front of him cast a deep invisible shadow.

At a glance, all you can see are huge stone pillars and a stone tomb the size of a garage.

Other than that, nothing else.

The players are all extraordinary, and even a player is a ghost himself - they are not afraid of ghosts.

But the ancient, dead history itself has formed a huge sense of oppression.

So much so that the players didn't even dare to say a word.

They didn't even chat privately on the friend page, and they didn't even think to start the live broadcast... They just held their breath, tried to keep their steps light, and quietly followed behind Duke Bone.

Suddenly, without warning—the skeleton's footsteps stopped.

Because His stature was so great that it completely obscured the road ahead. For a while, Longjing Tea couldn't see what was in front of Duke Skeleton.

But Dove saw it.

She reacted immediately, posted a screenshot of it to the forum, and immediately started the live broadcast.

Because she realized in an instant that the situation in front of her might be so important that it had to be recorded—

It was a tomb that looked indistinguishable from the surrounding "garage".

But its peculiarity is...a stone statue stands in front of it.

This is what Dove saw, the first and only thing "beyond the tomb"—

The stone statue is not high, even with the half-meter-high base, it is less than two meters. Because the person carved by the stone statue itself is quite short.

It was an old woman with a kind face, a benevolent smile, a thin and short stature, slightly bowed and squinted eyes. She has a fairly ordinary appearance, with wrinkles all over her face, like an old granny who is so good-natured that she gives candy to the children.

But even the skeleton man should bow his head to her.

——Then her identity is self-evident.

This old woman, whose appearance and body are the closest to ordinary people, without any special features at all, is the head of the twelve righteous gods.

She is the god that the Duchy of Sangong believes in, the "Bone Picker", "The Unseen God of the Living", "The Silent God", "Mother of Ashes and Charcoal", the God of Death and the Earth—also That is commonly known as the burial mother-in-law.

The burial mother-in-law is the protector of all those who have not been buried... She will gently bury all the dead bodies in the ground and rebury them. Only the dying can see her figure.

At the same time, the mother-in-law is also the righteous god who does not like to respond to high-level rituals... Except for the requiem ceremony and the burial ceremony, almost all the rituals related to the burial of the bones are difficult to respond to.

Her silent personality is comparable to that of Lady Silence.

This is understood by the ritualists as because of "the stability of the earth" and "the irreversibility of death". Because "the earth and the dead are silent".

However, although the mother-in-law is very silent, compared with the righteous gods such as the Red Knight, the old grandmother, and the Suifu, the mother-in-law has a better temperament—probably on the same level as the cup-bearer and Miss Luck. Never seen anger.

In other words, in the history since the Third Age, the mother-in-law has never been angry. In the two thousand years of history, she has not actively attacked any mortals and extraordinary people... Even the extremely rare "offending the dead", she usually doesn't care.

Especially after the Bell Ringer was born, she was less concerned with those "resurrected".

So that when the ritualists are preparing for the ceremony, among those "components to prevent angering a certain god", the burial mother-in-law is usually not considered.

——When people ask for power in the fields of fire and light, war and veto, they will pay great attention to whether their rituals are right and whether there are any materials in the rituals that violate taboos.

For example, the Suifa hates water—whether in a cup, in a well, in a swamp, or on his body.

Therefore, after calling on the power of the Suifu, he will always dry the ritualist's body... But in the past, if the ceremony field is too wet (for example, the ceremony is held in a swamp), then it is not only impossible to borrow the Sui The power of the father may also lead to the attack of the Sui father.

And Mr. Yao will have requirements on the nature of the ritualists. Because He is the God of Purification, if the ritualist's mind is disturbed, distracting thoughts and evil thoughts are obsessed, the residual influence when He leaves will also be naturally removed.

But on the other hand, if the ceremonial master is truly evil and unrepentant - then the power of light will directly burn him to death.

But the ceremony of burying her mother-in-law was very simple.

Strictly speaking, the burial ceremony used by Delicious Wind Goose with the help of wandering children did not even put the sacrifices in place, and the ceremony venue was dug up instantly with extraordinary abilities. It was not solemn or serious at all.

But they still borrowed power, and they didn't discount it at all.

Longjing Tea thought to herself, if the mother-in-law is not so good-natured.

Then the behavior of the skeleton man worshipping in front of her may appear on the spot and fight with him...

—Yes, the skeletons are worshipped in front of the statue of the burial mother-in-law.

And the process is quite formal.

I saw the skeleton man kneeling on one knee in front of the burial mother-in-law.

His left hand hangs straight down, meaning to pay homage to the earth; and his right hand touches his forehead, eyes, ears, lips, and then his heart.

This understanding means to swear not to think, not to see, not to hear, not to speak, not to live - these are the five rules of the dead.

The deceased violated any of the guidelines and were judged as anomalous.

As for Duke Bone, he is undoubtedly an anomaly among anomalies.

Look, the corpse is talking...

"Man will face death eventually."

In front of the statue of the buried mother-in-law, the skeleton said calmly.

Although he didn't look back and didn't name it.

But Longjing Tea was the first to react - he was talking to himself.

So he boldly asked: "Then you..."

"--therefore."

The skeleton made a low, hoarse, old voice.

"Resistance to death is the greatest betrayal a person can do."