The Righteous Player(s)

Chapter 675 The Biggest Betrayal
Skeleton's deep, echoing voice was long and deep.

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

His old and rusted armor, the shape and the surrounding tombs seem to fit so well, and the style is so unified.As if He should have been here in the first place—in the tomb of an ancient dynasty that has disappeared for nearly a thousand years.

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

And it seems that everyone who stands in the lost past and whispers to the future.

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

Unsurprisingly, there were traces of being affected by the sacred thing on his body-but the players couldn't see it.

[You got the new mark "Low-level 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: difficult)]

...【Ancient Whispers】.

Annan frowned slightly.

This is a low-level influence that is not commonly used in rituals, but it is slightly cherished because it is not easy to obtain.

The way to obtain this influence is that the old man "whose age has exceeded twice his maximum life span" can only obtain it when he tells "a secret that happened before the listener was born and has never been understood".

That is to say, it needs an ancient transcendent or ritual master who has used life extension rituals many times, and exactly exhausted twice his original life span to trigger it.

This is not the influence of the "skeleton" and "betrayal" domains mastered by the bones.

And just from his age...

Since Annan can also gain influence here, it means that even Annan doesn't understand the secret that Mr. Bones is about to reveal.

He concentrated his attention, listening to the secrets told underground nearly two thousand kilometers away——

I saw the bone bone walking alone in front of him, reaching out to touch a certain tomb by the roadside from time to time.Even if these tombs did not indicate the names of the "residents" who were buried here, it did not prevent the bones from identifying them.

Longjing Cha and his two companions walked side by side with their bright hands raised, looking at each other from time to time to confirm that the people around them were indeed still there.As if they will suddenly disappear in the next second.

The extremely weak light burns quietly in the completely dark underground... and the cloak of the Skeleton Man in front casts a deep invisible shadow.

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

Other than that, nothing else.

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

But the ancient, dead history itself creates a great sense of oppression.

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

They didn't even have a private chat on the friend page, and they didn't even think about starting the live broadcast... they just held their breath, tried to walk as lightly as possible, and quietly followed behind Mr. Skull.

Suddenly, without warning——Skeletal Lord's footsteps stopped.

Because His stature was so tall that it completely covered the way ahead.For a while, Longjing Cha couldn't see what was in front of the skeleton.

But Dove saw it.

She reacted immediately, sent 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 she had to record it——

It was a tomb that looked no different from the surrounding "garages".

But what's unique about it 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 people carved by the stone statue itself are quite short.

It was an old woman with a kind face, a compassionate smile, a thin and short figure, slightly bowing her body and squinting her eyes.Her appearance is quite ordinary, with wrinkles on her face, like an old woman who is so good-tempered that she gives candy to the children.

But even the Skeleton Lord bowed his head to pay her respects.

——Then her identity is self-evident.

This old woman whose appearance and figure are the closest to ordinary people, without any special features at all, is the head of the Twelve Righteous Gods.

She is the god believed by the Principality of Sangsong, the "Bone Picker", "God of the Invisible to the Living", "God of Silence", "Mother of Ashes and Charcoal", God of Death and the Earth—— It is commonly known as the burying mother-in-law.

Granny Bone Burial is the protector of all those who have not been buried... She will gently bury all the dead bodies deep in the ground and bury them again.Only the dying can see her.

At the same time, mother-in-law is also the righteous god who least likes to respond to high-level rituals... Except for the requiem ceremony and the bone-burying ceremony, it is difficult to get a response to almost all the rituals related to the bone-burying mother-in-law.

Her silent personality is comparable to Lady Silence.

This is understood by the ceremonialists as "the stability of the earth" and "the irreversibility of death".For "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 Suifu, the mother-in-law has a better temper-probably on the same level as the cup girl and Miss Lucky, almost never. Never seen anger.

In other words, from the history after the third era, the mother-in-law has never been angry.In the 2000-year history, she has never actively attacked any mortals or superhumans... Even the extremely rare "death offenders", she usually doesn't care.

Especially after the Bell Ringer was born, she cared less about those "resurrected ones".

So much so that when the ceremonial masters prepare the ceremony, among those "elements to prevent offending a certain god", they usually don't consider the mother-in-law who buried the bones.

——When people request the power of fields such as 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, Father Sui hated water—whether in a cup, in a well, in a swamp, or on his body.

Therefore, after calling on the power of Sui Father, He will always dry the body of the ceremonial person... But on the other hand, if the ritual field is too humid (such as holding a ceremony in a swamp), then not only is it impossible to borrow Sui The power of the father may also attract the attack of the father.

And Mr. Yao will have requirements on the nature of the ritual performer.Because he is the god of purification, if the ritualist's mind is disordered, with distracting thoughts and evil thoughts, the residual influence when he leaves will naturally get rid of them.

But on the other hand, if the ritual master is a real villain and unrepentant—then the power of light will directly burn him to death.

But the ceremony of burying the bones of the mother-in-law is very simple.

Strictly speaking, the bone burying ceremony used by Delicious Wind Goose with the help of homeless children did not even place the sacrifices in the right place, and the ceremony site was dug out instantly with extraordinary abilities. It was not solemn or serious at all.

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

Longjing Cha thought to himself, if the buried mother-in-law is not such a good temper.

Then just the blasphemous act of Lord Bones worshiping in front of her statue is enough for Granny Buried to appear on the spot and fight with him...

——Yes, the bones are just worshiped in front of the statue of the mother-in-law who buried the bones.

And the process is pretty formal.

I saw Mr. Mugu knelt down on one knee in front of the mother-in-law who buried the bones.

His left hand hangs straight down, which means paying homage to the earth; and he touches his forehead, eyes, ears, and lips with his right hand, and then presses it on his heart.

The meaning of this etiquette is to swear not to think, not to see, not to hear, not to speak, and not to live—these are the five principles of the dead.

If the deceased violated any of the guidelines, he would be judged as abnormal.

As for Mr. Bones, he is undoubtedly an anomaly among anomalies.

Look, the dead body is talking...

"Man will face death eventually."

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

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

But Longjing Cha realized immediately - He was talking to himself.

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

"--therefore."

Skeletal Lord made a deep, hoarse and old voice.

"The resistance to death is the greatest betrayal a man can do."

(End of this chapter)