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Some nearby stone houses and stone statues also suffered varying degrees of damage.
The scene was in a mess.
Arrived.
Here… is the tribe where the Bozwa people live.
"nobody?"
Kaji looked around in surprise.
Could it be that the Bozwa man who just died was the last one?
"Most likely they are hiding in these caves...it's really obvious...we are not welcome."
Hisoka glanced at the densely packed holes carved into the mountain and gave the answer.
"No one showed up, no defense... the door was wide open..."
Hazy eyelids twitched.
The pressure is increasing.
"You are so confident... It seems a bit tricky..."
The Bozwa people's attitude towards them... gave Long a bad feeling.
Chapter 82 Negotiations failed
Led by Long, the three of them walked into the cave at the bottom of the mountain. After entering, they found that it was completely decorated and furnished like a house. The interior space was very large... There was a living room and a bedroom. The entire mountain was similar to a building, and the neatly arranged caves were houses, and some were used for storage.
However, the cave they entered had been destroyed...the tables and chairs inside were broken and there were bloodstains.
"Captain, look..." Kaki suddenly pointed at a wall and reminded.
I looked over and found it was a mural.
The Bozwa people seem to love carving... There are also many small and exquisite stone statues in the house.
The mural is divided into several parts. The first one shows a group of little people kneeling in front of a giant, praying and bowing devoutly.
The second picture shows the little man lifting his compatriot and throwing him into the giant's open mouth.
The third picture shows ant-sized humans and various animals that suddenly appear, celebrating... like some kind of grand festival, and the giant's belly is bulging.
The fourth picture shows the giant giving birth... a bunch of egg-like objects were born along with liquid. It is worth noting that all the animals at the celebration, including humans, died in different ways... only five or six humans were left, holding up a few round egg embryos with joy on their faces.
Long focused his eyes on the giant and found that although this giant looked very much like a human, he had no facial features... he was a faceless person.
And in the second painting, the giant has his mouth wide open, and his mouth is full of sharp teeth... not two rows, but circles of teeth, like a mouthpart.
Most of them are not species from the human world, let alone humans.
"Dark Continent..."
I vaguely thought of it.
Whether it is the Kuruta or the Bozwa, they all seem to like to use images or text to record or pass on their origins... However, compared to the Kuruta who worship nature, the Bozwa give people a feeling of being a bit evil.
The scenes in several murals do not take place in a natural environment, but more like underground or in a cave. There are no flowers or plants, but torches are outlined to indicate that everything is happening in a relatively dark environment.
It is exactly the same as the environment where the Bozwa people live today.
They visited several more caves and found that every household had murals with similar contents.
"Let's go, the master is waiting for us inside..." Xi Suo said as he stood in front of a cave leading to the interior of the mountain.
In addition to being the houses where the Bozwa people live, each cave also has a deep and dark tunnel at the innermost part, which has the same characteristics as a beehive or anthill. The passage is very narrow, only one person can walk through it, and it is difficult for two people to walk side by side... Hisoka is in the front, and Oboro is in charge of the rear.
After going several hundred meters deep, the three came to an intersection and saw three passages in different directions in front of them.
"What should we do? Should we separate?"
Kaki looked towards Long.
It seems that the interior of this mountain is extremely complicated, like a maze.
After observing it for a while, I didn't find anything mysterious.
"The final destination of these passages should be the same place... but the routes are different, some are longer, some are shorter." Long judged, "There should be some mechanism... that only the Bozwa people can distinguish..."
"Want to disperse us?"
Kaji echoed, "Or a different route, with ambushes ready?"
“I choose this side…”
At this moment, Hisoka suddenly walked towards the cave entrance on the far left.
"If the captain's judgment is correct, it would be better for the three of us to stay together," Kaki suggested.
However, Hisoka ignored his words and turned to look at Oboro, "We just need to kill all the Bozwa people and get that 'thing'...right?"
"Ah."
Long nodded.
"If I complete the task before you, how will you thank me?"
Xi Suo raised the corner of his mouth.
"This is what you should do...the favor you owe me is now canceled." After saying this, Long stepped directly into the middle hole.
"Haha... let's see who is faster!"
Hisoka's figure also disappeared into the darkness.
Only Kaki was left, looking around, and finally chose to follow Captain Oboro.
There were some torches stuck on the walls of the passage, but they were not lit at this time.
As they went deeper, the light became darker and darker, and they couldn't see their hands in front of them. In addition, the space was small and closed, which could easily make people feel depressed and irritable... Long and Kaji didn't encounter any traps, but they went back and forth for a long time, and the intersections that kept appearing made it difficult to tell the direction.
An hour wasted.
After a while, the two stepped out of a cave and faced the entrances to passages in four directions.
"This..." Kaki licked his dry lips.
He was dizzy and completely lost.
Long walked forward, inserted a hand into the soil, dug up the soil layer, touched it, and felt it was moist. He said indifferently: "The direction is not important, as long as we are sure of our position and keep descending...but this will take more time."
hum…
Suddenly, a piece of rock and soil fell on the two men's heads, and there was a slight vibration.
A battle broke out inside the mountain!
"Is it Sisso? He fought with the Bozwa people? So soon?" Kaki was surprised.
"wrong…"
Hazy frowned.
The tremor seemed to come from above, not below... Based on this maze-like internal structure, Long judged that the hiding place of the Bozwa people must be in the core underground of the mountain. In other words, Hisoka must have hit a trap or the other party had sent someone.
The speed of movement was slower than both of them.
"Let's go." Long called out and walked into a cave first.
Long was using the soil layer to analyze whether their position was closer to the underground, and Kaji's telepathic patch was also used, at least to ensure that the two would not return to the original path. Just like that, half an hour later... a bright light appeared at the entrance of the cave in front of them, and the broken soil under their feet was paved with stone bricks.
Long walked out of the cave and stepped into a wide underground space, which looked like the interior of a palace.
The burning braziers burst into light and heat...
A total of ten huge pillars stood before us.
There are exquisite patterns carved on the stone pillars. In the center, on an altar-like site, sits an old man from the Bozwa tribe.
The familiar white robe and long gray braid.
"Stay there and don't move." Long looked at the old man, his heart sinking, and ordered Kaki.
Immediately, a figure flashed and rushed to the front of the altar.
The old man had his head down, holding a skull in his hands, as if he was asleep. Upon hearing the noise, he slowly raised his head and looked into Long's eyes...
Long used "Condensation" to look at the skull in the hands of the former, and indeed saw a cluster of black energy wrapped around the skull, with an unknown aura... This is the thing, the creation of the ritual! This skull is obviously not a real human head, but more like a cast of some kind of stone, also engraved with strange patterns.
Just him?
Long increased his perception to the maximum... In the huge underground space, there were no other Bozwa people except the old man.
"Outsider...are you the king's lackey?" The old man obviously knew the common language and looked at Long with cold eyes.
"No, I'm a hunter hired by a certain party... I came here to complete a mission." Long looked around, facing the old man's puzzled expression, and pointed at the skull he was holding: "That's it... We came here for this thing."
Even if he mentioned the Hunter Association, the other party probably wouldn't understand, and Long was too lazy to explain.
"Your situation is worse than I thought... There aren't many of you left, right? Just letting the bugs split and evolve to expand the battlefield... The speed of sacrifice will naturally be faster, but the battlefield is far from reaching Dongguotuo's royal city... It can't pose a substantial threat to the king."
Long said calmly: "At this rate... even if the parasite spreads to the border of the royal city, since no one is offering sacrifices, I guess... the bugs will not be able to split anymore. Once they are cleared away, everything will be over."
Even if you use ancient rituals, it is still not easy to fight against a country.
He thought there were at least 20 to 30 Bozwa people still alive, but now it seems... there may be less than half.
The remaining survivors were sent to various battlefields to prepare for the next wave of sacrifices...
It is also the last wave.
The old man was a little surprised that Long had seen through the secret of the ritual. "It doesn't matter... Only by starting the ritual can we, the Bozwa people, have hope of survival... Even if we can't kill that tyrant, we must bite a piece of flesh off his body and let him feel the anger and hatred of our people!"
"As long as we, the Bozwa people, are still alive, even if there is only one left, the flame of revenge will not be extinguished... If it doesn't work this time, there will be a next time... One day, he will pay the price he deserves."
Long was silent.
"You may be disappointed. From what I know about the current monarch of Dongguotuo, he must be living a life of debauchery and pleasure every day... I'm afraid that even now, he doesn't take you Bozwa people seriously."
"So...he deserves to die!"
The old man slowly stood up, and at the same time, mental energy burst out from his body.