Chapter 457 Bathing God's Grace

"Ronado, what are you doing stopping, hurry up and go."

The pirate who stopped was behind the iron sheet, so the pirate who was at the end of the line had to stop too.

The room was very dark, the pirate held up the torch, and saw the body of the companion in front of him trembling slightly, and he would twitch from time to time.

Then, he turned around, his eyes were empty and blank, and his eyes were fixed on the pirate in front of him.

Through the light of the fire, Xifa saw the pirate's eyes, and pimples appeared one after another immediately on his skin.

Edwina in front immediately yelled, "Get away from him, he's not right!"

Immediately, the people at the front and back of the team quickly dispersed. After everyone dispersed, they saw the pirate named Ronaldo. Suddenly, his eyes began to roll up, and in a blink of an eye, only the whites of the eyes remained.

With a 'click', he tilted his head suddenly, and then the muscles on his face suddenly lifted, revealing eight teeth, one of which was made of gold.

After smiling innocently at everyone, Ronaldo suddenly turned around, flew towards the window next to him, and jumped out of the window without hesitation.

He quickly made a free fall, and soon after, he fell to his death on the rugged foot of the mountain!

The air seemed to freeze for a moment.

After a while, Edwina uttered a sentence: "I'm afraid he is possessed by an evil spirit."

Xifa immediately tapped the sheath of 'Devil May Cry' lightly, causing a layer of dark golden light to glow on the surface of the white scabbard of the Taidao, making the pirates around feel warm and dispelling evil.

Xifa, who used the 'sun halo' again, said: "We have to leave quickly."

Edwina nodded in agreement, she was not afraid of evil spirits, but in this environment, if a conflict broke out, it might cause a terrible disaster.

She looked towards the corner, and thick wooden beams protruded from the hard cliff, supporting such a wooden house.

"Walk along the base of the wall, keep a distance, and supervise each other."

Lieutenant General Bingshan quickly gave the order, and then he took the lead and walked to the base of the wall, stepping on the footholds supported by wooden beams, and demonstrating.

In this way, they passed one wooden house after another, and walked over one platform after another.

During this process, no one was possessed by evil spirits, but many corpses were seen. From the simple clothes and strange decorations on the corpses, it was not difficult to judge that they were natives of the island.

The corpses ranged from men to women, old and young, and all that remained were only bones.

Some corpses were compressed into balls, as if they were still suffering from boundless fear before dying.

Some corpses were tightly bound by vines, and it seemed that they were going to be sent to the previous tunnel to receive some kind of punishment, but for some unknown reason, they ended up staying in the wooden house.

Some even killed each other, and such corpses accounted for the majority. These corpses appeared concentrated in a wooden building, almost filling the ground, so that the pirates had to clean up a line before they could pass.

When passing by this wooden building, everyone had a question in their hearts: what happened at that time.

After finally passing through this complex of buildings, what appeared in front of everyone was that kind of high and steep stone steps. And from here, there are large and large murals on the cliff.

Although the colors of these murals are no longer bright due to the relationship between the years, the content of the murals can still be seen clearly.

The first strokes appear to depict the life of the natives of the island, who fish, hunt and grow what appear to be bananas.

After the aborigines die, the corpses will be given to nature for the enjoyment of wild animals and other scavengers. When the skeleton is almost left, the head will be cut off and sent to the mountain to be embedded in the mountain. The body will be burned and buried. under the tree.

"What a strange custom." Danitz sighed as he climbed the stone steps.

Edwina looked at the mural and said: "Many primitive tribes worship their ancestors. The aborigines believe that after the ancestors die, they leave a part of their body, so that the souls of the ancestors can stay in the world and continue to live in a certain way. form to guard them."

"I also found in other islands that there are customs of keeping nails, fingers or eyeballs of the dead, which all come from the idea of ​​ancestor worship."

Listening to Lieutenant General Bingshan's textbook-like answers, Xifa couldn't help sighing that Edwina really looked like a university lecturer after being puzzled.

In the next few murals, it can be seen that the "Master of the Styx" suddenly appeared above the island and landed at the crater. Originally, when the first mural was painted, there was smoke coming from the crater.

When it came to the third mural, there was the "Styx Master" pressing down, and the crater was no longer smoking, as if it had suddenly become an extinct volcano.

Moreover, the natives on the island enshrined the 'Master of the Styx' and the people on it as gods.

In one mural, the aborigines were kneeling on the ground, as if they had accepted the oracle, and then they began to build stone steps, open tunnels, and connect the houses to the cliffs.

"Indigenous people's thinking is very simple." During the break, Edwina was popularizing to the pirates, "They built wooden houses on the cliffs, hoping to live in the place closest to the gods, so that they can bathe day and night. Grace."

"There are also such examples on other islands. Some local aborigines will build houses on the highest mountain on the island, which is based on this idea."

Inhaling her explanation, the pirates leaned against the cliff, took out dried food and gnawed.

After everyone had basically eaten, Lieutenant General Bingshan gave the order to 'move on'.

But after coming around from the side of the mountain, Danitz, who was exploring the way ahead, suddenly found that there were only three or five stone steps left in front, and further up, there was a smooth cliff.

At this time, there is still a distance from the top of the mountain.

Danitz was instantly dumbfounded.

"There's no way?" Hearing the news, Edwina went forward to investigate in person, and she found that after a few more stone steps, there was a bare mountain.

"Why didn't those natives build the stone steps all the way up, and only built two-thirds of them, what's the reason?" Danitz knelt down beside him, complaining constantly.

Edwina clenched her fists, resting lightly on her chin, her clear eyes swept around, scanning the skulls embedded in the mountain one by one on the cliff: "This is probably because the natives believe that the gods on the mountain cannot be violated." , so the stone steps are deliberately only built here.”

Danis muttered, "I think they all need to see a doctor. There's no reason for the stone steps to be repaired to the top of the mountain, but they ended up on strike."

Jodsen smiled, looked at the mountain above and said, "Maybe I can climb up, and then throw the rope down, and you can use the rope to climb up."

Seeing his eyes sweeping over the skulls on the mountain, Xifa knew that Yobesen was planning to use these skulls as a point of leverage, but at this time, Edwina said: "Maybe I misunderstood, it seems that the natives are indeed Build this ladder to the top of the mountain."

"It's just that the next step of the ladder needs to touch a certain mechanism to appear."

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