Chapter 497 Destined Death
“This is... an undead man.”
Milo opened the tombstone that was superimposed in the middle. This piece was half weathered. The content of the chiseled text has been blurred.
The history of the church may only be within a few hundred years at most. This refers to the moment when the Sumeru ruins were excavated, that is, the moment when the first contract scholars started counting. .
But this does not mean that Tutis Crowe, one of the first generation contract scholars, was also a person of that era.
What's the meaning?
This means that his "age" is older than the church.
Because, at the bottom, the oldest piece "collected" by the Shugob group is not a tombstone, but something like it was buckled from some old building. wall stones.
This is because a kind of mass grave was popular at that time, which was an underground cave with at least three to four floors, a large exhibition hall and many narrow passages and stairs. There would be lines on the walls. A wall oven large enough to hold a corpse was dug out. This was how religious believers at that time were buried.
The oldest stone tablet was dug from the wall of an underground tomb.
This form of burial can be traced back a thousand years ago.
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It seems that what Milo just witnessed not long ago was a resurrection ceremony that has been repeated more than a dozen times.
And this does not mean that the Crow who was finally buried in the wall oven was the first generation of Crow. It can only be said that he signed this "ghost" contract with the ghoul tribe from that time on.
Perhaps it is innate in the ghoul race, and they have some kind of twisted yearning for this kind of people.
It's not that they hope they can achieve immortality, but when they find someone who can provide them with unlimited food... that is, the same soul can provide many corpses for the ghouls in a long enough time.
In the tribal culture of ghouls, there is such a saying that has no traceable origin, that is, the total amount of human souls is limited, and it is also a consumable that is constantly decreasing. In their inheritance, There is such a doomsday prophecy similar to that of human beings, that is, when the total amount of souls is exhausted, no new life will come, and no aging life will die and leave its body behind. In that era, the ghouls would be exterminated due to lack of food.
This is a doomsday prophecy in ghoul culture.
In their cognition, souls and corpses have a one-to-one relationship, and for people like Crowe who can "produce" an unlimited number of corpses with a single soul, you can even make it Understood as the savior of the ghouls.
Of course, there is only one such "immortal", which is actually a drop in the bucket for the huge group of ghouls, and its religious significance is far greater than the physical significance of providing food.
...
Milo is not very eager to trace Crow's past now.
On the contrary, he was more interested in:
"What did that person say? That scholar who called himself Raven."
He asked Shugob road.
The latter raised his head seriously, recalled something and replied:
"We didn't welcome this person very much, because he said some unfriendly words in my opinion. He said, 'One day I will find the owners of these tombstones and give them their destined death."
"This is more like what the raven would say."
Milo never really said it. He had spoken to this man face to face, and the several exchanges were all conducted from the perspective of the deceased, but he clearly remembered every detail of the guy's words and behavior.
It is not difficult to see that four years ago, at that time, Raven was still following the teacher's teachings very devoutly and adhering to the ancient research route of the Mensis School. Milo still remembers that he was in the middle of the night. Peeping from the upper floor of the mine on the barren mountainside of Ikem, the raven called for help to the missing teacher when he was confused.
To be precise, it was the scene seen in Karl's memory.
But that was the Raven four years ago.
After that time-spanning conversation, spiritual vision was confirmed to exist, and Raven's will also changed at that moment, including the purpose and academic theories he had always adhered to.
The current Raven has obviously deviated from the original track of the Mensis School, or in other words, deviated from his teacher's "expectations" for him.
In these few short years, he must have discovered something.
For example...
"He found that these tombstones were to some extent his fault." Shu Gebu told the truth.
Yes, people like Crow who violate the laws of time and life will basically only have one Crow in each generation. As Shugob said, this is an indestructible The soul is the only one.
But now there are two such souls in the world. While Raven has never revealed his real name anywhere, he does have the exact same appearance as Klaw.
And he has confirmed all this with actions.
The hunters who serve him are now hunting Crow all over the world.
This is completely different from the raven who cried to the teacher for guidance four years ago in the middle of the night.
......
"Two such similar souls appeared in the same era...how did it happen? Coincidence? Or a mistake..."
Milo held his chin and counted the dozen tombstones placed on the floor in front of him.
These tombstones vaguely record the birth and death years of the deceased Crowe, as well as his life, but for Milo, the texts from different periods are like tangled puzzles.
He could feel the struggle and confusion that had settled over the years from these words.
…
“Perhaps I need to learn more about the origin and evolution of the Monsis School.”
Milo was thoughtful.
He always had a feeling that there really seemed to be something guiding all of this.
He and Raven, two people who have never met, have had conversations and games in the minds and memories of different people at different times.
And the spiritual vision was released, and more and more secrets began to emerge from the ground, exposed to the sun.
There are also those incomprehensible words that Milo said in this land not long ago when the Mother Goddess incarnated and Crowe. It was obviously the first time for Milo to meet them, but they acted like they were old acquaintances. posture.
"Is there anything else I don't know?"
Milo turned his head and glanced at Wendigo, who was sitting aside and staring at his feet in a daze.
…
“This thing is really too confusing.”
The only thing that is certain at the moment is that Raven wants to kill Crow. Crowe most likely wanted to kill the raven, but as for the specific and deep-seated reasons, Milo couldn't figure it out just by guessing. It was something that even the eye of thinking couldn't see through.
It's less than half an hour before dawn, and in fact, a little bright halo has already appeared on the sea level in the distance.
The ghouls have already begun to move back the "calendar" composed of more than a dozen stacked tombstones. They don't like the dazzling sunlight.
At this point in the conversation, both parties have nothing to say.
Shu Gebu was trembling with fear throughout the whole process. He knew what Milo had done. Fortunately, it and its tribe were already in the ranks of "not worth mentioning" to Milo. He was familiar with it. It has a dark history and knows very well that this kind of indifference from the superiors is a rare "luck" for the entire tribe.
And just when Shugob felt that he could escape unscathed today, escape from the murderous god in front of him alive and return to his lair smoothly.
Suddenly there were some harsh and noisy sounds from the edge of the cemetery ahead.
That was the sound made by its people, the short, sharp sound like sobbing unique to ghouls.
The source of the sound was in the area where Yan and the black goat cubs were originally fighting. The ghouls seemed to have discovered something. They surrounded "that thing" with their claws and fangs, and moved toward it. It roared, breathed, and made some intimidating movements, but did not dare to get too close.
The scene looked a bit similar to that of a group of hyenas who found a lone old lion eating prey found by their own group.
And the "thing" that was surrounded was indeed lying on the ground crazily stuffing the minced meat of the black goat cub into its mouth, swallowing it quickly and greedily. You can hear unchewed food passing through your esophagus.
...
But Milo soon discovered that the "thing" surrounded by the ghouls looked a bit familiar.
He frowned.
(End of this chapter)