NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 720 Key
"I can only use my ability twice at most. What if there is no abyss in your future?"
"Isn't there still one more chance?" Jiang You asked.
"I have used my two chances. It is a good death for me."
Jiang You tilted his head and smiled. "And didn't you say that you saw fragments of me appearing in the abyss? Or did you lie to me about that?!"
The high priest was silent.
“I did see a picture of you appearing somewhere, but I can’t be sure if it was the Abyss. After all, the only place we’ve been to was in A Yue’s memory.
Jiang You, I tried to look at you, but you are different.
Your future is too vague. Even the pictures I saw were fleeting. The failure rate of peeking into your future is too high."
Jiang You, "I'm not sure, but I have no choice. I see that you are in such a state now, I don't think you will live for many days. Instead of waiting to be assimilated by the black flame, you might as well give it a try."
Hearing this, Zhuque raised his head and glanced at Jiang You silently. Behind the lifelike Zhuque head mask, his eyes were filled with tears.
The high priest sighed and suddenly waved to Suzaku, asking her to go out.
Zhuque walked out of the darkness reluctantly, closing the door when he left.
At this moment, the high priest reached out his hand tremblingly towards the mask.
He looks like he's about to take off his mask.
Jiang You still remembered Xu Rizhao's handsome face full of sexual tension in the photo, but after the mask fell off, he saw that his face was full of wrinkles. He looked like an old tree with cracks everywhere.
Jiang You was very close to him, so close that he could clearly smell the rotten smell between his breath.
It's not a stinky smell, but the smell that comes from layers of fallen leaves piled up in the moist soil. It's not bad, but it's not pleasant either.
"Jiang You, let me ask you a question."
"You said."
"If sacrificing one person could save the world, what would you do?"
"Let him die!"
"What if it was you who was sacrificed?"
"Then let's all die together. I don't have the good character of self-sacrifice."
She answered readily, not hiding her true nature at all.
"Why are you asking such a question all of a sudden? You are not going to tell me that my life is the key to the entrance to the abyss? You haven't even seen it yet, and you are talking nonsense. Be careful or I will blow up your Dawn Tower!"
"Ha ha……"
A hoarse laugh squeezed out of the high priest's throat, and Jiang You realized that it was difficult for him to make any facial expressions, and the skin on his face was like a cracked mask.
There was also some pain in that laughter.
After laughing, the high priest said, "I can't look at you. I want to see Wen Yu. He once lived in A Yue's memory fantasy. He is the only one who is most likely to know the key to open the abyss."
Jiang You, "When you left Wen Yu in the illusion, did you think of this day?"
The high priest did not respond.
Jiang You just thought he agreed, and suddenly changed the subject and asked, "To peek into the future, do we have to see the person himself?"
The high priest nodded.
Jiang You, "Isn't it possible to have a part of myself?"
The high priest gave her a puzzled look, "What did you say?"
"I asked you if it must be a complete person? Can a part of myself be okay?"
"...that's okay too."
He thought he heard wrongly.
But Jiang You took out a sealed box from the space and opened it. In the mist of cold air, there was a deformed, elongated mouth.
So it's a cold mouth.
“I thought of this possibility before I came here, but Wen Yu cannot leave the Black Flame Prison. Once he leaves the Black Flame Prison and runs away, I won’t be able to catch him.
After thinking about it, it should be okay to take away a part of his body." Jiang You's expression was very serious.
The high priest looked puzzled. "Why the mouth?"
"You also know that the bald guy who stole your things is my accomplice, and he is also in Longshan.
This guy has a lot of ideas. Who knows if he will go to the Black Flame Prison to interrogate Wen Yu while I am away. After thinking about it, the safest way is to take his mouth away.
Then he won’t be able to say anything.”
At this point, Jiang You looked at him seriously, "High Priest, this mouthpiece is definitely from Wen Yu, I tore it off with my own hands, guaranteed to be authentic.
But don't damage it. I promised Wen Yu that I would bring this mouth back intact and it can be used again after it is glued on."
Jiang You leaned back in his chair, shaving his nails leisurely and urged him, "Look, look quickly!"
The high priest had no choice but to turn away from the mouth.
The thing in the box looked like a rubber band that had been pulled so hard that it had lost its elasticity. It looked weird no matter how you looked at it.
He kept reminding himself not to think that this was Wen Yu's mouth, and only then did he manage to concentrate.
Jiang You stared at the high priest seriously.
After a while, I saw his lips opening and closing slightly, and a long and vague sound came out of his mouth, low, long, and distant...
As the sound continued, he saw the high priest's eyebrows begin to be covered with white frost, followed by eyelashes and hair, and soon his entire body was covered with a thin layer of ice crystals.
She didn't know if it was because of the cold, but she felt that his waist looked even more hunched.
After a while, the high priest's body tilted and he fell to the ground.
The thin layer of ice on his body suddenly shattered when it hit the ground, revealing a head full of white hair. When he raised his face, Jiang You saw that the countless cracked grooves on his face were slowly emitting black flames...
In just a moment, his hair and beard turned white in front of Jiang You.
He supported himself with his hands and tried to stand up, but fell to the ground every time he tried.
"Please, do me a favor..." The high priest asked for help in a weak voice.
Jiang You reached out and grabbed his wrist, holding his back and pulling him up from the ground.
She glanced at the high priest in surprise. The wrist of this sinister guy was so thin that one hand could easily hold it. There was no flesh at all, and his weight was not much heavier than silver.
You know, Baiyin is still a child.
She easily helped the high priest to his chair and pretended not to notice these details.
After the high priest sat down, she took a cup of hot milk tea from the space and said, "It's hot, drink some."
The high priest did not refuse.
After he recovered for a while, Jiang You asked, "How is it? What did you see?"
"It's similar to what I saw before..."
"What did you see before?"
"I told you that I left Wen Yu in A Yue's fantasy because of the future I saw.
But in the future I see, there is more than just the fragments he left behind.
I saw other things..."
"What? Stop keeping me in suspense and tell me. Are you still hiding it and planning to take it into the coffin?"
The high priest groaned for a moment and said, "I have seen the future of all of us, and it is all dark. This proves that everyone will die...
Only Suzaku, in the fragments of her future, she sat on a hillside covered with dogtail grass and sunflowers, her small body wrapped in weeds, only she was left..."
"I never knew why in the future I saw, everyone would end up dead."
Jiang You, "No one is spared? Perhaps your result is inaccurate..."
"It won't be wrong. The future won't be wrong. Just like a river, no matter how winding it is, it will eventually flow to the sea..."
He looked at Jiang You. The black flames flowing from the wrinkles on his face almost covered his entire face, but he could still see that there was peace in his eyes.
It seemed as if he had already anticipated the worst outcome.
"The key is Longshan. By opening the Longshan altar, we can open the entrance to the abyss. We need a sacrifice."
"Another sacrifice."
Jiang You frowned, "But since it is a sacrifice, there must be sacrifices. What are the sacrifices?"
At this point, Jiang You suddenly thought of what the high priest had just said, and looked at him fiercely, "You said... you once saw..."
The high priest slowly closed his eyes and spoke calmly, "We are the sacrifices. The seeds that Ah Yue planted with her own hands are the key to the sacrifice...
She takes us into the fantasy world, not out of pity. If farmers want to have a good harvest in the fall, they need to plant seeds in the soil in advance.
The roots of the seeds will automatically explore downwards to find water.
Just like us, no matter how winding the road is, we will eventually reach the abyss...
We who survived A Yue’s fantasy world are the best seeds…”