mesbooks Chapter 218 Unknown Totem (4)
Chapter 218 Unknown Totem (4)
"Nothing..."
The old man muttered a few words and staggered back two steps.
He covered his mouth and thought seriously, and sentences from the time he met Du Ming flashed through his mind.
Suddenly, he was startled.
"Unknown, totem... unknown totem!" Nagisa murmured, and then his face changed in shock:
"You just said that this might be a place for elves to 'take a walk'. If I'm not mistaken... 'take a walk' means that this is the elves' back garden, an area where they can play freely, and 'elves'..."
He suddenly looked at the 28 unknown totems sleeping at the base of the wall.
"Here, the only spirits that have always existed are these... the unknown totems."
Du Ming nodded slowly and said expressionlessly:
"The 26 unknown totems plus 2 other types, a total of 28 forms, are the different foundations of this world. If combined with each other, they can produce a power that even the gods cannot predict - this is what you said... right?"
Zhu Xing nodded silently, already understanding what Du Ming wanted to say.
"I guess... in order to limit the scope of the unknown totem's power, the ancient people built such a large 'entertainment venue', giving the unknown totem space to exert its power and a stage for entertainment.
"A random ruin is the entertainment venue of the unknown totem. This room and this hall are the stage for the unknown totem to display its power!"
Du Ming paced in the empty room, turned around and looked at Zhu Xing: "And you are the remnant of their power.
"You don't exist. You are just an illusion that you once existed, but were revived by the power of an unknown totem and can only appear here!"
"I guess... that's the case."
The old man bit his lip and smiled sadly: "The wind that saved me back then was probably the power of the unknown totem. But I still don't understand why they didn't respond to my prayers back then..."
His eyes were red and a feeling of grievance welled up in his heart.
"If they could respond to me like they did the first time and the last time, wouldn't I be able to leave here earlier?"
Nagisagi shook her body, and the water bottle that she was holding tightly in her hand was squeezed into a ball, and the little remaining water dripped out from the mouth of the bottle.
He still has a family. A wife who has been with him for most of his life should be waiting for him to come back. She is old and likes to bask in the sun and sit in front of the door waiting for him to come back.
He also has a younger brother who, even at his old age, is always arguing with him about whose elf theory is better.
He also has a son and daughter-in-law who are university teachers. His daughter-in-law is about to give birth "recently". Originally, after the investigation of the ruins was completed, he would go back to hug his grandson or granddaughter.
A feeling of resentment surged in his heart, and Zhu Xing was wrapped in a negative energy, with wisps of white mist appearing on his body.
Nagisa: "I should have been the one who survived!"
Du Ming raised his eyebrows. Zhu Xing's clothes, the water bottle he was holding, the water in the bottle, the fallen water, his hair, and his shoes all began to slowly turn into wisps of grayish-white mist.
It was exactly the same as the gray-white mist that appeared when Du Ming touched the unknown totem before!
Du Ming, who had been observing the situation, suddenly spoke up: "Hey, old man! Wake up!"
But Nagisa acted as if she didn't hear it and turned a deaf ear to it.
White mist rose above his face, and his complexion gradually turned gray, as if it was about to be assimilated by the white mist.
Du Ming waved his hand in front of Zhu Xing's eyes and shouted again: "Hey, Zhu, wake up first! I haven't finished talking."
He took two steps forward, used his own energy to capture the gray-white mist emanating from Nagisa Xing's body, and forced it into Nagisa Xing's body, weakening the dissipation of his existence.
However, Nagisa seemed to be trapped in a vortex of thoughts, surrounded by white mist, and gradually became frustrated.
Du Ming raised his voice: "Hello? Hello? Can you hear me, brother Zhu Xing?"
The old man's expression gradually became dull until it lost all expression, his hair dissolved, and his clothes melted away.
He raised his head and looked at Du Ming with empty eyes, which were completely empty.
Du Ming's eyes twitched: "Hello?"
A black spot appeared in the old man's empty eyes and he glanced at Du Ming.
His hands and feet, which were entangled in the white mist, were also gradually dissipating and turning into grayish-white mist.
Du Ming frowned: "Hey!"
He took a deep breath.
"You're pretending not to hear me, right?"
“Boom!————”
“Boom!————”
Du Ming was furious. He stomped his foot, and the invisible energy turned into sharp blades and shells, bombarding the floor fiercely.
Every roar would lift up the golden bricks on the ground and walls.
"Boom~~"
Bricks flew everywhere and were blocked outside the two people by Du Ming's energy, but in the space outside of them, a pile of golden broken bricks suddenly appeared.
On the wall behind the two men, the wall where the unknown totems were embedded began to crack, and the sleeping unknown totems fell from the wall one by one and scattered all over the ground behind Du Ming.
"…zzZ"
But all this is just a result.
In the center of all this chaos, Du Ming's energy turned into a solid entity, like a gravity ball, tightly binding Zhu Xing's body, and even binding the gray-white mist emitted by the other party in his body.
"Uh~~!"
It's like an ant being pinched by the waist and abdomen, or a person being strangled by the throat, with a jack pressing on the body and unable to breathe.
Nagisaisi groaned in pain and slowly regained consciousness.
"...Du, Du brother..."
Nagisa looked up and spoke with difficulty.
But fortunately, the speed at which the gray mist eroded him finally slowed down.
In just a short while, he was actually mostly corroded by the gray-white mist, most of his hands and feet were bitten off, his hair was gone, and his clothes were corroded away.
Even the nose was swallowed by the white mist.
He forced his mouth open and forced a big smile, leaving only a black spot in his eye, which looked a little funny.
"It seems that I don't have much time left..."
"I know." Du understood it, then fell silent for a moment and said to him:
"When I entered the ruins, I saw someone who looked like you. Is he your twin brother?"
"…Hmm? Jisung?"
A glimmer of light appeared in Nagisa's gradually dulling eyes as he muttered his brother's name.
He slowly looked up at Du Ming. "My brother is outside now?"
After speaking again, Du Ming clearly felt that the white mist that continued to emanate from his body had stabilized a little.
But the erosion has not stopped.
"Is it your brother?" Du Ming nodded without being too surprised. "Is there anything you want me to tell you... um, wait!"
Du Ming's mind moved and he looked behind him.
"Hiss~ This might be a bit troublesome."
On the rubble-covered ground, 28 scattered unknown totems were groaning.
They had not woken up for a long time and slowly floated up from the floor, their sleeping eyes gradually opened.
"!!!"
A wordless chirping sound.
28 unknown totems slowly flew up, and after seeing the two people, they flew around them and stared at them.
“Bang, bang, bang—!”
Purple, green... colorful crystals rose up from the ground and the air out of thin air, and were blocked by Du Ming's aura.
Suddenly, a red light flashed in the eyes of the unknown totem.
The 28 unknown totems suddenly split apart into thousands of unknown totems, filling the huge room.
"!!!"
A silent chirping sound rang out, and all the unknown totems stared at Du Ming closely.