Chapter 13 The Mystery
"If he doesn't come in, he can't be killed. We are trapped here!" Sass said with a calm face.
"No, we are not trapped, let's go and see the time and space nodes together." Qin Lun said with a smile.
"What can I do if I go? I need to pass the time and space node..." Kora paused halfway and lowered her head in frustration.
"Listen, my husband and I don't want everyone to kill each other. Do you want us to go outside and kill the guardian to see if we can break the magic of the time and space nodes. Do you want it and think of other ways. What do you think?" Sass looked at everyone vigilantly, with a strong guard in his eyes.
"Don't be nervous, SAS!" Qin Lun waved his hand with a smile, "Hill was the first to find the space-time node, but we still didn't do anything to you and your wife before, right? Believe me, let's go to the space-time node first!"
"Then... OK!" Sas and Kora looked at each other, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Nars World killed the same team members and deducted 100 points of longevity soul. Since Qin Lun and others did not use the Guardian to assassinate them before, they should not take action now.
The underwater corridor is not very long, and everyone soon came to the front of the space-time node. This space-time node is like a huge underwater vortex, and the water flow slowly rotates like a millstone, but the surface is covered with a layer of colorful mysterious light, as if it is a silk veil.
When everyone entered the three meters range of the time and space node, a gentle female voice suddenly rang in their minds.
"The Crystal Lake teleportation point sensed the visitor from the world. The identity of the smart race has been confirmed, and all six members meet the transmission standards. The sealed magic array will be automatically closed. Please pass the transmission point quickly. Five minutes later, the sealed magic array will be opened again, and you will no longer be able to enter the inner world!"
"What's going on?" Sass was stunned in shock and stared at Kora.
"The completion of the guidance task has reached 50%, and... the sacrifice requirement has been met!" Hill scanned the Apostle's Soul Seal and looked at Qin Lun deeply, "Unexpected change... you are right!"
"I just happened to guess right..." Qin Lun smiled faintly and waved his hands at everyone, "You guys go in first, I'll come over right away!"
After saying that, Qin Lun clumsily swam again towards the exit of the underwater corridor.
"Woooo~~" Seeing Qin Lun's actions, Michelle widened her eyes in surprise. She was not an apostle and could not speak in the team channel. As soon as she opened her mouth, a string of bubbles appeared in her mouth. The centaur girl was about to turn around and chase after her, but was pulled by Hanson beside her and shook her head gently.
"Let me come first!" Relieving the trouble of killing each other, Sass was greatly motivated and immediately showed the attitude that MT should have. He was the first vortex of water flow to the teleportation point.
The vortex-shaped teleportation point quickly rolled him away, but just over a dozen seconds later, Sass poked out his upper body from the vortex again, waved to everyone, indicating that there was no danger on the other end of the teleportation point.
Everyone swam past the vortex of the water flow at the teleportation point one by one, and only the Centaur Girl and Hansen remained in place, waiting for Qin Lun's return.
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"Crash!" A few minutes later, Qin Lun and the other two had their heads emerged from the water.
"Ahem!" Michelle's face turned a little pale and she was breathing in big mouths. Fortunately, the centaur's lung capacity was much larger than that of ordinary humans, otherwise it would be difficult to persist under the water for so long, and she had no law.
"Hisser Qin Lun, here, here!" Kola waved hard to the three of them on the lake shore. In extreme excitement, he even forgot Qin Lun's plot identity and directly called out his real name.
Qin Lun shook his head helplessly and turned his head to observe the surroundings. This end of the teleportation point was also a lake, but the area was much smaller than the harbor in the Crystal Lake Camping Area.
A circle of grass is surrounded by a circle of grass. To the south is a small forest that can be seen through at a glance. To the east is a small hill with green grass everywhere, dotted with wild flowers of various colors.
Hansen took the lead in swimming towards the lake shore, and Qin Lun and Michelle followed him slowly. Qin Lun was not good at swimming, while the centaur girl was because she was carrying another huge "person" on her back.
"You bring all the Guardians here. If it wakes up...Oh!" Sass saw the thing on Michelle's back and widened his eyes in surprise. However, before he could finish speaking, he was kicked by Cora, and he stood aside embarrassedly, not daring to express his opinions.
"Qin Lun, how do you know that once the seal is broken, the Guardian will lose its power? There is also the sacrificial request..." Kora shaved her husband fiercely and asked happily on the team channel with a smile.
"The mission target of the broken starry sky actually has fake conditions!" Hill smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Qin Lun, don't you explain it to us?"
"I want to know too!" Hansen wiped the water droplets on his face and said lightly.
"You check this guardian and maybe you will know!" Qin Lun smiled and pointed to the "corpse" under his feet.
"He... is an apostle!" Sass squatted down and was stunned as soon as he touched the guardian's body. The results of the inspection were even more shocking than before that the sacrificial requirements in the mission target were met inexplicably.
"Apostle?" Hill raised his eyebrows, immediately leaned over and checked, touched his chin and fell into deep thought. Compared to Sass, the old fox vaguely realized the real answer to the mystery of the Crystal Lake.
"Yes, the Guardian is an apostle, or a former apostle who has lost his soul." Qin Lun slowly explained on the team channel, "Don't you find it strange? When the Guardian fights us, it appears as an entity. However, when using the fog to repair the body, it shows supernatural laws, just like a..."
"Law Body!" Hansen's eyes flashed and he said.
"Yeah!" Qin Lun nodded, "After finding the time and space node from Hill and learning the sacrifice requirements in the mission target, I have been wondering why the Broken Starry Sky gave such a highly targeted mutual killing requirement in the first guidance task we just built the team..."
"It is testing us!" Cora sighed and took it softly, "or test whether we can be as united as a real team!"
Hearing Cora's words, Hill's face looked a little ugly, which was equivalent to giving him a heavy slap. This has nothing to do with IQ. The task given by the Broken Star Sky is a test for the ordinary team, and for the murderer, it is more like a nightmare.
If Qin Lun wasn't the special murderer, he and Hansen alone would probably be difficult to cross this psychological threshold.
"The sacrificial requirement in the guidance mission is actually not a false condition, but a smoke bomb. This sacrificial requirement does not belong to the broken starry sky, but comes from the sealing array of teleportation points." Qin Lun said with a smile, "It requires us to sacrifice 40% of our companions, which seem to need to kill each other, but in fact, this sacrificial requirement has been met earlier."
"Is it this guardian..." Hansen picked up his arm thoughtfully.
"This guardian should be the apostle who entered the Crystal Lake before, and his companions are probably dead. Although we belong to different teams, the sealing array at the teleportation point regards all the apostles as the same type of people, so their deaths have long since given us the conditions for sacrifice."
Qin Lun sighed, "The magic power in the Nars world is very powerful. The soul of this apostle has long been destroyed, but it was automatically captured by a magician or a seal on the teleportation array, turning him into the guardian of the teleportation point!"
"No wonder I feel the rich magic elements here!" Kora closed her eyes and spread her hands to feel carefully, "This inner world of Nars should be the real middle demon world!"
"So, is Michelle able to pass through the teleportation point because of her father..." Sass frowned and looked at the centaur girl next to him.
"Well, the series of tragedies in Crystal Lake may be that the guardian apostle team was hunting something, or maybe it was the magician guarding the teleportation point of Crystal Lake." Qin Lun touched his chin and nodded.
"In the end, they were all killed, and the magician might have been severely injured. So out of helplessness, when he left, he transformed the apostle into a guardian to guard the teleportation array instead of him. The subsequent Centaur police who died in the investigation are probably all the masterpieces of the guardian!" Qin Lun spread his hands and shrugged, "This can explain why Michelle can also enter this teleportation point."
"What are you all looking at me?" Michelle couldn't hear everyone talking on the team channel, looked at everyone with some anxiety, and asked softly, "Sir Castro, you should not be police detectives in Marseille!"
"Michelle, don't be afraid, we won't hurt you!" Cora took Michelle's arm and comforted softly, "You can see us as a group of superpowers, and here... is the concentration of superpowers all over the world. We came to the Crystal Lake camping area to pass the teleportation array just now."
"Then can I go back?" Michelle asked with a sad face, "If my mother knew something happened to me, she would be worried to death!"
"Probably...yes!" Kora said uncertainly, "From the federal ban and Sheriff Marov's reaction, they should have a connection with the inner world, and at least they can pass on the news of your safety to your mother!"
"Oh!" Michelle breathed a sigh of relief and slowly calmed down.
Chapter completed!