Capítulo 1247: Chapter 144: Triple Gate (Part 2)
In the independent prison at the foot of the huge statue, Xu Shu likewise didn’t see any prisoners, or their skeletons.
Nor were there any gold and silver treasures.
There was only a mask of alternating red and white.
It was a rather twisted tal human face mask, its surface covered with cracks and rust, and in the center was carved a grimacing figure in agony.
Its eye sockets were hollow and deep, as if carrying endless tornt and pain, but its mouth bore an ineffable hint of a smile.
However, upon closer inspection, one could see that within the eyes, mouth, nose, and other positions of the mask’s face, a bizarre chain traversed through, resembling a slug penetrating the seven orifices.
Yet perhaps because the expression appeared overly cunning, it was hard to determine at first glance whether this face was the one being tortured or if the perpetrator was playing SM…
“Male or female torture?” Xu Shu’s bewildered self-talk.
“What male or female? Does this mask have a gender?” Gu Pan nearby heard half of it and instinctively replied to him.
“Oh, I read it wrong, thought it was a live person.”
Xu Shu casually dismissed her with a sentence, but his mind quietly mused.
For so reason, this mask gave him a very familiar, very strange illusion, yet it spread through his mind as if he couldn’t locate the fundantal cause.
For this reason, Xu Shu imdiately glanced at the side text, which read—
[Indeed, you feel very familiar with this thing, not only because it looks six or seven tenths like the item ‘Landry’s Tornt’ you once played with in a ga, but also because it reminds you of an old friend you’ve t several tis!
[Who is it? You find your mind stuck as if a mory is about to surface, but cannot erge.]
[But it doesn’t matter, the Tai Chu Scroll searched and translated it for you, it is… it is…]
[Translation failed, lacking key information, perhaps you should try further exploring the underground church to unravel the fog of war.]
“… Damn, fog of war, do you think I’m a swift crab in the canyon?!”
Xu Shu almost swore, but his mind grew intensely cautious.
In situations similar to this mory loss, where even the Tai Chu Scroll couldn’t help translate successfully, he had only encountered such situations twice in his life.
The first involved the collapse of the Star Tower in the D8B3 District, regarding an insider who summoned the Abyss Evil God ‘Paimon’ at that ti, and the more hidden existence behind Him, affecting both his own and the Archbishop’s mories, unable to recall content related to the other party.
The other concerned the link to [ruins of the dead] and [Capital City’s collapse], causing partial mory unretrievable, involving the image of that woman—”Izanami”! An existence with extre jealousy!
Between these two situations, the latter is relatively mild.
Because Xu Shu didn’t forget the legendary mories related to her, just couldn’t recall her detailed appearance and characteristics.
As for other matters, he rembers very clearly, even recalling the different tones and channels contained in the screams of ‘Geisha Nami’ at that ti.
The forr is much more severe; up to now, he can only vaguely rember “soone tampered” but can’t recall where the tampering took place or how it was done, as if the whole incident never happened.
Therefore, Xu Shu has long suspected that involving forbidden existences would lead to mory loss, but this is only suspicion and not confird since many tis in legends involving forbidden existences led to disastrous outcos, but mory loss only occurred these two small instances.
And the mask in front of him also made him experience this seemingly indistinct feeling, yet unable to recall specifically…
“Strange, strange, since this is Althias’s church, it shouldn’t involve forbidden matters, right? This guy is obviously a Sixth-order True God, at the sa level as , Human Immortal Zhu Wu, and Dragon God Ao Qian.” (Note 1)
“Hmm, there are two possibilities, one being the Death God is just a guise, and underneath is buried a limb of the Dark Mother Goddess, a suspected forbidden god, like those who speak of His left hand!”
“Another possibility is that the mask has been tainted by the aura of a forbidden existence, perhaps I really guessed right, it was the Mother Goddess’s chamber pot… oops, mask! This mask was obtained and collected by Althias, after His incident, the Black Zhen School enshrined it as an artifact of the god?”
“Hmm, I rember Althias was indeed a bit perverse, he used to drive all over to find Ksitigarbha, having a collecting fetish is naturally reasonable, predictable behaviour, after all, items used by the Mother Goddess definitely count as treasures.”
“Thinking in this way, it doesn’t seem impossible, the probability could be very high…”
Xu Shu stroked his chin, quietly pondering in his mind.
If a forbidden existence’s left hand is really buried beneath the church, given his value for life and caution, he would naturally flee as far as possible.
Even with “super-dinsional mode” leaving one life in reserve, this thing is beyond what he can handle now, not unless he becos a Fourth-order Demigod… no, not unless he becos a Fifth-order mighty figure, spotting this would an death, there is fundantally no chance of picking up scraps.
But if it’s the “Mother Goddess Mask”, that’s different.
This is truly a treasure among treasures! Its value might compare to a Divine Attribute Crystal type!
Hmm, everyone is watching, and we haven’t died yet, this perfectly illustrates this point! Just uncertain if there will be more terrifying things later on…
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