Star Trace Gate

In front of the Bu Lao Peak.

A corner of the black fog slowly dissipated, and Ren first saw a solemn and towering stone gate, about thirty or forty meters high. The two door panels looked simple and heavy, but there were also no green plants growing on them. There was only a cold feeling of cutting off all life, and endless dust and traces of time, as if it had been closed for tens of millions of years.

However, what really made Ren Ye stand there in a daze was not the height and majesty of the stone gate, but the eight large characters engraved on its cliff.

The witch god atones for sins and suppresses disasters forever.

These eight words were particularly eye-catching on the bare black cliffs, and inexplicably made Ren feel a sense of familiarity.

He stared blankly at the eight words and fell into deep thought for a moment.

"Dong dong..."

Suddenly, he vaguely heard the sound of a palpitating heart inside the stone gate, which seemed to be in harmony with the surrounding heaven and earth, just like breathing.

Ren did not dare to be careless. He came to his senses and continued to move forward.

The Human Emperor Seal exuded luck, illuminating a bright area, dispersing the black fog, and helping Ren Ye move forward.

After walking a dozen more steps, the sound of the heartbeat in his ears became more and more obvious, and Ren Ye also felt his blood rushing.

"brush!"

Just as he was about to approach the stone gate, the ground under his feet suddenly flashed with a phosphorescent light like water waves reflecting the sun.

"Fuck!"

Ren was also startled. He stopped where he was and looked forward intently.

At this time, with the light from the Human Emperor Seal, he saw a hole like a dry well in the ground in front of the stone gate about ten steps away from him.

The diameter of the "dry well cave" is about seven or eight meters. The well mouth is slightly higher than the ground and is made of mottled gray rock. The walls of the circular well mouth are engraved with complicated ancient witch characters and emit a faint light, which looks weird and unpredictable.

A large amount of black mist kept gushing out from the wellhead, rising high into the sky.

Ren also stretched his neck to watch, thinking: "The source of the black gas that has been lingering in the Bulao Mountain for several days should come from the bottom of this well? But why was there no black gas before? Shit... Could it be that Lao Liu stole the manhole cover during the chaos that day?!"

He had many mysteries in his mind, and his curiosity was completely aroused.

Standing outside the dry well, Ren hesitated for a long time before deciding to take a closer look.

"boom!"

He took the initiative to use his luck to activate the Human Emperor Seal, making it shine even brighter, and then he stepped forward.

One step, two steps, three steps...

Ren Ye was like a Chihuahua facing a Tibetan Mastiff. He took crazy, tentative steps and slowly came to the dry well.

Just a glance, I'll just take a look, please don't be offended, Lord Witch God.

After he prepared himself mentally, he looked into the well.

The moment his eyes looked towards the wellhead, Ren Ye's body suddenly felt a strong sense of weightlessness, as if he was falling into an abyss.

At the same time, on the surrounding ground, the phosphorescence, like water waves reflecting the sun, reappeared.

"brush!"

The phosphorescence spread, and Ren Ye looked at the ground, his hair standing on end instantly.

He saw that the land around the Eternal Peak suddenly became as transparent as ice, and he could actually see the scenery underground, and it was very clear.

Under the abyss of the well mouth, whether it was tens of meters deep, a hundred meters deep, or ten thousand feet deep, in any case, somewhere near or far, there was a large area of ​​densely packed human-shaped stone fetuses. They seemed to be frozen in the land, kneeling on the ground without being able to move, and their bodies were facing the direction of the well mouth.

"What the hell, this...what the hell is this?!"

Ren also got goose bumps all over his body, and he just widened his eyes, wanting to observe more carefully.

"brush!"

There was a flash of phosphorescence, and the surrounding ground returned to its original appearance in an instant. The transparent scene disappeared, like a fleeting dream.

Ren Ye rubbed his eyes with a silly expression, wanting to take another look inside the dry well and make the underground scene reappear, but no matter how hard he tried, the phosphorescence never appeared again.

Everything returned to calm, and all that was left before my eyes was the endlessly rising black fog and the bare, cold cliffs.

"call!"

He let out a long breath, suppressed his curiosity, and wanted to get closer to the stone gate to take a look.

Unexpectedly, after he took two more steps forward, he felt as if his body was under the pressure of a collapsing sky and was about to be crushed into meat paste by a strange force.

It was an irresistible force, and just a tiny bit of it was enough to make him feel suffocated and on the verge of death.

The stone gate cannot be approached.

Forget it, love whoever you want, let’s go…

Ren Ye instantly chose to give up looking, and only quickly checked the surrounding areas where he could walk, and after not finding anything abnormal, he quickly returned.

……

On the way back, the sense of danger rapidly diminished, and Ren couldn't help but start thinking.

The reason why he was stunned in front of the Eternal Peak just now was mainly because of the eight words written on the cliff - The witch god will atone for his sins and suppress disasters forever.

At first, when he saw these eight words, he felt a sense of familiarity in his heart. Later, when he saw the dry well and the cave, he completely understood the meaning in his mind.

That’s right, he remembered the suicide note left by his father Ren Daguo…

At the end of the suicide note, Ren Daguo left a few words that sounded like prophecies, one of which was "When the disaster breaks free from the abyss..."

The several key information points mentioned in this sentence all correspond to the scene in front of the stone gate of Bulao Peak.

There was black air rising from the dry well, which looked extremely deep and no one knew where it led to. Wasn’t this the scene of the abyss?

Moreover, the eight words on the wall of the Bu Lao Peak also mentioned disaster.

Could it be that the disaster that Dad said broke free from the abyss was referring to the Bu Lao Peak? Was it referring to the ominous things that the witch god suppressed here to atone for his sins?

Isn't this incredible?!

Although my father is a scholar, he is still a long way from being a wizard. There is no comparison between the two. Otherwise, I don't need to work hard and can just live off my parents.

Therefore, to say that there is a connection between them is somewhat far-fetched and ridiculous...

However, the eight words on the cliff do not seem to be left by the witch god himself.

Because if it was a self-narration, He would not call himself "Witch God". Therefore, it is likely that someone has been here and wrote something similar to a comment.

Damn it.

What kind of big shot is this who can write a comment in front of the Witch God's door, and even name-drop the person and say that he is atonement?

How scary!

When Ren Ye thought of this, he felt a little uncertain again.

Could it be that Dad’s prophecy and the scene here are just a coincidence?

Aren't the two referring to the same place?

In the Star Gate world, mysterious events occur one after another, and words like disaster, abyss, ominous, god, cemetery, etc., in many contexts, are indeed a kind of descriptive words, and may not refer to just one place.

What the hell is going on?!

The more uncertain Ren Ye was, the more he wanted to find out the truth. But his rank was too low and he had no ability to prove anything here.

Oh, I hope so.

I hope the place my father predicted is the Bu Lao Peak.

This shows that his prophecies were not just a hope of resurrection for his children, but were real and likely to happen.

If that's true...all my hard work and efforts will be meaningful, Dad!

I will try my best... Even if I have to work hard for my whole life, it would be enough just to see you sitting at your computer desk and typing again.

I will keep moving forward, stay true to my original aspiration, and reunite my family.

Well, I'll start by deceiving Li Yan, picking his pockets, cheating him out of his treasures, and strengthening myself.

Ren Ye was originally thinking about this and felt quite sad. But as he thought about it, his mind instinctively turned and he returned to his major...

There are reasons for failure and reasons for success.

There must be a reason why King Huai could become so powerful. He was always calculating the future of the empire in his mind, almost even when he was sleeping.

……

Not long after.

He returned to the outskirts of the Eternal Peak and met Lord Rat and a group of teammates.

"How about it?!"

Lord Rat had been waiting impatiently for a long time. He took a step forward and asked excitedly.

Ren also looked at him with a slanted eye, swinging his right leg like a second-rate person, and replied on tiptoe: "It's useless to ask?"

What kind of old dog coin is Lord Rat? When he heard this, he understood it instantly and immediately whispered: "Your Highness, I will reward you handsomely when I return to the capital."

"How many numbers?" Ren also raised his finger.

Lord Shu has been in the officialdom for so many years, and has never seen such a prince, but he still replied sensibly: "In the future, the exchanges between Nanjiang and Qingliang Prefecture will be more frequent, and Your Highness Prince Huai may also need to travel to Kyoto frequently. How about this, I will give you a house in Kyoto, okay?"

"Hey, hey, I was just joking with you, why are you so serious all of a sudden? Well, since you are so kind, I can't refuse." Ren Ye replied with a very smooth expression, and pointed at Xu Bangzi and said, "Just give him the deed."

"...Okay." Lord Rat nodded eagerly and immediately urged: "Tell me, what happened on this Bu Lao Peak?"

Ren Ye heard this and said solemnly: "When I arrived at the Immortal Peak, I first saw a solemn and tall stone gate. In front of the stone gate, ten steps away, I saw a 'dry well' that looked like an abyss..."

"and then?"

"Then, inside the dry well, black gas rose up into the sky." Ren Ye narrated the story truthfully, but concealed other scenes that he had seen.

After being stunned for a long time, Mr. Rat suddenly asked, "Where is the stone slab on the dry well?"

"I didn't see any slate?" Ren shook his head. "I was wondering, where is the manhole cover?!"

When Lord Rat heard this, he felt as if he was struck by lightning.

His face turned pale and he trembled all over for a long time before he suddenly shouted frantically: "It's a disaster, it's a disaster...!"

"A disaster has occurred... The stone tablets that sealed our southern border... were stolen!!!"