OBS Chapter 259 Time
Chapter 259 Time
"Blood."
Combined with what happened before, Howard quickly understood what the alien meant: "Oh, you want my blood?"
The alien nodded slightly.
"Okay, but let her go first." Howard said. He was naturally referring to the battle nun who was immobilized by the alien.
The alien lowered its arms, and the river of time once again flooded over the nun's head.
The nun was knocked to the ground as if she had been hit hard, and rolled and slid backwards for more than ten meters before stopping.
After stopping, she immediately used her hands to support herself on the ground and tried to stand up again, but her body kept shaking. Just as she stood up a little, her knees went weak, so she fell to her knees again and vomited a lot of stomach acid and sticky saliva.
At this time, Mei put away her two swords and came to her to check her condition.
This time Howard paid special attention. When Mei put away the two swords, she put them on her back, but after Mei turned around, there was no trace of the two swords on her back. Is it really a four-dimensional pocket?
"Ms. Gloria, don't be impulsive." Mei whispered to the nun, "Mr. Howard is trying to communicate. Don't make any unnecessary sacrifices."
Hearing this, the nun no longer cared about her discomfort. She wiped the corner of her mouth, raised her head, and looked at the human who was surrounded by aliens not far away.
"Damn it! He..." But the nun didn't know what to say next. Whether she was blaming or supporting this human, she didn't seem to have enough power.
In the end she chose to remain silent.
After confirming that the nun was safe and would not cause any more trouble, Howard withdrew his attention. He stretched out his palm and scratched the sharp spikes on the alien's wound.
A blood mark suddenly appeared on his palm. He clenched his fist and blood flowed down, dripping onto the alien's body.
The power of the Goddess of Life still worked on this strange life form. With the nourishment of Howard's blood, the broken parts of the alien began to recover. The remaining sharp stone protrusions grew and merged like ice crystals, and finally half of the alien's body was closed.
Although Howard's blood did not allow the half of its body that was broken by the nun to grow back, it at least healed its wound and stopped the blue liquid from flowing out.
Finding that the alien had not fully recovered, Howard took out a knife and wondered whether he should continue to let the blood flow, but was stopped by the alien.
The alien stared at Howard for a long time, and finally uttered a word:
"Messiah."
And when Howard displayed the miracle hidden in his blood, the other Karenya aliens gradually lost their hostility. The red light on their bodies dissipated one after another and turned into a soft and deep blue.
They began whispering again.
"Messiah..."
“Blood of Mercy…”
"prophecy……"
"Savior..."
"home……"
The aliens were praising something in a poetic tone. They lifted Howard up carefully and gently, fearing to damage this bag of flesh and blood, and then walked towards the depths of the cave.
Howard glanced back at May and the nun. The nun had regained her mobility and was about to follow the aliens, but they were clearly still hostile to them. While most of the aliens followed Howard, a few remained, watching the Eldar and the nun. They waited until the others had moved away, to a distance they considered safe, before slowly catching up. The nun and the Eldar followed them from a further distance.
After confirming that the nuns and the elves would not be left behind, Howard withdrew his gaze.
Everything is still so wrong.
Moreover, he had experienced this kind of situation once when he was in the Six Rings of Slaanesh.
After walking for an unknown distance surrounded by the aliens, Howard saw a faint blue light appear in front of him again. When he got closer, Howard saw that the blue light also came from that strange luminous pattern, but these patterns did not grow on the aliens, but spread on the ground and the surrounding stone pillars.
The further he went, the denser the blue lines became and the brighter the light they emitted. In a trance, Howard had an illusion that he was now inside the body of a glowing monster. The spreading blue lines were the monster's blood vessels, and he was being led to the monster's heart.
Howard still saw many corpses of Astra Militarum soldiers on the road. Some of these Astra Militarum soldiers died due to physical injuries, while others were similar to the nun before, and the time on their bodies seemed to be frozen.
Time has stagnated for these people for too long. Once the spell is lifted, only death awaits them, unless someone can save them before death comes at the moment the spell is lifted.
Finally, these aliens put Howard down in the place where the light was brightest. Howard looked up and saw countless blue lines intertwining and merging above his head and under his feet, then hanging down or growing upward, and finally entwining with each other to form a Möbius strip-shaped cavity.
But the inside of the cavity was empty, and the Möbius strip that served as the cavity was broken.
At the edge of this Möbius strip, Howard saw another alien corpse. This alien's body was closer to that of a human, and there were no transparent crystals growing on its surface. However, the upper part of its brain was covered with layers of crystals, like a crystal crown.
If this is where the monster's blood vessels converge, then now the monster's "heart" is nowhere to be seen.
Howard saw that there must be something missing here, but he didn't know what it was. At the same time, he was a little confused. These aliens were so weird. Could it be that they wanted to sacrifice me and put me in there as filler?
So he decided to figure out what these aliens were trying to do, so he asked, "What is this?"
"A secret," the injured alien replied.
Howard was speechless. Why are these guys still acting as riddlers?
But then the alien said, "Messiah... forgive... us."
"Forgive you for what?" Howard was puzzled.
"Forgive us... forgive us... the secret... was stolen."
Howard's brain froze for a second, then he immediately understood: "Oh - the reason you said it was a secret before was not because you wanted to keep it secret from me, but because the thing placed here is itself a "secret", is that right?"
The alien made an affirmative statement.
"Whose secret is this?" Howard asked again.
And immediately Howard said, "Don't tell me this is my secret."
The alien still made an affirmative expression. Howard had discovered that these aliens didn't seem to like talking, and the way they expressed affirmation was a soft flash of their body, and the way they expressed negation was a violent flash of their body.
OK, we don’t need to continue this topic anymore, let’s move on to the next one.
So Howard continued to ask: "Where is this? Who are you? What do you want from me?"
"The sanctuary...we...guard the secret...Messiah." It was very difficult to listen to the aliens speak. Obviously, these aliens did not speak in human language, and it was possible that they did not even use sound to convey information. Therefore, the way they spoke sounded to Howard like a babbling child.
"Hometown...hometown..." The alien continued, but it seemed that his vocabulary had reached a bottleneck.
"This is a sanctuary where secrets are stored, and you are the guards of the secrets. You want me to take you back to your hometown, right?" Howard couldn't bear to listen any longer, so he tried to help the alien summarize the main idea and acted as a translator.
The alien flickered slightly.
Said a lot of nonsense.
Howard rolled his eyes internally.
Sanctuary and secret, answering these two questions is equivalent to not answering them at all, but as for this "hometown", if these aliens can give some clues, maybe there is still something to talk about.
"Where is your hometown?" Howard asked.
The alien's body began to flicker violently.
This is their way of expressing denial, and based on Howard's question, there is only one possibility for expressing denial at this time: these aliens don't know where their hometown is or what it is called.
hiss--
Howard felt his blood pressure rising, but then the alien spoke again, sporadically: "Prophecy... prophecy... Messiah of Merciful Blood... save us... return... home..."
"What prophecy?!" Howard found another key point.
"Prophecy... Prophecy..." The alien continued to speak incoherently, "Prophecy... Messiah..."
"I don't care what the prophecy says." Howard interrupted the alien's anxious speech, "What I want to know is when you got this prophecy."
These aliens call themselves Messiahs, but the first one to call himself Messiah was the charlatan named Mavis. That charlatan was also talking nonsense and seemed to have received some prophecy or revelation.
It's a pity that she died before she could explain the riddle clearly, or perhaps a sudden death was the final fate of the Riddler, because then no one could force her to explain the content of the riddle.
But if that charlatan could be resurrected and answer Howard a question, Howard would not ask her questions like "Why do you think I am the Messiah?" because even if that charlatan sincerely wanted to answer this question, the answer given could easily be another riddle.
But if the opportunity arose, Howard would ask her: "You believe I am the Messiah, meaning you believed there would be a Messiah before you met me. So, when did you first come to this idea? Please specify the year, at least."
What Howard asked about was the time.
Even a more vague answer, such as words like "soon", "a long time", "far away", etc., will suffice.
Based on these answers, Howard can get some of the answers he wants.