Chapter 521: No one can always get the favor of [Fate]

No one can always get the favor of 【Fate】...

Old Jialun wasn't speaking empty words; he really had the ability to restore that teleportation array.

Or rather, he hadn't destroyed that teleportation array into a mess in the first place, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't.

It was a huge array outlined under the Imperial Court prison. Every texture in the array was a narrow groove chiseled into hard stone slabs. With the sturdiness of these stone slabs, even if the aging and weak Jialun used tools, he couldn't cause much damage to it.

And Jialun's so-called destruction was just selecting a few lines from these countless grooves and carving a few more subtle scratches at the bottom in an inconspicuous position.

But it was these few subtle scratches that were enough to make this array permanently invalid.

"This is an array used by the rainforest tribes of the Life Era for ultra-long-distance hunting. After the civilization of the previous era was annihilated, few people knew about it.

The reason this array was collected by the Empire wasn't for strategic purposes, but used by the royal family to...

punish blasphemous prisoners."

Old Jialun found some yellow soil from the prison above the array, and while stirring this yellow soil into mud balls and pasting them onto the cracks he carved, he explained while panting:

"The other end of the array, according to records, should be a gathering area for ape-like creatures. People of the rainforest tribes relied on hunting them for food, and in today's era where 【Decay】 is prevalent, that place is regarded as a place of exile for blasphemers.

His Majesty would exile sinners who angered him... blasphemed my Lord there, letting them live in fear of unknown creatures day and night.

So this time, when fleeing, His Majesty took the guards, otherwise, the royal family without divine protection would probably only become food for those ape-like creatures.

And this is also the reason I stayed behind. I couldn't provide combat power for the fleeing royal family, yet I still had to carry Ailian, this child they regarded as a burden. To let Ailian live, I..."

"......"

The three people present felt a burst of speechlessness. They didn't feel that the Rosna royal family's escape was indecorous, but felt Old Jialun's thinking was too simple.

How could a child who had lost her support be protected by such a treacherous royal family?

The best ending for that child named Ailian would be to really possess a divine 【Dagger】. Only in this way, under the protection of that so-called communicable dagger, might she have a way to live.

But if an accident happened before she took the dagger away, and the dagger fell elsewhere, then there was no need to think about it. The moment she was teleported over, this child without parental protection would be directly abandoned as a burden.

Cheng Shi didn't believe this historian couldn't think of this point. He was probably truly helpless and could only gamble on the last possibility.

Old Jialun hadn't finished speaking, and he continued with his hunched body:

"And the method to use this teleportation array is..."

"Blood?" Da Yi suddenly interjected.

Actually, it's no wonder Da Yi thought this way, because there were dried bloodstains everywhere on this array, and even a few buckets of residual blood on the edge of the array. The scene looked like it had experienced a massive splashing of blood.

Combined with the grooves on this array and the prison above the array that was comparable to a human purgatory, a normal person's first reaction would be: blood is the activation material for this array.

But this was where Old Jialun was smart. Although he couldn't guarantee whether the Rosna royal family would protect his Ailian, he could guarantee that the pass he guarded would definitely not let an Annihilator go to hunt down that fleeing army.

Because this blood... was one of the means he used to destroy this array!

"No, Lord. This blood is a means to pollute the array.

Although the rainforest tribes who believe in 【Prosperity】 don't forbid killing, they don't like using fresh blood to stimulate divine greatness. I splashed these bloods here precisely to confuse the Annihilators, so they couldn't activate this teleportation array."

"......" Da Yi shut his mouth. He glanced at Qu Yan beside him, feeling for the first time that believing in 【Silence】 was sometimes quite good, at least he wouldn't suddenly lose face.

Cheng Shi hummed a laugh and asked:

"So to activate this array, do we need to clean up these bloodstains?

I see you were very careful in patching those shallow scratches. If I'm not mistaken, this should be a rule related to the volume of the activation object, even a slight difference will lead to a thousand-mile error. And even if this activation object isn't blood, it should be a liquid related to 【Prosperity】.

This reminds me of an old friend and some distant things.

Interesting. In the era of 【Decay】, using an array of 【Prosperity】 as a place of punishment, the piety of you Rosna people can also be considered... unique."

The two behind Cheng Shi were very conscious. When they heard they needed to deal with the bloodstains, they had already taken action. While cleaning, they didn't forget to guess what kind of existence the old friend the Messenger lord remembered was.

But what they didn't know was that Cheng Shi didn't have such an old friend at all. These were just some small lies he made up casually to maintain his status.

He mixed false pasts with the history he knew, half-true and half-false, fooling the two people in front of him, thereby maintaining his mystery.

But his guess wasn't fake. After observing for a long time, he made the most correct inference about this teleportation array. Hearing Cheng Shi see through the mystery of this array, Old Jialun became even more respectful.

Not only respectful, but a faint fear also rose in his heart. His desire to save his child was real, but he didn't have this ability.

And these three people who had the ability seemed to have no pity for Rosna, no, or rather, for mortal life.

So he couldn't judge whether what he was doing was saving Ailian or harming her. After experiencing so much, Old Jialun had only one thought: if they were destined to die, it would be better to die together.

The array was almost restored. Old Jialun's panting became louder and louder. He patched the last scratch, then stood up straight and said respectfully to Cheng Shi: "Lord, the array is restored. Now it can be activated."

Cheng Shi nodded with a smile but didn't move. Da Yi, who was on the side, suddenly felt a flash of inspiration and immediately asked on behalf of Lord Ultraman: "What about the activation object?"

Old Jialun became even more respectful:

"Lord, it's the sap of the round-leaf pine. It needs 12 and a half buckets of round-leaf pine sap. This is also the biggest secret held by the Rosna historian.

There are many broad-leaf pines in Kanna City, but there aren't many round-leaf pines. This is because when the royal family learned of the existence of the Annihilators, the round-leaf pines in the city were all cut into firewood and burned. The few remaining were planted outside the city, mixed with other pines.

At that time, I didn't realize what this meant. Only now do I discover that perhaps His Majesty was planning ahead at that time.

The Annihilators will destroy everything they see. So, when they broke the city, the activation material might have been destroyed by their own hands.

I... am just a second insurance."

"......" Cheng Shi smacked his lips speechlessly after hearing this. Good fellow, it turns out the Rosna royal family isn't stupid either. Could it be that all their wisdom was used to escape?

But at this time, the Annihilators hadn't arrived yet, so the activation material should still be there. Cheng Shi gave a wink to Chameleon behind him, and Chameleon understood, leaving the underground with excitement, executing the "mission".

After a long while, this agile hunter brought back enough round-leaf pine sap. Old Jialun and the two players quickly spread this sap over the entire array. The amount was just right—not a bit more, not a bit less.

Cheng Shi stood on the platform in the center of the array with the three, waiting for the activation of the teleportation array. But after waiting for a long time, the teleportation array didn't react.

Old Jialun was stunned. He looked around helplessly, shaking his head in disbelief:

"Impossible, why doesn't it work? Impossible, right?

All the steps are correct. His Majesty did it when he fled. Why doesn't it teleport? Why doesn't it teleport!?"

Seeing this, Cheng Shi's face slowly darkened. He discovered that he seemed to have miscalculated one thing: since this array was used by the rainforest tribes for hunting, it meant that there might be something similar to a teleportation anchor at the target location.

The cowardly Rosna royal family, for the sake of safety, probably wouldn't fail to deal with that anchor, so his one-way effort here might be in vain.

But no one could be sure about this situation, so he couldn't draw a conclusion directly. But facing the confusion of the two little brothers behind him, Cheng Shi had to give some explanation.

This couldn't stump a liar, because he could speak casually:

"Interesting, They have started to intervene again.

It seems no one can always get the favor of 【Fate】.

However...

Change will not stop, we still have a chance." ===== CHAPTER 522 =====