Chapter 249 Thunder Fruit x Ark Proverbs
Some of the weaker insect people couldn't help but wrap their clothes.
Gate and Taili personally led the team and rode the flying dragon around behind Bika.
The moon star is rare!
In order to avoid being discovered by the Bika people, Gate and others deliberately took a detour a short distance.
After wasting some time, Gate and Taili finally set foot on Bika Island.
They moved carefully among the trees.
Soon they were standing at the entrance to the temple.
Gate and Taili looked at each other and nodded silently.
Later, Taili stepped forward and put his hands close to the heavy metal door.
Soon, the seemingly heavy door was easily opened by Taili.
Leaving two or three people here to guard, Gate and Taili went straight in.
After walking down a flight of stairs, they came to an empty hall.
"Sure enough!" Gate said inwardly.
The moment he saw the temple, he realized that the main part of the temple was in the island cloud.
It was pitch dark in the temple, but the insect man could still see things within a range of about one meter.
The two men stepped forward and lit the oil lamps hanging from the temple pillars.
The temple quickly became brighter.
I saw murals painted on the walls around the temple.
Gate glanced at it casually and then paid no more attention.
The reason was that everyone's attention was attracted by the two boxes enshrined in the center of the temple.
Seeing this, Gate looked delighted and walked forward quickly.
After looking at the quaint wooden box for a while, Gate gently opened the lid.
"What is this?" Gate carefully took out a drawing of unknown material from the wooden box.
With the help of the dim light, he saw the densely packed structures and various meaningless numbers on the drawing.
Combined with the information obtained from the Lord, Gate quickly guessed the final product of these drawings.
"This is probably the design drawing of the Ark Maxim." Gate thought.
He waved his hand and asked someone to pack up all the drawings and take them away.
And he walked towards another wooden box.
"I hope it's a devil fruit." Gate prayed.
The next second, a devil fruit with blue and white patterns appeared in front of Gate.
"Bingo!" Gate stopped the urge to laugh out loud, "That's great, I finally lived up to the expectations of the Master."
Gate quickly took the Devil Fruit into his palm and examined it carefully.
Then he put the devil fruit in his arms and planned to leave immediately.
Inadvertently, Gate once again caught a glimpse of the murals on the walls on both sides of the stairs.
With curiosity, he stepped forward and stopped one meter away from the mural.
Although the murals are weathered, they are still colorful.
The figures in the murals are abstract but lifelike.
With the help of the flickering light, Gate quickly scanned the mural and engraved its content deeply in his mind.
"let's go!"
Then, Gate led everyone and quietly left Beka.
Back on the warship, Gate immediately ordered: "Set sail!"
So the warship turned around and headed towards the top of the western sky.
Gate plans to travel day and night to return to the Kingdom of the Netherlands as soon as possible and hand over the Thunder Fruit to the Lord.
Bika had been at peace for a long time, and the guards guarding the temple had become lax.
The main reason is that they would never think that anyone would set foot in their forbidden area.
The next day.
The Temple of Bika.
Two guards came from a distance and took over the shift from the guard on night duty.
"Nothing happened." A guard asked with a yawn.
"What could possibly happen?" The staff on duty, who had slept soundly last night, said indifferently.
"Haha~, that's true."
Both parties completed the work handover with a smile.
For three days, no one noticed that the items enshrined in the temple had been stolen.
Fourth day.
High Priest Bika needs to hold a sacrificial ceremony in the temple today.
He was dressed in white religious attire and came to the door of the temple with a solemn expression.
The heavy metal door slowly opened.
The high priest entered with two or three of his trusted followers.
Arriving at the hall, the confidants lit the lights with ease.
The high priest looked at the altar and his pupils suddenly shrank.
The lid of the wooden box was thrown aside casually.
"Someone has been here!" After this horrifying thought popped up in his mind, the high priest quickly walked to the altar.
When he saw that the two wooden boxes were empty, the taut string in the high priest's mind snapped.
"Damn it! Who did it?" The high priest roared with a mad look.
His eyes were fierce, veins bulged on his forehead, and his old face looked even more hideous and distorted in anger.
Upon seeing this, his confidants knelt on the ground, trembling in fear, not daring to look up or meet his gaze.
The temple hall suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
The high priest's heavy breathing could now be clearly heard.
The high priest tried his best to control his emotions. His expression gradually calmed down, but the coldness in his eyes was chilling.
"Go! Gather all the temple guards." The high priest said in a cold voice.
"Yes...His Excellency the High Priest." A confidant replied tremblingly with cold sweat on his forehead.
The next moment, he stood up and staggered up the stairs.
The high priest's eyes were gloomy as he pondered the identity of the thief in his mind.
The atmosphere became depressing again.
The confidant kneeling on the ground was so nervous that he didn't dare to breathe.
At this moment, he was very envious of his companions who were running errands.
After half an hour.
Six temple guards stood stiffly in front of the high priest.
"I ask you, have you ever seen any thieves invading the temple?" The high priest stared at the temple guards indifferently, as if he was looking at a group of dead people.
Looking at the high priest who was emitting a cold aura, and the wooden box on the altar that had obviously been tampered with, even if the temple guards were stupid, they understood what had happened.
They immediately knelt down in unison, looking horrified and saying, “No…no.”
"We really didn't find anything unusual."
"Please, High Priest, spare our lives."
As subordinates, they were very clear about the character of the high priest and could only keep begging for mercy.
"Waste!" The high priest kicked a temple guard away and cursed angrily.
"Master High Priest, please spare my life."
"Please spare my life, sir."
"Please consider that although we have not made any contributions over the years, we have worked hard..."
"..."
Ignoring the ghostly cries of the temple guards for mercy, the high priest said indifferently: "Kill them!"
"Yes!" The henchmen took their spears and ruthlessly stabbed them into the bodies of the temple guards.
"Deal with the bloodstains and don't defile the temple." The high priest waved his hand and ordered people to clean the temple.
Then, the high priest summoned all the fighters in Bika and ordered in a cold voice: "Search! Search every corner of Bika!"
Looking at the high priest with a gloomy face and on the verge of rage, the Bika Guards felt as if a heavy burden was placed on their shoulders.
But they did not dare to disobey the order of the high priest.
In the following days, all the residents of Bikka suffered terribly.
The Guards were no better.
The Bikan people were filled with anger and could not vent it on the guards.
