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Chapter 183.2 - Blood Sacrifice

Wu Jin quietly made his way over to where the Jingyi team was standing near the altar.

There were colorful murals on the limestone walls. Wu Jin bent low at the waist, his head practically falling into the weeds, and was finally able to pick up a few clues after staring at them for a long time.

"The sacrifice is for the Mayan sun god... according to their 5000 year old traditions, they believe that the sun is driven by blood. If the citizens don't offer up their blood to the sun, the sun will stop and the world will fall into eternal night--"

Wu Jin was stunned when he saw this, "No wonder they have to bleed."

Most of the murals that followed described Mayan wars where captives were taken to the pyramids, and their hearts offered up in sacrifice. Their blood flowed down the trough at the edge of the pyramid and was sacrificed to the gods, and then the Mayans would select warriors from the tribe to walk up the pyramid altar with the corpses of the prisoners of war. The door to the kingdom of the gods would open at the top of the pyramid...

The murals at the back wrapped around to the other end of the pyramid.

If they continued on, they would definitely run into Jingyi.

Wu Jin finally understood.

The youth stretched and warmed up behind the walls of the pyramid in order to prepare for the next round of battle.

"Blood drives the sun." Wu Jin pondered, then said, "Only sacrifice will make the sun rotate. So, the scream we heard when we just entered belonged to a sacrificial player. The blood sacrifice allowed the time to jump from 4AM to 9AM."

According to the span of this jump, the instance time will jump to the afternoon after this sacrifice."

"After that comes dusk--which is also the 5:22PM written in the itinerary."

Wei Shi nodded, "How do we get out."

"According to the murals, the door leading to the gods will open after the sacrifice. In reality, it's 80% likely that it's an illusion that the civilians have after gathering together and smoking drugs."

The Mayan civilization had difficulty with metalworking, but their drug manufacturing technology was first-class.

"In any case, the exit is above the pyramid."

Wu Jin criticized Jingyi, "Bribing us with blue dye is useless! When the time comes, we'd still have to fight over the exit!"

If they hadn't gone their separate ways and split up from Jingyi, Zuo Botang was likely to have 'guided them kindly', so that the two of them were standing far away from the exit to the instance. They'd make their move after the sacrifice ended and rush to exit and pass the instance ahead of Wu Jin.

The question was just, why did Jingyi put in so much effort--

An old and clumsily played song drifted over.

On the trapezoidal Mayan pyramid, the sacrifice ceremony had finally begun!

Wu Jin's eyes shifted, "Let's go!"

The two of them rushed out from behind the pyramid at top speed.

The sun shone down on the solemn altar, and the accurate-to-a-fraction-of-a-millimeter recreation of Maya's magnificent architecture was straight and precise. The prisoner of war was sent to the top of the altar, and the priest stretched out his slender right hand and pulled out the heart with precision.

The air was filled with the scent of blood.

Wu Jin seriously suspected that the program group would have to apply mosaic across all the different levels. However, the cheering men and women, old and young, inside the instance seemed to regard it as a carnival.