Masha entered the passage before Guigui, but found that he had stepped over something like an optical illusion - there was no passage at all, and the next room was on the other side of the door.
-Oh, it feels like I just passed through the pillars and arrived at the classic Platform 9 3/4.
This room was different from the circular hall just now. This room had light and almost no need for lighting on the power armor.
Soft light filled the small room.
In the middle of the room, there was a box.
Most of the box has a smooth, ivory-white color.
In sharp contrast to the plain white body of the box are the gorgeous golden patterns on the corners and lid of the box.
On the golden lid of the box, there seems to be a relief painting, which seems to depict Moses parting the sea and the whole process of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from Jehovah on Mount Sinai.
On the top of the lid, there are angels kneeling and praying face to face. The angels' wings are wrapped around the shoulders of the two people and touch each other in the air, forming a structure shaped like a "handle".
——It really is the Ark of the Covenant!
——What’s the use of this for me!
However, you still have to take it. After all, it is a "holy relic". When the spiritual energy is fully revived in the future, the Holy Grail War may begin. It would be more reassuring to accumulate more holy relics, right?
Just as Masha was talking to himself, he suddenly found a line of words appearing out of thin air on the Ark of the Covenant - couldn't it be that this was a prop given by my magic weapon, so that I could see its description by just staring at it with my eyes?
——Or is it like in those games, I have a high intelligence, so I can identify items?
——Could it be that the process of me gazing at the item I obtained and reading its description is actually the process of identifying the item?
——High intelligence has this special effect?
In any case, Marsha can now see how to use the Ark of the Covenant.
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Chapter 503: The Real Ark of the Covenant (Part )
Masha: "Fuck, I found a treasure!"
The girls looked at Masha together.
The League Secretary: "How can you say you have found a treasure? Of course, this thing looks like it is made of ivory and gold, so it can indeed be called a treasure..."
"This thing can create God's presence on earth," said Masha.
"What the hell?"
Just as Marsha was about to answer, the ground began to shake again, and the soil on the top of the hall where the Ark of the Covenant was stored began to peel off.
"How much explosives did the Soviets use!" Masha sighed and waved to Guigui, "Guigui, come here, take it back to Wonderland first, and I will explain it to you slowly."
Guigui came running over in a power armor, picked up the Ark of the Covenant, turned around and was about to run, but Masha opened the door next to her and she didn't see it.
Masha shouted: "Wrong, wrong, Guigui, turn around!"
Guigui then turned around, saw the door, and ran away panting while carrying the Ark of the Covenant.
"Hurry up!" Masha shouted to Chihiro who was moving other treasures, "Don't worry about those treasures! Just take the Ark of the Covenant."
"But this gem is so big! Maybe it's some magical material!" Chihiro grabbed both hands full of jewels and ran towards the door, dropping jewels all over the floor as she ran.
"You use gems as spellcasting materials, and you haven't inherited the magic circuits of the Tohsaka family." In this situation, Masha did not forget to complain about his childhood sweetheart.
The stone slabs on the top of the treasure room had begun to fall off. Chihiro nimbly dodged the falling slabs and rushed into the random door.
Masha confirmed for the last time that everyone had passed through the random door before cutting off the passage.
The moment the door closed, the league secretary opened the visor of his power armor helmet.
“Sure enough, the final scene of every treasure hunt in an ancient tomb is the collapse of the tomb,” she said.
Baiquan looked at the jewelry in Qianxun's hand and said, "Wow, you actually have the attribute of a miser?"
"No, I just think that since we are here, it seems a bit unfair to just take the Ark of the Covenant. Look at this emerald, it is bigger than a goose egg! Maybe after the spiritual energy is revived, these gems can be used to make magic weapons or props."
Baiquan had an expression that said, "I don't believe you are a miser."
She turned her head and looked at the Ark that Gui Gui carried back: "What is this? A treasure chest monster?"
"This is the Ark of the Covenant," Marsha said briefly.
"Eh? Red bean paste?" Baiquan was surprised. "Is it the Ark of the Covenant? The Ark that is filled with sand when you open it, and anyone who sees the sand will die a disgusting and horrible death?"
"Yes." Masha nodded.
Baiquan was silent for a few seconds and suddenly began to hum the theme song of Indiana Jones: "Dangdangdang~Dangdang~Dangdang..."
"You've also seen Raiders of the Lost Ark."
"So the Chinese translation is Indiana Jones." Baiquan nodded, "I've seen it. I loved it when I was a kid."
——When you were a child? Aren't you only ten years old now? Don't learn from adults to talk about "when you were a child" all the time!
The League Secretary said: "Well, Comrade Masha, you have mastered the use of the Ark of the Covenant, right? Come, introduce it to the other comrades."
"Why do you sound like Political Commissar Zhao?"
"Since you guys call me the League Secretary all the time, I thought about it and decided that I should just take on the role of the Political Commissar of our organization."
Masha opened the breastplate of the power armor, climbed out of the armor, and touched the surface of the Ark of the Covenant with his hand.
The surface is so smooth and spotless that it doesn't look like it has been carved over thousands or even tens of thousands of years. It makes people wonder if this thing is a prop left behind by a film crew on the set.
But Masha knew that this thing was real, so its shiny new appearance was probably proof that it was a magic weapon.
Masha began to explain: "This thing is the Ark of the Covenant."
"We know that," Shelley said.
Marsha ignored Shelley and continued: "Legend has it that this is the cabinet used to store the Ten Commandments stone tablets that Moses received from God, so it is called the Ark of the Covenant. The Ten Commandments are the covenant between God and man.
"But in fact, this thing is a spiritual device used to create the presence of God on earth."
Qianxun: "I remember now! The main plot of the Korean novel "Dragon Clan" mentioned the God's presence!"
League Secretary: "What is that?"
"In the novel, the power of God is manifested directly in a specific land. In the story, it seems that the enemy country summoned the God of Plague to the protagonist's country to weaken their war potential."
Cai Shi: "So that Korean novel is also part of the World Government's propaganda plan?"
Masha shook his head: "No, actually, I think this term in the novel fits the function of the Ark of the Covenant very well, so I used it. You see, according to our current understanding, the gods are superpowers in the mythological era. So, if a certain superpower phenomenon appears in a region, isn't it equivalent to giving the power of God to a specific region?"
Masha looked very proud: "What do you think? My idea is good, isn't it? It's like God has come to earth, very cool."
Xiao Shi smiled politely: "It's really good."
"So," the League Secretary nipped the tendency to go off topic in the bud, "can this thing create a super power effect that affects an area? So strong? Can it create it directly?"
"I don't know," Masha shook his head. "I only understand the general idea, but I don't know the specific method. According to the explanation I saw with my own eyes..."
"You really saw it with your eyes. What are those eyes of yours? Are they the golden eyes in online novels about treasure appraisal?" Chihiro complained.
"This is the effect of my super intelligence, it just manifests itself in the form of seeing the instructions with my eyes."
——That’s right. The extraordinary effects brought about by the attributes are beyond common sense and are not bound by natural laws and logic. This can be confirmed from my "identification" of the Ark of the Covenant.
“I didn’t analyze or reason, I just saw the Ark and understood what it was and how it could be used.
“However, maybe my intelligence is not high enough, so I am still unclear about some of its usage.
“Since the reason why I can’t fully master its usage is because of my low intelligence, then as long as my intelligence is high enough, the problem can be easily solved!
"Jeanne!" Masha snapped his fingers.
Jeanna, who had been unable to join in the conversation and didn't understand what everyone was saying, had already given up and was content to be a beautiful vase standing there. But when she heard her own name, she immediately smiled happily.
Masha asked Shelley to translate and told Jeanne to mix an intellectual cocktail according to the method she had recorded before.
Of course, it is not in the wonderland on the planet where Masha and the others are now, but in the wonderland on an island with abundant spiritual energy.
After listening to this, Jeanne smiled at Masha, closed her eyes, leaned forward and raised her neck.
——It’s a kiss!
Masha had an auditory hallucination for a moment, and heard Jeanne whining in the tone of Lin Chiling: "If you don't kiss me, I won't help you adjust it!"
——Oh, kiss, I want to kiss you!
A moment later, Jeanne returned from the island wonderland with wine in hand.
Shelley, who was in charge of recording the changes in the brightness of the banyan tree, followed her and said to Masha as soon as she passed the door: "The brightness has dropped a lot. This thing really consumes spiritual energy."
Masha kissed Jeanne's forehead, then took the wine. Before drinking, he glanced at Shelley and said, "Then we can only hope that this thing is worth the spiritual energy it consumes."
Just as Masha was about to drink, he saw Hongye, who had run away at some point, coming back from the island wonderland with an apple in her hand.
Masha definitely didn't ask Hongye to do this.
"Good! You did the right thing."
Masha praised Hongye, then drank the wine, took a bite of the apple, and turned his head to stare at the Ark of the Covenant.
"To create a God's Land, you need a superpower who is responsible for providing the 'ability template' as a medium, and you need concentrated spiritual energy as a material. Finally, in order to ensure the continued existence of the God's Land, you need a gem that corresponds to the level and attributes of the God's Land as the core—"
Chihiro: "See, I told you to take the jewels."
As she spoke, she held up the emerald, which was as big as a goose egg, with a look of boasting on her face.
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Chapter 504 is Diamond, I added Diamond (rd update)
Masha stared at the emerald, wanting to see if the gem had any properties, such as the five elements.
Generally speaking, green represents the wood attribute, and it is designed this way in the game.
He stared at the gem for a long time, and sure enough, a hint appeared, but the hint was: flawless first-grade earth gem.
——Is it actually soil?
Masha was shocked, and then a guess came to his mind. He opened the door and returned to the world in the car. He said to Chihiro: "You run the fastest. Go get a diamond and let me see it."
Chihiro turned around and ran, running back and forth in the blink of an eye and stuffed a bag of diamonds into Masha's hand.
Masha poured out a few and placed them in the palm of his hand, staring at them - pure fifth-grade wood gems.
"As expected, diamond is charcoal, so it is a wood-attributed gemstone. And this diamond is not good, it is only of fifth-grade quality."
"You really have identification skills. You can even identify the quality." The League Secretary exclaimed, "Is it that the lower the grade, the better, or vice versa?"
"The lower the better. The one stolen by Chihiro was of the first grade. There is also a prefix, which should indicate the purity. Chihiro's green duck egg was of the flawless first grade, and the terrorist's diamond was of the pure fifth grade."
Cai Shi asked: "Now that we have figured out the gems and stuff, what is concentrated spiritual energy?"
Masha put away the diamond and pretended to give a lecture: "Remember my previous inference? Humans are biological devices designed by Nuwa to condense spiritual energy into souls..."
"No way, we have to sacrifice again. We don't have enough bad guys." The league secretary yelled. Masha suspected that she was actually tired of being a vigilante, so she protested.
"No, although we did not observe that slaughtering cattle and sheep caused the banyan tree's brightness to increase significantly, we cannot conclude that there is no 'thing' formed by spiritual energy in the brains of cattle and sheep."
"So we're going to rob the Kazakh ranch again?" Chihiro asked, "That's great, I just happen to be craving for steak."
"No, don't be impatient, just listen to me. Think about what is the greatest characteristic of a superpower's soul? It is the ability to use superpowers. The apples we grow in the island wonderland can temporarily improve a person's intelligence. Isn't this also equivalent to a superpower?"
"Brother, you mean..."
"I mean," Masha interrupted Cai Shi, "in the mythological era when spiritual energy was abundant, animals and even plants could become spirits, which means they also have the ability to condense spiritual energy. I have previously speculated that the motivation for Nuwa to create humans was because she felt that the efficiency of condensing spiritual energy in nature was too low. But despite the low efficiency, it is condensing after all, right?"
Shelley, who had been listening to Masha's words silently, said, "So, you mean we can use the apples produced in the island wonderland as concentrated spiritual energy?"
"It's just my guess, so I plan to do an experiment to verify it."
Masha patted the Ark and said, "I am going to make a God's Land with any random effect here. Since we don't have much spiritual energy, we have to choose a weak effect. Come on, Hongye, you do it."
Hongye's face darkened: "Well, I'm weak anyway."
