As the moonlight formed festering scars on the rock walls of Smuggler's Canyon, Alyssa's boot soles crushed the third blood beetle. The beast's blue blood seeped into the cracks in the stone, dyeing the smuggling route totem carved into the cliff a fluorescent purple - exactly the same as the weeping blood carvings on Kane's bedpost.
"We need living people to step on for this shipment." The hunchbacked man leading the team kicked the belly of the pack animal. Alyssa's animal training whip wrapped around the hemp rope of the falling cargo box, and used the force of pulling to jump onto the rock shelf. The cargo box cracked open during the bumps, revealing the blue-gray stone tablet inside - the densely packed crying human faces on the surface were changing their expressions with the intensity of the moonlight.
The hunchback suddenly grabbed her ankle. "Northern girl, it's time to explore the way," he said, breathing the stench of rancid garlic, the blue blood from his nails smearing on her trouser legs, "The ground veins ahead are stirring."
Alyssa's thorn birthmark throbbed under her shoulder blade. As she climbed the cliff in the dark, the moonlight just pierced through the clouds, revealing the truth at the bottom of the canyon - hundreds of pack animals lined up in a twisted snake shape, each with three stone tablets with human faces tied to their backs. The mouths of those stone sculptures were opening and closing in sync, transforming the night wind into the wailing of the silver wolf language.
"The living module of the Wailing Wall..." She grasped the poison hemlock vine that emerged from the cracks in the rock and smeared the juice on her eyelids to enhance her night vision. The human face on the surface of the stone tablet suddenly turned to the direction where she was hiding, black mucus seeped out of the pupils, and a silver wolf rune from three hundred years ago was written on the rock wall: **Earth veins are blood veins**.
The hunchback's bone flute suddenly changed its tune. Alyssa's animal taming whip wrapped around the shaking cargo box and swung to the other side of the canyon. The moment the eclipse flame ignited in her palm, the stone tablets erupted in sharp resonance, and the sound waves shattered the camouflage moss on the surface of the rock wall, revealing a giant weeping relief carved underneath - exactly the same as the pattern on Kane's bedpost, but magnified a hundred times.
"We caught a wild cat!" The torches of the porters gathered together. Alyssa kicked over the nearest cargo box, and the blue blood splashed on her face when the stone tablet hit the rock wall. The birthmark suddenly froze, and the flame of the eclipse flowed back to the heart uncontrollably - a miniature projection of Kane's bedpost emerged there, and each carving was absorbing the energy resonating with the stone tablet.
The hunchback's claws pierced her cape. "The bounty of this she-wolf is enough to buy a stone monument factory..." His grim smile was stuck in his throat. Alyssa's nails pierced the other's wrist veins, and with blue blood, she drew the decryption talisman taught by her mother on the rock surface. The group of stone monuments suddenly turned collectively, and the howling sound waves shook the beasts of burden so that blood spurted from their mouths and noses.
The ground veins began to tremble. Alyssa climbed up the poison hemlock vines and jumped to the highest point, and found that the entire canyon was a three-dimensional Weeping Wall formation - each stone tablet was the center of the formation, and the bedpost of Kane's bedroom was the control terminal. When the moonlight shifted to a certain angle, the giant relief on the rock wall suddenly came to life, and the human faces chanted in the Silver Wolf language of three hundred years ago: **On the day when the ground veins howled, the crown was reborn**.
"Lucian's toy?" she shouted deliberately. As expected, a cold emerald light flashed in the dark, and the scarlet cloak of the young lord's personal guard fluttered between the stone tablets. Alyssa's taming whip wrapped around the edge of the cloak, but what she pulled out was a raven with a marriage bell tied to it - the inner wall of the bell was engraved with a miniature carving of Kane's bedpost.
The vibration of the earth veins reached its peak. Alyssa slid along the rock wall to the bottom of the valley, and the thorn pattern of the birthmark suddenly grew. When she injected the flame of the lunar eclipse into a tilted stone tablet, the blue flames spread along the earth veins throughout the canyon - all the crying faces turned to her position at the same time, and the pupils reflected the illusion of Cain performing the blood feeding ceremony in front of the bedpost of the bedroom.
The hunchbacked corpse suddenly twitched. Alyssa's birthmark absorbed the blue blood from his wound, and the thorn patterns formed a complete leyline map under her skin. She saw clearly that the end point of each energy flow pointed to the crown of thorns in Cain's heart - and her location was exactly the coordinates of the first generation of Silver Wolf King's heart pierced three hundred years ago.
The stone tablets began to sink. Alyssa grabbed half of the broken tablet between the collapsed rock walls, and the fracture surface revealed a hollow tube cavity - filled with the milk teeth of silver wolf cubs, and the surface was engraved with the same forbidden runes as Cain's bedposts. When the eclipse flame burned through the tube cavity, the baby's cry came out from the ground, mixed with Lucien's crazy laughter and echoed in the canyon.
"How about the gift?" The cold light of emerald flashed across the last sinking stone tablet. Alyssa's animal taming whip wrapped around the face on the top of the tablet, and her fingertips felt the familiar bumps and depressions - it was the mirror image of the carvings on Kane's bedpost. When the vibration of the earth veins stopped, the broken tablet in her hand suddenly oozed blue blood, corroding a new silver wolf text on her palm: **Earth veins are blood veins, twins will eventually eat each other**.
Before the moonlight was swallowed by the dark clouds, Alyssa saw the altar of the first king emerging from the bottom of the canyon. Three hundred stone tablets with human faces formed a circular wailing wall around the altar, and on the crown of thorns in the center were entangled her and Cain's faded hair.