Two days later, Chen Chen was fully prepared and woke up from his sleep cabin again.
With a sneer, the sliding cover of the sleeping compartment opened from the inside, and Chen Chen found that he had arrived in a room surrounded by stone walls.
This room is about thirty square meters, with no windows around it, only a heavy stone door.
In the center of the room, there is a metal counter, which seems to be a mobile counter used by street vendors such as pancakes, fruit, stinky tofu, etc. It is pushed by a trolley, and when it stops, it is like a canteen. .
On the counter, there were two thick yellow candles burning, which were as thick as calves.
In addition, there are many metal tableware placed on the counter, including spoons, bowls, chopsticks, and even an old-era porcelain bowl. These things are all placed on the counter one by one. , as if showing it to others.
There are also various metal sculptures placed in the corners of the room. These sculptures look like the landscape sculptures placed in parks in the 21st century. There are women holding children, and there are also a man and a woman who look like They looked like a couple sitting on a stool and cuddling together. Chen Chen even saw a statue of an angel with open arms.
The common feature of these statues is that they are all made of metal, either brass or pig iron. In short, it seems that a long time has passed and they are full of mottled atmosphere.
What is this doing
Chen Chen was a little curious. He continued to look around the room, but he never found anything special.
This seems to be a secret room, or rather, a treasure room.
Reminiscent of when I first woke up and saw a group of workers digging for steel, this post-modern civilization seems to value metal.
At this time, Chen Chen suddenly felt a sense of hunger in his belly like a landslide and tsunami. It was obvious that this body had not eaten since waking up, and now it could no longer support it. He thought for a while and stepped out of the sleeping chamber. , came to the stone door of the room.
There was no mechanism near the stone door, but Chen Chen didn't care. His field could seep in along the cracks in the door, and he quickly understood the structure of the stone door. As he touched the mechanical spring inside the door, he heard a roar, and the stone door responded. Turn on.
But beyond Chen Chen's expectation, behind the door was a bedroom with simple furniture and rough curtains. In the center of the bedroom, there was a bed made of stone.
The quilt on the bed was messy, and it seemed that they heard a movement at this time. The two naked women on the bed immediately screamed and got up, holding the quilt to their chests.
At the same time, a man sleeping in the middle quickly got up and looked at Chen Chen warily.
When he saw Chen Chen's face clearly, the man's expression suddenly changed from vigilance to obedience. He quickly got up, lowered his head and said, "Master!"
This person is obviously Shais.
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen couldn't help but frown.
As if he understood Chen Chen's displeasure, Shais rolled his eyes on the bed. Without thinking, he took out the knife under the pillow and prepared to stab the woman in front of him into the chest.
However, before he could stab it in, he felt a resistance on the knife, but it couldn't move no matter how hard he stabbed it.
Chen Chen waved his hand casually, and the two women immediately rolled their eyes and fainted.
"There's no need to kill people."
Chen Chen said casually while sitting on a chair nearby, "How long did I sleep this time?"
"Reply to the master."
Shais climbed out of bed and bowed, "You have slept for two days and one night."
Chen Chen nodded. He also fell asleep at this time in reality, which meant that the two worlds maintained the same time level.
"Don't ask anything, just find me some food first."
Chen Chen said casually, "It's best to eat meat."
"Understood, I'll prepare it for you right now!"
Shais looked so happy that he ran out of the bedroom without even having time to put on his clothes.
Seeing Shais leaving, Chen Chen looked out the window, but saw that it was also dark outside the window. It was obviously the dark night, but with Chen Chen's eyesight, he could see clearly in the dark night. He could see that at this time He is located in a three-story building, and the entire building is made of stone bricks.
Outside the small building, there are small buildings of about two stories. Those small buildings heavily surround the building where Shais is located, and further away, they are reduced to low shacks.
These simple buildings extend from the front to the distance, and further away is a shadow more than ten meters high, which seems to be a city wall.
From this point of view, he should be located in the barony of Shais now.
Then, Chen Chen looked at the bed again and saw two women with rough skin, good figure and delicate features lying unconscious on the bed. The two women seemed to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, but they were They are not pure Africans, but more like a mixed race of African and North American people.
Even Shaïs is not African, but seems to be a Kurd from the Middle East.
The room exuded a lustful smell.
Chen Chen opened the window and let the desert night breeze blow in to dissipate the smell. Soon, Shais returned, and at the same time a servant came in pushing a cart of roasted whole sheep.
This servant looked very old, sixty or seventy years old, his hair and beard were gray, and his eyes were cloudy. He didn't even dare to look at Chen Chen after he entered the door. He just pushed the roasted whole lamb in front of Chen Chen. Then he bent over and backed away.
"Owner."
Shais walked to Chen Chen's side and whispered.
Chen Chen was not polite. He went directly to the roasted whole lamb, took out a dagger on the side, cut a piece of the lamb and handed it to Shais, "You eat first."
After all, Chen Chen used force to convince the other party. There was no basis for trust between the two parties, and Chen Chen would not act magnanimously and not be wary of the other party.
"yes!"
Shais didn't hesitate. He swallowed the entire palm-sized piece of mutton, then stepped aside and waited respectfully.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual, Chen Chen no longer hesitated and started to enjoy the meal.
Chen Chen ate for several hours.
The sky was passing from late night to dawn, and more and more sheep bones were piled up under Chen Chen's feet. Shais's forehead was sweating as he watched. He couldn't imagine how a person could eat a food that was half the size of himself.
After eating the whole sheep, Chen Chen silently exhaled. The hunger in his stomach gradually disappeared, replaced by a lazy feeling of fullness. The mutton was immediately corroded by gastric acid after entering his stomach. , then enters the intestines and is absorbed by hungry cells.
At this time, the sun was already three poles high.
"well done."
Chen Chen complimented a few words casually, and when he saw a hint of joy on the other person's face, he suddenly said, "I know you also have doubts in your heart, so I can tell you clearly now that I am indeed a human before the era of sacred fusion, so I need a guide now, a guide who can help me quickly understand everything about this world."
"Master, I am willing to be your guide!"
Shais was shocked, and then he patted his chest without thinking, "Although I, Shais, am just a small baron, I am at least better than those untouchables. Whether it is the history of the empire or the Holy Fusion Holy See, I know everything. !”
"oh?"
Chen Chen raised his eyebrows, "Let's talk about it, starting from the establishment of the Holy Fusion Empire."
After hearing Chen Chen's request, Shais began to explain eloquently.
The so-called Holy Fusion Empire claims to be the most powerful country in the entire human world. This country adopts a city-state structure. There are approximately more than 300 cities in the country, spread across the continent.
However, Chen Chen was a little confused about the continent that Shais mentioned, and Shais simply showed him a map of the empire.
Chen Chen took the map and looked at it, only to see that the map was like a simple drawing. It only briefly depicted some geographical locations, such as mountains, forests, rivers, and the sea around the continent.
This continent includes the African continent, the Middle East and part of Europe.
Chen Chen glanced at Shais dumbly, "Is this the map of the Holy Fusion Empire?"
"Yes!"
Shais said respectfully, "Further to the east on the map, there is a vast no-man's land. According to legend, it is the dark area that the God of Creation, Arusayutos, missed when he created the world. It is said that there is no grass growing there, not even humans or animals. They cannot survive and reproduce there.”
"And in the west of the map, opposite this vast sea, is another continent, which is also a place abandoned by the gods. It is precisely there that it became the territory of the United Resistance Army."
Chen Chen raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
He could naturally understand that the east of the map in front of him was naturally East and South Asia, and the west across the sea was naturally North and South America.
"In ancient times, the creator god Arusayutos created the world and also his people. He taught his people to cultivate and create, allowing them to create a splendid civilization. Countless years later, His people began to turn against Him and used a thing called 'technology' to resist His power, but were eventually punished by Him and launched the Great Fusion... "
Shais talked about the teachings of the Holy Fusion Holy See, and then secretly glanced at Chen Chen. When he saw that Chen Chen was not angry, he continued, "Then, the brilliant pre-era civilization was cut off, and the era of the Holy Fusion Empire began. Since then, It’s been 378 years…”
Chen Chen listened silently. When he heard the word "Great Fusion," Chen Chen immediately understood that this might be the details of the war between consciousness stealers and humans, so he suddenly asked, "What do you mean by Great Fusion?"
"this… "
Shais scratched his head and ran out of the room. When he came back after waiting for a while, he had already taken out a thick book in his hand.
Chen Chen took it casually, only to see that it was a kraft paper book written in Arabic, and on the cover were the words "Holy Fusion Sutra".
Chen Chen opened it casually and saw that the paper inside was also very rough, and the characters in the book were not too small. One font was about the size of a fingernail, and there were only about a hundred words on one page.
Judging from the ink soaked in it, it seems to be a book made using techniques similar to engraving and printing.
Chen Chen followed the catalog, turned to the "Great Fusion" page, and read it silently.
According to this book, the so-called great fusion is when the god Alsayutos uses his divine power to fuse most of the humans in the world who do not respect the gods into one body, creating a new body for Alsayutos. divine body and give believers new powers.
Since then, the era of ancient civilization has ended and the era of the Holy Empire has begun.
Because the font size of the book is limited, there is only one paragraph that briefly talks about the Great Fusion, but there are no more details.
However, this passage was enough for Chen Chen. His guess was indeed correct. Before death, the bodies of infected people merged with each other. This method of death was by no means in vain. Not only can consciousness stealers steal human consciousness, they can also Steal a human body!
It is very likely that when the power of consciousness accumulates to a certain level, some human corpses will automatically transform into a complete form of consciousness stealer...
For some reason, Chen Chen suddenly remembered the phantom that flashed through his mind when he killed the consciousness stealer in the battlefield of consciousness - a huge black shadow suspended above the planet, with half of the black shadow's body completely submerged. Under the horizon, and above its body, stretch out tens of thousands of tiny tentacles, like a giant creature made of endless flesh and blood...
Could that figure be the mature form of the consciousness stealer
However, with the attack of consciousness stealers, human civilization suffered heavy losses, technology and cultural inheritance were completely cut off, leaving only this lost world that worships consciousness stealers.
"What about the scar on your face?"
Chen Chen thought for a while and continued to ask, "I saw before that Armas also had traces of ulcers on his face. What do these traces represent?"
"This is the stigmata, Master."
Shais explained, "Having the stigmata means that we have the blessing of the gods. The more devout a believer, the more stigmata we get. But I was just the most basic believer before, and like the dead Ama Earl Si, his stigmata has reached a critical point and he has the ability given by the gods - spiritual power."
“Are only believers able to gain psychic powers?”
When Chen Chen heard this, he immediately found a loophole in Shais's logic, because when he just crawled out of the sleep chamber, there were no so-called stigmata on his face, but Shais still mistook him for a psychic By.
"of course not!"
Shais shook his head, "There are some people who are born with spiritual powers, including untouchables and slaves, while some people awaken later in life. However, if you don't have spiritual powers, if you believe in gods and go to church to pray, you can also have the chance to obtain spiritual powers." able."
"Go to church to pray?"
Chen Chen narrowed his eyes when he heard the words. He seemed to understand. It seemed that the ulcers on these people's faces and the way they obtained spiritual powers were most likely related to the Holy Fusion Holy See.