Noticing Gawain's gaze, Hetty also looked over curiously, and then struggled to identify the ancient writing on the wall, but before she finished deciphering it, Gawain took the initiative to explain the meaning of that sentence.
Everyone present was stunned.
"What do you mean by this sentence?" Amber stared blankly at the line of words that looked like a declaration, and said in disbelief, "Under normal circumstances, no one would say such a thing... and it was written in This kind of place!"
Hetty had an association: "Only by disobeying the gods can human beings survive forever... Could it be that the gods want human beings to perish?"
"Things related to God are often full of symbols and metaphors, which cannot be seen from the superficial meaning of a sentence." Gao Wen said absent-mindedly, but what popped up in his mind was the relationship between the past and eternity. The sensational truths heard when the shards of the slate were connected.
Then he turned to Byron: "You mentioned that the remaining manuscript materials were found here?"
Byron nodded: "Yes, here. But they are quite fragile, and we didn't dare to touch them after we found them."
Those remaining manuscripts were not sealed, but scattered messily on the table not far away. It seems that for some reason, the personnel here did not take this batch of materials with them when they evacuated. The material of the manuscript is the magic-infused parchment commonly used by magicians in the Gondor Empire to make records. It is precisely because of this special material that these manuscripts have survived thousands of years after being exposed to the air. erosion of time.
But although the manuscript itself is not decayed, many of the words on it have faded and weathered beyond recognition. After a cursory glance at them, Gao Wen judged that at least half of them are beyond recognition.
Fortunately, there are still half left.
Hetty had already made preparations. She brought a newly enchanted scroll and a ceremonial quill. After seeing those precious ancient manuscripts, she immediately unfolded the scroll and let it float in mid-air beside her. , and then held the quill in one hand, and placed the other hand on top of the already fragile ancient parchment. Following the obscure and difficult incantations, the power of magic surged around her, and the quill suddenly fell out of her fingers , and flew to the scroll to start writing quickly.
The characters on the parchment were faithfully restored and rubbed by the magic power, whether it was the clearly identifiable part or the incomplete and unreadable part, and every time a piece of paper was "scanned", Hetty took a breath and took the processed The original ancient manuscripts were carefully picked up and put into the small box that had been prepared.
Although the contents of the manuscript were preserved, these antique originals are still quite valuable, and it is of course better if they are preserved.
Gawain stood next to Hetty, sighing slightly at the convenience of magic power, while concentrating on the content presented on the scroll.
He read slowly because he had to extract readable useful information from a mass of missing and deformed characters, but even so, some disturbing sentences gradually pieced together: This does not seem to be a research note, or even a In the diary, after composing those words into sentences, Gao Wen only felt that they were the nonsense of a lunatic, and they were full of terrible assumptions and metaphors:
"...Looking at it, it looks at me from the festering flesh... It is in me, and I want to go to it...
"None will survive, the end is near... Blasphemy will not keep us alive...
"... feasting, feasting, I ate the flesh and blood of the gods again, and lived a new century here. They didn't come, they still didn't come, but I don't need them to come again. The outside world has collapsed, it has collapsed... "
This was followed by a large period of chaotic graffiti, the text turned into unrecognizable lines and symbols, not because the handwriting on the original manuscript was blurred and distorted, but the person who wrote them seemed to have gone crazy, but in several manuscripts Afterwards, these crazy doodles turned into OK text again:
"He sleeps deep in the earth, he sleeps deep in the sea, he sleeps deep in the sky, he is calling my name, that whisper...
"I saw him, the face of a god, and he smiled at me in the light... I took steps, and I was going to his kingdom. Ah, that is the greatest gift. God gave us flesh and blood for us to share food. This is the day…”
After that, there are big crazy lines, and even the occasional few words pop out of those graffiti, it seems illogical and grammatical, not so much written words, but rather a chaotic brain It would be more appropriate for the occasional ramblings to break out of sentences: These manuscripts can no longer go on.
Hetty also noticed this. She rubbed several pages of such "garbled codes" in a row, and finally stopped, turning the manuscripts with her evocation hands, and stopped herself after confirming that there was nothing of value underneath. spell.
"What does it say?" Amber leaned over, looked at the rubbing scroll floating in the air and asked curiously, "It looks like a ghost drawing..."
"The ravings of a lunatic," Gawain frowned. The words on the scroll made him deeply disturbed, but he still roughly explained what was on it, "...it sounds like a person who was abandoned here What is left over from the gradual madness of a person."
After hearing the meaning of those words, everyone at the scene couldn't help but feel a strange sense of creepiness. Although those words were just crazy words, for some reason, there seemed to be a special power in those words. There was a frightening atmosphere.
"I... I don't like these things anymore..." Amber had goosebumps all over her body, and couldn't help hiding behind Gawain, "This place gives me a very, very bad feeling..."
Gao Wen was about to express a similar opinion, but before he could speak, a very slight grunt suddenly came from behind.
Then there was another series of grunting noises.
Everyone immediately drew out their weapons and turned to the direction of the sound, and under the eyes of everyone, one of the cylindrical containers in the center of the hall suddenly changed!
The originally empty transparent tubular culture tank was filled with liquid out of thin air, and large clusters of bubbles quickly emerged from the surging liquid, and a twisted and weird shadow emerged from the bubbles, which was still an illusion just a second ago The shadow of the next second has already condensed into an entity
It has a blood-red color, a giant-like body, and looks like an extraordinarily strong deformed body, but it has a face that resembles a human. The eyes are closed tightly, but the face is full of pain and madness!
This monster, which seemed to be a mixture of aberrations and humans, condensed out of thin air, and then struggled to break through the sealed transparent container. An unbelievable scene appeared: the container that was supposed to be completely sealed suddenly became When it became illusory, the monster's body also became illusory. The two quickly merged and infiltrated each other, and the monster's body was forced out of the container like this!
Gawain drew out his long sword: "Kill it!"
At this moment, the monster also regained its physical form. Immediately after breaking away from the bondage, it rushed towards the soldier closest to it, and while pounced on it, it let out a chaotic growl: "Hungry...hungry! !!"
Several long swords blocked the monster's path from all directions, and then the scorching blades, poisoned daggers and a series of arcane missiles smashed down on the monster except for the arcane missiles, which all hit the ground. , and all other attacks hit the twisted creature solidly.
However, its vitality is frighteningly strong. Even if its limbs were chopped off, its tendons were broken and its bones were broken, and even its back weakness as a deformed body was hit by Gao Wen's sword, it still did not die. It still struggled to get up, and rushed It turned to Amber, who happened to be in its line of sight.
After the first stabbing, Amber immediately backed away and prepared to touch the fish. She never thought that she would become the target of the monster, but she screamed in fright, and the next second she shrank into the shadow, escaping. into the shadows.
The monster jumped in the air, and when the foothold was not stable, Knight Byron seized the opportunity, stepped forward and stabbed the enemy through with a sword.
The monster that seemed to be a mixture of humans and aberrations fell heavily on the ground, but it didn't start to dissipate like normal aberrations. Instead, it wriggled and gradually recovered, and showed signs of getting up again!
"It's not dead yet?!" Gawain was startled by this abnormal situation, and immediately held the sword in his hand and was about to go forward to make up the knife, but before he could take any action, Hu Po, who had just hid in the shadow world, suddenly jumped out of thin air He came out and grabbed his arm in horror: "Gawain! Dark... there is something in the Shadow Realm!!"
Gawain had never seen such a terrified look on the face of this fearless half-elf. It was different from the exaggerated and frightened expression in the past. Amber looked really terrified at this time, Gao Wen Wen even felt that if this place was a little more gloomy, the girl would even cry on the spot!
Glancing at the monster that was already in a stalemate with Byron and his party again, and confirming that the monster would not suppress Byron and the others except for its strong vitality, Gawain immediately grabbed Amber's arm: "Take me in to have a look! "
Amber hesitated for a moment: "But in the Shadow Realm..."
"With me!"
Amber gritted her teeth and pulled Gawain's arm vigorously: "Okay!"
That strange sense of imbalance came again, and the sounds and perceptions of the real world quickly faded away. Gawain's eyes blurred, and he was pulled into the Shadow Realm by Amber.
This world that exists parallel to the real time and space seems to always maintain the same brightness, neither dark nor bright. Whether it is on the surface or in a cave in a deep mountain, it always maintains a dim and dark situation that does not affect the line of sight.
Gawain's first glance after entering the Shadow Realm was to look around: Just like other places in the Shadow Realm, this place also maps real time and space in a chaotic way. The rotunda is pale in color, surrounded by a In the real world is a place where magical devices are piled up, and in the center of the hall is the "thing" mentioned by Amber.
The original metal base and transparent tubular container were gone, replaced by a pool of black mist surging in the center of the room, and blood-like red mud constantly spreading from the black mist.
And along with the mud, there were countless chaotic whispers that suddenly filled his mind!