The Nether Clocktower is a massive and imposing structure—a building of impressive scale despite its twisted and eerily incongruous features. Just thinking about the whole picture of the building when he saw it from outside the tower, Hao Ren could tell that the round hall everyone is currently in is far from the whole of the first floor of the clock tower, and should be only a small part of this floor. block place. He stood in the center of this faded and eerie rotunda, looked up at the high vault, and saw a structure that criss-crossed to the point of dazzling, a large number of capillary-like brackets and Beams and columns intertwined overhead, some of which seemed to be the original roof structure of the hall, but others seemed to be the skeleton fused in from other buildings. And behind the criss-crossing beams, columns and brackets, there is a drowsy circular vault. The vault is so high that it can almost be described as far away. Elaborate patterns and designs, some of which appear to depict some kind of gigantic, tentacled, planet-covering creature.
It was the vision of the firstborn sowing.
There is no doubt that this twisted and weird tower is indeed the creation of the Goddess of Creation, and Hao Ren believes that the tower was not originally this terrifying appearance, and something must have happened after the goddess fell to make it look like this. It's twisted like this here.
Lily was wandering in the hall with ice and fire claws raised. She bent her body and shrugged her nose from time to time to sniff the ancient murals and the witcher items on the wooden shelves. Although the weird atmosphere here made her look nervous, This husky girl is still very serious about her duties. She stopped beside a shelf full of magical artifacts, her tail wagging unconsciously: "Someone touched these things not long ago...there is a very fresh smell on them."
Hao Ren looked away from the ceiling: "How long ago?"
"At most one day ago," Lily ran back briskly, "Landlord, landlord, do you still have the spicy strips?"
Hao Rengang wanted to tell her that she never forgets to eat under any circumstances, but when he saw Lily's eyes, he suddenly reacted: "Are you planning to transform in here?!"
"Be prepared," Lily grinds her claws, "If I really face those saints, I don't think I can do it without transforming..."
Hao Ren took out a pack of spicy sticks from the portable space and threw it over. And Bai Huo just walked over next to him, and the witcher girl said lightly after hearing Lily's words: "If you really meet a saint, you should not be able to beat him even if you transform. The elder is already as powerful as the ancient gods In existence, saints have countless taboo knowledge and experience more than elders... "
Before Bai Huo finished speaking, Vivian curled her lips and interrupted her: "The lumbar intervertebral disc herniation and the old cold legs that have been raised for thousands of years in the house - those old guys haven't fought for thousands of years, Bored in this damn black tower, to be honest, I doubt how much combat power they have left. I believe they have wisdom, but I don't believe they have good health."
Lily glanced at Vivian: "Don't forget that you are from the same age as them..."
"Okay, stop talking nonsense at this time," Hao Ren interrupted them. Looking up at Baihuo, "What is the probability that the saint will make a move himself?"
"Under normal circumstances before, it would be almost impossible for them to make a move—their bodies have been ruined by forbidden knowledge. Each time they make a move is not only a huge threat to the outside world, but also a great pain to themselves. But now... really not It’s easy to say. The people we brought this time are just outposts. The plan is to deal with the regular guards in the tower, and attack the upper area after the large forces come in, but this place…”
"But this place looks like a haunted house now," Hao Ren looked at the empty round hall. And the master demon hunters who are scattered around to search for clues, "Not a single guard can be seen. To be honest, this 'safe' state makes people feel more uneasy."
Tutann and the Witcher Masters were no strangers to the structure of the Clocktower of the Spirit World. Therefore, the search for the first floor of the tower was quickly completed. The scattered demon hunters gathered together again, and none of them found any enemies.
"There is no one on the first floor. There is a faint aura above the second floor, but there is no response to our arrival," a witcher with a hoarse voice reported, "There is a set of maintenance in the tower gatekeeper's house. Hunting Crossbow, seemingly ready to face a battle, but somehow the owner of the weapon disappeared."
Tutan rubbed his chin for a while, and decided to leave a few people waiting for the large army in the round hall, while the others continued to move towards the upper floor of the clock tower of the spirit world.
The interior of the Spirit World Bell Tower is as grand as a palace, and there are three different stairs from the rotunda on the first floor to the second floor. After some thought, Tutan chose the relatively safe one: this staircase spiraling upwards along the outside of the rotunda leads to the depths of the wine cellar on the second floor, where the defense is said to be relatively weak.
As for why the "wine cellar" is set up on the second floor... there is no need to study this.
Hao Ren stepped onto this faded and gloomy staircase. The ancient and incomplete murals and reliefs receded gradually beside him. He felt as if he was walking in the abdomen of a dying pale monster. When it blew down from the outlet, the coldness seemed to go straight into the soul, making him and Bai Huo beside him tremble slightly.
"You feel it too?" Hao Ren looked at Bai Huo, "There seems to be wind."
"It's the wind of the spirit world," Bai Huo said with a serious expression, "some parts of the bell tower of the spirit world are connected to strange 'places', part of this tower is in Corpus, and the other part is located in some twisted and overlapping places. In the contradictory time and space, there are often such strange winds blowing out of thin air. No matter how powerful you are, you will feel an unbearable chill in this gust of wind. The instructor said that these winds are "winds of the spirit world", and it is Cole The original owners of the Perth space were imprisoned in the past timeline and wailed, and whenever this wind blows... the state of the clock tower began to become unstable."
As she was talking, she suddenly mentioned Hasu, who had been captured by the Elder Order long ago and had lost all life. "The mentor may still be imprisoned in this tower..."
"Is he still alive?"
"I... don't believe that he would just die like this, in such a ridiculous internal strife," Bai Huo bit his lips, "The mentor has experienced many hardships in his life, and survived the cruelest Ragnarok, how could he Die in a place like this."
At this time, Lily, who was walking behind Hao Ren, suddenly had her ears trembling: "Hey, did you hear anything?"
"Voice?" Hao Ren stopped suspiciously, "What?"
Lily closed her eyes, her pointed dog ears were shaking slightly in the air, and she was constantly turning sensitively in all directions. Some small low-pitched sounds that maybe only dogs could hear came into her ears intermittently, and the sound was buzzing. The sound is like many people talking in their dreams, or like a secret sacrificial ceremony, or some kind of evil creature whispering in the shadows, luring the ignorant to pursue those taboo and untouchable mysteries. Lily's golden eyes shone slightly in the darkness: "It sounds like a lot of people are talking..."
Bai Huo immediately clenched his dagger tightly, and concentrated more on hiding the breath of the crowd: "Is it the guard of the Presbyterian Church?"
"It's not like..." Lily's voice was a little trance, "it's buzzing, talking about something... It makes me a little dizzy."
Then she shook her head suddenly, grabbed a spicy strip from the snack bag at hand, stuffed it into her mouth and chewed vigorously, and she recovered all of a sudden: "It's okay, it may be infrasound. I can hear it with my ears." There are many voices that ordinary people can't hear~"
"There is still no one in front." Tutan narrowed his eyes slightly and sensed the breath at the end of the stairs. The breath he could feel was still far away. "It may be the influence of the wind of the spirit world. This tower There are many weird phenomena here, you are here for the first time, be vigilant, but don’t be too suspicious.”
A few minutes later, everyone arrived at the end of the spiral staircase. Tutan was the first to disappear at the exit of the staircase, and Hao Ren followed closely.
As Tutain said, the exit was located deep in a "wine cellar". As soon as Hao Ren came out, he could smell an intoxicating aroma of wine wafting around, and huge wine barrels were neatly lined up all around. He couldn't help sighing: "You guys have a pretty good life, and demon hunters also have a lot of hobbies... Uh, what's wrong?"
He found that Tutan did not pay attention to himself, the master witcher just stood in front of him blankly, staring up at the building structure above.
It took a long time for Tutan to break the silence: "... the structure has changed... the structure of the bell tower of the spirit world has changed!"
(Happy New Year everyone~~) (to be continued~^~)