The dilapidated noble mansion, the musty-smelling collapsed corridors, the muttering of the undead from the depths of the ground, and the strange cold wind passing through the hall—although Hao Ren felt that the painting style of the undead hiding here was a bit abnormal, but other conditions There is no lack of one, the standard scenes in supernatural films are complete, and he still feels a little eerie when walking in the crumbling corridor.
What's even more eerie is that when everyone stepped into the old house, the surrounding environment also quietly changed.
When Hao Ren noticed it, the sky outside had darkened at some point.
He found that the corridor had become dark, so he looked up through the hole in the corridor wall to observe the sky. However, the sunny sky that was still clear and sunny just now was covered with overcast clouds, and the dark clouds hung down from the surroundings like thick ink. dusk.
A gust of cold wind blew from nowhere, Lily's hair stood on end, and she instantly turned into a werewolf form, holding her ice and fire claws and looking around: "Landlord, I think this situation is getting more and more abnormal... that undead... Are you planning to bully us?"
"She refuses to show up until now," Vivienne frowned. "I already know that this kind of pretense will not work for us, but she still hides so stubbornly... I don't know what this undead wants to do."
The sky continued to darken, the thick clouds had completely closed, the forest outside the ancient house was covered by darkness, and became shadowy like ghosts, and the voice from deep underground came erratically again: "... I don't intend to hurt you, No trap was set, it's just that you've already stepped on that frontier, and it's too late to turn back now...you can do it for yourself..."
After leaving this last sentence, the voice of the undead disappeared as if it had just appeared, and never sounded again.
"It seems that this is not the handiwork of the undead," Hesperis looked at the sky outside, "and such a large-scale change in the sky... can only be the result of the activation of some kind of secret realm, it seems that we have fallen into a new level It's a secret."
"I just hate this kind of nonsense stuff. Why are all the supernatural relics left over from the ancient times so troublesome?" Hao Ren frowned and muttered, "Why don't you just order more, how many tricks do you have? It’s all revealed, and then it’s over with one shot.”
Lily gave Hao Ren a weird look: "Landlord, your explosive tendencies are getting worse and worse. Did you get infected by meeting too many goddesses?"
Hao Ren scratched his hair in embarrassment, turned around and continued walking deep into the ancient house.
They entered the uncollapsed part of the main house. After confirming that the building structure here was still solid, Hao Ren released an autonomous machine to check the second floor, which might collapse at any time, while he led the others to search for it on the first floor. clue.
The data terminal floats at the front of the team. It emits scanning beams to continuously detect every corridor and room passing by, and restores the appearance of these structures through high-speed calculations. The two hundred years of wind and rain have almost completely destroyed the original appearance of the house, but as long as the frame is still there, the data terminal can still perform up to 80% of the restoration operation. It back-projects the calculated original image onto the surrounding charred ruins, So as the team advanced, within two meters of Hao Ren's front and back, he could see the style and appearance of the old house.
On both sides of the corridor, there used to be two rows of portraits of men and women in aristocratic costumes. They should be the members of the family in the prosperous period or the patriarchs of the past; Destroyed in a fire; a corner table full of silver utensils had been set up in the corner of the hallway, but not magical items used for ceremonies.
Hao Ren slowed down, carefully observing any possible clues as he walked, and at this moment, a touch of red suddenly caught his attention.
"Stop and scan this place."
He stopped at the end of the corridor, pointing to a fuzzy red patch in the corner. The edge of the red patch showed a jittery sharp border, which was caused by the "pixelation" caused by the data terminal not performing precise calculations on this area. After Hao Ren gave the order, the data terminal immediately switched the calculation weight, and the surrounding holographic images faded like water, while the red area on the charred corridor wall quickly became clear.
"The accuracy of the restoration is being improved... The composition is confirmed to be blood, and the image processing is complete."
As the voice of the data terminal fell, the bloodstains in the corner of the wall also became clear. It was a line of text, which seemed to be written in a hurry:
"...it's coming out, it's coming out, it's coming out..."
A line of text is full of such repeated words, and the distorted and trembling handwriting seems to show the extreme fear of the writer at that time.
"It's about to come out..." Hao Ren repeated subconsciously, "What is this referring to?"
"Perhaps it is something that is really trapped in that village," Hesperis said, "Didn't we guess it? That village is like a cage, and probably some very dangerous power is really imprisoned in that cage. "
"It's a pity that the undead just now is silent now." Hao Ren shook his head, "Terminal, can you find the location of that undead?"
The voice of the data terminal was a little helpless: "There are all directions, she may have symbiotic with this land, and her energy fluctuations can be found everywhere, but there is no clear core. Now she is unwilling to take the initiative to speak, I think unless you are in Put a space implosion bomb here, otherwise there is no way to force her out."
Hao Ren thought about it, but he still didn't carry out this tempting plan...
And at this moment, Lily suddenly raised her head, stared straight at a certain direction and shrugged her nose.
Vivian glanced at her: "What did you find?"
"Bones!" Lily looked at the corner of the wall with bright eyes, and then rushed over to writhe under a pile of collapsed debris.
Soon, she dug out a charred black skeleton from under a pile of tiles and planks.
Looking at the results she dug out, the husky girl curled her lips: "Cut, it's useless to look forward to it."
"Under this environment, it hasn't been completely decomposed?" Vivian looked at the unrecognizable remains in surprise, her focus was obviously different from that of the husky, "Maybe it belonged to the owner of the house... more than two hundred years ago A member of that noble family?"
Hao Ren frowned and knelt down next to the skeleton. Although he didn't hold out much hope, he still expected to find some relics of the other party. What was surprising was that there were indeed relics preserved: under the body of the skeleton, Pressing a brochure that has been burned two-thirds!
He carefully pulled out the booklet, and his first thought was that the material of the booklet was suspicious: it had gone through a fire, and then it had experienced the decay and weathering of two worlds in a humid and warm environment like the forest, and after all this, There is still a considerable part of this thing left? !
Vivian checked the material of the booklet, and she immediately realized that it was not an ordinary paper. After casting a small spell, she confirmed that it was a kind of enchanted black goatskin.
"A real magic book," Vivian twirled the scorched fragments with her fingers, "although it has been burned like this, it can still resist weathering and corrosion. The way this thing is processed is very strange... I don't remember which wizard school uses Black goat leather processed this way.”
"It seems that the noble family did have the real thing," Hesperis said softly, "How much can you translate?"
The manual was burned badly, only one-third of the remaining part remained, and half of them were intermittent pictures and symbols that had completely lost their meaning, but the data terminal still managed to restore part of the text, and everyone found that this manual was actually a Something like a notebook.
Using a precious magic book to write a diary, this moment made Hao Ren have great doubts: Was it really an ordinary human family who built this house back then
At the beginning of the manual, it seems to record the situation when this "family" just moved here:
"... After a long journey, we finally arrived at this place... and we have to hide our tracks so as not to be noticed by the Order. These are really difficult days, but in any case, we have made a decision, and there is no way to regret it...
"... This is a place where magical energy is very active, perhaps the artifact is gradually changing the environment here...
"... I found it successfully... He is now called Fernan, living in seclusion in a small village in the forest... After connecting with Hercules, he found that he was in a very bad condition, and the backlash of that force was about to... He was struggling at the border, no wonder he would Send us a plea for help…”
This is what can be deciphered in the first few pages of the manual. Although intermittent, it contains the most important information. After reading these, Hao Ren and his party looked at each other in blank dismay, and it took Vivian a long time before she said, "The things Pierre investigated are really quite wrong."
"This family seems to know Hercules' true identity from the very beginning!" Hesperis said in disbelief, "They are here for Hercules!"
Lily blinked: "And it sounds like Hercules summoned them here on his own initiative."
Hao Ren pointed to a sentence in the restored text: "I am more concerned about this sentence: This family seems to be still being tracked, and they say they want to avoid the 'religion'."
"There are many churches on Earth, but in the world of magic, there is only one sect that can be regarded as the most feared by people," Vivienne breathed out, "The witcher's sect, they really have something to do with the situation here .”
Hao Ren frowned: "But Bai Huo's information did not mention this paragraph."
Vivienne nodded slightly: "Well, anyway, let's continue watching." (To be continued~^~)