A burst of brilliance flowed on the surface of the black metal box: the runes activated by Hathaway formed a pathway, and the blood power of Hesperis became the energy source of this device, and a faint radiance ran along several lines on the box. Ridges flowed quickly, leaving obvious traces: These straight traces just divided the box into more than a dozen sections. After these lines emerged, Hao Ren could see how to open the thing.
However, he didn't need to open the box by himself—after the seal was released, the continuous mechanical friction sound inside the box became more and more obvious, and finally accompanied by a few light clicks, the ancient container was separated along those glowing lines. When it was untied, it turned into an open structure in an ingenious way, and surrounded by more than a dozen components, there were four pale yellow scrolls that looked almost brand new.
That's all there is to it.
Hao Ren didn't expect that the Olympus legacy that he spent so much time finding was just these four scrolls. The amount of this information was much less than he expected before, but he knew that these things should be extremely valuable. Undoubtedly, in the eyes of Zeus in the past, these things may even be as important as the artifact scepter, otherwise Hercules would not have to take it out of Mount Olympus.
Hesperis looked at those scrolls, and said softly with emotion: "Heracles took these things all the way out of the siege of the demon hunters, how important are the things on them?"
Hao Ren randomly took out a scroll from the container, asked the data terminal to confirm that it was safe to open, and then slowly unfolded it.
The scroll was opened, and it was densely filled with symbols, but the structure of these symbols was extremely strange, including not only the Leta runes, but also ancient Greek characters and several alphabets that had been completely lost until now, and the grammar of each sentence was also different. Not quite normal: Obviously, this thing is written with some kind of encryption rules, but Hao Ren feels that the ciphertext is a bit unnecessary.
The scroll has been sealed in a very strict way. If the pre-sealing methods are all right, then only the descendants of the Olympus family can open this thing. In this case, what is the point of encryption? And if the previous sealing methods are ineffective, and the scroll falls into the hands of a powerful foreign enemy, these ciphertexts can only delay the opponent's deciphering time-most supernatural races have a long lifespan, and the encryption level of these ciphertexts is in Hao Ren's hands. It seems that it’s actually not that high. With a little time, probably any alien family or demon hunter can figure out what is written on it.
Hao Ren doesn't even need any decryption time here. He has a data terminal, an ultra-high-speed computing assistant, and can almost understand the contents of the scroll at the speed of direct reading:
"... When He first came to this world, the universe was in chaos, and the forces of disorder were turbulent among the stars, and everything was ruled by an ancient and evil being called the 'King of the Ancients', also known as 'The Lord of Madness', the ancient tyrant who feeds on the universe, sucks the primordial energy greedily and puts everything under his tyrannical rules. The Lord of Madness is a being of chaos and without any logic , just like its name, madness is the only thing around this tyrant..."
Hao Ren's fingers moved on the scroll, and while synchronizing the analysis in his mind, he read out the contents in a soft voice.
The light around him gradually distorted, the surrounding jungle fell into darkness little by little, the sky seemed to lose its balance and tilted towards the west, the sun hanging on the horizon was elongated into an oval sphere, and the sunlight tore the sky into countless pieces A terrifying block, with a thick dark atmosphere permeating between the blocks, as if the end is approaching.
Lily was the first to find out that something was wrong. This overactive husky girl couldn't focus on one thing for a long time like others, so her attention was always wandering around, so she immediately found out that there was something wrong in the sky. Strange and exclaimed: "Ah! Landlord, look at the sky!"
Hao Ren was interrupted instantly, and the distorted phenomena around him also calmed down in the blink of an eye. However, when he was interrupted, he also subconsciously noticed the surrounding situation: the last scene of those abnormal phenomena happened to fall into his eyes.
An indescribable feeling of coldness welled up in his heart, and he immediately turned to the data terminal: "What happened just now?"
The data terminal also recorded the last scene just now: "It seems that when you started to read the scroll, there were signs of chaos in the nearby time and space. However, the chaos was only maintained in a small range. This machine just called a few minutes ago. No apparent atmospheric anomalies have been detected from space using data from a satellite that flew by here."
Hao Ren suddenly felt that the scroll in his hand was full of evil spirits. He hurriedly threw the thing back into the container, but at the same time, he couldn't help but think of the few words he had read just now: King of ancient times, Lord of madness , the frantic and brutal rules of the universe, and the "he" at the beginning of the text—these records obviously have nothing to do with the worship ceremony of Vivienne in the Olympus pantheon. If I have to say it, it seems to describe something more senior events.
Hao Ren couldn't help having some associations, but he didn't think about them for the time being.
Because he felt that the nature of this matter had deviated greatly from what he expected at the beginning, and so did the artifacts and these scrolls. These things seemed to be unsuitable for research in this barren mountain and wild forest lacking equipment support. He had better go to Toss these dangerous things in your own safe laboratory, or more simply, go to Raven 12345's house to toss...
Anyway, the goddess sister blew herself up every now and then, and there is no shortage of him in heaven who demolishes houses...
He put everything into the portable space (the artifact scepter he found before was already placed in it), patted the dirt on his body and stood up: "These things can't be dealt with until we go back."
"Oh, oh," Lily suddenly recovered from her wandering state, she swayed around Hao Ren with her legs crossed, "Then what shall we do next? Are we going to have lunch?"
Hao Ren was choked for a moment, he really didn't know how this bitch was thinking...
"Let's leave here," Vivienne sighed, "but before we go home, we have to go to Corpus, send Hathaway there, and talk to Bai Huo about what we found here."
Hao Ren nodded: "The final fate of the twelve demon hunters who disappeared three hundred years ago has been revealed, and the matter of the Olympus legacy has also been announced. Head hanging case."
Lily nodded her head, her eyes glowing: "Oh, yes, yes, so the witcher will treat us to dinner?"
Everyone: "..."
Everyone bid farewell to Pierre and his party at the edge of the forest. At the same time, Hesperis also left for Athens. In the end, apart from Vivienne and Lily, Hao Ren had Hathaway in a ghost state. After they confirmed that there was nothing missing, the data terminal started the space transmission and went directly to the ice fortress on the top of the North Pole.
Today, Hao Ren and his party have become frequent visitors and honored guests in the eyes of the demon hunters. They come and go freely between Corpus and Ice Fortress without any notification. After greeting several familiar demon hunters, the group walked directly through the frost-covered streets in the fortress to the Frost Temple where Whitefire and Hasselblad lived.
Along the way, Hathaway followed Hao Ren. Although she could change her appearance, she still maintained the image of a noble lady in her lifetime. It seemed that she was very disturbed and didn't know that she was an undead. Would it be appropriate to be here in witcher clothes - so she didn't change attire altogether.
An undead cannot be hidden here, the most elite and experienced hunters gather here, they can recognize the breath of the undead through hundreds of layers of camouflage, so Hathaway has attracted many demon hunters after entering the city attention. There are also some more experienced demon hunters who can distinguish the scent of their own race from Hathaway's undead aura, which makes them cast more curious eyes.
However, after seeing Hao Ren and his party walking in front, these demon hunters put away their curiosity and just watched the strange undead step into the sacred Frost Temple.
Hathaway looked around at the familiar scenery, and returned to her hometown after three centuries, but she was already a body of undead. Coupled with the series of events she had experienced, all these made her confused about everything she saw. Feeling so overwhelmed, it's hard to say a word.
This really doesn't look like the image of her babbling endlessly in the old house back then.
Bai Huo had already received the news, this time she did not show her image of a decadent dead house, but had been waiting for Hao Ren and his party in the hall of the temple with her mentor Hasu early.
After the two groups of people met, they exchanged a few casual greetings, and then Hao Ren pushed Hathaway forward, forcing the hesitant and timid female undead to stand in front. Otherwise, her face ready to run away at any time is really worrying.
"This is Hathaway. Among the twelve witchers who disappeared three hundred years ago, she was the only one... Well, it's not considered alive, it should be said that she died..."
Bai Huo and Hasselblad looked confused. (to be continued~^~)