Hao Ren was taken aback by the corrupted monsters entrenched in the center of the ruins of the town. Even Veronica, a local who should know the land of chaos, expressed great surprise, which surprised Hao Ren.
"Isn't it usually like this?" Hao Ren looked at the knight princess beside him, "Didn't the old knight just say that after lighting some fire in the town, the corrupt monsters wandering in the wilderness would be attracted?"
"But we also said that the number of corrupt monsters is far less than that of Chaos servants," Veronica lowered her voice, with unconcealable tension on her face, she turned her head, and Hao Ren saw her pair of lavender eyes There is a glimmer of light in the darkness, "Corrupt monsters are the state of beings in the orderly world after they are polluted by chaos, but not all order creatures can become corrupt monsters—in most cases, those who are polluted are directly given by the power of chaos." Devoured and assimilated, none of the ten can complete the transformation. In the realm of chaos, only the servants of chaos are the real protagonists here."
When Her Royal Highness said this, she cautiously poked her head to look at the center of the town, then turned her head back and explained: "Besides, this is the hinterland of the Chaos Domain, and it is impossible for there to be so many corrupt monsters."
The second half of Veronica's explanation was not so detailed, but Hao Ren already understood what it meant.
According to the nature of corrupted monsters, they should appear in large quantities at the junction of the orderly world and the chaotic world, because only there are enough "materials" that can be polluted and transformed, the deeper you go into the chaos, Corruptors should be rarer, even if there are so few guys who appear here by chance, they should be rare—and these things in front of them seem to have far exceeded the common sense of this world.
"Maybe they wandered from other places, such as the border of the world of order." Hao Ren casually guessed while looking around.
"Wandering?" Veronica turned her head and glanced at Hao Ren. Although it is normal for this "Ancient Guardian" to have a bit of memory confusion after waking up from a deep sleep, the other party is still confused after accumulating many mistakes in common sense. She was full of doubts. In fact, Her Highness the Princess had already doubted Hao Ren's origin, but she knew that this powerful "hermit" was the last support for herself and her soldiers, so she just suppressed it calmly. Thinking in my mind, I shook my head slightly, "Corrupted monsters rarely wander, most of them linger where they fell before they were alive, and all the corrupted monsters that can move are extremely powerful guys before they were alive—they are transforming into monsters. After that, I still retain a certain ability to think, so I will take some unexpected autonomous actions. But these... are not the kind of monsters that are powerful enough to migrate at will."
"It sounds like some kind of undead," Hao Ren muttered, "Well, let's not consider how these guys appeared here, the key is why they gather here. See if they are surrounding what?"
Hao Ren raised his finger to the center of the group of monsters, and saw that the countless gathered twisted monsters actually formed several layers of rings around something. There was an open space in the center of all the monsters, and there stood a A dark and strange thing: it is a square stone tower more than ten meters high. The stone tower is divided into three layers from top to bottom, the top is thin and the bottom is thick. The bottom layer is a hollow structure, and it seems that there is a lot of space in the base of the tower.
"That's the fire," said Veronica.
"Stove fire?" Hao Ren first subconsciously asked a question, and then reacted in a vague way, "Oh, that's not what we used back then."
Veronica seemed to have gotten used to Hao Ren's "situation", she just nodded knowingly: "The stove used today was improved by Archbishop Bollman of the Ecclesiastical State 655 years ago. The fire has an extra level of rune walls, and it looks more like the fire tower used in big cities, it's normal if you don't know."
Hao Ren silently memorized the newly acquired knowledge—the fire seems to be a shelter device used by smaller-scale settlements, such as villages and towns, and the big cities of this world use a kind of protection device called "fire tower". There should be a powerful device to resist the forces of chaos. According to this law, there should be a national defense system on it, and most of the technology of these defense systems is controlled by a national force called "The Order State". It's just that they don't know what kind of organization the religious order state is, and how much their "religious order" is related to the goddess of creation.
At least a few thousand corrupted monsters surrounded the extinguished fire device, but they strangely did not take any unnecessary actions. These twisted and blind monsters just stood quietly in the darkness, and they all stared at each other. Staring at the pitch-black square stone tower, this weird scene makes one's scalp tingle.
Hao Ren frowned: "It was this fire that you lit before? So they were attracted by the fire?"
"Theoretically yes, but I've never seen a monster attracted by the fire appear in this state," Veronica shook her head, "Look, the fire has been extinguished, so the monster attracted should It will gradually disperse, but they stay here motionless... I feel that the furnace tower is emitting a strange atmosphere."
Hao Ren thought for a while, then shook his head: "There's no need to waste time with the monsters, the most important thing is to hurry. Anyway, these guys don't seem to move around, so we can simply bypass this town and save a lot of trouble."
However, Veronica fell silent after hearing this. The knight princess thought about it, and then looked at Hao Ren with a hesitant expression.
"What's wrong?" Hao Ren asked curiously.
"I know this is an exaggerated request—" Veronica said, "but I hope to investigate the cause of this anomalous phenomenon in front of me. All changes in the land of chaos are of great importance to people living in the orderly world." Crucial information, usually we need to pay a huge sacrifice to find out the news from the depths of chaos... "
Before the other party finished speaking, Hao Ren knew what she meant: Her Royal Highness wanted to check the condition of the fire device.
When surrounded by thousands of monsters.
If he was a native of Colo, he would probably refuse Veronica's request unceremoniously after hearing Veronica's request—after all, bravery does not mean recklessness.
However, Hao Ren was different. He nodded after thinking for a while: because he himself was very interested in the fire device. The entire ruins were turned over and studied again.
This is the professionalism of the examiner: observe.
"You agree?" Veronica looked at Hao Ren in surprise, and immediately added the honorifics in her tone, "But like you said, there is no need for us to be here..."
Hao Ren waved his hand to interrupt the other party's next words: "Because I can do it, I agree. But these monsters are indeed a bit troublesome. There are too many of them. There may be thousands of them gathered in the square, and I suspect there are more monsters in the nearby shadows." There are so many monsters, one person can only use a powerful attack against so many monsters, but the range is too large."
Veronica swallowed, and the image of the "ancient man" became more and more unfathomable in her mind, but she still quickly entered the state: "You are right, fighting here may destroy the fire device, so It's best to distract these monsters. And only temporarily—if I can get close to the base of the fire, I can get it to burn again, though only temporarily, but the fire is still more powerful than the average saint. The monsters are powerful, and with the help of the furnace fire, the monsters will not be feared."
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "So the plan is for me to lure those monsters away, and then you find a way to light a fire in the middle of the square?"
Veronica nodded, but a look of shame appeared on her face.
Because this arrangement is obviously a bit excessive, especially when facing a benefactor who just met and saved his life not long ago, asking the other party to do such a seemingly death-like thing is simply abandoning the way of knighthood.
Although in terms of the strength shown by this "ancient guardian", this "bait" job is actually not that dangerous.
Hao Ren didn't think too much about it. He just recalled the various battles he had experienced, and then nodded: "Sure, then I'll find a way to lure these monsters away. I'm pretty good at pulling monsters."
Veronica tilted her head: "Pull monsters?"
"It's just to lure the enemy," Hao Ren rubbed his chin. "Besides, it's not safe for you to light the fire alone. It's best to bring your knights too, because I'm not very stable in pulling monsters..."
Veronica's head still didn't turn upright: "Is it unstable to pull the monster?"
"It's just that there may be no way to lure all the monsters away - many monsters don't take ridicule."
Veronica thought about it, and felt that the language of the ancients was really profound. (to be continued~^~)