The words of the King of Mountains and Rivers finally solved Hao Ren's many doubts:
Why does the real world of Kolo only have five floating continents and some small floating islands that don't add up to one continent? Even if all those lands are pieced together, it is far from enough to form a complete planet!
Why is it that the world of Kolo is clearly a creation supervised by the goddess of creation, but there are almost no temples and relics of the goddess with real divine significance, but only imitations built by mortals? Just like the Casuan Temple and many halls in the Sanctuary, although they look like the goddess of creation, they are obviously just creations of mortals!
Why are the historical records of various secular countries in the Kolo world so chaotic, and all of them are separated from the time node of 10,000 years ago? Even taking into account the interruption of inheritance caused by Lockmarton, this kind of division is too abrupt and "tidy", as if all civilized countries have been overthrown and restarted again!
The fact is that the world of Kolo has really undergone an earth-shaking rebirth—during the destruction of the chaotic tyrant Lochmarton, this small world with a diameter of two light years has been divided into two from time and space. With the help of the "God's Engine", the prison officers pushed into the side of the nightmare and became an old world forgotten by everyone. The so-called real world is actually just a replica used to control the prison system and accommodate survivors! In the new world, the kingdom of mortals is passed on, because the relics of gods are all suppressing that eternal nightmare in the old world...
Under the leadership of the King of Mountains and Rivers, everyone trekked on the barren plain, heading towards a certain stronghold that was said to be very important, and the probes released by Hao Ren had already begun to send back the first batch of information. In the image, Hao Ren can see the appearance of this "old world" more clearly and intuitively. However, in order to avoid alerting Lochmarton in advance, all the detectors bypassed the places where there were obviously intelligent activities or powerful energy reactions, but even so, the data they sent back were already precious:
Due to the collapse of the imaginary space, this "true Kolo" has been compressed to a radius of only two astronomical units, and stabilized on this scale, except for the continents floating in nothingness, it has no sun, moon, stars, and all light The energy comes from the turbulent primordial storms in space, some solid lands are suspended in the void, which can roughly correspond to the real world of Kolo (that is, the new world), and countless phantom-like things are running between these floating continents , passing through, constantly penetrating each other but unable to influence each other.
In the vast, cloud-shrouded area, the detectors discovered countless fragmented ruins—including steel castles floating in the sky, magical spiers, ancient facilities that looked like factories and warehouses, and even installations. The space-based fortress of giant artillery and guide rails, however, these once magnificent things have now lost their functions, leaving only countless fragments floating in the sky above the old world. Tentacle structures floated around, twisting and wriggling aimlessly, disgusting and malicious.
The images sent back by the probe are both disgusting and heart-pounding. It seems that the Prison Officer Legion in ancient times was very powerful. The Goddess of Creation once set up unimaginable heavy firepower and even space firepower on this planet. However, Lockmarton still nibbled at these lines of defense little by little, and even dragged the entire space into the realm of imaginary numbers. How strong is its resistance
Are conventional firepower and fighters its opponents
"What are we going to do next?" While Hao Ren was contemplating, Lily yelled bouncingly. She is a person who can't stand her temper, and this place makes her shine brightly, which makes the husky girl even more excited. He became irritated, "Big man, big man! Where is that Lochmarton? Hurry up and go home!"
In fact, not only Lily is shining, except for the little weak chicken, everyone else in Hao Ren's team is not shining. The brightness of everyone's body basically reflects the amount of natural treasures they usually eat. Its transcendent appetite and habit of stealing food rank first in the brightness list, and Yizaks ranks second—the old devil is surrounded by holy light, and he feels that his whole person's painting style is not quite right, just like putting down the butcher knife. Buddha-like.
Hearing Lily's words, Gordon didn't stop, but raised his finger and pointed into the distance: "It's irrational to face Lokmarton rashly. We must first understand the situation here. We have been asleep for too long, so we are right It is unclear how far the situation on this side of the Realm of Reflection has deteriorated, but before the situation completely got out of control, Loken left behind a large number of monitoring points and backup databases, these things are still running automatically after the wardens are corrupted And because it is not a living thing, it should not be completely polluted by Lochmarton. I am taking you to the nearest monitoring point from here. If it is still functioning, we will be able to grasp the current location of Lochmarton itself, and The distribution and strength of its claws and claws throughout the nightmare world—challenging the nightmare tyrant is a difficult task, without these data, we will only be lost in this fragmented world like blind insects and ants, and gradually be swallowed by nightmares."
Hao Ren nodded, and it was exactly as he expected: Although the wardens were controlled by corruption, they were not completely unprepared. Even today's counterattack had plans and arrangements. This kind of cooperation is more reassuring: a teammate who can understand the status quo and control the situation is much better than a group of hot-blooded brats with empty courage.
While nodding, he couldn't help but recall the scenes he saw in Benedict III's spiritual vision before.
The barren and open wilderness, the monsters fighting in the wilderness, the shadow of Lochmarton blowing across the sky, and the giant mirror tower in the background—the scene that appeared in the illusion seemed to be a certain place in this plain, and it had just arrived On the surface, he also vaguely heard the sound of fighting on the battlefield, but what about the battlefield
Hao Ren gazed into the distance, but did not see any flames of war.
Vivian came to him and asked curiously, "What are you looking for?"
"Did you hear the shout of killing when you came out of the cave before?" Hao Ren slightly turned his head and asked in a low voice.
Vivienne frowned: "Screams of killing? I seem to hear something vaguely..."
Before she finished speaking, Lily rushed over: "I heard it, I heard it! But seeing that you didn't respond just now, I thought I heard it wrong..."
Hao Ren and Vivienne looked at each other, and said to themselves that dog ears are spirits.
At this moment, Hao Ren's conversation was interrupted by the rumbling voice of the King of Mountains and Rivers. The rock giant happily pointed to a silver-gray obelisk standing on the wasteland not far away: "Ah, monitoring point ! It's still there!"
The monitoring point is a small metal tower two or three meters high. It looks like a city monument engraved with shimmering runes. When you get close, you will find that it is not directly placed on the ground, but is floating a distance from the ground. In the mid-air of about 100 meters, there is a concave square platform below it. Between the platform and the small metal tower, there are countless lines flying back and forth, as if they are exchanging data.
For ordinary people, this metal tower is a tall building that needs to be looked up. However, for giants like the King of Mountains and Rivers, it is just a small device that must be bent down to operate—Gordon knelt down on one leg in front of the monitoring point Putting his hand on the silver-gray alloy surface, Hao Ren took the opportunity to ask: "The Abyss of Oblivion... I mean, is there any survivors in this 'old world'?" Is it the resistance force? For example, the automated corps you left behind."
"The surviving resistance?" Ge Dun was taken aback for a moment, then slowly shook his head, "Probably not."
"should?"
"We were completely controlled by the power of Loch Marton three hundred years ago, but in fact, as early as a thousand years ago, the wardens almost completely lost the ability to monitor the Forgotten Abyss," Gordon said in a low tone, obviously What he was talking about was not a very pleasant thing, "In other words, for ten centuries, this prison was unattended, no one knew what happened here, and we didn't know what we left behind. How long did those automatic defense equipment last, and under what circumstances were they completely destroyed... So far, I know nothing about the situation like you, but at least there are still monitoring points left, I should The situation will be cleared up soon.”
Another warden sighed: "We have dishonored our mission."
Hao Ren was silent, and just exchanged various information from the frontline detectors with the data terminal in the mental link. Doudou hugged his arm quietly and curled up in his arms, which was rare and honest.
But at this moment, the obelisk in Gordon's hand suddenly emitted a burst of bright light, and then an unusually blurry picture was projected on it. A heavily armed soldier appeared in the projection. The background was a chaotic battlefield. The voice came from the screen: "... the seventeenth record... lost... our plan to regain the position failed... unable to contact the Warden Legion... we are in... the Scorched Earth Plain, and we will hold on until... Zizi..."
The messy picture ended here, Gordon looked at the unexpected message in astonishment, and muttered to himself: "It's a mortal soldier..."
Hao Ren immediately asked loudly, "When was that recorded?"
"Seven centuries ago," Gordon said slowly, "it was the last communication received by the monitoring point."
"This legion is probably over," Vivian sighed, "but why is there a legion made up of mortals here?"
"They are the 'heroic souls' mentioned earlier," Gordon explained, "the most outstanding and steadfast mortal souls, they devoutly believe in our mother, and voluntarily join the team of defenders after death, in this nightmare The world of the Lord is resurrected to wage eternal war against the minions of Lochmarton. They are a supplement to the warden army, but not the main force."
Lily said bluntly: "They can last longer than the main force like you."
Gordon lowered his head speechlessly, and it took him a while to say: "That's right, just like what you said."
But at this moment, Hao Ren was thinking back to the fighting sounds he heard not long ago—he heard it, Vivienne heard it, and Lily heard it without a doubt. Those can't be auditory hallucinations!
In a trance, those faint voices seemed to appear in his ears again, and when he raised his head slightly, his pupils suddenly contracted.
I saw that on the desolate horizon, a dark shadow appeared at an unknown time! (to be continued~^~)