A large-scale electromagnetic storm exploded over the city. Since it was only a few hundred meters above the lowest point on the ground, the shock wave it caused even created a gust of wind around everyone. Everything seemed to be electrified, crackling electricity. Sparks flew everywhere in the air out of thin air, and the ozone generated by ionization filled the surrounding area with a pungent smell—the invisible magnetic field was far more powerful than the discharge phenomenon in the air, it swept across the entire block, and within the scope of its power, everyone The stone statues stopped trembling, and then fell to the ground one by one.
In the sky, a huge, transparent jellyfish-like thing was revealed under the impact of the electromagnetic storm.
It looks like a ball of cotton candy floating in the sky, with a turbulent appearance and a boundary full of illusion. There are countless shimmering lines extending from the bottom of this huge transparent structure, and each line is connected to the bottom. A stone guard on the ground, after those guards destroyed by the magnetic field fall, the "wires" connected to them will be retracted, which looks like a jellyfish retracting its tentacles.
Everyone couldn't help but marvel at this spectacular mysterious structure—except for the poor cat girl who was hurt and frightened, and was holding Hao Ren's leg and meowing non-stop, completely oblivious to the sky. Condition.
Hao Ren finally saw clearly what the thing he had been vaguely aware of looked like before. He guessed that the thing should be completely invisible, and even now what everyone sees is not the real appearance of the thing: it should be an invisible Things that interact with the material world are only the powerful energy released by Vivienne that bombards its key nodes, causing the area where the "jellyfish" is in contact with the material world to be electrified, and the distorted discharge layer outlines its outline Come.
Hao Ren's first reaction when he saw it was to raise his hand and shoot, and then directly released a round of heavy missiles from his portable space to bombard the weird "jellyfish".
The psionic pistol ignited a small blue flame on the surface of the "jellyfish", and the rays directly penetrated its structure, but the wound it caused was a drop in the bucket compared to its overall volume, and the heavy missiles simply penetrated the structure directly. The body of the thing, the latter is like a phantom that does not exist in the real world, and there is no friction with the missile.
After the missile passed over that thing, a big explosion occurred at the boundary of the distant space. Immediately, this already unstable space began to collapse even more violently.
Hao Ren immediately dismissed the idea of violently destroying the "jellyfish".
"Damn it... what the hell is that?" Lily raised her head and was dumbfounded. "A wrath? Or the soul of the eldest son?"
"It's not like that. Wrath Spirit has no form, and the soul of the eldest son is much bigger than it." Hao Ren shook his head. "But it should be something close to the soul... I have this intuition. Elizabeth, do you know what it is?"
The little devil shook his head: "I don't know, I just came here based on the experience of dealing with golem soldiers. This thing should have been floating above the city, sleeping with the golem soldiers, but we don't understand the previous temple. The investigation stimulated this thing, and it suddenly woke up. This is the control center of the golem soldier. What I asked Vivienne just now to hit is the connection node between it and the next golem soldier. The electromagnetic shock should make it short. Lose the perception of the lower nodes for a period of time—in other words, the golem soldiers will go blind for a period of time in the future.”
"This opportunity is not to be missed," Hao Ren immediately reacted, and waved his hand, "Everyone, hurry up and go to the Great Temple at this time!"
Elizabeth's judgment is correct, the little devil girl is worthy of being a golem genius who can toss out her father No. 1, 2, and 3 by herself: as she said, after the "jellyfish" in the sky was temporarily paralyzed by Vivienne's electromagnetic storm, the ground The golem corps on the road also fell into chaos for a short time.
They lost the ability to control the overall battlefield, and they no longer acted in unison as before, but started to wander around like headless flies. Every golem soldier became a blind man fighting alone, and their own intelligence Obviously not enough for these stone bumps to complete independent operations.
Hao Ren and his party were thrillingly advancing on the streets blocked by the Golem Corps. They could see those huge shaking stone statues at almost every crossing and main road. The rampage of the latter was accelerating the demolition of this mysterious ancient The city, before the edge of the city had time to collapse into the vortex of space collapse, the buildings inside the city were almost flattened by its own guardians. And those stone statues shaking around basically turned a blind eye to the "intruders" running past them, even if occasionally Hao Ren and his party accidentally got too close or encountered one or two stone statues head-on, when they dealt with these stone statues The other colossus soldiers around them also seemed to be completely unconscious.
But in the process of approaching the Great Temple, Hao Ren couldn't help but secretly startled:
There are so many colossus guards in this city!
Although it is known that one-third of the ancient city is occupied by temples, the number of religious facilities in the city has far exceeded the demand, and each temple has a number of stone statues far exceeding the general regulations. , but Hao Ren didn't realize the scale of this "army" was far beyond imagination until these stone statues all came out of their respective temples and assembled into a black army on the street.
Even Vivian stuck out her tongue in amazement, the number of golems in this city, even in the age of myths where demons danced wildly, could be called a militaristic configuration.
"This city is definitely not an independent city-state. It is supported by other cities. It is either the capital or the religious center. Otherwise, with the productivity of the year, it is impossible for an independent city-state to support a troop of golems of this size. "Vivienne descended a little from the sky, and floated beside Hao Ren, talking about her deduction, "But such a powerful country didn't even have a name, which is a bit unbelievable. And there are them The 'spiritual body' used to guard the city..."
As she spoke, she looked up and saw that huge jellyfish-like transparent structure was still floating in the sky, and the electric shock phenomenon caused by the electromagnetic storm in that area had not subsided, so the connection between the "jellyfish" and the surface stone statue army was also gone. It is still in a state of paralysis, but as time goes by, the discharge layer in the sky is rapidly dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye. I am afraid that this state of paralysis is about to end.
However, the great temple in the center of the ancient city has also appeared at the end of sight.
Vivienne looked back at the sky and shook her head: "This kind of thing is rare even in the age of mythology. As long as it shows up, it will definitely have a great reputation, but I haven't heard of it at all. It's incredible."
At this time, the voice of the data terminal suddenly sounded in the hearts of everyone: "About the name of this ancient city, this machine has figured it out."
The main body of the data terminal is still floating above the city at this moment, undertaking the duties of aerial observation and crisis warning, but it still has enough spare computing power to participate in the topic of Hao Ren and Vivian. As the voice of the data terminal fell, the small holographic projection device floating beside Hao Ren also presented the picture transmitted by the data terminal—that was the mural that everyone had found in the temple before.
The murals depict legends about the ancient giant beast "Ethos", but at that time the stone statue guards suddenly woke up, Hao Ren had to stop studying these murals ahead of time, and now it seems that the data terminal has completed a comprehensive analysis of the murals. .
Hao Ren focused on two things. He looked at the content on the mural while he was on his way, and at the same time listened to the report from the data terminal:
"These murals are continuous, telling the glorious history of the city's disasters and resurgence. At first, the city did not exist, and there were only some loose tribes on this land, which consisted of a group of half-beast and half-human The 'Gods' ruled the land, who were the first rulers of the land. Then a monster called 'Ethos' suddenly appeared, the one in the first mural, taller than the mountain, but With thin and long feet, it walks on the ground, but its body can rise from the clouds - this monster releases lightning and fire as it walks, and thus destroys many tribes on the land, which is what is described in the second mural. But then a very powerful 'Great Master' descended on the land, and this 'Great Master' fought against Ethos..."
Hao Ren looked at the third mural, which was the one that was interrupted by the stone statue guards and failed to examine it carefully.
On the screen, an image composed of abstract lines appeared in front of Ethos. This image was like a wooden mask full of American style. The outlines of the facial features were connected by exaggerated and ridiculous straight lines. The appearance of the "great master", and lamented that there are all kinds of rare things in the age of mythology, but soon Vivian explained that this is actually just an "ideal incarnation", and the great master should be too powerful So much so that the primitive people did not dare to directly describe the appearance of ta, so according to the simple religious concepts at that time, a deified totem that was separated from the human image was depicted for this "great master".
This totem was the mask that floated before Ethos.
"The Great Lord and Ethos fought for three days and three nights. The flames and storms wiped out everything on the earth. Only one tribe survived, because this tribe realized the power of the Great Lord in advance and sought refuge behind the Lord," The data terminal continued to interpret, "Later, the great master finally won the victory. Ertos was torn apart by the power of the great master. Its body was divided into four parts, and when it fell to the ground, it became four pieces of fertile land. The head of Toss fell in front of the last surviving tribe—this was the greatest trophy, so the surviving animal head god in the tribe built a city on the head in order to express his awe and gratitude to the great master. His name is Ethos."
On the fourth mural, it is the scene of Etos falling to the earth in fragments, and a group of humans, driven by the "ancient gods" who are half-beast and half-human, climbed up Etos's head and built a castle on its skull. City.
There was no doubt that this city was the one before them, and its name was Ethos.
"And then?" Hao Ren couldn't help asking when he found that the data terminal was silent.
"It will be gone later."
Hao Ren: "... Fuck, it's gone? It's exciting to listen to, and you told me that the eunuch in the back has disappeared?!"
Vivienne hurriedly comforted her at the side: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, this kind of thing is normal, who had the time to engage in cultural inheritance in the age of mythology, few mythical stories in those days were completed, and the Dead Sea documents were not written Is it over..."
Hao Ren: "..."
"These historical records should have a follow-up," the data terminal continued at this time, "judging from some incomplete texts in the previous temple, this machine believes that each temple in this city has a different class. ’, different classes of temples allow different records, so the records in a temple may not be complete—but the great temple in the center of the city should have the most complete historical data.”
"The Great Temple..." Hao Ren raised his head, and the majestic main body of the Great Temple was already in front of his eyes.