Heatherana didn't know about Vivian's "auditory hallucinations" yet, so she was confused at this moment: "What do you mean?"
"Vivienne has often heard someone calling her name recently, but it's just an auditory hallucination," Hao Ren turned to Vivienne while talking, "Heard the voice again? Hasn't it healed up recently?"
"This time it's even clearer than before," Vivienne said solemnly, "I'm almost sure it came from that direction..."
The direction she was looking at was the end of the dark corridor. In the flickering light of the fire, only a deep darkness was left ten meters away, and the end of the corridor seemed to be shrouded in an eternal malicious unknown, with a cold aura.
Hao Ren felt that Vivian's "auditory hallucinations" might not be as simple as he imagined at first, and now that he thought about it carefully, it seemed that her "auditory hallucinations" did indeed come from the Hesiana family who discovered this different space. just appeared.
If there is indeed a connection between the two, what kind of secrets are buried in this ancient city
At the end of the corridor is an open hall, empty, and there seems to be nothing unusual.
After passing through the stone arch in the corridor, Hao Ren looked at the empty space in front of him and asked, "Are you sure the sound came from here?"
Vivienne looked around, and as soon as she came out of the long corridor, there was such a boxy, palace-like place. Judging from the location, this place should be close to the central area of the Great Pyramid, just like other places in the temple. Similarly, this place has been completely evacuated. Except for the huge stone pillar in the center of the hall and the reliefs on the stone pillar that cannot be removed, the various decorations and luxurious statues that might have been displayed here have long since disappeared.
"The voice is gone again," she tapped her forehead lightly, "but it must have come from this direction."
Since the stone statue corps outside will not enter the Great Temple, the data terminal has returned to Hao Ren's side at this moment, it flew around the empty hall, and finally stopped by the square granite pillar in the center of the hall: " The pattern on this pillar seems to have some clues!"
The granite pillar is the most eye-catching thing in the hall. Each side of it is several meters wide, and it is engraved with exquisite relief patterns. Even after thousands of years of wind and frost, those patterns are still relatively intact. The data terminal Soon, a few defects on the relief were repaired through restoration technology, and then it was discovered that the picture on the stone pillar was the follow-up part of the murals in the outer temple.
Hao Ren saw the mask pattern on the stone pillar at first glance: the residents of Ethos used this mask to represent their great "lord".
"This describes what happened after the death of the giant beast Ethos, and after people built a new city on the head of the giant beast," the data terminal used different light beams to indicate different positions on the relief, "here, and here, all is continuous."
"The 'Great Lord' didn't leave after killing Ethos, but settled down on the plain. He neither accepted offerings from mortals, nor left this place, but silently watched the establishment of the new city..." Lily used Pointing to the cuneiform writing under the relief, he slowly read, "Under the leadership of the surviving beast-headed god, it took 22 years for the people to finally build Ethos, and built four more on the fertile land around Etos. City."
"On the day when the city was completed, the sky of Etos was covered with clouds. Among the beast gods, the wolf god thought it was a great auspicious omen, so he led the other beast gods to the cave on the plain, and asked the great master to come came to shelter the city. They offered barley, chick-peas, honey, and spiced roasts as followers of the Great Lord, who at last nodded and became Lord of Ethos."
Hearing Lily read this, Hao Ren couldn't help but ask Vivienne: "Is there anything special about this 'worship'?"
"The content of the enshrinement is not very particular, because there was no unified ritual system at that time, and the 'enshrinement' itself has a special meaning," Vivian explained, "In the age of mythology, all races are precarious, and not every heterogeneous species can As the supreme ruler of mortals for a long time—sometimes catastrophes or wars will defeat some weaker 'gods', they will enshrine other aliens stronger than themselves with the attitude of mortals enshrining themselves, which will As a result, they were annexed by other 'gods', and even completely lost their status as 'gods', but at least they were able to save their lives. It seems that the situation around Etos was very bad at that time, and those beast-headed gods felt that they were unable to keep their own territory. , so I went to hug the thigh of that great ruler."
Hao Ren nodded, continued to look down, and read the content on the relief by himself: "... the new main god lives in the great temple in the center of Ethos, accepting worship from mortals day and night, under the protection of the powerful god, Ethos Toth became a country where no one dared to offend...
"The animal-headed gods chose to submit to the new Lord God, and they became priests of Ethos, and lived in the Great Temple and the surrounding smaller temples.
"In order to protect the city, the beast-headed gods collected the bone plates that fell from the body of Ethos after his death. They forged and burned these bone plates, infused them with fire and the power of the earth, and then made them into huge warrior...
"These warriors are made in the image of the beast-headed god. They are powerful, have a body as solid as a rock, and never get tired..."
"The appearance of the beast-headed god, a huge stone statue, never gets tired," Lily blinked, "This refers to the giant statues we encountered."
"Undoubtedly," Hao Ren nodded in agreement, "I didn't expect that the bodies of those stone statues were actually made of the remains of Ethos, no wonder they are so strong, and they don't look like the known metals and ores on Earth. .”
Y'zaks pointed to the relief depicting the new god living in Ethos: "So this great master lives in the central temple of this city—that is, where we are now?"
Hao Ren stood up straight, looking around with increasingly puzzled eyes.
This is a temple that has been evacuated—it is not an exaggeration to say that it was looted. If the "great master" is really the supreme ruler of Ethos, if he really has supreme authority here, Then why did it become like this here
Considering that everything in the surrounding small temples is in good condition, this big temple seems to have been abandoned before the accident happened in the city. Could it be that the "supreme master" who ruled this place had already moved away
There is no follow-up record of this incident on the relief, and there is no record of how the great temple was abandoned, but think about it, since people have abandoned this place, there is no need to leave a construction description in the demolition ruins.
Vivienne stood in front of the stone pillar engraved with reliefs for a long time, as if trying to recall the city destroyed by her moonlight, but her fragmented memory was as difficult to mobilize as ever. After a long time of thinking and silence, she put her hand on the mask pattern representing "Master" on the stone pillar: "To be honest, this mask is really ugly..."
Just when she was halfway through her words, the stone pillar suddenly changed unexpectedly!
The lines on the relief became distorted, and the originally solid hard stone began to flow and deform like ooze at this moment. The cuneiform characters on the stone pillars and the patterns full of ancient civilization styles were quickly swallowed by the ooze-like wriggling surface, and everyone was stunned. Under his gaze, all the reliefs on the stone pillar melted away in a few breaths!
Then line after line of distorted text emerged:
Don't wake him up! Don't wake him up! Don't wake him up! …
The words on the stone pillar popped up line by line like frantically swiping the screen, and then quickly disappeared with the ooze-like flowing surface. This scene was weird and frightening, and this was just the beginning: with the There was a sudden change, and a deep voice suddenly echoed in the entire Great Pyramid:
The sound is indescribable, it is like a muffled thunder rolling among the clouds, it seems endless, but the muffled sound is mixed with the sound of countless people screaming and screaming, sometimes mixed with the crackling sound of tearing and howling wind She was awakened by the sound almost instantly as she rolled on Hao Ren's back. She hurriedly jumped off Hao Ren's back and lay on the ground on all fours. Her eyes kept looking in all directions, her tail was like a stick The fluffy stick stood up straight, and the back arched Lao Gao: "Meow woo woo—"
"Space distortion detected, repeat, this machine has detected space distortion..." The data terminal also sounded an alarm at the same time, and then shot a light beam forward. At the end of the light beam, Hao Ren saw a stone wall in the hall suddenly " Expand".
This is a phenomenon that is difficult for the human brain to directly understand. The originally square, unobstructed stone hall shook violently like a mirror, a stone wall became farther and farther away during the shaking, and in an instant, the hall The area of the hall has more than doubled, as if it was so huge before. In the newly added part of the hall, Hao Ren saw a tall stone platform standing there, surrounded by a circle of braziers. —they burn automatically the moment they appear.
On the top of the altar-like stone platform, a heavy coffin made of gold is being slowly pushed away.
Hao Ren felt his hair stand on end for a moment.
"One of the essential knowledge points for digging graves," Lily said angrily beside Vivian, "Don't touch anything you don't understand what it's for."
Vivian stared at the golden coffin on the stone platform, and swallowed hard: "Sleeping in a golden coffin...so rich..."
Everyone: "?"
"Whatever it is." Hao Ren doesn't care about anything. He has read all kinds of movies, TV dramas and novels, and he knows that waiting for the opponent to complete the transformation/awakening/recharge/explosion is tantamount to death. It made sense, so he raised his hand and threw a graviton bomb into the golden coffin just as it was halfway open.
The moment a loud bang exploded, he took out his inspector's gun and fired three more shots in a row.