This is the real reason why the lost city of Ethos became what it is today.
It's not that Vivienne lost her memory of this city, but that she really never came here at all—it is her evil body avatar who dominates this city, who destroys this city and pushes it into a different space. It is also the body of evil thoughts. Everything was beyond Hao Ren's guess at the beginning, and even completely exceeded his previous concept of the special existence of "evil thought body".
It turns out that there is such a special individual in the body of evil thoughts
But there are still many questions that have not been clarified, so in the end he forcibly suppressed all kinds of speculation and confusion in his heart, and continued to ask what happened after that—because judging from the current state of the Colossus Corps and the Spirit of Ethos, in the city After falling into a different space, something must have happened here.
"What happened after the city fell into a different space?" He asked Ertos in his heart, "What have you experienced?"
"The moment the city fell into a different space, the last surviving resister in the city died in the shock of time and space. After that, the 'master' stood on the top of the pyramid of the Great Temple for a long time, I think at least hundreds of years... I Not understanding what she was thinking, or maybe not thinking at all, and I've been slowly stabilizing myself in the process."
"Injury?" Lily blinked, "What injury?"
"You don't think I'll be safe and sound when the omnipresent moonlight falls, do you?" Ethos' voice was somewhat helpless, "Even the spirit body of the Chaos Wanderer can't resist that weird red moon... I don't Know what the hell that is, but its light nearly rips my soul apart, and the damage continues hundreds of years after the city was thrown into an alternate dimension. I thought this would last forever, but Later, the moonlight in the city finally gradually weakened, and I was able to recover."
Lily asked curiously: "Then what about the 'Master'? Why did she go back to the pyramid?"
"I don't know, but since the city fell into a different space, the power of the 'lord' has been declining, even though I am only a spirit body, I can still feel it. She stood on the pyramid for a long time , until most of the power of the moonlight faded, she returned to the Great Temple without warning, and then fell into a deep sleep—I never figured out what kind of logic she was following in the whole process."
"Actually, she really has no logic," Vivienne shook her head with a wry smile. "At least after she starts going crazy, she won't have any logic anymore."
Y'zaks thought for a while and asked guessingly, "You took over the rest of the stone statue soldiers here after the 'Master' fell asleep?"
"Those were my limbs," replied Ethos, "and they (here the inhabitants of the city) cut up my armor and bones, and fashioned them into various things, including gargoyles, but for It doesn't matter to the Chaos rogues, I just lent them the stuff for a while - I took it back when the people in the city died..."
As Ethos' words fell, those colossal statues that stood still suddenly started to move again. They turned around rumbled and began to form a neat square formation—the moment they saw the stone statue soldiers moving, they exploded Mao, jumped up half a meter high with a meow, and then hunched over and protested in a low voice while taking small steps to hide behind Hao Ren: the cat girl was frightened by these stone bumps.
At this time, Hao Ren had already vaguely figured out the joint: "So these stone statue soldiers are not guarding the 'Master' at all... In fact, you are 'watching' her!?"
"I can't talk about guarding. I know the power of these stone statues. If the master wakes up, these stone statues can't stop her at all. I just monitor this place to prevent someone from entering this different space by mistake and awakening the Great Temple. The sleeper in the middle of the world—in the past long years, such things have happened more than once. The different space will always be connected with the main material world for various reasons. Once the reckless adventurer enters the Great God The temple may cause unpredictable consequences. I remember that the people who broke in the last time were even standing under the steps of the great temple. They are just a group of humans, but they have incredible weapons and tenacious fighting spirit... But fortunately I still stopped them."
As Ertos finished speaking, Hao Ren saw a gargoyle walking out from behind the line. The gargoyle opened its huge palm, and some distorted metal fragments and tattered uniforms slipped through its fingers. slide.
"British Army," Vivienne judged after just a glance, "the uniforms from World War II."
"There are too many mysterious incidents of military disappearances in history, and half of them unfortunately fell into different spaces," Heatherana shook her head and sighed. People are not shallow."
Hao Ren also sighed unceasingly, but he also admitted that Ertos's disposal was a choiceless move: his party has proved Ertos' worries with facts, and outsiders entering the Great Temple will really wake up the sleeping If the "master" is awakened today instead of a group of supermen but a group of ordinary adventurers, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Since the divine evil body has the ability to throw the city into a different space, then she must also have the ability to return herself to the main material world!
Vivienne looked up at the sky, with a dumbfounding expression on her face: "So you sent stone statue soldiers to fight us..."
"I was just preventing you from going to the great temple," Ethos said slowly, "but I didn't expect you to go straight to the temple instead."
"This is the difference between a non-professional and a professional." Hao Ren spread his hands, "Our group is a professional."
Everyone: "..."
Heather Anna backed away calmly: "Just say what you say, don't take me with you."
"No wonder your stone statue soldiers will stay away from the Great Temple as much as possible no matter how noisy they are. It turns out that it is to prevent the monsters inside from being awakened." Hao Ren smacked his lips and shook his head. It stopped outside, maybe it means giving up the treatment? In other words, if this is the case, you should tell us, it’s not like you can’t communicate with people—just send a group of stone statue soldiers to fight over, and normal people will resist. Huh. Look now, we blow up a bunch of your colossi, and you kicked my cat, so it's not a small loss on both sides."
Roll over and rub Hao Ren's arm, muttering, "Big cat, I don't feel any pain anymore."
Ethos' helpless voice sounded in everyone's minds: "It's not that I don't want to communicate with you, but this kind of communication is more likely to wake up the sleeping 'Master'. In fact, if you didn't successfully eliminate the 'Master', I'll never 'talk' again."
"Spiritual communication will awaken the master?" Hao Ren felt as if he had come into contact with a piece of information about the evil body. "Has such a thing happened before?"
"Spiritual communication itself will not wake her up, but it is dangerous to mention her in the process of spiritual communication. She is still watching the city in her deep sleep. There are too many opportunities to wake her up," Ethos said. There was a sigh in his tone, "In addition to the risks in this regard, the guys who break into here often have unpredictable behavior patterns, and communicating with them will bring more uncontrollable factors. There was once a group of people who fled The wizards came up with crazy ideas after learning the sleeping place of the 'master'. They actually wanted to wake up the master to gain powerful power. I really can't understand this tendency of self-destruction, and I can't understand those strange things Little creatures' weird ways of thinking, so I stopped communicating with them altogether. Until your appearance, you were an absolute surprise."
"Yeah, after all, we not only woke her up, but also killed her," Hao Ren shrugged, "In short, we have figured out the ins and outs of this city, but I still have a lot of curiosity about the 'Master' where. Do you know where she came from in the first place?"
"I had several conversations with the Overmind before she went completely mad," said Ethos slowly, "but she never mentioned where she came from. She just said that she wandered the Great Plains, purpose and direction, she doesn't know her name or race, or even where she started from in the first place. And her mental state is weird from the beginning, even when she is more 'sane', Her thoughts are often interrupted, or she falls into eerie long silences, sometimes she'll drop a topic right away and start a new, incomprehensible one, but more often she just mumbles to herself... sorry , it seems that I can't help you in this regard."
Hao Ren himself didn't have much hope for this - every evil body is mysterious and incomprehensible, and even Vivian herself doesn't know when and where she split the evil body to come out. It is already a miracle in itself that the "Great Master" has a "sober" period where he can communicate, and he can't expect too much other than that.
But just when he had given up on learning more information about the "Great Master" from Ethos, the other party suddenly spoke again: "Although I don't know the origin of the 'Master' very well, she once left one thing , I thought you would be interested."
"Something?" Vivienne instantly cheered up, "What is it?"
"It's a gem. She gave this gem to the high priest of the city after waking up from an intermittent sleep. If I guess correctly, the gem should still be where it was sealed."
Hao Ren and Vivian couldn't help but glanced at each other, and then each saw the thoughtful look on the other's face.