Although Hao Ren felt that this retracement would be easier and more enjoyable than the previous ones, he also knew that there was no such thing as a truly easy and pleasant journey in this distorted time and space.
There will always be various unexpected or unexpected troubles waiting for them.
In the Amazon jungle, they met Vivienne who was wandering in the jungle for the first time. However, before they had time to speak, Vivienne entered a berserk state before falling asleep in front of them, almost leading to the destruction of the group.
On the Mongolian prairie, Vivienne's tomb is right in front of you, but out of nowhere, hundreds of demon hunters and even more werewolf remnants suddenly appeared. The shield forcibly awakened Vivienne against the indiscriminate bombardment, almost losing half her life.
And God knows what is waiting for them in ancient Rome, which lives in the last corner of the mythical age.
After changing into a costume in line with the background of the times, Hao Ren and his party walked in the ancient Rome city more than 2,000 years ago, wandering around while collecting information.
This prestigious ancient city gave Hao Ren a great sense of surprise—compared to the barbaric American tribal settlements and the rotten and dark European Middle Ages, the orderliness and grandeur of the city of Rome are like a miracle that happened in ancient times. From a municipal point of view, it is even more beautiful and livable than medieval European cities more than a thousand years later. At least here you can't smell the rotten smell that permeates the bones of the city. The tall houses along the road, the exquisite stone carvings that can be seen everywhere, and the decorative pillars and gates that demonstrate the power of Rome, these things together form the prototype of a powerful country—although Rome at this moment is just a Roman Republic rather than an empire, but it Some of the traits belonging to the empire have been demonstrated, and these traits are in the grand style of the city's buildings, and also in the proud and confident faces of every resident.
Oh proud Romans.
Although Hao Ren knew very well that the productivity of human beings on earth at this moment was far from being comparable to that of future generations, he still spoke highly of this city.
"So, history develops in a spiral shape, and it will always go backwards a little bit when it is inexplicable," Heatherana looked at the city where she was "born and raised", and said with emotion in her tone, "Even if In the era of the Republic, the city of Rome also had perfect urban planning, and the drainage system and pollutant treatment mechanism were managed by professional personnel. However, these advanced things were finally smashed to pieces by the Germans from the barren land. Barbaric destruction of civilization... Until the fifteenth century, Paris, France, did not even reproduce the sewer technology of the Roman era, tsk tsk."
Obviously, the little bat spirit admires this city very much: after all, it is his childhood hometown, and this feeling is quite deep.
Lily stretched her neck and looked around: "Can we meet Vivienne from back then when we wandered around the city?"
"No, but wandering around is the most effective way so far," Hessiana glanced at Lily, "First of all, I can't remember what happened when I was a child, that was two thousand years ago, and it's the same when I'm in Rome now You will get lost. Secondly, Lord Vivienne and I lived in no fixed place back then. We said we were living in Rome, but in fact we were wandering around within a radius of a hundred miles around Rome. Where are you going?"
Lily's eyes widened immediately: "I'm going...with a radius of a hundred miles?! Then when will our blind cat bump into a head?"
"So we need to find clues," Heatherana said with an expression of being unable to communicate with this stupid dog, "This is the tip of the tail in the age of mythology, and the gods haven't completely finished yet—so at that time, Weiwei and I Many of Mr. An's activities are very public, as long as you walk around the city more, you will definitely find something going on."
The tip of the tail of the age of mythology—Hathianna's description of this historical period is quite apt.
Hao Ren looked thoughtful: "Are the gods on Mount Olympus still at this time? Hasselblad, tell me about the 'gods' of this period."
Hasselblad still had that paralyzed face: "This is the time when the age of mythology is about to end, and all the foreign 'gods' on this planet are going downhill, and the demon hunters are constantly encroaching on their 'God Kingdom' ' is the main reason, and another reason is that the ruling order they themselves implement is not sustainable. At this time, Odin in Northern Europe is still hurrying to send Valkyrie to collect heroic warriors to prepare for Ragnarok , but the lineage of Zeus on Mount Olympus has been retreating. If I remember correctly, before Caesar became active, the witcher Elder Amtura led a crusader to break through Olympus The space barrier of Mount Olympus, our army and the defenders led by Ares have fought fiercely at the foot of Mount Olympus for decades. During the Caesar period, I led the second battle group to storm Apo from the southern foot of Olympus Luo’s position, and fought all the way to the front of Zeus’s throne—you will know later, we destroyed the energy furnace and control center of Olympus, and the scene of the collapse of the entire different space can be clearly seen even in the human world .”
Of course Hao Ren knew about the last earth-shattering event. He also knew that when Mount Olympus fell, a group of sea monsters followed it on the surface of the sea. When dropping off the slag, I picked up a lot of rags and went back, including Vivian's statue...
"When did that happen?" Hao Ren glanced at Hasselblad, "Is Rome a republic or an empire? Was Caesar assassinated?"
"Then I don't know," Hasselblad shrugged. "We didn't care about the human world, at least at the time. A change of king and a change of society in a human kingdom changed the leader for us and the monkeys. It makes no difference."
Hao Ren: "..."
After hearing Hasselblad's words, Lily has been looking around curiously, and suddenly said: "According to this, there may be a battle with the witcher on Mount Olympus at this time?"
Hasselblad nodded: "Not only is there a war, even the 'I' in history may be on the battlefield at this time."
"I really can't see it at all. The world of the gods is about to collapse, and the human society in Rome is still silent. Look, there are still a group of monks walking and having fun over there!"
"Many times this is indeed the case. The wars that take place in the 'God Realm' are always far away from human beings, because the aliens use superb technology or magic to open up various different spaces—they use this to show their strength. Powerful, and try to avoid living with 'inferior and ignorant' humans, but this ultimately protects the human world in the war of the gods, because the main battlefield is all in their different space 'God Realm'. Of course, all The war of gods still has an impact on human beings. It is often at the end of the war, when the alien "God Kingdom collapses", the fragments will fall into the world, leaving countless legends and stories, just like the twilight of the Nordic gods, that Isn’t it passed down in the form of myths and legends?”
Lily and Hasu were discussing the fight between the gods, but Hao Ren suddenly thought of something else.
He suddenly realized that he could have other ways to understand Vivienne's movements at this moment.
"The gods of Olympus haven't died yet, have they?"
Hasselblad glanced at Hao Ren: "It's hard to say, but judging from the current atmosphere in the city, humans have not yet witnessed the collapse of Olympus, and the gods of Olympus should not be completely finished yet."
"That's easy," Hao Ren slapped his hands, "Let's find a temple!"
Lily didn't realize it all at once: "Why are you looking for a temple?"
"Ask those so-called 'gods' to inquire about the situation!"
In the city of Rome, there are absolutely many buildings such as temples.
Although it is not a grand scene of temples everywhere, as a country with strong inclusiveness and acceptance, Rome has never rejected the entry of foreign religions—as long as they do not shake the foundation of the country and deny the Romans themselves values, then a foreign religion can easily find a foothold in this city (of course, this requires paying a lot of money) and recruit believers, and this open policy directly leads to religious activities in Rome Prosperous and numerous church buildings.
In this process of religious integration, the ancient Greek gods from the Greek peninsula became dominant. This heterogeneous family, which was the most prosperous in the Middle Ages, spread their influence to the entire Mediterranean region, the ancient Greek peninsula, the ancient Italian peninsula, and the vast area around them. In fact, more than half of the many gods standing here are essentially Olympians. Gods of Sri Lanka—or their human avatars and variants.
There is an inaccurate saying that the gods of Rome are the gods of Greece. Although this kind of saying lacks professionalism and rigor in archeology and mythology, in fact there are indeed origins behind many gods worshiped in Rome. The shadow of the Greek god. As the greatest successors of ancient Greek civilization, the Romans packed almost half of the Greek gods into their own mythology system, and merged all the gods together, even if the names of these "gods", The clergy changed, but in essence, the offerings of their temples all ended up going to the same place - Mount Olympus.
Hao Ren once learned from Vivienne how the ancient "gods" ruled the world. They lived in a "divine kingdom" isolated from humans, but in order to accept offerings and show their majesty, they must leave behind a person who is different from ordinary people. The channel of communication, this channel is the large and small temples built under their behest. In addition to those small temples and small religions of unknown origin, there will be professional priests in large temples (or registered temples). These people are believed to have the power to "communicate with the gods", but in fact And indeed.
At least before the gods die, the human spokespersons they choose are capable of contacting their masters.
After being lost for thirty minutes, Hao Ren found a place that seemed appropriate: Apollo's temple.