After the old priest left, Hao Ren nodded to Lily and the others, then took out a signal amplification device from the portable space, and put the badge on the receiving end of the amplification device: In this way, the signal from Olympus The encrypted signal can be broadcast directly, and at the same time, he can even use the limited communication bandwidth of the badge to slightly sense the situation on Mount Olympus.
The first few calls went nowhere, with no response.
Lily's ears moved: "Isn't Apollo at home?"
Heatherana thought about it seriously: "Maybe the phone is charging."
Hao Ren: "...don't fight, you two."
Since regular calls didn't work, Hao Ren had no choice but to activate the cheating mode: he simply cracked the badge's functional restrictions, and simply used it as a signal transmission device, and then began to listen to the movement at the other end of the communication channel.
At the beginning, there was only a burst of meaningless interference clutter from the signal amplifier, but as Hao Ren continued to fine-tune the frequency of the equipment, there seemed to be faint other sounds appearing in the clutter, and gradually some human voices and whistling sound coming from the device.
Encouraged, Hao Ren strengthened the filtering and amplification of the signal according to the previous direction of fine-tuning. Finally, a clear shout suddenly sounded: "...Ah! I am bleeding all over the floor!"
Then nothing happened.
The room was very quiet for a moment, and the four people looked at each other in embarrassment, and the most embarrassing one was obviously Hasselblad—although there was no expression on his paralyzed face. Lily glanced sideways at the old hunter: "What's going on?"
"...'I' seems to have killed Apollo just now," Hasselblad said in a strange tone, "Well, at least now we can confirm the battle on Mount Olympus—the historical 'I' has led troops to break through the Olympus Mountains. The rear line of defense of Lympus, the entire Olympus pantheon is almost finished."
Hao Ren finally couldn't help but jumped up: "What do you think you were so active in those years? When stealing a house is not good, you are rushing to do it!"
Hasselblad is particularly innocent: "... Wasn't this my responsibility back then, and more than two thousand years ago, I didn't know that one day I would use those guys who have been regarded as 'prey' by demon hunters."
"Landlord, should we go to other temples to find someone?" Lily tugged at Hao Ren's sleeve, "Anyway, the people on Mount Olympus haven't died yet, there must be someone answering the phone..."
"What's the matter?" Hao Ren sighed, "Hasselblad led the troops to break through the Olympus back door defense, which means that the stalemate stage of the Greek god war is over. At this time, Olympus has been beaten into a pot of porridge. Do you think those Greek gods are so lenient that they can still pay attention to the signals from the world at this juncture? They are almost losing their lives."
Hesianna curled her lips: "Tsk, it's really unreliable to rely on others, we still have to find it ourselves."
Hao Ren didn't say anything, but felt rather regretful. In fact, it stands to reason that after coming to the territory of the gods in the age of mythology, it is the best way to find the local "gods" to inquire about Vivienne's whereabouts. Following the movement of that remarkable female countess, for Hao Ren who had no clue where he was going, those "gods" were the best sources of information, and the same was true for the advice given to him by Raven 12345 before he set off. .
It’s just that there is a good saying, the plan can’t keep up with the changes—who knew that the backtracking node around the first year of AD would be stuck at such a juncture. When the Olympus family was in a stalemate with the witcher and the situation was getting worse and worse, they were still paying attention to Vivienne's movements, but at this moment they really can't count on it.
Hao Ren and his entourage desperately rushed for a good time, and when they came in, they heard Apollo, the sun god, angrily say "I'm bleeding all over the ground"...
After coming out of the room, Hao Ren first saw the old priest with a tense expression on his face. The old man seemed to have been waiting here for a long time. When he saw several "gods" appearing, he immediately walked over in small steps. : "Mighty gods, have you got the answer you want? Has the great sun god also sent me an order?"
Hao Ren didn't have the nerve to tell the other party that the sun god he worshiped had just died, so he just casually said: "We're done asking, but Apollo didn't give you the words, the Kingdom of God has been busy recently, and I probably don't have time to talk to the world these days. "
The old priest bowed his head in awe: "The gods must be busy organizing the order of the heaven and the earth."
Hao Ren sighed, and said to himself that ordering order was a waste of time, the whole family was busy being wiped out.
Lily glanced at the old man in the priest's robe. From the wrinkles on his face that could no longer be healed, it was not difficult to see how bewildered this old man who had lost his "god" for decades was. The alien gods have never been good people, but for the priests who have devoted their whole lives to worshiping the gods, the activities surrounding the gods are already the whole of their lives.
Lily thought about the angry "I'm bleeding all over the floor" before, and finally couldn't help but said, "Then what, old man, have you considered changing your career?"
The old priest didn't understand at once: "Huh?"
"It's nothing, she's just joking," Hao Ren waved his hands hastily, and dragged Lili outside, "Then we won't bother you, you can go about your business—remember what happened here today and don't tell anyone. people."
When passing through the front of the temple, Hao Ren glanced back at the majestic sculpture of the sun god Apollo.
Ordinary humans can't observe it, but Hao Ren can tell that the layer of "spiritual light" surrounding the statue is gradually dissipating. The stone statue that once held a sliver of Apollo's power is rapidly fading away, turning into a brick like the surrounding one again. Stone is indistinguishable from stone.
"Landlord, why didn't you let me continue talking just now?" After leaving the temple, Lily finally couldn't hold back her words, "Those false gods are all dead. Why don't these priests and monks change their careers quickly?"
Hao Ren took a look at this dog girl who was sometimes very shrewd, but sometimes very thoughtless: "It was because of the disappearance of the gods one by one that the priest class ushered in the last wave of glory in history—for them It may also be the first real brilliance in its own right."
Lily didn't even think about it: "Why?"
"Because no one cares about it anymore, you can talk nonsense, and you can take what should belong to the master as your own," Heatherana shrugged, "When the 'gods' are all around, the priest No matter how high the class status is, they are the tools and slaves of those alien gods. A good person in Troy, Laocondo, was killed by the gods just because he said a wrong sentence-but it is different when the gods die However, the end of the age of mythology is great news for human priests, before the truth of the 'fall of the gods' was exposed, they were able to deceive and abduct for more than 1,800 years."
Lily scratched her hair: "Oh, it sounds so reasonable."
"Are you really unexpected, or are you too lazy to think about it?" Hao Ren complained, "Have you eaten all the four times you graduated from Peking University with your big bones?"
Lily put her hips on her hips, and said confidently: "Nonsense, why should I use my brain after following you guys who just think about it when you have nothing to do?"
Hao Ren: "..."
This is really the first time that the husky girl admits this with confidence...
"Hao Ren, what are you going to do next?" Hasselblad also had nothing to do with Lily, the theoretical predecessor of the witcher, so he changed the subject directly to avoid embarrassment, "We are aimlessly going all over the place like this." It's not a good idea for Rome to find Vivienne's whereabouts, especially since Hesiana can't provide any useful information."
Hao Ren pinched his brows with his fingers. In fact, he even thought about going to Mount Olympus to inquire about the situation, not only to find out about Vivienne's whereabouts, but also to find the Hesperis of this era— The "Twilight Goddess" is undoubtedly a great help for him to continue to advance to the age of mythology. But the intelligence he gathered in the Temple of Apollo made him dispel this idea: the demon hunters broke through the last line of defense of Olympus. The army is fighting back and forth, but at this moment, the battle has entered the final and craziest harvesting stage. Zeus's "God" is full of red-eyed demon hunters and ancient Greek "gods", which is no longer a suitable place to fight. Adventure is out of the way.
He is very confident in his own strength, but self-confidence is not reckless. It is not a good thing to rashly get involved in the war between the demon hunter army and the Greek gods when he cannot call Nolan or seek other external help— The reorganized crusaders are not the hunters of 1400!
Although there should be a Hasselblad leading the team on Mount Olympus at the moment, it would be a strange plan to let the Hasselblad next to me go over, but it is surrounded by thousands of troops, and the risk of going too far is still too great Yes, at least not proportional to the return.
Hao Ren weighed it in his mind, but a sudden noise from the street interrupted his thinking.
Countless citizens were rushing onto the street, and Roman soldiers in gorgeous armor and cloaks also ran along both sides of the street. There were cheers coming from afar. It sounded like some important person had appeared and was welcomed by the crowd.
Amid the din of voices, Hao Ren heard a name:
"Caesar! Great Gaius Julius Caesar!"
At the end of the long street, a gorgeous carriage decorated with garlands and gold leaves appeared. The leader in the carriage can therefore stand up directly to receive the worship of the people.
Gaius Julius Caesar, the famous Roman ruler, was standing on the carriage, surrounded by four loyal guards in full armor, and he himself was wearing ornate armor full of decorations. Amidst the cheers like mountains and tsunami, he was waving to the surroundings.
Hao Ren saw this scene.
He suddenly realized that not only the gods on Mount Olympus dealt with Vivienne in this era, but also this—
It is said that Caesar was once kicked into the moat by Vivienne.