Lily's departure from the team was doomed, and this incident made Hao Ren understand more clearly: he will eventually complete this journey alone.
Going beyond the twilight battle in the age of mythology in 44 BC, this retrospective journey has gone deeper into the deepest part of history. In Hao Ren's eyes, the world before BC has become more and more grotesque. His original history Knowledge has been subverted time and time again during this long journey—human historical records are difficult to guarantee accuracy, especially those records involving the age of the ancient gods. Too many supernatural traces and reality are interspersed together, causing future generations Those historians who are more materialistic often choose to extract all the myths and legends involved in ancient books and hand them over to religious scientists and mythologists for discussion. The things that get knocked out...
It's all what he experienced.
He witnessed with his own eyes one after another ancient kingdoms that were not recorded in the history books. Those kingdoms were full of dark magic power and indescribable atmosphere of other worlds. Some kingdoms were built on land floating in the sky, relying on sunlight Power runs, but some kingdoms are buried deep underground, absorbing the energy of magma and rock. Strange alien creatures rule these grotesque city-states. They implement all sorts of strange laws and formulate many rituals that are unimaginable to modern humans. Human beings, as servants of these city-states, have served their alien masters for generations, and Wage endless wars with other "Cities of Miracles".
He also saw the reality version of many myths: when passing through the Mediterranean region for the second time, he found Jason under the guidance of Hesperis, and found Vivi at the cost of assisting the legendary hero to find the Golden Fleece. Ann's whereabouts; in Egypt, when Seth launched a surprise attack on Horus and stabbed the Egyptian patron saint with a knife, he suddenly appeared and beheaded Seth on the spot in exchange for the gratitude and trust of God Ra. And had the opportunity to board the anti-gravity fortress ship sailing above the clouds - the solar ship. With the help of the solar ship's radar, he found Vivian's pyramid that had been buried in yellow sand; in ancient Babylon, the god Marduk When the fierce battle with Tiamat was in full swing, Hasu shot an arrow from a nearby mountain and pierced one of Tiamat's eyeballs, so that the gods of Babylon were awed and subdued, and said "blood Where is the maze of the God of Dominion, Vivienne...
The heyday of the Age of Myths lasted five thousand years. During this whole heyday, what Hao Ren saw was a world where alien creatures ruled the land, human beings were reduced to slaves and livestock, and countless lost ancient kingdoms flourished. They came from another world. The rulers of the ancient world built countless large and small city-states or kingdoms, but due to the constant wars against each other and the lack of a reasonable and effective social order, these ancient countries were often annihilated by time before leaving many traces of history.
There are usually two kinds of alien gods who can survive the "adaptation period" of the first two or three thousand years. They either have powerful innate qualities, or have a lot of technological or magical creations brought from their home world (and these things happen to be able to survive on Earth. come in handy), and the kingdoms they established are therefore divided into two distinct types. The former is darker and more brutal, and the smell of blood can be smelled almost every day in the rocky city. "My favorite entertainment. In Hao Ren's eyes, the latter is more like a colony base established by aliens on Earth—metal barriers and energy barriers beyond the era surround these ancient god cities, and the core hinterland of some ancient god cities is even simply It is a stranded alien spaceship, and the primitive and rough stone city of human beings is built around these seemingly sci-fi or magical "fortresses", which violate harmony but also have a sense of mystery.
But no matter which one is, there is not much difference to humans at that time. Even those advanced cities that are full of advanced civilization and rely on high technology or magic technology, their comfortable environment is not prepared for humans. .
Those prepared for humans are usually biochemical laboratories, radioactive mining sites, and battlefields for fighting other city-states.
Of course, there are always a few relatively mild "heavenly paradises" among them. After all, even if they are visitors from another world who have no feelings for the earth, there will be a few alien virgins who sympathize with the earth people (the kind of real virgins) ), but in the face of the general trend, this little bit of good intentions cannot reverse the power of the entire era—in the entire age of mythology, human beings lived in dire straits.
A thunderbolt pierced the sky, and the dazzling electric light froze in the night sky before it disappeared, and then the whole world was filled with monotonous colors of black, white and gray, and fell into a stillness in the blink of an eye.
The Babylonians who were worshiping in the square outside also turned into gray-white stone statues, and were quickly swallowed by the darkness coming from a distance. In the end, only the king of Babylon standing in the front of the crowd was left. Although the gods only regard him as a "leader of the monkeys" and a useful ruling tool, he still has full momentum as the king of mankind. Now this imposing king has also turned into a stone statue. He stares forward with a little surprise, and with this expression, he is forever frozen in this time and space.
Hao Ren poked his head out of the gate and took a look, confirming that the entire city of Babylon had been reduced to fragments of information just like the previous few times, he turned and returned to the temple.
It was another hasty meeting, and this time Vivian gave Hao Ren a suggestion before leaving:
"In the future, don't act as a human anymore. Going forward, it will be difficult for human beings to move an inch. Every human being walking in the wilderness will be regarded as a defected slave of a certain god, at least in most places where there are activities of other gods. That's right."
"We will meet again in the next era..."
"The Age of Mythology is such a bad time." After Vivienne left, Heatherana leaned on a black stone pillar and sighed, "I caught up with the end of the Age of Mythology, and I can feel the so-called What kind of thing is the "gods"? Originally, a group of unorganized and undisciplined aliens came to an ecological planet that no one cares about. It must have been a throw of the dice."
Hesperis couldn't help but glanced at the little bat spirit: "There is one of the 'so-called gods' standing in front of you—did I still care about human beings back then? I even saved an entire city-state Woolen cloth."
"Then your entire Olympus family is still bad," Heatherana mercilessly complained. This daring little bat spirit doesn't have so much seniority and inferiority when facing people other than Vivienne. The concept of "Hades, you know what kind of guy you are, and the violent Ares, Poseidon who set off a storm when he has nothing to do..."
Hao Ren looked a little embarrassed at the atmosphere, and quickly coughed twice: "Ahem... It's a bad debt thousands of years ago, let's stop talking about it."
Heather Anna rolled her eyes at the sky and leaned more comfortably on the black stone pillar: "Okay, okay. But then again, compared with those small city-states with no order at all, cities like Olympus and Northern Europe In fact, the great gods are more or less conscientious, at least they are big families, and they follow the rules. The human countries under them can generally survive as long as they abide by the laws they make. Human city-states ruled by giant beasts or lone demon gods are even worse, and sometimes the entire city-state is wiped out just because the demon god they serve has a brain twitch."
"Those guys are not intelligent creatures at all," Hasselblad said lightly, "probably because they were shocked to the brain when they crossed the wall of reality. Some guys mutated on the earth and became like beasts, ruled by them Human beings are the worst - but there is no way to resist."
"Okay, okay, from this point of view, you demon hunters have contributed a lot to killing the false gods all over the world, thank you for promoting the civilization process of this planet, and not letting it drown in the swamp of the barbaric era, Hesiana gritted her teeth at the old hunter, and after spit out a mouthful, she relaxed and finished her work. Then she looked down at her legs, which were gradually being covered by the luster of gray-white rocks, and then looked back. The stone pillar of Hammurabi's code that I leaned on, "It seems that I have to follow in the footsteps of that stupid dog. During Hammurabi's time... Tsk, I didn't last as long as a husky..."
The off-white "light of petrification" spread to Heatherana's waist and abdomen, but the phenomenon caused by the solidification of time and space did not affect her speech. She rolled her eyes and thought for a while, as if she wanted to summarize a few more words to remind Hao Ren’s words, but time was obviously not enough, so she had to shake her head: “Forget it, you have seen a lot of the world anyway, and I have nothing to remind you. Just remember it and listen to Hesper more. Reese's suggestion was her home field in the Age of Mythology, and the demon hunter next to her was also an illegal foreign armed force in the days before 2,000 BC... "
After Lily, Heather Anna became the second member to leave the team, and this time, no new members joined.
Only Hesperis and Hasu were left beside Hao Ren.
It is true that they are not the only ancients that Hao Ren knows. The Nordic God King Odin and the Elder Gregory of Corpus were active in the early days of the mythical age, and they are still alive in the real world outside. As a matter of fact, Raven 12345 has gathered every ancient person that Hao Ren knew early on, and left them beside the gate of time and space, waiting to be summoned at any time—however, the historical retrospective journey itself is too uncontrollable Well, Hao Ren couldn't just choose to summon these people in.
Because he can only backtrack at certain nodes, and the location of the backtracking is limited to Vivienne. In view of the fine life style of the countess who roams around the world, this "backtracking node" may be in a certain age of gods. The city center may also be at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, or it may be in the vast desert, or even in a crater in extreme cases...
God knows how Vivian can sleep in such a ghostly place.
All in all, it is entirely a matter of chance whether you can find "time and space wanderers" who can be recruited as allies in these backtracking locations.
Instead of expanding the scope of activities and increasing the risk of failure in order to deliberately collect these teammates, it is better to use the existing strength to find a way to solve the problem by themselves. This is the conclusion reached by Hao Ren, Hesperis and others after discussion.
Now the little bat spirit has returned to the real world, and there are only three people left in the team.
The time is now 1788 BC, and the road ahead is still long.