"Calling you?" Hearing what Vivian said, Hao Ren frowned, "Is it a voice?"
"I can't tell." Vivienne's eyes kept wandering on the huge steel mountain. "It was just a momentary thing, as if someone reminded me to look in that direction... But now there is nothing."
Some lightning-quick thoughts flashed through his mind, and Hao Ren vaguely guessed what it was: "Sacred Artifact—it seems that at least half of the legends are true."
There are not many things that can make Vivienne have such a weird reaction, and the creation directly left by the goddess of creation is one of the most likely ones. In the myths and legends of the remnants of the Ark, there was once an artifact that protected the entire world, and now Vivienne feels an inexplicable call beside the ancestor's furnace, and no one can't help but connect the two things. It seems that this exiled fleet really got some kind of protection, and this protection... came from the Goddess of Creation!
Willie didn't understand what Hao Ren and the others were talking about, so he asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?"
"You are a local, do you know how to enter the Ancestor Hong Furnace?" Hao Ren asked bluntly.
"A local? I'm not a local. I was born and raised in Hearth City..." Willie subconsciously answered the first half of the sentence, and then he immediately realized, "The Ancestral Furnace?! What are you talking about? You want to enter the Ancestral Furnace?! "
"Isn't it possible?" Nangong Sanba raised his eyebrows, "Aren't we here to solve this problem?"
Willie’s expression turned pale. He had a lot of guesses about the group of unknown people in front of him, but he never expected that these people would be so whimsical that they wanted to enter the ancestor Honglu to find out: "This is a fairy tale! Ancestor Honglu is It is a place where only the dead can set foot. It has never been heard that a living person can enter that place! People who step into the oven will be cursed by the power of the underworld. Want to go in?!"
Hao Ren was very surprised when he heard this. He didn't know that those generator sets were so dangerous, and he didn't know if there was something wrong with the local people's myths or legends, or if the ship's energy furnace itself had some safety measures to prevent visitors from entering, but He must still want to go in: "Is there no other way to get in?"
Willy shook his head vigorously: "Impossible, impossible. This is suicide. And even if there are outlaws who want to break into the ancestor's furnace, it is impossible. There are blood servants guarding all the entrances and exits day and night. Those soldiers don't even know what the king said." Don't listen, they only obey the mission. What are you crazy about going to that place?"
The young man seemed to be intimidated by Hao Ren's plan. After trying his best to dissuade him, a look of surprise and uncertainty gradually appeared on his face. Looking at Lily and Vivian with indifferent expressions on their faces, Willy suddenly remembered the "witchcraft" and some dark and terrifying legends of this group of people, and his body trembled: "You... what the hell are you trying to do?"
"Relax, relax, kid." Vivienne's eyes were slightly red, and she forcibly calmed Willy by agitating the power of blood magic. Her tone was slow, with wonderful magical power, "You don't want to end Is it cold winter? And look at the current state of the ancestor's furnace... It's broken, very badly broken, and we know how to fix it, that's why we're here."
There are only a few tricks in Vivienne's blood magic that work on the human spirit, but Willy is an ordinary guy who knows nothing about magic. And weak-willed, so he was appeased without any resistance. His eyes were cloudy for a while: "But the ancestor Hong furnace can't get in, it has the power of the underworld inside. The blood servant won't let you..."
"Then your king summoned the bachelors to plan how to solve the problem of the reactor?" Lily asked curiously, "They don't know how to fix that thing from the outside, and they can't go in, do they just watch?"
Willie mumbled a mass of wild conjectures, mixed with confused witchcraft, misinterpreted technical terms, specious knowledge of mechanics, and a little resignation to fate. In fact, there is no need to ask him, Hao Ren himself knows that people in this world cannot possibly know how to repair that reactor, just like every time the reactor shuts down in the past, the bachelors will gather and chant spells and spells to the ancient circuit diagrams and circuit boards. I bow down, but in the end, people still rely on the tenacious self-repair of the Ark system to survive every cold winter—however, this time, there was a hole several kilometers long in the furnace of the ancestors, which cannot be solved by restarting the system.
Hao Ren originally planned to let Willy and Bachelor Oro lead the team. Then a group of myself found an opportunity to enter the reactor through the guards in this place openly, so that there would be no bloodshed and all accidents would be avoided. But now it seems that the local people's knowledge of ancestor Honglu is more serious than imagined, and in the end I still have to force myself.
"Go back to the resting place by yourself first, we still have things to do." After inquiring about "Blood Warrior", Hao Ren patted Willy on the shoulder, told the young man to leave on his own, and then walked towards Wangcheng. The high wall on the side, he observed the terrain before, and thought that there was a gap leading to one of the entrances of the reactor, "Let's go and see the situation."
Everyone walked through the bustling and crowded streets of Wangcheng, walking towards the gap.
The surrounding area is still bustling. Although a terrible incident happened here not long ago, everyone in Wangcheng saw the explosion of the reactor at close range, but the streets of this city are still as lively as ever. People in this world seem to have gotten used to the occasional situation in the world around them. Although it was a bit unprecedented that the ancestor's furnace was cracked this time, after the backup power of the shelter was activated, the civilians calmed down again. Men, women and children are talking about the previous explosion on the street, some people are telling some strange legends to explain this phenomenon, pessimists and optimists are gathered, but everyone's actions are the same: everyone gathers in the Let's talk loudly together, and use words to dispel the haze.
Of course, the substantial damage caused by the previous explosion to the city cannot be ignored: when the electric fire tore the shell of the reactor, some fragments were blown off, and these fragments fell to the edge of the urban area in the direction of artificial gravity , smashed some houses, coupled with a series of small-scale fires caused by power system failures, many messy places can be seen in Wangcheng. Soldiers and artisans clear the devastated area, and the damage gets worse the closer you get to the Ancestral Forge.
Thanks to the chaotic social order of the world itself and the messy situation of the destroyed neighborhood, Hao Ren and the others passed all the intersections smoothly without attracting any attention. In the end, they came to a special exit at the corner of the royal city. As Hao Ren guessed, after going out from this gap and walking up to a high ground, he could see one of the entrances of the ancestor's furnace in the distance.
But there are really layers of guards around the entrance facility, and some strange-looking soldiers are guarding the place. Those soldiers wore crude leather armor, and their upper body was exposed to the cold air. They seemed to be completely unafraid of the low temperature. Their skin was pale and sick, and their muscles were extremely developed. Dark red blood vessels were exposed through their white to almost transparent skin. , as weird as a red tattoo. These soldiers walked around the entrance of the reactor, muttering some weird sentences from time to time, their voices sounded like a mixture of beasts and humans, and when they spoke, saliva even dripped down the jaws of these people to the ground .
Hao Ren muttered, "Is this the Blood Warrior that Willy mentioned?"
"... Radiation symptoms," the data terminal sneaked out, the surface light surged, and it understood what was going on after a little inspection of the facilities behind the soldiers, "This machine just forgot to check the radiation value of this area — There is a leak in this reactor, and the radiation intensity behind those metal walls is frighteningly high, and these soldiers have been guarding the place only one wall away from the radiation source all year round, and they are all seriously ill!"
The blood servants are the chosen ones who guard the furnace of the ancestors. They are selected from the most powerful warrior families in the Four Kingdoms. They are the bravest young men who are capable of fighting. In the glory of the gods and ancestors, they have acquired some characteristics different from ordinary people. Although their lifespan is short, their lives are full of glory-this is the local people's interpretation of "Blood Warrior", and the truth of everything follows-these are just a group of They are just poor radiation patients. Their greatest combat power comes from their appearance burned by rays. Ordinary people in this world dare not be enemies with people with this appearance.
"They chose the strongest healthy people to guard this place, but they actually spent their precious labor on radiation," Lily's eyes widened. "This is really... unreasonable."
"When the Black Death was at its worst, people were keen to burn women who knew how to cure diseases with herbs to stop the plague," Vivienne said expressionlessly, "and the guards here are at least somewhat necessary: behind those doors there are indeed It’s not a place for living people to go, no matter what the first person who discovered this thought, at least he was right to send someone to lock the door.” (To be continued~^~)