Chapter 1195 The Cage and the Watcher

Hao Ren was completely shocked. He had calculated everything before, but he never imagined that the "noble family" who once lived in this house turned out to be a group of demon hunters!

Moreover, he is a witcher who broke away from the Demon Hunter Order and got mixed up with an alien!

Hesperius's face was full of disbelief: "This is impossible! If the previous notebook and the voice just now are true, then did this group of demon hunters defect from their order? This This has never happened before!"

"Demon hunters are extremely united and are infinitely loyal to the order. Even if there are huge internal conflicts, they will not turn into defections." Vivian also shook her head gently, "At least until we lift the shackles of innate hostility, They have never had an example of defecting from the organization... let alone a group of people running out to help Hercules, the 'remnant of the alien'."

At this time, Hao Ren suddenly remembered a detail he just heard from the echoes of the past: "Wait a minute, didn't we hear it in the house just now? A demon hunter said that Hercules extracted power from the artifact, and then took them out of the house. Freed from the bondage...could the bondage here refer to innate hostility?"

Vivian groaned and seemed to suddenly realize: "Ah, so that's what that sentence means... What the hell is that artifact?"

"It has the power of a bat, and somehow it has lifted the curse of innate hostility of a group of demon hunters, and there is also a big villain sealed inside." Lily scratched her hair, her tail wagging restlessly, "Why are there so many It’s a strange attribute.”

Hao Ren didn't say anything, but looked up at the tall tower behind the main house: In this ancient house in a different space, the tower still remains intact. It is built of stones and coated with white mortar. Those slender windows are also decorated with iron decorative frames on both sides. Looking at some of the details of its intact state and recalling the words he just heard, Hao Ren realized that this was actually a magic tower.

It's just regulations disguised as secular architecture.

"The echoes of the past that we hear so far seem to follow us," Hesperius said. "Wherever we go, we hear sounds, and they all sound like a major turning point in events."

Vivian nodded lightly: "Perhaps someone deliberately set these up to remind us, or it may be that the living stepped into this space and touched the magic power that has been preserved here for hundreds of years. This phenomenon often occurs in ancient ruins."

"That tower," Hao Ren pointed to the tower behind the main house, "I think that's where the turning point of everything happened."

The group soon found the path leading to the tower. They passed through the path between the main house and the annex house, and came to the back of the mansion: this may have been a small garden originally, but now there are only flower beds and stone flower pots. See odd gray-white gravel and a semi-crystalline twisted substance, and the tower is located at the end of this "little garden".

Lily emboldened herself, and just as she was about to walk towards the tower door, she suddenly heard a fierce quarrel in the air nearby:

First, there was a majestic male voice: "That's enough! Sivir! The direction of your research has become increasingly dangerous. If this continues, sooner or later you will step into the darkness on the other side of the border!"

Then came a young female voice: "I know what I am doing, Master Mohaben. I respect your knowledge, but despise your timidity - haven't you seen? The wonderful scene on that side? There is nothing in that darkness. It’s not nothing! Except…”

"Besides madness, what else do you want to find?" Mohaben's voice became even louder, "Before you completed your first adult trial, you should have listened to your mentor say countless times that there are indeed countless mysteries in this world. , but not every mystery can be touched by mortals. Behind some secrets is a twisted world of taboos, and some secrets lead to the dark side of the universe, and you are now standing only a thin line away from the dark side of the universe! From today on, you are no longer allowed to see Hercules, and you are not allowed to touch that artifact again. I will take it forever..."

The sound stopped abruptly here, and this brief echo ended.

Hao Ren looked at Hesperius: "It seems like what you said, as long as we arrive at a place where major events have occurred, the memory of time and space will be touched."

Lily came to the tower door, shrugged her nose to make sure there was nothing suspicious inside, and then pushed open the door that looked extremely heavy and was made of oak and iron bars.

The moment the door opened, Hao Ren seemed to hear countless voices rushing toward him. They were trivial whispers, intermittent quarrels, and meaningless daytime chats. It was as if there were hundreds of invisible people hiding in the room. Nearby, they were pointing and discussing in low voices, and these mixed whispers were so vague that he could not make out any meaningful fragments.

It wasn't until more than ten seconds later that these whispers gradually weakened and disappeared, but there were still sporadic sounds floating from nearby. Facing the dark door of the Magic Tower, these whispers coming out of thin air were terrifying.

"There was a magic focus here," Hesperus also heard sounds, but she was more specialized, "so a lot of extra sounds were recorded."

Hao Ren nodded, took the lead with Lily, and stepped into the tower. The whispers followed them like a shadow.

The structure in the tower is surprisingly simple - perhaps because he has explored too many large-scale ruins and seen a huge magic tower like the "Spirit World Clock Tower" that can be said to contain the universe, Hao Ren almost forgot about the inside of a normal tower. What it should look like. There is almost no decoration inside this building, and there are no rooms. There is only a spiraling wooden staircase extending along the curved wall. In the middle of the tower, you can see several platforms protruding from the wall, but otherwise Outside, you can directly see the top floor.

On the bottom floor, Hao Ren saw many wooden shelves lined up along the walls. The shelves contained suspicious potion bottles, silver ritual utensils, as well as scrolls and books of no apparent age. Perhaps due to the heterogeneity, all these things appeared distorted and disordered. The glass bottles became crooked, the ritual utensils had an abnormal luster, and the books and scrolls were blank when opened.

When they stepped onto the stairs, everyone heard the voice from the past again, but this time the voice was mixed with the whispers around it, and it also showed severe distortion and interference, and it was even impossible to hear who the speaker's voice was:

"It has finally begun to enter the real world... Our measures are not very effective. The power of that artifact cannot be sealed. It is far beyond our understanding."

"So we can only build a prison..."

"In the end, Sivir's results still have to be used. Although her research led to the boundary being broken in advance, she also found that glimmer of possibility."

"Can Sivir come back?"

"I only found her research notes and the ruined ritual site... She has probably been sucked into the other side of the border. In the dark side of the universe, no mortal can escape. It is a pity that we have lost a very promising person. Demon hunter, she is actually the best researcher I have ever seen. If she stayed in Corpus, she might even become a scholar in the library of the clock tower in the spiritual world... It's a pity that she ran out with us. , and her impatience and rashness cost her her life."

"That's all, that's all, I'm about to die anyway. It's you, old man, this burden will fall on you and Hathaway, you have to persevere."

"Ha, Hercules will also be there with us, don't worry..."

The sound gradually faded away, and the spiral staircase was almost at its end.

"They must have performed some kind of ritual up here," Vivian raised her head and looked at the end of the stairs, "and then created the village's 'enchantment'."

After walking the last few flights of stairs, Hao Ren held on to the wooden handrail next to him, looked at the situation on the top floor of the tower, and then softly said "Huh".

The top floor of the tower is a circular room equipped with a large number of shelves and desks. Four long and narrow windows are symmetrically distributed on the curved outer wall. In front of one of the windows, there is a black chair and a A man with white hair is sitting there!

His back was to the stairs, so he couldn't see his face, but Hao Ren saw the demon hunter uniform he was wearing, as well as a holy silver sword lying across his legs, with half of it exposed from the side.

"Is there anyone?!" Lily followed Hao Ren. She couldn't help but exclaimed after seeing the situation above.

"Big dog, your tail slapped me in the face - what happened up there?"

"Excuse me..." Hao Ren walked towards the old man sitting in front of the window, but there was no response from the other person.

From here, we can already see the appearance of the other party. This is an old demon hunter. Although some of his former prowess can still be seen from the outline of his eyebrows, he is now very old. He is slumped in a chair. Facing the window, eyes half-open and half-closed, it seems that he is still alive, but he does not feel alive at all.

Hao Ren stretched out his hand, but just when he was about to touch the old hunter's shoulder, a faint female voice came from not far away: "Don't disturb the watcher."