Chapter 1316 The Desolate Old Battlefield

The words of the King of Mountains and Rivers finally solved many of Hao Ren's questions:

Why does the real world of Koro only have five floating continents and some tiny floating islands that are not even enough to make up a continent? Even if all those lands are put together, they are far from enough to form a complete planet!

Why is it that the world of Koro is clearly a creation supervised by the creation goddess, but there are almost no goddess temples and relics with true divine significance, but only imitations built by mortals? Just like the Cassuan Temple and many temples in the Sanctuary, although they look like the style of the Creation Goddess, they are obviously just creations of mortals!

Why are the historical records of various secular countries in the world of Koro so confusing, and are they all separated from the time node 10,000 years ago? Even taking into account the interruption of inheritance caused by Rock Marton, this division seems too abrupt and "neat", as if the day has changed and all civilized countries have been overthrown and started all over again!

The fact is that the world of Koro has truly experienced an earth-shaking rebirth - during the destruction of the Chaos Tyrant Rock Marton, this small world with a diameter of two light years has been divided into two parts in time and space, and the original Koro has been destroyed. The classical prison officers used the power of the "God Engine" to push into the nightmare side, becoming an old world forgotten by everyone. The so-called real world is actually just a replica used to control the prison system and accommodate survivors. ! In the new world, the realm of mortals is passed down, because the relics of gods are all suppressing the eternal nightmare in the old world...

Under the leadership of the King of Mountains and Rivers, everyone was trekking on the desolate plains, heading towards a certain stronghold that was said to be very important. The probes released by Hao Ren had already begun to send back the first batch of information. Among those who came from far away In the images, Hao Ren could see what this "old world" looked like more clearly and intuitively. However, in order to avoid alerting Rock Marton in advance, all detectors have avoided places with obvious intelligent activities or strong energy reactions, but even so, the data they sent back is already precious:

Due to the collapse of imaginary space, this "real Kolo" has been compressed to a radius of only two astronomical units, and stabilized at this scale. Except for the continent floating in nothingness, it has no sun, moon, stars, and all light. The energy comes from the turbulent primitive storm in space. Some physical landmasses are suspended in the void, which can roughly correspond to the Kolo (i.e., the New World) in the real world, and countless phantom-like things are running between these floating continents. , traveling through each other, constantly penetrating each other but unable to influence each other.

In that vast place shrouded in thick clouds, the detector discovered countless fragmented ruins - including steel castles floating in the sky, magic spires, ancient facilities that looked like factories and warehouses, and even installations A space-based fortress equipped with giant cannons and rails. However, these once magnificent things have now lost their functions, leaving only countless fragments floating in the sky of the old world. Between them, black flesh and blind growth filled with the power of chaos The tentacle structures are floating everywhere, twisting and squirming aimlessly, disgusting and full of malice.

The images returned by the detector are disgusting and heart-stopping. It seems that the Ancient Inquisitor Legion was once very powerful. The Goddess of Creation once set up unimaginable heavy firepower and even space firepower on this planet. However, Rockmarton still erodes these lines of defense bit by bit, and even drags the entire space into the realm of imaginary numbers. How strong is its resistance?

Are conventional firepower and warriors its opponents?

"What are we going to do next?" While Hao Ren was pondering, Lily was already jumping up and down and shouting. She was a person who couldn't bear her temper, and this place made her whole body shine, which made the husky girl even more... He became irritated, "Big guy, big guy! Where is that Rock Marton? Finish the fight and go home!"

In fact, not only Lily is glowing, but everyone else in Hao Ren's team is glowing except for the little weakling. The brightness of each person basically reflects the amount of natural materials and earthly treasures they usually eat. Lily relies on His extraordinary appetite and habit of stealing food ranked first on the brightness list, and Yzaks ranked second - the old devil was surrounded by holy light, and felt that his whole style was not quite right. He was just like the one who had just put down his butcher knife. Like a Buddha.

After hearing Lily's words, Gordon did not stop, but raised his hand and pointed into the distance: "It is irrational to face Rock Marton rashly. We must first understand the situation here. We have been sleeping for too long, so it is It's unclear how far the situation on this side of the Reflection has deteriorated, but before the situation completely spiraled out of control, Loken left behind a large number of monitoring points and backup databases, which continued to operate automatically even after the wardens were corrupted. It is alive, and because it is not a living thing, it should not be completely contaminated by Rock Marton. I am taking you to the nearest monitoring point here. If it is still running, we can grasp the current location of Rock Marton's body, and The distribution and strength of its minions throughout the nightmare world - challenging the nightmare tyrant is an arduous task. Without this information, we will only be lost in this fragmented world like blind insects and ants, and gradually be swallowed up by the nightmare."

Hao Ren nodded, and it was as he expected: although the wardens were controlled by corruption, they were not completely unprepared. Even for today's counterattack, they had plans and arrangements. This kind of cooperation will be more reassuring: a teammate who can understand the current situation and control the situation is much better than a group of hot-blooded and reckless people with no courage.

While nodding, he couldn't help but think of the scenes he had seen in Benedict III's mental vision before.

The desolate and open wilderness, the monsters fighting in the wilderness, the shadow of Lockmaton across the sky, and the giant mirror tower in the background - the scene that appeared in the illusion seemed to be a certain location on this plain, and it had just been visited before. When he arrived on the surface, he also vaguely heard sounds like fighting on a battlefield, but what about the battlefield?

Hao Ren looked far into the distance and did not see any smoke from the beacon fire.

Vivian came to him and asked curiously: "What are you looking for?"

"Did you hear the killing cry when you came out of the cave?" Hao Ren tilted his head slightly and asked in a low voice.

Vivian frowned: "Crying to kill? I seem to hear a little bit..."

Before she finished speaking, Lily rushed over: "I heard it, I heard it! But just now I saw that none of you responded, so I thought I heard it wrong..."

Hao Ren and Vivian looked at each other and thought that dog ears are indeed spiritual.

At this moment, the rumbling voice of the King of Mountains and Rivers interrupted the conversation between Hao Ren and others. The rock giant happily pointed to a silver-gray obelisk standing in the wasteland not far away: "Ah, monitoring point ! It’s still there!”

The monitoring point is a small metal tower two or three meters high. It looks like a city monument engraved with shimmering runes. When you get closer, you will find that it is not directly placed on the surface, but floating a few feet away from the ground. About meters in mid-air, beneath it is a recessed square platform. Between the platform and the small metal tower, there are countless lines that shuttle quickly, as if they are exchanging data.

To ordinary people, this metal tower is a tall building that needs to be looked up at. However, to a giant like the King of Mountains and Rivers, it is just a small piece of equipment that must be bent down to operate - Gordon knelt down on one leg in front of the monitoring point. Leaning down, he put his hand on the silver-gray alloy surface and read the data inside. Hao Ren took this opportunity to ask: "The Forgotten Abyss... I mean, in this 'old world', what else is there?" Any surviving resistance forces? For example, the automated corps you left behind."

"Surviving resistance?" Gordon was stunned and slowly shook his head, "Probably not."

"should?"

"We were completely controlled by Rock Marton's power three hundred years ago, but in fact, as early as a thousand years ago, the wardens almost completely lost the ability to monitor the Forgotten Abyss," Gordon's tone was very low, obviously What he is talking about is not a pleasant thing, "In other words, for ten centuries, this prison has been unsupervised. No one knows what happened here, and we don't know what we left behind." How long did those automatic defense equipment last, and under what circumstances were they completely destroyed... As of now, I know nothing about the situation like you, but at least there are monitoring points left. The situation should be clear soon."

Another warden sighed: "We have disgraced our mission."

Hao Ren was silent, just exchanging various information from the frontline detectors with the data terminal in the mental link. Doudou silently held his arm and curled up in his arms, showing a rare honesty.

At this moment, the obelisk in Gordon's hand suddenly emitted a burst of bright light, and then an unusually blurry picture was projected on it. A fully armed soldier appeared in the projection, and the background was a chaotic battlefield, intermittent The voice came from the screen: "...the seventeenth record...lost...our plan to regain the position failed...unable to contact the Warden Corps...we are...scorched earth plains, we will hold on until... Zizzi..."

The messy scene ended here. Gordon looked at this unexpected message in shock and muttered to himself: "It's a mortal soldier..."

Hao Ren immediately asked loudly: "When was that record?"

"Seven centuries ago," Gordon said slowly, "it was the last communication received by the monitoring point."

"This legion is probably finished," Vivian sighed, "but why is there a legion composed of mortals here?"

"They are the 'heroic souls' mentioned before," Gordon explained, "the most outstanding and steadfast mortal souls. They devoutly believe in our mother and voluntarily join the defense officer team after death. In this nightmare The world is resurrected and engaged in an eternal war with Rock Marton's minions. They are the supplement to the Warden Corps, but they are not the main force."

Lily said bluntly: "They can last longer than the main force like you."

Gordon lowered his head wordlessly, and after a while he said, "Yes, it's just like what you said."

At this moment, Hao Ren was thinking about the fighting sounds he heard not long ago - he heard them, Vivian heard them, and Lily heard them without a doubt. They could not be auditory hallucinations!

In a daze, those vague sounds seemed to appear in his ears again. He raised his head slightly, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

I saw a dark shadow appearing on the desolate horizon.