Chapter 1409 Golden Coffin

Hesiana didn't know about Vivian's "auditory hallucinations" yet, so she was confused at this time: "What do you mean?"

"Vivian has often heard people calling her name recently, but they are all auditory hallucinations," Hao Ren said while turning to Vivian, "Hearing the voice again? Hasn't it been better recently?"

"This time it's even clearer than before," Vivian said with a solemn expression, "I'm almost sure it came from that direction..."

The direction she was looking at was the end of the dark corridor. In the swaying light of the fire, there was only deep darkness ten meters away, and the end of the corridor seemed to be shrouded in the unknown of eternal malice, with a cold aura.

Hao Ren felt that Vivian's "auditory hallucinations" might not be as simple as he thought at the beginning. And now that he thought about it carefully, it seemed that her "auditory hallucinations" really started after the Hesiana family discovered this different space. Just appeared.

If there is indeed a connection between the two, what kind of secrets are buried in this ancient city?

At the end of the corridor was an open hall, empty, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

After passing through the stone arch of the corridor, Hao Ren looked at the empty place in front of him and asked, "Are you sure the sound is coming from here?"

Vivian looked around. When she came out of the long corridor, she saw such a square, palace-like place. Judging from its location, it should be close to the center of the Great Pyramid, just like other places in the temple. Likewise, this place has been completely emptied. Except for the huge stone pillars in the center of the hall and the reliefs on the stone pillars, which could not be removed, the various decorations and luxurious statues that might have been displayed here have long since disappeared.

"The sound is gone again," she tapped her forehead lightly, "but it must have come from this direction."

Since the stone statue corps outside would not enter the Great Temple, the data terminal had returned to Hao Ren at this moment. It flew around in the empty hall and finally stopped next to the square granite pillar in the center of the hall: " The pattern on this pillar seems to have some clues!”

The granite pillar is the most eye-catching thing in the hall. Each side of it is several meters wide and is engraved with exquisite relief patterns. Even after thousands of years of wind and frost, those patterns still remain intact to a certain extent. Data terminal The few defects on the relief were quickly repaired through restoration technology, and then it was discovered that the pictures on the stone pillars were the subsequent parts of the murals in the peripheral temple.

Hao Ren saw the mask pattern on the stone pillar at first sight: the residents of Ertos used this mask to represent their great "master".

"What this describes is what happened after the giant beast Ethos died and people built a new city on the head of the giant beast." The data terminal used different beams of light to indicate different locations on the relief. "Here, and here, are all It’s continuous.”

"The 'Great Lord' did not leave after killing Erthos, but settled on the plains. He neither accepted offerings from mortals nor left this place, but silently paid attention to the establishment of the new city..." Lily Pointing at the cuneiform text under the relief, he read slowly, "Under the leadership of the surviving beast-headed god, it took people twenty-two years to finally build Ethos, and build another four on the fertile land around Etos. city."

"On the day the city was completed, the sky of Ethos was shrouded in clouds. The wolf god among the beast-headed gods thought this was a very good omen, so he led the other beast-headed gods to the caves on the plain and asked the great Lord to come before him. They came to protect the city. They offered barley, chickpeas, honey and roasted meats with spices, and worshiped the great master as followers, so the great master finally nodded and became the main god of Ethos."

After hearing Lily read this, Hao Ren couldn't help but ask Vivian: "Is there anything special about this 'offering'?"

"The content of the offering is not very particular, because there was no unified etiquette at that time. The 'offering' itself has a special meaning," Vivian explained. "In the mythical age, various races were in turmoil, and not every alien species could As the supreme ruler of mortals for a long time - sometimes major natural disasters or wars will defeat some weaker 'gods', and they will worship other aliens who are stronger than themselves in the same way that mortals worship themselves. It would cause them to be annexed by other 'gods', or even completely lose their status as 'gods', but at least they could save their lives. It seemed that the situation around Etos was very bad at that time, and the beast-headed gods felt that they were unable to save their own territory, so I went to hug the thigh of the great master."

Hao Ren nodded, continued to look down, and read the content on the relief to himself: "...the new main god lives in the great temple in the center of Etos, accepting worship from mortals day and night. Under the protection of powerful gods, Ethos became a country that no one dared offend...

"The beast-headed gods chose to surrender to the new chief god. They became priests of Ethos and lived in the large temple and the surrounding smaller temples.

"In order to protect the city, the beast-headed gods collected the bone plates that fell off Ethos' body after his death. They forged and burned these bone plates, infused them with the power of fire and earth, and then crafted them into Huge warrior…

"These warriors are made in the image of the beast-headed god. They are extremely powerful, have bodies as solid as rock, and will never tire..."

"The appearance of a beast-headed god, a huge stone statue, never tired," Lily blinked, "This is about the giant statues we encountered."

"Without a doubt," Hao Ren nodded in agreement, "I didn't expect that the bodies of those stone statues were actually made of the remains of Etus. No wonder they are so strong, and they don't look like the known metals and ores on the earth. .”

Yzaks pointed to the scene on the relief depicting the new Lord God moving into Ethos: "So this great Lord lives in the central temple of this city - which is where we are now?"

Hao Ren stood up straight and looked around with increasingly doubtful eyes.

This is a temple that has been emptied - it is not an exaggeration to even say it was looted. If the "great master" is really the supreme ruler of Ethos, if he really has the supreme authority here , then why did it become like this instead?

Considering that everything in the surrounding small temples is intact, this large temple is more likely to have been abandoned before the accident in the city. Has the "supreme master" who ruled this place moved away at that time?

There is no subsequent record of this event on the relief, and it does not even record the abandonment of this large temple. But think about it, since people have abandoned this place, there is no need to leave a construction description in the demolition ruins.

Vivian stood in front of the stone pillar full of reliefs and studied it for a long time, as if she wanted to try hard to recall the city destroyed by her moonlight. Unfortunately, her fragmented memory was as difficult to mobilize as ever. After a long period of thinking and silence, she placed her hand on the mask pattern representing "Lord" on the stone pillar: "To be honest, this mask is really ugly..."

Just in the middle of her words, the stone pillar suddenly changed unexpectedly!

The lines on the relief became distorted, and the originally solid hard stone began to flow and deform like soft mud at this moment. The cuneiform characters and patterns full of ancient civilization style on the stone pillars were quickly swallowed up by the creeping surface like soft mud, and everyone was stunned. Under his gaze, all the reliefs on the stone pillars dissolved in a few breaths!

Then line after line of twisted text emerged:

Don't wake Him! Don't wake Him! Don't wake Him! …

The words on the stone pillars appeared line by line as if they were frantically swiping the screen, and then quickly disappeared along with the soft mud-like surface. This scene was strange and terrifying, and this was just the beginning: as the words on the stone pillars There was a sudden change, and a deep voice suddenly echoed throughout the Great Pyramid:

The sound was indescribable. It was like muffled thunder rolling in the clouds. It was continuous and seemed to be endless. But the muffled sound was also mixed with the sound of countless people shouting and screaming, and was occasionally mixed with the crackling sound of tearing and the roar of the wind. The sharp sound of the sound rolled on Hao Ren's back. She was awakened by the sound almost instantly. She jumped off Hao Ren's back in a hurry and lay on the ground on all fours. Her eyes kept looking in all directions, and her tail was like a It stood up straight like a furry stick, and its back was arched: "Meow woo woo hoo——"

"Spatial distortion detected, repeat, this machine has detected spatial distortion..." The data terminal also sounded a warning at the same time, and then fired an indicator beam forward. At the end of the beam, Hao Ren saw a stone wall in the hall suddenly "Expand".

This is a phenomenon that is difficult for the human brain to directly understand. The originally square and unobstructed stone hall shook violently like a mirror, a stone wall became farther and farther away during the shaking, and in an instant, this hall The area of ​​​​the hall has more than doubled, as if it was originally so huge. In the newly added part of the hall, Hao Ren saw a tall stone platform standing there, with a circle of braziers scattered around the stone platform. ——They burn automatically the moment they appear.

On the top of the stone platform that looked like an altar, a heavy coffin made of gold was being slowly pushed away.

Hao Ren instantly felt his hair standing on end.

"One of the essential things to know when digging a grave," Lily said angrily next to Vivian, "don't touch anything you don't understand what it's for."

Vivian stared at the golden coffin on the stone platform and swallowed hard: "Sleeping in a golden coffin... so rich..."

Everyone: "?"

"What the hell." Hao Ren didn't care. He had watched all kinds of movies, TV shows and novels, and he knew that waiting for his opponent to transform/awaken/charge/explode was tantamount to seeking death. It makes sense, so when the golden coffin was halfway open, he raised his hand and threw a graviton bomb into it.

The moment there was a loud bang and explosion, he took out his prosecutor's gun and fired three more shots in a row.