Chapter 1498 The Road Ahead Is Long

Lily's departure was destined, and this incident made Hao Ren understand more clearly: he would eventually complete this journey alone.

Going beyond the twilight battle of the mythical age in 44 BC, this journey back went deeper and deeper into history. In Hao Ren's eyes, the world in BC became increasingly bizarre. His original history Knowledge has been subverted again and again during this long journey - it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy of human historical records, especially those involving the era of the ancient gods. There are too many supernatural traces interspersed with reality, leading to The more materialistic historians of later generations often choose to extract all the myths and legends involved in ancient books and leave them to religious scientists and mythology scholars to discuss, but for Hao Ren, those historians The things we eliminated...

He experienced it all personally.

He witnessed with his own eyes one ancient kingdom after another that was not recorded in the history books. Those kingdoms were filled with dark magical power and indescribable atmosphere of other worlds. Some kingdoms were built on land floating in the sky, relying on the sunlight. Power operates, but some kingdoms are buried deep underground, absorbing the energy of magma and rocks. Strange alien creatures rule these bizarre city-states. They implement all kinds of strange laws and formulate many rituals that are unimaginable to modern humans. Human beings, as slaves of these city-states, have served their alien masters for generations. And engage in endless wars with other "miracle cities".

He also saw the realistic versions of many mythological stories: when he passed through the Mediterranean area for the second time, he found Jason under the guidance of Hesperius, and found Vivi at the expense of assisting the legendary hero in finding the Golden Fleece. Ann's whereabouts; in Egypt, when Seth launched a sneak 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 the god Ra. And had the opportunity to board the solar ship, the anti-gravity fortress ship flying above the clouds. With the help of the solar ship's radar, he found Vivian's pyramid that had been buried in the sand; in ancient Babylon, the god Mardu The fierce battle between Ke and Tiamat was at a stalemate. Hassu shot an arrow from a nearby mountain and pierced one of Tiamat's eyeballs. This made the Babylonian gods awed and impressed, and said: The labyrinth of "Vivian, the Lord of Blood God" is located...

The heyday of the Age of Mythology lasted for five thousand years. During the entire heyday, what Hao Ren saw was a world where alien creatures ruled the earth, humans were reduced to slaves and livestock, and countless lost ancient countries were in turmoil. The rulers of the ancient times built numerous large and small city-states or kingdoms, but due to constant wars with each other and the lack of a reasonable and effective social order, these ancient kingdoms often had no time to leave many historical traces and were annihilated by time.

There are usually two types of alien gods who can survive the "adaptation period" of the first two to three thousand years. They either have strong innate qualities, or they possess many technological or magical artifacts brought from their home world (and these things happen to be able to be used on Earth came in handy), and the kingdom they established was therefore divided into two distinct types. The former was darker and more barbaric. The smell of blood could be smelled in the rock-stacked cities almost every day. The cruel blood sacrifice rituals were these beast-like "gods". "My favorite entertainment activity, the latter in Hao Ren's eyes is more like a colonial base established by aliens on the earth - metal barriers and energy barriers that are beyond the times surround these ancient cities of the Gods, and the core hinterland of some ancient cities of the Gods even It is simply a stranded alien spaceship. Humanity's primitive and rough stone cities are built around these "castles" that look particularly sci-fi or magical. They are inconsistent but also have a sense of mystery.

But no matter which one, there was not much difference to humans at that time. Even those advanced cities that were full of advanced civilization and driven by high technology or magic technology, their comfortable environments were not prepared for humans. .

Preparations 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 visitors from other worlds who have no feelings for the earth will have a few alien virgins (the kind of real virgins) who sympathize with the earthlings. ), but in the face of the general trend, this little bit of good intentions can't reverse the power of the entire era - throughout the mythical era, human beings lived in dire straits.

A bolt of thunder pierced the sky, and the dazzling electric light solidified in the night sky before it disappeared. Then the whole world was filled with monotonous colors of black, white and gray, and fell into 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 up by the darkness coming from the distance. In the end, only the King of Babylon stood at the front of the crowd. He was wearing a crown and looked extraordinary. Although the gods only regarded him as a "leader of the monkeys" and a useful ruling tool, he still had full momentum as the king of mankind. Now this powerful king has also turned into a stone statue. He looks forward with a little surprise, and with this expression, he is frozen in this time and space forever.

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 as it had been the previous times when he went back, and then turned back to the temple.

It was another hasty meeting, and this time Vivian gave Hao Ren a piece of advice before leaving:

"Don't act as humans from now on. Going forward, humans will be unable to move forward. Every human walking in the wilderness will be regarded as a defected slave of a certain god. At least in most places where alien gods are active. That’s right.”

"We will meet again in the next era..."

"The Age of Mythology is such a bad period," after Vivian left, Hesiana leaned against 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 are the 'gods'? It turns out that a bunch of unorganized and undisciplined aliens came to an ecological planet that no one cares about. It's not surprising that they can do anything. The goddess of creation chose the passengers of the ark back then. It must have been a roll of the dice.”

Hesperius couldn't help but glance at the little bat spirit: "You are standing in front of one of the 'so-called gods' - I was still very concerned about human beings back then, okay? I even saved an entire Where is the city-state?”

"Then your entire Olympus family is still terrible," Hessiana complained without mercy. This bold little bat spirit doesn't have that much respect for people other than Vivian. concept, "You know who Hades is, right? There is also the violent Ares, and Poseidon who stirs up storms when he has nothing to do..."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Hao Ren quickly coughed twice: "Ahem...it was a bad debt thousands of years ago. Let's stop complaining."

Hesiana rolled her eyes at the sky and leaned more comfortably on the black stone pillar: "Okay, okay. But having said that, compared with those small city-states that have no order at all, like Olympus and Northern Europe The great gods are actually somewhat conscientious. At least they are big families, and everyone at the top and bottom follows the rules. The human countries under their control can generally survive as long as they abide by the laws they set. However, those in the corner of the horn who have been mythical Human city-states ruled by giant beasts or lone demons are even worse. Sometimes, the entire city-state is destroyed just because the demon they serve has a brain attack."

"Those guys are not intelligent creatures at all," Hasselblad said lightly. "They were probably shocked to the brain when they passed through the wall of reality. Some guys mutated on the earth and became like wild beasts, and were ruled by them. Human beings are the worst - but they have no way to resist."

"Okay, okay, from this point of view, you demon hunters have really 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 swamps of the barbaric era. "Hesiana bared her teeth at the old hunter and vomited a lot before she relaxed and called it a day. Then she looked down at her legs, which were gradually being covered by the sheen of gray-white rocks, and then looked back. The stone pillar of Hammurabi's Code that he was leaning on said, "It seems that I am going to follow in the footsteps of that stupid dog, during the time of Hammurabi... Tsk, I didn't last as long as a husky..." "

The gray-white "petrified light" spread to Hesiana's waist and abdomen, but this phenomenon caused by the solidification of time and space did not actually affect her speech. She rolled her eyes and thought about it, as if she wanted to summarize a few words to remind Hao. Ren's words, but there was obviously not enough time, so she could only 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 more to Hesper Reese's suggestion was her home field in the age of mythology, and the demon hunter next to her was an illegal overseas armed force before 2,000 BC..."

After Lily, Hesiana became the second member to leave the team, and this time, no new members joined.

Hao Ren was left with only Hesperius and Hasselblad.

It is true that Hao Ren knew more than just these two ancient beings. The Nordic god-king Odin and the elder Gregor of Corpus were both active in the early mythological era and were still alive in the outside world. Old fellow, in fact Raven 12345 had summoned every ancient person Hao Ren knew early on, and stayed by the gate of time and space waiting for the call at any time - however, there are too many things that are uncontrollable in the historical journey itself. Sex, Hao Ren couldn't just choose to summon these people.

Because he can only backtrack at certain nodes, and the location of the backtracking is also limited to the vicinity of Vivian. In view of the Countess's excellent life style of wandering around the earth, this "backtracking node" may be in a certain era of gods. The city center may be at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, or in a vast desert, or even in a volcanic crater in extreme cases...

God knows how Vivian could sleep in such a ghost place.

All in all, whether you can find "time travelers" who can be recruited as allies in these retroactive locations is entirely a matter of chance.

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 power to find a way to solve the problem by oneself. This is the conclusion reached by Hao Ren, Hesperius and others after discussion.

Now that the little bat spirit has returned to the real world, there are only three people left in the team.

The time is now 1788 BC, and the road ahead is still long.