Chapter 375 Heart

Dongdong...dongdong...dongdong...

This time it was no longer an illusion, but a real pulsating sound came from the front. When he heard the sound, Hao Ren couldn't help but get goosebumps. An intuition that he was approaching some ancient and terrifying thing made him almost subconscious. He checked his shield capacity.

He knew that his sixth sense was always accurate, but this time he hoped that there was something wrong with his sixth sense.

Lily was still walking at the front of the team. This husky who always cared about food and fights no matter where he was, forgot about the things that made him nervous before. At this time, he bravely opened the way in front and was once again the first to exclaim. Get up: "Wow!! This, this, this... what is this?!"

Hao Ren stepped forward cautiously, and when he saw the scene outside the cave exit, he was almost suffocated by what he saw:

At the end of the cave is an unprecedentedly huge ellipsoidal cave. There are countless cave entrances distributed almost symmetrically along the cave wall. The place where Hao Ren and the others are standing is only one of the cave entrances. Countless roots spread out from the openings around the cave, poke out from the stone walls in all directions, hang down from the dome above the cave, and grow entangled in the center to form a large indescribable whole. The thing that rose up was probably as wide as a kilometer, shaped like a cratered meteorite, and lay prone in the center of the cave with a huge momentum. The surface of this mass is covered with thorns, and dark red cortical tissue can be seen between the roots. These dark red tissues emit a flickering red light with bursts of heavy "dong dong" sounds. Like a heartbeat, like breathing.

This huge "heart" is located in the center of the cave. Countless roots spread out from its interior, piercing the walls of the cave and extending to the surface.

Around this "heart", you can see a circle of water pools with dark red liquid surging in it, which is somewhat similar to the water in Beinz's Blood Lake, but the color is obviously darker, and the water is constantly surging. The appearance also makes people suspect that this "water" may also be some kind of creature.

Even Y'zaks' breathing couldn't help but stagnate slightly, and it took him a long time to exhale: "My hometown... doesn't have such exaggerated things."

Everyone knew before that the entire Twisted Woodland was a single organism, but at that time all they saw were scattered trees and roots scattered underground. The direct impression of those things was not strong. However, the one in front of them was entangled with roots. It rises up and becomes a heart-like core. Coupled with the weird atmosphere in the entire cave and the gentle and low "dong dong" sound, people finally realize directly how terrifying the body of this ancient creature is, and What an incredible structure.

Betsy subconsciously clenched the sword in her hand, but soon she had doubts about the weapon in her hand for the first time: "Do you think this thing can break through the defense if you poke it... I estimate that even the outer layer is dozens of meters thick. ah!"

Hao Ren sweated on his forehead: This girl's thinking at critical moments is quite surprising. Why did she think of poking someone first...

There was a slight golden light in Lily's eyes, and she drew out her double blades of ice and fire and carefully followed behind the bearded man and walked forward: "Are you sure this is the sacred cave?"

The four bearded people remained calm. Although they paused for a few beats when they first saw the spectacular thing, they immediately armed their minds with the belief in the goddess again: "It is completely consistent with what is recorded in the ancient inheritance. It was here that His Majesty the First Pope found the sacred inheritance of the goddess, and he drew the appearance of this ancient creature. Put down your weapons, this should be a sacred ancient being, we should not offend it."

Vivian thought for a moment, then suddenly took out a small bat from her body and stuffed it into Hao Ren's hand: "Put this in your pocket."

Hao Ren was stunned: "Why?"

"In case something happens, your personal space is the safest," Vivian said seriously, "At that time, I will directly transfer my consciousness to the little bat. Although it will require a lot of blood and energy to resurrect, it is a life-saving measure. means."

Hao Ren didn't expect Vivian to have such a function. The vampire girl's little bat was simply a god. He squeezed the little bat and threw it into the portable space, but saw a subtle change in Vivian's expression: "Separate the bat from Doudou, the child seems to be grinding his teeth..."

Hao Ren: "..."

He really wanted to know what the world in Vivian's eyes was like, and how severe the schizophrenia was when this group of bats dispersed!

Everyone carefully came to the huge "heart" in the center of the cave. As they got closer, they could more clearly feel how much pressure this behemoth can bring to people, the extremely slow and low "dong dong" The sound is like knocking directly on the person's chest, and it is endless. People with a weaker mind may lose their minds just by being disturbed by this sound. And the slowly flashing red light on the heart has an ominous feeling. What is under the light? Could it be blood?

There is a pool of water around the "heart", or it can be said that the whole thing is immersed in such a pool of water. The slowly surging viscous liquid is the most curious thing outside the "heart". The young nun among the ascetics He took out a palm-sized crystal bottle and carefully collected some liquid into it.

Even if it is placed in the bottle, the viscous liquid is still surging slowly, and maintains an inexplicable synchronization with the beating of the "heart".

"What is this thing?" Hao Ren frowned and looked at the surging liquid in the crystal bottle, "Creature?"

"It's a living thing, a kind of liquid life." The data terminal floated out from Hao Ren's pocket and scanned the things in the pool. "It's strange. It is also a part of the Twisted Woodland and a component of this 'heart', but It can survive outside the body and becomes an independent living creature after leaving the pool."

Hao Ren suddenly felt his scalp numb and subconsciously took a step away from the pool: he always felt that the things surging inside would suddenly pounce on him. Even if they didn't pounce on him, this strange life form would still make people shudder.

Vivian glanced at Hao Ren with a half-smile: "As for that? I'll show you my blood magic sometime. My blood is much more versatile than this thing."

At this moment, the young monk in the group of four ascetic monks suddenly shouted: "This way! There is a discovery!"

Everyone hurried over and discovered that there was an obviously man-made stone pier next to the pool... or an altar. It's just that the "heart" in front of them is too huge, and other people's attention was not focused on it for the moment.

This is an altar with a regular shape, carved out of gray-white rock, about three meters in diameter. The surface is covered with mysterious symbols and the representative chaotic reliefs of the Huiyao Sect. There are also some black remnants on the altar that have been severely weathered and damaged. It may have been used in ceremonies. In the center of the altar, there was a small black box. It seemed that the box was miraculously intact, but there was a thick layer of dust on it.

"This is what the first pope left behind!" Big Beard couldn't help but exclaimed after seeing the altar. "Sure enough, as the holy edict said, he left a copy that can only be made public three thousand years later. The inheritance of this world!"

Hao Ren immediately became excited when he saw this: "What could it be? A forbidden curse? A new divine technique? Or another life ancestor?"

The bearded man rubbed his hands excitedly, and the ascetic temperament finally disappeared: "I don't know... but we must open it and give the contents to the current pope... This is stipulated by the oracle... The goddess has mercy, the altar Everything else on it was destroyed, but it was preserved, and this was God’s will!”

Hao Ren rolled his eyes: Can you stop having everything to do with God? This is obviously because the first pope was more sturdy in a box like this...

At this time, the bearded man had already picked up the box tremblingly and opened it without much effort. What lay in the box were only a few pieces of leather that had been severely discolored but were still intact.

Black writing can be seen on the leather that is still vaguely legible, and it seems to be a message left by the first pope.

Big Beard and Hao Ren's breathing became heavy at the same time. One thought of a new oracle or holy edict, and the other thought of the secret book left by the old man with white beard.

Vivian was not interested in these musty things. She wandered along the pool next to the "heart" thoughtfully. It was quite interesting to look at the surging red liquid, which reminded her of own blood magic.

She released a little bat and let the little guy carefully drink the liquid in the pool of water. She was not worried about any counterattack from the strange life in the pool, because the control of this liquid seemed to be no different from blood.

A bit salty - Vivian frowned.

At this time, Hao Ren and Big Beard finally decoded the first line of text from the ancient yellowed leather. Big Beard read out in a low voice:

"We...come from the stars..."