Chapter 948 Blood Warrior

"Call you?" Hao Ren frowned when he heard Vivian's statement, "Is it a voice?"

"I can't tell." Vivian's eyes kept wandering around the huge steel mountain. "It just happened for a moment, as if someone reminded me to look in that direction...but now there is nothing."

Some lightning-quick thoughts quickly circulated in his mind, and Hao Ren vaguely guessed what they were: "Artifact - it seems that at least half of the legend is true."

There are not many things that can cause Vivian to have such a weird reaction, and the creation left directly by the goddess of creation is the most likely one. In the myths and legends of the Ark survivors, there was once an artifact that protected the entire world, and now Vivian felt an inexplicable call next to the ancestral furnace. No one could help but connect the two things. It seems that this exile fleet has really received some kind of protection, and this protection... comes from the goddess of creation! ?

Willy didn't understand what Hao Ren and the others were talking about, so he asked curiously: "What's wrong with you?"

"You are a local, do you know how to enter the Ancestral Furnace?" Hao Ren asked bluntly.

"Local? I'm not a local. I was born and raised in Hearth City..." Willy answered the first part of the sentence subconsciously, and then suddenly reacted, "The Forge of the Ancestors?! What did you say? You want to enter the Forge of the Ancestors?" !”

"Isn't it possible?" Nangong Sanba raised his eyebrows, "Isn't that why we are here to solve this problem?"

Willy's expression was a little strange. He had many suspicions about the group of people with unknown origins in front of him, but he never expected that these people would be so whimsical as to enter the Ancestral Furnace to find out: "This is a fantasy! What is the Ancestral Furnace?" It is a place where only the dead can set foot. It has never been heard that a living person can enter that place! Anyone who steps into the oven will be cursed by the power of Hades. The whole body will be burned, the skin will fall off, the internal organs will bleed, and finally burn to death - you You actually want to go in?!"

Hao Ren was greatly surprised when he heard this. He didn't know that those generator sets were so dangerous. He didn't know whether it was something wrong with the local myths and legends or whether the ship's energy furnace itself had some safety measures to prohibit visitors from entering, but He must still go in: "Is there no other way to get in?"

Willy shook his head vigorously: "It's impossible, it's suicide. And even if there are desperadoes who want to break into the furnace of ancestors, it's impossible. There are blood servants guarding all entrances and exits day and night. Those soldiers don't even understand the king's words. If you don’t listen, they only obey the mission. Why are you so crazy to go to that place?”

The young man seemed to be frightened by Hao Ren's plan. After trying his best to dissuade him, a look of uncertainty gradually appeared on his face. Looking at Lily and Vivian with indifferent expressions, Willy suddenly remembered the "witchcraft" and some dark and terrifying legends of this group of people, and his body trembled: "You...what on earth do you want to do?"

"Relax, relax, kid," Vivian's eyes flashed slightly red, and she forced Willy to calm down by inciting the power of blood magic. Her tone was slow and filled with wonderful magical power, "You don't want to terminate. Is it a cold winter? And look at what the Ancestral Furnace looks like now...it's broken, very badly, and we know how to fix it, and that's why we're here."

There were only a few tricks in Vivian's blood magic that could work on the human spirit, but Willy was an ordinary man who knew nothing about magic and was weak-willed, so he was pacified without resistance. His eyes became cloudy: "But you can't enter the Ancestral Furnace. It contains the power of Hades, and the Blood Warrior won't let you..."

"Then your king summoned the bachelors here to prepare how to solve the problem of the reactor?" Lily asked curiously, "They don't know how to repair the thing from the outside, and they can't get in. Are they just watching?"

Willy muttered a bunch of wild conjectures, a mix of confused sorcery, misinterpreted technical terms, specious mechanics, and a dash of resignation. In fact, without asking him, Hao Ren himself knew that no one in this world would know how to repair the reactor. Just like every time the reactor was shut down in the past, the bachelors would gather and chant incantations and spells over the ancient wiring diagrams and circuit boards. Bow in greeting, but in the end people still rely on the tenacious self-repair of the Ark system to survive every cold winter - however, this time, a several-kilometer-long hole opened in the ancestral furnace, which cannot be solved by restarting the system.

Hao Ren originally planned to let Willy and Bachelor Oro lead the team, and then he and his team would find an opportunity to pass through the guards and enter the reactor openly, so as to avoid any accidents without losing any blood, but now it seems that the locals are not interested in the ancestors' furnace. The situation of knowledge chronology is more serious than imagined. In the end, I still have to force my way through.

"You should go back to the resting place by yourself first. We still have things to do." After asking about some things about the "Blood Warrior", Hao Ren patted Willy on the shoulder and asked the young man to leave on his own, and then walked towards the Royal City. The high wall on the side. He had previously observed the terrain and thought that a gap there was leading to one of the entrances to the reactor. "Let's go and see the situation."

Everyone walked through the bustling and crowded streets of the royal city and walked towards the gap.

The surroundings are still bustling. Although a terrible incident occurred here not long ago, and everyone in the royal city saw the explosion of the reactor at close range, the streets of this city are still as lively as ever. People in this world seem to have become accustomed to the world around them being in trouble from time to time. Although the crack in the ancestral furnace this time is a bit unprecedented, after the backup power of the shelter was activated, the civilians calmed down again. Men, women, and children were talking about the previous explosion on the street. Some people were telling some weird legends to explain this phenomenon. Pessimists and optimists gathered together, but everyone's actions were the same: everyone gathered together. Let’s talk loudly together and use words to dispel the haze.

Of course, the actual damage caused to the city by the previous explosion cannot be ignored: when the electric fire tore the shell of the reactor, some fragments were exploded, and these fragments fell to the edge of the city along the direction of artificial gravity. , smashed some houses, and coupled with a series of small-scale fires caused by power system failures, many messy places can be seen in the royal city. Soldiers and craftsmen were cleaning up the destroyed area, and the closer you got to the Forge of the Ancients, the more severe the damage became.

Thanks to the chaotic social order of the world and the messy conditions of the destroyed streets, Hao Ren and the others successfully passed all intersections without attracting anyone's attention. Finally, they came to a special exit in the corner of the royal city. Just as Hao Ren guessed, after walking out of this gap onto a high ground, he could see one of the entrances to the Ancestral Furnace in the distance.

But there were really layers of security around the entrance facility, and some strange-looking soldiers were guarding that place. Those soldiers wore simple leather armor, and their upper bodies were exposed to the cold air. They seemed to be completely unafraid of low temperatures. Their skin was pale and sickly, their muscles were extremely developed, and dark red blood vessels were exposed through their white to almost transparent skin. , as strange as a red tattoo. These soldiers walked around the entrance to the reactor, muttering strange sentences from time to time. Their voices sounded like a mixture of beasts and humans. As they spoke, saliva even dripped down the chins of these people and onto the ground. .

Hao Ren muttered: "Is this the Blood Warrior that Willy mentioned?"

"...Radiation symptoms," the data terminal sneaked out, its surface glowing with light. After a little inspection of the facilities behind the soldiers, it understood what was going on. "This machine actually forgot to check the radiation in this area just now. It’s worth it—this reactor is leaking, and the radiation intensity behind those metal walls is frighteningly high, and these soldiers have been guarding the place only one wall away from the radiation source all year round, and they have all become seriously ill!”

The Blood Warriors are the chosen ones who guard the Ancestral Furnace. They are selected from the most powerful warrior families in the Four Kingdoms. They are the most brave and capable young men. These soldiers are ordered to guard the entrance to the Ancestral Furnace, and their bodies are bathed in In the glory of gods and ancestors, they have acquired some characteristics that are different from ordinary people. Although their life span is short, their life is full of glory. This is the local explanation of the "Blood Warrior", and what follows is the truth of everything - these They are just a group of poor radiation patients. Their greatest fighting power comes from their appearance that is burned by radiation. Ordinary people in this world simply do not dare to be enemies with people with this appearance.

"They picked the strongest healthy people to guard this place, but they were actually wasting their precious labor in radiation." Lily's eyes widened. "This is really... unreasonable."

"When the Black Death was at its worst, people were keen to burn women who knew how to use herbs to cure diseases to stop the plague," Vivian said expressionlessly, "and the guards here are at least somewhat necessary: ​​there are real people behind those doors. This is not a place where a living person should go. No matter what the first person who discovered this thought, at least he was right to send someone to lock the door."