Hao Ren stood in the ruins of the old and dilapidated palace. The collapsed pillars and broken walls around him gradually overlapped with the scenes in his memory. At first, he was only sure that the style of these palaces was the same as the style he saw in the illusion of the Gilded Disc, so he was sure that these palaces were the buildings on the Star of Creation. But as his memory became clearer, he found that the situation was far from that simple.
He looked at the place where he was standing, and then looked up at the two decorative pillars closest to him. He was horrified to realize that he was standing in the same position in the illusion of the past, exactly the same!
Hao Ren looked back and saw a completely collapsed wall behind him. Outside the wall was an endless dark space. He remembered very clearly that when he entered the illusion of the deicide, the wall was slowly collapsing in front of him.
"Hao Ren?" Vivian noticed the change in Hao Ren's eyes. She asked with concern, "What's wrong?"
"This is the position when I entered the illusion. It's this palace. In front …" Hao Ren looked up into the distance. His heart skipped a beat, and he ran forward. "The place where the goddess was assassinated is in front!"
The damaged decorative pillars, the crooked and broken relief walls, the tall and magnificent palace doors, all these things rushed behind him like phantoms. Hao Ren ran in the direction of his memory. At this moment, he seemed to have returned to the illusion of the deicide. In the empty and broken palace, the brave guardian giants, the glorious and mighty mother-murderers, the burning flames, and the building debris that kept falling from the dome appeared again. The shouting of the guardians and the rebels came from all directions, but when he looked closely, it was all just an illusion.
The real scene in front of him and the hallucinations in his memory intertwined. Hao Ren shook his head hard to get the images out of his eyes. He felt a burning sensation on his right hand. When he looked down, he saw the red mark on his right hand that was left by touching the God's blood. It was even more vivid than before.
"Buddy, your mental stability is deteriorating," the MDT's voice suddenly rang, waking Hao Ren up from his strange trance. "Do you want me to activate active mental suppression?"
"I'm fine." Hao Ren took a deep breath. As the hallucination faded away, the red marks on his hand also faded a little. "It should be the resonance caused by the God's blood... It's similar to the situation when I encountered the bloodstains last time. This place … "
He raised his head and found that he had run all the way through the long corridor and side hall outside. At this moment, what appeared in front of him was the last hall at the end of the building. This grand and ancient hall was as dilapidated as the rest of the place. The exquisite murals and reliefs of the past were already beyond recognition, and the high dome of the hall was covered in cracks. In the empty palace, there were only a few army soldiers cleaning up the battlefield. Hearing the commotion coming from the door, these soldiers looked over curiously.
Hao Ren waved his hand at the soldiers and looked up at the end of the palace. He clearly remembered that he was standing in this place in the illusion, and at the end of the palace was the scene of the evil deed.
There was nothing at the end of the palace, only a big empty hole. An entire wall had disappeared, and even the ground appeared to be torn and distorted. The Gilded Disc had been placed there, but that part of the building structure had been blown into another space, leaving a big hole in the ground, and there was only darkness outside.
Vivian came up from behind. Hao Ren pointed to the hole at the end of the palace and said to her, "At that time, the Goddess of Creation was standing there, with a Gilded Disc behind her, and the god slayer stood in front of her... at the tilted floor tile, and stabbed it with his sword."
Vivian looked ahead, lost in thought. This ruined and silent place was now just a ruin, no longer glorious, and it was hard to imagine that such a sensational thing had happened here. She came to the hole at the end of the hall, picked a place based on her intuition, and then turned to Hao Ren and waved. "It's this place! Is this the place where the Goddess of Creation was killed? "
Not sure if it was a coincidence, the place where Vivian stood was exactly the same as where the Goddess of Creation was killed. The moment she turned around, Hao Ren even had an illusion. He saw the scene of the hall slowly collapsing in the flames of war, and the Goddess of Creation stood at the end of the hall, turning her head and casting a glance at him, a "bystander" across thousands of years of time and space. The blurry face of the Goddess of Creation gradually became clear, and it was Vivian's face.
A large fire appeared in the empty hall, and battle cries sounded out of nowhere. Hao Ren saw a blurry, tall figure suddenly appeared in the air in front of Vivian. The figure was wearing a gorgeous golden-red armor, holding a black longsword that looked like it was inlaid with fragments of stars. He raised the longsword and stabbed it at Vivian's chest, but Vivian did not seem to feel it at all. She just looked at Hao Ren and waved with a smile. Her voice came from afar as if from another world. "… Killed here?"
"Watch out!" Hao Ren seemed to know that it was an illusion, but his body had already reacted subconsciously. With a loud shout, he rushed forward and covered the entire distance of the hall in a flash. He then pounced on Vivian. The latter only had time to scream before she was smashed into a swarm of little bats by Hao Ren.
All of a sudden, the hallucinations disappeared. Hao Ren felt as if a swarm of small bats were crashing around his head. The small-scale lightning storm that Vivian had unleashed had electrocuted him like a Lily with its hair standing on end. A moment later, Vivian reappeared not far away. She glared at Hao Ren with her hands on her hips. "What's wrong with you? You scared me! "
Hao Ren's hair was standing on end from the electrocution. He finally came to his senses and quickly explained, "I saw an illusion again …"
Vivian was a little angry at first, but she suddenly became nervous when she heard that. "Illusion? The time when the goddess was stabbed again? "
"Yeah, and this time the goddess was replaced by you." Hao Ren told Vivian exactly what he saw. "You were standing where the goddess was standing … and then your figures overlapped."
Vivian frowned and did not say a word. She just grabbed Hao Ren's hand. The strange red "burn" mark on Hao Ren's hand was now glowing faintly and gradually dimming. Apparently, the illusion had something to do with the resonance of the divine blood.
The MDT emerged from Hao Ren's pocket. "I wanted to intervene just now, but then I found that your mental stability had not fallen below the threshold, so I let it go. I thought you might find some clues."
"There's no clue, but there's something suspicious," Hao Ren said, rubbing his burning palms and tapping the ground with his toes. "This place is the scene of the goddess of creation's murder. It's true."
"This place should have been blown into the Umbral Realm along with the Star of Creation," Vivian said with her arms crossed. "But looking at the situation in the Coldpath dimension, it seems that the entire palace complex has been blown into this universe."
Hao Ren shook his head gently. "Again, since the Gilded Disc can be blown into this universe, so can the palace. It's just a matter of probability. The point is: are there only these palaces here? "
Vivian suddenly came to her senses. She immediately turned to look at White Flame. "Are there any other relics here?"
"Other relics?" White Flame had no idea what Hao Ren and Vivian were talking about. "What do you mean?" she asked.
"Anything is fine. Just the things that were originally stored in these palaces. Weapons, books, equipment, facilities, weapon fragments, and so on," Vivian said quickly. "Especially the things in this hall. Were all the palaces empty when you first found this space?"
White Flame suddenly understood. "Oh, you mean those … We did find a lot of things in these ruins, but except for those that were used during the Mythological War and those that were seriously damaged and cleaned up, the rest should be stored in the Netherrealm Clock Tower, guarded by the Thirteen Sages."
The Netherrealm Clock Tower was not only the fortress of the Thirteen Sages but also a huge museum!
Hao Ren suddenly broke out in a cold sweat when he heard what White Flame said. He had thought that if the conventional battle did not work, he would summon the Petrachelys and try to bombard the Netherrealm Clock Tower with the ship's cannons to see if it could break the tower's invincible shield. At this time, he was glad that he did not put this idea into practice. Otherwise, he would have destroyed a lot of clues.
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