With White Flame leading the way, they soon came to the top of the Netherrealm Clock Tower.
The towering tower that floated in the void had now recovered from the distortion of time and space. The dark shadow that once covered the entire tower had completely faded away after the Godslayer was taken away. Now, the complex and mysterious ancient runes once again appeared on its surface. Pale gold and red divine runes covered the entire tower, causing the oddly shaped building to emit a constant faint glow in the dark.
The top of the tower was destroyed in the deicidal war 10,000 years ago. Although the Netherrealm Clock Tower was the most well-preserved of the many buildings in Coldpath, that was only relatively speaking. After the deicidal war, nothing could remain intact. After the spire of the tower was blown up, the hall at the top of the tower became a semi-open top platform. The broken pieces of the building floated around the platform like a group of asteroids.
Hao Ren landed on the platform at the top of the tower. He looked around and saw a large number of irregular broken stones floating on the edge of the platform. Above his head was the vast starry sky. It felt like he was standing in space. He gently stomped his feet and felt that the gravity here was less than one-third of normal, and the direction was a little skewed.
"Look, there's nothing here," White Flame said as she landed next to Hao Ren. She raised her hand and pointed around. "Only ruins. You have to be careful of the shadows floating in the air. They will suddenly produce a gravity storm. If you get too close, you may be thrown out or pinned to the ground. "
Lily was pinned to the ground by a gravitational anomaly ten meters away. She was on all fours and her face was red. "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Vivian stood next to Lily and said sarcastically, "When are you going to change your habit of poking at everything you see?"
"If she could change, it would be a waste of her ancestral chromosomes," Hao Ren muttered casually. He asked the MDT to use the teleportation function to rescue Lily. He then looked around for anything that looked like a console. "The center of the connection should be on this platform."
After rescuing the husky, the MDT returned to Hao Ren's side and turned on the holographic projection to show the location of the connection. They were indeed at the top of the Netherrealm Clock Tower. Vivian looked at it suspiciously. "Didn't you say that the rifts would move once they encountered external observation? Some of them even moved several times. Can you still connect them accurately in this case? "
"I have thought about this," the MDT said, its blue light flashing. "First of all, I have checked the migration pattern of all the rifts and found that no matter how they move, they will not leave the range of the temple they are attached to. Second, they move on the surface of a large spherical shell, so the common location of the rift has never changed. This is more confirmation that the control of the hyperspace vault is on the Netherrealm Clock Tower."
"I'm worried about one problem now." Hao Ren looked at the platform that had been blown up into an open building. "This place has been blown up like this. Is the controller gone?"
The MDT immediately shook from side to side. "Impossible. If the controller is offline, these rifts will not appear. Let's look carefully. There must be some equipment still running here. It's just that the technology tree of the goddess of creation is too strange. I guess the form of the controller will not be easy to recognize. "
Everyone immediately split up to look for anything that looked suspicious in the square. Even Rollie jumped up and down to help. Although the cat girl's worldview was worrisome, she was still smart. As long as they explained the purpose to her, she would be of great help. Besides, cats were excellent hunters and detectives. Her attentiveness and intuition might be very useful.
Hao Ren was with the MDT. He looked thoughtfully at the floating temples in the distance. "These rifts should be left behind by the goddess of creation, right? Some kind of safe."
"Obviously."
"And each rift is attached to a temple. According to White Flame, they will only appear within a hundred meters of the temple. So we can think that the floating position and orbit of each temple around the Netherrealm Clock Tower is actually set by the goddess of creation. In order to maintain her 'safe,' these temples cannot change their position at will."
"Obviously."
"These temples were destroyed in the deicidal war. The Coldpath dimension is actually a fragment of the Star of Creation. At first, we always thought that the reason why these temples float in the air is the result of the explosion. We thought that their floating position is completely random. But now it seems that the situation is completely different. Everything is precise."
"I understand what you mean," the MDT said.
"When the goddess fell, she accurately calculated where each temple would float in the future. She even knew what the future Coldpath would look like. The location of each wreckage here is extremely precise. Do you know what this is like? A person's house was blown up, and this person knew where every brick and tile in the house would go before the explosion. This person even carefully arranged the use of each brick and tile after the explosion. She used these bricks and tiles to put together a giant jigsaw puzzle spanning hundreds of kilometers, just to keep something safe and secure after her death, and not to be discovered by a certain 'person'. "
The MDT said slowly, "So now there's a question —"
"Yes, there's a question," Hao Ren nodded. "Did the Star of Creation explode because of the deicidal event, or did the goddess of creation detonate it herself? The explosion was so precise … I don't believe that the goddess of creation did not prepare for the directional explosion. "
"The goddess of creation detonated the Star of Creation herself. Buddy, have we been exposed to too much information recently?" The MDT said with a rare hesitation. "Now I almost suspect that even the 'treacherous children' were cultivated by the goddess herself."
Hao Ren shook his head. "I don't think so. I still stick to my initial speculation: the deicidal event was indeed a conspiracy of a third party, and the goddess of creation was the victim. But now we have to adjust the initiative of the goddess of creation in the whole event again. She had a lot of arrangements before her death."
Just then, Lily's voice suddenly came from a distance. "Mr. Landlord! Come and look at this! "
Hao Ren hurried over to check the situation. Lily pointed to the ground and asked, "Don't you find these patterns interesting?"
At first, Hao Ren thought that Lily had found some ancient equipment or something. Little did he expect that it was just some engravings on the ground. But soon, he found that the engravings were indeed remarkable: it was a circular pattern about two meters in diameter. At first glance, the pattern looked like a delicate carving, but after a closer look, he found that it was a huge three-dimensional spherical pattern made up of a large number of irregular lobes.
It was almost the same as the overall picture of the space-time vault simulated by the MDT.
"This …" White Flame was a little surprised. "I know there used to be relief on the ground here, but it wasn't like this at first."
"Wasn't it like this before?" Hao Ren was stunned. "Did it appear together with the spatial rifts —"
Before he could finish, Rollie, who was looking around on the ground, suddenly shouted, "Big Boss Cat! There are words here! "
Hao Ren looked down and saw lines of words gradually appearing on the edge of the circular pattern. The translation plug-in was activated immediately, and the words became clear to Hao Ren as if he was speaking his mother tongue.
"The creation of the Blood of Origin can read these words. With this bloodline, you can open the sacred vault."
"The creation of the Blood of Origin?" Hao Ren was stunned for a moment before he looked at Vivian, who also looked at him almost at the same time. "I didn't use the translation plug-in just now … I can understand what's written on it directly."
"So this is for you," Hao Ren said, swallowing. "It's something the goddess of creation left for you!"
"Wow," Lily whispered. "Suddenly it's an epic achievement."
Vivian looked like she was sleepwalking. She could not digest the information for a while, and then asked subconsciously, "What should I do?"
Without saying a word, Lily grabbed Vivian's arm and kissed her. "Do you even need to ask? The instruction manual says, let's bleed! Argh! "
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