As Hao Ren approached, the Valkyrie, who was in a state of madness, also retreated. She crawled on the ground like a cornered beast, her nails digging deep into the cracks of the floor. She growled threateningly as she retreated. Under her disheveled hair was a pair of crazy eyes that were almost devoid of humanity.
"Relax … relax …" Hao Ren could only stand still after taking a few steps forward. He spread his hands to show that he was not a threat. "We are not enemies, and we are not here to attack Valhalla. We are here to investigate the situation. Oh, we have an old friend of the goddess of Asgard with us."
"Val … Halla …" The Valkyrie trembled and uttered a few syllables hoarsely from her throat. It seemed that she only responded to these few words.
Hao Ren immediately thought of what the Valkyrie had shouted before. He immediately put on a more harmless posture and asked tentatively, "Are you guarding Valhalla?"
The Valkyrie immediately roared out of reflex, "Valhalla must not fall! Valhalla must not fall! "
"Yes, Valhalla must not fall. This place is impregnable. No one will attack it!" Hao Ren immediately said. At the same time, he waved his hand to signal Lily, who was a little restless behind him, to stay calm. "We are not here to attack. We are Odin's friends. We are here to help."
"… I don't know you," the Valkyrie suddenly looked nervous. "There have never been people like you in the Garden of Asgard!"
"Because we don't live in the Garden of Asgard," Hao Ren said quickly. He hesitated for a moment. He knew that there was something that would definitely attract the Valkyrie's attention, but the consequences of taking it out were also difficult to predict. After all, the Valkyrie had gone berserk for the same reason once. But after hesitating for two or three seconds, he decided to give it a try.
He opened his dimensional pocket and took out the Gungnir.
Sure enough, when the Valkyrie saw the gun again, her expression instantly became excited, and she was about to go into a rage mode again. But this time, Hao Ren hurriedly said, "We found this gun on the battlefield! We have to give it to Odin! "
Although the Valkyrie was insane, perhaps Vivian's actions were working, she could still understand human language. After listening to Hao Ren's explanation, she showed a confused and thoughtful expression. Hao Ren took this opportunity to communicate with her. "We have just checked the battlefield outside the Garden of Asgard. Odin is not on the battlefield. He only left this gun. Do you know where he is? "
"I can't hear … I can't hear the voice of the Holy Father …" Valkyrie lowered her eyelids, her head trembling slightly. "I can't hear … I can't hear …"
Hao Ren saw that she was acting so strangely and was worried that she would suddenly go crazy again, so he immediately interrupted, "Err, it's okay if you don't know, we can find it ourselves …"
However, before Hao Ren could finish his words, the delirious Valkyrie suddenly let out a strange roar, turned around, and ran into the depths of the corridor. Her speed was so fast that no one could react.
"She ran away." Hao Ren turned around and spread out his hands innocently. "I didn't say anything."
"It's okay, we have made progress." Vivian waved her hand. "It seems that resetting her core worked. She has turned off her aggressive nature. I guess her current state is because she has lost her humanity, leaving only her bestial nature. She became like this under the drive of her instinct. "
Nangong Sanba glanced at Vivian and asked, "Should we continue to go forward?"
Vivian thought for a moment and made a decision. "Let's go to the central control room to find her. Anyway, there should be some clues there. "
The others had no objection, so the team set off again and continued to walk along the long corridor of Valhalla into the depths of the palace. Along the way, they found many traces left behind by the Valkyrie: deep finger marks on the walls and floor, and dents in the wall at the corner of the corridor. Just by looking at these shocking traces, they could imagine how violent the Valkyrie had been in the corridor.
They had also encountered more einherjar armors. As they went deeper into the palace, the number of einherjars that could still move also increased. These einherjar armors were patrolling in an orderly manner and did not look like they were wandering around randomly. And just like before, when Hao Ren took out the Gungnir, these einherjars would ignore them, and they came to the deepest part of the palace without any hindrance.
"Those einherjars were probably activated by the Valkyrie," Vivian said thoughtfully as she watched the last group of einherjars disappear at the end of their sight. "She seems to be still carrying out the task of guarding Valhalla. Although she has gone mad, she still arranged a patrol route for these einherjars."
Finally, they arrived at the deepest part of the palace of Valhalla, a place Vivian called the 'central control room'.
It was a hemispherical hall supported by many thin columns. The inner wall of the hall was made of an unknown silver-white alloy. Between the thin columns, there were floating symbols and magic lines everywhere, and at the top of the hall, bright electric arcs were constantly jumping from one column to another. Hao Ren immediately saw the Valkyrie who had escaped earlier. She was squatting on a chair at the side of the round hall, her hair disheveled, staring intently at the ground, her head slightly trembling, as if she did not notice that someone was approaching.
Behind her, there were dozens of chairs that were exactly the same, but they were all empty.
Hao Ren carefully walked towards the Valkyrie, who was deep in thought. When he was halfway there, the Valkyrie suddenly raised her head and stared at Hao Ren. After a long while, she muttered, "Oh, oh, it's you."
"Seems to be easier to communicate with than before." Behind Hao Ren, Lily whispered to Nangong Wuyue.
"What are you doing here?" Hao Ren continued to open his hands to show that he was harmless and asked curiously.
The Valkyrie jumped down from the chair and pointed to the dozens of empty chairs behind her. "We are guarding Valhalla."
Hao Ren subconsciously muttered, "But there is no one there …"
"We are guarding Valhalla," the Valkyrie repeated again seriously, and there was a trace of anxiety in her eyes.
Hao Ren quickly nodded. "Oh yes, guarding Valhalla. With you here, this place must be impregnable."
The anxiety in the Valkyrie's eyes gradually faded. She seemed to be satisfied with Hao Ren's answer, or she was very satisfied with the world in her imagination. She nodded and showed a twisted smile. "This place will not fall. No one can attack. When the war is over, when the war is over … "
"The war was already two thousand years ago …" Hao Ren suddenly changed his words. "Oh yes, when the war is over, Odin must have other orders. You are right to guard here."
Not far behind, Vivian suddenly sighed softly.
She could already guess the reason why the Valkyrie was crazy.
In the Twilight of the Gods, the fall of Valhalla was the most fatal blow to the gods of Asgard. It was because the vital Einherjar was trapped in the barracks and unable to attack that the Norse gods met their tragic end.
The Valkyrie in front of him had gone crazy under the impact of this fact.
Her madness was so complete that the human part of her merged soul had almost completely disappeared. Then she lived alone in this place for more than two thousand years. In the end, even restarting the Valkyrie's core could not restore her mind.
On the other side, Hao Ren, through constant conversation with the Valkyrie (or rather, catering to her thoughts), finally succeeded in establishing a preliminary mutual recognition with the crazy Valkyrie. He observed the thin columns surrounded by various holographic images and asked casually, "Have you always been alone here?"
"And them," the Valkyrie stubbornly pointed to the empty chairs. "And the Einherjars outside."
Hao Ren immediately nodded. "Oh yes, and them. What else? Has anyone besides the Valkyrie and Einherjars come to the Garden of Asgard? "
The Valkyrie shook her head. "Everyone is fighting outside."
"What about outside the Garden of Asgard? Has anyone come outside the Garden of Asgard these years? "
The Valkyrie continued to shake her head, but suddenly she nodded again. "At the end of the Bifröst, in the direction of the lower realm, there are mortals spying on us. No, no …?"
Just as the Valkyrie's words were getting more and more confusing, Lily suddenly whispered not far away, "Mr. Landlord, come and look at this!"
Hao Ren went over to check the situation. It turned out that Lily had found a special thin column, which was surrounded by floating video images. Hao Ren did not know where the images showed, but the background seemed to be the place burned by the war of the Twilight of the Gods. The desolate land was full of twisted scorch marks.
On this piece of scorched earth, there were a few figures moving about!
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