Hessiana did not know about Vivian's "auditory hallucination", so she was confused. "What do you mean?"
"Vivian has been hearing people calling her name recently, but it's all an auditory hallucination," Hao Ren said as he turned to Vivian. "Another voice? Isn't it better recently? "
"It's clearer than before," Vivian said with a solemn face. "I'm almost sure it's coming from that direction …"
The direction she was looking at was the dark end of the tunnel. Amidst the flickering flames of Flamejoy, there was only deep darkness beyond ten meters. The end of the tunnel seemed to be shrouded by the unknown of eternal malice, carrying with it an icy aura.
Hao Ren felt that Vivian's "auditory hallucination" was not as simple as he thought at first. Now that he thought about it, it seemed that her "auditory hallucination" did appear after the Hessianite Family discovered this alternate dimension.
If there was a connection between the two, then what kind of secret was buried in this ancient city?
At the end of the tunnel was an open hall. It was empty, and there seemed to be nothing unusual.
After passing through the stone arch of the corridor, Hao Ren looked at the empty place in front of him and asked, "Are you sure the sound came from here?"
Vivian looked around. Coming out of the long corridor was a square, palace-like place. Judging from the location, it should be close to the central area of the Great Pyramid. Like the rest of the temple, this place had been completely emptied. Except for the huge stone pillar in the center of the hall and the reliefs on the stone pillar that could not be moved, the various decorations and luxurious statues that might have been there were long gone.
"The sound is gone again," she said, tapping her forehead gently. "But it must be coming from this direction."
Since the gargoyles outside would not enter the Great Temple, the MDT had returned to Hao Ren's side. It flew around the empty hall and finally stopped at the square granite pillar in the center of the hall. "The pattern on this pillar seems to be a clue!"
The granite pillar was the most eye-catching thing in the hall. Each side of it was several meters wide, and it was engraved with exquisite relief patterns. Even after thousands of years of wind and frost, the patterns were still quite intact. The MDT quickly repaired a few of the defects on the relief using restoration technology, and then found that the pictures on the stone pillar were the subsequent parts of the murals in the outer temple.
Hao Ren saw the mask pattern on the stone pillar at first glance: the residents of Ertos used this mask to represent their great "ruler."
"This describes what happened after the death of the behemoth Ertos, and what happened after people built a new city on the beast's head," the MDT said, pointing to different positions on the relief with different beams of light. "Here, and here, all continuous."
"The great ruler did not leave after killing Ertos, but settled on the plains. He neither accepted the offerings of mortals nor left the place, but silently watched the establishment of the new city …" Lily read slowly, pointing to the cuneiform text below the relief. "Under the leadership of the surviving Beasthead, it took people 22 years to build Ertos, and four other cities were built on the fertile land around Ertos."
"On the day of the completion of the city, the sky of Ertos was shrouded in a ring of clouds. The Wolf God of the Beasthead thought this was a great omen, so he led the other Beasthead Gods to the caves on the plains and asked the great ruler to come and protect the city. They offered barley, chickpeas, honey, and spiced roast meat as followers to the great ruler. Finally, the great ruler agreed and became the king of Ertos. "
Listening to Lily reading this, Hao Ren could not help but ask Vivian, "What's so special about this' offering '?"
"The content of the offering was not very particular, because there was no unified ritual system at that time. It was the 'offering' itself that had a special meaning," Vivian explained. "During the Mythological Era, all races were in a precarious situation. Not every otherworldling could be the supreme ruler of mortals for a long time. Sometimes natural disasters or wars would defeat some weaker 'gods', and they would worship other otherworldlings that were stronger than themselves, as mortals worshipped themselves. This would lead to them being annexed by other 'gods', or even completely losing their 'god' status, but at least they could keep their lives. It seems that the situation around Ertos was very bad at that time. The Beasthead Gods felt that they could not keep their territory, so they went to the great ruler. "
Hao Ren nodded and continued to read the relief. "… The new god lived in the great temple in the center of Ertos, receiving the worship of mortals day and night. Under the protection of the powerful god, Ertos became a country that no one dared to offend …" Hao Ren nodded and continued to read the relief.
"The Beasthead Gods chose to submit to the new king. They became the priests of Ertos and lived in the great temple and the surrounding smaller temples.
"In order to protect the city, the Beasthead Gods collected the bone plates that fell from the body of Ertos after its death. They forged and burned these bone plates, infused them with the power of fire and earth, and then made them into huge warriors …
"These warriors were made in the image of the Beasthead Gods. They were powerful, had bodies as strong as mountains, and never tired …"
"The shape of the Beasthead Gods, huge stone statues, never tired," Lily blinked. "That's the giant statues we encountered."
"No doubt," Hao Ren nodded in agreement. "I didn't expect the stone statues to be made of the remains of Ertos. No wonder they are so strong, and they don't look like metals and ores known to Earth."
Y 'zaks pointed to the relief depicting the arrival of the new god in Ertos. "So this great ruler lives in the central temple of the city — which is where we are now?"
Hao Ren straightened up and looked around, his eyes growing more puzzled.
This was a temple that had been emptied, or even looted. If the "great ruler" was really the supreme ruler of Ertos, if he really had supreme authority here, why did this place become like this?
Considering that everything in the surrounding small temples was intact, this big temple was more likely to have been abandoned before the city's accident. Had the "supreme ruler" who ruled here moved away?
There was no subsequent record of this event on the relief, not even the process of the abandonment of the big temple. But it made sense. Since people had abandoned the place, there was no need to leave a construction note in the ruins.
Vivian stood in front of the stone pillar engraved with reliefs for a long time, as if trying to recall the city destroyed by her moonlight. Unfortunately, her fragmented memory was as difficult as ever to recall. After a long period of thought and silence, she put her hand on the mask representing the ruler on the stone pillar. "To tell you the truth, this mask is really ugly …"
Before she could finish her sentence, the stone pillar suddenly underwent an unexpected change!
The lines on the relief began to twist, and the originally hard stone began to flow and deform like soft mud. The cuneiform characters and patterns full of ancient civilization style on the stone pillar were quickly swallowed by the soft mud-like wriggling surface. Under everyone's dumbfounded gaze, all the relief on the stone pillar dissolved in a few breaths!
Then line after line of distorted text emerged:
Don't wake him up! Don't wake him up! Don't wake him up! …
The text on the stone pillar appeared line by line like a crazy refresh, and then quickly disappeared along with the soft mud-like surface. This scene was strange and terrifying. But this was just the beginning. With the changes on the stone pillar, a low voice suddenly echoed throughout the Great Pyramid.
The sound was indescribable. It was like muffled thunder rolling in the clouds, continuous as if it would never stop. But the muffled sound was mixed with what seemed to be the screams of countless people, and occasionally mixed with the crackling sound of tearing and the sharp whistling of the wind. Rollie, who was on Hao Ren's back, was awakened almost instantly by the sound. She hurriedly jumped down from Hao Ren's back and lay on all fours on the ground. Her eyes kept looking in all directions, her tail stood straight like a furry stick, and her back arched high. "Meow …"
"Spatial distortion detected. I repeat, I have detected spatial distortion …" The MDT also sounded a warning at the same time, and then shot a light beam forward. At the end of the light beam, Hao Ren saw a stone wall in the hall suddenly 'expanded'.
This was a phenomenon that the human brain could not directly understand. The originally square and unobstructed stone hall was shaking violently like a mirror. One of the stone walls was getting farther and farther away in the shaking. In a flash, the area of the hall had more than doubled, as if it was originally so huge. In the new part of the hall, Hao Ren saw a high stone platform standing there, surrounded by a circle of braziers. They automatically burned the moment they appeared.
On the top of the stone platform that looked like an altar, a heavy coffin made of gold was slowly being pushed open.
Hao Ren instantly felt his hair stand on end.
"One of the necessary knowledge for grave digging," Lily said grumpily beside Vivian. "Don't touch anything you don't know what it's for."
Vivian stared at the golden coffin on the stone platform and swallowed hard. "Sleeping in a golden coffin … So rich …"
Everyone: "?"
"Who cares what it is." Hao Ren did not care. Having read all kinds of movies, TV series, and novels, he knew that waiting for his opponent to complete the transformation was tantamount to suicide. So when the golden coffin was halfway opened, he directly raised his hand and threw a graviton bomb into it.
The moment the bomb exploded, he took out his inspector's gun and fired three times in a row.
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