Rheia looked at the broken device on the ground and tapped her foot on the ground, a little depressed. "I spent so much effort to get this thing, and all I got was a sentence out of it. I don't feel good about it …"
"It's more or less a clue." Hao Ren waved his hand as he opened his Dimensional Pocket and took out the 'metallic egg' that he had rescued at the last minute. "I also brought something out from a place that looks like a control center. I suspect it's the 'pilot's' cabin, but the contents are a little weird."
The weird silver-white metallic egg appeared before everyone's eyes, and it still carried the same heat as when it was in the Gorgon Lord's body, and just standing in front of it would feel a gust of hot air rushing at them. Lily was stunned the moment she saw the egg, and after a few thoughts flashed through her mind, she suddenly blurted out, "Mr. Landlord, I'm afraid this egg needs a really big pot!"
How could Hao Ren keep up with the husky's train of thought? "Huh?"
Lily gestured with her paw, "Mr. Landlord, didn't you hatch Lil Pea from the egg you brought back last time? Are you going to cook this egg for me too?"
"Can't you remember something useful in your head!" Hao Ren smacked the husky maiden's head with his knuckles, "I said this thing is the passenger cabin!"
After that, he shook his hand and activated the shell of the metal egg using the previous method. As the precise deformable protective shell peeled off layer by layer, the internal cavity formed by a layer of transparent polymer was also exposed, and the cloud-like black substance sealed in the cavity also "awakened."
It started to squirm violently as it crashed into everything around it, and its surface bulged as it morphed into all sorts of unimaginable shapes, and while it did not make a single sound, just the crazed twitching alone was enough to tell that it was in a frenzied state.
"Ugh … What the heck is this …" Lily frowned, "It looks disgusting!"
"The words on the shell should be a person's name …" Vivian recalled the words on the 'eggshell', "Logically speaking, they should be referring to the original occupants of the eggshell … But why did the occupants become like this?"
This was also something that Hao Ren was curious about, and he turned to the goddess of creation who had not said anything, "Rheia, what do you think?"
"Interesting …" Rheia said softly as if she was talking to herself, and she took half a step forward as she placed her hand lightly on the transparent polymer shell. "It looks right, but it's not … How can there be such a thing in this world?"
As her finger touched the transparent shell, the smoke-like black substance that was soaking in the eggshell seemed to be greatly stimulated, and it started to scurry around even more frantically, as if it was trying to escape the shell that was supposed to protect it. But its struggle lasted less than three seconds before it gradually disintegrated into thin black pieces and dissolved into the mysterious liquid within the container.
And that was not the end, as after the black substance dissolved, some pink, flesh-like components suddenly appeared within the container, and they rapidly reorganized, grew, and within a few breaths, formed a human body.
Charlemagne, Graeme, and Charlemagne, who were watching curiously, were stunned.
It was a woman in a tight silver-white combat suit with short blond hair. She was curled up as if she was asleep, and her two arms and one leg had obvious signs of being replaced by a machine. Many cables and tubes extended out from the opening on her back, and connected to a metallic structure that looked like a spine in the eggshell, and on the left breast of her combat suit was a name tag, and on it was her name: Ellie Gneer.
The ancient human named Ellie Gneer quietly curled up in the container for a while before she suddenly opened her eyes.
Her golden eyes were filled with fighting spirit and a strong will, but she did not react to Hao Ren and the others outside the container. She was like a projection on another world line, completely ignoring the situation around her. With a serious look on her face, she reached out her hand and moved it in the air as if she was manipulating something.
"This is an illusion," Rheia explained. "It is the pilot's last memory. She was participating in a battle."
The illusion did not last long, or rather, the ancient warrior named Rheia Gneer did not survive long in that final battle. Her body suddenly shuddered violently, and then she curled up in pain as the cables and tubes behind her began to overload and burst. Blood gushed out from the broken tubes and quickly dyed the liquid in the container pink. Her last expression was twisted and hideous, but the pair of golden eyes still burned with an unyielding light, and even when the blood from her body had completely swallowed her expression, the pair of eyes still remained in Hao Ren's mind.
Only a pool of murky blood was left in the container, but Rheia did not stop her divine spell. She waited patiently, and finally, the moment the transformation began.
Strands of black suddenly appeared in the container, and quickly devoured and assimilated the flesh and metal remains in the container. Even the warrior's stubborn will before his death could not stop the vicious process, and in just half a minute, the contents of the container were all devoured, and in its place was a swirling mass of darkness …
Only then did Rheia take her hand away from the egg-shaped container, and she let out a soft sigh. "That's all."
Hao Ren blinked. "So that's really …"
"It's a battle with the Mad Lord, and the last thing that appeared was the corruption of the power of madness." Rheia nodded with a serious expression, and switched to a language of the Plane of Dreams. "But there's something strange … the power of madness is very weak, and showed obvious inertia. It did not continue to expand after the corruption was completed, and this is not the kind of strength that I had faced back then."
Hao Ren rubbed his chin, and said in Holletta, "Maybe it's just a minion?"
"Or maybe it's weakened by something." Rheia took a deep look at Hao Ren as she said meaningfully.
"Weakened …" Hao Ren repeated subconsciously, and a bolt of lightning flashed through his mind. Vaccine!
Perhaps to the siblings who had never come into contact with the Mad Lord, the scene in the egg-shaped container was enough to be described as horrifying, but Hao Ren knew that it was nothing. The power of the Mad Lord, even if it was just a minion, was enough to tear a planet apart and distort space and time, and if it was used on a mortal who had lost the ability to resist, then not only would the infected person be vaporized, even the entire battleship or even the entire fleet would turn into a horrifying mix of metal and flesh. But the Gorgonian Demons did not seem to have gone through that level of mutation. While they were indeed out of control, only the core area was corrupted, and from the outside, they looked more or less normal.
This meant that the power of madness on them had been weakened.
That was the reason why Hao Ren and his team came to L 'Haronne: the vaccine!
Vivian quickly figured it out, and with an excited expression, she asked, "So the Gorgonian Demons are the 'vaccine'?"
Rheia, however, shook her head. "Regrettably, while this weakening could very well be related to the 'vaccine', these Gorgonian demons themselves are meaningless to us."
Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, "What's going on?"
"Because …" Rheia said as she looked at the metal 'egg' that was as tall as a human and gently knocked on its shell. "They have already been lost in history …"
As Rheia's voice trailed off, the 'neural interaction pod' that carried the last memory of the ancient warrior named Elli Gneer, and who knows how many years had passed, suddenly let out a hazy glow, and then silently turned into shimmering particles that were blown away by the wind.
Vivian could not help but gasp softly, "This …"
"The Gorgonian Demons are also 'fragments' that exist between the real and the virtual. Even though they appeared in this world in physical form, and even fought against the L 'Haronne people until now, they are no different from phantoms in terms of' existence '. Once they leave L' Haronne, they will immediately disappear," Rheia shook her head gently, "In other words, they only 'exist' in L 'Haronne."
She paused, and concluded, "The same goes for the Black Forest."
"In other words, the so-called Gorgon's Abyss is another Black Forest … The nature of the Gorgonian Demons is also similar to the Black Forest here," Hao Ren understood what Rheia meant, "but they are obviously closer to the 'real' than the Black Forest, and we even fought them."
Rheia put a finger to her lips, and the action was similar to what Vivian did subconsciously when she was deep in thought, "This is what I'm most curious about. There are many intersections on L 'Haronne, as if many isolated world lines are stacked on top of each other on this planet, and even though I have the vision to directly see through the truth, I can't see what caused this world line stacking …"
Hao Ren rummaged through his knowledge of the Grand Unification of Information, "Could it have something to do with the end of the world? The collapse of the universe caused the history of civilizations in every corner of the world to be compressed and overlapped, and L 'Haronne was created on this basis, and then L' Haronne was reborn again because of you, so the traces of the 'history stacking' were wiped out by the self-repair mechanism of the world's underlying data, leaving only fragments that exist between the real and the virtual like the Black Forest and Gorgon's Abyss, and you still can't find the reason for their formation … "
Rheia thought for a moment, and knocked her fist against her palm, "Ah, the second section of the seventh lesson of the Introduction to Information!"
"… So reading books really does help …" Hao Ren said.
"But that won't help us find the vaccine," Rheia spread out her hands, "These out-of-control Gorgonian war machines are just the product of the vaccine, we still don't know where the real vaccine is."
Graeme frowned as he looked at the mysterious people who claimed to be from the Basilica of the World Tree suddenly speaking in a language he had never heard before, and the topic of their conversation was obviously about the 'core' of the Gorgonian Demons, and he could not help but ask, "Do you know anything about the Gorgonian Demons? That thing that appeared just now … was a human? "
"That's right." Hao Ren nodded, "But that was a long time ago, and the Gorgons now … are just a bunch of mad war machines."
Seeing that the Knight of the Broken Blade still had the intention to ask, Hao Ren waved his hand, "We can talk about this after we leave this forest, I just feel like … why is it getting colder?"
Awenna blinked, "After all, the two Gorgon Lords are dead, and it's normal for their flames to drop after being extinguished."
"Doesn't seem like it," Lily who was more sensitive to temperature changes looked up at the dense forest, "There is indeed a cold wind blowing from that direction, and it's getting more obvious."
The group reorganized themselves before they set off again, and as they continued north through the Black Forest, the 'temperature drop' was quickly confirmed.
At first, they only felt a cool breeze, but not long later, the cool air turned to ice, and the wind that blew through the forest brought with it a bone-chilling chill, and the soldiers had to activate their magic amulets to withstand the falling temperature, and Lily was getting more and more energetic as the temperature dropped.
After advancing a little further, crystal clear icicles started to appear on the black pines around them, and snow and frozen ground started to appear beneath their feet, but this was completely abnormal, as it never snowed in the Black Forest, and there was no record of the forest's temperature dropping below zero.
While pines were cold-resistant plants, but these black pines that grew against the laws of nature grew in the south.
Furthermore, the drop in temperature was just too fast …
Although Lily was quite happy about it.
With a growing sense of confusion, Hao Ren continued forward for a while, and just as he was wondering if he should stop and let Rheia see the whole picture, the forest suddenly came to an end.
The group had left the Black Forest.
The scene before them suddenly opened up into a vast expanse of snow. The group, who were walking in the dark forest not long ago, could not help but feel dizzy. Charlemagne and Awenna stared at the endless snow in front of them, while Lily, who was walking next to Hao Ren, jumped up in surprise. "Wow! Snowfield! It's a snowfield! It's a snowfield!! "
Hearing the husky maiden's excited voice, Hao Ren's first reaction was to reach out and press down on the crazy dog's head, but his action was half a second slower than his thought, and he could only watch as the husky, who was getting more and more excited as the temperature dropped, darted into the distance, and the next moment, she was scampering all over the vast snowfield.
Vivian facepalmed, "It's over … Don't expect her to stop for at least half an hour …"
And Hao Ren quickly accepted the fact that his husky was gone again, and turned to look at Charlemagne and Awenna who were acting as guides along the way. "I say … Just coming out of the Black Forest and plunging straight into the snow, is that normal?"
"Of course it's not normal!" Charlemagne's eyes widened. "The northern exit of the Black Forest is in the Fertile Plains, that's in the middle of the empire!"
Graeme was also stunned for a moment when he saw the snowfield, but he quickly saw something from the scenery around him. He immediately turned around to look for something, and it did not take long before he found what he was looking for.
It was a huge red fissure across the sky: the entrance to Gorgon's Abyss.
"This is the north!" The Knight of the Broken Blade exclaimed. "Look, that's Gorgon's Abyss!"
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