A huge statue stood quietly in the middle of the long hall. Hao Ren stared at the statue for a good ten seconds before he turned his head and asked, "Is that you?"
Vivian was even more puzzled. "... It looks like it, but I don't remember the Olympians making me a statue. They are very strict when it comes to making them. "
However, Hessiana and Zeon were even more surprised than Hao Ren and Vivian. Both of them had followed the expedition team to explore this space more than once, but they did not remember such a statue. Hessiana scratched her head and asked Zeon, "Stubborn old man, was this thing here the last time we were here?"
Zeon shook his head vigorously. "No, of course not. I can see such a huge thing in front of me. The long hall was empty the last time we were here. "
"In other words, this statue just appeared?" Hao Ren looked at the baffling scene before him in disbelief. He quickly ran to the front of the statue and studied it carefully. It was a statue of four to five meters tall. It was rare among the ancient Greek sculptures, which were used to sculpting the whole body of a person to a realistic scale. The workmanship was exquisite and lifelike. One could even say that it was no different from Vivian, except for the lack of color. The statue of Vivian stood expressionlessly with her hands by her side. This was a special situation: ancient Greek sculptures were used to showing the physical characteristics of the protagonist through various movements. It was rare to see a statue like this standing there with no characteristics.
However, the most eye-catching thing was that the statue of Vivian was wearing a strange style of clothing. It was wide and gorgeous, as if it had a special religious meaning. The collar was high, and the body was covered with complicated lace and decorative patterns. It did not look like ancient Greek style clothing at all.
Ancient Greek style aside... even if you threw this dress into an online game, you would need at least 20 years of membership to get one. Just the lace on the collar alone was at least + 13 to Hao Ren. Other than wearing it during religious ceremonies, who would dare to wear it on the street? It would be easy to fly if the wind was above level six...
If it weren't for the fact that he was familiar with Vivian's face, he wouldn't have believed that this graceful sculpture, who was dressed like a lifetime member of a domestic web-based game, was the poor guy who poured oil into his scrambled eggs. He nudged Vivian's arm with his elbow. "You have no memory of it?"
"Of course not." Vivian was also stunned by the dress. "If I had such a dress back then... I wouldn't need to freeload all the time!"
Vivian's words made Hao Ren sad. He quickly comforted her. "Let bygones be bygones. We don't have to suffer like that anymore..."
At this time, Becky walked around the base of the statue. With her mercenary's professional instinct, she began to look for possible hidden mechanisms in the statue. She found that the base of the statue was slightly different from the surrounding ground. She went up to it and gently scratched it a few times with a small dagger. "This doesn't look like stone... Look at the powder, it looks like some kind of accelerated man-made material."
Hao Ren went up to touch it and found that his hand was stained with a layer of fine stone powder. The real texture of the statue was much softer than it looked. He remembered that the statue was not here the last time Hessiana came, so he made a bold guess. "Do you think this was put here in the last two days? Hessiana, when was the last time you were here? "
Hessiana did not want to get close to Hao Ren, but she still had to answer his question. "The last time I was here was four days ago. There is a time difference, but your guess is very unreliable. The key to the entrance of the ruins is in the hands of me and the stubborn old man. We need both of us to open the door. Who could have put this statue in? And even if there is another key, why do you think the person who opened the door risked being hunted down by two Blood Clans just to put a statue in here? Of course, if I was the one who put the statue in here, it would be easier to understand. After all, I'm a die-hard fan of Lady Vivian... "
The girl's last sentence was so self-righteous that even Vivian did not know what to say. Zeon looked at Hessiana with a strange expression. "Tell me the truth, did you put this statue in here? I think you could really do such a thing... "
Hessiana waved her hand vigorously. "No, no... I wanted to, but if Lady Vivian saw it, I would be beaten up. She doesn't like it. And look at this dress, it doesn't look like I could have designed it. But your Andrea, she's obsessed with fashion design. Even the clothes of the dog at home have Van Gogh embroidered on them... "
Lily was getting more and more impatient as she listened. She used her broad mind to help fill in the gaps. "Let's not think about this. After all, Battie was very close to Zeus and his family. It's possible that they carved a statue for Battie as a birthday present. Maybe the demon hunters destroyed it before it could be given out. As for why the statue appeared here, let's just assume that it was necessary for the plot... "
Hao Ren and Vivian shouted in unison. "Nonsense!"
Lily shrank her neck and squatted beside Vivian's statue. She reached out her claws and scratched it. "Bully... bully... I'll dig out your statue..."
Hao Ren and Vivian ignored her. While Lily was scratching her claws, they began to look for possible secret passages around the long hall. According to the records on the stone slabs in the corridor, this long hall was connected to the research room and the storage room. The storage room contained an ancient relic that the Olympians had been studying for a long time. It was believed that this relic had something to do with The Plane of Dreams. At the same time, the strange energy environment in this alternate dimension could have been released by this relic. It could be said that this relic was Hao Ren's current target. However, they did not find any secret passages. The MDT scanned that there was indeed an energy source in the long hall, but the energy source was mixed with the complex radiation environment around it and constantly changed direction. It did not seem to be a simple physical coordinate.
"It seems that the storage room and the research room are not literally 'connected' to the long hall," Y'zaks guessed after a round of searching. "Maybe there's a spatial structure here? In order to ensure safety or something... "
Hao Ren suddenly remembered that Vivian had said something inexplicable when she mentioned the function of the temple. This temple was not only a storage room, a research room, but also a "prison". At that time, he did not understand what was going on. Now that Y'zaks reminded him, and Vivian's abnormal behavior after sensing the energy environment, he immediately thought of something.
What the Olympian "gods" studied here was probably not something good!
He immediately asked the MDT to increase the scanning intensity, looking for possible hidden spatial rifts and other structures. The MDT cautiously reminded him, "There is a certain risk. The energy environment here is very unstable, and if there is a spatial rift, it is most likely connected to something like a trap. It's easy for me to find the door, but to go in safely, I'm afraid..."
Before the MDT could finish, Lily suddenly exclaimed, "Ah! Look, I found something again! "
Hao Ren quickly ran over and found that Lily had scratched a large piece of the statue of Vivian. The bored, neurotic husky really had her own persistence in inexplicable things. But the powder that Lily had scratched off was changing: it shook on the ground, and then slowly floated up and re-condensed on the statue!
Lily simply took out her Frostfire Claws and slashed a few marks on the statue. The fine white powder rustled and fell, but the powder stayed on the ground for a while and then floated back to its original position.
The statue seemed to have a precisely designed magnetic field, constantly absorbing the falling powder and reshaping its shape!
"I seem to have guessed where this thing came from..." Hao Ren vaguely guessed something, but just as he was about to reach out and touch the statue, the entire temple suddenly shook!
A strange, low rumbling sound came from nowhere. The tremors of the temple grew stronger and stronger along with the rumbling sound. Dust fell from the ceiling of the temple, and everyone present felt a numbing sensation on their skin as if they had been electrocuted. Becky was the most sensitive to this feeling. She was completely human, and immediately exclaimed, "Ouch! Ouch! "
Hao Ren saw a layer of white shimmer on Becky's exposed skin, and under the shimmer, her skin was getting redder and redder. But at this critical moment, a mist suddenly came from all directions. Nangong Wuyue controlled the water vapor to form a temporary protective layer, and the scales on her long tail were glowing blue under the influence of powerful magic. "Radiation! Radiation! "
The MDT's alarm went off wildly. "Highly dangerous radiation! Highly dangerous radiation! The intensity is rising rapidly, and it is about to break through the tolerance limit of the team members. Immediate evacuation is recommended. Immediate evacuation is recommended. What are you waiting for? The reactor in this place is f * cking overkill! "
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