This magnificent temple had an interior space commensurate with its size, including long corridors and an endless hall. If Hao Ren was not riding on the back of Lily, who was in the form of a giant dog, he would have to trot all the way to keep up with the two guardian giants. As a fresh force who had just turned the tide, it was not very elegant.
The group walked for a long time in this ruined temple, bypassing some secret passageways and doors, and finally arrived at the deepest part of it. Lemendusa pushed open a particularly heavy and sturdy door and pointed to the hall behind the door. "It should be safe here. Come in."
Hao Ren and Lily followed Muru into the hall and found that it was a huge hexagonal room. The room was brightly lit, and there were simple but majestic sculptures everywhere. Around the hall was a circle of long pale red curtains hanging from the very high ceiling. Each curtain was accompanied by a beam of light from the sky, which seemed to surround a black stone platform in the center of the room. Beside the black stone platform sat a female giant in a robe. This giant should be the 'Heve' that Lemendusa mentioned. She looked seriously injured, with a pool of dried blood beside her, and her face was pale. The moment the door opened, the guardian woke up from her daze and immediately put her hand on a green crystal next to the stone platform. She only relaxed when Lemendusa's voice came. "Heve, it's me."
Hao Ren and Y 'zaks, who then entered the hall, made her eyes widen again.
"These are my friends." Lemendusa knew that Heve had the same misunderstanding as he did at the beginning. He quickly explained before Heve asked, "The enemies outside have been taken care of, there will be no danger here for the time being. I want to tell you something … "
"Where did these people come from?" Heve frowned, but her hand never moved away from the green crystal.
Fortunately, Muru and Lemendusa explained together, and the origin of Hao Ren and the others was quickly clarified. Lemendusa then began to tell his companions what he knew, including about the dimensional turbulence.
Heve's reaction was no different from Lemendusa's. As she slowly accepted the reality, Hao Ren led Lily to the corner of the hall. He summoned the autonomous robot from his dimensional pocket and asked the husky maiden to open her mouth. "Open your mouth, I'll brush your teeth."
Lily howled obediently and bared her fangs. Hao Ren saw that the gaps between her teeth were still filled with the remains of the boots, belt, cloak, and shoulder pads. They were all hanging on her teeth. Lily uncomfortably licked her teeth with her tongue. The hard residue made her a little uncomfortable.
A few autonomous robots received the order and flew up to clean the gaps between Lily's teeth. The metal fragments were so strong that the robots had to use cutting beams and chainsaw crowbars to clear the debris. Sparks flew everywhere, and the husky maiden's mouth was as lively as a construction site. Hao Ren crossed his arms and chuckled. "She's just brushing her teeth like she's renovating."
Lily could not refute in her current state. She could only roll her eyes and make a noise in her throat. Y 'zaks patted Hao Ren on the shoulder with the pad of his finger. "Don't provoke her. If she bites you now, it won't just leave a bite mark."
While Lily was cleaning her teeth, the three giants had finished talking about what happened outside the temple. Hao Ren noticed them and ran over. "How's it going? Are you done? "
"Not much." Muru nodded. "Where is your spaceship now?"
Hao Ren raised his finger and pointed up. "It's hovering above the temple. I don't know when the enemy will come out. I've asked Nolan to hover in place and be on guard. I've also sent out probes and low-altitude satellites. I don't know if there are any survivors on this planet … "
Heve suddenly interrupted Hao Ren. "No, we should be the last guardians of this planet … Ahem."
The female giant spoke very slowly. No one knew if it was because of her injury or it was just that, but her voice had a gentleness and softness that was different from the others. Hao Ren heard what she said and looked at Lemendusa in surprise. "Are you sure?"
"After the rebels broke through the interstellar barrier of the Solenne Gateway, almost all the guardians went to the Star of Creation to support," Lemendusa explained. "The last news I heard was the announcement when they left. After that, only the last brigade was still guarding the temple. Heve and I, and Turan in the front square were the last warriors of the Temple Guards. "
Muru once said that the guardians held on to the galaxy until the last moment in the battle of the Solenne Gateway, but that was all he knew. Now it seemed that when the rebels completely broke through the barrier, the guardians still abandoned this meaningless position and went to the Star of Creation to build a second line of defense. When Hao Ren and his team came to this planet, what they saw was the last scene of the war 10,000 years ago: the entire planet had completely fallen, and even the last Temple Guards were almost wiped out. Lemendusa and Heve turned out to be the last survivors here.
An accident of fate? An inevitability of history? These two words suddenly came to Hao Ren's mind. But he knew that he came at the right time.
"Arriving at the last moment, making it to the last battle, seeing the last survivors," even Y 'zaks could not help but murmur. "This is really fate …"
"The time of this planet has been stagnant for 10,000 years, just to let us make it to the last battle, is there anything more 'arranged' than this?" Hao Ren could not help but smirk, and then looked at Lemendusa curiously. "You guys stayed behind to guard this temple. What's here?"
When he was fighting with the treacherous children, he heard the commander of the rebels mentioned that he wanted Lemendusa to hand over something, and now that he heard that Lemendusa's guards were guarding here after the entire planet had withdrawn, he of course knew that there must be something fishy. Perhaps there was something special about this Sacred Temple, so he asked straightforwardly.
There was a flash of hesitation on Lemendusa's face. Muru put his hand on his compatriot's shoulder and said, "What you are guarding is the history of ten thousand years ago. If you want to give it to someone, this is the best choice."
"There is a holy relic here." Lemendusa nodded in the end, pointing to the huge stone platform behind Heve. "The rebels are also here for it."
The treacherous children did not have to stay on this planet for too long. Hao Ren already knew that they had a powerful weapon that could destroy the entire planet. So after breaking through Solenne's planetary shield, the rebels could have immediately used gravitational weapons to completely tear the place apart. But instead, they sent a large number of troops to sweep the surface of the planet, and the reason was indeed in the temple that Lemendusa was guarding!
Muru's face immediately turned serious. "What holy relic is it?"
"A part of the Creation's Engine."
Looking at the three guardian giants' faces became very solemn, Hao Ren only felt a sea of question marks popping up in his head. "What are you talking about? What is the Creation's Engine for? "
"It is a mysterious thing that our mother dedicated herself to building in the last few thousand years," Heve said slowly. "In fact, even we do not know what it is for. We only know that it is probably related to a plan to 'change the entire universe'. Mother attached great importance to that mysterious creation. She spent a lot of effort to design it herself, and built various parts of it on hundreds of planets around the Star of Creation, and then brought the parts to the Star of Creation to assemble them herself. The Solenne Gateway is also one of the factories that built the Creation's Engine. Before the war broke out, Lemendusa and I spent most of our time watching those parts being slowly forged from the stellar furnace. After the war broke out, there was a part that was not transported away in time and was placed in this temple. "
Hao Ren scratched his head. "This sounds like a weird and confusing thing … Then why don't you take it out and let me appraise it?"
Lemendusa and Heve looked at each other, and after a moment of deep thought, they nodded gently.
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