Among the ancient relics left behind by the Olympian gods, a strange-looking round table caught Hao Ren's attention. The round table was grayish-white in color, with intricate decorative patterns around it. The top was smooth and flat, as if something had been placed on it. It looked like the pedestal of some kind of sculpture — except that the object on the pedestal was missing.
"What's so special about this table?" Katreina could not help but ask when she saw Hao Ren stop beside the plain-looking "stone" table.
"No … I just think it looks familiar." Hao Ren looked at the intricate patterns around the table. He had a feeling that he had seen something like this before, but he could not put his finger on it. "Do you know what this is?"
"I'm not sure." Katreina wagged her tail. "I can tell you the origins of some of these things, but not the others. The sirens do not know much about the things on the surface, especially the objects from the end of the Mythological Era. The world was in chaos back then, and the demon hunters and the otherworldlings were in a killing frenzy. We greatly reduced our contact with the surface world. Most of the objects that fell into the deep sea during those thousand years are unaccounted for."
Katreina sighed softly. "Many things will never be able to find out where they came from or what they were used for. Their creators' entire race has gone extinct."
Lily joined them. She circled the round table curiously. "Katreina, was this table like this when it fell into the sea? Is there anything else on it? "
Katreina rubbed her chin. She finally remembered something about the stone platform. "Oh, right. There used to be a badly damaged statue here, but only half of it is left. Not long after the platform was taken in, the other half of the statue disappeared." As she spoke, she shook her head slightly. "I thought the statue was one with the platform."
"Vanished without a trace? Disappeared right under your noses? "Hao Ren's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He vaguely remembered something.
Vivian suddenly realized something. She clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Oh yes, I remember now! When we went to the Athens Sanctuary, we found a shattered dimension left by the Olympians. Wasn't there a temple there? There was a statue in the temple! The pattern on the platform below the sculpture is exactly the same as this! "
Lily had no idea what Vivian was talking about. She stared at Vivian's face for a while and said, "Oh, right! I remember now. It's the thing that was carved into a statue of Battie, right? "
Whenever the husky maiden talked about anything related to Vivian, her words would carry at least five plus signs. Vivian's mouth twitched when she heard the husky maiden's description. "Nothing good comes out of a dog's mouth … That's right, I'm the 'stone statue' that people worship …"
At this moment, Hao Ren's heart had already stirred up a lot of ripples. When he found the ruins of the Olympian temple in the Athens Sanctuary, he had wondered why the Olympian family would place a stone statue of Vivian in their temple. While Vivian was on good terms with the Zeus family, she was not a member of the Olympian pantheon, and their relationship was far from close enough to place her statue in their ancestral temple. But at that time, before Hao Ren and his team could find out more, the entire dimension collapsed and disappeared. Many things happened after that, and Vivian's mysterious stone statue was forgotten.
But now, this almost forgotten thing suddenly resurfaced. Now that Hao Ren had learned a lot about Vivian and the goddess of creation, the stone pedestal in front of him suddenly gave him an inexplicable sixth sense.
He felt that there was more to it than meets the eye.
Hao Ren carefully examined the stone pedestal and asked the MDT to decipher the complicated patterns and symbols around the pedestal. At the same time, he asked Katreina, "Apart from knowing that this thing came from the Olympian family, do you have any other information?"
"After the collapse of Mount Olympus, it was the last thing to fall into the sea," Katreina frowned as she tried to recall. The 'Mount Olympus' she was referring to was not the one on Earth, but the mountain of the same name that the Zeus family had created in the alternate dimension. "According to the observer, she saw a sudden flash of red lightning over the Greek peninsula, and then the lightning broke the cloud bridge connecting the Greek peninsula and the temple of the sky. The Olympian dimension was exposed and hung in the sky for several hours. Then Mount Olympus began to collapse. A demon hunter hit a temple halfway up the mountain with a javelin, and the fire quickly spread to the top of the mountain. Because of the distorted gravity, some of the seawater was even sucked up into the sky. Then the light at the top of Mount Olympus went out, and gravity changed again, and all kinds of things fell from the top. This pedestal was the last to fall … Oh yes, it is said that a woman holding a golden spear and a round shield fell with the pedestal, but she was burned to ashes in mid-air by the demon hunter's heavenly fire. "
"Among the main Olympian goddesses, only Athena used a spear and a round shield, and the last temple to collapse happened to be Athena's." Vivian frowned slightly and bent down to touch the edge of the pedestal. "I have been friends with the Zeus family for many years, but what were they secretly researching …"
Before she could finish, the pedestal suddenly emitted a ray of light and interrupted her!
When Vivian's finger touched one of the runes on the pedestal, an ancient spell seemed to be activated. The mysterious and complicated lines came to life in an instant, and stars of light flowed through the gaps of the runes and quickly lit up the pedestal. While Hao Ren and the others were still stunned, a large number of grayish-white particles appeared around them and formed on top of the pedestal in the blink of an eye.
A lifelike statue of a goddess appeared on the pedestal. The goddess was dressed luxuriously and was as tall as a real person. Her facial features were vivid and lifelike. It was Vivian.
"Holy crap!" Lily jumped up. "It's activated!"
Katreina stared at the scene in front of her, dumbfounded. She had mentioned that there used to be a broken statue on the pedestal, but the statue had disappeared a long time ago. She suddenly realized that the statue did not disappear, but had hidden itself after the runes below it stopped working!
"What is this … A holographic projection device developed by the Olympian gods …" This was the second time Hao Ren had seen such a statue, and he was much calmer. "Vivian, what did you do just now?"
"I just touched it." Vivian was also confused. "Could it be that it sensed me and activated on its own?"
"The problem is, what's the point of this thing?" Hao Ren used the MDT to scan the pedestal, and finally determined that it had no other function other than to form an image of Vivian. "The statue can't be moved or replaced, and there's no hidden mechanism in the pedestal … To put it bluntly, it's just a one-to-one Vivian figurine, and it's quite realistic."
Vivian thought for a moment. She suddenly had goosebumps when she remembered that she had left her figurines in someone else's house, and there was more than one of them. "Why do I suddenly feel a chill down my spine?"
Lily looked at her with a strange expression. "Honestly, Zeus doesn't have a crush on you, does he?"
Vivian quickly waved her hand. "Don't joke around. Didn't I tell you that this was developed by Athena …"
Lily's expression became even more strange. "… If Athena has a crush on you, then the situation is even more serious!"
"Can't you guys say something useful?" Hao Ren finally could not stand the two clowns. "Especially Lily, how could you stain a statue like this … Hmm? What's this? "
Hao Ren's attention was suddenly attracted by a line of small words on the edge of the pedestal. He carefully looked at it, and it took him a lot of effort to roughly spell out the words that were slightly damaged.
Construct and … Contact … Avoid Disaster …
Many of the words were damaged, and it was difficult to piece together the complete meaning, but it was still possible to make some guesses from the remaining words. The meaning of this sentence seemed to be to establish a connection with some 'existence' to avoid disaster. And looking at the statue of Vivian on the pedestal, it seemed that it was completely clear who the incomplete predicate was referring to.
Everyone was a little stunned when they saw the line of words, and their eyes fell on Vivian in unison. Lily hesitated for a long time before saying, "Battie, it seems that they plan to trust you to ensure their safety …"
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