After the morning's training, Todd, covered in blood, returned to the temple's stone chamber.

Rachel had just woken up, perhaps because of the excessive worry and lack of sleep, her face did not look good.

Todd looked at the amount of food and water on the stone platform, which was almost the same as when he left, and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Rachel leaned against the wall next to the stone bed, rubbed her temples with her hands, and said weakly: "I don't know, but I feel that my whole body can't exert my strength, maybe too much has happened in the past two days." ”

Todd took off his shirt, and the blood stained the placket of his shirt, drawing an exclamation from Rachel.

"Some of the skin injuries have basically healed. Todd waved his arm and said nonchalantly.

Rachel carefully examined the other party, and after confirming that it was all right, he breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the stone window with blank eyes, and whispered, "When can we leave here?"

Changing into a set of clean clothes, Todd followed the light and looked at the sky outside: "First of all, we must find a way to leave the country of shadows, fog, reefs, poisonous water, and fierce beasts are all obstacles to our departure. ”

"After you get out of here, it's the real trouble. We must find a suitable ship and sail safely to the Kingdom of the Twilight. Thinking of the monster at the bottom of the sea, Todd shuddered inexplicably.

There was one thing on his mind that he didn't mention to Rachel.

On the one hand, Todd's academic career in his previous life had made him cautious and skeptical of this strange power involving the Holy Spirit and curses, especially since he had seen the crystal house twice, and on the other hand, his curiosity began to loom again in the face of the hidden true face of the "tyrant" and the reality behind the visions of the Shadow Realm.

"If only the Black Pearl were still there, it would be fine. Rachel leaned against the wall and sighed.

Todd crouched down and tried the back of his hand on Richell's forehead.

No fever.

But strangely, Richel's current mental state is the worst he has been in since he met her.

Just as Todd was about to ask further, Meredith's voice came from across the hallway.

"I'm here to deliver something to you. ”

Walking out of the stone chamber, Todd was surprised to see Meredith carrying a large bag in the main hall of the temple.

"It's a sleeping bag, it's a garment, it's a pot......" Meredith placed the packages on the ground, opened them one by one, and in a few moments they were all over the floor.

Todd looked at the things all over the floor and nodded gratefully.

His body has been mutated and modified, and his life needs are naturally relatively simple. However, Rachel is still an ordinary person after all, and it is really difficult to survive in this place without these necessities.

Speaking of Richell......

Todd glanced behind him and asked Meredith, "Did anything happen to my companion during the time of my 'fate' trial?"

Meredith's expression was a little surprised, and after thinking about it carefully, he said, "It doesn't seem like so." She carries you through the path of trials and into the sacrificial hall. After you jumped into the Dark Gate, I waited for you there for a day and a night......"

Todd touched the bridge of his nose, pondered for a while, and suddenly said, "I want to go to the sacrificial hall to have a look." ”

Meredith winked at him, "No problem, the demigods who joined the 'Shadow Country' have the right to go to any corner of here, except for ......"

Seeing Todd rushing towards the temple gate, Meredith shouted dissatisfiedly behind him, "I'm not done yet!"

Todd's figure disappeared into the doorway, and before leaving, he said loudly, "Please help take care of my companions during this time I am away!"

Following the ridge to the bottom of the mountain, Todd weaved his way through gravel and bushes, stepped on the dilapidated steps into the temple, and found an entrance to the underground on the back of the mutilated statue.

Walking briskly down the spiral steps underground, Todd looked at the pitch-black cavern beneath his feet, and even though he tried his best to look far away with his Night Vision, he couldn't see the end of the cavern.

As he continued to move, he gradually realized that only by experiencing this stone staircase himself, and going deeper, could he appreciate the terrifying depth of this cave.

After a dozen minutes and thousands of steps down, Todd finally stood on the platform at the bottom of the cave.

Looking at the rune text on the door at the end of the platform, Todd didn't hesitate to push open the door and enter an underground tunnel made of fossilized bones.

Looking at the fossils in the walls, images flashed through Todd's mind.

The same bizarre fossils, the same underground ruins.

The scene in the ruins of the gods of the North Island gradually coincided with the scene in front of him.

There was a terrible truth, in the depths of his mind, looming, but it could not be seen as real.

Walking a little further, Todd saw something strange among the fossils, and it was this thing that completely awakened his fear and panic.

It was a green spar the size of a thumb cap, clusters of crystals gathered together, like petals on a "rose", in the dark underground tunnel, exuding a faint green glow, dazzling.

Todd's body was trembling, cold sweat was running down his forehead, and his throat seemed to be stuffed with a ball of cotton wool, and he could only make a loud sound, but he couldn't say a word.

Turning his gaze to the end of the corridor, Todd ran desperately towards the sacrificial hall like an evil madman.

Slamming open the door at the end of the fossil corridor, everything in the sacrificial hall made him knees limp, he fell to the ground, his right palm turned into a fist, and he slammed his cheek hard, and his mouth let out a cry of pain and remorse.

All the furnishings in the sacrificial hall were swept away by the sea water from the last time Todd returned.

The originally solid surface of the rock wall has mostly been detached by seawater immersion and erosion, revealing its contents.

Large expanses of green lenses, embedded in the stone, spread across the walls of the hall.

Together, they emitted a green glow that illuminated the entire pitch-black, damp hall like a turquoise "paradise".

Others may be mesmerized by the beauty of the landscape, but Todd's heart is like an ice cellar.

Because of these green lenses, he couldn't be more familiar.

Uranium ore ......

Mutating his body into monster form, Todd uses all fours to run as fast as he can through the fossil corridor and climb the spiral staircase.

His heart was filled with remorse and self-reproach.

The truth that the Shadow Nation was built on top of a huge uranium mine was something he could have had a chance to discover. At the beginning, the excavation of the North Island ruins was forced to stop because the underground radioactivity intensity increased, which endangered the health of the workers.

The ruins of the North Island and the Land of Shadows are both home to the Beacon Tower. The deeper the North Island ruins, the stronger the radiation, and according to this reasoning, the Shadow Country should be the same.

Todd should have thought of such a simple truth, but he was so immersed in the thrill of mutation and power that he forgot about this deadly truth.

As a direct consequence, Reichel was exposed to intense radioactivity for more than 24 hours, and no effective measures were taken despite the large amount of radiation that had accumulated in her body.

Todd, who transformed into a monster form, has only one thought in his heart at this time - faster, faster!

The mutated "Speed" ability causes the limbs to burst out with power far beyond ordinary people.

Todd simply abandoned the uphill trail and instead chose to climb up from the bottom of the cliff like a gecko.

The journey from the sacrificial hall to the temple chamber, which used to take more than an hour to complete, Todd completed in just ten minutes.

When he returned to the room as a monster, both Richer and Meredith were startled by him.

Todd, who had degenerated into a human form, shouted urgently, "Richell, I don't have time to explain! Hurry up and take off your clothes!!"