When Todd returned to the ruins village and stood in the middle of the village hall, he could clearly feel the eyes of the villagers with mixed emotions.

Brunhilde, the silver-haired Valkyrie sitting at the bottom, looked at Todd and Huggins in front of him, frowned, and said, "Leader of Twilight Town, I admit that you have done us a great favor in the matter of water sources, but what do you mean when you say that you want to excavate the ruins?"

Todd looked around at the women in the room, and finally focused his gaze on the three Valkyrie elders in the right position, and said slowly: "As I said just now, I hope to get your permission to excavate and study the ruins......

Before the words fell, there was an objection from the woman: "How can we agree to such a thing as destroying the ruins?!"

Todd took advantage of the cover of the wooden platform in front of him, carefully twisted the cap of the bottle in his arms, and let the liquid in the bottle slowly evaporate into the air.

The liquid in the bottle is a "pheromone concentrate" that has been repeatedly diluted, which retains the original alluring properties of the potion, but greatly reduces the strength and effect.

The secretions of pheromone parasites have different effects depending on the concentration. When the concentration is high, it will produce the psychedelic effect of "hot love" and irreversible damage to the brain, and when the concentration is low, it will only form the feelings of "favor" and "love", which can achieve twice the result with half the effort when negotiating and persuading. And the after-the-fact effect will diminish over time without any side effects.

After all, Todd's ultimate goal is to obtain permission from the Valkyries to excavate, not to really include these six-year-old Lori and seventy-year-old women in front of him into the harem.

Todd released a modified version of the "harem gas" and began to state the reason: "First of all, I am going to talk about the spring water that poisoned the baby. The poisonous springs in the village, which come from the ground, have polluted the trees and soil near the village. This means that the food and fruits grown in the village can cause varying degrees of chronic poisoning, especially for frail children. So, I need to dig up the ruins to find the source of the poison. ”

Todd's explanation was reasonable, coupled with the dead guinea pigs at the scene, coupled with the influence of pheromone gas, many villagers began to change their thinking and consider the safety of their children.

Then, Todd threw out a second reason: "The excavation of the ruins is also to satisfy my curiosity." What is still in the ruins, is the truth about Asgard hidden deep underground, what happened to Ragnarok long ago? By the way, don't you want to know what you've been guarding over the years? Don't you want to know what the meaning of the existence of the clan is?"

Todd's second reason for excavating the ruins speaks to the depths of some Valkyries' hearts. Brunhilde was one of them, and she stood up excitedly and nodded in agreement with the stranger.

In the end, Todd made a condition to the Valkyries that he could not refuse: "I can make concessions to you here. 1. For this excavation of the relics, I will employ the villagers of the village and will not bring anyone else into the village, 2) I will pay you for your clean water and food as a reward for the excavation, and 3) the right to dispose of the relics and treasures excavated will be handed over to the village, and I will not make any claims, and you can supervise them. ”

Such conditions were too good for everyone to believe, but they could not find any reason for deception or hypocrisy, and the three female elders discussed in a whisper for a while, and finally all showed expressions of agreement.

Brünnhilde walked up to Todd from his seat and looked at him with hopeful eyes, "Todd, are you really sure you can uncover the secrets of the gods?"

Todd nodded firmly.

Valkyrie leaned her face closer, sniffed, and said with a strange expression, "You ...... There is a taste ......"

Oops, forgot to pinch the pheromones!

Todd hurriedly twisted the cap on the bottle and gave Brünnhilde an awkward smile.

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The excavation of the ruins of the North Island has begun in full swing.

Todd built a simple laboratory bench in the innermost cylindrical room of the ruins, "Between the Towers", and some necessary experimental instruments such as optical microscopes, chemical identification tables, and radiometric spectrometers were placed and used.

Except for the remaining villagers, the other women in the Valkyrie Village were summoned into the ruins to carry out excavation operations.

Huggins was responsible for communicating with the outside world, and the promised water and food entered the village in a steady stream through his contact. And the orders issued by Todd, as well as the instructions and reports submitted by the outside world, also assumed the identity of the messenger.

The excavation lasted for three days, and the towers extended fifteen meters downward, and more and more biological bones, weapons, and stone slabs were excavated. The metal pyramid in the center of the room is also gradually revealed, a minaret made of mysterious metal, the underground part of which is tens of meters long, and it is not visible, and it is getting thicker and thicker.

By the seventh day of the excavation, the metal minaret had revealed almost 55 meters, and at its widest point was a 25-square-meter triangle, and the radioactivity was gradually increasing by the radiospectrometer.

Fifteen days into the excavation, the towers had become a huge spiral-shaped room with a depth of more than 200 meters.

Todd examines the bottom of the excavation site and discovers that the radioactive equivalent is close to the limit of what a human can tolerate, just as he considers whether to interrupt the excavation and return home. The excavators found a strange place on the metal tower.

Todd and several Valkyries conduct a field survey and find a hidden space in the metal tower.

It looked a bit like a passageway, a metal tunnel that sloped downward. After ten minutes of crawling along the passage, at the end of which is an erected "mirror" that glows blue and resembles a liquid mercury surface.

A Valkyrie tried to reach for the "mirror", but the palm of her hand was bounced off less than ten centimeters away.

Todd was thinking of giving it a try, and just as he was getting closer, a huge suction force came from the "mirror", sucking his consciousness into it, but his body fell to the ground like a puppet that had lost its hanging line.

Allowing the mind to leave the body and immerse yourself in this spire is like returning to the mother's body.

I don't know how long it has been, Todd slowly regained his senses, and when he woke up in confusion, the first thing that caught his eye was a towering ancient tree that emitted dazzling golden light.

Todd turned his head to look at the scenery around him, except for the ancient tree, everything else was a blank gray mist, and nothing else was visible.

He took two steps in one direction, only to find himself still in place after a moment, with no change in position.

At this moment, a crisp sound of hooves in the mist came from far and near, and a tall goat of seven colors appeared in front of the Golden Tree.

Todd stared at the scene in amazement, increasingly confused by what had happened.

What surprised him even more happened, the divine sheep did not open his mouth, but made a woman's voice: "Souls from afar, welcome to the agent's room." ”

Todd's mind was in shambles, he had so many questions he wanted to ask, but he didn't know where to start.

"I've read your memories and seen your journey, and you're not supposed to be here. Your unique soul has given you the key to open the door. The goat looked at Todd, the sea of stars reflected in his eyes.

"You know...... My past life?" Todd said intermittently.

"I know...... Your everything. ”

After the god sheep said this, the picture suddenly changed.

The golden tree vanished, and the outline of a university campus slowly emerged in the mist, and countless students with books and school bags on their backs came out of the teaching buildings and laboratories together, passing by Todd's side.

Feeling the breeze and sunshine of the campus with trembling palms, everything was so real, Todd was so excited that his whole body trembled: "This...... It's the campus where I used to work......"

Turning his head again, Todd's eyes widened and he saw the goat transform into a young woman in a lab robe.

"Minhua?!" Todd immediately realized what was happening as soon as he spoke: "Enough! stop using these boring tricks! Tell me, who are you?!"

The school, the students, and the women all disappeared without a trace, and a huge inverted pyramid appeared in the air, and a strange creature made of crystal-like objects appeared on the top.

"In your language, my race is called 'Crystal Sud', and it is the overseer of this dimensional space. ”

Looking at the creatures floating in the air, Todd finally remembered where he had seen such a shape. In the stone slab of the mythology of the North Island, the pattern of the upper arrow and the lower triangle once appeared repeatedly.

Todd heard the other party's words and involuntarily asked, "Dimensional space?Overseer?I don't understand what you mean?"

Crystal Su let out a low humming sound, and clear words came directly into Todd's brain: "The past life and the present life you are in are two of the countless dimensional spaces we have created. ”