Chapter 276: Trembling
There was no one to be seen on the first floor, except for the strange stone pillars and bricks wrapped in darkness.
After a few minutes, Draenor had fully adapted to the environment, and he began to believe that it was nothing more than a hallucination played by the superiors:
The heart-rending screams were repeated over and over again, and the shadow moved from the wall to the other side, disappearing into the corner he was about to see. Perhaps it was the gems set in the walls that were at work, but something was deliberately warning him that the uninvited guests would be able to retreat to their original places in good spirits.
But Draenor didn't intend to save face on the illusions, he measured the diameter of the hall with his legs, and walked through the shadows with his two companions, proving that they couldn't deter them from moving forward.
Now, Draenor followed the exorcist up the spiral staircase to the second floor, and the surrounding architecture changed in an instant. The slightly pompous ornamentation of the straight-grained marble columns is a symbol of Romanism, but he knew that it was perhaps a coincidence that the Romanrao ancestors had not yet escaped the shadow of the flood when the tower was built.
"You have to get used to the fact that the structure inside the Tower of Babel changes at every level, because it was not built for the Creator, but to help humanity reach the void. Each floor symbolizes an independent superior, which is ironic that the ancestors who built the tower had a delusional idea that they could be above the superior, so when you climb the tower, each floor you pass through is equivalent to trampling a superior under your feet. ”
Lopud whispered to him, deliberately raising his legs to bypass the bones piled on the ground, hoping that this would not disturb the resting soul.
"Every floor? How many are there? Draenor looked down from the window and saw that he was already more than ten meters above the ground, and this was only the second level of the Tower of Babel.
"No one knows this for sure, but if you want to know the answer, you can raise your head and count the stars. Or I can understand that you want to figure out how many floors this tower has, it looks almost impossible to see, in fact, even if you reach the limit of physical strength, humans can only reach the height of thirteen floors. If the Moon Seed is here, I believe it will only stay at the fifth layer at most. ”
The exorcist seemed confident in his guesses, and it was unclear where he had learned about this information.
"If it is true that the prophecy is true, then you must also know the Yazra people well. Can you tell me why they came to this island? Michelle suddenly became cautious, and this was the first time he had asked questions.
Quite simply, it was to awaken Flora, the moon god worshipped by the Daredevils, but this plan did not come to fruition, so they created a new moon god themselves. Draenor had already replied to him inwardly, but left the opportunity for an explanation to the exorcist.
"First of all, whether you are a believer in Flora or not, I'm sure the facts will make you feel uneasy. They found Flora's body, removed the dead embryo from its womb, and tried to resurrect it with the blood of various creatures. Lopud uttered a chilling remark with a calm face, adding a touch of mystery to his already expressionless image
"Didn't they make that thing with their own hands?" Draenor was a little surprised, it seemed to contradict what the exorcist had said before.
"If it was just an embryo, it would have nothing to do with them, it was Flora's child, but the poor creature was dead...... But if it is related to the superior, it is the seed of the moon god created by the Azra. They intend to resurrect it, crowning it with potions and blood until it truly awakens, climbs the tower to the moon, and becomes the new Ascendant. ”
"Old ...... Surely it is not pleasant to be an exorcist, right? There are so many disgusting stories to remember. Michelle didn't react to his words in a noticeable way, but teased in a slightly sarcastic tone like a bystander.
"It's not just about remembering." Lopud pointed to his eyes, "I have to see ...... with my own eyes."
"When I learned about this, I had just become an exorcist, and I had two teammates, one was Amoro and the other was a young man named 'Duane'. Originally, it was thought that the Yazra had fled to the ice fields north of Vlaktu to declare war on the Sadreos, but they did not expect that they were only trying to take Flora's body...... We were given the highest orders of the Ludwig Church to fight them in the seas belonging to Azra. But Amoro had his memories robbed of them by the monster they created, and Duane died, and only I escaped back to Canaan......"
The narrative was linked to the few fragments of Amoro's memory, and Draenor probably guessed what was next. But he repeated the name "Duane" over and over again in his head...... He was convinced that it was not just a coincidence, that the young exorcist had been transformed into an undead monster by the Yazira, and that he had torn him to shreds as a "bounty hunter" two months earlier......
"I see...... I'm not doubting your words, I'm just trying to...... Don't you think it's weird? Except for the priest in the church of the healing tower, we don't seem to have seen even a shadow of Azrao! ”
Sanrao's footsteps suddenly stopped. Indeed, there is nothing here, no beasts, and no Yazra! Draenor was sure that the tower must contain the Luna Seed, but there was no one to protect it!
"Let's hurry to the third floor, it may take ten minutes just to cross the second floor, and there is not much time left for Jeanne and them." Delaeno tucked his thoughts to rage, he seemed a little impatient, and quickened his pace while restraining himself from running.
Just one floor away, Jeanne and the others were overhead, closer to the Moon Seed than I was, and they had to get there quickly......
"Draenor, wait a minute! The air here is a bit ......"
Lopud suddenly shouted to him, and before Draenor could finish listening to him, he felt a choking air rush down the airways into his lungs, and the dense particles were tightly covered in the trachea, like barnacles growing on the hull of a ship!
"Ahem...... Cough! ”
No matter how hard his diaphragm tried, he couldn't take another breath, and the strange gas seemed to puncture the alveoli and spread down the veins to all corners, stretching every one of his arteries to the point of bursting.
What the hell is this...... He fell to his knees in agony, and when he saw that Lopud and Michelle were only a step away from him, the ground was sunken like a melting foam. He was like a flying insect struggling in a spider's web, but he couldn't take another step until the ground could no longer support his weight, and a huge gap opened.
How...... Is this the case again?
He saw the figure of the exorcist and the Viking Rao getting farther and farther away, and thought to himself that he must have fallen to a level. But the violent impact came early, and something was behind him, pressed into the shape of his body like a cushion.
But the bad luck didn't end there, and the suffocating feeling that made life worse than death still tormented him. His vision had already begun to blur, and he didn't have time to think about why the White Refining Fire hadn't burned all the strange things that had been inhaled into his body, he just desperately looked around, looking for any unpolluted air.
Draenor didn't know where he was, he had never seen a place like it along the way, like a morgue or some kind of fungus cultivation chamber, because the air was filled with dark green spores, and the huge colonies on the ground were already growing with the twisted and withered corpses.
"Click......"
An eerie sound echoed through the room, and Draenor wasn't sure if it was a mockery from some creature or if it was his own trachea twitching.
"Draenor! Come into the light! Are you still alive? ”
The Vikings' rude roar came from overhead, but Draenor couldn't make any sound that could reply to the other party, and the strength of his body disappeared little by little, and his body became weak along with the colony under his feet.
Then, he struggled towards the only pillar of light, only to find that the colonies around him began to tremble and glow until the airtight space was illuminated.
Because of the lack of oxygen, Draenor felt his body tremble wildly. Something is coming, on the left, or on the right!?
The bright green light forced his pupils to shrink into dots, and he realized that he had been surrounded by some kind of creature for some unknown time. They resemble animate fungi, but maintain a human body structure, and are slowly approaching him with a wail in their throat similar to that of a drowning one.