Chapter 10: The Avengers
Ever-bright lanterns hung from the nine-square stone pillars in the secret room, and the lights flickered, and the illuminated lamp base was mottled and mixed with rust marks.
It can be seen that this stone chamber has a certain history, and it is very likely that it was completed before the construction of the city.
At this time, Theseus curiously probed the tentacles into the stone chamberβ
As its tentacles tried to reach inside the door, a colorless suspended fire ignited in the cross-section of the door.
There was a heat wave that spread, as if distorting the air, and one by one the heat wave seemed to tear apart the space, stirring up layers of ripples on the otherwise peaceful space.
Li Zhi couldn't make out what this flame was, how many degrees it had, but he saw that Xiusi's tentacles were only touching and attached, and in an instant they turned into flying ash and fell into the sewage of the sewer.
This flame doesn't resemble any of the spells in Cthulhu, it seems to be one with the stone chamber, just guarding an inch of land.
The flames did not spread, and they dissipated again after burning the part of the tentacle that reached out of the door.
"Pick up a life." Theseus withdrew half of his tentacle and said as if nothing had happened, "This place is dangerous...... Extremely dangerous, at least for non-humans. β
"I feel something." The half of the tentacle recovered most of it as Hughes spoke.
Li Zhi once again lamented the tenacity of the Shoggers race.
Although it was just a feeling, Hughes said in an unquestioning tone, "This place can probably be called a non-human forbidden area, unless Cthulhu himself comes, even the Star Clan will not be able to break into this place." β
γA Mystery Studyγ
Just when Li Zhi wanted to propose to go outside the exit, the god of dice gave him a suggestion.
"I don't!" Li Zhi chose to refuse: "Bad luck today, I guess you will let these flames burn me with a big failure." β
γβ¦β¦ Don't you still have a bonus die? γ
"You can't use the bonus dice indiscriminately." Li Zhi is very resolute at this point, not when life and death are at stake, he will never use this life-saving dice.
[17/20, over.] γ
The god of dice didn't listen to Li Zhi's opinion, and took care of himself.
Heart congestion.
[The flame of that door is not so much the heat energy generated by the accumulation of light, this is not like the cutting of a laser scalpel, but like the flame ignited by the explosion of sunlight in an instant, but the temperature of this flame is beyond your imagination. γ
[In any case, the builders of this sewer are by no means human, and in your barren occult knowledge, there is no magic linked to this flame.] γ
[After reading the script, you continue, I panic if I don't read it. γ
"......" Li Zhi once again felt that his golden finger was different from other people's, it was simply a mudslide in the golden finger world, "You tell me, can I go over." β
[Over a mystic. γ
Kind eyes - from the player.
γβ¦β¦ Just when you have been tested before, you can pass, you meet the three criteria: human, uncontrolled, and non-malicious. γ
"I'll try." Li Zhi stood in front of the door, stuck his fingernails in, and suddenly heard a dripping sound.
In an instant, the eerie stone chamber became resplendent with gold, covered with a layer of gold bricks carved with sun and water ripples on the otherwise turbid surface, and those lines and simple shapes were seared on the side of the altar in an irregular and beautiful way, extending to the outer stone wall.
The sewage was covered under the gold bricks, and the ever-bright lamp burned with the fragrance of a spice, and the chanting in the stone chamber grew stronger and stronger.
In the few seconds before he could comprehend this change, the nails and fingers had been fully inserted, that is, when his hand was fully inserted, a force, as if holding his hand, pulled Li Zhi in little by little.
[Inspiration: 42/85]
[Look next to you, then look at the ceiling.] γ
Following the words of the god of dice, Li Zhi saw the man in white beside him who was holding his hand and walking towards the altar.
Frightened, Li Zhi quickly shook off his hand, and when he shook his hand, he saw his hand pass through the hand of the man in white, and the man in white was still walking his own way.
And Li Zhi is still advancing.
He tried to retreat, only to find that as he retreated, he was moving faster and faster.
"I'm not going to be sacrificed, am I?" Li Zhi asked in his mind in horror.
[Not a few gods like to eat ribs] The god of dice sarcastically mocked Li Zhi-1's physique [Instead of panicking and being afraid, you might as well look at the ceiling and floor. γ
There were several holes in the ceiling, and those beams of light shone on the man in white, giving him the radiance of a god descending to earth.
But this kind of technology, Li Zhi saw it at a virtual singer's concert.
Then on the floor, after a closer look, Li Zhi found that on both sides of the side where he was standing, there were two almost invisible black lines, which were ...... Conveyor belts.
After a short observation, Li Zhi finally stopped in front of the altar.
This is a boxy, unpretentious stone platform, except for a few buttons densely scattered around the stone platform.
The man in white performed a ritual to Li Zhi that had never been recorded by humans.
This ritual of bending one's left shoulder with the right hand and the left hand with a cross is as solemn as a prayer when bowing.
Li Zhi couldn't see what the man in white looked like, under the bright lightβor perhaps on purpose, the man in white's neck was blocked by the blinding light, and looking directly at his cheeks was like looking directly at the sun.
Then he heard a solemn voice ringing through the stone chamber.
"Whether you are an old citizen of a lost land, or a dweller of the territory of the Ten Kings from the rising sun to the setting of the sun, you are born as a human being, and I beg you to hear from me."
"My great homeland is silent at the bottom of the sea, because of the rebellion of mankind against the aliens."
"They forced the nations to submit to them, and plundered everything they could, whether it was the beasts and insects that you found everywhere outside, or the hidden monsters that were unknown to the unknown, and they were forever in a state of unrest in those times."
"And that includes us humans."
"Before I saw these sleepers in the darkness, my homeland was steeped in its own strength."
"From north to south, from east to west, our fleet has spread its glory to almost all corners of the earth."
"Our iron horsemen have bulldozed the beasts that threaten the colonists and opened up wastelands."
"Finally, our strength threatens them."
"The first time we came into contact with them was a foreign race who called themselves the oralean of Lalayya, and they showed us a side we didn't know existed."
"The magic that was once called absurd has become a reality in their hands."
"As they demand, mankind is to be reduced to a subordinate race, and to build for it an infinitely great city."
"They...... It was more terrible than we thought, and we had to give in to their threat, the raging tide. β
"Nearly 300,000 of our people were forced to build this city."
"βI think you see, this city out there, we built it during the Pan-Continental period."
"It's so brilliant...... It goes beyond our capital! β
"Speaking of our capital." The voice paused for a moment, then said heavily, "Before it was finished, my wife commissioned someone to bring me a letter. β
"She wrote in the letter: 'Schiller, the sea has spread to my calves, I feel our city sinking, and yesterday when I was serving tea, I heard the fish-men at the meeting of the Ten Kings that they wanted us all to die...... What to do? Schiller! ββ
"The last of the laborers who helped her deliver the letter were sent to build the city."
"From now on...... I never saw a letter from my hometown again. β
"I organized some laborers to build the sewers, and then I built this stone chamber, and under this altar there is a city that still has traces of our original life."
"We built an artificial sun and lived under it for an unknown number of years β until we ran out of the last magnetoite."
"When we walked on the land again, we found that the land had long since broken into several pieces, separated from each other by the sea, the territory of the oracles."
"Not only the land, but also the magnetoite we rely on for survival, the method of artificial production, I should have remembered, but I never remembered, as if the memory was erased out of thin air."
"Even if it is a naturally occurring magnetite, most of it has been looted by those divine envoys."
"We used the last of our energy to build the last glory β Atlantis."
"And after the city was built, I left my people and followed the shadows of those myths everywhere."
ββ¦β¦ It was far more terrible than I had imagined, and I had to risk my own life to learn of the few deeds of the 'Old Dominators'. β
"At this time, I was approached by a race called 'Shogues', and they needed me to help them rebel against a race called 'The Ancients.'"
"They are willing to give me knowledge of revenge, and all I have to do is take them in this uninhabited city."
"I agreed, and I used them to steal knowledge from the Fishmen, the Ancients, and even more of my unknown race."
"Finally, I understood a method that would be enough to make the fish-people genocidal."
"βThe King of the Yellow Coat, sealed at the bottom of Lake Harry on the planet Chiadis."