Chapter 816: The Unspeakable Heart of the Firstborn
Vivien had an ancient memory of the world from the blood-colored crystal, but this memory was incomplete, she could only see some scattered and trivial fragments and some "foreign emotions" that could touch her feelings, and in order not to mislead Hao Ren, she did not elaborate on what she was seeing.
But one thing she can be sure of is that there was really a "Vivien" who looked exactly like herself, and even the form of strength was not much different from her, and the blood-colored crystal that Beatrice carried with her was also made by that "Vivian". As for why this crystal fell to the earth, and why it ended up in Beatrice's hands, what happened in the middle of it will probably not be clear for a while.
The souls who have been waiting in this underground city for 10,000 years are the last descendants of the former Sun Dynasty, including not only the monarch Gragon and the entire royal family led by him, but also the priests and knights of the three major temples of the creation god, the elemental god, and the present god, as well as the chosen ones of various kingdoms and tribal states. They were chosen with exceptional spiritual strength to build this underground shrine with the "goddess" 10,000 years ago, and sublimated their life forms into spirits in the city. For the next 10,000 years, they have maintained a vast ritual of soul suppression, and the sole purpose of this ritual is to appease the eldest son deep underground, so that it can transform and shelter the world according to its programme.
It can be said that these spirits, together with the city, form a huge "control bolt" and are firmly nailed to the ganglia of the firstborn. This is the myth and legend of the seventy-seven nails nailed to Toka's back - but unfortunately these legends that reveal the truth have been lost.
Gragon identified Vivien as his "goddess", and the other spirits believed in it as well, leaving Vivien herself a little unsure of who she was. But the words that Hao Ren had said to her still made her feel at ease. She pointed to the huge crypt called Toka's Throat: "From here, follow the nerve line. The connective tissue at the end is where the 'throne' is located. If that's right...... I should be able to open that place. ”
Hao Ren knew that she was going to meet her "other self", and he remembered the evil spirit Vivien that everyone had teamed up to fight before. Much of the stuff deep underground is similar to it. So he checked his weapons and shields: "Will it 'wake up' the eldest son if it starts?" ”
"As long as the city's 'lullaby' program is still running," Vivien looked at Gragon, smiling and nodding, "I don't know exactly what to do when we go down, but I think I'll know what to do when I get there." ”
Lily glanced at Vivien uncomfortably, "What do you think?" ”
"Sixth sense," Vivien nodded without changing her face, "my sixth sense has always been accurate. ”
"Then trust your sixth sense," Hao Ren nodded with a smile, and casually beckoned his "flying car" to prepare to go down. He saw Geisel and Bernia step forward as well, this time having to stop them, "You two stay here. ”
Geisel subconsciously retorted: "It's ......"
"I can't come with me this time," Vivien said solemnly, "not just the danger, but the main thing is that I'm going to ...... Well, negotiate with the other half of the gods, that's not the realm you can set foot in. ”
This argument was obviously more effective than any dissuasion, and as soon as Geisel and Bernia heard that it was the exclusive domain of the gods, they immediately stopped insisting on it. Vivien smiled and patted Bernia's little head. Pushing her to Gragon's soul, "You can stay here with these ancient heroes, they haven't spoken to anyone for a long time. Gragon, I'll leave it to you, before we return. The 'lullaby' must not stop. ”
The last king of the Sun Dynasty bowed and saluted: "I wish you all the best. ”
Hao Ren and the others got on the flying car and slowly descended into the huge crypt filled with chaos and darkness, and Gezel stood at the mouth of the cave. It was not until the miraculous vehicle disappeared into the bottomless earth that it withdrew. And Bernia stayed by Gragon's side honestly, looking at the soul curiously: "Are you really from the Sun Dynasty?" Did you really have a car flying in the sky in your time? ”
"Yes. Yes We also have trains speeding on the tracks. Golems powered by lightning, that was a long time ago," Gragon said slowly, with a hint of a smile on his vague face, and he placed his hand on top of Bernia's head, unable to actually touch the entity, but still in this position, "Tell us about the earthly world...... Do people still remember the reverence for the spirit of nature? Do you remember the sun? ”
On the other side, Hao Ren and the others were heading towards a deeper cavern, and a faint red light was already appearing in front of them.
The car's on-board monitor enhances the surrounding scene, allowing people to observe the surroundings smoothly in this dark place. The cave is unusually wide, with almost no rocks or soil on all sides, only the walls of the cave formed by the entanglement of huge tangled roots, making it feel as if you were walking through the esophagus of a giant beast. It's not the first time Hao Ren has been in such a weird place, thanks to two years of work experience, and now he can compare this more scalp-tinging environment with his face unchanged, so at this moment, he has no other thoughts than to sigh about the volume of this eldest son. The data terminal was stuck on the console he had at hand, and as he connected to the device, he mechanically reported the surroundings: "Crossing the surface. The planet still retains a rocky crust of about ten kilometers, and the tentacles of the eldest son support this crust underneath, and we are about to pass through this place. ”
The red light in front of them was getting brighter and brighter, and after passing through the rock layers, it reached the body of the eldest son, which was rich in biological organs: they emitted enough light to allow Hao Ren and his party to see their surroundings clearly without the help of equipment. The passage began to expand, and the space in all directions was getting wider and wider, and more tentacles were emerging from the four walls of the passage, intertwining like tree branches.
The speeding car continued on, and finally reached the end of the passage, where they rushed out of an open exit in the shape of a trumpet, breaking into an indescribably grand space.
There was only a dark red world as far as the eye could see, and a huge underground cavity stretched endlessly, and the speeding car floated in the too wide space like a small worm that had strayed into it. Huge tentacles loom in the dark red mist, small only a few meters in thick, large ones several kilometers in diameter: the neural tentacles of the eldest are usually very slender, and those thick tentacles are organs of movement, predation, and expansion.
Endless tentacles crisscrossed and filled all directions like a jungle, and the entire space was like a virtual nightmare, with a strange atmosphere that would never appear in reality, pressing from every direction.
For ordinary people, this is a twisted world that just one glance can make them fall into a state of madness and confusion, and it also has a great impact on Hao Ren and them. Lily couldn't help but shrink back into her seat: "This is the full-fledged eldest son?" It's bigger than Jam! ”
"Zom is just all over the planet, but this one over here...... It's completely empty of the planet," Hao Ren smacked his lips, "but it's hard to say if this is the mature form of the eldest son. I don't dare to define this creature now, God knows if it really has the ultimate stage of 'maturity', it almost seems to grow endlessly, and there are endless changes. ”
Heatherian shrank in the back row, this time things had already developed beyond her imagination, and now it was completely blinded by this poor girl, she almost trilled: "Wei ...... Mistress Vivien...... What the hell is this......"
"That's what we're usually dealing with," Vivien replied lightly, "Well, most of the time it's Hao Ren who handles it, and I'm on the side to help." ”
"So what the hell are you doing?" Hethanna was devastated, "You can all laugh?!" ”
Hao Ren scratched his hair: "I was really scared to pee when I saw this kind of thing for the first time, but now...... Tsk, I'm used to it. I still have a few of them in my lab. ”
Heathera bit her lip and decided that she would never do anything with this man in the future - this thing definitely had an over-spreading curse aura on it!
"Don't be dazzled by the scene here," Nangong Sanba reminded at this time, "Let's go find the major ganglion." ”
Hao Ren snorted, leaving the bizarre scene around him behind, he found the tentacles (nerves) that guided everyone forward, and rushed down with one foot on the accelerator.
The surrounding scene flew by, like a twisting and changing nightmare, and at the end of the nightmare, a large, slightly throbbing, dark red organ like a temple of evil gods awaited them.
As Vivien's breath approached, the dark red organ came alive at once. (To be continued......)