"Call you?" Hearing Vivian's words, Hao Ren frowned, "Is it a voice?" ”

"I can't tell," Vivien's gaze wandered over the massive mountain of steel, "just for a moment, like someone reminded me to look in that direction...... But now there is nothing. ”

Some lightning-fast thoughts swirled through his mind, and Hao Ren vaguely guessed what it was: "Artifact - it seems that at least half of the legend is true." ”

There weren't many things that could have caused Vivien to have such a strange reaction, and the creation left directly behind by the Goddess of Creation was the most likely one of them. The myths and legends of the remnants of the Ark have said that an artifact once sheltered the entire world, and now Vivien felt an inexplicable call next to this ancestral furnace, and no one could help but link the two things together. It seems that this exiled fleet really has some kind of shelter, and this shelter ...... From the Goddess of Creation!?

Willy didn't understand what Hao Ren was talking about, and he asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"You're a local, do you know how to enter the Ancestral Furnace?" Hao Ren asked bluntly.

"Locals? I'm not a local, I'm born and raised in Fireplace City......" Willy subconsciously replied to the first half of the sentence, and then reacted suddenly, "Ancestor Honglu?!" What did you say? You want to enter the Ancestral Furnace?! ”

"Can't you?" Nangong Sanba raised his eyebrows, "Aren't we here to solve this problem?" ”

Willy's face was wrong, he had a lot of guesses about the group of people of unknown origin in front of him, but he never expected that these people would be so whimsical that they would enter the ancestral furnace to find out: "This is a fantasy!" The ancestral furnace is a place that only the dead can set foot in, and I have never heard of a living person who can enter that place! Those who step into the oven will be cursed by the power of Hades. Burns all over the body, skin peeling. Bleeding from internal organs, and finally burning to death - you want to go in?! ”

Hao Ren was greatly surprised to hear this. He didn't know if the generator sets were so dangerous, if it was the local myths and legends that went wrong, or if the ship's energy furnace itself had some security measures to prevent visitors from entering, but he was sure he would go in anyway: "Is there no other way to get in?" ”

Willie shook his head vigorously: "Impossible, impossible, this is suicide." And even if there were outlaws who wanted to force their way into the ancestral furnace, it was impossible, there were blood servants who guarded all the entrances and exits day and night, and those soldiers did not even listen to the king's words, they only obeyed the mission. What madness are you going to go to that place? ”

The young man seemed to be frightened by Hao Ren's intentions, and after he tried his best to dissuade him, a look of surprise gradually appeared on his face. Looking at Lily and Vivien, who had indifferent expressions on their faces, Willy suddenly remembered the "witchcraft" of this group of people and some dark and terrifying legends. His body trembled: "You...... What the hell do you want to do? ”

"Relax, relax, boy," Vivien's eyes flashed reddish, and she forced Willy to calm down by agitating the power of blood magic, her tone slow and tinged with wonderful magical powers, "Don't you want to end the winter?" And you look at what the Ancestor Honglu looks like now...... It's broken, very badly broken. And we know how to fix it, and that's what we're here for. ”

There are only a few small tricks in Vivien's blood magic that can be applied to the human spirit, but Willy is a normal person who knows nothing about magic and is weak-willed. So he was pacified without resistance. His eyes were cloudy for a while: "But the ancestor Hong Furnace can't enter, there is the power of the underworld inside, and the blood servant won't let you ......"

"Then your king has summoned the scholars over and is going to solve the problem of the reactor?" Lily asked curiously. "They didn't know how to fix it from the outside, and they couldn't get in. Is that what you look at? ”

Willie muttered a bunch of unbridled conjectures, confusing witchcraft, misinterpreted technical terms, specious mechanics, and a little resignation. Actually, you don't need to ask him. Hao Ren himself knew that it was impossible for the people of this world to know how to repair the reactor, just like in the past, every time the reactor went down, the scholars would gather to chant incantations and bow to the ancient circuit diagrams and circuit boards, but in the end, people still relied on the tenacious self-repair of the Ark system to survive every cold winter - but this time, a hole in the ancestral furnace that was several kilometers long was cracked, and this was not something that could be done by restarting the system.

Hao Ren originally planned to let Willy and Master Oro lead the team, and then his party found an opportunity to enter the reactor through the guards of this place, so as to avoid all accidents, but now it seems that the knowledge of the local people about the ancestor Hong Furnace is more serious than imagined, and in the end, he still has to force his way in.

"You go back to the resting place by yourself first, we still have something to do," After inquiring about the "Blood Servant", Hao Ren patted Willy on the shoulder and let the young man leave on his own, and then walked to the high wall on the side of the royal city, he had observed the terrain before, and thought that a gap there was leading to one of the entrances to the reactor, "Let's go and see the situation." ”

The crowd walked through the bustling and crowded streets of the royal city, walking towards the gap.

The surrounding area is still bustling, and despite a terrible incident that happened here not long ago, and everyone in the royal city saw the reactor explosion up close, the streets of the city are still as lively as ever. The people of this world seem to have become accustomed to the fact that the world around them has something going wrong from time to time, and although it is a bit unprecedented for the Ancestor Furnace to crack the channel this time, after the backup power of the shelter was activated, the civilians calmed down again. Men, women and children are talking in the streets about the previous explosion, some are telling strange legends to explain the phenomenon, pessimists and optimists are gathered, but all are doing the same: everyone gathers, talks loudly, and dispels the gloom with words.

Of course, the actual damage caused to the city by the previous explosion cannot be ignored: when the electric fire tore through the shell of the reactor, some pieces were blown off, and these pieces fell on the edge of the city in the direction of artificial gravity, smashing some houses, and then a series of small-scale fires caused by the failure of the power system, a lot of chaos can be seen in the city. Soldiers and craftsmen were cleaning up the ruined area, and the closer they got to the ancestral furnace, the worse the damage became.

Thanks to the chaotic social order of the world itself and the chaos of the destroyed neighborhoods, Hao Ren and the others passed through all the intersections without receiving much attention. Eventually, they came to a special exit in the corner of the royal city, and as Hao Ren had guessed, after exiting this gap and walking up to a high ground, he could see in the distance one of the entrances to the Ancestral Furnace.

But there were really layers of guards around the entrance, and some strange-looking soldiers were guarding the place. The soldiers were dressed in rudimentary leather armor, their upper bodies exposed to the cold air, seemingly unafraid of the cold, their skin pale and sickly, their muscles unusually developed, and dark red veins peeking through their almost transparent skin, as strange as red tattoos. The soldiers walked around the entrance to the reactor, muttering strange sentences in a strange voice like a mixture of beast and human, and as they spoke, saliva even dripped down the jaws of the men.

Hao Ren muttered, "This is the blood servant mentioned by Willy?" ”

“…… Radiation symptoms," the data terminal sneaked out, the surface glowing surged, and after a little inspection of the facilities behind the soldiers, it understood what was going on, "I forgot to check the radiation level in this area just now - this reactor has a leak, and the radiation intensity behind those metal walls is terrifying, and these soldiers have been guarding only a wall away from the radiation source for many years, and they are all seriously damaged!" ”

The Bloodservants, the chosen ones to guard the Ancestral Furnace, they were chosen from among the most powerful warrior families of the Four Kingdoms, the most courageous and warlike young men, these soldiers were ordered to guard the entrance to the Ancestral Furnace, and their bodies were bathed in the light of the gods and ancestors, so they acquired some unusual qualities, they lived a short life, but their life was full of glory - this is the local interpretation of the "Blood Servants", and then the truth of everything - these are just a group of poor radiation patients, Their greatest fighting power comes from their ray-burned appearance, and ordinary people in this world would not dare to be enemies of people of this appearance.

"They chose the strongest healthy men to guard this place, but they actually spent precious strong labor in radiation," Lily's eyes widened, "and that's really ...... Unreasonable. ”

"At the height of the Black Death, there was a passion for burning women who knew how to heal with herbs to stop the plague," Vivien said, grimacingly, "and the guards here were at least somewhat necessary: behind those doors was not a place for the living, and whatever the first person to find out might think, at least he was right to send someone to lock it." (To be continued.) )