Chapter 1067: The Story of the Relief
The commotion caused by the out-of-control mutants quickly subsided, and everyone quickly put the matter behind them and turned their attention back to the temple of Neptune.
The reason why they adjusted their mentality so quickly was not only because the strength of the Spirit Clan guards gave them a sense of security and did not have to worry about their own safety after such a thing happened, but also because it was not uncommon for people to have out-of-control mutants among the people who visited the Poseidon Temple, and in the past, there would be one or two cases of every group of people who went to the Poseidon Temple to worship.
These out-of-control mutants are not limited to the devout believers of other races, but even the clergy of the Sea Clan, Spirit Clan, and Poseidon Church have seen such out-of-control mutants.
There is still no clear answer to the cause of the runaway mutants, but there are several theories that have been circulated among the people, and one of the most widely circulated and recognized as the most likely correct answers is that those who are out of control mutants are all false believers, and all their beliefs are disguised, in fact, they are all unbelievers or heretics.
The Sea Clan, the Spirit Clan, and the Poseidon Church neither denied nor acknowledged this statement, nor did they restrict the spread of this statement, and after the appearance of similar mutants among their people, they would also secretly investigate the people who had all kinds of close contact with this runaway mutant, and their various behaviors seemed to have acquiesced to this statement.
However, now Leo has found that the so-called mutant is a false believer is actually wrong, the real answer should be the opposite, the runaway mutant is not only not a false believer or a heretic, but the most devout Poseidon believer of all, and even a fanatical believer is not comparable, because the runaway mutation that happened just now is not a punishment in a sense, but a blessing, because that kind of mutation is called sanctification in the church of the Veron world.
In the church of the world of Vilon, some extremely devout believers will be blessed by the gods at a certain church ceremony, and his body will undergo a rapid transformation in the blessing, if his body can withstand the transformation, then he will eventually become a living saint of the church, and his status will also be greatly improved, even if he was just a beggar before, but the moment he became a living saint, his status can almost match the pope or archbishop of the church.
But if the body does not survive the sanctification, then he will be completely purified, and the purified remains of the body will become a holy relic of the Church.
When there was an uncontrollable mutation on that person's body just now, Leo's spiritual network had already explored the past, although the effectiveness of the spiritual network had been weakened a lot due to the influence of the surrounding environment, but even if it was weakened, he could clearly perceive the physical condition of that mutant.
In the eyes of others, the mutation of that person is out of control, but in Leo's perception, the mutation in the human body is orderly, and every mutation is very stable, absolutely not out of control, and more importantly, the life energy of the other party's body is also improving steadily and rapidly, it is no exaggeration to say that if the mutant is not killed, his life will complete a phased evolution, and he can survive the evolution, will transform into a higher life form, otherwise the energy generated by the evolution of life will be reversed, and it will be completely destroyed, and this process of destruction is somewhat similar to the runaway mutation。
Not everyone has a super perception of energy changes like Leo, and has a spiritual network that can view the state of other people's bodies, so it is also very difficult to distinguish between sanctified and out-of-control mutants, and the methods of the various churches in the Velen world are very simple, that is, to lock up the mutant until he finishes mutating.
If it's an out-of-control mutant, just get rid of it, but if it's a sanctified, release it, and then focus on cultivating it.
However, it is clear that the church and the clan of the Poseidon World deal with this kind of situation more directly, whether it is a mutant or a sanctified, they will all be executed, saving the manpower and time required to distinguish it.
At this time, Leo noticed that the shaman on the other boat looked nervous, and his hand subconsciously played with the bone necklace around his neck from time to time, obviously the necklace around the neck was very important in the shaman's mind, and Leo guessed that it might be the pagan shaman who dared to run to the Poseidon Temple.
Although Leo didn't know how strong the natural shaman's reliance was, at least his spiritual network couldn't sense the energy fluctuations of the bone necklace, but he could sense that the other party's emotions had become a lot more nervous after the so-called runaway mutant appeared, such a state of mind would be very passive in front of the divine power that could affect the spirit and soul the most, even if the disguise on the natural shaman's body could deceive the sea god's divine power, but the loopholes in his mentality could also become his Achilles' heel.
It's just that Leo can't help him now, although he is curious about the origin of this natural shaman's inheritance, his curiosity is not strong enough to make him take risks, so he can only be a bystander to see if this natural shaman's next appearance is unlucky.
There is also an apparent effect of superimposed space in the Silver Moon Lake, and the ship has been sailing on the water at almost full speed for several hours without reaching the island in the lake where the Poseidon Temple is located, and according to the Spirit Clan, it will take at least half a tidal day to reach the Poseidon Temple on the island in the lake.
During this period of time, several people have mutated out of control, not only among these people who visited the Poseidon Temple this time, but also the spirit people, and under the observation of Leo's spiritual network, among these few people who are regarded as out-of-control mutants, only one is a sanctification phenomenon, and the others are real out-of-control mutants, and the genetic cells on their bodies are changing rapidly and disorderly because of the stimulation of the divine power of the sea god around them, which eventually leads to the complete collapse of the body.
Among these mutants, one of them had a body that mutated so quickly that he only took a few breaths, and before the Spirit Clan could kill him, he had already collapsed into a puddle of mud.
And Leo discovered that this person's mutation was not because of his own reasons, but because he was secretly known by someone, and the person who secretly did it was the natural shaman who was followed by Leo.
I don't know if that person has a grudge against the natural shaman, or if the natural shaman wants to test something, when the person is not paying attention, the natural shaman uses some kind of shamanic spell to inject some kind of energy into the person's body, and it doesn't take long for the person's body to undergo an extremely rapid and uncontrollable mutation.
The speed with which the man's body collapsed seemed to have frightened the natural shaman, so much so that his emotions fluctuated greatly after that, and if he could, he would have withdrawn, and now he was afraid that he regretted his visit to the Poseidon Temple this time.
Leo already had a faint feeling that this natural shaman might be more and less lucky, if it was a few hours ago, when the ship had just left port, he might still have a way to help some of this natural shaman, but now he was also a little too busy to take care of himself, because as he got closer and closer to the Poseidon Temple, the power of the sea god in the surrounding air became more and more intense, and in this divine power there was also a kind of soul-penetrating muttering.
This kind of murmuring is very special and not everyone can hear it, only a few people with special perception can hear these sounds, and everyone seems to hear different sounds, for example, Leo hears the voice of an elderly woman, speaking a completely unfamiliar language, while others hear singing, noise, and even the sound of the tide.
For those who believe in the god of the sea, these mutters are more like a blessing from the god of the sea, and they accept this blessing with amazement, and listen carefully, hoping to hear the revelation that the gods have given them.
However, this sound was a complete spiritual attack on Leo as a believer, and he could feel that as this sound was injected into his ears, his spirit also changed a little under the influence of this voice, so he had to focus on resisting this muttering, and the means he used to resist it was simple, that is, to dilute this whispering with other babbling.
The effect of this approach is naturally significant, and Leo can easily eliminate the bad effects of this kind of babbling, but it takes Leo a lot of energy to maintain the balance of this kind of babbling confrontation, so Leo takes back his attention to the other people around him and concentrates on controlling the balance of the babbling confrontation.
Time passes quickly when one is concentrating on one thing, and as the island where the Poseidon Temple is located zooms in at a speed visible to the naked eye, half a tidal day passes with it, and strangely that murmuring gradually fades away at this time, and finally disappears.
Leo's attention also shifted to the outside world after the muttering disappeared, and he soon focused on the island of the Poseidon Temple, which was gradually approaching.
For others, the island of the Poseidon Temple is very magical, the whole island is made of countless hexagonal stone pillars of different sizes and lengths, the mountains composed of hexagonal stone pillars, the cliffs composed of hexagonal stone pillars, the coast composed of hexagonal stone pillars, etc., so that the whole island does not look like a natural generation at all, but more like artificially made, so some people say that only the power of the sea god can create this island full of rules.
However, this kind of terrain and landform, which is incomparably magical in the eyes of others, seems very ordinary in the eyes of the well-informed Leo, and he has seen even more magical terrain and landforms in the universe, and this kind of hexagonal stone pillar island, which looks like an artificial creation, can also be created through natural evolution in his opinion.
Rather than the magical shape of the island, Leo pays more attention to the towering temples of the island's spiraling buildings and boulders.
Because he had seen giant buildings on Yam Island in the past, although the current temple of Neptune was magnificent, it did not make Leo pay too much attention to it, and the only thing that really deserved Leo's energy to study was the reliefs on the outer wall of the temple.
Before the ship docked, Leo had already used his psionic ability to view the relief pattern on the top of the Neptune Temple from a great distance.
Like all church sanctuaries or altars, the sleeping shrine of the god of the sea is also depicted with reliefs and other means of some of the deeds that the god of the sea has done in the past that can be called great.
Leo was first fascinated by the painting above when he saw the reliefs, because it depicted a large number of starships, including many Wycombe Abbey motherships, and even had the Wycombe Abbey tribal insignia clearly engraved on them.
It can be seen from the picture that Poseidon was confronting the Wycombe Abbey spaceship at that time, and on Poseidon's side, you can see a number of retreating civilian spaceships.
From these patterns, it is not difficult to see that the situation at that time should be that the Wycombe Abbey people were attacking some cosmic civilizations, and the sea god was protecting these cosmic civilizations from withdrawing and blocking the attack of the Wycombe Abbey people.
The content of this group of reliefs is extremely clear, even people who do not understand the civilization and war of the universe, after reading this group of reliefs, they can easily understand the meaning.
However, after Leo saw this group of reliefs, he had a lot of doubts, because according to his understanding of the cosmic civilization, that group of reliefs contained a lot of contradictory content that could not be justified.
First of all, the biggest contradiction is who carved this group of reliefs, because the spaceships in the reliefs are extremely finely carved, and even the tiny parts such as the energy beam deflectors on both sides of the spaceship are also carved, and a large number of fleet numbering codes and so on are carved, unless you are extremely familiar with these spaceships, it is absolutely impossible to carve them so finely.
In addition, there are too many unreasonable contradictions in the content, for example, among the cosmic civilizations that escaped, at least three cosmic civilizations are high-level cosmic civilizations, which are only stronger than the civilizations of the Wycombe Abbey people, and the Wycombe Abbey people are enough to deal with one of the cosmic civilizations, and now they have a crushing advantage over the three high-level cosmic civilizations and dozens of intermediate cosmic civilizations, so that these civilizations have to flee from their homes, which is placed in the cosmic civilizations he knows, even the most absurd delusional people dare not think so.
In addition, the sea god is an omega-level advanced life form, whether he is the mother of water or not, he has incomparably strong combat power in the universe, with the civilization level of the Wycombe Abbey people, the strength of a branch tribe alone is absolutely unable to compete with a real omega-level advanced life form.
On the relief screen, Poseidon seems to be on the weak side, the other party's starship has suppressed Poseidon very badly, and it is possible to defeat Poseidon at any time, and even Leo can see that the Poseidon who replaces the image with symbols in the picture can't last long.
One of the biggest doubts in the whole relief is the location of the battlefield, the person who carved this group of reliefs is very detailed, and even carved the star chart marking the location of the battlefield as the background on the relief, and the star chart on it is unique in the universe, almost any medium civilization has this star chart, because this is the star field where the highest council of the universe is located.