Chapter Seventy-Four: The Forgotten Ancients and the Entanglement of Interests

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Sleeping in the underground world for I don't know how many years the ancient city, almost half of the city is immersed in water, full of high-rise buildings, like a forest made of steel, from the appearance of these buildings like a tall beehive and abstract painter's brush of the strange world of buildings, originally supposed to be a magnificent and magnificent big city, but because of the erosion of time, everywhere seems lifeless, the buildings in the city are covered with yellow vines, and the air is filled with dark green mist, just like the city of hell in the apocalyptic scene。

Not long after walking around the collapsed statue, this is what Yarin saw, an ancient and mysterious city that has been forgotten in the deepest part of the world.

"It's really breathtaking," Arin said with a sigh as he stood on the rock wall and looked at the city.

Even without the use of psychic searching, Arin could already feel that there was something familiar in the huge pyramid-like building in the center of the city that was attracting him. There is no doubt that this is his ultimate goal, and the Soul Stone, which can increase the speed of soul energy recovery, is sending a signal of guidance to himself.

Along the way, Yalin searched the entire city with mental detection but found no trace of life, and the road to here was full of all kinds of strange and deformed terrifying creatures, and there was not even a shadow to be seen in the city, which made Yalin feel very strange. And the pyramid building where the Soul Stone is located seems to have a strong shielding force, even the powerful spiritual detection of the White Dragon King cannot penetrate this shield.

There are no corpses, no ruins, and all the buildings are intact, and this dark uninhabited ghost city looks like it was abandoned by its occupants, as if it was abandoned by its occupants. Arrin flew to a spire and looked down on the lonely uninhabited city below, and came to a conclusion.

What happened to make the occupants abandon their city?

The creatures set in the Cthulhu Mythos are not just deformed monsters, on the contrary, these creatures are extremely intelligent species, in the original novel they even shared a lot of science and technology to human beings, among which the messenger and representative of all the gods of chaos 'Nyara Totipu', a symbol of ridicule and contradiction, legend has it that the atomic bomb and the theory of relativity were taught to Einstein by him, the purpose is to make human beings accelerate their self-extinction faster and complete the task of 'Great Cleanup'.

If the 'Panda' really created these creatures exactly according to the Cthulhu Mythos, then these ancient creatures should not have just disappeared out of thin air

When he came to the bottom of the Great Pyramid building, Yalin was surprised to find that the huge building was actually suspended on the water, as if someone had prank the gravity under the building, causing the entire building to be uprooted and float in the air. Judging by the size of the staircase and the height of the entrances and exits, Arin judged that the former inhabitants of this place were almost as large as the dragons.

The inside of the pyramid building is much more complicated than it looks from the outside, with forks in the road and stairs everywhere, and the builders have arranged the layout of the place in a cookie-cutter manner, enough to make all outsiders who step inside completely lose their way, but fortunately, the fluctuations emitted by the soul stone point a clear path for Arin, and even the walls and gates that stand in the way will be reduced to pieces under the terrifying power of the White Dragon King.

Finally, after forcibly breaking the last heavy gate, Yarin finally saw the remains of the inhabitants of this place.

And now Arin finally understands the role of this pyramid building, which is not a tomb but some kind of escape room, and the inhabitants of the city are lying in something that resembles the dormant device on a spaceship in a science fiction movie. The device has ceased to function, but the dormant inside has been reduced to a skeleton, and looking around, there are thousands of dormant devices placed up and down the entire building, and the escape room that was supposed to bring hope to a survivor is as lifeless as a giant's coffin.

Arrin walked slowly forward and looked at the inhabitants of the ancient city, and it seemed that the shortest of these humanoids were more than ten meters tall, and the taller ones were almost more than twenty meters tall, and they did have some characteristics of the inhabitants of the Cthulhu Mythos, and they looked a bit like demons like Mind Flayers. As he walked, Yalin suddenly stopped, and in a dormant device in front of him, a huge corpse of a city dweller was holding a much smaller remain, which seemed to be a mother and son or a father and son.

They may seem scary on the outside, but on the inside they share the same kinship and values as humans, and if they were alive, they might not be creatures that can't communicate.

Yalin stood in front of the dormant device and gently saluted the two remains, and then walked in front of his ultimate goal of coming here without looking any more, in front of the huge machine qì with a blue pillar of light flowing in the center of the entire building, the middle part of the machine qì is a cylinder connecting the ground and the ceiling, a dazzling blue stone in the middle is slowly flowing, and exuding a strong soul energy aura to the surroundings, Yalin can feel that the flow of these soul breaths has formed a chaotic shield, making his spiritual detection power completely useless。

"My esteemed master, this is the Soul Stone, and bringing this back to your body will increase the speed of soul energy recovery. Nemo's voice suddenly sounded in Arin's head.

"Nemo, do you know why the Soul Stone is in this machine?" Yalin did not rush forward to take the Soul Stone in disbelief, but asked why Nemo Soul Stone was in this machine.

Nemo replied respectfully: "Yes, my esteemed master┉┉"

From Nemo's answer, Yalin understood that this soul stone seemed to be used by these ancient creatures as an inexhaustible source of energy to drive these dormant survival devices, and after I don't know how many thousands of years have passed, the soul stone is still continuously transporting energy, but the device itself has lost its function due to aging, and all the inhabitants sleeping in it have died.

After listening to Nemo's explanation, Arin nodded, sighed, and then floated into the air, approaching the Soul Stone and reaching out his hand. However, the moment it touched the Soul Stone, there seemed to be the sound of gears snapping and running in the huge room, and it seemed that the building had not completely lost its function for tens of thousands of years.

A flash of light suddenly flashed and Yalin quickly took the stone and turned around vigilantly, his hands already condensed with a powerful frost power, but the light was not a sudden enemy, just a 3D picture similar to a projection, on which a creature like a sea demon with a cool eye on the deep sea was wearing a black robe, squirming with an octopus's tentacle-like arm and emitting an unknown dull language. Even in the memory of the White Dragon King, who lived to the present ten thousand years ago, there is no record of this language.

"Nemo, do you know what he's talking about?" Arin asked Nemo puzzled, although he didn't know what the other party's words meant, Yarin could still read some messages from the other person's tone and body movements, fear, sadness, despair, warnings and prayers.

"I'm sorry my esteemed master, I don't have a language material for this creature in my database. Nemo had an answer that surprised Arlin.

"No, you don't know anything. "Obviously, Yalin has developed the habit of asking Nemo when he asks a basic question about the world, and he can get an accurate answer.

Nemo also said apologetically: "I'm really sorry for my esteemed master, what I am carrying is a qiē language, customs, and cultural information owned by the creatures of the creator of the new era, and there are not many detailed records about the creatures of the old era that have been destroyed and abandoned." ”

Yalin sighed helplessly and said, "So there's no way to know what's going on here?"

"It's not that it's not completely out of the question, my esteemed master. Nemo's voice continued to ring in Arin's head, "I can try to decipher this language, but it will take some time. ”

"Okay, let's get started now. Arin held the Soul Stone and nodded.

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In the private hotel where the chairman of the Free City Chamber of Commerce in Hodaland County stays, Lawrence Vic is sitting in the luxuriously decorated dormitory, listening to the reports of the major chambers of commerce through the magic guide communication device, and dealing with the distribution of large and small interests between different factions and businessmen in the free city. The merchants in the free city are a whole, and the integration of interests brings together different merchants who are inseparable from each other, just as the arms merchants are inseparable from the ore suppliers, the horse merchants are inseparable from the grain merchants, and all the merchants are inseparable from their monopoly on the transportation industry. Lawrence is well aware that the Free City is like a unique ecosystem, and if any one of them fails, it will collapse.

Today, Lawrence didn't listen to the income reports of the major chambers of commerce in the city, but instead focused more on the affairs of the Misty Forest, the year-round heavy snow has saved the Saxon Kingdom in the Far North from two wars with the Oug barbarians, if this snow continues like this, the situation on the continent may have to be rewritten a little.

Lawrence tapped his fingers lightly on the table and said, "Regardless of whether the aid of other countries to the Kingdom of Saxony is reduced, the supplies of Free City this year are still guaranteed to supply the Kingdom of Saxony. ”

Feeling the communicator, a reply came out: "Is that good? Mr. Lawrence! Every time a part of the supplies supplied to the Kingdom of Saxony will be swallowed up by the Kingdom of Belrama, is it too wasteful to go on like this?" ”

"It doesn't matter! After all, this snow is really unsteady, if it suddenly stops, then the situation will have to change back to the same as before, and it is not a bad thing to gain some friendship with the Kingdom of Saxony at this time, there is no need to lose greater benefits in order to save a little. As Lawrence said this, the young and beautiful maid behind him slowly poured him a cup of hot coffee.

The Oug barbarians have always been the public enemies of the countries of the entire continent, and the Saxon Kingdom is located on the front line of the battlefield against the Oug barbarians, and in order to resist the Oger barbarians, the countries and free cities of the Oger Barbarian Continent have given the Saxon Kingdom a large amount of material and food aid. On the surface, it seems that the Kingdom of Saxony has made great sacrifices for the safety of the entire continent, but Lawrence understands some of the inside story, and the Oger barbarians have also maintained in some cases the reason for the continued existence of the Saxon Kingdom, which is not very powerful, in fact, the Saxon Kingdom in the far north is not suitable for crop cultivation, and food has always been the most scarce material in the country, if the Oge barbarians stop invading, then the countries will also stop food aid to the Saxon Kingdom, which may lead the Saxon Kingdom to find other ways to obtain food supplies。

However, the most important point is the so-called greater 'benefit' mentioned by Lawrence, although the Kingdom of Saxony is located in the extreme north, although it is not suitable for farming, but close to the Misty Forest can obtain a large number of forest resources, and there have been many high-value mineral resources found in its territory, among which the rarest magic crystal veins are as high as six, and the value of these six magic crystal veins alone is estimated to be trillions of lien. It's just that the Kingdom of Saxony does not have so many manpower and enough technology to mine these ores, and the countries that have been eyeing it on a daily basis do not dare to openly invade the territory of the Kingdom of Saxony because of the importance of the Kingdom of Saxony, which has always resisted the Ogs.

The Kingdom of Saxony in the Far North, which is very lacking in manpower and technology, is a person who is starving with a mountain of gold, and the free city has all kinds of advantageous resources that can quickly fill the vacancy of the Kingdom of Saxony. If this heavy snow really keeps falling, then it is necessary to get ahead of the countries and grasp the important mineral resources in Saxony, for a country like the Kingdom of Saxony that cannot produce food, I am afraid that in the future it will have to exchange all kinds of precious minerals for food materials.

But that's it, a lone wolf with claws and fangs can become a loyal watchdog!

Thinking of this, Lawrence nodded with satisfaction, but suddenly frowned, not to mention the matter of the Saxon Kingdom, not only the recent rise of the Carl Sulmen Empire on the mainland is a real troublesome problem, after the recent defeat of the army of the Kingdom of Kreses, the slave traders who originally thought that they could get a large amount of 'goods' actually only made some fractions, and the Karlshamon Empire was very concerned about the captured King Kreses** The captives and the inhabitants of the occupied territories gave a policy of gentleness, and the trafficking of enemy captives and subjects in some previous wars on the mainland was a common means of warfare, and the ruthless Prince Augustus actually made such a move, which really made Lawrence feel a little incomprehensible.

Kreses and the Carl Cermen Empire are both from the same source after the collapse of the Perras Empire established by the overlord Garserick, and it can be said that they are two countries that were originally divided into a country of the same blood┉┉Every time I think of this, Lawrence always has some uneasy premonitions in his heart. Perhaps it is necessary to inquire more about the news of this prince's Royal Highness!

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