"What's that?" Leo asked, pointing to the two rows of statues that had been erected on either side of the street not far away.

I saw that the two rows of statues were neither gods nor heroes, but a monster form, this monster had the slender body of a snake, the head was somewhat humanoid, a pair of long ears hung on both sides, and the big eyes that bulged out slightly outward in one or two directions were a little abrupt, and the most eye-catching feature was the two rows of front teeth in its mouth, which were difficult to see.

Such an ugly statue erected in such a magnificent humanoid city would feel incongruous no matter how you look at it.

"That's the Abyssal Serpent. "Seredor seemed to be very familiar with this monster, and very hateful, and his tone was full of strong disgust.

"Abyssal Serpent?" Leo was stunned for a moment, vaguely feeling that the name was somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

After a quick search of his memories, Leo found a record of the Abyssal Serpent, but this record was not in the Veron World, but in the cosmic species record of the Earth Federation.

In addition to purchasing cosmic materials from advanced civilizations, the early exploration of the universe by the Earth Federation most of the time sent a large number of exploration fleets, both official and private, large fleets may have hundreds, hundreds of thousands of people, and small exploration ships may only have one or a dozen people.

These exploration fleets have encountered all kinds of events, and have seen all kinds of cosmic species, all of them record what they see and hear in the spaceship's recorder, and after returning to the Federation, the recorder will decide the amount of the bonus according to the content of the record, some of which will make the exploration team rich overnight, and some will make the exploration team nothing.

In one of these exploration fleets, a small exploration ship of fifty people broke its navigator and entered an unknown space after entering subspace, and before they found and left the unknown space, they explored that space and successfully brought the exploration record back to the Earth Federation.

It's just that these people's records of exploration of that space are extremely controversial in the Earth Federation, because there are so many incredible contents in those contents that it feels like the imagination of some kind of psychopath.

The reason for this is that all the explorers who returned to Earth were crazy, and everyone was amazed that a group of lunatics were able to fly a ship back to the Federation and dock perfectly at the airport.

These records of the unknown space are full of strange things and species, and none of them are as incredible as the abyssal serpent with front teeth, red eyes, and Federalism.

The abyssal serpent suddenly appeared in front of the exploration team, it did not attack the exploration team, but talked to the exploration team members with some words, these words were very strange, it sounded like some patchwork sentences, confusing and difficult to understand, such as I cut off my head and buy bags of fruit and other illogical words abounded, so the federal record reviewers at the time did not care about these contents, but placed them in the public information area for everyone to read.

It's just that after the last few years, things have suddenly gotten a little weird, because some boring decryption enthusiasts have become interested in these records, and they think it's a cryptographic language, so they work with each other to re-edit the text and really get them to crack some of it.

Originally, just cracking these contents would not cause any sensation, but then some things that happened to the Earth Federation were surprisingly consistent with these cracked words, which made them can't help but think that these words were the language of the Earth Federation, so more and more people joined the cracking team, and finally attracted the attention of the Earth Federation.

Later, the federal government blocked the record on the grounds that it was likely to cause social unrest, and defined the cracking groups as illegal gatherings to disperse.

But it didn't end there, and then a series of riots suddenly broke out in the remote colonies of the Federation, and the people who created the riots claimed to be the believers of the Abyss Serpent, and these people were all members of the cracking team.

The rebellion started very suddenly, and it seemed to have been premeditated for a long time to seize the power of those colonies, and by the time the Earth Federation sent a fleet to quell the rebellion, the believers of the Abyss Serpent had already integrated all the combat power of the colonies and started a war with the Earth Federation that lasted for decades.

In the end, the people of the colony were unable to resist the endless fleet of the Earth Federation, and ended in failure, and the most painful thing was that those Abyss Serpent believers who fell into despair actually used all the ammunition in their inventory to bombard the star core of the colony, which eventually caused the colony planet to change.

In the mutation, the colony planet not only entered a period of decay in advance, and can no longer adapt to human habitation, even the spaceships close to the planet have also encountered the impact of the supermagnetic field, most of the spaceships are destroyed in this impact, and a few can not operate normally even if they are not destroyed, everyone on the spaceship can wait for death in this space coffin, and the people in the colony are all dead, and no survivor can be found.

The impact of this incident on the Federation was so great that it amended more than 4,000 laws of the Federation, and all people and things related to the Abyss Serpent would be regarded as the primary event by the Federation, and this situation lasted until Leo's time. At the beginning, Leo had received more than one mission about the followers of the Abyss Serpent, but in his opinion, these tasks were usually framed by someone to clear the dissidents, and had nothing to do with the Abyssal Serpent.

What he didn't expect now was that in this place where everything ended, he would hear the name of the Abyss Serpent again, and also saw the statue of the Abyss Serpent, from the eye-catching features of the statue, it was not difficult for him to judge that the two should be the same kind of existence, and the space that the expedition team accidentally entered might be the abyss.

For the catastrophe of the federal colonies back then, many years have passed when Leo was created, and the matter has long been diluted, and those believers of the so-called Abyss Serpent are also some framed people, so he himself has a very indifferent view of the Abyss Serpent and has not carefully studied the relevant information, which also makes his current understanding of the Abyss Serpent only stay on the conceptual things such as knowing how to demagogue, predict, and be dangerous, and there is no other substantive and more useful content.

"Sounds like you know this Abyss Serpent very well, can you tell me what it is?" Although Leo couldn't find any useful information in his federal database, there was another person around him who knew a lot about the Abyss Serpent to ask, and he naturally wouldn't be stingy to ask.

It seems that Seredor is also about to tell Leo about the Abyssal Serpent to remind Leo to be careful, so after hearing Leo's inquiry, he immediately explained: "The Abyss Serpent has always been a legend in my hometown, it is the most evil existence in the world, it has a mouth capable of demagogic people, anyone who hears its words will be affected by it, and its personality will be distorted, and eventually become a monster-like guy." Many countries in my hometown have perished under the bewitchment of the Abyss Serpent," he paused and said in a gloomy tone: "I heard that there are also people in my hometown who have been bewitched by the Abyss Serpent and are causing turmoil, and I don't know what the situation is now?"

Hearing Seredore's words, Leo was silent for a moment, turned his head to look at the statues of the Abyss Serpent, and said, "You said that this royal city inhabited by the gods will be destroyed, could it be that the Abyss Serpent is also doing it in the dark?"

"Quite possibly. Seredor nodded in agreement without hesitation, "I think the princess may be the embodiment of the Abyssal Serpent." Because after the princess came, the gods left the royal city, and the royal city became chaotic, and finally became what it is now. ”

Leo listened to Celedor's words, walked over to the empty armor on the side, and picked up a long sword on the ground. Although I don't know that after a long time here, coupled with the erosion of various invisible forces and the climate around it, the longsword has decayed very badly, but from some places that have not completely decayed, it can be seen that this longsword should be very sharp and strong when it is in good condition, and it will not be much worse than the special armor plates used on the space battleship.

"This is supposed to be the Roderick Knight Sword. Seredore walked up to Leo and said, "Knight Roderick is the prototype and model of all knights, whenever the world is in chaos, the royal city will send a team of the most elite Roderick knights to calm the chaos of the world, and then they will entrust the world to the people they trust, they will leave and return to the royal city, loyalty, piety, humility, benevolence, fearlessness, mercy these beautiful words will not be exaggerated in Roderick Knight." As he spoke, he squatted down and stroked the still exquisite ornaments on the surface of the decayed armor, and sighed, "I didn't expect such a great knight to die here because of the civil war." ”

"All things will eventually be destroyed, and no matter how powerful Knight Roderick is, he will not escape the end of destruction. Just as Théredor sighed, an old voice suddenly reached the ears of Leo and Théredor, and the two of them couldn't help but be startled, and they looked towards the place where the sound came from.

I saw that an old man in a robe carrying a crystal lamp suddenly appeared on the street in the distance, and staggered towards the two.

Leo found that his spiritual net seemed to have lost its effectiveness in this old man, and he couldn't feel the old man's existence at all, not because of shielding, interference, etc., but because his spiritual net passed directly through the old man's body.

Although Leo didn't feel the hostility from the old man, he still turned the twin into the strongest sacrificial knife mode, and looked at the old man vigilantly.

Although the old man's demeanor was always calm, the moment Leo turned the twin into sacrificial knife mode, his movement speed paused slightly, and his expression flashed a trace of surprise and fear, this scene was naturally noticed by Leo, who was already paying attention to the other party.

Unlike Leo's vigilance, Seredor still looked very aggressive, carrying the exaggerated greatsword, standing beside Leo without any defensive movements.

After the old man moved to the vicinity of Leo and the others, he stopped, then nodded at the two of them, and said, "The sound of the little devil flapping his wings can be heard even in the Hall of Silence in the royal city, I guessed that there is a new guest, so I came to take a look, and now it seems that I guessed correctly." As he spoke, he saluted the two of them very decently, and said, "Hello two, I am the guide of the royal city, if you don't mind, you can follow me to the safe prayer hall, there are also some outsiders, I think you should have a common topic." ”

For this inexplicable invitation, Renaud did not intend to agree, but just when he was about to refuse, Seredor on the side took the initiative to say: "Yes, you can lead the way in front!"

Hearing Théredor's words, the old man did not wait for Leo to make a decision, but turned and walked along the way he came, and Thérédor turned to Leo and said, "I will explain this matter on the way, so let's follow first! ”

With that, he hurried after the old man.

Although Leo was a little puzzled by Seredor's actions, he had no intention of asking questions, but followed suit.

In this way, the two of them, led by the old man, walked through the streets that looked like battlefields, and quickly moved towards the center of the city.

On the way, Seredor didn't care about the old man leading the way in front of him, and explained directly to Leo: "The knight I followed mentioned the old man with the lantern in the royal city, and the old man with the lantern will appear in front of the outsiders when outsiders enter the royal city, and then lead the outsiders to the only safe place in the royal city. In that safe place, there is no danger, and there is a bonfire that has not been extinguished, as long as you return to the campfire alive, even if you have the most lethal injuries on your body, the wound will heal quickly. ”

"Is he a survivor of the Royal City?" Leo was silent for a moment, pointed to the old man in front of him, and asked.

"Yes and no. Seredore gave a vague answer, and immediately explained: " No one knows what he is, just knows that it is impossible to kill him by any method, some people say that he is actually the last priest of the royal city, because he saw the destruction of the royal city, fell into the place where all this ended, all the former heroes have now become the walking dead, he is desperate for this, so he will incarnate as a lantern guide, guide the outsiders who come to the royal city, step by step to find out the mystery of the royal city, and finally let the royal city be completely destroyed, ending the suffering of all the living dead and embers. ”

The entire royal city is cone-shaped, and each floor is blocked by a huge wall that ordinary people can't climb over, and the location of Leo and the others is at the bottom of the floor, and when they look up, they can't see where the real royal city is at the top. This is supposed to be the civilian area of the royal city, and the surrounding buildings are not only crowded, but also disorganized, filling all the gaps as if they were interjecting needles, leaving only narrow streets that can barely tolerate passage.

However, as the group drew closer and closer to the sanctuary, the street widened considerably, and the buildings on both sides of the street became much more regular, and when they turned a corner, the scene suddenly opened up before Leo and Seredor.