Section 14 The Sleeping Ancient Cities and Guards
readx;? William could hardly have imagined that in this dark underground, there was such a strange and strange city hidden. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Info is different from any architectural style in William's perception, this is a city composed of countless rings and pipe-like buildings, like a fungus growing in the mud, constantly decaying over the years, but constantly reborn.
It's an underground city full of weird contradictions. The buildings here do not have portals like human buildings, but spiral-shaped cones, like blooming snake buds.
William knew of a northern earth serpent. In autumn, they bury their snake eggs in the soil before hibernation to survive the cold winters. In spring and summer, snake eggs grow red and bright columns from the soil like plants, like budding buds, and young snakes crawl out of the hollow passage of the "flower buds".
Most of the buildings here stand prominently with a statue resembling a lizard man. The faces of these statues are slender compared to those of the Sebis lizardmen, with arms stretched out, either four or six, and a snake-like body extending below the torso.
William's pupils contracted suddenly, and his gaze swept over the cold statue. On the arms of these statues, most of them have a human (humanoid) head hanging from them. Most of the skulls had long since decayed, leaving only shriveled and mutilated skulls, and a few were still rotting and deteriorating from a short time ago, and William even found a fresh human head dripping with blood.
William approached the bloodied head, and the owner of the head should have looked like a man in the prime of life, his hideous face was covered with faint scars, his cheeks were tense, his steel teeth stood out, and his bloodshot eyes were wide with anger. It seems that he was full of anger when he was dying.
Although William is not a professional forensic doctor, he licks blood from the knife all year round, and he has seen a lot of dead people, and he has a little experience in judging corpses.
He pinched the muscles of the deceased's cheek and broken neck, feeling very tough, the owner of this head must be an extremely strong man. Combined with the dense scars on the deceased's face, the owner of the head should have been directly decapitated and killed in the fierce struggle, and the hideous expression on his face is exactly what it says.
The deceased should have been a powerful warrior or samurai who was accustomed to fighting, although any accident could happen on the battlefield, but if an experienced fighter could be directly beheaded in a head-on battle, the opponent must be an extremely brave and terrifying existence.
The streets of the city are covered with a thick layer of gray-black sediment of debris, which gives a crunchy feel when you step on it. William would not have recognized the thick sediment beneath his feet. But it is the bone meal after the calcification of animal bones.
William's heart began to chill, cold to freezing, as if all the heat had been compressed and condensed, like a volcano that had accumulated strength, waiting for the moment when it suddenly erupted.
If the bone meal here belonged to humans, William really couldn't imagine how many human bones would be needed. It took a long time for the devastation to form the corpses that covered almost the entire city.
Although for the time being, there is no living ** existence. William's heart tightened, and almost any movement could trigger his violent counterattack.
But William searched the entire city, and found no sign of life, and the city of bones, full of dead silence, seemed to have been abandoned by time and history.
Of course, William always had a hard time relaxing his nerves. His keen perception kept reminding him that this was a deadly Jedi.
William didn't want to stay long in this eerie ghost place, and he prepared to leave here and find a way back to the surface. It's just that this seems to touch some kind of defense mechanism of the city. Soon, the city of the dead showed William its danger - the Skeleton Guard. A bone giant that is more than 10 feet tall is condensed from bone meal that spreads all over the city streets.
These gigantic skeleton guards, wielding giant weapons also made of bone meal, walked among the ruins of forgotten cities, and suddenly looked very bluffing.
William was a little apprehensive at first, but when he easily smashed a twelve-foot-tall skeleton guard with a giant axe and a shield the size of a city gate into a cloud of bone powder, he was both glad and disappointed at the big guys.
Perhaps, when the bone powder that covered the entire city was still unweathered bones, the huge skeleton guards made of a combination of evil negative energy and hard bones were indeed extremely powerful guardians. It's just that they can't resist the magic of time after all, and the long time is enough to turn hard bones into crispy bone powder.
Every movement of these giant skeletal giants as they walked caused a large amount of bone meal to fall off from their bodies and weapons. Without even William's own hands, the skeletal guards dissipated and turned back into bone meal all over the ground.
The dissipation of the Skeleton Guard did not mean the end of the crisis, on the contrary, it was the beginning of William's nightmare.
A mummy, in the usual sense, is the remains of a deceased person who have undergone a special embalming treatment. The ancients believed that after death, the soul would not die out, but would remain attached to the corpse or statue. Therefore, after the death of some noble people, they will be mummified as a hope for the eternal life of the deceased, among which the mummies of ancient Egypt are the most famous.
William is no stranger to mummies, and in his previous life, whether it was an official museum or an underground black market for cultural relics, there was no shortage of such valuable man-made dried corpses.
But Faeron's mummy is a little scary. As soulless undead created by necromancy to guard graveyards or mystical ruins, mummies are capable of spreading the rotting virus that is deadly to the living, despite losing most of their powers and knowledge.
William, on the other hand, faces an even more terrifying mutant in the mummy guards, a giant mummy leader created through an extremely evil profane ritual using the body of a dying giant warlock or priest as a material. The mummy bosses are powerful necromancers with intelligence, who not only retain most of their knowledge and powers, but are also strengthened by the rotting necrosis virus.
The giant-like body, the chain mail belt woven of bronze as a shroud, and the huge protective hammer in his hand, exude a terrifying despair with him, and he knows that he is extremely difficult to mess with just by looking at his appearance.
William, though brave enough, scratched his head at the terrifying monster. The loss of the Qiushui War Knife greatly reduced his combat power, especially in the face of this kind of undead who was huge in size and had almost no obvious Achilles' heel in his body, which made William feel helpless to pull a turtle - unable to speak. (To be continued.) )