Chapter 373: Testing the Waters
The area of the pool is not large, and even compared to the area of the whole hall, this pool is a little small.
It's like a piece of pizza with nothing on it, except for a raisin embedded in the middle, which is incongruous to look at.
When Chen Mu entered the door before, he didn't dare to move, and the Seagod priest didn't say to let him move freely, so the place where the two handed over the trident was almost near the gate.
Now Chen Mu is heading towards the pool, the speed is just like a leisurely stroll, anyway, he is not in a hurry, and no matter how much he says that this place is also the temple of the god of the sea, there is still a special sense of depression, so that Chen Mu does not dare to act rashly.
Walking over slowly, it seemed easy, but in fact, Chen Mu had always been in a nervous state where he could start fighting at any time, and even the monkey was in a state of combat readiness at his request.
Fortunately, nothing unusual happened, the hall was quiet, not even a trace of wind, and it was almost suffocatingly calm.
Chen Mu didn't know if all the Poseidon Temples were like this, anyway, it made him very uncomfortable here, and he even had a sense of crisis of being watched.
It's just that no matter how vigilant and sensing he and the monkey were, they couldn't find the slightest sign of anyone lurking or peeping.
The entire temple is built in a coherent architectural style, with no ornaments except for the central pool and the circle of mermaid statues.
The walls are even bare, there are no murals, no windows, not even half of the ventilation holes, there is no possibility of voyeurism at all.
But Chen Mu just had a feeling of being watched, lingering, and this feeling even made him a little irritable, this kind of irritability was the prelude to the collapse of his sanity, which made him feel incredible.
Obviously there is no danger, otherwise, with the status of the temple priest in the mermaid clan, there is no need to play any Yin spear tricks to catch turtles in urns, and even if he wants to play, he will not choose a place like the temple.
The other party casually gave an order, and all the local fish clans, regardless of men, women, and children, would all die to deal with themselves.
So intellectually speaking, Chen Mu didn't think there would be any danger here and now, although he didn't understand what the temple priest meant by doing this, but at present, there should not be much danger, at least there would be no danger in the temple.
According to Lao Sa, in any mermaid stronghold, if there is a temple, then the security level of this place is definitely the highest in the stronghold, and there is no one.
Not to mention the mysterious and fanatical temple warriors, the merfolk guards on the periphery alone would never allow any foreign enemies to offend the temple, and it was impossible to enter the area where the temple was located unless they stepped over their corpses.
Besides, there is an unfathomable temple priest as the last insurance, Lao Sa also heard that it is said that the temple priests have received the blessing of the sea god, and they can borrow part of the power of the sea god, and they really want to do it, not to mention destroying the heavens and the earth, it is definitely an extremely terrifying high-end combat power.
For this statement, Chen Mu still doesn't believe much, what borrows divine power, purely, he is more inclined to believe that it is the temple priests' own cultivation of martial arts and European qi, but out of fanatical belief in the god of the sea, these priests think that their strength is borrowed from the god of the sea.
After thinking about it for a while, Chen Mu slowly walked to the periphery of the pool, that is, approached the circle of mermaid statues.
When I got closer, I realized that these statues were lifelike top works of art, and it felt like they were not dead things, but living mermaids!
Every texture is almost real, except that it doesn't move, these statues are really fake, and all kinds of shapes are also very expressive.
There is only one place, the eyes of these statues, which are uncharacteristically very stiff, as if the other parts were made by top art masters, and these eyes are for the apprentices to deal with, which is simply a tyrannical thing.
Chen Mu didn't think much about it, he tried to stretch out his finger and poke the statue in front of him, the place in his hand was a little cool, and it felt hard, like a marble material.
After confirming that these were dead objects, Chen Mu also lost interest in viewing the artwork, gave the monkey a look, and asked it to test the water in the pool.
That's right, standing in the statues, you can see the scene inside the pool.
It seems to be a very ordinary pool, and inside it is a calm water surface without the slightest ripple, and the water is very pure blue, revealing a purer blue shimmer.
But Chen Mu glanced inside, but he couldn't see the bottom, obviously the pool water was very clear, it was the kind of transparency that could see at a glance whether there were fish and shrimp in the water.
But it is such a clear pool water, but you can't see it at a glance, it seems to be a reflection in the water above the head that can't see the end, and the pool water has no end, and the bottom is a blue spot.
This is very unusual, look around the whole hall, or the whole temple, the rest of the place is unremarkable, the most eerie nature is this pool, including the circle of mermaid statues around it, and the equivalent of the endless dome.
Chen Mu had a faint feeling that the sense of danger of being watched by an unknown existence was probably derived from this strange pool.
Even if the priest of the temple had asked him to meditate for three days and listen to the voice of the god of the sea here, it should have something to do with this pool.
In fact, if there is a problem, you will know if you go in and give it a try, but Chen Mu has never tested the consciousness of thunder with his body, especially when there are pathfinder dogs available around him.
Of course, the monkey came in handy at this time, it didn't matter, holding the invincible body of the king who was immortal anyway, and the king would not go to hell, who would enter, and jumped into the pool with a big grin.
It stands to reason that since there is not even a statue of a god in this temple, but such a pool is built and built in the center, it is likely to be a place to worship the gods, or a holy place in the temple.
In such a place, it is naturally impossible to allow outsiders to desecrate at will, let alone jump in and take a bath, even if you squint at it, it can be regarded as blasphemy.
But Chen Mu didn't care, in his opinion, if there were really such taboos, shouldn't the temple priest give himself a few words of advice before leaving?
Now that the other party didn't say it, of course, it means that there are no taboos, as long as you don't make destructive actions to the temple, then it's no big problem.
And the monkey jumped in just to test the water, and didn't say that he was going to urinate in it, blasphemy or something, it didn't exist at all...... Right?
"Nothing abnormal?" Chen Mu commanded the monkey remotely: "Uh, then try to dive to see if this pool is unfathomable!"