Because Leo made a lot of noise in the forest, the caravan resting in the castle became a lot nervous. Many of them picked up weapons and stood on the somewhat broken city wall facing the forest.
He looked over, trying to see what was going on under the flat tree tops.
Leo's return to the castle did not attract the attention of other people in the caravan. No one else even noticed that Leo had left the castle. Their attention was all attracted by the previous movements. Some bold and curious people
I even thought I should send someone into the forest to see what was going on.
However, this proposal was quickly rejected. After all, the sight of those hidden beasts in the forest last night was still fresh in the minds of the caravan members, and no one had the guts to take over the task of exploring the forest.
However, although the caravan vetoed the decision to explore the forest, it still carefully arranged some lethal traps in several key places in the castle, and also arranged some warning traps in other places to prevent anything from happening.
accidents.
After returning to the caravan camp, Leo did not immediately start exploring the castle. Instead, he temporarily stayed in his caravan tent and carefully sorted out what he had just gained.
What is certain now is that the forest outside is extremely entangled with the power of the abyss, which has even caused the species there to undergo abyssal changes. For example, the giant python more than fifty meters long can be regarded as an abyssal creature.
Since the forest and the power of the abyss are deeply entangled, the castle so close to the forest must inevitably be affected by the power of the abyss. In this way, various terrifying legends about the castle will have a basis.
In addition, judging from the forest outside, the source of the power of the abyss that caused the sudden change in the forest should no longer be there, or it might have failed. Otherwise, the giant python would have resonated with the source of the power of the abyss just now.
If this is the case, then those horrific legends about the castle may not happen again.
Thinking of this, Leo's interest in exploring the castle weakened a lot.
At this moment, there was a sudden noise in the caravan camp. Something unusual seemed to have happened outside. Leo opened the tent door and looked outside, and found a large group of people surrounding a few people heading toward another tent.
We were walking, and two of those people were carrying two young people on their backs. It seemed that the situation of the two young people was not good.
"Something happened?" Leo recognized at a glance that the two young men being carried seemed to be one of the people who proposed exploring the castle not long ago, so he ordered Sans, the owner of the packcar next to him:
"Go and find out what happened?"
After hearing Leo's instructions, Sanz immediately got into the crowd. With the connections he had made in the past few days and his eloquence, he quickly got the news Leo wanted.
After hearing the inquiring news from Sans, the curiosity that had just been extinguished in Leo's heart grew again.
After the young people entered the uppermost castle, they went away to explore on their own. When they separated, they agreed on a time to meet and made bets on what kind of treasures they could find in the castle.
However, after the appointed time, several young people returned to the upper level castle's meeting hall and found that two young people were missing. Then they went to look for it, and soon found themselves in the same well-preserved empty room.
, found the two of them, and found that both of them were unconscious in the room and could not wake up no matter how they shouted. This was the movement that caused a commotion in the entire camp.
After discovering this situation, Leo naturally thought that the time when the two young people were unconscious seemed to coincide with the time when he killed the giant python and caused the entire forest to experience abnormal collapse. The two were obviously related, so inside the castle
The unknown thing that gave rise to the terrifying legend is still here.
The only thing that Leo still didn't quite understand was that the two young men were unconscious and not dead as in the legend.
Thinking of this, Leo felt that he should check the situation of the two young people, so he directly used the mental network to check them.
Soon the situation inside the tent was completely detected by the mental network. Now the tent was very lively. All the people in charge of the caravan, big and small, came to the tent, including the two unconscious young people.
Beside the hospital bed, they discussed whether they should immediately evacuate the camp in the square and leave the castle.
Obviously, the situation of these two young men had frightened these people. Many of them had stayed overnight in the castle with other caravans, but nothing like the legend happened, so they initially
Thinking that those were just unreliable rumors, they agreed when the caravan decided to rest in the castle for a day and night.
But the symptoms shown by these two children now are somewhat inconsistent with the legendary situation, but they are enough to cause panic in the hearts of these people. They are all worried that they will become the next person to fall into a coma.
However, the camp does not start right away, because after passing the castle, it is all mountain roads. There is no place that can provide a large camp like a caravan, so we can only climb over the Quinsis Snow Mountain in one go.
It's just that the road over the Quinsis Snow Mountain is a bit rugged and dangerous in some places. If you're not careful, you may fall under the cliff on the other side of the mountain road, so you must have enough mental and physical strength before you can climb over the mountain.
Everyone present knew that with the caravan's current spirit and physical strength, something would definitely happen if it forced its way over the mountain.
But it was unrealistic to exit the castle and retreat to the foot of the mountain, because it started to rain at the foot of the mountain in the early morning, and the mud on the ground was even worse than last night, making it impossible to camp.
Leo was not interested in what was being discussed in the tent. After he had a brief understanding of the situation, he focused his mental network investigation on the two young men lying on the bed in the tent.
The energy waves generated by the mental network scanned back and forth inside the young man's body several times, obtaining detailed information about their bodies.
"Something's wrong!" After Leo obtained the information of the two people, he quickly discovered something unusual.
Because judging from the functioning of various organs in their bodies, the two of them should have entered deep sleep. However, based on the analysis of the surge fluctuations of the neurons in their brains, they were in a state of light sleep, which is normal.
The dream sleep state mentioned above. In this sleep state, people will start to dream, but the body will also move to varying degrees in response to the dream, and the internal organs will also have corresponding metabolism.
This knowledge comes from the early interstellar explorers of the Earth Federation. When the Earth Federation has just entered the period of galactic civilization, all exploration spacecraft fly very slowly. It often takes several years or even more than ten years to fly from one galaxy to another.
, so the Earth Federation created something like the dormant freezing method.
It means that the astronauts enter a state of hibernation and freezing, and then the spacecraft master brain assists the astronauts to enter a shallow sleep state at regular intervals, and their consciousness is integrated into the artificial virtual world to live and learn. At the same time, the body will also obtain enough nutrients from the nutrient solution in the hibernation cabin.
nutrition to sustain ultra-long space missions.
Although the Earth Federation soon came into contact with alien civilizations and obtained a subspace engine. This dormant freezing method also lost its effect, but the relevant content was recorded in the Earth Federation’s cosmic history. Almost everyone
Biochemicals are infused with this knowledge when they leave the factory, and Leo is no exception.
However, the current situation of these two young people is obviously completely contrary to the relevant experimental results of the Earth Federation. Their brains and bodies seem to be separated into two disconnected individuals. The body has entered a deep sleep state, but the brain
But staying on the bottom floor to sleep, Leo almost didn't need to think about what the final consequences of this situation would be. If this situation was not alleviated, these two young people would soon die in their sleep, just like the legend
Just like those victims who stayed overnight in the castle.
After understanding the situation, Leo took back his spiritual net, left the cart, and entered the castle. He followed the broken spiral staircase to the upper level of the castle, where the castle's senior generals and nobles should live.
Because it is built on the mountain, most of the houses here are carved close to the mountain wall. Most of these houses are brick and stone buildings built on the outer layer due to their age, vines and other reasons.
Apart from the collapse, the house inside, which was carved close to the mountain wall, is still well preserved.
Judging from the various traces here, no one has been here for a long time. The wooden furniture in the room has long since decayed, and only some stone furniture remains intact, allowing people to see some scenes of life back then.
After Leo reached the upper floor, he entered directly into the high-rise meeting hall whose roof had collapsed, then turned left, passed through a ruined corridor, and came to a room at the end covered with vines.
Judging from the location of this room, it should be a room where the clergy accompanying the army lived.
Although the Church of the Hill King did not have such a high status in the Kingdom of Maris a thousand years ago as it does now, the Maris military has always been a gathering place for the loyal followers of the Hill King. Therefore, the military of the Kingdom of Maris has
There is an unwritten rule that every army must be equipped with a cleric from the Church of the Hill King to bless the soldiers in the army.
It is precisely because the clergy are extremely important to the army that the treatment of the clergy is naturally the best. This can be seen from the size of the clergy's room. Among all the living rooms in the entire castle, this
The clergy's room is the largest, even larger than the rooms where the nobles and knights of the castle live.
The reason why Leo quickly recognized that this room belonged to the clergy accompanying the army was not from the size of the room, but from the large number of reliefs in the room related to the King of the Hill.
For example, on the stone wall facing the stone bed in the room, there is a carefully carved Holy Emblem of the King of the Hill. Even after so many years, this stone Holy Emblem is still well preserved.
In addition, the reliefs on the walls around the room contain a large number of mythological stories recorded in the King of the Hill books. Anyone who enters this room can feel a very strong religious atmosphere.
In addition, it has a natural atmosphere, because this house has the most vines growing in the entire castle. These vines almost cover the walls, roof and ground of the entire room.
If nothing happened to those two young people, Leo might not have any opinion about this room, but now that he saw this room and the dense vines in the room, Leo felt that something was wrong with the room.
.
So, Leo immediately started to clean up the vines in the room.
The small vine branches in the room were torn off the walls with psychic energy. As for the thick vines, they were cut into sections with a cross sword. Soon the plant vines in the room were cleared.
, various reliefs on the walls of the room are also reappearing after being covered up for hundreds of years.
At this moment, Leo immediately discovered something unusual. If the reliefs of the mythical stories in the King of the Hill books were all on the ceiling and walls, he could understand it, but the problem was that these reliefs were also on the ground, and
There are also a large number of holy symbol symbols representing the King of the Hill on the ground.
In other words, as long as you enter this house, no matter how careful you are, you will still be able to guess the Holy Emblem of the Hill King on the ground. This is definitely a major blasphemy in the Church of the Hill King.
"It seems that the faith of the clergy of this Hill King Church is going to be compromised!" Seeing all this, Leo couldn't help but said to himself.
There is no doubt that only people with extreme hatred for the Church of the Hill King can do something like the relief in the room. And for a clergyman of the Church of the Hill King, or even a senior clergyman, to do such a thing, it is such a thing.
That's a little strange.
Because there are gods in the world of Velen, any high-level cleric will inevitably accept the magic of the gods. Only by receiving the gift of magic from the gods can he become a senior clergy, and the magic of gods naturally contains the power of the gods.
These divine powers will influence the clergy all the time, making those clergy more and more loyal, so any senior clergy must be a very loyal believer.
But there is an exception here. If this clergy appears in this era when the gods have retired, it will be difficult for the gods to grant magical powers to the clergy, and the influence on the clergy will naturally be weakened a lot.
One or two false believers is nothing unusual.
But you must know that the owner of this room was a clergyman from a thousand years ago. At that time, gods could come to the world frequently. Evil gods and righteous gods were fighting openly and secretly in the world of Velen. The high-ranking clergymen at that time would inevitably acquire a lot of divine magic.
It will also inevitably be affected by the divine power of the gods.
Chapter completed!