Hearing Lee's voice, the tech-priest pulled back her hood, revealing her face.
This is a young woman with pale skin because she has not been exposed to the sun for a long time. Her cheeks are a little thin, but she has golden hair. She is full of an intellectual temperament. And the most concerning thing is that she has a faint trace of skin under her pale skin.
It emits a mercury-silver light, as if what is flowing in its body is not blood but sparkling flames.
At the same time, there is a shining electronic tattoo on her forehead, which is in the shape of a bunch of gradually tightening spirals decorated with classic double-wing patterns on both sides.
And what's amazing is that although she is wearing the robe of the Adeptus Mechanicus, there is no trace of any modification on her body at all. There is really no trace at all. She is even cleaner than many people in the Empire. There are obvious feminine features under the robe.
The mysterious woman looked at Li with silver eyes and nodded slightly.
"Apostle Li, I have read the joke book you brought me last time a hundred and thirty-five times."
Li smiled and touched his bandaged nose.
"You know, I'm always very busy, and there are very few opportunities to go to Mars, but this time I brought a lot... I'll talk about this later, I brought Soshyan with me."
The woman named Dalia looked at Soshyan, then walked forward, came to an arm's length from him, and then stretched out her hand.
But before he could touch it, he shrank back like lightning.
"Yes, you are that nightmare."
Soshyan blinked.
"Are nightmares a unique greeting from Mars?"
Li smiled and shook his head and explained:
"Dahlia is the Dragon Guard, and over there is Romu 31. He was once a thoughtful guard, but six thousand years ago, unfortunately, the spark of his thinking was extinguished, and Dahlia is almost alone in this world.
This place has been guarded for six thousand years... It's very boring, so I will come to see her from time to time and bring her some things to relieve her boredom, but she is very smart, and nothing can keep her entertained for a long time. Sometimes she will
She will send herself into a dormant force field to spend a long time, but even if she doesn't, her body will not age."
"You are its nightmare."
Daria said something else immediately, and Soshyan was a little helpless.
"Can you be more specific?"
"The way Daria communicates with the Dragon of Mars is basically through dreams, so the nightmare she talks about is not some abstract concept, but reality."
"Okay... then let me go and talk to that Void... Dragon of Mars in person."
But Daria shook her head.
"The dragon has fallen asleep, and it is our duty to ensure that it remains asleep."
Soshyan narrowed his eyes.
"Then you know who asked me to come, right?"
"This is our duty."
Soshiyang was suddenly a little annoyed. The mortal asked him to find the Void Dragon, but this woman said no. Does she think she is better than his will?
Before Suo Shiyang could get angry, Li spoke first:
"Dalia, this is the last mission of Romu 31. It is certain that his consciousness has long since disappeared."
Daria bit her lower lip lightly and remained silent. Soshyan looked at the motionless Skitarii and finally realized that there was a problem.
Obviously it is not impossible to communicate with the Void Dragon, but the unconscious Skitarii needs to be sacrificed.
At this time, he could understand Dalia. After all, she had been with her for thousands of years. Even after losing consciousness, it at least meant that she was not alone. Even if Soshiyang stayed here alone for ten thousand years, it could at least mean that she was not alone.
, he might even go crazy.
"Is there no other way?"
Li shook his head and persuaded softly.
"The mission has arrived, Daria."
Dalia lowered her eyes and said softly to Soshyan:
"Devouring Dragon, please follow me."
"Ah, this doesn't seem like a good title. Just call me by my name."
Dalia said nothing, turned and walked away, the skitarii also followed behind her. Soshyan and Li followed immediately, and the four of them walked into the winding cave through the dark passage at the far end of the hall.
The surrounding dark environment quickly turned into a faint light, the kind of light that shot out from the walls. The walls here were also smooth, but unlike the glass-like appearance before, these tunnels looked extremely pure.
of silver, Darya led Soshyan through the twisted maze of these incredible caves with her eyes almost half-closed, although it seemed like she was turning corners at will.
Finally, Dalia brought them to a broad ledge in a cave that shone with dazzling silver light. The size of the cave made Soshyan feel like it was the hollowed-out core of the planet, which he had never seen before.
Or the largest enclosed space imaginable, the boundaries seemed to extend to the end of his senses, and the shining walls that curved forward enveloped everyone in it like a world.
At this time, Soshyan noticed that there was an inconspicuous and rather mismatched wooden chanting stand nearby, but it was empty and had nothing on it.
Soshiyang looked around. It was not that he had never seen the Star Gods before. Their physical forms were actually easy to identify, but he saw nothing here, only the vast silvery interior wall of the cave.
Suddenly, the skitarii took small steps to the edge of the protruding rock corner where they were standing.
When Soshyan was confused, the Skitarii suddenly raised his arms, as if he was holding something, and then his body began to burn with silver-white flames. Dalia stared blankly.
He, silver tears slid down her cheeks——
Li stretched out his hand to hold her shoulders and whispered something, and then the two turned and left, leaving Soshyan alone looking at the burning skitarii in shock.
Soshyan stared at the burning skitarii, and a sense of dizziness suddenly hit him, making him blink in confusion, and at the same time, the surrounding space seemed to be changing.
Although his eyes told him that the walls of the cave were extremely far away, his brain could not balance what he was seeing with what he was thinking. The cave seemed to be pulsing in every direction at once, contracting and squeezing in a completely unrealistic way. This was not a rule of physics.
Ability to exercise.
The next moment, he realized that he might have left the physical space and entered a part of a grand consciousness.
A massive amount of information poured into his consciousness. They had been wandering in the universe hundreds of millions of years before the birth of human beings. They drank in the hearts of many stars and extinguished worlds one after another.
They were originally incorporeal, existing everywhere and not existing everywhere at the same time.
Soshyan's field of vision stretched and expanded infinitely, and at the same time, the interior of the cave also became active. Sometimes it seemed to be the same size as the universe, and sometimes it was compressed as much as a singularity.
If it were any living being, facing this distorted reality, the brain would definitely be unable to handle such sensory overload.
But Soshiyang was happy with it, as if he could understand it all——
Ruins from...
A tone that did not belong to any language or any physical form echoed in Soshiyan's ears.