Chapter 607: Knowledge and Angelic Extraordinary Items (Please vote for this huge chapter)
Li Cheng raised his head and looked above his head. The car roof, which was originally as tall as a dome, was now shrouded in a pitch-black shadow that seemed to swallow everything.
"This is?"
Li Cheng looked at He Ao, and there was a faint electric light shining between his eyebrows.
"I heard that you have an angel-level extraordinary item?"
He Ao looked at Li Cheng.
During the previous fight for the Velora, Moonlight's Sloan was snatching the Velora and ambushed Liu Zhengyun, while Li Cheng took another B-class from the institute to the Tia Empire to steal Yueguang's hometown.
He Ao used the Velora to visit the scene afterwards and estimated that they were probably fighting for an A-level extraordinary item.
However, this is a top secret for the research institute. Even Yang De may not know about Li Cheng's plan.
Moonlight did not publicize this incident, and even cooperated with the research institute to suppress all leaked details of the incident, but interested people can still deduce the truth at that time through some details.
"Indeed there is,"
Li Cheng lowered his head, holding the handle of the stirring spoon with his hand, and stared at He Ao. An invisible power spread from his body, fighting against the shadows that were beginning to pour out from all directions in the carriage. "How can I help you?"
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"one little thing."
A pitch-black sword hilt emerged from the shadow of the car roof, followed by a pitch-black sword body that swallowed up the light like an abyss. The sword was pulled out from the ink shadow, almost invisible, and it was difficult for Li Cheng to distinguish it with the naked eye.
exist.
The pitch-black rapier poured out from the roof of the car bit by bit, and finally completely detached from the roof of the car, fell, and fell right into the palm of He Ao's outstretched hand.
At this moment, twisted and terrifying shadows exploded throughout the space, and endless crazy murmurs echoed in the ears of He Ao and Li Cheng.
The shadow-like brilliance spread out from the slender sword body, passed through the transparent viewing window, and submerged into the smooth lake surface.
The calm lake surface was violently disturbed. The next second, a big fish jumped out from under the water. The smooth fish scales turned into hard scales at a speed visible to the naked eye. Sharp fangs began to grow from the huge fish mouth.
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He Ao slowly closed his hand and held the pitch-black rapier flat against his chest. His index finger clasped the sword hilt guard and tapped it lightly. A black shadow light was guided from the sword body and passed through the invisible
The car window flashed across the body of the big fish that was mutating in the air.
Like an invisible sharp blade, it cut through the huge body,
The bright red blood fell like rain, splashing on the reflection of the white snow-capped mountains on the lake.
"I might have to trouble your people to clean up this place later."
He Ao looked at Li Cheng with a smile.
This is why he chose an uninhabited scenic area.
"This is?"
Li Cheng lowered his head and looked at the dark rapier in He Ao's hand.
The moment he stared at the sword, the murmurs that echoed in his mind erupted again like accumulated flames, impacting his consciousness. In this very short period of time, his mind went blank.
But soon, he controlled his spirit and was able to reach this point. His mental stability is not comparable to ordinary people.
"The child of the mysterious shadow fused with the sword,"
He Ao said calmly, "This is the 'truth' about Ellen's coma."
In the final ceremony of the arrival of the mysterious shadow body, He Ao integrated all the power of the mysterious shadow into the shadowless sword in his hand.
In the end, although his body was not contaminated, the Shadowless Sword carrying the power of the mysterious shadow turned into another extraordinary item that was almost uncontrollable.
This sword had been suppressed by him using the power of the Velora before, and was sealed in the Velora.
After He Ao returned from the dungeon world, he carved the control circle he understood from the dungeon world onto his sword overnight.
However, due to the power of the rioting mysterious shadow, the stability of the magic circle engraved on the sword is very poor, and it needs to be reinforced every one or two hours.
Moreover, this cannot truly control the sword. It can only mobilize some scattered power and suppress most of the restless shadows.
If Li Cheng had entered the Velora before carving out the control circle, he would not have seen the normal scene just now. The whole train would be filled with uncontrolled shadows.
"Mysterious Shadow?"
Li Cheng looked away from the rapier in He Ao's hand, seeming a little confused about who He Ao was talking about.
"A god," He Ao said calmly, "Of course, you can also call him an evil god."
"Evil God?"
Li Cheng's eyes opened slightly and his orifices shrank.
"Let's talk about our 'deal' first."
He Ao placed the contaminated Shadowless Sword on the table. The power from the Velora began to try to suppress the sword, and the shadow light on it shrank a bit.
"I need you to use the power of that angel-level extraordinary item to 'forge' this sword, destroy the uncontrolled impurities on it, and compress its core power into the sword body. This process may be very dangerous and can easily attract evil gods.
watch, so the forging process needs to be done under my watch and near the car."
In other words, the hidden angel-level extraordinary item will be 'exposed' in front of He Ao.
"What do we get?"
Li Cheng looked at He Ao.
"Knowledge."
He Ao said calmly, "About extraordinary knowledge."
Li Cheng paused and stared at He Ao.
He Ao smiled back at him.
Knowledge seems the simplest, but it is also the most difficult.
The simple point is that once you know it, you can easily repeat it.
The difficult part is that some key nodes have not been figured out, and some things cannot be understood. It may be a moment, a lifetime, a century, or even forever.
Therefore, exchanging knowledge for help is a "reasonable" thing, especially in this extraordinary world where knowledge itself represents extraordinary power.
Li Cheng was also eager to learn some knowledge from He Ao.
The premise is that the knowledge given by He Ao is 'real'.
For someone who did not know this knowledge before, he will not know whether this knowledge is true or false until the moment such knowledge is verified.
In other words, it is possible to cheat when trading with knowledge.
Li Cheng's help in stabilizing the rapier had to be done under the supervision of 'Hao Yi'. For such an unknown existence, Li Cheng had no means to safely leave a back-up in front of him.
Moreover, this transaction will also expose the institute's angel-level extraordinary items. If the other party's purpose is not to stabilize the rapier at all, but to snatch the angel-level extraordinary items in his hand, then he may be sending the sheep into the tiger's mouth.
This is an unfair deal.
The other party can give him false knowledge, but he has no effective means to counter the other party.
The silent silence stretched for a long time.
And He Ao also knew what Li Cheng was worried about, so he did not speak out to persuade him. Under such circumstances, the more eager he was, the more he would be thought to have ulterior motives.
People will not be convinced by others, only by themselves.
He Ao turned his head and looked out the window at the snow-capped mountains not far away.
This seems to be an undeveloped scenic spot, located in a primitive forest.
Li Cheng also turned to look at the scenery outside the window. This quiet and beautiful scenery was reflected in his eyes, as if the strings of a piano that soothed his emotions were playing softly.
He seemed to understand why 'Hao Yi' brought him here.
Countless information about 'Hao Yi' flashed through his mind.
What follows can be said to be a rational judgment, or it can be said to be a gamble, betting that this 'mysterious' visitor to the ruins is really as well-intentioned as he has shown before.
And for this world that is about to move towards an unpredictable future, sometimes a gamble is needed.
Li Cheng turned around and looked at He Ao, "I can agree to your request, but I need a little preparation."
"Can,"
He Ao nodded slightly.
He placed his hand lightly on the hilt of the sword, and the shadowy rapier slowly blended into the table, then fell through the table and merged under the floor of the Velora.
The dark shadows covering the entire carriage began to slowly dissipate, and He Ao said calmly, "But I don't have much time to wait."
"It will take about a day, and it will be done around three o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the latest."
Li Cheng said slowly.
"Okay," He Ao nodded, "Tomorrow morning, I will leave you the time and address for tomorrow's meeting at a conspicuous place in Ruodan. You can just bring your things. If the 'forging' fails in the end, I will
I will also tell you the corresponding knowledge.”
"Can I know what the specific knowledge is?"
Li Cheng asked in a low voice.
"Knowledge sufficient to match this 'action'."
He Ao said slowly.
Li Cheng opened his mouth. He originally wanted to see if he could deduce some information from He Ao's introduction.
He thought for a moment and then turned to ask,
"You once mentioned 'gods' on the Verora, a high-ranking existence that transcends angels. This time the 'mutation' in Ellen City, including the thin sword you just showed me, is 'god'
What is God? Why did he create this 'mutation'?"
"For coming into this world,"
He Ao looked at Li Cheng and answered the last question first, "The god who controlled this event this time is named Mysterious Shadow.
"Of course, you'd better not mention this name to people below B level. Their souls are too weak and can easily be contaminated by the power of the gods. Knowing the name of the gods means that the gods may cast their eyes on them.
You, and those who are watched by gods, can easily become his slaves.
"This time, the person in charge of Moonlight in Allen, Explorer Rhodes, was contaminated by the mysterious shadow for some unknown reason, and then the person in charge of the World Tree, the Puppet Master, was polluted, and the vast majority of Moonlight and World Tree were contaminated.
Some members have become servants of the mysterious shadow.
"'Gods' will spread their teachings and pollution, and they will try to let more people know about them, believe in them, and follow their teachings, and these teachings often have extreme and crazy elements.
"The gods don't care about the life and death of humans. Sacrificial arrays built with life can often please most gods and cause them to send gifts.
"So believers of these gods often use extreme methods to try to sacrifice a large number of lives to please their gods in order to obtain the 'gifts' of their gods."
"This time Ellen's incident,"
Li Cheng paused for a moment, "It was caused by Rhodes, who was polluted by the gods, trying to sacrifice his life to obtain gifts? In other words, those unconscious people were actually sacrifices? They would actually die.
of?"
This was actually in line with his previous speculation, except that what he had speculated before was that it was some kind of weird force from the ruins that was stronger than angels that tried to kill the unconscious people, not a 'god'.
"Strictly speaking, you can understand it this way,"
He Ao nodded, he reached out and used a lighter to light the lantern on the table. The next second, the entire Velora sailed into the 'tunnel', and the surrounding environment fell into darkness again.
"In fact, this time is a special type of sacrifice ceremony, that is, the ceremony of the descending of the sons of the evil god. Rhodes is trying to let the descendants of the mysterious shadow descend into the world to spread the 'gospel' for the mysterious shadow.
, spread more faith and create more sacrifices.”
"This god named 'Mysterious Shadow' comes from the ruins?"
Li Cheng glanced around at the dark environment that seemed to hide some kind of restlessness. The flickering lights hit his face. He asked slowly, "Is there such a powerful existence in the ruins?"
"To be precise, maybe it doesn't come from the ruins. The ruins are not special,"
He Ao shook his head and glanced at the sky, "In fact, compared to those gods, the world we are in now that has not been polluted or 'preached' by the gods is special."
The ruins and the copy world have some similarities. Their extraordinary powers and extraordinary creatures are almost the same. Even the extraordinary powers that gradually appear in the main world are the same thing.
And every time He Ao communicated with his friends, he could clearly feel that the power of his friends seemed to come from being projected beyond a long time and space.
They are not really in the dungeon world or the ruins.
Perhaps for this universe, madness and extraordinaryness are the essence, and peaceful worlds like the main world are the minority.
Of course, it is also possible that it is completely the opposite, with the main world being the majority, and the dungeon world and ruins being the minority.
"Because our world originally did not have these gods, it is equivalent to an undeveloped land. Therefore, do those so-called 'gods' have the intention to come to this world to 'preach'?"
Li Cheng concluded.
"You can think so."
He Ao nodded.
"But if these gods really have powerful power beyond cognition," Li Cheng asked slowly, "why don't they come to this world in person?"
"Two reasons,"
He Ao stretched out two fingers and said, "First, the arrival of the gods themselves requires a lot of energy. If there are not enough sacrifices, it is difficult for them to choose to do such a loss-making business."
In the knowledge of the dungeon world, this is the reason why most gods are unwilling to come in person. Of course, if the relationship is good enough, the gods can come at their own expense. For example, good friends support He Ao very much.
"second,"
He Ao continued, "I suspect that for some reason, these gods do not have the coordinates of this world, so they can only pollute the extraordinary beings in this world through the ruins, and then use these extraordinary beings to sacrifice inside the world and summon their
strength."
This reason was deduced by He Ao from the thousands of years of peace in the main world.
Even if the gods are unwilling to come at their own expense, they can still send some power across space.
There are so many gods in the dungeon world, but it does not necessarily mean that there are really so many gods who have descended on the dungeon world. It is recorded in the sacred scripture of the Goddess of Life that the Goddess of Life 'influenced' the original believers in 'Chaos', as well as a large number of
It's an 'oracle' whose meaning is unknown and seems to be raving like crazy.
It should be feasible to use a power similar to the 'oracle' to create a group of believers.
This also allows the gods to preach without having to do it themselves.
And the arrival of this kind of divine power may also have limits.
Gods can send "oracles" to their loyal believers, but not to ordinary believers or other ordinary people, because loyal believers have firm beliefs and are more likely to be located by the gods, and it is easier to receive the messages conveyed by the gods.
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The ritual array to communicate with the gods also requires a specific host as the 'coordinate' for communication with the gods.
As He Ao, who is relatively experienced in communicating with gods, he knows very well that a more important role of the communication circle is to provide living coordinates for the gods.
This coordinate does not provide a permanent address. Once the magic circle ends, or the host dies, this coordinate will disappear, and the power of the gods will lose its support.
But, no matter what, this coordinate will provide the gods with an accurate location of the descending power.
Without such an accurate location, the gods may not be able to accurately project power.
He Ao suspected that the main world did not have such an 'accurate location'.
Gods can project power at their own expense, but they need the exact location of the world to which the power is projected.
He Ao guessed that each world might have a 'world coordinate'.
This world coordinate should not be like the temporary believers or ritual coordinates mentioned by He Ao before, but a permanent coordinate.
This coordinate is most likely a range coordinate. It should not be as precise as the ritual coordinates. It cannot be used for the main body or sub-body. When projection comes, it can only project some power.
Otherwise, He Ao's friends can forcefully descend on their own without having to rely on He Ao's specific rituals to locate He Ao's location.
However, the gods' initial pollution does not require detailed coordinates. They only need to project their power, and then randomly pollute people and develop them into believers.
In this case, even in the main world without believers, the gods can use the world coordinates to bring power, develop believers, and then turn the main world into a world like the copy world, full of various evil god sects.
But in fact, there are no these evil sects in the main world. Even the pollution of the mysterious shadow started from the extraordinary people who entered the ruins and used the ruins to carry out the pollution.
Therefore, He Ao guessed that the world coordinates of the main world may not have been exposed yet, and those evil gods did not know how to directly project power to this world, so they could only rely on believers who were contaminated in the ruins to carry out sacrifices and preaching.
One of the functions of the mysterious shadow descending on the child body may be to confirm the specific coordinates of this world.
Of course, these are He Ao's guesses, and they are one of the logical structures he constructed that can best explain the current situation. He Ao does not know whether these speculations are correct.
So when he narrated it, he added the words "I doubt".
After listening to his explanation, Li Cheng fell into a brief silence.
He Ao's explanation opened up some deeper laws of the operation of gods for him, and he also understood the possible 'warning' hidden in He Ao's words:
Since the world coordinates of the main world have not been exposed, the only problems that may arise are the extraordinary beings who have returned from the ruins. Under their seemingly unchanged appearance, they may have been contaminated by an evil god.
"I heard you mentioned that the mysterious shadow is an 'evil god'," Li Cheng continued to ask, "So if there is an evil god, is there a 'righteous god'?"
"No,"
He Ao shook his head, "At least I have never come into contact with a god who can be called a 'righteous god'."
Li Cheng raised his head and looked at He Ao.
The amount of information contained in this sentence is huge. The mysterious shadow is not the only god that the other party has come into contact with. The other party has come into contact with more than one! And judging from the tone, the number of these gods may not be a 'small number'.
Suppressing his curiosity about the identity of 'Hao Yi', Li Cheng was ready to continue asking for more details.
Dududu——
At this moment, a piercing whistle suddenly sounded, and then a dim light slowly entered the car.
He Ao leaned down, blew out the lantern, and looked at Li Cheng,
"Okay, Mr. Li Cheng, that's all the knowledge about 'advance payment'.
"If you can't transport those extraordinary materials in a short time, you can also make a list of materials, include the specific information of the materials and the location of picking up the materials in this list, and put it on the dining table of this restaurant. I
We will come to pick up this list around 14:30 in the afternoon."
He smiled and said, "Looking forward to our next meeting."
The door of the carriage suddenly opened.
Li Cheng turned his head and glanced out the window.
The scenery outside the window had turned into the restaurant before he got in the car. He stood up slowly and said goodbye to He Ao with a smile, "Looking forward to our next meeting."
He Ao walked him to the door of the car and then watched him get out of the car.
Li Cheng turned around and glanced at He Ao, watching the ordinary-looking young man holding the car door and disappearing into the void together with the huge mechanical beast.
He raised his watch and glanced at the time. It was now 11:30 noon, which meant that they only had three hours to prepare the list of materials.
In fact, since the ruins will be opened tonight, they must also confirm the quota and candidates before the ruins are opened.
At this moment, He Ao, who was standing on the street outside the window, withdrew his gaze from the moving shadows on the street and glanced inside the silent restaurant.
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rhodan national park
In a quiet mountain forest, a huge mechanical beast rushed out of the void and stopped in front of a cliff full of narrow and deep caves of different sizes.
He Ao got off the Verora and walked to a deep cave with a diameter of about thirty centimeters.
Standing at the entrance of this cave and looking inward, the entire cave becomes narrower and narrower, making it impossible for normal people to pass.
And this is where the 'boss' stores the tower's 'central processor' that he brought out from the ruined tower.
He Ao stared at the cave, put on a dark cloak, and walked step by step towards the narrow entrance of the cave.
