Chapter 865: Statue? (Please vote for the big chapter)
——a few hours ago——
Inside the lander
"We will arrive at the scheduled location in three hours,"
The commentator's voice came from the communicator, "Then the lander and orbiter will separate and then fly to the transparent planet."
"How is the situation on the ground?"
After she finished speaking, He Ao asked softly.
"Morning has arrived in the area near the Republic of Ika, and the bloody day is quickly recovering,"
After a brief pause, the commentator quickly replied, "The place that remained dark during the 'solar eclipse' yesterday has now begun to show bloody light, and the number of missing people has begun to increase rapidly.
"According to our estimates, Blood Sun may be fully recovered soon after we land.
"Judging from the current strength and effects of the Blood Sun, after this recovery, the number of disappearances within the scope of the Blood Sun may increase explosively, faster than before it became 'dark'."
"So now we have to race against time?"
Li Cheng on the side said.
After a brief pause, the commentator replied, "Yes."
At the same time, her tone paused for a moment, as if she was disturbed by something.
No one in the lander spoke. It took time for the electromagnetic waves to travel from the ground to the relay satellite in synchronous orbit and then to the lander, which was already tens of thousands of kilometers away from the ground.
Therefore, both parties will wait for the other party to finish speaking before speaking.
Soon, a picture slowly loaded on the screen in front of everyone.
This picture is a starry sky photo, but the "starry sky" light at the core of the picture is slightly "reddish".
"Dean, Mr. Hao Yi, Mr. Jie An, Miss Ge Ya, a piece of bad news,"
The commentator's slightly urgent voice sounded,
"According to calculations from the aviation bureau, the 'transparent planet' from which the Blood Sun originated seems to be releasing power on a large scale, showing strong interference in the surrounding space, so much so that the 'starlight' was not within the scope of the change.
All have reddish characteristics.
"According to the information from Ruo Dan, just now, the speed of Blood Sun's recovery has accelerated further.
"And we found strong magnetic field interference near the transparent planet.
"According to calculations, by the time we land at the latest, the Blood Sun will be fully revived, and the magnetic field around the transparent planet will be at its strongest.
"The advice from the aviation bureau is,"
The commentator's tone paused, "Change the orbit immediately and return to the ground. The landing under strong magnetic field interference is likely to fail. In space, we have no escape route."
Even if it is Class B, it will suffocate due to lack of oxygen when exposed to space.
The entire space capsule fell into a certain silence.
"Is there any news from He Ao?"
Li Cheng spoke slowly and asked.
"What department..."
The commentator paused and responded,
"According to the news just sent from Ruo Dan, He Bu has not been contacted since midnight last night.
"He seems to have gone to explore a certain key area. The last order he gave was for Ruodan to continue to maintain the evacuation order.
"But Ruo Dan sent a 'strange story', saying that before He Bu disappeared, he told him that if he couldn't be contacted, he would send this strange story."
The picture on the screen gradually faded and then turned into a text.
"Call yourself?"
Jie An stared at the text and thought thoughtfully, "Is this guy suggesting that we can achieve a certain goal by 'calling yourself' at a critical moment?"
"ceremony,"
He Ao controlled the clone of 'Hao Yi' sitting in the corner and said, "This should be a ritual that can communicate some special extraordinary power."
Everyone fell silent again.
"Hao Yi, what do you think?"
Li Cheng turned his head and looked at 'Hao Yi', "What's going on with the sudden burst of 'power' from this transparent planet?"
The remaining two people also turned their attention.
Among the people present at this moment, 'Hao Yi' is the one with the richest knowledge of mysticism.
"I'm afraid that the transparent planet is closer to our world."
He Ao thought and said slowly.
"Isn't that transparent planet right there?"
Jie An was a little confused.
"shadow,"
Li Cheng, however, had some reaction. He had communicated with 'Hao Yi' the most, and had more or less experienced some high-level extraordinary events.
"That transparent planet is not a real 'real thing', but a 'reflection' of some kind of behemoth in a distant world in the cosmic space near us.
"It projects power through this 'reflection', and then affects the real world, causing disappearances, and these missing people become some kind of 'ritual sacrifices', which further makes the power it can project stronger and stronger.
, until it completely comes to the real world,"
He paused, looked at 'Hao Yi' and continued, "In this way, he is indeed getting 'closer' to the real world."
"Um."
He Ao nodded slightly.
Just as he had guessed before, during the period when the "bloody sun disappeared" and its power converged, the transparent planet did nothing.
The advent ceremony is still going on normally, and those 'missing' people still exist somewhere, becoming ritual 'materials' and promoting the arrival of the real behemoth behind the transparent planet.
It's just that because there are fewer 'missing people', the speed of the ceremony has slowed down a bit.
"Then those missing people have been completely sacrificed?"
At this time, Goya, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.
The moment this question was asked, both Li Cheng and Jie An were a little silent.
"Some people may have lost their lives, but there must still be a large number of people alive."
At this time, He Ao suddenly spoke.
When he turned on super memory, he could still feel Lin Chi Chi's presence, and Lin Chi Chi's 'emotion' seemed to be pretty good.
The key to the coming ceremony of the behemoth behind the transparent planet most likely does not lie in 'flesh and blood life', but somewhere else. Therefore, the missing persons who were 'abducted' should still be of use value, and it is very likely that their lives will not be in danger in the short term.
When they heard what 'Hao Yi' said, everyone was stunned.
If other people had said this, they might have dismissed it as a comforting guess, but if it was 'Hao Yi' who had spoken, then it is very likely that there are indeed many 'missing people' still alive.
After all, this mysterious Class B, who is suspected to be from the 'ruins', possesses a lot of occult knowledge and occult techniques that they don't know about.
Unknowingly, everyone became more relaxed. As long as there was still hope, it wasn't the worst.
Ge Ya turned her head sideways, glanced at 'Hao Yi', blinked, and then looked away.
"So, are we going to return?"
At this time, Li Cheng turned to look at everyone and asked softly.
"Don't you, an old boy, already have the answer in your heart and you still ask?"
Jie An, who was sitting next to him, smacked his lips and said, "Is it possible for us to return? We have gone back, and this angel has descended into the real world, so aren't we dead?"
He held the chair and glanced at the starry sky outside the port window, "Instead of thinking about whether to return or not, you might as well hope that your precious He Ao can find key clues for us and help us solve the problems we may encounter when we land. That kid must be here now
This is a critical moment in the investigation.”
Hearing Jie An's words, Li Cheng opened his mouth and laughed dumbly. Then he turned to look at 'Hao Yi' and Ge Ya.
"Continue to log in."
He Ao said calmly.
"···Um."
Ge Ya also spoke slowly.
After confirming that the four people in the group had unified their opinions, Li Chengcai looked in the direction of the communicator and said, "Contact the space agency and we will maintain the original plan."
Li Cheng himself must have chosen to continue logging in, but this time the lander came from China, so as the host, he still needed to confirm the opinions of several other 'teammates'.
"yes!"
The commentator responded immediately, and then the communication link was cut off.
"Li Cheng, do you think we can land successfully this time?"
At this time, Jie An, who was leaning on the chair, suddenly asked.
"Aren't you ready to land? You look like you are moving forward with confidence."
Li Cheng turned around and asked with a smile.
“To be prepared is to be prepared,”
Jie An smacked his lips, "But that doesn't mean I'm not afraid of death. It's okay to die on the battlefield. If we die in space without doing anything, it will become a historical joke if someone discovers our story in the future."
"So the way you looked just now was just to show off to the people below, right?"
Li Cheng burst into laughter for a moment.
"How can you accuse someone of their innocence out of thin air?"
Jie An shrugged, "I don't want to lose face."
The entire space capsule was filled with a happy atmosphere for an instant.
"We've done the best we can,"
When the atmosphere calmed down a little, Li Cheng turned to look at the porthole, "As you just said, the only thing left is to believe it."
He Ao also turned his head and looked at the distant blue planet outside the porthole window.
Ge Ya searched around the main console and pressed a button.
The long and distant singing echoed in the brightly lit space capsule, and seemed to echo among the deep and dark stars.
——
boom--
Accompanied by a thick and long sound, the closed stone door was slowly pushed open, revealing the scene behind the stone door.
This is a huge circular domed hall, with bright light shining down from the top of the dome, illuminating the entire vast hall.
In the middle of the hall, there is a cylindrical platform, and a small, translucent three-dimensional 'statue' is suspended on the platform.
The structure and appearance of the statue are exactly what the castle where they are now looks like from the outside.
A twisted and chaotic aura emanated from that statue.
boom--
The moment they entered the hall, the brilliant lights that illuminated the entire hall suddenly went out, leaving only the green glow of the lantern in Kavina's hand.
"Is the lighting in this place so unstable?"
Como smacked his lips and scratched his head.
"You two go forward side by side, and I'll take the rear."
He Ao didn't say much, but gave a reminder and quickly arranged.
"good."
Como quickly walked in front of He Ao.
Kavina hesitated for a moment, then walked in front of He Ao and stood side by side with Como.
The bright lantern light shines ahead.
The inverted triangle formation is more suitable for their current exploration state.
The strongest He Ao is at the back, and can defend against attacks coming from behind, and can also quickly support the two people in front.
The three of them moved forward along the silent darkness, with green light shining on the road ahead.
The road that originally did not appear long under the bright light turned out to be extremely long in this darkness.
Click——
In the deep darkness, there seemed to be some slight movement sound.
Como subconsciously raised his head and glanced around, but outside the light of the lantern, there was dense darkness, and he could not see anything.
At this moment, a huge stone platform appeared in the darkness ahead.
"This is?"
Kavina looked at the stone platform and paused for a moment.
"Did you just have this stone platform?"
Como was a little confused. He looked back at He Ao behind him and found that He Ao didn't express anything.
So the two of them bypassed the stone platform from the left and continued forward.
Click——
The tiny voice sounded again.
As the light of the lantern continued forward, a huge stone pillar appeared in front of the two people's sight.
The two were stunned for a moment, and turned to the left at the same time. Then, the huge stone platform spreading along the stone pillars appeared in their field of vision again.
"Is this a stone pillar connected to a stone platform?"
Como glanced at the stone platform with a little hesitation in his voice.
This time the two people in front stopped and turned around to look at He Ao behind them.
When they discovered that He Ao's face had remained calm, their emotions calmed down a bit, and they still bypassed the stone platform from the left and continued forward.
After walking a few steps further forward, everything seemed to be quiet.
The slight sound no longer sounded, and the tall stone platform and stone pillars did not appear again.
Como's mood gradually calmed down and his steps became more steady.
Maybe it's just an illusion.
"Cavenna lift the lantern a little higher."
At this time, He Ao, who was standing at the back and had been silent, suddenly spoke.
Kavina paused blankly, then raised the lantern over her head.
Como's eyes followed the raised lantern and looked into the darkness above his head.
The green light slowly dispersed the darkness above everyone's heads, revealing the things in the darkness.
A huge 'stone face' that almost obscured Como's entire sight slowly 'emerged' from the darkness in Como's field of vision.
The face was so close to them, less than half a meter above their heads, covering their entire team.
The stone face stared at them, with the corners of its mouth raised upwards, revealing a strange smile.
The green light shines on the stone face, flashing with twisted colors.
"He...he department..."
Holding the lantern, Kavina's voice was trembling.
"fine."
He Ao said calmly, "Keep going."
Como and Kavina swallowed at the same time. Kavina put down the lantern in her hand and illuminated the front, without looking above her head, and continued to move forward.
A bleak silence echoed in the still darkness.
call--
There seemed to be some kind of wind blowing in the darkness, and even the light of the lantern began to sway.
puff--
It seemed like the sound of a sharp knife piercing something.
Como didn't dare to look back and walked forward in silence.
Bang bang bang——
Accompanied by several loud noises, it seemed like the sound of something falling to the ground.
Como looked to the side from the corner of his eye, and saw several waist-thick stone sticks rolling past the edge of the lantern's light from the darkness and submerging into the darkness.
The two continued to move forward.
boom--
After just a few steps, there was another violent roar.
A huge stone pillar connected to the stone platform fell out from behind the two people, fell to the ground, and part of it fell into the right side of the lantern's light.
Como swallowed.
Kavina held the lantern, and the two of them turned, walked a little to the left, and continued forward.
boom--
A huge spherical object fell directly in front of the two people, rolled, and fell into the field of vision in front of the two people.
The dark green light shines on the side of the spherical object facing them, which is the 'stone face' that just looked at them.
The strange smile on this stone face was still there, but it was completely stiff.
Kavina carefully moved the lantern. Under the stone face, at the neck, there was a neat and smooth port, as if it had been cut off by a sharp blade.
scandium--
The sound of slowly sheathing the sword came from behind.
Como swallowed and glanced at Kavina beside him, only to find that Kavina was also turning her head to look at him.
The small stone pillars just now are probably the fingers of this giant, the big stone pillars are the legs, and the stone platforms are the feet.
And now this is the head.
The two took a deep breath and continued forward, bypassing the huge stone face in front of them.
As the thick darkness ahead was dispelled, a cylindrical platform slowly entered into the light of the lantern.
He Ao, who was standing behind the two men, raised his head and looked at the translucent statue suspended above the platform.
Kavina stepped aside and moved to the other side of the platform to make way for He Ao.
He Ao glanced at Kavina who was in the field of vision, slowly approached the platform, stretched out his hand, and touched the translucent statue.
I will try my best to fix updates at noon in the future, but I can’t stand it anymore.
There should be another chapter added in the afternoon.
