At this time, a gust of wind blew behind Steven and Kate, and then a walking corpse standing on the outermost platform raised its head. It seemed to be continuously inhaling hard, and then it turned sideways towards where Steven and the others were.
The location mooed loudly!
The voice was hoarse and low, unspeakably unpleasant!
Immediately all the zombies gathered on the edge of the platform and started roaring in their direction!
The stone armor also stopped spinning, walked behind the walking corpses and faced this way. It didn't make a loud sound, but two red lights lit up at the eyes on the visor!
Steven and Kate quickly lay down, turned around, and crawled back to evacuate. It wasn't until they crawled dozens of meters away and the wind behind them stopped that the walking corpses and armored statues slowly regained their composure.
Kate gestured to Steven, meaning to evacuate here first. Steven nodded, and the two of them lowered their bodies and crawled toward the west of the mountain. After retreating a few hundred meters, they stopped behind a big tree.
Kate looked at Steven and said: "What happened today is beyond our knowledge! I suggest that we go back to the camp immediately and sort it out. It is probably not safe here now!"
"Agreed! Let's set off immediately!"
The two of them immediately traveled as far away from the mountain as possible and retreated towards the camp.
Two days later, the two of them marched quickly back to the camp. Because the journey took a lot of energy, they were very tired when they returned to the camp and immediately closed the door and went to sleep.
It wasn't until the next morning that Steven got up, tidied up the camp, and then started cooking. Neither of them spoke during the meal until after they finished eating and put away their things, Steven boiled a pot of tea on the stove on the porch.
After handing Kate a glass, he asked: "Kate, do you have anything to say? I want to hear your opinion."
Kate took a sip from the tea cup and said: "First we must confirm that we are not hallucinating. Let's first carefully describe what happened that day. Everything that happened after we got up that morning, including all the details I remember, I will first
Then you describe what happened and all the details you remember, and we compare each other's descriptions and details to see if there are any doubts..."
Steven nodded, and Kate described in detail everything that happened after getting up that morning, from packing up the camp to having breakfast, searching the west side of the mountain in the morning, and then moving to the south side to meet the group of monsters and evacuate after being discovered, including
The contents of the food and the details of the journey.
Then Steven also described in detail all the experiences of that day from his own perspective.
Finally, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "There seems to be no doubt about it. It is definitely not a hallucination! The food was the same that morning and the night before! I didn't eat any other food, which can rule out some kind of hallucinogenic mushrooms."
Or poisonous weed stems may cause hallucinations, but I haven’t been bitten by any poisonous insects along the way...!”
He shook his head and said: "I still remember seeing through the telescope that the joints of the stone armor were some kind of dark blue device, which was somewhat similar to the mechanical device inside the steam engine model in the academy museum, but it was smaller than
The steam engine is much more sophisticated! Of course, maybe that thing is a mechanical structure, but how do you explain those walking human corpses?!"
Steven continued: "Let me tell you my opinion first: the education we receive from colleges, including all college students on the continent - except of course the church's seminaries, from philosophy to physics, mechanics, biology,
Even natural theories do not support the existence of those strange things we saw that day! And those walking corpses! They can smell us from dozens of meters away! This is obviously an ability only animals have, Holy Lord
!I have nothing to say except shock...!"
Kate said: "You are not a believer of the Glorious Holy Religion! Steven, so if you speak to the Holy Lord, He will not hear it! Do you seem to want to become a Holy Religion after experiencing this?!"
"Absolutely not! I am firmly on the side of science! That sentence is just a verbal expression of shock! Besides, we have been exposed to the sacred books of the Glorious Holy Church since we were young. From those scriptures
There is no theoretical basis to support the existence of these monsters in the description, right?!"
Kate said: "The holy books we have access to are only publicly announced by the church to the outside world. There will definitely be more hidden books and contents that have not been published, so it is impossible to deny the reason for the existence of these things from the standpoint of the holy church.
, maybe the senior people in the church will become more pious after seeing those things!"
"You are right. I just feel that my belief has been subverted. We have learned to explore the objective world, learn scientific knowledge and verify experiments. Theological theories have always been considered to deceive civilians and believers. Now it seems that I have to think carefully.
Just for a moment! Don’t worry, I won’t be interested in the theories of the Glorious Holy Religion just because of this! Besides, the boundaries of science are always expanding. If these things can exist, then there must be a reason for their existence.
, this is also the spirit of science!”
Kate nodded and said: "Could it be because of the elemental tides? Although the college does not offer courses on elemental tides, some scholars on the mainland have been studying elemental tides for a long time! Although nothing has been announced in the past few years
A major research result, but this is already an open secret in the academic circle."
Steven said: "Elemental tides are indeed a possibility, but based on the known research results, there is still no theory to support the existence of those walking corpses!"
Kate nodded and said thoughtfully: "I think that behind the platform that protrudes from the cliff is probably the ancient ruins we are looking for! Have you noticed? The holes behind that platform are neat and regular, and they are definitely not naturally formed.
of!"
"I noticed! It's true! Now it seems that although the camp is far away from there, for the sake of safety, I think it is better to strengthen the defensive measures. It is best to set up the traps and alarms taught by Kugemu and the others.
To avoid any accidents!"
So the two of them didn't waste any time, and immediately began to strengthen the camp's defense measures, heighten the fences and fences, and set up alarm devices and traps on the outside. After a few days of work, everything was roughly in shape, and the rainy season arrived as scheduled...
..
The arrival of the rainy season makes it impossible for the two of them to go out and hang out anymore. The heavy rain starts from the morning and continues until noon. After a period of rest, it starts again. After the afternoon rest, it starts again in the evening and continues until dawn. During the heavy rain, they do nothing but drink tea.
Apart from listening to the sound of rain, I can only think in a daze...
After breakfast that day, Steven sat at the wooden table and took out the leather bag Field gave him. He unbuckled the bag, took out the folded kraft paper map and put it aside, and took out a stick from it.
A scroll in the shape of a scroll came. The scroll was about twenty centimeters wide. He opened the scroll and looked at it carefully.
The scroll carrier has a very light brown color and is as thin as paper, but not paper. It is very tough and delicate. There are some exquisite paintings on the scroll. Steven has not studied the material of this scroll carefully before, but the content of the paintings is quite different.
Kate studied it.
He pulled out the dagger stuck in his leggings and lightly scratched the blank space on the edge of the scroll. However, there were no traces left on the surface of the scroll. Steven raised his eyebrows, put down the dagger, and studied the drawings on it carefully.
, once again confirming that this is some kind of continuity picture.
This side is the first painting when you open it. On the screen is a burning flame. The flame gradually changes from yellow in the center to orange-red in the periphery.
The second painting: It is the upper body of a portrait, with his back to the outside of the painting looking at the flame in the first painting, and a dotted flame is drawn in the middle of his head.
The third picture: The portrait's back is facing away from the painting, the flame appears on the head of the portrait, there are no other flames outside the portrait, and the flame in the portrait has become a solid color from yellow to orange, no longer like the second picture
Just a dashed shape with no color.
The fourth picture: This man is facing away from the painting, his eyes are closed, his body is sitting cross-legged, and his arms are in front of him. Behind his body is another figure in the same posture drawn with dotted lines, and the flame appears in solid form.
The center of the virtual head.
The fifth picture: The flame is located on the head of the virtual shadow. At this time, the head drawn is no longer a virtual shadow, but a solid line.
The sixth picture: The flame is in the middle of the body at the chest. At this time, the whole body is no longer a dotted line but a solid line like the body on the left. Now it looks like two identical bodies. The flame is in the center of the chest of the body behind.
The seventh picture: The body is facing outside the painting and sitting cross-legged, with eyes closed and a calm expression. The hands are folded and stacked on the legs. From the stacked palms to the chest, six symbols appear in a circle in the painting.
Six dotted lines connect these six symbols in the form of a hexagram. At this time, the flame appears in the center of the body and the hexagram.
This is the last picture. The scroll does not use other materials as the axis, but is wrapped with the same material to form a finger-thick axis. Steven groped on the axis, but could not find any seams.