The heavy door was pushed open by Hero, and the heart-wrenching sound gradually disappeared into the darkness.
With a bang, many large pieces of ash-like smoke flew out from the room, hitting him in the face.
"Cough cough cough!"
Hero waved his sleeves vigorously to scatter the smoke and dust, and realized carefully that these were ordinary smoke and dust and would not cause any harm to him.
From just now, he always felt like someone was watching secretly.
Including the fact that the door opened inexplicably, which made him a little suspicious.
But no matter how much he probed with his senses, he could not find the 'non-existent person' in the darkness.
Simply, he stepped through the door.
He first groped around the door for a while, and unexpectedly found a wall lamp on the wall.
Controlling the lunar energy explosion, he carefully ignited this antique that had existed for an unknown period of time.
The wicks and oil in the wall lamps are still there, and the entrance area of the room is finally a little brighter.
"There is still more than half of the lamp oil inside. If this place has been abandoned for a long time, how can the lamp oil be preserved so well?"
As the light came on, some details that were easily overlooked in the dark were rediscovered by Hero.
Hero dipped his finger into some lamp oil and smelled it.
This oil is refined from the oil produced by certain animals. There is also a hint of aroma in it, indicating that the production technology is very advanced. At least the price of this kind of goods in the imperial market is not low, and ordinary people may be able to afford it.
I can't afford this luxury.
The oil adheres very smoothly and shouldn't be left here for long.
In other words, these lamp oils are different from wall lamps. They were added by someone later!
"Are they the people behind the scenes?"
Holo murmured to himself, looking towards the darkness deep in the room with a gloomy expression.
Maybe those people are inside.
He groped forward two more steps, exploring the wall with his hands and senses at the same time.
As expected, there is a wall lamp every few meters on the wall, and the oil content is about the same.
But he didn't dare to continue to light them up one by one, and instead explored them in the dark.
It didn't take long for him to go deep into the room.
The rooms here are indeed very similar to those in high towers. They may not look big, but the interior space has definitely been expanded.
He has been walking for more than twenty minutes. Although the speed of exploration is very slow, it is enough to illustrate the huge space inside.
After a while, when he reached out his hand again, his body and senses were shocked one after another.
The closer my nose was, I also smelled a foul smell.
"Huh? Is it the end?"
Hero knocked on the wall in front of him, and the touch told him that it was a bit weird. It was not a solid wall, nor did it look like a door.
After such a long period of in-depth exploration, no enemy was found.
Holo directly lit the wall lamp on the wall next to him, hoping to use the light to take a closer look.
But when the lights came on, he discovered that there was a row of naked faces on the 'wall' in front of him!
"This...this is, what do they want to do?"
Looking at the scene in front of him, he found it difficult to understand.
On this wall, a row of real 'people' were sealed inside, with only part of their face and a pair of feet exposed.
Judging from the height revealed by these two features, they are definitely not a group of baby birds, but full-fledged human beings.
The filthy smell was wafting out of the wall, and it was obvious that the body inside was beginning to rot.
Hero re-opened the blocked wall.
Destruction is always easy.
Facing this kind of wall that does not contain any extraordinary materials, [the spear pinched in the tower] just poked it a few times, and the front wall began to fall apart.
But Hero didn't forget that this might be the enemy's base camp, so he used [Black Sea] to soften the sound of the wall crumbling.
When he dug out the stone fragments, he also saw the appearance of the people inside.
The territory of the empire is so vast that even humans are divided into hundreds or thousands of species, called ethnic groups.
The people in front of him were still wearing specific clothes. Although Hero couldn't identify which kind of clothes they belonged to, he could tell that these clothes were very old and were definitely not produced in recent decades.
The fibrous tissue inside the clothing is still very new, which can be seen even if it is buried by the wall, because if it really wants to become old, it must rely on the baptism of time.
"Are they foreigners or indigenous people here?"
Hero used the tip of his spear to lift off their clothes. The flesh inside was so rotten that nothing could be found even if they were dissected.
This was also where he was confused.
Could it be that this place has already become their stronghold?
And has it been eliminated from the map of the empire's territory depicted by the tower?
"black line?"
Just when Hero was casually looking through their bodies, he suddenly discovered the remaining black lines between the walls.
The black wire is not long and there are no other connected parts.
There was just a solitary wisp of black line between the wall bricks. This wisp of black line was very different from the one he had just encountered. It was more slender, dull, and gray.
He looked rather malnourished.
If he hadn't been familiar enough to detect a faint smell of pollution, he would have thought it was the remaining hair of someone who was buried.
The wall blocking the road was cut open, and the road leading deeper appeared again.
But the environment inside was even worse than before.
The ground was covered with sticky pieces of meat, and every time he stepped on them, he would make a squeaking sound if he wasn't careful.
This is a piece of meat that he stepped on and exploded.
The ground was covered with traces of smelly blood left in the past. Not long after walking along this dirty road, there was movement from ahead.
Hero quickly turned his body to the side, keeping himself close to the wall. [Vamia's Illusion] turned on, allowing himself to melt into the darkness.
"Sniff! Do you smell it? It smells like meat!"
There was a sound of a gong in the darkness, and Hero looked over, and saw that the light source was staggering over there.
"Didn't you just eat? You should eat less. I heard that the primitive ethnic groups here have been almost exploited. The big lord is very irritable. If he doesn't get what he wants anymore and gets angry, we
I can’t bear it!”
Another sinister voice persuaded from the side. From this man's mouth, Hero heard some of the information he wanted.
"Yes, yes, you are right, we should pray for the success of the great lord, so that we can eat the leftover meat from the experiment again."
The sound of people swallowing saliva could be heard clearly in the darkness, followed by a stench.
"I don't know what the great lord is thinking. This place is occupied by us, why are we still patrolling!"
"You don't know this, right? Those big shots are like this. I heard, what's the name of pomp? It's just a pretense! They said before that there were monsters in the darkness outside, and we were not allowed to go out, but it has been so long.
I haven’t seen it, so who knows if it’s a lie!”
"I've heard of this too. Thanks to my cleverness, I built a wall halfway along the road. Otherwise we would have to patrol to the end. Let's go back to rest when we get there. If we go back early, we might even be able to get a few pieces.
meat."
When the two came out of the darkness.
Hero's brows furrowed.
They turned out not to be human at all, but looked more like mutated monsters.
They were extremely tall, but their backs were hugged by dogs, their hands were dark, and their palms were glued together, like two hand knives.
The head is about three times the size of an ordinary person, and there are some iron pipe-like things stuck in the skull, and the neck is also bound by iron chains.
You already have this look, are you afraid of monsters?