A large-scale electromagnetic storm exploded over the city. Since it was only a few hundred meters above the lowest point on the ground, the shock wave it caused even caused a strong wind to roll around everyone. Everything seemed to be electrified, crackling with electricity.
Sparks popped up everywhere in the air out of thin air, and the ozone produced by ionization filled the surrounding area with a pungent smell. The invisible magnetic field was far more powerful than the discharge phenomenon in the air. It swept across the entire block, and within the scope of its power, all the stone statues were affected.
They all trembled and stopped, then fell to the ground one after another.
In the sky, a huge, transparent jellyfish-like thing appeared under the impact of the electromagnetic storm.
It looks like a ball of marshmallows floating in the sky, with a turbulent appearance and illusory borders. Countless shimmering lines extend from underneath this huge transparent structure, and each line is connected to the bottom.
There is a stone statue guard on the ground. After the guards destroyed by the magnetic field fall, the "connections" connected to them will be retracted, just like a jellyfish retracting its tentacles.
This spectacular mysterious structure made everyone couldn't help but marvel. Except for the poor cat girl who was injured and frightened, she was hugging Hao Ren's legs and meowing non-stop, completely unaware of the situation in the sky.
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Hao Ren finally saw clearly what the thing he had vaguely noticed before looked like. He guessed that the thing should be completely invisible. Even until now, what everyone saw was not the true appearance of the thing: it should be an invisible object.
Things that interact with the material world are only when the powerful energy released by Vivian bombards its key nodes, causing the area where the "jellyfish" contacts the material world to be electrified, and the distorted discharge layer outlines its outline.
Come.
Hao Ren's first reaction when he saw it was to raise his hand and fire a shot, and then directly released a round of heavy missiles from the portable space to hit the weird "jellyfish".
The nether energy pistol stirred up a small blue flame on the surface of the "jellyfish", and the ray directly penetrated its structure. However, the wound caused was a drop in the bucket compared to its overall volume, and the heavy missile simply penetrated directly through the
The thing's body, the latter is like a phantom that does not exist in the real world, and does not produce any friction with the missile.
After the missile passed over that thing, a big explosion occurred at the distant boundary of space. Immediately, this already unstable alien space began to collapse more violently.
Hao Ren immediately gave up the idea of violently destroying the "jellyfish".
"Let me choke...what is that thing?" Lily raised her head and was stunned, "An angry spirit? Or the soul of the eldest son?"
"It doesn't look like it. The angry spirit has no form, and the eldest son's soul is much larger than it." Hao Ren shook his head, "But it should be something close to the soul... I have this intuition. Elizabeth, do you know what this is?"
The little devil shook his head: "I don't know, I just based this on my experience in dealing with golem soldiers. This thing should have been floating above the city, sleeping with the golem soldiers, but we have no control over the previous temple.
The investigation stimulated this thing, and it suddenly woke up. This is the control center of the golem soldier. What I just asked Sister Vivian to hit was the connection node between it and the lower golem soldier. The electromagnetic shock should make it short.
Losing the perception of lower nodes within a period of time, in other words, the golem soldiers will be blind in the future."
"This opportunity cannot be missed," Hao Ren immediately reacted and waved his hand, "Everyone should take advantage of this moment to go to the Great Temple!"
Elizabeth's judgment is correct. The little devil girl is indeed a golem genius who can manipulate her father's numbers 1, 2, and 3 on her own: as she said, after the "jellyfish" in the sky was temporarily paralyzed by Vivian's electromagnetic storm, the ground on the ground
The Golem Corps on board also fell into chaos for a short period of time.
They lost the ability to control the entire battlefield, and no longer acted in a unified manner as before. Instead, they began to wander around like headless flies. Each golem soldier became a blind man fighting alone, and their own intelligence
Obviously it is not enough for these stone lumps to complete independent operations.
Hao Ren and his party advanced thrillingly on the streets blocked by the Golem Corps. They could see the huge shaking stone statues at almost every intersection and main road. The latter's rampage was accelerating the demolition of this mysterious ancient temple.
Before the city and the edges of the city collapsed in the vortex of space collapse, the buildings inside the city had been almost flattened by its own guardians. And the stone statues swaying everywhere were basically intimidated by those running past them.
The "invaders" turned a blind eye. Even if occasionally Hao Ren and his party accidentally got too close or encountered one or two stone statues, when they eliminated these stone statues, the other colossus soldiers around them seemed to be completely unaware.
But as he continued to approach the big temple, Hao Ren couldn't help but secretly sighed:
There are so many colossi guards in this city!
Although it was previously known that one-third of the area in this ancient city is occupied by temples, the number of religious facilities in the city far exceeds the demand, and each temple has a number of stone statues that far exceeds the general regulations.
, but it was not until these stone statues all walked out of their respective temples and assembled into a black army on the street that Hao Ren realized that the scale of this "army" was far beyond imagination.
Even Vivian stuck out her tongue and marveled. The number of golems in this city could be regarded as a military-like arrangement even in the mythical age when demons were dancing around.
"This city is definitely not an independent city-state. It is supported by other cities. It is either the capital or the religious center. Otherwise, with the productivity of the year, it would be impossible for an independent city-state to support a golem corps of this size.
"Vivian descended slightly from the sky and floated next to Hao Ren while talking about her reasoning, "But it's a bit incredible that such a powerful country doesn't even have a name. And there are them.
The 'spirit' used to guard the city..."
As she spoke, she raised her head and glanced up. The huge jellyfish-like transparent structure was still floating in the sky. The electromagnetic storm caused by the electromagnetic storm in that area had not subsided, so the connection between the "jellyfish" and the stone statues on the ground had not faded.
It is still in a state of paralysis, but as time goes by, the discharge layer in the sky is rapidly dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye. I am afraid that this state of paralysis is about to end.
However, the great temple in the center of the ancient city has also appeared at the end of the line of sight.
Vivian looked away at the sky and shook her head: "This kind of thing is rare even in the mythical age. As long as it appears, it will definitely have a great reputation, but I have never heard of it at all.
It’s incredible.”
At this time, the voice of the data terminal suddenly sounded in everyone's mind: "As for the name of this ancient city, I have figured it out."
The body of the data terminal is still floating over the city at this moment, responsible for aerial observation and crisis warning, but it still has enough spare computing power to participate in the topics of Hao Ren and Vivian. As the data terminal finished speaking, Hao Ren
The small holographic projection device floating around him also showed the picture transmitted from the data terminal. It was the mural that everyone had discovered in the temple before.
The murals depict the legend about the ancient giant beast "Ethos", but at that time the stone statue guardian suddenly woke up, and Hao Ren's research on these murals had to be interrupted early. Now it seems that the data terminal has completed a comprehensive analysis of the contents of the murals
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Hao Ren was multitasking, looking at the content on the mural while rushing on the road, and at the same time listening to the report from the data terminal:
"These murals are continuous and tell the story of the city's catastrophe and its glorious re-emergence. Initially, the city did not exist. There were only some loose tribes on this land, which were composed of a group of half-animals and half-men.
The 'gods' ruled, and they were the first rulers of this land. Later, a monster called 'Ethos' suddenly appeared, which was the thing on the first mural. It was higher than the mountain, but
With thin and long legs, it walked on the ground, but its body could rise from the clouds. This monster released lightning and fire as it walked, thus destroying many tribes on the earth. That is what is described in the second mural. But
Later, a very powerful 'Great Lord' came to this land, and this 'Great Lord' launched a battle against Ethos..."
Hao Ren looked at the third mural, which was the one that was interrupted by the stone statue guards and could not be looked at carefully.
On the screen, an image composed of abstract lines appeared in front of Ertus. This image was like a wooden mask full of American style. The outlines of the facial features were connected with exaggerated and ridiculous straight lines. Hao Ren thought at first that this was the figure.
The appearance of the "great master", and lamented that there were all kinds of strange things in the age of mythology, but Vivian soon explained that this was actually just an "ideal incarnation", and that the great master should be too powerful
, so that primitive people did not dare to directly depict his appearance, so they painted a deified totem for this "great master" that was separate from human images according to the simple religious concepts of the time.
This totem is the mask floating in front of Erthos.
"The Great Overlord and Erthos fought for three days and three nights. Fire and storm swept away everything on the earth. Only one tribe survived because this tribe realized the power of the Great Overlord in advance and sought shelter behind the Overlord."
The data terminal continued to interpret, "Later, the great master finally won the victory. Ethos was torn apart by the power of the great master. Its body was divided into four parts, and when it fell to the ground, it became four pieces of fertile land.
The head of Toss fell in front of the last surviving tribe. It was the greatest trophy. Therefore, in order to express their awe and gratitude to the great master, the surviving beast-headed gods in the tribe built a city on top of the head.
The name is Ethos."
In the fourth mural, there is a scene of Ethos falling to the earth in pieces, while a group of humans, driven by the half-animal and half-human "ancient gods", climbed onto Ethos's head and built a tower on its skull.
City.
There is no doubt that this city is the one in front of everyone, and its name is Ethos.
"Then what?" Hao Ren couldn't help but ask when he found that the data terminal was silent.
"It's gone after that."
Hao Ren: "... Damn it, it's gone now? It's so exciting over here. You told me that the eunuch is missing?!"
Vivian quickly comforted her: "Don't be angry, don't be angry. This kind of thing is normal. Who had time to carry out cultural inheritance in the mythological era? Not many mythological stories in those days were complete, and the Dead Sea Script was not written either.
Is it over..."
Hao Ren: "..."
"There should be follow-up to these historical records," the data terminal continued at this time. "Based on some incomplete words in the previous temple, this machine believes that each temple in this city has a different class.
', the data allowed to be recorded in temples of different classes is different, so the records in one temple may not be complete, but the large temple in the center of the city should have the most complete historical data."
"The big temple..." Hao Ren raised his head, and the majestic main body of the big temple was already in front of him.