"Called you?" Hearing Vivian's statement, Hao Ren frowned, "Is it a voice?"
"I can't tell." Vivian's eyes kept wandering around the huge steel mountain. "It just happened for a moment. It was like someone reminded me to look in that direction...but now there is nothing."
Some lightning-fast thoughts circulated in his mind, and Hao Ren vaguely guessed what they were: "Artifact - it seems that at least half of the legend is true."
There are not many things that can cause Vivian to have such a weird reaction, and the creation left directly by the goddess of creation is the most likely one. According to the myths and legends of the Ark survivors, there was an artifact that protected the entire world, and now Vivian
An felt an inexplicable call right next to the ancestral furnace, and no one could help but connect the two things. It seemed that this exile fleet had really received some kind of protection, and this protection... came from the goddess of creation.
!?
Willy didn't understand what Hao Ren and the others were talking about, so he asked curiously: "What's wrong with you?"
"You are a local, do you know how to enter the Ancestral Furnace?" Hao Ren asked bluntly.
"Local? I'm not a local. I was born and raised in Hearth City..." Willy answered the first half of the sentence subconsciously, and then suddenly realized, "The Forge of the Ancestors?! What did you say? You want to enter the Forge of the Ancestors?"
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"Isn't it possible?" Nangong Sanba raised his eyebrows, "Isn't that why we came here to solve this problem?"
Willy's expression was a little strange. He had many suspicions about the group of people with unknown origins in front of him, but he never expected that these people would be so whimsical as to enter the Ancestral Furnace to find out: "This is a fantasy! What is the Ancestral Furnace?"
It is a place that only the dead can set foot in. It has never been heard that a living person can enter that place! Anyone who steps into the oven will be cursed by the power of Hades. His whole body will be burned, his skin will fall off, his internal organs will bleed, and finally he will be burned to death - you
You actually want to go in?!"
Hao Ren was greatly surprised when he heard this. He didn't know that those generators were so dangerous. He didn't know whether it was the local myths and legends that were at fault or whether the ship's energy furnace itself had some safety measures to prohibit visitors from entering, but
He must still go in: "Is there no other way to get in?"
Willy shook his head vigorously: "It's impossible, it's impossible. This is suicide. And even if there are desperadoes who want to force their way into the ancestral furnace, it's impossible. There are blood servants guarding all entrances and exits day and night, and those soldiers don't even understand the king's words.
Don't listen, they only obey the mission. Why are you so crazy to go to that place?"
The young man seemed to be frightened by Hao Ren's plan. After trying his best to dissuade him, a look of uncertainty gradually appeared on his face. Looking at Lily and Vivian with indifferent expressions, Willy suddenly remembered
This group of people's "witchcraft" and some dark and terrifying legends made his body tremble: "You... what on earth do you want to do?"
"Relax, relax, kid." Vivian's eyes flashed with a faint red light, and she forced Willy to calm down by inciting the power of blood magic. Her tone was slow and filled with wonderful magical power, "You don't want to terminate.
Is it a cold winter? And look at what the Ancestral Furnace looks like now...it's broken, very badly, and we know how to fix it, and that's why we're here."
There are only a few tricks in Vivian's blood magic that can act on the human spirit, but Willy is an ordinary person who knows nothing about magic, and is weak-willed. Therefore, he was calmed down without any resistance. His eyes became cloudy: "But the ancestors
You can't enter the Hong Furnace, it contains the power of Hades, and the Blood Warrior won't let you..."
"Then your king summoned the bachelors to prepare how to solve the problem of the reactor?" Lily asked curiously, "They don't know how to repair the thing from the outside, and they can't get in, so can they just watch it like this?"
Willy muttered a bunch of wild conjectures, including confusing witchcraft, misinterpreted technical terms, specious mechanical knowledge and a little bit of resignation. In fact, you don't need to ask him, Hao Ren himself knows this world
It is impossible for anyone to know how to repair that reactor. Just like every time the reactor was shut down in the past, the maesters would gather to chant incantations and bow to the ancient wiring diagrams and circuit boards. But in the end, people still relied on the Ark system to survive
Only by self-repair can we survive every cold winter - but this time, a hole several kilometers long opened in the ancestral furnace, which cannot be solved by restarting the system.
Hao Ren originally planned to let Willy and Bachelor Oro lead the team, and then he and his team would find an opportunity to pass through the guards and enter the reactor openly. This way, he would be able to avoid any accidents without losing any blood, but now it seems that the locals are not interested in the Ancestors Furnace.
The situation of knowledge chronology is more serious than imagined. In the end, I still have to force my way through.
"You can go back to the resting place by yourself first. We still have things to do." After asking about some things about the "Blood Warrior", Hao Ren patted Willy on the shoulder and asked the young man to leave on his own, and then walked towards the Royal City.
The high wall on the side of the reactor. He had previously observed the terrain and thought that a gap there was leading to one of the entrances to the reactor. "Let's go check out the situation."
Everyone walked through the bustling and crowded streets of the royal city, heading towards the gap.
The surroundings are still bustling. Although a terrible incident occurred here not long ago, and everyone in the royal city saw the explosion of the reactor at close range, the streets of this city are still as lively as ever. People in this world seem to have become accustomed to the people around them.
Things go wrong in the world from time to time. Although the crack in the Ancestral Furnace this time was a bit unprecedented, after the backup power of the shelter was activated, the civilians calmed down again. Men, women, and children were talking about the previous explosion on the street.
Some people are telling some weird legends to explain this phenomenon. Pessimists and optimists have gathered together, but everyone's actions are the same: everyone gathers together, talks loudly, and uses words to dispel the gloom.
Of course, the actual damage caused to the city by the previous explosion cannot be ignored: when the electric fire tore the shell of the reactor, some fragments were exploded, and these fragments fell to the edge of the city along the direction of artificial gravity.
, smashed some houses, and coupled with a series of small fires caused by power system failures, many messy places can be seen in the royal city. Soldiers and craftsmen are cleaning up the destroyed areas, and the closer they get to the ancestral furnace,
The damage becomes more severe.
Thanks to the chaotic social order of the world and the messy situation of the destroyed streets, Hao Ren and the others successfully passed all the intersections without attracting anyone's attention. Finally, they came to a special exit in the corner of the royal city, just as Hao Ren guessed
Like that, after walking out of this gap onto a high ground, he could see one of the entrances to the Ancestral Furnace in the distance.
But there were really layers of guards around the entrance facility, and some strange-looking soldiers were guarding that place. Those soldiers wore simple leather armors, and their upper bodies were exposed to the cold air. They seemed not to be afraid of low temperatures at all, and their skin was pale and
Sickly, with extremely well-developed muscles, dark red blood vessels were exposed through their white to almost transparent skin, as strange as red tattoos. These soldiers walked around the entrance to the reactor, muttering strange sentences in a low voice from time to time.
, the voice was like a mixture of beasts and humans, and when they spoke, saliva even dripped down the chins of these people and onto the ground.
Hao Ren muttered: "Is this the Blood Warrior that Willy mentioned?"
"...Radiation symptoms," the data terminal sneaked out, its surface glowing with light. After a little inspection of the facilities behind the soldiers, it understood what was going on, "This machine actually forgot to check the radiation in this area just now.
Value - this reactor is leaking, the radiation intensity behind those metal walls is frighteningly high, and these soldiers have been guarding the place only separated from the radiation source all year round, and they are all seriously ill!"
The Blood Warriors are the chosen ones who guard the Ancestral Furnace. They are selected from the most powerful warrior families in the Four Kingdoms. They are the most brave and skilled young people. These soldiers are ordered to guard the entrance to the Ancestral Furnace, and their bodies are bathed in
In the glory of gods and ancestors, they have acquired some characteristics that are different from ordinary people. Although their life span is short, their life is full of glory. This is the local explanation of the "Blood Warrior", and what follows is the truth of everything - these
They are just a group of poor radiation patients. Their greatest fighting power comes from their appearance burned by radiation. Ordinary people in this world would not dare to be enemies with people with such appearance.
"They picked the strongest and healthy people to guard this place, but they were actually wasting precious physical labor in radiation." Lily's eyes widened, "This is really... unreasonable."
"When the Black Death was at its worst, people were keen to burn women who knew how to use herbs to cure diseases to stop the plague," Vivian said expressionlessly, "and the guards here are at least somewhat necessary: there are real people behind those doors.
This is not a place where a living person should go. No matter what the first person who discovered this thought, at least he was right to send someone to lock the door." (To be continued.)