Marching in this dense forest, the tall Valkyries walked at the forefront. Their agile skills bypassed all branches and shrubs that blocked the road.
Todd followed them, looking at the landscape in front of him, and a path leading to the depths appeared like magic.
Brünnhilde turned her head, her silver hair dancing gently along with her movements: "Chief of Muxi Town, I still don't understand why, as a pagan, you insist on entering the ruins of the gods?"
Todd nodded to Valkyrie and said half-truthfully: "Part of it is curiosity and part of it is admiration. By the way, you speak the common language really well."
"I have learned almost every language on the continent."
Todd was stunned for a moment, and then said sarcastically: "You really love learning."
"No, it's different from what you think. I just have a lot of time, more than you can imagine." Brünnhilde looked into the speaker's eyes, turned around, and said no more.
Todd stepped on the soft and muddy ground with one foot deep and one shallow, slowed down his pace, and whispered to Huggins: "Have you brought anything?"
The latter shook the iron cage in his hand and gave Todd a reassuring look.
The group of people walked along this hidden and long path towards the depths of the jungle for twenty minutes, and gradually heard the sound of gurgling water and the laughter of children.
Following the Valkyrie who led the way out of the forest, Todd's eyes suddenly opened up. A wide open space appeared among the trees and boulders. A spring kept spewing clear water outwards, turning the center of the open space into a small pond.
Four or five girls of different ages were laughing and playing by the pond. After seeing Brünnhilde appear, they ran towards her and grabbed her skirt, loudly begging her to join them in the game.
The Valkyries took out the stuffed toys from their bags and handed them to the girls. Looking at the surprised expressions on these children's faces, they showed rare smiles.
"Aside from the relics we protect, these children are our only ones."
Todd heard Brünnhilde's words and couldn't help but look at her twice. The silver-haired woman was tall and looked like she was no more than twenty years old from her young and beautiful face, but she always spoke and acted like a child.
It gives people the illusion of having experienced many vicissitudes of life.
Todd shook his head vigorously to drive this strange thought out of his mind, and asked Valkyrie: "I heard that there are often people who suffer from supernatural powers on the North Island and come here to seek healing..."
Brünnhilde glanced at him, touched the stuffed toy in her hand, raised her chin, and pointed to the pond in the center of the clearing: "I know what you want to ask, have you seen that spring? That's the center of the spring.
Yes, those people changed from alien species to ordinary people after drinking the spring water."
Todd turned his head and led Huggins to the pond in the center of the clearing.
The pond is not large, with an area of no more than 40 square meters. The water is clear and glows with a little green light, and the visibility is excellent. It is shallow at the edges and becomes deeper towards the middle. In the center, there are live eyes of spring water popping up, and it is pitch black and cannot be seen.
Any color is like a bottomless hole, which is daunting.
Todd winked at Huggins and whispered: "Follow the plan and remember to take some samples. Also, be careful not to touch the water."
Huggins took out the tightly wrapped iron cage from behind and opened the curtain. Inside was a dormouse infected with bacteria. He carefully filled the kettle with spring water and poured some out to feed it.
.After dozens of seconds, the cold air on the experimental subject slowly disappeared, and it completely turned into an ordinary dormouse.
Brünnhilde touched the girls' heads and motioned for them to go play separately. She looked at the two people standing by the pond and said loudly: "Chief of Muxi Town, don't you want to see the ruins of the gods?
?"
Todd stared at the dormouse in the cage blankly, and it took him a long time to realize: "Okay... okay, I'll be there right away."
Following the footsteps of the Valkyrie, Todd and Huggins walked through the open space, turned around the stone pile at the corner, and entered a small town with a medieval atmosphere. In the simple blacksmith shop, the sweating female blacksmith was repairing weapons;
In the square farmland, several tall women were planting summer wheat; on the flat ground in front of the houses, an old woman wearing a headscarf and a group of chattering girls were drying mushrooms and dried fruits.
The villagers looked at the two men who had not set foot here for a long time and started talking in low voices.
Todd did a rough count and found that there were actually hundreds of people in this Valkyrie village, but all of them were women.
Just when he was about to ask, a burst of grief-stricken crying attracted the attention of the team.
Brünnhilde looked towards the direction of the sound, frowned, and changed the direction of her feet.
Todd saw this and quickly followed.
A woman of about thirty years old held a baby girl of about one year old in her arms, pressed her face against the child's already bloodless face, knelt down at the door of the thatched cottage, and cried loudly.
Brünnhilde walked up to the woman, knelt down on one knee, and checked the baby girl in her arms. After a while, the Valkyrie lowered her head sadly and gently hugged the crying woman.
Leaving the matter of comfort to the other Valkyries accompanying her, Brünnhilde took one last look at the lifeless baby and continued to move forward while holding back her grief.
Todd looked at the other person's expression, hesitated for a long time, and then said: "The baby..."
Brünnhilde's footsteps did not stop, and there was no wave in her tone: "As servants of the gods, we follow tradition and remain virgins. This means that we cannot have children, and we can only enjoy the joy of motherhood.
We are waiting for the outside world to give us baby girls and adopt them in order of age. However, everyone here wants a child, but there are very few babies sent every year, so every Valkyrie
When it's my turn, I will treat my children as treasures..."
Having said this, the Valkyrie walked to the end of the village and came to a smooth stone wall. She pressed her hands against a heavy boulder. With a loud roar and the sound of friction on the ground, the boulder weighing a thousand kilograms was moved aside, and exposed on the stone wall.
A dark hole.
Patting the dust on her palms, Brünnhilde ignored the men's surprised looks and walked into the cave first.
Valkyrie took down a torch from the wall at the entrance of the cave, ignited it with flint, and walked deeper into the cave while saying: "But, I don't know why, not many children in the village can survive.
.Many are just like that baby, with high fever that won’t go away for several days, red spots appearing on the body, and finally death of exhaustion..."
When Todd heard this, something flashed in his mind, but when he wanted to think about it carefully, his attention was attracted by other things.
Murals, all the rock walls on both sides of the cave are covered with murals.
The mighty and invincible gods and monsters of various shapes have their respective names written in the Old North Island language below each mural: Odin, Thor, Frey, Heimdall, Fire Giant, and Frost Giant.
, Loki, Fenrir, etc.
Todd watched the murals slowly advance, and finally saw a painting called "At the end of the cave. Asgard fell into flames and seawater, stars fell from the sky, and time no longer existed. The charred ground shook
He sank into the turbulent seabed, and all he could see were huge waves, leaving only a dead silence and eternal darkness in the universe.
This painting is almost the same as the description of Nordic mythology in the previous life. But there is one place that makes Todd a little concerned. Directly above the sky, there is a strange symbol, which consists of upper and lower parts. The upper part is an upward
The lower part of the arrow is an inverted isosceles triangle.
Brünnhilde walked to the wall at the end, put her hands on the wall, and pushed forward with all her strength. The wall in front of her sank inward, and a path for one person only appeared in front of the team.
Todd and Huggins looked at each other, and finally decided to follow Valkyrie to see what happened.
After getting out of the gap, Todd looked at the scenery in front of him and opened his mouth in surprise.
The world behind the mountain wall is actually a huge cave.
Looking far into the distance, you can see the depths of the cave at a glance. The wide place is like a square, the narrow place is like a corridor, and the high place is 30 meters high. The entire cave is zigzag on the plane, and it can be divided into three floors when viewed vertically.
, you can vaguely see an underground river running through it at the bottom. At the top of the cave is a naturally formed sinkhole. Strong light is projected from above, bringing a glimmer of light to the mysterious space underground.
Brunhilde turned around, looked at Todd and said: "Chief of Muxi Town, welcome to the ruins of the gods. I heard that you are an alchemist, and there is something I want you to see.