After the morning training, Todd, covered in blood, returned to the stone chamber of the temple.
Rachel had just woken up. Perhaps due to excessive worry and lack of sleep, her face did not look good.
Todd looked at the amount of food and water on the stone table, which was almost the same as when he left, and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong? Is it because the fever from before has not recovered yet?"
Rachel leaned against the wall next to the stone bed, rubbed her temples with her hands, and said weakly: "I don't know, I just feel like my whole body can't exert any strength. Maybe too many things have happened in the past two days."
Todd took off his shirt, and the blood stains stained the front of his shirt, causing Rachel to exclaim.
"Some skin injuries have basically healed." Todd waved his arm and said nonchalantly.
Rachel checked the other party carefully, and after confirming that there was nothing serious, she breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the stone window with dull eyes, and whispered: "When can we leave here?"
Putting on a set of clean clothes, Todd followed the light and looked at the sky outside: "First we must find a way to leave the Kingdom of Shadows. Heavy fog, reefs, poisonous water and beasts are all obstacles to our departure.
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"The real trouble comes after we leave here. We must find a suitable ship and sail safely to the Muxi Kingdom." Thinking of the monster on the bottom of the sea that was as big as a city, Todd shuddered inexplicably.
There was one thing on his mind that he did not mention to Rachel.
On the one hand, Todd's academic career in his previous life made him cautious and skeptical about this kind of strange power and chaos involving the Holy Spirit and curses, especially since he had seen Jingsu twice; and on the other hand, Todd
On the other hand, facing the hidden true face of the "tyrant" and the reality behind the various visions in the Kingdom of Shadows, his curiosity began to lurk again.
"It would be nice if the 'Black Pearl' was still there." Rachel leaned against the wall and sighed.
Todd knelt down and touched Rachel's forehead with the back of his hand.
No fever.
But the strange thing is that Rachel's current mental state is the worst since he met her.
Just when Todd wanted to ask further, Meredith's voice came from the other side of the corridor.
"Are you there? I'm here to deliver something to you."
After walking out of the stone chamber, Todd was surprised to see Meredith carrying large and small bags in the main hall of the temple.
"Here's the sleeping bag, here's the clothes, here's the pots and pans..." Meredith placed the packages on the ground and opened them one by one, and soon they were spread all over the floor.
Todd looked at the things on the floor and nodded gratefully towards the other party.
His body has been mutated and transformed, so his living needs are naturally relatively simple. However, in the end, Rachel is still an ordinary person. Without these daily necessities, it is really difficult to survive in this place.
Speaking of Rachel...
Todd glanced behind him and asked Meredith: "During the trial of my 'destiny', did anything happen to my companions?"
Meredith looked a little surprised. After thinking about it carefully, she said, "It seems not. She carried you through the trial road and entered the sacrificial hall. After you jumped into the "Dark Door", there
I've been waiting for you all day and night..."
Todd touched the bridge of his nose, thought carefully for a while, and suddenly said: "I want to go to the sacrificial hall."
Meredith blinked at him: "No problem, demigods who join the "Kingdom of Shadows" have the right to go to any corner here, except..."
Seeing Todd rushing towards the temple gate, Meredith shouted dissatisfiedly from behind: "I haven't finished speaking yet!"
Todd's figure disappeared at the door, and before leaving he said loudly: "While I'm away, please help take care of my companions!"
Walking along the ridge to the foot of the mountain, Todd walked between gravel and shrubs, stepped on the dilapidated steps into the temple, and found the entrance to the underground on the back of the incomplete goddess statue.
Quickly walking down the underground spiral steps, Todd looked at the dark cave under his feet. Even if he used his "night vision" ability to look far into the distance, he could not see the end of the cave bottom.
As his footsteps continued to move, he gradually discovered that only by personally experiencing this stone staircase and going deeper could he appreciate the terrifying depth of this cave.
After more than ten minutes and thousands of steps down, Todd finally stood on the platform at the bottom of the cave.
Looking at the runes on the door at the end of the platform, Todd pushed open the door without hesitation and entered an underground tunnel made of bone fossils.
Looking at the fossils on the wall, some pictures flashed through Todd's mind.
The same strange fossils, the same underground ruins.
The scene in the ruins of the gods on the North Island gradually overlapped with the scene in front of me.
There was a terrible fact that vaguely surfaced in the depths of his mind, but he couldn't see it as real.
After walking a little further, Todd saw a strange thing among the fossils. It was this thing that completely awakened his fear and panic.
It was a green crystal the size of a thumb cap, with clusters of lenses gathered together, like petals on a "rose", emitting a faint green light in the dark underground tunnel, which was dazzling.
Todd's body was trembling, cold sweat was flowing down his forehead, and his throat seemed to be stuffed with a ball of cotton wool. He could only make a loud voice, but could not say a word.
Casting his gaze towards the end of the corridor, Todd ran towards the sacrificial hall like a possessed madman.
After struggling to open the door at the end of the fossil corridor, everything in the sacrificial hall made his knees weaken, and he knelt on the ground. His right palm turned into a fist, and he hit his cheek hard while shouting out pain and regret.
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All the furnishings in the sacrificial hall were swept away by the sea water when Todd returned last time.
After being soaked and eroded by sea water, most of the originally solid rock wall surfaces have fallen off, exposing the things inside.
Large swaths of green lenses are embedded in the stone and spread all over the walls of the hall.
Together, they emit green light, illuminating the entire dark and damp hall like a green "heaven".
Others might be intoxicated by this beautiful scenery, but Todd's heart felt like it was in an ice cellar.
Because of these green lenses, he couldn't be more familiar with them.
Uranium ore…
Mutating his body into a monster form, Todd used all four limbs to run through the fossil corridor and climb the spiral stairs as fast as he could.
His heart was filled with regret and self-blame.
He had a chance to discover the truth that the Kingdom of Shadows was built on top of a huge uranium mine. The original excavation work of the North Island ruins was because the intensity of underground radioactivity increased and endangered the health of workers, so he had to terminate the construction.
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The North Island ruins and the Kingdom of Shadows are both the location of the Jingsu Beacon Tower. The deeper you go into the North Island ruins, the stronger the radiation. Based on this reasoning, the Kingdom of Shadows should be the same.
Todd should have thought of such a simple truth, but he was immersed in the pleasure of mutation and power and forgot about this fatal reality.
The direct consequence was that Rachel was exposed to a strong radioactive environment for more than 24 hours. With a large amount of radiation accumulated in her body, no effective measures were taken.
Todd, who transformed into a monster form, had only one thought in his mind at this time - faster, faster!
The mutated "speed" ability allows the limbs to erupt with power far beyond that of ordinary people.
Todd simply gave up on the path up the mountain and chose to climb up from the bottom of the cliff like a gecko.
From the sacrificial hall to the temple stone chamber, which used to take more than an hour to complete, Todd completed it in just ten minutes.
When he returned to the room in his monster form, both Rachel and Meredith were startled by him.
Todd, who had degenerated into human form, shouted urgently: "Rachel! There's no time to explain! Hurry up and take off your clothes!!!"