Chapter 146 still alive
Noting Gao Wen's gaze, Hetty looked over curiously, and then tried to identify the ancient words on the wall with some difficulty, but before she could identify them, Gao Wen took the initiative to explain the meaning of that sentence.
Everyone at the scene was stunned.
"What does this sentence mean?" Amber stared blankly at the lines of words that seemed to be a declaration, and said in disbelief, "Under normal circumstances, no one would say such words...and it was written in such a place!"
Hedy had an association: "Only by disobeying the gods can humans last forever... Is it because the gods want to destroy humans?"
"Things related to God are often filled with symbols and metaphors, and cannot be seen from the superficial meaning of a sentence." Gao Wen said absent-mindedly, but what emerged from his heart were the sensational facts he heard before when he established a connection with the fragments of eternal stone slabs.
He then turned to Byron: "You mentioned that you found the remaining manuscript materials here?"
Byron nodded: "Yes, here. But they are quite fragile, and we didn't dare to touch them after we found out."
The remaining manuscript materials were not sealed, but were scattered in a mess on the table not far away. It seemed that for some reason, the people here did not take away the data when they evacuated. The manuscripts were made of magic parchment commonly used by magicians during the Gondor Empire. It was precisely because of this special material that these manuscripts survived thousands of years of erosion when exposed to the air.
But although the manuscript itself did not decay, many of the texts on it had faded and were so weathered that it was difficult to identify. Gao Wen glanced at it briefly and determined that at least half of them were no longer readable.
Fortunately, there is still half left.
Hetty was ready to bring the newly enchanted scroll and the ritual quill. After seeing the precious ancient manuscripts, she immediately spread the scroll and let it float in the air beside her. Then she held the quill in her hand and placed the other hand on the already fragile ancient parchment paper. With the obscure and difficult spells, the power of magic surged around her. The quill suddenly broke away from her fingers and flew onto the scroll and began to write quickly.
The characters on the parchment were faithfully restored and printed by magical power, whether they were clearly visible or incomplete and difficult to read. After each "scanning" a piece of paper, Hedy took a breath and carefully picked up the processed original manuscript and put it in a small box that had been prepared.
Although the contents of the manuscript have been preserved, these antique originals are still quite valuable, and it is of course better to preserve them.
Gao Wen stood next to Hetty, sighing slightly at the convenience of magic power, while at the same time watching the content presented on the scroll with concentration.
He reads it slowly because he wants to extract readable valid information from a bunch of defective and deformation characters, but even so, some disturbing sentences are gradually pieced together: this does not seem to be a research note, nor even a diary, after making those words into sentences, Gao Wen only feels like a lunatic nonsense, and full of horrible imagination and metaphors:
"...watching it, it looks at me from the festering flesh and blood...it is inside me, and I want to enter it...
"No one can survive, the ending day is coming soon... The act of blasphemy cannot make us survive...
"...Feast, feast, I ate the flesh and blood of the gods again, and lived here for a new century. They didn't come, they still didn't come, but I don't need them to come again. The outside world has collapsed, has collapsed..."
This was followed by a large chaotic graffiti, and the text became irrecognizable lines and symbols. It was not the blurred and distorted handwriting on the manuscript, but the person who wrote them seemed to have gone crazy, but after a few manuscripts, these crazy graffiti became readable text:
“He is sleeping deep in the earth, He is sleeping deep in the sea, He is sleeping deep in the sky, He is calling my name, and that whisper…
"I saw Him, the appearance of God, He smiled at me in the light... Let's take a step, I'm going to his kingdom. Oh, that's the greatest gift. God gave us flesh and blood to share food, and it turned out to be this day..."
After that, there were many crazy lines. Even if a few words occasionally popped out of the graffiti, it seemed illogical and grammatical. Rather than writing words, it was more appropriate to occasionally say that some unsentence-like whispers appeared in a chaotic brain: these manuscripts can no longer be read.
Herty also noticed this. She printed several pages of such "garbled codes" in succession. Finally, she stopped, flipped the manuscripts with her shaping hands, and confirmed that there was no more valuable things below and stopped her spell.
"What is it talking about?" Amber came over and asked curiously as he looked at the rubbing scroll floating in the air, "like a ghostly talisman..."
"A madman's whisper," Gao Wen frowned. The words on the scroll made him feel deeply uneasy, but he still explained the things on it roughly, "...it sounds like something left by a person abandoned here in the process of gradually becoming crazy."
After hearing the meaning of those words, everyone on the scene couldn't help but feel a strange feeling of creepy. Although those were just crazy words, somehow, those words exuded a terrifying aura like a special force.
"I...I'm starting to dislike these things..." Amber had goose bumps all over her body, and she couldn't help but hide behind Gao Wen. "This place gives me a very, very bad feeling..."
Gao Wen was about to express a similar opinion, but before he spoke, a very slight grunt suddenly came from behind.
Then there were another series of gurgling sounds.
Everyone immediately pulled out their weapons and turned to the direction where the sound came. In full view of everyone, one of the cylindrical containers in the center of the hall suddenly changed!
The originally empty transparent tubular culture tank was filled with liquid out of thin air. Large strings of bubbles quickly emerged from the surging liquid, and a twisted and weird shadow emerged from the bubble. It was an illusory shadow the previous second, but it had condensed into a solid second.
It has a blood-red color and a giant-like body shape, like an extra strong distortion, but it has a face similar to a human. The face is tightly closed with its eyes, but its face is covered with pain and madness!
This monster, which seemed to be mixed with distortions and humans, condensed out of thin air, and then struggled to break through the sealed transparent container. An incredible scene appeared: the container that should have been completely sealed suddenly became illusory, and the monster's body also became illusory. The two quickly merged and penetrated each other, and the monster's body actually squeezed out of the container!
Gao Wen drew his sword: "Kill it!"
The monster also recovered its entity at this moment. As soon as it broke free from the bondage, it rushed towards the soldier closest to it. While pounced on it, it also let out a chaotic roar: "Hungry...hungry!!"
Several long swords sealed the monster's way from all directions, followed by the scorching sword blade, poisonous dagger and a series of arcane missiles smashed the monster head-on and face-to-face except for the arcane missiles that hit the ground, all other attacks hit the twisted creature steadily.
However, its vitality is so strong that it is scary. Even if its limbs are broken and broken, and even its back weakness as a distorted body is slashed by Gao Wen with a sword, it is still not dead, and still struggles to get up and pounces on amber that happens to be in its sight.
After stabbing her first, Amber immediately stepped aside and prepared to fish. She never expected that she would become the target of the monster. As a result, she screamed in fright, and the next second she shrank into the shadow and escaped into the shadow.
The monster pounced on the ground and was not firmly established. When the Byron Knight seized the opportunity, stepped forward and stabbed the enemy with a sword.
It seemed as if a monster mixed with humans and distorted fell heavily to the ground, but did not start to dissipate like normal distortions. Instead, it wriggled and gradually recovered, and there were signs of getting up again!
"Isn't dead yet?" Gao Wen was shocked by this abnormal situation and immediately held his sword in his hand to go forward and continue to finish the attack. However, before he could take action, Amber, who had just hid in the Shadow Realm, suddenly jumped out of thin air and grabbed his arm with horror: "Ga Wen! Dark... There is something in the Shadow Realm!!"
Gao Wen has never seen this horrified look on this half-elf's face, which is not afraid of heaven and earth, and the previous expression of being deliberately exaggerated and startled. Amber was really scared at this time. Gao Wen even felt that if the place was a little more gloomy, the girl would even cry on the spot!
After taking a look at the monster that had been in a stalemate with Byron and his party again, confirming that the monster would not suppress Byron and others for the time being, Gao Wen immediately grabbed Amber's arm: "Take me in and have a look!"
Amber hesitated for a while: "But in the shadow world..."
"I'm there!"
Amber gritted her teeth and pulled Gao Wen's arm hard: "Okay!"
That strange sense of imbalance came again, and the sounds and perceptions of the real world quickly disappeared. Gao Wen's eyes were flashed and he was pulled into the shadow world by Amber.
This world that exists parallel to real time and space seems to always maintain the same brightness, neither dark nor bright, and whether on the surface or in deep mountains and caves, it always maintains a dim but does not affect the line of sight.
After Gao Wen entered the Shadow Realm, he looked around at the first sight: just like other places in the Shadow Realm, it also maps real time and space in a certain disorderly way. The rotunda hall is pale in color, and the hall is surrounded by a circle of dark clumps that surging like smoke. In the present world, there are magical devices piled up, and in the center of the hall is the "things" mentioned by Amber.
The original metal base and transparent tubular container were gone, replaced by a pool of black mist surging in the center of the room, and the blood-like red mud that continued to spread out from the black mist.
Chapter completed!