Chapter 480 Picture within Picture
Chen Lun looked solemn and began to walk on foot in the desert filled with yellow sand.
He lowered the brim of his hat to protect himself from the wind, sand and sun. Reach out and feel the strong wind blowing. The collision of small particles is clear and real.
‘What kind of place is this? ’
Chen Lun looked at the desolate scene around him and couldn't help but think of fairyland.
‘Could this mural painted by Clarenco create an independent space similar to a fairyland? And who could it be that voice that sounded in my mind just now? ’
Recalling what the old voice said, Chen Lun boldly guessed that this place is most likely a replica of a certain historical line in the past. It was intercepted and preserved by Clarenzo with the power of myth, but it was contaminated and underwent unknown changes. ……
The "God of Magic" Angela mentioned is most likely Mr. Jing Yao, because Clarenzo is his subordinate god and fits the description of "an angel under his command".
'As for the multi-layered historical thread...and the ritual of becoming a god that Clarenzo intended to prevent...'
Chen Lun frowned and felt confused.
He was secretly vigilant, feeling that he seemed to be experiencing an extremely secretive and dangerous history, which might contain the truth about the past involving gods.
With one foot shallow and one foot deep, Chen Lun walked forward like this for about half an hour. During this period, he did not encounter anyone, not even any living creature, in the wind and sand... It seemed that there was no life here, except for The boundless wind and sand, the scorching sun, and the huge lonely stone pillar.
Seeing this, Chen Lun gradually let go of his courage and tried to use the air walk to fly forward. For a moment, his speed was very different. The stone pillar that he originally looked at was always far away quickly zoomed in in his sight, and he was visible to the naked eye. approaching it at speed.
After a while.
He came to the foot of the huge stone pillar.
It was difficult to estimate from a distance, but when I arrived in front of me, I realized that it was ridiculously big... Chen Lun did a simple visual inspection and found that the radius of the stone pillar was probably more than one kilometer.
The overall texture of the stone pillar is unknown, but the surface feels very grainy and frosted, the color is dark yellow, and it is engraved with evenly distributed spiral patterns that extend around the pillar and upward into the sky.
Chen Lun couldn't help but be speechless. Such a magnificent building could not be created by man...
'But will Carmen be on the pillar? ’
He looked around and found that there was nothing but endless wind and sand.
Shaking his head, he seemed to have no choice at the moment.
Chen Lun calmed down his thoughts and immediately used Air Walk to fly straight up along the stone pillars. His body was tilted at ninety degrees as if violating the laws of physics. He was walking on the stone pillar. With one step, he flew dozens of meters across the sky against the stone pillar like a sharp arrow.
His figure looked extremely small against the backdrop of the huge stone pillars, but his speed of movement was quite astonishing. But because of this, the wind and sand blowing against the face became like fine needles, causing the exposed skin to sting slightly.
Chen Lun looked calm and indifferent to this, and even accelerated his flying speed again.
Bang!
His feet stepped on the surface of the stone pillar, making a loud sound.
The air waves were like the ripples of water after a stone was thrown on the lake. It exploded with a bang, and the sand grains were emptied. Chen Lun relied on the reverse thrust to lift himself up like a rocket. The material of the stone pillar was so hard that even if it was trampled by his foot, it was not damaged at all.
Soon he reached an altitude of several hundred meters. He could no longer feel the strong wind and sand here, but there was a faint warning from his [spiritual intuition].
"Huh?"
Chen Lun frowned slightly. He found that there were countless grains of sand floating in the air around him, as if they were still, which was quite strange.
With his arrival, these sand grains started to float on their own and gathered into streams of quicksand, forming a vague human shape.
Woo!
A strong wind struck from behind his head.
Chen Lun was as nimble as a deep-sea mako shark, moving sideways out of thin air and evading the attack. Not only that, he also used his backhand stick to hit the enemy like a silver snake spitting a message.
There was a muffled sound, accompanied by countless grains of sand flying around.
Only then did Chen Lun see clearly that the people who attacked him were actually "humanoid monsters" made of sand, holding a scythe and having an extremely slender figure. Half of the target who was struck by him turned into sand and floated away, but he was still alive. The "wound" was even slowly healing by absorbing the surrounding sand.
With a gloomy face, he used his spy to find out the details of this sand monster, but he only got the name of "Contaminated Sand" and part of the panel information.
‘It is written in the description that these sand grains are contaminated by mythology and have some kind of activity... and even contain the power of the two paths of earth and conspiracy. ’
Chen Lun thought to himself as he flashed and escaped the attacks of three more "sand men". He shook his hand and flew out several spades cards, which collided with each other and caused a big explosion.
Boom!
Chen Lun glanced under him and narrowed his eyes.
Those "sand men" were hit by spades and exploded into grains of sand and fell apart, but they condensed back together at extremely fast speeds, as if they were immortal.
'These monsters are not very strong, but if you want to kill them completely, I'm afraid you need to destroy all the floating sand. That would be a waste of time and energy...'
Chen Lun saw more and more sand monsters appearing around him at high altitude. He immediately made up his mind and continued flying upward without looking back.
In order to create enough distance, he even used teleportation several times in a row, blinking at the limit of 100 meters, and finally got rid of the entanglement of the sand monsters.
Not long after, he finally reached the top of the stone pillar.
It is like a huge circular platform square, and the ground under your feet is flat and smooth, like the cross section of a stone pillar cut off by some powerful force.
In the distance, in the middle of the platform, stood a dilapidated minaret building. This was exactly what Chen Lun saw outside the world of murals.
He had an intuition that Carmen was probably inside!
Chen Lun remained vigilant and headed straight towards the minaret.
The platform here is the top of the stone pillar, located very high in the air. Looking up, you will even have the illusion that you can touch the dim sky.
As he got closer to the spire, the warning from [Spiritual Intuition] became more and more obvious, as if telling him that there was some terrifying monster hidden in that building.
Finally, Chen Lun stood in front of the minaret. The closed double stone door was engraved with a mysterious figure with a circle as the base and complex triangles. He couldn't see clearly, but to be on the safe side, he still split it. He picked up an arm, turned it into a white python, and pushed the door open.
Giggle...rumble...
As the stone door slowly opened, an aura of dust and decay that had accumulated for countless years floated out. Chen Lun even saw fleeting and distorted pictures through the dim dust in the air. It was a small man confronting a huge figure wearing a yellow robe in the sky.
Wow.
The dust disperses and the image disappears.
Chen Lun's dignity at this moment has reached an extreme level.
‘The yellow-robed figure that covers the sky and the sun… is it the same entity that once appeared in the sky above Cat Town Kazite? Who is He? ’
Covering his mouth and nose, he carefully walked into the minaret with his silver cane in his hand.
The environment inside was a little dark, so Chen Lun took out the kerosene lamp from the blood poem ring and lit it, then held it in his hand for lighting. As he glanced over, the place seemed quite empty. Some of the original decorative pendants had long since decayed and turned into gray-black fine debris piled up in the corners. There was only one stone staircase that seemed to be relatively stable, winding upwards.
He found no valuable clues on this level, so he climbed up the stairs. As he explored further, Chen Lun felt more and more that the environment inside the minaret was very similar to Ms. Fredrick's Meteor Tower.
‘Could this spire have been Clarenco’s residence? ’
Chen Lun guessed.
Combining various information, he felt that this possibility was very high.
There are twenty-two floors in the minaret, but the rooms on each floor were empty until Chen Lun climbed to the top...
"This is...?"
Chen Lun raised his eyebrows, very surprised.
The walls and ceiling here have disappeared, and it's like the open air, and you can clearly see the dim sky. But when he was outside looking at the minaret, it was clearly closed.
Chen Lun tentatively walked to the edge of the room, and then reached out and touched the real thing, an invisible wall.
‘It should be some kind of magical means that hides the walls and ceiling, allowing for better observation of the sky...’
He has confidence in his heart.
Turning around, in the center of the room, there was a huge easel and a tower-shaped chair about three meters high. Chen Lun seemed to see that at some time in the past, a man was sitting on it, looking up at the sky, painting quietly.
Coming to the giant easel, Chen Lun saw what was painted on it.
His expression couldn't help but change suddenly.
The canvas is filled with a waxy yellow background, which probably corresponds to the sky. From the perspective of looking up, you can faintly see a huge yellow-robed figure, which seems to be standing in front of the stone pillars and spires. There is nothingness under his hood, but it looks like It is overlooking the person outside the painting. The corner of the yellow robe was opened, revealing the twisted and profound grotesque colors underneath. He was holding a tombstone in his left hand, with many names clearly written on it:
Galsworthy…
Bancroft...
O'Driscoll...
……
At first glance, there are no less than a dozen names, and some are written in vague and unclear words, but Chen Lun is inexplicably able to understand their deeper meanings in his heart:
'The Dark Mother of the Sun, the Bone-Burying Old Man of Death, the King of Giants and a group of god-level angels...the names of these gods are all engraved on the tombstone. This yellow-robed figure is the true god of the earth. The rope mud man! ’
boom!
Chen Lun's mind was shaken, and he suddenly felt like the world was spinning. If he hadn't relied on the support of the silver cane, he would have fallen to the ground. But blood could not stop flowing from his mouth, nose and eyes.
‘The person Clarence wants to deal with is actually a mud man...’
He was filled with shock and quickly used the sanity points stored in Maggie's statue to replenish himself. After a few minutes of adaptation, he stood up straight again.
Looking back at the canvas, his eyes shifted to a corner.
There was a huddled, haggard and skinny old figure there...
‘Carmen. ’
Chen Lun was determined.
‘He is trapped in this painting within a painting...’ (End of Chapter)