Chapter 234 Bone Throne
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The infected person led Sun Hang and the others for nearly two kilometers in the tunnel, passing through many side roads that still smelled of strange things. However, the infected person did not stop, and Sun Hang and the others were not easy to separate. Explore these forks in multiple ways.
They can simply mark these intersections and continue to follow the infected people.
Finally, when Ye Xuan was out of breath, they finally arrived at the end of the tunnel - a rather spacious underground hall.
This hall is filled with life-size pottery figurines. Most of these pottery figurines are defective, but the few well-preserved pottery figurines exude a very obvious aura of strange things - except for the armored soldiers. In addition to the figurines, there are even many horse figurines and chariot figurines in the hall.
A heavy bed crossbow was mounted on the chariot. Four large bows with a length of three meters overlapped front and back. A string made of several strands of animal sinew was wrapped around the huge winch. The front end of the crossbow arrow was as thick as a child's arm and flashed with sharp arrows. The cold light was pointed directly at the people who broke into the hall.
"Good guy...are you moving the Terracotta Warriors and Horses from the First Emperor's Mausoleum on the outskirts of Chang'an City?" Sun Hang couldn't help but sigh.
"No, the ones moved here are not the terracotta warriors and horses from the Mausoleum of the First Emperor." Zhulong shook his head, "The chain armor and weapons equipped on these terracotta warriors are very different from the soldiers of the Qin Dynasty... And those mounted on chariots The bed crossbow is also closer to the style equipped by the Crusaders a thousand years ago."
However, in addition to this, Sun Hang also felt an extremely powerful aura hidden behind the military formation.
"Oh?" Sun Hang looked at these warriors again, "So they are just a group of barbarians?"
This is not to say that Sun Hang looks down on Europa’s army, but in a horizontal comparison, the Crusaders are indeed not worthy of carrying shoes for the Song Dynasty army of the same period in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness, let alone the more sturdy nomads in the north of Xiazhou Continent. .
To the Xiazhou people of that era, the Crusaders who broke into Asia Minor from the Europa region all the way east could only be regarded as a group of beggars who had never seen the world.
"At first glance, it looks intimidating, but upon closer inspection, it's still far behind the terracotta warriors and horses in the Imperial Tomb." Ye Xuan also commented on the side, "Both the quantity and the momentum."
The number of mercenaries in this hall is about three hundred, there are less than fifty war horses, and there are only four chariots carrying heavy crossbows... This kind of force may be considered a small amount during the Crusades. It is an armed force that cannot be ignored, but if it comes to the battlefields of Song and Liao at the same time, it may be difficult to even attack a small town.
"Could these things be imitations made by the 'Phoenix Factory' back then?" Yang Qi asked doubtfully.
"Probably, there is no history of making clay terracotta warriors in Europa," Zhulong said.
While several people were discussing these pirated terracotta warriors and horses, the infected person suddenly started running back, shouting in a hoarse voice as he ran: "Wake up! He...he is already awake!"
A loud noise suddenly came from a distance. No one expected that the bed crossbow that had been placed underground for hundreds of years could still fire normally. The crossbow arrow as thick as an arm shot out quickly, directly nailing the escaped infected person to death. On the ground!
"Betrayer, die!"
A dull voice echoed in the hall.
Several corpses immediately rushed forward, blocking everyone behind them, while Yang Qi and Ye Xuan ran to the infected person's side and checked her condition.
"There is still hope!" Yang Qi shouted, "But she must be sent back to the hospital immediately. Sun Hang, can you use your ability to help her stop the bleeding first... Sun Hang?"
Yang Qi raised her head and realized that Sun Hang had already bypassed the corpses and walked to the front.
"No, buddy." Sun Hang continued to walk forward, "Your lines are too average, right? Can you change it to something less embarrassing?"
"Intruders, surrender and live." The voice said again, "Resist and die together!"
The mercenaries carrying the aura of strange things moved, and with a harsh and rough friction sound, more than a dozen mercenaries holding swords and shields surrounded Sun Hang, and the sharp weapons with cold light pointed directly at every part of Sun Hang's body. key points.
"Kneel down!" the voice shouted.
"I think you seem to be a little confused about the situation." Sun Hang glanced around the group of mercenaries and said calmly, "Get out of the way."
His tone was calm, but the aura released from his body was extremely turbulent. In an instant, with him as the center, all the mercenaries within a radius of 100 meters fell to their knees. Even those standing behind Sun Hang were not affected. Wang Xiyi and Zhulong, who were hit head-on by this aura, also had a look of discomfort on their faces.
"Watch and study hard." Sun Hang said as he walked away, "The so-called 'king's spirit' is not something that is shouted out by mouth. People like you can only be called 'bastard's spirit'."
Sun Hang had already seen the source of the sound - looking past the kneeling mercenaries, he could see that at the end of the phalanx, there was a throne made of bones, with a dried corpse leaning on the throne, and a throne. A crown of pure gold sat on its bare head.
On its chest, there is an extremely exaggerated wound, which extends from the left shoulder to the lower right abdomen, cutting open the entire chest and abdominal cavity. It can be vaguely seen that there is something emanating from its heart. A faint red light.
Sun Hang kicked away a mercenary who was kneeling in front of him and was in the way, and walked straight towards the throne.
"Soldiers! Kill him!" The voice sounded again, with a tone that contained seven parts of anger, two parts of shock, and... one part of fear.
None of the mercenaries moved. When Sun Hang reached the center of the military formation, all the mercenaries had already knelt down - facing Sun Hang's direction.
Sun Hang climbed up the steps paved with bones and walked up to the throne.
"Don't you think I'm more suitable to sit here than you?" Sun Hang asked seriously.
The corpse opened its eyes and stared at Sun Hang with its pupils that also emitted dark red light... The next second, it suddenly burst out, pulled out the dagger under the throne, and slashed at Sun Hang's head and face. come over.
But as soon as the dagger was swung into the air, its movements froze - because Sun Hang had already reached into its chest and grabbed the luminous thing.
Along with the sound of dry tissue being torn apart, Sun Hang took the thing out from the chest of the mummy.
The dark red light in the eyes of the mummy dissipated instantly, and it fell down, rolling along the steps under the Bone Throne into the military formation, and did not stop until it was blocked by a kneeling mercenary.
"You are...killing the king..." Its last voice echoed in the hall. "You are the king of hammers." Sun Hang responded casually. While playing with the things dug out from the dried corpse, he turned around and sat on the bone throne.
Although it is made of bones, the surface of this bone throne is polished to be very smooth and smooth - it is quite comfortable to sit on.
The thing hidden in the chest of the mummy is also a crystal, but unlike the previous heart-shaped crystal, this crystal is a cube with sharp edges and corners, and its surface is covered with dense lines - but these lines are also straight lines. The turning points are all at right angles. There is no place inside or outside the entire crystal that can be described as "round".
For some reason, Sun Hang always felt that the thing looked like a Rubik's Cube, both in shape and size... He tried to twist it, but the crystal didn't move at all - those lines were really just lines, and the precise structure interlocked with each other. The gap left.
"Sun Hang... did you kill that guy?" Wang Xiyi ran to the throne and looked up at Sun Hang, who was sitting on the throne.
"Yeah... I thought how strong this guy was, but when I dug this thing out, it just burped." Sun Hang raised the crystal in his hand, "The powerful aura I sensed earlier was not the source. It’s not about the guy who likes to show off, but it comes from it.”
"Its meme strength... seems to be stronger than mine..." Wang Xiyi walked up and stared at the crystal at close range... But even she herself didn't notice that the area covered by scales on the body surface was rapidly increasing. Growth, in just a few seconds, the entire face, except for a circle around the facial features, was covered with iron-black dragon scales.
"Old Wang...there seems to be something wrong with you." Sun Hang noticed Wang Xiyi's change and immediately reminded him.
"Me?" Wang Xiyi was stunned, and then noticed the changes in her body. She jumped back, her wings suddenly flapped, and she was more than ten meters away from Sun Hang.
The scales that almost covered her whole body slowly receded. She took a deep breath, stretched out her hand to touch her cheek, and muttered: "Strange...how come I don't feel anything at all?"
"It seems to be the reason for this thing?" Sun Hang stared at the red crystal in his hand for a long time, and then thought of the time when all the antiques imitated by the "Phoenix Factory" turned into strange objects... something suddenly appeared in his mind. A bold idea.
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Could this thing have the ability to "mass produce weird things" just like me?
Mass production of monsters and memetic infection are not the same thing. The latter is to use the monster's own memes to infect those people or things that are still in a normal state, causing them to be infected... and then become monsters or monsters.
In this way, the meme in the infected subject and the strange thing that is the source of infection are "homogeneous". Even if they mutate later, the meme fragments of the two will have many similarities.
But mass-produced monsters are completely different.
This is the use of special abilities to cause normal people or things to produce weird memes on their own, and then give birth to a "new weird thing" - such as "Ji 2796" and Sun Hang now carry it with him Those liquid metal weapons were originally just the most common scrap metal, but after being affected by Sun Hang's "Wishes Come True" ability, they all turned into strange objects carrying memes...
Song Yarong had already conducted a detailed analysis of the memetic fragments of "Ji 2796", and the result was that the meme of the monster was completely inconsistent with the memetic fragments in Sun Hang's body. There is no relationship between infection and being infected.
"Old Wang." Sun Hang shouted.
"Ah? What's the matter?" Wang Xiyi was stunned for a moment, "By the way, won't you be affected by this thing?"
"I haven't noticed any impact for the time being." Sun Hang said, "Do you have any unnecessary small items on you? Just give me a few."
"Small items?" Wang Xiyi touched her waist and sides of her thighs, and suddenly remembered that she was still wearing a nano-armored battle suit brought from the test site. In addition to the functional equipment hidden inside the battle suit, , there is nothing superfluous about him.
This is also related to her usual fighting habits - after all, once she enters the state of animal transformation, her clothes and belongings will basically be scrapped, so she rarely carries things like mobile phones with her when going on missions... In Wang Xiyi's own words, "If the monitoring bracelet breaks, the institute will reissue it for free, but if the mobile phone breaks, you have to spend money to buy it yourself..."
“Won’t the logistics department reimburse you?”
"At first, they were willing to reimburse me, but later... they were only willing to give me a senior citizen phone that costs two to three hundred yuan."
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"Are you planning to test the function of this crystal?" Zhulong saw Sun Hang's intention at a glance, "Just in time, I have a useless thing here."
Zhulong took out something from the big pocket of his jacket and threw it towards Sun Hang.
Sun Hang caught it and saw that it was a stainless steel fork.
"Why do you carry this thing with you?" Sun Hang asked in confusion.
"I was eating breakfast when I received the news." Zhulong smiled awkwardly, "After I ran to the parking lot, I realized that I was still holding the fork in my hand, so I just put it in my pocket."< br>
"Alright."
However, when Sun Hang looked at the crystal in his left hand and the fork in his right hand, he couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
If the "Phoenix Factory" relies on this thing to turn those imitation antiques into strange objects, then how exactly do they operate it?
Is it just a matter of bringing the two close to each other?
Sun Hang brought the things he was holding in his hands closer to each other bit by bit... However, until the stainless steel fork and the crystal came close to each other, there was still no change.
"Could it be a matter of time?" Zhulong said, "Those imitations were transformed into strange objects a year after the Phoenix Factory disappeared... It's not right, it's not right either."
Zhulong shook his head as he spoke.
These imitation antiques were obviously not produced at the same time, but the time points when they were transformed into strange objects were very concentrated... This was obviously not because this transformation required time to slowly "ferment".
It is more like a "bomb" that has a set "detonation time" or can be "remotely controlled".
That being the case, it should be theoretically possible to make these "bombs" explode immediately after being created.
(End of chapter)