Chapter 276 38. Hou Tu (4k)
The sky is red, the ground is red, and there seems to be endless blood here, soaking the soil and dyeing the clouds red.
A dark giant that resembled a bear climbed up from the red soil. With the movements of this giant, the earth was torn apart, and smelly blood gushes out from the depths of the soil, as if a spring was opened at this moment.
It stepped onto this land, its eyes were like a fierce light, and it was as tall as an ancient demon god. The jet-black hair stood up one by one, standing like steel needles, and under the hair was rock-like cracked skin, thick and bearing the traces of ancient times. So ferocious, so powerful, it was as if this giant beast could not see any enemies in its eyes, but only prey torn apart by it.
It stood up and roared, and the roar enveloped the red soil, waking up many things sleeping deep in the mud.
Those terrifying eyes reflected another giant.
To be precise, it was a huge creature covered in heavy gold armor. His four arms carried different sharp weapons, and blood was dripping from the blades, dripping to this land. Three pairs of star-like eyes illuminated all directions. The muscles under the heavy armor were bulging and slightly hunched, but it did not affect his majesty and tallness.
If one side is an extremely ferocious beast, the other side is a majestic general.
They confronted each other, tested each other, intertwined on this land, tore the earth apart, and made the free spiritual energy scream!
The general actually put down his weapon. He inserted the four golden ax blades in his hand into the soil and stood up. Then, he roared and collided with the giant beast that was coming to kill him! He's wrestling with it!
The evil beast's disdain did not last long, because it was suppressed, suppressed by the pure power of fighting! Every movement of the opponent's arms and body under the heavy armor contains wind and thunder, carrying a mountain of weight! The evil beast is retreating steadily, one punch, two punches! The opponent's four arms that originally held weapons hit the evil beast one after another, and the earth-like skin cracked. It was no longer a trace of time, but a trauma!
Blood was spilled, and the heat in it ignited their battlefield like fire! The opponent was too harsh, and the thunderstorm-like blows never stopped. After the punch, there was an elbow strike from the heavy armor, which was even more deadly and could even pierce the bones of the evil beast!
The things that had risen from the red earth watched and whispered.
There have been no visitors here for too long.
This was also the first time they looked carefully at this visitor. Under the golden visor are jet black and three pairs of eyes, and on the top of the head is a thorn-like laurel wreath, woven together, making this behemoth lose the cold aura of the devil. Taking a look at it, you can only feel the majesty in your face, as if they were meeting a person. An emperor! The evil beast was still fighting with him. The heavy armor was made up of bulging black muscles, between flesh and blood and tree fibers, twisted together like steel.
"Boom——!" When they observed, the evil beast fell down.
The heavy body fell to the ground, and the blood left behind made the land where it fell appear even brighter red.
The visitor pulled out an ax blade from the soil. The evil beast struggled to get up, but was stabbed in the chest by its foot, and then the ax blade was smashed down! A ferocious and huge head was thrown away, but he didn't even look at it, and continued to move forward on the blood flowing from the evil beast's neck.
They were mistaken.
This is not a general, this is a king.
"Black Mountain has also fallen, who is next?" They whispered, and the earth conveyed the message to them.
"It's been so long since someone has stepped on the bones of Montenegro. It makes me forget who is next."
"I care a lot. Who is he? A king, whose king?"
"The trial is still going on. Black Mountain has just fallen, and it is far from over." They were talking to themselves, not even bothering to answer each other's questions.
They don't care, they are just detained here and stripped of their freedom and self.
Perhaps what they are looking forward to is just the scene where the land becomes noisy and fresh blood is spilled on the land again.
Then, they collectively fell silent.
At the end of the earth, the setting sun is like blood.
The Golden King was heading in the direction of the setting sun, his back was imprinted in the red sun over there. His gaze swept across, and all the living creatures felt as if they were being stared at at this moment. Can he see us? How did he see us? They shut their mouths, unwilling to gamble under that gaze.
Zhu withdrew his gaze, and finally focused his gaze on the setting sun at the end of the earth.
Like blood sinking to the earth, all the floating clouds are soaked.
He didn't know how Chi Jiao passed the trial in Taihang Palace and reached the end. Chi Jiao never told him about the secrets of Taihang Palace. Moreover, Zhu stared at the bloody setting sun and squinted his eyes. Whether the Holy Land in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and the Taihang Palace had similar structures still had to be discussed. The same path would not work at all.
This is not only reflected in Taihang Palace and the red soil in front of him, but also in self-cultivation.
The earth shook, and the crickets trampled on the bloody soil. The deeper he went, the thicker the blood in the soil became. From drying up to being able to see the flow, until now, it was like he was walking in a sea of scarlet blood.
Where does this blood come from?
If it comes from a certain creature, has its blood not been drained away in these millions of years? If it could dye this land red, if it really came from a living being, how huge would this living being be? Jiao took a deep breath. Some things could only be seen with his own eyes. Chi Jiao's lack of mention of Taixing Palace's few words meant that these words were meaningless to him. Instead, they might be related to the information he knew.
And some things should not be contaminated or listened to.
Just an afterimage of the lost Supreme, a incomplete thing that exists attached to the dragon veins can collapse the stars. What he is about to face now may not be any simpler than this kind of thing.
He walked, while the setting sun at the end of the earth cast its gaze on the travelers on the earth.
The mole stopped.
Blood was gushing out, rushing out from the depths of the soil, and in just a few breaths, it gathered into a river. The blood-colored river flowed up to his ankles.
Something is alive, a voice in the bottom of my heart told me.
Suddenly, a shout came from the silent ears, not from one person, but from thousands! Zhu suddenly turned around, only to realize that he was surrounded by a crowd at some point. The humanoid creatures with transparent flesh and blood and veins of bright red color surrounded him. These things raised their arms and surrounded Zhu, shouting some kind of language in their mouths. . Even if I can't see the expressions of these things, I can still capture the crazy enthusiasm from the shouts!
At the end of the line of sight, more and more transparent humanoid figures stood up from the sea of blood, shouting and speaking crazy words.
They raised their arms and surrounded the mole, as if he were a god on an altar.
Under the gaze of the setting sun, there is soil, blood and water. The river formed by the blood and water is flowing backwards, but it does not flow back into the soil, but changes from divergence to condensation, condensing to a certain point.
No, not a god.
The mole turned his head and stared at the floating setting sun.
At least he was not a god. His muscles were rippling under the heavy golden armor, and his breathing was rhythmic.
Words appear on the surface of the smooth armor, symbolizing the ancient and powerful supernatural power. His position should be the altar where the gods have not descended, and he is the sacrifice placed on the altar! The mole took a step, crushing the condensed blood, and dark cracks loomed on the empty, dead ground. The Golden King arrived with majesty like a mountain. Under his huge body, a terrifying aura filled the air. He raised his head and raised his blade towards the half of the setting sun!
At this moment, he heard a chuckle.
The setting sun has deviated from its proper trajectory, like something that has been dormant for millions of years and finally got up, and the setting sun is its eyes!
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The Imperial Capital, thousands of meters underground.
It should have been dark, but instead it was filled with dazzling lights.
Rows of light stations extend into the distance, like two light dragons lying on the ground, illuminating this huge and empty underground city for people.
The planning of the giant underground city began as early as a century ago. Hidden from the eyes of the world, engineers in the Yan Kingdom quietly hollowed out the bottom of the imperial capital to create such a great and magnificent capital.
Its name is Houtu.
Near the edge of the underground city, such an empty and huge city obviously needs to be fixed with tens of millions of tons of reinforced concrete, but what actually appears in people's eyes are the flowing fine seal characters, which are densely distributed on the rock wall. , Looking up from the back soil is like looking up at the starry sky.
There were people coming and going.
This was not a dead city long ago.
The elevator went all the way down without displaying the floor until the man counted three hundred seconds silently in his mind. After five minutes, the elevator stopped and the door opened.
In fact, he should be one of the people who takes the elevator most frequently from the Imperial Capital all the way down to Houtu City. Counting silently every time in the elevator is just a habit of his. This habit is not to protect yourself, but to help people who use the elevator to go down. As long as each number is accurate, it means that the machinery under the elevator is intact and there is no difference at all.
"Mr. Zhao." Someone was waiting for him at the elevator entrance, bowing slightly and holding a file form in his hand.
This moment made him feel as if he had returned to the past, a time before such changes had occurred in the world.
"Yes." He agreed and stepped out of the elevator. The row of lights above his head illuminated their path all the way to the interactive railway far, far away.
"Why did that person have such a change? Have you found out the reason?" Zhao Xingzhou asked casually.
The woman dressed as a secretary following him shook her head. "Yian Lao and the others are still researching. This matter is very difficult. We have tried almost all the channels we have that can be tested, but we have not yet reached a conclusion."
"There is no conclusion, does it mean that Mr. Yan and the others have an idea?" Zhao Xingzhou was stunned. After all, this incident happened not long ago, only a week. In the previous era, the mysterious elders who were almost never involved could find out some ideas. It really surprised him.
What's more, in this era, the veterans are not focused on the mysterious path. They seem to prefer to combine this new thing with the technology of the past.
In their words, science will always be science, and this will not change because of the changes of the times. Science is a law, a law they use to observe everything in the world and the profound universe. Those weapons are just tools evolved by science. Now times have changed, but science also has a new way out, and it will not change because of this. end.
For example, the elders are currently focusing on studying... the inscriptions.
They are obtaining common sense knowledge beyond time from the inscriptions and mastering it. The concrete that was originally used to fix the Houtu rock wall turned into runes at the insistence of the elders, making the dome here look like a starry sky.
Zhao Xingzhou is a riser and one of the best, but he cannot fulfill the arrangements given to Houtu by the elders.
But they patted Zhao Xingzhou on the shoulder and said, the runes are very simple, have you studied advanced mathematics? Functions, algebra, these situations that help us understand things are just replaced by runes, but we are still groping for it now, but it is not difficult to do this if we master the rules of the runes.
It's not that hard! Looking at the earnest words of the elders, what could Zhao Xingzhou say.
This is equivalent to using runes by a person without spiritual energy and spiritual seeds, and they are still runes with the specifications of the Yang Shen realm magic circle.
Zhao Xingzhou took long strides, his military boots hitting the steel floor. He walked very fast, and he was not worried that the secretary behind him would not be able to keep up.
The doors opened one after another, and what finally appeared in front of him was a huge room.
The side of the room facing the door is not a cold steel plate, but glass on the floor. This allows people in the room to observe the scene outside the window, which is dark and pitch-black, like night.
Researchers in white coats came and went, and only a few of them raised their eyelids when they saw Zhao Xingzhou's arrival.
It's like saying hello.
Zhao Xingzhou walked straight through them and walked to the end of the room, approaching the dark glass. He squinted his eyes slightly, seeming to see something in the darkness. The secretary holding the form had already walked into the crowd, and several researchers came up, some of whom even looked to be about the same age as Zhao Xingzhou. They are just a few of the elders, the elders from the old world, competing purely for academic purposes. In this extremely cutting-edge field, age is often not important.
"Xingzhou, you're here." One of them said. He smiled gently. What was more conspicuous was his scalp, which could reflect the light and was completely barren.
"We already have some ideas, but we need confirmation, that is, more samples." After saying that, he looked into the darkness like Zhao Xingzhou.
At this moment, the green flame was ignited in the darkness, right on the glass barrier, close to everyone!
The green flames burned like a pair of eyes peering into the world from the depths of hell!
"It's really..." The elder sighed softly.
"Boom——!" In the darkness, thunder surged, and the blazing white thunder light illuminated the darkness. The people here seemed to be familiar with this process and didn't care.
Something was screaming.
Under the blazing white thunder light, the owner of the green will-o'-the-wisp, a humanoid creature fell from the surface on the other side of the glass, curled up, howling, and crying. The sound reached Zhao Xingzhou's ears through the loudspeaker, making him frown.
Not only this humanoid creature, but also a very huge thing in the darkness, like a mountain-like behemoth, the thing's eyes were also filled with green flames.
"He was quiet for a while, but then he became like this again, very dishonest." The elder said.
"This kind of dark green eyes is a characteristic, Xingzhou, please pay attention to it." He added again. "I have a hunch that our idea is crucial, and behind this strange change are unimaginable dangers. We must pay attention and find countermeasures as soon as possible!"
(End of chapter)