Chapter 1181 The Twelve Lords
“I haven’t seen Qian Sen or the others here either…”
Li Chengqi glanced around and expressed his discomfort at not seeing even Qian Sen's bones, indicating that he had to continue walking inside.
"Brother Li, look ahead, ahead!"
Li Chengqi was very calm, but right in front of him, about twenty meters away, a giant bull made of brass and flames, about seven or eight meters high, was charging towards Li Chengqi.
Every step it takes will cause the ground to tremble horribly, and the flames flying around its body are even more terrifying. The blazing temperature can be felt from far away.
However, Li Chengqi only paid attention to this kind of thing by raising his hand.
A thin layer of golden light converged into a thick shield in front of him, and the bull hit it with a deafening metallic sound.
Not only did it not knock Li Chengqi back even half a step, but the brass bull itself was so shocked that he almost fell over.
Li Chengqi then pressed down with his other hand and made a closing gesture with his hands.
The dizzy bull was immediately squeezed by the invisible force in the air. Without making a sound, its body was squeezed into a ball of scrap metal.
The flames surrounding it dispersed with a roar, leaving only a pile of twisted and deformed parts falling to the ground.
"Let's go on."
Anyway, along the way, Li Chengqi was basically the one who took care of things. At most, Tang Xiaoqin would help. The others were basically watching the show, and everyone was already numb.
But Li Chengqi has already felt bored. There is no end, right?
“How long will it take for it to end?”
"It shouldn't be long."
Gan Xiaoyan followed up and said:
"This place should be built according to the arrangement of the twelve main gods of Olympus, but the order may be messed up."
"Um...that means there are twelve in total?"
"Well, we just discussed that, except for the original Minotaur, every room thereafter actually corresponds to a god in mythology."
After the Minotaur comes the undead army, corresponding to Pluto in Roman mythology and Hades in Greek mythology.
Medusa was cursed by Athena and turned into a Gorgon, so she represents Minerva in Roman mythology.
The giant squid that suddenly jumped out of the large pool is easy to understand. It corresponds to the sea god Poseidon, which is Neptune in Roman mythology.
After this, the flying dagger was Mercury (Hermes).
The giant high-brightness, high-heat light bulb that was broken by Li Chengqi was Phoebus (Apollo).
The white stag represents Diana (Artemis).
A marble soldier more than ten meters high represents Mars (Ares), the god of war.
Thunderclouds belong to the sky god Jupiter (Zeus).
The bull made of fire and brass is obviously Vulcan (Hephaestus), the god of fire and forging.
This is certainly not an unreasonable association. In addition to the fact that every monster can be matched, the star map seen in the room with the flying dagger can also prove this.
"So there are three more?"
Since he is one of the twelve main gods of Olympus, he has already seen nine difficulties and monsters facing each other, so naturally there are only three left.
But Gan Xiaoyan shook her head:
"There should be one left."
"Why?"
"The star map I saw before had stars marked in black. If the stars on the star map represent the Greek gods, the black stars should naturally represent parts that do not exist or have not been completed. In fact, we do I have never encountered any monsters or difficulties related to the gods represented by the black stars.”
The order and members of the Twelve Olympian Gods are actually not fixed. There are some differences in different mythological stories and written records.
Just like Hades, sometimes he is counted as one of the twelve main gods, and sometimes he is not, which is very confusing.
"You'd better tell the result directly." I don't know whether others were confused or not, but Li Chengqi was confused after listening to Gan Xiaoyan's explanation.
"On the star map, all the stars representing the Greek gods are marked. Excluding the black stars, the last room probably represents Juno, the Queen Hera in Greek mythology."
The only thing Li Chengqi knew about Hera was that she was the wife of Zeus, and she seemed to be very jealous.
Nothing else.
But Gan Xiaoyan's expression seemed to become a little serious.
"Don't be nervous, I will sort it out."
"No, I'm not nervous."
Gan Xiaoyan said:
"Brother Li, I had a dream before that Director Qian was trapped by a big snake. If I think about it carefully, it just fits the current situation."
"Why?"
"The symbol of Hera is the serpent."
Putting it this way, Gan Xiaoyan's vision is really good. No wonder she was recruited to work in the ninth subject since high school.
Gan Xiaoyan's original intention was to remind Li Chengqi not to be careless, as it might not be easy to deal with.
However, Li Chengqi didn't take it to heart as always. After all, they just met each other all the way.
While talking, everyone came to a door.
This is the only place where you can see a door in the entire ruins. Before that, it was just a doorway at most, and sometimes it was just a passable crack in the wall, which seemed very perfunctory.
This door is also made of marble. The door frame is decorated with golden flowers and leaves, and on the other side, there is a line of Latin letters that look like they were carved out of plaster with fingernails.
‘This is your last chance, you will face the messenger of nature’
Although called Hera, Queen of Heaven, Hera is actually the incarnation of natural power. She is roughly similar to the mother of the earth, Chantia. In terms of powerful power in mythology, she is probably stronger than Zeus. After all, Zeus said that he would share himself when he proposed. The authority was given to Hera, so Hera could also use wind, rain, thunder and lightning.
Simply put, Hera is the god of the earth, and the incarnation of the earth is a snake in many myths.
But it was a fairy tale after all. Li Chengqi still ignored the warning on the door. He kicked the door into pieces from the outside and walked in very recklessly.
Different from all the rooms that I passed before, this place is very spacious, and every wall is well carved and decorated.
Skilled craftsmen in ancient times used marble, gold, silver, gems, and plaster to build a room comparable to a palace. Huge braziers were poked along the wall and arranged in rows, providing ample lighting for the entire room.
But unlike Li Chengqi's imagination, he saw a big snake as soon as he entered the door. At the end of the room, he could only see a huge stone tablet.
So this is very strange. If you say it is a temple, it must have a statue of the god. What does it mean to have just a stone tablet?
Charlie, who was following behind, looked at the room, and soon the sound of someone flipping through a notebook sounded:
"The advance team has no record of this room. This room did not exist when the ruins were discovered."
This probably also means that you finally found the right place, right?
Going closer to the stone monument, you can see from a distance that there seem to be some round things under the shadow of the stone monument. However, on the back of the stone monument, the blind spot illuminated by the flame is too large, so it is not very clear. .
Just as he was about to get closer, the stone tablet began to glow.
It emits light green light, and the light quickly spreads and fluctuates like water waves.
Layers of light green haloes erupted from the stone tablet and spread in all directions.
This didn't seem to be an attack. The light wave swept over everyone, and no one felt any physical discomfort. However, the light wave seemed to be able to penetrate rocks, without being blocked by any material, and spread to very far away.
Needless to say, it was normal for Hera's stone slab to glow green. After all, Zeus had given her so many cuckolds. It really made a green person panic in the literal sense.
However, Li Chengqi stopped immediately when the light wave appeared. For the first time, he showed a slight frown and a somewhat solemn expression.
(End of chapter)