Civilization: Beyond Two Worlds

When Kant saw the figures of those ancients again, there were only seven of them left.

What I saw at first, the mighty long dragon, most of the members of the team walking through the underground world have died from the pursuit and siege of the imaginary along the way, or their bodies were torn and smashed, or incarnated as twisted and terrifying. The distortion monster, only seven of the strongest left, appeared in Kant's field of vision.

A long time ago, in the era they lived in, there were no dark red crystals scattered around in this underground area, no high-purity ore crystals, no hot light and gas, only death and darkness. The lighting tools of ancient people The light emitted reflects the eternal darkness.

Kant followed in their footsteps.

These ancient people temporarily got rid of the imaginary spirits, but for some reason, Kant always felt that their steps and figures were more solemn and tragic. Why did these creatures from the past come to this place.

How did the bizarre ecosystems and elemental environments of the underworld emerge?

He had a hunch that a flashback in time and space might reveal the answer.

Conde moved his steps, following the figures of the only seven survivors.

Watch them come to a platform.

Watch them stop one by one.

The air was still, and in the darkness of nothingness, only the weapons and armor of the seven people radiated light. They stood silently, not knowing whether to be in silence or waiting.

After a while, one of the figures came out.

Tall and majestic, with heavy armor and a huge warhammer on his back, he must be a great warrior.

He took a few steps, turned around, and looked at the remaining six companions.

The six, including the leader holding the flag, knelt down to him together.

The tall warrior stood silently, accepting it calmly, and then he whispered, his voice low and rough, like the cold wind and icy rocks of a snow-capped mountain, speaking words that Kant could not understand.

The other six slowly got up, looked at their companions, and stepped back step by step, back to a long distance.

The bearer of the flag stepped forward, watching his companions who were close at hand.

The soldier took off the helmet, revealing a face with fangs and blue skin, but the area of ​​his right eye was already shining with purple plaques. He stroked the helmet in his hand, and reluctance flashed in his eyes. Then he put the warhammer and helmet in the distance and returned to his companions.

Then he showed a fearless and calm smile and closed his eyes.

They had a brief conversation.

I still can't understand the words, but emotions and will can transcend language, and even cross the vast river of time and pass into the ears of fire thieves.

The flag bearer took out a dagger and stabbed it towards the soldier's chest.

The breastplate infused with mysterious elements is like a broken flock, which can be broken with a poke.

The extremely dense and huge mysterious energy poured into the body of the flag bearer and poured into the body of the soldier, purple light lingered, the energy fluctuations vibrated endlessly, and a series of light explosions occurred.

The warrior's expression changed from calm to pain, from pain to twist, he howled, he roared, his face twisted, blood burst, he waved his swollen arm, grabbed the flag bearer's arm, tried to break it, He raised his stout fist and beat the opponent's head.

The flag bearers took it one by one, clenched the dagger tightly, and continued to pour mysterious energy.

The figures of the two were wrapped in a rich purple light, and the tall warrior gradually lost his human form.

distortion.

distortion.

swell.

Become a monster.

Mysterious energy poured out from the body of the bearer of the flag and poured into the body of the recipient. The screams and howls of the other party were enough to move the most hard-hearted people, but everyone was watching silently.

Until the rich life energy flowed back from the warrior's body back to the flag bearer's body.

This scene...very familiar.

Kant was shocked, and the image of the time fault was distorted. This was the result of the shock of time and space. He tried his best to calm down his mood, and he wanted to continue to find answers.

The warrior swelled and twisted into a monster more than ten meters high.

His body swelled like a ball of flesh, and dozens of bred limbs transformed into the shape of a knife and spear, whipping **** the ground, and the monster roared furiously.

The flag bearer silently stepped back, and together with other companions, saluted the deformed monster again.

What responded to them was only furious, twisted growls.

One more member.

The remaining six looked at their former companions for the last time, and left silently and quickly. In the dark and dead underground world, the huge monster with a swollen body exuded a purple light. The companions, roaring incessantly, hit the ground frantically.

Until the roar of the black beast came from afar.

The powerful tentacles rolled up a black beast, stuffed it into the huge mouthparts that opened from its abdomen, chewed, swallowed, digested, corroded into a distorted purple substance, and spat out the residue.

This is what Kant saw, the last scene in a flashback of space and time.

The next moment, time flashed, the heat wave was on the way, and the eyes were red.

Kant looked around blankly.

"You're awake... we're hesitating to wake you up."

Lily's voice sounded relieved: "If you go further, you will fall."

Kant blinked, and then he slowly recovered from the absurdity of time and space dislocation.

He fixed his eyes on what was in front of him, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Following this all the way, turning around and moving forward, is already unique.

In front of him is a huge dark red crystal pillar, rising from the ground and pointing to the sky.

And the upper part of the crystal column has burst, sharp fractures one after another, a large number of crimson fragments scattered on the ground, sparkling, no dust.

Horus said: "Father, through microscopic observation, it is judged that it exploded recently."

Kant exhaled slowly.

He observed the bottom of the crystal column, which seemed to be rooted in the ground. With a slight push, it didn't move, and the fire thief's mental power poured in, which surprised him.

The subterranean part of this crystal column is extremely deep, extending down so deeply that it seems to have no end.

At least, beyond the limit of the extension of spiritual power.

"Have you found anything?"

Lily asked softly.

Kant calmed down, did not answer Lily's question, but walked to the side, he searched for a moment under the rock wall in the distance, and then fell silent.

He saw the weathered, nearly rotten hammer and helmet.

"...Sacrifice."

Kant said softly: "I saw a sacrifice."

The flag-bearer's methods, and even the results, were almost identical to Trixis's behavior.

She stabbed the dagger into the chest of her comrade-in-arms, infused mysterious elements, extracted life force, and transformed the opponent into a violent and terrifying monster and demon, blocking the Void Spirit from chasing.

...just for that?

Just to stop the enemy?

Kant felt that things must not be so simple.

This dark red crystal pillar is most likely the incarnation of the monster distorted by the warrior.

It is devouring the ethereal.

And Trixis' behavior was also inspired by the flashback of time and space. Is what he saw the same as Kant? If not, what was his purpose in doing this?

Kant said slowly: "Tracys performed the same sacrifice ritual as the ancients. I believe this so-called sacrifice is directly related to the explosion of the crystal column... Maybe it can explain where the opponent's power comes from. Sacrifice, get the power of the aberration beast incarnated by the ancients."

Only this possibility can be explained.

Lily showed disgust.

Because she is also a pre-ordered offering, going back to the source, this is the pot of the ancients.

What are you doing.

"Evil and weird." She spurned, "What is the origin of these ancient species?"

Kant sighed: "It's not... I think there is a difference between the two."

He slowly got up and sprinkled the dust turned from the warhammer and helmet on the fractured crystal column: "Tracys corrupted and corrupted Luz, cruel, evil and disgusting, belonged to torture and cannibalism, but ancient times The feeling that human consciousness gives me is..."

He paused and said in a deep voice, "Sacrifice."

Lily frowned and said, "Even with such behavior, manner and result?"

Kant sighed: "If you think about it from another angle, they are all brave people. For the sake of their companions and victory, they can sacrifice themselves and turn into monsters, so that proud and powerful warriors can choose such strength and ending, then they How desperate the difficulties they faced and how strong their will must be."

He stunned and said: "I can see that each of them has great helplessness and pain, and also has the same firm belief as pain, so I am very curious, they sacrificed their companions at such a price, Let the brave people die in silence, what is the mission that must be fulfilled?"

Lily was stunned for a moment, and suddenly the gorilla next to him said, "This way!"

Kant turned back and looked in the direction pointed by the gorilla, and there were a few dark blood spots on the ground.

Lily narrowed her eyes and stepped forward quickly, with Kant following behind.

The black-gray ground was stained with deep dark purple, and some purple flocs were scattered. Lily frowned, squatted down, observed for a moment, and said, "It's the corroded dragon blood, and the dragon scales that have distorted and fallen off— This pattern is of a green dragon, and only Trixis in the mission is green!"

No, I think they are all green.

"And not just left!"

Hearing this, Kant's eyes narrowed, and he glanced at the bursting crystal column: "If the speculation is correct, Trixis obtained the deformed power of the ancients through sacrifice, then this large amount of dragon blood and The signs of peeling off the dragon scales can be explained, he must have come here in person, and exchanged the life essence of sacrifice for the power of the ancients, this process is accompanied by drastic changes in the body..."

"That's why a lot of blood, dragon scales and flesh and blood tissue were disintegrated."

Lily's eyes brightened and she shouted: "This means that there are still six crystals, corresponding to the other six ancient people? And Trixis has taken Luz's life essence, and he is about to extract Vines, and me... So, there are three crystal columns that are complete, that is to say…”

Kant nodded: "Yes, if we can find a crystal column in advance, then we have a chance to ambush Trixis, because he will be there sooner or later..."

This is good news.

The underground map provided by Lutz only stopped there. It was very difficult to find Trixis in an area with complex and vast terrain, but it was much easier to wait for the rabbit.

"But how do we find the location of the other crystal pillars?"

In this regard, Kant hesitated for a moment, then smiled lightly.

"I'll do it," he said. "A space-time flashback can be triggered near the crystal column. You can also come near other crystal columns. In this way, you should be able to accurately detect..."

Lily said worriedly: "But you... are you okay?"

She could see that every time and space flashback would exacerbate Kant's psychological pressure and anxiety.

Kant shook his head and said, "Is this the time to talk about this? Besides, panoramic VR is cool."

Long Niang was silent. She was about to say something when the gorilla, who had been standing in front of the crystal column after discovering the traces of the dragon scales, suddenly turned around and pointed in one direction: "...over there."

Both Kant and Lily were taken aback: "What?"

"Next." Aang said in a positive tone, "over there."

The expressions of the fire thief and the dragon became weird. They looked at Lily, Kant looked at the gorilla again, and asked uncertainly, "How did you know?"

The gorilla tilted his head, showing a distressed look: "I don't know."

"...You don't know where you are, or you don't know why you know where you are?"

The gorilla's expression changed from distressed to dazed.

Ah, fortunately, it's still the gorilla I know.

The gorilla turned his fingers seriously, repeated Kant's words, finally understood, and said in a confident tone: "I know it's there, but I don't know why I know it!"

Kant looked at Longniang again, and Longniang also looked at Kant.

Looking at each other, Kant said, "Try it?"

Longniang turned her head to look at the still a little silly, and nodded, "Okay... Anyway, even if she doesn't say it, we don't know where to find it, so we can only look around."

The plan has been decided, and we will start again.

It's just that Kant has one more thing on his mind. This is the first time he has expressed his opinion after entering the underground world and the gorilla is in a state of confusion, and it is about the main quest.

In the silent march, Kant and Lily exchanged glances.

Long Niang's eyes are very understandable, she is talking about an ape - what's the situation with this guy?

In this regard, Kant had to smile and shake his head.

A gorilla.

The first friendly and intelligent creature he met on the island of Saint Inception and the whole world, spent the most difficult year with her, and the relationship was close, like family.

But that's about it.

He did not know the origin of the gorilla, why it was sealed on the island of Saint Yin, and did not know her previous identity. The magical animals on the island all have a distinguished past and retain their old memories. Only the gorilla is a piece of Blank, Parrot is also very secretive about her origin.

But now, she came to this dusty underground world, showing a completely different confusion and confusion than usual, and even now, she pointed out the way forward.

Could it be…

Kant's expression changed slightly, and he thought of a possibility.

but why…

The mysteries and doubts in his heart are getting more and more, he glanced at the gorilla, this is not the time to talk about it with the gorilla several times before, she showed a look of pain and entanglement, the war is imminent, entanglement with this kind of Things are not wise... After dealing with Trixis, let's dig slowly.

Soon, they found a second column of crystals.

It is also huge and unbridled, rooted in the ground, a huge dark red crystal.

The top half has burst.

Kant's withdrawal from the flashback of time and space is the same content. The next companion to be sacrificed will also face it calmly, and it will also be painful distortion, but it is a repeated cycle of watching again.

The heroes who have gone through all the hard work and battles to come to this place are willing to die and turn into deformed and ugly twisted monsters. What is their purpose?

"there!"

The gorilla quickly pointed out the way forward.

The movement is getting faster and faster. This is essentially a racing game. Kant wants to block Tracy. To this end, at most seven crystal pillars must be searched, while Tracy is the first to sacrifice the life essence of the two dragons in his hand. His goal is very clear, and he only needs to go straight to the two complete sacrifice pillars.

"Hopefully this ceremony will take a long time."

third root.

The third time flashback.

It is also a quick glance. The scenes seen in these flashbacks are similar but different, mainly due to different time periods. The first time I saw it was the distorted scene of a soldier accepting a blood sacrifice, and the third time I saw it. , it is the detailed process of the deformed monster to meet the black beast.

It is devouring the ethereal.

And defeat, suppress, crush and devour the doomsday beast from behind the veil.

The deformed ancients became extremely powerful.

Kant witnessed the process and the result.

The phantom beasts that were chewed and devoured were turned into nutrients for monsters, corroded and digested by mysterious elements, and the transformed mysterious elements strengthened the power of monsters and enhanced their advantages against phantom spirits.

overwhelming advantage.

Doubt arises from this.

If there is such a good way, why run away? If what they are facing is only the disaster of the black beast and the veil, then why not directly resist it in this way?

What do you want to do when you come to this dead underground world?

Fourth pillar.

In the space-time flashback, Kant saw that the monster that devoured many imaginary spirits, because of the absorption and transformation of too many mysterious elements, its body has begun to crystallize.

dark red.

and began to take root in the earth.

The mysterious elements produced by digesting the imaginary spirit flowed underground along the huge expanded and crystallized body.

Fifth pillar.

The dragon roar suddenly sounded, and a giant dragon spread its wings, its body swelled and twisted, its head was huge, dripping purple saliva, spitting deadly poisonous gas, and wailing and roaring.

But that's not Trixis.

"Vines!"

Lily cried out.

"Lily! Lily! Lily!"

The deformed and fallen dragon roared with crazy blood and tears. It still retained its sanity and recognized Lily, but the distortion of the body also created the madness of the soul. The former dragon drove the body with instinct and evil thoughts. The group launched an attack.

"Be like me! Be like me!"

With madness, distortion, jealousy, inferiority and hatred in its eyes, it shouted: "Upgrade! Upgrade! Let's upgrade together!"

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