A burst of brilliance flowed from the surface of the black metal box: the runes activated by Hathaway formed a pathway, and the power of Hesperith's bloodline became the energy source of the device, and a faint light flowed quickly along a few ridges on the box, leaving obvious marks: these straight lines exactly divided the box into a dozen blocks, and after these lines emerged, Hao Ren could see how this thing should be opened.He didn't have to open the chest himself, though—the constant sound of mechanical friction inside the box became more and more pronounced as the seal was lifted, and finally with a few clicks, the ancient container broke down along the glowing lines, cleverly turning into an open structure, and surrounded by a dozen components, four yellowish scrolls that looked almost new.That's all there is to it.Hao Ren didn't expect that the Olympus inheritance that he had spent so much effort to find was only these four scrolls, and the amount of this information was much less than he expected, but he knew that the preciousness of these things should be beyond doubt, and in the eyes of Zeus in the past, these things were even as important as the artifact scepter, otherwise there would be no need for Hercules to take them out of Mount Olympus.Hesperius looked at the scrolls and whispered with emotion, "Hercules rushed out of the witcher's siege with these things in the first place, how important are the things on them?"
”Hao Ren took out a random scroll from the container, asked the data terminal to confirm that the thing could be opened safely, and slowly unfolded it.The scroll opened, densely covered with symbols, but the structure of the symbols was strange, including not only the Leta runes, but also the ancient Greek script and several letters that have been completely lost, and the grammar of each sentence was not normal: it was clear that the thing was written with some kind of encryption rule, but Hao Ren felt that the ciphertext was a little unnecessary.The scroll has been sealed in a very tight way, and if the sealing methods in front of it are fine, then only the descendants of the Olympus family can open this thing, in this case, what is the point of encryption?
And if the previous sealing methods are ineffective, and the scroll falls into the hands of some powerful foreign enemy, these ciphers can only delay the opponent's time to decipher - most of the supernatural races have a long lifespan, and the degree of encryption of these ciphers is actually not high in Hao Ren's opinion, with a little time, probably any alien family or demon hunter can figure out what is written on it.Hao Ren doesn't even need much decryption time here, he has the ultra-high-speed computing assistant of the data terminal, which can almost use the speed of direct reading to figure out the contents on the scroll: "......
When He first came into this world, the universe was in chaos, the forces of disorder were in turmoil among the stars, and everything was ruled by an eternal evil being, known as the 'Ancient King', also known as the 'Lord of Madness', an ancient tyrant who fed the universe, greedily sucked the primordial energy and subjected everything to its brutal rules.The Lord of Hustle is a chaotic and illogical being, and as its name suggests, Hustle is the only thing around this tyrant......"
Hao Ren's fingers moved across the scroll, reading the contents softly as he parsed them in his head.The light around him gradually distorted, the surrounding jungle fell into darkness little by little, the sky seemed to be out of balance and skewed towards the west, the sun hanging on the edge of the sky was stretched into an oval sphere, the sun twisted and tore the sky into countless terrifying strips, and a thick dark aura seeped out between the strips, as if the end was coming.Lily was the first to notice that something was wrong, and that this over-energetic husky girl could concentrate on one thing for a long time like everyone else, so her attention was always running around, so she immediately noticed something strange in the sky and exclaimed, "Ah!
Landlord, look at the sky!
”Hao Ren was interrupted in an instant, and the distorted abnormalities around him calmed down in the blink of an eye, but he also subconsciously noticed the situation around him while being interrupted: the last scene of those anomalies happened to fall into his eyes.An indescribable cold feeling welled up in his heart, and he immediately turned to the data terminal: "What happened just now?
”The data terminal also recorded the last scene just now: "It seems to have happened just as you started reading the scroll, and there are signs of chaos in the nearby space-time.However, the chaos was only kept to a small extent, and the machine had just called on the data of several artificial satellites that had flown here a few minutes earlier, and no obvious atmospheric anomalies were detected from space. ”Hao Ren suddenly felt that the scroll in his hand was full of evil energy, and he hurriedly threw the thing back into the container, but at the same time, he couldn't help but think of the few words he had just read: the King of Ancients, the Lord of Madness, the crazy and brutal rules of the universe, and the "he" at the beginning of the text—these accounts obviously had nothing to do with the Olympian gods' worship of Vivian, if anything, it seemed to describe some kind of higher event.Hao Ren couldn't help but have some associations, but he didn't think about it for the time being.Because he felt that the nature of this thing had deviated greatly from his initial expectations, and neither did the artifact, nor did these scrolls, none of which seemed to be suitable for research in this barren mountain and forest that lacked equipment support, and it was better for him to go to his safe laboratory and toss these dangerous things again, or more simply, go to Raven 12345's house to toss around......
Anyway, the goddess sister blew herself up every once in a while, and there is no shortage of him in heaven to demolish the house......
He took everything into his personal space (where he already had the artifact scepter he had found), patted the dirt on his body and stood up, "These things will have to wait until we get back to deal with them." ”"Oh," Lily suddenly came back to her senses, dangling beside Hao Ren with her feet crossed, "So what are we going to do next?"
Going to lunch?
”Hao Ren was choked at once, he really didn't know what this dog girl was thinking......
"Let's get out of here," Vivien sighed, "but before we go home, we have to go to Colpers first, send Hathaway over, and by the way, talk to White Fire about what we found here." ”Hao Ren nodded: "The final fate of the twelve demon hunters who disappeared three hundred years ago has been revealed, and the matter of the Olympus legacy has also been announced, we are equivalent to helping the demon hunters solve a headless unsolved case." ”Lily nodded her head, her eyes shining, "Whoa, yes, yes, so the witcher will invite us to dinner, right?"
”Everyone: "......" said goodbye to Pierre and the four of them at the edge of the forest, and at the same time, Hesperius also set off to return to Athens, and finally Hao Ren had a ghostly Hathaway in addition to Vivien and Lily.After confirming that nothing had been missed, they activated the spatial teleportation from the data terminal and went directly to the Ice Fortress at the top of the North Pole.Today, Hao Ren and his entourage have become frequent visitors and distinguished guests in the eyes of the witchers, and they come and go freely in Colpers and the Ice Fortress without any notice.After greeting a few of the witchers they knew, the group walked straight through the frost-covered streets of the fortress to the Frost Sanctuary where White Fire and Hasselblad lived.Along the way, Hathaway followed behind Hao Ren, and although she could change her appearance, she still maintained the image of the aristocratic lady she had when she was alive, as if she was very nervous, and didn't know if it was appropriate for her to appear here as an undead in the costume of a witcher - so she simply did not change her outfit.An undead can't hide here, and the most elite and sophisticated hunters gather in this place, and they can recognize the breath of the undead through hundreds of layers of disguise, so Hathaway has attracted the attention of many witchers after entering the city.There were also some more seasoned witchers who could distinguish the smell of their own kind from Hathaway's undead aura, which made them can't help but cast a more curious gaze.However, after seeing Hao Ren and his party walking in front, these demon hunters still put away their curiosity and only watched the strange undead step into the sacred Frost Temple.Hathaway looked around at the familiar scenery around her, returning to her hometown after three centuries, but she was already a dead body, and the series of events she had experienced, all of which made her sigh with emotion and speechless for what she saw.This is really not at all the image of her babbling and chattering in the ancient mansion.Bai Huo had already received the news that she did not reveal the image of her decadent dead house this time, but waited for Hao Ren and his party in the living room of the temple with her mentor Hasselblad early.After the two groups of people met, they first exchanged a few casual greetings, and then Hao Ren pushed Hathaway forward, forcibly letting the hesitant and cowering female undead stand in front, he decided to get the matter of Miss Undead before getting down to business, otherwise her face was really unsettling when she was ready to run away at any time."
This is Hathaway, the only one of the twelve witchers who disappeared three hundred years ago......
Well, it's not like I've survived, I should say I'm dead......"
Bai Huo and Hasselblad looked confused.
(To be continued.) )