Hasselblad ordered some of the witchers to stay in the family hall to monitor if there were any remnants of the Shadow of Chaos entrenched in the area, while he himself led several elite witchers, including Shirohuo, to set off with Hao Ren to the ancestral resting place of the Ancatero family.Led by Andahel, the group came to the location of the resting place, which was the unusually large obelisk that Wayne had mentioned earlier.The obelisk is located in the middle of a large empty square, it is three or four hundred meters high, with a solemn and imposing three-story structure, each layer of the tower will be closed inward, and finally at the top of the spire is a huge metal device suspended in the air.There are no buildings to be seen around the obelisk, and the empty square is filled with only a few neat and sparsely distributed golden columns, which are surrounded by light that does not see what their purpose is.This is the family resting place of the Tana people - Hao Ren originally thought that this should be a more gloomy place, after all, it is a super large cemetery, but the atmosphere here does not feel this at all, it is filled with a warm and bright atmosphere, a bit like some kind of large-scale landscape architecture, from the setting of this place can be seen that the Tana people attach importance to funeral matters.Unlike other outliers, the Tana have a relatively short lifespan, and although they still outlive humans, they are still a short-lived race compared to witchers or vampires, so they have such large mausoleums in their family domains, and there are also very formal funeral rites.In the culture of the witchers, the funerary part is weaker, and most of them die in battle in their later years, and their bodies are often difficult to preserve, so their funerals are simple and unpretentious.Vampires are the most fond of all the aliens in terms of tombs and coffins, and they spend more time researching coffin tombs than humans - except that they usually study these things for sleeping, and we won't discuss them......
"Their hiding place is underground," Andaher led the group towards the obelisk, "It's hard to find that place if no one leads you." ”Hasselblad looked at Andahel with some surprise: "I didn't expect them to tell a witcher about their secret sanctuary. ”Andahel's expression was gloomy: "A month ago......
At that time, the situation was unique, and we were completely blind to the difference between witchers and aliens.We have to keep the survivors behind so we can tell the others what happened. ”"You're meeting with the people of the Ancatero family to discuss things about innate hostility?"
Hasselblad asked, "You're hiding from the elders that you're going to do such an astonishing act—to be honest, I've always known that Elder Amtura had something special about his mind, but I didn't expect him to do this and bring so many witchers in one go." ”"We can't do anything without hiding it from the Presbyterian Church," replied Andahir calmly, and judging by her attitude, it was clear that she was one of the strongest supporters of Amthura's doctrine, and it was evident that the old-fashioned and stubborn Witchers had many different schools of thought in the eyes of the outside world, and there were many deviant ones, "and Amtura was not impulsive, he consulted a lot of information, and conducted thousands of experiments on the bloodlines of witchers and aliens, We just didn't think that the problem would be more rooted. ”"So you paid a huge price."
Hasselblad replied lightly.Andahel didn't say anything, but silently came to the base of the golden obelisk, and placed her hand on a wall that looked indistinguishable from the surroundings, and the wall shimmered, and on its surface appeared alien characters and symbols, which should be considered a touch screen made by the Tana.Andaher typed a series of instructions into the wall, which must have been given to her by the Ancatero family.With the faint sound of mechanical movement, the golden walls slowly opened to the sides, revealing a sloping downward staircase."
What the hell is that blood exchange ritual you did for that?"
Walking on the long staircase leading to the underground, Hao Ren couldn't help but ask curiously, "What does it have to do with the projects that Amtura is studying?"
”"Instead of exchanging blood, a purification ritual is performed with the blood of both parties, in an attempt to artificially terminate the innate hostility induction.According to the Amtura Elders' research, the innate hostility between the various races is something hidden in the bloodline and is immaterial," Andahr replied, "and he felt that it was an implant from a third party, a time bomb buried in our bloodline, so he wanted to address this uncontrollable factor anyway."
His research hasn't made much progress in the past millennia, but it's finally changed by leaps and bounds recently......
"It's the sudden weakening of the innate hostility of the various races in recent months, right?
”Vivien said casually.Andahel nodded slightly: "That's right, that's exactly what happened."
The drastic reduction of the innate hostility finally provided us with enough data, so Elder Amtura completed some of his research and came up with a ritual to purify the bloodline.He decided to start by letting some of his witchers and members of the Ancatro family perform the ritual.Many of his witchers were deeply affected by this weakened event of innate hostility, and the Ancatero family was one of the milder of the different races, so it was just the right fit to bring the two of us together without worrying about getting into a fight.In fact, we originally planned to ask the Kraken for help, they are more gentle than the Ancatro family, and the Demon Hunters have almost no hostility towards them, but they are elusive, and it is really difficult to ......find them" Hao Ren heard this and said that this is the disadvantage of the respective blockade of intelligence, if the Demon Hunter had contacted him earlier, the situation would definitely be different: the two Sirens in his family have been idle all day long, and they have nothing to do, Elsa still has a restaurant, Nangong May is now idle and has nothing to do, drinking paint and playing all day long, Stain yourself with a colorful scare ......
"The Shadow of Chaos appeared after you performed this ritual?"
”Hasselblad asked.Andaher was silent for a moment and nodded: "The ritual went smoothly at the beginning, the witchers who carried out the bloodline purification and the members of the Ancatero family were completely free from the influence of the hostile induction, but soon the situation began to get out of control, and we found that everyone's hostile induction was disappearing rapidly, and in the end, even the people who were farthest away from the scene of the ritual were also affected, and the elder of Amtura and the Voguth patriarch were no exception.At first I thought it was a ritual that was overperformed, but soon Elder Amtura realized that it wasn't the 'Blood Purification' ritual that was working, but something else in the hall: we had flipped a switch.Elder Marduk tried to end the ritual, but it was too late, and the shadows of chaos suddenly emerged from under everyone's feet, and we didn't have time to react. ”At the end of the long staircase was a lift, and Andaher led the group to stand on the platform of the lift, and the button was activated to take everyone deeper underground, while she continued to describe the scene from a month ago: "The first to lose control were Abaddon and Croanne, who stabbed Elder Marduk, and the situation spiraled out of control.Not only did the witchers and the Ancatro family attack each other, but they also began to kill each other.Eventually, Elder Amtura regained his senses, and he told me and Patriarch Vorgus to retreat—we were the only ones on the scene who hadn't been corrupted by the Shadow of Chaos. ”When the elevator came to the depths of the ground, Hao Ren saw a heavy metal gate appear in front of him, and on both sides of the metal gate, the very solid looking walls were inlaid with huge glass windows, and some gray-white shadows were neatly arranged behind the glass windows."
During the evacuation, we discovered that the Shadow of Chaos had leaked out and was constantly emerging from all corners, with people pouring in from all sides of the city as if ordered to fight in the center of the city: the situation was completely out of control.Chieftain Vogus did his best to gather the people who were still awake, and we made our way to the sanctuary and began to think about how we could avoid the Shadow of Chaos. ”Hao Ren came to those huge glass windows, a cold air seemed to faintly come out of the windows, he tried to distinguish the scene on the other side of the glass windows, and finally saw that there were one after another neatly arranged transparent containers placed vertically, a white mist drifted between these containers, and judging by the cold ice around those containers, the temperature of the room inside was extremely low."
Whoever stops thinking will not be invaded by the Shadow of Chaos," Andahel pointed to the floodgate, "My sanity binding spell has a limited range of cast, so we used this room.Vogus said it was a dormant facility - hopefully I was okay with it. ”Hao Ren looked up at the alloy gate, and saw a line of text above the gate: "Fourth Cryo-dormant Module" (to be continued.) )