1094: Chapter 1094: The Past ‘mories’, Remnant from the Ruins?
(Extra long chapter, seeking monthly tickets) 1094: Chapter 1094: The Past ‘mories’, Remnant from the Ruins?
(Extra long chapter, seeking monthly tickets) The red, yellow, and blue glows pervaded the smooth surface of the obelisk, and the terrifying, twisted contamination poured out like a breached flood from the towering obelisk.
The booming sound of the bells echoed in everyone’s ears, seemingly possessing an invisible magic that made people unconsciously want to prostrate before the towering obelisk, rging into one with it.
The surrounding flas that had just been extinguished by the Regicide Evil Spirit were blocked outside the sea of fire, and now the remaining City of Rong Guang Guards, in the midst of the booming bell sounds, were prostrating on the ground, devout and fervent in their gaze towards the towering obelisk.
Their wills seed to have detached from their bodies, as flesh and soul were dominated by so twisted frenzy.
However, they did not make any further moves.
In their frenetic gaze, the violent contamination brought by the obelisk swept through the surroundings.
Hands erged from the blood and flesh of these prostrating, fervent figures, tearing open their bodies from the inside, and amid the splattered flesh, distorted monsters stepped onto the ruins left by the flas.
Bright train whistles sounded above the ruins left by the sea of fire.
‘Hao Yi’ reached out to grab the trembling Riley and the about-to-prostrate Ruilin, retreating toward the open door of the Velora behind them.
Riley had now beco one of the nodes for He Ao to control the City of Rong Guang, her very self being impacted by the city’s contamination.
Her special ‘sealing’ constitution greatly enhanced her control over the contamination of the City of Rong Guang, making this outbreak of contamination have only a slight influence on her.
As for the contamination on Ruilin’s body, He Ao casually used the power of the City of Rong Guang to isolate it.
But this contamination was not the first wave, an even more violent contamination was closely following.
“You—”
Being pulled backward by ‘Hao Yi,’ the distorted and pained Riley looked at the ‘youth’ who had already withdrawn his hand from her shoulder, as if she wanted to say sothing.
But before she could finish, ‘Hao Yi’ had already entered the Velora with the two sisters.
As the doors closed, Riley saw the youth and the angel girl walking toward the location of the towering obelisk.
“Aren’t they coming with us?”
She turned her field of view and looked toward ‘Hao Yi’ behind her.
“They have their own things to do,”
‘Hao Yi’ replied slowly, “Do your best to help him and maintain the stability of this city.”
As a key node with ‘self-awareness,’ Riley herself could mobilize part of the City of Rong Guang’s power.
With her proactive help, the ‘battle’ between He Ao and the Rong Guang Society’s President for control over the City of Rong Guang would be easier.
“Okay.”
Riley nodded lightly.
The speeding train entered the void, retreating towards the back.
anwhile, He Ao lifted his head, looking at the obelisk above.
Thoom—
The booming bell sound rang out again, like a sound seeping into one’s soul, affecting He Ao’s body and making him unconsciously want to prostrate on the ground, worshipping the origin of all this Rong Guang.
Above the towering obelisk, the sun once tinged with bloody brilliance had now wholly turned blood-red.
He Ao didn’t wait for the third bell to ring.
He lifted his sowhat uncontrollable feet and, controlling the maid puppet together, hurriedly walked toward the glowing obelisk surface.
Soon, he arrived in front of the obelisk, reaching out to touch its surface.
In this instant, he felt as if so force within his soul began to stir violently.
That was the power of his Super mory.
Super mory?
Why was the Super mory reacting?
Before he could figure it out, a strong suction force burst from the surface of the obelisk, pulling his whole body into the obelisk.
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The Velora appeared outside the first ring of circular streets surrounding the obelisk.
At this mont, sporadic gunfire could be heard here.
Faint bell sounds arose in the sky, echoing in everyone’s ears.
But the violent contamination ceased within the first circular street ring.
This was partly due to He Ao’s deliberate control using the power of the City of Rong Guang; the contamination itself also seed to be constrained by so force.
The presence of the erging contamination was also trying to restrain the violent contamination.
But given the other party’s long-established style, this was perhaps not out of pity for the lives of the city, but care for the ‘livestock’ within the circle.
Just like a farr cherishing his property.
‘Hao Yi’ stood by the window, looking at the blood-colored sun.
But contamination could not always be controlled because the city itself, including its very light, was tainted with contamination.
At that mont, he slightly massaged his brow, as if feeling a severe bout of dizziness, stepped back, and sat down on a chair next to the dining car.
His entire consciousness was sowhat blurred.
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As the strange dizziness subsided, He Ao slowly opened his eyes.
The first thing that caught his eye was a dim, oppressive, faint glow of light, which passed through a glass cover festooned with moss and dust and fell into He Ao’s eyes.
Then, he saw ‘himself’ stretching out ‘his’ ‘hand’.
It was a pair of chubby little hands, like those of a baby, frantically slapping inside the glass cover.
This slapping seed to have triggered so sort of chanism.
Accompanied by a ‘click—’ sound, the glass cover naturally opened.
At that mont, He Ao felt as though he had fallen down from so ‘height’.
At the sa ti, his soul began to ‘extract’.
He saw a child of about one year old appearing in his field of view.
The child rolled out of a capsule-shaped ‘Nutrient Pod’ by its side and fell onto the cluttered tal floor.
Next to the Nutrient Pod the child had tumbled out from, there many other Nutrient Pods.
However, these Nutrient Pods were all open, and inside they were filled with moss and dust.
He Ao lifted his head to look at the ceiling.
A small spotlight shone down from the ceiling, illuminating a weak radiance.
The ceiling was originally supposed to have a set of bright lights, but now only this small spotlight remained, as if it would go out at any mont.
He Ao’s gaze swept across the surroundings of the room.
The room was littered with broken tal and electronic devices that seed to have been abandoned long ago.
Most of these devices had blurred text labeled on them.
He Ao could faintly make out that so of it was the script of the First District.
Is this a ‘relic’?
He shifted his gaze and saw a blurred door so distance away; he wanted to try to approach it, but found he couldn’t get near.
His movent seed to be restricted to this small, dimly lit room; the scenes around him were also very blurry.
Was this so kind of hallucination?
Or…
At this ti, accompanied by a rustling sound, the child who had been rolling on the ground climbed up in confusion, glanced around, and then began to search everywhere.
He tried stuffing things from the ground into his mouth, but quickly spit them back out.
Soon after, he was scratched by the tal on the ground.
He sat on the ground and cried loudly, but after realizing no one was coming, he stopped crying, held his wound, and continued searching.
With the child’s rummaging, He Ao’s vision gradually beca blurry.
As if the surroundings were swiftly flying by in his field of view.
…
As the new scene appeared, He Ao saw that child.
He had beco extrely emaciated, and the wounds on his body had scabbed over.
Seeming to have gone a long ti without food, he leaned against the tightly closed door, idly hitting the keys in front of the door, his body motionless.
Bang—
A neatly packaged cube fell out of a square machine by the door.
The inscriptions on that machine had blurred long ago, and the electronic screen was also dim and shattered.
However, the packaging of the cube that had fallen out was still brand new.
He Ao looked at the machine’s outlet and the cube’s packaging, and he felt a certain seriousness.
It was like the food production machines in the lower levels of the City of Rong Guang.
Was this also so kind of ‘food manufacturing machine’?
As He Ao thought about this, a trickle of water also flowed out from the machine, seemingly directed towards where a cup should be placed beneath.
The child leaning on the door imdiately pounced on it, placed his mouth against the water spout, and drank deeply.
Then he unwrapped the package, looked at the white food inside, and began to tear and chew it fiercely.
Very quickly, he choked and coughed violently.
The scenes in He Ao’s field of view rapidly flew by.
…
Years unknown had passed, and the child had completely mastered the thod of obtaining food; he began trying to open that door.
The keys in front of the door seed to control all the equipnt in the entire room, but so keys had been damaged, and the machines corresponding to so keys seed to have been damaged as well.
This ant most of the keys were useless.
So equipnt required a combination of multiple keys to activate, just like that food manufacturing machine.
The child persevered in his attempts, and finally, after one particular try, the tightly closed iron door opened with a response.
What t his eyes was a vast hall overgrown with vines and dirt.
A gecko over a ter long that was moving about in the hall spotted him and rushed towards him at high speed.
He imdiately closed the room door, avoided becoming the gecko’s prey through the violent impact.
From then on, the child gave up on opening the door; he began to rummage and fumble throughout the room.
And He Ao’s gaze followed him as he searched about the room.
Soon, he found a small machine in the corner with a completely shattered casing.
Under his haphazard tinkering, the machine’s screen actually lit up and began to play so programs about text, history, music.
However, many parts of these programs were distorted, many segnts were incohesive, and so were even overlaid with a terrifying blood red.
He Ao lay behind the boy, looking at the machine—
Could this be a learning machine?
Through its contents, He Ao could vaguely make out that the machine mainly taught the language of the Original Federation’s ‘Third District’, and secondarily, that of the ‘First District’.
He watched this ‘learning machine’, the scenes in his field of view briskly ‘whizzing past’.
…
Several more years went by, the boy had grown into a strong youth, and he had gained so basic knowledge from the learning machine.
He sorted out a tal rod from a pile of tallic rubbish in the room, creating a simple spear.
Once again, he opened the room door and ventured out.
This ti, the hall was empty, and he did not encounter the gecko.
The hall seed to have once been a place of glittering splendor, but now, all that remained were heaps of broken tal, walls covered with sinister erald climbing vines, a faintly glowing do, and a blood-stained floor.
The youth explored the entire hall, there wasn’t much in the hall, he only found a lighter-like ignition device, and so branches that seed to have been brought in by outside creatures.
He Ao’s gaze also followed his and viewed the entire hall.
In the corner of the hall, there was a wide-open door.
The youth, holding the spear, cautiously approached the door, he seed hesitant, but still crossed the threshold and walked into the corridor outside.
Doors stood on both sides of the corridor, and the youth carefully passed by, opening a door to look inside.
This appeared to have been so sort of nursery, but it was already in ruins, leaving only dust-covered dim glass scattered on the ground.
The youth explored the room for an entire week with caution, didn’t find anything valuable, and did not see the gecko from before.
Then he left the room, did not continue to explore, but crossed the hall and returned to the room where he stayed.
And just as he pushed the door open, He Ao who was right above him saw the erald gecko circling on top of the ‘Nutrient Pod’ the youth ‘ca out’ from.
The gecko also spotted the youth and pounced on him.
After a deadly struggle, the youth, despite being wounded, killed the gecko.
He used a tal blade to cut off the flesh from the gecko, imitated what he learned from the learning machine, and used the dry branches to kindle the flas, beginning to barbecue in the hall.
He ate at for the first ti, it was not well cooked, sowhat bloody.
And as he was eating the barbecue, the gecko’s fresh blood flowed under the erald climbing vines.
Then the vines of the climbing vine stretched over, enveloped a large portion of the gecko’s flesh, burying it under layers upon layers of green leaves.
The green leaves beca even more vibrantly lush.
And the climbing vine, seeming to co alive, also began to stretch its vines towards the youth who was engrossed in eating the barbecue.
The surging flas montarily halted its advance, also saving the youth.
The youth hurriedly fled back to the room and closed the door.
…
He Ao was watching the youth’s actions, observing this scene that was always obscured by a layer of mist.
He saw the youth grow up fast, saw the youth slowly exploring every nook and cranny of this building.
This place seed to be so sort of facility researching life, inhabited by various twisted life forms, including various odd creatures and also plants that could move and seemingly possessed life.
Among them, the most widespread were the erald climbing vines, and any animal or plant that approached it would be preyed upon.
And the most bizarre was the machine located at the entrance of the research facility, placed in a room by itself.
The machine was tree-shaped overall, and although made entirely of tal, it exuded a strange life force.
And that room where the machine was situated showed no signs of destruction, was clean and tidy, with bright lighting.
Within this building, no exotic beast or creature dared to enter that room; although the youth also felt discomfort, he often relied on this room to escape from the pursuit of wild beasts.
However, after one ti when a hyena uncontrollably followed the youth into the room, everything changed.
The youth killed the hyena, but just as he was about to take the flesh, in front of him, the hyena decayed and vanished.
Then he montarily gained a keen sense of sll.
This sll enhancent lasted a week, greatly aiding his hunting.
Later, he discovered that as long as it wasn’t dead for too long, the freshly dead could also be brought into the room to exchange for special powers, just with lesser effects.
He learned to ‘sacrifice’.
Then, he began to hunt prey in a planned manner, bringing them to this room to sacrifice them and gain so sort of special enhancent.
As the enhancents accumulated, his strength grew stronger, and he was able to start hunting exotic beasts.
And as the number of sacrifices grew, many tis he began to hear so vague voices not his own, ringing in his ears.
He Ao could also hear the young man’s whispers, but he too couldn’t make out what the voice was murmuring.
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Many years passed, and the boy grew into a youth, who was hunting at the entrance of this research facility one day.
He had acquired a perception from a certain snake that made him unconsciously alert.
He looked up and saw a man dressed in strange ‘clothing’ appearing in the distance.
He Ao recognized the man’s outfit; it was a kind of simple, modern dress from the Main World, ‘modern attire.’
Passing through the relic and Main World channel, a person from the Main World ca to the relic?
He looks like soone from the Western Lands.
As He Ao pondered, that person also noticed the ‘youth’ here and quickly ran over.
He wore firearms and hand grenades on his chest and excitedly circled around the ‘youth,’ as if he had discovered a new world.
The youth didn’t understand what he was saying, but He Ao did.
He was trying to see if he could get so kind of ‘treasure’ from this ‘native youth,’ like Extraordinary Powers or Transcendent Props.
Although the youth was wary of him, ‘naturally,’ he didn’t perceive him as a threat.
‘Erase the sense of threat’?
It’s like the ‘Talent Sequences 6: Hermit’s ability.
Jess from the Vitland Copy World was once a ‘Hermit,’ a precursor Talent Sequence to the ‘Almsgiver.’
Judging from the man’s recent actions and speed, his physical ability should not be strong, just slightly better than an ordinary person, approximately at the level of an F-class Transcendent, probably just a ‘Hermit.’
He gave the youth so candy and then kept gesturing for the youth to take him into the research facility.
The youth accepted his candy and tasted a piece; it was sowhat novel.
The food produced by the food factory tasted very good; a piece of candy could only make the youth feel refreshed.
But that man seed to think that his candy could definitely conquer this ‘barbarian’ in animal skins.
So he boldly used the candy as a temptation, directing the youth to take him into the research facility to find the most crucial, most formidable part of the entire facility.
Though the youth didn’t understand his words, after a series of gestures, he hesitated for a mont and took him inside.
The man seed very confident in his suppression of the youth, especially after realizing the youth was not as agile as himself and lacked Extraordinary Power, he beca very relaxed and walked alongside the youth.
Then he confidently followed the youth into the research facility, into the room housing the eerie tree machine.
Just when he was astonished by the cleanliness of the room and the spooky machine.
The youth stabbed his neck from behind with a tal knife, effortlessly ending his life with his rich hunting experience.
And with his body being ‘sacrificed,’ so sort of special mark also covered the depths of the youth’s soul.
The man, in the end, left behind a finger bone giving off a faint yellow glow.
The youth picked up this finger bone, chewed it up, and swallowed it down.
Then, he felt intense pain.
Eating Talent Sequences raw.
He Ao watched the youth on the ground, looking at his convulsing body, contemplating.
After a day and night of struggle, the youth gained Extraordinary Power.
And when the youth woke up, for the first ti, the ravings in his ear beca clear.
“Co here…
co here…”
A deep and ancient voice echoed in his ears.
And with this voice, he vaguely felt that sowhere in the relic, sothing was attracting him.
But before he had ti to explore, a particular ‘summons’ began to rise in his heart.
Imdiately he felt his body uncontrollably being ‘taken away,’ leaving the ‘relic.’
Is this through the ‘channel’ to the Main World?
In contemplation, He Ao felt the scene in front of him beco completely blurred and shatter.
He returned from the chaos of his thoughts and found himself standing in a spacious hall surrounded by books, like a library.
That lengthy ‘mory,’ projected in reality, seed to be but a fleeting mont, and the maid stood beside him occasionally.
He Ao carefully gazed at the scene inside the Obelisk; the ‘walls’ of books piled up, extending to the top, surrounding him, as if he was in the High Tower of knowledge.
It’s just that each ‘book’ in this High Tower carried so distorted malice.
In front of He Ao’s field of view, a middle-aged man wearing a loose scholar’s robe stepped on a wooden staircase, slowly placing a book back among the books on the shelf.
“I have spent a long ti without knowledge.”
He slowly walked down the ladder.
Standing next to the ladder, the yellow solid wood gramophone automatically started, with the pitch-black vinyl records covered in patterns rotating, playing ancient and long-drawn music.
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