Civilization: Beyond Two Worlds

Blood was flying, flesh and bones shattered, and Kant watched these ancients fight and go.

Under the continuous attack of Void Spirit, he continued to pay blood and sacrifices, and went to the depths.

On this road of death, there have been people who have had fatal distortions due to excessive use of energy elements, or rushed into the black beasts just before losing their minds, or silently accepted the end of the flag bearer.

Those who did not have time to end their lives attacked everything around them in endless pain and madness, their bodies swelled, their armors shattered, their backs were covered with distorted egg bodies, their arms became extremely swollen, and their mouths were sprayed with sticky fluids. Venom, fluttering its tentacles and whip blades, lost its original appearance and glory in such a terrifying mutation, becoming an extremely ugly monster, and finally died of exhaustion.

...like that dragon.

Kant looked at those who were marching into the darkness.

The purple light shone and the sword was waving. Even if the tragic death of their companions was about to become their future, these warriors were not afraid.

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

These people...are not the same as those dragons who broke into this place out of greed.

Why are they here? Would rather pay such a price to keep going, hiding from something, looking for something, or...waiting for something?

Kant stood up and wanted to catch up. The next moment, a dazzling blue light flashed in front of his eyes, the surrounding scenery faded in an instant, the world changed, the light and shadow disappeared like a stream of light, and the dreamy crystal world unfolded before him.

A faint blue light, magical glowing plants, and countless clusters of crystals.

The scenery seen in the flashback of time is not what it is now.

Lily went back and forth, and the gorilla had been looking at him worriedly, knowing that Kant's eyes were moving and his expression was as usual, they were relieved, and Lily asked, "Again?"

Kant nodded.

He glanced at the twisted dragon corpse on the ground and told the dragon girl what he saw.

"These ancient people did not master the skills of using mysterious elements harmlessly, but only mastered the ability to forge and use them, just like a bottle of poison that can quench their thirst."

Recalling the previous scene, Kant felt a little heavy in his heart.

"Absorb and forge mysterious elements, strengthen their extraordinary power, and create sophisticated weapons and protective gear. They gain powerful combat power, but it is not without cost."

He said silently: "Using mysterious energy will cause erosion to themselves. They may have skills to suppress and delay the process of erosion, but after a certain limit is exceeded, they will lose control, the body will accelerate the distortion and transformation, and the mind will also degenerate and lose. , eventually becoming a runaway beast and dying of exhaustion."

"Just like him."

Having said that, the fire thief glanced at the dragon corpse on the ground.

"This devil's gift is not free."

Lily was silent for a while, digesting the news.

"So..." she asked, "these ancients voluntarily accepted this mysterious element and sacrificed themselves to achieve a certain purpose, so they lost control and turned into monsters, but he..."

She looked at her compatriots lying on the ground.

Beginning with Ocherwell, the death of the second giant dragon was even more tragic, which made her feel even more uneasy. What happened to this dragon before his death, and where were the other dragons?

Kant understood what she meant.

"That's up to us to find out." He replied, "In the time-space flashback, a completely alienated and distorted individual will violently vent his power before dying, turning into a bloodthirsty beast that attacks everything, that is to say, Before this giant dragon died, there must be some tyrannical destruction and behavior, since it is not here, it must be elsewhere, let's take a look around, where did he come from."

Lily pointed to a direction. In the farther and deeper area that the shining crystals and blue weeping willows could not illuminate, the cold light was faint, half light and half darkness.

"The traces are obvious, blood, purple mucus, and sloughed scales and flesh tissue."

Long Niang said softly: "By the way, it's not an illusion. When the polluted and corroded dragon blood drips on the ground and is absorbed by the soil, the light of the nearby luminous plants becomes more charming and bright, and I have tried it with my own blood. This phenomenon is not the blood of the dragon."

She looked around, the splendid crystal flower sea around the dragon corpse, the ferns exuding icy blue light and the magnificent luminous flowers were splendid and splendid, and the light was shining. At a glance, I noticed the dragon corpse lying on it.

The distorted and swollen body of the giant dragon is so ugly and twisted, but the sea of ​​dreamy flowers around it is so splendid and so dazzling.

Beauty and ugliness, life and death, freshness and corruption, the strong contrasts are extremely disturbing.

Withered life turned into dust, merged into the earth, and turned into nutrients for plants. This was originally the reincarnation of nature, but the splendor of the sea of ​​​​flowers did not come from the dragon's fall. This is the source of the dragon's anxiety.

Lily let out a slow breath: "Got it, the strange ecology of this underground world, the luminous plants that have never appeared on the mainland, the magical and magnificent dreamy landforms... What are you feeding on? , Many years ago, the scenery here was not so beautiful."

Kant was silent.

He thought of the ancient people who fell here one by one. Their bodies have been completely eroded, and they are about to undergo complete distortion. They are buried here, no one knows, and their companions are still fighting bloody, and they are more fierce and less fortunate. People are restrained and can only stay here. The entire underground world is their tomb. Until many years later, this place has been full of brilliant blue flowers.

"Let's go." He stood up. "We need more answers."

Long Niang was a little surprised, the giant dragon was still corroded and twisted, and it did not return to normal.

She asked, "Is this... no matter what?"

"No treatment, no control, let's go." Kant said lightly, "It makes no difference."

If the righteous man had to bury his bones in the green hills, then the thief dragon He De died and had a mausoleum.

It's your honor to be a corpse here.

He chased in the direction Lily pointed.

That road is also the way forward for the ancient people.

The scene he saw in the space-time flashback made him more concerned and persistent. He felt that the time-space flashback was not a coincidence, and the flag bearer also gave him an inexplicable familiarity and kindness.

As if we had known each other a long time ago.

Like he said to Lily...he needs answers too.

He wanted to know why these ancient people went deep into this place at all costs, paid huge sacrifices, and faced the pain and despair of distortion.

"Have you seen it, the traces of movement?"

All the way forward, Lily paid attention to the ground. The giant dragon was huge and crawled all the way. It fell and died when it reached the sea of ​​​​flowers. It should have crushed countless flowers and plants along the way, but there is no obvious sign here—it’s not that there’s none. , just poured with dragon blood all the way, and the luminous plants grew wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye, so as to cover the traces of the dragon's crawling.

But as it goes deeper and deeper, the trace becomes more and more difficult to hide.

Because in the process of crawling, the dragon's vigor gradually decays. In the farther place, he has more strength and vitality, and the traces caused by the movement are more obvious.

In this blue crystal labyrinth, they searched backwards in the direction from which the giant dragon climbed.

The traces were easy to notice, as the luminous plants were denser and more radiant than anywhere else in the direction the dragon had crawled across, nourished by the flesh and tissue shed by the dragon's corruption.

Lily moved on, biting her lip because they had gone so long.

This long road is a testament to the dragon's strong vitality and outstanding memory.

It wasn't until just now that the dragon girl suddenly thought that the giant dragon had returned along the same path.

This road is also the road they traveled. They passed through the stone forests and river channels in the underground world, came to the collapsed hole, opened the gravel, followed the long corridor to the azure crystal world, and then moved forward.

And the dragon is returning the same way.

At first it was flying, and then it was no longer able to support it, so it fell to the ground and walked. If it couldn't support it again, it crawled and moved until it reached the sea of ​​flowers. The meter-high cliff, which used to be a distance that could only be reached by flapping its wings, is now like a ravine, it can no longer be crossed, and I can only close my eyes regretfully.

Although Kant said that a completely deformed creature would lose his mind... but this is a dragon, isn't it.

But why did he go back?

Kant's phoenix vision found a stone in a mountain rock filled with clustered crystals.

Lily rushed forward quickly, her eyes trembling slightly.

"Echo Stone."

She said: "This is the dragon's roar branding on solid things, to preserve the sound and memory of the secret method, usually used to commemorate unforgettable memories, fleeting inspiration and special insights of a certain period, with a sound and A period of soul fluctuation to engrave the mood at that time..."

As if thinking of something, Long Niang said here, her eyes dimmed.

She was silent for a while, then whispered: "The price is not small... It takes a small piece of soul."

Long Niang gently stroked the stone, and then the outside of the cobblestone shattered and a hollow was hollowed out. In the hollow, the dragon's power restrained a smaller stone floating in it.

Lily let out a soft breath, and the stone vibrated with a hum.

The obscure dragon language came out clearly from it.

Long Niang heard it, and after a while, her complexion suddenly changed.

Kant asked, "What are you talking about?"

"It's murmurs and ravings on the verge of death, regret and emotion..."

Lily turned back, looked at Kant, was silent for a moment, and replied softly: "He said, 'I was wrong, we were all wrong, the pictures that Trixis saw were not the will of the Dragon God of Time and Space, but the unknowable ones. The conspiracy that fell on Trixis was not the favor of Akatum, but the malicious gaze of the devil. The flashback of time and space is a vicious trap, just like those records that happened in history, they are all The signs and beginnings of disasters, the greedy and the persistent are often caught in it, but unfortunately I understand it too late, forgive me, forgive us, Father God, Your Majesty, and Mother, I want to go home, I want to go home...' "

After speaking, her voice trembled.

Flashback in time.

The giant dragon Trixis... also suffered a time-space flashback.

The dead dragon's last words said it was a trap, a vicious trap.

Make every greedy and persistent person fall into it.

Kant was silent for a moment, then said solemnly: "What else?"

Lily shook her head, her tone bitter: "No, if we haven't overlooked it, this is the last echo stone he left behind. It can be seen from his tone and the fluctuations in his soul that he was already extremely weak at that time, and his soul was also there. On the verge of dissipating...that should be the last message he has left."

Kant took a deep breath: "That is to say, there may be more ahead?"

Lily hesitated and nodded.

"Then keep looking."

"...Kant." Lily said suddenly, "You..."

Kant raised his eyebrows and said, "What's wrong?"

"I mean, are we... going to continue?" Lily said uneasy, "I don't think it's good. If, as he said, the time-space flashback is a trap, then what you see may also be some kind of With ulterior motives or hints, should we think about it?”

Kant glanced at her, nodded and said: "Okay, you and Aang go back the same way first, I will find the echo stone, use the space ability to teleport to you, let you solve it, it is safer, I will encounter danger. Can use teleportation to leave..."

"…That was not what I meant!"

Lily said anxiously: "It's not that I'm afraid or want to leave. The point is not me and Aang, but you, Kant, do you want to continue?"

Kant frowned: "Tracys goes deeper than us, maybe he..."

"It was said in the Echo Stone that this was a trap, and Trixis is probably less fortunate. Even if the worst possibility happens, he is eroded and controlled by some demon, rushing to the surface and causing disaster, then the whole world will come. Cope, you don't need to fight alone!"

Long Niang's face was a little red, and the calm and indifferent look in the past was gone, she whispered: "Think about that sentence! Greedy and persistent will be deeply involved, you want that mysterious element as power, You're obsessed with making the country of Goethe strong - both!"

She grabbed Kant's arm and persuaded: "Think about it, it doesn't have to be exclusive, this kind of situation is beyond the scope of what we can solve now, it's better to seek the power of the countries, anyway, the news has been leaked now. , the cake must be cut. You said that you cast a forbidden spell on the Broken Isles, and you have the ability to make the mysterious elements harmless. You still have a great advantage. It’s not like bowing your head, isn’t that what politics is all about…”

Kant listened to her persuasion, pondered, and his eyes changed.

He subconsciously looked at the gorilla, but found that the gorilla was always looking forward. The underground world was deep and huge, with twists and turns, layer upon layer. What the gorilla saw was a passage down a low slope. Talking, I suddenly heard the gorilla say: "There is something!"

Suddenly, the ground shook, and a painful roar rumbled from the depths of the distance.

It is Longyin.