Chapter 336: The Spiritual Hall of History
The door only opened a narrow gap, and the largest alien of the block almost squeezed through the middle, squeezing his face a little deformed. As soon as everyone had passed through the door, Lady Grissa pushed the door open. The brazen civilian and police puppets were kept out of the two thick metal doors, but they neither smashed nor dispersed, and gathered outside the door as if they were a pack of patient hyenas.
There are no scars on the female swordsman's body, but her face is slightly tired. It can be seen that she has also experienced a hard battle before, and her body has been very consumed. Of course, with her strength, it is impossible for this group of vigilantes and self-discipline puppets to cause harm to her.
Similarly, with her strength, even if she can't wipe out all these puppets, it should be no problem to get out? But why are you trapped in this secret room?
"Because I'm getting old, too." The female swordsman took a silent breath and said in a helpless tone: "If you are twenty years younger...... No, even if it's ten years old, those guys can't trap me. Now...... When I came in just now, I had an inexplicable fight with someone, and I was overconsumed. I originally wanted to recover my body and move forward, but you came. ”
"Fighting? With whom? ”
"With the master here, of course." Lady Grissa smiled. She reached out and pointed to the corner of the wall on the right. Only then did Lu Xi and Miss Witch discover that there was a large pile of metal wreckage, which was clearly the "bones" of one or several self-discipline puppets that had just been dismantled and freshly baked.
“…… That's a lot of hard work. ”
"It's not hard. I just didn't guess that there were even guards in the tomb, which was a bit of a surprise. This kind of combat effectiveness guy, if put on the battlefield outside. It is also a super strong person who can sweep away thousands of armies. What a shame...... It would be nice if they were willing to listen to me, but they have to shout and kill as soon as they come up. Forced. I can only dismantle them" The female swordsman showed a helpless wry smile, as if she was really sorry for her opponent.
Isn't that nonsense? These guys are puppets. How could I listen to you? The so-called robots, isn't everyone like Wali who has a good heart?
"The moment I destroyed these two puppets, it seemed that some kind of communication mechanism had been touched, and there was a sound of machine springs outside. Then, for some reason, a large number of puppets of all kinds crawled out of the passage outside from all directions. I thought that this was too much, and the previous battle had consumed too much, so I closed the door and prepared to resist. Unexpectedly, these puppets were so honestly guarding the outside, neither retreating nor attacking the door. I just wanted to take this opportunity to take a break and recover a little bit of my body. The female swordsman finished her situation in a few words. Then he looked at Lu Xi and Rosalie, and finally his eyes stayed on the alien under Miss Witch's crotch.
"Looks like you've gained a lot, aren't you?" The female swordsman laughed.
The vicious and hideous aquatic beast cowered and even trembled under Jian Hao's amiable eyes, and let out a "whine" cry like a kitten. It's really the sixth sense of wild animals, and they can tell who is the scariest person in the room.
"It's just a matter of finding a mount, and it's going to take too much time to adjust." Miss Witch patted Prometheus on the head vigorously, as if she was very dissatisfied with the new pony's embarrassed cousin, and then asked, "What about you?" Miss Grissa. Have you achieved your goal? ”
Naturally, it was not completed, otherwise the system would have prompted me that the task was completed. Lu Xi thought secretly.
"I should have found the right place, but I still managed to unlock the mechanism." The female swordsman smiled and said, "If I guess wrong, my mother's remains should be placed in this hall. ”
It serves as the central hall of the memorial hall. Its interior is exquisitely designed, large and magnificent, like a large church that can accommodate hundreds of people. The walls and ceiling of the hall are smooth silver-gray. It looks bright and solemn. Unlike other giant houses that have no sense of decoration or design, the end of this hall. Directly opposite the gate was a majestic-looking shrine, four or five stories high. The altar of the shrine is adorned with vine-like brackets cast in gold. The form is elegant and full of charm, which is clearly the artistic style of the ancient elves. The moon pendant on Lu Xi's chest is a relic of the ancient elf empire, so he is naturally familiar with this style.
At the top of this vine stand is a ruby the size of a basketball, giving it a perfect hexagonal shape with a regular appearance. Compared to ordinary rubies, its color is brighter and more brilliant, like a solemn sunset.
Lu Xi dared to put his hand on his little brother and swore that if this ruby was natural, then it would be able to change to a small country.
Behind the shrine is a wall panel made of a single piece of dark alloy, the color of which is as solemn and deep as the night sky. On the wall panels, countless jewels made of pure gold particles and precious stones of various colors dotted the deep purple night sky, intersecting into regular trajectories, as if a vast star map.
It is indeed a bit out of place that the Giant Civilization, which is efficient and pragmatic and has always been insulated from art, should have such an ornate shrine in the central hall of the Great Memorial Hall. When he got here, Lu Xi felt that it was a pity that he didn't bring the archaeology professor who could only drag his feet over, if he was there, he would definitely be able to tell the reason.
"Wouldn't you have been in the library of Neosfia for decades? You should know a little bit about it, right? Lu Xi looked at the legal Lori beside him.
"The golden vines represent the World Tree, the ruby at the top symbolizes our world, and the wall behind it should refer to the universe that wraps us, and the stars around it...... On the one hand, it symbolizes the sun, moon and stars, and on the other hand, it also represents the gods of all walks of life and their kingdoms and realms. This is a typical giant-style worldview! Of course, I can't say more about it, and more professional experts in giant civilization are needed. Miss Lori replied.
"It's okay, it's beyond my expectation to say so much." Lu Xi said: "Being a bookworm for half a century is really effective. ”
"I always think you're sarcastic about me." Miss Witch curled the corners of her mouth and said angrily.
Except for the magnificent shrine facing the gate. The six-storey silver-gray walls on either side of the hall are also inlaid with dense blue-blue stone slabs. Each stone slab is engraved with different golden instruments and reliefs of portraits of the Titans, whose portraits come to life with different expressions. Each of them is a masterpiece of the art of engraving. Lu Xi didn't think that the group of stupid big men who were destined to have nothing to do with art had such delicate carving methods, and besides, a relief of this size could be regarded as a miniature carving for a giant at all.
Only dwarves possess such ingenious means of stone carving. Lu Xi quickly came to such a conclusion.
With Lu Xi's current Giant Language. Of course, he couldn't read the golden documents on these stone tablets, but he found that a line of smaller characters was engraved under each relief portrait, and the format was something like "**342-**12876)".
If you guess correctly, this should be the tombstone tablet of the Titans, the number under the avatar represents the year of birth and death, and the gold characters below should be the so-called biography profile.
As a pragmatic people, the giants have the custom of making the corpses of their clansmen into self-disciplined weapons, but this does not mean that they do not have a lower limit to the point of not even respecting history. Like other races, shrines are built for the clansmen. Of course, being able to put their tablets in the large memorial hall of such a square means that they are either heroes who have made great achievements, or thinkers or scientists who have established great virtues, in short, they are all famous great people in the history of giants.
Looking at the dense spiritual positions on both sides of the wall, it seems to be a picture scroll of the history of giant civilization. It's not gorgeous, it's not magnificent, it's even plain and monotonous. But it is still so majestic and solemn.
The history of the giant's civilization is not over, but in this world, it is over.
"Did you find Mistress Finis's shrine here, too?" Lu Xi asked.
"It's not just a shrine." The female swordsman smiled, and then led everyone to the corner on the right side of the hall against the inner wall. She pulled an obvious mechanism. A small door opened on the wall. Of course, it is said that it is a small door, but it is actually big enough for Lu Xi and them. Even if it is an adult titan giant, he can barely pass through it with a slight bend
In the "small door" is another "small hall". It is similar to the layout of the hall, and there is a beautiful shrine at the end of the door. However, it is not the World Tree that is enshrined here. Rather, it is the twelve life-size statues of the white jade goddesses, which are the twelve holy spirits that are commonly believed in by the human elves or dwarves, the main peoples of the world. As for the walls on both sides, there are also cyan slate spirit tablets and portrait reliefs of the same specification embedded in them, but the number is not much, and if you sweep it at a glance, there are probably only forty or fifty in the entire hall. As a result, the walls appear unusually empty.
The relationship between the Titans and the gods is that of allies rather than people, and naturally it is impossible to worship the Holy Spirit, which only proves that this mourning hall is not for giants.
Lu Xi walked a little closer and carefully observed the spirit card on the wall. Sure enough, the portrait on it is not a Titan, but a "foreign race" of elves, dwarves, and humans.
"I suspect that this large memorial was built to commemorate those who have made significant contributions to the giant civilization. The outer hall is dedicated to the Titans, and the small hall inside is naturally dedicated to other races. Grissa said, then sighed with a regretful expression, "Those two puppet guards must have been prepared to prevent the young ones from disturbing the sleep of the deceased. I didn't have that bracelet with you, and I'm fully armed, so that's probably how I was judged to be an enemy. Alas~~ This misunderstanding is too big. ”
…… No way, can you expect a bunch of robots to reason with you? No matter how big the giant's black technology is, it seems that artificial intelligence has not been developed, right?
"Did you find Mistress Phineth here?"
"The last one is it." The female swordsman led everyone to the right wall, in front of a bluestone slab closest to the central altar. This spirit tablet looks very new, and it does not have the sense of vicissitudes and history of thousands of years like the stone slabs that Lu Xi saw before, and there are not many golden words on it to describe his life, only one or two lines, which seems very brief. Originally, there was a blank space in the position used to engrave the portrait, and there was only one death year in the year of birth and death, "**965", which should be the meaning of the giant's text "Glorious Age 965", which also happened to be the year when Phineth disappeared.
"I can now feel the breath of another amulet, and it's just behind this spirit card." The female swordsman stretched out her hand and stroked the cyan spiritual position with gentle movements, as if it was not a cold stone slab but the cheeks of her family: "Then, the body and relics of my mother should also be behind here." ”
"What a joy! Miss Grissa, what are you waiting for? Miss Lori said in a happy tone. Fifty years ago, she and the late Sword Master also had a relationship of life and death, and now that she can find the bones of her companions, she is naturally very relieved.
"Because I didn't find a mechanism that could open it! I can't smash my adoptive mother's spirit card by myself, can I? The female swordsman's face was full of helplessness. (To be continued......)