Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Chapter 276 Belvis, the swallowed city

Malphite's voice was too deep, but in such a cramped and claustrophobic environment, with the added echo, it was loud enough to be outmatched by the most powerful hexamps.

Even Li Lin, whose body had been strengthened, felt his eardrums hurt from the shock, and his head felt dizzy.

Not to mention Hewlett and Shulai behind him, already bowed down and covered their ears, their faces were quite painful.

Li Lin quickly put on the mask, blocking out half of the sound from the outside world, "I understand the truth, but can you... keep your voice down?"

"Oh, sorry."

As if aware of the pain of the gang of villains in front of him, Malphite lowered his voice, even breathing much more slowly.

Afterwards, there was another collapse-like tremor from the mine, the sound of boulders rubbing against each other, and countless small stones fell from the top.

Malphite moved and rubbed, changing his shape. A rocky face with eyes, nose and mouth that looked extremely human-like emerged. It was about 10 meters high and 20 meters wide, exactly half the size of the stone wall.

Its two dark, pit-like round eyes slowly opened, and the crystal pupils flowing in the eyes were like precious crystal topaz unearthed from the Shurima mine.

Under a protruding nose, a curved and jagged ravine rumbled, spewing out a large amount of choking dust in an instant, just like a sneeze or a cough.

"Sorry, I'm digesting," Moffitt said.

After a while, Shu Lai regained his composure, frowned, covered his mouth and nose, and walked in front of Li Lin, squinting at Malphite's big eye.

For this strange rock life form that she had never seen before, her curiosity far outweighed the horror in her heart.

"Are you... the spirit of the mountains? Or something else?" Shu Lai asked softly.

Asked by her, there was another harsh sound of rocks rubbing against each other. Malphite's eyebrows were tightly frowned, and his voice was full of doubts.

"No, at least I don't think I'm... I think I was part of a whole, and then..."

Malphite paused, and after more than ten seconds, he continued: "Later, I was born and continued to fight the enemy... There is so much chaos in this world, it's hard for me to remember."

"enemy?"

Shu Lai raised his eyebrows, and looked back at Li Lin, who was wearing a visor, with an expression he didn't know, and Hewlett, who couldn't understand what they were saying, and looked confused.

"What enemy?"

"Something that doesn't exist...something, just to devour."

Malphite's voice was deep and slow, and his brilliant eyes were slightly absent-minded, as if recalling something from the past.

Shu Lai couldn't help but took a deep breath, but was choked by the dusty air, and coughed violently a few times, "Ahem...I think, I know them."

After beating her chest hard a few times, she took out a Hex breathing mask from the satchel at her waist, put it on her face, and her breathing became smoother instantly.

"They inhabit the deserts in the south, and occasionally go to Kehalise to hunt for food. The locals call the place where they live Calixsay, but northern Shurima and outsiders are used to calling it the Sea of ​​Bones."

Shulai was originally from Shurima. Before she moved to Piltover, her hometown was in the mountains in the east of Shurima, downstream of the main road of the River of Life, close to Kehalise.

In other words, she grew up in the lost legends of Icathia.

Regarding Rek Sai and the Sha Clan, she had naturally heard from her parents.

"Yes, yes...the sea of ​​bones...they were once imprisoned in the abyss of the salted land, but not now...they now walk through the earth's crust like a poisonous tree roots."

Li Lin couldn't help sighing when he heard the conversation between the two of them who were not on the same channel at all.

Shulai obviously refers to the Sha clan that once occupied the Sea of ​​Bones, Rek'Sai and its "children" Exai.

But judging from the look in Malphite's eyes, it obviously doesn't know these desert subterranean void monsters.

Otherwise, Rek'Sai and Shazu would not have survived to this day, being killed by Grand Maester Nasus, and then swallowed by Kai'Sa to evolve the skin armor.

What Malphite was talking about was just the erosion of the void on Runeterra, which is what it called the "void vines" underground.

It can only be said that it is worthy of being very smart, with a big body and a small brain capacity...

"Ahem, Rexai of Calixa has been killed by the god warrior Nasus." Li Lin couldn't help interjecting.

"What?!" Shock appeared on Shu Lai's face, and he looked back at him, "The legendary Rexai is dead? Or was he..."

"Last year's trip to Shurima, I saw it with my own eyes when I was with the Grand Maester."

The expression under Shu Lai's mask had long been stunned, and he was too shocked to speak.

She thought Li Lin was bragging, no matter how good a Piltover craftsman was, how could he be friends with the former demigod?
Besides, Nasus hadn't been seen in decades since the last legend of Nasus traveling with a purple-skinned mage.

This is just a legend, it is not certain if it happened.

But in the next second, when Li Lin unfolded the armor on his chest, Malphite's reaction made Shulai completely dispel the idea of ​​questioning.

"This... this is... a very familiar feeling..."

Malphite's eyes widened, as if trying to break free from the small area.

The mine trembled again, and large pieces of rubble fell from the top of the head, which quickly formed a spider web of cracked stone roofs. The wooden support columns supporting the mine were under pressure beyond their design limit.
Under the control of the brain, two mechanical engineers immediately moved forward and deployed the "steel barrier" to protect Hewlett and Shulai, preventing them from being injured by fragmented stones.

"Stop moving!" Li Lin hurriedly stopped Malphite, "This mine is going to collapse under your support!"

"Oh, sorry."

It settled down again, covered by the dust, blinking and blinking big eyes that looked a bit complicated, staring closely at the yellow round amulet pendant that Li Lin showed, which was somewhat similar to the sun disc.

"I remembered, this is...the Ascendant Talisman! Back then, every Ascendant was equipped with this kind of Talisman...it can bring the blessing of strength, from the sun disc."

Amulet of the Ascendant...

Shu Lai's eyes were filled with shock when he looked at Li Lin, and he couldn't help but gasped again.

"It was given to me by Emperor Azir of Shurima." Li Lin explained.

"Shurima... Ever since I was born with consciousness, the Shurima Empire has ceased to exist." Malphite's voice was full of sadness.

Apparently, it still retains some memories of being a monolith.

"The desert emperor has returned. With the perfect posture of a god warrior, you may go to the former imperial city, the city of the sun, to find him." Li Lin said with a smile.

In the original world line, Malphite did not know the news of Azir's resurrection.

Azir also didn't know that the Monolith, which was able to fight against the void, would give birth to such a consciousness.

If with his own help, Malphite returned to Azir's command, it would be regarded as adding a general whose strength was no less than that of a god warrior, and it would be much easier to solve Xerath's problem.

"Azir...I see." Malphite sighed, "Maybe he can reshape me into a complete individual...I don't like the way I am now."

Azir will definitely not be able to do it, this fellow Ne'zuk doesn't know whether he is dead or not, and only the last fragment of the monolith remains...

I can only say maybe, if I have time to wait for me to study the rune technology thoroughly.

"By the way, Malphite, you said earlier that there are vines that are eroding the real world under the ground here... Do you know how many there are?"

The topic finally returned to the right track that Li Lin was most concerned about.

"Not just vines, but also a group of monsters similar to devil fish... But don't worry, I've swallowed them into my body, and it won't be long before I can crush them."

Malphite smiled slightly, and more gravel fell from the ceiling, "But don't dig too deep, there will be more of these monsters."

Li Lin frowned and asked, "A devil fish corrupted by the void?"

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, that's what you little people call it, and I've heard sailors say it when I'm near the side of a boat when I'm floating in the ocean."

Saying that, Malphite frowned again, spewing out a cloud of dust.

"But I don't know why, those villains on the boat yelled at me, and attacked me with the metal barbs and shells on the boat...Obviously I just want to say hello to them."

"They might be frightened." Li Lin didn't know what to say, "After all...uh, you are so big, they might regard you as a terrifying sea beast."

"Then I'll pay more attention next time... surface early to greet them."

Uh……

Li Lin fell into silence, and Shu Lai couldn't help but chuckled.

She suddenly felt that this rock life that called itself Malphite was quite cute.

Li Lin took a deep breath, and before he knew it, he was diverted from the topic by Moffitt, and lost the dominance of the conversation.

It can only be said that great intelligence is contagious...

"Let's get down to business," he said. "Do you know where the underground stingray comes from? Can we get rid of its source?"

Malphite was silent for a few seconds, and the eyes flickering in his crystal yellow pupils were serious, "I don't suggest you go to that place, even I can't guarantee that I can get out of there unscathed."

"Huh? Then what if you have the help of Grand Maester Nasus?"

Since they are void creatures in Runeterra, they should all be creations of the void-corrupted material world.

Unless the beasts of disaster created by the Freljord's watchers who infiltrate the material realm, even the incarnation of ice and snow and the demigod Avinia in charge of winter are helpless, monsters that can only be solved by dying together, other voids Creatures should be inferior to demigods.

After a long pause, Malphite exhaled heavily, and the engulfing air almost blew Hewlett and Shulai away.

"I don't know..." Its voice became even more dull, "That is a city swallowed by nothingness... Bilves... Inside, there is an existence that even makes me shudder."

"what?!"

Now, it was finally Li Lin's turn to be shocked.

A void creature that can make Malphite feel terrified...

How can this be? !
"In that area, in the southeast of Kehalise, there used to be a vibrant city."

Malphite frowned and pondered, fragments of memory flashed in his mind.

That is the memory that remains from when it was still a part of Monolith.

"Yes, Belvis, the border between Shurima and Icacia... that city, when we flew over there as one, was swallowed by the abyss.

"But at that time, there was no such terrifying existence, otherwise we would not have flown to Icacia, and we would have fallen in Bilves."

Hearing Malphite's description, Li Lin couldn't help but catch his breath.

To be able to fight against the monolith driven by tens of thousands of excellent elemental mages and a dozen god warriors with one's own strength...

How strong should that guy be?
Not to mention Shulai who can understand Shurima.

Obviously she knew every word the two of them said, but when they were connected together, she didn't understand what it meant.

"...Is it a monitor?" Although he didn't want to think about it, Li Lin still raised his own question.

"Monitor? No no..."

Moffett denies, "It's more of a... er, aggregate of consciousness, if you can call it that, than an individual.

"If I go deep into that area, I will be swallowed by it in an instant, and there is no room for resistance, so I advise you not to go to Kehalise, especially the swallowed Belvis.

"The void there is not something we can contend with...so we cannot solve the source of the corrupted devil fish."

Nothing is unsolvable, not even the watchers...

Otherwise, the world would have no future at all.

Li Lin's heart was heavy, "Thank you for your suggestion Malphite, it is very useful to me."

(End of this chapter)