Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 62 The Ritual of Blasphemy
Jiatu took a deep breath and shook his head vigorously.

He looked at his left arm. When he slipped from the rock crack on the right side, a layer of skin was broken there.

The hot tingling told him that this world was real.

"The one just now was... a hallucination? Or a memory?"

Jiatu subconsciously glanced at his outer shell, the Brain, but was a little surprised to find that its battery had run out.

"How long have I been in a coma on the rock wall? Or is the power of my brain drained for some reason?"

Jiatu subconsciously touched his pocket, but realized that the battery that was used up earlier was already the last piece in his hand.

"One main battery plus three backup batteries, a total of eight hours of power... During the break, I will turn off the computer... But for a full 18 hours of climbing, I still use all the power Is it finished……"

Jiatu looked up at the yellowing sky, and knew that he had to hurry up.

He repeated the same trick, and without the help of the brain, he grabbed the rock crevice.

This time, he didn't have hallucinations, nor did he drop his hands and fall back the way he came.

After untying the last parachute rope on his body, Jiatu looked up to see that there were still more than 50 meters of rock cracks, and took a deep breath.

"The outer shell is only used as an auxiliary function. Since I have climbed here by relying on the shell...it means that with my current physical fitness, it is enough to climb to the top of the rock crevice..."

With the help of his four fingers, Jiatu slowly climbed towards the top of the rock crevice.

It was completely dark when he climbed the rock wall.

He knelt on the ground and panted desperately. Without the assistance of his brain, his rock climbing movements became difficult and hard. In just 50 meters, he consumed almost three times his previous physical energy.

"Congratulations, the last winner."

Someone walked up to Jiatu in gray field boots.

It was a voice he was somewhat familiar with.

Jiatu looked up in surprise, but saw a tall man in gray.

The man's right eye seemed to be injured, half-closed and unable to open, but the left eye revealed a piercing light, silently watching Jiatu.

"Captain Wu Yao?"

Jiatu recognized the man's name and subconsciously wanted to stand up, but his left foot gave way and he almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Wu Yao reached out to support him, and gave him a brand new cane:

"Take it, you deserve it."

"...Did you guess that I would succeed in reaching the summit?"

Jiatu looked at his left hand, and then at the small space at the top of the stele.

It's bare, you can't see anything.

In the depths of the grotto, there is an inconspicuous metal gate, which has been removed. The traces of blasting are very obvious, but it is also covered with dust. It is obviously handwritten many years ago.

Can't see Warren and Hannah, maybe behind the door?

Jiatu boldly guessed.

"No."

Facing Jiatu's question, Wu Yao just shook his head lightly:
"It's just to prevent you from being unable to act after you come up, and prepare in advance."

"We still have a long way to go?"

Jiatu just thought for a while before he understood what the man meant.

"From 'above' to 'below'."

Wu Yao nodded and pointed to the metal gate behind:
"Just from behind the stele."

"Is it behind the stele..."

Jiatu remained silent for a while, and then couldn't help asking curiously:
"Have the others gone down yet? And I have successfully passed the third round of tests and become a explorer, right?"

Wu Yao nodded his head, then walked towards the gate:
"As long as you can pass the third round of tests, you will definitely be able to become a explorer."

"The so-called 'two rounds of testing' is just to prevent those who are overwhelmed from coming to challenge."

Jiatu recalled those examinees who were in front of the third rock wall, and couldn't help being a little silent.

Although the brain can assist in control, it cannot strengthen the physical body.

Insufficient physical strength is insufficient physical strength, and insufficient strength is insufficient strength.

Even Jiatu himself barely qualified by relying on the power of "To Alice".

Following Wu Yao, Jiatu walked towards the metal gate.

At that moment, he felt that he had walked into an extremely dark space.

But soon, he realized that there was light—

Although it was very faint, on the left side of his body, there was indeed a golden white shimmer continuously coming.

He looked to the left in some surprise, but was astonished to see an extremely huge "foot".

Yes, though hard to describe.

But that was indeed the sole of a naked human foot.

Apart from being hundreds of times bigger than ordinary people and exuding a golden white light, it is undoubtedly a "foot".

Its feet were crossed, and some kind of huge golden cones were nailed into its ankles, firmly fixed on the stone slab, hanging down from top to bottom, connecting its calves, and disappearing into Le Jiatu's field of vision.

He couldn't help but walked to the escalator and looked down.

It was a giant hanging upside down, completely naked, with muscular lines like ancient Roman sculptures on its pale body.

The head and upper body were hidden in the depths of countless rusted steel structures, but from the triple section of the stone slab, Jiatu realized that the giant was nailed to the "Life Stele".

"What the hell is this..."

Jiatu followed behind Wu Yao, walking from the steel frame structure in front of the giant to the ground floor little by little.

Wu Yao chose the escalator familiarly, and found a passage to the bottom floor among the steel frames in the maze.

Then he replied without looking back:
""Life Giant", but the ancient researchers also seem to call it 'God'."

"god?"

Jiatu repeated in surprise: "Does God really exist?"

As an atheist, he finds it hard to believe this statement.

"If you're talking about 'beyond human life forms,' then there are."

Wu Yao replied.

Under the illumination of the giant's body, the two continued to move forward.

As the height gradually decreased, Jiatu realized that the back of the "Stone of Life" was not as bare as the front.

Instead, it has the same texture and pattern as the "Kabbala Tree of Life".

It's just that many other things have been added around these lines and patterns, some of which are like Eight Diagrams and oracle bone characters, which are the ancient characters of Siris that he is familiar with.

"Based on the documents of ancient researchers, the Living Giants and the Living Stones appear to have been found under ice deep in Antarctica."

Wu Yao continued to explain the giant's situation to Jiatu:
"Because of the cold and unknown forces, they are well preserved. The stele has one side, and the giant has three."

"They were discovered by the two largest super artificial intelligence coordinators in the world at that time - the 'Seres Security Alliance (Sai'an)' located on the Eurasian road, and the 'Roman Union (Roman Union)' across Europe and America .”

"Sai'an got the stele and the 'female' of the giants, while Luo Lian took the 'father' of the three giants and another smaller 'child'."

"Here is the 'mother parent' among the three giants, which is the high-level existence that the researchers call "God."

Wu Yao's eyes also followed his answer, looking at the white giant on the back of the stele:
"In the eyes of those ancient researchers, "Life Giant" has a very magical power, which can help the human beings who had stagnated at that time to evolve towards a higher life form—"

"Even life forms beyond carbon-based organisms."

"So they failed?"

Based on the current status of the wasteland, Jiatu subconsciously confirmed.

"do not know."

Wu Yao shook his head and replied, "At least they didn't succeed."

"Luo Lian took away the 'paternal' and 'children' of the life giants, and conducted some kind of experiment on the other side of the ocean. Bi'an achieved the transcendence of the life form one step faster—"

"But this kind of transcendence does not belong to humans, but to artificial intelligence."

Wu Yao replied: "The ancient Sai'an researchers called these 'superhuman beings' "Apostles", but for the humans in our refuge, the term "Quantum Demon" is more suitable for them."

""Quantum Demon"..."

Jiatu murmured back to life, "Those wandering hunters from before?"

"Yes, they are more advanced existences in "Quantum Demon"."

Wu Yao nodded and replied: "The real "Quantum Demon" has been able to reproduce everywhere like carbon-based life forms, and today's surface world is full of their offspring, if there is no "Life Stele" and "Life Giant" Without the strength, our exploration operations will be impossible."

"So the point of the third round of testing is..."

Jiatu couldn't help asking.

"It's Ritual."

Wu Yao turned to look at him and said, ""The Ritual of Blasphemy"."

After saying this, Wu Yao stopped answering.

Let Jiatu ask for details, but only said "I'll find out later".

After explaining "The Ritual of Blasphemy", Jiatu and the others quickened their pace and walked towards the bottom of the stele.

But even so, they walked for more than two hours.

They took a break during the period, and Wu Yao gave Jiatu a box of lunch, which contained deliciously steamed roast chicken and steamed buns.

This surprised Jiatu who saw "hot food" for the first time.

He didn't expect that the explorers didn't even eat dry food sticks.

This made him truly realize that everything has changed.

After eating and taking a break for three 10 minutes, they moved on.

Jiatu also saw more details about "Life Giant".

The giant of the whole life is hung upside down on the stone tablet "head and feet", with his hands open, showing a cross, just like the "suffering ancestor" in Christianity, but the only problem is that the giant is a "reversed cross", The "suffering ancestor" is the "right cross".

And whether it was the "Tree of Life Kabbalah", "Gossip", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", he even saw alchemy and star charts on the stone tablet - all of these are mystical knowledge on the earth.

Coupled with the dense patterns on the stone tablet behind the giant, Jiatu couldn't help guessing boldly:
"Is "Life Giant" hung upside down on the stone tablet by silver...human researchers?"

"The Blasphemous Ritual was indeed completed by the researchers of Sai'an alone."

Wu Yao nodded, and replied: "As for whether the giant was hung on the stele from the beginning, or only later, no one knows."

Following Wu Yao's answer, they finally reached the bottom of the life stone tablet.

Here, the giant's head was suspended directly above Gator and the others.

It has no mouth or facial features, only a pale face, and a single eye that is wide open.

However, judging from the dilated pupils, it was obviously already a corpse, dead for a long time.

Behind the neck of the giant that was hung upside down, there was a huge silver gun inserted. This silver gun penetrated deeply from the giant's spine, and the rest of the silver gun fell to the ground above. A crimson altar was set up.

In the center of the altar, there is a small glazed basin the size of a washbasin. In the center of the small glazed basin, there is a shallow layer of several hundred milliliters of golden liquid.

These golden liquids dripped continuously from above the silver steel gun.

It takes about ten seconds for a drop to drip down, and I don't know how long it will take to accumulate a whole pot.

"This is "Giant Marrow Fluid."

Wu Yao looked at Jiatu's shocked eyes, nodded and said:

"The most important raw material of "Main Installed Brainstorm"."

"Is it "Main Installed Horror Brain"... What is it..."

Jiatu recalled Heiyin's memory, although he was a little confused, but not too shocked.

He glanced at the red altar and realized that it was full of coral, giant clams, amber and agate, if you count the "gold" cones that held the giants in place, the "silver" cones that pierced the giants, and received the giant marrow fluid. The famous "glass" basin just constitutes the "seven kinds of treasures" in Buddhism.

"The "Li Neng" of "Life Giant"."

Wu Yao answered, and walked to the glazed washbasin.

He picked up a two-centimeter-thick syringe, penetrated into the glazed washbasin, and pumped out almost 100 milliliters of golden liquid.

"Wait... I still have a question..."

Seeing the tall man walking towards him with an unquestionable expression on his face, Jiatu quickly raised his right hand.

But before he could resist, Wu Yao had already walked in front of him.

The needle tip was inserted into his neck instantly.

"Hena and the others..."

Jiatu still wanted to say something, but felt a sharp pain in his neck.

With the slow push, he felt his body getting heavier and heavier.

When he fell heavily to the ground, he saw the bodies of three other summit climbers lying in a dead corner behind the altar.

　there will be another chapter later

　　
　
(End of this chapter)