The coffin is a truly sealed structure, and its purpose is to better preserve the body. As for the altar, according to some legends that Bariu knows, everything placed on the altar is a "tribute". The prey will be placed on the altar alive, disemboweled, and the internal organs will be dug out and the lid will be flipped over to slide into the altar... In fact, the outer wall of the entire altar is deliberately left with more than a dozen ventilation holes, and the seriously injured tributes will struggle, wail, and bleed uncontrollably in them - this is seen as the gods continuing to enjoy life.
Baliu's personal evaluation of this custom is "extremely barbaric". She used to be a librarian and read a lot of classics. She never thought that the legendary gods would accept such tribute. This sacrificial custom, which is common in Southeast Asian island countries and extremely popular in primitive tribes, is definitely a misunderstanding of mythology.
Either it was a misunderstanding, or they knew exactly what they were doing, and the object of their sacrifice must be an evil god.
She felt there would be no further explanation, so without waiting for Hitzfeld to react, she jumped up and grabbed Aman, dragged him down by his collar, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she was sure that there were no knife wounds on his body.
"What happened?" Xia Yibing asked her urgently, "Why are you here?"
She thought it was lucky that she was able to climb up after accidentally entering the secret passage and meet these two people by coincidence.
She was afraid that this luck was artificial and the consequences would be terrible, so she couldn't wait to understand the cause and effect.
"I can't remember..." Baliu shook his head, and only then did he feel a splitting headache.
"I found him, took advantage of the opportunity, and told him the plan when he was awake... Then he drank the monster's body fluids... I thought I could hide it from it... But when I tried to test him in the morning, he knocked me out. When I woke up, I saw you guys."
Baliu felt that she was unlucky because she really did nothing wrong and was even just a little bit away from success.
After all, there was still insufficient intelligence. She was not sure when the water monster's monitoring ability would be strong and when it would weaken. Perhaps it was because Aman's identity was too important that the other party increased its control... She didn't want to make excuses, she miscalculated.
Fortunately, it seemed that no serious consequences had been caused: he was still alive, Aman was not dead, and Hitzfeld and his group had indeed come to find him, which seemed to be no different from the original plan.
"There is still a difference." Hitzfeld turned his back to them and looked down, saying in a low voice: "We can't go down."
The Goliath people's architectural style was more like the tropical regions she had seen in her previous life. Many of them were made of smooth white stone, with at most some carvings near the door frames.
This was not a coincidence, but a convergence caused by climate and environmental factors, which was inevitable to some extent. So when she found that the palace of Ivanria had such a long staircase and the specifications were similar to those of a pyramid, she was not too surprised.
But now the structure of the pyramid is a pitfall - this is not the kind of pyramid in Egypt, but more like the Mayan civilization, with layers of structures getting higher and higher. She stood at the top and looked down and found that almost every layer below was gushing out springs. It looked like a water pipe inside the palace had cracked, and it was filled with springs, to the point where it needed to spray water out.
How do we go down this road?
All the passable roads were submerged by the water, and in some depressions, reservoirs with a depth of 1-2 meters were even formed. No one dared to wade in the water knowing that there was a "water monster".
If only Ashley were here.
Hitzfeld thought to himself.
Although Ashley is stupid, slow to react, and seems not very smart, she is indeed a serious member of the Sky Hunter Team. She can fly and control a hang glider.
But if it were her, Hitzfeld compared the distance from the dome of the palace to the seaside and gave up the idea honestly.
Rumbling--
The palace shook violently again, and this time everyone could see clearly: it was not just the palace that was shaking, but the hill that supported the palace, and even the entire Iverria, were shaking together.
The ground cracked, and streams of water gushed out. Rocks and soil on the outer contours of the hill were constantly shattered and collapsed, revealing layers of pipes and gears. More water gushed out from the drainage pipes, forming dozens of small waterfalls around the hill.
"What is that?"
On a earthen building in the city center, Ethan put down the telescope, rubbed his eyes, and couldn't help but doubt that he had seen it wrong.
Darent and several crew members stood nearby. No one spoke, simply because they did not want to believe what they were seeing.
Looking around, the hills in the distance were quickly covered by a layer of mist. They formed a layer of cloud-like mist in the gushing, and the mist vaguely formed huge illusions in the air, with all kinds of strange and all-encompassing contents, including various animals they knew or didn't know.
This is the boss battle...
Hitzfeld muttered to herself, and instinctively wanted to step back, but she remembered that Xia Yibing was standing behind her, so she forced herself to hold back her steps.
Finally, the water flows gathered together in the midst of horrified gazes and turned into a monster with a long water snake in the lower half and a giant in the upper half, standing there.
"Your eyes..." The water giant looked down at the person on top, his eyes fixed on the girl, "Ha... I didn't expect there would be an unexpected gain..."
Madeline gritted her teeth and fired a volley of bullets at it, but it was useless. All the bullets either penetrated the water flow or lost their momentum after going in, and were instead swept out by the water flow, causing no harm to the monster.
"What an ignorant act." The water giant tilted his head to look at her and made an unceremonious comment, "But for someone like you who is still imprisoned by a mortal body, it is not difficult to understand..."
“……” Madeline was angry, but she couldn’t refute it.
Not only because her attacks had no effect, but also because this thing itself was close to a miracle.
The upper body of this monster, that is, the part that transformed into a human body, was more than ten meters wide at the shoulders. Its lower body was winding around the entire palace, and its end was rooted in the stagnant water with rising mist... She was not even sure if this was the maximum size it could change to.
But how is this possible?
Even though they had known about the monster for a long time and had made certain mental preparations, a group of people, like Madeline, were still instinctively unwilling to accept reality.
How could it be possible... How could it be...
How can a stream of water have life?
"Too many people are getting in the way." The water monster whispered, but the sound it made was like thunder and rushing water. "I should start cleaning some of them up."
"Alessia!"
At this moment, Hitzfeld spoke with all his might despite the pressure: "Alesia-Berenkulud!"
"Ok?"
The water monster stopped raising his hand and turned to look at her: "You actually know my name?"
"Not only do I know your name, I also know what you are looking for in Iverria," Hitzfeld said. "You are looking for that island, right? ... That divine city on the abyss. There is something there that can help you win this war."
"You know so much!" The water monster widened his eyes and leaned down to stare at her, "Who are you?!"
Xia Yibing was watching with great nervousness, for a moment she almost couldn't help but rush out and swing her knife - bullets were useless because they couldn't break water, and she didn't believe that the ice knife would be so weak against water flow.
However, she saw Hitzfeld gesturing to her, with one hand behind her back, constantly waving, suggesting that she should not act rashly.
Xia Yibing calculated the distance between the water monster and the girl, and thought that even if the other party attacked, she would still have time to pull the person away.
So she endured it and did not act rashly.
"Do you know where that island is?" The water monster's attention was all on Hitzfeld. It completely ignored the others and lowered its head: "Your eyes are unusual... Are you a Neon? Are you a silver-eyed seagull?"
what's the situation?
Madeline swallowed her saliva.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, what I just saw in my dream wasn’t an illusion?
She quickly linked all the intelligence information together and came to the conclusion: everything in the dream was real. Aisuen Hitzfeld had just taken her back to a lost history, in which they discovered the secret of the water monster. Combined with what the water monster said at this time, it wanted to find the Neon people and use the Neon people's innate ability "Silver Eyes" to see through the fog on the sea, so as to help the Corrupted Blood God Kingdom it served to find the floating city on the abyss.
Then, perhaps the Corrupted Blood Kingdom, which has obtained the floating city, can win the war, defeat the Mechanical Kingdom and dominate Elsa...
This matter must be extremely important to them. If people knew that the Neon was me...
Madeline felt uneasy and hid behind Grant unconsciously.
"No...Nian people should have silver eyes." The water monster quickly denied the guess, "There's something wrong with only one of your eyes... It's golden... You're not a Neang, not one of His followers..."
"But I know where the Neons are." Hitzfeld quickly took over and said, "There is actually a misunderstanding between us. We are here just to take our friends away. We have no hostility towards the Corrupted Blood Kingdom. We can even cooperate. We can help you find the Silver-Eyed Seagull, and then we can deal with the Mechanical Kingdom together."
She is cheating.
This is something that everyone, including Xia Yibing, can see.
Cooperation? Impossible... They all came up from below. No one knows better than them how many leftover bones there are in the water pipe.
No matter who you are, you can never cooperate with this monster. No matter how rational it looks or how easy it is to communicate with, it is a man-eating monster and a true alien!
"Are you stalling for time?" The water monster shook his head, indicating that he was not easily deceived by her. "I heard that some iron bugs came to the city a while ago... Are you the ones? Do you think you can wait for rescue by stalling for time?"
What the hell is it talking about?
Even Hitzfeld couldn't understand this. What was even more difficult for her to understand was that the water monster actually looked up at the sky and around while speaking, as if he was always on guard against something.
I was just fooling it, looking for an opportunity to let it release us to the beach... Why did it really think there would be reinforcements? And from the sky?
With a stir in his mind, Hitzfeld thought of the so-called "mechanical spy".
Could it be...
"It doesn't matter." The water monster seemed to have lost his patience. He stretched out his hand towards the girl and said, "Whether you are a Devourer or something else, you will know everything after you eat you..."
A huge pressure was coming downwards, Hitzfeld's breathing became rapid, and he saw a large hand formed by transparent water covering him.
On the surface, she looked terrified, but the hand behind her back quietly raised three fingers.
The big hand came closer.
The finger becomes two.
The wind pressure blew her hair apart.
Become one.
Suddenly—she raised her other hand, which was hidden in her sleeve, and holding the white whale, she pulled the trigger and shot the bullet into the palm of her giant hand.
The water monster did not dodge. In its opinion, this weapon posed no threat to it.
puff!
The bullet hit the palm without any suspense, accompanied by a series of dry and friction sounds. An icy mist spread from the center of the bullet to the surroundings, quickly freezing most of the giant hand.
"This is……"
The water monster was shocked, but soon found itself in trouble.
Those little reptiles that it didn't take seriously actually took out their pistols and shot at itself, and every gun fired those ice crystal bullets!
puff!
puff!
boom--! ! !
From a distance, the upper body of the water monster was constantly exploding with ice flowers. It waved its hands to try to block it... but a black shadow suddenly rushed to the edge of the platform, holding a sharp blade and slashing it -
Click!
Its entire wrist was broken in the middle, split open by the Changxia Sword! An ice explosion occurred!
Puff puff!
Countless tiny ice needles flew towards the water monster's face from the explosion. They pierced into the flowing water to further spread the freezing effect, and then exploded again, blowing its face into pieces.
“Damn it! Aa ...
The water monster roared in fear and anger. It no longer used its other hand to block the attack and pressed down regardless, trying to kill them. However, it was frozen by an ice bomb in the middle of the attack, allowing Xia Yibing to replicate the result of the previous attack.
"Slag!!!"
Rumbling--
The monster's roar caused the mountain to shake, more rock and soil collapsed, and everyone began to shake.
The first step of the plan was successful.
Hitzfeld pursed his lips.
If she couldn't talk, she could only beat him...but there were rules for beating, just like her gestures were not just for Xia to see.
As a mysterious master, she can use the knowledge of evil disciples to psychically infuse bullets. Everyone was given a box of ice bombs before they set off.
But because she was the only one making it, the total number of bullets was not enough. It was not much if it was distributed among each person.
Considering that this thing is also powerful when fired from a pistol, the best way to use it is definitely: load conventional bullets into the automatic rifle to attack conventional enemies; load ice explosive bombs into the close-range pistol to attack unconventional enemies.
When they first met, no one had their guns drawn yet... She had to give everyone the necessary time to think of this.
Fortunately, everyone this time is an elite.
"Bang!" A bullet hit the bottom of his feet, breaking a piece of brick and stone while also spreading an area of ice crystals around. Hitzfeld continued to take a step to the side and fired several consecutive shots at the steps at the edge of the building, freezing all the water below.
The monster was still screaming, and they couldn't target them in a short time. Led by the girl, a group of people took Baliu and carried Aman on their backs, sliding down the ice crystal stairs one by one, escaping one section at a time.
"Hurry up... hurry up..."
In the square below, a group of Cybertroopers looked up at the palace on the mountain with anxious expressions on their faces.
The people on the mountain might not be able to see clearly, but they could see it all from below: the upper body of the water monster was indeed frozen and broken, and it would lose its strength for a while, but the body below it, the water flow that meandered like a long snake, and countless human hands sticking out from both sides of the water flow, were grabbing the mountain and climbing up, and were about to collide head-on with the troops coming down the mountain.
"Yeah..."
Torres suddenly opened his mouth and reached out to push his partner's shoulder.
"what?"
Cybot was impatient, but did not look back.
"Look at the sky."
"Ok?"
The pink-haired nun raised her head and subconsciously opened her mouth.
