Chapter 15: Ancient Erosion
The magnificent mountain gate was originally a huge building complex with three entrances and exits, decorated with carved dragons and painted phoenixes.

It is comparable to the most magnificent cathedral in the First Age.

At this moment, the leaning gables and beams were covered with weeds and moss more than two fingers thick, like a dilapidated mausoleum.

The mountain path was originally ten feet wide, wide enough for five horses to run side by side.

Even spiritual beasts like Qilin and Pixiu can climb up the stairs.

Now, it looks like an earthworm broken into dozens of pieces.

But this "earthworm" has not died yet and is still struggling and wriggling.

Looking closely, it was not the mountain path itself that was moving, but the vines that were growing out of the cracks in the rocks.

The vines, thicker than the strong man's thighs, seemed to have absorbed blood. They were red all over, covered with thorns, and swollen to the point that their skin was almost transparent.

You can see the juice inside surging like plasma, making a "slurping" sound.

At the end of the mountain road, there is a hundred-meter-high building rising from the top of the mountain into the sky. It should be majestic, magnificent, and splendid.

Now, it is completely covered by a colorful fungal blanket, like a giant heart covered with tumors.

The vines that spread all the way from the mountain path to the hundred-meter-high building converged like the blood vessels of a demon, coiled around the roof, and transformed into an enormous, thick and greasy demon flower.

The demonic flower kept shrinking and twitching, spewing out blood-colored mist that enveloped an area of ​​a hundred miles.

It makes people feel that this world has long been dead.

They were trapped in the rotting carcass of a civilization.

"There's something here!"

Guai Nao found a silver-threaded and white jade plaque broken into four pieces in the ruins.

"This stone tablet has three ancient hieroglyphs carved into it, and several characters are covered on top of it."

The strange brain's scalp throbbed, its brain working at high speed, and white smoke billowed from its head. "It looks like martial arts writing from the Second Era."

"Magnetic field warrior?"

Everyone was shocked.

"Damn it, I'd rather face the demons of the abyss than run into a magnetic field warrior."

The heavy firepower expert "Thor" who had killed more than twenty of his comrades, the flesh and scars on his face began to twitch together.

The investigators nodded.

The meat shield "King Kong" clutched the blood-red hexagram and prayed to the evil god, no matter what era or environment it was, it didn't matter, just don't let it be the fucking late Second Era, the magnetic field doomsday that led to the complete collapse of martial arts civilization.

The desperadoes around him prayed with him.

"No, that's not right. The characteristic of martial arts writing is its simplicity and brutality. Even if you don't understand the meaning, you can still feel the madness, brutality, and tyranny deep within the text."

Weird Brain thought for a moment, then shook his head. "These ancient characters have more strokes and are less crude, yet they contain more complex and profound information. Each character is like storing an entire library's worth of data."

Everyone felt the same way.

Although the plaque had long been broken, the strokes were filled with moss.

But when they gazed at these ancient hieroglyphs, they still felt as if their souls were leaving their bodies and they could not extricate themselves.

The ancient runes of the silver hook and iron painting were covered with four crooked blood characters.

Guai Nao frowned, pondered for a moment, and then put his fingers in to gesture.

His face turned a little pale.

"This stone tablet is made from a material with incredibly high density and hardness. It's harder than diamond."

Weird Brain explained, "The original three characters were meticulously carved using special tools, so they weren't too strange.

"But the last four blood-red characters seemed to have been scratched out by someone in a state of extreme fear and madness.

"That is to say, in this land of echoes, there exists at least one person or humanoid creature who can use his fingers to leave an indentation more than five centimeters deep on diamond.

"And yet, this humanoid creature panicked and issued a warning, warning those who came later to be careful of these four blood-red characters, representing a certain 'thing'!"

Everyone looked at each other.

I feel my throat is a little dry.

"Can't decipher these words?"

Goli's face was solemn.

"I'll try again, using the logic of martial arts writing to forcibly decipher these ancient characters."

The strange brain adjusted the knob on the card reader to increase the spiritual pressure of the "Eye of Insight".

The frequency of the red eyeball's shrinkage and expansion increased significantly, beating like a heart floating in the air.

His face was pale, and his body became increasingly thin and hunched, as if all his vitality had been transferred to his guardian spirit.

He stared at the broken plaque, his eyes gradually becoming blurred, as if his soul had left his body and merged into the strange and unpredictable land around him.

"Ahhhhhhh, ahhhhhh."

After half a minute of dead silence, the dazed-looking Guai Nao suddenly spoke.

"You understand? What does it mean?"

Goli asked anxiously. "I...I think...I understand..."

The strange brain's eyes became blurred, and its temperament underwent a complete transformation. From the original big-headed strange baby, it actually had a bit of immortal air.

"The soul leads to the clear void, and the spirit returns——"

He was like a human translator, interpreting the profound principles contained in the ancient runes word by word in a clear and melodious voice.

However, almost no one present could understand what he said.

Including himself.

And as he continued to increase his spiritual pressure, pushed his brain's computing power to the limit, and performed deep deciphering.

But it was like an invisible coffin nail, hammering heavily into his brain.

His whole body twitched, and his voice became sharp and twisted, as if it was not coming from the depths of his throat, but from far away. "Come, come and eat! Come and eat!"

Goli's pupils suddenly contracted.

The desperadoes around him gasped at the same time.

"Corpse, corpse wax dripping... dripping..."

A grotesque smile appeared at the corner of Guai Nao's mouth, and his immortal temperament disappeared. His face turned purple in an instant, becoming extremely weird.

It seemed as if some mysterious power was forcibly poured into his body from the shattered plaque.

He swelled abnormally like a corrupted giant.

"Rotten intestines pave the way to a secluded... secluded..."

He continued to chant the spell that no one could understand in a cold and unfamiliar tone.

The ups and downs of the rhythm are completely different from the mainstream summoning words in the Age of Heroes.

The awkward syllables sound like the knocking sounds deep in an ancient tomb buried in loess in the middle of the night when no one is around.

It makes one's scalp tingle, and one's heart feels like it can grow hands and feet, tear through the chest, and crawl out of the body.

"I'll lend you my rotten flesh and bones, hehe, but return my remaining soul..."

The strange brain was completely unaware of its own abnormality.

He sang and danced, staggering towards Goli.

"Old Erosion!"

Goli kicked the monster brain out. "Catch him, inject 500 units of nerve blocker, prepare cyanide, and prepare incendiary bombs!"

Fortunately, Monster Brain, as the historian and humanoid database of the investigation team, is equipped with the most advanced card reader.

Detecting his disordered brain waves, the card reader's overload protection device automatically activated, releasing dazzling sparks and arcs, forcibly severing his spiritual connection with the guardian spirit.

Without the blessing of its master's vitality, the rhythm of the "Eye of Insight" suddenly slowed down, turning into a wisp of green smoke and fleeing back into the seal card in a panic.

The protective talisman array engraved on the seal card instantly operated at its limit, detecting and killing any alien residual souls that might follow the guardian spirit and invade the seal card.

Several companions rushed forward in perfect coordination and held down the monster's limbs.

Someone inserted a medical card into the secondary card slot of the card reader, releasing the [Frost Fairy], which sprayed out a phantom blue icy mist to cool down the monster's brain.

Someone else stabbed a syringe into the monster's neck.

The strange brain struggled violently, and there was still a hoarse sound in its throat, saying strange words that no one could understand except Xu Yan.

His skinny limbs were covered with thick blue veins, releasing astonishing strength. Even a strong man who weighed more than twice as much as him could hardly control it.

Goli personally loaded the grenade launcher with incendiary bombs and pressed them against the monster's heart.

Everyone held their breath and counted down, ten, nine, eight...

Fortunately, the nerve blocker took effect within ten seconds.

The fluorescent green drug flows along the carotid artery and into the brain and chest cavity respectively.

The bloodshot veins in the monster's eyes broke and disappeared behind the eyeballs.

He stopped struggling and his breathing gradually stabilized.

Smelly black body fluids oozed out of the pores all over his body, and his deformed and swollen body shape slightly returned to normal.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

He seemed to have returned from a nightmare, slowly waking up with a violent cough.

"Wow!"

He vomited out a mouthful of black blood, mixed with green blood threads, which twisted strangely as if it had life.

Goli signaled her men to let him go.

The grenade launcher was still locked on his heart.

"Safe word."

Goli said coldly, "Hurry up and tell me!"

(End of this chapter)

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