Alien Knights

After finishing the training in the morning, Todd, covered in blood, returned to the stone chamber of the temple.

Rachel just woke up, maybe because of excessive worry, coupled with the lack of sleep, her face didn't look good.

Todd glanced at the amount of food and water on the stone platform, which was almost the same as when he left, and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong? Is it the fever from before that hasn't recovered yet?"

Rachel leaned against the wall beside the stone bed, rubbed her temples with her hands, and said weakly, "I don't know, I just feel that I can't exert my strength all over the body, maybe too many things have happened in the past two days."

Todd took off his shirt, and the blood stains stained the skirt, which caused Rachel's exclamation.

"Some skin injuries are basically healed." Todd waved his arms and said indifferently.

Rachel checked the other party carefully, and after confirming that there was nothing serious, she let out a long sigh of relief, looked at the stone window with dull eyes, and whispered, "When can we leave here?"

Putting on a set of clean clothes, Todd followed the light and looked at the sky outside: "First of all, we must find a way to leave the country of shadows. Heavy fog, hidden reefs, poisonous water, and ferocious beasts are all obstacles for us to leave."

"After leaving here, the real trouble is. We must find a suitable ship and sail to Muxi Kingdom safely." Thinking of the monster on the bottom of the sea that was as big as a city, Todd shuddered inexplicably.

There was one thing on his mind that he didn't mention to Rachel.

His academic career in his previous life, on the one hand, made Todd cautious and skeptical about such strange powers involving the Holy Spirit and curses, especially when he had seen the Crystal Mansion twice; on the other hand, facing the hidden true face of the "tyrant" and the reality behind the various visions of the Kingdom of Shadows, his curiosity began to sneak up again.

"It would be fine if the 'Black Pearl' was still there." Rachel leaned against the wall and sighed.

Todd knelt down and touched Rachel's forehead with the back of his hand.

No fever.

But the strange thing is that Rachel's current mental state is the worst since he knew her.

Just when Todd wanted to ask further, Meredith's voice came from the other end of the corridor.

"Are you there? I'm here to deliver something to you."

Walking out of the stone room, Todd was surprised to see Meredith carrying bags in the main hall of the temple.

"This is a sleeping bag, these are clothes, these are pots and pans..." Meredith placed the packages on the ground, opened them one by one, and covered the floor in a short while.

Todd looked at the things on the floor and nodded gratefully towards the other party.

His body has been mutated and modified, and his living needs are naturally relatively simple. However, Rachel is still an ordinary person after all, without these necessities of life, it is really difficult to survive in this place.

Speaking of Rachel...

Todd glanced behind him and asked Meredith, "Did anything happen to my companion during my trial of 'Fate'?"

Meredith looked a little surprised, and after thinking about it carefully, she said, "It doesn't seem like she did. She carried you through the trial road and entered the sacrificial hall. After you jumped into the "Dark Gate", she waited for you there for a day and a night..."

Todd touched the bridge of his nose, thought for a while, and suddenly said, "I want to go to the sacrificial hall."

Meredith blinked at him: "No problem, demigods who join the "Kingdom of Shadows" have the right to go to any corner here, except..."

Seeing Todd rushing towards the gate of the temple, Meredith shouted dissatisfiedly: "I haven't finished my words yet!"

Todd's figure disappeared at the door, and before leaving, he said loudly: "During the time I am away, please help take care of my companion!"

Walking along the ridge to the foot of the mountain, Todd shuttled among the gravel and bushes, stepped on dilapidated steps to enter the temple, and found the entrance to the ground on the back of the incomplete goddess statue.

Quickly walking down the spiral steps underground, Todd looked at the dark cave under his feet. Even if he used the "night vision" ability to look far away, he couldn't see the end of the cave.

As his footsteps continued to move, he gradually discovered that only by personally experiencing the stone steps, the deeper he went, the more he could appreciate the terrifying depth of this cave.

After ten minutes of descending thousands of steps, Todd finally stood on the platform at the bottom of the cave.

Looking at the rune writing on the door at the end of the platform, Todd pushed open the door without hesitation and entered an underground corridor made of bone fossils.

Looking at the fossils on the wall, some pictures flashed in Todd's mind.

The same strange fossils, the same underground ruins.

The scene in the ruins of the gods on the North Island gradually overlapped with the scene in front of him.

There is a terrible fact, in the depths of his mind, vaguely surfaced, but it can't be seen as real.

Walking a little further, Todd saw a strange thing among the fossils, and it was this thing that completely awakened his fear and panic.

It was a thumb-sized green spar, clusters of lenses gathered together, like the petals on a "rose", emitting a faint green light in the dark underground tunnel, gorgeous and dazzling.

Todd's body was shaking, and cold sweat was streaming down his forehead. It seemed that a ball of cotton wool was stuffed in his throat, and he could only make loud noises, but he couldn't speak a word.

Turning his gaze to the end of the corridor, Todd ran towards the sacrificial hall desperately like a bewitched lunatic.

Struggling to open the door at the end of the fossil corridor, sacrificial to everything in the hall, his knees softened, he knelt down on the ground, his right palm turned into a fist, and while he hit his cheek heavily, he let out a cry of pain and regret.

All the decorations in the sacrificial hall were swept away by the sea water when Todd returned last time.

After being soaked and eroded by seawater, most of the originally solid rock wall surface has fallen off, exposing the things inside.

Large patches of green crystals, embedded in stones, covered the walls of the entire hall.

Together, they emit green light, illuminating the entire dark and damp hall like a green "heaven".

Others may be intoxicated by this beautiful scenery, but Todd's heart is frozen.

Because of these green lenses, he was all too familiar.

Uranium ore...

Mutating his body into a monster form, Todd used all four limbs to run across the corridor of fossils and climb the spiral stairs at his fastest speed.

His heart was filled with remorse and self-blame.

He had a chance to discover the truth that the Kingdom of Shadows was built on top of a huge uranium mine. At the beginning of the excavation of the Beidao ruins, he had to stop the construction because the intensity of radioactivity in the ground became higher and endangered the health of the workers.

The ruins of the North Island and the Kingdom of Shadows are both the locations of the Crystal Beacon Tower. The deeper the North Island remains, the stronger the radiation. According to this reasoning, the Kingdom of Shadows should be the same.

Todd should have thought of such a simple truth, but he was immersed in the pleasure of mutation and power, forgetting this fatal truth.

The direct consequence was that Rachel was exposed to a strong radioactive environment for more than 24 hours. In the case of a large amount of radiation accumulated in her body, no effective measures have been taken.

Todd, who transformed into a monster form, had only one thought in his mind at this time - hurry up, hurry up!

The mutated "speed" ability makes the limbs burst out with strength far exceeding that of ordinary people.

Todd simply gave up the trail and chose to climb up from the bottom of the cliff like a gecko.

From the sacrificial hall to the stone chamber of the temple, Todd completed the journey that used to take more than an hour in just ten minutes.

When he came back into the room in monster form, both Rachel and Meredith were taken aback by him.

Todd, who degenerated into a human form, shouted anxiously: "Rachel! No time to explain! Take off your clothes quickly!!!"