HCB Chapter 256 Mural
Chapter 256 Mural
Turning from the road chosen by Howard, they indeed came to another fork in the road not far away. Then, still under Howard's instructions, Mei turned into the road where the highest number of deaths among the Astra Militarum soldiers had occurred.
The helmet still recorded the number of Astra Militarum soldiers killed in the battle, and the death toll was now close to three hundred.
Howard did not let the nun take him on this journey because the number of dead orcs here was sharply reduced compared to the previous journey. In the area where the body of the mechanical priest was located, the bodies of the dead orcs could probably fill several swimming pools after melting. But here, only a few pools of completely melted orc slime could be seen.
What grew on the mucus was not mycelium but mushrooms. When Mei, who was leading the way, walked past a particularly huge mushroom, the mushroom actually grew eyes and opened its sharp teeth to bite her, and then she chopped off its head with a knife.
Howard always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.
After walking for a while, Mei suddenly stopped.
Howard thought he had come to a fork in the road again. He was about to go around to Mei to see what was going on, but was stopped by Mei.
"Be careful," Mei said.
Hearing May's warning, the nun strode forward and lifted Howard up, holding him under her ribs, while drawing her weapon and keeping on guard.
"Don't be too nervous, it's not a serious matter." Mei added.
So the nun threw Howard down again.
"What's the matter?" Howard asked.
May gestured in a direction with her eyes, and Howard looked in that direction. At the end was the corpse of an Astra Militarum soldier.
The Astra Militarum was impaled on the wall by a stone spear through the heart, his body untouched by the ork spores.
At first Howard couldn't make out anything. He looked at the body of the Astra Militarum from head to toe, and finally his eyes were focused on the spear.
The Astra Militarum soldier was stabbed to death by a simple chalk-white stone spear, about two meters long, with soft and beautiful lines. The tip of the stone spear was completely embedded in the chest of the Astra Militarum soldier.
Howard didn't know much about orcs, but he could tell at a glance that this spear was not an orc weapon, because orcs could not make such a beautiful and simple spear, and this was certainly not a weapon of the Astra Militarum.
Howard's eyelids twitched, and he finally understood why he had vaguely felt that something was wrong just now.
There are far fewer orc corpses than human corpses on this road.
Orks weren't the only ones who killed these Astra Militarum troops.
Howard gave the nun a look, and the nun understood. She walked to the corpse and pulled out the spear that pierced the corpse.
The tip of the spear was tied with a sharp crystal fragment, which served as the spearhead. It was now stained red with blood. The nun wiped off the coagulated blood on it. The style of this crystal was the same as the crystal growing on the Karen Yajin that teleported them here.
But Howard's focus was not on this. He walked to the place where the Astra Militarum was nailed just now. The blood spurting out from the wound when the Astra Militarum was pierced through the heart covered a large area of the wall, and there was a piece of blood that was darker than the surrounding area.
Howard peeled off the dried blood with his hands, revealing a symbol carved into the stone that resembled the real-life Eye of Horus.
He tried to reach out and touch the pattern of the symbol. The edges of the pattern were extremely smooth, obviously not recently engraved. If a fresh engraving had not been polished, the edges should be sharp.
"I think I've found some clues!" Howard shouted. "Go ahead, ladies! Look around! See if there are any more carvings like this!"
"Here!" After Howard's reminder, May quickly found another carving not far away, but this carving was not the Eye of Horus, but a nebula-shaped vortex.
"That's right!" The situation finally took a turn for the better, and Howard couldn't help but get excited: "Keep going! Follow these symbols!"
Soon, more and more symbols were discovered: shackles entwined with flames, broken shields and spears, irregular polygons, and many patterns that clearly resembled written text but that Howard and his team could not decipher. Guided by these strange symbols, the two men and the Eldar advanced rapidly. The scattered corpses of the Astra Militarum along the way only confirmed the correctness of their chosen path.
But more patterns had been destroyed in the battle between the Astra Militarum and unknown creatures, so Howard could only see a few of them.
After turning into another fork, these scattered carvings expanded into a magnificent mural covering the entire wall. It depicted humanoid creatures worshiping a spiral tower. The tower stood on a distant mountain top, surrounded by aurora, and the sky was filled with nebulae in the style of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and countless eyes that were open and looking down at the underworld.
However, the middle section of the mural, that is, the part between the pilgrims and the tower, has fallen off in pieces and is difficult to distinguish.
Howard's heart was beating fast. He didn't think these murals were carved casually. To have such technology to create such art must require a certain level of civilization. These patterns that could not be interpreted now must contain very important information. He was eager to see more. Unknowingly, his speed gradually increased, even surpassing Mei.
"Mr. Howard!"
Hearing Mei's shout from behind, Howard missed a step before he could stop and fell into a huge space that suddenly appeared in front of him.
Fortunately, at the last moment, the battle sister rushed up and grabbed Howard's calf.
The nun's helmet was not so lucky. It fell off Howard's head and fell into the deep darkness. It was a long time before the sound of metal hitting the ground was heard.
"Um... that..." After being pulled out, Howard, who had gotten into trouble, shrank his neck guiltily and said to the nun, "I... I'm sorry..."
The nun's expression was unhappy but not extremely unhappy. She glared at Howard, but then she remembered that Howard was blind and couldn't see her glaring at him, so she stopped glaring.
"It seems that you are not much calmer than me, it's just that the incident didn't happen to you." The nun said with a hint of sarcasm.
So Howard shrank his head even further.
"Alright, alright, stop looking so worthless." The nun couldn't stand the human's miserable appearance any longer, so she dropped her sarcasm and said, "That helmet won't break. The quality of Imperial military equipment isn't that bad. Besides, we were planning to go down anyway, weren't we?"
The nun's understanding almost moved Howard to tears. If this was a game and he had a favorability level, then the nun's words just now could be considered a critical hit, causing his favorability to increase significantly.
Then the nun and Howard walked to the edge of the huge hole together. It was pitch black in front of them, and Howard had no way of judging how big the space was. However, the sound of his helmet hitting the ground confirmed that the ground where they were standing must be very high.
Howard shivered as the cold wind blew on his face.
"How do we get down?" Howard looked at the nun beside him, although he couldn't see anything now.
The nun said nothing and raised her hand to push him down.