Chapter 938: Secret Vault Heart Extraction
Chapter 938: Secret Vault Heart Extraction (Part )
After stopping in front of a huge keyhole that was half a person's height, Director Taurus reached out and touched the words engraved inside the keyhole. Then he nodded slightly, put the key to the secret vault into it, and turned it in the air.
As she moved, the hollow brass keyhole immediately twisted clockwise, and every time it turned ninety degrees, a palm-sized groove would appear on the inside.
After the fifth 90-degree turn was completed and five grooves appeared on the inside of the keyhole, Director Taurus stopped, pulled out the key and continued to explain:
"The number of grooves in the keyhole represents the number of directors' consent required to take out the items inside. Except for items of the level of the Thirteen Ant Nests and the Wishing Wheel, basically only two or three directors' tokens are needed to open it..."
While explaining the rules and usage of the secret library, Director Taurus stretched out his palm, on which different patterns kept appearing, and lightly touched each of the four palm-shaped grooves.
"As for the tokens of the directors, they are the corresponding seals that you automatically obtain when you are selected by the Star Palace. As long as you communicate with the Star Palace, it will automatically appear. Since you did not reach 60 Lyon points before, you could not make the Aquarius seal appear completely, but now it should be possible... Come on, give it a try."
"Ok."
After nodding in response, Leon took a step forward and imitated the Taurus director, trying to communicate with the Aquarius star palace while placing his palm on the last empty groove.
"Crack!"
The royal blue Aquarius pattern flashed across Leon's palm, and after obtaining the last key, a sound similar to that of a spring being triggered came from inside the brass keyhole.
Then, the huge keyhole split open from the middle. Before Leon could see what was inside, an unimaginably strong smell of blood immediately splashed out from inside.
That's right, splash it.
Just the slight smell emanating from the secret vault was like a thick blood rain pouring down on the ground, completely soaking the faces and clothes of Leon and the other man, almost immersing them in the sticky blood plasma.
Countless crimson droplets in a semi-solidified state, like ugly earthworms made of pus and blood, crawled all over the bodies of Leon and Director Taurus, and fell down along their hair and clothes, dyeing the surrounding ground blood red.
Good guy...
After turning his eyes that had been dyed blood red for a moment, and looking at Director Taurus who was also covered in sticky blood, Leon couldn't help but speak in shock as he looked at the world in front of him that had been completely stained blood red:
"This thing is just a heart?"
"Yes."
After wiping the blood off his face with his sleeve, Director Taurus, with a complicated expression, sighed:
"And it's a shriveled heart that has been separated from the corpse for thousands of years. Every three to five years, the secret vault is opened to drain all the remaining blood inside... Leon, although I brought you here, whether you can take it away or not is ultimately up to you."
Ok?
Just when Leon showed a puzzled look and wanted to ask what she meant by this sentence, he found that his heart suddenly stopped and temporarily stopped pumping blood to the whole body.
At the same time, hidden behind the sticky blood rain, the giant heart of the Crimson Overlord, which was more than two meters high, strangely replaced the work of Leon's heart and began to beat in an extremely weird way.
"You have a nice body."
After a heavy and powerful beat, a vague will emerged from the shriveled giant heart, and it began to "speak" slowly:
"According to your physical condition, it will take about 6 minutes of complete cardiac arrest to cause irreversible damage to your body, so you have 6 minutes to gain my approval."
Get your approval?
After touching his calmed chest, Leon did not answer the words of the shriveled heart, but cast a puzzled look at the Taurus director next to him.
This B thing has been dead for many years, how dare it still put on airs with us?
"Crimson is the color of blood. The Crimson Overlord is the overlord of blood, bloodline, bloodline... and even many other related things. Its heart naturally has the power to control these things."
Unable to understand the meaning of Leon's eyes, Director Taurus explained: "The Pillar God is the controller of the truth, but at the same time, it must be controlled by its own truth. So even if the Supreme Four Pillar Gods are fighting with us to death, they cannot do anything that violates their own truth. Therefore, as long as you can gain the recognition of its heart, it must serve you."
There is such a strange setting?
After raising his eyebrows in surprise, Leon reached out and wiped the sticky blood plasma on his face, then turned his head back and looked at the [Scarlet Heart] that stole his heartbeat and said:
"So how do I gain your approval? Attack you? Or pay the price for using you?"
"Neither. You just need to answer the questions."
The huge [Crimson Heart] pulsated vigorously, and then spoke with a hint of arrogance:
"The better your answer, the more violent my heartbeat will be. Your heartbeat is currently fifty-two and a half times a minute. As long as you can make my heart beat more than sixty times a minute within three questions, you win."
Just make your heart beat faster? This test is really abstract.
Lyon frowned slightly when he heard this, but still nodded:
"Okay, then you can ask."
"Very good. Although you are a human, I don't hate your confidence."
After beating slightly in approval, the shriveled giant heart slowly spoke:
"Then the first question is, blood is the most precious liquid in the world, but I want you to name another liquid that is more precious than blood. It is worth exchanging for it even if you have to use all your blood."
"This is simple."
After thinking about it for a while and vaguely understanding the style of this thing, Leon answered without hesitation:
"Tears are more precious than blood. For me, if I can stop Anna from shedding tears of pain, it would be worth it even if I shed all my blood."
"Ah."
After hearing what Leon said, the shriveled huge heart beat twice quickly, and then said with a slight contempt in his voice:
"It's a vulgar and boring answer, but your heartbeat tells me that what you said is indeed true, barely worth two heartbeats... Then the second question is, why is blood red?"
Why is blood red?
Leon couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this. His previous answer only received a mediocre evaluation, so it would be better to change his answer style this time...
“Because of hemoglobin.”
"?"
In the confused mind of the giant heart, Leon explained seriously:
“There are iron atoms in the hemoglobin molecule, which can combine with oxygen to form oxyhemoglobin. The main color of blood comes from the combination of hemoglobin and oxygen. Oxyhemoglobin appears bright red, while deoxyhemoglobin appears dark red.
When arterial blood delivers oxygen to various tissues and organs of the body, as oxygen is released, hemoglobin becomes deoxygenated and the blood becomes dark red in color..."
"..."
"I've finished answering, why don't you say anything?"
"..."
It’s not that I don’t want to talk, it’s that I don’t know what to say…
Looking at Leon who was still waiting for the answer in front of him, his heart was filled with confusion. He couldn't help but smack his non-existent lips, and felt that his non-existent brain was slightly out of service.
Logically, shouldn't you answer something about life and vitality, sacrifice, or death? What's that egg yolk and white thing?
(End of this chapter)