Chapter 149 - Accommodate (1/2)

Although it was decided that they could not place the ‘divine sample’ back into the shadow realm, the specific accommodation for it was a big problem. Bringing it back to the territory was a definite no — this thing was unlike the conventional findings, not to mention a metal ball like Nicholas Egg who was harmless to man and beast. The divine tissue cells themselves were a fatal substance to mortals. Even if it was merely taking a closeup look, a human would certainly die or go mad. Hence, they had to keep it somewhere far from the crowd but at the same time, ensure that it was completely under their own control.

After much thought, it seemed that this ruin in the mountains was the best accommodation for it.

Gawain took out the map that Byron drew. Very soon, he found a space that fit his demands — in the large winding corridor in the middle level of the ruin, there was a spacious empty room close to the southwestern corner. That room used to be a laboratory; thus, it was strong and easy to guard.

Most importantly, there was a considerable distance between that room and this circular hall.

Though he didn’t know if there were other objects in this circular hall that could engender a response with the divine flesh and blood, increasing the distance between the two would be reassuring to some extent.

Gawain pointed at the map and ordered, “Keep it in this room, held in a light-proof cloth or box, in any circumstances other than when I’m present. Otherwise, ensure that this sample is always completely covered. Not a single trace can be exposed in the sight of laymen. Heidi, the magic door of that room is already daMaged. Go reset its mechanisms to ensure that it won’t be casually opened by anyone. That room will be set as a ‘restricted area’ henceforth. Unless it is with my permission, no one is allowed to enter.”

Byron and Heidi nodded in assent. Then Byron went on to ask, “Lord, do we leave guards outside the room?”

Gawain nodded. “Leave two guards and dispatch another two teams to rotate shifts with them. The room has to be guarded all round the clock. In addition, you must pick the most reliable soldiers so as to prevent fellows who are too curious from going in and sending themselves to their doom.”

“Yes.”

After all these orders, Gawain let out a breath, but the weight in his heart didn’t lessen.

He seemed to understand Viscount Andrew’s feelings then — dug a treasure out, but it turned out to be a hot potato.

The flesh and blood sample of the gods. How big a storm this item could set off in this world was something that almost didn’t need to be thought about. The powers, the knowledge, as well as the wealth that it could bring, were immeasurable, but the risks it might entail were also the same. Gawain wasn’t a person who liked taking risks in his previous life. According to his personality, if he dug out such a thingamajig, he would want to throw it as far as possible away from him; it would be best if it could be tossed to a certain wastrel (for example, a certain heretic cult), but now, there had been more or less some changes in his personality.

He really couldn’t restrain his curiosity towards ‘the gods’, especially when he’d now realized that a connection had probably emerged between ‘the gods’ and himself; such curiosity became even more irrepressible.

Those biological tissues could be suppressed by himself; the gods had probably died in the hands of a powerful civilization that owned a fleet. He had transmigrated and was highly likely attached to a satellite. This satellite was perhaps left behind by that powerful civilization, so his suppression of the divine flesh and blood was most likely related to his identity as a ‘satellite spirit’. On the other hand, the Eternal Stone Slate even recorded the truth that the gods were dead, and the process through which the Eternal Stone Slate built a connection with him also showed distinctiveness. Associating this to those crystals set in the back of the stone slate fragment, perhaps it was also a relic of the powerful civilization.

As for why the Eternal Stone Slate — that was supposed to be the ‘property of some deicides’ — instead bore the knowledge of the gods and brought religious enlightenment to the mortals of this planet, this was something that Gawain couldn’t figure out until now.

Gawain had a vague sense that he was already caught up in all of these, unavoidable to him even if he tried. It could even be said that it was more than being involved in this vortex for him — he himself was part of this vortex.

“The incident that happened here today must be kept secret,” Gawain said in a low voice and looked towards Sir Byron. “Byron, you and your men will continue exploring this ruin, but as long as you discover rooms that have styles similar to this, you must seal it at the first moment and wait for me to personally confirm it. This is to prevent you people from accidentally coming into contact with those things related to gods.”

Byron bowed his head deeply. “I understand, Lord.”

“Ancestor, these manuscripts…” Heidi pointed at those manuscripts that had been collected on the desk not far out; they were those ancient parchments that recorded the insane ravings of a certain mad person. “Do we bring them back or what?”

Gawain glanced at those manuscripts, and his eyes could not help but wander to the bloody skeleton on the ground nearby that was rapidly disintegrating. He had vaguely guessed how those manuscripts came to be — most likely left behind by this monster.

In those days, a considerable number of failed experiments had arisen from the human body experiments that the Gondor Empire carried out here. And when they evacuated, most of the experiment subjects were destroyed, but there were also some that were kept in breeding vessels, sealed instead of destroyed —— this was perhaps for the sake of certain research aims, but evidently, those researchers that left never returned.

Yet, those experiment subjects sealed in the vessels didn’t die as a result; on the contrary, he (or it) was persistently affected by the divine flesh and blood while in the experiment apparatus, surviving all the way till today, and developed peculiar abilities in this process such that it was able to break out of the breeding vessels and achieve a certain extent of freedom of movement.