Chapter 96 Belief in Science
While fog was spreading along the way towards the Petrification Temple, Xin Sheng and others could not hear any insects and birds.
The trees in the valley have long died, and no green plants can be seen on the ground. The gray-black land seems to have lost its vitality.
"Hiss~"
Barnabas rubbed his arms uneasyly: "I always feel that something is secretly monitoring us."
"It's just an illusion."
Xin Sheng turned the old captain into a blank look: "After Medusa was accidentally released last time, Artemis' daughter sacrificed many hunters to kill it and seal it, and Medusa couldn't get out."
"It's a pity that what they did was just treating the symptoms but not the root cause, just like Perseus."
"As long as it does not destroy the origin of Medusa, it will be boarded countless times in the women who were killed by itself and become the new generation of Medusa."
Herodotus' eyes moved: "In other words, Medusa is now living in a huntress? Is she still saved?"
Xin Sheng shook his head: "The power of ancient artifacts is not so easy to control. People without corresponding bloodlines will only be sucked away from their vitality under the control of the artifacts and die. No one can save her."
Medusa is the strangest of the four mythological creatures. Its composition core will actively select hosts and give birth to countless generations of Medusa.
Moreover, according to myths and legends and local rumors, the host who is boarded is a woman, without exception.
This is also the reason why Xin Sheng firmly forbids Nima from joining the battle.
If Nima has the help, her combat ability and experience should be able to give Xin Sheng a considerable help.
But at the same time, the risk is also great. If the defeated Medusa stays in Nima on the spot, let alone whether Xin Sheng can insist on killing the second Medusa after a big battle, he will not be able to explain to Mr. Darius.
Next time we meet, Darius, who heard the bad news, might chase him to the ends of the world.
Being chased by a top assassin is not a fun experience.
After approaching the Petrochemical Temple, Xin Sheng and others began to see different "scenes".
"stone carving?"
Herodotus walked to these lifelike sculptures and looked carefully, and his face gradually showed a look of horror.
"These stone sculptures, shouldn't they be..."
"That's right."
Xin Sheng patted a stone sculpture with a terrified face: "They are all victims of Medusa's petrification. If you don't want to become the next stone sculpture, you must strictly abide by my plan."
...
Speaking of Medusa, most people will think of its biggest weapon - petrochemical ability.
Xin Sheng is no exception.
As long as it is hit by the petrified light emitted from Medusa's eyes, any object will be transformed into a stone sculpture.
However, while fearing the Eye of Medusa Petrochemical, Xin Sheng also remembered a response method I saw from somewhere a long time ago.
Through visiting Lesbos Island, Xin Sheng found a person who survived by chance from the eyes of Medusa Petrochemical.
Under Xin Sheng's threat and intimidation, the mercenary who was full of trains told the real reason why he could survive - a partially petrified spear.
The wooden handle of this spear turned into a stone under the action of petrified rays, but the sharp-toned spear head still remains the same.
With this evidence, Xin Sheng plans to take a risk to make a try. If he can successfully seal the enemy's biggest weapon, the difficulty of fighting Medusa will be greatly reduced.
Having experienced the unlocking process of Sphinx, when he arrived at the gate of the Petrochemical Temple, Xin Sheng was familiar with the passage of time and placed the disc key into the altar.
"quack!"
The huge stone door of the temple slowly opened to both sides. The four of them carefully entered the door and walked through several corners to the second gate.
Behind the open door is a vast square, with four thick stone pillars standing around the square.
A lonely figure stood in the intersection between the four stone pillars, lowering his head and motionless, as if he had entered a dormant state.
Xin Sheng also noticed that Medusa was holding a very strange sword in her right hand... or a knife?
The length of this weapon is between a dagger and a long sword. The blade near the hilt is straight, but the part at the tip of the sword is curved like a blade.
Xin Sheng looked at the weird-shaped weapon with interest: 'One of the artifacts of Eden, Perseus's sickle blade.'
"You stay here and you must not enter the door."
After a while, Xin Sheng took out a small object with a very exquisite appearance from his chest. Barnabas and others had never seen an item of this material.
This is a modern makeup mirror that can be seen everywhere, and Xin Sheng can hold it with one hand.
Of course, there was no mirror in ancient Greece. This makeup mirror was revealed by Xin Sheng spent 50 energy points through the system.
"Ga~"
As Xin Sheng stepped into the gate, the stone door that was opened slowly closed, and Barnabas and the other two could only watch the internal battle through the weather-beaten crack of the giant gate.
Temporarily bite the plastic decoration on the edge of the mirror, Xin Sheng took out his hands to remove the bow and arrow.
He took a light step and hid in one of the stone pillars and pulled the bowstrings all over, aiming the arrow at Medusa, who still lowered his head and did not react at all.
"Swoosh!"
The arrow shot at the head failed to hit the target. Medusa's snake started to move itself, and one of the small snakes first probed to hold the arrow.
The impact force attached to the arrow shot through the little snake, but the snake's hair that followed one after another had already surged, and they worked together to block the arrow that shot Xin Sheng at Medusa's head.
‘It’s not that easy.’
After being awakened by the attack, Medusa immediately turned her head in the direction where Xin Sheng was hiding.
In order to avoid looking directly into the monster's eyes, Xin Sheng immediately hid back to the stone pillar and deliberately exposed the mirror of the makeup mirror to the outside, facing the direction where Medusa was.
"hiss!"
The angry Medusa opened her mouth and let out a strange cry. The golden light in her eyes gathered into two rays, hitting directly at the exposed mirror.
Since it is a ray, it means it may be reflected by a specular surface.
The premise is that the physical impact force attached to the petrochemical ray will not break the mirror.
Xin Sheng bet right.
Because he could not see the target, Xin Sheng failed to aim the reflective surface completely at Medusa, and the petrified ray with a large angle deviation shot towards the sky.
Although he failed to hit the target, the success of this reflection represents Xin Sheng's assumption.
“It’s much easier to reflect.”
Medusa was also shocked by the petrified rays refracting into the sky.
Taking advantage of the moment when it was stunned, Xin Sheng poked his head out from behind the stone pillar, looked at Medusa's legs, and roughly estimated its heart's vitals based on his height.
"I don't believe that your heart can also be protected by snake hair!"
"Swoosh!"
The powerful arrow flew to Medusa in the blink of an eye.
Nema, who was watching the door, clenched her fists and was ready to cheer at any time.
But under the gaze of the three, Medusa's figure suddenly became blurred, and arrows passed through her remaining light and shadow.
"What is this?! The afterimage caused by too fast?"
"No, it should be some kind of instantaneous transfer ability."
Herodotus said calmly: "Looking to the west of the square, no matter how fast Medusa is, it is impossible to span dozens of meters in a second. No existing knowledge can explain her teleportation."
‘Is this the special ability of mythical creatures to inherit from ancient civilizations?’
Among the four mythological creatures, Medusa has the highest chance of killing first sight.
This means that Xin Sheng used the most time to attack this monster, and he could even use most of its skills back.
While Medusa launched the teleportation, Xin Sheng quickly pulled out the third arrow from the arrow bag, and chased and shot the arrow out before Medusa's body had been completely condensed and formed.
In a hurry, Medusa had only time to cross her arms in her chest to defend herself.
In Xin Sheng's words, Medusa is a typical mage template, with physical strength, agility and endurance not strong.
Xin Sheng's arrow penetrated deeply into Medusa's left arm that blocked the front, almost destroying its entire arm.
The painful Medusa began to "sway before casting the spell". While she shook her head and was about to use the petrified light, Xin Sheng's right hand, which had originally pulled the bow, happened to be empty.
Blocking the makeup mirror in his mouth in front of him, Xin Sheng even had time to adjust the reflection angle.
Chapter completed!