Chapter 145

Looking at the Pope's figure gradually disappearing into the air, Hao Ren and the others didn't react for a moment. It wasn't until the last ray of light completely dissipated that Lily muttered, "What did the old man mean?"

Vivian shook her head, "I don't know… but our goal is right in front of us."

The door at the end of the corridor was already faintly visible, and the group arrived at the door without any obstacles. Hao Ren saw that this door was huge and magnificent, different from the gates elsewhere on the spacecraft: its solemn black surface was etched with strange patterned reliefs, and there were two columns on both sides of the door that seemed purely decorative. These things seemed to indicate that behind the door was a special place. Nangong Wudi squinted his eyes and carefully observed his surroundings. In the hunter's spirit vision, it seemed very calm here.

"Safe," the old hunter nodded to Hao Ren.

Hao Ren stepped forward and pushed the black door. He thought this kind of thing should be locked by some kind of mechanical device, so he was hesitating whether to put some explosives on it to blow it open, but just as he put his hand on it, the door opened automatically as if sensing something.

Seeing this situation, everyone immediately became vigilant, and then cautiously stepped into the space behind the door. As soon as they crossed the doorway, they felt their steps sink, and at the same time their breathing returned to normal. Hao Ren turned his head and glanced, discovering a faint film covering the previous door: "The gravity and artificial atmosphere in this place seem to be operating normally."

"This place is so big," Lily looked up in surprise and looked around, "It's dizzying just looking at it."

Behind the door was an unusually vast rectangular hall. The things built by giants were already abnormally huge, but this place was so huge that it almost made people suspect they had come to an open outdoor space. Everyone saw rows of neat humanoid sculptures on both sides of the long hall. The sculptures, which were more than twenty meters high, were obviously made based on the giants as prototypes, supplemented by certain artistic exaggerations. Between the giant sculptures, long drapes could be seen hanging down from the hall's ceiling. The drapes were painted with chaotic dark red patterns, and the hall's ceiling was covered with various patterns made of lights. Although the meaning of the patterns could not be seen, Hao Ren inexplicably thought of the holy image paintings of the Radiant Church.

The decoration and atmosphere of this place were a bit beyond everyone's expectations. It didn't look like a compartment on a spaceship, but more like a sacred place of some esoteric religion. Vivian sighed in surprise, "These giants have quite the artistic talent… I didn't expect them to be able to create such a place before they became brain monsters."

But Hao Ren's attention was not on these sculptures and decorations, because he found a huge black seat placed in front of the long hall, and a giant was sitting on it with his back to everyone, not knowing whether he was alive or dead. The scene in front of him couldn't help but remind him of a scene from a fairy tale: a group of humans strayed into a giant's castle, everything around them was so huge, and what was in front of them was the giant's throne.

Just as he thought of the throne, he saw the giant on the "throne" suddenly move, and then slowly stand up.

Everyone was shocked and made a defensive posture. The giant slowly walked down from the throne and turned to look at the uninvited guests in the hall. He was more than ten meters tall, his skin was dark red, and he was wearing an old, tattered uniform of unknown material. The giant held a strangely styled long staff in his hand. He used the long staff to support his body, and his eyes were full of hatred as he looked at the uninvited guests, although his expression didn't show anything—but anger was spreading in his eyes.

"Then die," the giant said only four words, his voice like thunder, and then he raised his long staff and pointed it at Hao Ren and his party. A huge plasma arc instantly struck Hao Ren's shield, and the leaping electric sparks almost affected everyone else around him. Everyone immediately dodged and launched their long-prepared attacks at the giant. Lily jumped out while shouting loudly, "You said it was a brain! Why does this one have a body?!"

"How would I know what's going on!" Hao Ren was also confused. He waved his spear to guide the electric arc from the giant to the ground next to him while shouting, "Logically speaking, this is the brain monster we're looking for… hey, wo cao, don't fight, can't we have a good talk?!"

Hao Ren said the last sentence to the giant. He realized that this was a guy who could talk. Although his attitude didn't seem very friendly, he seemed to have the possibility of communication compared to the silent brain monsters. Therefore, he planned to try to talk to the giant. And there was an important reason that he found that the protective crystal had a different effect when dealing with giants than when dealing with brain monsters—when dealing with brain monsters, the crystal could directly incapacitate the opponent, but when dealing with giants, it only had the effect of preventing mental attacks. The giant himself showed no signs of injury. Faced with this unexpected situation, he could only shout a few times and expect the situation to change.

The attacks launched by everyone exploded around the giant in flashes of light. Something like a mental shield blocked most of the damage, and in order to capture the opponent alive, no one on Hao Ren's side dared to really kill him. The giant himself seemed to realize this. After hearing Hao Ren's shout, he responded angrily, "What do you mean by this? Are you planning to slowly humiliate me?!"

"I just want to have a good talk with you!" Hao Ren jumped up and down to avoid the electric arcs around him. "We're from another universe, and we're completely clueless about the situation here! We just want to know why you're so obsessed with destroying the world… hey, you're really not stopping?"

"It's useless to say more," the giant slammed the long staff heavily on the ground, and with a wave of his other hand, powerful mental power created a ball of light like a lightning storm in the air. He pushed this light towards everyone, "I would rather die in battle than compromise with the rebellious son!"

Hao Ren gritted his teeth and turned to look at the others, "There's no other way, we can only take him down first—be careful, we need to capture him alive!"

The light ball sputtering with electric sparks smashed down, stirring up a large area of lightning on the ground, while several figures dodged these electric sparks at the critical moment and rushed towards the huge figure at the end of the long hall from all directions.

Lily waved her ice and fire claws, leaping up ten meters high like a vicious dog… a hungry wolf pouncing on its prey, heavily hitting the mental shield around the giant. Ignoring the burning sensation brought by the mental shield, she kept growling and using her claws to cut the seemingly weak barrier, trying to destroy the enemy's defense with brute force. Vivian's bat swarm also swooped up at the same time, carrying ice and lightning, and accumulated more and more on the giant's shield, almost burying the enemy like silt. Izhaks's fists and Nangong Wudi's large crossbow arrows also quickly joined the attack, while Hao Ren held up his spear and filled the last gap in the encirclement.

The giant roared again and again under these sieges, constantly waving his arms as if driving away mosquitoes, trying to drive away the "small" enemies around him, but his power was not as good as so many experts in the first place, and he was also injured during the spaceship explosion before. His power was weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Vivian looked at this scene and suddenly remembered the mythical era deep in her memory. The last pure-blooded Thunder Giant at that time was besieged to death by a group of humans in this situation.

She shook her head and threw the nonsensical association aside. The giant finally ran out of strength. His mental shield shattered with a bang. After everyone dodged, the huge body of more than ten meters high collapsed like a landslide. But at the last moment, he used the long staff in his hand to support himself, and maintained his posture with difficulty, as if he would rather die than fall in front of this group of people.

"Speaking of which, he won't suddenly self-destruct, right?" Hao Ren gasped for breath and muttered worriedly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he found a layer of bright electric light suddenly spreading on the giant's body. The powerful energy reaction made the surrounding air distort and heat up.

But Izhaks took action at this critical moment, and a large number of demonic runes spread from under the giant's feet, quickly suppressing the latter's last trace of power.

A circle of sight fell on him, and Hao Ren waved his hand helplessly, "Don't blame my crow's mouth… a crow's mouth at least has a warning effect…"

After discovering that no one agreed with him at all, Hao Ren could only cough twice awkwardly and turned to look at the giant: "Okay, now we can talk, right?"