Wu Haibo's introduction filled Meng Chao with solemn respect for the Earth warriors depicted on the reliefs.
Even half a century later, Dragon City's Transcendents still wielded Crystals Battle Blades and spiritual-energy firearms in wars against monsters that were heart-stoppingly perilous and unimaginably arduous.
It was truly hard to imagine how the Earth warriors, who had only just transmigrated here and had yet to awaken Superhuman Power, had used bayonets, grenades, and Semi-Automatic Rifles loaded with ordinary gunpowder to stop Primordial Demons even more terrifying than monsters.
Meng Chao turned around, his expression grave and solemn, and bowed deeply to the Earth warriors on the reliefs lining both sides of the corridor.
After passing through the corridor, the temperature suddenly dropped by more than ten degrees, as though they had entered a cold-storage vault.
Except what was preserved here was not ordinary monster flesh and blood materials, but specimen after specimen with savage faces and clawing limbs.
The first specimen was a lifelike humanoid stone statue.
Other than its pallid color and utter lack of life, it was exactly like a human.
Yet its right hand had clearly withered away, exposing the ghastly white bones within.
It was as though some mysterious force had turned most of this poor man's body into stone, while only his right hand still retained the characteristics of a Carbon-Based Lifeform.
Meng Chao immediately thought of the Deep Diver whom the "Martial God," Lei Zongchao, had told him about—the one who had been lost in the Depths of Ancient Ruins for five minutes before being dragged out, only to petrify instantly anyway.
Sure enough, the corners of the statue's eyes and mouth had been stretched so wide they seemed about to tear apart. The word "fear" appeared to have transformed into black flames, ready to