Chapter 51 - Your Leaders Feelings. (2/2)
Krune and the other agreed with that, if they could use the markers to find the way back to the gate, then they can use it to escape the next ones.
”Alright, let's go then.”
They put down the markers in the map function of their communicators and immediately moved in the direction of the city center, with no illusion formation to hinder their path they finally could see differences in the city the further they moved in.
After moving during two days, they could see a gigantic wall ahead, they could have got here much faster, but to be safe they moved slowly until they got to this place, even so they still fell inside another two formations, but thanks to the markers that they were leaving on the way, it was very easy to leave them, illusion formations are not barriers, they don't stop people from moving out as long as they are moving in the right direction.
That wall seemed to separate the commoner's city from the center, it was very well conserved, it didn't look like it had suffered with all the time that had passed at all, for normal people it would be impossible to simply climb to the top, but not for foundation establishment cultivators like them, it was way too easy, but when they finally got close to the wall, they finally found the first living being, or better, not exactly a living one, but a puppet, and there was several of them at that, they seemed to be patrolling the wall on its top.
”What should we do, try to barge in without they noticing?”
Krune shook his head.
”Those puppets don't seem to be weak, although we probably can deal with a few of them it would be troublesome if we are found and we were attacked by all of them together, I don't think that their order are to attack anyone they see, it seems like they are just there to stop people for entering without permission, since that's the case, there should be a gate somewhere in this wall, we better go there and check things first.”
Yusa and the others nodded and started to follow the wall, on the way, Krune showed himself in front of those puppets to check his theory, the puppets looked at him from the top of the wall but didn't do anything, after Krune left they went back to their patrolling.
”As expected, it seems like that the orders that they received a long time ago is still valid, protect the wall, don't let anyone without a permission pass, that should be basically it.”
Yusa looked at that and couldn't help but be surprised.
”There is so many of them, how come they are still working after so much time have passed.”
Ao answered that.
”That's not hard to imagine, since they have so many puppets, they might have other puppets specialized in repairs of other puppets like themselves, as long as a source of spiritual energy is available for them to recharge, they are practically immortals.”
Krune and the other agreed with that idea, unless the cultivators inside are still alive and repairing the puppets themselves, this could be the only explanation.
It only took then a little more than an hour to arrive at the gate, just like the wall, the gate was also enormous, but it didn't matter, what mattered is that it was also guarded by puppets, there was no signal of life anywhere.
They approached the gate and the puppets that were covered in dust due to the long time without moving came back to life, they formed a line in front of the gate and looked straight away at Krune's group.
It was obviously that they wouldn't let their group pass, but they weren't moving to the gate anyway, but to a building beside it, this building was different from the others in the city behind them, it was very well maintained and a few puppets could also be seen inside. They entered the building and were all extremely alert, if something happened they would flee straight away and think about another way after.
”If we are not wrong this should be the place where we can get a register to go inside, just like any other city outside, so we shouldn't be attacked, but keep your guard up just in case.”
They moved slowly and reached a balcony where a puppet was sit, the puppet looked at them and spoke with a robotic like voice. But Yusa and the others face immediately changed.
”I don't understand a single word at all!”
Ao commented.
”That is to be expected, this is a place from several thousand years ago, it would be weird if they spoke the same language as ours.”
”What should we do?”
But before they could even thinking about a way, Krune went forward and spoke with the puppet in the same language, Shinja and the others looked at him as if they had seen a ghost.
Krune looked at them and said.
”He is asking our names, local of origin and how long we intend to stay inside.”
Ao and the others jaw dropped.
”How can you understand their language? Have you seen these things before?”
Krune shook his head.
”That's why you should study more, back in the guild I had to cultivate during the night, but doing that alone was a waste of time, so while I cultivated I also studied the contents available on the network, I intend to one day leave this planet, so I downloaded a lot of different languages available in the system for me to study, this puppet just so happen to be talking one of those hundreds of languages that I memorized.”
Hundreds of languages… While cultivating on top of that!
Yusa couldn't help but comment.
”No wonder your EQ is so bad, the majority of your brain was used in your IQ alone, there was no space for anything else, don't you guys think that Krune looks more like a puppet than a cultivator?”
Ao and Shinja nodded vigorously, they simply couldn't come with a better way to describe Krune than a puppet.
Krune, on the other hand, had a gloomy face, that comment really made him sad.
”Did you even think about your leader's feelings before saying that?”
Yusa, Ao and Shinja answered at the same time, they didn't even need to think for a second.
”Nope.”
Yusa and the others looked at each other and just laughed out loud.
Krune's mouth twitched a little on the other side.
”It's not too late to find a new team, right?”