Struggle in the Steam Age

"What the hell is this?" Lawrence was startled when he saw the phantom that the fruit turned into just now entered his body, and then checked his sanity immediately. After all, the power in the Cthulhu series is basically exchanged with the brain, and he doesn't want his mind to be hurt.

After all, Lawrence didn't want to become a lunatic with great power. Losing himself like that would be no better than death.

Fortunately, it turned out that Jianmu Space was reliable enough. At least after inspection, he found that his sanity had not been harmed in any way. But when he completed the preliminary inspection and immersed his consciousness into his brain, he found that his sea of ​​consciousness had undergone tremendous changes.

It can be said that Lawrence's sea of ​​consciousness was very empty before, only the phantom of Bai Ze with silver-blue light floating in his mind, and there was nothing else. But this time after Lawrence sank his consciousness into the sea of ​​consciousness, he was surprised to find that a golden and green existence appeared in his mind.

When he condensed his consciousness to investigate those existences, he found that those golden and green existences were actually the model of the city in the fruit that looked like a snow globe. No, to be precise, the existence in my mind has become a city.

And the phantom of Bai Ze, who was just floating above his mind, now floats above that weird city. From time to time, he shrunk his body and drilled around in that city, and he didn't seem to be affected in any way, or in other words, he didn't lose control as Lawrence feared.

Even Lawrence could feel that after Bai Ze Xuying shrunk his body and entered the city, the power in his body became more active. It feels like when he usually enters a meditative state. But unlike the meditative state, he can still have an extremely active mind at this time.

"It seems that this is indeed a good change, similar to a practice accelerator." After simply trying to meditate and found that the power gained after meditation can be superimposed with the bonus given by the city, Lawrence's face revealed a certain expression. Thoughtful look. "However, the sacrifices with the power of the gods shouldn't be so simple. In other words, this ability to speed up cultivation should only be the least important thing."

Thinking of this, Lawrence gathered his spirit and looked towards the city below. As a result, after careful inspection, he found that it was a strange and beautiful city. The weirdness and beauty of this city even made everyone who saw this city recognize at first glance that this should not be a city that can appear in reality.

Most of the entire huge city was embedded in Lawrence's mind like those embedded in amber, only a building that looked like a fortress was exposed in his mind. And Bai Ze Xuying is now directly staying on this only fortress, it seems that he regards this place as his place of sustenance.

All the way down the fort, Lawrence found that the city looked like a fusion of classical realism and modern abstract styles. If you just look at the green parts of the city, you will find that the green building structures are abnormal. Euclidean geometry is completely contrary. Its unprecedented spatial structure and dimensions create a strong sense of disgust.

The golden parts of the city are just the opposite, completely following Euclid's geometry, and the overall structure looks very harmonious. In addition, it can give people a sense of holiness and order.

And all the buildings in this city are all golden and green, so each building has a series of corresponding structures such as holiness and unknot, abstraction and realism, order and chaos at the same time. But it may be that the power of Jianmu has played a role, so these things that seem to be at two extremes can actually blend together very harmoniously.

It was at this time that the city was probably activated because Lawrence scanned with his consciousness. So he felt that the highest peak of the city, that is, the fortress where Bai Ze Xuying stopped now, was calling to him. Considering that the city had already appeared in his mind, he simply let his consciousness follow the call and entered the room at the highest point of the fortress.

Looking down at the fort from the top of your mind, you will find that the top of the fort looks like a Mayan-style pyramid filled with carvings of various alien monsters. The only space that people can enter is located at the top of the pyramid. A single stone chamber with thick walls and four small doors in the walls.

But when Lawrence projected his consciousness towards this fortress, he suddenly found that his consciousness and soul seemed to vibrate uncontrollably, and then he was less and less pressured by the pressure from all directions. When he reacted, he found that he was appearing in a spirit state in front of the bottom stairs of the pyramid.

"What's going on here?" The sudden change made Lawrence feel a little flustered, because he found that he could no longer contact his body at this time, as if he was suddenly transported to some strange place. Fortunately, a few seconds later, a beam of light shot out from Bai Zexuying's horn and entered his body, giving him some understanding of the current situation.

It turns out that this is the last test for obtaining these powers. Naturally, one needs to prove that one has that ability if one wants to obtain power comparable to that of the gods. After all, for those who do not have enough consciousness and will, the surge in power is not a gift, but a nightmare that will destroy everything.

Naturally, Jianmu would not let such a bad result happen to Lawrence, so he set up such a test. According to the information obtained by Bai Ze, if Lawrence can climb the narrow and steep stairs in front of him to the top, then he will be able to fully grasp these powers.

But if he can't withstand the tests on the stairs, these excessive powers will naturally not be mastered by Lawrence, but because of the existence of Jianmu space, this kind of failure will not cause any backlash. It will only block the most important part of these powers and turn it into a simple supernatural power booster.

Of course, the failure of the challenge does not mean that Lawrence will never be able to obtain these powerful powers. According to the information Bai Ze obtained from the power represented by this city, he only needs to wait a week after each challenge before he can enter here again and challenge to the top of the pyramid again.

Another good news is that this pyramid is stepped. If you count the room at the top, there are three distinct steps. As long as Lawrence completes the challenge of one stage of the ladder, he can gain the power of that stage, and at the same time, he will start from this ladder instead of starting from the beginning the next time he challenges.

After figuring out what was going on now, Lawrence looked up at the magnificent pyramid. It was completely different from the feeling when overlooking it before. When he stood at the foot of this pyramid, he could feel the power contained in this pyramid and the great pressure it brought to people.

So after taking a deep breath, Lawrence suppressed the uneasiness in his heart. Lifting his right foot slightly, the whole person stood on the first step of this steep staircase.

But when his left foot also landed on this step, Lawrence felt as if his body was being pressed down by something invisible, and an invisible pressure instantly wrapped him up. But these pressures did not pose any threat to him for the time being, so after a slight pause, he continued to walk up the steps.