Chapter 1261 In the Gap Between Light and Shadow

After realizing that the architectural structure near the base of the Tower Against the Tide was in the same style as the scene in the original "Dust Illusion" where Mordir met the "Twin Elves" many years ago, Gawain Then I realized that the harvest brought by this "Operation Against the Tide Tower Exploration" is very likely to exceed expectations.

Those fragmented ancient clues are emerging and reorganizing in his mind. Although the subtle connection between the clues is still in the fog, at this moment he seems to have felt the mutual attraction between these clues-their overall appearance is still ambiguous , but overall, a huge jigsaw puzzle is gradually emerging from the fog.

And the tall tower standing in front of me since ancient times... will undoubtedly be the biggest fulcrum of this "puzzle".

Gawain took a deep breath, calming down his somewhat turbulent mood, and at the same time heightened his vigilance. Holding the pioneer sword in his hand, maintaining the maximum external perception, he took the first step towards the faint road under the base of the tower. He walked towards the open alloy door, and behind him, Mordir and Hu Po, who were also fully alert, followed closely behind.

They reached the end of this "highway", where an amazing door stood.

It is even bigger and grander than the tallest city gate of Saint-Sunil. The door cast from some unknown metal is solemn and heavy. The whole door presents a very textured silver-gray color. mirror, and under the extremely smooth surface, you can faintly see straight lines from top to bottom—this door is embedded in a high wall like a cliff, with a gap that can hold a lot of space in the middle. Judging from the structure, the "gap" through which people pass side by side should be able to slide sideways into the wall under the action of some mechanical device.

Amber stood in front of the gate in a daze, looking up at its high top. The whole goose was in a state of being stunned. Some kind of shocked and curious eyes looked at Gao Wen: "I wanted to ask just now, why do you say that the door of this ancient ruin is always opened a crack? Did the sailor forget to close the door when he left?"

Upon hearing this, Gao Wen couldn't help but look sideways at the shame of the alliance, and said in his heart that this guy really deserves to be professionally skilled and dedicated to his work - he was so shocked that the first thing she paid attention to in her mind was that the door was not locked. ...It's thanks to the fact that the Tower Against the Tide doesn't have any windows, otherwise she would have already climbed through the windows and entered by herself by now, right?

"It was opened by the Dragon Clan," complained in his stomach, Gawain still shook his head and explained the information he got, "After the sailors left, the Dragon Clan managed to open the entrance of this tower, and they got a piece of information from here. A small part comes from the knowledge of the sailors...and this also laid the seeds of disaster for the later 'Rebellion against the Tide'."

While speaking, he had already stepped forward, and before he was about to pass through the "gap" and enter the tower, his eyes couldn't help falling on the towering door again—this is a place that has gone through millions of years of wind and frost. The walls are still strong today,

And on the smooth alloy surface, the starlight in the distance and the distant deep space where the sailor never returns are vaguely reflected.

Gawain subconsciously stretched out his hand to gently caress the gate, as if through this cold contact, he felt those distant past years, as well as the stories that once happened here and surrounding this tower.

A faint stream of light suddenly flowed from the position where his palm touched the door, and quickly flowed upwards along the edge of the door. A buzzing sound from nowhere suddenly reached the ears of everyone present. The sound seemed to be A certain system that had been silent for many years was activated. In the next second, the surface of the originally quiet gate suddenly glowed with light, streams of light traveled along the lines buried in the gate, and a large number of flickering light spots appeared abruptly. Suddenly appearing in front of Gao Wen and the others, these dots of light flickered rapidly on the surface of the gate and combined, gradually showing clear patterns and characters!

Amber was shocked by this change in an instant, her whole body flickered back and forth between the shadow form and the material form several times as if she had a bad connection before she stabilized, while still shouting loudly: "Ah... ah, ah, this thing It’s bright! Why does it light up when you touch it!”

Gao Wen didn't expect such a sudden change, but he quickly suppressed the surprise in his heart, and while keeping calm, he put his hand on the top of Amber's head: "Don't be so surprised when you explore the ruins—you just now Didn’t you also see those street lights suddenly turned on?”

While speaking, his eyes fell on the image that was floating on the surface of the gate. Those characters and pictures had gradually stabilized, and began to refresh line by line, and just like the characters on the road sign just now, when When Gao Wen stared at this "display screen", the meanings represented by these ancient voyager characters also emerged in his mind——

"The facility is offline and access has been frozen;

"Access authorization port detected on Sky Station, re-authorizing access... access has been enabled.

"Serious system warning, shutdown of the factory area, the reason for the shutdown is unknown...the core database is missing or locked...the cumulative error log has overflowed, and the production management center is offline.

"Affiliated systems are available, the gate has been authorized, and the facility structure is being re-uploaded..."

The text on the embedded door display screen was refreshing rapidly, and lines of characters slid past Gao Wen. He stared at this scene with wide eyes, taking in all the changes in his eyes. The next moment, he suddenly felt some kind of deeper step. The "connection", which pointed to the orbiting space station far away in space, was forwarded to his memory through the authorization agreement between the satellite and the space station. The whole process lasted no more than three to five seconds, and Gawain slowly moved away. Sight, and blinked at the direction inside the tower.

In the next second, the building structure behind this gate appeared in his mind like a translucent holographic image, which marked all authorized gates and roads.

He heard a series of noises from inside the tower. It was the collision and friction sound of the heavy and ancient mechanical structure in operation. Amber also heard this movement. She first showed a nervous expression, as if afraid Something suddenly rushed out of the tower and immediately knocked herself off, but soon she noticed the calm and indifferent expression on Gawain's face, and she also calmed down, while the old mage Mordir on the other side was stunned It took a while to realize, he stared at Gao Wen with wide eyes: "This...this is you..."

"Yes," Gawain looked at the old mage, nodded with a smile, "some inconspicuous tricks."

After saying this, he walked towards the tower.

Gao Wen was not worried about what Amber or Mordir would think, let alone the so-called "exposing his own special features". One of them was of course out of trust in them, and the other was that he knew very well what he was doing now. He is not a prudent "traveling Mengxin" in this world, but a person who has been hanging in the sky for millions of years and is in the coffin. Lying down for more than seven hundred years (in the eyes of others), he is now ruling an empire and leading a national alliance. Among all the things he faces and all the people he contacts on weekdays, "the little secret of the satellite spirit" Almost the most meaningless little things.

Anyway, the identity of "outsider wanderer" has been used many times.

Inside the tower, the lights are bright.

As recorded in Mordir's travel notes, some systems in this tower are always in operation. Even when Gao Wen and his party did not come, the lights here probably never went out.

A muffled hum came constantly from all directions, some unseen system still operating deep within those ancient floors, walls, or vaults, and not long after passing through the gate and the short corridor behind it, Gao Wen and his party arrived at an unusually wide cylindrical hall.

As recorded in Mordir's travel notes, the hall is extremely empty, and in the center of the hall there is a conveying system of astonishing scale, which looks like a large elevator with a complex structure, quickly going up in some kind of pipe or guide rail. Moving up and down, conveying materials with unknown functions, and around the hall, you can see many dazzling ancient devices that cannot be named. Some of those devices are still operating, and some display complex instruments Holographic projections of data floated above them, and various hums or beeps sounded from those devices.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have imagined that there is such an extremely advanced ancient facility on the surface of this planet, which has been running silently for nearly two million years, outside the sight of mortal civilization? !

Gao Wen felt his heart pounding, his eyes swept over the devices that were still running silently, and whenever his eyes stopped, some information would appear in his mind——

This is the logistics distribution system, this is the central energy monitoring, this is the inspection entrance for facility maintenance personnel, and there are communication stations and data interfaces above. In the scorching magma...

The red warning signs representing system downtime or error log overflow also kept popping up in his "vision", covering almost all the devices he could see, only those with less load or simpler functions were barely maintained Good running status - at least there are no scalp-numbing errors.

Like those satellites and space stations in space, the situation in this production facility is not optimistic.

It's been out of service for too long...it's time to scrap it.

At this moment, Amber's voice came from the side, interrupting Gao Wen's thoughts: "So... what about the 'thing' in this tower? We have already entered, and we saw a truly magnificent ancient facility , but I don't feel that there is something like spiritual pollution entrenched here..."

Gao Wen came to his senses in an instant. He frowned and looked around, and whispered thoughtfully, "'That thing' may be invisible and intangible. We may not be able to see anything here..."

In ancient times, the mortals of the Reverse Tide Empire collectively worshiped and believed in this high tower of voyagers located near the North Pole. Their firm collective thoughts gave birth to a "god" in this high tower, but apart from themselves In addition, no one knows what kind of characteristics this god born in the high tower has. According to Enya, the "god" who died young at the beginning of his birth may not even have a physical body. He is most likely just an empty space. The reverberation, a vague shadow, and even a strong thinking tendency—occupied in this tower with an invisible and insubstantial posture, merging and co-existing with the steel, light and shadow here.

Even so, Gao Wen gradually frowned.

Even if that thing is invisible... The current state of the tower is too "normal and quiet".

He subconsciously looked at Modil next to him: "Did you feel anything? Or recall..."

He stopped in the middle of his speech, because he found that the old mage was raising his head at some point, staring straight at the extremely tall and magnificent alloy dome in the hall as if he was strongly attracted by something—— Gawain felt something was wrong.

And at this moment, Modil finally blinked, and the old mage's lips trembled, as if he was struggling to wake up from a weird dream, he uttered a series of short and vague syllables. After repeating this several times, his voice It finally squeezed out from his throat: "No...it's not right...it's not there, it's not here anymore...it's not here anymore! It should be here, it should be here!!"

"Calm down, old man." Amber was startled by the strange reaction of the old mage, and hurriedly tried loudly to wake up Modil from the weird state of mind, "What's gone? What did you say should be there?" here?"

"It's that thing!" Modil woke up suddenly, he took a breath of cold air, raised his finger and pointed to the towering dome of the hall, but even though his eyes were clear, his words were still confused, "I remember there should be Something, very, very big... something that words cannot describe, that stared at me with countless eyes, spoke to me with countless mouthpieces, it's gone, it's gone!! And can't you see? There's something trace!"

The old mage spoke loudly anxiously, Gao Wen's heart suddenly tightened, and he raised his head in the direction of Mordir's finger. He stared at the position of the other's finger, but he could only see the intertwined support structure and the fast Transport system that moves up and down.

But a strong intuition surged up from the bottom of his heart. Gao Wen always felt as if he had missed something. He stared at the high place, and his eyes swept over the clear structures at the high place of the hall. Suddenly, his mind The structure diagram of the high tower reappeared again, and in the corner of his line of sight, somewhere on the dome of the hall, a piece of silver-gray wall seemed to "shake" for an instant.

It was as if the two overlapping images were temporarily misaligned, as if the rendering layer that was originally covered had accidentally had a texture error.

Gao Wen did not ignore this brief visual signal.

And as he noticed these abnormalities, the large walls and supporting structures above the dome of the hall suddenly flickered in his eyes. During the flickering of light and shadow, some vague shadow structures seemed to be emerging from the air, and the misplaced lines were faint. It presents a huge crack-like structure!

Gao Wen was shocked for a moment, and a lightning-like inspiration exploded in his mind. In less than half a second, he realized a certain possibility.

He suddenly turned to Amber, who seemed to have not reacted: "Amber! There is a 'truth' that we cannot see, hidden in the cracks of the real world!!"