Chapter 1263 Remnants of History

Those traces of corruption and pollution cannot be formed overnight, they are most likely to be the "nursery" when the "Back Tide" was first conceived in this tower, or the traces left after the "Back Tide" activities, if According to the information provided by Tallond, the appearance of those traces can most likely be traced back to the ancient times - back to millions of years ago, the eve of the destruction of the Reverse Tide Empire by the giant dragon.

But when did that crack appear?

Gao Wen didn't know, maybe everyone didn't know, that crack clearly showed a state of "non-interference" with the entire hall, penetrating the material world like a phantom, piercing through steel and air, Gao Wen couldn't help it at all. Judging from the surrounding traces how long the crack has lasted here, it may have existed here long before the tower was built, or it may not have formed until an hour ago... as a crack that cannot be observed by conventional means , the "phantom" that will not interact with the surrounding material environment after it appears, it may appear at any time.

But Gawain had an instinctive guess, he believed that the thing should have been in the air above the hall for many years, and... it became a gap to escape.

There is no divine reaction in the tower, and no trace of spiritual pollution has been found so far, which is a disturbing signal in itself.

You must know that Modil back then was polluted by the reverse tide shortly after entering this hall, and began to immerse himself in the fanatical absorption and worship of ancient knowledge. Protection", he probably won't wake up until he is completely transformed into a believer against the tide.

However, they have been exploring this hall for so long now, and there is still no sign of spiritual pollution—of course, Gawain and Amber have special physiques, and Mordir carries protective runes with him, so they are indeed not easy to be polluted , but the current situation is that even the highly sensitive protective devices have not issued any alarms.

"Melita said that she saw a huge crack outside... Although she didn't have your shadow dust, she shared the vision of the young dragon," Gawain said casually, "The young born under the influence of the dark blue webway The dragon can see the 'dark blue rifts' that ordinary people can't see... It's quite reasonable. The key now is how these rifts come from."

He did not continue to stare at the floating cracks and the blue light stream above the hall, but looked at a certain alloy gate on the side of the hall. After a short thought, he walked over there: "We should go to the upper floor to have a look. .”

In the "structural diagram" that emerged in his mind, the structure behind the gate was marked as a "personnel elevator". The equipment lines for are extremely rarely marked in green.

Looking at Gao Wen's actions as if he was very familiar with the surrounding environment,

Huber and Modil didn't show any doubts, they just followed immediately and came to the silver-white alloy gate.

After briefly understanding the operation instructions of this thing, Gao Wen raised his hand and pressed it on the wall next to the gate. A series of irregular colored light spots appeared on the originally blank wall. The system was reactivated. During a series of unsteady and smooth start-up processes, the light spots gradually formed images. A few simple buttons and characters flickered in front of Gao Wen like lights with poor contact, and finally stabilized.

After Gao Wen operated the panel a few times, he heard a "ding" system notification sound in his ears, and then the locked alloy gates slid silently to both sides, revealing the spacious elevator car inside.

A group of three people stepped into the car, and the alloy gate closed. With the slight vibration from the feet, a sudden mechanical sound suddenly sounded when the car started to rise—it was a series of weird and short sounds , is a language that no one in this world can understand. Amber and Modil were taken aback by the sudden voice, but in Gawain's mind, the voice was directly converted into information that he could understand: " Elevator up."

"Don't worry, it's just the notification sound of the elevator." Gao Wen casually comforted the a little fuzzy Amber, and then nodded slightly to the serious-looking old mage next to him.

As soon as he finished speaking, a clear image suddenly appeared on the wall opposite the elevator car. In the image, there was a vast plain that stretched as far as the eye could see. A city full of silver-white domes and tall buildings appeared to be extremely advanced and prosperous. Cities are set like huge jewels on the plain, and at the end of the plain are rising celestial bodies - planets with halos, luminous orbs like moons, and distant and strange galaxies.

Amber and Modil were taken aback for a moment, but this time they had gotten used to the various weird ancient devices in the tower, and they quickly realized that this should be a very normal, The interface used to transmit and record information, so I was a little surprised and then calmed down. Instead, I looked at the scenery presented on the screen with serious and curious eyes.

At this moment, the picture began to change again, and it began to show cities with different styles, pieces of spectacular or magnificent or mysterious alien scenes, skies with different scenery, strange and vast sea of ​​stars, standing on the ground Some kind of launching device, passing the transportation between the sky and the earth...

On some screens, Gao Wen also saw words that seemed to be slogans-they were constantly refreshed, depicting the route leading to the depths of the stars or the engineering plans developed by some alien stars, and in this constant refreshment , a scene suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, causing his pupils to shrink instantly——

He saw a planet with blue sea and yellow-green land floating quietly in the dark and deep space background. Above the planet's equator was an astonishingly unfinished ring-shaped giant structure, and the unfinished parts of the giant structure seemed to be countless. The bony skeletons stretched in the starry sky, and between those skeletons, countless light spots could be seen shuttling back and forth. A large number of space machines were transporting materials for this giant structure, or installing new structures for it.

Gao Wen looked at the bottom of the screen, and saw the accompanying promotional text——

"The next expedition will start from now on. May this suffering planet heal in the years, and may "Sky" and "Sentinel" be able to witness the next dawn of this planet."

Gao Wen's gaze was fixed on the scene presented on the screen in front of him, on the space giant structure of the unfinished Sky Station on the screen, and on the line of text at the bottom of the screen, on the most critical part of the text. Two words—"Sky" and "Sentinel"!

At this moment, the picture in front of him suddenly disappeared, a slight vibration came from under his feet, and the synthesized sound of the elevator system entered his ears, interrupting the ups and downs of thoughts in his mind like a storm: "Arrival... On the second floor, the elevator door opens."

The door of the elevator car slid open to both sides, and Amber noticed the strange expression on Gao Wen's face, and couldn't help asking with some concern: "Hey, what's wrong with you? Did you see anything just now?"

Gao Wen collected himself, turned around and walked towards the exit of the car, and said in a very serious tone: "The 'sentry' was mentioned in those pictures just now!"

He didn't hide his discovery, not only did he not want to hide it, but he was ready to tell the Theocracy Council all the discoveries he made here, and all the heads of the member states of the Council—this thing involves the whole world There is no benefit in hiding the safety of the world.

He is Gawain Cecil, one of the main leaders of the alliance, he does not need to consider explaining to anyone how he got clues from these ancient ruins that others cannot understand, and no one in the alliance is qualified to ask He explained the source of the information.

He just needs to let the people who should know these things know all the information, and then let these people do their best.

The clue of the "sentry" points to the sailor—although Gawain still has no evidence to prove that the "sentry" mentioned in the picture just now is the sentry mentioned in the warning that Amber received from Lady Ye's Kingdom , but he could almost be so sure.

And it's not just the Sentinel mentioned in that picture, but also the "sky".

Gawain is 100% sure of this point. It refers to the orbital space station located in the orbit of this planet, the "Sky Station" - when the founders built this tower, the space station was obviously not yet completed.

But what was shown on that picture was only the space station, and I didn't see anything that might be a "sentinel"... Is it because the elements displayed on the screen are incomplete? Or did Sentinel actually appear on the screen, but he didn't recognize it?

Thoughts in Gao Wen's mind fluctuated, and various speculations kept emerging and being refuted. He sorted out his memory, and he was sure that he had never seen anything marked as "sentinel" in that picture and many pictures before and after. , so I had to temporarily assume that the "sentinel" mentioned in the "promotional slogan" did not officially appear in any of the pictures.

Now he can only confirm one thing - although the monitoring system left by the voyager on this planet contains a large number of satellites and small space stations, its core is obviously composed of two parts, one of which is the ring located above the equator. Orbital space station, the other part... is "Sentry"! !

A strange feeling emerged in his heart, and the corner of Gao Wen's mouth trembled subconsciously.

His current body is a subsidiary satellite of the Sky Station, and due to the lack of authority of the upper system of the space facility group, he used the satellite data link to connect his consciousness to the main system of the Sky Station in this loophole, and successfully obtained Part of the authority certification of this main system, in a sense, he maintains a state of "Trinity" with the satellites in space and the sky station, but unfortunately... this "Trinity" cannot be directly transformed into Means and strength against Sentinels.

Gao Wen felt a toothache.

At this moment, Hu Po's voice sounded from the front, interrupting his already boiling mood: "Look ahead——there is indeed a situation!"

Gao Wen immediately calmed down, looked up following the sound, and saw that outside the elevator was another wide and spacious hall. The overall structure of this hall was similar to that of the first floor of the tower. The rail transportation system of the entire Tower of Against the Tide, but different from the first floor, in the lobby of this floor, you can also see a large number of columnar structures arranged obliquely around the transportation rails, and they are surrounded to form a huge circle. From time to time, a bright stream of light glides quickly across the surface of those inclined cylinders, as if conveying some information, while a low humming sound is constantly coming from those cylinders, as if some ancient system is still its internal operation.

The "situation" Amber was referring to was between those columns.

A large number of scorched black traces left after erosion and corrosion are scattered at the roots of some of the columns, and withered and necrotic structures that look like biological limbs can be seen entangled near the rail transportation system not far away. Among the traces of uneasiness, the most eye-catching one is a blue crack that runs through the floor and seems to be embedded in the air.

That was the crack that Gao Wen and others had seen in the hall on the first floor before. Part of its structure apparently "penetrated" the thick and solid floors in the tower, and formed a crack about ten meters long and about 100 meters wide on the second floor. The opening of three or four meters is now full of blue light surging through the opening, and the dazzling magic light is particularly eye-catching among a pile of dark corruption marks.

Obviously, the range of influence of Amber's "Shadow Dust" is not limited to the hall on the first floor, its effect of "breaking the curtain" has also spread here.

Gao Wen frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he walked towards the crack.

"Hey! Be careful!" Amber was taken aback when she saw it from behind, and hurriedly reminded her loudly, "This place is very evil at first glance, so don't touch it!"

A half-elf who once pried the coffin board in the 700-year-old grave reminded himself so nervously, "Don't touch it randomly", this made Gawain couldn't help showing a weird smile on his face, and he didn't look back. He waved his hand to Amber, indicating that he knew how to measure, but he didn't stop walking, and soon came to the area with traces of corruption, standing less than two meters in front of the "Dark Blue Gap".

He crouched down, his eyes carefully scanning the disturbing dark spots on the floor.

The advanced ancient alloy, which is difficult to be damaged by mortal power, is covered with potholes and depressions. The dark color seems to have been immersed in the metal plate, and these depressions are connected into pieces, outlining a more complete and larger outline.

Gawain narrowed his eyes slightly, imagining what had happened here - a huge creature with a bloated and shapeless body, it may have thousands of pairs of eyes and thousands of mouthpieces, and a lot of indescribable things. Explanted limbs or tentacles, it already has a physical body, but its "birth" has not yet been completed, so it still has a form between virtual and real, and can pass through the floors of the tower in this form, but The power from the thoughts imprisoned it in this high tower, so this blind and foolish creature could only wander here all day long, waiting in the chaos that seemed to never end.

And it has some kind of unknown power, which can hide its own existence and traces of its own activities behind an illusory curtain, so...even if there are a few visitors in this tower, there has never been any Intelligent beings are aware of the terrible things above their heads.

"This used to be the main activity area of ​​'that thing'," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, he had already heard the footsteps of Amber and Mordir coming behind him, "Of course, there is nothing here now."

He stood up slowly and turned to look at Amber behind him.

"Contact Cold Winter, let's first send back what we have discovered so far to Agondor."