Chapter 1281 Ballad

The storage core inlaid with many crystals and high-purity gemstones was taken out, and the "Explorer" puppet also woke up from the maintenance state. This chubby mechanical device moved its long mechanical limbs around the crowd. After a circle, it stopped in front of Kamel, its optical probe was swinging back and forth above the body, as if it was staring at the storage core just taken out of its own body with a hint of curiosity.

Kamel checked the operating status of the core, confirmed that it could be read directly, and injected magic power into it. With a slight buzzing sound, complex magic patterns quickly appeared on the surface of the palm-sized cube, and then a large number of The image data and data were released under Kamel's intentional control, forming a series of rapidly refreshing holographic projections in mid-air.

"We have limited time, so we can put those environmental monitoring data aside for a while, and let the technical experts slowly analyze it when we go back," Gao Wen said, "Let's take a look at the image data left by the 'Explorer', mainly the interior of the spacecraft. Yes, we need to find a way."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Kamel nodded slightly, and some of the images in those holographic projections were quickly adjusted. A large amount of dazzling data and filter imaging views were turned off, and the explorer used his own photo crystal to record The video data that came down was enlarged in front of everyone, "I have located the video after the explorer entered the interior of the ship—from here, it can be seen that it is moving in a corridor..."

In the holographic projection, a first-person perspective that is shorter than ordinary humans is moving forward, and long mechanical limbs can be seen moving regularly at the edge of the screen. In front of the perspective is a wide and deep corridor. The empty screen In the picture, the explorer's moving limbs are the only moving objects, and the sound outside the screen can only hear a slight hum from the explorer's own body, as well as occasional distant sounds from the The sound of mechanical vibrations in the depths of the spaceship.

Gao Wen looked at it seriously, and after a while he said in a deep voice: "Quickly forward, record a fork in the road."

The images recorded in the storage core began to accelerate, and the explorer puppet quickly passed through the corridor, heading towards the end of the fork road, and the low hum in the background sound also became a little sharp and weird due to the acceleration of the picture-then the picture returned to normal , and start to accelerate after entering the next connection channel...

Gao Wen and the others carefully watched the video data left by the explorer puppet - this spaceship is so huge that its shallow connection channel has an astonishing scale, from one facility to another The distance between the facilities is enough for this little magical machine to walk for a long time, and more than half of the videos left by the puppet are basically "rushing".

Of course, it also captured a lot of details about the internal structure of the spacecraft during this rush, but these details... need time to sort out and analyze them slowly.

Suddenly, just as the video data began to speed up again, a very faint strange sound came to Gao Wen's ears.

The sound was so weak and erratic that it almost merged into the background humming sounds, but Gawain was still keenly aware of its existence, he waved his hand immediately, and Mordir beside him followed him. With one voice: "Stop!"

"You heard it too?" Kamel quickly paused the playback, and Gawain looked at the serious adventurer next to him in surprise, "You heard it too?"

"So you heard it too." Modil looked at Gawain in surprise, and then quickly nodded, "Yes, there seemed to be a strange sound just now... It was mixed in the background sound, very abrupt, and it was different from all the previous sounds It's all different."

"Go back," Gawain looked at Kamel, "probably after the 'Explorer' just entered the corridor marked with green lights, and amplified the sound."

Kamel accepted the order without hesitation, and the image data extracted from the storage core began to retreat under his precise control, and located the position where both Gawain and Mordir heard the "noise", Then the picture began to play normally, and this time, everyone at the scene pricked up their ears, listening carefully to all the subtle sounds recorded by the puppet.

In the low hum, there was a very vague noise—it really existed, and it definitely didn't sound like the puppet's own movement, nor did it sound like the mechanical sound made by the spaceship when it was running.

"I can't hear it clearly... but the ups and downs feel weird, even a bit like... some kind of melody?" Amber's long pointed ears trembled in the air, and she showed a cautious and even a little scared expression on her face , "I don't know if I heard it wrong, I seem to hear someone singing... gross... creepy..."

Gawain's eyes fell on Amber's pointed ears, he frowned slightly, and looked at Kamel with a serious face: "Can you make the sound clearer? Deal with its noise."

"...I will do my best," Kamel hesitated, and began to put both hands on the sophisticated storage core, while carefully manipulating the flow of magic power inside it, he said with reservations, "The effect Possibly limited - the Seeker golem's 'ears' have limited sensitivity, and that faint sound was completely mixed in with the background hum... I tried to make it as clear as possible."

Under Kamel's control, the screen returned to the beginning of the section just now, and then began to play again. The processed sound was indeed clearer than before, but the strange sound was still mixed with the low hum The inside is blurry, making it difficult to distinguish—but just when Gao Wen was about to ask Kamel to deal with it again, Amber suddenly turned his head to the side, showing a very serious listening appearance, and at the same time posed to the people around him. waved.

The pointed long ears are shaking sensitively. Although she does not have the so-called elven blood, as the crystallization of the most advanced biochemical technology in the Gondor era, as "artificial human No. 36", her perception after concentrating is actually Not weaker than elves.

Everyone around fell silent, the air only echoed the hoarse and vague humming sounds recorded by the Explorer puppet, and the humming sound was mixed with a faint noise like a song. Amber listened intently for a long time, Suddenly, she spoke softly—singing an intermittent, inaccurate ballad:

"...the hollow wind...the birds never flew across the sky again...a sentinel went mad...a sentinel went mad..."

Amber's soft chant echoed in this corridor that had been dead for 1.8 million years, a little tone deaf, a little chilling.

Victoria's eyes widened in an instant: "Amber, what are you singing about?"

"That 'noise' mixed in with the humming—it's a voice singing, singing these words over and over again," Amber said with her ears trembling, raising her eyes, "There are still a few words, but I This short passage can only be heard vaguely."

"I've heard this song...from Belsetia," Gawain said suddenly, his expression so serious that Daniel and Melita were startled, "This is an ancient nursery rhyme of the Silver Elf, It tells the story of a sentinel who was far away from his homeland in the pioneering age, fell into madness during the long wait, and gradually fell into hallucinations! But...how could it be here..."

"Nursery rhymes of the silver elves?" Melita's eyes widened subconsciously, "Are all the nursery rhymes of those elves so powerful?"

"...that's not the point," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "the key is the Sentinel, and why the 'Explorer' puppet recorded this melody on this ancient Voyager spaceship! Kamel, the puppet is Where was this song recorded? Can it be deduced from the video data?"

"The deduction has already started just now," Kamel said quickly, while holding the storage core in one hand, and opening the other hand to the side, a large-scale magic illusion spread out in front of him. The red light curtain outlines the corridors, fork roads, and the structure of the cabins. This is the passage in the ship he just outlined based on the video data played by the puppet. On one of the passages, the eye-catching red color block Out of the area where the puppet "heard" the ballad, "it's in this place."

Gawain waved his hand immediately: "Let's go."

Everyone immediately followed in the footsteps of Gawain and Kamel, and quickly started operations in this ancient Voyager spaceship. They quickly passed through the deep and long corridors and connecting gates, and they were in the "Explorer" puppet. Rapidly advancing on the determined safe route, the hurried footsteps of the uninvited guests echoed in the ancient spaceship that had been silent for millions of years-it didn't take long for them to arrive at the connecting passage marked by Kamel.

There was no one in the spacious and bright corridor of the spaceship. The ancient lighting fixtures cast soft lights, and the low hum of mechanical operation came from behind the alloy bulkhead from time to time. Other than that, Gawain and the others did not hear any sound. .

Even Amber pricked up her ears, but shook her head slightly after a few seconds: "No, I didn't hear a single sound."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. In this empty unmanned spaceship, almost everyone felt an inexplicable chill slowly spreading from the extremities. Mary, who hadn't spoken much along the way, murmured, "Maybe the singing didn't last forever. of……"

"There is another possibility that what the alchemy puppet hears is not 'sound'," Kamel said in a low voice, "The recording device of the puppet is not a real 'ear', sometimes it will transmit energy of a specific frequency The fluctuations are also recorded as 'sound signals' - much of the mysterious disturbance produced by many magical devices when recording visual or audio data."

"It's not necessarily the 'voice'..." Gawain frowned, and quietly activated his magic vision, but he didn't see any abnormal magic fluctuations in the empty spaceship corridor.

At this moment, his heart suddenly moved, as if the silent and empty spaceship system had released a signal, making him subconsciously look towards a fork at the end of the corridor.

"Where is that over there?" He looked at Kamel and asked.

"I don't know," Kamel shook his head. "The 'Explorer' puppet didn't arrive there—it's already located in a very deep area of ​​the spaceship. The puppet returned after exploring this corridor."

Gawain stared in that direction for a moment, then said in a low tone, "Maybe we should go and have a look."

A moment later, a group of people passed through the corridor and the fork at the end, and a tightly closed alloy gate appeared in front of everyone.

Gao Wen frowned and stared at the tightly closed gate in front of him.

Along the way, they have passed through countless gates and connecting passages, and all the doors on this road are open, as if the controller of the ship deliberately released all the access control systems before leaving the spaceship, but only Here...they encountered a locked door.

There must be something special behind this door.

"What should we do? The door is locked." Amber looked at Gao Wen, then at the alloy door in front of her, with a distressed look on her face, "To be honest, this is a bit beyond my professional skills... this stuff I won't open it."

"Even if you unlock the tenth level, it is impossible to open a permission lock of the interstellar era." Gawain shook his head lightly, "Can you use the shadow step to get in?"

"I tried it just now—it didn't work," Amber shook her head regretfully, "God knows how the Voyager's technology is able to do it... This door is not only closed in the real world, but even in the Shadow Realm. If the corresponding barrier is formed, it seems to exist in all the 'boundary layers' of this world at the same time - I even suspect that even if the elemental creatures come over, they will not be able to penetrate."

Gao Wen didn't say anything, but took a step forward in silence, and tentatively put his hand on an unmarked silver-white technical panel next to the gate.

This is the experience he accumulated in the Tower Against the Tide.

The blank silver panel brightened up, and images of buttons and interactive interfaces quickly appeared on it. However, the main system of the spaceship remained silent and did not respond to the pilot identification signal carried by Gawain. There was no way to open the closed alloy door. Symptoms, there is only one line of text scrolling continuously on the panel interface: fatal system failure, main control room closed.

No one except Gao Wen could understand the words that appeared on the panel, and Kamel and the others had never seen the scene that appeared in the Tower Against the Tide. Seeing the panel light up, Daniel asked subconsciously : "Is it open?"

"No, there is a fatal failure in the system, and this door can no longer be opened," Gao Wen shook his head helplessly, his tone of regret was hard to hide, "Maybe we should find another entrance."

"Tap it?" Amber couldn't help coming up with a bad idea beside her, "For example, give it a punch—sometimes the magic net terminal has a glitch, just tap it twice, six or seven out of ten times it will be successful... ..."

"Don't make trouble, where did this come from the 45-degree angle repair method?" Gawain glanced at the whimsical "half-elf", "This is not a magic net terminal with a simple structure, this thing is an interstellar An advanced product of the times..."

"Knock it twice..." Hu Po whispered and patted the silver-white alloy panel lightly, "Anyway, this thing has already..."

Seeing this guy's reckless behavior, Gao Wen was about to speak, but in the next second, there was a slight "click" sound from the closed alloy gate, and then it opened silently to both sides.

All eyes fell on Amber in an instant, including Gao Wen's, and every line of sight was filled with astonishment.

"Don't... don't look at me!" Amber immediately shrank her neck and shouted, "I don't know what's going on! I just took two shots!"

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