Chapter 1404 Ophelia's Little Story

Under the guidance of the guidance signal sent by Veronica, the dragoons finally landed on a small platform at the bottom of the "Crystal Spike".

Gawain and Amber stepped down from the aircraft. The latter raised his head vigorously and looked at the cone-shaped structure made of a large number of crystal prisms like a hill. The pure magic power gushing out from the deep blue well The top of the cone-shaped structure was released, forming a bright stream of flames in the air, and finally converging on the top of the thick shield, which looked extraordinarily spectacular.

Hu Po just raised her head and stared at it for a long time, and the thousands of thoughts in her heart finally merged into one sigh: "...This stuff will never be finished?"

"I thought you were going to feel sorry for something." Gawain's mouth trembled, and he squinted at this shadow-strike goose with clever thinking. "According to Tarrond's research records, this rift has existed since the birth of the planet. Yes, it is part of the magic power cycle of this planet, and there is no concept of 'spraying out'—unless there is a problem with the magic power cycle of the entire planet. As for the little energy that the Gondorians collected from here back then... Compared with the entire dark blue network road, I'm afraid it can only be regarded as a small wave of water."

"...Infinite magic power, the cleanliness does not even require secondary purification, and the difficulty of using it is almost zero," Amber sighed, "No wonder the Gondor Empire was so strong back then..."

Gawain didn't speak, but at this moment, he suddenly heard a slight buzzing sound coming from not far away. Following the sound, he saw a piece of ice suddenly emerged on the surface of the crystal "wall" at the end of the platform. In the flowing light grid, in the shimmering flickering, the original seamless crystal outer wall undergoes dazzling changes and reorganizations, and a towering door opens in the blink of an eye.

The sound of footsteps came from the gate, and two extraordinarily tall figures stepped out of it. Under the afterglow of the setting sun and the light and shadow of the blue magic flames, these two figures emerging from the depths of the ancient fortress even gave Gawain a sense of The feeling of walking from a historical picture scroll——When they got closer, Gao Wen saw that these were two "female soldiers". They were wearing the uniforms of the battle magisters of the ancient Gondor Empire. Its arms, shoulders, etc. have mana augmentation components that seem to be directly connected to the body. One of the "magic soldiers" seems to have been damaged in the previous battle and has not had time to repair. A wound was cut near her neck. Under the bionic skin is a bright silver alloy inner armor and connection structure.

Amber next to him immediately realized: These are two iron warriors, just like the "maid head" of the Typhon Empire, they are powerful man-made weapons made by ancient humans.

Her thoughts couldn't help drifting away—if only the "head maid" named Diana came along this time, she would definitely want to come, she has been waiting for hundreds of years for maintenance... …

While thinking wildly, one of the iron soldiers who looked relatively intact spoke, her voice sounded mechanically indifferent: "Welcome,

Visitors, you have been granted Level A access authorization, and His Royal Highness Ophelia ordered us to guide you to the control center. "

"The two of us can just go in, and the others are waiting outside." Gawain nodded, then turned his head and said to the entourage acting as "guards", "You wait here."

"Just the two of us going in?" Amber pointed to herself, with a suspicious expression on her face, "You..."

"This is our first meeting with the last heir of the Gondor Empire," Gawain said in a low voice. "I'm not sure what's down here—so it's better to keep this first meeting private."

Amber shrugged her shoulders to show that she had no doubts, and then followed in Gawain's footsteps. The two followed the Iron Man soldier and walked towards the shining "Crystal Gate" not far away.

After passing through the gate, they stepped into a passage completely formed of thick crystals, and walked forward on a slope that sloped continuously. Everything they entered was that beautiful, ice-like crystal. Blue crystals, no lighting equipment can be seen in the entire passage, but a steady flow of light can be seen slowly surging in the depths of the crystals on both sides, which keeps the passage a comfortable light—bright The clean crystal corridor, which makes people completely unexpected that there is a barren wasteland outside.

Gao Wen felt as if he was walking in an entire clear iceberg. The wonderful flow of light diffused and refracted in the ice crystals, bringing a dreamlike and magnificent feeling.

It’s just that the two iron soldiers leading the way are obviously purely military models. They don’t have the habit of chatting, and they are very silent along the way, which makes this incredible journey seem quite dull.

However, the accompanying Amber is a character who can't calm down. From the moment she came in, she kept looking at the shining crystals around her. Amber's eyes were as bright as the surrounding crystals. She walked halfway. I couldn't hold back anymore: "Hey, the crystals around are so beautiful... What kind of material are these? Are they really crystals? Natural crystals?"

Hearing the visitor's initiative to ask, the iron soldier leading the way finally broke the silence: "It's not a natural crystal."

When Amber heard this, she immediately lost interest: "Oh, what did I say..."

"It is the crystallization of stable arcana," the iron soldier continued, "it is formed by the reaction and deposition of the pure magic power that has been gushing out from the deep blue well for thousands of years and the guiding magic components in the environment."

The next second, Gao Wen saw a black shadow flashing in front of him, and Amber jumped up on the spot with a groan, and tried to jump to the wall closest to him. If Gao Wen hadn't known the shameful nature of this alliance and With a quick reaction, he grabbed the back of this guy's neck. At this time, Hu Po's whole body was probably slapped on the crystal with a "pia ji" like it was usually slapped on the wall, and it was the kind that couldn't be pulled off.

The amber was still struggling in Gao Wen's hand, and his beloved little dagger had already been pulled out: "Let me pick a piece and try it! I'll just check the composition! Steady-state arcane crystal! Pure arcane that can transmit light!" Crystallization! On the black market in the past, even if you put it on the black market, those mages can knock out the dog's brains. There is a mountain here! A whole mountain!"

"Don't be ashamed here," Gao Wen conveniently clamped Amber under his armpit, looking at the guy who was still dancing with a headache, "Do you know what occasion this is?"

"Isn't this in private," Amber said plausibly while trying to break free from the shackles while swimming butterfly in the void, "except for the Iron Man Corps who obeyed orders, Veronica is here--Veronica is not an outsider. Hey, it's thanks to you just now The entourage is all on standby outside. Hey, I said, there is still such a consideration...As expected of you, you are far-sighted, and the coffin is prepared for the full moon wine—prepared early..."

Gao Wen: "..."

Now he is very, very, very, very, very regretful that he usually taught this guy so many dirty words...

The only good thing is that the iron soldiers leading the way didn't understand this at all, and they didn't even look back at Amber, who was being held under the armpit by Gawain. After answering the visitor's questions and confirming that the visitor had no further application , the two ancient machine girls continued to lead the way silently, and under their leadership, Gawain took the (finally quiet) amber through this crystal clear "crystal ramp", and finally saw the man-made facilities.

An elevator leading to the depths of the ground—an "ancient Gondor style" completely different from contemporary times.

Amber looked back at the crystal clear passage for the last time reluctantly, and was dragged into the elevator by Gao Wen. Then, accompanied by a slight mechanical friction sound, the protective fence of the elevator closed, and they began to sink in quickly. underground.

The elevator is surrounded by an open structure where one can directly see the outside scene, while the surrounding shafts have openings at intervals where one can observe the outside. Gawain and Amber can intuitively understand what is going on underground in this ancient fortress. "Scenery" - they walked through this deep shaft, passing through a thick protective dome made of strong metal and concrete at intervals. This thick "protective shell" has seven consecutive layers, and then Only then did they see internal facilities like factories, excavation stations, and warehouses, and between each of these facilities, separate armor and shields separated them layer by layer.

Hu Po, who was still fussing about picking a piece of crystal back just now, has completely quieted down. She stared dumbfounded at the passing scenery outside the elevator, and finally murmured softly: "Such a tight defense..."

"Surviving in the center of the wasteland is not an easy task." As soon as Amber finished speaking, a voice suddenly sounded in the elevator. This voice came from a small sound-generating device, although it was a little different from the usual voice. difference, but Amber and Gawain could tell that it was Veronica who was speaking, "In the first two centuries, the situation in the central area of ​​the wasteland was much more severe than what you saw when you first arrived here : Deadly pollution seeps into the ground, and the aberrations are not just wandering on the surface—the underground of the old imperial capital has a criss-crossing subway network and drainage system, and those monsters have invaded deep underground through these facilities...

"So for the first two hundred years, all I could do was dig down, and I dug for two centuries, and I moved the whole of the fort twice as deep as it was before, and blew up everything that was close to it. Underground bunkers of subway tunnels and sewer networks, and in the process building that layer upon layer of 'shells' that you just saw to protect themselves.

"It took another hundred years after that before the situation improved slightly. I settled down underground with a stable structure and fully restored the operational efficiency of the Iron Corps maintenance array. I sent soldiers to clear the tunnels that still occupy the subway passages. The wandering monsters, restarted some of the lines, and based on this, began to further restore control of the area around the old imperial capital..."

Accompanied by Veronica's narration, the elevator continued to descend in the shaft, and during this seemingly endless descent, Gawain said: "And before that, you somehow put your own Thinking projected to the outside of the wasteland, just like using the 'vehicle' of 'Veronica' to observe our world?"

"Yes," Veronica, or Ophelia replied softly, "so in a sense, I 'opened my eyes' outside the wasteland even before my surface activities here, in In the first few hundred years, it was difficult for me to judge the situation on the surface deep underground, so that I had to rely on the remote control of the carrier in the "Nation of Survivors" to understand the changes in the wasteland from the side... One of my carriers is still very Famous, I don’t know if you have heard of it.”

"Oh?" Gao Wen suddenly became interested, "Tell me specifically?"

Ophelia's voice was soft and steady: "Griffina, sword dancer Griffina."

Gawain had obviously never heard of this name, but Amber reacted instantly: "Ah, it's that 'Crazy Blade Witch', I've heard of this name before, her story is very popular among country bards , has endured for hundreds of years..."

Noticing the bewildered expression on Gawain's side, Amber immediately showed a smug expression—after all, she usually doesn't have many opportunities to show off her knowledge in front of Gawain: "Hey, you didn't have this character when you were lying down, this time Stories about this aspect are more common in rural unofficial history, it’s normal if you don’t understand——

"Griffina is a character from about six hundred years ago. It is said that she was originally just an ordinary mercenary operating on the border between Typhon and Anzu. Once the caravan she served as a guard was destroyed by robbers, and she herself fell into a mountain stream during the battle—it is said that she died on the spot, but it is said that she was resurrected three days later, and since then her strength has increased dramatically but her temperament has changed drastically. Became the well-known "Crazy Witch", famous for throwing a chain of lightning out regardless of enemy and friend while using whirlwind in battle. She specializes in accepting the most dangerous commissions on the edge of the wasteland, even until the number of countries gradually decreases and even After cutting off her exploration of the wasteland, she is still wandering between the gradually deserted border villages and towns..."

"What about the end?" Gao Wen noticed that Amber had paused, and asked in a timely manner.

"In the end? In the end, no one saw her. It is said that some people swore that they saw the 'crazy blade witch' rushing to the depths of the wasteland. Some people said that she made a deal with the devil to be resurrected. In the end, she paid At the cost of her soul, she disappeared from the world, and some people say that she suddenly got into a fight with a passing young knight, and then the two married--the specific version depends on which school of bards wrote the story, usually five The market below a copper coin is inclined to her suicide in the wasteland."

Amber thought about it, and then added: "Of course, it is said that there is an extended version of the exotic adventure Dragon Quest and the Lily with the princess of a certain country, but that one costs eight copper coins, I think it is too expensive—— The main reason is that it’s really boring, so I didn’t listen to it…”

Gao Wen: "..."

"In general, the facts are like this," Ophelia's voice came faintly, "except for the final ending."

"...I've only dealt with 'Veronica', it's really hard to imagine what you would look like when you were active in history in another form," Gawain said with a strange expression, "And you still have such an image...so , did you occupy the body of that mercenary back then? It sounds like she was just an ordinary person at the beginning..."

"I occupy the body after she fell off the cliff and died," Ophelia replied, "I will not occupy the body of ordinary people, nor will I destroy other people's lives-this is my principle, unless the other person's life It's over, or it never started."

"..." Gao Wen didn't comment on this, he was just suddenly curious, "Then that 'crazy witch' changed her temperament after her resurrection...was it your bad taste? Because in my impression, your character Seems pretty peaceful..."

"...that body broke the brain, it's hard to repair," Ophelia's voice was a little weird, as if recalling some embarrassing memories, "it's really difficult to control..."

Gao Wen: "...Okay, I understand."