Chapter 145 The Ancient Proving Ground

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Soon, Gawain, led by Byron, arrived at the frontier of exploration of the ruins of the Dark Mountains.

This place is already located near the middle level of the ruins. It is the result of the hard work of the exploration team led by Byron for several days. It is connected to the upper level area by a large staircase. It has a wider space and a high roof in the mountain. It is not easy to build such an extraordinarily wide space in the body. Since its builder chose this scale, it can only show that this area needs such a large space.

All hallways are raised, as are all doors and rooms.

Gawain picked up a map, and checked the route on the map by the light of the magic spar held by Hetty next to him. Knight Byron completed the drawing of the area along the way very dutifully, and there are many planes on it. Straight corridors and rooms, some of which are also marked with special markings to indicate that there are unknown objects or suspicious forks in them. Obviously, even though they have been exploring for several days, Knight Byron and his party have not been able to figure out the scale of this astonishingly huge ruin.

How maddening is the scale of this thing?

Now that Gawain, Hetty, Amber, Byron, and a large group of soldiers have come to that special room, Byron pointed to the door and control mechanism that had been cleared in front of him: "Sir, our discovery is purely a fluke, this door The door was originally sealed, but it was probably due to disrepair and gaps that we discovered the airflow. The control device next to it should have been broken, its recognition function has failed, and anyone can activate it. "

"Is the creation of the Gondor Empire worth a thousand years..." Gawain sighed softly, "Let me show it."

Byron nodded, took off his gloves, stepped forward, put his hand on the metal device, and a distorted voice came from the device: "Detection...sample tester...stable period...allowed to pass. Isolation is being opened. Door……"

With the sound of creaking machinery, the ancient isolation door embedded in the wall slowly opened.

"Just like this, the gate will open, and then the gate will close on its own within 5 minutes regardless of whether anyone comes in or out, or slap the post twice in a row, and the gate will close. Also on the other side of the passage there is the same Device." Byron explained in detail.

Then two more soldiers stepped forward, and a similar sound still sounded in the device, indicating that the isolation door had been opened.

It appears to identify anyone who touches the device as a so-called stable sample tester, and authentication is useless.

But Gawain couldn't help frowning: he thought deeply about the words "sample tester" mentioned in the installation.

"This thing can even talk!" Amber became interested in the device itself, she ran over and put her hand on the top of the metal pillar, and said with great interest, "I heard that elves and wizards They also make a talking golem, but I've never..."

"Detection...warning, qualification mismatch, non-identifiable target, channel closed, alarm activated."

Accompanied by this blunt and cold voice, the isolation door quickly closed again with a loud noise, leaving only Amber with a masked face standing next to the device: "Hey... I didn't do anything?!"

Gawain put his hand on the hilt of the Trailblazer's Sword the moment the so-called "alarm activation" sounded, but he didn't hear anything else after waiting for half a minute, so he felt a little relieved. : It seems that most of the functions in this facility have been shut down. I am afraid that the door in front of me is also operating independently, and it does not really sound any alarms.

Byron, Hetty, and the others were also taken aback by this sudden change, and one by one, they pulled out their weapons and set up their postures, until it was confirmed that no ancient traps were activated, and Hetty let out a long breath and was shocked. Looking at the metal device: "What's going on? How come the amber will not work if it touches it?"

"Don't worry about this for now," Gawain stepped forward and pulled Amber aside, and put his hand on the metal post, "Let's see if this thing can still be used."

As a result, the next second, the old access control device heard the sound of passing the authentication again, and the isolation door creaking and opened again.

"...This door still needs a face!" Amber jumped up and down suddenly, "Why is it okay for anyone to touch it, and the door will be closed when I touch it?!"

"I can probably guess what's going on..." Gawain frowned, and he boldly deduced some facts from the several responses from the door guard, "I'm afraid this verification device is not broken."

Amber looked disbelieving: "It's not broken? Why can anyone open it if it's not broken?"

"The security setting of this door may not be as high as I thought at first, its function is only to ensure that the people who pass through the door are 'normal'," Gawain said with a frown, "Remember that Nicholas Egg once said If so? This facility has conducted research on suspected human trials, so the 'sample tester' mentioned by the access control most likely refers to a living person, and the so-called 'stable period'... Most of the time there is no mutation or something. The meaning of the out of control situation. In other words, as long as a normal ordinary person can pass through this door.”

"Then why can't I?" Amber stared, "I'm quite normal!"

Gao Wen looked at the guy from head to toe: "Are you a normal human being? Let alone normal, are you a human?"

Amber's pointed ears twitched: "...Well that makes sense."

The others also nodded thoughtfully. It seemed that Gawain's explanation was approved by everyone, but Gawain himself fell into deep doubts after he finished speaking.

Is it really that simple? Is this door just to prevent runaway test subjects from escaping? Will it have any other filtering mechanism?

For some reason, after hearing the blunt, icy voice of the access control system, he couldn't help but feel a very weak but real sense of disgust and resistance, but he searched his memory, but couldn't find it at all. source of negative emotions.

But no matter what was behind this door, he had to go in.

After confirming that Amber just couldn't use the verification device at the door, and that she would not set off any alarm when she entered the door behind others, Gawain led the team into the space behind the door.

They passed through a corridor made of unknown metal materials. The metal pillars lined up on both sides of the corridor reminded Gawain of sterilization or static elimination devices. At the end of the corridor was another open isolation. The door, opposite the isolation door, is a hall with a circular shape as a whole.

This hall is built with artificial materials. Although the white wall paint has been dusted and peeled off, it still reminds people how bright and wide this whole space was in the old days. Going around the hall, you can see a lot of along the walls. Ancient magical devices arranged and connected by pipes or metal columns, and another part of the pipes extending from these devices all converged in the center of the hall: there stood a dozen strangely shaped objects.

They have a metal base, and on the base is a transparent tubular structure like a biological culture tank. At the top of the tubular structure, a heavy top can be seen. The top cover is engraved with runes and magic circles, but all The runes have been extinguished.

The scene in front of him that he couldn't tell whether it was a fantasy or a sci-fi made Gawain a little dazed, but the scenes in Gawain Cecil's memory about the glory days of the Gondor Empire quickly weakened the sense of disobedience in his heart.

Looking at the neatly arranged devices in front of him, Gawain could almost imagine the scene when these containers were once filled with biomass solvent and soaked in one by one test subjects—and around these containers, people were busy walking around. The imperial magisters, they recorded the various parameters of the samples in the container, and from time to time stimulated the samples inside with spells, and dealt with the "experimental subjects" of the same race as them in the container with an almost inhuman cold attitude.

Human trials were not uncommon in the Gondor Empire back then, and even more so in the Anzu Kingdom today.

"It's unbelievable..." Heidi looked at the mysterious ancient magic devices with a fascinated expression, the neatly arranged runes and fine metal structures surprised her, "Such a complex combination of runes... Such a tight fit... such a neat part... how did they do it?!"

"These runes are built with the help of the endless energy of the Deep Blue Well, ignoring the consumption of abruptly piled up experimental data, and these parts..." Gawain looked at the magic devices that already had a certain prototype of industrial products, and sighed softly, " They require thousands of skilled craftsmen, more than twenty basic workshops, a complete set of complex production processes and thousands of standard parameters, and a technical system supported by the entire empire."

Heidi was a little lost for a while: "...Did we actually leave such advanced technologies behind... We really couldn't preserve them back then?"

Gao Wen sighed: "The first generation of pioneers in Ansu tried their best to restore these things in their lifetime, but the data we rescued was not enough to restore half of them, the industrial chain was broken, and a group of people came out from the frontier. Semi-illiterate people who have studied blueprints for ten years can hardly make up one part of it, not to mention that the conditions at the time did not allow anyone to do research full-time. Make sure that the number of people who died of starvation in that year will not exceed the number of new-born people..."

Speaking of this, he shook his head: "But compared to these, the more important reason is that we have lost the deep blue well - the huge pure energy provided by the deep blue well has greatly reduced the operation requirements of many magical devices, and the same device If it is placed in another magical environment, it may not work at all. The most basic and simple things are easy to say, but the more complex and advanced, the more completely scrapped after leaving the Deep Blue Well. "

Hearing Gawain's words, Amber suddenly felt a little touched: "That's why you value versatility and applicability so much?"

"The industrialization of magic guides supported by the Deep Blue Well is not really industrialization," Gawain casually said something that everyone present might still not understand, then smiled and looked around, "Compared to this, let's take a look at this first. How many surprises the old proving ground has left us."

His eyes swept across the thousand-year-old cultivation containers, consoles, magic bases and sensors, and finally landed on a nearby wall, his eyes couldn't help but freeze.

There is a huge line of words written in the common language of ancient mankind:

Humanity will live forever—even against the gods.

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