Chapter 237 Doomsday Shelter

The space opposite the Might and Magic Gate - or this part of the hidden facility, was even bigger than Gawain imagined.

Not only was there a hall that everyone saw at first, but after the soldiers expanded their search, they soon discovered that there was a surrounding corridor structure outside the hall, as well as rooms lined up outside the corridor.

These rooms are fully furnished, and various living or research utensils, including tables, chairs, and equipment, are well kept in place, rather than being carried away like the rooms outside.

"The things here have not been removed," Hetty looked at a room that had just been opened. This room seemed to be a place for many people to gather and eat. There were long tables and chairs in the room, and you could still see in the corner. The neatly arranged sinks - but it is impossible for water to flow in the sink, "and the preservation of these things... is much better than the outside."

"The entire facility seems to be affected by a large-scale magic effect, and the decay speed of all items has become extremely slow," Gawain looked down at a long table by his hand, which had mottled rust, but the table itself Still sturdy and intact, "...still corroded to a considerable degree."

Tyr walked between the long tables, her fingers brushing the dusty tabletop, and said thoughtfully: "It feels like it's ready to be reactivated at any time-- As soon as someone comes back here, they can start living right away.”

Gawain didn't say a word, but walked silently between the long tables that had begun to rust. At this moment, a group of soldiers who went to explore the road ahead suddenly returned to this room, and the leader came to Gawain. Front: "Sir! We found a warehouse in front!"

"Take me over there."

Gawain quickly arrived at the warehouse that the soldiers found, and the sight in the warehouse made him frown.

This is the place where supplies are stacked. In the warehouse, you can also see neat stacking tables and various signs that can not be read clearly, but what makes Gawain frown is—the stacking tables that were originally packed The cargo has been dismantled.

A lot of wooden boxes were pried open,

Empty boxes and jars are stacked in various places, some are neatly stacked, but others are simply scattered all over the room. Apart from these messy "packaging", there is no use here. 's materials.

"This..." Heidi immediately clenched her staff when she saw the scene in the warehouse. She looked at Gawain subconsciously, "Ancestor, this..."

"Someone took the supplies here!" Gawain said the only possibility, "Someone has been active here—at least in the first period of time after this facility was blocked, there were still people active here!"

"How is that possible!?" Heidi was shocked. "Isn't this place abandoned and blocked a thousand years ago? Didn't everyone evacuate?"

"I thought so too, but look at the materials that have been consumed - if they were consumed before the facility was closed, the logistics manager could not have allowed the warehouse to become like this," Gawain pointed to the messy piles of Empty boxes and cans, "obviously the result of continued consumption after the facility was closed, and I'm afraid it will continue to be consumed for a long time."

Heidi couldn't help swallowing: "This...it's really disturbing..."

Thiel asked a question: "If there were people here after the facility was closed, where are they now?"

Gawain shook his head: "I don't know, but if all the people working here are humans... then no humans can live for a thousand years."

Soon, the soldiers found more material warehouses, and most of the warehouses had been used up - only a few things remained, and judging by the thick dust on the sealed boxes, They have been neglected for many years.

Even with the protection of magical power, these materials cannot be stored for thousands of years. Even if the packaging is intact, the contents inside have already rotted and deteriorated, so Gawain just checked these things roughly and lost interest in them.

After checking the corridor outside the hall, the group reached the end of the corridor, where the roads converged, and a sloping staircase extended from the intersection of the corridors to the upper level of the secret facility.

"It looks like there is still a structure on it," Hetty looked up at the dim space at the end of the stairs. This ancient facility has an amazing energy system, but no matter how advanced the energy system is, it can't completely resist the erosion of time. The light was obviously dimmer than the lower level. It seemed that there was some problem with the energy supply. The light was not only dim but also unstable. Hetty summoned a mage's eye to go up. After a while, she nodded, "There is no danger up there."

The exploration team advanced along the stairs and soon reached the upper level of this hidden facility, and at the end of the stairs, a heavy metal door blocked their way.

"The magic lock on the door has failed," Hetty quickly found the magic mechanism that controlled the locked state of the door. Several dim runes were inscribed in the center of the door, but these runes had no response to external magic stimulation. , "Now it's just an ordinary iron door that can be destroyed directly."

The two soldiers stepped forward immediately and aimed the heat ray gun at the lock in the center of the door. After several consecutive bombardments of the hot rays, the magic organ in the center of the door was directly melted: without the protection of magic, the advanced ancient magic organ It's just a piece of metal with a not-so-high melting point.

Gawain put his hand on the door, and with the powerful strength of the legendary knight, he directly pushed open the door that originally required a magic device to move.

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Accompanied by the harsh metal friction sound, the ancient gate with a history of thousands of years slowly opened to both sides, and a stale breath leaked from the space inside the gate, but a mist of water with a slight coolness suddenly came out of thin air. Appears and surrounds everyone, isolating all these potentially harmful breaths.

Gawain glanced back and saw Tyr waved his hand as if nothing had happened, and the power of the water element was quietly flowing between her fingers.

He didn't tell Miss Siren that every soldier's armor actually had a long-lasting "breeze shield" effect. Instead, he thanked Tyr for his kindness with a smile, and then walked through the gate.

The next second, the sight in front of him made him stunned on the spot.

Inside the gate is a large semi-circular room, rows of neat seats are arranged in the room along an arc, and on the rows of seats, there are corpses one after another. !

These people have apparently been dead for many years, but because the entire facility is covered with a magical field that slows the decay of things, they have not turned into bones over time, but have become some kind of mummy-like existence, wearing ancient clothes. Robes or tunics of the wizards of the Empire of Gondor, and this attire is enough to say who they are:

They are the people who stayed in the facility after the ancient facility was closed!

Heidi's eyes widened. The shocking scene in front of her made her unable to speak for a long time. It was not until more than ten seconds later that she muttered to herself: "They... all are here... all die here..."

"Why are these people kept here?" Tyre had also heard about the origin of this facility from Gawain, she was very puzzled by the existence of these people, "Could it be that there was a mistake in the evacuation operation back then, these Are people forgotten in it?"

"It's impossible to have such a big mistake," Gawain frowned and shook his head, "The evacuation operations back then were obviously orderly, and there were no conditions for mistakes in the rush, and the warehouses we discovered before were also clues... those The supplies indicate that the people stranded here are planned."

After speaking, he began to walk carefully between the seats arranged in the semicircle. After passing through the rows of seats, he came to the front end of the semicircular hall.

Gawain turned around here, and he saw that the rows of seats were neatly arranged in front of his eyes, and nearly a thousand silent corpses were sitting on those chairs. The focus is right where he is.

This strange feeling made him break out a layer of cold sweat, but it also made him notice his feet: on the ground under his feet, there was an inconspicuous raised device, and between the runes on the surface of the device , there are still some remaining magical radiance flowing slowly.

He recognized the thing—it was the technology of the ancient Empire of Gondor, the magical device used to transmit messages, and with the vast power of the Deep Blue Well and the magical diverters all over the Empire, these devices could send every inch of the Empire. They are closely linked, but with the explosion of the Deep Blue Well, this communication network has completely collapsed and there is no possibility of reconstruction, and the communication spells and magical communication towers used by human nations today are only a little remnant of this ancient technology. Just afterglow.

This device can still be used. Although it is no longer possible to send or receive any messages after leaving the "dark blue magic net", the shimmering light on its surface shows that there is still a little residual energy inside, and the information it stores Neither was lost.

According to the memory of seven hundred years ago, Gawain tried to inject some magic power into this device, so this ancient device that had been silent for a thousand years was instantly "resurrected", the runes on its surface flashed violently, and a The light beam was emitted from the top of the device and shot towards the wall behind Gawain.

Gawain turned around and avoided the projected beam. He saw that the ancient device projected a message on the wall and projected it in front of the nearly 1,000 corpses in the hall. It was a series of words written in the common language of ancient Gondor. It's incredibly short:

"You are the last survivors, live and don't come back."

There is only one sentence saved in the communication device, which is obviously the content of the last communication, while other early content has either been deleted or failed to withstand the passage of time.

"The last survivor..." Tyre saw the message, the siren who lived for an unknown time actually recognized the words of the ancient Gondor Empire, she arched it up, curious, "What does this mean? "

"...This is the last communication sent here from the empire when the magic tide broke out," Gawain said slowly, "I have already guessed what happened here, but there are still many mysteries that need to be solved."

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