Chapter 693 The Locked Server

Mu You carried the little boy and walked into the mist.

Passing through the hazy reflections of the mountain, they finally came to an illusory stone door.

Mu You stretched out his hand.

As expected, his hand went through the stone door directly. Obviously, this mountain did not exist in reality, at least it was impossible to walk into it directly.

Mu You glanced at the little boy at hand and motioned him to start the next step.

"Put me down first!" The little boy was still struggling.

"Be honest, don't play tricks."

Mu You warned and put him down.

The little boy fell to the ground, quickly got up, patted the collar that was crumpled by Mu You, glared at him, and then walked to the side of the stone door, a conspicuous gap.

"Stand in this position and communicate with the Creation Mountain through the causal line."

Mu You took a look and stood on another symmetrical gap.

Then he sank most of his consciousness into the causal line, leaving only a small part to watch the little boy to prevent him from escaping.

Soon, Mu You's consciousness followed the causal line and arrived in front of the light ball again.

This time, the light ball in front of him gave him a completely different feeling. If the original Creation Mountain was a big fireball similar to the sun, he would be burned as long as he got close to it.

The light ball now became cold and quiet, becoming much gentler.

Through the perspective of his mind, Mu You was already near the light ball, and saw the causal line of thought belonging to the little boy, standing on both sides of the light ball with him.

A few seconds later, the consciousness of the two people rushed towards the light ball at the same time.

Unexpectedly, there was no obstacle, and the consciousness of the two people rushed into the light ball very smoothly.

"Boom..."

A wave that was more violent than before came out from the inside of the light ball and spread to all the causal lines around the light ball.

At the same time, all the players on the earth who were playing the game received a prompt that the game was offline at the same time.

...

When Mu You opened his eyes again, he found himself in an ancient and humid cave.

A square hall was dug out in front of him. There were a lot of totems and words carved on the stone walls that he couldn't understand. But because no one had stepped on it for a long time, the originally neat ceiling was covered with green moss and various unknown fungi and plants, and the walls were covered with spider webs, making it look like an abandoned ancient tomb.

Mu You spent two seconds to sort out his thoughts and quickly adapted to the environment.

He looked down and saw that there was no one around him. He was the only one around him. The little boy who was supposed to come in with him disappeared.

"The little boy ran away!"

The chameleon helmet appeared above Mu You's head, and Ava's prompt sounded.

"Oh?" Mu You frowned: "How long have we been here?"

"Two minutes and thirty-six seconds." Ava said.

"So long?" Mu You was surprised. In his feeling, it took only a moment from the time he sank into the light ball to the time he opened his eyes again.

"Yes, you and the little boy appeared here together, but your consciousness was delayed until half a minute ago, when the little boy regained consciousness before you did. He fled into the passage on the left while you were still awake."

Ava explained: "Because the situation was unclear, I did not choose to follow him, but stayed to wait for you to recover."

"I see..."

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief. Ava's choice was right. If you rashly pursue him in such an unfamiliar environment, you will be easily counterattacked.

As for the little boy, he was not worried. The power of heaven he bestowed on him should last for a few minutes. During this period, the other party could not use the power of divine power and could not run far.

"Are you going to look for him?" Ava asked.

"Don't worry about him, let's do business first!" Mu You shook his head.

Mu You always remembered that the purpose of their entry into the Creation Mountain was to modify the settings of the Star Spirit Realm and shut down the Great Disaster.

The entrance to the Creation Mountain will only be open for about ten minutes a day. Once the time comes, the creatures in it will be forcibly kicked out. It has been almost three minutes, and time is very tight.

Mu You directly turned on the maximum power of Chi Xiao, and rushed out like lightning, rushing into the largest passage in front of the hall.

There are many corridors around this hall, winding and leading to nowhere. Mu You didn't think much and directly chose the most conspicuous passage in the middle, because according to the layout of the scene, this passage has the highest probability of leading to the core.

Facts also proved that Mu You was right. This is not a maze, so there is no need to design any special tricks. Passing through the middle passage, he came to a corridor area and followed the instructions all the way deeper.

Soon, Mu You entered a wider hall.

This is a hexagonal hall, more than ten times larger than the entrance cave just now.

The hall is surrounded by various "modern" instruments and mysterious runes, some of which are similar to the dashboard of a spacecraft. Countless ancient runes keep flashing on the major magic arrays.

In the middle of the hall, there was a familiar giant ball of light. On the surface, it looked exactly the same as the light ball of the Creation Mountain in my mind, but it was no longer an illusory existence, but was floating in this hall in a physical form.

Around the ball of light, there were densely packed "threads" connecting to the surrounding mountain walls and converging on the mountain walls, like a circuit diagram on a circuit board, neatly folded, intersecting, and finally connected to hundreds of surrounding instruments.

In addition, around the hall, there are some white mists floating, like clouds in the sky, floating slowly nearby, condensing into a shape from time to time, and then slowly dispersing, condensing into a new shape in a farther place, repeating over and over again.

The magical thing is that these white mists are condensed into small creatures in the Star Spirit Realm, including birds, fish, insects, cattle and sheep, but they are all harmless creatures, wandering aimlessly in the hall, and they don’t seem to be dangerous, so Mu You didn’t care.

With a full view of the scene, Mu You has understood it.

This is obviously the "main control room" of the Creation Mountain, similar to the source of the server.

The surrounding instruments are similar to external devices such as keyboards and mice, which are convenient for managers to adjust various settings in the light ball without affecting the operation of the light ball.

However, there is no explanatory text on these instruments. If you operate the instruments recklessly without instructions, it is likely to cause unknown consequences, not to mention the complex operation of shutting down the Great Disaster Era accurately. It is impossible to achieve without understanding the operating logic of the light ball first.

Fortunately, Ava had anticipated this and brought it here just for now.

"Ava." Mu You shouted.

"Understood." Ava had also been prepared, and she detached from Mu You and floated in front of the light ball.

Inside the helmet, several hair-thin energy threads extended far away, and finally all penetrated into the light ball.

Streams of information began to converge into Ava's brain.

"Data analysis in progress: 0.5%...1%...1.5%..."

Ava reported the implementation progress.

What relieved Mu You was that the analysis speed was much faster than expected. According to the speed of Ava's reporting, it would take about two minutes to reach 100%, and there was still plenty of time.

However, less than two seconds after Ava began to analyze the data, Mu You suddenly felt a palpitation coming from behind, and hurriedly rolled on the spot, but it was still a step too late, and a burning pain came from his back.

Mu You rolled to his feet and looked back hastily, only to see a scene that made his scalp numb.

An elk made of black mist stood at his original position, baring its teeth at him.

This elk seemed to be an illusory existence, without any entity, as could be seen from the fact that the Chixiao battle suit covering his back was not damaged at all, but his health points were lost by a full 1,000 points for no reason after coming into contact with the elk.

"Armor-piercing attack?"

Mu You was somewhat doubtful.

Before he could think about it, the blackened elk on the opposite side had already kicked the ground with its front hooves, raised its antlers, and charged towards him.

If there was only this one strange thing, Mu You wouldn't be too nervous.

The key point is that there are far more than one of these things.

At the moment when Ava began to analyze the data, the small creatures originally made of white mist around him instantly turned black into this kind of black monster, and rushed towards Mu You frantically as if their mother had died.

Mu You dodged in a hurry, and at the same time, the Death Prison Blade appeared in his hand and chopped it out.

A small crescent sword energy whizzed past and accurately chopped the elk, which was instantly torn into pieces and disappeared.

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, these things were destructible and looked weak, so they could be solved with just one knife.

Of course, even so, the situation was not optimistic.

The black fog creatures around the hall were still being generated continuously, most of which rushed towards Mu You, and some went straight to the helmet in the air.

Mu You hurriedly swung his sword repeatedly, and a large amount of sword energy formed with him as the center, constantly crushing the black fog beasts one by one, especially on Ava's side, so that these things could not affect Ava's actions.

This thing should be the self-protection mechanism of the Creation Mountain. Once someone touches the core light ball in an illegal way, this thing will be automatically generated until the offender is killed or expelled.

Fortunately, Mu You can go back, and there are time stop and speed available, with a very high fault tolerance rate.

Ava's actions were also fast enough. Mu You held on for about a minute and a half. Seeing that the density of the surrounding creatures was getting higher and higher, and it was gradually difficult to take care of them, Ava's report finally sounded.

"... 100%. Data analysis completed."

"How is it?" Mu You asked hurriedly.

"I have successfully mastered the logical principles of all the underlying settings of the Star Spirit Realm, but... I don't have enough authority to modify it." Ava said.

"Can't modify it, what do you mean?" Mu You was stunned.

Aren't these hundreds of instruments around arranged for modifying the world settings?

"It should have been possible, but there is an important thing missing in the Creation Mountain now, just like a server without a 'key', it can't enter the developer mode... Now all the world setting buttons in the Creation Mountain have been locked and cannot be modified."

"No way..." Mu You's heart skipped a beat.

After spending so much effort to let Ava transform into a soul, and finally entering the Creation Mountain, it turned out that this place could not be modified from the beginning?

Could it be that the first generation of fools returned from the Creation Mountain empty-handed because of this?

But if that's the case, why didn't they say it earlier?

This kind of important information should be passed on to future generations as soon as possible...

Mu You chopped the black fog creatures that gathered around him with a knife, and rushed to a meter on the edge with some disbelief, and pressed a few buttons on it randomly.

Because there is backtracking, he doesn't have to worry about irreversible consequences. If something goes wrong, he can just go back.

However, what makes Mu You despair is that no matter how he operates, the light ball in the distance does not change at all, as if the instruments around him are just decorations...

"What is missing?" Mu You asked.

"It should be a stone plate..."

"Stone plate?"

"Wait a moment, we are collecting information..."

Ava made an emergency operation, and the helmet projected a light curtain in mid-air. On the light screen were scenes of rapidly switching scenes.

While Mu You was killing the enemy, he took the time to glance around. What flashed across the light screen were scenes of caves, including even the hall they were in.

Mu You even saw his own figure in this picture.

Obviously, what Ava is playing is the real-time surveillance footage of the entire Chuangjie Mountain.

After the screen flickered for a while, it finally stopped in one of the caves.

This is a small cave. On the ground in the center is a stone altar, and inside the altar is a wide circular groove.

Judging from the shape and surface wear, there should have been some kind of round object placed on the surface of this altar, but at this moment, the contents inside were missing.

The thing that can control the core of the entire Chuangjie Mountain must not be an ordinary thing.

Mu You was thinking about treasures of similar shapes and sizes when he suddenly noticed a young figure rushing into the cave on the surveillance screen.

It was the little boy who ran away before.

At this moment, the boy was sweating profusely, and seemed to be blocked by a repulsive force. He could only lie on the ground, use all four limbs together, and crawl forward with difficulty towards the center of the altar.

"What does this man want to do?"

Mu You frowned, and his intuition told him that what this little boy wanted to do was not simple.

Moreover, this guy did not come to the main control room after entering. Instead, he went straight to the place in the picture. He obviously knew something.

"lead the way!"

Mu You shouted, smashed the black energy creatures that were coming around him with a knife, and ran towards the exit of the hall.

Ava also immediately floated back to Mu You, landed on top of his head, and pointed out the route to the cave for him.

At this time, there is not much time left to open Chuangjie Mountain.

Mu You pushed Chi Xiao to the limit, turning it into a red lightning that traveled through the twists and turns of Chuangjie Mountain.

At full speed, it only took Muyou ten seconds to rush into the cave.

In front, the figure of the little boy was clearly visible. At this moment, the boy had climbed into the groove of the altar and was taking out something from his body.

Mu You rushed in directly, wanting to stop the other party's actions. No matter what this person wanted to do, it was always right to stop him first.

However, as soon as he entered the cave, an extremely powerful repulsive force acted on him, making it difficult for him to move even for a moment.

Mu You frowned, subconsciously took out the Death Hell Knife and slashed it out.

As a result, the sword energy that was cut out actually seemed to encounter repulsive force, as if it was slowing down, it flew towards the center of the altar at an extremely slow speed, and the closer it got to the center, the slower it became.

There seems to be a speed force field in this cave, which locks the upper limit of speed. Whether it is material or various energy attacks, if you want to get close, you can only crawl over slowly.

"You're here! Haha, it's a pity it's too late..."

When the boy saw Mu You, he didn't panic. Instead, he showed a confident smile.

As he spoke, a small hourglass appeared in the boy's hand and pressed it on the center of the altar.

The moment the hourglass hit the ground, it seemed to have suffered some kind of impact, and it shattered with a pop, and dense cracks appeared on the surface.

The moment the hourglass flashed past, Mu You vaguely saw the name and grade of this thing.

Ending anchor point, 10 stars!

This is an artifact, an artifact of the God of Time.

"What do you want to do?" Mu You didn't expect that the other party would detonate a divine weapon at this time.

Moreover, Mu You has actually seen something similar to this prop called 'anchor point'.

In the previous battle in the City of Order, the scroll activated by Zhan Shen was a 'space anchor' scroll. Its function was to instantly summon an army countless miles away after being torn open.

"You will know right away... No, you should have no chance to know. History will be rewritten. It is not certain whether you will be born this time! Haha..." (End of Chapter)