Chapter 103 No Man’s Land

The Children of the Night and the others ran over in surprise and looked at the city gate that had changed beyond recognition. They did not expect that I would blow down the city gate in such a violent way.

Jibeiyar asked curiously: "Did that big bug of yours just shoot a magic beam? The power is so terrifying!"

I shook my head: "That is not a magic beam but a pure high-temperature beam, which is basically equivalent to a laser. This city has a magic protection system. You have also seen that the high-level dark magic released by Ling has been blocked. The defense of this thing The ability can be imagined. But when the tank fired the beam just now, did you see the protective cover activated? "

"Yes, why didn't the protective shield activate just now?"

"It's very simple, because the protective shield does not react to light. The transmitter on the back of the tank can use three different attack methods. The first one is what you just saw, which is basically a laser. This one The power of the beam is relatively small, but its destructive power is concentrated."

Rikard looked at the city gate in surprise: "Isn't this powerful?"

"I mean this is small in comparison. The other two are more powerful than this."

Santa Mafianna started giving me trouble again. "But how do we get in now? The city gate has turned into a lava pit, and it will take at least ten hours to completely cool down."

I stretched out my right hand, and a white light spot flew out from the ice crystal on my right arm. After the light point came out, it quickly transformed into a beautiful frost star. Although it looked like a small white star, everyone could feel the biting cold air. After the Snow Queen was upgraded, the number shrank to the current Frost Star, but there was a qualitative leap in quality.

"Master." Frost Star can still speak even though she has not turned into a beauty form.

I pointed to the city gate. "Help cool it down. Be careful not to freeze it. As long as it drops below 40 degrees, it will be fine."

"Yes Master."

The white frost star just flew into the city gate hole, circled around and then flew back. The melted rocks and iron gates solidified, and the temperature was not hot but a little cool. After I finished, the frost star flew back into the ice crystals on my hand.

"Okay. Let's go in and have a look."

St. Mafianna was the first to go inside, but she screamed again. "Are you really Cong Ming? How are you going to get through this?"

When I saw it, it turned out that the city gate had turned into an iron fence. The tank's laser was so concentrated that it only burned a big hole in the iron door. The half-melted molten iron on the upper part of the iron door began to drip downward after being burned through the middle. It looked a bit like melted ice cream in summer. But the frost star cooled too suddenly just now, and the falling metal solution was solidified in mid-air, resulting in falling metal rods that looked like fences.

Rikard, the berserker who likes recklessness like me, helped me out and said: "This iron rod is nothing. It will break with a little effort. Saint Mafiana, please don't keep causing trouble for Ziri."

I didn't say anything, I just walked over and drew a circle along the edge of the hole on the iron door with my eternity, and the solidified metal rods fell off one after another as if they were glued together. "This little trouble is nothing."

Jibeiyar interrupted: "Let's go in and take a look."

I didn’t want to argue with Santa Marfianna, so I followed Jibeiyar in.

This city is different from other cities. Normally, there should be an avenue behind the city gate, and this road should lead all the way to the central area of ​​the city. Behind the city gate of Essinger is a main road laid along the central axis of Essinger. This is also the case in other system cities, but this city is not like this. Behind the first city wall is a 150-meter-wide area, followed closely by the second city wall. This 150-meter-wide area between the two city walls is dotted with a large number of two-story stone buildings. The specifications of these small buildings are all exactly the same. All the houses are square and square, and each family is arranged neatly.

There is no corresponding gate in the second corresponding position behind the gate of the first city wall. We looked along the wall to both sides, and the results showed that there is no gate in this direction, which means that there is no way to enter the city from this direction. city. The beam fired by the tank just passed through the city gate and burned several houses here. There are still fires in some places, but because all the houses are separated one by one, there is no situation where the fire affects the neighbors.

There are 4 rows of houses distributed in parallel in this 150-meter-wide area, with a 7-meter-wide gap between the houses on both sides and the city wall. Neat houses separated by straight roads. However, because the house occupies a relatively large space, the roads are not very wide.

The houses here are all made of rocks, and there are caulking materials between the rocks. It is obvious that the construction technology is not low. It is rare to see such a level of construction in South and Central America. Although the ground under our feet is still dirt, it is different from the soft dirt outside. The ground here is obviously rammed earth, which is quite solid when stepped on.

The house directly opposite the city gate had collapsed, so we had to enter the house next to it to check. The houses here have no doors. There was only a rag curtain on the door frame. I tried to open the curtain with my hand, but the curtain suddenly fell apart like sand. Good guy, is this curtain a thousand-year-old antique?

The furnishings in the room are very simple. A few chairs are placed by the door, and opposite there is a long piece of wooden furniture that looks like a counter. There is a row of wooden shelves placed against the wall. I don't know what they are used for. They feel a bit like the shelves in a small store. There is a staircase on the side of the counter. Judging by the width, I guess the second floor is a family room. Otherwise the stairs wouldn't be so narrow.

Santa Marfiana walked towards the stairs without saying a word. After seeing this, I deliberately turned my back to her. Sure enough, as soon as I turned around, I heard an ouch. You think. The door curtains were all turned into sand. The things here must be old antique items. No matter how good the original quality was, the wooden stairs were no better than this stone house. As long as this kind of stone house is built sturdily and is not exposed to strong winds and earthquakes, it can generally support it for a thousand or eight hundred years without any problem. However, the stairs are made of wood, and they cannot withstand such a long time. Santa Marfiana rushed to the second floor recklessly, clearly looking for someone to fall.

I walked out of the room without paying attention to Santa Marfiana and the others. The Son of the Night also came out with me. "Ziri, do you see it?"

Son of the Night has very good eyesight, and his ability to communicate with equipment is actually due to his strong observation skills. He figured out the problem here as soon as he saw it.

I nodded to show that I understood. "The houses and city walls here are products of two completely different technologies. As for the defense systems, it seems that they were added later, and they are obviously much more technologically advanced than the people who built the houses."

Ye Zhizi nodded: "The construction technology of these houses is obviously not the builder's own. The design of the construction is quite advanced, but it can be seen that the builder's skills are not good enough and the work is a bit nondescript. The city wall is obviously more technical than the house, but it is still It belongs to a backward technical level. However, the technical level of those automatic defense systems has really reached a level even more advanced than ours at Essinger."

"Then why do you think this is happening here?"

Ye Zhizi shook his head: "I can't understand."

I turned to look at Ling and Yeyue standing next to me. "Where are you two?"

Yeyue shook her head, she couldn't understand this thing. After all, Ling has obtained a real body, and with some modern basic knowledge, she is much smarter than these familiars who have never been in the game. "I think it could be one of two things."

Ye Zhizi didn't expect Ling to have any ideas, and immediately asked: "What's the reason?"

"First, the builders of the city regarded this place as a temporary base, so they simply used local materials and stones to build city walls and added those defense facilities. As for these small houses, I think they were moved in later. Second, it is possible that the people living in these small houses were informed by other people with advanced magic knowledge. These people with powerful magic knowledge asked these low-level backward people to help them build cities, and they themselves were only responsible for building those cities. It’s just defensive equipment that lower-level races cannot build, so the technical level between the two is so different.”

I asked Ling: "Which one do you think is more likely?"

"the second."

"Why?" The Son of Night asked.

Ling explained: "The defense equipment on the periphery of the city can still work when we arrive, which means that it is difficult to get close. If we go by the first possibility, it is difficult to understand how these people can get in. In addition, you Don’t you think this is a buffer zone? If these people came later, why don’t they just live in the inner city of the city? This doesn’t seem to be a suitable place to live, right?”

The Son of the Night sighed: "Ziri, your magic pet is getting smarter and smarter. If the system continues to be upgraded like this, we players may just let NPCs take the lead. The AI ​​​​is even higher than that of humans!"

I smiled without explaining. Turning to Scott, he said: "Ask the Tyrannosaurus Knight to detour to both sides of the city wall in two ways, search this gap carefully, and report back after finding the gate of the second city wall. By the way, do your own search to see if there are any living creatures here? It's so big. A city shouldn’t be empty.”