"I saw."
After discovering the aura, Jenkins said to the short lady beside him, and then followed the goblin's prompt, stretched out his hand and made a weird and complicated gesture. While doing this, he slowly activated his soul emblem. When the gesture and the emblem overlapped, the snow-covered rock wall that his finger was pointing at, flashed a dazzling white light.
Then the rock formation seemed to be melted and faded, revealing a hole big enough for a man of Jenkins' height to stand up straight and walk, and there was a faint light in the hole.
"It's here, it's really smooth."
Jenkins said with a smile, and then walked in first. Alexia looked at the surrounding environment with some doubts, and then followed.
I thought the entrance of the cave was spacious enough, but I didn't expect that the more you go inward, the more open the space will be. The light in the cave is all emitted by the ore scattered on the walls and feet. Neither Jenkins nor Alexia know this kind of stone that can emit light by itself, but it seems to be pure natural without artificial treatment only by naked eyes. of stone.
The passage was not long, but when Alexia threw a metal charm, the white light that lit up allowed them to see the murals on the rock walls on both sides of the passage.
The text may be lost, but as long as the eyes and senses of intelligent creatures do not degenerate, the information conveyed by the screen is common.
Extending from the entrance to the distance, what is depicted on the mural seems to be a coherent story. It's just that the pictures and colors are mostly mottled due to the long time. They can barely recognize that the ancients living in this area put a huge thing and a large number of treasures into the depths of the cave.
"This pattern is a warning, and it is still used now, but it is only a part of the aristocratic coat of arms of the Hampawo Kingdom, which represents the family's 'powerful force' in the coat of arms."
Alexia pointed to the mural and introduced.
"So it's very likely that there will be problems here? It's better to be on the safe side. In case some ancient monsters are released, I think it will be very troublesome."
Jenkins said this, and the short lady also agreed with this view, so the two stayed inside the passage for two hours to ensure that it could enter here, but no one except the two could get out, and then moved on.
After walking for less than ten minutes, you can see the light representing the exit. And when the two stood at the exit of the passage, they were both shocked by the scenery they saw.
In the center of a white snowfield, a standard silver-white metal cube with one corner facing down slowly spins around the lead vertical line at this corner, and the silvery light fills the entire snowfield.
Although the area of this snow field is not large, it should definitely not appear at the end of the passage. When observing from the sky just now, Jenkins was sure that there were definitely rolling low mountains nearby, and he would not miss such conspicuous plains.
"It's a space anomaly."
Alexia, who was standing beside him, explained, and Jenkins caught on. Although the spatial stability of the material world is extremely strong, under certain special circumstances, such as the destruction of powerful space-type numbered items, it is possible to create some strange spatial phenomena.
This was well documented, but Jenkins still couldn't imagine anything that could create such a large expanse of strange space.
"what is that?"
He looked at the huge silver metal cube in the middle of the snowfield. Its surface had a very strong metallic texture, like the luster of liquid mercury. The flat, mirror-like surface and sharp-edged shape are beyond the reach of the technology of this era.
"This... I really want to really know what this is."
Jenkins asked casually, but Alexia actually answered. He looked at the short lady in surprise, who was full of doubts:
"I'm pretty sure this is the thing I know, but it's a bit too coincidental. We were talking about it a few days ago, but now it appears in front of us in its entirety, which is really doubtful... I The only clues I found about the difference engine you mentioned are the records in the "Hokuriku Poems."
In the material world of the 15th era, there were many large continents, among which the current Loen was almost on the extreme northern continent at that time, and it was called the North Land; I also know that this is a forbidden book written by a bard who went crazy in the 15th century. It records the crazy imagination he saw after witnessing an unknown existence. It is a well-known contemporary taboo.
"A wealthy businessman came to Hokuriku with a magical machine. People were amazed at the machine's ability to 'predict' and 'divinate' almost everything. They trusted it, respected it, worshiped it, and finally the machine The city dominated by Guidance fell into eternal perdition. The fragments of the "Hokuriku Poems" I saw in the ruins three years ago recorded the appearance of that machine... "
Saying that, Alexia raised her finger forward:
"That's it. The machine I got from the ruins may still be in the Northland, so I wanted to find clues in the tower, so I came to Loen; and, I think in the mural we saw just now, the machine that was The huge object that the ancestors sealed up in the cave should also be this."
As Alexia lifted her finger, water ripples flickered on the surface of the silver cube. The spin speed of the cube began to slow down, and as the water marks appeared more and more frequently, six faces with their own characteristics gradually emerged from the bottom of the surface to the surface.
The six protruding faces look at Jenkins and Alexia in sequence with the extremely slow spin speed. The unified feature of their faces is extremely sharp edges and corners, and the huge eyes gradually take on the color of human form from apathy.
It should be afternoon, but the sky is getting dark quickly. Overcast clouds covered the sky, and with the appearance of whispers and human voices, old buildings of all sizes rose from the ground in the snow field, and in a few seconds, standing in front of Jenkins and Alexia, it became a small city. Only when you look up, you can see the silver cube with six raised human faces floating in the center of the city.
Those whispers were not caused by the confusion from the bottom of my heart when the monster appeared, but that there were really countless people talking. Old cities are waking up, and people living in them take to the streets, living and working as they did thousands of years ago.
Jenkins glanced behind him. The cave exit had disappeared, and behind them was the path leading to the countryside.