Sarin, somewhere underground.
The ninth house.
In the long corridor made of all metal, a male wizard wearing dark black robes was patrolling.
It can be seen that every few dozen meters in the corridor, there is a thick gray metal door. The door is more than one meter above the ground and is inlaid with a piece of high-strength transparent glass the size of a palm.
Through the glass, you can see that there are thick steel shelves inside the door, with many cannonball-shaped creations arranged on them. The creation is nearly a person tall, and the cold-colored shell is painted with a yellow and black pattern. The pattern looks like a gear, but the number of teeth of the gear is only three.
Under the pattern, there is a line of small words engraved - Blanco Lesoure.
This is not someone's name, but an ancient language. Translated into the common language of mainland China, it is... Black Sun, to put it simply, it is "Black Sun".
Black Sun weapons are the collective name for creation. The place where these Black Sun weapons are stored is the Black Sun Arms Depot. The people who manufacture, maintain, improve, test, and manage are called Black Sun members, and all of these are affiliated with the Ninth Institute.
The ninth one is also called Black Sun Castle, and of course only a very few people in Sarin know about it.
Black Sun member John Femi walked through the metal doors at a steady pace, occasionally stopping to carefully examine the items on the shelves inside the doors.
Inside the door, there are not only "little gadgets" that are nearly a person tall and shaped like cannonballs, but also "big guys" with a diameter of one meter and three or four meters long, and even giant creations with a diameter of two meters and nearly ten meters long.
These are small black sun weapons, large black sun weapons and super large black sun weapons. In the official files, they are called tactical level, strategic level and destructive level respectively. If further subdivided, there are first and second generation tactical level. , third generation, fourth generation Black Sun weapons, etc.
Fermi squinted at these cold and dangerous creations inside the door. He knew very well how terrifyingly powerful these things would be once activated and detonated. Even a small part of them would be enough to destroy the entire Ninth Institute... no, the entire sand. Lin was blown away.
Regular inspections and regular maintenance of these creations are really a test of his mental strength, but fortunately, there is no need for close contact during inspections.
In fact, even if you want to contact him, you can't. The doors of the arsenal are specially made and have multiple protections. Even a fourth-level wizard cannot forcefully open them in a short time. If you want to open it according to the process, you need at least three senior Black Sun members to hold special keys and pass two password verifications.
There is no need to worry about spies sneaking in.
Femi couldn't help but think, and suddenly sensed something. He stopped patrolling, reached out and took out a communication crystal ball from his pocket, and saw three purple rays of light flashing on it.
Upon seeing this message, Femi was stunned for a moment, then his expression condensed, and he quickly turned around and hurried towards the end of the corridor.
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A few minutes later.
Fermi appeared in a conference room in the Ninth Institute.
There was a conference table more than ten meters long in the conference room, with dozens of middle-level and above Black Sun members sitting around it, almost all gathered.
The senior Black Sun member sitting at one end of the conference table - Arthur Osheimer, who was in his fifties and wearing the same black robe, glanced at the audience with his sky blue eyes, and said in a cold voice: "How can everyone rush so quickly?" Come on, I must have received the message. Yes, after waiting for so long, the 'Star Spirit Mirror' over at the 361st Institute is finally close to completion. Next, we can smoothly carry out the corresponding tasks assigned to us by Lord Richard. So, please prepare yourself."
All the Black Sun members nodded.
Osheimer turned around and looked at a corner of the conference room.
There was a high stool there, and sitting there was a girl with fair cheeks but a bored look on her face. Her two slender legs were dangling in the air.
As if aware of Osheimer's gaze, the girl stopped shaking her legs, glanced at him and yawned and asked, "Well, what's the matter?"
"Miss Bibi, we need to open the arsenal next." Osheimer said expressionlessly, "I, Mr. Robert Albert, and Mr. Hancock von Neumann can provide three weapons to open the arsenal. For the key, Mr. Rudolf Bohr will provide the first verification password. As for the second and final verification password, you need to provide it. In addition, according to regulations, the process of opening the arsenal also needs to be supervised by you. After all, This is your job."
"Is that so?" Bibi frowned, "Do you still need me to provide the final verification password? But... I forgot it, what should I do?"
Osheimer's eyes flashed: "Miss Bibi, are you kidding me?"
"No, no, I really forgot." Bibi explained, "I instilled some new knowledge two days ago, and it seems to have been affected, causing the memory password to be lost."
Osheimer's expression suddenly became serious: "If this is really the case, then the matter is very serious, and we need to ask Miss Pandora for instructions immediately."
As he spoke, Osheimer walked out without any hesitation.
Bibi quickly stopped: "Hey, no, wait!"
"Um?"
"I'm just teasing you." Bibi shook her head and sighed, "Why can't you cooperate?"
"Sorry, this is not my responsibility." Osheimer said coldly, "But since Miss Bibi is joking, it means you can give the final verification password, right? Please follow me to open the weapons library. Bar."
"Okay." Bibi exhaled.
Osheimer walked outside again, taking Bibi and the people he named before.
Before walking to the door, he glanced at the people left in the conference hall, and Osheimer said: "The rest of the people are going to start the first test in two hours."
"Yes." Everyone responded.
…
More than five hours later, the darkest hour before dawn.
Somewhere in the sand forest, in the deserted wilderness, a roar suddenly came from deep in the earth.
"Rumble..."
The sound became louder and louder, and with a "click", the ground more than ten meters in radius bulged and cracked.
Then there was a "pop" sound, and the fire flashed in the dark night. A thick metal cover with a diameter of more than two meters in the soil was violently blown away by the preset high explosive, revealing a black hole below. well.
A louder roar came from the depths of the circular well, as if something was rising, the air was squeezed out of the well mouth, and a cloud of dust was raised around it.
The previously blown metal cover spun and flew a hundred meters away and fell, making a dull sound. Almost at the same moment, a dazzling light rushed out of the circular well, pierced into the sky, and quickly disappeared.
"Boom!"
Not long after the light disappeared, people in black robes appeared around the circular well. They retrieved and repaired the blown metal cover with extremely high efficiency, and restored the bulging ground. Within a few minutes, everything was restored to its previous appearance. , and then left quietly, as if nothing had happened.
Another ten minutes passed after that.
Far away from the sand forest, deep in the northern wilderness, there is a small island in the center of a saltwater lake. There is a dense collection of buildings built on it, including thatched houses, wooden buildings, stone buildings, and bunkers.
Apart from the fact that there is no one or any life living in this building, it is somewhat peaceful under the cover of night.
But a second later, a sudden burst of light fell from the sky, exploded, and rose with a mushroom cloud, releasing terrifying power.
"boom!"
Everything on the entire island was instantly leveled, and even the entire island was blown to pieces. A large amount of water in the saltwater lake was lifted up and evaporated, producing large streams of white steam, and large traces of salt appeared on the shore.
"It seems that the first test was successful..." Almost at the same time, a cold voice sounded in a room in the ninth house.
…
"It worked..." Not long after, the same voice came from a moving carriage.
Richard held a crystal ball, squinted and opened the curtain of the carriage, and looked outside. In the light that gradually appeared on the horizon, he could see the outline of a majestic city clear in front of the road - that was Xiaya.
According to his original promise, after taking care of the matters at hand, he came here alone when the one-month deadline was approaching.
If there are no accidents, after entering the city and meeting the Alliance Emperor, Shalin can gain at least three more years of development time, allowing him to successfully figure out the secret of Gao Ling, allowing him to truly unlock part of the truth about the current world.
And if something unexpected happens...
Richard shook his head lightly... There would be no surprises, at best there would be twists and turns, and the bigger the twists and turns, the longer Salin will win... until eternal peace...
"Gululonglong..."
The hired groom drove the carriage forward quickly and approached the city gate that Xia slowly opened in the early morning.
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