Accompanied by a flash of arcane sparks, Kamel turned around and quietly watched the nearly thousand seats in the hall, as well as the nine hundred and seventy-two former colleagues who had fallen into a long sleep.
"It's been a thousand years... A thousand years ago, I was one of the chief researchers of the imperial magister group. A secret order issued by His Majesty the Emperor himself transferred me from the imperial capital to this fortress on the northern border. The first time I saw When it got to it, I was as surprised as you are now.
"The empire secretly built this facility, and this plan has already begun as early as 1,200 years ago. Yes, as you just said, we are in order to resist the evil tide. The royal family realized it a long time ago. The evil tide is approaching, and they have been looking for a solution. This is a huge and secret plan. The royal family and the entire magister group are involved, but very few people really know the whole picture of the plan, even as the chief of the royal magister group. Researcher, I can only know the link I am responsible for in this plan.
"My task is to analyze the power of the gods and find a way to combine the genetic factors of the gods with human cells...
"Please don't interrupt me, I know these things sound unimaginable to you, but it did happen a thousand years ago.
"When I came to this fortress, this plan had been in operation for two hundred years, and we found the exact location of the 'White Star Falling'. It is not in the present world, but needs to pass through the Shadow Realm and reach the edge of the Shadow Realm , so we built a space gate at the bottom of the 'rebellious' fortress, this space gate broke through the barriers between several 'boundary layers' with the power of the gods, and the exploration team brought back the god of nature from there Blood sample..."
As Kamel spoke, he raised his arm condensed with arcane energy and pointed at the wall. With a tiny spark jumping, a hidden isolation door suddenly appeared on the originally seamless wall. The isolation door With the creaking sound of the mechanical operation slowly opening, Kamel slowly floated towards the door: "Please follow me, I hope you will remain calm no matter what you see."
Gawain and Hetty looked at each other, and led the people to follow Kamel's pace.
"We have paid a huge price. It is enough for mortals to directly touch the flesh and blood of the gods, or even look directly at the flesh and blood, not to mention extracting energy and genetic factors from it, but we found some god corpses in the Shadow Realm' The stuff that 'mixed' together, that helped us find a way to resist the powers of the gods . . . though only partially."
Following behind Kamel, Gawain saw the hidden rooms and the secrets that still remained in the rooms.
In a laboratory, he saw large pieces of metal and crystal wreckage bound and sealed by a complex magic circle. Those wreckages seemed to be peeled off from some kind of larger man-made object, even after experiencing I don't know how many years have passed, but they still maintain a brand new texture.
"Their materials..." Gawain looked at the metal and crystal fragments with a serious expression, "Is it the same as the Eternal Slate?"
Kamel nodded: "That's right, exactly the same. These things are with the corpses of the gods, and it even seems that they caused the fall of the gods. However, we don't know the real connection between the Eternal Slate and these things."
Gao Wen's heart moved, he had vaguely guessed the truth, but he didn't say anything.
And Kamel passed through this room and continued to float forward: "I don't know the whole picture of the whole plan, but I know that the power of the gods is the only thing that can resist the tide of magic, and the only thing that allows humans to survive the tide of magic The only way is to change our life forms. After decades of research, the pioneers have found a way to extract energy from the flesh and blood of the gods, and the team I lead is going one step further on this basis: injecting the genetic factors of the gods Human cells, thereby changing the essence of human beings in the basic biological structure.
"Through this method, human beings may carry those 'powers of the gods', even if it is only a weak trace of power, it can also bring hope of resisting the tide of magic. In the 'outside' laboratory, I cultivated the first phase The experimental subject, I named it 'God'... "
"I see..." Gawain muttered in a low voice.
Kamel didn't hear clearly: "What?"
"No, it's not important," Gawain looked at the ancient mana spirit, "and then? The abomination succeeded?"
"In the end, we succeeded. We created a stable genetic factor, which can be safely combined with human cells and passed on from generation to generation. Humans carrying genetic factors will not die like the first issue of 'God' Instead of malignant mutations, beneficial rapid mutations can occur when the evil tide comes, mutate before the body dies, and adapt to the new environment in the evil tide... Theoretically so."
Kamel led Gao Wen and his party to the next room, where they saw neatly arranged culture containers, those culture containers were well preserved, and human samples of different periods were soaked in the translucent biomass solution The initial samples were huge corpses with swollen bodies and distorted crystals spreading out from the body surface, but the condition of these samples became more and more stable as time passed, and in the final container, it was almost a healthy human being.
"You say it's theoretically so?" Gawain looked at Kamel floating in front of him, and had a faint guess in his heart, "You didn't test it?"
"I can't test it," Kamel stopped, "All the information about the magic tide can only be simulated. We use the Deep Blue Well to simulate, but what the real magic tide is like... Probably only the gods know, but we It is disobedience to the gods."
After saying this, the ancient mana spirit led the crowd to continue walking forward. Gawain noticed that they were heading towards a higher level: there is still a third level in this facility.
"After the final abomination is completed, the mission of this facility is over, the personnel are evacuated, and the materials and samples are sent back to the imperial capital, but not everyone has been evacuated," Kamel's voice echoed in the empty corridor He said, empty as if undead, "We are not sure whether the gods can really fight against the tide of evil, and we are not sure whether there will be new disasters to destroy human beings, so a group of people were selected as 'seeds', the seeds They are sealed in the deepest part of this facility, in a different space isolated from the real world, if the 'outside world' is really destroyed, then at least we have left the last ray of hope for mankind."
"It's what we saw in the hall..." Hetty muttered to herself, and then raised her voice, "Are you planning to rely on a few hundred people to rebuild human society?"
"No, there are more than a few hundred of us," Kamel seemed to smile, but all his expressions were mixed with the confused and hazy arcane sparks, and he stopped in front of a door at the end of the corridor, "This Behind the door is the stasis hall, which originally held 60,000 people."
"Sixty thousand?!" Hetty's eyes widened, but then she realized the key point in Kamel's words, "You said... Originally?"
"Yes, originally."
Kamel opened the door, and as the heavy and ancient isolation door slowly opened, the scene in the stagnant hall appeared before everyone's eyes.
Everyone was speechless in shock.
Behind the gate is a fragmented space. There is no stasis hall at all, and there are no 60,000 "seeds" to rebuild civilization. A kind of crazy darkness shrouds the outside, and huge space cracks and violent energy turbulence are raging in the distance. There are only rubble floating in the air, broken wreckage, and chaotic shadows, and a small piece of ground, a few sections of torn walls, and the dome are the only remaining traces of the stasis hall.
It was as if a wild storm had hit here, completely tearing and devouring the stasis hall.
This is a desperate scene, but Kamel has calmly accepted this fact many years ago. He just quietly closed the floodgate, led everyone to another direction, and slowly told the story of what happened that year. Come out: "We made a fatal mistake... Even if we hide here, we can't escape the demon tide.
"The magic tide attacked the refuge, and caused a chain reaction of space collapse. Except for a small part of the facilities, everything was destroyed by the energy tide and space storm. Sixty thousand people disappeared without a sound. They survived. The only ones left are the 'Watchers' at the center of the facility.
"The watchmen are the watchmen who voluntarily stayed behind. We sleep in a small stasis hall, and we wake up every twenty years to check the situation in the stasis hall and receive the latest news from the communication hall. News We fell asleep again and again, and woke up again and again, watching 60,000 people lying unconscious in the stasis hall, while the communication hall contained news that all the empire was safe.
"You can't imagine what it's like... In the first hundred years of the closure of the facility, the last person we knew in the outside world passed away. In the hundred and sixtieth year, the magic tide has not yet occurred, and the empire is still Changsheng, we even began to doubt the necessity and significance of this plan, maybe the magic wave will never come, we more than 900 volunteers and 60,000 'seeds' are just worried about a ridiculous doomsday prophecy, and I spent my whole life for this illusory doomsday panic, but we still faithfully carried out the order and fulfilled the oath we made back then. In the 240th year when the facility was closed, some people couldn’t hold on anymore, and we broke out There was a small internal conflict, and someone was going to open the gate from the inside, but in the end Grand Magister Wigmar took control of the situation, and then... ”
Kamel was silent for a long time before his low voice sounded: "We were awakened by a piercing alarm, and in the chaos we received information that the fortress had been severely damaged. In the communication hall, we saw His Majesty the Emperor The last message that was sent, the necessity and significance of the plan that we are the last survivors has finally been confirmed, however everything is not going as we expected.
"The stasis hall was destroyed, two-thirds of the structure of the entire facility disappeared in the storm, and the magics leading to the real world were also closed due to the influence of the magic tide. Even if the magic door was not closed, we couldn't leave here. The world can no longer survive, and the only thing left for us to survive is this standing awl.
"We've been through chaos, we've been through despair, we've been through hysteria and even violence, but in the end, we decided to live."