Corridors and rooms that had been silent for seven centuries were revived.
As it got closer to the core control area of the pedestal, the corridors inside the "ridge" became wider and wider, and more and more flickering runes and energy veins began to appear on the walls on both sides, with strong elves At the end of this wide corridor, all the internal passages of the "ridges" come together to form a six-pointed star-shaped radial hall, while a cylindrical The "chamber" is located in the center of the hall, surrounded by countless pipes, metal beams and runic pillars.
This is the control center of the Sentinel Tower. In Gao Wen's view, the place where the demon's mind is placed is the central computer room where the artificial intelligence is located.
The entrance to the computer room was tightly closed, and two beams of light slanting down from high altitude illuminated a small open space in front of the entrance. Amber raised her head, looked up along the outer wall of this cylindrical room, and saw its top floating There is a hazy light and shadow, and huge cloth curtains hang down from the light and shadow. Those cloth curtains depict the emblems of the Silver Empire and the human kingdoms, some of which have been severely decayed under the erosion of the years. Only tattered strips of cloth hang quietly in the sky, like... a shroud.
Amber blinked her eyes, and for a moment, she felt that she saw some dark shadows from those curtains, wriggling and rolling, growing and rolling like mud in those dark corners, and faintly Joyo's figure emerges from the shadows, spying on the uninvited guest who suddenly broke into here.
However, in the next second, these things disappeared like hallucinations.
"What's wrong?" Gawain's voice woke Amber up from her stupor, "What are you staring at?"
"No... I must have misread it," Huber blinked and rubbed her eyes, "By the way, what's on it? It seems to be floating with a layer of cloud."
"That's the magic power cloud top, and the top of the cloud top is the outer space. The ceiling of the base is actually open, and the magic power focuser extracts powerful energy from the leylines and the magic power focus to create a powerful magic power cloud top in the open area of the base. On the one hand, it supplies the 'stone tablet', and on the other hand, it maintains the protection system of the entire base," Banner, the elven magister, explained, "Once the cloud top is extinguished, the Sentinel Tower is also finished, so it has never stopped for seven centuries."
Amber let out a half-comprehension sound, and Banner came to the entrance of the cylindrical room, and injected magic power into the elven relief on the entrance again.
Fortunately, this time the gate wasn't jammed and he didn't have to pull out his elbow wrench.
The room where the demon's mind was placed opened, and the Iron Ranger soldiers led by Solderin guarded the entrance of the room, while Gawain stepped forward and walked into it with Amber.
A majestic blue floating light filled the cylindrical room. As soon as Amber entered the door, she couldn't help exclaiming softly. She saw that the entire floor of this room was made of the purest and flawless obsidian. The surface is engraved with extremely fine and complex rune patterns. Those runes exude a light blue shimmer, and complement each other with the blue crystals inlaid on the walls of the room. The black cube is floating quietly in the anti-gravity field.
There are straight blue lines on the surface of the black cube, and the overall material seems to be some kind of metal. Faint runes float on every plane separated by blue lines, which looks mysterious and mysterious.
It seemed that someone was approaching, and there was a pleasant sound in the cube, and then it turned, and the blue lines divided it into countless large and small squares. The method was reorganized, and a slightly dull synthesized voice sounded in the room: "Sensed that the organism is approaching... Identifying... Builder authority, authorized visitor, commander... Error, the commander's authority is illogical, re-authentication, command Officer... Error, the authority of the commander is not logical, re-authentication... "
The voice from the cube became more and more confused, and Gao Wen finally couldn't help coughing softly: "Ahem, I'm resurrected."
"...Voice certification, passed, magweave characteristics of organisms, passed, human, resurrected individual, incomprehensible, unbelievable... Ignore the error, correct the database, reload the commander authority. Gawain Cecil, human, leader, very Nice to see you again, Sentinel salutes you for living so long."
The sound of the cube became smoother, and it continued to reorganize itself as quickly as a Rubik's cube, while continuing to say: "The system has been running for 7:13:12, and this is the first time that a visitor has interacted with it during operation. What happened? ?”
Banner waved his hand in front of the cube, and after releasing a special control spell, he said, "Sentry, keep running, let's check the system."
"Sentinel understands, keep running."
There was a low humming sound inside the cube, and then its constantly changing blocks quickly returned to their original positions. The whole cube became complete and tidy again, and continued to float peacefully in the anti-gravity field, while Banner came Going to a certain silver-white alloy pillar not far from the cube, activated the ancient magic formation, and began to check the operation of this "demon mind".
Amber's eyes widened, and then she exclaimed: "Wow, is this the 'Tower Spirit' of the Sentinel Tower?!"
"The tower spirit is the name of the artificial mind of the mage tower built by humans, and the name of the elves is 'demon mind'. The two names are different, and the technology is not common," Sonia explained, and then looked at it with some curiosity. Amber was at a loss, "Little girl, didn't your father tell you about the kingdom of elves?"
She judged from the shape of Amber's ears that the father of this mixed-race girl should be an elf.
"I don't even know who my biological parents are," Amber said frankly, shaking her head, "I was adopted by two humans..."
"Ah, I'm sorry," Sonia was a little embarrassed, and she couldn't help but look softly at Amber, "So you were raised by humans, no wonder you know so little about elves... Are your adoptive parents still there? ?”
Amber's pointed ears twitched slightly: "My adoptive father is gone, but the other adoptive father is still there... Well, yes, the two humans who adopted me are both men."
Sonia was taken aback, her expression was a little dull: "So the atmosphere of human beings has been so open in the past seven hundred years..."
Gao Wen was still listening to the fun at the side, but he couldn't hold back immediately: "Ahem, I think you may have misunderstood, the one who adopted Amber is..."
However, Sonia seemed to be unable to listen to Gawain's follow-up words. This elf mother, who still looked very young, had already fallen into deep anxiety, and she muttered by herself: "This is not possible... In the environment... Maybe it's because of this that he can't find a girl he likes... "
Gao Wen & Amber: "..."
It seems that the elf mother had a serious misunderstanding about Amber's two adoptive fathers, but before Gawain could continue to explain, Banner who was not far away suddenly broke the silence: "High-ranking messenger, Duke Cecil , and no fault record can be found here."
The elf magister raised his head while talking, and only then noticed the awkwardness of the atmosphere: "Ah, what are you talking about?"
Everyone's attention immediately returned to the business, and Gao Wen quickly waved his hand: "No, it's nothing. You said there is no fault record here?"
"Yes, the log shows that the Sentinel Tower has been operating normally," Banner turned sideways, and behind him, a large number of illusion projections were emerging around the silver-white alloy pillar, and the elven text floating on the projections showed this According to the operation records of the Sentinel Tower in the past two or three years, "the alarm information of the first overload was not found, only the last overload was found."
Sonia couldn't help frowning, she looked at the metal cube in the center of the room: "Sentry, ask."
The cube quickly responded: "The sentry is on standby."
"Was the tower overloaded between two and four years ago?"
"Retrieval... No results. The tower has not been overloaded during this time period."
"Everything was fine during this time? No glitches?"
"Everything in this tower was normal during this period of time, and there was no failure."
The atmosphere at the scene became serious and silent, and several people subconsciously exchanged a look.
There is something wrong with this AI's answer.
Sonia has already brought a clear conclusion that the first overload failure occurred was this Sentinel Tower located in the southeast of Anzu! ! It malfunctioned about three years ago before Gawain unmasked, and it was this malfunction that caused the old Cecil Territory to be destroyed by the wandering mutants.
However, the demon's mind, which has been running continuously for seven centuries without stopping, said...it didn't know about this malfunction at all!
This sentinel tower has not sent any fault reports back to the main control center of the Silver Empire!
Gawain frowned and looked at Banner, and asked in a low voice, "Is the devil's mind itself functioning normally?"
"Everything is normal. I have checked all its mental nodes, and there is no sign of tampering or self-reorganization," Banner said with a serious face. "Under such circumstances, the sentinel is absolutely impossible to rebel."
"Then the problem lies elsewhere." Gao Wen took a deep breath, "If even the Sentinel loses complete control over the tower, then we will be in serious trouble."
This is one of the reasons why Gawain insisted on checking the sentinel towers. There are really problems with these towers!
However, as the control core of the Sentinel Tower, the tower's demon mind has no record of any failures, which is precisely the most disturbing situation.
Failures occur in dead corners of the system.
"Is there anything that can block the sentinel's perception and control of the tower, or tamper with its recorded results without leaving any trace?" Gawain looked at the only expert on the scene, Magister Banner, "If the tower is overloaded If so, where will the alarm signal come from first?"
"In theory, it is impossible for any alarm signal to bypass the monitoring of the sentry," Banner said immediately, "it has the highest priority."
Afterwards, Sonia, Gao Wen, and Banner discussed and analyzed the operating mechanism of Sentinel, trying to find potential loopholes in this system, but Amber, who was standing next to him, could not understand these technical fields at all. The half-elf lady began to wander off.
Blinking, she looked around the room, filled with soft blue light and magical energy.
She seemed to be hallucinating again
In a certain corner of the room, near a rune focus filled with magical power, a black crack suddenly appeared in the air, and a shadow spread from the crack, growing and shaking in the air, and the amber blinked. Blinking his eyes, the shadow did not disappear immediately, but a hazy figure emerged from it.
It was a figure without facial features and body details, and his whole body seemed to be bound by some kind of loose cloth strips. He swayed twice between the black cracks, leaned out half of his body, and then waved to Amber.
Amber whispered in surprise: "Huh?"
The figure raised his hand, pointed directly above, pointed hard, and then gradually disappeared.
"What's wrong?" Gawain noticed Amber's distraction again, he found that the other party was staring at an empty corner, and immediately asked, "What are you looking at?"
"I seem to see someone... a shadow dweller?" Amber blinked, and after waking up, she found that the crack and the figure were no longer in front of her eyes. "It's strange, why is there a crack here... I can't even feel it..."
Then she shook her head and looked up curiously, "Hey, Auntie, is there anything on it?"
"Auntie..." Sonia's expression was dull for a moment, but she still looked up, "The roof. Outside is the magic cloud top..."
At this moment, Banner suddenly reacted: "Wait, it's not just the magic cloud top! It's the stone tablet!!"