The ball seems to have really been held back in this world for a long time. Considering the state it was in when it pretended to be a stone ball, even Gawain, who has been hanging in the sky for many years, can't help admiring it. Concentration is not the general solution of the Buddha's performance~щlā
And after holding back the life of pretending to be a stone for so long, at this moment, he can finally open the chatterbox, and the ball chatters almost endlessly. It keeps lamenting the joy of talking with people, and lamenting how boring people in this era and this world are.
"Hey, if it weren't for the facts here, who would believe that your civilization has regressed to this point? The gang of guards don't even know the concept of the atmosphere and geomagnetic field..."
"That druid named Pittman, he must be out of his mind. Let me tell you, I don't know how many times he has been here in the past two days, and each time he talked about one topic, that is to persuade me to admit that I am a dragon egg, and tell me Asking if the dragon has to hatch twice from the egg shell, my god, I’m so annoyed, I’ve really come out of the shell, okay? I’ll die if I break the egg again!”
"There is also that female human in the red dress, who gestured at me with all kinds of weird magic props all day long, and even discussed with me to scrape some debris from my body to study, hey, it's so frightening! Those magisters back then were just as abnormal..."
Gawain couldn't help but interrupted when he heard this: "Then what, the abnormal female human in the red dress you mentioned is my family member, my granddaughter."
"Hey, then you have to educate her well. You can't do research like this, so sooner or later you will have mental problems." The ball floated up and down, as if a little embarrassed, "But then again, those magisters from a thousand years ago understood Something, I was planning to communicate with them at the beginning, to study the way to go home, but who would have thought that the only thing those guys want is to study me, tsk tsk, if those people were as talkative as you back then. "
Gawain looked at the other party curiously: "How long have you been in this world? Or, how many years have you been in this world when you were caught by those magisters?"
"Oh, I was caught as soon as I got here," Ball said dejectedly, "and then I was locked in that laboratory for a long time, and I even learned your language .”
Gawain looked him up and down: "Have those magisters never discovered that you are actually an intelligent creature?"
"Hey, I'm cautious," Ball said triumphantly, "When I first landed in this world, I instinctively made myself a protective shell out of metal and rocks, and even put myself in a semi-hibernation state, with a little life reaction. Not at all. And because I didn't understand the language of this world at the beginning, and I didn't know what was going on here, so I kept pretending to be a rock and observing secretly.
"Later those magisters found me and took me to the laboratory. I wanted to run here at first, but they were really powerful. A little movement would make them alert, so I didn't dare to move at all. But I was lucky, those magisters found that some unexplainable phenomena always happened around me, they thought I was an ancient sealed item or something, and they didn't cut me open in the first place... "
Speaking of this, the voice of the ball suddenly felt a little scared: "But it's true, I remember that they finished the first stage of research and were really going to cut me up, but at that time an order came suddenly, requiring All personnel in the entire facility were transferred immediately, and they were not allowed to take away any test samples excavated from the local area. I saved my life. After sleeping for many years, you will know what happened next."
After the ball finished talking about what happened to him back then, Gao Wen immediately noticed its last few words: "You said that those researchers suddenly received an order not only to evacuate quickly, but also to keep all the samples excavated in the local area. In the facility?"
"That's right," Qiu replied casually, "They never found out that I was actually alive, so they didn't hide from me when they talked about anything. The order was also read directly in the laboratory, and I remember it very clearly. "
Gao Wen immediately frowned, rubbed his chin and began to think.
Yuanqiu asked curiously: "What's the matter? Is there a problem?"
"This kind of evacuation order is not issued under normal circumstances," Gao Wen explained, "The reason why the Gondor Empire withdrew the various pioneering teams was that the income was not proportional to the effort, and there was no urgent problem, but the evacuation order you heard was obviously An urgent order, and not to take away any test samples unearthed locally... why can't samples be taken?"
Qiu thought for a while: "Is it because the sample is contaminated? Or some facility used to study the sample is out of control and there is no time to rescue it?"
"The former is very likely, but the latter is unlikely," Gao Wen recalled the situation of the ruins in the mountain. "Although it was an emergency evacuation, I have observed the inside of the ruins, and they were evacuated in an orderly manner. Many large equipment were evacuated. Take it away, there is no problem of not having time to transfer the samples. What did they study in this mountain?"
"Then I don't know, I'm not doing research, I'm being studied," Qiu said helplessly, "However, a few times when they transferred the laboratory for me, I saw something. , The swollen corpses were pushed to the incineration room, I suspect that those corpses were made by experimenting with human beings, although they are not adult-looking, but it can be seen at a glance that they used to be human."
"Human experiment?" Gawain was taken aback. He really didn't expect such a secret to be buried in the Gondor research facility here. "Are there any other characteristics of those test subjects?"
"Let me think about it... Oh yes, apart from being taller than ordinary people and showing signs of deformation in their limbs, there are also many crystal-like things growing all over their bodies, as if they were crystals separated from biological tissues Same. What a researcher said..." Ball thought hard, and finally remembered the word, "Ah, it's called 'God'. But I don't know that the god they said refers to those test subjects The crystals grown on the body are still those test subjects themselves, your language is too troublesome."
"Abomination?" Gao Wen frowned, unable to bear repeating the word.
This is not a word that can be used casually!
The sin of gods is not allowed, violates the rules, betrays the will of the gods, is born of divine power, but should not be born at all. Some people think that it is the negative energy released by the gods at the moment when they lose their heart and fall into depravity. Some people think that it is the envoys sent by the gods to punish sinners, but no matter what kind of saying, this word is related to gods.
In the era of the Gondor Empire, the belief in the gods was as prosperous as it is today. It is impossible for those researchers to use words with special meanings like "abomination" to refer to their research products meaninglessly.
An emergency order a thousand years ago emptied the research facilities in the Dark Mountains, but this emergency order made them keep all the samples excavated in the local area and not take away what the ball saw" Human experiment", is there any connection with the "local sample" mentioned in the emergency order
The latter is the material of the former? energy? Or technical source
Of course, these are not what Gao Wen is most concerned about. What he is most concerned about is that the samples that the imperial researchers did not take away a thousand years ago are still left in the ruins in the Dark Mountains
A thousand years have passed, are those samples weathered? Is it decayed? Is it broken? There is still no change at all, and it is even subtly affecting this area!
"You seem a little nervous?" Although the metal ball is not human, it has learned how to analyze human emotions during the long-term observation of human beings. "What are you worried about? It was a research project a thousand years ago. People have died and facilities have been abandoned, so what impact will it have?"
"I'm worried about the samples they didn't take away," Gao Wen frowned, "Do you know where they put those samples?"
The ball shook left and right: "I don't even know. Although I was also classified as a 'local sample' back then, those magisters were obviously not stupid and would not confuse me with their real samples, so I have never had any contact with them." The real core of the facility. What, you want to find those things?"
Gao Wen curled his lips: "At least find it, so I can know what it is."
The scale of the ruins in the mountain is huge, even unbelievably large. Gao Wen has already led people in to explore once, but he suspects that the area he saw during that exploration may not even be one-fifth of the entire ruins. In other words, in the remaining four-fifths of the ruins area, anything can be hidden!
"If you want to explore, you'd better be cautious," the metal ball saw Gawain's thoughts, and kindly reminded, "Given the scale and danger of that facility, if the people organized by your camp want to It's almost impossible to explore it all."
"I know," Gawain nodded, "I will do what I can. Let's not talk about this, let's talk about you first."
The metal ball froze for a moment: "About me? What can I say?"
"Don't you know how eye-catching your painting style is in this world?" Gao Wen said dumbfounded, "There is no creature like you in this world. If you just ran out like this, how would you introduce yourself to others?"
Metal Ball: "Saint Nicholas Egg Boss."
Gao Wen: "..."
"Okay, I'm just kidding," Nicholas' egg slowly sank a little, almost touching the ground, "Most people in this era are stupid people, and there are really very few people who are smart and able to communicate like you, so tell me how to arrange it mine?"
"I am now explaining your identity to the outside world. I use the saying that it is a magical device that stores ancient souls, but this is only known to some soldiers. Most of the civilians in the camp have never seen you. If you think it's okay, You will be able to show up at the camp in this capacity from now on."
"Aha, it still sounds very touching!"
Obviously, Mr. Nicholas Egg was quite happy with Gao Wen's arrangement.