A continuously spreading light blue halo rippling from around the detection door, accompanied by the voice broadcast of the artificial intelligence Omega, the barrier opened, and the gate leading to Tarrond stabilized in front of Noretta.
This white and elegant dragon flapped its wings, and glided beautifully through the navigation light ring in front of the gate. The barrier entrance shrank and closed behind her, isolating the howling cold air of the Arctic Ocean.
Noretta lowered her head, enjoying the comfortable temperature created by the weather controller. The verdant mountains and hills stretched out in her field of vision, and the low-altitude traffic network between cities intertwined on the ground. The familiar scenery in this hometown During the process, she took a deep breath, soaking her four biological lungs and two sets of mechanical lungs in the clean and warm air.
Tallond is like spring all the year round, at least in the last four thousand years, but earlier, this continent was also covered with ice and snow, or full of lava and sea dragons, this race trapped in a cage, Their long civilization is as boring as their long life. In the years counted by thousands of years, the Senate will reset the weather controller almost every ten thousand years to change the "appearance" of this continent. In the current cycle , the "theme" of Tarrond is spring.
This kind of change is one of the few allowed "nonsense" behaviors under the watchful eyes of the gods. It has no meaning, but the dragons are not tired of it.
Some meaningless thoughts flashed through her mind, and Noretta began to lower her altitude. She circled around the outer mountain barrier, and then flew straight to the headquarters of the Agondor Mithril Treasury, which is located among the mountains. .
Among the high mountains, the magnificent and magnificent Agondor is bathed in dim sunlight. This long day is about to reach its end, and the huge sun that has ruled the sky for nearly half a year is also gradually sinking into the horizon in the ups and downs day after day . The white dragon flies towards a gorgeous palace on the top of the mountain in the setting sun. The wall on one side of the palace has been automatically opened, and a wide landing platform extends out...
Noretta landed on the takeoff and landing platform smoothly, stretched her wings, which were a little tired from the long-distance flight, and then she heard a sharp cry from under her feet: "Hey, you stepped on my whole body!"
The white giant paused for a while, then slowly looked down at its feet, and saw a figure in a lavender dress trying to get out from under its huge dragon claws, and a few seconds later, she Only then slowly said in an unsurprised tone: "Melita, why are you standing on the platform?"
"I just landed here and I haven't had time to walk away!!" Melita finally got out, and immediately raised her head and shouted at her long-time friend, "Your eyes are fine, don't you see me?!"
Bai Long lowered his head: "... I didn't see it."
"...You are revenge, you are too vengeful," Melita complained loudly immediately, "Isn't it because I accidentally stepped on you last time, and you actually stepped back..."
Noretta didn't speak, but just quietly looked down at her friend who was complaining non-stop. After the other party finally calmed down a little, she said unhurriedly: "I saw a book in the human world, about Knights and dragons, some stories in it look familiar."
Melita, who was complaining loudly, suddenly fell silent, and it took a long time to raise her head in embarrassment: "Maybe... Maybe it's a story made up by the bards of human beings in the past two years?"
"It's a story from hundreds of years ago. It's a reprint." Noretta looked at the small figure at her feet without blinking, and her dragon claws moved nonchalantly. "And it seems to be very popular."
Melita muttered immediately: "Damn... Didn't it mean that human beings have a lot of forgetfulness..."
Noretta just lowered her head and looked at her friend again, then she shook her head: "Forget it, let's talk about it later. I met with that Gawain Cecil and brought back some things to ask for." Show the speaker, how is your mission going?"
"Gawain Cecil?" Melita was relieved to find that the other party no longer pursued the villain story of Dragon Quest, and then heard a familiar name, and raised her eyebrows subconsciously, " What a coincidence... In a sense, what I'm going to report this time has something to do with him.
"We found the legendary shield that the Cecil family lost a hundred years ago. It is the shield that Gawain Cecil once carried all the way out of the wasteland. Guess what that thing is made of?"
Seeing the obvious expression on Melita's face, Noretta just shook her head indifferently: "I don't think you will say it or not?"
Melita choked for a moment, but soon shrugged her shoulders quite habitually, and said casually: "Except for some clumsy additional accessories, there is a high probability that the main body of that shield fell from the 'sky' , if we judge correctly, part of the mainframe array."
Noretta's calm and indifferent appearance was instantly broken. On her scale-covered dragon face, there was an expression of surprise that could be recognized by human beings. She couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice: "The sky... you sure?!"
"It's basically certain, you know, although I'm a young dragon, Kalador, who went on a mission with me, is a knowledgeable old dragon."
"... This is... an unusual discovery... A human being has been holding the fragments of the sky for more than ten years. It is hard to imagine how much this will affect him... No wonder he died so early. He can be resurrected What happened again..." Noretta muttered to herself subconsciously, but suddenly she frowned again, "Wait, that's not right, if it's the fragments that fell from the sky, it should fall near the equator, No matter how far it deviates, it is impossible to deviate to the northern part of Loren Continent, how did it fall into the hands of Gawain Cecil, who led the Northern Expeditionary Force at that time?"
"If you really want to let go of your imagination, there are too many possibilities. Maybe the fragment was originally dropped near the equator, and then moved to the north of Loren Continent? For example, it fell into the hands of the elves, and then the elves who traveled Bringing it to the north may also be related to the impact 3,000 years ago, that impact... tsk, what a splash of fragments... "
"The impact three thousand years ago..." It seemed that Melita's words suddenly touched Noretta's thoughts. I didn’t understand why the God of Nature did that at that time... That really shocked too many extraordinary beings, even our gods were shocked... "
Just as Melita was about to speak, she suddenly felt a faint sense of staring and uneasiness from the depths of her soul coming from all directions, she immediately shook her head: "Noretta, let's stop discussing this, "
"...you're right," Noretta also closed her mouth rationally, and at the same time, an ever-changing light curtain began to cover her body from top to bottom, "Let's go see Speaker Andal first, This world... may really start to get interesting."
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In the rotunda surrounded by gorgeous columns and relief walls, the lights were turned on one by one, and the crystal-like transparent light curtain descended from the sky, and the fluorescent light illuminated Andal's huge body full of traces of implant transformation. The awe-inspiring ancient dragon woke up from his light sleep. He looked towards the entrance of the hall, and saw Noretta and Melita, who had turned into human forms, walking to the throne of their hearts.
"Ah... two talented young dragons," Speaker Andal's old and gentle voice sounded in the hall, with a smile in his tone, "You are here."
Noretta took a step forward and bowed slightly in greeting: "Speaker, we have completed our respective field tasks, and we need to report to you directly if there are special circumstances."
"Speak, I'm listening."
Noretta and Melita looked at each other, and then the latter nodded, signaling the former to speak first.
Noretta raised her head and looked at the ancient dragon on the throne of mind: "The Cecil Empire in the human world has built a large-scale communication system based on magic power. Their most powerful antenna has recently captured a group of Mysterious signal, I think this signal is worth paying attention to."
"Mysterious signal?" A mechanical prosthetic eye of Speaker Andal turned to Noretta, "Is it made by those elemental creatures in the far eastern sea? They have been trying to repair the spaceship, and often create some strange..." movements '."
"Probably not." Noretta shook her head. "I have already recorded a copy of the signal. I hope that with your permission, Omega's advanced mental layer can directly analyze it."
Andal thought for a moment, then nodded slightly: "Yes."
As his words fell, a floor in front of the Throne of Soul changed accordingly, the metal covering was gathered up with a faint sound of friction, and a light golden alloy column with subtle lights flickering on its surface rose up from the opening in the floor. At the top of the column, there are a series of interfaces, chips, and flashing runes.
Noretta took a step forward and groped around the back of her neck, and with a soft click, she opened the bionic skin cover hidden behind her neck, and pulled out a long and thin cable from it. With a flickering light, it was connected to the alloy pillar in front of the throne of the soul in the next second, and it fit perfectly.
Within a thousandth of a second, Noretta uploaded the signal sample previously transferred to her auxiliary electronic brain to Omega.
Melita looked at this scene and couldn't help but frown: "Even the human body is transformed like this... I can't accept it..."
"This is helpful for rear support tasks." Noretta turned her head and glanced at the other party. "You are a young dragon, but your thinking is so ancient. Even the implant transformation is more conservative than most dragons."
Just as Melita was about to say something, she heard Speaker Andal cough lightly on the Throne of Soul, and immediately closed her mouth.
"Now, let's hear the original rhythm of the signal"
As Speaker Andal's voice fell, a low and gentle buzzing sound began to resound in the huge circular hall, and then trembling rings and jumping curves appeared on the crystal curtains surrounding the Throne of Soul at the same time. The sound becomes clearer in the humming
It sounded like a rhythmic hum, mixed with a heartbeat-like deep echo, as if an invisible singer was humming some kind of ballad beyond the comprehension of mortal minds. After playing it continuously for more than ten seconds , it starts repeating, and goes round and round.
The echoing sound in the hall suddenly stopped, and Speaker Andal's voice sounded again: "After converting to audio, I can't hear anything for a while. This may be some kind of psionic singing, but it may also be just the human antenna resonating with the magic power in the atmosphere. .We need further conversion and interpretation of it. Omega, let's go."
Omega's voice sounded in the hall: "Start translating the original signal into digital combinations, translating into geometric figures, translating into standard spectra, translating into multi-ary codes... start testing the possibility of all combinations..."
At the same time that Omega started working, the gentle voice of Speaker Andal reached the ears of Melita and Noretta at the same time: "No matter what law is used to encode or encrypt this signal, mathematics must belong to it. The common language, and the law is in the numbers, unless the signal is sent by a creature of utter chaos, or a mind incomprehensible to mortals...”
Melita and Noretta nodded while listening, accepting the teachings full of wisdom, but suddenly, an indescribable sense of awe and voyeurism from the soul captured the hearts of every dragon present, Noretta The complexions of Leita and Melita changed at the same time, and the implant light on Andal's body flickered on and off instantly.
"Omega, stop analyzing." The Speaker shouted immediately.
"Omega understands, stop analyzing, task hangs."
"Just now..." Melita raised her head with difficulty, muttering in a low voice with cold sweat on her face.
"God is watching us, a warning..." Speaker Andal's face was extremely ugly, "We can't continue."
Then he took a few breaths slowly before finishing the following words:
"That's not something we should be hearing."