Just from the few words in those notes, Hao Ren has been able to deduce two shocking key points:
First, the ancient magic empire not only used amazing biochemical technology when creating demon hunters (or ancient species), but also touched the "divinity". Of course, Hao Ren believed that the power of the magic empire back then was not enough to touch the real power of the gods. What they came into contact with should be the product of the further decay and evolution of this power, but even so, it is enough to show that those magic emperors really They actually carried out research on the power of gods, and they called their research results "divine cells", which are obviously products that can be manipulated and copied by some kind of real existence!
Second, their research turned out to be carried out under the "Divine Metaphor"!
The last paragraph of the note is obviously not just nonsense. The person who left these records mentioned the divine metaphor and the will of the goddess of creation, and even said that progress can only be made under the blessing of the goddess. This aspect confirmed Hao Ren's previous guess That is to say, the demon hunter is not a product of blasphemy, but was created under the premise of having faith in the goddess. On the other hand, it is far beyond Hao Ren's guess.
The magic emperors not only created the demon hunter while adhering to their belief in the goddess, even their project itself...was also because the goddess of creation sent down the oracle? !
Did the Goddess make them create these "perfect creatures"
"Let me see, let me see!" Seeing Hao Ren in a daze, Lily couldn't restrain her burning curiosity, and immediately snatched those notes from Hao Ren's hand, Husky girl Staring at the golden eyes, flipping through the paper quickly, seeing everything in a minute, and then showing a look of surprise.
"According to this statement...the demon hunter was created by the order of the goddess of creation?" Lily also saw the key point at a glance-although she usually has a two-faced personality, her judgment has always been good, and even if it is only about judgment and observation, she He is much stronger than others, after all, his instinct is strong, "This is obviously the process of making a demon hunter... Wait! Landlord! I have a question!"
"What's the problem?" Hao Ren was taken aback. He didn't see clues from these records, but Lily found clues.
"This relic is the place where the demon hunter was 'developed', right? Time here has been standing still until recently, right? The equipment here is only a semi-finished product of the origin of the sacred artifact, and there is no way to successfully manufacture a real one. Are you a demon hunter?" Lily asked one question after another, pointing her fingers, without pausing for each question, and obviously these questions did not need to be answered, "and looking at this note, it is obvious that the people here at that time did not know about the ruins. The moment of closure and time freezing has not yet succeeded in producing a real 'finished witcher'... ”
Before Lily finished speaking, Hao Ren already understood what the other party meant.
"That is to say, this is not the place where the demon hunter was finally produced, but it should be just an experimental base used in the early stage of the project." Hao Ren looked at the clean and new laboratory equipment around him, his eyebrows gradually piled together, "here is The project reached the most critical step, that is, after successfully synthesizing stable 'divine cells', it was suddenly abandoned. The entire experimental base was frozen in time and space, and the people who evacuated from here brought experimental materials and other materials. The transfer of things elsewhere completed the final part of the project, producing the first generation of witchers (ancient species)."
"It should be like this," Vivian agreed, "I didn't expect you, Big Dog, to be able to find problems."
"That's right, I'm so smart!" Lily, who had been called a big dog for a long time, had already not responded to these two words. Instead, she wagged her tail happily and her beautiful pointed ears trembled slightly.
"Then why do you explain why they suddenly abandoned this place?" Vivian raised her eyebrows, "Why did they suddenly abandon this place even though the experiment was going smoothly? The entire experimental base seems to be intact. "
"Then I don't know," Lily waved her hand nonchalantly, "Maybe the higher-ups ordered the demolition here suddenly. Anyway, it's all happened ten thousand years ago. Who are you going to confront with?"
"And there are still some details that I don't understand." Hao Ren's eyebrows still did not loosen. "The experimental projects here seem to be terminated suddenly. The unstopped magic circles and alchemy containers discovered by Master Haimo can Evidence, but the people here seemed to have enough time when they evacuated, they took almost all the research materials they could take away, leaving us with only these irrelevant diaries. How can this be explained?"
Haimo, who was listening silently, spoke at this time. Although he was still confused about the ancient secret that Hao Ren and others were talking about, this did not prevent him from sorting out some personal conjectures based on the existing information: "Take away The data shows that their evacuation had a reaction time, or at least they were notified several hours before they left, and the reaction containers and magic circles that were still in operation were left behind because it was not easy to stop them— You may not understand that some chain reaction magical experimental devices are difficult to stop suddenly, because most of the magic circles have the characteristic of "self-sustaining" during operation, and they will maintain their operation. If they stop abruptly, they will easily cause explosions and damage. The backlash of the caster himself. For this strong base, as long as all the personnel are evacuated and all the materials are taken away, it doesn’t matter that the devices and magic circles that are responding are left behind. They will naturally stop smoothly after the energy is exhausted. Of course, there is a certain risk of getting out of control to let these things operate on their own without supervision, but compared with the possible consequences of forcibly shutting them all down, the former is obviously much easier to accept."
An expert who is familiar with Holletta's local magic technology is explaining. It is much easier to sort out these trivial doubts. Hao Ren nodded as he listened, but still felt a little unbelievable: "But just put the experimental equipment in operation like this. Leaving it... It really doesn't sound like the work of a magic laboratory that pays attention to precision and stability."
"But if it's urgent, there's nothing we can do about it," Haimer spread his hands, "There must have been an unexpected change at that time, so they only had time to gather the ready-made information, but they didn't have time to deal with the various projects that had already started to operate. an experimental device."
"What kind of accident will it be?" Hao Ren said while subconsciously looking at the seemingly intact buildings around him. Just from the surface, it is really impossible to see that anything happened here that would cause the entire base to be completely emptied. accident.
Lily's ears moved, and she looked in a certain direction involuntarily. Her gaze passed through the door of the laboratory and landed on the door at the end of the hall.
"What are you looking at?" Vivian glanced at the husky girl.
Lily's ears turned around: "Will there be an answer behind the second gate? The people here are evacuating urgently, but they have carefully closed every door when they leave—if the outermost gate of the base is still It’s easy to say, but why did they seal the doors inside the base layer by layer? And the inner doors are more tightly sealed. Haimer also said that the second door is far more difficult to deal with than the main door of the base.”
Hao Ren had no choice but to look up to Lily's intuition once again. Husky girl's words made his heart light up: The accident may not come from the outside, it may be something wrong in the base!
They soon came to the second gate, facing the closed door, everyone felt a little nervous.
It was a gate made of an unknown superhard alloy. The nearly five-meter-high metal gate was decorated with decorative patterns in the style of an ancient magic empire. There were bouquets of flowers bouncing between the gray-white metal gate and the surrounding light-gold frame. Small sparks, these sparks were injected into the straight line grooves on the door leaf, and they had a faint texture like flowing liquid.
For Holletta's current alchemists and magic construction technicians, this door alone is already a precious legacy. Just by looking at it, a discerning eye can see that it also contains charging reinforcement, With a lot of clever settings such as rune encryption, energy deflection protection, and stress shields, it is no wonder that a new talent like Master Haimo, who is outstanding in the Royal Society of Magicians, is afraid when facing this door. At a loss, there has been no progress for several days in a row, and it has only just figured out how it charges.
"Terminal, can you handle it?" Hao Ren took out the data terminal and let it scan the energy flow of the gate.
"It's not troublesome, but it will take a little time." The data terminal quickly scanned the door and figured out the mechanism of the door. "Give this machine thirty minutes. quick… "
Hao Ren casually threw the terminal towards the door: "Go away, work hard!"
"Tch, the guy who squeezed the labor force."
The data terminal muttered, but still obediently floated in front of the second gate, connected its own energy with the magic conduit on the gate, and began to use the normal process to crack the encryption of this gate.
Its calculation speed is many times faster than that of Haimo and his apprentice team!
Master Haimo and several apprentices looked at the scene in front of them in a daze. They saw that the energy flow on the door became more and more flat, which was a sign that the various warning circles had ceased, so they were all stunned: They tossed and tossed for several days to no avail, so the door opened after a while on something that didn't look as big as a brick? !
However, Hao Ren didn't care what Haimo and his apprentices were thinking, he just looked at the super alloy door quietly, thinking about what happened inside the base back then—although it is guessed that it was an internal problem that led to this place. People evacuated, but he always felt that something was wrong, for no other reason: the hall outside looked too shiny and intact.
Although the emergency evacuation back then inevitably caused some mess in the various laboratories, apart from the mess, there were no signs of damage in the outer area of the base, and even the door in front of us, which may be used to block danger, was not damaged or damaged in any way. Signs of impact—if there really was a major accident deep in the base, how could there be no leaks at all
It must not have been 10,000 years of time that erased these traces: because time and space here were once static!
While Hao Ren was thinking about these thoughts, the cracking work of the data terminal was gradually coming to an end, and the runes on the door were fading one by one, as if it could be opened at any time.
"Stand far away, everyone." At the critical moment, Hao Ren still had the spirit of caution. He signaled everyone to back off to prevent any dangerous things from rushing out from behind the gate and catching everyone by surprise.
And the door gradually slid open to both sides after making a creaking mechanical sound.
Suddenly, a strong warning sign of danger hit my heart!