"Gonda Colossus?" Alaya whispered to himself as he looked at the metal colossus that fell to the ground, was firmly bound by countless tough divine vines, and was still desperately resisting with cuts all over its body. stand up.
Bubble jumped up at that time: "What? Gundam Colossus? Is there such a thing? Is it a collector's edition?"
I pushed the girl aside and asked Alaya: "Do you know these iron bumps?"
Sister Angel blinked in confusion, a confused look flashed across her golden pupils, and she smiled apologetically at me: "I'm sorry, Brother Monarch, I... don't know." "Don't know?" Sandora's eyes slanted Come here, Alaya's answer is too strange.
Sister Angel nodded seriously: "I don't know, this name popped up suddenly, I must have come into contact with related materials before, but they disappeared from the core of my memory... It may be that the deep sleep that year destroyed the memory. But such a powerful magical creation... the technical level has reached the level of the mysterious side of the empire. If it was created by other civilizations, it must be the ultimate achievement of those creators. A civilization capable of producing magical creatures of this level is not Possibly too much...but it's also not documented in public databases."
"Could this be made by the empire?" Sandora asked suddenly.
"No way..." I scratched my hair, and instinctively felt that this conjecture was unreliable, "This thing has no psionic reaction at all, and there are no traces of the empire's manufacturing, is it something made by the empire? Isn't it obvious at a glance?"
"But the creations on the mysterious side are an exception." Sandora shook her head, "Not all products of the empire have obvious characteristics, and not every creation of the empire has psionic reactions. Ravens have one-third of the mysterious system. Skills can be driven without relying on psionic energy. The power used by Alaya is the same sacred light as the protoss, which is the same level of psionic power. In addition, there are many things on the mysterious side that use secondary energy, such as arcane energy and elements Energy, with the advantage of the mystic department in the correction of mathematical laws. Those devices that use secondary energy can also produce the same effect as psionic equipment, so sometimes it is difficult to judge whether a mysterious creation is a product of the empire through energy reactions , unless it has an obvious logo or serial number on it. Of course, if the design style has obvious imperial characteristics, it will be easy to judge. It's just these colossi in front of me... I don't know if the empire has built such a thing. Their combat effectiveness It is the biggest doubt that makes people suspect that it is related to the mysterious side of the empire."
"The manufacturing material is not something used by the empire... at least this kind of metal is not recorded in my database."
Cut a small piece of metal from the colossus, crushed it into pieces in his hands, and scanned the structure of the metal pieces. Sandora made a conclusion. In other words, it would be more perfect if she didn't stuff those things into her mouth after she made this conclusion.
"Mystery is good at distorting matter, and even creating imaginary matter." Alaya squatted next to the colossus. Observing the energy flow in the cavity, he reached out and touched the slowly healing metal crack on the colossus, "Look, this has become something else."
As Alaya's finger slid across, the metal section on the colossus quickly showed a crystal clear texture, as if it had suddenly turned into glass. At the same time. Its irrepressible self-healing ability also came to an abrupt end with the great change of its own material foundation, and there was a deep echo in the cavity. The flow of energy was also hindered by the denaturation of the conduction medium, and the activity range of the colossus instantly weakened.
"The foundation of all things in the world must follow a set of simple constraint formulas. Or information clusters, which are a complete set of description information for elementary particles. Finding the correction law of this formula can change everything. The alchemy of the mortal race pursues The ultimate answer is nothing more than this." When it comes to her professional field, even the stupid Alaya can talk eloquently. Although her tone is still so soft, now she unexpectedly makes people feel reliable. Feeling, "Changing the formula will leave traces of operation, and reversing these traces can find the original form of the substance. Now I try to reverse the material composition of this thing to see what state it has experienced during the manufacturing process."
As Alaya said, he pressed his finger on the chest of the colossus, and a metal plate there immediately began to transform. First, it turned into a kind of off-white rough metal, then produced a crystalline texture, and then melted as if it was going to be liquefied. When he got up, the physical form of the colossus was changing rapidly, and Lin Xue couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "... Even in the waste collection station, this is at the level of a veteran of the Five Dynasties..."
I think about it too, how many times has this lump of iron in front of me been reheated
"Yes." Alaya whispered suddenly, and then stood up. The large metal plate on the chest of the colossus had completely changed its appearance, turning into a blue with a little pale, dull-colored crystalline substance.
"The exhausted psionic crystal..." Sandora said in a serious tone, "It turned out to be a creation of the empire."
"There is no information about this thing in the database," Alaya frowned. "When did we build this kind of thing... especially the golems of the mysterious department, I should know all about it."
"Maybe it's because the system has been damaged for too long, but it's also possible..." Sandora looked up at the Sky Tower not far away, "In short, I don't think the situation is right. Empire creations appeared here, but we No one knows what they are, key information is missing from the database, and you don't even recognize the mode of operation of the colossus: you should not forget such a key thing anyway. Never mind the Colossus here Now, hurry to that tower..."
"Squeak—" Sandora was just halfway through her words when she was suddenly interrupted by a sharp cry from the ground. The colossus, which was about to hang up completely, tossed for the last time, and there was a strange sound in its body. Countless crimson complex runes suddenly appeared on the smooth metal panel, like a rapidly refreshing screen. Large pieces of runes quickly moved across the face of the giant statue, and at the same time, the cavity in the giant statue's body erupted with dazzling white light!
"Your sister!" I immediately opened the shield, but there was also a faster protection expert present, and Ilsen summoned a beam of light, completely covering the giant statue and the surrounding half-meter area. In the next second, The beam of light was completely filled with the dazzling white light of the explosion.
The beam of light dissipated. Only a deep hole was left in place: all the impact force was focused by the beam of light to the up and down directions, and as a result, it blasted through the floating continent where the sky tower was located, looking down from the big hole left in place You can even see the clouds floating slowly on the other side of the land. When the colossus blew itself up, it was finally impossible to use the attack technique of identifying friend and foe.
"I now believe that this thing is made by the Empire." Lilina patted her flat chest, "Explode."
A group of people temporarily put all kinds of conjectures about the colossus behind their heads, and soon came to the entrance of the Sky Tower: this magnificent building has an unexpected and plain entrance, except that there is a hole at the bottom of the smooth tower. A row of semicircular arches about three meters high, without any decoration. It's even just a row of dark holes, and inside is a straight and deep corridor illuminated by magic crystals.
"It looks more like a building vent or a waste pipe." Sandora couldn't help muttering.
"It's also the first time I know that there is an entrance here." Sagina said in surprise. "The square at the back gate of the Sky Tower is a dead place. I don't know how many explorers in history have been evaporated by those terrifying giant statues. No one has ever broken through the defense line to reach this place. Sona and I just heard about this place: we It came in through the front door."
"The main entrance probably looks better than here." Lin Xue muttered casually, stepped into the "back door" that looked like the sewage pipe exit, and immediately covered her nose, "Well, it can't really be a sewer. It's so big smell!"
The light in the passage is dim, only the magic crystal floating near the vault provides illumination. There are actually tenacious vines growing on the smooth walls on both sides: they protrude from the grooves at the joints between the ground and the walls. The ground is different from the boulder square outside, covered with a layer of off-white alloy-like substance. This thing does not know how many years have passed, but there is no trace of mottled on it. Plant decay and other strange smells of unknown origin filled the surroundings, so we had to put up our shields.
"I can feel the fluctuation of magic power," Alaya said with a soft light emitting from his body, which greatly alleviated the problem of dimness in the corridor. Now that he has finally arrived at his home field, the sleepy man seems to be full of energy, "This location seems to be a large The components of the magic array, the energy is converging forward in a regular way, and then transforms into another state... There are several forks ahead, let me lead the way, if you follow these energy flows, you should be able to safely bypass possible Existential defenses... wow!"
Sister Angel let out a short exclamation, and fell to the ground under the dumb gaze of our big family.
…Should I say I am used to it or what, this situation of stillness is really subtle, I always feel that the moment Alaya fell to the ground, only one sentence came out of his mind: This world is really normal.
"It's okay?" Sagina didn't understand this stupid angel after all, so she immediately approached with concern, and I curled my lips while helping a certain flat-ground wrestling master-level dumb cat: "Don't worry, this is a natural phenomenon."
Only then did Alaya remember rubbing his nose, and looked at me seriously: "Brother Monarch, be careful, the ground here is very slippery, I accidentally fell down just now." That's it.
"It feels like you are all a bunch of weird guys." Sagina muttered a few words, and returned to the middle of the team again. The two half-dragon girls, Saeko, Lin Xue, Xiaoxue, and Little Pao Pao, were protected in the middle of the team. They couldn't be counted as combatants, so it's better to protect them a little. Originally, we didn't have many thoughts of being cautious in this kind of place, but after confirming that the giants were made by the empire, and that there seemed to be some problems with the memory cores of all the Xiling apostles present, Sandora felt a little weird at the moment, so she decided to proceed with caution .
Of course, it is the prophecy of Lin Xue and Xiaoxue mother and daughter that made us decide to act more carefully: the secrets hidden in this sky tower are earth-shattering, and its defense system is not as simple as the giant elephant soldiers outside. The prophets have spoken in this way, and we naturally have to be careful.
Alaya floated in mid-air. While acting as a searchlight, she led everyone around the fork in the road one after another. I don't know how she judged the way forward. To be honest, although I can feel the energy around me, in my perception, these The flow of energy is chaotic, and there is no pattern at all. Only an expert like Alaya who has a deep understanding of the mysterious side of the empire can find a safe passage from these chaotic energies. under her leadership. We walked for half an hour without coming into contact with any guards. After rounding the last corner, the team finally got out of the dark road that was suspected to be a sewer. The vault and the dim magic crystal turned into a wide alloy corridor, and the soft and uniform light came from nowhere. Filled with space in all directions. The ground under our feet is no longer that off-white alloy, but a milky white substance with a crystal texture. There are small shiny spots swimming quickly among these milky white crystals. Follow a seemingly regular trajectory through the entire corridor and disappear into the distance.
"This is the outer part of a giant energy matrix." Alaya gently landed on the ground, bent down and knocked on the layer of crystals, "The function may be to provide a redundant energy buffer for the entire matrix, if I'm not wrong If so, all the corridors and passages in a fairly large area here serve the same function. They are all parts of a certain matrix. This tower must require an amazing amount of energy to operate."
"That is to say, we are equivalent to walking on a wire now." Although Qianqian's metaphor is jumpy, it is always unexpectedly accurate. "It feels similar to many things made by the empire, and the scale is particularly large."
"After all, it is suspected to be a creation of the empire," Sandora nodded, and then said with a rather tangled face, "Anyway, I must figure out what's going on: since it's something made by the empire, why don't I see it at all? Can’t come out! Even though many things on the mysterious side do not have such obvious imperial characteristics, they have already come here, and they have obviously touched the key structural parts of this tower, but they still haven’t found anything that has anything to do with the empire. Anyway, this It's kind of weird too."
Alaya flew into the air, sensed the energy flow around him, and then happily flew to the fork in the front left: "Brother Monarch, here, here! This is the way to the inner area... Wow!"
Flying too high can easily hit the roof, especially if your judgment is impaired after twenty hours of sleep...
Little Bubble happily rushed over to collect Alaya's feathers, and we saw a small door hidden in the corner of the corridor under the instructions of the angel sister. After opening the small door, an extremely wide hall appeared in front of everyone.
Perhaps this can no longer be described by the word "hall", because this is already an indoor square!
This is a circular space with a visual radius of hundreds of meters. It is empty in all directions. The ground is covered with the same milky white crystals as the corridor. The mysterious blue light flows around on the ground, outlining a complete large array. , and this array is obviously not all, because there is also a huge crystal cluster in the center of the hall, all the light flow in the energy array will eventually converge to the base of this crystal cluster, and then flow all the way up to the ceiling tens of meters high Up—possibly to the second floor.
Except for the crystal cluster in the center of the hall, which may have a radius of tens of meters, there is no supporting pillar in the entire hall.
"This is the place called the assembly hall." Sagina looked at this spectacular interior space excitedly, while Sona glanced back and said in surprise: "The entrance has disappeared."
It turned out that the small door we passed through when we came in just now has disappeared.
"Seamless space teleportation." Sandora knocked on the wall behind her, "The back is solid, the side door just now should be a teleporter, unless the array here is cracked violently, I probably won't be able to find that thing .”
"Wow! Such a big place! You can fly happily!" Ding Dong jumped out of my pocket happily, darting around in the air, the mercury lamp also flew out, and the two winged guys blinked In no time, she flew a hundred meters away to play around, while Little Bubble cheered: "Goo!", and jumped into the center of the hall: her attention has been completely attracted by the huge crystal cluster in the center of the hall , the eyes were full of reflected light, the little guy happily climbed up into the air along the crystal clusters, and began to hold an emerald green vigilante above it and broke it down, Ji Shanshan panicked loudly below. Greeting: "Come down quickly! This one can't move around!"
My elder sister also ran over in a hurry, trying to get the little girl off the shiny crystal: Although we all understand that Little Bubble is crazy about shiny things, this place is a pretty place after all. An important relic, if she really breaks the key things here, it won't be fun.
After finding that there was nothing interesting in the rest of the hall, our attention was also focused on the crystal cluster in the center. This thing seems to be piled up by many colorful sharp crystals, with a radius of tens of meters, and the surface is full of criss-cross crystals pointing to the air. Sandora scanned the internal structure of this thing, unfortunately we did not It was found that there are ancient treasures and a little girl without clothes sealed inside, and of course there is no grandpa who is ready to teach you the exercises. It only contains crystals and high-energy reactions. "An explosion would be enough to destroy the world." Sandora commented on the energy contained in the crystal.
"Explorers have come to this hall, but they walked through the safe front door," Sakina flipped out her notebook, and it could be seen that although she had also been to the Sky Tower, she was still not familiar with this place: As a weak team, most of the two of them came here to work for other big teams. It is impossible to have any in-depth understanding of this kind of place. "Let me see, most of the floors in the Sky Tower can't follow the routine. The route arrives, and you can find a hall or room on each floor. The crystal cluster in the center of the hall or room is a transmission device. I remember here the known activation methods and sequences that I asked the old man at that time. Below the crystal cluster is a The console, through which you can teleport to other floors, and if you want to return to the entrance, you only need to tap the crystal cluster several times quickly... "
While talking, Sagina walked around the crystal half a circle, and found what she was looking for: a two-foot-square, crystal-clear crystal plate, floating in mid-air.
There is a familiar cross-shaped emblem on it. (to be continued)RQ