(Well, I continue to ask for a monthly pass while I'm doubled, anyway, I'm idle anyway...)
The Devil's Cave is a very vivid name. Just from these two words, you can hear the feeling of howling ghosts and howling wolves - the natives of this world have such a straightforward impression of the disaster brought by the power of the abyss, and they The cage built to seal this power also truly reflects this.
It is a huge cave that goes deep into the ground and has an invisible bottom. The entrance of the cave is in a small basin only a few kilometers away from the Dark Moon Palace. Everyone stood in front of the transmission tower on the edge of the basin, looking down at the dark valley from a high position. I saw a one-kilometer-long fissure suddenly opened in the ground in the center of the basin. The fissure seemed incompatible with the surrounding geological conditions and was obviously not formed naturally. Its edges were uneven, and a large number of sharp stalagmites pierced from the inside The sky is like ferocious fangs, so that I feel that the devil's lair is like a beast that chooses to eat people: it is sealed in the ground, only a bloody fangs protrude from the surface, waiting to devour the reckless intruder. And in the depths of the rift valley, dark clouds and mist are constantly rolling, which are dust and mist that have been lightly polluted.
"A mere sample of the abyss was sealed in such a big battle, it's quite a face."
The above is the objective evaluation made by Bingtis, a senior magic stick, expert in abyss processing, and protoss archaeologist when he saw the entrance of the magic cave.
We know that the dark moon is covered by a layer of thick fog that will never dissipate, but around this small basin, the thick fog is blocked out, so that the air near the magic cave has become the place with the cleanest air on this planet, let alone dust and fog , I even faintly feel that even the wind blowing into the basin has signs of being filtered. The blood princess spoke to confirm my guess: "In order to prevent the spread of pollution, we use barriers to isolate the devil's lair from the surroundings. The dense fog above the planet itself is used to circulate and purify the breath of demons, but they cannot be directly mixed with the devil's lair. Contact with pollution sources... This is a very complicated planetary purification mechanism, and it took nearly twenty years to build it."
"If there is no abyss, you should have developed to a very high stage," I speculated based on the experience and knowledge I have accumulated over the years, "You are quite talented, and you also have a set of space teleportation left by civilization in the last season Equipment, what a pity."
"Who knows, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other," Bingtis shook his head, "If there is no abyss, they may still die in civil war. The Dark Moon War has kept them at peace intermittently for more than two thousand years. I have seen many At least the civilizations with great potential end up internal friction to death, and the "genius civilizations" starving to death slowly starving to death while guarding their resource-depleted home planets are everywhere. There are many variables in this aspect, and it is hard to explain."
A group of people came to the entrance of the rift valley at the bottom of the basin, and I found that there was an artificial boulder avenue extending from the open flat outside to the rift valley. The cracks are uneven, but the scale is still astonishing: each of its boulder slabs is almost the size of half a basketball court. This path is obviously the path taken by the elite soldiers of the Dark Moon known as the "Beast Guard Corps" every time the Dark Moon Wars started.
Bingtis looked around for a while, and suddenly pointed his finger not far away: "Oh, that's where the concubine picked up that reckless dragon girl. If I had known that the artifact was placed in this canyon, At that time, the concubine should go in and look for it directly. Hey, I didn't feel the reaction of the artifact at all."
Blood Princess led the crowd towards the rift valley, while introducing this historic boulder slope: "This road existed when the Devil's Cave was first built, but at that time it was not as big as it is now. It was just a small path for some craftsmen to enter and exit. At that time, the main force of building the magic cave was the giant dragon, and the dragon could fly, so they didn't need this ramp. But then there was an accident, and the main force of building the magic cave became other races. This road was widened into the main road. After that, it also became the road for the dark moon army to enter and exit. Every time the dark moon war starts, we have to send elite soldiers down to open the seal, and then guide those undead monsters and ghosts to the The surface. The entire basin is actually a teleportation array. When all the teleportation towers around the basin are activated at the same time, it will continuously transmit the monsters running out of the magic cave to the Gemini teleportation station, and then the teleportation station will transfer those monsters to the ground surface. Banished to the ground, he was finally strangled by the coalition forces led by Ed Sawin."
"How do you guarantee that those monsters from the abyss won't take the opportunity to rush out of the basin?" Bingtis asked curiously, "You know, no matter who it is, being pressed and sealed for two thousand years will not feel much better, let alone that Still a bunch of crazy monsters."
Princess Blood replied with four words indifferently: "Heap with human life."
"There is another problem." I looked at the side face of the blood princess, "For you, the abyss is an abstract thing that cannot be touched or fixed. You can only understand it when it resides on a definite host. Seal it or transfer it, this kind of host is the monster in the devil's lair, but the monsters sealed in the devil's lair will not always be the same as two thousand years ago, right? I know that the abyss needs to constantly jump to new hosts, because they are always Will completely destroy the old hosts - where did these hosts come from?"
The abyss is difficult to control, and this is the easiest problem to encounter when dealing with it. The best way to destroy an abstract object is to make it concrete. The empire has various technologies for changing dimensions, and there are also special baits for the abyss called trappers. When we don’t want to use these things, we even have a super large dose of psionic energy that can directly neutralize the abyss gate, but Redmu The dark moon people on En must not have these high-tech, so they can only infect the abyss with some of the most easily infected creatures, and then temporarily weaken the abyss by destroying those monsters. These infected creatures need a stable source—I am very Curious where these "hosts" come from.
"Every once in a while, we have to throw some wild beasts into the devil's lair as sacrifices to make them hosts," the Blood Princess sighed, "If there are not enough beasts, then throw the death row prisoners in. If there are not enough death row prisoners, Aye Dewenza will secretly send the death row prisoners from the world above... That's why the Church of the Goddess specially compiled the details of "the original sin people used black witchcraft to transform the soldiers of the Holy Alliance" in the history, and even specially included the dark moon people. The vampires and night elves are said to be humans and elves who were transformed in ancient times, which is to explain why there are monsters that look like dwarves and humans in the dark moon demon."
"If death row is not enough," Bingtis suddenly glanced at Blood Princess, "what else would you throw in?"
"Don't worry, we have never thrown innocent people into it, so we will really become demons," Blood Princess shrugged, "When the hosts in the devil's lair are saturated, the Dark Moon War will begin regardless of whether the coalition forces on the ground are ready or not. , otherwise demonic forces will pollute the planet."
"Well, good decision." Bingtis nodded. She has been in the form of a god since just now, and she has shielded everyone from the abyss environment in the rift with the holy light around her. Now everyone has walked down the sloping boulder slope for a long distance. The darkness is getting thicker and thicker, but this darkness is obviously not a natural phenomenon: the opening of the rift valley is just tens of meters above, and the skylight is not too far away from us, but the light seems to be unable to reach here, and the rift valley is as dark as night .
Only the holy light around Bingtis illuminates the way forward—oh, Alaya, who is more effective than a searchlight.
Sister Angel is very skillful in concentrating the radiance around her in one direction. She looks like a true heart and a searchlight. Bingtis couldn't help but give me a blank look as she watched Alaya adjusting the brightness there: "What are you training her for?" gone?"
"She can do flash effects," I confessed, "but not here."
"It's getting darker and darker." Lin Xue set up a pergola and looked around. Except for the absolute light where the holy light is located, there is only endless darkness in the distance. "The various optical effects of the air seem to have been disturbed." There is no diffusion or refraction, and the place where the holy light does not shine directly is as black as ink."
"The situation is always getting worse every time. Now the power of demons can partly seep out of the seal and affect the normal natural phenomena." Blood Princess smiled wryly. The day before the door was opened, there were also troops stationed here normally. But now this ramp, which is located outside the seal, is as filthy as if it has been soaked in the devil's den. Even if Brother Manzi doesn't have an accident, the sixth war will be out of control."
Bingtis frowned and snapped his fingers suddenly: "Let there be light."
The surrounding darkness was swept away in an instant, and normal roads and rocky cliffs appeared before our eyes again.
Bingtis showed a satisfied smile: "Oh, it seems that the rules here are still normal. If you don't even listen to God's order, the pollution will be more serious."
This boulder slope is so long that it seems endless. The speed of our group is extremely fast, so we quickly crossed the range of the rift valley and walked into a deep tunnel that slopes downward and keeps turning back and forth. After traveling for a long time, Viska measured the depth from the ground a little, only to find that the nearest surface was several kilometers away. It's really hard to imagine that the condition of this seal is so bad: the power of the abyss diffuses from the magic cave deep in the ground and penetrates so far.
Because it was built by a giant dragon, this tunnel looks extremely wide, and at intervals, you can see huge luminous runes inlaid on the ground or walls. These runes are not the same as the local runes we have seen. The big fool said that they were written in dragon language grammar and engraved on the stone with the blood of the dragon. Since the dragon clan completely declined and only Sonia was the only surviving dragon clan in the world, these runes could no longer be repaired. They could only fade gradually over thousands of years. Now, nearly half of the runes Wen has actually completely lost its effect: this is one of the reasons why the Abyss can leak from the seal.
"Now the so-called dragons in the world are inferior dragons made by the secret technique of monsters. They look like giant dragons, but in fact they don't even have the ability to think, and of course they don't have the blood of dragons. Controlling such a group of wild beasts that look very similar to her clan lives in the Dragon Mountains in seclusion, maintaining the appearance of the dragon clan's eternal existence," the blood princess sighed, "I heard from Edwinsa that Sonia has lived in the past few hundred years. Living more and more decadent days, recently she went to work as a mercenary, worked as a coolie, served as a bodyguard for others, and even helped people look after their children to earn a little ration... She completely gave up the things on Longshan, as if she was thinking of a way It’s like forgetting that you were once a dragon.”
"Actually, the four of us didn't live very well." The silly big man added next to him in a muffled voice.
At this time, I try to think that the facial paralyzed dragon sister is a bit too rude to take care of the child with a plaster face
At this moment, this deep tunnel finally came to the end, and a flat black stone wall appeared in front of everyone.
"This is the gate?" Bingtis looked at the huge stone wall in front of him, a door with a height of more than 100 meters was carved on its surface with rough brushwork—but the door was only carved on the stone wall, yes, The gate that sealed the entrance turned out to be just a relief!
"Using a regular space can't keep demons in check, so we created a special space with dragon secrets and some ancient technologies of the first season civilization. This space is attached to a real object, which is the stone wall in front of us," Blood Princess said at the time. Fumbled on the carved gate, and then pressed some protruding small stones in order, "If the seal is opened or a sacrifice is sent, the relief here will become a real gate... But before that, I will take out the artifact for you first, which is agreed."
A slight sound that sounded like the sound of electric current or the hum of air sounded from the dark stone wall, as if some device was being charged, I saw that the deep dents were gradually brightening, they were originally carved in However, as light continued to emerge, this door portrait actually began to slowly take on a physical state. However, before the door was fully materialized, a ring-shaped halo first appeared on the stone wall. It was embedded in the middle of the two doors, and looked like a super huge keyhole. The speed of this ring-shaped halo was faster than that of the gate , It changed from a picture to a real hole in a few seconds, but the surface of the hole was covered with a light yellow barrier, which seemed to be still in a sealed state.
"Brother Manzi, the key." Blood Princess turned her head and held out her hand to the big fool. When Sonia left, she gave the key she brought from Edwinsa to the big fool, and that key was the key item to pull the artifact out of a special space.
The stupid big man touched his body, then held a small thing with two fingers and handed it to the blood princess. I looked up curiously and found that it was just a small triangular crystal plate, which seemed to be frozen inside. With a shiny rune.
"Install the key on the barrier, and something will appear in the container." Blood Princess placed the small crystal plate on the surface of the light yellow seal. The ball floated out of the hole lightly, "Is this the artifact you are looking for? What is it for?"
It took us a lot of effort to find this thing. At this time, a group of people immediately gathered around to see what the artifact looked like, but how should I put it... The shape of this thing makes us a little bit regretful.
It is a ball with a diameter of more than one meter, made of light golden metal, a layer of already dim light is floating on the surface of the ball, and the sacred aura can be vaguely felt escaping from the light. I took a closer look and found that the sphere was not smooth. There were many dull-colored symbols and raised reliefs that were only a few millimeters high on its shell, and some straight lines extended everywhere on the sphere.
Other than that, there is nothing else, no instructions, no obvious operating controls, and no response other than a reassuring warmth when you press your hand on it. Qianqian researched it for a long time and suddenly came up with an air hammer, but before I could do it, I pushed it back: This is a historical relic of the Protoss, in case...
I was halfway through thinking about it when I saw Bingtis smashing her brick bible at the big golden ball...
The loud bang of "bang" was really soul-stirring. I stared at Bingtis dumbfounded. The other party whistled at me and swung the brick meteor hammer with the iron chain in his hand. Let’s see if the shell of this thing is just a star stone. This thing has been infected by the abyss for too long, the divinity is weak, and the material is also a bit denatured. No wonder I can’t feel its divinity when it is blocked by a different space , I didn't expect this thing to be so weak... Even a black hole horizon may be able to hide it, but luckily it's not broken."
Me: "... If it's not broken, you will smash it!"
"Don't worry, the artifact is solid, it's no worse than the pile of ten thousand year prison equipment you built," Bingtis waved his hand carelessly, and then rubbed his chin to study the big golden ball, "But having said that... this thing is The artifact we are looking for? Why can’t I see what it is for? This is a memory? How to read it... "
Everyone who was a little bit excited at first fell silent in an instant.
I stared at Bingtis dumbfounded: "This sister... are you joking?"
Bingtis raised his chin, which means "When did my dignified Bingye ever make a joke?"
I broke out in a cold sweat: "Aren't you a protoss expert? Now that you have found the artifact, you say you don't know how to use it?"
"Give you a wooden cow and horse, will you know how to use it? Give you a wooden stick, will you drill wood to make fire? Do you know how to maintain a fire pocket?" Bingtis spread his hands, "The concubine is just here to help sense the reaction of the artifact and identify this thing It’s true and false, as for how to operate it…”
As she said that, she patted the pale golden ball that was quietly on the ground: "Let's study it slowly after transporting it back. This thing has a long history, and I don't know how many times the technology of the God Realm has been updated. To read data from this thing, it is definitely more difficult than Qianqian's father analyzing how many times King Zhou You goes to the toilet a day from a tile." RS