We shouldn't trust any promises made by Zaku, the seemingly unreliable dog uncle, especially when he declares that this shabby airship is working well. Facts have proved that this thing, which has become a pile of scrap metal in the underground warehouse when Milia was four or five years old, has been eroded by time for ten years, and it no longer has any functions other than cultivating mushrooms. , Lin's big mouth landing method is much more reliable than this one.
But at least Uncle Zaku said something right, the engine system of the Glory of Glory is indeed bursting with enthusiasm in its heyday, the enthusiasm is so high that it killed the main engine after ten minutes. Cooling system, when we climbed to an altitude of several thousand meters, this ancient aircraft began to scream tragically, the temperature of its engine room was rising, but the power output was gradually approaching that of a battery car, the color cast in the driver's seat The scene in the engine room is shown on the serious flat projection screen, just like in the electric oven.
The blaring siren had been sounding for two minutes, and it was the only thing on the airship that seemed to be working well.
"I told you that it's not a good business to be involved with the relics." Uncle Zaku let go of the steering column with a mournful face, "The engine will stop after five minutes. If we are lucky, we will fall into Wanhu Lake. If we are not lucky, we will be finished." The expressions on your faces are too calm, right?" The uncle was surprised to find that in the airship, even Biluna, who had always been the most calm and composed, showed a nervous look now, while our black and twenty There are so many people, but one is calmer than the other. Qianqian even has time to lie on the porthole and haha drawing little people, while Bubble on the other side is teaching Yakumo Lan (one of the performance artists in the eyes of Uncle Zaku. He Until now, I still don’t believe how there are people with long tails in this world, and this planet obviously doesn’t have a fox mother’s statement) how to calculate the gravitational constant of this planet based on the current falling speed.
Even Miria, who should have screamed at this time, was calmer than him: this girl is busy listening to the lecture with Yakumolan.
"Hey, isn't it dangerous to go on like this?"
When Miria heard what the uncle said, she raised her head and glanced at me. Obviously, knowing our [true] identity, she was not afraid of the current situation, but felt that her uncle was even more ashamed and couldn't even repair the airship!
I nodded, and stretched out my hand to hold a little dwarf next to me under my armpit, and walked towards the engine room amidst the latter's crying and howling protests. After a while, the airship's siren was lifted , monitoring shows that the condition of all engines is quickly returning to normal.
I strapped Cirno to the radiator grille.
There was no need for a watch for the rest of the journey, and this wonderful airship worked well afterwards. We first soared in the upper atmosphere until the auxiliary engines stopped, and then sprinted in the opposite direction for half an hour under the direction of the reverse rudder. I thought the airship was going to die when it passed through a thundercloud, but in fact the thundercloud took only two boosters, and then we chased a military aircraft for fifteen minutes. Uncle Zaku repaired the rudder when the warning was invalid and ready to fire. This journey, which was not long at first, lasted a full ten hours in the end.
At that time, there was no flight package prepared on the airship, and the hungry Sandora ate all the seats in the airship. If it wasn't for the fact that Milia couldn't stand the thin atmosphere, I think she would have slapped the shell of the airship. Yakumo Lan's complexion was pale, and each of her tails was curled. In order to reduce the collision damage, she cleverly used her big tail to roll herself into a fur ball. As a result, she rolled in the cabin until she was almost in shock. Ilson was tied to the ground by his sister, because we all felt that the consequences of this hard iron can rolling in the cockpit would be disastrous after seeing the horror of the nine-tailed fox. Everyone ignored whether a well-trained god of war would make such a double B mistake.
This hellish journey finally came to an end on a Gobi desert, and we crashed safely in a patch of sand: despite Uncle Zaku's repeated claims that it was actually a safe landing.
"If we have really slowed down, I will believe you." Lilina stared at Uncle Zaku with a gloomy expression. Behind us, Milia was vomiting.
"As you know, the near-Earth Reduction Gear was broken from the start."
Uncle Zaku's face was also pale, but he was still able to stand still, which showed that the physique of an old adventurer could still stand the test.
At this time, Lin interjected in a weak voice: "I think I can fly better than this." Bingtis and I stared at this dragon girl who had finally found some confidence, while Lilina made precise complaints: "This thing is at best a death reprieve, and yours is to be executed immediately!" After tossing all the way, it is now nightfall, and there are three bright moons arranged in a line hanging high in the sky, two of which are stationed on a small wave of empires. The army, while the shimmering star ring is slowly sliding across the eastern sky. It revolves around the planet Mobrador, rising and setting in the sky four times a day. We looked at the desolate Gobi Desert, and then turned our searching eyes to Biluna.
"The information about the ruins is nearby, of course, underground."
While talking, Biluna rummaged through a large suitcase brought down from the airship to find various equipment of unknown use, "Exploring ancient ruins has always been a popular job, but the number of ruins is always limited. Up to now, it is easy to find Most ancient ruins have been discovered.
Most of the remaining relics are in places such as the seabed and the ground that are not easy to fully explore. Under normal circumstances, only large-scale geological changes can expose these ancient relics to the world. There was an earthquake here a while ago, and then someone found something here. It's a pity that that person is a novice, and he probably confused the entrance of the ancient ruins with the entrance of the old mine. It's cheap for us. "
There was a pale golden light in Sandora's eyes. She was scanning the things under the earth's crust, and found a big hole. Obviously the guessed ruins [real] existed, but I still waited patiently for Bilu Na used her pile of strange-shaped instruments to conduct some detection. Finally, she pointed in a direction and said, "It's probably this way."
The direction is correct. Although she didn't understand it, the things she played with that looked like triangulation brackets seemed to have the function of sensing specific energy. With the help of these devices, she found the nearest gap from the large underground cavity to the ground.
Zhagu was still sitting on the ground and sighed just now, trying to figure out how much money he would need to repair his precious Glory of Glory this time, then he lazily raised his head: "Oh? It seems that there are indeed ancient things nearby?"
"The signal strength is very low, but today's atmospheric environment is good, and there is almost no interference." Bi Luna responded solemnly to her partner's procrastination, and dragged Zaku up from the ground. "We'd better start now. There is a strong wind, we need to find the entrance of the ruins before then, or set up a camp nearby."
"Actually, I want to turn around and go back to sleep on the airship,
You forgot, there are dire scorpions in the Gobi Desert at night. "
Uncle Zaku muttered, but followed up obediently.
Because the airship was about to fall apart, and even the two transport vehicles on it fell off the wheels, and everyone could only walk forward. Fortunately, the distance indicated by the signal was not very far, which made me give up the idea of summoning 700 billion to come out. The experience of 20 or 30 people walking on the Gobi Desert with lights in the middle of the night must have been experienced by few people. There is absolutely no one on the earth who does this. In Mobrado, it seems that there is nothing to stop it except the hurricane. The strange aborigines who have evolved are doing outdoor activities. Uncle Zaku wears a small vest and walks on the frozen Gobi Desert while complaining loudly about the stupidity of this trip. Of course, we don’t even feel it, but this shows one thing from the side, none of the creatures that can thrive under the radiation of the empire’s heritage is fuel-efficient.
On the way, we have been waiting for the dire scorpions that Uncle Zaku casually mentioned to appear, because Sandora is very curious about their taste, but in the end the biggest creature that appeared in front of us was just a half-frozen mosquito. I think Magni's loud singing all the way may be an important reason to keep everyone from being disturbed by wild beasts on the road.
Bi Luna stopped from time to time to adjust her detector along the way, and finally pinpointed the position where the energy leaked from the large underground cavity. After walking for more than an hour, we found the marker exposed on the surface: that is A metal pipe that has been weathered clean, the lower half is buried in the gravel, and the upper half is humming against the sky in the weak night wind. And only a few hundred meters away from this most obvious artifact, we found a possible lead to the ground: a mine entrance half buried in gravel.
"I kind of believe that the relics exist." Uncle Zaku judged in a low voice, "In this kind of Gobi desert where the wind is often blowing normally, it only takes one or two months to be buried under gravel and gravel, and this mine The gravel near the entrance is fresh, and the wind near here has been obviously suppressed, which also prevents the entrance of the mine from being buried." Biluna nodded: "Perhaps some kind of equipment in the ruins is still in operation, changing the mine. The nearby energy field, what was it originally designed for?"
"It's just to save energy when cleaning the ventilation holes." Sandora said lightly 1
Then he walked into the deep corridor first, and we followed closely. Uncle Zaku shouted at the end: "Hey! Don't rush into the corridor! Let the detector go down to check the oxygen and..., Forget it, wait for me!"
The scanning results show that this "mine shaft" leads to a depth of nearly a thousand meters underground, where there is an obvious fault, which is not yet very stable, and has a large misalignment with the nearby geological structure. As Luna mentioned, it was caused by the earthquake that happened here not long ago. After walking for a while, we confirmed our guess: a severely collapsed and tilted metal structure appeared in front of us at an island angle, and the originally wide mine tunnel was suddenly narrow enough for two people to pass through.
"This place should have been completely sealed off once." Uncle Zaku observed the twisted and broken complex bracket in front of him. It should look like a cross-section of a metal corridor, and fragmented pipes and lines can be seen behind the thick metal plate. "First Sealed by long-term geological changes, and then opened a crack in the recent earthquake, the energy seeping from the crack affected the properties of the energy-sensitive metal on the surface Many metal plates used in ancient ruins and the Hundred Years War The seam guards are not much different, if you can’t find this energy residue, even veterans will be confused.”
This is all from the experience of adventurers. They can find something special about a piece of scrap iron from a few simple huā patterns, and from the little energy radiation left on it, they can judge whether it comes from a ruin or an ancient battlefield. When Uncle Zaku said it, I always felt a little unreal: This lazy uncle who seems unreliable at all has this experience? I thought he could do nothing but fool around!
"Even your little girl has such eyes?" Zaku suddenly patted Milia on the head... Although I haven't done much activity in the past few years, I think I was a famous adventurer back then! "
"It's just that there hasn't been much activity in the past few years?" Miria muttered in a low voice.
"The instrument has scanned the results." Bi Luna interrupted the quarrel between the "father and daughter", raised her head and looked at the dark collapsed corridor ahead, the powerful spotlight on her shoulder swept across the darkness in an instant, presenting a moment of grotesque Rugged Shadow "There is a metal partition about 500 meters ahead, and then there is a big hole, but the stability of the ground here is not guaranteed. In such a disrepair, the corridor may collapse at any time."
"Anyway, I can't go back here." Uncle Zhagu smiled, but this time he took the initiative to walk in, followed by a large group of people: I am not worried about the collapse of the underground, according to Sandora's scan, This place is much stronger than expected, tens of thousands of years of geological activities have not completely torn this corridor, it will not collapse for a while.
As we walked forward, we also observed the surrounding environment. This twisted metal corridor embodies very high technology. Although it has gone through a long time of baptism, its main part is still as bright as new. Silver-white cold light reflected from below. Some broken pipes emerged from the faults on the ceiling, and the pipes were wrapped with a translucent crystal material, which was very similar to the energy pipes I had seen in the imperial warships. Obviously, the ancient civilization that disappeared was also related to the empire. Inheritance is inseparable. Sandora has been walking beside frowning, the surrounding scene makes her thoughtful, she may think of the things in the old empire from the things here, I didn't dare to disturb her.
In fact, I didn't have time to bother her: I've been dealing with some stupid ice goblin myself along the way. Qi Lunuo was tied to the airship's cooling grille for ten hours, and made outstanding contributions to everyone's safe journey, but this little dwarf obviously didn't want to be Lei Feng, she was trying to fight me hard all the way, the current The record is 40 losses, 0 wins and 0 draws.
I didn't dare to tell her that she might have to take that airship when I go back later. Uncle Zaku vowed to promise that as long as he rests for a while, the Glory of Radiance will still be able to take off. At that time, Cirno will definitely run for his life.
Until then, let the ice goblin go crazy for a while.
In the end, a heavy alloy gate blocked everyone's way, and also interrupted Cirno's continued grinding of ice powder on the back of my head with an ice sword.
"I feel that there are psionic energy fluctuations behind this."
Sandora said in a low voice, this was the first sentence she spoke since entering the underground walkway.
I don't think this is a surprise: "The civilizations of this world are all bred in the heritage of the empire, and the ancient civilizations are the same." "But... it's different, here, I feel very concerned." Sandora said in a low voice, reaching out her hand Press on the shiny alloy door despite countless years, and gently caress it. The surface of the latter has neat huā patterns, which are left by ancient civilizations. Uncle Zhagu carefully distinguished it for a while, and interpreted a sentence: The door opens outwards, be careful of collisions.
Nima! I have pushed for a long time!
The energy source of the ancient ruins has been interrupted, so the noisy door cannot be opened automatically. Fortunately, we have a strong man with us. Ibuki Cuika suddenly felt that she was lifted up. It turned out that Lin was holding her waist, just like holding a battering hammer. I walked forward in the same way, and I was shocked to see that the Dragon God girl who might be having a convulsion slammed the latter into the door regardless of Cuixiang's protest, inserted a big hard horn of the other party into the crack of the door, and then pried it hard .
pry open... open... open...
Ibuki Watermelon and Cirno, who were also regarded as strange tools, wept bitterly and announced their impossible revenge plan. Uncle Zaku has been stimulated by the astonishment of our strange people, although He was dumbfounded for a moment, but wisely chose to shut up, and led everyone into this large underground cavity that may have been untouched for tens of thousands of years.
"Oh... I think I got rich this time.
,...
Uncle Zaku changed his previous complaining attitude, looked at the wide hall in front of him and the nearby corridors leading to various places, and began to mutter excitedly to himself.
There is no gloomy and damp as expected in the ruins, nor is there any lack of oxygen and silted toxic gas (although that thing has no effect on us), just like the initial judgment, although it has been stopped for many years, the mysterious ancient technology in the ruins is still there. Using the residual heat, the thousand-meter-deep underground cavity is well-ventilated, dry and tidy, and some invisible air passages may extend from other places on the ground. We can still smell the dry air of the Gobi Desert here. The smell of sand means that the air underground has just been drawn from the surface. The lighting system has stopped operating, but there is still faint light in the underground space. These light sources come from the blue crystals inlaid on the ceiling and walls. They have been exhausted to the point that they cannot provide standard energy output for the equipment, but there are still a certain amount of psionic crystals in stock. !
This place actually uses psionic crystals as decorations? Are the psionic crystals in the hands of ancient civilizations as much as the price of cabbage
"The light of coloring! Let's get rich!"
Uncle Zaku let out a low cry, then took out a bunch of tools, and carefully laid down next to the largest psionic crystal nearby, as if he was about to pry a piece off.
His movements are careful enough, but sometimes, the things in the ancient ruins are not something you can deal with carefully: the moment the uncle's hand touched the crystal, there was a low roar from the ground of the ruins.