(At this juncture when it is neither the end of the month nor the beginning of the month, I plan to ask for votes again and again - because I suddenly remembered this)
As if to confirm Sandora and I's premonition, when Sajina found the crystal plate suspended in mid-air, the first thing that caught our eyes was an extremely familiar cross-shaped mark: a cross rhombus crystal.
, Empire logo.
In theory, I should be surprised at this moment, but I don't know why, but this time I can only feel a sense of powerlessness, as if I have become immune to encountering imperial heritage in other worlds every now and then.
I shrugged and faced Sandora with a helpless smile: "Look, it is indeed the empire's non-burnable garbage. You were really throwing things everywhere back then."
Sakina and Sona both had confused looks on their faces. Of course they didn't understand what I was saying, but they didn't ask any more questions. Sandora's face had another expression: neither surprised nor surprised.
Not happy, but with serious doubts and disbelief, she stared at the empire logo on the crystal panel, as if to force the latter to speak, and then squeezed out a few words through her teeth: "The situation is abnormal!
"
"Huh?" Sister glanced at her, "What's going on?"
"We're already here, and the empire's logo has appeared in front of me," Shandora said, biting each word very hard, using this method to express her seriousness and uneasiness, "but I still don't find anything like the old empire here.
Related things, everything here is strange. Strange materials, strange energy arrays, strange technology, and even strange atmosphere... It's too abnormal. Even for mysterious things, this strangeness is too strange.
It's normal, as if they have nothing to do with the empire: except for this mark. Arjun, you may not understand how I feel. But now I feel like I am seeing a group of completely unfamiliar civilizations, but each one uses the empire
"
I set my sights on Alaya. She is the only expert here who has a deep understanding of the mysterious side of the empire. Facing my questioning gaze, the silly cat angel also nodded lightly: "Brother Jun. I have the same feeling.
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"Brother, me too." Pandora nodded without waiting for me to ask. But Viska looked around at the adults around her curiously: "What are you talking about? Why can't I be the only one who doesn't understand? Brother
Brother, can you understand?"
"Vesca is not a Xiling apostle who has undergone normal initialization, so he may not have similar feelings." Even Pao Pao, a guy who is always out of shape, temporarily jumped out of her two-dimensional world and explained to me.
Said, and pointed at Little Bubble who was looking at the crystal cluster and biting his finger, "Although I can't explain it, my daughter also feels that the environment here is very strange. She said that she was very confused. Of course, she is more concerned about it.
Or when can these shiny things be taken back?"
The strange sense of dissonance that Sandora and the several real Xiling apostles present had at the same time is something that outsiders cannot empathize with, but through their descriptions, I can roughly imagine what the situation is like now. But no one can explain what it is.
What's going on? Why does the Empire's logo appear on a group of things that are so strange that they have nothing to do with the Empire? Of course. I also thought about whether this place might be the remains of a certain family of the old Empire (we will not consider why it is in such a place for the time being).
Familia from the old empire will appear in the remote broken world), but Sandora immediately rejected this conjecture: "Impossible, the empire's logo cannot be used by the families so freely. Only the imperial equipment and apostles can use the standard Crusade emblem.
If the family members want to use this emblem, they must transform and add the mark of their own race. This is an iron law of the old empire. It is the same even now. Haven't you noticed? All the equipment of the servant army is printed with "
The imperial emblem all bears the coat of arms of the Military Command."
I'm really embarrassed to admit that I didn't notice it - it seems that I really have a lot to learn.
"Keep moving forward. Maybe there will be answers to some things when you get there."
Sandora suddenly exhaled and seemed to put aside the pile of fog for the time being. She looked up at the dome of the hall dozens of meters high and frowned, "Although there is nothing related to it in the memory,
But my intuition told me that it was time to move on.”
There is a complex space division system in the Sky Tower. It is impossible to move in this tower through physical staircases and corridors. Unless the space transmission system here is cracked by force, we can only use the hall according to the rules here.
The central crystal cluster to move.
Of course we considered brute force cracking at the beginning: it fits the style of the empire. But now that the situation has changed, brute force cracking is no longer suitable. The Sky Tower was built by the empire, so it must have hidden high-end technology, and brute force cracking may be possible.
Error: We can't treat this as a simple facility made by a low civilization. After a little analysis, Alaya determined that the crystal suspended next to the crystal cluster was something called a "node converter"
, Well, the name is very high-end, but it is actually an operation panel. By touching it, complex lines appear on the panel. These lines are what controls the Sky Tower's transmission system - in the final analysis, this thing is just an elevator switch.
Since it is just an elevator switch, it is not surprising that generations of explorers in this world have mistakenly deceived part of the instructions transmitted in the Sky Tower. After all, it is not encrypted and has no difficulty in operation, and it seems that this
The permission identification system of the Sky Tower has also been disconnected. Primitive people may not be able to fly airplanes, but is it still wrong to drive an elevator?
Sakina compared the pictures on the notebook and slid her fingers on the panel. Alaya looked on: according to the instructions that the explorer had summarized, she could decipher the entire Sky Tower's transmission code faster.
The moment the half-dragon girl completed the operation, the crystal cluster next to us made a clear sound, reverberating like a tuning fork, and the next second, the surrounding scene changed.
It is still a hall, but it is completely different from the hall on the first floor. It is full of things: everywhere you can see, there are piles of neatly stacked crystal stone tiles, which are about a foot long and several inches thick.
, pure crystals with a blue-white luster were neatly stacked into a square pile with a side length of about three meters. Dots of bright light were wandering in the hall. Some of the bright light fell into these stone bricks, and the latter would suddenly brighten, as if
It is responding to the energy in the surrounding environment.
Bubble sighed and continued to hug his daughter from behind: a certain little girl was already crazy with happiness.
"Warehouse?" Sandora looked at the scene around her that was similar to a warehouse, and said to herself. She waved her hand casually. A crystal stone brick flew from a distance, suspended in front of us and slowly rotated. "Look.
It's an energy crystal. It stores arcane and other magical energy... I still can't see the shadow of the empire's technology. It has no value, it's just energy." After saying that, she threw the crystal aside.
Sakina looked surprised: "How did you do it? Many explorers want to collect the crystals here, but no one can move those things. They seem to have infinite weight."
"Because this is originally our thing," Sandora said lightly, "Well, it is most likely our thing."
"Is this the second floor?" My sister looked around, trying to find things like building numbers: It would be really boring if there were all halls like this in the Sky Tower. And we don't even know where we are.
have no idea.
"No, this is the sixty-seventh floor." Alaya pointed diagonally upward. Only then did I notice that there was a holographic projection-like image surrounding the middle and upper part of the crystal cluster. Unfortunately, there were characters I didn't recognize on it."
Those are magic pattern characters, which are not only used to express meanings, but can also be used as components of the magic array. The entire tower is a precisely designed array, and every brick here is part of the magic array."
Alaya said, her tone unable to hide her admiration for the exquisite design here. After continuing to collect energy samples here, she asked Sakina to continue teleporting to the next known area.
You should be able to grasp the teleportation rules here by just one floor.
Unlike the indigenous people who are completely ignorant of this complex mysterious knowledge and can only be confused, Alaya masters all types of magic circle algorithms. As long as Sakina demonstrates a few known operating procedures, she can easily
This system can be cracked quickly.
After the second teleportation, we arrived at...the fifteenth floor.
"This elevator has a kick in the sky and a kick on the ground," Sandora said in a faint voice as she looked up at the holographic projection on the crystal cluster.
The fifteenth floor is worthless. The hall is still a lifeless hall, and this time even the stacked goods are omitted. There are only cylindrical stone platforms emerging from the ground in all directions. The stone platforms are only more than one meter high.
There is one every ten meters on average, with a shimmering metal ball placed on the top. "It's just a relay point for the magic array, providing diversion," Alaya explained.
Sakina activated the crystal cluster again. After the familiar scene changed, we finally came to a place that seemed to be of some value for inspection: this time what appeared in front of us was not a rotunda, but a hexagonal space.
Surrounded by silver-white alloys, a low buzzing sound came from behind these alloy walls: this may be a place where some important equipment is stored.
Sandora raised her head and glanced, her tone was very subtle: "Two hundred and sixty-nine floors." This ridiculous elevator...
Sakina was quite happy and looked at Sandora with admiration: "It's amazing. We never know which floor of the Sky Tower we have reached. Many old-timers have a legend that there is actually something inside the Sky Tower.
There are countless layers, and there is no distinction between upper and lower. The teleportation can never be positioned..." She just said something in general, but Xiaoxue interrupted: "That's just because you can't understand the instructions."
This naughty child has the same precision in speaking as her mother.
"The key information was found." Alaya was tinkering next to the crystal cluster for a long time, suddenly raised her head and said happily, then she flew straight to the nearest alloy wall, put her hand on it, and muttered a phrase in a low voice, while
Released his own power.
The hexagonal closed wall that originally seemed to have no gaps, let alone doors or windows, suddenly appeared with countless criss-crossing blue-white light streams, as if a machine that had been on standby for a long time was reactivated, and a low humming sound behind the wall also appeared.
Then the tone suddenly increased, and then a soft and gentle synthetic female voice sounded around: "The defense system is re-initialized. The outer closed system connection is online, and all inner defense systems are shut down. Try to reactivate the authority authentication... Error, the authentication target is not valid.
Exists, permission authentication failed. Enable the default backup plan... You will log in to the system as a special user, and administrator rights cannot be enabled."
"This is the only way," Alaya smiled apologetically at me, "For some unknown reason, the defense system of this tower has been shut down for tens of thousands of years. The only thing that can be used after it is restarted is to seal all entrances and exits from the outside.
Function. In addition, I turned off the internal defense device here. The tower can no longer identify outsiders. I was worried that there would be defense facilities here like the Colossus in the square outside, so I simply turned off the system."
I nodded. Even though the shelf life of things made by the Xiling Apostles is usually ridiculously long, there is always the possibility of accidents happening over a long period of time. This Sky Tower is even more weird, and it doesn’t matter if its protective device fails.
unimaginable.
In fact, it’s thanks to the fact that the protective device of the Sky Tower has been shut down for tens of thousands of years. Otherwise, explorers in this world would not be able to find a way to enter the tower. Just look at the Gundams still active in the square at the back of the Sky Tower...
Ahem, just look at the Colossus of Gundar. It has an arcane explosion with a machine gun-like rate of fire and a mass collapse point. This thing is even cruel when used against imperial soldiers, let alone an expedition team composed of ordinary people like Sajina.
Well, if the protection system of the Sky Tower is still in effect... I guess all we will see here are layers of adventurer corpses.
"Can you tell what this place is for?" I couldn't help but ask when I saw Alaya put his hand on the nearby wall and closed his eyes for a long time without moving.
The angel sister opened her eyes, and a little light flashed in her golden pupils. Then she shook her head: "Without administrator rights, I can't connect to the database. But I got part of the structure diagram of the Sky Tower. Look, that's what it looks like."
As Alaya spoke, he opened his wings and fluttered slightly. Layers of dreamlike light mist immediately floated out from the surrounding air. These lights gradually condensed into a model of the Sky Tower, which was only one meter high.
The exquisite, translucent model is filled with dazzling fine details, and the model is obviously incomplete: its upper end ends abruptly, with only a thin black shadow on which floats the words...
.
"Wow, so this is what's inside the Sky Tower?" Sakina curiously approached the holographic projection and looked at the dizzying lines inside, "Eh? Why are there so many things moving?"
"This model is connected in real time to the transmission system of the Sky Tower," Alaya explained. "The space in this tower is not fixed. In addition to the unchanged layering, each floor has unique corridor structures and
Places with small rooms are constantly changing their positions. As I said, the Sky Tower is originally a huge magic array, and this array is the most complex one: it adjusts itself and has never stopped for tens of thousands of years.
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Bingtis curled his lips: "I can't understand it at all... Technical nerds also have specializations in the arts. Your research on mysticism back then seems to be no more advanced than that of the gods."
Alaya smiled stupidly: "It's strange. I still can't remember when there was a branch like the Sky Tower in the empire's mysterious technology - it obviously comes from a complete magic system, but it's a pity that I haven't seen it.
…”
At this moment, Shandora's exclamation came from the side, interrupting Alaya: "Arjun, Alaya, come on! Look at this!"
Sandora stood next to the teleportation crystal cluster, pointing at the various data that appeared on it. After Alaya partially activated the facilities of the Sky Tower, the holographic projection around this thing was not limited to floors, but more
There was a lot of text, some of which were runes whose meanings were incomprehensible, and some of which were constantly refreshing data, which should show the operation of the Sky Tower. When Alaya started studying the structure diagram of the Sky Tower, Shan
Dora was observing these holographic projections nearby. Although they were just some operational data, they might contain key secrets of the tower.
And now, she has obviously found the secret: it is a line of Xiling text that is not very obvious. It seems to be used as the header of the data table. When other information is refreshed, this line of text has never changed its position. The text content
It's very simple. There is only one sentence: Energy Transmission Agreement No. 776, which is running stably. The person who issued the agreement: Alaya Noley Korita.
The three words Alaya stand out particularly because I have never heard of the following names.
"Me?" The angel sister pointed to herself stupidly, looking at the name on the holographic projection in a daze. Qianqian grabbed the shoulder of the stupid cat in surprise and said happily: "Wow, your name turns out to be so long.
ah!"
Angel sister scratched her hair: "I almost forgot, not many people usually call me that."
Everyone: "..."
"Is this really Alaya's name?" Lin Xue swept her eyes between the holographic projection and the silly cat angel in disbelief, and then nodded without waiting for anyone to answer, "Oh, it's really you. Is it possible?
Duplicate name? How many people named Alaya were there in the old empire?"
"Every angel has the surname Coretta, but there is only one angel named Alaya." Pandora, who had been silent all the way, suddenly spoke, explaining in a rare and careful manner. There was nothing visible on her little face that had not changed for thousands of years.
Her emotions fluctuated, but I felt that she was no more calm than the rest of us.
"Okay, let's confirm for the last time," Bingtis slapped the angel sister on the shoulder, startling the stupid cat, "Do you really really not know what this tower is about?"
"I don't know." Alaya answered very simply, and then looked at me pitifully, "Brother Jun, is my brain broken?"
Bingtis staggered, then clutched her stomach and walked away: "No, this girl is too cute. I will go and laugh for a while."
At this moment, I no longer care about complaining about Sister Angel's slow head and Bingtis's jokes. I look at the flickering holographic projections around me and listen to the buzzing sound of the equipment behind the wall. I feel for no reason that maybe
There’s something big going on today. (To be continued)!~!