We should not believe any promises made by Zaku, an uncle who seems to be unreliable at first sight, especially when he announces that this shabby airship is already running well. Facts have proved that this was the case when Milia was four or five years old.
It had become a pile of scrap metal in an underground warehouse. After ten years of time erosion, it no longer has any function other than cultivating mushrooms. Lin's big mouth landing method is more reliable than this.
Much.
But at least Uncle Zaku was right. The engine system of this Glory of Light was indeed bursting with the enthusiasm of its heyday. This enthusiasm was so high that it killed the main engine in 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 on the driver's seat
The serious flat projection screen showed the scene inside the engine room, just like inside the electric oven.
The piercing alarm has been sounding for two minutes. It is the only thing on the airship that seems to be working well.
"I told you that anything related to ruins is not a good business." Uncle Zaku let go of the steering column with a sad face, "The engine will shut down in 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 something. In the airship, even Biluna, who had always been the calmest and calmest, now showed a nervous look, while we, a group of more than 20 people, were more calm than the other.
He even had some free time to lie on the porthole and draw little figures, while on the other side Paopao was teaching Yakumo Lan (one of the performance artists in Uncle Zaku's eyes. He still doesn't believe how there are people with tails in this world.
, and this planet obviously does not have a fox-girl theory) How to calculate the gravitational constant of this planet based on the current falling speed?
Even Milia, who should have screamed at this moment, was calmer than him: this girl was busy listening to the lecture with Yakumo Ai.
"Hey, isn't it going to be dangerous if we continue like this?"
When Milia heard what her uncle said, she raised her head and glanced at me. Obviously, knowing our true identity, she was not afraid of the current situation. She just felt that her uncle was even more embarrassed - he couldn't even repair the airship!
I nodded, reached out and pinched the little man next to me who was crawling around in my armpit, and walked towards the engine room amidst the latter's crying and howling protests. After a while, the airship's alarm sounded.
, monitoring shows that conditions in all engines are quickly returning to normal.
I tied Cirno to the radiator grille.
There is no need to watch carefully for the rest of the journey. This strange airship worked pretty well. We first soared in the upper atmosphere until the auxiliary engine stopped pushing, and then sprinted in the opposite direction for half an hour under the instructions of the inverted rudder.
When we passed through a thundercloud, I thought the airship was going to be doomed, but in fact, the thundercloud only took away two boosters. Later, we chased a military aircraft for fifteen minutes, and the latter repeatedly
When the warning was ineffective and the gun was ready to fire, Uncle Zaku repaired the rudder. This originally short journey lasted for ten hours. There was no flight package prepared on the airship. The hungry Sandora ate all the seats in the airship.
Chair, if it wasn't for the fact that Milia couldn't stand the thin atmosphere, I think she would have bitten the outer shell of the airship. Yakumo Blue's face was pale, and every tail was curled. She used it cleverly to reduce the damage of the collision.
The big tail rolled itself into a ball of fur, rolling around in the cabin until it almost went into shock. Ilson was tied to the ground by his sister, because after seeing the tragic situation of the nine-tailed fox, we all felt that this hard-bodied iron
Once the can rolls around in the cockpit, the consequences will be catastrophic. Everyone ignores whether a well-trained God of War will make such a second-rate mistake.
This hellish journey finally came to an end on a Gobi Desert, and we crashed safely into a patch of gravel: although Uncle Zaku repeatedly claimed that this was actually a safe landing.
"If we have really slowed down, I will believe you." Lilina stared at Uncle Zaku with a gloomy face. Behind us, Milia was vomiting.
"You also know that the near-earth deceleration device was broken from the beginning."
Uncle Zaku's face was also pale, but he could still stand firm, which showed that the physique of an old adventurer could still withstand the test.
Lin then added in a weak voice: "I think I can fly better than this..."
Bingtis and I stared at the Dragon God girl who had finally found some confidence, while Lilina complained accurately: "This thing is at best a reprieve, but yours is to be executed immediately!"
After all the tossing, it is now nightfall. Three bright moons arranged in a straight line hang high in the sky. A small wave of Imperial troops are stationed on two of them, while the faint star ring is
Sliding slowly from the eastern sky, it orbits the planet Mobrador, rising and setting in the sky four times a day. We looked at the desolate Gobi Desert, and then turned our inquiring eyes to Biruna.
"The information about the ruins is nearby, of course, underground."
As Biluna spoke, she rummaged through a large suitcase brought down from the airship to find various equipment of unknown purpose, "Exploring ancient ruins has always been a popular job, but the number of ruins is always limited. Nowadays, it is easy to find them.
Basically all the ancient ruins have been discovered. Most of the remaining ruins are on the seabed and underground in places that are not easy to fully explore. Generally speaking, only large-scale geological changes can expose these ancient ruins to the world.
.There was an earthquake here a while ago, and someone discovered something here. Unfortunately, that person was a novice, and he probably confused the entrance to the ancient ruins with the entrance to the old mine. This gave us an advantage."
A pale golden light floated in Sandora's eyes. She was scanning the things under the earth's crust and found a large hole. Obviously the conjectured ruins were real, but I was still waiting patiently for Biluna to use her
The pile of strange-shaped instruments were tested for some time, and finally, she pointed in one direction and said: "It's probably this way."
The direction was correct. Although she didn't understand it clearly, the things she was playing 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 link from the large underground cavity to the ground.
gap.
Just now Zhagu was sitting on the ground sighing, summing up how much money it would take to repair his precious Glowing Glory. Only then did he lazily raise 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, there is almost no interference," Biluna responded seriously to her partner's dragging behavior, and smoothly pulled Zaku up from the ground, "We'd better set off now, the instrument shows three hours
There may be strong winds later, and we need to find the entrance to the ruins before then, or set up a camp nearby."
"Actually, I would rather go back to the airship and take a nap - you forgot, there are Scorpions in the Gobi Desert at night."
Uncle Zaku muttered and followed him obediently.
Because the airship was about to fall apart, and the two transport vehicles it carried also lost their wheels, everyone could only move forward on foot. Fortunately, the distance shown by the signal was not very far, so I gave up the idea of summoning 700 billion.
The experience of twenty or thirty people walking on the Gobi Desert in the middle of the night with lights on at midnight must be something that few people have experienced. Absolutely no one does this on Earth, and in Mobrador, it seems that nothing can stop it except hurricanes.
The strange and evolved aborigines were engaged in outdoor activities. Uncle Zaku wore a small vest and walked on the frozen Gobi Desert while loudly complaining about the stupidity of this trip. Even Milia, who looked weak, was also impressed by this place.
There is no sense of the environment - of course, we have no sense of it, but this illustrates one thing from the side: none of the creatures that can thrive under the radiation of the empire's legacy is fuel-efficient.
On the way, we kept waiting for the scorpions that Uncle Zaku mentioned casually to appear, because Sandora was very curious about their taste, but the largest creature that finally appeared in front of us was just a mosquito that was almost frozen to death. I think Magni
Singing loudly along the way may be an important reason to prevent people from being disturbed by wild beasts on the road.
Biluna stopped from time to time to adjust her detector along the way, and finally pinpointed the location where the energy was leaking from the large hole in the ground. After walking for more than an hour, we found the marker exposed on the surface:
It was a metal pipe that was almost weathered. The lower half was buried in the gravel, and the upper half faced the sky and whined low in the weak night wind. And it was only a few hundred meters away from this most obvious man-made object.
Far away, we found a place that might lead to the ground: a mine entrance half buried in the gravel.
"I kind of believe that the ruins exist," Uncle Zaku judged in a low voice. "Normal abandoned mines in this kind of windy Gobi Desert will be buried under gravel and gravel in just a month or two.
The gravel near the mine entrance is fresh, and the wind force nearby has obviously been suppressed, preventing the mine entrance from being buried."
Biluna nodded: "Maybe some equipment in the ruins is still running, changing the energy field near the mine. What was its original design purpose?"
"It's just to save effort when cleaning the vents." Sandora said lightly, and then walked into the deep tunnel first, and we followed closely. Uncle Zaku shouted from the back: "Hey!
Don’t rush into the tunnel! Let the detector go down first to check the oxygen and... forget it, wait for me!”
The scanning results show that this "mine" leads to a place nearly a thousand meters deep underground, where there is an obvious fault. The fault is not very stable, and is greatly misaligned with the nearby geological structure. Preliminary judgment is that it should be larger than
Luna mentioned that the earthquake that occurred here not long ago caused it. After walking for a while, we confirmed our guess: a severely collapsed and tilted metal structure appeared in front of us at a 45-degree angle. The mine was originally quite wide.
The road was suddenly so narrow that only two people could pass through.
"This place should have been completely sealed once," Uncle Zaku observed the twisted and broken complex bracket in front of him. It looked like a cross-section of a metal corridor. Broken pipes and lines could be seen behind the thick metal plate.
"First it was sealed by long-term geological changes, and then a crack was opened in the recent earthquake. The energy seeping out of the crack affected the properties of energy-sensitive metals on the surface - many metal plates used in ancient ruins
It’s not much different from the tunnel shielding during the Hundred Years’ War. If you can’t find this energy residue, even an experienced person will be confused.”
This is the experience of adventurers. They can discover the special features of a piece of scrap iron from a few simple patterns, and judge whether it comes from a ruin or an ancient battlefield from the little energy radiation left on it. But when it comes from a
When Uncle Gu said it, I always felt a little unrealistic: This lazy uncle who seemed unreliable at all actually had this experience? I thought he could do nothing but dawdle!
"Even a little girl like you has such a look?" Zaku suddenly patted Milia on the head, "Although I haven't been active in the past few years, I think I was a famous adventurer back then!"
"Is it just that I haven't had much activity in the past few years?" Milia muttered in a low voice.
"The instrument has scanned the results," Biluna said, interrupting the quarrel between the father and daughter. She raised her head and looked at the dark collapsed corridor in front of her. The powerful spotlight on her shoulder swept through the darkness in an instant, showing a strange and bizarre scene for a moment.
"There is a metal partition about five hundred meters ahead, and then there is a large cavity, but the stability of the ground here is no longer guaranteed. In such a place that has been in disrepair, the corridor may collapse at any time."
"I can't go back here anyway." Uncle Zaku chuckled, and this time he took the initiative to go in, followed closely by a large group of us: "I'm not worried about the collapse of the underground tunnel. According to Sandora's scan, this
The place is much stronger than expected. I don’t know that tens of thousands of years of geological activity have not completely torn this corridor into pieces, and it will not collapse for a while.
As we walked forward, we also observed the surrounding environment. This twisted metal corridor reflected very high technology. Although it has experienced a long time, its main parts are still as bright as new, and under the light
A silvery white cold light was reflected from below. Some broken pipes were exposed in the faults on the ceiling. The pipes were wrapped in a translucent crystal material, which was very similar to the energy pipes I had seen in the imperial battleships. Apparently, the ones that disappeared
Ancient civilization is also inseparable from the legacy of the empire. Sandora kept frowning and walking beside her. The scene around her made her thoughtful. She might have remembered things about the old empire from the things here. I didn't dare to disturb her.
.
In fact, I didn't have time to disturb her: I had been tired of dealing with a certain idiot ice fairy on the way. Cirno was tied to the radiator grille of the airship for ten hours, making an outstanding contribution to everyone's safe journey.
But this little dwarf obviously doesn't want to be a frivolous thunder feng. She has been trying to fight with me all the way. The current record is forty losses, zero wins and zero draws. I didn't dare to tell her that she might have to take that airship when she goes back later -
-Uncle Zaku vowed that as long as he rested for a while, the Glory of Light could still take off - Cirno would definitely run away by then.
Until then, let the ice fairy go crazy for a while longer.
Finally, a heavy alloy door 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 like there are psionic energy fluctuations behind this."
Sandora whispered, this was the first thing she said since entering the underground tunnel.
I don’t think this is surprising: “Civilizations in this world are all nurtured by the legacy of empires, and so are ancient civilizations.”
"But... it's different. I feel very concerned about this place." Shandora whispered, reaching out and pressing the alloy gate that was still shiny despite countless years, and gently touched it. There were neat spots on the surface of the latter.
The pattern is a remnant of ancient civilization. Uncle Zaku carefully distinguished it for a while and interpreted a sentence: Open the door outwards, be careful of collisions.
Damn it! I’ve been pushing it for a long time!
The energy source of the ancient ruins has been cut off, so the gate cannot open automatically. Fortunately, we have a strong man accompanying us. Ibuki Suika suddenly felt like she was being lifted up. It turned out that Lin was holding her waist, like a battering ram.
Walking forward, I watched in shock as the Dragon God Girl, who was probably having a seizure in her head, pushed Suixiang against the door despite her protests, inserted a big hard horn of the other person into the crack of the gate, and then pried it hard.
Pried open... opened... opened...
Ibuki Sumela and Cirno, who were also treated as strange tools, cried in each other's arms and announced a revenge plan that was impossible to succeed at all. Uncle Zaku has been stimulated by the amazingness of our group of strange people, although his tolerance has been stimulated.
After being stunned for a moment, he wisely chose to shut up and led everyone into this large underground cave that had probably not been visited by anyone for tens of thousands of years.
"Uh-huh...I think I'm getting 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 dampness in the ruins as expected, nor is there any poisonous gas from lack of oxygen or siltation (although that stuff has no effect on us). Just as we judged at the beginning, even though it has stopped operating for many years, the mysterious ancient technology in the ruins is still there.
Using the waste heat, this cave thousands of meters deep underground is well ventilated, dry and clean. 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 sandy earth indicates that the underground air has just been pumped from the surface. The lighting system has stopped running, but there is still weak light in the underground space. These light sources come from the blue crystals inlaid on the ceiling and walls - they are so exhausted that they cannot
Provides standard energy output for the device, but still has a certain amount of psionic crystals in stock!
Are psionic crystals used as decorations here? Are there already so many psionic crystals in the hands of ancient civilizations that they are worth the price of cabbage?
"Blue light! We are rich!"
Uncle Zaku let out a low cry, then took out a bunch of tools, and carefully lay down next to the largest psionic crystal, as if he was preparing to pry it off.
His movements were careful enough, but sometimes, things in ancient ruins cannot be dealt with by being careful: the moment the uncle's hand touched the crystal, a low roar came from the underground of the ruins.