Chapter 885: The Wanderer in the Phantom of the Past (please vote for the big chapter)
Relics of the past·Archives
The flesh-and-blood monster blocking the door was completely torn to pieces. The maid girl carrying the coffin raised her head and stared at the metal 'filing cabinets' hanging in the air.
This is the deepest part of the entire archives, and it is also the place marked on the map where top-secret information related to the supernatural may be stored.
The temperature of the entire archives room is not high, and extremely subtle low-frequency wind noise reverberates in the space. This should be the temperature and humidity control equipment in the archives room operating.
The maid girl turned around, closed the iron door of the archives room, and then placed the coffin on her shoulders behind the iron door to hold it against the iron door.
Then she turned back and looked carefully at the filing cabinet above her head.
These filing cabinets are tightly attached to each other, like stacks of sliced bread hung sideways from the ceiling.
The height of the entire filing cabinet is much higher than its height from the ground. The height of these suspended filing cabinets is about two meters above the ground, while their own height is about six meters.
Compared with the filing cabinet-aisle-filing cabinet-aisle format, this tight fitting method seems to be more efficient in space utilization, and it seems to be more convenient to retrieve.
There are sticky notes attached to each filing cabinet, showing what aspects of the information in these filing cabinets are biased.
The girl's eyes finally stopped on a filing cabinet marked 'Extraordinary Research Facility (Top Secret)'.
Several adjacent filing cabinets next to this filing cabinet seem to contain similar information.
She walked under the filing cabinet, reached out her hand, and pressed the button on the lower side of the filing cabinet.
With the slight sound of the motor starting, the filing cabinet above the maid girl's head slowly slid down.
The six-meter-high filing cabinets slid down and unfolded like a folding ladder, turning into three two-meter-high filing cabinets connected by metal parts. Each filing cabinet was about one person's width apart.
The maid girl quickly walked to the opened filing cabinet and glanced at the information placed in the filing cabinet.
These materials are marked with their numbers and the text ‘code’.
As if to verify something, the maid girl picked up a file and opened it.
What caught her eyes were twisted lines.
She quickly flipped through the entire file. In the entire file, only some natural descriptions were normal, while the rest were distorted lines.
She quickly put the file aside, and casually pulled out a file codenamed "Streaming Light Project", which looked fascinating.
This file is full of distorted lines and there is no readable text.
The maid girl raised her head, glanced at the information on the entire filing cabinet again, and then picked up a file from the bottom of the filing cabinet that had a relatively straightforward code name and did not seem to be very confidential.
This file has more readable text than the previous two, but it is actually not that much, and all the readable text has one thing in common, it does not involve any extraordinary information.
The maid girl retreated and pressed down all the nearby filing cabinets involving 'top secret'.
After unfolding, a total of eighteen two-meter-high filing cabinets appeared in front of her.
She quickly shuttled between these filing cabinets, her eyes scanning the archives on each filing cabinet.
There were a lot of materials with the names "Flame" and "Lava" in them, but she didn't pick up any of them.
Finally, she stopped in front of the seventeenth filing cabinet, her eyes resting on the file on the top of the filing cabinet.
The codename of this file is very simple, only the word "Starry Sky".
The slender and delicate palm slowly raised and touched the file.
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Volcano Park
The sound of gentle footsteps echoed in the silent corridor.
There are no stairs in the entire corridor, but a slope that slopes downward.
Every thirty or forty meters forward, there will be a corner of about 180 degrees.
The entire corridor ramp seems to be going down in a zigzag shape.
The three of them formed an inverted triangle formation and pushed forward slowly, with He Ao standing at the end.
The surrounding walls seemed to have some kind of echo effect, clearly reflecting the footsteps of the three people.
There was no one walking in or out of the corridor, and everything was eerily quiet.
Bright lights illuminated the figures of the three people, and vaguely, a new 'corner' appeared in front of them.
This is already the third corner the three of them have met.
The three of them slowed down and approached the corner little by little.
Li Cheng walked a little faster and walked at the front, slowly looking towards the corridor behind the corner.
At the end, He Ao turned slightly sideways and looked in the direction behind him with his peripheral vision.
The formation of the three quickly changed from an inverted triangle to a sandwich type with Goya in the middle.
In this corner position, this formation can deal with possible crises in the front and rear at the same time, and Goya standing in the middle can provide timely support to the two of them.
The three of them passed the corner cautiously and quickly.
The corridor behind the corner gradually appeared in He Ao's field of vision.
It was a deep darkness without any lights.
The surrounding 'lines' that formed the corridor fluctuated at this moment.
"careful!"
He Ao reminded softly.
Buzz——
The sharp sword cry instantly rang in He Ao's ears.
Without hesitation, he raised his sword over his head and carried it on his back, blocking the sword sound coming from behind him.
Class B.
Feeling the power coming from the body, the soul of the body descended instantly and activated the super memory.
At this moment, all the surrounding lights suddenly went out, and the figures of Ge Ya and Li Cheng completely disappeared from his sight.
Chaoyi's gaze swept across the surrounding darkness.
No 'figures' of the two people in front could be seen.
A little surprise reflected from the marks he placed on the two of them.
Feel surprised, not alarmed.
It seems that it is not them who are missing, but himself.
He Ao raised his hand to deflect the stabbing attack from his back, then held his sword and spun back.
A vague shadow almost the same size as him appeared in his field of vision, and in the hand of this shadow, he also held a shadow sword similar to the Shadowless Sword in his hand.
Seeing He Ao turning around, the shadow tried to block with his sword, but He Ao easily pushed it away, and then stabbed his body with the sword, shattering it into pieces.
It only has B-level power, no B-level defense, and is actually very weak.
It looks like a 'double' that was copied based on He Ao's current appearance of 'Hao Yi'. Moreover, the copy was very clumsy, and it only increased the strength to B level.
Feeling the shadow collapse in his field of vision, He Ao put away the Shadowless Sword and turned to look around.
He seemed to be still in a certain 'corridor' at this moment, and this corridor was also 'inclined' downward.
Some of Li Cheng and Ge Ya's confused thoughts followed the mark of super memory and entered He Ao's mind.
They seemed ready to explore further.
He Ao turned off his super memory and looked up into the darkness in his field of vision.
He seems to be in the middle of this 'corridor' at the moment.
The twisted lines told him that this didn't seem to be some kind of 'illusion', but a real corridor.
He carefully thought back to the dark moment just now.
It didn't seem like the lights dimmed for a moment, but like his figure appeared in a dark place for a moment.
In that very short period of time, his body experienced some kind of 'space shift'?
He looked at the twisted lines around him.
Is the space here unstable?
What is this? A spatial confusion maze?
Is this the power that Class B can create?
It's possible, but it shouldn't be this strong.
This silent transfer of space is more like an extension of some kind of angelic power.
But will the Angel create a fragile B-class phantom to sneak attack?
That sneak attack phantom is more like an extension of some B-level ability.
So now in this area, there are at least two extraordinary powers, one angel level and one B level?
These chaotic spaces do not seem to be hostile, or can they not be attacked due to some restrictions?
So in fact, the only enemies with murderous intent that need to be dealt with now are the B-level ones?
The other party seems to have some ability to take advantage of this chaotic space.
While thinking, He Ao raised his head and quickly walked down the corridor in front of him.
He still needs to continue to explore the 'structure' of these chaotic spaces. Going deeper, he may get more clues.
The darkness around him surged, and as he moved downward, some black shadows continued to emerge from the night, attacking He Ao with a blade similar to the shadowless sword in He Ao's hand.
Then it was smashed into pieces by He Ao two or three times.
At first, these black shadows were very fast and in large numbers, but as He Ao shattered more and more black shadows, the number of black shadows intercepting He Ao along the road began to gradually decrease.
By the end, there were no shadows emerging from the darkness.
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He Ao began to think that this guy just attacked him first because he noticed that the strength in his body was not high, so he wanted to start with a soft persimmon, but he didn't expect to hit a hard one.
At this moment, He Ao had stopped and looked in front of him.
At the end of the entire corridor is a closed alloy door.
He Ao knocked on the alloy door. The echo behind the door was not empty. The door seemed not thin.
Then he turned his gaze and groped around, but couldn't find the switch to open the door.
Then without hesitation, he twirled the sword, and the Shadowless Sword pierced the metal door, drawing a circle along the edge of the door crack.
Then he slowly exerted force and pushed forward.
The hard and heavy door was suddenly pushed open.
Scattered starlight, accompanied by red firelight, flooded into He Ao's field of vision in an instant.
A slight cool breeze blew over He Ao's cheek, and also blew through the thick smoke.
He Ao turned his gaze and looked to his side.
A fiery red lava lake emitting a strong glow appeared in his field of vision.
He Ao raised his head and glanced at the stars above his head.
This is the top of the volcano, and he came out.
He turned around and looked behind him.
The originally dark, downward corridor turned into a brightly lit, upward-sloping corridor at some point.
The moment he pushed the door open, he passed through the chaotic 'space' and arrived directly here.
"Uncle, which way to the viewing platform?"
From the rocks ahead near the lava lake, a young man's voice came asking for directions.
He Ao looked up and saw a group of young people with backpacks who seemed to be travelers, standing next to a thin middle-aged man, asking for directions in a low voice.
"Go to the left and go straight along the lava lake."
The middle-aged man slowly raised his hand and pointed a way.
The young travelers thanked him softly and left slowly along the winding rocks.
"If I remember correctly, the road on the left is much longer than the road on the right."
A sigh in the slightly jerky District 1 language sounded behind the man.
The man turned around, glanced at the young man holding an invisible sword behind him, and sighed softly, "You're here? It's faster than I thought."
"wait for me here?"
He Ao walked to his side and stared at the fiery red lava lake in front of him, the diffuse smoke brushing his cheeks.
"That guy in there looks like this,"
The middle-aged man sighed softly, "When he encounters a particularly difficult enemy, he will find a way to send him out from here. The faster you come out, the greater the threat you pose to him, but he will only send that enemy out.
The person he feels is most threatening comes out."
"You know him?"
He Ao asked calmly.
"I don't know, maybe we had a relationship when we were still alive, but now he has completely turned into a monster who can't understand words,"
The middle-aged man picked up a rock on the ground and threw it into the hot lava lake. He turned his head and glanced at He Ao, "Your language is different from ours? I have never heard your language. You are not from the Federation.
He is not a human being, but comes from a peaceful alien world?"
"In a sense, you can think so."
He Ao replied calmly.
"A different world,"
The middle-aged man laughed, "There seems to be some kind of yearning for another world left in my incomplete memory. When I was still alive, I should have longed to explore other worlds."
He sighed softly and looked sideways at He Ao, "Speaking of which, when did you discover me?"
"It started when you followed us in front of the coffee shop."
He Ao looked at the lava lake in his field of vision and said slowly.
"I thought I hid it well,"
The man shook his head and chuckled. He turned his head and looked in the direction where the group of travelers disappeared, and said softly,
"I have given them directions 389 times, but in fact, no matter which way I show them, they will follow the same path and then show up here again three days later.
"Whether I'm here or not, they will still ask for directions, thank me, and then leave."
He turned back and looked at He Ao, "This world is boring, isn't it? The whole world is just a boring phantom. I can't even leave this volcano park three hundred kilometers away. I can only stay here and watch what has happened.
What happened in the past happened again and again.”
"So you showed me the way here?"
He Ao turned his head, looked at the man's profile, and asked slowly.
"I just wanted to do something fun,"
The middle-aged man glanced across the entire lava lake, and seemed to have passed through the starry sky behind the lava lake, seeing the continuous city in the distance, "For example, I can tell you what is under this volcano."
