Master Heimer looks reserved and introverted, but this is just because he has been obsessed with various magic research for many years. Once he talks about the professional fields he is interested in, the young master immediately talks about his emotions as if he is a different person.
He got excited and danced so much that Hao Ren almost suspected that this guy had been soul-pierced on the spot - he finally found a chance to interrupt after Haimo calmed down; "You said time in the ruins stands still?"
"Um..." Haimer suddenly felt a little embarrassed, "This is just a guess... Our research on the element of 'time' is really superficial, and even the legendary ancient magic empire should not have the power to control time... Plus
When we entered the ruins, time in the ruins also flowed normally, so I can’t even tell what was going on inside when the ruins were completely sealed. It’s just the various signs after opening the door..."
Hearing this "Teacher Hemmer" start to talk at length again, Betsy, who had already been confused by him, quickly interrupted: "Okay, okay, okay, don't make up this lesson with us.
, the person next to me is a professional in the demolition of ancient buildings—please let us go to the site and have a look quickly?”
"Of course, we have cleared the outer layer of the ruins, please come with me..."
Haimo selected a few apprentices of spiritual light to accompany him, and then called several high-level knights stationed here to serve as guards, and then led Hao Ren and his party to the entrance of the ruins that was discovered not long ago.
The entrance is at the foot of the mountain wall not far behind the observation camp. A semi-collapsed gray-black cave suddenly appears there. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary cave. There is nothing special about it. At first glance,
No one would have imagined that the cave entrance would lead to some ancient ruins or something like that. The mountain walls on both sides of the cave entrance were covered with dead vine branches and black tree roots, and there were still traces of being chopped by fire and knives.
It should have been left behind when the investigation team was cleaning up. Two knights wearing enchanted armor were guarding both sides of the entrance, with serious expressions and tense muscles. The knight swords in their hands were leaning on the ground, looking extremely majestic.
"How did you lock this place?" Hao Ren asked casually before entering the cave.
"The initial energy fluctuation was interfered by the energy field of the 'Wall of Lolisa'. After entering the mountains, the investigation team could only search like a carpet without any clues. However, not long after, the second and third energy fluctuations occurred.
——It is irregular, but it happens frequently, giving us the opportunity to continue to lock in. After filtering out the interference of the Wall of Lorissa through mathematical methods, we finally locked in this place."
As Master Heimer explained, he led everyone into the dark cave that looked like the giant mouth of a beast.
The entrance to the ruins was half-collapsed and looked quite dangerous from the outside. However, after walking in, Hao Ren noticed that there were dots of magical light floating on the roof of the cave and on both sides of the cave walls. Small magic spells could be seen at intervals.
The formation seemed to be floating in the air and was set up against the stone wall. After questioning, I found out that it was set up by Haimo to prevent the cave from collapsing.
After entering from the entrance, there is a long slope that slopes downward. I walked straight for nearly a hundred meters before encountering forks and turns. And the deeper you go, the more forks you encounter. As you walk, you feel like you are walking.
It was like entering a maze, but fortunately the investigation team had discovered most of the forks along the way, and there were conspicuous signs or soldiers stationed at each fork. Heimer used the bright light technique to make up for the damage along the cave.
The lack of brightness of the inlaid lighting magic crystal allows everyone to clearly see all the details in the cave.
Hao Ren saw some broken utensils exposed from time to time in the soft soil of the cave, and traces that seemed to have been manually dug on a few cave walls, but other than these things, there were no more traces of civilization. He couldn't help but
A little strange: "Is this the main entrance to the ruins?"
"No, we haven't found the main entrance yet. I suspect that the ruins below are completely closed. There are no entrances or exits. They are designed to only be entered and exited through space teleportation," Heimer explained, "and this cave
The end of it is actually a branch corridor leading into the ruins. They were not originally supposed to be connected. It was the small earthquake caused by the energy explosion a few days ago that opened the entrance and exit."
Hao Ren nodded and did not continue speaking.
After continuing to go deeper for a while, they saw that the cave in front of them suddenly became brighter. A large number of glowing magic crystals were inlaid on the walls of the cave on both sides. A relatively open cave space was leveled out, and a small cave was installed inside.
In laboratories, weapons depots, outposts and material piles, several magic apprentices and formal mages were busy sorting out data in the cave. When they saw Haimer, they immediately stopped what they were doing and came to salute respectfully.
"Don't interrupt, keep working." Heimer seemed to have a mentor-like attitude when facing his apprentices and assistants.
After the apprentices and assistants left, he pointed to the crack at the end of the cave: "That's the entrance. Once you get in, you'll really enter the ruins."
Vivian summoned two small bats, raised her hand and threw them into the ruins. After a while, two groups of blood danced back from it. Vivian nodded: "There is no problem inside. It seems that the investigation team has indeed cleaned up very well."
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After crossing the stone wall that was cracked by the earthquake, Hao Ren's eyes suddenly opened up.
A wide and straight corridor extends to both sides. The corridor is made of some kind of artificial material. It is smooth and smooth, and emits a faint glow. Countless straight stripes can be seen on the walls on both sides of the corridor, like some kind of mysterious relief.
It's like a pipeline that guides energy. Looking to both sides, you can see that one end of the corridor disappears into a pile of collapsed rubble, and at the end of the other end is a heavy door that has been opened.
The heavy door was painted with patterns that were completely different from the various decorative styles in Horleta today - various straight lines formed an extremely abstract picture, like portraits of characters and monsters, but full of weird atmosphere.
This is the first door to the ruins. It took Master Heimer and the apprentices he brought three days and three nights to crack the opening method of this door. However, they encountered a setback in front of the second door inside. It is only now that they can
There has been some progress.
Hao Ren stepped through the door and found an unusually wide hall inside.
This hall is oval in shape, broad and majestic, but there are no supporting beams. There are no obvious lighting facilities in the hall, but it is full of light. All of this demonstrates the power and incredible technological power of the Magic Empire in the past.
, at least this mysterious lighting method cannot be copied by today's Horleta civilization. Looking up, you can see that the vault of the hall is a deep dark blue, with dots of white dotted on it, forming a
It looks like a starry sky, with various mysterious constellations outlined by silver-white lines, and you can also see winding character annotations - the entire dome is actually a huge star map, and it seems to reveal something in its grandeur.
It reflects the pride and pride of that powerful magical civilization back then: it seems that except for the essence of the stars in the universe, there is nothing worthy of them looking up to.
Around the hall, there are a series of closed doors. According to Heimer, those are well-preserved laboratories and storage rooms, and at the end of the hall is another door, which is not yet open.
The second door that was cracked - the Grand Master believed that the door behind it led to the core hinterland of the ruins. This hall and the laboratories around the hall were only peripheral research facilities at best.
"The positions of the stars in this astrology map are very different from the astrology maps we use today, but there are also some similarities. They should be the starry sky scene ten thousand years ago," Master Heimer raised his head and said in a tone of admiration.
Its perfection and accuracy are astonishing. Many stars that cannot be observed on the ground have been recorded in it, and through it, the positions of many stars in thousands or even tens of thousands of years can be accurately calculated. I am only trying to understand
After calculating some of them, I found several parameters that can correct the contemporary astrological map... Incredible, unbelievable, it's really hard to imagine how the Magic Empire ten thousand years ago was so knowledgeable about the starry sky..."
"It's very simple. They have space observatories and even satellite colonies. The magic emperors back then all completed their star research directly in synchronous orbits," Hao Ren smiled and asked the data terminal to check the age of various things in the hall.
Reading, "This place looks really intact. It's incredible. It's been ten thousand years, and there's not even a trace of weathering on this place..."
"Not only that, we also discovered many abnormal phenomena - when we entered here, the energy arrays in some laboratories were still running, and in some things that seemed to be alchemical reaction vessels, the alchemical reactions had not yet ended, and some
The door was shaking, as if the owner had left the place in a hurry just a few seconds before we entered..."
The scene described by Master Haimo was very detailed, and he had obviously seen it with his own eyes. No wonder he had made the incredible assumption that "time stopped flowing" before.
At this time, the data terminal also completed the data measurement, and the results it obtained also surprised Hao Ren.
"There are really signs that time has stopped?!"
"Yes, there will be no problem with the measurement of this machine," the data terminal replied. "There is a ten thousand year age difference between the things in the hall and the things in the cave outside. This can only be explained by the fact that time has been stopped."
"what about now?"
"You'll know just by looking around," the terminal turned in a circle in the air, "the time here has resumed flowing, and it should have just resumed flowing not long ago. This machine guesses that the recent energy explosion and landslide destroyed the time here.
Some kind of 'space-time structure' caused it to resume operation."