"Something doesn't seem right." Pique said with a dark face as he looked at the constantly shaking underground palace.
"Someone is storming the underground palace." Ji Lan replied.
"Then what should we do? Keep exploring inside, or?" Pique asked doubtfully.
Chitaki said cautiously, "It is not a good thing to storm the underground palace. It may collapse in the end. We have to get inside before them."
"Without further ado, let's go in." Chromie said.
The group of people walked inside, and there was a long and slender passage as always, with many abstract murals carved around it.
"Why don't they build each palace next to each other instead of building a passage to connect them? What a waste of space." Piqué said with a sigh.
"That's because for the convenience of partitioning each square palace, it will become a place of death." A playful voice sounded in everyone's ears.
"You!" Pique and others were shocked.
Chitaki was also startled, why would this little girl appear next to them.
"What do you want to do?" Chromie asked warily.
"Don't be nervous. I've explained it many times. I'm just a holographic projection. It really doesn't cause any harm. I made things difficult for you before because that's what the procedure stipulates. Now that you've passed the level, I have no reason to harm you.
"The little girl said with an innocent look.
"It seems to make sense." Pique felt as if he was about to be convinced.
Chitaki asked calmly at this time, "Then why are you following us."
"Although I am only an artificial intelligence, the long years have been very boring. I finally met you and decided to help you." The little girl said affectionately.
The corner of Chitaki's mouth twitched. He didn't know why, but he didn't believe it in his heart, but he couldn't think of any words to refute.
"Under normal circumstances, artificial intelligence will not lie." Ji Lan said.
After hearing Jilan's words, Chitaki said, "Thank you then."
"You're welcome. In your human terms, we are friends." The little girl said with a smile.
"Excuse me, what's your name?" Chitaki asked curiously.
The little girl tilted her head and thought, "I forgot too, how about you guys call me whatever you want?"
Chitaki, Chromie and others looked at each other, not knowing what to call her.
"Forget it, forget it, the title is not important. Let's not waste our precious time on this. Where are you from?" the little girl asked curiously.
"We are members of the escape ship Hibernian, which escaped from Hyperion." Chromie replied.
"I've never heard of it." The little girl said doubtfully.
"It's normal that you don't have this information. Hyperion's civilization originated more than 4,000 years ago and is not from the same era as yours. When you were born, Hyperion had not yet taken shape. In addition, if I remember correctly, you belonged to
The powerful countries in the second star field are themselves different from our star field," Chromie replied.
"The explanation is very reasonable." The little girl nodded.
As they asked and chatted with each other, they gradually began to get acquainted with each other. Chitaki asked curiously.
"Do you know how many more checkered palaces there are?"
"Ahem, you asked the right person about this. In fact, there are many square palaces inside." The little girl's words made everyone's hearts sink.
"Shouldn't it be a lot?" Chromie frowned, somewhat disbelieving.
At this time, the team members walking in front stopped attacking, and three branches appeared in front of them.
"There's a fork, which way should we go?" the team member in front asked.
Chitaki drove the Refractor forward a few steps and saw three identical passages, even the furnishings inside were no different.
He was a little hard to make a decision for a while, but it was obvious that the three passages must lead to different places.
"Do you know where to go?" Pique tried to ask the little girl.
The little girl smiled and said, "Of course I know, I'm very familiar with this place."
"Excuse me, where do these three passages lead to?" Chitaki asked politely.
The little girl did not make any trouble for them. She jumped in front of everyone and pointed to the three passages and replied, "The passage on the left leads to the prison palace, where a large number of alien creatures are imprisoned. The passage in the middle leads to the rock."
There are a large number of position defenders inside the palace, and the passage on the right leads to the Lost Paradise."
"What is Lost Paradise?" Chitaki asked doubtfully.
"It can be understood as a place for entertainment and recreation." The little girl replied thoughtfully.
"I'm confused by this name. How about we choose the Temple of Rock?" Pique asked subconsciously.
"I also think this choice is more appropriate. It's quite satisfactory." Joellenbas nodded. On this point, they still agreed with Pique's choice.
"Are you sure?" The little girl showed a playful smile.
"Excuse me, are there any other differences when choosing different channels?" Chitaki asked.
The little girl squinted her eyes and said, "If I remember correctly, if you choose the passage on the left, you only need to pass through three palaces to reach the inner hall. If you choose the middle one, you will need seven more palaces, and if you choose the right one, you will only need one palace.
"
"Seven!" Pique jumped up.
Ji Lan frowned and kept looking at the little girl, hoping to get some information from her to judge whether she was lying or whether this was a trap.
"Seven is too many." Chromie couldn't help but say.
Qiantaki nodded. Seven was indeed enough. It was almost equivalent to walking through every square of the palace. However, he always felt that the nearest passage on the right would be very dangerous, not as the little girl said.
That way, it's just a small palace area for entertainment.
"If we choose the passage on the right, what will we encounter?" Chitaki tried to ask.
"There will be danger. It is correct to say that this danger is more dangerous than other passages, and it is correct to say that it is safer than other passages." The little girl gave a very strange answer.
"Can you explain it in detail?" Qiantaki has no good solution now, so he can only consult her. As for whether it is true or false, he has to judge by himself.
"The passage on the right will continue to narrow after entering. In the end, I can only abandon the mecha and move forward on foot. Of course, the dangers encountered are not as high as the other two, but without the protection of the mecha, the human body is very fragile."
The little girl said playfully.
"Why don't you take the passage on the left? After passing three palaces, it's barely acceptable." Chromie frowned, rationally telling him that it's best not to abandon the mecha, otherwise if something unexpected happens, the mortality rate will definitely be extremely high.
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"I prefer to take the passage on the right. The space is reduced and the mechas cannot move inside. It must be targeted at both sides, not just us. We are all equipped with third-generation individual armors, which can maximize combat effectiveness." Qiao Lumba.