When Polu opened his eyes, he saw an unfamiliar stone roof. The warm fire and the hot meat had an extraordinary recovery effect. He slept very well yesterday, and his feet were warm and swollen.
Lu even felt that his indescribable mental fatigue had recovered a lot. This was good, but it could save a mental injection.
After cleaning up, everyone went on the road again, and the thick pine needles made a rustling sound under their feet. However, in this quiet morning, the mountains were still dead silent. There were no animals or birds, and even the corpses could not be found along the way.
The forest seems like a
The monsters that devoured everything, or the animals along the way had gone crazy and joined the tide of beasts and died under the fortress. Only the peeled pine cones, feathers in the bushes, dry and hard feces were left, abandoned.
The nests prove that animals once existed here.
Walking in this silent forest, the mist floats in front of you, and the trees hang in front of your face. This place is as pure as the legendary home of the forest elves, except for the animals, all of which have disappeared.
Along the animal path, everyone walked silently on the ridge, setting marks on the trees along the way. In the face of this strange silence, everyone lost their intention to laugh. There is no doubt that such a search is not certain.
While walking towards the target, an unnatural thing on the top of the mountain caught Bolu's attention.
Bolu pointed to the top of the mountain: "There seems to be something on top. The lower half is square and the top is round. It doesn't look like a natural formation. It seems to be a man-made building. I suggest we go and take a look."
"Well, even if not, it would be good to observe it from a high place." Leonardo raised his head, observed it, and nodded.
The group leader led the way to a relatively gentle hillside and was about to lift his legs up. "Wait!" Bolu peeled off the soil on a stone slab under the group leader's feet. The stone was square and had obvious edges.
There are traces of processing. There is another stone on top of the stone slab. After digging out the soil on the two stone slabs, it can be clearly seen that there are many more such stones buried under the soil layer. The two stones that have been dug out
The stone slabs are all similar in size and dimension, and have obvious traces of processing.
"This is a road. It was built by humans or other intelligent races." Polu said with certainty.
"This place is completely outside the scope of human activities. Who would build such a road here?" Leah said.
Polu glanced at the hooded expressions of the four muscular men and shook his head: "The width of this road is about the same as shoulder width. Look at the height of this stone step. Only humans and elves can reach this height. If
If there are no elves in this place, this road is basically built by humans. Generally speaking, elves will not build roads in the mountains, and they should not be difficult to reach by this kind of terrain. "
"Okay, let's go." Polu couldn't restrain his excitement and walked up the mountain. Leonardo rushed forward: "You walk in the middle, don't start."
He took out his short sword from his waist, and took out several shields from his ring, giving one to everyone. Everyone walked on the extremely exposed ridge with their shields on their backs. There were steep cliffs on both sides, and a winding road
The stone road covered with soil leads to the top of the mountain. The force of nature
The energy has returned to rule here, and in some places the roads have been washed away, and you even need to jump over them. Walk carefully along the way. The climb is very physically demanding, your clothes are soaked with sweat, and the wind that sweeps across the ridge carries the
The chill made Polu shiver involuntarily.
When Bolu climbed to the top of the mountain, Dyke and Tezier were guarding the exit of the road. Leonardo seemed to have entered the building facing the exit of the road. Bolu suppressed himself and rushed in to explore immediately.
Desire, waiting for news about Leonardo. Maybe because the terrain is too high,
Half of the building relies on the original mountain rocks, and the other half is made of a strange brick material. The surface of the building is covered with moss, and it almost blends in with the surrounding rocks. If the shape were not too standard, making it feel unnatural and awkward,
Maybe you can't find it from the bottom of the mountain.
"Come in! There is no one here!" Leonardo's shout came from the building, and after being refracted inside the building, it sounded slightly distorted.
"It's too dark. There are no windows inside? Why does it feel like there's no light at all?" Bolu put down his backpack, took out his small lamp, and walked into the dark doorway. He also turned on the light in his hand.
The lamp was turned on to the maximum, and the bright light illuminated the interior of the building. At this time, Leah also came up, and Polu waved to her: "Come here quickly!"
Under the thick outer wall, there was a steel door upside down in the doorway. This discovery made everyone nervous. After all, iron doors would not be installed in places that do not need to be defended. The thick loose leaf connected to the wall was pulled by huge force.
It was twisted and deformed, and one of the iron doors was pulled out by its roots. The iron door probably had
It was two fingers thick, and its surface was covered with deep scratches and dents. The surface of this heavy steel plate was covered with marks like a can being scratched by a key. Leonardo directed the muscular men to pry it up and down.
The steel door panel on the ground rests on the door frame, which is also made of steel, blocking the door opening.
"What kind of attack marks are these? Commander, can you cut the door down like this?"
"I can, but it's not necessary. You need to use a sharp tool to cut such a mark, and the sharp tool is very large, so it will easily damage the curling edge. If I switch to a big hammer and hit it with all my strength, the door will be deformed immediately.
The door may be broken open in one go. This level of protection cannot stop extraordinary professions above the third level. Several of them can break it open in a few times." Leonardo tapped his chin on the people who were blocking the door next to him.
indivual.
"That is to say, those who attacked this place... don't know what they are. They don't have high-level strength or above, and they don't have much intelligence. They don't have any useful tools. They rely on brute force to repeatedly attack and break the door bolts."
The door is open."
Polu raised the lamp in his hand and looked around at this space that was illuminated for the first time in many years. Countless questions floated in his mind. Although the outer wall was square, in fact the inner space was a flat, cylindrical space.
The space is very high. If Polu had to choose the most appropriate metaphor, it would be an airport tower. But there are no windows. There is a row of curved consoles placed against the wall. After all, they are covered with buttons.
, instruments and operating levers. There is no ground in the center of the space. It is a bottomless dark cave. There are countless thick pipes in the space, extending upward into a huge metal block that looks like a CPU heat sink. The space is full of
It was a mess, with huge cracks everywhere, as if it had been cut open by some huge weapon. There were traces of splashing dark liquid on the pipes, console, floor, and walls.
"What happened here? Look at the cracks in the metal and walls. Tsk tsk. A third-level knight's full blow can't do that. And what on earth is this place for? We are here to investigate the barbarians. How did we suddenly find such a place?
"How can a barbarian have such a home?" Leonardo wandered around the cracks curiously, seeming to be pondering the attack patterns of the makers of these cuts.
"Stop talking, if we can build such a thing, we should be called barbarians." Polu chatted with Leonardo while walking around the hall.
"It's strange. This place was obviously attacked. There are cracks and blood everywhere, but there is still no body?" Bolu wiped out a clean area on the operating table. "Huh?" Bolu stepped up a few steps and turned the operating table.
Several nameplates on it were rubbed out.
"The nameplate of this place is in Archimeian! This place is related to alchemy!"
After the four muscular men heard this, their expressions did not change. Only Leah asked: "Do you understand Archimea?"
"Common tongue was developed from Archimea, and even dictionaries were written in Archimea. Well, Common lingo and Archimea are actually the same, but the grammar is simpler and has been removed.
Element mark. As long as you can read, you can understand it.
!" Bolu said as he took out a towel from his backpack and began to clean the dust on these operating tables. The dust was too thick. Bolu originally wanted to ask who knew how to use the cleaning technique, but looked back at the dirty people.
, sighed and gave up the intention of asking,
"Don't be in a daze! Help me clean up the dust on these devices! Look for anything else around. I want to figure out where this place is."
Everyone started working together, and the whole space suddenly became dusty, and the nameplate on the machine gradually reappeared. Halfway through the cleaning, Leah suddenly shouted: "I found a cabinet!" Bolu hurriedly ran over. This heavy
The iron cabinet was locked tightly. Bolu pulled the door, looked at the lock that had completely rusted into a ball of iron flowers, and gave up the plan of keeping the cabinet intact: "Lea, pry it open."
"Pry it open? It won't explode?"
"Won't"
"How do you know it won't explode?"
"No normal person would put a bomb in an ordinary records cabinet."
Polu clicked on a brass nameplate on the corner and polished it with his sleeve: "Heidenberg Three Cooling Tower Control Room Operation Log Cabinet."