After crossing the fallen gate, the group continued along the dark tunnel. They thought they were going to spend a long and depressing journey underground, but in fact, after walking a few steps, a broken gate appeared beside them.
.Think about it again, the central cooling tower must be set up near the most powerful heating components. If it is too far apart, wouldn’t the heat dissipation efficiency be very low?
This gate is made of thick steel plates and looks quite similar to the composite gates in air raid shelters in residential areas. It also has an outward-opening structure. The gaps between the two gates have bulged outwards, like balloons that have been burst from the inside." Tsk tsk.
, the explosion was quite powerful." Bolu looked at the twisted door and took a downlight from the crack to shine in: "It's a mess."
"Don't go ahead, Leah, take him second to last, and Deke, stay behind." The taciturn Deke nodded. Everyone filed into the dark space through the cracked door.
Polu looked at this space. The ground should be made of stone, but there were no joints. The walls on all sides and the ceiling above were all made of similar materials. "How many manpower did it take to build this place? What kind of materials are these?"
"It doesn't look like a natural material." Poluna knocked on the floor and wall with a hammer, feeling very strange.
Leah, who was walking in front, answered: "This is a characteristic of a magician's building. You can see similar building materials and solidified spells on the magic tower. This place must have been built by a magician. And he is a very powerful magician. Since then,
Judging from the traces, this pipe well and this passage seem to have been formed at one time. It is so amazing, at least it was at the level of an archmage. This place must have been very important at the time. Mages rarely did such rough work. Generally,
They are only willing to use it when building a magic tower for themselves."
"I don't know how big this place is, otherwise it would take a few of us to search it."
Walking along the eerie and long corridor that seemed to have no end in the shadows, footsteps echoed in the corridor, and everyone held their breath, as if they were afraid of disturbing the monsters lurking in the darkness. The doors on both sides of the corridor fell left and right, and some remained open.
Some of the complete shapes had been broken into several pieces, and there were terrible cracks on the door frame. At first, everyone was still interested in seeing what clues there were in the room, and searched several rooms in a row, but nothing of value could be found.
Nothing was found, so he just asked Polu to shine a light on it. If nothing was found, he stopped searching the house.
Turning into a circular corridor from the corridor, and walking along the corridor for dozens of steps, Polu saw the purpose of his trip on the door plate: "Central Laboratory, everyone, it is here." This is a door that bites.
The sliding door, with a mechanism to open the door on the wall next to it, was covered with dust at this time, and it seemed that it had lost its function. Everyone gathered around, Leonardo nodded, he and Tezier held shields and weapons
Standing on both sides of the door, Hick and Dyke held the steel pipe they had picked up on the ground. One end of the steel pipe had been smashed flat and inserted into the crack of the door that had become rusty. Bolu took two steps back and came to Lai
Leonardo stood leaning against the wall, and Leah came to protect him.
The four people in front of the door nodded to each other. Hick and Dyke simultaneously began to pry open the door crack, and the door made a harsh creaking sound. It gradually slid to both sides. When the door pried open a palm-wide crack, Bo
Lu brought the light closer, and Leonardo looked inside: "Pry it open, there's nothing." The other three people worked together to expand the crack in the door to the point where a person could pass through.
Leonardo took the lead, and Polu followed him into the space. After entering the door, Polu found something from the ground to jam the crack of the door, and waved: "Okay, come in." He turned up the volume.
bright light.
The powerful light dispelled every inch of darkness in the room. It was an empty ball-shaped space. It was about the size of a basketball court. There were many vertical tubes made of transparent material in the center of the field. Some of them had fallen to the ground and shattered into pieces.
It is still standing strong, but it is no longer complete.
One side of the container was smashed to pieces. A huge, twisted and weird plant probably grew in the center of the laboratory, wrapping a large number of transparent containers inside. Seeing this scene, Polu took a breath: "Here's what's going on."
What kind of experiment are they doing? This scene is completely a biohazard!"
After entering the door, Leah went straight to the various cabinets around her. After polishing several nameplates, she finally found the one she needed: "Polu! Over here, the experiment log!"
Everyone gave up on the transparent container, which looked scary but was actually silent, and gathered around Bolu. They pricked up their ears and were ready to listen to Bolu's story. They also paid attention to the signs and sounds everywhere. If anything went wrong, they immediately closed the container.
Bolu ran out through the crack in the door.
Polu pulled the door of the diary cabinet, and the door slid open gently. "Oh no, this door is not locked, and I don't know what can be left." Polu complained and lowered his head.
The cabinet was empty except for one book. Polu picked up the book and found that it contained books similar to those written by the magic circle teacher he had seen before that would have self-destructed. "Oh no, there is a password to open this book.
Yes, it will explode if you open it wrongly." Polu said as he stood the book up to see if there were any clues left on the book block. Several gems on the book cover suddenly turned into dust and gradually dispersed.
"..."
Polu was at a loss when holding the book whose code lock suddenly collapsed, so he had to forcefully explain: "It may have been too long, and all the magic power of the gems has been used up, and now it is useless."
"Stop explaining, read quickly."
There was a note sandwiched between the cover and title page of the diary. Polu picked up the note and read it.
"To the discoverer of my experimental diary: When you found this diary in the cabinet, I should have been dead. The one sitting on the chair in front of the cabinet was me. Presumably, you should also be a fellow member of the Alchemy Association. I
I want to ask you to bring the news of my death to Suxikes. Who among you knows where Suxikes is?" At this time, Polu was afraid of being seen as strange, so he did not have a query system.
"A place in Nazwa that used to be a very nice place."
"once?"
"Yes, later Nazwa asked the residents of the entire town to become slaves, but of course he chose to refuse, and then he was massacred."
"..."
"Then this old gentleman didn't even mention the body, he didn't even have the bones, and even the chair was gone. Did he get tired of sitting and go for a walk somewhere?"
"This would be very embarrassing! Hey! This joke makes my back tingle!"
"Stop talking nonsense. Be serious. Don't interrupt, let's clarify the matter first." Leonardo stopped their nonsense.
The entire experiment diary was full of details, so Polu had no choice but to read out the key points while reading.
"Old Hood sent us a piece of information and invited us to participate in the research. When their expedition team was prospecting for minerals in the mountains of the northwest wilderness, one day they encountered something that fell from the sky. There is still a lot of uncertainty about these things.
I don’t know anything about it, I just know that it fell to the ground in the form of a meteor, and the expedition team happened to be nearby, so there was no reason to miss such a good thing. The strange thing is that when the meteor was about to touch the ground, its speed slowed down extremely.
There was no impact. It took three days for the expedition team to find out what had fallen from the dense forest. According to the description, the thing quickly grew into something like a vine, attracting a large number of small animals.
Edible. The small animals soon underwent strange changes, growing both physically and mentally. After preliminary tests, it was found that this strange plant has the ability to strengthen. If the mechanism of this thing to strengthen the body can be understood, perhaps humans can
Get rid of the restraint of talent and have stronger growth potential. Old Hood actually asked us if we wanted to participate? What a joke, such an experiment, such a purpose, such a goal, I simply cannot refuse."
"We came to this remote mountainous area, and the properties of this plant are indeed as wonderful as they said."
"The stripped sample lost activity very quickly, and we were afraid that it would die. In order to decide whether to move it back to the city, everyone got into a quarrel. Losing it would be an unacceptable loss."
"The voting results are out, and those who believe that the nature of the tree is unknown and the risk of moving it is too high have gained the upper hand."
"In order to study this plant that has grown into a big tree, we decided to build an experimental center here. We have 7 alchemy masters here, and each of them has a high spellcasting level. In order to keep up with the progress, we decided to suspend the experiment.
We and the apprentices we brought will all be devoted to the construction work. Everything here will be kept secret from the outside world, and all materials will be extracted from nearby. Fortunately, the previous expedition team has found a lot of minerals. The experimental center is expected to be open soon
It will be accomplished.”
"On the day the experimental center was completed, we couldn't help but quickly dive into the experiments. Now that the conditions are in place, various experiments can begin."
"This tree is more like a living thing than a plant, and it can be grown quickly using a solution containing biological waste."
"We tried to use some samples to feed experimental organisms, and they changed greatly. It was more like mutation than evolution. The animals' bodies quickly grew extremely thick cuticles, and their personalities became irritable and irritable.
We tried to dissect some of them, and found red filaments on the surface of the animal's muscles, other tissues, and bones. We think this is the main factor in the variation."
What followed were many pages of long and meaningless experimental records that yielded nothing. Boru looked at them and skipped them.
"We have become more and more confused recently. This tree looks like a plant, but it shows more and more properties of Warcraft. It also absorbs solutions and solid food. Things in the laboratory are getting more and more...
There are more and more. Its roots gradually grow like a large blanket, and its appetite becomes larger and larger. The supply of supplies begins to run out."
"Yesterday it ate a piece of leftover magic crystal. Maybe magic power is also in its recipe?"
"The feeding using magical power was successful. Now we no longer have to collect organic matter to feed it, and the collection of feces has also stopped. Everyone feels sincerely happy."
"Recently, there is news from mages that they are warning that the space rifts they guard are becoming more and more unstable. More and more things are squeezing through the rifts, becoming more and more powerful. The casters are exhausted, and the huge pressure forces us to take drastic measures.
We decided that if we can't stop those big bugs in the space rift, they will eat up everything we have. We need more and stronger warriors. Now we will take the risk and try to directly use energy to catalyze it. If we can obtain its reproduction mode, we
Perhaps more radical experimental methods can be used. Let’s build a magic compression circle first.”
"A huge amount of compressed magic power flowed into the laboratory, and the test object glowed red, and it began to grow rapidly. Since it likes it so much, it seems that it does not have the ability to directly extract magic power from the air. Fortunately, it does not."
"The test product performed well in a high-concentration magic environment, so we decided to go all out to ripen it."
"The test object is soaked in the magic of compression. It seems to be very relaxed?"
"The size of the test object is getting bigger and bigger, and it has begun to produce some round things. Are these its fruits?"
The experiment seemed to be going very smoothly up to this point. However, the picture changed on the next page: "The experiment was out of control! A large number of experimental creatures suddenly mutated at the same time, broke the test tubes and rushed out. They and the mages were defending
Things have very similar properties! The researchers in the laboratory were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties! The control end of the central magic compression circle was destroyed, and we couldn't stop it. The magic power still poured into it, and it was growing rapidly! And the magic power is so
We can't even cast spells to resist the dense environment, maybe a little magic blast will blow up the entire base to the sky!"
"It can control humans! I saw some service personnel were manipulated and turned into giant bugs with thick carapace in front of me! Everyone in the base who can fight melee has gone to resist. We, the spell casters, usually call the shots.
In such a magical environment, you can't even resist! It's so frustrating!"
"The resistance is about to stop. The entire millennium accumulation of alchemists is about to be destroyed today. We have caused accidents, but at least we can't let them out. We have designed a sealing plan that will be executed by a few of us personally. They will
Lure this damn thing into a sealed area that has been set up, such as the central magic pool, a place it likes, and then package the seal and compress everything into a sphere. In theory, the farther the ejection, the better.
.Unfortunately, we can't do it, we can only stuff it into the ground. And I will carry out the blasting of the entire base. Once such a high concentration of magic explodes, any organic matter will turn into a puddle of liquid. Now this damn thing can be moved,
It goes to the central magic pool, and I will detonate the base here.
Don't look for it, don't look for it, don't look for it! So I won't record where it is sealed.
There's no way any of us could survive.
I hope that humans will gain the ability to fight against it before it wakes up, and that the mage allies will not feel too lonely. We really should send them a copy of the experiment record. But no one can carry it out.
So there will be no corpse on the chair at all, so there is no need to look for it. I have set up a multi-layered magic circle for this diary that is enough to resist falling meteors, hoping that someone can see him.
By the way, all the materials we have in the Ibrček Library are given to you. Go down the 13th pillar on the left. The unlocking code for the pillar is up, down, up, down, left, left. The first gate is up, down, down, left, left.
.It won’t explode, but if you press it wrongly, it will activate the defensive puppets. They should not be inactive when you see them. So don’t make mistakes, our ending will be because of our mistakes.
But you still have to remember:
Don't go gentle into the long night,
It should burn and roar at sunset.
Don’t forget our creed:
Stay curious and take control of your destiny.”
Bolu raised his head, looked at the heavy-faced people, opened his mouth, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.