Chapter 428: The Cradle That Crosses Thousands of Years
"Merciful Mother of All."
The old woman at the head chanted loudly: "Please bless us to have a good harvest and protect us from the invasion of metal demons!"
"Mother of all things, the Nora clan sincerely prays to you!"
Judging from the standards of primitive people, this ceremony does look like that.
But Lu Xiao did not feel any mysterious fluctuations in the surroundings, and the Nora family's prayers did not receive any form of response.
The three old women known as the eldest mothers seemed to have been used to this for a long time. After the ceremony, they ordered the black warriors to evacuate the people, and the three of them entered the cave known as the Holy Church together.
In order to prevent the sound of conversation from attracting the attention of the Nora tribe, Aletheia and Yongzhen entered a state of silence after Lu Xiao turned on the sneak mode, and only observed the scene from a distance through the high-altitude tracking and shooting of the drone.
Following the three eldest mothers, Lu Xiao entered the cave with a large number of burning torches. The relatively good lighting allowed Lu Xiao to have a panoramic view of the situation inside the cave.
The first thing that caught Lu Xiao's attention was a metal gate at the end of the cave. There were a large number of "sacred" sacrifices placed near the gate.
The residence of the eldest mothers is in the small cave next to the hall. As night falls, the three people who completed the prayers blessed each other and returned to their respective caves to sleep.
After confirming that the breathing of the three people became even, Lu Xiao carefully reached the deepest part of the cave.
Through the perspective of eagle eye vision, this thick metal gate is composed of double layers of overlapping special alloys.
Relying on the indestructible nature of the Xuanyuan Sword, it is definitely possible to force it open, but it is absolutely impossible not to make any noise.
In order to avoid offending the "gods" and triggering an attack by the entire tribe, Lu Xiao temporarily withdrew from the cave, preparing to wait until the three eldest mothers went out to lead the tribe during the day before taking action.
Climbing down the uninhabited cliff on the north side of the mountain, Lu Xiao found a small cave and decided to take a rest here first and exchange information with Aletheia and Yongzhen.
"The silence has been lifted. Tell me, what do you think of the Nora tribe?"
Yongzhen first gave an answer based on his own understanding: "It is quite common in primitive tribes. The most concerning thing is the mother of all things in the mouth of the eldest mother."
Lu Xiao smiled and asked: "Do you think the Mother of All Things is real or the eldest mother is fictional?"
"It's hard to say."
Yongzhen's holographic image frowned: "I didn't see what was going on inside the cave. What's in it?"
"A door."
Lu Xiao clicked the Focus hanging next to her ear: "Focus asked me if I wanted to connect with the gate's program. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, I refused."
Aletheia asked thoughtfully: "Lu Xiao, do you think there will be Shelter No. 1 behind the gate?"
"It's not impossible. The specific situation can only be confirmed by entering in person."
"Don't talk about me anymore." Lu Xiao changed the subject and said, "How are you doing there? Have you found anything new?"
Yongzhen nodded and said: "Aletheia's drone also discovered humans when it expanded to the west. They have nothing to do with the Nora tribe. From these populations, the drone captured the two people of Meridian City and Sun King.
a noun."
"Sun King?"
When Lu Xiao heard this name, he immediately thought of Louis XIV of France, but obviously the Sun King mentioned here has no connection with him.
"In other words, besides the Nora tribe, there are other tribes that have developed relatively well. They even have the concepts of cities and emperors?"
Aletheia replied: "Probably, going further west will exceed the signal transmission range of the drone, so we can't know the situation for the time being."
"Tomorrow Yongzhen will go to the west with the one-time teleportation runes you gave us to expand the coverage of the base station. Maybe we will get different gains from you in the near future."
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Since learning how to meditate, Lu Xiao will not only let go of everything and enter a deep sleep state in the main world, but also use meditation techniques to restore energy at other times, and maintain a certain level of vigilance during the meditation process.
Compared with the front of the mountain, which has a gentle slope, the back mountain where Lu Xiao temporarily lives is steeper, and no one will go up the mountain from this direction.
The light of morning light at sunrise outside the cave shone on Lu Xiao, awakening him from his meditative state.
Lu Xiao, who never let down his guard, immediately turned on Eagle Vision.
As the scope of Eagle Eye gradually expanded, every move of the Nora people was captured in his mind.
It was impossible for the three eldest mothers to guard the temple all day without doing other things. They left the cave early in the morning and headed to the main villages and towns of the Nora tribe to guide the people to start their day's work.
The strong black man whom he met yesterday arranged for several subordinates to guard the gate of the Holy Temple Cave. Lu Xiao ignored these guards, cut off his breath and walked past them in a swagger.
Once again, Lu Xiao came to the heavy alloy door, and this time Lu Xiao chose to connect her Focus to the door's system.
A red light lit up on the lines outside the door, covering Lu Xiao's face in the light.
"Please wait for the ID scan."
The red light swept upward from Lu Xiao's chin, and the mechanical synthesized voice quickly gave the answer.
"Error, the Alpha file is damaged, the identity cannot be identified, and entry is not allowed."
Lu Xiao shrugged nonchalantly: "I didn't expect it to be so easy to enter."
"Qiang!"
Pulling out the Xuanyuan Sword from his waist, Lu Xiao stabbed the golden sword straight into the metal door. The indestructible Xuanyuan Sword was not hindered in any way.
"Warning, intruder! Intruder! Calling the guards...failed, turning on the autonomous defense system...failed."
Ignoring the AI's warning, Lu Xiao made as little noise as possible and opened a small hole in the double-layered alloy door that was barely big enough for one person to pass through.
"Aletheia, hack this idiot AI and shut it up."
Aletheia: "No problem."
"Warning, warning...error..."
After Aletheia attacked the core data, the AI in charge of this shelter quickly fell.
It is unknown how this AI was made. Aletheia can destroy it, but cannot rewrite its core code.
"Strange... Judging from its code, it should be a secondary agent program created by a more advanced artificial intelligence, but I don't know why I can't trace the source of this stupid AI."
When Aletheia raised the question, Lu Xiao had already entered the gate.
After reassembling the cut-off part of the structure, Lu Xiao arranged an illusion on the door so that the eldest mother of the Nora tribe could not detect the cut marks on the door for the time being, so as not to cause unnecessary commotion.
"Welcome to the Cradle of Elucia 9."
The automatically announced welcome lines made Lu Xiao and Aletheia, who had been paying attention to this place, stunned at the same time.
"Cradle? Not a refuge?"
Lu Xiao frowned and thought for a moment, and he had a rough guess about the purpose of this so-called cradle.
"Aletheia, what do you think?"
"...Go on and dig deeper, maybe the truth is just as you guessed."
Lu Xiao has always had a question since she came to this world.
Since the human race in the last season has been determined to be extinct, how did these new generation humans appear?
The theory of ape-man evolution can basically be rejected.
Considering the strong desire of human beings to reproduce and inherit, Lu Xiao believes that the civilization of the last season should have left some emergency measures.
The name "Cradle" evoked his imagination. If it was as he guessed...
"It's a big plan that spans nearly a thousand years after the demise of mankind. It's impossible for such a huge project to be managed by no one, right?"
Thinking of the secondary agency program mentioned by Aletheia before, Lu Xiao said thoughtfully: "Or is it that the person responsible for management is not a person?"