Due to the big explosion more than ten years ago, the interior of the Gaia ruins has long been torn apart, with obvious upper and lower faults. After entering the ruins, Aloy needs to face both a harsh environment and a bad terrain.
The most difficult thing for Aloy is not these environmental factors, but Sirens who has been monitoring him through Focus.
While Aloy was climbing and descending, Sirens, who was hiding in a safe area, kept urging her to speed up, as if standing and talking didn't hurt her back.
Urged by Sirens again, Aloy finally couldn't bear it and shouted: "Shut up! If you think my speed is too slow, why not come out and try it yourself!"
Sirens: "Emotional girl, you cannot understand my thirst for knowledge. Ignorance is a curse to mankind."
"You are from the Nora tribe. You should have seen the worship of the so-called 'Mother of All Things' by those ignorant tribesmen, right? Do you think they are right?"
"Tsk!"
Aloy really couldn't refute this topic. She had already learned the true identity of the Mother of All Things from Yongzhen.
Although he failed to refute Sirens, Aloy's warning at least made him restrain himself.
As he continued to move forward, Sirens didn't say any more nonsense and silently watched Aloy climbing among the ruins of the cold wind.
After struggling through the hollow fracture canyon, Aloy finally entered the core area of Gaia's ruins and was about to begin to reveal the final truth.
At the same time, Lu Xiao and Yongzhen entered the outermost layer of the ruins, Sirens' studio.
Lu Xiao silently gestured to Yongzhen to prepare for an attack.
Eagle Vision was turned on, and a life reaction appeared in Lu Xiao's field of vision, less than 10 meters away from him.
Slowly pulling out the Xuanyuan Sword from his waist, Lu Xiao walked to the wall connecting the hidden room.
"Qiang!"
The Xuanyuan Sword struck out quickly, and the indestructible blade made a cross in one second, cutting a small gap in the solid wall of the Gaia ruins.
Yongzhen, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately activated it. When Sirens failed to make any reaction, she accurately found the target, pushed him to the ground, and put the pop-up hidden sword against his neck.
…
"Well!"
Sirens' groan suddenly came from Focus, and Aloy, who was about to open an encrypted door, stopped.
"Sirens?"
It was not Sirens who responded to Aloy, but Lu Xiao.
"Aloy, we found him. You wait where you are. Yongzhen and I will bring this guy over immediately."
At the same time, the small bag on Aloy's waist began to shine with a faint light, and it could be vaguely seen from the outline of the light that it was a small stone with words engraved on its surface.
"Whoa!"
Before Aloy could fully digest the sudden change, Lu Xiao and Yong Zhen had already teleported to her side with an unconscious black man.
This black man is exactly the same person as Sirens, whom Aloy met before.
Aloy saw the arrogant Sirens in such a miserable state, and with a wicked smile, he picked up a bunch of snowflakes from the ground and made snowballs.
"Crack!"
Being hit right in the face by the cold snowball, Siren suddenly jumped out of his wits, opened his eyes again and woke up.
Aloy knelt down with a half-smile and looked at Sirens, who had not yet understood the situation.
"We finally meet officially, Sirens."
"...I have to say, I was careless."
Sirens looked at Lu Xiao and Yongzhen beside him warily: "I didn't expect you to have a helper secretly."
Lu Xiao struck Sirens' bald head with the Xuanyuan Sword in its sheath: "I hate people who think too highly of themselves and people who like to make mysteries the most. You happen to have both of them."
"Since you are curious about the truth preserved in the ruins, then come and explore in depth with us honestly."
Lu Xiao bent down and looked at Sirens with a smile: "When we find out everything here, we have many questions to ask you. Don't try to play tricks."
"Da~"
As Lu Xiao snapped his fingers, the spear Aloy carried behind his back suddenly made a crisp popping sound.
"ah!"
Aloy was startled, and threw the spear far away as he rushed forward.
"take it easy."
Yongzhen said comfortingly: "It's just a positioning device so that Sirens can know your location at any time."
Aloy glared at Sirens angrily: "You bastard! Sure enough, you have a purpose in giving me things!"
"stop."
Lu Xiao stopped Aloy who tried to step forward and beat Sirens up: "The structure here is too dangerous and may collapse at any time. We'd better find out the truth first and get the overwrite command."
"It's not too late to beat him after leaving here. Business is more important."
Aloy took a deep breath to control his emotions: "Humph! Then let him go first."
Form is stronger than people. Although he felt very aggrieved in his heart, Sirens, who knew the current affairs, did not retort as cheaply as before.
The ruins of Gaia are the terminus of the Alpha research team led by Elizabeth, and the last old human died in this underground fortress.
While continuing to explore, Aloy first found Elizabeth's room. The dilapidated workbench also contained the voice record left by Elizabeth.
But these records are so badly damaged that they need to be repaired before they can be interpreted.
This work was naturally handed over to Aletheia. While Lu Xiao and others continued to delve deeper, Aletheia had already begun to repair and reorganize the damaged data.
When they came to a gate that was kept sealed, the damage and chaos on the periphery of the ruins could no longer be seen.
Aloy still scanned his face to enter. Under the welcome of the intelligent voice, the group officially arrived at the central area of the Gaia ruins.
After the door opened, the first thing that appeared in front of a few people was a rectangular console, with a green luminous handprint suspended in front of the console.
"Aloy."
Lu Xiao raised her chin forward: "Go ahead, untie it, and put your right hand on the handprint."
Aloy followed the instructions obediently. When her hand and the fingerprint overlapped, the verification code was released, and a male voice with a strong French accent appeared in the room.
"I am Charles Ronson, and this is the record six hours after the Gaia Core was activated."
"This morning, one of the shelter's air inlet and outlet valves malfunctioned."
"The standard size of the air inlet and outlet valve is less than 2 centimeters, but the size of the failed inlet and outlet valve exceeded 10 centimeters."
"Such a size is enough to allow internal energy and information to leak out, allowing the Faroe fleet to detect the shelter."
"The future we have planned so hard for will be ruined by this small mistake, unless... someone can manually reset the control device of the air inlet and outlet valve from the outside."
"I……"
"Hey~"
The person who left the message hesitated to speak, and it could be heard from his trembling voice that his mood was very unstable at this time.
"...cut to discuss holographic projections of live recordings."
The projections of five people appeared near the empty operating table, and one of them, a golden retriever with a mohawk haircut, was the first to take the blame.
"I will never go out, this is not my job."
Lu Xiao had seen this person in the ruins records under Sunset Castle before. His name was Travis Tate, the person in charge of the development of the Hades subroutine, and a cynical anti-government activist.
The other leaders of the Gaia subprograms were also sitting around the console, passing the blame to each other, and none of them wanted to leave the shelter to repair the air inlet and outlet valves.
They know very well that once they leave the shelter, they will never come back.
Aloy seemed to realize something. She opened her eyes wide and searched among the people in charge, but could not find any trace of Elizabeth Sobek.