Chapter 1,075 Confusing

"Colossus of Gunda?" Alaya whispered to himself as he looked at the metal colossus lying on the ground, tightly bound by countless tough divine vines, with cuts all over its body, but still resisting desperately. stand up.

Bubbles jumped up at that moment: "What? Gundam Colossus? Is there such a thing? Is it a collector's edition?"

I pushed the girl aside and asked Alaya, "Do you know these iron lumps?"

The angel sister blinked in confusion, a confused look flashed across her golden pupils, and she showed me an apologetic smile: "I'm sorry, Brother Jun, I... don't know." "Don't know?" Sandora's eyes squinted. Come over, Alaya's answer is too strange.

Sister Angel nodded seriously: "I don't know, this name suddenly appeared. I must have come into contact with relevant information before, but they disappeared from the core of my memory... Maybe it was the memory that was damaged by the deep sleep that year. . But such a powerful magical creation... The technical level has reached the level of the mysterious side of the empire. If it was created by other civilizations, it must be the ultimate achievement of those makers who have the ability to create magical creatures of this level. There can't be too many civilizations...but there are no records in the public database."

"Could this be made by the empire?" Sandora suddenly asked.

"No way..." I scratched my hair, instinctively feeling that this guess was unreliable, "This thing has no psionic response at all, and there are no traces of it being made by the Empire. Is it something made by the Empire?" Can't you tell it at a glance?"

"But the creations on the mysterious side are an exception." Sandora shook her head, "Not all products of the empire have obvious characteristics, and not every creation of the empire has psionic reactions. Raven has one-third of the mysterious side. Skills can be driven without relying on psionic energy. The power Alaya uses is the same sacred light as the gods, which is the same level of psionic energy. In addition, there are many things on the mysterious side that use secondary energy, such as arcane energy and elements. Energy, taking advantage of the mystery system's advantage in correcting mathematical laws. Devices that use secondary energy can also produce the same effects as psionic equipment, so sometimes it is difficult to judge whether a mysterious creation is a product of the empire through energy reactions. , unless there is an obvious logo or serial number on it. Of course, if the design style has obvious imperial characteristics, it will be easy to judge. But these colossi in front of me... I don’t know if the empire has ever built such a thing. Their combat effectiveness This is the biggest suspicion that it is related to the mysterious side of the empire."

"The manufacturing material is not something the Empire has ever used... at least this metal is not recorded in my database."

Cut a small piece of metal from the giant statue, crush it into pieces in your hands, and scan the structure of the metal fragments. Sandora came to a conclusion. It would have been perfect if she hadn't stuffed those things into her mouth after making this conclusion.

"The Mystery Department is good at distorting matter and even creating fantasy matter." Alaya squatted next to the colossus. Observing the flow of energy in the cavity, he reached out and touched the metal crack that was slowly healing on the colossus, "Look, this has become something else."

As Alaya's fingers crossed, the metal section of the colossus quickly showed a crystal clear texture, as if it suddenly turned into glass. At the same time. Its unstoppable self-healing ability also came to an abrupt end with the huge changes in its material foundation, and a low echo came from the cavity. The flow of energy was also blocked due to the denaturation of the conductive medium, and the activity of the colossus instantly weakened.

"The basis of everything in the world must follow a set of simple constraint formulas. Or information clusters, which are a complete set of description information for basic particles. Finding the correction law of this formula can change everything. The alchemy of mortal races pursues The ultimate answer is nothing more than this." When it comes to her professional field, even the silly Alaya can talk eloquently. Although her tone is still so soft, she now surprisingly makes people feel reliable. Feeling, "Changing the formula will leave traces of the operation. By inverting these traces, you can find the original form of the material. Now I try to reverse the material composition of this thing to see what states it has experienced during the manufacturing process."

As Alaya said, he pressed his fingers on the chest of the colossus. A metal plate there immediately began to transform. First it turned into a gray-white rough metal, then it had a crystallized texture, and then it melted as if it was about to liquefy. Standing up, the physical form of the colossus changed rapidly. Lin Xue couldn't help but murmur in a low voice: "... Even in the scrap collection station, this is the level of a veteran of the Five Dynasties..."

I think about it, how many times has this lump of iron in front of me been reheated?

"Yes." Alaya suddenly whispered softly, and then stood up. A large metal plate on the chest of the Colossus had completely changed its appearance, turning into a piece of blue, slightly pale, and dim crystalline material.

"The depleted nether energy crystal..." Sandora said in a serious tone, "it is really a creation of the empire."

"There is absolutely no information about this thing in the database," Alaya frowned, "When did we create this kind of thing...especially the mysterious golem, I should know everything about it."

"Perhaps the system has been damaged due to too long dormancy time, but it is also possible..." Sandora looked up at the Sky Tower not far away, "Anyway, I feel that something is not right. The empire's creations appear here, but we But no one knows what they are, and key information is missing from the database. You didn't even recognize the operating mode of the colossus: no matter what, you shouldn't forget such a key thing. Don't worry about this. It’s a giant statue, hurry up and go to that tower..."

"Squeak--" Sandora was just halfway through her words when she was suddenly interrupted by a sharp scream coming from the ground. The colossus, which was about to die completely, gave a last toss, and a strange sound came from its body, and then its face Countless crimson complex runes suddenly appeared on the smooth metal panel, as if the screen was refreshing rapidly. Large swaths of runes quickly swam across the face of the colossus, and at the same time, the cavity in the colossus' body suddenly erupted with dazzling white light!

"Your sister!" I immediately opened the shield, but there was a faster protection expert present. Ilson summoned a beam of light, completely covering the colossus and the surrounding half-meter area. The next second, The light column was completely filled with the dazzling white light of the explosion.

The beam of light dispersed. Only a deep hole was left in place: all the impact was focused in the upper and lower directions by the light beam, and the result was that it blasted through the suspended continent where the Sky Tower is located. Looking down from the big hole left in place. You can even see the slowly drifting clouds on the other side of the earth. When the Colossus self-destructs, it is finally no longer possible to use the attack technique of identifying friend and foe.

"I now believe that this thing is produced by the Empire." Lilina patted her small chest and said, "Self-destruct."

The group temporarily put all their speculations about the Colossus behind, and soon came to the entrance of the Sky Tower: This magnificent building has an unexpectedly simple entrance, except that there is a small hole at the bottom of the smooth tower. A row of semicircular arches about three meters high, without any decoration. It was even just a row of dark holes, inside which were straight and deep corridors illuminated by magic crystals.

"It looks more like a building vent or a waste pipe." Sandora couldn't help but mutter.

"This is also the first time I know there is an entrance here." Sakina said in surprise. "The square at the back entrance of the Sky Tower is a dead place. Countless explorers in history have been evaporated by those terrifying colossi. No one has ever broken through the defense line and reached this location. Sona and I have only heard about this place: back then we Entered through the main entrance."

"The front entrance is probably better looking than here." Lin Xue muttered casually, stepped into the "back door" that looked the same as the exit of the sewage pipe, and immediately covered her nose, "Well, it can't really be a sewer. It's so big The smell!"

The light in the passage is dim, only the magic crystal floating near the vault provides illumination. There are even tenacious vines growing on the smooth walls on both sides: they poke their heads out from the grooves at the joints between the ground and the walls. The ground is different from the boulder square outside. It is covered with a layer of gray-white alloy-like substance. I don’t know how many years have passed on this thing, but there is no mottled mark on it. The surroundings were filled with plant decay and other strange smells of unknown origin, so we had no choice but to open our shields.

"You can feel the fluctuations of magic power." Alaya exuded a soft glow, which greatly alleviated the problem of dimness in the corridor. Now that he finally arrived at his home court, the sleepy man seemed to be full of energy, "This location seems to be a large The components of the magic array, the energy is gathering forward in a regular way, and then transforming into another state... There are several forks ahead. Let me lead the way. If you follow the energy flow, you can safely bypass it. Possible defenses…wow!”

The angel sister let out a short exclamation and fell to the ground as all of us stared blankly.

...Should I say it's something I'm used to, or something else, this kind of calm state of mind is really subtle. It always felt like the moment Alaya fell to the ground, there was only one sentence in his mind: This world is indeed normal.

"It doesn't matter, right?" Sakina didn't understand this stupid angel after all, so she immediately approached him with concern. I lifted up a stupid cat who was a master level wrestling master and pouted: "Don't worry, this is a natural phenomenon."

At this time, Alaya remembered to rub his nose and looked at me seriously: "Brother Jun, please be careful. The ground here is very slippery. I accidentally fell down just now." This idiot's neurological structure is basically That's it.

"I feel like you are all a bunch of weird guys." Sakina muttered a few words and returned to the middle of the team again. The two half-dragon girls, Seiko, Lin Xue, Xiaoxue and Xiaopao, were protected in the middle of the team. They were not considered combatants, so it was better to protect them a little. Originally, we didn't have many thoughts about being cautious in this kind of place, but after confirming that those colossi were made by the empire, and that there seemed to be some problems with the memory cores of all the Xiling apostles present, Sandora felt that something was a little weird at the moment, so she decided to proceed with caution. .

Of course, what made us decide to act more cautiously was the prediction made by mother and daughter Lin Xue and Xiaoxue: The secrets hidden in this sky tower are earth-shattering, and its defense system is not just as simple as the Colossus soldiers outside. The prophets have spoken in this way, so naturally we have to be careful.

Alaya floats in the air. While acting as a searchlight, she led everyone around the forks one after another encountered on the way. I don’t know how she judged the way forward. To be honest, although she could feel the energy around her, in her own perception, these The flow of energy is chaotic and there is no pattern at all. Only experts like Alaya who have a deep understanding of the mysterious side of the empire can find a safe passage through this chaotic energy. Under her leadership. We walked for half an hour without coming into contact with any guards. After rounding the last corner, the team finally got out of the dark road that seemed to be a sewer. The field of vision in front of us suddenly widened, and the semicircular gray The vaults and dim magic crystals turned into wide alloy corridors, and soft and even light came from nowhere. Filling the space in all directions. The ground under our feet is no longer the gray-white alloy, but a milky white substance with a crystal texture. There are small shiny spots swimming rapidly among these milky white crystals. It followed a seemingly regular trajectory through the entire corridor and disappeared into the distance.

"This is the peripheral part of a giant energy matrix." Alaya landed lightly on the ground and bent down to knock on the crystal. "Functionally, it may be to provide a redundant energy buffer for the entire matrix. If I guess correctly, If so, all the corridors and passages in this rather large area have the same function. They are all parts of some matrix. This tower must require an incredible amount of energy to operate.”

"In other words, we are walking on a wire now." Although Qian Qian's metaphor is off-kilter, it is always surprisingly accurate. "It feels very similar to many things made by the Empire. The scale is very large."

"After all, it is suspected to be a creation of the empire," Sandora nodded, and then said with a rather troubled face, "Anyway, I must understand what is going on: since this is something created by the empire, why can't I see it at all? Don’t come out! Even though many things on the mysterious side don’t have such obvious imperial characteristics, they have already come here and have obviously come into contact with the key structural parts of the tower. However, they still haven’t found anything related to the empire. No matter what, this It’s a little too weird.”

Alaya flew into the air, sensing the energy flow around him, and then happily flew to the fork in the left front: "Brother Jun, here, here! This is the way to the inner area... Wow!"

It's easy to hit the roof if you fly too high, especially if your judgment is impaired after twenty hours of sleep...

Little Bubble happily rushed over to collect Alaya's feathers, and under the instructions of the angel sister, we saw a small door hidden in the corner of the corridor. After opening the small door, an extremely wide hall appeared in front of everyone.

Perhaps this can no longer be described with the word "hall", because this is already an indoor square!

This is a circular space with a visual radius of perhaps hundreds of meters. It is empty in all directions. The ground is covered with the same milky white crystals as those in the corridor. Mysterious blue light flows around on the ground, outlining a complete large array. , and this array is obviously not all, because there is a huge crystal cluster in the center of the hall. All the light flows in the energy array eventually converge to the base of this crystal cluster, and then flow all the way up to the ceiling dozens of meters high. Up - probably to the second floor.

Except for the crystal cluster in the center of the hall, which has a radius of perhaps dozens of meters, there is not a single support column visible in the entire hall.

"This is the place called the Assembly Hall." Sakina looked at this spectacular indoor space excitedly, while Sona looked back and said in surprise: "The entrance has disappeared."

It turned out to be the small door we passed through when we came in, but it has now disappeared.

"Seamless space teleportation." Sandora knocked on the wall behind her, "The back is solid. The side door just now should be a teleporter. Unless the array here is violently cracked, it probably won't be found. .”

"Wow! Such a big place! You can fly freely!" Dingdang happily jumped out of my pocket and flew around in the air. The mercury lamp also flew out, and the two winged guys blinked. Suddenly she flew a hundred meters away to play, and Little Bubble cheered: "Guaa!" and jumped towards the center of the hall: her attention had been completely attracted by the huge crystal cluster in the center of the hall. , his eyes were filled with reflected stars and bits of light. The little guy climbed up into the air along the crystal cluster with great joy, and began to hold an emerald green guard on it and break it down. Ji Xianxuan shouted in panic below. Greeting: "Come down quickly! Don't move around here!"

My sister also hurriedly ran over and managed to get the little girl off the shiny crystal: Although we all understand that Little Bubble has a fanatical hobby for shiny things, this place is, after all, a place that looks pretty cool. It's an important relic. If she really damages the key things here, it won't be fun.

After discovering that there was nothing of interest in other parts of the hall, our attention was also focused on the crystal cluster in the center. This thing seems to be made up of many colorful sharp crystals, with a radius of dozens of meters. The surface is full of criss-crossing crystals pointing into the air. Sandora scanned the internal structure of this thing. Unfortunately, we don’t have it. I found that there are ancient treasures and little girls without clothes sealed inside, and of course there is no knowledgeable old man who is ready to teach you Kung Fu. It only contains crystals and high-energy reactions. "If it explodes, it will be enough to destroy the world." Sandora commented on the energy contained in the crystal.

"Explorers have come to this hall, but they used the safe front door." Sakina turned out her notebook. It could be seen that although she had also been to the Sky Tower, she was still not familiar with this place: As a weak team, the two of them probably came here to work for other big teams, so it is impossible for them to have any in-depth understanding of this kind of place. "Let me see, most floors in the Sky Tower cannot follow the rules." After arriving at the route, you can find halls or rooms on each floor. The crystal cluster in the center of the hall or room is the transmission device. I remember here the several known activation methods and sequences that I learned from the seniors at the time. There is a crystal cluster under the crystal cluster. The operation console can be teleported to other floors through the operation console. To return to the entrance, you only need to quickly tap the crystal cluster several times..."

As Sakina spoke, she made a small circle around the crystal and found what she was looking for: a crystal plate two feet square, floating in mid-air.

There is a familiar cross-shaped emblem on it. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)