Chapter 1,433 A Ball with a Long History

(Well, let’s continue to ask for monthly tickets while the double amount is doubled. Anyway, I am idle...)

The Devil’s Cave is a very vivid name. Just from these two words, you can hear the feeling of ghostly wind, howling ghosts and howling wolves. The indigenous people of this world have such a straightforward impression of the disaster brought by the power of the abyss, and This is also reflected in the cage they built to seal this power.

It is a huge cave that goes deep into the ground and cannot be seen at the bottom. The entrance to the cave is in a small basin only a few kilometers away from the Dark Moon Palace. Everyone stood in front of the teleportation tower on the edge of the basin, looking down at the dark valley. I saw a kilometer-long crack suddenly cracking in the ground in the center of the basin. The crack looked out of place with the surrounding geology. It was obviously not a natural formation. Its edges were jagged, and a large number of sharp stalagmites pierced from inside the crack. The sky is like ferocious fangs, so that I feel that the devil's cave is like a beast that chooses people to devour: it is sealed underground, and only a huge mouth of bloody fangs pokes out of the surface, waiting to devour the reckless ones. Interloper. And deep in the rift valley, dark clouds and mist are constantly rolling, which is dust and mist that has been lightly polluted.

"A mere sample of the abyss was sealed in such a large formation. It's quite honorable."

The above is the objective evaluation made by Bingtis, a senior magic stick, abyss processing expert, and protoss archaeological team member, when he saw the entrance to the Demon Cave.

We know that the Dark Moon is shrouded in a layer of thick fog that never dissipates, but around this small basin, the thick fog is blocked out, so that the vicinity of the Demon Cave has become the place with the freshest air on the planet, let alone the dust and fog. . I even vaguely felt that even the wind blowing into the basin showed signs of being filtered. The blood princess confirmed my guess: "In order to prevent the spread of pollution, we use a barrier to isolate the devil's cave from the surroundings. The thick fog above the planet itself is used to circulate and purify the devil's breath, but it cannot be allowed to directly interact with the devil's cave. Contact with pollution sources... This is a very complex planet purification mechanism, and it took nearly twenty years to build it."

"If there is no abyss, you should have reached a very advanced stage of development," I speculated based on the little experience and knowledge I have accumulated over the years. "You are quite talented, and you also have a set of space teleportation left behind by the civilization of the previous season. What a shame about the equipment.”

"Who knows, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other," Bingtis shook his head, "If there was no abyss, they might still have a civil war to death. The Dark Moon War at least allowed them to have intermittent peace for more than two thousand years. I have never seen this before. Many civilizations that originally had great potential ended up internally depleted and died. There are 'genius civilizations' slowly starving to death guarding their resource-depleted home planet. There are many variables in this aspect and it is impossible to explain."

When a group of people arrived at the entrance to the rift valley at the bottom of the basin, I found that there was an artificially constructed boulder avenue extending from the open plains outside into the rift valley, although this road was already very old. The huge stone slabs laid on the ground were also cracked and uneven in many places. But its scale is still astonishing: Each of its boulder slabs is nearly the size of half a small basketball court. This path is obviously the path taken by the elite Dark Moon soldiers known as the "Beast Control Corps" every time the Dark Moon War begins.

Bingtis looked around for a while, then suddenly pointed out not far away: "Oh, that's where I picked up that rash girl Long. If only I had known that the artifact was placed in this canyon, At that time, I should have just gone in and looked for it. Hey, I didn’t feel any reaction from the artifact at all.”

The Blood Princess led everyone towards the rift valley while introducing this historic boulder slope: "There was this road when the Demon Cave was first built, but at that time it was not as big as it is now. It was just a path for some craftsmen to enter and exit. At that time, the main force in building the devil's cave was the giant dragon. The dragon could fly, so they did not need this ramp. But then there was an accident. The main force in building the devil's cave became other races. This The road was widened into a main road. Later, it also became the road for the Dark Moon army to enter and exit. Every time the Dark Moon war begins, we will send elite soldiers down to open the seal, and then guide the undead monsters and evil spirits to Surface. The entire basin is actually a teleportation array. When all the teleportation towers around the basin are activated at the same time, it will continuously teleport the monsters running out of the Demon Cave to the Gemini teleportation station, and then the teleportation station will transfer those monsters. Banished to the surface, he was eventually strangled by coalition forces led by Edsawin."

"How do you guarantee that those abyss monsters will not take the opportunity to rush out of the basin?" Bingtis asked curiously, "You know, no matter who it is, the mood will not be much better after being pressed and sealed for two thousand years, let alone that Still a bunch of crazy monsters.”

The Blood Princess calmly replied with four words: "Use human lives to pile up."

"There is another question," I looked at the side face of the Blood Princess, "For you, the abyss is an abstract thing that cannot be touched or fixed. You can only do it when it is hosted on a clear host. Seal it or transfer it, this kind of host is the monster in the devil's cave, but the monsters sealed in the devil's cave will not always be the same group two thousand years ago, right? I know that the abyss needs to keep jumping to new hosts, because they are always It will completely destroy the old hosts - where did these hosts come from?"

The Abyss is difficult to control, which is the easiest problem to encounter when dealing with it. The best way to eliminate an abstract object is to make it concrete. The empire has various dimension-converting technologies, as well as special baits for the abyss called trappers. When we don’t want to use these things, we even have a huge dose of psionic energy that can directly neutralize the gate of the abyss, but Redmu The Dark Moon people on En definitely do not have these high technologies, so they can only let the abyss infect some of the most easily infected creatures, and then temporarily weaken the abyss by destroying those monsters. These infected creatures need a stable source - I am now I'm curious where these "hosts" come from.

"Every once in a while, some beasts must be thrown into the devil's cave as sacrifices and turned into hosts," the Blood Princess sighed. "If the beasts are not enough, then throw the death row prisoners in. If the death row prisoners are not enough." Dewensa will secretly send the prisoners on death row from the earthly world... Therefore, the Goddess Church specially compiled a detail in the history that "original sin civilians used black magic to transform the warriors of the Holy Alliance", and even specifically mentioned the Dark Moon people. The vampires and night demon elves in the movie are said to be humans and elves who were transformed in ancient times. This is to explain why there are monsters that look like dwarves and humans in Dark Moon Demon."

"If there are not enough prisoners on death row," Bingtis suddenly glanced at the Blood Princess, "what else will you throw in?"

"Don't worry. We have never thrown innocent people into the water, otherwise we will really become demons," the Blood Princess shrugged. "When the hosts in the Demon Cave reach saturation, the Dark Moon War will begin regardless of whether the coalition forces on the ground are prepared or not. , otherwise the demonic power will pollute the planet."

"Well, that's a good decision." Bingtis nodded and said. She has maintained her divine form since just now, using the holy light around her to help everyone shield the abyss environment in the rift valley. Now everyone has walked down the sloping boulder slope for a long distance. The people around us are The darkness grew thicker. However, this darkness is obviously not a natural phenomenon: the opening of the rift valley is just a few dozen meters above us, and the skylight is actually not too far away from us, but the light seems to be unable to reach here, and the rift valley is as dark as night.

Only the holy light beside Bingtis illuminates the way forward - oh, the greater effect is Alaya who is like a searchlight.

The angel sister is very skillful in focusing the light around her in one direction. The whole person looked as sincere as a searchlight. Bingtis looked at Alaya adjusting the brightness and couldn't help but roll her eyes at me: "What exactly have you trained her for?"

"She can also use flash effects," I confessed frankly, "but it won't be used here."

"The surroundings are getting darker and darker," Lin Xue set up a pergola and looked around. Except for the absolute light produced by the holy light, there was only endless darkness in the distance. "Various optical effects of the air seem to have been disturbed." There is no diffusion or refraction, and the areas where the holy light does not shine directly are as black as ink."

"The situation is always getting worse every time. Now the demonic power has been able to partially penetrate outside the seal. It affects normal natural phenomena," the Blood Princess smiled bitterly. "When the Demon Cave was first established, the road outside the seal was not what it is now. Even if There were troops stationed here normally the day before it opened. But now the ramp, which was originally located outside the seal, is as dirty as if it were immersed in the devil's cave. Even if Brother Manzi is fine, the Sixth War will be out of control."

Bingtis frowned and suddenly snapped his fingers: "There needs to be light."

The surrounding darkness was swept away in an instant, and normal roads and rugged cliffs appeared in front of us again.

Bingtis showed a satisfied smile: "Oh, it seems that the rules here are still normal. If you don't even obey God's orders, the pollution will be more serious."

This boulder slope was so long that it seemed to have no end. Our group was very fast, so we quickly crossed the rift valley and entered a deep tunnel that sloped downward and kept twisting and turning. After walking for a long time, Viska measured the depth from the ground and discovered that the nearest surface was already several kilometers away. It is really unimaginable that the condition of this seal is already so bad: the power of the abyss diffuses from the devil's cave deep underground and penetrates so far.

Because it was built by a giant dragon, this tunnel looks extremely wide, and you can see huge luminous runes inlaid on the ground or walls at regular intervals. These runes are different from the local runes we have seen. The silly guy introduced that they were written in dragon language grammar and engraved on the stone with the blood of the dragon. Since the dragon clan completely declined and Zoya was the only surviving dragon clan in the world, these runes can no longer be repaired and can only fade away little by little over the course of thousands of years. Today, nearly half of them The text has actually completely lost its effect: this is one of the reasons why the Abyss can leak out of the seal.

"The so-called dragons in the world now are all evil dragons created by the secret techniques of monsters and beasts. They look like giant dragons, but in fact they have little ability to think, and of course they don't have the blood of a dragon. So Ya used her mental power to She controls such a group of beasts that look very similar to her people and lives in seclusion in the Dragon Mountains, maintaining the appearance of the dragons' eternal existence." The Blood Princess sighed, "I heard from Edwinsa that Zoya has been living in seclusion in the past few hundred years. As her days become more and more decadent, she has recently become a mercenary, working as a coolie, as a bodyguard, and even looking after children to earn some food... She has completely given up on the things on Longshan, as if thinking It’s like trying to forget that you were once a dragon.”

"Actually, the four of us are not doing well." The stupid guy added in a sullen voice.

At this time, I was trying to think of that sister with facial paralysis. Is it a bit rude to take care of a child with a plaster face?

At this moment, this deep tunnel finally reached its end. A flat black stone wall appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

"Is this the gate?" Bingtis looked at the huge stone wall in front of him. A door hundreds of meters high was carved with rough strokes on its surface - but the door was only carved on the stone wall, yes. , the door that sealed the entrance turned out to be just a relief!

"The devil can't be contained in a regular space, so we used dragon secrets and some ancient technologies from the first season civilization to create a special space. This space is attached to a real object, which is the stone wall in front of us," the Blood Princess said there He groped around on the carved door, and then pressed some protruding small stones in order. "If the seal is opened or a sacrifice is delivered, the relief here will become a real door... But before that, , I will take out the artifact for you first, as promised."

A faint sound that sounded like the sound of electricity or the buzzing of the air sounded from the dark stone wall. It seemed that some device was charging, and I saw that the deep indentations were gradually getting brighter. They were originally inscribed images, but as the light continued to emerge, the door image began to slowly take on a physical state. But before the door leaf completely materialized, a ring-shaped halo of light first appeared on the stone wall, which was embedded in the middle of the two doors. It looks like a huge keyhole. The physical speed of this circular aperture is faster than the door. In a few seconds, it changes from a picture to a real hole, but the surface of the hole is covered with a light yellow barrier, which seems to be still sealed.

"Brother Manzi, the key." The Blood Princess turned to the stupid man and stretched out her hand. When Zoya left, she handed the key she brought from Edwinsa to the stupid guy, and that key was the key item to pull the artifact out of a special space.

The silly guy touched his body, then held a small thing with two fingers and handed it to the Blood Princess. I curiously went up to take a look and found that it was just a small triangular crystal plate, and the crystal plate seemed to be frozen. With a shining rune.

"Inlay the key on the barrier. Something will appear in the container." The Blood Princess placed the small crystal plate on the surface of the light yellow seal. The two merged instantly, and then disappeared at the same time, and then a person was shrouded in a faint golden light. The ball floated out of the hole lightly, "Is this the artifact you are looking for? What is it used for?"

We really spent a lot of effort to find this thing. At this time, a group of people immediately gathered around to see what the artifact looked like, but what should I say... the shape of this thing made us a bit regretful.

It is a ball with a diameter of more than one meter, made of light golden metal. A layer of already dim light floats on the surface of the ball, and you can vaguely feel the sacred breath escaping from the light. I took a closer look and found that the ball was not smooth. There were many dim symbols and raised reliefs only a few millimeters high on its shell. Some straight lines extended all over the ball shell.

There is nothing else, no instructions for use, no obvious operating controls, and there is no other reaction except a reassuring warmth when you press your hand on it. After studying for a long time, I suddenly took out an air hammer, but I pushed it back before I could do it: This is a historical relic of the Gods, if anything happens...

I was just halfway through my thoughts when I saw Bingtis swinging her brick Bible and slamming it down on the big golden ball...

The loud "bang" sound was simply breathtaking. I stared at Bingtis dumbfounded. The other party whistled at me and waved the brick meteor hammer Bible combination with an iron chain in his hand: "Concubine, confirm Let’s see if the shell of this thing is just an astrological stone. This thing has been infected by the abyss for too long, its divinity is weak, and the material is a bit denatured. No wonder I can’t sense its divinity because it is blocked by a mere alien space. , I didn’t expect this thing to be so weak... Even a black hole horizon might be able to hide it, but luckily it’s not broken yet.”

Me: "...it's not broken, but you'll smash it!"

"Don't worry, the artifact is strong. It's no worse than the pile of ten-thousand-year prison equipment you built." Bingtis waved his hands carelessly, then touched his chin and studied the big golden ball, "But having said that... this thing Is this the artifact we are looking for? Why can’t I see what it does? Is this a memory? How to read it..."

Everyone who was a little excited at first fell silent instantly.

I looked at Bingtis dumbfounded: "Sister...are you kidding?"

Bingtis raised his chin. This action meant "When did my great Master Bing make a joke?"

I broke into a cold sweat: "Aren't you an expert on the Gods? Now that you have found the artifact, you say you don't know how to use it?"

"I'll give you a wooden cow and a horse. Can you use it? I'll give you a wooden stick. Can you drill wood to make fire? Do you know how to maintain the fire stick?" Bingtis spread his hands, "I'm just following you to help sense the reaction of the artifact and identify this thing. Is it true or false? As for how to operate it specifically..."

As she said that, she patted the light golden ball that was sitting quietly on the ground: "Let's study it slowly after we transport it back. This thing has a long history. God Realm's technology has been updated for countless rounds. Reading data from this thing is definitely more difficult than Qianqian's father analyzing how many times King Zhou You went to the toilet a day from a piece of tile."