Chapter 1,568 The Remains of the Explosion

Although Shandora and I both want to search the entire planet and kidnap a few tree elves who look like they are ancestors and come back for questioning, but such a reckless move will definitely cause some problems, so we have to do things step by step. , at least they can't disappear casually and leave Celine and a large group of them aside: according to Qingye's situation, that ancient ruins are 100% likely to have suffered a serious radioactive disaster, and may be planning to explode again at any time, although Celine It seems that Shandora and I are still quite uneasy despite having knowledge in this area.

It only takes a second to teleport from the Imperial Admiral to the surface. In the flash of light and shadow, we have once again arrived at the lush virgin forest from the silver-white high-tech battleship cabin. The landing point is exactly where we left before, and we can still see everything around us. To the traces left by the passing group of adventurers.

"Hey, you even left a road sign for us. Celine is quite attentive." I was holding the Sandora ball and just wanted to sense the location of the ancient tower and fly over directly, when I saw the trunk of a small tree not far away. There is a prominent white symbol that is obviously reserved for us.

As long as there are road signs, I just put my foot down and keep walking quickly. After a while, Shandora and I heard the movement of people from the depths of the dense forest ahead, and we could vaguely see a natural barrier composed of a large number of ancient trees. An open space seemed to appear behind them.

At this moment, we have reached an extremely deep place in the forest.

After bypassing a wall of trees, we met Celine at the edge of a forest expanse.

"Hey, Celine." I hugged Sandora and came towards her from the side. Before I got close, I saw Celine clenching the particle rifle in her hand vigilantly. However, this battle nun version of the alien female warrior saw me and Sandora put down her weapon: "Mr. Scholar? And Miss Egg... Oh, Miss Sandora, I didn't expect you to catch up so quickly. Did you follow the safe route I left?"

"Ah, I saw the road sign you left." I let go of Sandora and let her float freely beside me, while casually agreeing.

Celine looked at my normal expression, and the expression on her face changed slightly. Finally, I couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "You came here so quickly, so... the elf girl left without suffering too much? Falling down in the forest is considered a good destination for the elf."

"Um..." I realized then that the expression on my face seemed a bit too relaxed and careless. It stands to reason that even if I am not sad at this time, I still have to show a little bit of sadness. The situation is right. After all, from Celine's perspective, I have just provided hospice care to a miserable elf girl - but I know very well that the elf girl named Qingye is about to be resurrected. Where does the Qi Qi Ran come from in my heart?

"Well, Qingye is very calm now, that's it, very calm. So let's not continue to disturb her 'sleep' by talking about it." I sullenly tried to imagine that the gang of naughty children in my family would be together again in the absence of my father. After causing so much trouble, I finally found some heaviness.

Celine didn't think much, she just lowered her head and made a strange gesture as if praying: "Really... The elf fell in the forest and has obtained the most eternal peace. I hope she can reach the mother tree in her people's dreams. In my arms, may the God of Technology bless her on this journey.”

After completing this brief prayer, Celine raised her head and turned to look at the buildings beside her: "Okay, the deceased has passed, let's take a look at this... place where the curse is lingering. It seems that we have to enter from the front. No more."

Actually, I wanted to directly tell Celine the truth that a certain elf had been resurrected. However, considering that not everyone’s views are suitable for post-disaster reconstruction, and I am too lazy to make up a lot of excuses to explain why people with such injuries can survive in the current situation, so I simply keep this part of the topic vague. I took it with me, but I didn’t say clearly that Aoba was dead anyway. Everything was made up by Celine herself, and besides, it is unlikely that the two of them will meet again in the future.

I’m not afraid even if we meet, Shandora and I will definitely not be in the local area by then...

The scale of the "ancient tower" was larger than I thought: I originally thought it was just a communication antenna, with at most a few sentries next to it. But I didn't expect that this place turned out to be a place similar to a base.

The broad land in the forest, which is one or two kilometers in length and width, was obviously opened up by humans. The ground in the entire area is covered with a gray-white artificial hard material. These materials have not broken down at all after tens of thousands of years. It is obviously more than one level higher than the cement of the people on earth. At the same time, it is precisely because the entire base is covered with such ground that this vast land has not been completely swallowed up by the surrounding forests in thousands of years. There are large and small independent houses scattered on this flat and open land. The style of all the buildings is different from that of the small town outside the forest. These houses are square prisms with sharp edges, the roofs are slightly restrained, and the bases are facing each other. It's more open and looks like some kind of desert structure, or a slender, flat-topped pyramid. All the buildings are gray and white. Due to their age, it is impossible to tell whether they once had a bright appearance, but based on their grand scale, it can be judged that there were once a large number of garrisoned personnel here.

Most buildings are multi-story houses, but the floor height is basically limited. If the windows on their exteriors can accurately correspond to the number of floors, then the tallest independent building has only five floors, which is only a few tens of meters high. In comparison, the one in the center of the base A four- to five-hundred-meter-tall square prismatic broadcasting tower is particularly "spectacular", just like the Burj Khalifa at the urban-rural fringe... Please don't hit me if I'm not good at giving examples.

This is the relic left by ancient civilization. That tall tower is the so-called ancient tower: a very large communication facility.

The state of this ruin is certainly not very good. Even though it is so strong that it has not collapsed or been completely swallowed by the forest for tens of thousands of years, most of its buildings are still covered by vines, moss, soil and other traces of time. , these things that don’t really need to take root spread from the surrounding forest, decorating the entire ruins with an atmosphere of apocalypse. In this building complex full of apocalyptic vision, three locations can be seen. Thick smoke billows.

Some buildings were damaged by the explosion, leaving only a pile of twisted frames. Things around the buildings were also affected by the remnants, as if they had been bombed by heavy aerial bombs. Many large-scale structures were torn apart from the solid surface of the base. Cracks, sparks, and smoke came out of it, and it seemed that conditions deep underground were worse than on the surface. It was obvious that the explosion occurred simultaneously above and below ground. The adventurer at that time must have accidentally touched something similar to a fuel delivery pipe, which caused such chain explosions.

The largest of these three explosion sites happens to be very close to the "Ancient Tower". A large collapse zone was formed around the entrance of the ancient tower. The collapse zone was covered with a large amount of hot debris, and the radioactivity seriously exceeded the standard.

I don’t know what kind of radioactive material the ancient civilization used, but it hasn’t decayed completely after tens of thousands of years (perhaps it was due to a special preservation method?). I just want to know which genius decided to save the giant A large amount of radioactive materials are piled directly in the surface warehouse, and it is near the center of the base. This explosion can spread the radiation storage station over half of the base. It is a stroke of genius. Is the base designer supposed to be a joke invited by the monkey?

"Maybe the ancient people who designed this base weren't afraid of radioactivity? Scorpion soldiers also like to drink helium-3." Sandra Ball didn't have any ideas. She just roughly scanned the structure of the base. Then he floated next to Celine, "Qingye...that is, the little elf girl said that her boyfriend was trapped underground. If the boy is smarter, he should still be alive. Have you found any underground entrance?"

"It's right at the base of the ancient tower, next to the big explosion crater," Celine pointed at the large pile of hot slag in the distance with the particle rifle in her hand, "Whether you want to shut down the tower on the surface, or go underground To save people, you must enter from there. However, it is blocked by molten slag. Those residues have a strong...curse power, so you cannot approach it rashly."

Celine said as she took out a small device from her waist and took a few steps forward with the device. The black rectangular block made a violent alarm sound. It turned out that it was a device for detecting radiation.

Fortunately, Celine was well prepared. The Lost God Cult in this world at least taught its clergy well. Celine knew how harmful things like radiation could be. Otherwise, if a large group of adventurers rushed over recklessly, they would be littered with corpses. There is severe intense radiation here. Although the effective distance does not seem to be very far, close contact for only ten minutes seems to be enough to cause organ collapse.

"I'll go over and remove the radiation. Then I'll go find someone underground. You guys are responsible for shutting down the communication tower on the surface... Oh, it's the ancient tower." Sandora said casually, and then flew forward.

Of course Celine was stunned instantly!

"Don't go there!" The single mother-type battle nun hurriedly reached out to catch the sandora ball, "There is a curse! Danger!"

Sandora's ball was so round that it was impossible to grasp it. No one in the world could catch her except me, so Her Majesty the Queen just floated a little and slipped away from Celine's hand: "Don't worry, I will become After doing this, he still has some special abilities... Well, that's it, it's all the fault of ancient magic!"

Once again irresponsibly blaming all the problems on the dead ancient civilization without any evidence, Sandora swayed towards the pile of radioactive waste hundreds of meters away that was still emitting thick smoke. Celine threw her head at me. Looking nervously and full of doubts, I just smiled at her: "Don't worry, Sandora is very capable."

"But I haven't heard of any magic that can dispel ancient curses!" Celine emphasized to herself, "None of the cardinals of the divine religion have this ability. Ancient curses require special equipment to isolate them."

"Look at Sandora, why is she afraid of the curse now that she has lost her body?" I casually said a reasonable excuse and stopped entangled with Celine. Instead, I observed the skyscraper in the distance with great interest. A tall tower like a building.

There are some huge expansion structures at the top of this tower. Strong electromagnetic radiation is released from there, and it is becoming more and more unstable as time goes by. Some of the expansion structures have obvious signs of overheating. I am afraid it will continue to be delayed. More serious problems can occur. This tower is obviously a communication facility, but if it is out of control it can cause such great harm... Its power is beyond imagination. This kind of power is not needed for communication in the atmosphere, even if it is used to communicate with those in orbit. The space station communication is also a bit wasteful. Does that mean this thing is used within the star system?

The "Ancient Tower" releases electromagnetic waves, so it communicates within the speed of light. The delay of the speed of light means that it is not suitable for very long distances, so now its scope of action can be roughly limited to the star system, or even smaller: this planet Arriving within the range of the nearest planet, I rummaged through the few cutting-edge knowledge I had in my mind, and finally concluded that this should be something similar to a "lighthouse."

Lighthouses are used to provide terminal guidance to spacecraft approaching planets. Although it is unknown why such dangerous things are built on the surface instead of in space. But its function is basically confirmed. However, there is still a question that cannot be explained: Why is the style of this ancient tower different from those of space stations in space? Is this the first technical style that Sandora and I have seen on this planet?

Think about it, the space station in space has obvious plant decorations. Although it is very different from the tree elf equipment we saw on the green star, it can also be regarded as a variant of the tree elf creations several years later, and Sai The black particle rifle in Lin's hand has rounded lines and simple decoration. It looks like an alien weapon that popped out of a Hollywood science fiction film ten years ago. The communication base in front of us has rigid lines and an atmospheric architectural layout. I think it looks like the Aztec civilization after magic modification (don’t ask me how I came up with this, I’m still confused!)

The above three relics all have obvious traces of high technology. From this, we can easily confirm one thing: the tree elves back then were not the strongest people on the planet, they were just one of the advanced civilizations. Then you can think even further: the tree elves themselves are foreign. So will other advanced civilizations on this planet also have outsiders?

And don’t forget that the northern archipelago also has a lot of antiquities left over from the heyday of magic technology: this planet may have had a magic civilization as advanced as its technological civilization in the past!

A large number of advanced civilizations were crammed into a small planet as if they were deliberately kept in captivity by someone. Each civilization seemed to have the ability to navigate space, but they all declined, and the glory of the civilization was dimmed, leaving only A pile of ruins and a group of declining remnants digging in the soil. The survivors didn't even dare to touch the things used by their ancestors... At this point, I had already imagined more than three thousand years of blood and tears and conspiracy theories. If Lilina were here, her mind would be even more serious.

At this moment Sandora has arrived above a large pile of radioactive slag. Under the terrified gaze of Celine and a group of adventurers, the golden ball of light begins to slowly "grow". It "grew up" again, and finally... finally expanded to a diameter of seven or eight meters.

Then she threw her whole "body" to the ground, rolled on the spot several times, and... ate all the deadly slag.

Eaten it...he's so big! Didn’t it say that spiritual sparks can’t eat? You can’t even pretend to eat!

"Transmit more power here a little bit. Let the spiritual spark evolve, so that a higher degree of physical interference can be carried out," Sandora said in the mental connection while slowly shrinking her body. Her voice seemed to be still intact. satisfy. "Unfortunately, there is still no real feeling of eating, and the decomposed matter turns into energy and is directly lost into the void."

I twitched my face and turned to Celine with a stiff neck: "Haha - the slag has been cleared. Look at the radiation readings, uh, how about the curse."

Celine had just recovered from Sandora's shocking eating scene. She glanced at the golden ball of light that seemed harmless to humans and animals, and then decisively chose to believe that this was still the fault of the ancient civilization. Then she lowered her head and looked at her hands. The small equipment... Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't need to look at it. The situation is obvious. The explosion crater that was previously full of molten slag is now as clean as a dog licking it. There is no radioactive material.

... Damn it, what did I just say!

"Let's go up and deal with the things inside the tower," Celine nodded to me, and then led a group of adventurers towards the tower, shouting instructions as they walked, "Stay alert! There is usually steel in these ancient ruins. Guards, if you can fight, fight, if you can't, then withdraw quickly, our mission is to close the facilities inside!"

The adventurers agreed with a bang, and then used a very violent method to bang around the stuck door at the bottom of the ancient tower. They used "the brave way" to create a passage out, and soon disappeared behind me. In front of Sandora's eyes.

"Let's go and find the muscular demon first." I shrugged, and Sandora and I walked towards the entrance of the underground passage a hundred meters away. "Although we only met once, it is a human life after all, and maybe he can be resurrected." Chance."

Yes, the chance of "resurrection": I just roughly sensed the situation underground and found that there was no life breath at all. The muscle demon named Leon seemed to have died below. Like Aoba, he couldn't hold on. at last. But as long as the opponent is not completely dead ("death" under Xiling Technology), it is best to resurrect him.

The entrance to the underground passage is a metal frame that is tilted and half-buried in the ground. It looks a bit like the entrance to an underground pedestrian bridge. Like all lunch distribution scenes, its rusty door is covered with a layer of green moss. It was stuck, and only the choking smell of fireworks could be smelled from the cracks in the door, but that was no problem: this thing was as brittle as paper compared to the extraordinary alloys on the Imperial battleships.

Sandora's ball floated to the middle of the stuck gate, then quickly softened and flattened under my blank gaze, seeping into the cracks in the door, and then changed back to its original spherical shape with a "bang", and the door was sealed by her. ...It was shattered!

It wasn't deformed but shattered! This shows how fast Sandora's ball expanded just now... No, the crux of the problem is not here!

Sandora, your brain is about to catch up with Qian Qian, right? (To be continued...)