Hetty finally sensed that the magic reaction was ahead, and perhaps there was only the last intersection left. After roughly judging the distance of the team and the topography of the dark mountains here, Gawain thought that this was already a mountain. center part.
The Gondor expedition team probably actually hollowed out a section of the mountain to build their incredibly huge facility.
What is there here that deserves them to build such a monster-level facility for research or guarding?
But no matter what was there, they eventually gave up on the place.
Hetty replenished the energy of the magic light ball of illumination. The light ball that had begun to dim once again illuminated a large area around it. Gawain saw a neat line of gray-white " A corridor made of "slate", the walls on both sides of the corridor are inlaid with magic crystal lamps that have lost their effectiveness, and there are some closed doors, and at the end directly in front is a copper door. Engraved with eyes and triangular markings.
The copper door was not completely closed. It had a wide gap open. Gawain activated his ability to sense danger and did not find potential threats such as traps and toxic gases behind the door.
But this still cannot be taken lightly. Before opening the door, Hetty first summoned a gleaming rune that looked like an eye. This rune slowly floated across the crack of the door. Hetty's His eyes also glowed slightly at the same time.
“There is a circular empty room inside, which is very large, with many broken long tables and shelves...Many pipes can be seen on the wall, and there is a sunken pit in the center of the room... There is a strange spherical thing in the pit, and many chains and tools hanging down can be seen in the center of the ceiling." Hetty frowned and talked about what he saw. But suddenly she exclaimed in a low voice, and the magic was interrupted.
“What’s going on?!” Gawain suddenly looked at Hetty nervously.
Hetty rubbed her eyes and said in a very awkward tone: "I hit the wall."
Gawain: "...Um, is there anything that looks dangerous or like a trap? "
Hetty shook his head: "No, it looks like just a laboratory, but it is many times larger than the laboratory I know, and there are many incomprehensible devices. I also confirmed it. The magic reaction came from the ball in the center of the room, but it was a form of energy that I had never been exposed to before." Gawain felt relieved after confirming that there were no traps or out-of-control ancient magic puppets inside. He took a breath, and as for the strange energy form Hetty mentioned, he could only study it carefully after entering.
Two strong soldiers stepped forward and together with Knight Byron pushed the ancient dusty copper gate. The rusty and weathered hinges made a creaking sound under the strong push. In this silence In the closed space, the sound of the door shaft turning was extremely harsh and spread far and wide along the corridor.
Hetty subconsciously clenchedThe staff looked back towards the dark corridor, as if there would be some unspeakable ancient monster in the darkness at any time, awakened by the sound of the copper door opening, and swooping out from the shadows - but in the end nothing happened.
The door opened, Gawain stepped inside, and soon saw what Hetty saw: the circular hall, the broken long tables and shelves distributed along the hall, the walls magic conduit, a sunken central floor, and a large stone-looking ball lying in the pit.
Gawain came to the sphere and roughly judged that its diameter was about 1.5 meters. Its shape was quite regular. Excluding the rough and convex surfaces, it was almost a standard sphere. Its material It looks like stone, but under the light of illumination, it has a metallic texture.
It is a bit like a natural stone ball, but too round. It can be said to be some kind of man-made magic device, but it is completely different from the creation style of the Gondor Empire - and its surface is both There are no runes and no metal connection points. It doesn't look like an ancient magic device.
"The magic reaction does come from inside," Hetty frowned, "But it's so strange, I don't even think it's like magic, but a... completely different kind Energy fluctuations. Ancestor, was this also made by the ancient Gondor Empire?"
"No, it doesn't look like it," Gawain frowned and reached out to knock on the "stone ball". , the touch is almost like real stone, hard, "Look at the formation here, this ball is not so much made by them, but rather a thing they are studying..."
"Is this ball possible? The entire facility was built to study this ball?" Knight Byron felt incredible, "The Gondor Empire spent so much effort just to study this ball?" Gawain thought about it and felt that even if it was magic power, In the age of free Spark, the people of Gondor should not be so distressed: "No. When this facility was demolished, the people here took away almost everything they could in an orderly manner - they didn't As for leaving the most important thing behind, this ball should indeed be one of the items they were studying, but it was probably just one of the items, and it was something that was not very important and they had decided to give up after studying it for a while. Progress, when I was about to deal with it, the order to evacuate came from above, so I threw it here."
"So we have been struggling for so long and found this thing," Knight Byron touched. Chin, "Sir, how to deal with it?"
Gawain was also a little worried, how should such a stone ball be transported out? He stretched out his hand and pushed the surface of the sphere, muttering: "It takes up space and is heavy. No wonder the people of Gondor gave it to... Huh?"
When he pushed the stone ball, it actually fell. He moved his position so unsteadily.
Gawain suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "Isn't it heavy?"
The weight of this "stone ball" is unimaginable!
Originally Gawain thought that such a thing must weigh at least a ton, but he didn’t.Thinking of moving it with a gentle push, and trying it again, he judged that the weight of the stone ball was probably only a dozen kilograms, and even Hetty could easily push it away - this only meant that it was not made of stone at all. !
Either it is hollow inside...
Suppressing the urge to smash it open on the spot to see the flesh, Gawain based on the size of the laboratory and the remaining traces around the sphere. He made a judgment that the "stone ball" should belong to the "first category of safe strange objects" in this research facility, that is, a research object that is "harmless but has strange properties", so he made a decision: "Take this thing out , transport it back to the camp and study it carefully... Wait, it is not appropriate to put it directly in the camp. For safety reasons, first put it on the newly flattened land next to the camp. Send two soldiers to guard it, and set up a tent for it tomorrow. "
After all, there are several levels of technological differences between the Gondor Empire and the current era. Safe and harmless research objects back then may not still be harmless today, so it is better to be a little more cautious.
I was nervous when I came, but I pushed a ball when I went back. It must be said that the scene of pushing a ball in the team greatly eased the nervousness of the soldiers, but it also made Gawain He felt a deep sense of disobedience. He always felt that the atmosphere of his first expedition to the ruins of another world was ruined by such a ball. It was as if you were wearing legendary armor and carrying the best sword in the village. He accepted the title of brave given by the king, and also formed four sages as teammates, and embarked on an ambitious journey to destroy the devil - but it turned out that the devil was a big star...
The people of Gondor back then You are so full, why are you studying a ball when you have nothing to do?
With Hetty's magic mark and the almost cheating map in Gawain's head, everyone returned much faster than when they came - although they were still pushing. It was a ball, but this incredibly light thing was not much of a burden at all. When he was going uphill or up steps, Hetty simply summoned a plastic hand and carried him up.
The team just returned the same way, and soon, the faint light of the exit appeared in front.
The soldiers outside had been waiting for a long time and even began to feel uneasy. The footsteps and passwords coming from the depths of the central gate made them finally relax, but together with the footsteps, The movement that came made them look at each other in shock: It sounded like something rolling on the ground...
The scene of two soldiers pushing the ball appeared in front of them - in fact, one person can push it, mainly because To maintain balance.
"Take the team back," Gawain let out a long breath after returning to the entrance hall. He put one hand on the stone ball, "This is the result."
The soldiers looked at each other.
The next day, everyone on the edge of the camp saw this weird sphere.
It was placed in an open space outside the camp, guarded by several heavily armed soldiers, and a circle of wooden stakes was driven within a dozen meters around the sphere., and connected with ropes to form partitions.
It looked so embarrassing that the group of soldiers guarding them must have lost at cards - people discussed this in low voices.
Rebecca heard the news as soon as she woke up and hurried over to watch the fun. She saw that her ancestors and Aunt Hetty were both there, so she squeezed over and watched curiously. To the ball: "Ancestor... Is this what you brought out from the ruins last night?"
"You also brought out some metal samples and so on - there are still many good things that can be dug out in the ruins. Yes," Gawain nodded and said, "But it's this thing, I can't understand it through research."
Rebecca walked around the big ball twice curiously, and came back to ask her ancestors for instructions: "Yes. Do you want to touch it?"
Gawain waved his hand: "Don't throw it with the big fire ball."
Although this "stone ball" is strangely light, it is actually very strong. We have already tried it. Without using extraordinary strength, using an ordinary sword to hit the sphere will hardly cause any damage, so hitting it twice should be no problem.
But hitting it with a big fireball is not necessarily the case - especially with Rebecca's iron temper, she might just hold back a fireball king as big as a bathtub and hit her...
Rebekah put her ear to the surface of the sphere curiously, and struck it twice with her iron staff with her other hand. She turned to Gawain and shouted, "It's not hollow!"
" Yes, it's solid, but incredibly light." Gawain shrugged. "Your aunt scraped off some scraps and found that it was a mixed substance with a high metal content. If the entire ball was made of the same substance, then It can definitely kill someone."
"Maybe only the outer layer is a shell, and the inside is actually a very light material?" Rebecca showed a strong interest in research, "Should I cut it? Let’s take a look?”
Gao Wen laughed: “That’s what I plan to do, but I can’t do it now—first study it in various ways that won’t cause damage. If the results really don’t come out, Consider cutting it open again. After all, the people of Gondor used so many tools to study it, but they didn't destroy its shell in the end. There should be a reason."
Rebecca looked at it. He felt a little disappointed: "Oh..."
Gawain glanced at her with a smile: "Besides studying this ball, I have something else I want you to do - if you are free."< /p>
Rebecca's eyes suddenly lit up: "Ah? I'm free! I don't need to do it myself at Magic Network No. 1 for the time being. The craftsmen and apprentices are digging trenches to smelt quartz sand. I'm idle! What do you want me to do?"
"Burn stones"