With a flash of arcane sparks, Kamel turned around and stared quietly at the nearly a thousand seats in the hall, as well as the 972 former colleagues who had fallen asleep above.
"A thousand years ago... A thousand years ago, I was one of the chief researchers of the Imperial Royal Magister Corps. A secret order issued by His Majesty the Emperor personally transferred me from the imperial capital to this place on the northern border. The fortress, when I first saw it, I was as surprised as you are now.
“The Empire built this facility in secret, and this plan was planned as early as 1,200 years ago. here we go. Yes, as you just said, we are here to resist the demonic tide - the royal family has been aware of the approaching demonic tide a long time ago and has been looking for a solution. This is a huge and secret plan. The royal family and The entire Magister Corps is involved, but very few people really know the full picture of the plan. Even as the chief researcher of the Royal Magister Corps, I can only know the link that I am responsible for in this plan.
"My mission is to analyze the power of the gods and find a way to combine the gods' genetic factors with human cells...
"Please don't interrupt me, I know. These things may sound unbelievable to you, but they did happen a thousand years ago.
"When I came to this fortress, this plan had been in operation for two hundred years. We found the exact location of the 'White Star Fall'. It is not in the current world, but needs to pass through the Shadow Realm. , arrived at the edge of the Shadow Realm, so we built a space gate at the bottom of the 'Disobedience' Fortress. This space gate used the power of gods to open up the barriers between several 'realms', and the exploration team started from there. Brought back the flesh and blood sample of the God of Nature..."
As Kamel spoke, he raised his arm condensed by arcane energy and pointed at the wall. With a small spark jumping, the original A hidden isolation door suddenly appeared on the seamless wall. The isolation door slowly opened with the creaking sound of mechanical operation. Kamel slowly floated towards the door: "Please follow me, I I hope you can stay calm no matter what you see."
Gawain and Hetty looked at each other and followed Kamel's footsteps.
“We have paid a huge price. For mortals, direct contact with the flesh and blood of gods, and even looking directly at the flesh and blood can be fatal, let alone extracting energy and genetic factors from it, but we are in the Shadow Realm. We found something that was 'mixed' with the divine corpse, and that thing helped us find a way to resist the erosion of divine power... although it was only partially effective."
Following Kamel, Gawain looked at it. To the hidden rooms and the secrets that still remain in them.
In a laboratory, he saw large pieces of metal and crystal debris that were bound and sealed by a complex set of magic circles. The debris seemed to have come from some larger man-made object. Peel it off, even if countless years have passed,They actually still maintain a brand-new texture.
"Their material..." Gawain looked at the metal and crystal fragments with a serious expression, "They seem to be the same as the eternal stone slab?"
Kamail nodded: "Yes, exactly the same. These things are together with the corpses of the gods. They even seem to be the ones that caused the gods' fall - but we don't know the real connection between the Eternal Slate and these things."
Gao Wen's heart moved. He had vaguely guessed the truth, but said nothing.
And Kamel walked through the room and continued to float forward: "I don't know the whole plan, but I learned that the power of the gods is the only thing that can resist the demonic tide, and let The only way for humans to survive the demonic tide is to change our life forms. After decades of research, the forerunners have found a way to extract energy from the flesh and blood of gods, and the team I lead has taken a step further on this basis. : Injecting the genetic factors of gods into human cells, thereby changing the nature of human beings in terms of basic biological structures.
"Through this method, humans may be able to carry the 'power of gods', even if it is only weak." A glimmer of strength can also bring hope of resisting the demonic tide. In the laboratory 'outside', I cultivated the first batch of experimental subjects, which I named 'Godly Evil'..."
"So that's it..." Gawain muttered in a low voice.
Kamail didn’t hear clearly: “What? "
"No, it's not important," Gawain looked at this ancient mana spirit, "Then what? Did the evil one succeed? ”
“We succeeded in the end. We created a stable genetic factor that can be safely combined with human cells and inherited from generation to generation. Humans carrying the genetic factor will not be the same as the first The 'gods' in the early period also died of malignant mutation. Instead, they could undergo beneficial rapid mutations when the demonic tide came, mutating and adapting to the new environment in the demonic tide before the body died... This is theoretically true. ”
Kamail led Gawain and his party to the next room. Here, they saw neatly arranged culture vessels. Those culture vessels were well preserved and soaked in translucent biomass solution. There are human samples from different periods - the initial samples were huge corpses with swollen bodies and distorted crystals spreading out from the body, but the condition of these samples became more and more stable as time went by. In the final container, it was almost a Healthy human beings
“You say this is theoretically true? Gawain looked at Kamel floating in front, and he had a vague suspicion in his heart, "You didn't test it?" "
"It cannot be tested," Kamel stopped. "All information about the magic tide can only be simulated. We use the Deep Blue Well to simulate it, but what does the real magic tide look like... Probably only the gods know, but we are disobedient to the gods. ”
After saying this, the ancient mana spirit led everyone to continue walking forward. Gawain noticed that they were heading to the upper level: This facility still existsThe third floor.
"After the final evil was completed, the mission of this facility ended, the personnel were evacuated, and the data and samples were returned to the imperial capital, but not everyone evacuated," Kamel's The voice echoed in the empty corridor, as empty as the undead, "We are not sure whether the gods can really fight against the demonic tide, and we are not sure whether there will be a new disaster to destroy mankind, so a group of people were selected We made 'seeds', and the seeds were sealed in the deepest part of this facility, in a different space isolated from the real world. If the 'outside world' is really destroyed, then we will at least leave the last ray of hope to mankind. Hope."
"The ones we saw in the hall..." Hetty muttered to herself, then raised her voice, "Are you planning to rebuild human society with a few hundred people?"< /p>
"No, there are more than a few hundred of us," Kamel seemed to smile, but all his expressions were mixed in the chaotic and hazy arcane sparks. He opened a door at the end of the corridor. Stopped in front of him, "Behind this door is the Stasis Hall, which originally contained sixty thousand people."
"Sixty thousand?!" Hetty's eyes widened, but then she realized that Kamai The key point in Er's words, "You said...originally?"
"Yes, originally."
Kamail opened the door, and with the heavy The ancient isolation door slowly opened, and the scene in the stagnant hall appeared before everyone's eyes.
Everyone was speechless in shock.
Behind the gate is a fragmented space. There is no stasis hall at all, and there are no 60,000 "seeds" to rebuild civilization. A crazy darkness shrouds the outside, with huge space cracks and violent energy. Turbulence is raging in the distance, and all that can be seen are floating rubble, broken wreckage, and chaotic shadows. A small patch of ground and several torn walls and domes are the only things left in the stasis hall. trace.
It was as if a wild storm had struck here, completely tearing apart and swallowing up the Stasis Hall.
This is a desperate scene, but Kamel has calmly accepted this fact many years ago. He just quietly closed the gate, led everyone in another direction, and What happened that year was slowly told: "We made a fatal mistake... Even if we hide here, we can't escape the demonic tide.
"The demonic tide attacked the shelter and caused the space to collapse. In a chain reaction, except for a small part of the facility that was saved, everything was destroyed by the energy tide and space storm. Sixty thousand people disappeared silently. The only survivors were the 'Watchers' located in the center of the facility.
“Watchers are the caretakers who stay voluntarily. We sleep in a smaller stasis hall and wake up every twenty years to check the situation of the stasis hall and receive information. The latest news from the communications hall - we fell asleep and woke up again and again, watching 60,000 people lying unconscious in the stasis hall, while in the communications hallNews that all is well with the Empire.
"You can't imagine what it feels like... In the 100th year of the closure of the facility, the last person we knew in the outside world passed away. In the 160th year, The demonic tide has not happened yet, and the empire is still prosperous. We have even begun to doubt the necessity and significance of this plan. Maybe the demonic tide will not come at all. We, the more than 900 volunteers and 60,000 'seeds', are just worried and anxious. We dreamed of a ridiculous doomsday prophecy and spent our entire lives for this illusory doomsday panic, but we still faithfully carried out the order and fulfilled the oath we made back then. In the 240th year when the facility was closed, some people. We couldn't hold on any longer, and we had a small-scale internal conflict. Someone was preparing to open the door from the inside, but in the end the great mage Wigmar took control of the situation, and then..."
Kamail After a long silence, his voice sounded low: "We were awakened by a piercing alarm. In the chaos, we received the information that the fortress suffered heavy damage. In the communication hall, we saw the message sent by His Majesty the Emperor. The last message, we are the last survivors - the necessity and significance of this plan has finally been confirmed, but everything does not go as we expected.
"The Hall of Stasis was destroyed. Two-thirds of the structure of the entire facility disappeared in the storm, and the magic leading to the real world was also closed due to the influence of the magic tide. Even if the magic door is not closed, we cannot leave here - the outside world is no longer able to survive. , the only thing left for us to survive is this standing ground.
“We experienced chaos, despair, hysteria and even violent conflicts, but in the end, we decided to live.”