The battle between the black trap and the countertide.
To be honest, Gawain never expected that he would hear such a shocking ancient secret in his chat with the Siren Tyr, but if he thought about it carefully, he knew that if there were still Who can tell more ancient and detailed historical data than what he, a satellite spirit, knows, then there is only this group of deep-sea saltwater fish that have been observing the land since ancient times.
What exactly is the so-called black trap?
According to Tire, it seems to be a filtering mechanism, or a "reaper mechanism" that harvests civilizations according to fixed standards. Every land civilization from ancient times to the present is developing. After reaching a certain level, it was destroyed - destroyed by the demonic tide, or destroyed by the mysterious "black trap". This fact is horrifying.
But Gawain also knows very well that even if the black trap exists, human beings cannot stop the pace of development.
Because there is still a demon tide.
If you don’t develop, you will die in the evil tide. If you develop, you may encounter a black trap.
The only thing he can do, the only thing that may be effective, is to find the truth of the "Black Trap" before mankind encounters it.
“I don’t know if there is a development path that can survive the demonic tide and avoid the black trap, but I believe that waiting for death is definitely not the solution. The demonic tide has no mercy, and it will not because Human beings gave in to awe and postponed their visit."
Gawain looked at the night in the distance and said slowly in a calm and indifferent tone, while Tyr next to him opened his eyes slightly, and his face suddenly changed. A smile appeared: "Leaders should have such a consciousness... You are a good friend."
Gao Wen also smiled back and asked a question, "Why did you suddenly follow me tonight?" Did I say these things?"
Tier shrugged: "I just talked about it casually during the chat."
Gawain didn't say anything, just looked at it quietly. Siren, until the latter showed a helpless look: "Okay - it's actually nothing, just think of it as a return gift from the rainbow technology. You may not realize what you have done, but as far as I can judge, you are right The new way of using magic energy is really valuable for us sirens. In return, I tell you this... Of course, knowing this in advance is not necessarily a good thing for you."
< p>Gawain didn't pay attention to Tyr's last words, but said seriously: "You have already given me the gift of rainbow technology.""That superficial knowledge of shipbuilding is nothing, you guys You can figure it out even if you study for several years, but universal magic energy... has always been our bottleneck. We Kraken cannot feel the magic in nature, nor can we understand and remember your spell models. We have been using them all this time. It is the simplest and crudest way to obtain energy with poor stability and efficiency. Due to the influence of the magic tide, our efforts in this area have to be completely overthrown and restarted almost every tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years... So you should be able to thinkLike, how important it is for us to have a hope of breaking the bottleneck. "
Speaking of this, Tyr was silent for a moment before continuing: "The Siren is not used to owing others, even friends. "
Gawain looked into Tyr's eyes quietly, and after a long time he nodded gently: "I understand, then I accept your kindness. ”
“Very well, may your civilization prosper – it was a very pleasant conversation tonight. ”
Tear’s voice came out in the night, and she jumped up, her fish tail reflecting the starlight, drawing a beautiful arc under the starlight, and fell towards the Baishui River. Gurgling river water.
Gawain stood on the rocks on the river bank, lowering his head and quietly looking at the direction of Tyr's fall.
"...Affected by the local water element cycle, The water level of Baishui River will drop at night - did you fall to death? "
"I'm fine! ”
……
Even if he knows that there are more challenges waiting for him in the distant future, Gawain will not stop his footsteps - or in other words, it is precisely Because he knew about the mysterious and terrifying phenomenon of the "Black Trap", he wanted to speed up the development of certain fields.
Although it is not yet certain whether there is a relationship between the anti-tide war in ancient times and the Black Trap. There is a connection, but the dragon, which has always lived in seclusion, will participate in the war on the continent on a large scale, and the war is directed at human faith, which is enough for Gawain to turn his attention to the gods.
He. He didn't know what role the gods played in the "Black Trap", but he didn't mind learning more about them.
The deepest part of the Disobedience Fortress, in front of the magic door leading to the Shadow Realm.
The ancient hall built a thousand years ago has been renovated. The damaged walls and roofs have been repaired and decorated with contemporary cement materials and paints, while the ancient magic circle on the ground that has long been scrapped has been modernized. In this completely new hall, only one thing still retains its original appearance: the circular magic door in the center of the room.
Surrounding the magic door, there are several. The monitoring array platform was flashing with flickering light. Magical technicians wearing white researcher uniforms were busy around the magic door, monitoring the door's situation, while Kamel, whose whole body was filled with arcane light, Floating in front of the gate, a powerful arcane pulse was emitted at the gate's energy center.
The slightly dim runes on the gate immediately brightened, and a stable shadow realm channel was opened.
“The laboratory in the Disobedience Fortress is ready,” Kamel turned around and said to Gawain and others who arrived here early in the morning, “We can start at any time. "
Gawain looked around at the people around him - in addition to Wright, who had to participate in the experiment, there were also Pitman, Amber, and a group of researchers led by Rebecca. Originally, Hetty wanted to come with her, but considering the busy schedule of the Government Affairs Department and the fact that Hetty had quit the R&D team, she ultimately decided to stay.In the post of the Government Affairs Department.
Amber is not willing to come, but she is Gawain's bodyguard and the most powerful shadow master in the territory. Considering the inextricable connection between the shadow world and the shadow world, Bringing her along would be like having an early warning against channel fluctuations, so Gawain forcibly brought her here regardless of whether the guy wanted to or not.
After confirming the hands around him, Gawain nodded and looked at Wright: "Have you brought the substrate for testing?"
Wright took out the piece of holy light from his body Baseboard: "Here."
Emily emerged from the mid-air behind Wright and waved hello to Gawain.
Oh, this little girl should also be included - she is considered to be Wright's bound equipment.
Gawain shook his hand to Emily, and then took the lead to walk forward: "The test equipment is ready in the laboratory... let's go in."
Through After the passage leading to the Shadow Realm, the interior of the Disobedience Fortress appeared in front of everyone.
This ancient facility with a history of a thousand years has been reactivated, but only one of the laboratories has been reactivated. Most of its areas still maintain the appearance that Gawain first saw - —Even more deserted and empty than when I first saw it.
Because all valuable ancient equipment and sample materials have been moved away.
The group ignored the empty corridors and rooms, and headed directly towards the depths of the Disobedience Fortress under the leadership of Kamel.
They walked through the outer cloisters of the fortress and passed the fan-shaped hall where the remains of nine hundred and seventy-two bodies had been placed.
The remains in the fan-shaped hall were transported out and properly buried in the cemetery outside Cecil City. Now the hall is empty, with only rows of seats left silently. Remaining silent in the dim light, Kamel couldn't help but slow down as he walked through the fan-shaped hall. He looked at the place that had trapped him for a thousand years, but in the end he didn't say anything, but Go straight to the end of the hall and open the passage to the maximum protection laboratory.
Gawain was taken to a room he had never seen before.
This room is just outside the fan-shaped hall. Judging from its location, it should be close to the door leading to the resting place of Amorn the Giant Deer. Gawain saw that this laboratory had been thoroughly cleaned The rectangular room was brightly lit and equipped with a magic experiment bench and various experimental devices based on rune technology. At the end of the room, there was a huge floor-to-ceiling window.
There is a slight light curtain floating on the surface of the floor-to-ceiling window, but outside the light curtain is an endless dim space. In that dim space, countless broken and floating boulders and small pieces of land can be vaguely seen. A giant deer body as huge as a hill is located in the center of the entire dark space. The soft light it emits illuminates the many metal fragments and small pieces of pumice floating around it. It looks extremely beautiful, but it is also... Weirdoften.
Wright looked at the body of the giant deer Amorn outside through the floor-to-ceiling window. Although he had already known about the death of the God of Nature and had given up his belief in the God of Holy Light, at this time At this moment, he still couldn't help but be touched by that holy and huge divine body.
Gawain stepped forward and patted Wright on the shoulder: "Don't look at it - what we are going to do today is a disobedient act."
Camel came to the center of the laboratory , there is a circular platform set up here. This platform is also one of the few ancient equipments preserved in the entire laboratory. He opened his hands in front of the platform and injected pure arcane energy into the metal pillars on both sides of the platform. Accompanied by a sudden low buzz, the ancient mage whispered to himself:
"Contrary to the plan, the experiment...continues."
The low buzz The hum gradually turned into a gentle and steady sound. Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, a more solid and obvious energy barrier appeared out of thin air, and gradually enveloped the entire disobedient fortress, while a mechanically monotonous, slightly distorted synthetic sound emerged from Came from the sound-generating device on the roof of the laboratory:
"...the secondary energy system is activated, and the operator certification is passed...
"...the active protection barrier is being turned on...turned on Passive protective barrier...turn on the divine filter...turn on the same frequency warning system...
"...the emergency fuse system is being tested...the emergency fuse system is in normal condition...
" Serious warning: The main artificial intelligence of the fortress is offline...the backup artificial intelligence is offline...the databases at all levels are offline, and the networks at all levels are offline..."
"Ignore. Kamel said quietly.
"Ignore the error message, transfer the auxiliary authority to the basic response mechanism, and detect that ninety-nine percent of the operators are missing...ignore, and lift the operator authentication restrictions." The basic answering machine's full-function self-test is completed and the answering machine is online.
"Good day, Chief of Kamal Slane Think Tank, I wish you a happy work."
Although I know that the person speaking at this moment is just a person who has no thinking ability and has lived in a thousand years. The basic answering machine that had been set in the mode before, Kamel still returned to the past in a trance at this moment. He saw a busy scene in this laboratory with people coming and going. He felt the arcane energy in his body vibrating. After sitting there for a long time, he said softly: "Good day, disobedient people... let's get started."