The space on the other side of the Might and Magic Gate, or the hidden part of it, was even bigger than Gawain had imagined.

Not only was there a hall that everyone had seen at first, but as the soldiers expanded their search, they soon discovered that there was a wraparound corridor structure outside the hall, as well as rooms lined up on the outside of the hallway.

These rooms are fully furnished, and all kinds of living and research utensils, including tables, chairs, and equipment, are well kept in place, and are not carried out like the outside rooms.

"The things here haven't been moved," Hetty said, looking at a room that had just been opened, which seemed to be a place for a large number of people to gather for a meal, with long tables and chairs, and neatly arranged sinks in the corners, except that there was no water flowing in the sinks, "and how well they were preserved...... Much better than the outside. ”

"The entire facility seems to have been subjected to a massive magical effect, and all items are decaying extremely slowly," Gawain looked down at a long table at hand, which was mottled with rust, but the table itself was still sturdy and intact...... There is still a considerable degree of corrosion. ”

Tyr arched from table to table, her fingers brushing over the dusty tabletop, and said thoughtfully, "It feels like it's ready to be reactivated at any moment—as soon as someone comes back here, they can start living right away." ”

Gawain didn't say a word, but walked silently between the long tables that had begun to rust, and at this moment, a group of soldiers who had gone to the front to explore the way suddenly returned to this room, and the leader came to Gawain: "My lord! We found a warehouse in front of us! ”

"Take me there."

Gawain soon arrived at the warehouse that the soldiers had discovered, and the sight of the warehouse made him frown.

This is where the supplies are stacked, and neat stacks and various signs that are no longer legible can be seen in the warehouse, but what makes Gawain frown is that the goods that were originally packed on the stacks have been disassembled.

A large number of wooden boxes have been pried open, and empty boxes and jars have been stacked in various places, some neatly stacked, but others are simply scattered throughout the room, and there is no useful material in sight except for these messy "packaging".

"This ......" Hetty immediately clenched her staff when she saw the scene in the warehouse, and she subconsciously looked at Gawain, "Ancestor, this ......"

"Someone has taken supplies from here!" Gawain spoke out the only possibility, "There were people moving here—at least for the first time after the lockdown of this facility!" ”

"How is that possible!?" Hetty was taken aback, "Wasn't this place abandoned and locked down a thousand years ago?" Didn't everyone evacuate? ”

"I thought so at first, but look at the supplies that have been consumed - if they were consumed before the facility was closed, there is no way the logistics manager would allow the warehouse to become like this," Gawain pointed to the messy stacks of empty boxes and cans, "This is obviously the result of continued consumption after the facility has been closed, and I am afraid it has been consumed for a long time." ”

Hetty couldn't help but swallow: "This ...... It's disturbing......"

Tyr asked, "If there were people here after the facility was closed, where are they now?" ”

Gawain shook his head: "I don't know, but if all the people who work here are humans...... Then no human being can live for a thousand years. ”

Soon, the soldiers discovered more warehouses of supplies, most of which had been depleted - only a few remained, and judging by the thick dust on the sealed boxes, they had been left unattended for years.

Even with the protection of magical powers, these materials could not be stored for thousands of years, and even if they were properly packaged, the contents would have long since rotted and deteriorated, so Gawain only checked them out and lost interest in them.

After inspecting the corridors outside the hall, the group reached the end of the hallway, where the roads converged and a staircase that sloped upwards from the intersection of the corridors to the upper level of the secret facility.

"Looks like there's a structure up there," Hetty looked up at the dim space at the end of the stairs, this ancient facility has a surprising energy system, but no matter how advanced the energy system is, it can't completely resist the erosion of time, the lights in the upper area are obviously dimmer than the lower level, it seems that there is something wrong with the energy supply, the light is not only dim but also very unstable, Hetty summoned a mage's eye to go up, and after a moment she nodded, "There is no danger up there." ”

The party made their way up the staircase, quickly reaching the upper level of the hidden facility, where a heavy metal door blocked their path.

"The magic lock on the door is no longer valid," Hetty quickly found the magic mechanism that controlled the locked state of the gate, and several faint runes were inscribed in the center of the gate, but these runes no longer responded to external magical stimuli, "Now it's just an ordinary iron door, and it can be destroyed directly." ”

The two soldiers immediately stepped forward and aimed the heat ray gun at the lock in the center of the door, and after several successive scorching ray bombardments, the magic mechanism in the center of the door was directly burned and melted: without magic protection, the advanced ancient magic mechanism was nothing more than a piece of metal with a low melting point.

Gawain put his hand on the door, and with the powerful power of the legendary knight, he directly pushed the door open, which originally required a magic device to push.

Squeak –

With the harsh sound of metal grinding, the ancient gate, which had been thousands of years old, slowly opened to both sides, and a stale aura leaked out of the space inside the gate, but a slightly cool mist suddenly appeared out of thin air and surrounded everyone, blocking out all these potentially harmful breaths.

Gawain glanced back and saw Tyr waving his hand casually, the power of the water elemental flowing quietly between her fingers.

Instead of telling Miss Kraken that each soldier has a long-lasting "Breeze Shield" effect in their armor, he smiled and thanked Tyr for his kindness, and then strode through the door.

In the next second, the scene in front of him stunned him on the spot.

Inside the door was a large semicircular room, with rows of neat seats arranged in an arc, and on that row of seats, there were corpses one after another!

These people have apparently been dead for years, but due to the magical force field that slows down the decay of things throughout the facility, they have not been reduced to dry bones over time, but have instead become some kind of dried corpse-like existence, wearing the mage robes or robes of the ancient Gondor Empire, which is enough to tell them who they are:

They are the people who have been stranded in this ancient facility after it was closed!

Hetty's eyes widened, and the shocking scene in front of her made her speechless for a long time, and it wasn't until a dozen seconds later that she muttered to herself: "They...... It's all here...... They're all dying here......"

"Why are these people being left here?" Tyr had also heard about the origin of the facility from Gawain, and she was puzzled by the existence of these people, "Could it be that the evacuation operation went wrong and these people were forgotten inside?" ”

"There can't be such a big mistake," Gawain frowned and shook his head, "The evacuation operation back then was obviously orderly, there were no conditions for mistakes in the busy, and the warehouses we found earlier were also clues...... The supplies indicate that the people stranded here were planned. ”

With that, he began to carefully weave his way between the semi-circular rows of seats, and after passing through row after row of seats, he came to the front of the semi-circular hall.

Gawain turned around here, and he saw the rows of chairs neatly arranged in front of his eyes, and nearly a thousand silent corpses sat on those chairs, and because of the shape of the seats, the focus of the "sight" of those corpses was exactly where he was.

The strange feeling made him break out in a cold sweat, but it also made him notice his feet: on the ground beneath his feet, there was an inconspicuous raised device, and between the runes on the surface of the device, there were still some remnants of magical light flowing slowly.

He recognized it - it was the technology of the ancient Gondor Empire, the magical devices used to transmit messages, and with the sheer power of the Deep Blue Well and the magical deflectors throughout the Empire, these devices could bind every inch of the empire together, but with the explosion of the Deep Blue Well, the communication network had completely collapsed and could no longer be rebuilt, and the teleportation spells and magic communication towers used by the human nations today were only a remnant of this ancient technology.

The device is still functional, and although it is no longer possible to send or receive any messages after breaking away from the Deep Blue Magic Net, the shimmering light on its surface shows that there is still a little residual energy inside, and the information it stores has not been lost.

According to his memories from seven hundred years ago, Gawain tried to inject some magic into the device, so the ancient device that had been silent for thousands of years was instantly "resurrected", the runes on its surface flickered violently, and a beam of light was launched from the top of the device, shooting at the wall behind Gawain.

Gawain turned and dodged the projected beam, and he saw that the ancient device had projected a message on the wall, in front of the nearly a thousand corpses in the hall, it was a series of words written in the ancient Guandor lingua franca, it was incredibly short:

"You are the last survivors, live and don't come back."

Only one sentence has been preserved in the communication device, and it is clearly the content of the last communication, while the rest of the earlier content has either been deleted or has not survived the passage of time.

"The Last Survivor......" Tyr saw the message, the Kraken who had lived for an unknown amount of time actually recognized the words of the ancient Gondor Empire, she arched up, curious, "What does this mean?" ”

“…… This is the last communication sent here from within the Empire when the Demon Tide erupts," Gawain said slowly, "I've guessed what happened here, but there are still many mysteries to unravel. ”