Hetty finally sensed that the magic reaction was ahead, and perhaps only one last junction remained, and Gawain, after roughly judging the front of the group and the terrain of the Dark Mountains, believed that this was already the center of the mountain.

The Gondor expedition had probably hollowed out a mountain to build their incredible facility.

What is there here that deserves to be built as a monstrous facility for research or guarding?

But no matter what was here, in the end they gave up on the place.

Hetty re-energized the magical orb of light for illumination, and the already dim orb of light once again illuminated a large area around him, and Gawain saw a neat corridor made of gray-white "stone slabs" in front of him, with the walls on either side of the corridor inlaid with useless magic crystal lamps, and some closed doors, and at the end of it was a bronze door with carved eyes and triangular markings.

The bronze door was not completely closed, it opened a wide gap, and Gawain activated his ability to perceive danger, not detecting potential threats such as traps and poisonous gases behind the door.

But it was still not to be taken lightly, and before pushing open the door, Hetty first summoned a glimmering eye-like rune that floated slowly through the crack in the door, and Hetty's eyes also floated with a faint light.

"Inside was a round empty room, big, with lots of broken benches and shelves...... A lot of pipes can be seen on the walls, and in the center of the room is a sunken pit...... There was a strange spherical thing in the pit, and a number of chains and tools could be seen hanging down in the center of the ceiling. ”

Hetty frowned as she said what she had seen, but suddenly she let out a low exclamation, and the magic stopped.

"What's going on?!" Gawain looked at Hetty nervously.

Hetty rubbed her eyes and said in an awkward tone, "Hit the wall." ”

Gawain: "...... Uh, is there anything that looks dangerous or like a trap? ”

Hetty shook her head, "No, it looks like it's just a lab, but it's many times larger than the labs I know, and there are a lot of devices that I can't understand." It was also confirmed that the mana reaction was coming from the orb in the center of the room, but it was a form of energy that I had never been exposed to. ”

Gawain was relieved to see that there were no traps and out-of-control ancient magic golems inside, and as for the strange form of energy that Hetty was talking about, he could only study it carefully after entering.

Two sturdy soldiers stepped forward and pushed the ancient dusty bronze door with the Byron knights, the rusty and weathered hinges creaking under the vigorous push, and the sound of the doorway spinning in this silent and closed space was unusually harsh, and it was heard far and wide along the corridor.

Hetty subconsciously clenched her staff and looked back at the dark corridor, as if some indescribable ancient monster in the darkness was awakened by the sound of the bronze door opening, and pounced out of the shadows - but in the end nothing happened.

The door opened, and Gawain stepped inside, quickly seeing what Hetty saw: the circular hall, the broken long tables and shelves that ran along the hall, the magic conduits on the walls, the sunken central floor, and a large ball that looked like a stone lying in the pit.

Gawain came to the sphere, and roughly judged that its diameter was about one and a half meters, and its shape was quite regular, not counting the rough and uneven surfaces, it was almost a standard normal sphere, its material was like stone, but under the light of illumination, it had a metallic texture.

It's a bit like a natural stone ball, but it's a little too round, but it's some kind of man-made magic device, but it's very different from the creation style of the Gondor Empire - and it has no runes or metal connections on its surface, so it doesn't look like an ancient magic device.

"The magic reaction did come from within," Hettie frowned, "but it's so weird, I don't even think it's so much like magic, it's a ...... Distinct energy fluctuations. Ancestor, is this also made by the ancient Gondor Empire? ”

"No, it doesn't look like it," Gawain frowned, and reached out and tapped on the "stone ball", which felt similar to a real stone, hard, "Look at the battle here, this ball is not so much something they made, but something they are working on......"

"Is this whole facility built to study this ball?" The Byron Knight felt incredible, "The Gondor Empire spent so much effort just to study a ball? ”

Gawain thought about it for a while, and felt that even in the Spark Age when magic didn't cost money, the Gondor people shouldn't be so painful: "No. When the facility was removed, the people here took with them everything they could take with them in an orderly manner - they didn't leave the most important things behind. This ball should indeed be the item they were working on, but it was probably just one of the items, and it was the kind of thing that was not very important and had decided to give up. Probably after studying for a while and finding no progress, I was about to dispose of it when an evacuation order came from above, so I threw it here. ”

"So we've been tossing around for so long to find such a thing," Byron Knight touched his chin, "my lord, what to do with it?" ”

Gawain was also a little worried, how to transport such a stone ball? He stretched out his hand and pushed the surface of the sphere, muttering, "It takes up space and sinks, no wonder the Gondor people back then would give it to ...... Ay? ”

The stone ball was pushed by him, and it just swayed and moved its position.

Gao Wen was suddenly a little embarrassed: "It's not sinking?" ”

The weight of this "stone ball" is beyond imagination!

Originally, Gawain thought that such a lump of things had to weigh at least one ton, but he didn't expect to move it with a light push, and try it again, he judged that the weight of the stone ball was probably only a dozen kilograms, and even Hetty could easily push it to the point - this can only show that it is not a stone at all!

Either that's hollow inside......

Suppressing the urge to smash it open on the spot to take a look at it, Gawain decided based on the size of the laboratory and the remaining traces around the sphere that the "stone ball" should belong to the "first class of safe curiosity" in this research facility, that is, "harmless but peculiar properties" research subjects, so he decided: "Take this thing out and transport it back to the camp to study it...... Wait, it's not appropriate to put it directly in the camp, for the sake of safety, put it on the newly leveled land next to the camp first, send two soldiers to watch over it, and set up a tent for it tomorrow. ”

After all, there is a technological generation gap between the Gondor Empire and the current era, and the safe and harmless research objects of the past may not still be harmless today, so it is better to be a little cautious.

When he came, he was nervous, but when he went back, he pushed a ball - I have to say, the scene of pushing a ball in the team greatly eased the tension of the soldiers, but it also made Gawain have 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, as if you were wearing legendary armor, carrying the best sword in the village, accepting the title of warrior bestowed by the king, and also forming four sages as teammates, ambitiously embarking on the journey to destroy the demon king- It turns out that the Demon King is a Patrick star......

The people of Gondor back then were simply fed, so why were they idle and studying a ball?

With Hetty's magic marker, coupled with the almost open map in Gawain's head, everyone returned faster than when they came, I don't know how much faster - although they were still pushing a ball, this light and incredible thing was not much of a burden at all, and when it came to going uphill or up the stairs, Herty directly summoned a plastic hand to hug it.

The team returned the same way, and soon the glimmer of the exit appeared ahead.

The soldiers outside had been waiting for a long time at this time, and even began to feel uneasy, and they were finally relieved by the sound of footsteps and passwords coming from the depths of the central gate, but the movement that accompanied the footsteps made them look at each other: it sounded like something rolling on the ground......

The sight of two soldiers pushing the ball appeared before their eyes - in fact, one person could do it, mainly to maintain balance.

"Let's go back," Gawain let out a long sigh back in the entrance hall, one hand resting on the stone ball, "This is the result." ”

The soldiers looked at each other.

The next day, all those who were on the edge of the camp saw the strange orb.

It was placed in a clearing outside the camp, guarded by several heavily armed warriors, and a circle of wooden stakes was driven within a dozen meters of the sphere, connected by ropes to form a partition.

It looked so embarrassing that it flew up, and the guards must have lost playing cards—people were talking so loudly.

Rebecca woke up and heard the news, and hurriedly ran to see the excitement, she saw that her ancestor and Aunt Hetty were at the scene, so she squeezed over, and also looked at the ball curiously: "Ancestor...... This thing you brought out of the ruins last night? ”

"And brought out some metal samples or something—there's still a lot of good stuff to dig up in the ruins," Gawain said, nodding, "but it's this thing, I don't understand it." ”

Rebecca curiously circled the big ball twice, and came back to ask the old ancestor for instructions: "Can you touch it?" ”

Gawain waved his hand: "Don't throw it with a big fireball, anything else." ”

Although this "stone ball" is light and weird, it is actually very strong, he has already tried it, and under the premise of not using extraordinary strength, it is almost impossible to cause any damage on the sphere with an ordinary sword, so it should be no problem to hit it twice.

But it's not necessarily a big fireball - especially Rebecca's iron temperament, maybe she will be smashed by a bathtub-sized fireball king......

Rebecca curiously put her ear to the surface of the sphere, and with her other hand she struck her iron staff twice, then turned her head and shouted to Gawain: "It's not hollow! ”

"Yes, solid, but incredibly light," Gawain shrugged, "Your aunt scraped a little bit of debris down and found that it was a very metallic mixture, and if the whole ball was made of the same substance, it would definitely kill people." ”

"Maybe only the outer layer is a shell, and the inside is actually a very light material?" Rebecca was intrigued, "Do you want to cut it open and take a look?" ”

Gawain laughed: "I plan to do the same, but not right now - first use various ways to study and study without causing damage, and if the research really can't get results, then consider cutting it open." After all, there must be a reason why the Gondor people used so many tools to study it, but they didn't destroy its shell in the end. ”

Rebecca looked a little disappointed: "Oh......"

Gawain glanced at her with a smile, "There's something I want you to do instead of studying this ball - if you have time." ”

Rebecca's eyes lit up all of a sudden: "Huh? Free and free! I don't need to do it myself for the time being, the craftsmen and apprentices are digging trenches to refine quartz sand, and I'm idle! What do you want me to do? ”

"Burn the stone."