A diffuse pale blue aura rippled out from around the detection door, and with the voice of the artificial intelligence omega, the barrier opened, and the door to Tallrond stabilized in front of Norretta.

The white, graceful dragon flapped its wings and glided gracefully through the navigation light ring in front of the gate, the barrier entrance closing behind her, blocking out the cold air howling in the Arctic Ocean.

Norreta lowered her head, enjoying the comfortable temperature created by the weather controller, the verdant mountains and hills stretching out in her vision, the low-altitude transportation network between cities and cities intertwined across the land, and she took a deep breath in the familiar scenery of her hometown, and let her four biological lungs and two sets of mechanical lungs soak in the clean, warm air.

Tallrond has been like spring all year round, at least for the last four millennia, but in earlier times, the continent was also covered in ice and snow, or covered with lava and fire - the dragons, a caged race, whose long civilization is as boring as long life, in the millennia, the Senate resets the weather controller almost every ten millennia to change the "appearance" of the continent, and in the current cycle, the "theme" of Tallrond is spring.

This change is one of the few permitted acts of "nonsense" under the gaze of the gods, and it doesn't make much sense, but the dragons enjoy it.

Meaningless thoughts crossed her mind, and Norretta began to lower her height, hovering around the outer mountain barrier for a moment, and then flew straight to Argondol, the headquarters of the Mithril Treasury between the mountains.

Between the mountains, the magnificent and magnificent Argondol is bathed in dim sunlight, and this long day is coming to an end, and the giant sun that has dominated the sky for nearly half a year is gradually sinking into the horizon in the undulation of day after day. The white dragon flew into the setting sun towards an ornate palace at the top of the hill, the walls of one side of the palace had opened automatically, and a wide landing platform extended out......

Noretta landed smoothly on the landing platform, moving her wings, which were slightly tired from the long flight, before she heard a shrill cry coming from under her feet: "Hey, you're stepping on my body!" ”

The white dragon paused in place for a moment, then slowly looked down at her feet, and saw a figure in a lilac dress struggling to drill out from under her huge dragon claws, and after a few seconds, she slowly said in a tone that was not surprised: "Melita—why are you standing on the platform?" ”

"Didn't I just land here before I had time to walk away!!" Melita finally got out and immediately raised her head and shouted to her long-time friend, "You don't have anything wrong with your eyes, don't you see me?!" ”

The white dragon lowered his head: "...... Didn't see it. ”

“…… You're revenge, you're too vindictive," Melita suddenly complained loudly, "Isn't it just that I accidentally stepped on you last time, and you even stepped on it back......"

Noretta didn't speak, just quietly looked down at her friend complaining there, and when the other party finally quieted down a little, she said unhurriedly: "I saw a book in the human world, about knights and dragons, and some of the stories in it look familiar. ”

Melita, who was complaining loudly, suddenly stopped moving, and only raised her head in embarrassment for a long time: "Probably...... Probably the story that the bards of mankind have made up in the past two years? ”

"It's a story from hundreds of years ago, reprinted," Noretta looked at the tiny figure at her feet without blinking, the dragon's claws moving as if she didn't care, "and it seems to be very popular." ”

Melita immediately muttered, "Damn...... Doesn't it mean that human beings are very forgetful......"

Norreta just lowered her head and looked at her friend twice, then she shook her head: "Forget it, let's go back and talk about it." I met with that Gawain Cecil and brought back something to show the Speaker, how is your mission going? ”

"Gawain Cecil?" Melita was relieved to find that the other party was no longer pursuing the villain story of Dragon Quest, and then she heard a familiar name, and her eyebrows subconsciously raised, "This is really a coincidence...... In a sense, what I'm going to report this time is also related to him.

"We've found the legendary shield that the Cecil family lost a hundred years ago, the same one that Gawain Cecil used to carry all the way out of the wasteland - guess what that thing was made of?"

Looking at the obviously betrayal expression on Melita's face, Noretta just shook her head indifferently: "I don't guess - do you say it?" ”

Melita choked for a moment, but quickly shrugged her shoulders rather habitually, and said casually, "Aside from some botched add-ons, there's a good chance that the main body of that shield fell from the 'firmament', and if we're right, part of the host array." ”

Norretta's calm and indifferent appearance was instantly shattered, and on her scale-covered dragon face, there was an instantly revealing surprise that even humans could recognize, and she couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, "Firmament...... Are you sure?! ”

"I'm almost sure, you know, that while I'm a young dragon, the Calador I'm traveling with on this mission is a learned old dragon."

“…… That's a ...... Unusual findings...... It is hard to imagine how much impact this will have on a human being who has been holding a fragment of the sky for more than ten years...... No wonder he died so early. But what about the resurrection...... "Norreta muttered subconsciously, but suddenly she frowned again, "Wait, no, if it was a fragment that fell from the sky, it should have fallen near the equator, no matter how far it deviated, it would not have been possible to deviate to the north of the Loren continent, how did it fall into the hands of Gawain Cecil, who led the Northern Expeditionary Force at the time?" ”

"If you really want to let go of your imagination, there are too many possibilities, maybe the fragment did fall near the equator, and then traveled to the north of the Loren continent? For example, if it fell into the hands of the elves and was taken north by the traveling elves, it may also be related to the impact three thousand years ago, the ...... Tsk, what a splash of debris......"

"Impact ...... three thousand years ago" seemed to be Melita's words that suddenly touched Noretta's mind, and the latter looked thoughtful, and couldn't help but muttered and shook her head slightly, "We still don't understand why the god of nature did that at the time...... That really alarmed so many transcendent beings, even our gods......"

Melita was about to speak, when she suddenly felt a faint sense of gaze and uneasiness from the depths of her soul surging from all directions, and she immediately shook her head: "Noretta, let's not continue to discuss this,"

“…… You're right," Noretta closed her mouth as she susceptibly as a curtain of light began to envelop her from top to bottom, "Let's go see Speaker Andal first, this world ...... Maybe it's really going to start getting interesting. ”

……

Surrounded by ornate columns and relief walls, the lights turned on one by one, and a crystal curtain of transparent light descended from the sky, fluorescently illuminating Andal's behemoth body full of signs of implant transformation, and the awe-inspiring ancient dragon awoke from its light sleep, and he looked at the entrance of the hall to see Noretta and Melita, who had taken on human form, walking towards their psychic thrones.

"Ah...... Two talented young dragons," Speaker Andal's gentle voice rang out in the hall, and there seemed to be a smile in his tone, "here you are. ”

Norretta stepped forward and bowed slightly: "Speaker, we have completed our respective field tasks, and there are special circumstances that need to be reported to you directly. ”

"Say, I'm listening."

Noretta and Melita looked at each other, then the latter nodded, motioning for the former to speak first.

Noretta raised her head and looked at the Elder Dragon on the Psychic Throne, "The Cecil Empire of the human world has built a large-scale, magic-based communication system, and their most powerful antenna has recently picked up a mysterious set of signals, which I think are worth paying attention to. ”

"Mysterious signal?" One of Speaker Andal's mechanical prosthetic eyes turned to Noretta, "Was it made by those elemental creatures in the far seas of the East?" They've been trying to fix the ship, often creating strange ...... 'movements'. ”

"Probably not," Norretta shook her head, "I've recorded a copy of the signal, and I hope that with your permission, I'll have Omega's advanced mind layer analyze it directly." ”

Andal thought for a moment and nodded slightly: "Yes." ”

As his words fell, a piece of the floor in front of the Psychic Throne changed, the metal covering closed in a faint grinding sound, and a pale golden alloy column with a faint light on the surface rose from the opening in the floor, and at the top of the column was a series of interfaces, chips, and flickering runes.

Norreta stepped forward and fumbled behind her neck, and with a soft click, she opened the hidden bionic skin cover behind her neck and pulled out a slender cable from which the end shimmered, and the next second it was attached to the alloy pillar in front of the Mind Throne.

Within a thousandth of a second, Norreta uploaded a sample of the signal that had been transferred to her assistive electronic brain to Omega.

Melita watched this scene from the side and couldn't help frowning: "Even the human form has been transformed like this...... I can't take ......."

"This helps with the rear support mission," Noretta turned her head to look at the other party, "You're a young dragon, but your thinking is so old, even implant modifications are more conservative than most dragons. ”

Melita was about to say something when she heard Speaker Andal cough lightly on the Psychic Throne, and she immediately closed her mouth.

"Now, let's listen to the primordial rhythm of this signal—"

As Speaker Andal's words fell, a low and soft hum began to sound in the vast rotunda, followed by a trembling ring and a jumping curve on the crystal curtain around the Throne of Minds, and a voice became clearer and clearer in the buzz—

It sounded like a rhythmic hum, interspersed with a low heartbeat, as if an invisible singer was humming some kind of song beyond the comprehension of the mortal mind, and after playing for more than ten seconds, it began to repeat, and repeated.

The voices echoing in the hall suddenly stopped, and Speaker Andal's voice rang out again: "Nothing can be heard for the time being after the conversion to audio - it could be some kind of psionic singing, but it could just be the magic of the human antenna resonating with the atmosphere." We need to do a further transformation and interpretation of it. Omega, let's get started. ”

Omega's voice rang out in the hall: "Begin translating the original signal into a combination of numbers, into geometry, into a standard spectrum, into a polycode...... Possibility of starting to test all combinations......"

As Omega began to work, Speaker Andal's gentle voice reached Melita and Noretta's ears at the same time: "Regardless of the laws that this signal is encoded or encrypted, mathematics must be its universal language, and the laws are hidden in numbers, unless it is a completely chaotic creature or a mind that cannot be understood by mortals......

Melita and Noretta nodded as they listened, accepting the teachings full of wisdom, but suddenly, an indescribable sense of awe and peeping from the soul captured the hearts of every dragon on the scene, and the faces of Noretta and Melita changed at the same time, and the implant lights on Andal's body also turned on and off in an instant-

"Omega, stop parsing." The Speaker immediately shouted.

"Omega understands, stop parsing, task hangs."

"Just now......" Melita looked up with difficulty, muttering in a cold sweat on her face.

"God is watching us, a warning...... "Speaker Andal's face is unusually ugly, "we can't continue." ”

Then he slowly gasped for a few breaths before finishing the rest of the sentence:

"It's not something we're supposed to hear."