"Merciful Mother of All Things."

The old woman at the head chanted aloud: "Please bless us with a good harvest and bless us from the invasion of metal demons!" ”

"Mother of all things, the Nora people pray to you sincerely!"

By primitive standards, this ritual did look like that.

But Lu Xiao didn't feel any mystical fluctuations around him, and the Nora tribe's prayers were not answered in any way.

The three old women, known as the Elder Mother, seemed to have become accustomed to this, and after the ceremony, they ordered the Black Strong warriors to evacuate the people, and the three of them entered the cave known as the Sanctuary together.

In order to avoid the sound of conversation from attracting the attention of the Nora clan, Alethea and Yongzhen entered a state of silence after Lu Xiao turned on the infiltration mode, and only observed the situation at the scene from a distance through the high-altitude tracking of the drone.

Following the three eldest mothers into the cave where a large number of torches were burning, the lighting was quite good, allowing Lu Xiao to have a full view of the situation in the cave at a glance.

The first thing that caught Lu Xiao's attention was a metal gate at the end of the cave, near which a large number of "sacred" offerings were placed.

The dwelling of the eldest mothers was in a small cave next to the hall, and as night fell, the three who had finished their prayers blessed each other and went back to bed in their respective caves.

After confirming that the breathing of the three of them had become even, Lu Xiao cautiously came to the deepest part of the cave.

Through the Eagle Eye Vision, this heavy metal gate is made up of two layers of special alloy overlaps.

Relying on the indestructible nature of the Xuanyuan Sword, it is definitely possible to forcibly open it, but it is absolutely impossible to prevent it from making a movement.

In order to avoid angering the "gods" and attracting the attack of the entire tribe, Lu Xiao temporarily withdrew from the cave, preparing to wait until the three eldest mothers went out to lead the tribe during the day before acting.

Climbing down the uninhabited cliff to the north of the mountain, Lu Xiao found a small cave and decided to rest here first, and by the way, exchange information with Althea and Yongzhen.

"Silence lifted, tell me, what do you think of the Nora tribe?"

Yongzhen first replied with his own understanding: "It is quite a common primitive tribe, and the most concerned is the mother of all things in the mouth of the eldest mother. ”

Lu Xiao smiled and asked, "Do you think the Mother of All Things is real or is the Eldest Mother fictitious?" ”

"It's hard to say."

Yongzhen's hologram frowned: "I didn't see the situation inside the cave, what is inside?" ”

"A door."

Lu Xiao nodded at the Focus hanging next to his ear: "Focus asked me if I wanted to connect with the program of the gate, but in order to avoid startling the snake, I refused." ”

Alethea groaned and asked, "Lu Xiao, do you think there will be Vault 1 behind the gate?" ”

"It's not impossible, the specific situation still has to be confirmed in person."

"Don't talk about me." Lu Xiao changed the topic and said, "How are you over there?" Anything new? ”

Yongzhen nodded and said, "Aletea's drone also discovered humans when it expanded westward, they have nothing to do with the Nora tribe, and from these people, the drone has captured the terms Meridian City and the Sun King. ”

"The Sun King?"

Hearing this name, Lu Xiao immediately thought of Louis XIV of France, but obviously the Sun King mentioned here had no connection with him.

"In other words, in addition to the Nora, there are other tribes that have developed relatively well, and they even already have the concept of a city and an emperor?"

Alethea replied: "It should be, further west it is beyond the signal transmission range of the drone, and it is impossible to know the situation for the time being." ”

"Tomorrow, Yongzhen will take the one-time teleportation rune you gave to the west to expand the coverage of the base station, and maybe we can get a different harvest from you in the near future."

……

Since learning to meditate, Lu Xiao has been recovering his energy through meditation except for letting go of everything and entering a deep sleep state in the main world, and maintaining a certain vigilance during meditation.

Compared with the front of the mountain with a gentle slope, the back mountain where Lu Xiao temporarily perches is steeper, and no one will go up the mountain from this direction.

The morning light of sunrise outside the cave shone on Lu Xiao, waking him up from his meditative state.

Lu Xiao, who has not let down her vigilance, turned on Eagle Vision as soon as possible.

As Hawkeye's range grew, he captured every move of the Nora people.

It was impossible for the three eldest mothers to stay in the church all day without doing anything else, so they left the cave early in the morning and went to the main villages and towns of the Nora tribe to guide the people to begin their day's work.

The strong black man he had seen yesterday arranged for several of his subordinates to guard the gate of the Sanctuary Cave, and Lu Xiao ignored these guards, cut off his breath, and swaggered past them.

Once again, he came to the heavy alloy gate, and this time Lu Xiao chose to connect his Focus with the gate's system.

The lines outside the gate lit up with a red light, covering Lu Xiao's face in the light.

"Please wait for the identity scan."

The red light swept up from Lu Xiao's chin, and the mechanical synthesized sound quickly gave the answer.

"Error, the Alpha file is corrupted, unrecognizable, and not allowed to enter."

Lu Xiao shrugged his shoulders disapprenosingly: "I didn't expect to be able to enter so easily." ”

"Boom!"

Pulling out the Xuanyuan Sword at his waist, Lu Xiao stabbed the golden sword into the metal gate in a straight stabbing manner, and the indestructible Xuanyuan Sword was not hindered in any way.

"Warning, intruder! Intruder! Call the Guard...... Fail, turn on the autonomous defense system...... Fail. ”

Ignoring the AI's warning, Lu Xiao tried not to make a sound as much as possible, and opened a small hole in the double-layer alloy gate that was barely large enough for one person to pass through.

"Aletheia, hack this idiot AI and shut it up."

Aletya: "No problem. ”

"Warning Notice...... Error ......"

After being attacked by Aletya's core data, the AI in charge of the vault soon fell.

It is unknown how this AI was made, Alethea can destroy it, but cannot rewrite its core code.

"Strange...... Judging by its code, it should be a secondary agent created by a more advanced artificial intelligence, but I can't trace the origin of this stupid AI for some reason. ”

When Althea asked, Lu Xiao had already entered the inside of the gate.

Reassembling the cut out part of the structure back together, Lu Xiao arranged an illusion on the gate, so that the eldest mother of the Nora clan could not detect the traces of the cut gate for the time being, so as not to cause unnecessary disturbance.

"Welcome to the 'cradle' of Elucia 9."

The automatically broadcast welcome line made Lu Xiao and Altheya, who had been paying attention here, pause at the same time.

"Cradle? Not a refuge? ”

Lu Xiao frowned and thought for a moment, he had a rough guess about the purpose of this so-called cradle.

"What do you think, Aletea?"

“…… Go deeper, and maybe it's just as you guessed. ”

Since coming to this world, Lu Xiao has always had a question.

Now that the last season's humanity has been determined to be extinct, how did these new generations of humans emerge?

The theory of ape-man evolution can basically be denied.

Considering the strong desire of human beings to reproduce and inherit, Lu Xiao believes that it should be the civilization of the previous season that left some emergency measures.

And the name "cradle" evoked his associations, if it was really as he had guessed......

"After the demise of mankind, a grand project spanning nearly a thousand years, such a huge project cannot be managed by no one, right?"

Thinking of the secondary agency procedure mentioned by Alethea before, Lu Xiao said thoughtfully: "Or, it's not the person who is responsible for the management?" ”