Chapter 187: This is the Sanctuary
In fact, there are many violations of this closed underground shelter that have been circling in Cheng Shi's mind, such as the ice wall at the entrance that will repair itself, the lights in the corridor when you come in, and the water of 100% purity. These unconventional phenomena can operate continuously for thousands of years without human intervention, so at least there should be an ultra-stable magic energy storage control device. So when the information bridge discovered the magic energy control center, although he was stunned for a moment, he didn't feel any surprise.
The information bridge floated to a place ten meters away from everyone and turned into Wuling Hongguang, and after the five people got into the car, they came to the interior of a tower-like building in front of them.
Cheng Shi did not rush to land the information bridge, but asked it to walk up and down to see the internal structure of the building first.
The car's central control display screen has shown the holographic projection of the building, and everyone sees that the appearance of this building is a bit similar to the common hexagonal pagoda in ancient China, it is about eight thousand meters high, about three thousand meters wide, and the middle extends from the bottom of the tower to the top of the tower, it is a cylindrical empty hall, and the inner walls are full of dense wooden houses, I don't know how many floors, let alone how many rooms, these houses are surrounded by dotted contour lights, making the whole shelter appear extraordinarily bright. But the strange thing is that there are no stairs between the floors of the house here, as if they are all independent, which makes everyone very puzzled.
If the building were above ground, its structure would be nowhere near enough to support its height, as if it were a shelter built specifically for the microgravity environment of the Earth's core.
"What a strange house." Yang Yang was not surprised by the grandeur of this building, but sighed at its strange structure.
"This house doesn't look sturdy at first glance, but now it looks good, which is strange." North and Yang looked out side by side through the window of the car, their eyes full of doubt.
Oldman looked thoughtful: "Landlord, I think this is their real shelter." ”
Barbara snorted: "Water is a magic material in itself for some races, and there is a large amount of pure water here, which is more like a good magic material. ”
Cheng Shi looked at the strange scene in front of him, a little dazed, he nodded silently: "Yes, besides, there is no reason for them to not hesitate to transform their bodies to cast spells in the water," as he said that, he lowered his head slightly and glanced at the center control of the car, "Xiaoqiao, let's go to those houses in the middle first, there may be some discoveries." ”
Wuling Hongguang quietly landed in a relatively spacious corridor in the middle: "There is almost no gravity here, and the air environment is similar to that in the spherical hall, mainly nitrogen, and a small amount of hydrogen and oxygen. After you got out of the car for a while, if the owner felt the need, he could have gone to the layer below you to create the right amount of artificial gravity, so that it would be easier for you to walk. ”
"Huh? What else can it be? Yang Yang looked surprised.
Cheng Shi was happy: "Xiaoqiao, just do as you say, but the simulated gravity should not be too large, and be careful not to damage the building structure here." ”
After the car door opened, the five people controlled the life jackets to float out of the car. The car then flew downward, and in order to match the simulated gravity created by the information bridge for a while, Cheng Shi, Barbara, and Oldman all consciously kept their bodies upright, while Yang Yang and North didn't care, and at the moment the two goods were happily floating around in the corridor.
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Yang Yang and North fell to the ground, but the gravity created by the information bridge was only about one-fifth of that on Earth, and they were wearing life support clothes, so they didn't fall painfully, but when they got up, they saw that the other three were all standing firmly on the ground
on, still resentful.
Cheng Shi and Oldman looked at them and smirked, and Barbara's disdainful expression was mixed with smugness.
Yang Yang snorted, and pushed open a wooden door in front of him angrily, and suddenly a hula sound came out of the room, sounding like something suddenly fell apart.
"Yikes! Hosts, there are a lot of bones here! Yang Yang's face was originally full of resentment, and after seeing a few small piles of white bones in the room, he shivered and took three steps back.
North only poked his head in the direction of the door with his neck stretched out from afar, while the other three immediately stepped forward to check on the situation.
It was a very simple cottage, with a few simple wooden tables neatly arranged, a few matching chairs around the tables, and some strange wooden objects on the floor, which looked like children's toys. There are also small doors on the left and right sides, and the whole room is structured like a two-bedroom house.
Everyone doesn't understand why tables and chairs are needed in a space without gravity, and these tables and chairs don't look like they're fixed on the ground, although there is gravity temporarily created by the information bridge in this house now, but judging from the position of these tables and chairs, it seems that this was the case before, thousands of years have passed, and in an environment with almost no gravity, these tables and chairs don't seem to have moved any traces, which can't help but make a few people amazed.
"Landlord, how can I look at these children's bones?" Oldman said as he half-crouched on the ground and looked at the small pile of white bones below.
Cheng Shi sighed, obviously he also noticed this: "Yes, when I was outside, I saw that those ice were wrapped in adult elves, it is naturally impossible for a race to be without children, and I was thinking about where those children had gone?" Until we found out about the shelter, I didn't want to see the bones of children in these rooms, but I did think so, and we'd go to the other rooms later, and there might be a lot more. ”
Barbara shook her head: "Are these children starving to death in the room?" Why don't they go out? I see the corridors are very clean. ”
"In order to conserve resources, don't you see a difference between the materials used in the construction of these houses and the materials used in the frame of the main building outside? Ben detected that they had built the house out of magical materials, and the children would have been more comfortable staying in the house, as the magical binding enchantment on the floor of the room would keep them from floating. But it's a child's nature to be playful, so there should have been a binding barrier made by the adult elves on these doors to prevent the children from slipping out casually. And the corridor is not without human corpses, after all, thousands of years have passed, and they have long been weathered. The reason why these bones in the house can be preserved is probably related to the magical materials used to build the house. Besides, the tables and chairs in the room stayed on the floor because of the magic constraints. "The information bridge creates artificial gravity and scans and analyzes it non-stop.
Cheng Shi touched the tables and chairs around him, and although so many years had passed, he found that these simple pieces of furniture, which looked like they were made of ordinary wooden materials, still felt very textured. However, it loosened with a slight push, which shows that the magic binding enchantment here is already very weak.
Barbara arrives at what appears to be a bookshelf in the back room, but there are no books on it, only some powdery substance.
Yang Yang and North found a lot of strange little bottles in a house next door, they liked it very much, they filled their pockets and took a lot of them in their hands, it seems that they want to collect them as antiques, after all, they are serious antiques. If the information bridge is now a suspended car model, Yangyang will inevitably let it eat all these bottles and cans.
"What are you two doing? We
Isn't there an event fund now? It's not bad for money, why do you take so many antiques from other people? Cheng Shi looked at the two underage girls speechlessly and shouted.
Yang Yang's face was full of indifference: "We didn't think about selling these things for money, we just looked good and wanted to collect them." ”
The little mermaid nodded vigorously, indicating that she also had a hobby of collecting things.
"I can allow the two of you to take a maximum of two as souvenirs each, and put the rest back in my place right away." Cheng Shi's face was serious, and there was a parent's tone of reprimanding the child in his voice.
"There are still many civilization graveyards in this cosmic space, and if you take two of them on each planet, it will be enough to fill your room." Oldman said with a seemingly reasonable point.
And as soon as he finished speaking, the four of them cast strange glances at him, Cheng Shi and Barbara felt that the angle from which the giant thought about the problem was simply a huge crow's mouth. Yang Yang and North felt that what he said seemed to make sense, so they thought about it for a while, and then decided to obey the leader's instructions, so they walked to the room where the antiques were found.
"Landlord, we're all putting it back." Yang Yang held a small bottle in each of his left and right hands, and said frankly, and North in the back did the same thing.
Cheng Shi nodded, although he saw that their two pockets were still slightly bulging, but he thought that he had finally taken a lot less than just now, so he didn't say anything.
The five of them opened the doors of many more rooms along the corridor on this floor, and found that the furnishings in the rooms were similar, as if they were built with fixed templates, and in addition, the bones of those children were the most difficult for them to calm down, and most of the rooms were in them, although thousands of years had passed, everything in front of them still made people look desperate.
"Xiaoqiao, we won't open the door one by one to check, you go and scan it, focus on those rooms with text materials, and notify me when you find it." Cheng Shi stood on the edge of the corridor and looked down and said.
Wuling Hongguang quickly flew down after transforming into a model car, and then began to quickly circle around from the corridor on the first floor to check all the rooms.
Losing the artificial gravity of the information bridge, the five of them floated again. Cheng Shi controlled the life suit and came to the empty hall in the middle, fortunately he was not afraid of heights, otherwise the height of several thousand meters below would be a bit daunting.
Barbara can fly, and naturally she is not afraid of heights, and when she saw that Cheng Shi's face was full of thoughts, she also floated over: "What's wrong?" Did you think of something? ”
Cheng Shi frowned: "Do you think the fence design of the corridor here is very interesting?" ”
Barbara saw that there were many handrails on the fences that stretched outward, and these handrails were of different lengths and did not seem to be decoration: "Are those the stairs where they go to each other's doors?" ”
"I guess so, the reason why they designed it this way should be to fully take into account the microgravity environment here, and at that time, the hall in the middle was the traffic artery where they flew around." Cheng Shi thought about it and said.
Barbara frowned: "The job of the adult elves is mainly to cast spells to provide magic energy for the shelter, but they can't live like this forever, so they built those huge thrusters outside, trying to push the whole planet to find a new home, but their planetary escape plan failed." ”
"Yes, so they survived in this underground shelter for another thousand years, and when the sun went out, they lost their only energy supply, and finally had to wait for the cold winter to come." Cheng Shi continued to analyze Barbara's logic.
The two chatted and gestured with their hands, and Yang Yang saw that the two of them were muttering for a long time, and he didn't know what he was talking about, so he waved at them from a distance, but the two continued to analyze the situation here as if they didn't see it.