From the perspective of being almost missing for more than a year, he looks really good, his appearance has hardly changed, not much different from a few years ago, except that his beard is a little longer, and his eyes seem to lack some brilliance, he is wearing a well-washed work clothes of the mining base, and he walks solemnly towards the diamond in the middle of the high platform, and then he suddenly stops and stands straight.

Is it another false fantasy? Lucas thought to himself.

With the experience of the past, he did not rush forward this time, he retreated to the corner of the high platform, his eyes staring at this Steven, his heart full of suspicion.

I don't know how long it took, but Steven, who had been standing still, finally moved, his body began to tremble violently, his face became extremely distorted, he was short of breath, and he muttered to himself, as if he was arguing with someone about something, but Lucas could only vaguely distinguish what he said in his ears.

"Never......" he heard Steven let out a low growl.

"Another clumsy ruse......," he heard clearly.

The altar in front of him shone with a blinding glow, as if in response to Steven, who was obviously shaking even more, but gritted his teeth as if struggling to hold on.

"I won't give in!" Steven screamed at the golden mang.

"Never!" After he finished speaking, he stretched out his arm, straight and steady, with a clear difference from his trembling body, he turned his palm, only to see that the palm suddenly burst into light, from nothing, a colorful metal block slowly rose from his hand.

With Steven's angry shout, he clenched the metal with both hands and handed it forward, but when the square was about to be put into the hole in the diamond-shaped body, the golden tower base suddenly shone brightly, and there was a roar in the sky, like a bell ringing on a thousand teaching towers at the same time; At this moment, the gold liquid that had been stirring like a surge around suddenly solidified, and the floating light stagnated, and even the golden halo floating in the sky stopped in an instant.

In front of the tower, the roaring Steven was immersed in a golden light, and he was also motionless, like a still statue.

As the glaring glare faded, Lucas lowered his eye-covering palms, and found that Steven had fallen straight to the ground, his body slowly sinking, the hard ancient metal where he was swallowing him like a swamp, and his fallen body disappeared in a few breaths.

At this moment, the erudition of the tower had gradually converged, and the surrounding golden liquid lake began to fluctuate again, and the waves hit the shore, the waves swelled, and emitted a strange metallic groan. The light and shadow turned, the floating shadows flowed, and the clusters of light in the sky were rejuvenated, and they flickered in the sky, and the high platform was silent, as if everything had never happened before.

What the hell is going on? What the hell just happened?

Lucas stared dumbfounded at the place where Steven had just disappeared, and the golden ground was the same, but the strange textures in it shone slightly, just like his usual rapid breathing.

A fantasy show with no trace to be found, and everything seems to be completely illogical, what kind of conspiracy is brewing in this vast underground world that is clearly excavated by ancient alien races? And what does all this have to do with him?

Lucas's mind was in a daze, and he felt that everything in front of him made no sense, and he slowly walked to the altar that was still glowing with strange light, and tried it with his toes, but the few metal plates that seemed to have melted just now were as hard as iron.

He tilted his head to look at the diamond-shaped object on the altar and saw a square gap in it, and he remembered the object Steven was holding, and it looked like he had just wanted to put it into it.

It's obviously not a hoax but something you don't understand, but what lured you here? And the altars in this metal lake, why have they been in operation since eons ago? And what do you want to prove in that scene just now?

Thousands of questions were entwined in his heart, helpless despair and the desire to survive were tormenting him at the same time, Lucas looked around on the high platform, he couldn't see the way forward, he couldn't tell the way back, he didn't know what would happen next, and he didn't know how long it had been since he left the base, he could only guess the time that had passed by feeling the distance he had traveled, a day might be longer, I estimated. But strangely enough, he didn't feel tired, not even the slightest feeling of hunger.

It's only in dreams, he said to himself.

And if it's really a nightmare that can be revived from, how great would it be?

Lucas had already regretted that he should not have run out of the base recklessly, and he recalled that Butler, the guard at the force field gate, had said 'drive alone' when he climbed onto the pedal of the movers and handed him the memory board, which he thought was a little strange at the time.

Only you can 'see' that guy, can you? Lucas smiled bitterly in his heart at this time.

That fake Malvern ...... Whatever he was, he mentioned that Heisenberger Mining had built its base at the exit of the Ascended Ruins, and this was clearly the same relic he was talking about, wasn't it?

Daniel had told him that due to their age, the known ruins were generally not large, and that it was only on their planet of origin that Disfaradhu dug up the giant battleship 'Ancestor Bless I' from a sea of sand. Once upon a time, due to the desire for old technology, the enthusiasm of various intelligent civilizations for archaeological excavations of the Ascended ruins in their places was high, but only very limited discoveries have been made in hundreds of years.

Lucas remembered Daniel's anecdote about a trip to Lake Hobis on the outskirts of Kamxian City during his college days.

"Considering that it was an ancient civilization that built everything hundreds of millions of years ago, that relic island is truly full of reverie." Daniel boasted to him and several brothers at the time. "But if it's just unlearned fellows who go there, they'll have a disdain for those golden and dilapidated houses."

"Because compared to the magnificent buildings of modern civilization, those ruins are unsightly, and they are simply a small fight." Daniel concluded.

A little fight? Lucas cracked his mouth and laughed dumbly, Daniel, bastard, I wish he could be dragged here to see what he could do with his 'smartest mind in the house'.

As for who is the smartest and who is the stupidest among the brothers in the family, it has always been a question of disagreement among the Taylor family, and Cameron and they have been arguing for more than ten years, but they have basically reached a consensus on the issue of who is the smartest. Taylor unashamedly crowned himself for being admitted to Sicheng University with a high score, but Steven poured cold water on him, telling him that Joanna was actually the highest SST test score in the family.

As for who is the stupidest, everyone feels embarrassed, because the honest Nathan and Andrew, who often can't turn his brains, have the capital to win the championship, and as for Steven, who looks like a ghost on the surface, the test scores in various subjects from school to school are comparable to his birth order, and he is gloriously ranked last.

But no matter who the brothers named the joke, they never mentioned Lucas, because in their opinion, Lucas, who was a man of few words, cautious and quick-witted, was an all-round man on the family's farm, who may not be very smart, but who was definitely worthy of trust in every way.

But Lucas himself knew that he was actually stupid, he had also taken the SST test when he was a child, and the bad results were even enough to worry his mother May, his cautious words and actions were somewhat related to a lack of self-confidence, and his long silence prevented him from receiving too much expectation and attention, and he was happy to be a shadow of his brothers in the family.

What if Daniel the smart or Cameron the planner? He was so worried about his current state of malaise that he couldn't help but compare his two brothers with himself.

They must have figured out a way to escape, instead of waiting here to die. As loneliness grows, Lucas's confidence is being eaten away by the unforgiving reality.

In the golden light bath, although he did not have any fatigue in his body, he still sat on the high platform, and began to miss his hometown, the farm where he was born, grew up, and worked.

In his mind, his childhood self was running through the endless wheat fields, stroking the golden ears of wheat and smiling contentedly.

He misses every day and night of Qilian, his father's unreserved trust, his mother's meticulous care, and he misses his brothers, from the naughty boy who plays together to the man who has achieved something.

He closed his eyes, hung his head in a gloomy light, and for the first time the thought of suicide came to his mind as he was alone on this high platform under a golden light like a torch.

If you can't live, you'll die, he thought dejectedly.

The thoughts in his mind were in a mess, and the exhaustion of his mind was far more devastating than the exhaustion of his body. But at this moment, he suddenly heard clear footsteps in his ears, and he turned back in horror, only to find that a figure was rapidly approaching under the high platform.

It was Steven, it was another Steven, the same dress, the same eyes, he walked up the steps quickly, without the slightest hesitation, everything was exactly the same as just now.

"Hey!" Lucas subconsciously called out to him this time, and this Steven just glanced at him and headed towards the center of the altar again.

"Another trick, and how could Lao Tzu be fooled?" Lucas heard this Steven gritting his teeth at the altar.

"A thousand times, ten thousand times, and your plan will not succeed!" He roared loudly, clutching the metal in his hand, and resolutely handed it to the rhombus again, but the golden mang made a big blow again, and he slowly fell down after being fixed, and then he was swallowed by the metal wrap, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.