The eastern part of the eleventh district, the school city. It's still the same windowless building.

At the top, the empty room, where there should have been only a glass container, was now full of people.

They're researchers in Lyceum City - that's self-evident. The men, women, and children who were summoned walked around with the momentum of tearing through the normally quiet environment of the room, exchanging all kinds of information with each other. At the same time, he reported on his work with the chairman of the board of directors.

"How's it going?"

The question was asked by the one who was suspended in a glass container in an upside-down form.

Dressed in a green surgical gown, his head and feet are suspended in a red liquid in a life support device made of tempered glass, four meters in diameter and ten meters in length. Like a man and like a woman.、Like an adult and like a child.、Like a saint and like a sinner.,I really can't see that it's a character who has anything to do with the school city.。 But it's him.,Is the real person who lives at the top of the mouth of the school city.,That is, the head of the top management of the school city-the general chairman-Aresta? Crowley.

"It's still the same as before, no progress."

It was a middle-aged man with thick eyes who responded. What he held in his hand was not a pile of white paper, but a strange stone tablet.

"The depth of the ground is five thousand meters. It's only possible to roughly determine exactly where it's located, but it seems that you need to link to a specific code execution to open it. ”

The middle-aged man waved his fingertips lightly at the air, and the image appeared on the cold walls of the room.

There was nothing in the pitch black. But in the darkness, you can see something. A huge castle-like building stands in the image.

"It is said that the forecast area is more than 200 hectares, and based on the information received, it is expected that there will be more than 1,000 units."

"If such a thing is really what it is rumored...... With so many dispatches, the earth will inevitably encounter a fourth world war. ”

“……”

Aresta stared at the image, a little sharpness in her eyes.

The feeling of this scale, as well as the properties hidden underground. I'm afraid that the above factors are not the only ones he will associate with the rumored thing.

"Based on the information that has been left behind."

The middle-aged man continued to report.

"At this depth, the underground environment is so harsh that even the latest detector excavators can't do it...... After all, on such a large scale, it is necessary to consider not only how to excavate, but also how to drain the wasteland; On the other hand, having reached such a depth, of course, it is not excluded that natural caves and the like, but the transportation of instruments and the construction of real objects ...... In addition, to date, we have not found any information about the people involved. ”

"So, how exactly is this place made......

"There's no way to know that."

The middle-aged man pushed up the thick glasses on the bridge of his nose and shook his head.

"But what if it's not humans who are building these? I mean, the people who can turn these rocks and dirt into self-generated energy and something, you see, there seems to be something else, right? ”

The female researcher at the other end of the room enlarged the image and could see that on the other side of the fortress, there seemed to be about 100 metal objects.

Saying this, middle-aged men seem to have noticed this.

"If that's really the case, then it can be said that it makes sense...... But with our current science, there is no way to do that? ”

Aresta smiled: "Have you forgotten that there is more than science in this world?" ”

"The abilities we have created are very powerful, capable of controlling supernatural things; But, supernatural abilities, those guys know better than we do. ”

Aresta was talking about the magic side. The people who can stand here,Naturally, it's different from most people in the school city.,The storage of the magic side,They know.。

"Specifically, could this be something that was created by science and magic before?"

"People on the magic side should have only heard of such things, and they don't know much about such things, so this is our advantage...... Suddenly shot and was caught off guard. ”

"That is, before the magic side knows that this thing really exists, enter him, and control it? However, our current intelligence is only one step ahead of the magic side. ”

That is, to know the existence of this thing - there is no other advantage.

"At the very least, it is necessary to analyze the principles on which a fortress of this magnitude is made. This point, whether it is the magic side or the science side, if you can master such an ability, then you will definitely get a head start in the next war. ”

The middle-aged man said as if he was confirming one by one.

"If possible, can we dig it up little by little, like archaeology?"

"But,I should have said it just now.,The area of that underground fortress is about 200 hectares.,If such a large-scale excavation happens,It's impossible for the people on the magic side of the undercover in the school city not to find out.。

This approach simply does not work.

"Ten thousand steps back, even if we can not be noticed by the people on the magic side, our knowledge of that fortress is only this image...... Also, we don't know the true face of the metal objects in the lower right corner of the image, and if they are really the kind of robots, we can't guarantee that they have stopped working and have no attack power......"

To put it bluntly, there are quite a lot of uncertainties in this incident.

In the final analysis, it is because this time things are different from the past, it is not pure science or magic, and once there is something unknown, then the uncertainty will also increase exponentially.

"So, it seems that we need to negotiate further."

"There are many possibilities, but now you need to be on standby, right?"

"Judging by the results, it looks like this."

"Well, I see."

As if to make a concluding remarks, after the middle-aged man had finished his last sentence, the researchers in the room left the place with a gesture from Aresta.

Aresta smiled at the people out of his sight.

Today's gathering doesn't seem to have anything substantial, after all, it's an exchange of information, but in fact, there is still some unspoken information.

At least that's the middle-aged man.

Aresta could tell that he was about to say something about the slate in his hand, but seemed to change his mind when he heard about the metal object.

Aresta knew that since he had done so, he must have had his own ideas.

"Whatever you think, it's only part of my plan."