Chapter 775: Ruins
We shouldn't have taken any of the promises made by Zagu, an uncle who didn't seem to be able to rely on at all, especially when he announced that the tattered airship was in good working order. It turned out that this thing, which had been brewed into a pile of scrap copper and iron in an underground warehouse when Miria was four or five years old, had been eroded by time for ten years, and it no longer had any function other than cultivating mushrooms, and Lynn's big-mouth landing method was much more reliable than this.
But at least Uncle Zagu is right, the engine system of this Radiant Glory is indeed bursting with the enthusiasm of its heyday, this enthusiasm is so high that the cooling system of the main engine is lost after ten minutes, and when we climb to an altitude of thousands of meters, this ancient hoverboard begins to emit a terrible scream, its engine room temperature is rising, and the power output is gradually approaching a battery car, and the plane projection screen on the driver's seat shows the scene inside the engine room. It's the same as in an electric oven.
The unpleasant siren had been going off for two minutes, and it was the only tool that seemed to be working well for the airship at the moment.
"I've never had a good deal with the ruins." Uncle Zagu cried and let go of the steering lever, "The engine will stop in five minutes, if we are lucky, we will be lost in Wanhu, and if we are unlucky, it will be over, and the look on our faces is too calm, right?" "Uncle was surprised to find one thing, in the airship, even Bi Luna, who has always been the most calm and composed, now has a nervous look, while we, the more than 20 people in Wuyang, are more calm than the other, and there is even leisure to lie on the porthole and paint people, while the other side of the bubble is teaching Yakumo Blue (one of the performance artists in Uncle Zaku's eyes. He still doesn't believe that there can be people with long tails in this world, and this planet obviously doesn't have the law of fox mothers) How to calculate the gravitational constant of this planet through the current falling speed.
Even Miria, who was supposed to scream at this time, was calmer than him: this girl was busy listening to the lecture with Yakumo Blue.
"Now, it's dangerous to go on like this, right?"
Milia heard her uncle's words and looked up at me, obviously, she knew our true identity and was not afraid of the current situation, but she felt that her uncle was even more embarrassed, and even the airship could not be repaired well!
I nodded, reached out and clamped a short man who was drilling around in my armpit, and walked towards the engine room in the latter's crying and howling protests, and in a few moments the airship's sirens were lifted, and the surveillance showed that all engines were quickly returning to normal.
I tied the chiluno to the grille.
After that, the journey was not exhaustive, this strange airship did a good job next, we first rushed to the auxiliary engine stop in the upper atmosphere, and then sprinted half a way towards the opposite target under the instructions of the inverted target rudder, when I passed a thundercloud I thought the airship was going to be finished, but in fact the thundercloud only took away two boosters, and then we ran after a military hoverboard for fifteen minutes, and when the latter's repeated warnings were ineffective and ready to fire, Uncle Zagu repaired the target rudder. This journey, which was originally not long, lasted for ten at most
There was no flight package on the airship, and a hungry Sandora had lost all the seats in the airship, and if it weren't for the fact that Milia couldn't stand the thin atmosphere, I think she would have taken a bite to the airship's shell. Yakumo Blue was pale and curled with each tail, and she cleverly used her big tail to form herself into a hairball in order to mitigate the damage of the collision, only to roll in the cabin until she was almost shocked. Ilson was tied to the ground by his sister, for we all felt that the consequences of this hard tin can rolling in the cockpit would be catastrophic after we saw the terrible condition of the nine-tailed fox. Everyone ignores whether a well-trained god of war would make such a two-B mistake.
This journey into hell finally came to an end on the Gobi Desert, and we crashed peacefully in a cloud of sand: although Uncle Zagu repeatedly claimed that it was actually a safe landing.
"If we do slow down, I'll believe it." Lilina stared at Uncle Zagu with a gloomy face, and behind us, Milia was throwing up.
"I also know that the near-ground deceleration device was broken and lost at the beginning."
Uncle Zagu also had a pale face, but he was still able to stand firm, which showed that the physique of an old adventurer could still stand the test.
Lin interjected weakly at this time: "I think I fly better than this" Bing Tis and I stared at this dragon god girl who had finally found some self-confidence, and Lilina complained accurately: "This tool is at most a delay, and that is to be executed immediately!" "After tossing and turning, it is now nightfall, and the sky is hung high with three bright moons arranged in a line, two of which are stationed in a wave of emperors, and the shimmering star ring is slowly gliding through the eastern sky, it orbits the planet Mobrador, rising and setting in the sky four times a day. We looked at the desolate Gobi Desert and then turned our searching eyes to Biluna.
"The information on the ruins is around here, of course, underground."
"Exploring ancient ruins has always been a popular activity, but the number of ruins is always limited, and until now, the ancient ruins that are easy to find have basically been discovered.
Most of the remaining ruins are on the seabed and underground, which are not easy to fully explore, and under normal circumstances, only large-scale geological changes can make these ancient ruins burst out to the world. There was a movement here a while ago, and then someone found some tools here. Unfortunately, the man was a novice, and most likely confused the entrance to the ancient ruins with the entrance to the old mine. This cheapens us. ”
With a pale golden glow in her eyes, she was scanning the tools beneath the earth's crust and found a large cavity, apparently the expected ruins were real, but I waited patiently for Biluna to probe with her pile of oddly shaped instruments, and eventually, she pointed to a target and said, "Probably this way." ”
The purpose of the target is correct. Although she didn't understand it, the tools she was playing with seemed to have the ability to sense special energy, and with the help of these devices, she found the nearest gap in the large underground cavity leading to the surface.
Zagu was still sitting on the ground just now and sighed heavily, totaling how much money he needed to repair his precious Radiant Glory this time, and then he raised his head lazily: "Oh? It seems that there are indeed ancient tools nearby, right? ”
"The signal strength is very low, but the atmosphere is good today, there is almost no interference" Biluna responded to her companion's dragging behavior seriously, and easily dragged Zagu up from the ground, "We'd better untie the cable now, the instrument shows that there may be a strong wind after three o'clock, we need to find the entrance to the ruins before then, or set up a camp nearby." ”
"Actually, I'd rather turn around and go back to sleep on the airship.
Forget that there are still dinosaurs in the Gobi Desert at night. ”
Uncle Zagu muttered, but still followed honestly.
Because the airship was about to fall apart, and even the two transports carried on it were lost, everyone could only move forward on foot, but fortunately, the distance shown by the signal was not very far, so I revoked the idea of summoning 700 billion to come out. The experience of twenty or thirty people walking on the Gobi Desert at night must be something that few people have experienced, and absolutely no one on earth does this, and in Mobrador, it seems that there are no tools other than hurricanes that can stop the strange aborigines who have evolved here from engaging in outdoor activities, Uncle Zagu wears a vest and walks on the Gobi Desert of the frozen dead while complaining loudly about the stupidity of this trip, and even Milia, who looks weak, has no feeling for the environment here, of course, we don't feel it anymore, However, this makes it clear that none of the creatures that can thrive under the radiation of the empire's legacy are fuel-efficient.
We had been waiting for the dinosaurs that Uncle Zagu casually mentioned on the way, because Sandora was curious about their taste, but in the end, the largest creature in front of us was just a mosquito that was almost frozen half dead. I think Magni's singing along the way may have been a big part of the crowd's freedom from wild beasts.
Along the way, Biluna stopped to adjust her detectors, and finally pinpointed the location of the large cavity in the ground to leak energy, and after walking for more than an hour, we found the marker of Storm Lu on the surface: it was a metal pipe that had been weathered clean, the lower half buried in the gravel, and the upper half whined in the faint night wind against the sky. And just a few hundred meters away from this most obvious man-made object, we find a possible place to go underground: the entrance to a mine half-buried in the gravel.
"I kind of believe that the ruins exist," Uncle Zagu judged in a low voice, "and the normal burned mine shaft will be buried under the gravel and gravel in this often windy Gobi desert for only a month or two, and the sand near the entrance to this mine is fresh, and the wind near it is obviously suppressed, and the entrance to the mine is also prevented from being buried." Biluna nodded: "Maybe some kind of equipment inside the ruins is still working, changing the energy field near the mine, what was its original design?" ”
"It's just to save effort when cleaning the vents." Sandora said lightly1
Then he was the first to walk into the deep passage, and we followed closely, and Uncle Zagu shouted behind the most lusk: "Hey! Don't rush into the way! Let the probe go down and check the oxygen and ......... first, forget it, wait for me! ”
The scans showed that the "mine" had been leading to a depth of nearly a thousand meters, where there was a significant fault, which was not very stable and was very misaligned with the nearby geological structures. After a while, we confirmed what we had expected: a heavily tilted metal structure appeared in front of us at an island angle, and the originally wide tunnel was immediately narrow enough for only two people to pass.
"This place should have been completely sealed once," Uncle Zagu observed the twisted and broken complex bracket ahead, which looked like a cross-section of a metal corridor, and the broken pipes and lines could be seen behind the heavy metal plates, "first sealed by a lasting geological shift, and then another crack opened in the recent ground movement, and the energy seeping out of the crack affected the nature of energy-sensitive metals on the surface, and the metal plates used in many ancient ruins are not much different from the crack guards from the Hundred Years' War, If you can't find this bit of energy residue, even the old birds will be confused. ”
This is all the experience of adventurers, they can find the peculiarity of a piece of scrap iron from a few simple patterns, and judge from the little energy radiation left on it whether it comes from the ruins or the ancient battlefield, but when it comes out of Uncle Zagu's mouth, I always feel a little unreal: this lazy uncle who doesn't seem to be reliable at all actually has this experience? I thought he wouldn't know anything about it!
"Even this Nizi has such a look?" Zagu suddenly patted Milia on the head and ......, although I haven't been active in the past few years, I think I used to be a famous adventurer! ”
"It's just that I haven't had much activity in the past few years?" Milia muttered under her breath.
"The instrument has scanned the results" Biluna interrupted the bickering of the "father and daughter", raised her head and looked at the dark collapsed corridor in front of her, the powerful spotlight on her shoulder swept through the darkness for a moment, revealing a bizarre and strange shadow for a moment "There is a metal partition about five hundred meters ahead, and then there is a big hole, but here the stability of the stratum is no longer guaranteed, such a place that has been in disrepair for a long time, the corridor may collapse at any time." ”
"You can't go back here." Uncle Zagu smiled, but this time he took the initiative to walk in, and a large group of us followed: I am not worried about the collapse of the underground passageway, according to Sandora's scanning, this place is much stronger than expected, I don't know that tens of thousands of years of geological activity have not completely torn this corridor apart, it will not collapse for a while.
As we walked, we also observed the surroundings, this twisted metal corridor embodies a very high technology, and despite the long baptism of time, the main part of it is still as bright as new, reflecting a silvery white cold light under the illumination of the light. There are some broken pipes coming out of the fault in the ceiling, and the pipes are wrapped in a translucent crystal material, similar to the energy pipes I have seen in the Imperial warships, and it is clear that the vanished ancient civilization is also inseparable from the imperial legacy. Sandora kept frowning as she walked aside, the sight around her made her think, she might have remembered something about the old empire from the tools here, I didn't dare to disturb her.
In fact, I didn't have time to bother her: I had been struggling with some stupid ice goblin on the way. Qi Lunuo was tied to the heat dissipation grille of the airship for ten hours, and made an outstanding contribution to the safety of everyone all the way, but this dwarf obviously didn't want to be a live Lei Feng, she was trying to fight with me all the way, and the current record is forty defeats, zero wins and zero draws.
I didn't dare to tell her that when I went back, I might have to take that airship, and Uncle Zagu swore that as long as she rested for a while, the Radiant Glory would still be able to take off, and when the time came, Qiluno would definitely run for her life.
Until then, let the ice goblins go crazy for a while.
Eventually, a heavy alloy gate blocked everyone's path, interrupting the ice powder that Kiruno was grinding with her ice sword on the back of my head.
"I feel like there's a ghost energy fluctuation behind this."
Sandora whispered, the first thing she had said since she had entered the underground path.
I don't think it's a surprise: "The civilizations of this world have all been bred in the imperial legacy, and the same is true of ancient civilizations. "But...... It's different, here, I feel very concerned. Sandora whispered, reaching out and pressing on the glossy alloy door that had gone through countless years, and stroked it gently. The latter has a neat pattern, which is a tool left by ancient civilization, and Uncle Zagu seriously argued for a while, and explained a sentence: the door opens outward, and the heart collides.
Nima! I've been pushing it for a long time!
The energy of the ancient ruins has been interrupted, and the door can't be opened automatically, but fortunately we have Hercules with us, Ibuki Suika suddenly felt that she was being lifted, it turned out that it was Lin holding her waist, and she walked forward like holding a city-breaking hammer, and I was shocked to watch the protest of the dragon god girl who may have been convulsing her brain, and knocked the latter into the door, inserting a hard horn into the crack of the door, and then pried it hard.
Pry open...... Opened ...... Finish......
Ibuki Watermelon and Qiluno, who were also regarded as strange tools, wept bitterly, and announced that they would not succeed at all in their revenge plan, and Uncle Zagu had been stabbed out of tolerance by the amazing things of our strange people, and although he was stunned for a moment, he still cleverly chose to shut up, and led everyone into this underground cavern that may have been unvisited for tens of thousands of years.
"Uh-huh...... I feel like I've made a fortune this time.
,…
Uncle Zagu changed his previous complaining attitude, looked at the wide hall in front of him and the nearby corridors leading to various places, and began to mumble excitedly.
There was no gloomy and humidity in the ruins, and there was no lack of oxygen and stagnant toxic gases (although that thing had no effect on us), just like the initial judgment, although it had ceased to function for many years, the mysterious ancient technology in the ruins was still elaborating residual heat, and the caverns thousands of meters deep underground were well ventilated, dry and tidy, and some invisible air passages might extend from other places on the ground, and we could still smell the dry sand of the Gobi Desert here, The air under the open ground has just been pumped from the surface. The lighting system has ceased to function, but there is still a faint light in the underground space, and these light sources come from the blue crystals inlaid in the ceiling and walls, which have been exhausted to the point where they cannot provide standard energy output for the equipment, but there is still a certain amount of spectral energy crystals in stock!
Spectral crystals are used as decorations here? Are there enough ghost crystals in the hands of ancient civilizations to the price of cabbage?
"The light of color! We've made a fortune! ”
Uncle Zagu let out a low cry, then took out a bunch of tools, and lay beside the largest ghost crystal recently, as if preparing to pry a piece down.
His movements were enough for his heart, but there were times when the tools of the ancient ruins were not matched by the heart: the moment the uncle's hand touched the crystal, a lowered roar came from under the ruins