A step forward, but the world seems to be completely different. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The glow and projection of the scorching sun seemed to disappear without a trace.

Everything became dim and ambiguous, like a vague dream.

Beneath the tower, in front of the closed black-iron door, Charles saw Gaius take a key from his bosom, insert it into the keyhole with great care, and twist it with all his might.

And so, amid the tiny sound of countless gears grinding and pivoting twisting, the door burst open.

Charles froze in place.

Behind the door was supposed to be a massive hall, leading to a spiral staircase above.

But now the hall is still the same, but the spiral staircase is gone.

The original solemn hall is now completely different, eerie, as if it has been abandoned for decades.

In the floor in the center of the hall, a huge crack was opened.

Charles stood on the edge of the crevice, looking down, feeling the cold wind blowing in the abyss below. The steel steps stretched intermittently, leading deeper into the earth, and there was a faint light on it, but it had already been covered in dust and spider silk, and it had become dim and faint.

"This ...... Where is it?"

The Charles didn't know exactly what it was, but they knew that this was not the Tower of Judgment as they knew it.

"It's just a place that's been abandoned for a long time. ”

Gaius stood at the end of the hall, stretched out his hand, and pushed open the door of the elevator, behind which, with the harsh sound of steel grinding, shook countless rusts into the deep elevator shaft like dead insects.

An old, mottled elevator rises slowly from the deepest depths of darkness.

He turned back and motioned for Charles to come with him.

In the corner of the elevator, a corpse that had long since decomposed into white bones lay diagonally, half of its body hanging from the elevator, its legs had disappeared.

On the tattered white uniform, there seemed to be a sign with his name on it, but after a long time, the name had been corroded and could not be seen clearly.

Gaius crouched down, stared at the shattered face of the skeleton, and sighed softly after a long time, "After so long not being seen, I thought you were incognito." Unexpectedly, he died here. ”

He pulled the rotten uniform from the skeleton and pulled a key from his inner pocket:

"Thanks, old friend. I didn't like you back then, but I didn't expect that after so many years, you would be able to help me again. ”

He got up, kicked the obstructive skeleton off the lift, walked to the deck, inserted the key, twisted it, and pulled it to the bottom.

"Good luck. ”

He said to Charles, "With it, we can omit a lot of things." ”

The elevator slowly descended in a screeching sound, and Charles looked around blankly for a long time, and finally suddenly realized: "Isn't this the pure material realm anymore?"

"Here are the remnants of the Sacred City that was built in the Aether Realm. It can be said that it is the scraps...... The overlap of the material and etheric realms forms a stable space. ”

Gaius inhaled the deep wind that smelled rancid, and whispered, "The forbidden musicians who are good at the way of the realm have made the pieces here.

It overlaps with the real-life Tower of Judgment, or rather, ...... It is the true Tower of Judgment.

Charles, what you see is the secret that the Holy City wants to bury under the Tower of Judgment, and if it is out there, if it is known, I am afraid that you will be burned at the stake, even if you have only heard of it. ”

"Holy City?"

Charles was stunned: "What are they doing here?"

"Many, human trials, reconstructive surgery, contraindication studies...... For the sake of the long-term future, human beings living in the present will always have to make some unethical sacrifices.

These are the words of a pistol who told me at the time. Maybe it's because the madman and the madman have more in common a language, and I thought he was right at one point. Until someone woke me up from my sweet dream. ”

Gaius stared at the changing floors outside the elevator and said lightly, "The most dangerous prisoners in the world have been imprisoned here, the black musicians, and even ...... Act of God.

It was built by me as it was, and was commissioned to me by the nations and holy cities.

For the sake of the future heaven, I built this hell with my own hands.

Later, too many things happened, I defected, Ye Lanzhou went crazy, Bai Heng left, and even this place has been abandoned and no one cares.

Otherwise, I might have to serve my sentence in the agency I presided over back then......"

Charles was silent, staring blankly at the floor signs that flashed outside the elevator, mixed with signs he couldn't read and structures that weren't supposed to be there.

Clinical trial area.

Sixth Practice Institute.

Extinct species.

The fourth phase of the cultivation room.

Dogmatic organs

Sacrificial place

......

Until the end, descend into the deepest darkness.

The elevator finally came to an abrupt halt at the bottom, and in the midst of countless clouds of dust, Gaius took the wind lamp from his cloak and lit it, a dim light illuminating his face.

"Come with me. ”

He said to Charles, "All the secrets you want to know are here." ”

Six massive steel gates.

Standing in front of the door, Charles looked up blankly, and the iron door stretched to the deepest depths of darkness. Compared to it, human beings are as small as dust.

It's like an abandoned abode of the gods, once as glorious as heaven, but now in ruins.

Crafted from the Order's alloy technology, they are strong enough to withstand battering ram blasts head-on.

But by the time Charles passed through them, huge fissures had already been torn open in each one. In some places, it was burned, and the cooled copper was all over the ground. In some places, it seemed to be torn apart, and the huge fingerprints that remained were like them. In other places, it was smashed straight open, violently and savagely leaving a gap.

Until the last one, it was pulled out of the wall in its entirety, crumpled into a ball, and piled up in the corner, like a hill covered with rust.

"Where the hell is this?"

As he progressed through the depths, he witnessed incredible scenes, and even the skeleton of a demonized whale was displayed in the ruined hall.

But he didn't understand what this place was.

"This is the 'purgatory' of the first generation, the prison built by the Order, the embodiment of God's punishment on earth. Gaius said lightly: "Although they later built a better one to replace it, its meaning is irreplaceable for mankind." ”

"The Holy City created its own purgatory?"

"Why not?"

Gaius asked rhetorically, "Didn't they even make heaven?"

Charles, there was nothing surprising about this, especially since the original meaning of this place was nothing compared to the biggest mistake they had made.

It has once brought together the world's top musicians and scholars, prophets from the Rock and Iron Academy, cursed people from the Phantom Isles, and alchemists from the Gate of Annihilation...... Even the monks of Tianzhu and the celestials of the East......

It used to be the most advanced place in the entire human world. The research room of Holy Trinity College is not even worthy of carrying shoes with it. ”

His footsteps paused in the middle of the empty, dark hall.

"Here we are. ”

He stopped abruptly, causing Charles behind him to stagger and fall forward, but he grabbed him by the collar and pulled him behind him. Facing Charles's bewildered eyes, he lowered the wind lamp and illuminated the mottled yellow line under his feet:

"Remember to step outside the yellow line, inside the yellow line...... It's not a world that humans can understand anymore. ”

In silence, as if he understood something, Charles raised his head and stared at the darkness in front of him, as if his gaze had penetrated this solid darkness and peeked into the true face of the shadow.

Therefore, the face is pale.

Sweat like a pig.

Gaius stooped down, placed the lamp at his feet, reached out, took a burning rod from his bosom, broke it, and threw it into the darkness. Then, suddenly a blazing light burst out of the darkness, illuminating everything.

Beyond the yellow line, there is the abyss!

The incendiary rod burst into a blazing light, swirling and falling into the deepest depths of darkness, illuminating the terrifying mass of the prison cage in front of it.

It was like a shackle made for a giant, dozens of shackles with a thickness of several meters fell from the underground space more than 100 meters high, and the shackles had already broken and were scattered on the ground.

The incendiary rods fell from the stands where Charles was and fell into the residual sewage, and the light was dim.

But in the dim light, it illuminated a terrifying figure that did not exist here.

It was clear that the cage was empty, but when the light fell on the wall, it left a hideous and huge shadow, filling the entire cage.

It's just a shadow, and it's thrilling.

There is no way to describe what kind of creature it is, it seems to be curled up in this cage, sleeping, but the mere existence makes people feel that their reason has been brutally tortured, and their worldview has been shocked and collapsed.

Three vague and strange deformed heads, as if staring in all directions all the time, thousands of arms cast strange shadows, like snakes winding on the steel walls.

Wherever it passed, the steel sneered, as if the pure shadow had become a beast, bringing a corrosive aura to the pervasiveness.

It's just an afterimage.

But the dark shadows left over the years have completely lost control of this space and turned it into an inhuman realm.

"Scared, Charles?"

Gaius gazed wistfully at the vague shadow that remained on the wall, and stretched out his hands as if to embrace it: "Here we have achieved unprecedented feats, we have conquered, captured, imprisoned...... Even dissected the natural disaster!"

Charles stared blankly at the dark shadow on the wall, only to feel a splitting headache and staggered back.

After a long time, he whispered:

"- Hundred-armed giant?"

"Charr, this is the former scourge of nature, the cage of the hundred-armed giant before it fell. ”

Gaius looked up and stared at the great shadow, as if he were looking at the scourge that had long since left:

"Humans captured it in its centuries-long sleep and placed it here.

We racked our hearts, worked hard, worked hard, and worked hard...... We have made every effort we can and paid all the price we can to understand the nature of natural disasters. (To be continued.) )