Chapter 14: The Goblin Cipher Disk

"This is my treasure room. Christo stepped into the metal room, "Hey, hey, hey, I'm waiting for your surprised look, Kyle." ”

What appeared in front of me was a square metal room of more than sixty square meters, the room was not as Pannis imagined before, full of display shelves or boxes, but an empty one, a large room with nothing but the walls, it was a completely empty room, if there was no Christo to lead, it would have felt that it was the wrong room.

"Empty?" Pannis, raising an eyebrow, thought for a moment and said, "That's right, that's reasonable." According to what you said before, if the storage is only manuscripts and books, I am afraid that it only needs a small box to store, and if you use the space to expand the backpack, a small dark compartment can be put down. It seems that such a large room was designed to deceive possible intruders or enemies, right? ”

"It's not just deception, it's a killing space. "If someone enters the room if the door is not opened correctly, the alarm will be triggered immediately, and then the five metal walls of the room will quickly compress inward, don't think that it is just a metal wall, along with the dirt tens of meters thick behind it, inward, few people can break it and escape," Christo explained. ”

"Well, this is a design for demigods. Pannis nodded, "If someone breaks in directly with the Innate Mind Realm, this trap will be triggered and the walls will be crushed together. ”

"Yes, even if it is the shield of a demigod, under the continuous pressure of this strength, it cannot move freely to break the trap, and can only choose to escape with the inherent spiritual realm. Christo replied, "So that our treasure will be safe." ”

"You just said, five walls, so the remaining wall is where you hide your treasure. Pannis swept the room, pointed to the wall facing the door, and said, "There are at least thirty secret doors hidden on this wall, is each one a storage space?"

"No, only one is true. Christo said proudly: "Of the thirty-five secret doors, only one has the real thing in it, and the others are all disguises." If someone opens a secret door containing a counterfeit, the previously mentioned trap will also be activated. ”

"You're really cautious. Pannis sighed, "Aren't you afraid that you remember the wrong location and inadvertently activate the trap?"

"Traps identify special magical fluctuations for us, the users. Christo shook his head and said, "Even if we open the wrong door ourselves, we won't be able to activate these traps, so don't worry." I thought about it, I put it in cabinet 27, and sure enough, it was here, hiding the secret disk of our family. ”

After the cabinet was opened, a silver-white cipher disk lay quietly in the cabinet, and seven parts of different shapes were gathered together and stacked next to the cipher disk. Christo's dry lips quivered slightly, and with a pilgrimage look, he took out the cipher disk with both hands and handed it to Pannis, and then took out the other seven parts, and then carefully closed the cabinet door.

"How do I use this?" said Pannis, "I have tested several parts separately before, and they can release a light screen projection, and everything on it is a chaotic speck of light, and I can see that there are words and patterns, but the content is completely unclear. ”

"Yes, that's our goblin leak-proof measures. Christo said: "These patterns and words must be corrected and sorted by the cipher disk, and can only be read at the same time, as long as any part is missing, what you see is the chaotic light spot you described, and it is impossible to get any valuable information." The parts are given to you, you can put them on and try it. ”

Pannis took the parts, thought for a moment, and cautiously dived them into the empty space of the cipher disk one by one. Cones, cubes, octahedra, dodecahedrons, icosahedrons, pentagrams, and cylinders, some of these parts can be fully embedded in the cipher disk, and some will be half exposed on the outside, but each part will make a crisp click when it is accurately embedded, and it will be firmly sucked by the cipher disk, as if it were originally cast into one with the cipher disk.

"And then?" After loading the seven parts, Pannis waited for a while, but the circular cipher disk did not react at all, and when he looked closely, the cipher disc seemed to be divided into two layers, and the gap between the two layers was extremely tight, almost imperceptible to the naked eye. Pannis frowned, "Do you want to turn the bottom? ”

"There are indeed requirements. Christo said: "According to the position of the sun, it is not too accurate, it can be calculated directly according to time, and one rotation of the cipher disk is equivalent to one rotation of the sun around Yara." It's 8:24 a.m., do the math yourself. ”

"It's really troublesome, my calculations have always been weak, and I have to do it again every time I activate the disc in the future. Pannis said with a headache on his forehead: "Eighty-twenty-four, I'll calculate, I'll calculate." ”

"Oh, the rotation has to be in place the first time. Christo adds: "If you slow down or even stop if you don't get it in place, you need to rotate the part in the opposite direction to get the part out of the cipher disk, then reload it and spin it again." ”

"It's artificially created difficulties. Pannis snorted dissatisfied, lowered his head and calculated for a long time, pressed the top of the cipher disk with one hand, and the bottom with the other, and began to rotate hard. It must be admitted that the goblin technology is quite magical, and the cipher disk has a history of at least 10,000 years since it was cast, but it doesn't feel jerky at all when it rotates, just like new, and it only takes a small amount of effort to make the cipher disk rotate smoothly and silently.

"Alright. Pannis let out a happy whisper, held the password disk in the palm of his hand, and after waiting for a few seconds, the password disk began to rotate slowly and automatically: "Do you want to hold it?

"Put it on the ground, it doesn't matter. Christo gazed affectionately at the spinning disc and whispered, "It will work better on flat ground than if you held it in your hands." ”

Soon, according to the arrangement on the disk, starting from the tetrahedron, all the parts emit light in turn, each shooting out a pillar of light into the air, the pillar of light intersects in the air, and then each of them scatters around with the rotation, at this time a light curtain appears in the air above the disk, and the plane composed of light is like a tabletop, stably tiled in the field of vision of the three people, and the light curtain begins to generate vague graphics and text. Pannis tentatively pressed it with his hand, and his palm passed through the light curtain without hindrance, and when it was retracted, the light curtain immediately returned to its original state.

"Well, this is ......" The corners of Pennis's mouth twitched, and he said in a low voice: "It's actually a panoramic aerial view of the Yara Continent, I didn't expect that I could draw a bird's-eye view by myself in the Goblin Era, I thought that only dragons and winged people could make this kind of thing." ”

"Don't underestimate the era of the Goblin Empire. Christo said: "Goblin technology is unimaginable to intelligent beings now, and the current technology can make the floatship fly into the sky, why is it impossible to do it in the goblin era?"

"That's right. Pannis nodded, "It's me who is wrong, I despise the technology of that era." ”

After two minutes of panoramic view, a flickering green circle appears in the northwest corner of the map, and the scene outside the aperture dims and disappears, leaving only the object within the aperture to be highlighted. The green circle flashed for a while, and rows of dense goblin characters began to appear in the blank space on the side, the text was quite clear, but this ancient goblin script was more complex and changeable than the modern goblin script, although Pennis could understand it, but it was a little difficult to deal with reading the text directly.

"Don't worry, I've translated all the words into lingua franca. Christo said, "I'll bring you back the text in a moment, so you can read it against it when the time comes, and I'll give you a brief introduction this time." The text just now is mainly about the geographical characteristics, climatic conditions and species distribution of this area, and there is no valuable information. ”

The text lasted for a while and then quickly disappeared, and the range of the green light point began to expand, and as it expanded, the map within the aperture also expanded proportionally, and finally filled the entire light curtain, changing from a panoramic view to an area overlook.

"This area must be the western mountains of the Mountain Country. "Around the Darnais Plateau," said Pannis. ”

Kristor spat out a string of notes of unknown meaning, and then explained, "That's what the goblins call this mountainous area, near what is now the Darnais Plateau. ”

The green circle reappeared, once again striking a small area on the map, and as had happened before, large swaths of text appeared on the side of the green circle.

"This area should be the Fillias Mountains of the Darnais Plateau. Pannis affirmed, "No, the picture is enlarged again, oh, I see, it's closer to the flat plateau at the foot of Filias, but where is it? ”

Sure enough, the green aperture appeared a few more times, and each time a place would be selected to zoom in, and each time the characteristics of this area would be clearly written on the light curtain.

"It looks like it's zoomed in. Pannis frowned and said: "It is confirmed that it is the plateau area under Mount Filias, but even according to the range of the last aperture, there are hundreds of square kilometers, and it is too difficult to find a target there, and it is a target from 10,000 years ago." ”

"As it said, the target is built deep underground. Christo adds: "And the coverage is so large that the last aperture on the map is likely to be the entire area covered by the target." ”

"Just kidding. Pannis was stunned for a moment, and asked in disbelief: "What kind of research institute can cover an area of 100 square kilometers, you also saw the aperture just now, the marked range, not a hundred, but dozens of square kilometers." ”

"Who said it was an ordinary research institute. Christo retorted: "It's a huge research institute hidden underground, made up of dozens of research institutes together. (To be continued.) )