Volume II: The Relic of the Throne Chapter 24: The Guard III
After sunset, Prometheus Pavilion.
In the corridors, windowsills, and doorways, large numbers of mechanical guards were placed, they had not yet turned on, and from a distance, they looked like a bronze statue of a knight with armor embedded in it. The staff was busy, they were all top-notch mechanics, and the guards were placed waiting for the final orders.
None of them noticed that as they equipped the mechanical guards with their swords, a man passed them silently, and the last rays of the setting sun failed to make his shadow visible. His whole body was transparent, including his clothes, and his dagger, an inconspicuous dagger that could easily remove the heads of those people, but he only came to the entrance of the secret room, lurked aside, and waited quietly for the mechanism to open, so that no one could notice him.
Originally, this state used the refraction of light to deceive it, and although it had the effect of masking the light reflected by objects, if you looked closely, you could see that there was a transparent spherical space that was slightly different from the surrounding environment.
Mu Linlin can even flip through the map, the "beam deception" of the law of darkness is spatial, otherwise it is just to hide the releaser himself, and what people see is not the clothes that walk automatically?
So she looked for the map with peace of mind and found her current coordinates.
The map shows a large hollow space, which is only the outer perimeter of the chamber, and most of the middle area is painted black. Of course, this was not deliberately smeared, because the Snow Falcon Intelligence Department had only found a map of the periphery of the maze after more than a dozen years of development. Black represents invisible, unsnooping, invisible, and undrawn, and the ancient mantra symbol "0" means "non", and everything is not true, just like her dark law.
If it can be spied on, the original painter will leave a gap for later generations to fill.
Although indescribable, Mu Linlin had been prepared for a long time, as she had a sniffing tool in the equipment she carried, and she herself was immune to the complex and numerous laws of order in the labyrinth area.
Time passed little by little, and when the night completely covered the world, the mechanical guards were activated, and under the black, they raised their heads one by one, and a dim red light suddenly emitted from the two dark pupils.
"Damn. Mu Linlin secretly said no, she had seen these things, in Yu Sheng's laboratory, it was an eye that could see objects that emitted heat in the dark.
She dodged and jumped a few times, hiding all the way, and finally hiding behind the huge bronze door.
She had to wait for the entrance to the chamber to open, night had come, and the night patrol team should appear soon. Sure enough, a team of ten people came to the entrance of the mechanism, which was hidden in a drawer, although Mu Linlin knew, but her "beam deception" could not cover up everything that was opened. She stood behind the last man, keeping her formation with them, so she could fool the eyes of the mechanical guards, and the eyes of the monitors behind them.
The mechanical guards themselves are incapable of thinking, and instead of thinking are the controllers behind them, and everything they see is transmitted back to the controller's developer. There is only one developer, and there is only one controller, unless there is an unexpected situation or the operator's own settings, the information sent back is random.
Only Dai Yana was in direct contact with them, and if she was here, Mu Linlin was not sure that she would be able to hide from her eyes.
As night darkens, a pitch-black steam train slowly disappears from view, moving towards the center of the world. Two dark red dots of light suddenly lit up in the dark carriage, and Dai Yana said in a low voice: "Someone actually thinks they can hide from my eyes?"
She shifted the view, as the next one to switch was the entrance to the chamber.
The mechanical guards were not activated by the other high-ranking members of the Academy, no one had the authority to use them, only Diana could command them, and they communicated in a special language that consisted of only two symbols.
"Lord of the Winds, Ogala?" said Hoigleigh on the other side, "His ability is to manipulate air currents, but it seems that the Void Manifestation and Devouring Key have loosened their seals. ”
"Do you want me to rush back?"
"The Wind Lord without a body is just a group of consciousness, let them exercise it, the war of the hunters is not far off. ”
There is only one entrance to the secret room, but there are eight doors in the labyrinth area, which are open, rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, and shock, which is a superstitious name of the ancient formation master, and it is said that entering from each door will be different.
Mu Linlin chose the nearest entrance, and when she entered the outer level of the secret room, she quietly broke away from the group and flashed into a black door that looked deep and bottomless. The fire lit up, and the retreat behind it disappeared, turning into a passage that was the same as the one ahead.
The passage is made of countless stone bricks staggered, and at intervals there is a mutton fat lamp on the wall, which is also staggered. This light emitted a brownish-cyan light, making her "beam deception" wrapped in nothing to hide.
Her Sequence Blade's name is "Phantom", and they all appeared, but there was only the shadow of the Sequence Soldier on the ground, and it seemed that these lamps and candles were not simple.
Mu Linlin activated the sniffer spider, and before she could say that, the sniffer spider in her pocket crawled out on its own and jumped to the ground. Mu Linlin felt a little strange, and then a thin voice came: "Third sister, why did you run to the door of death?"
"Second brother?" Mu Linlin picked up the sniffing spider that looked like a ball, this is Yu Sheng's most proud production, it can be used well to collect all kinds of intelligence, how it looks is not important, the important thing is reliable.
"You're all there?"
Snow Falcon Intelligence Department, Main Building Office.
Xia Ming could see a tiny picture from the developer, but the picture was Mu Linlin's "huge" face, and he also felt that it was wrong, because he also knew that there was a force field similar to the barrier of the domain in the labyrinth, and this force field could even cut off the connection between the spirit puppet and the owner.
They all gathered here to wait for news, but they didn't expect to be able to send the picture directly.
"Are you still outside? But can I see you?"
"I've entered the labyrinth. Mu Linlin swirled the sniffer spider around, and the scene suddenly changed to a deep stone cave, and the candle flames on the wall emitted an eerie light.
Zhuxing said: "This is the door of death, the other doors are difficult to identify, but only the candle flame of the door of death is this weird color." ”
"It doesn't sound great, but it doesn't make a difference to me, so please get your bearings right. ”
Xia Ming felt creepy through the glass ball, but Mu Linlin looked indifferent.
"Third sister, are you stupid, is there a fork in the middle, either forward or backward, do you still need to ask?" Yu Sheng felt very sorry for his precious works, for fear that he would be accidentally abused to death by Mu Linlin.
Mu Linlin only heard the sound of squeaking and chirping, maybe it was Yu Sheng's voice that was too loud and caused confusion, or maybe it was the automatic blocking of sensitive words, but Mu Linlin soon knew that she had to move forward.
The sniffing spider walked on its own, Mu Linlin followed behind, Xia Ming and the others saw nothing more than what the sniffing spider's eyes saw, and what they couldn't see was the sniffing spider's detection response.
After a while, they finally came to a fork, only to see the sniffer spider stop in the middle of the road for a while, then jump onto a wall, and "climb" up, Mu Linlin looked up, and suddenly found that there was a fork in the head, and the passage behind it disappeared.
"Keep up. Yu Sheng urged, "This is a labyrinth...... Move on your own. ”
"The Law of the Domain, the 'Illusory Domain'. Lin An touched the sweat on his forehead and pulled out a copy from the pile-up of files, "It's not that the maze is moving, it's that the light has been twisted and walked towards the passage that disappeared." ”
Mu Linlin took a step back, suddenly felt that the world was spinning, the road behind him reappeared, the road above disappeared, the sniffing spider did not choose the fork on the left and right, but went straight, Mu Linlin also walked over, this time the road behind did not disappear, but successfully passed the fork.
"Thank you, Fifth Brother. Mu Linlin's voice came from the developer.
Lin An touched the sweat on his face, and said with a smile: "It should be, it should be." ”
"Speaking of the fourth, is your stuff reliable?"
"Even if it's not reliable, third sister, do you dare to break in?" Yu Sheng said, "I took a ten milliliter blood sample from that person last night, and his body was used as a sequence soldier, using blood as a medium, so his blood must have been activated, and more or less left the breath of that lord, and I refined it into a spirit puppet." ”
"I didn't expect you to be quite clever!" Mu Linlin praised him once.
"Speaking of the third sister, how dare you go in?"
"Didn't you notice that the 'Wind' in the warehouse is gone? You're the keeper of the keys!"
Wind! Xia Ming suddenly remembered the sequence knife he saw in the armory a few days ago-Wind.
"It's the wind!" Yu Sheng suddenly jumped up with a ghost scream for some reason.
The crowd looked at him, and the stars smiled, as if they understood what he was thinking.
"It's the airflow. Yu Sheng said, "The Lord of the Wind controls the order of the wind, and what he is good at is controlling the air flow. The labyrinth is underground, but the grease lamp burns all year round, so there must be air circulation inside. These grease lamps are not 'ever-bright lamps', and the principle of ever-bright lamps is also due to the entry of air, which uses phosphor powder to ignite the fire, so that it is mistaken for 'eternal light'. ”
Zhu Xing said: "There are pipes in the labyrinth, if there is no air, people cannot survive, and one of the functions of these candles is to detect whether the air in a certain area can breathe." The Wind Lord is good at controlling air currents, so he must have escaped through these ventilation ducts, and don't forget, he may only be a spirit body now, a spirit body that is more flexible than liquid. ”
"Third child, get out, we already know his identity. Shang Yun said.
"Since you're here, let's check it out with your own eyes. ”
In the labyrinth area, Mu Linlin said, "As far as I know, the labyrinth is just a means of defense, but we don't know how he broke free, and besides, doesn't the second brother also suspect that it is artificial?"
"Perhaps it is due to the mutual restraint of the two opposite energy fields of the Void Manifestation and the Devouring Key. Lin An guessed, "And who has the ability to go in and release a demon?"
In the moving train, Dai Yana's eyes suddenly opened her eyes, and the dim red light quickly brightened.
"What's going on?" asked Hoigre on the other side.
"There's a mechanical guard out of my connection. ”
"Can't find it?"
"If it were me, I could have found a fight quickly, but ...... I'll be on my guard. ”
"If everything is unavoidable, you don't have to force yourself. ”
Dai Yana's eyes burned with orange-red light, far away in a command room of the Hunter Academy, the image of the developer suddenly switched at an extremely fast speed, at first it was just a flash one by one, and then everyone only saw the rapid blurred lines made by the brush.
"All on alert!" the executor immediately ordered.
In a column-shaped tower, countless wings flapped sounded, and the moon was like a flock of crows leaving their nests, and all the information was delivered to the hands of the department as quickly as possible, and the content was only four words: Red Alert!
The Snow Falcon Intelligence Department, a subordinate urgently knocked on the office door.
"Red alert!" Shang Yun held the information card with a red shield printed on it and only four simple words, as if holding a piece of red-hot iron, "Supreme alert?"
"Third child, hurry up and get out, there's something going on outside. He shouted anxiously into the developer, but all that came from the sniffing spider was a chirp-squeak.