MTL - Sword of Daybreaker-Chapter 1451 Remnants of pollution

A tense atmosphere is condensed in this dimly lit hall. The air seems to have solidified in this atmosphere, and the deep hum of ancient equipment in the depths of the hall seems to be coming from a very remote place. After Ashalena sounded an unreal illusion—but after such a tense state lasted for a few minutes, nothing happened in the hall.

Those magical light spheres that rose to mid-air are still floating in the air. Their appearance did not "stimulate" anything. The door to the corridor was wide open, and the light that diffused from the corridor was unknown. The power was suppressed within a few meters from the door, and a hazy gray-black mist was formed behind the explorers.

Other than that, there were no shrill alarms, no guards who were awakened, no indescribable things jumping out of the darkness-there seemed to be nothing in the hall except for the weird environment.

"Stay on alert," Alice RS-6's cold voice broke the depressing tension. While giving instructions to her soldiers, she looked up at the deep hall that looked like a "giant tree". "With the shadowy structure, the iron commander's smooth forehead suddenly opened a crack, and then some kind of artificial crystal came out of it. This ingenious sensing device projected a flickering light curtain, the light curtain itself Although it was quickly swallowed by the surrounding darkness, its scanning field has quickly completed the scan of the surrounding environment. "There are no moving targets, no energy traps, and running spells in the environment."

The accompanying Sea-Monster advance team members also started to move. They maintained that formidable "battle stance" and walked around the hall in pairs. The scales, tentacles and hard carapace brought orders on the alloy floor. "Footsteps" with a tingling scalp.

Ashalena watched these "deep sea allies" walk towards those dark areas little by little, feeling as if they were going to be completely in the shadows in the next second, but in fact their hazy figures have never been completely swallowed by darkness—the dimness in this hall It is not completely dark, although the light produced by the lighting lights and magical light **** is suppressed, it can still provide a certain amount of illumination.

"Safe." "It's safe here too-only some humming equipment." "There are some terminals still running, and it looks nothing unusual." "There are only a bunch of pillars here..."

The voices of the siren came from deep in the darkness, and then these advance team members temporarily lifted their "combat stance" and returned to the team-although the siren’s fighting stance was powerful, it was not suitable for performing sophisticated techniques Manipulate and explore actions.

At this time, Ashalena breathed a sigh of relief, but still did not dare to relax her vigilance completely—perhaps there is no danger here, but in the space station built by the sailor, there is such a hall that is completely enveloped by an abnormal environment. It is very strange in itself. She frowned and looked at the shadowy equipment and the faintly extinguished "lights" around her. She couldn't help muttering softly, "What the **** is this..."

"There is a very powerful shadow power entrenched here... but I don't know if this shadow power is from outside or the sailor stayed here at the beginning," the red dragon Belranta beside her said softly, while talking. While walking towards the largest "tree"-like structure in the center of the hall, "Anyway, this thing is obviously the core here..."

"Be careful, don't go there alone!" Asha Leina hurriedly reminded after seeing this, and then led people to follow in Berranta's footsteps.

Soon, the entire action team came to the feet of the strange thing in the center of the hall. Cassandra raised her head vigorously and saw countless dark "thorns" and crystalline structures growing from the floor and spreading into the air. It spreads near the ceiling and becomes a huge structure like a canopy, and among the tangled thorns and crystals... it seems that there are some other things hidden.

Ashalena raised her hand again, and another magic ball of light appeared in her hand. Although the light emitted by the ball of light was suppressed by the dim surroundings, it still illuminates those " A small area on the surface of thorns.

"...Quantity can make up for quality," Athalena said casually, looking at the area illuminated by the light ball, "make more light sources, so that we can see the situation more or less clearly."

The dragons on the scene immediately released more lighting spells, and nearly a hundred magical light **** formed above the exploratory team almost instantly, and floated upward along the huge "thorn crystal structure". Sarena opened her eyes and stared at the place where the light ball flew. In the small-scale light spot that was constantly moving, she was able to see the more detailed structure of this "thorn crystal"-these shimmering and sharp crystals showed deepness. The purple-black color, a touch of changeable luster from time to time in the moving light source, they are tangled and tangled with each other, although they look like vines, they are obviously not plants, but more like...disorderly growing minerals.

Ashalena watched the light **** fly to the top of the thorns and watched them cling to the thorn bushes. In the process, she finally saw clearly—this group of thorns that looked like a "giant tree" seemed It's just a growth. In the depths surrounded by thorns, some large-scale equipment can be vaguely seen. It seems to be a pillar. A large number of branch structures radiated from the top and the dome can be seen, and the bottom is extended. A thing like a control terminal, a large number of purple-black thorn growths grew out of this huge device, entwined in layers to look like a tree.

"There is something in it...is wrapped up," Berranta also noticed the large equipment faintly visible in the depths of the thorns. She frowned and approached cautiously, but did not dare to touch the sharp purple-black crystals. "This It looks like a large-scale terminal, a bit similar to the assembly hall, but it seems to be a higher level...There is faint movement inside, is it still running?"

Ashalena did not say a word, she just walked slowly around this huge "thorn", carefully observing the shape of this thing, and at this moment, a strange thing suddenly came into my eyes, making this dragon mark. The witch stopped abruptly.

"There's something here!" She whispered subconsciously, and then waved to summon a magical ball of light. The ball of light emitted a dim and obscure light and slightly dispelled the surrounding darkness, allowing her to finally see it clearly. A strange form—the next second, she felt a chill suddenly hit her heart.

It was a filthy trace like a rotten scorch, as if some terrible force with great corrosiveness had invaded here, and left a mark several meters long on the floor. This trace of corruption has been Spread into those thorns, and it seems to have spread a certain distance inside, the thorns in contact with it present a state of decay and damage, the purple-black crystals are stained with a layer of dirty grayish brown, the crystals There are cracks on the surface, and the entire "contaminated area" even spreads upwards to a height of several meters.

Others rushed over immediately after hearing Ashalena’s exclamation. After seeing the signs of pollution and corruption on the floor and among the thorns, Berranta was the first to widen his eyes: "This is …"

"The traces left by the reverse tide," Ashalena stared at the filthy mark, feeling her heart beating, "It can't be wrong, the characteristics are too obvious."

Berranta's eyes widened, and suddenly reacted: "Check the surroundings quickly!"

All the action team members acted immediately and began to conduct further inspections of this dimly shrouded hall. However, after a closer inspection, the traces of contamination that were finally found seemed to be the only place that Ashalena had discovered.

"...The pollution from the reverse tide is continuous, and there is no scattered distribution." After hearing the results of other people's inspections, Berranta shook his head slightly, "So this should be the only pollution..."

"And it's the pollution left over many years ago..." Ashalena bent down and carefully examined the disturbing marks on the floor. Her gaze moved forward along those marks, and finally fell on the obvious manifestations. On the crystal thorns showing signs of decline, "Those things like thorns..."

"It looks like these crystal thorns are preventing the spread of pollution and protecting the central device." Alice RS-6's calm voice came from the side. The iron commander's eyes flashed with a slight energy, she His sight is slowly sweeping through the marks on the ground and the declining crystal thorns, "...has stopped moving."

Ashalena did not speak for a while, but broke the silence after half a minute of contemplation: "The tide is dead, right?"

"The death certificate and autopsy report given by the theocracy said so," Berranta nodded. "The conclusion is given by several senior consultants, and there should be no problem."

"So, what we have in front of us is just an ancient clue, something that has happened... The force of the reverse tide tried to pollute the sky, but was stopped by these thorns," Ashalena said softly thoughtfully, she slowly Slowly stood up and looked at the thorns not far away that had been infested by the force of the reverse tide. "We need to collect some samples, especially these contaminated samples."

"I'll do it." Cassandra volunteered. She took a step forward, not knowing when she had taken out the container and cutting device for sample collection.

She came to the gray-brown crystal thorns that had been contaminated by the force of the reverse tide, and carefully touched the thing with the high-frequency cutter in her hand.

In the next second, the sound of crystal cracking was transmitted to everyone's ears, as if a delicate balance that had been maintained for hundreds of thousands of years was suddenly broken. Before Ashalena could react, that large piece of contaminated crystal The thorns collapsed in the blink of an eye and turned into debris all over the floor.

"This..." Cassandra was also taken aback by this situation, and she turned her head to look at other people innocently, "I just touched it a little bit, you guys looked at..."

"It may be that this thing is already too fragile," Nicholas's voice suddenly sounded from behind, and his low, slightly trembling voice looked very serious at the moment, "It is not important, the important thing is... it seems that something has been exposed."

Cassandra turned her head and saw that because the contaminated crystals suddenly shattered and fell, the "thorn bush" that originally completely wrapped the large equipment in the center of the hall had a breach at this moment, and in the center of the breach , I can see that a device that looks like an operating terminal is exposed.

The structure extending from the back of that thing is connected to the giant pillar in the thorn bushes, and the lights on its surface have been extinguished. The device has obviously stopped moving, but Nicholas can feel...weak energy is deep in this sleeping terminal.处流。 At the flow.

This is not the same as the devices in other cabins that are completely silent due to energy interruption.

"This thing is still running, but the external interaction part is closed. I may try to reactivate it," Nicholas said uncertainly. "In addition, we must report back what we found here."

Ashalena nodded immediately: "I will take a few people to the nearest communication port."

Activities in the vast space, whether it is the dragon’s messaging spells or Alice’s iron man network, have exceeded their respective communication limits, and even the psionic singing of the sea monsters can’t contact the mainland, but Ashalena still has a way. The contact with the surface here is the "sensation" between Gawain Cecil and Sky Station.

There are some "communication ports" distributed in this space station. After activating them, Gao Wen who is far on the surface can directly contact the engineering team active in the sky station, and can even directly "see" their activities inside. Therefore, the compartments with communication ports are also regarded as important "transit bases" by the engineering team-these bases are the only way they can communicate with the surface.

After Ashalena left the "Shadow Hall" with some personnel and went to the nearest communication port, Nicholas and others who remained in the hall continued to study the large-scale thorns and the large-scale devices wrapped in thorns.

Regardless of the origin of these thorns, one thing can be seen-they prevented the spread of back tide pollution many, many years ago.

After confirming this, those purple-black crystals that seemed weird and terrifying were not so terrible.

If it confronts the pollution and corruption on the floor, then it is a good thing.

"Now let me see what this thing does..."

Floating in front of the breach in the thorn bushes, looking at the ancient terminal exposed from the breach, Nicholas's voice was eager to try.

He has roughly found a way to wake up the terminal, but only out of caution, he has been observing here for a long time.

Berlanta and others who stood not far away were obviously more nervous than Nicholas. They stared at the commander-in-chief's movements and watched him float by the silent machine to observe carefully. Dare to breathe-although many of them do not need to breathe.

After a long time in this way, Nicholas finally confirmed the next operation. He took a step forward and gently "switched" a certain structure deep in the terminal with invisible force.

A slight buzzing sound immediately sounded, and in the next second, the device that had been sleeping for so many years gradually awakened. A series of flashing lights appeared on the surface of the terminal and the structure connected to the giant pillar behind it. Then, Nicholas I saw a jittery holographic image above the terminal, and a line of sailor text appeared in the middle of the projection.

Before departure, members of the engineering team including him had already made up for the knowledge of the sailor's writing.

They understood the words on the projection, but were at a loss as to its meaning—

"The star map custodian is offline."