The archmage of Hemmer seemed reserved and introverted, but this was only the result of his years of indulging in the study of magic, and when it came to his field of expertise, the young master immediately became as if he had changed his subject, and danced so loudly that Hao Ren almost suspected that this buddy was being pierced on the spot—and finally found an opportunity to interject after Hemmer had calmed down; "You say time stands still in the ruins?""
Uh......"
Heimer was a little embarrassed, "It's just a guess......
Our research into the element of 'time' is rudimentary, and even the legendary ancient magic empires probably don't have the power to control time......
In addition, when we entered the ruins, time in the ruins also flowed normally, so I couldn't tell what was going on inside the ruins when they were completely locked down.It's just all kinds of signs after the door is opened......
"Hearing that this "Archmage Helmer" was about to talk at length again, Betsy, who had already been made by him, hurriedly interrupted: "Okay, okay, okay, don't make up this lesson with us, this person next to me is an ancient building demolition professional - hurry up and let us go to the scene to see?"
”"Of course, we have cleared out the outer layer of the ruins, please come with me......"
Hemmer selected a few apprentices of the aura to accompany him, and then called a few high-ranking knights stationed here to serve as guards, and led Hao Ren and his party to the entrance of the ruins that had only been discovered recently.The entrance was at the foot of the mountain wall not far behind the observation camp, and a half-collapsed gray-black cave suddenly appeared there, which looked like an ordinary cave from the outside, and there was nothing special about it, and at first glance no one could have imagined that this hole would lead to some ancient ruins or something.The walls on both sides of the cave were covered with dead vines and black tree roots, and there were still traces of slashing by fire, which should have been left by the investigation team when they were cleaning up.Two knights in enchanted armor guarded both sides of the entrance, their expressions were serious, their muscles were tense, and the knight's sword in their hands was on the ground, looking extremely powerful."
How did you lock this place?"
Before entering the cave, Hao Ren asked casually."
The initial energy fluctuations were disturbed by the energy field of the 'Wall of Lorissa', and the team could only carpet search after entering the mountain range, without a clue, but after a while, a second and third energy fluctuations were generated - it was irregular, but it happened very frequently, giving us a chance to continue locking.After mathematically filtering out the distractions of the Wall of Lorissa, we finally locked down the place. ”Archmage Hemmer explained, leading the group into the dark cavern that looked like the maw of a beast.The entrance to the ruins had been half-collapsed, and it looked quite dangerous from the outside, but after walking in, Hao Ren noticed that the cave roof and the cave walls on both sides were floating with a little magical light, and every other section you could see a small magic circle as if it was suspended in the air against the stone wall.After entering from the entrance, there is a long ramp that slopes downward, and it takes nearly 100 meters to encounter forks and turns, and the deeper you go, the more forks you encounter, and it seems to have walked into a labyrinth, but fortunately, the investigation team has identified most of the forks along the way, and there are conspicuous signs or soldiers stationed at each fork.Hemmer used the Bright Light Technique to compensate for the lack of brightness of the illuminated crystals embedded along the path of the cave, so that everyone could see all the details of the cave.Hao Ren saw that some fragmented artifacts would be exposed from time to time in the soft soil of the cave, and a few traces of artificially excavated traces could be found on the walls of the cave, but there were no more traces of civilization other than these things.He couldn't help but be a little strange: "This is the main gate of the ruins?"
”"No, we haven't found the main entrance yet, and I suspect the only way to get in and out is through spatial teleportation or something," Hemmer explained, "and the end of this cavern is actually a branching corridor into the ruins.They weren't supposed to be connected, but it was a small earthquake caused by an energy eruption a few days ago that opened the entrance. ”Hao Ren nodded and did not continue to speak.After continuing to go deeper for a distance, they saw that the cave in front of them suddenly became bright, a large number of glowing magic crystals were embedded in the walls of the cave on both sides, and a relatively open cave space was leveled out, which set up small laboratories, weapons depots, sentinels, and material piles, and several magic apprentices and official mages were busy sorting out data in the cave."
Don't interrupt, keep working."
Hemmer had a bit of a mentor's bearing when dealing with his apprentices and assistants.After the apprentices and assistants left, he pointed to the crack at the end of the cave: "That's the entrance, and if you get in, you're really inside the ruins." ”Vivien summoned two small bats, raised her hand and threw them into the ruins, and after a while, two blood dances drifted back from them, Vivien nodded: "It's okay inside, it seems that the investigation team is indeed clean." ”Crossing the stone wall that had cracked due to the earthquake, Hao Ren's eyes suddenly brightened.A wide, straight corridor stretched out on both sides, the corridor was made of some kind of man-made material, smooth and glowing, and countless straight stripes could be seen on the walls on both sides of the corridor, like some kind of mysterious relief, and like a pipeline of energy, looking at both sides, you could see that one end of the corridor disappeared into a crumbling rubble, and at the other end was a heavy door that had been opened.The heavy gate depicts a pattern that is very different from the decoration of Holleta today—a very abstract picture of straight lines, like portraits of people and monsters, but also full of eerie atmosphere.This was the first gate of the ruins - it took Archmage Helmer and his apprentices three days and three nights to crack the way it opened, only to suffer a setback in front of the second door inside, and only now has some progress.Hao Ren stepped through the gate and found that it was an unusually large hall.The hall is oval-shaped, wide and magnificent, but there are no supporting beams and pillars, and there is no obvious lighting in the hall, but it is full of light, all of which shows the power and incredibleness of the technological power of the Magic Empire in the past, at least this mysterious lighting method is not something that can be replicated by today's Halletta civilization.Looking up, you can see that the vault of the hall is a deep dark blue, dotted with white dots, forming a starry sky-like picture, and various mysterious constellations are outlined by silver-white lines, and you can also see the zigzag character annotations in between—this entire dome is actually a huge astrological map, and the grandeur seems to reveal the pride and pride of that powerful magical civilization back then: it seems that there is nothing else worth looking up at except the nature of the stars in the universe.Around the hall, there is a series of closed doors, which, according to Hemmer, are well-preserved laboratories and storage rooms, and at the end of the hall is another door, the second door that has not yet been cracked.
The mage believed that behind the door led to the core hinterland of the ruins, and that the hall and the laboratories around it were at best a peripheral research facility."
The positions of the stars in this chart are very different from the ones we use today, but there are some similarities, it should be a picture of the starry sky from 10,000 years ago," Archmage Helmer raised his head and said in a tone of admiration, "Its perfection and accuracy are amazing, many stars that cannot be observed on the ground are also recorded, and it can also accurately calculate the positions of many stars thousands or even tens of thousands of years from now.I only tried to solve some of them, and I found several parameters that could correct the contemporary astrological charts......
It's incredible, it's incredible, it's hard to imagine how the Magic Empire 10,000 years ago knew so well about the starry sky......
"It's very simple, they have space observation stations and even satellite colonies, and the Magic Emperors of the year have completed their astrological research directly in synchronous orbit," Hao Ren smiled, and at the same time asked the data terminal to check the age readings of various things in the hall, "It does look unbelievably intact here, for 10,000 years, this place has not even a trace of weathering......"
"More than that."
We also found a lot of anomalies - when we entered here, some of the energy circles in the laboratory were still running, and some of the things that seemed to be alchemy reaction vessels, the alchemy reaction was not yet over, and some of the doors were shaking, as if the owner of this place had left this place in a hurry a moment ago, just a few seconds before we entered here......
"Heimer Da.
The mage's descriptions were very detailed, and it was obvious that he had seen them with his own eyes, so it was no wonder that he had made such an unbelievable assumption that "time stopped flowing".At this time, the data terminal also completed the data measurement, and the results it obtained also surprised Hao Ren."
Is there really a trace of time standing still?!""
That's right, there will be no problem with the measurement of the machine," replied the data terminal, "There is a 10,000-year difference between what is in the hall and what is in the cavern outside, which can only be explained by the fact that time has stood still. ”"And now?""
Just look around," the terminal circled in the air, "Time has resumed its flow here, and it should really have just resumed flowing, and the local machine guesses that it is the recent energy explosion and landslide that have destroyed some kind of 'space-time structure' here, causing it to resume operation." ”(To be continued.) )