above the sky

"It's fun."

With so much emotion, Ian now has a lot of power, he can already defeat a powerful enemy that he could not imagine to face, and an ancient, mysterious pre-epoch relic is right in front of him.

And this ruin, even his teacher entrusted him to explore, to try to stop the goal of its mutation.

--Yes.

- This is... the life I want.

- This is the day I long to experience.

With such a mood, the sound of lonely but not lonely footsteps resounded in the water-plastic cave deep in the ground, and the increasingly radiant psionic brilliance in the boy's eyes illuminated the meandering complex, but smooth and smooth rocks. wall.

He was so excited, with anticipation, with joy and even gratitude, and kept striding forward.

till the end.

The small cave is about to reach its end.

A radiance far brighter than the inside of the cave appeared at the end of the cave entrance, making the exit look like a door made of light.

Taking a deep breath, Ian stared at the end of the long corridor in front of him and strode forward.

Then walked through the door of light.

Then, a whole new world appeared in front of him.

——A huge super-giant semi-circular karst cave with a height of nearly a thousand meters, I don’t know how wide it is, and it appeared in this extremely deep underground.

The densely packed karst cave entrances are distributed on the wall of this semi-circular giant karst cave, like a waterfall flowing out of a steady stream of seawater, making a loud tidal sound.

Ian walked out of the cave, and the fluorescence in his eyes was not refracted because it was reflected on the smooth calcified rock wall. The warm water-like psionic light seemed to have broken through some restraint and began to spread in all directions.

In the end, blending with the light in the cave, the teenager can clearly see the new world behind the door.

In front of him was a vast underground cavity that was so open that it almost made him feel like he was returning to the surface, with rows of rock pillars standing in the deep darkness.

The fluorescence in the boy's eyes can only illuminate a small area around him. What really brightens the entire cavity is a layer of luminous cloud at the top of the cavity dome.

It was a mass of water vapor that was continuously and violently discharging. The sea water flowing out of the cave slapped on the ground, stirring up large tracts of water mist, and these water mists converged upward and stirred the psychic field, forming such a continuous production. cloud of light with small lightning bolts.

The ground of the cavity is very flat, and even the rock pillars seem to be man-made. Their surface is covered with a layer of stalactite-like calcification, which makes them crystalline and primitive.

But this is just an illusion.

As if sensing something, the boy raised his head.

Then, hold your breath.

Because, he saw what this super-giant underground cavity structure is supported by.

That's metal.

The pitch-black metal grid dome and the towering rock pillars supported this enormous underground cavity without collapsing.

This is not an underground cavity formed by nature... This is a magnificent man-made dome, a magnificent palace that sings the wonders of civilization!

"My goodness……"

Sighing and lowering his eyes, Ian looked towards the center of the cavity following the direction the rock pillar spreads forward.

There was a square black stone tablet full of cracks and omissions.

It uses a simplified inscription common language, and several large characters are written.

【Sequoia Base】

In the huge underground cavity, there is a tall stone tablet, which is a standard golden ratio rectangle, dark and full of cracks.

[——I would like to use this monument to commemorate all the watchers over the past three thousand and four hundred years. 】

[—From today onwards, we will not need to look at it]

【——3472.5.27】

This is the text on the stele. It is inscribed in the same common language as Terra today. Anyone who can read and write will surely understand the meaning of the text on the stele, and the luminous clouds surrounding it make this ancient and majestic The stone tablet is filled with an illusory and hazy sense of confusion, and looking at it is like looking at another era thousands of years ago from an extremely far distance.

Ian stared for a long time before slowly lowering his eyes and looking at the back of the stone monument... The murmuring water flows along the road behind the stone monument, leading to a huge stone arch bridge. The metal door, the mottled rust on the door expresses the flow of time.

The years are marked, and the seasons flow. Thousands of years of flying light, suddenly gone.

"Even if it is the creation of the pre-epoch civilization, there is no way to keep it intact in the past 1,600 years."

Ian couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Also, 3,400 years? The pre-epoch civilization has a recorded history of 3,400 years, which is quite a long time."

He knew that he had a high probability of relying on his own psychic instinct to walk in a karst cave that just led to the gate of the relics of the former era civilization - of course, it may also be the back garden, that karst cave really looks a bit like a backyard man-made scenic.

In short, judging from the complex underground structure of this area, those strange caves and corridors may lead to every corner of the ruins.

But that doesn't mean anything, for a prophet, it's not a waste of time to go from anywhere.

On the contrary, Ian thinks, in this way, we can better understand the whole picture of the whole subterranean group of redwood relics.

Withdrawing his gaze into the distance, Ian carefully looked under the entire dome.

Let’s not talk about the discharge luminous cloud above the head. It looks mysterious, but it is actually just the physical manifestation of natural psionic energy, and it is not worthy of surprise.

What is really worth looking out for is the azure blue and strange river under the arch bridge.

The sea water merged into the river, and wisps of translucent smoke rose up, covering the entire stone bridge.

There are marble guardrails on both sides of the river, and many of these guardrails have collapsed.

Ian can see that this is probably an ornamental artificial river. This kind of thing will exist on the earth or any civilization... Intelligent life can't be absolutely rational forever, they sometimes make it for beauty This kind of thing comes.

But what is really surprising is that there are actually many traces of fighting around these collapsed guardrails.

Squinting his eyes, the young man approached. He observed the fighting marks on the ground and found that most of them were scratches and teeth gnawing marks of some animals fighting - some are very old, some are very new, and even happened recently.

"It's not surprising. After all, it's almost all sea water. If the moat is fresh water, it's not surprising that there are wild animals fighting for the right to drink safe water."

Ian can't be said to be well-informed, but at least he has seen the animal world. The struggle between wild animals for drinking water is just like the competition for water in modern rural areas. Life and death fights may occur at any time. Fighting.

It's not a big deal, Ian was going to move on, but he suddenly heard a sound from the cave behind him.

Papa pata pata... Not human footsteps, but the sound of some beast's footsteps.

Ian thought for a while, then disappeared, hiding in the shadow of a stone pillar, waiting quietly.

Not long after, several green armored lizards walked out of the cave with a cautious look and very careful walking.