High Above

map.

A few minutes later, when Ian and Isengard were walking outside the temporary camp, he had been carefully watching the map in his hand.

Everyone in the camp is recovering from their injuries. They have fought for too long, and now they urgently need to rest.

In fact, even Isengard injected himself with two injections of stamina potions, and Ian also had the core of the ancient dragon, so he only slept for a few hours in the giant golden fungus cave halfway, but he was still full of energy.

Of course, he also took a bottle of stamina potion, and used the nutrition in it to completely heal the hidden wounds left by the battle with the indigenous great shaman.

With a map, it is not surprising that the interior of Sequoia Base is indeed like a maze, especially after many confidential areas are blocked, many passages cannot communicate with each other, forming a man-made dead end.

"The priest's land is the closest to us, or in other words, it's at the end of the 'Way of the Past' mural corridor, and we only need to turn a few more turns and fork roads."

Pointing to the dots on the map, Ian explained the meaning of each mark above to Isengard with a serious face: "The exit is very far away from us, and it can even be said... Uh, is this too far away?"

Just when the people of Bai frowned and wondered why the exit of the ruins was so far away, Isengard raised his hand and pointed to the sign of 'Holy Land': "Why is the Holy Land so close to the exit? Theoretically speaking, the Holy Land should not be located in the center of the ruins." ?"

"On the contrary, the sacrificial place is the closest to the center. I thought it should be next to the holy place."

Ian knows why, because the Sequoia people's door to the outside world is blocked, and only the four leaders agree to unlock it with the four-color card key.

But no one knows whether the natural disasters and mutations outside are over, so no matter how much the Sequoia people miss the outside world, they can only wander around the entrance and exit gates.

Over time, with the accumulation of thoughts and the inheritance of rituals, it is not surprising that the surrounding area of ​​the entrance and exit has become a holy place for the Sequoia people to worship.

However, Ian didn't know why the sacrificial place was closest to the center of the ruins.

According to the experience of the year, could it be a material transfer center? And the central control room should be in a lower place, which is more securely protected...

"I plan to go to the sacrificial place to see the situation."

Put away the map and return it to Isengard. Ian has engraved the entire map into the silver chip. He instructed: "You stay and take care of Master Goser and pay attention to the situation in the camp."

"Will it be too dangerous? And I already know the location of the exit, why don't you leave?"

Essengard's thoughts are more cautious. He was quite careless at first, but after being betrayed by his uncle, he became a little worried: "In the current situation, there should be nothing wrong with leaving early."

"Patrick is in collusion with the natives, so I'm afraid he'll be waiting for us at the exit. Let's not talk about this, the exit is too far away, and God knows what will happen on the way. Besides, we don't have the key, and we can't open the door to the ruins. "

Ian is not so optimistic. Leaving the ruins is obviously not a simple matter that can be done by finding a map, which is why Master Goser did not announce the map immediately.

In the final analysis, who knows if this prehistoric map can still count? It is impossible with a high probability, at most as a reference.

"The sacrificial place is the closest, and it extends in all directions. It is likely to connect to the center of the ruins or other key areas. That is my goal."

Having said that, the young man didn't intend to hide anything: "Since everyone is here, I have to go and see. It's more convenient for me to go there alone. If other people want to leave, you can lead them away."

After thinking about it for a while, Yi Sen shook his head slightly: "The teacher has recovered a part of his strength, it's no problem to take care of himself...I'll go with you."

——My strength alone is greater than that of you and me together.

Although he thought so in his heart, Ian thought about it, and thought that Master Goser already knew his identity, and the person with the best eyesight in the entire camp was no longer a threat in essence.

Isengard lacks combat experience, so he may not be able to see that he is using the sand armor apprentice skills... What's more, the opponent's strength is indeed not weak. If there is a real danger of exposing the sand armor apprentice, bringing him can indeed reduce many crises.

Not to mention, if Patrick really met, the other party could at least interfere with the operation of the etheric armed forces.

"You have to listen to my instructions. What I say, you have to do it without hesitation."

So Ian nodded: "Later we will respond to a few gestures and deal with different methods-if you agree, then let's go."

Isengard nodded quickly in agreement.

The fact that the two went to explore the road ahead did not cause any changes in the people in the camp. After all, this matter of exploring the surroundings really needs someone to do it. As the strongest in the camp today, Ian is willing to explore the road, which is also the safety of the entire team. protection.

Years of disrepair, coupled with the recent changes caused by the abnormal heat dissipation of the ruins, there are all kinds of cracks around the road ahead of the mural passage. The crack that Ian and others walked out of the ice abyss of the ruins is the largest of many cracks. , the kind that allows many people to walk side by side.

Fortunately, the channel was stable, and there was no problem overall. At least Ian didn't see any obvious danger of landslides.

Walking through the area densely covered with cracks, there are a few forks in the road. At first, it is not obvious from a distance, but the closer you get, the more you can notice that this place is indeed the remains of an advanced base from the previous era.

The solid white tempered building materials on both sides of the walls have not decayed until now, and the design of the portals and windows of each room is extremely futuristic and minimalist. There are occasional hollow pattern decorations, which are also extremely fine, and even themselves are a set of advanced inscriptions. Showcasing the superb technical strength of pre-era civilization.

"The effect of this inscription group seems to be to prevent metal oxidation in a large area?"

Along the way, Ian recorded this huge combination of runes into the silver chip, and he couldn't help being a little surprised: "Moreover, it seems that it can run continuously without using light and ink?"

"No." But soon, he shook his head and denied: "There is an energy source behind these inscription groups-it is probably provided by the fusion power generation group, but there is no need for primitive methods such as injecting light and ink."

For the inscription group, glossy ink is a must, without glossy ink is equivalent to no gasoline engine.

However, just as gasoline-burning cars will gradually be replaced by electric vehicles, in the future, Ian believes that there will definitely be other energy conversion methods that can replace the effect of light ink... and the pre-epoch civilization can directly replace light ink with power stations, Not particularly incredible.

"This, this is Mithril?!"

Compared with Ian who paid attention to the inscription group, as an alchemist, Isengard was shocked to find that the materials of the seemingly ordinary hollow pattern coating had extraordinary origins during the inspection process along the way: "Ian Ian! Look, the silver coating on these inscription groups—these are all Mithril!"

Looking around the dozens of rooms in front of and behind the entire fork in shock, the blond boy felt incredible in his heart: "Although it is only a thin layer, it will weigh at least tens of kilograms when collected, right? So much mithril is enough to make There are several ether cores..."

As a furnace core that requires extremely high-efficiency transmission of natural psionic energy, the ether core naturally needs Mithril, a high-efficiency energy transfer material that is close to a normal superconducting material, but the materials used are not large, even if the entire furnace core and the whole body conduction The route only needs twenty or thirty kilograms.

"Don't think about these materials."

But Ian was a little more calm: "These anti-corrosion inscription groups are extremely critical. This may be the reason why the passages and buildings in the entire ruins can be preserved for thousands of years-if they are really pulled out, this area may collapse."

"No, I am very aware of their importance—but unfortunately, rubbings cannot be made this time. If rubbings can be made, it will be of great help to inscriptions if they can be taken back and studied carefully."

After calming down, Isengarde also understood the key, but the extravagance of the pre-epoch civilization still made him very emotional: "Having said that, Mithril is indeed not the most important material in the heart of the ether furnace, but it is so precious...but there is still room for it. Make it into a pattern painting."

"It's really hard to imagine what kind of disaster can destroy such a powerful civilization."

Feelings did not affect the two to move on, and after turning a few more corners, they saw a huge metal door in front of them.

This metal door should be a kind of closed partition door, like a copper wall and an iron wall. Once it is closed, even heavy artillery attacks cannot open it.

But Ian raised his hand to signal Isengard not to come forward.

"The door was opened by some creature." The boy whispered: "Not long ago."

Although the giant metal door in front of him seemed to be closed, there was a gap in the middle that was insignificant compared to the whole—for humans, this gap was enough to pass through.

Yi Sen understood, he didn't speak anymore, but took a step back cautiously, after making sure that they hadn't exposed their traces, he gestured to Ian's ring.

Nodding slightly, Ian opened the ring of silence, and then walked forward carefully, passing through the gap.

Behind the partition door, there is a large hall inside. The edge of the hall is surrounded by a small river of running water. The water quality is normal and there are no parasites. The ground is paved with a layer of silver-white metal. fluorescent light.

There are many complicated things in the hall, but most of them have been weathered, or decayed and deformed, reflecting the power of time.

But in the center of the hall is a spherical metal device with a height of two floors. Its appearance is extremely smooth, almost like a mirror. .

Time has no effect on it. Thousands of years have passed, and it is still shining brightly.

The silver light in Ian's eyes flickered, and he had already scanned the information of this machine into his eyes.

But neither he nor Isengard had time to care about the information of that machine.

Because the eyes of the two were locked on the figure in front of the machine.

The blond man stared blankly at the huge machine.

—It was Patrick.