Sword of Daybreaker

The ancient observatory is not far from the frontline base, and Philip’s army has been firmly established in this area for several days. While erecting the purification device and sentry turret, the engineers also leveled out a temporary space between the observatory and the base. Gawain, Amber, Diana, and several technical experts from both Typhon and Cecil quickly took the magic car to the high ground near the observatory, and saw this from the ancient Gondor era. A large building that has stood still to this day.

The entire facility has been blocked by the army at this moment. A "fence" made of alloy and cement piles has been erected within a hundred meters of the observatory. A simple shield generator and lightning rune array are placed on the top of the fence. A thin shield surrounds the entire area, and there are jumping electric sparks on the outer layer of the shield. A group of soldiers has been stationed near the observatory for the past three days and set up two cross-blocking highlands here. The firepower point towards the side of the wasteland-although in the past three days, there have been no distortions or other monsters approaching this area.

"Those monsters seem to take the initiative to bypass this place," Philip explained. "At least the'wild' ones have never been within half a kilometer of this highland, and we have not found any traces of invasion or destruction by monsters in the observatory. Experts suspect that the low-frequency energy continuously released from the depths of the observatory has the effect of'dispelling monsters', but they can't analyze the specific principles. Of course, I still set up these defenses here for safety."

Gao Wen nodded slightly, and turned to look at Ms. Diana who got off the car with him. This "iron soldier" who used to serve as a guard at the Wipland Observatory is now looking in the direction of the observatory with some wonder. The eyes made of high-precision man-made crystals and bionic shells did not show any emotions, but the attitude she looked at was very serious-did she think of something?

Gawain didn’t know how to judge the expression on the face of the "machine girl". After all, he was not Rosetta Augustus, so he asked casually: "Ms. Diana, have you remembered anything after seeing the observatory? ?"

"...I still vaguely remember what it once looked like. When I left, it stood here, but the disaster had not spread to this side. There is still a small forest and a lush hillside nearby," Dai Anna said softly, seeming to miss, "My memory...There are many fractures, especially about the part 700 years ago. Only sporadic fragments emerged, but only the scene of the observatory standing under the blue sky, I remember clearly. , At that time..."

She hesitated, seeming to be identifying something, and then raised her finger to a place near the observatory: "At that time, I would wait for the sunset at that location every day, and then start patrolling around the main building until the sun rises the next day. Get up and go back to that position to take over with the colleagues in charge of daytime inspections. But in fact, there is nothing dangerous near the observatory. At that time, there were no robbers and no Warcraft in the empire. Even the dangerous beasts were taken for their delicious meat. The nearby humans are extinct, but there must be guards near important facilities, so the low-paid and durable'we' are the best candidates for this kind of'necessary quota'..."

Gawain listened to the iron man soldier with emotional memories, and looked at the other person’s expression in the whole process but remained flat. He couldn’t help saying in a somewhat unexpected tone: "It sounds like you miss those days... I thought The magisters of the year did not give you such complicated thinking when setting up your minds—the'iron men' in my impression were all cold and hard characters."

"My personality has been adjusted in the past hundreds of years to better adapt to the acceptance and aesthetic tendencies of ordinary people in the current environment," Diana said calmly, "and it is like me, a model that serves the non-military sector. There are more flexible personality templates, which can produce richer and normal feelings to reduce the resistance of ordinary people to us. After all, human beings are a kind of creatures with delicate emotions and complicated thinking. They are facing a very similar to themselves but they are heterogeneous. It’s easy to get nervous when you’re an individual..."

Gao Wen understood it instantly. He knew this-Uncanny Valley theory, but he didn't expect that the Gondor Iron Man engineers back then even specialized in this aspect when designing the Iron Man...

He had just lost his mind here, and then he heard Diana continue to say: "...So just now I was really shocked when I saw your soldiers getting along with a tentacle that drilled out of the ground so happily, and even felt In a kind of awe..."

Gao Wen: "..."

He felt that this was not the same thing at all in an instant, but he always felt that if he corrects himself, this topic will infinitely develop in a weird direction, so he decisively led the topic to the main thing: "Sentiment and nostalgia are both. Let’s talk about it later. Let’s go and take a look at this ancient facility now-General Philip has sent someone to inspect its internal structure. The entire facility is still very strong, so we can go in with confidence."

Diana nodded, and walked straight to the entrance gate of the literary platform that day, her footsteps light and familiar, as if this short distance had been deeply imprinted in her artificial muscle bundle, Gawain and Amber led the others. Soon to keep up-they soon walked into the interior of this ancient observatory and saw the wide hall that had been abandoned for many years.

The previous explorers have left the emergency lighting in the lobby. The bright magic spar lamp makes this ancient place no longer shrouded in the dimness as it did in the day, but Amber is obviously a bit uncomfortable with the bright environment here. , She followed Gao Wen and whispered: "Isn't it supposed to be dark to explore such ancient facilities... I'm really not used to being so bright..."

"Does this also evoke your professional memory?" Gao Wen glanced at the half-elf. "Wait, do you have to open the coffin in the room before you can enter the state?"

"...That's not necessary, when you got up from the coffin, it gave me too much psychological shadow..."

The two were chattering half-seriously and half-jokingly, but their eyes kept scanning the old abandoned installations in the hall and any traces of value on the corner roofs. Philip, who came in together, said the situation next to him: " The items that can be transferred here have been temporarily stored in the secure warehouse of the base after being properly processed, but there are still many traces that cannot be moved, such as the characters on the wall and those too fragile fragments. For these items, technical experts We just left the image data or magic rubbings, and then left them in place...Ms. Diana? Did you find something?"

Philip suddenly noticed that Diana did not listen to her introduction, but started walking around after entering the hall, looking around in a state of thoughtfulness and recollection. At this moment, she stopped suddenly. In front of a wall, he raised his head and looked at the mottled marks on the wall in a daze. The whole person seemed to be "sinked" deeply.

Gao Wen also noticed Diana's abnormal changes. He originally planned to take a look in the lobby and head directly to the blocked upper observatory. At this moment, his heart suddenly moved: "What do you remember?"

"There are marks on this wall..." Diana did not answer Gawain's question, but pointed to the wall thoughtfully, "Did you find them? These marks..."

Philip took a closer look and nodded after hesitating: "Yes, we noticed some nicks on this before, but it is not any text, but more like part of a pattern. Experts think this should be some kind of decorative relief. Part of..."

"No, this is not a relief." Diana shook her head, and suddenly reached out her hand and gently rubbed the wall. This gesture even made a certain scholar who came in with him whispered in exclamation: "Please be careful, they are very fragile. I'm afraid I can't stand it..."

Diana turned a deaf ear to the exclamation behind her. Her fingers just gently stroked the ancient mottled marks, and then unconsciously sketched on the weathered wall next to the marks, as if they were Supplementing the lack of structure in this picture, Amber’s sight was involuntarily attracted by it. She opened her eyes and looked at the traces remaining on the wall and the trajectory of Diana’s fingers, gradually distinguishing several important ones. The dots, the lines connecting those dots radially, the ring outside the pattern...

She suddenly reacted, hitting Gawain's arm with her elbow, and whispered in a voice that only two people could hear: "It's the pattern!"

Gao Wen was stunned, and then he realized what Amber was referring to—this was a secret message from the Typhon Empire, but in fact it wasn’t that secret at the top of Typhon—a maid of the Augustus family. Long Ms. Diana has a weird habit. She always draws a mysterious pattern unconsciously, no matter where it is, whether it is on the wall or the floor of the palace, or even the clothes of the servants passing by, as long as she When I think of it, I will draw this pattern subconsciously. The content of the pattern is many dots, line segments connecting the dots radially, and a ring that represents the "boundary"...

Now Diana is drawing this figure—and this figure is carved on the wall of the Wiplanton Observatory!

Of course Gawain couldn’t show that he was very familiar with this. After all, this was a trivial matter known to the people in Typhon Palace, so he seemed to ask casually: "Ms. Diana? What are you doing? You seem to have drawn a pattern. …What is the special meaning of this pattern?"

"I don't know... I only know that this pattern has been deeply imprinted in the core of my mind, and an ancient instruction is still strengthening its impression. Sometimes I fall into a trance, and when I wake up I will find myself in a certain These traces were left in some places, which even caused some trouble to the people around. I didn't expect...it came from here..."

While talking, the black-haired maid reached out and stroked the traces on the wall, her expression suddenly became a bit strange: "Moreover, these traces were even carved on after I left the Wiplanton Observatory!"

Gao Wen was stunned, and immediately realized the amount of information in this sentence: "Wait, you said that the things on this wall were carved after you left Wiplanton!? In other words, it was the eruption of the magic wave. After? Someone survived here and left these traces?"

"Not necessarily," Amber immediately said, "After all, the magic wave hadn't arrived when Diana left here, right? Maybe she left with her front foot. Those who stayed here and didn't run should hurry up on the wall. After engraving such a pattern, it was before the eruption of the magic wave..."

I have to say that although Amber is bluffing and sometimes has a weird thought, what she is saying at this moment is really a possibility, but after Diana heard it, she shook her head: "That's impossible. The traces should indeed be left after the eruption of the Demon Tide, and it should be 15 to 25 years after the eruption of the Demon Tide, because..."

As Diana was talking, one of her eyes suddenly changed. A certain fine structure inside her eyeball seemed to be activated. There was a structure like a crystalline grid that opened under her eyes. A few seconds later, that eyeball changed again. Restored to the original state-this seems to be just deliberately demonstrating one of his special abilities.

"I can analyze the time difference between the peeling and damage of paint and building materials in various areas of the wall. Within a thousand years, the accuracy deviation is very small."

"...Ma," Amber was taken aback. "The things from your Gondor years are really awesome..."

Immediately afterwards, she widened her eyes and turned to look at the marks on the wall: "So in other words, more than ten years after the demonic wave completely destroyed the Gondor Empire, there are still people moving in this observatory, and they are still on the wall. Left such a "mark"!?"

"I don't know... but I'm sure this is definitely not something that an irrational aberration can do," Diana said solemnly, "but I don't believe anyone can survive that situation...near Wiplanton Observatory and Without adequate protection facilities, the scholars and officials in the observatory do not have the strength to withstand the magic wave, and..."

She said, her tone suddenly hesitated: "And if this pattern was carved here more than ten years after I left, why would I know it and remember it deeply in the core of my mind?"

"The pattern was indeed carved after you left, but before that, you and the people in this observatory should have known this pattern," Gao Wen said on the side. "This pattern must be of great significance to you, so that you are in After the memory malfunctions, they still remember it so firmly that the survivors in the observatory—let's assume there are survivors—will choose this pattern as their last message after being trapped for more than ten years. "

"Can anyone really survive the eruption of the demonic wave, and live in an isolated observatory for more than ten or twenty years?" Amber next to him couldn't help but whispered.

At this moment, Philip’s voice suddenly sounded: “It’s not impossible—the dark priests of the End of All Things have survived in the wasteland to this day? Although they paid the price of not being human, it means that as long as there is a specific Conditions, it is possible for normal organisms to survive in the wasteland without relying on purification devices. What's more, this observatory... seems to be protected by some kind of force. Its main body is intact, unlike other Gondor facilities. The same was melted down by the dark blue magic power, and there was even a star-gazing platform operating on the upper level."

"The upper level is still in motion..." Gao Wen frowned. At this moment, he suddenly paid more attention to the observatory that was still in motion than before and a little more vigilant, and then he turned his head to look at Dai. Anna, "It looks like we should go up and take a look."

(Everyone, do you know about the creation of novels by the glory of Kings? The short story I am responsible for is now online! It will be updated in the project of "Glory of the Kings Co-creation Novels". "Iron" story-although I have never won with him...)