Sword of Daybreaker

In a state of spiritual connection with the Sky Station, Gao Wen listened carefully to the situation reported by Ashalena, without missing a single detail.

There is a mysterious "shadow hall" in Cangqiang Station. Even if you don't consider the astonishing traces of back tide pollution, the existence of this hall alone is enough to make people surprised. Why is there such a space in the space facilities built by the sailors? What's incompatible with the "painting style" of the space station? What is the function of this hall? Was it there in the beginning, or was it gradually alienated into that look at some time in the past?

If the Shadow Hall was originally just a normal cabin, and it was alienated into what it is today at some time in the past, is its "alienation" related to the back tide pollution? If it has been part of the space station design from the beginning, then it must be meaningful for the sailor to set up such a place in the space station...what is this "meaning"?

"We checked the rest of the hall and found that the energy supply in the entire hall was normal, but a large number of equipment went into a dormant state. This is not the same as the'disabling compartment' we encountered before," said Ashalena. As he continued to report, "Chief Nicholas believes that this shows that the'Shadow Hall' has a higher priority for energy supply than other areas, so it maintains basic operations even when most areas of the entire space station are in a dormant state.

"But we still have no way to determine what happened to the shadow power in the hall, and we are not sure whether it was in that state at the beginning. What is certain at present is that the original lighting in the hall is obviously also affected by the'dark environment'. 'Influence, this shadow power entrenched in the hall is obviously very powerful, and...the sailor's equipment did not respond to this powerful shadow power, but allowed it to move in the hall."

Gawain fell into deep thought and asked after a moment: "You haven't walked through the hall to check the situation on the other end, right?"

"Not yet," Ashalena responded immediately, "The situation in the hall is weird at the moment. We have adopted a cautious attitude. Before we understand the nature of the Hall of Shadows, Chief Nicholas told us not to move on."

Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief: "Very well, be cautious. Now Nicholas is still in the hall, isn't it? I will try to spread my perception over there, hoping that there will be communications that can be activated in that hall. node."

"Understood, I'll go tell..." Ashalena agreed, but she interrupted when she was halfway through the conversation, "Ah, Miss Bellanta, who is standing in the hall, is calling... Commander Nicholas activated. That large equipment wrapped in a thorny structure!"

"He activated that thing?" Gawain's voice suddenly rose a little. He saw the change of expression on Ashalena's face for a moment through the monitor in the track station, "Anything to notice?"

"...On that terminal there is only one line of information star map custodians offline."

...

"What is the star map keeper?" Cassandra craned her neck curiously and looked at the ancient device that had just been activated by Nicholas Egg. The text projected on it was shaking slightly in the air, as if it were The focus structure of the projection equipment is in poor condition after a long period of dormancy, "Is it the former staff here? A certain position among the sailors?"

"Literally it seems to be responsible for the management of the star map... the navigator? Or is it just a'warehouse duty'?" Nicholas also heard a buzzing sound of confusion, although he could use simple and crude physical methods. Activate the terminal in front of him, but he doesn’t know much about the specific sailing technology and equipment control methods. When faced with such an ancient device that has not been dormant for many years, he can only be as confused as ordinary engineering team members. Operate with a guess. Now he is guessing how to use this terminal while trying to input commands to the terminal in front of him based on the experience accumulated in several cabins before, "Let’s see what else it has. reaction……"

When the voice fell, a small electric arc burst out between him and the ancient terminal. The just right electric arc was his means of "communicating" with these antique machines.

In the next second, there was a slight sound from the terminal that had just been "dug" out of the thorn bushes, and then a line of red fluorescent text accompanied by a buzzing warning sound appeared in front of everyone: "Error, the star chart custodian is not authorized."

"...This thing seems to be specially prepared for the'star map custodian'," Red Dragon Mechanic Berlanta on the side was always calmly watching the terminal changes, only then broke the silence with a loud voice, "We need Only the corresponding permissions can proceed to the next step."

"...Where can I find the so-called custodian," Cassandra muttered, "This entire space station has been placed for 1.87 million years, and I can find a communication station for the sailor ship. The group sent a message to ask them to send someone back to unlock it for us?"

"Theoretically... it shouldn’t be the case," Nicholas muttered, floating in front of the ancient terminal, thinking while scanning the deep structure of the surrounding equipment. The entire group of space facilities outside is set to operate automatically, and from the records of the dragons, the sailors obviously have no plan to return when they leave... Since they didn’t plan to return from the beginning, why bother? Specially leave a hall here that needs the permission of the "Star Map Keeper" to start? Under normal thinking, they should either completely lock this area, or keep it open, or set it to be opened without the ship group returning. Conditions?"

Cassandra next to him reacted: "What do you mean... the ‘star map custodian’ mentioned here should not be a member of the sailing group?"

"If you want to leave a place forever and leave a'heritage' before leaving, then you should either entrust it to someone or lock it completely instead of leaving a sentence at the door. XX, you need to open the door, please leave a message'," Nicholas shook his body, "I think so anyway."

Cassandra was thoughtful, and almost at the same time, everyone in the hall heard Gawain's voice suddenly coming from all directions: "I agree with Nicholas."

In the next second, they heard a slight buzzing sound coming from some nearby machines. The faint dim lights on the ceiling of the hall also flickered a few times. In the darkness, several monitors were activated one by one, dimmed to the point The indicator light, which is almost invisible to the naked eye, flashed past the enclosures of monitoring equipment, broadcasting equipment, and communication equipment. Gaowen Cecil’s will reached this hall through the information link just activated, and passed through the hall. The interactive terminal set up observes here and talks with everyone in the engineering team.

Cassandra was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Every time you'come', you always have a feeling."

"Oh, Your Majesty! You are here!" Nicholas also said happily. Although he could not see Gawain, he knew that everything that happened in this hall at this moment was as if it were happening in front of Gawain. The "Iron Ball Star Man" who can directly observe the operation of the surrounding machinery and the flow of energy, from the time he boarded the Sky Station and talked with Gao Wen for the first time, he understood Gao Wen and this more clearly than everyone else. The connection between the two space stations, "Did you see the situation in this hall?"

"...I see better than you, I have a variety of perceptual filters here." Gawain's voice is low, in the mental connection, the state of the entire Shadow Hall has appeared in his mind, and in his other layer." In "Impression", you can see a series of activated dim light spots and the lines connecting the light spots. These are the cabins that Nicholas and his team have continuously activated since they stepped on the sky.

These devices that have been activated one after another appear in his mind as a continuously forming and intertwined net. It is precisely because of the spread of this “net” that he can continuously connect his consciousness to the newly discovered cabin. In this sense, the actions of Nicholas and his party are actually constantly activating his "vision" in the Sky Station.

And now, at the end of this field of vision, he saw the hall of shadows and the huge ancient device in the middle of the hall.

It was a huge polygonal prism connecting the roof and the ground. In the special field of vision from the monitor, he could clearly see the part of the column hidden in the thorn bushes, and through the continuous switching of various visual modes To view its details, he saw that there were a large number of branches spreading out at the top and bottom of the pillars, and these structures were connected to a large number of equipment and pipelines deep in the hall.

In his feelings, this installation from top to bottom presents a "painting style" that is incompatible with the surrounding sailor equipment, but it is naturally integrated into the entire hall, and this entire hall... It also seems to be an extension of this pillar, which exists to support the operation of this thing.

Gao Wen silently switched the vision transmitted through multiple monitors. Obviously, these "visions" were not all obtained by optical framing, so the dim environment in the hall could not affect his "sight". He also saw those surrounding the center. The "thorn structure" of the column was automatically corrected by the monitor. The crystal thorns showed a semi-transparent illusory state in his eyes, covering a large area in the center of the hall like a phantom. It looked like... The "armor" guarding the pillar is generally.

In the Hall of Shadows, Gawain’s voice fell silent for a while, but the hum of equipment running in the surrounding darkness gradually rang. At the same time, there was a slight clicking sound when some devices were switched and when the top monitor was rotating. Kassandra and the others knew that Gawain was using his "magic ability" to mobilize the surrounding monitoring equipment to observe this place carefully, so they did not urge anything, but waited silently.

At the same time, Asha Lena also returned to the hall with people from the previous corridor. Their speed of action was obviously not as fast as Gao Wen, who was transferred by consciousness, and just came back at this time.

"Is he here already?" Ashalena came to Berranta and asked in a low voice.

"He is observing here," Bellanta replied in a low voice, "it has been a while."

Ashalena nodded, and at this moment, she heard Gawain's voice suddenly resounding in the darkness: "Is the remnants of the tide pollution on the other side of the thorn bush gap? I saw an abnormality there. "

"Ah, yes," Ashalena said immediately, and at the same time walked to the floor that was corroded and dented. "This is where the contamination was found. In addition, some of the thorn bushes were obviously contaminated before. It's just that The thorns suddenly shattered afterwards, leaving a gap here but also exposing an interactive terminal originally wrapped in thorn bushes."

"Do you think it was these thorns that prevented the pollution that year?"

"That's how we guessed it," Bellanta said, "After all, it looks like this from the traces of the scene, and the thorns seem to be protecting this...pillar in the middle of the hall."

"Hmm..." Gao Wen hummed softly, and then asked again, "Can the traces on the scene tell when the pollution happened?"

"This...it's difficult to judge for a time," Ashalena shook her head in embarrassment. "The space station environment is closed and different from the surface. Everything happening here seems to be frozen in time. It is difficult to find a way to judge time. The elapsed reference object, and we don’t know how these'thorns' change over time..."

"If you make a rough judgment, this should have happened a long time ago. The time scale is in 100,000 years. It can't be in the near future." Alice-6, who had never spoken next to him, suddenly broke her silence. "I scanned the traces of pollution. The surrounding particle deposition, although the site environment was slightly damaged due to our actions, the scan results still have reference value."

"One hundred thousand years as a unit..." Gao Wen's voice sounded quite surprised, "That is to say at least a hundred thousand years ago, or even hundreds of thousands of years ago..."

"In such an old age, did the forces of the reverse tide attempt to invade the sky?" Berranta's eyes widened suddenly, "At that time...At that time, it should still be trapped in the tall tower next to Tarrond... …"

"Don't forget, although the body of Nicheide is trapped in the tower, its power spreads outwards all the time. This spread has escaped the eyes of the dragons and even the dragon gods, and even before it escapes, these spreading powers "It pollutes the sentry system," Gawain's voice sounded, "Then it is not unimaginable that He will'radiate' part of the power to the sky station in a similar way...Wait, it is reasonable to say that he pollutes the sky first... …"

Bellanta didn't understand Gawain's thinking for a while: "It is reasonable to pollute the sky? Why?"

"The sailors left two systems on this planet. One is to monitor the homeport of the'Sentinel' in the deep world and its subsidiary fleets, and the other is to monitor the world's'Sky' space station and its subsidiary facilities. The group includes satellites and small space stations near the sky, as well as the corresponding'support stations' on the ground..."

Gao Wen's voice reverberated in the hall, and he felt that his thoughts became a little clearer. In the fog, some ancient clues were finally connected into a film.

Although the tide is dead, the clues exposed at this moment are by no means meaningless. He feels that he is approaching a crucial piece of history, some truth that has been ignored by everyone.

"...The body of the back tide was trapped in the'tower' on the sea off Tarrond, and that tall tower is located in the present world, so if it is classified according to the group of facilities left by the sailor, it should be counted as Facilities under the Sky System.

"So, I'm afraid from the beginning, the first person who tried to pollute against the tide was not the sentry...but the sky!"