The sun is high

Since arriving at Van'en and completing the special "magic inscription" with the help of the Dream Sanctuary and the power of Theseus, Xiuge has often thought about the fact that the magical power that carries him is completely consistent with his soul, spirit and will. What does the huge fused disc represent?

He has consulted books related to magic inscription more than once, and has also asked Weilin and other mages and scholars on this issue many times. However, the answer he got was always consistent and clear - the essence of magic inscription is to Complex magical knowledge and matching rituals are permanently engraved in the individual's soul. It may affect the individual's memory, but it is ultimately impossible to change the individual's soul.

Not to mention creating a complex and figurative shape.

What's more, various experiences and many clues along the way have proven that this extremely special huge disk is not only a manifestation of powerful power, but also a symbol of meticulous rules from the past.

Only in this way can Xiuge be able to explain the strange signs caused by its rotation and change.

And now, it's shaking again.

Although what appeared in front of Xiuge was just a recorded distant image, the traces of power remaining in it still inevitably aroused a strange resonance.

The invisible tremor was reminding Xiuge that there was a close connection between the slender figure in the image and him.

Or it can be said that it is the connection between the soul and the power level.

"Who are you?"

Xiuge stared at the figure and couldn't help but move his mouth twice, silently expressing the questions in his heart.

As if I heard Shuge's question from a distance, the figure in the image moved slightly, as if looking in the direction of the "lens". The next moment, the originally smooth image was suddenly interrupted, with abnormal and messy weird lines. In an instant, Shuge's vision was filled with them. They were entangled and disturbed wildly. They looked like abnormalities that appeared when the signal was interfered with, and they also seemed like signs before the symptoms of magic rupture occurred.

Obviously, due to the other party's deliberate interference, the recording of the image was forcibly interrupted.

After a while, these twisted shadows and lines slowly subsided, but the picture did not return to its original appearance, but remained deep in darkness. However, the spiritual resonance at the level of the metal disc did not stop because of this. Ge could even clearly hear the sound of those gears rotating at a constant speed and meshing with each other.

The darkness gradually faded and the image reappeared, but this time what was revealed was the scene in the hall.

In the center of the picture, the slender figure is slowly walking out of the last fortification built by the soldiers. His dazed look is exactly the same as when Shuge first arrived here.

Xiuge didn't know exactly how this visitor passed through the meticulous and strict gate access control. Based on the resonance of the metal disc, he could only guess that the other party might also have some kind of special "key", or perhaps Holding some conditions that match a certain list.

This should have been a mystery worth exploring, but as the visitor walked into the bright light, Shuge's eyes widened unconsciously.

In that quite clear picture, Xiuge saw a familiar face.

That slender figure was clearly the face of the goddess Mel. However, beside this body, gloomy lights and shadows continued to float and overflow.

Shuge stared at this figure, and then he saw that at a certain moment, the face of Goddess Mel trembled violently, and it became extremely blurry, looking like a mask made of thick black shadows. Then the "mask" returned to its original shape and quickly condensed into its original appearance.

The answer is ready to come out.

"Theseus???"

Xiuge was extremely surprised by what he saw.

Although he had had similar conjectures before, after watching the video records left by Engineer Wang, Xiuge put this possibility behind him. After all, no matter what Theseus said, it was As a member who was separated from the Dark Abyss palace system, according to the principle of continuation of the base, Theseus will definitely be classified as "must be eliminated".

However, this did not happen.

He just walked slowly through the hall with the face of Goddess Mel. He was so dazed that he looked like a beautiful and unconscious puppet.

"I need to check the recording time of this video."

Xiuge turned his head and tentatively asked a question to the terminal. Faced with this special question, the terminal gave a negative answer - although the time measurement system of the continuation base can still operate, with the spread of the power of the dark abyss and the For the overall impact on the world, the original time scale has been completely destroyed, and the measurement system without coordinates and references has naturally lost its effectiveness.

"He used the face of the goddess Mel to move around, and he seemed to be in a very bad condition... So, this incident most likely happened after Mel left?"

Shuge boldly made a guess, and then he saw Theseus walking in the hall and began to examine the surrounding environment and the dead people.

As a special and powerful being, Theseus had no need to read and organize bit by bit like Xiuge did. Xiuge saw that the slender figure that had been imitated and transformed stood in the center of the hall. She floated slightly, and the rich shadows spread out from under her body, and turned into complex magical lines.

Like rapidly growing black roots, these lines continued to spread outward. Like Shuge's Charron's Touch, they flexibly and quickly explored every corner and every corpse in the hall.

However, they are extremely "gentle", and the touched corpses are not really moved. After an extremely simple contact, these black "roots" begin to shrink inward. After a few seconds, All the divergent shadows had been completely retracted by Theseus. She slowly landed on the ground, and her originally empty and dazed expression finally showed some changes.

She looked at the corpses of the staff closest to her, and then lowered her head slightly, as if she was sighing, and also seemed to be mourning...

Shuge watched all this in silence. He wanted to know what Theseus did next in the continuation base. However, the image recording inside the hall stopped abruptly. Shuge frowned and flipped through the terminal. After searching twice, I could not find any records related to "Temporary Visitor 001".

"Visitor No. 001 is Theseus, which is not particularly surprising, but why on earth did he come here? What kind of 'key' did he use to pass the verification of the gate?"

Xiuge took two steps back. He looked at the terminal in front of him, and then at the luminous lines under his feet that were still guiding him. The curiosity and confusion in his heart overflowed.

"And what exactly did he do in this continuation base?"

Questions popped up in Xiuge's mind one after another. He pondered for two seconds, and then rushed towards the deepest part of the archives along the luminous lines on the ground. Logic told him that no matter how Theseus came here, No matter what the purpose is, he must not be able to bypass the core of the continuation base, which is the huge beacon.

"To this day, the continuation beacon is still operating normally... So this means that Theseus did not choose to change or operate the beacon itself after getting the information he wanted."

Xiuge thought quickly as he walked: "Or maybe he failed to find this hidden archive room and failed to touch the core of the continuation beacon."

In one possibility after another, Xiuge finally reached the end of those luminous lines. However, what appeared here was not a terminal, but an elevator.

Xiuge pondered for two seconds, and then followed the instructions and stepped into it. After completing the verification procedures again, the door of the elevator was closed. Amidst the continuous vibration, the elevator carried the lonely visitor to the space below the continuation base. go.

Soon, the elevator came to a complete stop, the door slowly opened, and what appeared in front of Xiuge's eyes was another extremely shocking scene.

Those huge metal cabinets that store the past of countless civilizations continue from above. They are like trees growing in reverse, "hanging" above Xiuge's head, filling the top of the entire underground space in an orderly manner.

On the smooth, flat metal floors and walls, countless lights and shadows are swimming along those detailed magic circuits. They connect every place here and every metal pillar that "grows" from the top. And on their surfaces, a strange brilliance like the starry sky is outlined.

"boom……"

Just like the heart of a giant beast beating, a dull vibration sounded, and then Xiuge saw countless rays of light drawn out from the inside of these metal cabinets. They flashed at extremely fast speeds along the interconnected lines. , and converge in the same direction.

As a result, an extremely huge shadow was successfully illuminated.

At the end of those lines, Xiuge saw an extremely huge machine. It looked like an exaggerated and magnificent metal cylinder, penetrating the entire underground space from bottom to top, and when those lights representing civilization information When the cylinder was successfully reached, the instruments and indicator lights covering the surface of the metal cylinder also changed significantly.

If the heavy buzzing is regarded as the breathing of the "giant beast", then obviously, these flashing lights are equivalent to a specific manifestation of the "giant beast"'s thinking.

"Gather all the necessary information and launch it to the target through the 'cannon' of the continuation beacon... This should be the real core of the continuation base."

Xiuge stood there and quietly observed the cycles of light and shadow several times before raising his feet and walking in the direction of the huge metal cylinder.

And as the distance between him and the finish line shortened, a strange feeling of familiarity gradually came to his mind.

Here, Xiuge clearly sensed the remaining traces of the dark abyss magic. In this completely isolated strange world, these traces did not fade away due to the normal passage of time, but were preserved with incomparable clarity.

Xiuge felt the magic power of the dark abyss remaining around him and had the answer in his heart: "Theseus has already been here. It seems that he has also come into contact with the core part of this plan... It seems that he is not right. The beacon itself has undergone too many operations and changes. Is it because he doesn’t care about the beacon itself? Or is it because he agrees more with the plan itself? "

"Hmm...actually it's not quite accurate."

A familiar voice popped out of Xiuge's mind very suddenly. It was the voice of Theseus. He sounded like he had just woken up, and his voice seemed a little fuzzy and lazy.

Before Xiuge could react, Theseus continued: "The main reason why I didn't change the ideas of these dead people is that their ideas are already very complete, and I don't have any need to modify or adjust them... The more important point is that this absurd plan has actually been successful, and it no longer matters whether I change it or not."

"..."

Xiuge stopped in place, took a deep breath, and then asked in his mind: "Did you just wake up, or..."

"Of course I just woke up."

Theseus yawned extremely lazily: "Why, am I so untrustworthy in your eyes? Am I a dark voyeur?"

"You know it yourself."

"Hehe, I respect your personal emotions very much. After all, this can be regarded as a rare 'homecoming trip' for you, right? It's better for me not to get involved in this kind of thing."

Having said this, the God of All-Changing Faces laughed: "Speaking of which, I originally thought that you might have some psychological problems when exposed to these truths, but I didn't expect that you accepted it very quickly, and you can compete with me. ”

Shuge sighed: "If you could tell me in advance, maybe I would feel better."

"you sure?"

Theseus asked seriously: "If I told you before that the black sun that has been threatening Van En is actually your hometown that was swallowed up and assimilated by the dark abyss, would you believe it?"

"...Probably not."

"That's not right."

There was a hint of helplessness in Theseus' tone: "Sometimes, the truth is often more absurd than lies... You don't need me to tell you this truth, right?"

Xiuge stood there in silence. He looked at the magic circuits that continuously transmitted various messages, and then looked at the huge beacon cylinder that was vibrating like a heart, and asked: "Now, I have accepted what you said. These are 'real', so next, can you be a little more direct?"

"certainly."

"Okay, let's start with the purpose of your previous visit here... Temporary Visitor No. 001."