After checking around the crystal dome, Sean found the entrance to the spiral staircase.
"The observatory should be at the top of the tower." Sean looked up and watched the spiral staircase spiral upward until it sank into the darkness...
Tesler's condition improved a bit and he was able to walk alone.
In the darkness, Sean walked in front holding an oil lamp, Olivia followed behind, and Tesler held on to the handrail of the stairs and trudged up, looking very worried.
There are transparent windows on the outside of the spiral staircase, allowing you to see the plain scenery outside.
As he climbed, Sean was somewhat surprised to see the huge moon gradually setting and the morning sun slowly rising...
Once you stop climbing, time outside the window will temporarily stand still.
The changes in the day seem to vary according to the altitude climbed.
"Why did Dal Vinci design it this way? What is the symbolism of this tower?"
As they climbed, Sean thought.
"The rising and setting of the sun...symbolizes the passage of time?
"The Labyrinth Island symbolizes the 'world', and the center of the Labyrinth Island symbolizes 'time'?"
In any case, this special space designed by Dal Vinci seems to be a small closed world.
Even if he himself has passed away for four hundred years, even if the core of Labyrinth Island has been seriously polluted...
There is still destiny flowing in this small world.
As we climb, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Looking at the outside world through the window of the Babel Tower, the entire plain is dyed red by the setting sun.
Sean looked at the "earth" with some sigh, feeling as if he didn't know where he was.
The departure of Mud Bao still affected Tesler, but it could be seen from his slightly curious eyes that his mood had cheered up a little.
"It's beautiful here, isn't it?" Tesler looked at the setting sun outside the tower with sadness. The red sunlight illuminated his face and eyes, making him look very lonely.
Continuing upward, the sun sets below the horizon, night falls, and the stars gradually rise.
After a long journey, the spiral staircase finally reached the end, and Sean and his party walked onto the observatory that Mel said.
In the sky, the everlasting stars stare quietly at the ground, shining brightly.
There is nothing on the observatory, except for a small stone tablet with a bronze plaque inlaid on it. The bronze plaque should be written by Dal Vinci.
"A world within a world, a time outside of time."
The moment he saw this sentence, Sean suddenly understood Dal Vinci's romanticism.
The maze island turned into this hellish scene after the death of Dal Finch.
In the eyes of this master of precision alchemy, Labyrinth Island is a utopia that belongs only to him, containing his lifelong efforts and collections...
It is a small world created by oneself that can temporarily escape the incomplete reality.
A world within a world, a time outside of time.
Looking up at the stars, imagine that Dal Vinci stood at the center of the world, feeling the tranquility and freedom.
Looking at the starry sky above his head, Sean's originally calm eyes gradually became filled with fear and panic.
"What's wrong?" Olivia on the side felt Sean's emotions and turned around to ask.
Sean's eyes were illuminated by the starlight, but his expression was not beautiful at all.
His pupils flashed left and right, his lips opened and closed, and after a long time he said: "If this sky is the world outside the maze, we are doomed..."
Tesler on the side also noticed it. While staring at the stars, his brows furrowed deeply.
"Why do you say that?" Affected by Sean's mood, Olivia was also a little uneasy.
Sean looked at the red pupils of the candle holder: "The arrangement of the stars here is unfamiliar - it is not the starry sky of the earth at all."
Not the starry sky of Earth? Olivia Fengchi couldn't help but open her eyes: "Not on Earth? But...but, how could grandpa do such a thing?"
Sean shook his head: "Some of the old masters are not native to the earth, they come from among the stars...
"Perhaps your grandfather has received some kind of mysterious inheritance that allows ordinary people to travel between the earth and the homeland of an evil god in the stars...
"However, if that's the case..." Sean's eyes were filled with disappointment, "We won't be able to go back on our own."
He thought that being able to see the stars from the observatory meant he could escape...
Unexpectedly, what I saw was an unfamiliar starry sky.
The temperature in Sean's heart suddenly dropped: "The heart of Maze Island is disordered due to pollution, and it is not certain whether it can realize its original functions...
"We may never get out."
Tesler, who had been staring at the starry sky, suddenly murmured: "So close..."
"What's so close?" Sean asked.
Tesler's eyes did not leave the night sky: "It feels like these stars are so close... like..."
He stretched out his hand: "It's like being able to take it off directly..."
Set? Maybe it’s the setting…
Sean looked up again: "However, even if this sky is a set, it still simulates an alien sky..."
Sean suddenly saw something, as if he saw a misspelled word in a report full of text.
"That is?……"
There are more "spelling errors" in his eyes.
He suddenly understood and said to Tesler excitedly: "Mr. Tesler, you told the key to the matter!"
"The stars are really close...
"Above our heads is the starry sky of the Northern Hemisphere!"
Mr. Inventor said: "But the stars are not in the right position..."
"It's really not right..." Sean's spiritual essence extended towards the "night sky". About twenty meters later, he touched the "night sky".
Cyclops scenery.
Not only that, his spiritual essence swept through and actually "picked" the stars in the wrong position in the sky...
It is some kind of ore that keeps shining.
Sean put the wrong stars back into their correct positions one by one...
Cygnus, Ophiuchus, Aquarius...
Under Sean's rearrangement, familiar constellations appeared one after another, and the unfamiliar sky above gradually became familiar.
Tesler's eyes widened in realization: "Oh, I understand...
"This is a graphic combination lock!
"The correct password to open...
"It's the starry sky of the Northern Hemisphere!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Sean had already returned all the stars on the sky to their places...
The correct pattern activated some kind of huge mechanism in the maze island, and Sean and the three of them heard a vague and loud sound...
Click!
In the starry sky, radiating cracks suddenly appeared from the center of the sky.
Click, click, click...
Driven by the mechanism, the starry sky gradually opened like a lotus...
The real sky outside the maze island was revealed.
A north wind blows from outside the island, and the sharp reality seems to have broken through the curtain, finally breaking into this area that has been sealed for hundreds of years!
The sky outside the "sky" is now covered with dark clouds and the wind is howling!
Although the weather is extremely bad, there is a harsh yet kind feeling of the real world.
The howling wind and chaotic celestial phenomena seemed to be shouting loudly:
Welcome back to reality!
