A group of people went down to the bottom of the pit and observed the object on the stone pillar for a long time, and finally discovered that it was indeed a spoon.
To be precise, it is a hand-hewn stone spoon. The handle is uneven in thickness, the tongue-shaped spoon body is uneven, and the craftsmanship is quite rough, as if it was made in the Stone Age.
It was placed so solemnly in the center of the "Eternal Great Jar", and it could turn the holy priest Tlipoca into a statue. Li Liang's first reaction when he saw this spoon was that it was an extremely powerful Horcrux. Or the Taoist artifact, its defense mechanism was triggered when humans broke in, which was exactly in line with the previous conjecture.
However, in Ling's vision, there was nothing abnormal inside or around the spoon, proving that it was a dead object.
He had to suspect that the "Heavenly Spirit"'s ability failed here, or that the spoon itself was beyond his range of perception.
In fact, ever since he set foot in Gaias Storey, he found that his abilities began to have problems. Not only was he unaware of the process of falling into an illusion, but he was also unable to distinguish between reality and fiction.
"The spoon is not the point," Cain leaned over and looked at the stone pillar.
Li Liang followed her gaze and saw that the material of the stone pillars was slightly different from that of a spoon. There were mottled chiseling marks on the surface, which were similar to the stone slabs on both sides of the road, indicating that they had also been engraved with words or pictures, but it was now difficult to distinguish them from the lake.
At this time, Allen, who had been communicating with his colleagues, approached and said: "Menkatu said that the stone used to make the spoon is different from all the stones here."
Li Liang looked at the KKK employees gathered not far away. Due to the uniform transformation into human shapes, the five of them all looked similar. The bald head dressed as a magician was Menkatu.
"How can you tell?" Cain asked.
"Menkatu comes from the 'Longkong River Basin'. Its tribe is the 'distant cousin' of Saronite Iron. It is very knowledgeable about stones," Allen hesitated. "It thinks that the material used to make spoons is unique to the area around Chuangjie Mountain. A kind of rock.”
"Creation Mountain?" Li Liang was stunned for a moment, "So this is the Creation Titan's ear pick?"
"Uh... Menkatu said that this kind of stone can barely act as a medium for shamanic magic. The aboriginal people living near Chuangjie Mountain often mine it and sell it to shamans and wizards. He is not sure whether this spoon and Titan have any relation."
Everyone's attention returned to the spoon, but the discovery of the Menka diagram only showed that the spoon was made of a special material, but could not explain its purpose.
Someone said to himself, "What's the use of a spoon?"
"Drink soup."
"Water?"
"Have a meal."
"..."
The soldiers responded one after another, but unfortunately their imaginations were limited, and the answers they gave were all for daily use. Lao An made a slightly constructive guess. He felt that the combination of the spoon and the stone pillar was a bit like an ancient compass, which could indicate the direction.
Soon, the discussion subsided, and everyone present understood that when faced with a completely unknown thing, "experience" would not be of much help. The thing on the stone pillar might just look like a spoon.
The surroundings returned to silence, and Li Liang suddenly had the feeling that in his past experiences, Titan and the spoon seemed to have some kind of connection. Just when he was about to grasp this fleeting thought, the entire circular depression shook.
He instinctively took a step back, and then he saw the spoon on the top of the column starting to rotate wildly.
The next moment, the spoon was still again.
Everyone's eyes instantly focused on Li Liang, because the handle of the spoon was pointing exactly in his direction.
At the same time, a series of dull roars came from deep underground.
"The ground is falling," Cain looked around with interest.
The walls of the shaft are constantly cracking and peeling, and a smooth metal surface is exposed at the joint with the ground. It seems that the thick rock layer is just dirt attached to it.
Li Liang realized that Lao An only guessed half of it right. The spoon could indeed indicate the direction and was also a switch. The entire circular pit was actually an elevator.
Accompanied by the sound of rocks exploding, the ground gradually dropped and the light became dim. The soldiers turned on the tactical lights on their guns. Countless circular light spots swept across, revealing complex etching patterns on the surrounding walls, which tended to extend downwards. .
After a few minutes, the ground stopped falling, and a circular hole appeared in front of everyone.
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Two weeks later.
"Another passage," Yuan Quan thought thoughtfully, adjusted his glasses and asked, "Then what?"
"Then..." Li Liang smiled and motioned for Lao An to continue.
Finally hearing the most critical part, the "Hans" creators gathered around all looked forward to it.
Including Yuan Quan, Andrea and the other four leading actors, the entire "Hans" crew was only allowed to enter the underground city this morning to start the five-day shooting. Since the script written by screenwriter Boris only had a story framework and no specific plot. It needs to be combined with the real background. The first thing they do when they come here is to understand the truth about Gaias Stolle civilization.
In this temporary camp built in front of the "Eternal Great Jar", Li Liang personally told them about the dangerous and weird adventure. Everyone was immersed in it, forgetting the unpleasant air and ubiquitous noise in the fortress.
"We met another Gaias Stoller at the end of this passage," Lao An put up his tablet, and a picture was displayed on the screen, "This is it, we think it is the guardian of the 'Eternal Great Carving' , it was more intelligent than the guardians of the 'Eternal Great Jar', and at that time, it showed us the message left by the 'Creator'."
The tablet computer began to play a video record. The light in the picture was dim. At first, you could vaguely see the rough rock slabs, piles of broken glass, and messy metal fragments on the ground. What appeared after that could no longer be seen. The form is just some material solidified into lumps, or garbage piled up randomly.
"Where is the information?" Andrea asked confused.
"The 'creator' tried every means to preserve information through various carriers. Some of the recording methods are completely incomprehensible to us, but it ultimately failed and was lost to time," Lao An sighed. "According to current calculations, the time it left information is very close to the time when the planet was born, at least 15 billion years ago."
The audience was amazed. Fifteen billion years is longer than the history of the human universe.
Allen lamented: "This universe is older than the basic world of most civilizations in the 'Union of Law and Order'. The 'creator' may come from the 'marginal civilization' or the 'unknown civilization', or more likely from The total domain of the void.”
"But the Jar People are still alive," Yuan Quan asked, "Can't they carry information?"
"We speculate that after the 'creator' left the information, in order to protect the information carrier, he created two highly intelligent robots and preset a program for them to guide the target into the 'Eternal Great Jar' when the established target appears. core zone."
A picture was displayed on the screen of the tablet, a piece of metal the size of a fingernail, with etching patterns similar to those on the walls of the elevator shaft remaining, and the text was labeled "Fragment of the First Generation Machine".
"But the 'creator' miscalculated the time when the target would appear. The two robots never waited for the target. Before shutting down, they designed and made copies of themselves. In the following time, the copies passed through a special structure. The metal chip, that is, the metal plate produced by the 'Eternal Great Engraving' constantly replicates itself, conveying the original order of the 'Creator'. However, as time goes by, the material reserves here become increasingly tight, and the 'Eternal Great Engraving' 'The minor errors that occurred during operation also gradually accumulated, and the intelligence of the replica began to decline. After countless generations of evolution, it finally became the current Gaias Stoller."
Lao An played another video.
In the picture, the short Gaias Stoller man slowly walks among the ruins of the carrier, following ancient procedures, waving his slender arms and pointing around constantly, as if displaying a precious treasure, but he does not know that what he has guarded for generations has long been destroyed. Disappeared in time.
"Last week we received a message carried by a Gaias Stoller through a wired connection. Unfortunately, the information was completely distorted and uninterpretable. In fact, most Gaias Stollers only have a few basic functions left. , the two guards are slightly better. In addition to the boot program, they can also perform certain defensive counterattack tasks, such as invading the nervous system of carbon-based organisms through connectors."
"Defense mission..." Hans suddenly realized, "Did they turn our soldiers into puppets and make us kill each other?"
Li Liang shook his head: "They did control a scout named Chuck in the 'Lair' camp, but what happened next had nothing to do with them." He took out something from his pocket, "This is it."
Everyone subconsciously shrank back, and then came over at the same time.
That turned out to be the stone spoon in "The Story".
"Is this spoon really an artifact?" Andrea asked in surprise.
Alan leisurely said on the side: "After the Holy Priest woke up, he told us that when it first entered the rift, it noticed that there was a force gathering deep in the underground city, and it showed the characteristics of several different magic systems and Taoist systems. At first it I thought it was an unknown psionic weapon, because only psionic technology had any chance of showing fusion properties. The last scene I saw before it forcibly broke through the dimensional barrier and rushed to the center of the 'Eternal Great Jar' was completely suppressed. It’s the afterglow emanating from this spoon.”
No one noticed how powerful "breaking through the dimensional barrier" meant. The audience looked at each other and asked the common question in their hearts: "What does it mean?"
Lao An enthusiastically concluded: "Let's put it this way, you can think of the spoon as an artifact or something. It does contain magical energy, but it is essentially a 'backup engine' and the last insurance set up by the creator. When the reserve energy is exhausted, the 'Eternal Great Jar' can extract the power of the spoon to maintain its operation, including the defense mechanisms we encounter, all come from the spoon. However, after 15 billion years, its energy has decayed to an extremely low level. level, so when the set target appears, that is, when Father God enters the dungeon, activating the guidance program consumes its remaining energy.”
"Hmph, if it were as simple as you said, the goblin would have discovered the secret of Gaius Store a long time ago," Allen looked dissatisfied, but found that everyone was staring at him waiting for his explanation, so he smiled dryly and said perfunctorily. , “But it’s okay to understand it this way, that’s probably what it means.”
"What exactly is the 'Eternal Great Jar'?" Yuan Quan asked.
Lao An then played another video.
The guardian of the 'Eternal Great Carving' is still in the picture. It is short and stooped, standing in front of a collapsed cave and making pulling gestures over and over again.
"After excavation and exploration, the passage originally led to another space. The 'energy supply' lines of the spoon finally extended into that space, but now it has completely collapsed. The things inside no longer have a complete structure. We speculate that there is a control In the center, the 'Eternal Great Jar' should be the wreckage of a large spaceship after it crashed, and this Gaias Stoller is guiding us to restart the spacecraft."
Someone murmured: "Then can we restart?"
"No," Lao An smiled bitterly, "Now we can only barely support the operation of the "Dimension Telescope" and continue to survey the internal areas of the spacecraft. We can't do anything else."
"Mr. Li Liang, I have a question if it's convenient for you..." Alu said cautiously.
"you say."
"Why are you a target?"
Li Liang rubbed the handle of the spoon and shook his head gently.
"have no idea."
It fell silent and the audience fell into silence.
People are always used to hearing the answers to all questions at the end of a story, but they have to accept that in reality there are many "stories" that are still full of mystery until the end.
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During lunch time, the crew of "Hans" rushed to film scenes in the fortress. There were a large number of troops stationed here, standing in darkness watching the filming, and the entire command hall was busy and noisy.
In the corner, Li Liang, Cain, Jin Ji, Jung, and Allen were sitting around chatting, while Li Li was running around with the secret blood cub.
The logistics soldier came over with a cart and placed lunch on the table between them.
"You want egg fried rice," Cain picked up a lunch box and handed it over.
Li Liang silently took the lunch box, opened the lid, and stared at the steaming fried rice.
This was the thought that flashed through his mind when he saw the spoon before. When he used the Shaman's Triangle to summon the Titans on the Fuji, the "Yodaculian Myriam" that the runes pointed to did not appear in the rune array. , but put him in a wheat field for an instant. At that time, the Titan "Lian Mi" said a strange word to him: "Egg Fried Rice".
"Do you really think Spoon has something to do with Leanne?" Allen was also present at the time, looking helpless at the moment: "This is the most bizarre thing I have ever heard since I was born."
"have no idea."
Li Liang took out the stone spoon from his pocket, picked up a lump of rice with an expressionless expression, and handed it to Cain: "Try it?"
"That's disgusting," Cain rolled his eyes.
At this time, a clear voice came: "Quiet, everyone, "Hans" 30280802, field 155, shot1, take2."
"a!"
Phoebe's voice sounded: "Hey, Lai Xi, by the way, I want to ask Baby Can, if you can help me boil some bath water."
Li Liang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that the scene in front of him looked familiar.
In the fantasy, Fan Yazi claimed that he was "awakened" through the kick script, and the method of awakening allowed him to see another version of himself in this scene.
Thinking of this, he slowly turned his head and looked behind him.
