"..."
"..."
"……Then what?"
"You ask me? How do I know."
The whistling roar became more and more harsh as the speed slowed down, and the mutual gazes between the two players became more and more awkward as time passed, just because the endless rotating metal disappeared below. In the end, no strange phenomena occurred with the purple runes between the fan blades: "Violet didn't tell me the true purpose of these runes, so how could I know what would happen in the end."
"Aren't you her top disciple? When you used these things before, you looked proud and confident."
Crossing her arms angrily, Xue Ling Huan Bing's originally defensive and vigilant movements relaxed a little as nothing happened: "Now that it's okay, how should we solve our problem?"
"What's the problem? Are we going to die soon?" Duan Qing lowered his head and checked the system time. There was also a hint of helplessness in Duan Qing's tone: "Now that we have lost those alchemy items we prepared earlier, I don’t have many materials on hand that I can use, I hope it can help us survive the final energy explosion.”
"Are you really planning to carry it through forcefully?" Xue Ling Huan Bing, who glared at himself and remained silent for a long time, finally curled his lips and turned away from his face: "Forget it, intellectuals are all in the end. Unreliable."
"Hey, I can't pretend I didn't hear this." He lowered his head and began to take out one piece of alchemy equipment and raw materials from his arms. Duan Qing's eyes also began to look at the place where the two of them were. He kept looking around in this narrow space: "Well, with this kind of space and distribution... it turns out that we can only put a double-layer reinforced barrier. At most, we can carve a layer of advanced reinforced energy array on the top. It's best to Then use magic like 'Rock Barrier' to fix it - you, what do you want to do?"
"To cause destruction, of course."
The movement of the muttering gray figure paused in mid-air, and along with it, he looked back at the black-haired female swordsman standing on the edge of the crack, holding a blood sword and eager to jump into it. She just wanted to jump into the crack. He paused for a moment following Duan Qing's call, but his face showed a natural expression: "Since you can't control all this, then let me destroy it - as long as the entire energy generating device stops If it works, won’t we be safe?”
"It's simple and clear to eradicate the roots, but unfortunately the results are never as we expected." Duan Qing replied with his eyes widened: "Didn't your intuition tell you not to jump before? Maybe what you get by destroying that area is not what you want. It's not silence, but a huge explosion of the entire mountain."
"Anyway, there is no better way, and we will no longer have a better chance to break into this place again." The aura on his body began to gradually rise as the howling wind stopped, and Xueling Huanbing pointed at the bottom of the crack with his sword. Still twisting and turning countless large and small metal devices: "Rather than leaving this still unknown thing to the enemy, it would be better to destroy it directly."
"What we can't get, others can't get - hehehehe, why is it our turn to be the villain?" Duan Qing let out two helpless smiles, and then rushed towards the direction where the energy was gathered. : "Can you give me another chance? Even if the last rune doesn't work, it doesn't mean that we ourselves -"
"Well."
The striding movement stopped in mid-air, and Duan Qing's expression in front of Xue Ling Huan Bing became strange. The female swordsman who noticed the abnormality also pressed the blade of the long sword with a tentative expression. He asked in a tone of voice: "What's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, Violet is contacting me." Duan Qing, who was in a daze, pressed his left ear and made a gesture to answer the call: "She... seems to want to tell us something."
"——Her? What does she want to do?"
"Shhh."
Making a stop gesture, Duan Qing stopped Xue Ling Huan Bing's question as if he was whispering. Regardless of the energy concentration around him starting to increase, he then walked slowly back to the woman's side, leaning his head to look at Under the crack that was pried open by the two people's combined efforts: "What did you see?"
"What did I see? You should ask me what I 'felt'."
The consciousness belonging to the gray-robed magician—or the internal prompts of the system—sounded an angry reply from Violet: "You have been studying with me for such a long time, don't you still understand the seven... What role does this rune play? Really, I used various methods to intimidate the pursuers behind you..."
"Can you feel it?" Duan Qing blinked and asked in surprise in the sea of consciousness: "Did you add surveillance eyes to those runes?"
"More than just surveillance eyes, they are an extension of my violet circle."
I don’t know what was busy on the other end of the communication, but the answer belonging to Violet also seemed far and near in Duan Qing’s consciousness: "The seven 'sigils' represent the seven basic rules. The law system of the five major energies and the four elements will also be reflected in the most basic way in my engraved world. As long as the residual energy left by the ancient dynasty is analyzed and integrated into my magic rules, they will play their due role. The role of it, completely extending my field—hmm.”
"'Teleport' begins."
Ruoyouruowu's howling began to appear in Duan Qing's mind, accompanied by Violet's sigh using Nasia's voice: "The core energy level of this furnace is rising. , it should be that the instructions left in this system are working again, but due to the blockage, the energy reaction this time will still end in failure."
"Teleportation? What kind of teleportation are you referring to?" Faced with a series of unclear terms and explanations, Duan Qing had no choice but to take the lead in grabbing the parts he could understand: "Is there some kind of space teleportation going on inside?"
"It might be a little troublesome for you to explain, so—"
A faint sigh sounded in his mind, and the answer from Violet turned into a sudden sting in Duan Qing's consciousness: "You'd better see for yourself."
Everything in front of me transformed into thousands of melted lines, as if they were being pulled into points and lines by high-speed tearing. Then they were reassembled and spliced again by the action of some other rules, countless iron cages and chains. The dark sea that was combined with each other then appeared in the picture that was recombined before Duan Qing's eyes. The seemingly heavy square boxes were also tightened into pieces floating in the boundless universe amidst the roar of the wind that never stopped. little planet. Duan Qing, who didn't know where he was and wanted to try to change his perspective, later discovered that he couldn't change all this. An iron chain that was taut in front also broke and collapsed under the huge force. , with the roar of the huge black shadow imprisoned in the iron cage, it flew out into the high dark night sky: "This is -"
[Start transfer of experimental products, target: KL596 area, CM221 area. 】
[Error 691: Unable to obtain region information, connection interrupted. 】
[Try to transfer the connection, target: KL672 area, CL104 area. The request is being transferred...]
[Error 692: Target is not responding. 】
A series of system prompts of unknown meaning sounded in Duan Qing's mind again. The confusion that could not process this information could not be transformed into his expression because he lost his body: "What are all this?"
"The tragic result of delivering goods as an operation center but having nowhere to go." Violet's explanation became his temporary savior: "It must be because all the laboratories and transfer stations in the outside world have been abandoned. Lost Without the sea, the water in any rivers or streams will become unmanageable."
"...these experimental products - or monsters, were originally intended to be sent to various places on the grassland?" Duan Qing's dullness eased a little: "Countless chess pieces laid out by the Roderick Dynasty during the ancient adventure period have long been here. Destroyed in the long river of time, there should not be much left of the underground laboratory like the one we experienced. I didn’t expect that this sacred mountain located in the deepest part of the grassland would actually still retain its existing operation... Wait a minute."
"Is this the origin of the tide of beasts on the grassland?" Duan Qing's eyes widened again as he recalled the endless grotesque appearances of the beasts he had seen: "Are they all products of this place?"
"There is really only one possibility, and this also explains why they are endless and can always appear all over the grassland without warning." Violet answered with a bit more smile in her voice: " But the reality now is: most of the transport here is impossible."
"...For what reason?"
"Isn't this simple? Because it's broken."
An extremely complex question yielded an extremely simple answer. The scene before Duan Qing's eyes suddenly changed with Violet's words: "The problem should arise here, but because you just put the talisman Wen’s fixed relationship, I haven’t had time to find out the reason yet——”
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"
As if he was sitting on a tea cup that was rotating at high speed, Duan Qing's screams also floated out from the spinning top in front of him: "Stop, stop, stop! I, I'm going to vomit!" "
"Ah, sorry."
I don’t know what kind of method was used, but Violet snapped her fingers to save Duan Qing, who was going through the twelfth level of ups and downs: "But this is your fault, because it was you who put this mark on him. It’s on one of the fan blades.”
"I, I just flicked it casually... well, it's my fault." Trying to calm down the dizziness that made him unable to distinguish between east, west, north and south, Duan Qing replied as if begging for mercy: "This is the entire ancient city. The final core position of the furnace—well, it doesn’t seem to tell much from this.”
"The magic protection that protects this core location is very tight. I could not use magic to break through it before."
Countless metal blades and gear-like devices bite and transmit each other in the air, making noisy sounds throughout the space where Duan Qing is at this moment. The strong wind and dissipated energy ripples are also making noises in this gray man's body at this moment. The magician's vision kept passing by, and together with Violet's voice, he rushed towards the far end of the metal "buildings" with no end in sight: "I don't know what kind of method you used, but you can actually do it. Break the unknown magic seal...ah, I remembered."
"That unknown blade." Violet seemed to be thinking of the Luoyang sword in the hand of the woman who had been accompanying Duan Qing. Violet nodded as if she was aware of it: "Emperor Frey is staying here. The last curse in this world seems to be still fulfilling its unfinished mission."
"Xue Ling Huan Bing has seen the vision of the great emperor before, which should be proof that she has been to this place." Duan Qing answered the other party's words casually, his eyes kept watching the high-speed rotation of these fan blades and gears. Sweeping through the meshed buildings: "But now is not the time to explore the question - how do we stop this furnace? Or how do we repair it?"
"You have also seen the current situation. This is not a job that can be completed by me alone." Violet's voice also regained some of its rigor and solemnity: "If it weren't for the rules of the void, I wouldn't even be able to do it alone." There is no way to break through the chaotic energy rules here to contact you. The ruins left here by the ancient Roderick Dynasty must have used very complex calculation rules and alchemy methods to realize the rules they should have used magic to realize, and the more complex and precise they are. The bigger the machinery, the bigger the problems will be when errors and breakages occur.”
"...Is there anything I can do to help?"
"There is indeed a way you can help me."
Seemingly understanding the man in front of her who values problem-solving efficiency, Violet gave her answer as quickly as possible: "However, this method is somewhat risky, and it also requires a chance."
"I know the risk." After a moment of silence, Duan Qing answered the great magician in his mind in a low voice: "Just use it."
"Very good, then there is only one last opportunity left that we need."
The decomposed points, lines and pictures once again appeared in front of Duan Qing's eyes, as if everything that had just happened had only happened for a moment in real time. The gray-robed magician who opened his eyes then glanced at something unclear next to him. The Snow Spirit Huan Bing came to the edge of the crack with graceful and calm movements: "Will 'luck' be on our side?"
"ah."
The dazzling energy traces like lightning flashed like meteors in the noisy machinery below. They only lasted for a moment and then quickly disappeared. However, Duan Qing, who caught this scene, had a strange smile on his lips. The strange light of purple threads intertwined also spread between the fingers of the raised right hand: "The moment appeared, when the furnace tried to operate again."
"Let's see if I have the ability to work as a maintenance worker for those mechanical alchemists from thousands of years ago."
