Chapter 21 Battlefield
Darkness, emptiness, and silence are the most real feelings for everyone now.
The space outside the observation room is very large, and the lights cannot even reach the boundary. It should be a hall.
The hall was trapped in deep darkness, and only the cold fluorescence of the crystal lamp hit the shadow-trapping people's faces, making everyone's face pale and look particularly weird.
Click, click, footsteps echoed in the empty space, gloomy and monotonous, as if the whispers from ghosts in the dead of night.
The sound of the debris that occasionally kicked the ground, and the sudden sound was as sudden as the thunder sounded on a rainy night.
"That won't work, and we're not reading bedtime horror stories."
Although I really want to ask what deep hatreds are there to let others read horror stories before going to bed, everyone agrees with Shuer's judgment that this is not possible.
It’s not because of fear. If shadow-seekers are afraid of this level of darkness, it’s better to just hide home and cover yourself with a quilt and tremble, so as not to be embarrassed.
The key to this failure is that darkness seriously affects everyone's grasp of the environment.
Zhuying is different from ordinary adventures. Ordinary adventures mostly have clear goals, while Zhuying has no clear goals. The only goal is to find new and unique things to bring back to your own world.
This determines that during the process of chasing shadows, you need to carefully observe the environment and find special items, so you must have a good vision. Indeed, experienced chasing shadows can find an outlet even when you touch the dark, but such chasing shadows is meaningless.
"Mia... Forget it." I want the elf mage to use a sticky light ball, but I will forget it. Even if it is a golden-level mage, its magic power is not infinite. Moreover, the elemental mage is a famous magician, so it should be kept to use her magic power in a serious place.
"Militi...well, forget it." The Necromancer's ghost light technique is also an option. The problem is, if you think about the black air in the room and the scene of several green ghost fire floating around everyone, you won't create any pressure.
"Oh." Shur sighed deeply and said sadly, "Militi, Mia, please change to the high-power lamp."
"Puff, hahahaha." The shadow chasers who had been holding back from the beginning finally burst into laughter.
Actually, it's not funny at all.
The high-power crystal lamp has changed from fifty tels to three hundred tels, and the price has soared from five small silver coins to eight large silver coins, two are sixteen, which is a 15 and a half times gap. After the shadow tracing is over, these expenses have to be deducted from the total income and shared by the seven people evenly. Each person has to bear two large silver coins.
Think about the poor church behind me, think about the Dark Moon Communion that can only be disguised as wine with red algae. It would be better to buy Lisa a hair accessories and exchange it for a sweet smile. Speaking of which, her smile is so cute...
So, it's not funny at all, really.
"boom."
A huge light fist fell from the sky and hit the ground hard. The divine art of the divine fist was not very powerful, but it was absolutely full of momentum.
"Turn the lights for me, you bastards." The so-called anger and shame, probably that's it.
So, two high-power crystal lamps dispelled the darkness and light finally arrived.
This is indeed a hall with an area of at least 3,000 square meters. No wonder there are echoes when speaking. However, the hall is not empty at all, and there are many things piled up in the room.
It was a sack filled with sand.
A large number of sandbags were built into bunkers half a man tall. The bunkers were facing the entrance, intertwined with each other, leaving only a maze-like messy path. Behind each row of bunkers, there was a box containing guns. The weapons in the box were well maintained and you could smell the smell of oil.
All the bunkers looked intact and were neatly placed as if they had never been used. However, after careful observation, some sandbags had traces of damage left on them, but they were carefully repaired and put back into use.
"This is not very pleasant." Shuer's mouth twitched, "The battlefield actually started here."
Indeed, only the word battlefield can describe everything in the hall.
A scene from the past has even appeared in front of everyone. A group of frogmen hid behind the bunker and shot wildly at the entrance. A large group of black shadows with unsure shapes are swarming out of the entrance, launching a terrifying attack on the bunker position against the bullets.
What exactly is it? What exactly is it attacking? What exactly is it defending?
Standing in the shelter and looking at the metal doors covered with bullet marks on the back, everyone felt that the chill in their hearts was getting heavier and heavier, and even those deliberate jokes could not be dispelled.
"No matter what it is, the frogs still won." Taking a deep breath, Shuer slowed down his speech, and brought the power to calm people's hearts. "Although there were losses, he finally won."
Indeed, the frogs won.
There were blue and purple blood stains left on the sandbag in front of Shuer. The blood stains on the metal ground had been washed clean, but the blood that had already penetrated into the sandbag remained forever, witnessing the battle.
"The corpse and the wounded were taken away, uh, moved, the blood was cleaned, the battlefield was cleaned very carefully, and the defense facilities were carefully repaired. Obviously, victory belongs to the defensive side." Shuer patted the sandbag, squinted his eyes and whispered, "The question is, why did they take away the enemy's bodies?"
"What else? Stay here to create a plague?" Militi patted the pendant on her chest, but it was not just the pendant that was rising and falling. "Give me a few corpses, I can create twenty plagues."
"Thank you for the reminder, no." Shure rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to the guy who never forgot to seduce himself at this moment, "Macajren, check the hall, and then go to the exit of the hall, Saf, you follow."
"Mobak, Mia."
"clear."
One is a mineralogy expert and the other is a magic expert. Two people checked the collection, which was enough to find most of the amazing things with hidden value.
"It's really a hell, why is it like this kind of gate again?" A few minutes later, the remaining three people in charge of the guards heard the wailing from the halfling. It seemed that the statement that there was no gate that could be blocked by the special structure machinery was not valid.
"Huh, please." Shure sighed.
It's really troublesome.
Of course, even this kind of door has other ways to open, but it will take a lot of effort in vain. If all doors are constructed in this way, shadow chasers will have to waste a lot of time on opening the door, and the exploration progress will be much slower than expected. It is not bad usually, but in this form...Sul couldn't help but look back at the road he saw.
"Mia, come back first." Shuer raised his voice.
"I haven't found anything special yet." Carrying a large gun made of a large number of thin tubes, the elf mage hurried back, "What's wrong?"
"You have more experience than me, and you have more experience in juying than me." Shuer did not hesitate to express the other party's strengths at all. "What do you think of this situation?"
"Open the door... this should be a matter of energy supply." Mia said in contemplation, "No facility can move on its own for no reason. If you want it to operate, you must have energy supply, whether it is magic energy, crystal energy, or energy in other worlds. There must be one kind of energy."
"In this situation, it is obvious that all equipment has lost their energy supply, so the door is no longer open and the lights are no longer on. You don't think these frogs are living in the ruins in the dark, they must have lighting facilities, but they don't have energy now."
“That is,…”
"Yes, as long as the energy supply is restored, the lighting facilities may be restarted, and you will not have to worry about the continued consumption of crystals."
"Ahem, I'm not referring to this." Shurgan coughed, "I mean to restore energy supply, can the door be opened?"
"I can only say that there is a possibility." Mia was still very rigorous, "I can't guarantee it."
"No," Shuer asked in confusion. "The two flamethrowers are automatically triggered, and there are the metal plates collected from the ceiling. If there is no energy supply, how can they move by themselves?"
"Two sets of energy supply systems," Mia said naturally, "A common system, an emergency energy supply system that only supplies energy to the most critical facilities."
"Okay, I understand. It seems that the air quality here is also maintained by this backup system."
Mia shrugged casually and returned to her treasure hunt without saying a word. However, seeing the obviously foul weapon she was carrying, she always felt that she was not looking for treasure, but looking for a powerful weapon. Is this a common problem for Elemental Mages?
"Since that's the case, the goal will be slightly changed." Shur called out to Makajren, who was still trying hard, and the busy Mobak and Mia. "Now, the collection of items will be suspended, and priority will be given to the energy supply equipment, and then treasure hunt will be searched after the energy supply is restored."
"Mia, can you follow the energy channel and find the direction of the energy supply equipment?"
"Of course you can do it when you have energy." Mia shook her head, "The problem is that there is no energy supply now, and the energy channel is no different from a piece of scrap iron."
"Isn't there a backup system?" Shuer asked back.
"Are you sure the two systems' energy supply equipment are together?"
"Unsure, but it's worth a try. It's safer than rushing around in such a large ruin."
"That's right." Mia suffocated and finally nodded. Then I'll try it out.
"Boss, are you thinking too far?" The half-ling finally couldn't help but speak, "This door cannot be opened, we can't go anywhere."
"Did you forget who you are?" Shuer looked at him with a slanted for a long time and said angrily, "We are not those frogmen. We are combat professionals, just a thicker metal door. Trouble is indeed troublesome, but can it really stop us?"
"Saf, open the door."
"yes."
Chapter completed!