Chapter 60 Giant Underground Magic Array

Although Ling mentioned three methods, there is only one method left for me. In addition to directly using eternity to force a breakthrough, the other two methods are completely unnecessary to consider. It will take a day for Ling Lai to crack it. I don't have the time to waste time here, let alone ask the gods to open the door. Not to mention how much effort it takes to capture a protoss alive and make it obey. Even if I capture it, how can I guarantee that the other party will know how to open the door? This kind of secret door must only be opened by special personnel. It is impossible for every god to enter and exit at will. Therefore, the only truly meaningful method is to use eternal destruction.

Brute force cracking has always been my best method of opening doors, but the one in front of me is a little more complicated because it is followed by a counterattack magic circle. Maybe I will be blown away before the door is opened. But it was different with Ling's help. First, Ling read the location of the magic array, then found its core eye, and finally, I used an eternal moment to penetrate the wall to destroy the rear eye at once. Although the magic circle will activate the moment the wall is attacked, as long as it is fast enough, I can destroy the main structure of the magic circle before it can gather enough magic power. A magic circle with an incomplete structure is Impossible to work.

After quickly dismantling the defensive and counterattack magic circle, the secret door in front of me turned into an ordinary door with only protective magic. Under the eternal full force of cutting, I quickly cut off the door panel together. .

After taking down the door, we finally saw the passage. Behind the stone door is a narrow staircase only a few dozen centimeters wide that leads to the underground. Because the aisle is relatively narrow, larger people have to turn sideways to pass. Fortunately, Ling and I are not very tall, so we can walk up to Not affected by anything.

Less than ten meters down the stairs, you will find a very narrow metal door. However, this door is not locked. There is only a round handle in the center of the door, which looks very similar to the one used on ships. Kind of pressure door. After turning the handle and pushing open the door, there was a small room with only a few square meters inside. The four walls and ceiling of the room were all made of metal. Even the floor was made of the same material. Except for the door we entered through, , there is only a metal door on the opposite side that is much wider than this door. Apart from these two doors, there is nothing in the room.

Although the metal door on the opposite side is much wider than the door we entered through, the structure of the door is exactly the same. I turned the handle on the door to open the door and pushed it gently, but there was no response. "Huh?" I was stunned for a moment, but I soon found the reason. This door and the door we came in from are actually connected to each other by a connector, and the function of this connector is to prevent the two doors from being opened at the same time. If you want to open one of the doors, you must completely close the other door.

"Isolation room?" After understanding the structure of the two doors, I guessed the purpose of this room. If the large-scale magic circle built by the Russian Protoss is really a completely underground structure, its internal space may be quite large, and such a place will inevitably form a pressure difference at its outlet. The final result is that the wind is either blowing out from the gate or The air is sucked in, and no matter what the situation is, it is easy to expose the location of the exit. Moreover, if the pressure difference is relatively large, it will be more troublesome to open and close the door. The door may be crushed by the air pressure and cannot be opened or closed. Although this isolation room has a relatively simple structure, it can effectively block air convection. In addition to reducing the problem of the door being unable to open and close due to wind pressure, it can also prevent abnormal airflow from leaking the location of the outlet.

After closing the small door at the back, we reopened the door here. This time it was easy to open, but as soon as we passed through the door, we smelled an unusually unpleasant musty smell. Apparently, it was from the Russian Protoss. Although this isolation room isolates the air pressure, it also isolates the fresh air. The smell in the underground space is extremely unpleasant. Fortunately, my helmet has filtering capabilities, so I can no longer smell the smell as long as I put down the mask.

The space behind the gate is a very large metal platform. There is a circle of flat lifts around the platform. However, the structures of these lifts are quite exaggerated. They are all suspended and lifted by magic circles, not to mention fishing hooks and cables. That thing is not even connected to the wall, it is just a floating platform.

I walked to one of the platforms and looked down. Below the platform was a bottomless vertical well, with an area of ​​more than 500 square meters, and the depth was impossible to calculate. After thinking about it, I didn't take the lift, so I just jumped off the edge of the platform. No matter how fast that thing was, it would only be in free fall at most, and it might expose the target, so I simply jumped down from here. Anyway, I have wings, so I’m not afraid of falling.

After descending along the passage for almost several kilometers, I felt that there was obviously a relatively large resistance in the surrounding air, which meant that I was not far from the ground below. I first asked Ling to add a levitation technique to both of us, and then I opened my wings to slow down after the speed dropped slightly. When our speed almost dropped to normal suspension, the scene at the bottom of the cave also appeared below.

Different from the darkness when viewed from above, there is actually light at the bottom of the well, but because it is too deep, the light cannot reach the top.

In order not to alert the possible guards, I gave up flying with my wings when I was still some distance away from the bottom of the well. Instead, I put Ling away first, and then landed on the wall myself, using the dragon suit at my fingertips. The sharp hooks on its tips and toes hung it on the wall, and then slowly climbed down.

When I reached the lateral turning point at the bottom of the cave, I was sure that there were no guards down there, at least no guards within the range that I could see. After making sure it was safe, I landed gently on the ground and began to observe the cave.

The position I am standing at is the bottom of the deep well just now, but this is the edge of the huge cave below. In front of this area is a vast, unformable space with a space span of more than one kilometer and a ceiling height of more than 500 meters, making this area appear unusually empty. In this huge space, a huge magic circle that almost occupies the entire space is traced on the floor. The entire magic array is composed of countless complex lines and a large number of nodes. Those lines are all made of one-foot-wide copper rails, and the nodes above the lines are all made of gold as the base, and the surface is inlaid with various colors. 'The Philosopher's Stone. Not to mention the entire magic array, just this one magic node is already quite valuable, and there are at least hundreds of such magic nodes in the entire magic array. Its total value is simply impossible to estimate.

In fact, the amazing things here are far more than that. In addition to the super magic circle in the center of the crypt, I found that there were many connecting lines made of some kind of alloy scattered around the magic circle, and these connecting lines seemed to pass through the wall and connect to the outside of the crypt. Where did it go? But apart from these connecting lines that are only a few feet wide, what is even more frightening are the four main lines extending from the magic circle. The thickness of these four metal wires is almost half a foot, and their width is more than five meters. I thought it was a road before. After getting closer and studying its structure, I found that this thing is actually the same as those thinner ones. Lines are also magic connecting lines. To put it simply, these things as wide as roads are actually one of the main magic veins of a large magic circle. The line width of the magic arrays we usually see is generally about one finger, and some larger ones are only two fingers wide. After all, magic lines are different from wires. There is actually no direct relationship between the magic impedance and the cross-sectional area of ​​the wires. , so when the magic circle increases, these lines do not need to increase proportionally. The summary is that the larger the magic circle, the smaller the proportion of lines that make up it.

"Is this a magic circle?" I asked Ling beside me in surprise. When I was exploring here just now, I discovered that there was actually no one here at all. Not only were there no guards as I expected, there were not even any staff members. The entire underground space was completely a no man's land, so I simply released all the demon pets to help me look for any clues.

Ling immediately answered after hearing my question: "This should be a part of the map-level magic array we guessed before... To be precise, the magic array in this cave should actually be the magic on that map. A core node in a main node of the array.”

"Wait a minute, what do you mean by core node?"

"It's like this." Ling explained: "If the magic circle on the map we saw before is compared to a country, then the magic circle below Hope City is one of its provinces, and the one we see now The magic array in this crypt should be the capital city of this province. The magic lines extending out on the ground should be connected to other magic arrays. Those magic arrays connected by thin lines only more than a foot wide should be larger than The one under our feet is smaller, and those are equivalent to ordinary cities in the province, and this connecting line as wide as a road should connect the capitals of other provinces."

Although Ling's explanation was a little confusing, I still understood what she meant. To put it simply, the super magic array we see on the map is actually composed of many small magic arrays, and the road-like connecting lines are responsible for connecting these small magic arrays to each other to make them effective. As for the magic circle under our feet, although it is only one of the nodes compared to the main magic circle, it is actually very large. There are still many smaller magic circles attached to its downstream, and those magic circles may not be complete. Independent magic circles, they will also have magic circles further downstream. After these levels of magic arrays are connected to each other, the total magic array formed is the super magic array we see on the map.

"This thing is really big!" Ye Yuepan said while looking at a giant crystal in the center of the super magic circle. Lucky and Plague also gathered around the giant crystal, drooling and looking like they wanted to take it down immediately and take it as their own.

"Master, this thing belongs to the Russian Protoss anyway, how about we take it back?" Crystal turned to me and asked.

"No." Ling said before I could answer, "None of you should touch the things on the magic circle."

Xiaochun also nodded in agreement and said: "Yes, nothing here can be moved. This magic circle is now waiting to be activated, with a large amount of magic flowing in it. If a certain point is suddenly interrupted, all the magic that cannot flow will be It is concentrated and accumulated at this point. As long as the magic accumulation exceeds the upper limit of the space, it will immediately cause a big explosion. Judging from the magic flow in this magic circle, as long as you take down the crystal, an explosion will occur within a second. , and the power is definitely enough to wipe us all out."

"Is this thing so powerful?" Lucky asked with some uncertainty.

Ling said with great certainty: "Absolutely. For such a large magic circle, the magic power naturally lost in the magic circuit is enough to kill several of us, and it is even said to be the magic power in the main channel. You must not do it for this. A small amount of money will compensate us all."

After hearing Ling's confirmation, Lucky and the others left the giant crystal with great disappointment. Dragons naturally like sparkling gems, not to mention that this is a gem with extremely powerful magic power. To the giant dragons, it is a beauty in the eyes of perverts. It would be strange if they are not tempted. But after all, Ling is the boss among the demon pets. If she says she can't take it, it means I said she can't take it. They must be obedient.

Unable to worry about the gem, they began to look around to see if they could find anything else that could move. However, they didn't find the gem, but they found an opening in the wall. This opening is made of rocks, and is almost exactly the same as the wall. If Lucky Big Tail hadn't accidentally hung a stone from the wall, he wouldn't have discovered that there was a secret door here.

The secret door that was discovered was only as big as a monitor, so it was obviously not meant to be drilled. After removing the camouflage board on the surface, we successfully found a guillotine switch underneath it. For safety reasons, I first put away my magic pet and then pushed the guillotine up. As the guillotine was pushed away, a rock wall in the cave suddenly shook, and then slowly rose up. stand up. The rock wall had just risen less than two inches, and another section of rock next to it started to rise automatically. Then when it rose two inches, the third door also rose automatically. A total of twenty-three gates were finally opened in the entire underground cave hall, and behind each gate were almost identical caves, and there was also a magic array in each cave, which was different. The only thing is that these caves and the magic arrays in them are not as big as the one in the center.

The discovery of these magic arrays just proves Ling's previous inference. The magic lines we just saw extending from the main magic array are exactly connected to these magic arrays, and these magic arrays are not the end of the magic array. Arrays, they also have some small connecting lines branching out, but they are all connected to smaller magic arrays.

Compared with the discovery of those small magic circles, what I care more about is the direction in which the four super-connectors that are as wide as roads extend. When I pushed the guillotine just now, the wall blocking these lines also rose up, exposing the underground passage that was wider than the train tunnel.

"It seems that these are the passages connecting the various magic circles." Ling ran out of the training space and stood beside me at some point.

"Can we deduce the purpose of the entire magic circle from these magic circle lines?" I asked, looking at the tunnel ahead without looking back.

Ling thought for a moment and then said: "It's unlikely. The magic arrays are all covered by shells. The real magic circuits and the external lines may not necessarily follow the same direction. Maybe it just looks like a relatively thick connection point. There are very complicated magic energy circuits buried underneath. Moreover, even if I can understand these things, given the size of this magic circle, it will take me several months to figure out how it will take effect after operation. "

Hearing Ling's answer, an idea suddenly came to me. "Does the military god know about your magic circle knowledge?"

Although the God of War is a battlefield command computer, he is not designed for games, so he does not know a lot of knowledge in the games. In order to prevent him from judging things in the game from a real point of view, I have asked the NPCs and players in the guild to tell the God of War everything they know, so that the God of War can adapt to the game through self-study and improvement. environment within. If nothing else, Ling should have told the God of War about his magic theory. Although the God of War cannot design the magic array through these things, he can understand the magic array according to the rules. To put it simply, he can understand the magic array. There is one thing that Ling does not possess about the God of War, and that is his computing speed. It takes Ling several months to reverse the functions of the magic circle. It is possible that the God of War can understand them all in just a few minutes. Therefore, if we can get the map of this magic circle, maybe we can ask the God of War to help us read it. The effect after the magic circle is activated.

Hearing me ask this question, Ling immediately understood what I meant. "Do you want the God of War to help us analyze the structure of the magic array?"

I nodded and said, "Yes, we are too slow to understand, but the God of War must be able to do it."

Ling thought for a while and said: "In terms of speed, he is definitely faster than us. I have also taught him the structure and function of the magic array. However, the magic arrays here have all been added with shells. The real core is not necessarily what we see. Besides, There are no hidden nodes, and it will take several days if we want to copy the entire structure of this magic circle and send it back!"

"No, we don't need to copy it ourselves." I said: "Even if you are building a house, you need detailed engineering drawings before construction. Do you think there would be no drawings for something as detailed as the magic array? That thing is for the construction workers to It was drawn only if you can understand it, and the hidden nodes will definitely be clearly marked on it. As long as we can get a few drawings and let the God of War translate several parts of them, we can guess the other parts through the translated parts. Part of the function, we should be able to quickly deduce the detailed function of the entire magic circle."

"That being said, you can give it a try."

After getting Ling's confirmation, I took Ling and quickly left the magic circle and followed one of the passages down to find it. It is said that the drawings should not be too far away from the construction site. Although the magic circle in front of you is in standby mode, you can be sure that it is not yet completed. As long as you find the part under construction, you should be able to find the drawings. With this idea in mind, we began to search down the passage.

Because the area of ​​the entire magic circle covers almost the entire Russian God Realm, the length of these passages is also quite amazing. However, I am lucky. The passages are spacious enough for me to fly rapidly here on a bird, so the length of the passages is very important to me. It's not a big problem.

With the speed of a flying bird, we quickly found the next node. According to the marks on the big map, this should be one of the main nodes like Hope City, but the magic node here is not closed, allowing us to fly directly into the huge crypt. After rummaging through this underground cave space for a while, we couldn't find the drawings, so we had to continue looking downwards. But then we searched four magic nodes in succession, and the results were all the same. No one is guarding, no one is constructing, and there are no drawings or information.

"Strange, why is there no one?" I stopped at the sixth magic node and thought. But I soon figured out why. The bird has been flying along a circle just now, which means that the six nodes we investigated are actually the nodes in the outermost circle of the large magic circle. We also have the six auxiliary nodes in the middle and the super node at the core of the magic circle. Did not go. Although according to the general rules of drawing a magic circle, it should be drawn from the inside out. However, the size of this magic circle is too large. If you want to speed up the progress, you must construct more points at the same time, so you definitely cannot start from the core. In this way, this magic circle may be completely constructed in reverse, which means that the remaining part under construction should be in the core area.

Once you understand the problem, it will be easier to solve. I directed the birds to leave the outer passage and quickly advance towards the core area. However, this time we only flew a dozen kilometers before we ran into trouble.

The large ring outside the super magic circle is a combination of a magic node and a line. There is nothing else in the middle, but the tunnels leading to the core actually have a defensive line similar to a bunker in the middle. The entire passage was suddenly cut off when it reached this line of defense. The magic line passed under the solid wall and continued along the passage, but we were stopped.

I had caused so much damage on the ground before. If the Russian protoss didn't know it until now, it would definitely be impossible, so they recognized me when they first saw me. There was no need to communicate at all. Several small doors opened on the opposite wall in an instant, and then a group of menacing fighting gods rushed out.

"The welcome ceremony is quite warm!" After taking back the flying bird, I landed in front of the group of gods without fear. Anyway, if I want to investigate the magic circle, I have to pass through the front line of defense, so I definitely can't run. Useful. As for whether you can beat these gods, you have to fight to know. But I think I have an inherent advantage in fighting here, that is, this is not my place. To put it bluntly, I don’t feel bad if I break anything, especially the magic line under my feet. The Russian protoss spent so much effort to build such a thing must be an abnormal treasure, so their people can't let go of their hands and go to war here. On the contrary, I don't care whether the thing explodes anyway. If I really find that I can't defeat these Russian protoss, I will simply detonate the thing and drag them to be buried with me.

The protoss who ran out of the wall stopped ten meters in front of me, and then collectively stared at me with weapons in hand. Behind them, a guy wearing a set of shining silver armor was slowly walking Come over. Although the armor on that guy is not golden, I can be sure that he is more high-end than the previous golden-armored protoss, because their golden armor only emits golden light in the sun. , but this guy's armor can emit dazzling silver light in the dim tunnel with only a few magic lamps as light sources. It's clear at a glance which one is higher and which one is lower.

"Welcome?" After hearing my words, the silver-armored protoss snorted coldly at first, and then said: "We are not here to welcome you, but you are not completely wrong, because we are here to see you off. You Are you ready for endless death?"

"Endless death? Do you think you are a higher god?" I retorted unceremoniously.

"It doesn't necessarily require the power of a higher god to make you die a few more times. As long as you have this thing, it is enough." After the protoss said this, he suddenly took out a crystal ball and threw it towards me.

The moment I saw the thing, I started to retreat quickly, trying to get out of the way. Although I didn't know what it was, since it was thrown by the other party, it was definitely not good for me. However, even though I dodged, I didn't understand how that thing worked. That is not an attack weapon at all, but a special piece of equipment. The crystal ball shattered to pieces the moment it hit the ground, and then a light yellow light mask spread out like lightning, enveloping us all in an instant.

"What the hell is this?" Although I was included in the photo mask, I didn't have any adverse reactions. Secondly, the photo mask also included the other person, so I don't know what the purpose of that thing is. .

"You've obviously guessed it, why do you ask?"

I was stunned for a moment when I heard what the other party said, and then I understood. Since this thing is harmless and can form a light mask, it must be something similar to a protective shield. But even if the other party wants to use a protective shield, they shouldn't include me in it, so this thing is definitely not a protective shield. If you think about it this way, it must be the reverse product of the protective shield-the sealing magic shield. Different from the protection spell, this thing is not to protect people in the circle from external attacks, but to prevent people inside from attacking outside or leaving the area where this thing is located. To put it simply, it is a temporary prison, which can People are trapped inside for a while. It's just that now that guy locked me in here with them, it's obviously not as simple as just letting me stay here for a while.