Chapter 1,114 City of Angels
After Alleria awakened, we solved many things that had been troubling us before, including the problem of teleportation to various lost worlds. Before this, we had to wait for the opportunity to teleport to the Lost World and wait for the bus honestly according to the "periodic calendar" of the mother continent. But Alleria brought us not only the knowledge of the ancient Xiling Empire, There are also the positioning coordinates and guidance codes of each imperial facility. As long as we have the coordinates of these imperial facilities, we can be directly transported to the corresponding lost world - according to statistics, about one-third of the lost worlds have imperial facilities. Of course, our goal is the one-third of the lost world. The remaining two-thirds are not needed. They will not be affected in any way during the activation of the home star.
Needless to say, the teleportation coordinates leading to the Dragon Kingdom are the Forgotten Garden. This ancient Xiling city that has been hidden in the conceptual layer has been open for a long time. We teleported over directly. The teleportation exit is in front of the assembly hall. square.
Sakina, Sona, Lilina and Vanilla should have stayed in the mother continent. After all, they were still busy with religious activities around the world, but the name City of Angels was too attractive, and they all wanted to We came here to broaden our horizons. It just so happened that the missionaries from all over the world would not have any big problems, so we took the four of them with us, so this was another group trip.
As soon as I stood in the square in front of the assembly hall, I felt that this place was a little different from when I left before, so I couldn't help but look around. Immediately I discovered that the tops of many buildings were emitting a shimmering light, and the crystal facilities in my field of vision that seemed dim a few days ago were also emitting a crystal soft light. In short, the feeling is: this The city seemed to be resurrected.
A very soft, music-like, but indescribable tone echoed in the air. I still remember this tone. It is exactly what I heard when the Forgotten Garden first appeared, it is said. This is the unique system sound when large facilities on the mysterious side of the empire are operating - well, I have to say that this sound is a little better than the buzzing of psionic equipment, although the latter sounds quite interesting.
"The Forgotten Garden is gradually being activated. When the City of Angels was released, it was also restarted. Now 60% of the city's functions have been restored," Alleria floated in the air not far ahead. Pointing to the surrounding city buildings, he said to us, "But this city is mainly used as an administrative center. Scientific research and production facilities are not here. Therefore, the activated buildings are not in use for the time being. Only the city central control hall is of some use. .That’s where I’ve been working for the past few days.”
Nod to show understanding. Alleria has been busy traveling between several lost worlds and the mother continent these days. Sometimes she will bring Alaya or some of the five protoss gangs to help, and we are left As for the people below...well, even Sandora is semi-literate in terms of cutting-edge mysterious technology, so she can only stay in the Holy City to entertain her children.
Alleria said. Suddenly floated over and added: "The energy supply of the Forgotten Garden was not sufficient at the beginning. Fortunately, in the end, this problem was solved by brothers and sisters Ilson and Monina. I would like to thank them specifically."
He suddenly showed a look of surprise. Looking at the two special envoys from the God Realm who usually just mess around with him: "Okay, do you still have research on the magic equipment of the Xiling Empire?"
"Anyway, the Holy Light is a universal energy. I am the best at the Holy Light. The two of us just provided the energy for restarting the core of the city." Ilson smiled particularly sheepishly, with a look full of satisfaction. "Brothers and sisters and our hearts are full of joy." Let’s work together to break the metal.”
Qian Qian asked curiously: "How did you do it? Monina also knows the Holy Light?"
Monina shrugged: "Tie my brother to the Holy Light Furnace, and I will cheer beside him."
: "..." I knew that was actually the case! It can only be like this...
"Where is the City of Angels? Where is the City of Angels?!" Lilina was not interested in the topic of Monina, the strange brother and sister, so she jumped up and down, shouting that she wanted to see the City of Angels, Alleria Pointing to the sky: "Right there, seventeen kilometers above the Forgotten Garden."
Only then did everyone notice that the sky in this space was significantly higher than what we saw when we last came here - just as Alleria said, when new imperial facilities appeared in the space, the available space was expanded. And in the clouds that were already higher up, we saw a group of shadowy buildings in the sky.
"Wow!" Qian Qian suddenly exclaimed, and then without saying a word, she pulled me and rushed to the sky. A group of people followed closely behind her. The distance of more than ten kilometers was approaching in an instant. After a while, we flew to the clouds. Looking at the magnificent scenery in front of them, I held my breath - only Sakina and Vanilla were breathing heavily. The flight just now was a bit exciting for them.
We had seen the City of Angels in a broken state in the different space in the Assembly Hall, but we didn't expect that it would be so amazing after it was completely reorganized - if the space fortress manufactured by the Xiling Empire's technology side was made of steel If the beauty of power and technology shocks people, then City of Angels is using a sacred and fairy tale atmosphere to immerse people in it.
They searched for a while over the City of Angels and found a white-gold tower at the highest point that had penetrated the clouds, and settled on the half-moon hanging platform at the top of the tower. Looking down at the City of Angels from here, you can have a panoramic view of the magnificent scenery: huge spiers floating in the sky, high and low, distributed in rows in the clouds and mist, without any rules, as if they follow your will, but with an indescribable coordination. and beautiful, and between the towers you can see the air corridors shrouded in clouds and mist, as well as large-area suspended buildings. Most of these buildings are connected to each other by suspended ramps or stairs, but there are also some buildings that are obviously floating independently in the air. , maybe the only way to get there is by flying or space teleportation - only angels would be used to such a place. Among all the buildings in the City of Angels, giant floating towers and circular suspended platforms account for 70% to 80%. This should be the favorite architectural form of Xiling Angel: Alaya was standing next to me, and her eyes were already shining with joy. Like the Forgotten Garden, the buildings here also follow the consistent style of the Mysterious Side. They are elegant, slender, reaching towards the sky, with white as the main color, and only the edges of the buildings are decorated with golden lines. The exterior walls of the building are inlaid with large pieces of blue crystal.
Unless I had seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought that such a city could only appear in fantasy.
Looking far into the distance, one can see unusually huge wall structures floating between the hanging towers and platforms on the periphery of the building complex. Those wall structures with curved surfaces are also inlaid with energy-rich blue crystals. At the top is a wide ramp without guardrails. Alaya seemed to be in a trance after seeing them, staring blankly into the distance. After a long time, he raised his arm: "Brother Junjun. I want to go up there for a walk..."
"What you see is the Eastern Angel Wall," Alleria's voice was full of memories of the past. "In the past, I often patrolled the ramp of the Angel Wall with Lord Alaya to check the growth of the new core. Situation - You can see the huge crystals embedded in the wall. In fact, each crystal is an energy shaping field inside. The Angel Wall is a huge energy collection and conversion device. It will come from various buildings Complex energy and data are poured into the evocation crystal, creating angelic cores inside. That is our original form, a... aggregation of light that is difficult to describe in words. There are dedicated 'caretakers' who collect these cores . Send it to the high tower below us, where the core will be catalyzed for a period of time, and new angels will be generated. But now, this production system has been shut down."
"Brother Jun, I want to go up there for a walk..." Alaya repeated again, while holding my arm.
Smiled at her: "Go, be careful not to fall..."
"It doesn't matter. The City of Angels is built at an altitude of more than ten kilometers. Even if you fall, you will have enough reaction time to fly again." Alleria seemed to be laughing, her voice full of happiness.
: "..." Is this specially designed for Alaya?
The angel sister spread her wings and happily flew to the East Angel Wall in the distance. She usually would fall when walking on the ground, but when flying in this cloud city, she actually showed dexterity and agility that I couldn't believe. She moved lightly among those It hovered over the spire, skirted the clouds, passed through the fog, and then landed steadily on the ramp on the top of the far wall, almost turning into a small dot. It was still waving to us, while on our side, Lin lowered her head in shame. Head off...the reason is well known.
"This is the East Angel Wall, is there also the West Angel Wall, the South Angel Wall, etc.?" Qian Qian asked curiously, Alleria shook her head slightly: "No, there is only the East Angel Wall. Qian Qian was stunned: "Ah?"
"Angel Wall is the general name of the Angel Core Molding Factory. The name of this molding factory is 'East'." Alleria explained in a calm tone. As for me? Okay, I kind of regret hearing this explanation... It always feels like something is breaking.
"The tower under our feet is the Angel Catalysis Center, also called the Angel Manufacturing Factory. It is also the control center of the City of Angels." Alleria saw that the atmosphere around her was a bit strange, so she didn't think much about it and just continued to introduce, "Its next Half of the section is the production area, and the upper half is the control area. The control area and the Forgotten Garden on the surface use a common data link, and the functions are the same. You can check the home star activation progress here, do you want to take a look?"
They readily agreed, so Alleria came to a small pillar in the center of the Half-Moon Platform, and just touched its surface gently, and an array of runes emitting shimmering light appeared on the ground of the entire platform. Seeing the array covering the entire suspended platform, Lilina suddenly muttered: "Oh shit, such a complicated thing is just an access control. Is it necessary to have such a high security level?"
"Of course, because this is the backup control center for the mysterious facilities of the home planet." Alleria is the type who answers all questions. Even if Lilina muttered to herself, she would take the trouble to explain it, and almost As soon as she finished speaking, everyone was transferred to the interior of the Platinum Tower by a teleportation beam.
To everyone's expectation, we did not come to a complex dispatch center, nor did we see dazzling super equipment and rows of control terminals in front of us. The control center of the Platinum Tower is bigger than anyone imagined. Simple, this is a spacious rotunda with a radius of less than two hundred meters. It was so empty. The hall is made of white crystal material with the same texture as the tower body. It looks like marble texture, but the surface has the same luster and texture as metal and crystal. The hall is about ten meters high, and the dome shows an extremely subtle curvature. If you don’t pay attention, You can't even tell that the center of the hall actually arches upward. The floor of the hall is decorated with blue patterns that emit a faint halo, and you can feel regular energy pulsations from them. It shows that these patterns are also magic circle-type things: the facilities on the mysterious side of the empire seem to have this characteristic. They appear to be decorative patterns, but in fact they are also functional runes. Xiling Apostle does not waste anything for pure decoration. A matter of face, this is also reflected in the patterns in their buildings. In the center of the hall, the ground sunk downwards, forming a shallow pit with a radius of thirty to forty meters. Floating above the shallow pit is a set of holographic images that are refreshing rapidly - this is the only equipment in the entire control center.
Alleria led us to those holographic screens and clicked a few times in the air. A set of control panel-like floating screens appeared next to the shallow pit. There are mysterious pictures and runes floating on the screen, as well as the Xiling characters I know. The former is like a heavenly book to me, and I can only barely judge from the latter. These control panels display the operation of the City of Angels and the Garden of Forgotten. state.
"Now that the supply of the energy system has been restored, I sent all the floating demon spirits that can still be activated to repair the Holy Light Furnace and the magic energy relay point, and finally met the current energy demand. The situation will gradually get better next. "Alleria switched the surveillance screen in front of her. While explaining his work, "The next step is to move the Sky Tower in. But before that, I have to go there in person."
"Speaking of which, what does the Sky Tower do?" As soon as I heard about that high tower, I immediately became interested. It was in that tower that my group first came into contact with the secrets of the mother planet, and only then discovered the anomalies in this world. It was also there that we saw the map of the home star and made the conjecture that the fifteen-day area might be divided into two. It can be said that that is the starting point of all events, and there is another layer of it that we have not been able to decipher so far. " I heard what you said, there is a control center for the Colossus Soldiers, but it seems to have quite a lot of functions."
Alleria turned to me and said quietly: "It used to be the main console of the universe, the capital of the sky region. The entire world's defense system was controlled by it, including the world gate control within the universe, as well as all defenses on the mother planet. The facility’s main switch.”
Everyone was stunned immediately and expressed their shock – they didn’t expect the Sky Tower to be so big!
This also explains why a group of highly sophisticated elements like us, including even cunning and experienced guys like Bingtis, were almost killed by the shadow system in the Phantom Tower without knowing it - the defense center of the entire capital universe? Can the defense level be simple?
In addition, this also explains one thing: why after the technological side of the mother planet represented by Pandora awakened, we did not have the technology related to the World Gate in our hands. Or after that, Tavel relied on the technology snatched from the fallen apostles. The fragments and the database in Visca's head established the World Gate and the foundation of today's macro world. It turns out that in the old empire era, the Fifteen Days Zone used mysterious technology for world teleportation, and this Technology has split with the parent star and is sleeping in this universe!
"Now that the capital universe has collapsed, only this light-year fragment is left. I'm afraid 90% of the functions of the Sky Tower have been scrapped." Alleria shook her head gently, "But it also controls the mother planet. Various defense systems and certification hubs on the planet. This part of the function is still of great significance to us. I will go to the Sky Tower again and restart the core control room there, so that we can obtain the accurate existing situation of all home star facilities. and stewardship of defense systems, this work must come first.”
"But the core control room of the Sky Tower is still under lockdown, right now," my sister looked at Alleria, "You've been there twice, didn't you fail to open the door? And..."
"I was attacked by the thoughts of those old friends in the Phantom Tower," Alleria shrugged. "That was indeed my mistake. I thought that my thoughts should have higher authority in the Phantom Tower. No. Thinking that as his body of thoughts was taken away from the Phantom Tower, the permission list was cleared. There is really no loophole in the security mechanism set up by Odysseus. But soon we will have another right-hand man, He can take care of the Phantom Tower’s defense.”
"Who?" I became curious.
"That's what I just said, Odysseus, he is the chief designer of the Sky Tower defense system." Alleria clicked on the projection screen in front of her, and a male avatar with a serious expression immediately appeared on it. He looks like a human being in his thirties or forties, with darker skin, short dark brown hair, and the lines on his face are as hard as a knife or an axe. The most striking thing is that there are no eyeballs in his eyes at all—— Instead, there were two dancing arcane cores, which were strange and mysterious. I instantly had a slight impression of this avatar, and vaguely remembered that I had seen this person in the old apparition in the assembly hall...
"Oh, I remembered," Qian Qian suddenly realized, "I saw this man in the assembly hall at that time. The old emperor sent this man named Odyssey to send Alaya on his way..."
A group of people looked at Qianqian sideways, and I slapped her on the forehead: Old Emperor, send Alaya on his way... Although the meaning is similar, girl... you can't say that!