Sword of Dawn

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Cassandra frowned, as if she was listening carefully to the information shared by the siren on the other side of the door through psionic echoes, her tone gradually became strange: "She said... there seemed to be a very huge tree in the dark, and Maybe it wasn't a tree, but something else, she felt that the atmosphere in front of her was a bit weird, and she didn't dare to approach it for a while—but she was not in danger at the current position."

"A very huge tree? And it doesn't have to be a tree? What kind of mess?" The red dragon Belranta muttered subconsciously, but it seemed that she was used to the reliable and unreliable performance of these siren teammates. , and quickly turned his gaze to the commander of the team, "Mr. Nicholas, there doesn't seem to be much danger on the other side of the door. Do you want to open the door?"

Nicholas hesitated for a moment, and then quickly made a decision: "Everyone step back, I'm going to open the door."

Everyone immediately retreated as ordered, Nicholas himself also dodged to a safer place, and then he began to try to control the control system behind the door according to the experience he had accumulated in the past dozens of days—in fact, he did not directly control the flow of energy ability, but here, the energy flow of most facilities is based on material carriers, and no matter how delicate and subtle these material carriers are, they are "obedient metals" that can be controlled in his perception, and in his fine and ingenious Under the control, some original energy circuits were slightly adjusted, and the door controller, which was originally exhausted in energy, gradually woke up.

The lights in the nearby corridor gradually dimmed, and a low humming sound came from both sides of the gate. The huge gate that looked extremely strong finally receded to both sides.

An unusually vast space shrouded in darkness appeared in front of Azarena.

"This is..." Azalena looked at this place in astonishment, which was wider than the "Assembly Hall" in the previous traffic compartment. Even though everything in her field of vision was shrouded in darkness, she still noticed it immediately. The place is astonishingly wide and the height of its dome is even more astonishing, and in that seemingly endless dark space, she saw some hazy shadows, a few glimmers of light like emergency lights flickering in the interlacing of shadows Then, an even weirder and weirder outline of light and shadow was outlined in the darkness. This scene made her nervous, "This place is different from the 'style' of all the previous areas..."

"Look at that one over there!" Belranta suddenly pointed to the depths of the darkness, "Is that the 'tree' that Miss Kraken mentioned?"

Azalena immediately looked in the direction of the other's finger, and in the darkness, she finally saw the unusually huge outline—there were a large number of shadowy things like thorns or crystal spikes "extending" from the ground. " came out, hovered and entangled and spread to a high place, and when it spread halfway, it showed a gesture of spreading around. The dim light brought by the emergency lights made those "coiling thorns" appear like tree trunks, tree crowns, and bare roots. The same outline, at first glance...it really looks like a giant tree.

But that's definitely not a tree.

"Lighting - need more lighting here!"

Azalena said loudly, and at the same time raised her hand to release a lighting technique, at the same time she couldn't help but feel a little doubt in her heart——

With the dragonborn's night vision ability, how could he not see things here clearly?

Although the hall is dim, it is not completely devoid of light. There are many light sources that look like emergency lights in the field of vision. With the opening of the door, the corridors outside are also brightly lit. It stands to reason that there will be a lot of light coming in through the open door. This hall, but why...it's still so dark here that the dragon's eyes seem to be covered with a shadow here, as if those lights were suppressed by some kind of force in the dark depths?

Accompanied by these doubts that suddenly emerged in her heart, the lighting light ball in Azalena's hand has already flown into the sky, followed by a dozen large and small lighting light balls released by other people-these are enough to make the whole world feel alive in an instant. The brightly lit magical light sources in the hall were scattered, but the darkness in the entire hall was only slightly dispelled.

All the magic light spheres seemed to be suppressed by an invisible force, and the light they emitted quickly decayed in the darkness, almost to nothing.

Azalena stared fixedly at the "illumination techniques" floating in mid-air, like faint bright spots, and suddenly realized one thing——

The dim light sources that look like "emergency lights" in this hall are not actually emergency lighting - those are lighting systems running at full power.

It is some kind of powerful shadow power that floods here, suppressing all the lighting, and even turning "darkness" into something like an inherent attribute, endowing this entire hall!

"Everyone is on alert, the environment is abnormal!" The clear and cold voice of Alice RS-6 sounded in the hall, and the accompanying iron soldiers immediately entered a state of combat readiness. The giant dragons and dragon descendants also activated their protective equipment, ready to deal with dangerous things emerging from the darkness.

Even the sea-monsters, who have always been careless, reacted quickly. In a series of splashing sounds, they turned into huge sea monsters, sea beasts with shells, and even tentacles imitating the god of storms. In the darkness, these The deep-sea creatures have turned into a circle of indescribable barriers of harmonious gods to protect their teammates.

Azalena looked around and swallowed.

It’s really hard to say whether this weird hall is scary or this gang of sea monsters who turn into gods when they disagree with each other is scary...

But in this extremely tense atmosphere, nothing changed in the hall.

Chapter 1451 Pollution Remnants

A tense atmosphere condensed in this hall shrouded in dim light, the air seemed to have frozen in this atmosphere, and the low humming sound from the ancient equipment in the depths of the hall seemed to come from an extremely distant place, It sounded unreal and ethereal to Azalena—but after such a tense state lasted for several minutes, nothing happened in the hall.

Those magical balls of light that rose into the air were still floating in the air, and their appearance did not "stimulate" anything. The door leading to the corridor was wide open, and the light that diffused from the direction of the corridor was swept away by an unknown person. The power was suppressed within a few meters from the door, and a hazy gray-black misty phantom was formed behind the exploration team members.

Besides, there were no harsh alarms, no awakened guards, no indescribable things jumping out of the darkness—except for the weird environment, there seemed to be nothing in the hall.

"Maintain a state of vigilance," Alice RS-6's cold voice broke the depressing tension. While giving instructions to her soldiers, she looked up at the "giant tree" deep in the hall. "Like a faint shadow structure, a crack suddenly opened on the smooth forehead of the Iron Man Commander, and then some kind of artificial crystal protruded from it. This delicate sensing device projected a flickering light curtain, and the light curtain itself Although it was quickly swallowed by the surrounding darkness, its scanning field has quickly completed scanning the surrounding environment. "There are no active targets, energy traps, and running spells in the environment."

The accompanying Kraken advance team members also started to move. They maintained that daunting "combat posture", and walked towards the hall in groups of two. The "footsteps" of people's scalp numb.

Azalena watched these "deep sea allies" walk towards those dark areas little by little, feeling as if they would be completely plunged into the shadows in the next second, but in fact their hazy figures were never completely swallowed by the darkness—— The darkness is not completely dark. Although the light produced by the lighting and the magic light ball is suppressed, it can still provide a certain amount of illumination.

"Safe." "This side is also safe-only some buzzing equipment." "There are some terminals that are still running here, and there seems to be nothing unusual." "There are only a bunch of pillars here..."

The voices of the Krakens came from the depths of the darkness, and then these advance team members temporarily released their "combat stance" and returned to the team—although the Kraken's combat stance is powerful, it is not suitable for performing delicate tasks. Technical operations and exploration operations.

At this time, Azalena was slightly relieved, but she still didn't dare to let her guard down completely—maybe there is really no danger here, but there is such a hall completely shrouded in an abnormal environment in the space station built by the voyager itself. Strange thing, she frowned and looked at the shadowy equipment and the "lights" that were so weak that they were almost extinguished, she couldn't help muttering softly: "What the hell is going on..."

"There is a very powerful shadow power entrenched here... But I don't know if this shadow power is from outside or the voyager stayed here from the beginning," the red dragon Berlanta beside her said softly, and said at the same time Walking towards the largest "tree" structure in the center of the hall, "No matter what, this thing is obviously the core here..."

"Be careful, don't go there alone!" Seeing this, Azalena hurriedly reminded her behind, and then led her people to follow in Berlanta's footsteps.

Soon, the entire operation team came to the foot of the weird thing in the center of the hall. Cassandra raised her head vigorously, and saw countless dark "thorns" and crystal structures growing from the floor into the air, and It spread near the ceiling into a huge structure like a canopy, and among those intertwined thorns and crystals... there seemed to be some other things hidden.

Azalena raised her hand again, and another magic ball of light appeared in her hand. Although the light emitted by this ball of light was suppressed by the surrounding dim environment, it still illuminated those " A small area on the surface of the thorns.

"...quantity can make up for quality," Azalena said casually looking at the area illuminated by the light ball, "creating more light sources will more or less allow us to see the situation here."

The dragons at the scene immediately released more lighting spells, and nearly a hundred magic light spheres formed over the exploration team almost instantly, and drifted upward along the huge "thorn crystal structure". Serena kept her eyes wide open and stared at the places where the light spheres flew past. In the small-scale light spots that were constantly moving, she was able to see more detailed structures of this "thorn crystal"-these flickering sharp crystals showed Deep purple-black, with a changeable luster from time to time in the moving light source, they are intertwined and entangled with each other. Although they look like vines, they are obviously not plants, but more like... minerals that grow chaotically.

Azalena just watched those balls of light fly to the top of the thorns, and watched them cling to the thorn bushes. In the process, she finally saw clearly—this group of thorns that looked like a "giant tree" It seems to be just a piece of growth. In the depths surrounded by thorns, some kind of large-scale equipment can be vaguely seen. It seems to be a pillar. A large number of radiating branch structures can be seen at the connection between the top and the dome, and the bottom extends out. Several things that looked like control terminals, a large number of purple-black thorny growths grew out from around this huge device, entangled in layers to look like a tree.

"There is something inside here... wrapped up," Belranta also noticed the large equipment looming in the depths of the thorns. She frowned and approached cautiously, but did not dare to touch those sharp purple-black crystals rashly, " This looks like a large-scale terminal, similar to the one in the assembly hall, but it seems to be a higher level... There is some movement in it, is it still running?"

Azalena didn't say a word, she just walked slowly around this huge "thorn", carefully observing the shape of this thing, and at this moment, a strangeness suddenly came into her eyes, making the dragon seal The witch stopped abruptly.

"There's something here!" She whispered subconsciously, and then waved her hand to summon a magic ball of light, which emitted a dim and obscure light and slightly dispelled the surrounding darkness, allowing her to finally see clearly. A strange shape - the next second, she felt a chill suddenly hit her heart.

It was a dirty trace like rotten scorched marks, as if some kind of extremely corrosive and terrifying force invaded here, and left a mark several meters long on the floor. It spread into those thorns, and it seemed to have spread for a certain distance inside. The thorns in contact with it showed a state of decay and damage. The purple-black crystals were stained with a layer of dirty gray-brown. Cracks are all over the surface, and the entire "contaminated area" even spreads upwards to a height of several meters.

The others rushed over immediately after hearing Azarena's exclamation. After seeing the traces of pollution and corruption on the floor and among the thorns, Bellanta was the first to widen her eyes: "This is ..."

"The trace left by the reverse tide," Azalena stared at the dirty mark, feeling her heart pounding, "There is no mistake, the characteristics are too obvious."

Bellanta's eyes widened, and she suddenly realized: "Quickly check the surroundings!"

All the action team members acted immediately and began to conduct further inspections of the hall shrouded in darkness. However, after careful inspection, it seemed that the only trace of pollution found was the one found by Azalena.

"...The pollution of the reverse tide is all in one piece, and there is no scattered distribution." After hearing the inspection results of other people, Belanta shook his head lightly, "So this should be the only pollution..."

"And it's the pollution left over from years ago..." Azalena bent down and carefully examined the disturbing traces on the floor. Her eyes moved forward along those traces, and finally landed on those obvious On the crystal thorns showing signs of decay, "These thorn-like things..."

"Now it seems that these crystal thorns are preventing the spread of pollution and protecting the central device," Alice RS-6's calm voice came from the side, and the iron man commander's eyes shone with a slight energy radiance. His eyes were slowly sweeping over the imprints on the ground and the dying crystal thorns, "...they have stopped moving."

Azarena didn't speak for a while, and broke the silence after half a minute of contemplation: "Negative Tide is dead, right?"

"That's what the death certificate and autopsy report from the Theocratic Council said," Berlanta nodded. "The conclusion was given by several senior advisors, so there should be no problem."

"So, what we have in front of us is just an ancient clue, something that happened in the past... The power of the reverse tide once tried to pollute the sky, but was stopped by these thorns," Azalena said softly thoughtfully, she Standing up slowly, he looked at the thorns not far away that had been infested by the force of the reverse tide, "We need to collect some samples, especially these pollution samples."

"Let me do it." Cassandra volunteered, she took a step forward, and at some point in her hand, she took out the container and cutting device for collecting samples.

She came to the gray-brown crystal thorns polluted by the force of the reverse tide, and carefully touched the thing with the high-frequency cutter in her hand.

In the next second, the sound of crystal cracking came to everyone's ears, as if a delicate balance that had been maintained for hundreds of thousands of years was suddenly broken. Before Azarena could react, the large piece of polluted crystal The thorns collapsed into debris all over the ground in the blink of an eye.

"This..." Cassandra was also taken aback by this situation, she turned her head and looked at the others innocently, "I just touched it a little, you guys are watching..."

"It may be that this thing is too fragile." Nicholas' voice suddenly sounded from behind, and his slightly trembling deep voice seemed extraordinarily serious at the moment, "It's not important, what's important is... It seems that something has been exposed. "

Cassandra turned her head, only to see that due to the sudden shattering and falling of those polluted crystals, a breach had appeared in the "thornbush" that originally completely wrapped the large equipment in the center of the hall, and at the center of the breach , it can be seen that a device like an operating terminal is exposed.

The structure extending from the back of the thing is connected to the giant pillar in the thorn bushes, and the lights on the surface have been extinguished. This device has obviously ceased to be active, but Nicholas can feel... Weak energy is coming to this sleeping terminal deep flow.

This is different from those devices in other compartments that have completely fallen silent due to energy interruption.

"This thing is still running, it just shuts down the external interaction part, I might try to reactivate it," Nicholas said uncertainly, "Also, we have to report back what we found here."

Azarena nodded immediately: "I'll take a few people to the nearest communication port."

Moving in the vast space, both the Dragon Clan's communication spell and Alice's Iron Man network have exceeded their respective communication limits, and even the siren's psionic singing cannot reach the mainland, but Azalena and the others still have a way The contact with the surface here—rely on the "induction" between Gawain Cecil himself and the Sky Station.

There are some "communication ports" distributed in this space station. After activating them, Gao Wen, who is far away on the surface, can directly contact the engineering team active in the sky station, and even "see" their activities inside directly. , Therefore, the cabins with communication ports are also regarded as important "transit strongholds" by the engineering team-these strongholds are the only way for them to communicate with the surface.

After Azarena left the "Hall of Shadows" with some personnel and went to the nearest communication port, Nicholas and the others who stayed in the hall continued to study the huge thorns and the large device wrapped in thorns.

Regardless of the origin of these thorns, one thing can be seen - they stopped the spread of reverse tide pollution many, many years ago.

After confirming this point, those purple-black crystals that seem weird and terrifying are not so scary anymore.

It goes against the taint and rot on the floor, so it's a good thing.

"Now let me see what this thing is for..."

Floating in front of the breach in the thornbush, looking at the ancient terminal exposed from the breach, Nicholas' voice was eager to try.

He has roughly found a way to wake up this terminal, but out of caution, he observed here for a long time.

Standing not far away, Bellanta and the others were obviously more nervous than Nicholas. They watched the commander-in-chief's movements closely, watching him float beside the silent machine to observe carefully, repeatedly probing, and each of them was calm. Dare to breathe -- although many of them really don't need to.

After a long time in this way, Nicholas finally confirmed the next operation. He took a step forward, and gently "touched" a certain structure deep in the terminal with invisible force.

A slight buzz sounded immediately, and in the next second, the device that had been sleeping for an unknown number of years gradually came to life, and a series of flickering lights appeared on the surface of the terminal and the structure connected to the giant column at the back, and then, Nicholas Then I saw a holographic image jittering and jumping in the sky above the terminal, and a line of Voyager words appeared in the middle of the projection.

Before departure, members of the engineering team, including him, had already supplemented their knowledge of the Navigator's writing.

They understood the words on the projection, but were at a loss as to its meaning——

"The star map keeper is offline."

Chapter 1452

In the study room covered with blue velvet carpet, Gawain was listening to Amber's report on the recent intelligence from various parties—even though the magic tide was approaching, the information sent by the Noi civilization had already been circulated among the high-level members of the alliance, especially those of the three empires. Huge waves have been caused by the high-level, but life still has to go on, countless ordinary people still have to live, the market and the economy still have to develop, and the huge machine of the empire cannot be stopped, so of course the daily affairs he needs to deal with are not the slightest. It doesn't end because the end is near.

"...We have already sent the data of the magic tide observation device to Typhon and the Silver Empire. In addition, Tarrond and Siren have each set up an expert team to assist in this matter," Amber stood at Gawain's desk Before, she tried to read the contents of the folder in her hand with a straight face. At least when she was reporting every day, she still had a serious attitude, "At present, we have controlled the spread of relevant news, except for the necessary participants. , the information sent by the Noi people will not cause panic among the people...

"At present, we have prepared a set of publicity plans for the public regarding the situation of 'Alien Communication'. We have blurred the part about the magic tide, focusing on encouraging and general expressions, and Tifeng and Baiyin also same.

"In addition, we recently arrested a small group of cult members near Baisha Lake who preached the words of doomsday salvation. After the preliminary interrogation, we can basically confirm that they have not been affected by the recent exchanges with the Nuoyi civilization. The fringe and low-level believers influenced by the Doom Society or the Eternal Sleeper, their "doctrines" are simple and crude, and their organizational structure is low-level and primitive. During the arrest process, they did not pose any threat to the officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau. The influence of ordinary people remains immeasurable - and now the cultists have been handed over to the Theocratic Tribunal of the Theocratic Council."

"Have you caught another batch... This is the ninth batch caught in the past two years, right?" Gao Wen couldn't help but rubbed the center of his brows, his tone a little helpless, "This kind of sporadic cultists are really caught and caught. Endless..."

"In fact, if we count the 'doomsdayists' who were directly held down by the local security team and the 'underground sacrificial grounds' that cheat old men and women in the countryside for food and agricultural subsidies, the 'cult groups' we catch every month have It’s as many as two digits.” Amber shrugged, “The thoughts of most ordinary people are easily incited and difficult to maintain rational thinking for a long time, so there will always be soil for such criminals, just like you said, It's a 'protracted war' with them."

Speaking of this, she curled her lips, and her tone was a bit weird: "Actually, there have been fewer such guys recently. Before the Tarash meeting, there were military intelligence officers or arbitration courts every now and then." The trial monk 'worked overtime until his eyes dimmed..."

"Has it decreased recently?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "Is it because of the aftermath of the Wasteland War?"

"Otherwise? The Alliance has killed the world's largest cult gang and its creations, and the Empire's war machine has appeared on the news screens, especially at present. The Dawn of the World is still cruising the entire territory of the Empire. That thing It can be seen for hundreds of miles in the sky, but most of the "underground churches" who live in the countryside have made up bluffs that are not enough to see in front of the real sky fortress," said Amber He said casually, "After all, you can't expect a group of 'cult leaders' who haven't even been to a big city to have such an outstanding imagination. Their greatest skill is often to fool the old people in the village with the government affairs hall to distribute Food and agricultural subsidies to buy their discounted indulgences..."

Speaking of this, she sighed: "In these days, even the old men and women in the village know that the Dawn of the World can destroy hundreds of miles with a single shot. In the past, those who preached cult beliefs could rely on 'If you don't believe in religion, tomorrow the evil spirits will run along the fireplace. "Come in and kill your whole family" to scare people, but now we write on the slogans at the entrance of the village "If you encounter evil spirits, please actively report to the township government affairs department"...

"In addition, there were some people who preached that 'if you don't join the group, you will be dragged into purgatory by evil spirits'. Later, with the announcement of the 'Gate' plan, all cultists of this genre were wiped out overnight—let alone evil spirits. Purgatory is here, and the God of War Kingdom has been broken by us. Coupled with our conscious guidance recently, some more progressive people have begun to think that if evil spirits or demons really set up a purgatory, then the imperial army and The battle group of the Theocratic Council will definitely break open the door of Purgatory within three days and blow away all the things inside...

"So generally speaking, cult beliefs and doomsdayists are still decreasing everywhere, but as you said... no matter how much they decrease, they will never be caught. As long as there is a chance, they will always grow out .”

Hearing Amber's muttering voice, Gao Wen couldn't help showing a smile on his face, and he leaned on the chair in a relaxed posture: "The popularization of education, the advancement of technology, and the establishment of official authority will continue to compress the lives of cultists. Soil, now it seems that letting the battle group Dawn of the World patrol the entire territory of the empire has indeed produced a better effect than we expected, but... people who want to make trouble will always exist, and they cannot always keep their eyes and ears shut. The means will also keep pace with the times.”

Amber patted her chest immediately: "Of course, I'm keeping an eye on this matter. The operatives of the Internal Affairs Division and the trial monks of the Arbitration Tribunal are born for this."

Gao Wen nodded slightly: "Well, you and the Theocratic Council should pay more attention to this matter, this matter is not only related to the internal security of the country... Especially at this stage, we have established exchanges with the Nuoyi people , although the news about the coming of the demon tide is still under strict blockade, but as some major projects gradually unfold in the future, we will have to consider the rumors and rumors in the society and the situation of doomsday theorists. After all...we can't Hope everyone is sensible."

Amber nodded earnestly, and then frowned slightly: "In addition, the operatives of the External Affairs Division have recently heard some interesting things..."

"External Affairs Division?" Gao Wen immediately frowned, "Will anyone still want to make trouble in this alliance situation?"

"It's really not within the alliance, it's the Violet Kingdom in the north," Amber said while recalling the information she received recently, "The operators who have successfully established roots in several border cities of Violet recently reported...then The 'atmosphere' around here is a bit weird, since about a month ago, the local high-ranking mages and nobles have rarely appeared in the public eye, and the caravans that regularly move between cities have suddenly decreased a lot..."

The expression on Gao Wen's face gradually became serious, and he put away his previous lazy sitting posture: "It turned out to be Violet..."

For a long time, this mysterious hidden country has almost completely concealed its sense of existence from the world. It has been shrouded in a deep mist for hundreds of years, even if the previous wasteland war almost turned the world upside down. Even if the Sentinel battleship turned into a meteor rain and fell from low-earth orbit, and the scream of the God Against the Tide passed half of the continent when he was dying, the isolated island country facing Loren across the sea has never had a little "" Move" sign.

In fact, sometimes even Gao Wen will "forget" that there is such a neighbor next to the mainland, but the state machine he created is still operating faithfully - the Military Intelligence Bureau under Amber has always been paying attention to the movements of the isolated island in the sea, Although the infiltration operations into the interior of the Violet Kingdom have all failed, at least on the fringes of the island country, a small number of military intelligence officers who landed on the island as businessmen and scholars have successfully taken root, and these military intelligence officers who have successfully taken root From time to time, bureau officers would also send back some information about the mysterious kingdom, maintaining the empire's basic understanding of the Violet Kingdom within a limited range.

As far as Gawain knows, Cecil is not the only country that does this. The Typhon Empire also has similar intelligence activities there—the Violet Kingdom is so mysterious and suspicious that even if it does nothing, it will attract The curious eyes of others, not to mention the fact that this country is not peaceful at all while adhering to the policy of seclusion. In the past hundreds of years, this "Mage Kingdom" has been vaguely affecting the magician group in the Loren Continent. In the past, the countries of Loren didn't know enough about this and didn't have enough spare power, but now that big countries like Cecil and Typhon have reacted, they will naturally turn their attention to the fog.

After all, even Tarrond and the Deep Sea Kingdom have established diplomatic relations these days - the Violet Mist is particularly disturbing.

"Is there any more detailed information?" Gao Wen frowned and looked at Amber, "The situation you just mentioned is a bit...general."

Amber thought about it carefully: "In addition to the fact that the upper-level mages and nobles lived in seclusion and the caravans between cities suddenly decreased, some operators who were active in the coastal city 'Prandel' also reported that the local 'post office' has become very deserted. The mail flowing into the city has been greatly reduced, and a messenger who used to regularly travel between Plandel and the interior of the kingdom has not appeared for a long time.

"The local operators thought the messenger's disappearance was suspicious, and tried to investigate his whereabouts, but found nothing. The activities of our operators in the Violet Kingdom have not been smooth. Although the Violet Border area allows trade and foreigners to live, all The roads leading to the interior are all blocked by weird 'mystery locks', and the professional training and personal skills received by the operators are useless in the face of those endless forests and intersections that end abruptly in the fog.

"As far as I know, the 'observers' sent to Violet by other countries are in a similar situation. Everyone can only operate in the border area."

Gawain put one hand on the table and the other on his forehead, and slowly said in thought: "It sounds... the border city of Violet seems to have fallen into a state of 'isolation', and all commercial activities and non-governmental communications are closed. It's decreasing... don't the local people respond? The lives of the Violet people are not affected?"

"This is the weirder part—according to the operator's report, the locals don't seem to be aware of the changes in the city at all, and their lives really don't seem to be affected," Amber said seriously, "Business The team has decreased, but the things on the market have not decreased at all. The goods that originally needed to be brought in from outside the city seem to have suddenly become local self-sufficient goods. The residents did not care about the disappearance of the messenger. Everyone is still talking about the daily topic, but the content about the inland is naturally hidden in the conversation."

Speaking of this, she showed a strange expression on her face: "Using the description of an operator in the report, it is, 'The whole city seems to have changed the stage unconsciously, the residents have not changed, the buildings have not changed. The scenery inside and outside the city has not changed, but the whole city has quietly changed in all details', giving people the feeling... weird and abnormal."

"It seems to be an extraordinary vision... This extraordinary vision is more nervous than ordinary natural disasters and man-made disasters, especially in such a mage kingdom that already reveals its weirdness," Gawain muttered with a frown, "wait , these weird changes have appeared in various cities, so what about the operators we sent there?"

"They have not been affected in any way. Although some operators feel nervous, the changes in the city seem to have bypassed 'outsiders' like them," Amber nodded, "Of course, I have already reminded all the operators who are active outside to pay attention. Your own safety, and once the vision starts to affect you, make safe evacuation a priority—after all, we sent them to Violet just to 'stalk'."

Gao Wen hummed, and was about to say something more when a call came from his mind that interrupted his actions.

"Wait a minute," Gawain waved his hand immediately, "There is news from Nicholas."

As soon as Amber heard this, she walked towards the chair next to her with ease: "Okay, I'll help you guard here."

Gao Wen nodded, and then he concentrated his energy and began to respond to the "call". His consciousness continued to rise in the illusion, and soon detached from the current body, detached from the earth, and turned to a purely spiritual form. Connected to the sky far away in space——As the field of vision gradually stabilized in the darkness, Azalena's figure appeared in front of his eyes.

The surrounding environment looked like the latest "safety zone" opened up by the joint engineering team. He could see a brightly lit corridor and several dragon mechanics who were guarding nearby.