Chapter 1051： Cold night

After listening to what Baldwin Franklin reported, Gawain’s thoughts have gradually spread.

The intelligence from the Ogure tribal nation confirmed his previous speculation: The mysterious signals previously monitored by Winterhold and Solinburg are not limited to Cecil!

On the other side, Baldwin’s report has come to an end. He looked at Gawain: "Your Majesty, in addition to this, we also received a letter from the Dwarf Kingdom from Wenna, the leader of the gray elf, that the king of Forge City Mo Ton Molten greets you and agrees to the invitation to the meeting at Silver Outpost 112 on Recovery Day next month. Forge City will send Ambassador Paladin Gyzanite to the meeting."

"...Did the dwarves finally make an official response?" Gao Wen was slightly relieved. "It seems that the sea route we restarted did inspire their confidence in participating in mainland affairs..."

The dwarf kingdom is the mysterious kingdom located in the westernmost part of the road. Although its territory is closely connected with the Loren continent, its entire kingdom is completely enclosed by a natural arc-shaped mountain range. The steep cliffs have been there for thousands of years. It has always blocked the curious sight of the mainland countries, and also blocked the residents on the other side of the mountains.

In the long years, the dwarves lived a self-sufficient life on the other side of the mountains. It is said that their kingdom has abundant output and a unique climate. It can maintain prosperity even without communicating with other countries on the mainland. It is said that they It has developed technologies and cultures that are completely different from those of other countries on the mainland, and even retains many ancient traditions before the first development-but all these are just boring guesses of the world, and almost no one has really crossed the mountains to see Over the appearance of the dwarf kingdom, only some dwarves who took the initiative to leave the kingdom and come to the inland activities will occasionally mention their homes with outsiders. In their descriptions, Forge City is magnificent and magnificent, with iron and stone hills full of gold and silver, and bright plain There are fertile fields and picturesque scenery on the west coast...

After finishing the communication with the Duke of the West, the air near the desk was slightly rippling, and the figure of Amber emerged from it, with an interesting look on her face: "It is said that the mountains surrounding the dwarf kingdom are sheltered by ancient power. As long as you enter the mountain, you will get lost, and finally go back to the foot of the mountain in a daze. Only the dwarves have the secret to safely cross the ridge. Therefore, only the dwarves have ever come to the inland activities, and few can enter their kingdom...

"But in fact, the dwarven kingdom is not as mysterious as the legend-although it does not have much communication with other parts of the mainland, but hundreds of years ago, when humans were still able to explore the ocean, Anzu had a period with the dwarves. Communicating on the sea of ​​time," Gao Wen said with a smile, "There are indeed many wonderful customs there, and dwarves also have unique smelting techniques, but they are far from the level of "just like a foreign world" described in the legend."

"You also said that it was hundreds of years ago," Amber spread out his hands. "For short-lived humans, hundreds of years of barriers are enough to turn a piece of land once established diplomatic relations into an incomprehensible foreign land."

"...It makes sense," Gawain thought for a while, and had to admit Humber's statement. Then suddenly he remembered something and asked, "Is the matter that I asked you to investigate before?"

"Are you talking about the'Iron Gondor'?" Humber immediately understood what Gawain meant. She thought about it, and the information she had collected recently came to her mind. "There are indeed gains, but no What a breakthrough.

"The first is about the identity of the'Ms. Diana' in Typhon. At present, it can be determined that she is the leader of Typhon's special force "Rogue"-the rogue is an elite unit directly loyal to the Typhon royal family. According to their different functions, they are divided into different categories. The positioning is similar to the Royal Shadow Guards of the Anzu era or the current steel rangers. They mainly perform special operations and internal and external intelligence tasks. The main combatants of the rogue are basically elite The battle mage of, and has conducted special combat training. Unlike ordinary mage, they have good performance in various actual combat conditions, including surprise attacks, assassinations and close combat. This is somewhat similar to the historical record of Gondor The "Mage Soldier" of the period, obviously, this special soldier was the result of the personal training of the Gondor Ironman.

"Secondly, we have also confirmed that Diana is indeed loyal to the Augustus family for a long time, but she seems to be only loyal to the position of'Emperor'. She does not stand on the side of any political power, does not support any uncrowned heir, no Involved in factional disputes. I suspect it has something to do with the contract she made with the royal family after she was'fixed' by Typhon scholars hundreds of years ago.

"The above two can be regarded as information that can be summarized and collected from public channels. The third one is more interesting... It is an'unexpected harvest' from the '25th'..."

While talking, Kohaku took a few strokes from his bag, took out a carefully folded piece of paper, and unfolded it in front of Gawain.

It turned out to be the information from Daniel? Gao Wen was a little surprised for a while. He didn't expect that Daniel had obtained information related to the "Diana", and then his eyes were attracted by what Amber showed—

On the unfolded white paper, what is depicted is not ancient Gondor’s technical secrets or contemporary Typhon’s secret deployment, but a picture like a child’s graffiti: dozens of ink dots appear to be arranged irregularly. On the paper, a small circle of unknown meaning is drawn in the middle of the ink dots. Lines like radiation are connected between the dozen ink dots and the center circle. The whole picture looks like... A sun with failed graffiti and distorted proportions, surrounded by abstract rays of light.

"What is this?" Gawain was confused by the picture, "Is it some kind of abstract painting?"

"This is the'work' of that'Ms. Diana', and it is also the only'painting' that she usually can'create'." Amber put the unfolded paper on Gawain's desk, with a strange look on her face "This sounds strange. In fact,'Twenty-Five' didn't understand it. It was only by chance that he learned about it from the president of the Typhon Royal Mage Association——

"The chief maid in the Obsidian Palace, Ms. Diana, who'never makes mistakes, always watchful', occasionally makes strange behaviors when she is alone. She will find paper and pen to do graffiti. The content of the graffiti will always be like this Painting, one after another, over and over again... No one knows why she did it, and even she herself doesn’t seem to understand it. Most of these graffiti will be destroyed in the first place, but a few seem to It was forgotten by her, and it fell into the hands of a few curious people who were qualified to enter Obsidian Palace."

"This is really... unexpected." Gao Wen frowned slightly, looking at the graffiti on the table, he couldn't see the deep meaning of the painting, only some things that seemed to be different from the current world style emerged in his mind. Matching associations: unconscious "creative" behaviors after AI breaks through restrictions, mysterious graffiti of out-of-control robots, information reproduction caused by memory errors in ancient machine servants...

"Is this the precise graphics of those graffiti? Or is it a'concept drawing' drawn from impressions?" Gao Wen raised his head and asked curiously.

"The 25th said that this picture has a degree of restoration of more than 90%," Amber nodded, "At most, there is a slight error in the proportions of certain lines."

"Have you shown this to Carmel and Veronica?" Gawain asked again, "They are from the Gondor era, maybe there will be any clues."

"I've seen it, but they don't understand." Amber shook his head. "Carmel thinks this thing may be an abstract expression of some ancient rune array. Veronica suspects that this is the same as Diana's presence in Vip. The deepest memory of the Langton Observatory was related, but they were all just guesses."

"... Diana is a Gondor iron man who has lost part of her memories, and those memories are related to her experience of leaving the Verpland Observatory. These images may reveal some of the'impressions' in her memory, but for lack of As far as intelligence observers are concerned, they are just meaningless graffiti," Gawain said while thinking, "...I am very interested in the secrets of the Gondor Iron Man. I uploaded this picture to the neural network and kept it secret. Under the conditions, it will be handed over to the analysis team under Megall III and Selena Gore to identify and see if there are any known things similar to this graffiti."

Amber nodded: "Okay, I'll do it when I get back."

She accepted the paper as she agreed, and then noticed that Gawain seemed to be thinking about something else, and she was still unconsciously turning a small silver-white ring in her hand. She quickly recognized the circle. What is the ring: "Thinking about Tarrond again?"

"Still unable to contact the Mithril Treasury," Gawain nodded, and threw the Mithril Ring in his hand on the table, watching the small ring bounce on the table, making a crisp sound, "With that group With the technological level of the giant dragon, it is impossible to repair a communication system for so long. With the'reputation' of the Mithril Treasury for thousands of years, it is impossible to remain silent after losing contact with the customer for so long. Now that the eternal storm has disappeared, according to all the information we have, it seems that something has really happened to Tarrond... and it is not a small matter."

"Are you worried about those giant dragons?" Amber blinked. "Actually, I don't think there is anything to worry about... That is a dragon, a dragon that is invincible in the legend or in reality, and can rush in when a volcano erupts. Hot drink, such a tyrannical creature, do we need to worry about it?"

"Because they are such a powerful ethnic group, I am particularly worried now-I am worried that some unpredictable disaster is brewing in the Arctic, and I am worried that it will spread to the human world," Gawain shook his head, "Assuming a worst situation, the whole Tarrond was destroyed by some irresistible force-how strong was this force then?"

Amber was taken aback by Gawain's conjecture, his eyes widened: "This... shouldn't it be?"

"Assumption, just assumption," Gao Wen exhaled, "It's like a powerful giant standing in the distance. You know that the giant is there, know how strong he is, know how good he was a second Yes, but suddenly the giant is gone, and because he is too far away, you can’t see how he is gone, you can’t see if he has been attacked...At this time you may be worried about the giant’s safety, but you You should worry about whether the power that caused the giant to disappear is spreading to you."

Amber thought for a while, and immediately rubbed his arms: "...Hey, I feel goose bumps!"

"In the final analysis, it's still unclear intelligence that I will think about it," Gao Wen sighed, and admitted that he was thinking about it. "So I hope the enthusiastic sea monsters and naga in Beigang can investigate some clues, at least first Understand what happened to the eternal storm."

...

The cold wind roared and slapped on the twisted and deformed steel frame and the temporary shelter wall. The heat source device dug out from the ruins emits a warm orange-red light under the dim sky, radiating a wide range of constant temperature heat. The poorly contacted projection device was placed in the corner of the camp. Several energy packs were connected to the base of the device. The picture in the holographic projection was so blurred that it was almost unrecognizable, but intermittent music could still be heard from the base.

Several weak young dragons lie on the open space next to the projection device. The failure of the whole body implant and the withdrawal reaction of the synergist are torturing their spirits. The intermittent music from the device is supporting them at this moment. The will, but this trivial support is almost meaningless, and they will eventually have to rely on their tenacious will to survive this cold dusk.

This is not easy—for most dragons who once lived in the lower Tarrond, what they have to face after being completely free from hallucinogens and synergists is not just mental pain. The nervous system is unable to adapt. The burning pain that comes from under the circumstances is a real physical injury.

After returning to the camp, Melita, who had recovered her human form, stood beside a huge boulder next to this sheltered wall, her lavender eyes watching those compatriots who were twitching in the cold wind, and her eyes fell on one of the young red dragons. , Did not look away for a long time.

It was the young mechanic who only performed implant surgery for her at noon today. She was busy all day long. With her efforts, a dozen compatriots avoided fatal injuries caused by implant failure and The pain was relieved, but when dusk fell, she suffered a severe synergist withdrawal...No one in the camp could help her.

The only booster stock in the shelter has been used to rescue the wounded.

It seemed that he had noticed Merita's gaze, and the red dragon lying on the ground turned her head, and showed a self-deprecating smile in the twitching: "I shouldn't have been so obsessed with'soul' and'ash'... but at the time The sense of accomplishment and fulfillment they bring to me is really important..."

What she mentioned were the names of two synergists, and these two synergists that directly act on the spirit were flooded in the lower Tarrond.

Melita let out a sigh. She didn't know how to answer the mechanic who used to live in the lower Tarrond and was engaged in illegal implant modification. She could only release another large-scale implant as best as she could. Mental soothing-this spell has little effect on the symptoms caused by potentiator addiction, but the young mechanic still gave her a grateful smile.

Then, Melita fled away from this place.