Chapter 1281： Ballad

The storage core inlaid with many crystals and high-purity gems was taken out, and the "Explorer" puppet was also awakened from the maintenance state. This round mechanical device moved its long mechanical limbs around the crowd. After a lap, it stopped in front of Carmel, and its optical probe was swinging back and forth above the body, seeming to be watching the storage core that had just been taken out of its own body with a trace of curiosity.

Carmel checked the core's operating status and confirmed that it could be directly read, and then began to inject magic into it. With a slight buzzing, complex magic patterns quickly appeared on the surface of the palm-sized cube, and then a large number of them The image data and data were released under Carmel's intentional control, forming a series of rapidly refreshing holographic projections in mid-air.

"We have limited time. We can temporarily release the environmental monitoring data and let the technical experts slowly analyze it after we return," Gao Wen said. "Look at the image data left by the Explorer, mainly inside the spacecraft. Yes, we need to find a path."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Carmel nodded slightly, so some of the images in the holographic projections were quickly adjusted, a large amount of dazzling data and filter imaging views were closed, and the explorer used his own photo crystal to record The video material that came down was zoomed in in front of everyone, "I have positioned the video after the explorer entered the ship from here, and it can be seen that it is moving in a corridor..."

In the holographic projection, a first angle of view that is shorter than ordinary humans is advancing. At the edge of the picture, you can see the long mechanical limbs moving regularly. The angle of view is a wide and deep corridor in front of the empty picture. In, the arthropod of the explorer is the only moving object, and the sound outside the screen can only hear the slight hum from the explorer’s own body, as well as the occasional humming sound coming from a distance. Mechanical vibrations in the depths of the spacecraft.

Gao Wen watched carefully, and after a while, he said in a deep voice, "Fast forward and record a fork in the road."

The image recorded in the storage core began to accelerate. The explorer puppet quickly crossed the corridor and headed towards the end of the fork. The low buzzing sound in the background also became a bit sharp and weird due to the acceleration of the picture, and then the picture returned to normal. After entering the next connection channel, it starts to accelerate again...

Gao Wen and others were watching carefully the image data left by the explorer doll. The spacecraft was so huge that its shallow connection channel also had an amazing scale, from one facility to another. The distance between them is long enough for this little magic machine to walk on for a long time. Most of the video left by the magic puppet is basically "hurrying".

Of course, it also photographed a lot of details about the internal structure of the spacecraft during this rush, but these details...it will take time to sort out and analyze it later.

Suddenly, just as the video data began to speed up again, a very faint strange sound came into Govin's ears.

The sound was so faint and erratic that it almost merged into the buzzing as the background sound. However, Gawain was still keenly aware of its existence, and he immediately waved his hand, and Modil next to him also followed him. Unanimously: "Stop!"

"Did you hear it too?" Carmel quickly paused, and Gawain looked at the serious adventurer next to him with some surprise. "You heard it too?"

"So you heard it too," Modil looked at Gawain in surprise, and then nodded quickly. "Yes, there seemed to be a strange sound...mixed in the background sound, it was very abrupt, and it was similar to all the previous sounds. It's not the same."

"Go back," Gawain looked at Carmel, "probably just after the "Explorer" entered the corridor marked with green lights, amplify the sound a bit."

Carmel accepted the order without hesitation. The image data extracted from the storage core began to retreat under his precise control, and located the position where both Gawain and Modil heard the "noise". Then the picture began to play normally, and this time, everyone on the scene pricked their ears and listened carefully to all the subtle sounds recorded by the magic puppet.

In the deep hum, there was a very vague noise. It really existed, and it definitely didn't sound like the movement of the magic puppet itself, nor did it sound like the mechanical sound made by the spacecraft when it was moving.

"I don't hear clearly... but it feels weird, even a bit like... some kind of melody?" Amber's long pointed ears trembled in the air, and she showed a cautious and even scared expression on her face. I don’t know if I heard it wrong, I seem to hear someone singing...hairy...creepy..."

Gawain's gaze fell on Amber's pointed ears. He frowned slightly and looked at Carmel with a serious face: "Can I figure out the sound a little bit? Deal with its noise."

"...I tried my best," Carmel hesitated, and began to place both hands on the delicate storage core, and said with reservations while carefully manipulating the flow of magic inside it. "The effect may be Very limited The "Ears" of the "Explorer" puppet has limited sensitivity, and the faint sound is completely mixed with the hum of the background... I try to make it as clear as possible."

Under Carmel's control, the picture once again returned to the beginning of the previous paragraph, and then began to play again. After processing, the sound did appear to be clearer than before, but the strange sound was still mixed with a deep hum. The inside was vague, making it hard to tell, but just when Gawain was about to ask Carmel to deal with it again, Amber suddenly turned his head to the side, showing a very serious listening appearance, and waved his hands to the people around him.

The pointed long ears quivered sensitively. Although she did not actually have the so-called elven blood, as the crystallization of the most advanced biochemical technology in the Gondor era, as the "artificial human number 36", her perception after concentration was actually Not weaker than the elves.

Everyone around became quiet. Only the hoarse and vague hum recorded by the explorer puppet reverberated in the air. The hum was mixed with faint noises like ballads. Amber listened carefully for a long time. Suddenly he sang an intermittent and inaccurate ballad in a soft voice:

"...The hollow wind...the bird never flew across the sky...a sentry went crazy...a sentry went crazy..."

Amber's soft chants echoed in the corridor that had been dead for 1.8 million years, a little lack of tone, and a little chilling.

Victoria's eyes widened instantly: "Amber, what are you singing about?"

"The'murmur' mixed with the humming sound is a voice singing and singing these lyrics continuously," Amber's ears trembled and he raised his eyes and said, "There are a few more words, but I can only Hear this short paragraph vaguely."

"I've heard this song... from Bersetia," Gawain said suddenly, his expression so serious that both Daniel and Melita were taken aback. "This is an ancient nursery rhyme of the silver elves. It’s the story of the sentinel who was far away from their homeland in the pioneering era, who fell into madness and gradually fell into illusion in the long wait! But... how could it be here...

"Silver elves' nursery rhymes?" Melita's eyes widened subconsciously. "Are those elves' nursery rhymes so powerful?"

"...This is not the key," Gawain said in a deep voice, "The key is the sentinel and why the "Explorer" puppet recorded this melody on this ancient Voyager spacecraft! Carmel, the puppet is here Where was this song recorded? Can it be inferred from the video data?"

"The deduction just started," Carmel said quickly, while holding the storage core in one hand, and opening the other hand to the side, a large-scale magic illusion spread out in front of him, and the magic illusion was light blue. The colored light curtain outlines the structure diagrams of the corridors, forks, and cabins. This is exactly the channel inside the ship that he just outlined based on the video data played by the magic puppet, and on one of the channels, the eye-catching red color block is marked. Out of the area where the magic puppet "hears" the ballad, "right here."

Gao Wen immediately waved his hand: "Let's go."

Everyone immediately followed in the footsteps of Gawain and Carmel, and moved quickly in this ancient sailor spacecraft. They quickly passed through the deep and long corridors and connecting gates, and in the "Explorer" magic puppets. Fast forward on the determined safe route, and the uninvited passengers' rapid footsteps echoed in the ancient spaceship that had been silent for millions of years. It didn't take long for them to reach the connecting passage marked by Carmel.

There was no one in the spacious and bright spacecraft corridor, the ancient lighting device sprinkled soft lights, and the low hum of mechanical operation came from behind the alloy bulkhead from time to time. Other than that, Gao Wen and others did not hear any sound. .

Even Amber raised his ears, but shook his head slightly after a few seconds: "No, I didn't hear a sound."

Everyone looked at each other. In this empty unmanned spacecraft, almost everyone felt an inexplicable chill slowly spreading from the ends of their limbs. Mary, who had not spoken much along the way, whispered: "The singing may not last forever. of…"

"There is another possibility that what the alchemy puppet hears is not a'sound'," Carmel said in a low voice. "The recording device of the puppet is not a real'ear'. Sometimes it will transfer energy of a specific frequency. Fluctuations are also recorded as a'sound signal'. Most of the mysterious interference that many magic devices produce when recording video or audio data is caused by this."

"It's not necessarily a'sound'..." Gawain frowned and quietly activated his magical vision. However, in the empty spaceship corridor, he did not see any abnormal magical fluctuations.

At this moment, there was a sudden movement in his heart, as if the silent and hollow spacecraft system had released a signal, making him subconsciously look towards a fork in the end of the corridor.

"Where is it over there?" he asked, looking at Carmel.

"I don't know," Carmel shook his head. "The ‘Explorer’ puppet has not arrived there. It is already located in a very deep area inside the spacecraft. The puppet returned after exploring this corridor."

Gawain stared in that direction for a moment, and said in a low tone, "Perhaps we should go over and take a look."

After a while, a group of people passed through the corridor and the fork at the end, and a tightly closed alloy gate appeared in front of everyone.

Gawain frowned and stared at the tightly closed gate in front of him.

Along the way, they have passed through an unknown number of gates and connecting passages, and all the gates on the road are open, as if the ship’s controller deliberately disarmed all the access control systems before leaving the spacecraft, but only Here... they met a locked door.

There must be something special behind this door.

"What shall we do? The door is locked," Amber looked at Gawain, and then at the alloy door in front of him, with a somewhat distressed look on his face, "To be honest, this is a bit beyond my professional skills... This thing is for me. It won't open."

"You can't unlock an interstellar age permission lock even if you unlock the tenth level," Gawain shook his head slightly, "Can I get in with Shadow Walk?"

"I tried it just now and it's useless," Amber shook his head regretfully, "God knows how the sailor's technology can do it... This door is not only closed in the real world, but also in the shadow world. The barrier is like all the'boundaries' that exist in this world at the same time. I even suspect that elemental creatures can't penetrate it when they come over."

Gao Wen didn't say a word, but took a silent step forward, tentatively placing his hand on an unmarked silver-white technical panel next to the door.

This is the experience he has accumulated in the Tower of Upheaval.

The blank silver panel brightened up, and images of buttons and interactive interfaces quickly appeared on it. However, the main system of the spacecraft remained silent and did not respond to the setter identification signal carried by Gawain. The closed alloy door did not open anything. Symptom, there is only one line scrolling continuously on the panel interactive interface: the system is fatal and the main control room is closed.

No one except Gawain can understand the text that appears on the panel. Carmel and others have never seen scenes that appeared in the Tower of Inverse Tide. Seeing the panel lit up, Daniel on the side asked subconsciously. : "Did you open it?"

"No, there is a fatal fault in the system, this door can no longer be opened," Gao Wen shook his head helplessly, regret in his tone, "Maybe we should find another entrance."

"How about a knock?" Amber couldn't help but give a bad idea. "For example, give it a punch. Sometimes the Mowang terminal has a glitch. Just knock twice. Out of ten times, six or seven times can be successful..."

"Don't make trouble, is this the forty-five-degree angle repair method?" Gawain glanced at this whimsical "half-elf", "This is not a simple magic net terminal, this thing is interstellar. Advanced products of the times..."

"Tap twice to try..." Amber whispered and patted the silver-white alloy panel lightly, "Anyway, this thing is already..."

Seeing this guy's reckless behavior, Gao Wen was about to speak, but in the next second, the closed alloy gate suddenly heard a slight "click", and then quietly opened it to the sides.

All the sights fell on Humber instantly, including Gao Wen's, and every sight was filled with astonishment.

"Don't... don't look at me!" Amber shouted immediately, shrinking his neck, "I don't know what's going on! I just took two shots!"