Chapter 1455： Star map custodian

With the unremitting efforts of Kassandra and several siren sisters, the thorn bushes that lay in the center of the Shadow Hall and completely wrapped the huge pillar were finally stripped off in pieces, the material of which is unknown. The crystals may have had some very special "attributes", or they may have had incredible powers. However, after the long years have passed, their extraordinary features have obviously disappeared. Nowadays, in addition to their harder texture, they follow Ordinary stones are no different.

The high-frequency oscillating molecular blade cut open a piece of thorns in front of her, and the hard crystal fell from the pillar with a clattering sound. Cassandra, in the form of a sea monster, finally stopped her dozen or so tentacles. Retract a part of the cutting knife into his body, use the free tentacles to cling to the raised structure on the surface of the column, and lean his upper body in front of the column to observe carefully.

Under the dim light, those complicated but exquisite, weird but cleverly structured patterns were finally exposed unobstructed, looking... as if with a certain ancient and mysterious beauty.

"...This is incredible..." Cassandra couldn't help muttering softly, "I have never seen something like this in the long history of the Kraken, and I have never recorded a similar style to it. Well-informed."

"Don't even know the siren..." Gawain's voice rang from the darkness around the hall. He has been paying attention to the work progress of the siren and the patterns exposed on the pillars. "But no matter what Say, this is definitely not the sailor style."

"Yes, it's not the style of the sailor, the difference is too obvious..." Cassandra muttered softly as if talking to herself, her gaze scanned the column carefully from bottom to top, observing its peculiar style. : It is made of a certain alloy. Its gray-black shell is hard and delicate, and has a complex raised structure. There are many indicator lights embedded in the gaps, which make it look very "advanced". In addition to this advanced feature, its surface is covered with mysterious, complex and unclear lines. Those lines seem to be connected end to end by countless deformed runes. It is completely invisible to the beginning and end of any of the lines. The end point brings a sense of contradiction like a primitive religious totem.

"Things must be made by the sailors. This is an advanced data interaction device with an extended structure at the bottom that is connected to other data terminals, but at the same time it is covered with mysterious'runes'... "Kassandra murmured, "I don't see what these runes do, but no matter how you think about it, it shouldn't be a mere decoration..."

Gao Wen's voice came from the darkness: "Can you sense the flow of magic in these runes or the ‘interaction’ phenomenon between the surrounding environment and the runes?"

"I can't sense it," Cassandra shook his head. "Of course it is also possible that the effective mechanism of runes is too complicated and obscure. It exceeds our level of perception of magic. You also know that the sea monster is not perceiving magic. Very good."

"...Then call everyone else in," Gawain said after a moment of silence. "Let's study and study this thing together. In addition, you continue to remove the remaining thorns around the pillars and on the ceiling. Look. Are there any more clues."

Although Cassandra has removed a large amount of biomass from the main body of the column, there are still many remaining thorn structures attached to the floor and ceiling around the column. It seems that it will take some time to clean these things. While the Krakens continued to be busy, Nicholas, Ashalena and others who remained on standby in the corridor also returned to the Hall of Shadows.

They saw the real appearance of the large pillar in the middle of the hall for the first time, and finally realized how weird this "abnormal painting style" thing is.

Nicholas floated in mid-air and slowly circled this large pillar half a circle. He knew that Gawain could "see" what happened here, but the viewing angle of the monitor was a bit limited after all, and there were some clues to the details. Wen may not be able to find out in time, it still depends on the staff on site.

And in this half circle, he really saw some details that he hadn't discovered before.

"There is a nameplate here," Nicholas suddenly said loudly, and floated somewhere on the side of the pillar. "There is a word on it, "Anchor Point Generator"... Does this seem to be the name of this big guy?"

"Anchor point generator?" Gawain frowned under his ideology. He watched the progress in the Hall of Shadows, focusing on the huge pillar that had revealed its true face and mixed high-tech and religious mystery. Above, the weird name Nicholas discovered made him think a lot of guesses, "What anchors? Why is there such a thing in the Sky Station..."

While Gawain was thinking about the newly emerged clues, Kassandra and the Krakens were also proceeding in an orderly manner in the removal of the remaining thorns structure in the hall, and gradually reached the huge end of the sea with multiple limbs. The magic form is very suitable for this kind of heavy manual labor (of course, it can also develop some side businesses such as playing the evil god, deep sea fear, thriller wave ss, etc.), accompanied by a burst of crystal breaking and the noise of a lot of thorns falling to the ground, Kashan Della made a pleasant voice: "It's done!"

In the next second, a strange buzzing sound suddenly entered everyone's ears. The buzzing sound came from the depths of the "anchor generator" in the center of the hall. It was not loud, but it seemed to penetrate everyone's thoughts. As with "penetrating power", Ashalena was the first to react. She stared at the huge pillar in the dark, and saw that the countless lines on its surface seemed to come alive in an instant. Variety!

All the stripes are moving, and all the edges begin to undulate and squirm. This horrifying and strange scene is like a weird dream, and in this short "dream", Ashalena feels that she has seen it through those changing patterns. Some...things.

Those patterns constitute words, or some kind of pictures that can directly convey information. She sees the massive amount of information frozen in it, which describes an ancient and elusive existence in a vast but vague way, and through This "description" maintains the stability of the ancient existence. She doesn't know exactly what it feels like, because the information, or "impressions" directly surfaced in her subconscious and it was like early morning in the next second. It disappeared like dew.

Ashalena rubbed her eyes and found that the patterns on the pillars were still the same. The "information" that came before seemed to be just a false memory suddenly implanted in her mind. She thought that she had continued in that weird state at least. A few hours, but judging from the scene, it seemed to be just a moment.

But what immediately followed by Berranta’s words proved that the things she “saw” at that moment really existed: “Did you see those? Ashalena, just now... the unspeakable huge information suddenly It flooded my mind, but I couldn't understand what it was..."

"I saw it too," Ashalena had an undecided expression on her face, "but I don't even know what I've'see', I just feel that I have understood some truths briefly, but those things are now Gone, only left in my mind..."

Only some empty repercussions were left, some impressions that once represented "something existed there." She witnessed things that mortals could never understand, but these things did not harm her fragile reason as a mortal, on the contrary, it was like a breeze. She wanted to say this harmlessly, but when she reached her lips she felt that this statement was too weird, and just as she hesitated, Nicholas’s voice suddenly sounded from the side, interrupting the conversation between her and Berranta. Talk: "Information? What information?"

Nicholas didn't seem to notice the change in the surface pattern of the column just now, nor did he "saw" any "indescribable shape of truth". He just felt the energy in the column alive for an instant, which was originally in a deep dormant state. The equipment was humming and waking up quickly, the terminals connected to the large columns were lit up one by one, and dim lights gradually appeared on the ceiling.

Immediately afterwards, the ubiquitous dense shadows in this hall seemed to gradually dissipate and some of them were not completely dissipated. The abnormal dim feeling still enveloped the entire space, but this dimness was obviously not as strong and depressing as before. People are nervous and uneasy, and the lights on the roof regain the sense of temperature and security. The shadow power in the hall is still entrenched, which gives people the feeling... It's like recovering from a state of extreme release of "out of control" To the state of orderly operation.

All these changes are obviously related to Kassandra and the others' activities to completely remove the "thorns".

"We seem to have repaired something here..." Nicholas said in a deep voice, his voice trembling with metallic resonance, "I can feel the energy surge in the hall, and all the equipment here is gradually awakening, the huge pillar in the center. It is the core of the whole change. The light on its surface has doubled as before. Next, I will check whether the terminals connected to it can be operated."

Gawain listened to Nicholas’ report, watching the astonishing changes that took place suddenly in the Shadow Hall, and deep in his consciousness, the “spots” and “lines” that represented the working status of the various systems of the Sky Station also quietly changed. The light spot in the Shadow Hall is obviously brighter than before, and a lot of hidden lines emerge from the fog. Through these secret connections, Gao Wen feels that he is linking to some new databases or instruction libraries. I know that some ancient permissions have been loosened. Some dusty logs are entering their own review list, and these data obviously point to this mysterious shadow hall and the unknown "anchor generator".

"Try to activate the terminal on your left front," Gawain's voice suddenly came from the top of the hall. He followed the "lines" he saw in his consciousness and began to direct Nicholas to activate the corresponding hardware in the hall. It will help him to further grasp the section that has just "woke up", "Enter the original instruction, 00-01-01-22-15-05."

Nicholas immediately began to cooperate with the action. In the past dozens of days, he has cooperated with Gao Wen countless times, and the facts have proved that this is very effective.

The terminal that had just been activated with the "anchor generator" waking up received an external input. The interface projected above it jittered. It seemed that it wanted to reset its state for a short time, but it was 1 out of a thousand times. Within seconds, Gawain's will took over the terminal and projected some of the logs stored in it that had only fragments.

At the same time, those fragmented log fragments appeared in Gawain's mind, which seemed to be some "notes" after the completion of this shadow hall, and some were like instructions left by the sailor to one or some objects.

"...The anchor generator will be activated after..., and the target individual will remain in...stable state...

"The target entity will accept the star map custodian authority after the anchor generator is activated. The system clock will be reset to zero at this time and start to run. The sky station data link will be open to the star map custodian after the clock is activated...

"It should be noted that the custodian of the star map cannot close the various subsystems and sub-authorities carried by itself after activation. This task will continue to exist until the ideal model appears and reaches the standard...

"...The link between the star map custodian and the anchor point generator is set to a high priority. Under the premise of ensuring the operation of the sky itself, in any case, priority should be given to ensuring the energy supply of the anchor point generator and the survival of the star map custodian...

"If the star map custodian dies or fails unexpectedly, the anchor point generator should be restarted immediately and reset to the custodian status. If the star map custodian is offline while the star chart custodian is alive, the anchor point generator should be locked to the pre-offline state and continue to operate, To maximize the survival of the custodian...

"If the local planetary system undergoes a permanent catastrophe, resulting in the probability of re-birth of a civilization being always zero within a calculable time scale, the project can be terminated early. If the star map custodians are still alive under this condition, then... All energy is used for launch...for evacuation mission...

"Note: The sentinel system cannot establish direct data exchange with the custodian of the star map to prevent the anchor generator from losing focus. If the anchor generator is out of focus or entering the second level... or it will cause the custodian's data to be copied and overflowed incorrectly..."

The fragmented system log ran through Gao Wen’s mind like flowing water, and the hidden information in it brought more confusion. Gao Wen searched this one that may have been dormant for hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. The ancient device, trying to find more fragments from it to piece together what he saw, but only found some completely useless sky station operation records or hardware logs, and finally he could only refocus on these flowing logs. Fragments, and saw the end of these fragments information

"... I pay tribute to the custodians of the star map, and bestow my blessings to the born and unborn beings on this planet. I wish you good luck. The star sea is vast, the universe is cold, and the road is still long, but you are not alone."

When Gao Wen finished browsing the log fragments that he had read in his mind, the advance team located in the Shadow Hall also saw the information projected over the terminal. Ashalena felt that she had rarely seen it in her life. When I was completely confused today: "What is said in this...what and what?"

"The ancient plan of the sailors to stay on this planet," Gawain's voice replied to her, which sounded low and serious, "It seems...their arrangements for staying here are not just as simple as ‘monitoring’."

"It seems that the'star custodian' mentioned above seems to rely on this thing called the'anchor generator' to maintain stability, or'maintain alive'," Berranta said. He said thoughtfully, "This mysterious existence is the core of the whole plan... But who is he? Or, what is it?"