Devouring Evolution Begins with Hedgehogs

The essence of life has been obtained, but the task given by the system has not been completed yet.

Liu Ergou remembered clearly that the system gave a total of three mission objectives at that time.

Explore the ruins, repair the magic circle, and a task that was not revealed at the time.

Most of the exploration of the ruins has been completed, and now there are only worthless living quarters and the garbage disposal center on the next floor that have not been explored.

However, this task of repairing the magic circle?

Along the way, apart from all kinds of wonderful machines, Liu Ergou only found the only magic circle, which was the one under his feet.

Not to mention whether the two brushes of Liu Ergou can deal with this miracle-like ancient creation;

There is, looking at the magical circuits on the floor that are often poured with mithril, fine gold, and even several rare materials that even De Lisi can't recognize.
Even if he wants to "repair", he must have money!
However, Liu Ergou looked around the entire hall.

Except for the slightly obtrusive pile of slag under the feet, the other equipment in the hall are all arranged neatly and orderly according to certain rules.

The whole hall didn't look like the kind of thing that is common in movies, where the experimental subject ran away out of control, and the researchers evacuated in a hurry, leaving a mess.

Rather, if it weren't for all the containers that were supposed to store raw materials, there were obvious traces of human removal, it would look more like leaving work here.

Turn off the water and electricity, leave the house and lock the door.

Obviously, no matter what the reason was that made the original silver elves abandon this base, at least when they evacuated, it was completely orderly.

The magic circle in the inner ring hall should also stop functioning due to lack of magic power, rather than being damaged.

Since there is no damage, there is no "repair".In other words, the magic circle that needs to be repaired is elsewhere!

Thinking of this, Liu Ergou asked De Lisi: "The black corresponds to the 'recycling facility', what is there?"

Doris shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either.

According to the log records, the expedition team actually got the news of the essence of life from nowhere, so they ventured deep into the ruins.

However, after discovering the magic circle in the inner ring hall, the only great magister in the team wanted to use his own magic power as the energy source to restart the entire magic circle!
As a result, due to the excessive amount of magic power absorbed by the magic circle, not only the magic power of the great magister was exhausted, but even the magic power circuit in his body was greatly damaged, and his life was at stake!
In order to treat the great magister as soon as possible, the expedition team hastily searched for a few pieces of elven weapons and then withdrew from the ruins.

This is also the real reason why the expedition team did not try to crack the shield.

Then, on the way out of the Sunset Mountains, the expedition team was attacked by powerful monsters, but was almost wiped out because one of the core forces, the Great Magister, was unable to participate in the battle. This is a later story.

Therefore, the original expedition team was neither interested nor had time to search carefully in this base, and naturally they didn't care much about places like garbage dumps.

"Okay, then let's go explore this garbage dump and see what we can gain." Liu Ergou made a decision immediately.

De Lisi thought for a while, and agreed to Liu Ergou's decision.

On the contrary, Tufaen didn't understand what Liu Ergou meant for a while, so he couldn't help asking: "Trash dump? What can be harvested from the trash dump?"

Liu Ergou didn't say anything, just pointed at the pile of slag beside him.

Tufaen immediately understood and nodded.

Stones from other hills, can learn.Tufaen naturally understood this reason.

Follow the way you came.The three returned to the teleportation hall.

Unexpectedly, although the small black door was extremely heavy, it was not difficult to open.

Behind the door is an elevator much smaller than the one in the storage area.Liu Ergou made a rough estimate, and it was about four square meters.

However, both the small door at the entrance and the elevator are all made of some kind of special metal that is almost black; and there is a thick sealing gasket around the crack of the door.

After studying for a while, De Lisi told Liu Ergou that although the material of this thing is still unclear, one thing is certain.

Whether it is a black metal plate or a sealing gasket, they can effectively isolate the transmission of magic power.

Opening the control panel, De Lisi pressed a few buttons on the panel based on her experience when she came here, and the elevator began to descend smoothly and quickly.

But at the moment when the elevator was going down, several hidden nozzles suddenly opened on the four walls of the elevator, and before the three of them could react, the nozzles immediately began to emit a large amount of mist!

In an instant, this elevator was filled with surging dense fog!
But the fog came and went quickly.After a few laps in the elevator, it was quickly sucked out by a few dust removal outlets in the corner.

As the last wisp of mist was sucked away by the dust removal port, the elevator stopped peacefully.

After being washed away by the dense fog, the three of them were not affected in any way except for a little panic, and they were even a little refreshed.

Some kind of cleaning procedure, presumably?Liu Ergou could only comfort himself in this way temporarily.

Stepping out of the elevator, what Liu Ergou saw was an underground cave the size of a stadium.

Unlike other facilities, the walls and ceiling of the cave are not covered with alloy plates.Instead, there are large expanses of solid rock walls.

In addition to the rock wall, every tens of meters, there is an equally solid rock pillar rising from the ground and supporting the top of the cave.

On these rock walls and pillars, Liu Ergou saw obvious traces of magical shaping.The advanced level of the Silver Elf's magic technology was once again reflected here.

Except for the rock walls and rock pillars, most of the entire cavern is occupied by a huge building shaped like an upside-down jellyfish.

The many black pipes protruding from the roof of the cave are the tentacles of this jellyfish.There are thick and thin pipes, and there are many in number.Liu Ergou roughly counted the number, and there were as many as four digits!

And these pipes go all the way down, and finally converge into a huge spherical building. This spherical building is the body of this jellyfish.

At the bottom of the cave, a quite wide and quite fast-moving underground river is rushing non-stop along the built river channel.

The water waves beat against the river bank, stirring up bursts of water mist in the air, making the whole cave very refreshing.

In the middle of the river, the banks on both sides bend and stretch toward one side respectively, forming a clear lake.The lower part of the spherical building is submerged in this lake.

In the center of the spherical building, there is another rather thick white pipe, which stretches straight to the top of the cave and sinks deep into the rock wall.

In addition, there are dozens of parallel black pipes on the rock wall downstream of the underground river.These pipes are quite thick, and at the end of the pipes, there is a row of oval tanks.

Several pipes protrude from one end of the tank, connecting to the spherical building in the center; at the other end, there are also several pipes that go straight into the river.Similar to the sorting "cubes" in the storage area, the entire spherical building is also completely covered by alloy plates, but replaced with black metal similar to the elevator.

In front of the three of them, a rock bridge pointed straight to the spherical building, and at the other end of the rock bridge, there was another door that was also black.

This door seems to be the only entrance and exit of the spherical building.

The rock bridge is in the same direction as the underground river, and it is built directly above the river.So as soon as the three of them stepped on the rock bridge, they immediately felt the moist and cool wind blowing across their faces.

As expected of the elves who claim to be the children of nature, Liu Ergou couldn't help feeling that even a garbage disposal station can be built like a riverside park.

In fact, the staff of the recycling center really liked to take a walk on the rock bridge in their spare time.

After walking across the rock bridge, Liu Ergou and the others came to this black gate.

Like the small door in the teleportation hall, the method of opening this door is not complicated, basically no different from operating an elevator.

However, it seems that due to lack of energy, this huge black door opened very slowly.After starting for 5 minutes, it slid along the track and opened a gap that was as wide as one person.

On either side of the gate, there are platforms attached to vertical rails that appear to be some sort of elevator.

And De Lisi boldly, lying on the edge of the rock bridge and looked down, found that at the bottom of the two lifts, there was a floating pier floating on the artificial lake.

As soon as they stepped into the gate, the three of them were so shocked by the scene in front of them that they couldn't speak!
At the feet of the three of them was a rather huge hall.In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a square.Because it is the ground extending from the foot that divides the entire spherical building into two!
Just this huge space is enough to make the three of them lose their minds!And the scene under his feet made Liu Ergou even suffocate for an instant!
The entire floor is made of some special material, but it is completely transparent!
Below the floor, that is, the lower half of the spherical building, several huge pipes penetrate the hemispherical metal wall, and are neatly arranged in a circle near the dome near the transparent floor.

And at the bottom of the spherical shell, a metal column almost like a tower stands in the center, with eight metal arms stretching out towards the surroundings.

At the end of each metal arm, there is a huge brush-like structure that is tightly attached to the spherical shell.And whether it is the tower pillar or the metal arm, there are extremely complicated magic circles engraved on it!

Liu Ergou didn't know that if he could crack the shield protecting the essence of life without destroying the magic power circuit, then he would see a miniature version of the magic circle in front of him on the stone platform below.

Generally speaking, the lower half of the entire spherical building is like a huge frying pan with its own mixer; and Liu Ergou and the other three are like three ants lying on the side of the pot at this moment.

It is conceivable that when this recycling center is fully operational, what a magnificent sight it will be!
Looking around, there is a disc-shaped structure penetrating the floor every other distance on the floor, and connecting the two sides of the floor at the same time.

And from the bottom of each disc, a pipe embedded in the floor protruded, connecting with a high platform in the center of the hall.

It was these structures that provided a reference for the three people's vision, which allowed the three people to barely restrain their minds.

Otherwise, standing on this transparent land and looking down at the majestic giant structure with a depth of [-] meters and a width of even a thousand meters, it will really make people feel that they are about to fall into this abyss immediately!

Barely controlling their minds and keeping themselves from looking at the scenery under their feet, the three of them tremblingly walked to the edge of the high platform, their legs were weak all the way.

When looking from the doorway, this high platform does not seem very conspicuous; compared with the sea of ​​nothingness under the feet, this high platform is like a flat boat.

And when the three of them walked to the side of the high platform, they realized that it wasn't that the high platform was too small, but that the spherical building was too big!
Even the "flat boat" in front of me is 50 meters square!
On this high platform, there is also a magic circle engraved.However, unlike the complicated magic circle on the huge tower below, the structure of this magic circle is quite simple, but the construction idea is very novel.

Observe, analyze, discuss, verify.At this moment, Liu Ergou and De Lisi are like two scholars obsessed with the mysteries of magic.

Soon, the two came to the conclusion that the purpose of this magic circle is only one, which is to "comb" the disordered energy into an orderly state, and then direct quantitative output.

As for where the output energy goes, a straight upward pipe in the center of the circle has already explained the answer.

However, the function of this magic circle is only to "sort out".

Judging from the huge machines under their feet, it is obvious that the waste in the base is transported here in a unified way, and then converted into energy by some method.And then achieve the purpose of recycling.

However, the magic energy recovered by this method will inevitably have various attributes due to the difference of the original material.And judging from the design of the high platform, this magic circle does not have the ability to transform or eliminate attributes.

Therefore, Liu Ergou speculated that there must be other structures in the upper half of the spherical building to realize the conversion or elimination of magic attributes, and the facts were just as he guessed.

However, since he didn't find any way to the first half, Liu Ergou had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​going up to find out, and instead studied the high platform magic circle with peace of mind.

After studying for a while, Liu Ergou also had some clues.

In fact, this magic circle can be divided into two parts.The former has the function of absorbing surrounding energy, and the source of energy is naturally all kinds of garbage recycled and decomposed in the second half.

Even without the energy provided by the second half, this absorbing circle can still slowly absorb the discrete magic energy in the atmosphere; and the endless underground river in the cave has undoubtedly continued to bring energy to this place in the past long years. Come new energy.

The function of the latter is to sort out the energy absorbed by the former, convert it into preliminary controllable energy, and then transport it to the magic circle in the upper half for further purification.

Thinking of this, Liu Ergou and De Lisi also understood.The reason why the essence of life in the experimental hall can grow very slowly even when the alchemy circle is not in operation is probably due to the energy slowly replenished by the recycling center for thousands of years.

However, because channeling energy will cause significant pressure on the magic power circuit, and there has been no maintenance here for thousands of years, this part of the magic power circuit has been completely melted down, and the energy conversion has stopped at an unknown time.

What Liu Ergou wants to repair should be this part of the magic circle.