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Chapter 812 Scarlet Garden (4800)

From the second floor 'Twilight Shelter' to the third floor 'Scarlet Courtyard', you need to go through the 'Garden Ladder' located in the center of the shelter.

That is a large central elevator, which can carry nearly a thousand people and a large amount of supplies up and down at the same time. Digging the hole with brute force, the solidified rock layer nearly a kilometer thick will take a lot of effort and time even if it is at the third energy level.

After all, the first two floors of the Alien Research Institute are essentially civilian facilities, a shelter designed to survive the end of the day, while the third floor and below are the real 'Alien Institute'.

It's just that something went wrong with the courtyard ladder after thousands of years... I don't know if it's a low energy supply or a program error. Now it needs to stop for several hours once it runs.

Theoretically speaking, the exploration team that arrived at the courtyard stairs first could take advantage of this opportunity to widen the gap with other exploration teams—a few hours back and forth, and half a day passed. There will be conflicts and fights, and that will waste time.

If the negotiation is done well, it’s okay for everyone to go down together... If it’s still a team to go down separately, then by the time the last team enters the third floor, the first one to enter has already explored for two or three days.

In short, the team that reaches the courtyard stairs first will undoubtedly have the greatest advantage.

unless……

There are teams cheating.

"Our Ember Lantern Department has discovered another way to reach the third floor directly without waiting."

After the prosthetic body of the King of the Mountain left, Anfa used the dragon soul to communicate with Ian and Xiou—and Ian relayed it to Ethan through the "light communication" in his eyes, and the four of them used concealment so that they would not be discovered by the communication broadcast. Method exchange: "Not far away, there is an ordinary-looking building. There is a small independent elevator in the basement on the ground floor of this building, which also goes straight to the third floor of the bloody courtyard."

"It should be a key facility of pre-epoch civilization, and it should not be accessible to ordinary people, but now, it has become a shortcut for us!"

For cheating, Anfa is not at all uneasy or guilty. Rather, she believes very much that other exploration teams must have their own cheating methods.

Go the right way?What a joke, who is playing with you within the rules? Our exploration team of the big power is going to play with forces outside the rules!Otherwise, where are the advantages of these big forces?

"Indeed. Without cheating, a team acting alone like ours is no match for the roughly formed Empire and Heavenly Royal Court brigade."

Ian quite agrees with this.

At this time, Ian had taken back the source quality chip on the central base of the Twilight Shelter and handed it over to Anfa for safekeeping.

This thing is really too sensitive. Even though Ian has confirmed that the dark gold dragon does not have the authority to locate himself through the chip, for the sake of safety, he will never give the other party any chance to touch the silver chip and discover his true identity!

As for whether the time of the twilight shelter needs to be adjusted back...

Don't you think it's cool to keep your shelter under the evening sunset light all the time?
This is Ian’s aesthetics. A good ancient ruins must be in this dilapidated, dimly lit, almost extinct tone—what do you have to do to make it so clear and sunny in all seasons? It must have an atmosphere of decadence and ending , it seems that everything will fall into the dusk!

Others didn't care much about this, and Ian couldn't help feeling that they were all young people who didn't have their own aesthetics.

On the way to the shelter building with a small elevator, there are also many scattered alien beasts, such as alien slime monsters made of venom, radioactive substances, and corrosive liquids, deformed meat ball beasts that constantly spew black smoke, and tailed monsters. The blade has a highly poisonous mutant serpent... These monsters seem to have no dragon blood, but in fact, they are all dragon blood transformations.

The ooze monster uses the vitality of the dragon's blood to take care of so many poisons and use them for its own use; the distorted meat ball that spews black smoke is essentially a failed attempt to simulate the breath organ of a real dragon, but even so The breathing organ came alive alone, as if the aberrant sarcoma had come to life.

As for the last big snake... it's all snakes, isn't it a dragon!
These scattered beasts don't need Ian to take action, Isengard can solve them all by himself, which can be regarded as training the young master's actual combat ability.

Not to mention the results—maybe it was because Ian and Yisen practiced swords against each other too many times in the imperial capital, and the young master who knew nothing about this aspect is really good at fighting, and he only relies on the second level His physical fitness and one-handed swordsmanship have eliminated all the enemies!

Soon, everyone arrived at the ordinary building mentioned by Anfa.

"Anfa..."

After entering the basement of the building, Ian couldn't help sighing: "This is the passageway for the treatment of experimental objects in the civilization of the pre-epoch—you see, the iron cabinets next to it are low-temperature freezers used to store internal organs and corpses... This place is a corpse treatment The factory is not auspicious."

"It turned out to be like this..." Inwardly, he deducted a few points for the prophet who told the truth out of time, Anfa didn't change his face on the surface: "Then let's change the way and go to the courtyard stairs?"

"of course not."

Ian looked around with great interest, and said firmly: "According to my experience, if the third floor is really the research area, then the failure test product processing room must not be far from the research institute—that is our core goal! "

After finishing speaking, Ian took the initiative to walk into the small elevator - the dragon's blood test is also required here. After all, the failed test product must need dragon's blood, as well as the relevant team leaders, so it can be regarded as an easy pass.

Alien Research Institute, the third floor.

【Scarlet Garden】

The Scarlet Garden sounds like a courtyard filled with blood, and it seems to have a sense of poignant horror, just like the garden made of blood and human bones in the castle of the Demon King, it has an incredible beauty of hunting.

But in fact, the reason why it is so named is very simple.

"Aren't these all red warning lights?"

As soon as I got out of the elevator, Ian, who came to the street on the third floor, complained: "The first floor is sunny, the second floor is dusk, and the third floor is bloody - I thought it was so wonderful, but I didn't expect it to be a simple red alert ah?"

As Ian said, the reason why the third floor of the Scarlet Garden is full of blood is because the place is still continuously reporting error warnings, and you can vaguely hear extremely inferior warnings that have changed in pitch in the distance... and the reason why it is the courtyard , because there are a lot of research institutes on this floor, and the research institutes are dotted with their own experimental open spaces, just like courtyards.

"Communication cut off." "Contact cut off!"

Unlike Ian, who only cared about the third-tier painting style, Isengard and Xiou discovered the really important changes immediately - one of them couldn't get in touch with Master Gosai and Prince Carlos, and the other couldn't get in touch with himself Mom is on.

"Hmm. From the third floor of the Scarlet Courtyard, it is basically impossible to communicate with the outside world."

Anfa nodded slightly, she raised her finger and pointed to the rock top supported by the iron mesh dome: "There is a nearly 1000-meter-thick 'shielding layer' between the second and third floors. The natural barriers set up by Era civilization to prevent out-of-control experimental subjects from easily reaching the outside world also happened to deal with the spiritual energy radiation of the catastrophe of falling from the sky."

"Because of this, in the Scarlet Courtyard, there are many 'chips' that still have the research data of the civilization of the previous era... The chips on the first two floors have been washed by powerful spiritual energy and can no longer be used, while the chips on the third floor However, there are still many storage devices with precious information in them!"

There is no doubt that this is the real purpose of the major forces to summon dragon blood and send people to the third floor!The technical reserve of pre-epoch civilization is enough to affect the national power of a country and the key thing that can greatly strengthen one's own sublimation. Research institutes and gains of this level must not be given up!
"Only the most basic link is left. Make sure that the equipment on us still exists and is not broken."

Anfa checked the broadcast camera on his body and found that there was indeed no way to transmit any information, so he smiled and looked at Ian: "Now you can use your full strength."

"I hope." Ian smacked his lips instead, not looking forward to it: "If I really use all my strength...it's hard to say it's a good thing or a bad thing."

Hearing this sentence, Xiou was still a little ignorant, and Anfa and Yisen couldn't help laughing after being stunned for a while: "This way of bragging... is really fresh and refined! Also, the enemy who can make you go all out to attack makes you laugh." We met, but it was really a little dangerous."

It's more than a little dangerous... In fact, when everyone descended to the third floor, in Ian's vision, everyone's color turned bright red.

Of course, this is not stained by the warning lights, but there is really a bloody disaster.

——Under my protection, there can be bloody disasters, and the danger of the Alien Research Institute really lives up to its reputation.

Thinking of this, Ian also had a deeper understanding of the "deception" that Prince Carlos said... Yes, the prophet is not omnipotent, as long as he is in a dangerous enough place, every step he takes is the result of his own prophet. This is definitely not a problem that ordinary prophets can solve.

Although His Royal Highness Carlos did not say a few words that were not tentative truths, but now it seems that they are really kind, reminding himself of the difficulties of this young prophet.

Shaking his head slightly, Ian took out the Mithril transmitter from his pocket.

"Wait, Ian, are you really going to post?"

Anfa, who was identifying the way and was about to take everyone to the place where she found the source chip in the past, noticed the young man's movements. She couldn't help being stunned, and then hurriedly raised her hand and waved in front of Ian's eyes: "You don't really intend to go along with it?" Inspired by Uncle Jafta's wishes? Do you really want to cooperate with him?"

"how?"

Lifting his eyes from the transmitter, Ian raised his brows: "You hate your uncle so much? Jin Deng and the Yinmen family have been allies for many years, and there should be nothing to hide from each other."

"The Yinmen family is trustworthy, but Yafoda is not."

Anfa said seriously, with a serious look on her face: "My uncle is fickle and untrustworthy, as long as you don't sign a contract with him, he can deceive you without guilt... But listen to you, Ian, you didn't tell me Uncle signed the contract, right? If that's the case, your deal won't count at all!"

"Listen to me, Ian, my uncle is really crazy. He may have been crazy decades ago...I even know that it was he who leaked the information about my trip to South Ridge, which caused the candle holders to chase after me!"

At this moment, Anfa uttered this confidential information, and it was precisely because the communication on the third floor was completely cut off that she had the courage to guess... After all, this Uncle Yafoda is the president of the Great Council, and even more so the Yinmen family. So what if it is really him who is doing tricks in the dark?Others have no room to resist!

"You made a mistake, Anfa."

In this regard, Ian just smiled slightly: "I knew Yafoda's purpose from the beginning-my only thought was actually to know how he achieved his purpose. So I don't mind helping him."

"What... what?"

At this moment, Anfa looked bewildered.

She can somewhat understand why talking to a prophet can make people's blood pressure...Because the prophets in this world can see too many things, and no one knows how far they can reach-no one likes a person who has no chance Guy who sees all of himself for no reason, not to mention he's a riddler.

"Your uncle, the real purpose is actually very simple."

Ian looked around at the other three people present, and he said calmly: "What he wants is nothing more than a 'hunt'."

"Anfa, when Canaan Moore was at its peak, there were only three fifth energy levels, right?"

"Yes." Anfa nodded slightly, and the elf girl pondered for a while before she understood: "When Canaan Moore was at its peak, there were only two top blood... and the third one was actually an accident. The successor of other Makoto, and the Makoto was completed by him before advancing to the fifth energy level... Wait, this is what you mean by hunting?!"

"That's right, the fifth level. The blood of the crown. It's not the same thing."

Ian muttered to himself for a while, then raised his head, and explained to everyone: "Obviously, the National Domain Department has chosen its own successor, and the fifth energy level of the Aoba Department is still young—these two The big clan has occupied enough time for the blood of the top seat, hasn't it?"

Anfa was silent.But silence is also an answer, which makes the boy's expression more cheerful: "So, I understand what the chairman of Yafoda is going to do. The only question is how much he knows about this relic... He is definitely not only 'Ever explored' this level."

"I even guessed..." Ian said softly, "He has something to do with the 'Maze Lord'!"

There is no need to use your brain to speculate on these.Yafoda has obviously been to the third floor, which is why Ian was given this special communication device. In fact, according to official records, Yafoda has never been here at all-this proves that he has his own channel , You can come to the depths of the Alien Research Institute.

And the existence that can make an existence at the peak of the fourth energy level frequently come to the depths of a ruin that is completely cut off from communication with the outside world, seriously prepare something, and even cooperate with the master of the maze... His goal is obviously not the other first level. Four energy levels.

"Ministry of State..."

Anfa whispered to himself at this moment: "It must be the ancestor of the Ministry of Land... Is uncle's target?! But this is too crazy, how can he do it?!"

"Who knows. I don't really understand the internal struggles of your elves"

Ian was noncommittal, he had finished thinking at this moment, checked the communicator, and then pressed the start button to launch-this even made the blood on everyone's bodies fade a lot.

It was precisely because of seeing this future that Ian dared to act so decisively with all his companions by his side.

At this moment, an invisible signal burst out, and even the peak of the fourth energy level may not be able to detect it. Only Yafoda, who had prepared early in the morning and waited for the signal, could understand it immediately.

"Hmm...Is it Ian and Anfa? This speed is too fast!"

The speaker, who was confronting the other fourth energy levels, turned his head sideways, thinking: "It seems that his strength is really not simple, even with the assistance of Anfa, being able to reach the third level at this point in time is enough to prove that Their strength!"

"However, it's still early. He's too fast, which may cause hidden dangers. There are several other signals that need to wait for the opportunity to activate one by one..."

Thinking of this, the head of the Yinmen family smiled and continued to confront the other strong men.

the third floor.

"Okay, the mission is over."

Putting the mithril transmitter back in his arms, Ian ended his fugue state, and then smiled and said to his friends: "What else do you find? If not, we will set off!"

Originally, Ian never thought that everyone would have any additional information, but Xiou's doubtful voice sounded at this moment.

"There's something wrong with this place, Ian."

Looking around, the red-haired Dragon Goddess felt a bit chilly, she frowned, and looked around in a state of disbelief: "Do you feel... the entire Scarlet Garden seems to be covered by a strange phenomenon?"

"Oh?" Ian paused, and he immediately sensed the phenomenon of the entire Scarlet Courtyard seriously.

Then, the young man said with serious eyes: "Yes, Xiou is right. This place is indeed weird! The virtual world is actually vibrating, and there is even a tendency to form a labyrinth of subspace, overlapping with the real world!"

"Everyone, be careful... the entire third floor is probably as dangerous as the Avak Land in the west of the empire—or even more dangerous!"

　On the last day, ask for a monthly pass!

Try to write more next month, I will also work hard!
　
(End of this chapter)