Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Klein and Fors stared at each other for several seconds before Fors woke up from his drowsy thoughts and realized what strange nonsense he had just said. He curled up on the ground, covering his red face with his hands.

The three of them woke up in a corner of Evernight Harbor. Leonard and Klein woke up not much earlier than Fors. Ignoring the embarrassed Fors, the two briefly checked the surroundings and returned to the room of the Earthworm Island Bar. After raising the spiritual wall, the two came back to ask Fors again. Then Fors, who had calmed down, described in detail what had come into her mind in the furniture store.

"When you took the ball off the satellite just now, I suddenly felt relieved. But after you gave me the ball, some illusions gradually reappeared. At first, they were no different from usual, but when I was running away just now, my mind suddenly exploded..."

After listening to Fors's description, Klein was thoughtful.

"Is the ball I just gave you still there?"

After taking the ball from Fors, Klein tried to open it by divination. After escaping from the furniture city, the strange and dangerous extraordinary power finally returned, and even made Klein feel at ease.

The result of the divination was a bit troublesome. This little ball was designed to never be opened again, both in terms of mystical and physical meanings. The overlapping spells and the hard metal structure made conventional solutions difficult.

But Klein, who was in an unusual state, had an unusual method. He didn't want to waste his wish-making ability for such a small matter, so he simply took out a void match and the ball, pinched them together and handed them to Leonard, relying on Leonard's power to physically open the box.

Klein was reluctant to use the Void Match to summon the Void Smoke to solve the problem, but he was still happy to use the passive effect of silence as much as possible, making the best use of it and getting as much as possible.

After the mystical protection failed, the hard shell cracked into three pieces under the huge force, and there was nothing inside.

The Star Bug that should be here is gone!

Before this, there must have been a star worm here, otherwise the fallen satellite would not have been able to operate in the furniture city for so long.

After thinking for a while, Klein put all of this together and formed some opinions of his own.

There was originally a star worm belonging to Fors in the device, which was used to ensure the stable operation of the artificial satellite in the dangerous and chaotic surface of the starry sky. At the same time, although this star worm would not participate in the mechanical work of the satellite, it might provide some "travel" capabilities, such as escaping in danger, or "transmitting" the black box that retains the data back in the event of irreversible danger.

This seems to make sense. Fors had mentioned to Klein before that he had heard of some satellites named [Rupert-EME], and some things that seemed to be operation codes, also starting with EME. All of this shows that there is a hidden crisis plan in the [Rupert's Web] satellite system. The Star Bug installed on the satellite must also be an important part. As an extraordinary creature related to the "Apprentice" path, the most typical help it can provide is "travel".

So the satellite [Rupert-CO095] that fell into the underground furniture city did not fall in the physical sense. It was running steadily on the surface of the starry sky, and suddenly encountered strong pollution erosion, triggering an emergency operation. In the normal procedure, it should return to the surface of the set position through "travel", or "transmit" the black box to the predetermined location. But the established transmission procedure went wrong, and eventually the entire satellite was transmitted to the unfortunate furniture city with pollution, and then "transmitted" the entire furniture city to the underground in a flash of explosion.

After that, the entire furniture city became a ghost town soaked in pollution from the starry sky, and [Rupert-CO095] relied on the Star Bug device to barely resist the pollution and to ensure the operation of the black box to a minimum. Until the black box and the Star Bug were removed, the old satellite finally completed its mission.

Afterwards, the Starworm device returned to Fors's hands. Although the Starworm was still in its shell, it was so close to Fors that in the desperate situation of the bone monster, Fors's despair could directly activate the remaining emergency program of the Starworm, and even directly return to the mother body, bringing all the starry sky and underground memories recorded by it for more than 300 years to Fors.

It was precisely because of this despair and return that the emergency transmission process that had been previously interfered with by pollution and could not be fully operated started to operate again. When Fors, who had recovered the star worm, contacted the old satellite that carried the program, the stagnant program was completed again and started to operate at full speed. Under Fors's will to "escape", the unfinished process was continued, and the channel for crossing the spirit world was opened again.

In this complete and closed furniture city, all the destruction and integration come from the original things inside the furniture city, as if it has become a self-proclaimed circular system. However, the old satellite carries a half-running "transmission" program, piercing this full balloon like a thorn. Perhaps because the status of this star worm is high enough, these pollutions can only affect and interrupt this "transmission", but cannot completely close the connection with the outside world. Therefore, this star worm has become a hidden door in this furniture city, a loophole that cannot be eliminated and is difficult to exploit.

However, the arrival of Fors brought the key to open this door. The will from the main body and the return of the Star Worm reconnected the interrupted transmission and pushed open this long-sealed door from the inside out.

Behind this door was the long-lost spiritual world. Obviously, Fors was not a qualified guide at the moment, and thanks to her, the three of them finally fell out of the spiritual world sideways.

Leonard agreed with Klein's series of analysis, which was well-reasoned and convincing.

Later that day, Leonard relied on Geraldine's informant resources to contact several hackers and dug up some information about [Rupert-CO095]. Due to the high cost of building underground communication equipment, most underground cities only have "Internet cafes" with stable external link signals, and Evernight Harbor is no exception. Leonard asked the hackers to send the information they got to his computer on Pinster Street and asked Pales to relay it to him. At the same time, through Pales, Leonard also deleted and harmonized the current findings on [Rupert-CO095] and reported it to Gloria. At the same time, Klein manipulated the secret doll and tried to do some divination in his apartment safe house to get information about this incident.

There wasn't much intelligence that could be obtained from this old satellite accident with closed messages, but it all matched Klein's guess, proving the correctness of his guess.

But Klein knew very well that this seemingly complete chain of thought still contained many questions, gnawing at Klein's wavering thoughts.

He fished out of his pocket a small, twisted piece of advertising paper with half a lemon cake printed on it.

If those strange and extraordinary objects were formed by the distortion of pollution; if those terrifying and pathetic skeleton monsters were also caused by the erosion of pollution; if those chaotic and disorderly buildings were also caused by the influence of pollution.

Then why, under an environment that suppressed all other extraordinary powers, were Fors and her Star Bug able to successfully restart the connection and push open the door smoothly?