Dawn is approaching, and deathly silence covers the city

The impermanent cold wind seemed to never stop. They echoed among the broken walls of the ruins, causing some seemingly whimpering. The whimpering echo was like the wailing of the unswerving souls buried here, making all the uninvited guests feel a burst of indesolent chill.

The torn clothes were useless, and the cold hidden in the air was directly poured into the body through the cold wind, unscrupulously depriving the two of them of their body temperature. The lake outside the city evaporated mist with a rust metal smell, and the cold contained on the inside of the liquid droplets penetrated into the air without mercy.

The ashes piled up into pieces solidified on all the exposed things, and the heavy grayish white buried most of the waste. In this city, no living plant could be seen, and the remaining trees had turned into translucent crystals before they visited.

The mysterious boy called this place a "dead" world. Now it seems that he is right. Not only this city, but all the physiological phenomena that may have existed in this place have entered death with it. Therefore, the two of them have not even discovered a single indigenous person along the way.

Curt originally thought that the so-called "apocalypse" would put everything in a crisis of dissipation, and no one could escape from the unparalleled destruction. But the corpses of this world are preserved intact, and the remaining dead city is like carrion left on the corpse.

What kind of destruction did a complete "world" be weakened to the point of tragic death? In any case, it became a desolate Dead Sea. The fields with only ash and high rocks left make people feel as if they were in the middle of the vast sea, without any hope.

A small half of the huge moon wheel sank into the horizon in the distance, and the sky in the distance was dyed a little white by the moonlight. There was no feeling of dawn at all. The dark sky was covered with strange clouds - rather, as the moon descended, the surroundings seemed to become darker.

The so-called "transaction" conditions are actually very simple, and at best it is the degree of division of labor and cooperation. The two rushed from the black tower in the center to a stone tower in the city according to the requirements of the boy, and installed the crystals containing magic to the center of the top of the stone tower; the boy was responsible for controlling their activities.

Although it is somewhat similar to the legendary "City of Thousand Pillars" of the Wikinas Sect, the tower in this dead city is obviously not as much as described in the narrative poem. The tower built in the center of each block in the city is the node of the overall structure and undertakes the operation of the magic cube array.

Unlike the central towers that were washed away by black turbid currents. These stone towers are obviously not protected by anything. The gray and hard stone has long been eroded by cold wind and frost. If you gently pull it with your hands, it will crack inch like gravel.

Inside the towering gray stone tower, it is also like a central tower, with many strange structures of different sizes. They are like some kind of long-standing mechanic structure, exquisitely set inside the building. Although most of them are only incomplete contours, it seems that they can still perform corresponding functions.

Like all cube arrays, these complex mechanic structures should assume important positions in super-giant structures built on the whole city. They are connected to their companions through roads in the city. Just like the ancient text arrays that are indispensable in every cube array, those powerful texts use magic networks to connect to each other and organize extraordinary powers that are enough to interfere with the "world".

But those "texts" that act as driving content are really difficult to interpret - no matter how hard Liqi tries to identify them, they are just some strange patterns. These things are engraved on each stone tablet inside the tower and arranged in sequence according to some strange rules.

The structure inside the tower presents a slightly depressing style, with the boulders piled up close and condescendingly looking at strangers entering the interior. Many sculptures depict creatures that have been seen, twisting their bodies to surrender to the feet of the giants and becoming their humble slaves.

The two climbed upwards along the stone steps that almost reached the height of Curt's chest. Each upward floor could feel the seriousness of the designers when building these tall towers. Although the reliefs carved on the inner wall of the tower had been severely eroded, they could vaguely see the exquisite decorations of the past from the wreckage.

"The huge ancient buildings were buried under the ashes... It's a pity to think about it like this." It took a lot of effort to reach the top of the tower, but Curt had no complaints - because the buildings here had completely attracted his attention.

He looked at the structure left on the top platform with interest, and his expression showed a hint of regret: "The people living in this city must have put in a lot of effort to build these towers, right? It was so sad that they turned into ashes overnight."

The top floor of this tall tower is quite intact. On this gear-like platform, you can still see some of the scenery of the past. The stone tablets arranged around the circular platform are decorated with exquisite carvings, and circular badges depicting a big bird flying towards the moon can be seen everywhere.

Are these heralds of some symbolic significance? Or are they actually the identity symbols of the owner of this tower? Whatever they are, in this tower with almost only gray and white rocks, only these round golden badges exudes the unique luster of metal.

A tall black rock pedestal is located at the center of the platform, with a large number of geometric patterns carved on the surface of the positive triangular shape. There is a towering metal column at each of its three corners, and the crystal chains connecting them are almost all broken remains.

Just in the center of this triangular pedestal, there is also a huge circular crystal column - different from all the stones I saw here before. It has the texture of a plant fossil, and the transparent crystal surface is full of wrinkles, but it looks extremely smooth.

Flipping over the crystal accumulation that fell on the ground, Curt gently stroked the crystal column with his hand: "Is this supposed to be what that guy calls "center"? It's indeed a device that can be seen at a glance. This sense of existence alone makes it difficult to ignore its existence."

When the young man handed the crystals to Curt, he did not specifically explain the appearance of the stone tower center, but he said mysteriously, "You will definitely recognize it when you see it" and asked them to start acting. As expected, the device on this pedestal connected all nodes without exception. As long as someone gave it sufficient energy, it might immediately start to operate and control the operation of all the mechanic structures inside the stone tower.

A circle of dull metal rings wrapped around the crystal column, with several small grooves arranged on it. Looking up, there were still some grey crystal fragments left in the grooves. It must be the key point for energy supply, just put the things that the teenagers gave them into.

If it were the indigenous people of this city, this work was just a simple act of embedding the fine crystal ends into the nodes in front of him - but for ordinary people it was not so easy. In order to embed those finger-sized pieces of crystal in the groove, Curt had to climb up the towering crystal column with his bare hands.

"What do you think is 'true' what he says?"

Seeing Curt inlaid the gray crystal into the groove on the metal ring, Liqi suddenly spoke, "You should know that my spell can only check for deliberate deception. If he thinks that he is telling the truth or avoiding certain facts, it will not react."

Using intelligence processing means to find the contradictions in the other party's words is not just a spell of "identifying lies", but rather a spell that is felt implicitly in words. In other words, if the other party's words do not have the elements of "malice", then this spell is useless.

She shook her fingers casually, and the previous cube array appeared on her fingertips again. What the boy said before did not touch the effect of this spell, so Liqi could at least be sure that the information given did not contain malicious deception - but this does not mean that the boy is trustworthy.

"Maybe less than 10%... This is still a conservative estimate."

Seeing the metal ring in front of him start to rotate slowly after being embedded in the crystal, Curt easily jumped off the cylinder and continued: "If there is no surprise, I think he just picked a few parts that seemed to be of two or three points worth in some irrelevant information and told us."

Buzzing-

The rotation of the metal ring made a tiny friction sound, and the fossil-like crystal columns of trees began to emit subtle brilliance. Under the dim glimmer, all the structures like gears and levers began to rotate slowly, and the resonance of each part was like an earthquake.

The long-stricken mechanic structure turned again after sleeping for a long time. The harsh sound made people feel extremely unhappy. The broken walls drowned under the pile of ashes were trembling slightly. Even if they wanted to play their former role, they would probably be powerless to break to such a degree.

Although many key parts were lost, the mechanic structure of this block has somewhat restored some of its operation - although this doesn't seem to be meaningful. Glitters of light emerged under the ruins, and these magical lights shone around like scattered stars.

"This is one of the key points of supplying energy... Although the gray crystal blocks that the strange guy gave us can only have a better effect than nothing."

Observing the changes under the tower condescendingly, Liqi used her fingers to outline the positions that these mechanic structures assumed when they operated with magic networks. A map of the nearby city appeared at her hand, and her fingers were fiddling with various symbols.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred.

The thick darkness surged from all directions like a tide, and the vision was compressed to its limit in the blink of an eye. The key nodes that had only had a glimmer of light suddenly became the most important light source, and the light spots scattered on the ground were instantly covered by darkness that surged from nowhere.

“Is this the so-called 'dawn'?”

Curt turned to look at the sky. The huge moon wheel had completely sunk under the horizon, but the morning light that should have been exposed had not been seen for a long time. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!

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