Volume 13 Ancient Bronze City Ruins Chapter 631: "Inside the Tower"
"Then are you sure... this bad feeling is really a psychological effect?" Leighton asked again.
"I..." This time, Ivan hesitated.
Logically speaking, experienced relic hunters like them are very strong in mentality. Without a strong heart, they would have lost their minds when exploring those mysterious relics . The things that ordinary people fear, such as darkness, corpses, monsters, etc., can't scare them at all.
Unless these things can threaten their lives.
The existence of the sixth sense has always been a hotly debated topic in the academic community. If you post it on an online forum, it can be regarded as an evergreen topic of experience.
But unlike those experts and scholars, as well as ordinary people surfing the Internet, the vast majority of relic hunters firmly believe in the existence of the "sixth sense".
In the hunter community, there have always been many legends about "inspiration". Although "inspiration" cannot be seen, touched or heard, there are countless examples to prove that it really exists and is not just a figment of the human brain - those with higher inspiration can often see things that others cannot see and hear sounds that others cannot hear...
People who have been in and out of life and death situations for a long time, such as soldiers in field forces, will also have an inexplicable premonition of impending danger, which will be classified as the sixth sense - to use a term that is more widely accepted in academia, all "special senses" that do not belong to the five senses are collectively referred to as the "sixth sense", and "inspiration" and "signs of danger" are all subcategories under this general category.
"Can you see any clues?" Ke Lan set his sights on Ze Luo.
The latter shook his head gently and said, "My perception cannot penetrate into it."
"It's normal for us to feel this way." Thirty-three suddenly pulled the corners of his mouth and made a half-smile. "If the 'prophet' of the heretical sect is really in this tower... then this place is even more dangerous than the legendary dragon's den and tiger's lair."
"Ahem... I was just thinking that even if it's a dangerous place, I'd still go for it." Layton coughed and said, "You've blocked my way."
"Let's go, we're already here." Ke Lan waved, "We can't just go home, can we?"
"I'll lead the way," said Valentina.
The Blasphemer mecha walked steadily to the front, holding in its hand a physical shield "borrowed" from the Shield Mountain mecha of the mobile unit. This heavy tower shield was taller than the Shield Mountain itself and enough to cover the entire mecha. In the hands of the Blasphemer mecha, it suddenly became a regular-sized shield.
The Blasphemer's other hand was tightly grasping the heavy armor-piercing sword. A faint seven-color light shrouded the sword, which was a symbol that the armor-piercing sword was in a "critical state". It was ready to swing a maximum-output slash at any time.
"Be careful." Ke Lan nodded.
One of the Blasphemer's legs stepped into the darkness.
Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath, while Valentina controlled the machine to lower her upper body, holding the heavy tower shield in front of her, and took another step forward.
Half of the body has already entered the darkness that cannot be observed, but still no changes have occurred.
"Did you find anything?" Ke Lan said in the team communication channel.
"No, the monitor only shows darkness," Valentina replied.
"After entering the tower, do not move forward unless necessary. Wait where you are and wait for friendly forces to join you," Ke Lan instructed.
"learn."
The communication device used by Ke Lan and his team was not the wired cable used by the mobile forces, but a short-range laser communication device. When the Blasphemer mecha was completely immersed in the darkness, the signal representing Valentina in the communication channel suddenly disappeared.
The darkness behind the door was so thick that even lasers could not penetrate it.
Ke Lan suddenly had an indescribable feeling in his heart. He immediately shouted to a pilot operating a thruster mecha: "Come to the door, reach in, and see if you can touch the mecha that entered earlier."
If Valentina had followed Ke Lan's request and stopped moving after entering the tower, she and the Blasphemer mecha should have been blocking the door now - although from Ke Lan and the others' perspective, they could only see an impenetrable darkness.
"Yes, sir!"
The thruster that was named walked quickly to the tower door and slowly extended a mechanical arm into it.
However, the robotic arm did not encounter any obstacles until the entire two-meter-long robotic arm was completely submerged in the darkness.
"No." The pilot reported to Ke Lan, "The robotic arm did not touch any object."
"Hiss..." Leighton, who was watching closely from the side, couldn't help but take a breath, "How could it be... Logically speaking, Xiaona should be just one step away from us, how could we not touch her?"
"You, go in and find someone." Ke Lan ordered.
"Yes!" The pilot of the Thruster mecha maneuvered the mecha into the tower without any hesitation.
But soon, this thruster followed Valentina's footsteps and lost contact with the main force. Several soldiers ran forward and pulled out the communication cable that extended into the darkness, and found that one end of the cable had been cut off. The cross section of the cable, whether it was the polymer shell or the metal core, was as smooth as a mirror, with no signs of tearing.
"Damn it!" Layton cursed in a low voice, "Were they attacked?"
"Not likely." Ke Lan shook his head. "Given the performance of the Blasphemer's body, even if it was ambushed, it would not be unable to retreat..."
"Then why did the two machines disappear after entering? And the cut cables..." Layton paused halfway through his speech, remained silent for a few seconds, and then said, "Could it be..."
"It's teleportation." Ke Lan continued his words, "Behind a door is a teleportation channel. This explains why even light is swallowed by the darkness."
"...Fuck, why is there a teleportation channel in a place like this?" Ke Lan controlled Augustus to walk around the base of the core tower. "The six entrances are all the same. They are all damn teleportation channels."
"Do you think the final destination of this transmission channel is inside the tower or somewhere else?" Thirty-three said in a deep voice, looking at the dark space behind the door.
"There is another question." Ivan said, "Do these six transmission channels lead to the same place, or to several different places..."
"So what should we choose now?" The commander of the mobile force looked at Ke Lan, "In order to find the correct passage, perhaps we should split into six groups..."
"No, we can't split our forces." Ke Lan rejected it flatly. "Dispersing our forces at this time will only lead to being defeated one by one... It's better to go all out."
"What if, behind this door... at the end of this transmission passage, there is a trap?"
"Suppose we divide our troops into six groups, and one of them makes the right bet and arrives in front of the prophet, then what do you think is the difference between facing the prophet with one-sixth of our current strength and falling into a trap?" Ke Lan asked back.
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Everyone quickly reached a consensus - except for leaving a light armored vehicle and a thruster at the door to pick up the troops that would arrive later, everyone else entered the tower through the door that Valentina had passed through at the beginning.
As the actual commander of the entire team, Ke Lan and Layton's Augustus dived into the boundless darkness after two armored vehicles serving as pioneers drove into the tower.
The moment he stepped into the tower gate, Ke Lan's right hand was tightly grasping a pull ring on Augustus' back. According to the rules of the teleportation device on the Aguna Tor, as long as the teleported objects are in direct contact, they will be recognized as the same object by the teleportation channel - for example, suppose two people enter the teleportation channel hand in hand, then during the entire teleportation process, the two people can feel that each other's consciousness is in the same space; but if there is no physical contact between the two people, even if they enter the teleportation channel at the same time, it is difficult to feel the existence of the other person... even before entering the channel, the two people were only less than one centimeter apart.
This basis for judgment is not rigorous and is full of loopholes and unreasonable aspects from a scientific point of view, but in actual application, no deviation has occurred.
But this time, when Ke Lan was completely immersed in the darkness and all his senses disappeared and recovered again, he could no longer feel the things in his hands - he had passed through the transmission channel, but Augustus and Layton beside him had disappeared.
"Sure enough, the mechanism of this teleportation channel is different from the teleportation device on Yagunakotor..." This thought flashed through Ke Lan's mind.
On Yagunakotor, some people have tried to connect the teleported objects to things outside the transmission channel with cables or other ropes. Generally speaking, if the object connected to the rope is close to the transmission channel and has a light mass, it will be pulled directly into the transmission channel; but if the object is far away from the transmission channel or is simply fixed to the ground, the rope connecting the two will break, and marks similar to burning will appear at the break.
But the cables on the thruster mecha seemed to have been cut by some sharp weapon.
This means that there must be some differences in the transmission mechanisms or rules between the two transmission channels .
But what he couldn't understand was that the Gauss pistol tightly held in his other hand did not disappear.
Are only living objects taken into account... That's not right. Augustus is not a living being. Only Layton sitting in the cockpit is considered a living being. Then how does this transmission channel distinguish between the mecha and the pilot inside it?
Just as Ke Lan was thinking about these things, the space in front of him gradually brightened up - although it was not comparable to the brightness "outside the tower", it was at least no longer the pitch-black darkness as before.
"Is this... really inside the tower?" Ke Lan looked around and couldn't help but wonder this in his heart.
This was a dim space, with endless chaos above and around him, and a shallow pool of water under his feet - the water surface was just above the height of his feet and extended into the distance, covering all the ground within Ke Lan's sight.
There was dim light in this space, but he couldn't find the source of the light... The light seemed to leak out from the cracks in the dark space and merge with the chaos.
Although Ke Lan could not see the edge of this space, one thing that was certain was that the area of this space was definitely larger than the base of the core tower.
Could it be that I was teleported to somewhere outside the tower?
No... If some kind of space technology is used, theoretically it is also possible to "fold" such a world into a smaller space inside the tower...
Ke Lan couldn't come to a conclusion whether she was inside or outside the tower.
"It seems... the people who entered the transmission channel should have been separated." Ke Lan did not see any companions in his field of vision. "It seems that there is no point in dividing the troops or not."
He bent down, scooped up a handful of water, put it to his nose and smelled it, then dipped a small drop with his fingertips and smeared it on the tip of his tongue.
After being transplanted with living armor, Ke Lan's own resistance to toxins has almost reached its limit. Even if he drinks a cup of highly corrosive aqua regia, the active armor can instantly penetrate into his digestive tract to protect it and quickly restore damaged tissues in his body.
This is also the reason why .
"Is it really water?" This result surprised him a little. The water on the ground was not only non-toxic but also non-radioactive. It didn't even have the impurities and odors that most water sources on Alpha had. This was water, pure water that couldn't be cleaner.
If placed on the Ark, it can be considered as drinking water with the highest level of purification.
Ke Lan stood up and walked forward.
In this space without any landmarks, when walking forward, one would feel as if one was standing still. Fortunately, Ke Lan realized this problem at the beginning, took off the smart bracelet on his wrist, and put it back to the starting position.
He turned his head and glanced at the bracelet behind him that was shining under the water - he had just taken a total of fifty steps, and the distance between him and the bracelet was almost exactly fifty steps.
In other words, this strange space, at least in visual observation, has no deviation compared to the normal world outside.
