Chapter 978: Exploring the Fourth
After stepping out of the elevator, Cervantes appeared in front of them a large silver-white space, but here, not far ahead, there was a complex of buildings.
There are no walls around them, and they can see the end of the space wherever they look to the left and right.
However, this level is obviously not as simple as the previous one, in addition to the building complex directly in front of them, there is also a building complex on the left, that is, in the direction of the passage.
These buildings are scattered in this huge silver-white space, and they look quite ugly, and I don't know why the Arcane Empire is built like this, is it possible that their aesthetics are still different?
Cervantes led the group into the complex ahead, only to find that there were no signs inside, neither 'street' nor houses.
Not to mention that every Arcanist can pinpoint where they should go, this kind of thing is impossible!
"That's weird......" There was a small discussion behind him, and Cervantes didn't prohibit communication between them, because they didn't know what the trigger mechanism was, and they needed to use all kinds of means to try to trigger something.
Compared to the scattered clusters of buildings, the 'streets' here are neatly planned, and you can see the other end at a glance.
After thinking about it for a while, Cervantes decided that he couldn't continue to look for clues here, so he gave a second order to the team members, "In a group of four, three soldiers and one mage, try to open the surrounding houses and go in to see what's going on inside!"
The members of the team quickly moved into action, and Cervantes also found a random house and pushed the door, only to find that the gate was locked.
But he looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't find anything on the door that might be a 'lock', and then he looked at Ziegler on the other side, and Ziegler opened his eyes at this time.
Helplessly patting the door in front of him, Ziegler sighed: "Tear it down......"
As soon as he finished speaking, a loud noise came from the side, attracting the attention of the members of the group, but they could only watch in amazement as their lord entered the house from the direction where there was a gap in the gate.
After a while, another loud bang was heard, and Ziegler also removed the door in front of him and stepped inside.
But when he walked into the house, he frowned.
This house has two floors, and at the end of the left side is the stairs leading up to the second floor, but in this house, there is nothing.
The table was fixed to the floor, as were the chairs, there was no kitchen, but there was a toilet, and when he went up to the second floor, he could see that several rooms were divided, and he pushed the door open and went in and looked at it a few times, and found that they were the bedroom, the study, and the 'bathroom'.
It looks like a single dormitory, and the bathroom has running water and showers, but there is no water coming out when it is twisted open.
However, there are no personal belongings and no traces of life here......
Walking out of the dormitory, he found Cervantes already standing outside the house, walked over and exchanged discoveries with him, and the result was unsurprisingly 'identical'.
The same single dormitory, but there is no trace of life either.
The other teams were unable to dismantle the gate, even if the mages used spells, the gate could not be corroded, and it had a 'demon-weary' nature, all elements and mana would inert on approach, and although it would not collapse directly, spells with limited power would not be able to open the door.
Not just the gates, but also the walls of these houses.
Was this to stop the struggle between the Arcanists, or to minimize the losses incurred in the struggle between them?
The red dragon and the black dragon looked at each other and decided to move on to the next complex to continue their observation.
The houses here look exactly the same, and both houses are like that, so the other houses don't have anything to look at.
As expected, this was supposed to be the researchers' dormitory, but for some reason, all traces of their lives here seem to have disappeared.
And this ruin looks intact, a little different from the others, there is no sign of a battle here...... Maybe there were, but now it's all gone.
The building materials used in these dormitories are different from those used in other places, because the walls of these dormitories are 'disgusting', and this is a research institute, and they can feel the breath of magic in the door they enter and the long passage, so this should be a special place.
Cervantes led the group to the next complex, a silvery-white space like a hall on the previous floor, a cuboid close to a cube.
On the same 'width', only one building complex is located, and this dormitory complex is already the rightmost building complex, and the only way to get to the next complex is to go in the direction they came.
It took them about ten minutes to walk from one complex to the next, and looking at the time on his pocket watch, Cervantes frowned slightly.
Surprisingly, when they walked to the next complex, they found that there was a 'farmland' in what looked like a 'factory'!
Yes, on the far right was the dormitory, and instead of seeing where the real research facilities were, they found the farmland here.
Cervantes thrust his finger into the black soil, and his brow furrowed even deeper.
"Wet ......," he whispered.
"This ...... It's not surprising either. Ziegler took a breath and then shook his head, "After all, it's 'synthetic air', which can ensure the humidity of the air, so it's not a strange thing to moisturize the farmland......
"But isn't that the problem?" Cervantes stood up, shook his arm, and his gaze grew cold, "Let's go, let's go to the next house!"
There is no trace of life here, not even the land.
None of the plants are planted here, and they walked through all three 'factories'.
It's strange why, more than 800 years later, the farmland is still moisturized, and according to magic detection, the land is rich in nutrients...... But it's completely enclosed!
The magic that creates nutrients for the lands is complex and can only be used by transcendental mages with advanced spellcasting abilities, and even transcendental mages cannot provide so many nutrients to these lands at the same time.
To feed these lands, you need at least eight transcendent mages for a day to have all the spell slots, after all, this is not a low-level spell.
The complex was large, much larger than the dormitory complexes they had explored before, and Ziegler calculated that the farmland would have enough to meet the daily needs of five hundred people if it had been used to grow crops.
After a moment's discussion, they moved on to the next complex, which, according to their assumption, was supposed to be a breeding farm.
Everything here is as clean as new, and many of the seemingly advanced facilities have not been seen by the mages and soldiers of this era, and only Cervantes and Ziegler are not so surprised.
The Arcane Empire is just like today, and the Arcanists choose to incorporate spells into their lives, but only to serve them, without imagining that they should serve civilians.
But everything here is subverting their usual perceptions, and the Arcane Empire seems to have taken this path, but not so completely.
Dormitories, farms, farmlands, ...... A fully enclosed institute?
"I had a bad feeling. Before heading to the next complex, Cervantes said suddenly.
Ziegler took a deep breath, "Are you too......"
However, they didn't hesitate too much and walked straight to the next complex.
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