It has an automatic maintenance function, there is a tower spirit here, and it is even possible that there are people here all the time......

In an instant, just because of Cervantes's words, Ziegler's mind had countless associations.

He subconsciously frowned, and subconsciously fell into deep thought.

As he had sensed before, there should be no access to the leylines here, so this place should have ceased to function long ago, as Cervantes said.

The reason why the magic furnace in Wende City has only been maintained once for so long is because the Arcane Empire designed it this way when it designed the magic energy furnace, basically the magic energy furnace only needs to be maintained once every ten years, and this kind of maintenance is only to confirm whether there is any deviation in the internal structure of the magic energy furnace most of the time, as long as it is adjusted.

This is what Serena told them, for only Serena knew this among them.

This is a great violation of common sense, if there is no activity here, how can they gather resources to maintain it when the magic energy furnace or elemental furnace fails?

"Strange, so strange......," muttered Ziegler, looking up at the elevator beside him.

The hall is huge and spacious, but apart from a few elevators, there is only what looks like a service counter, and nothing else.

In Ziegler's eyes, this is a space that is really empty, and the real research institute is built deeper underground, so there is no need to have a solid foundation like a tall tower.

The hall was designed to be too wide and looked awkward.

And it was a different place than the ruins he had seen before, at least none of them had such a multi-layered structure.

It all tells them the fact that this place is different, even compared to the ruins Grush's first encounter.

The strangeness of this place even bothered Ziegler, and if they continued to explore, they might not have enough supplies on them.

They had all made all the preparations to get here, but now they suddenly realized that there was more to explore than they had imagined.

Before that, they had prepared enough water to survive even if they were trapped in this place for a while.

"I think...... We may need some support. Ziegler turned his head to look at Cervantes and proposed, "Didn't some experiments have been made in the R&D area? Now that the monsters in the Black Forest are still in a period of restlessness, and adventurers and mercenaries can't enter, how about we just apply for support?"

However, Cervantes shook his head, "I want to go down and have a look!"

Ziegler's eyelids jumped, "Are you crazy? no one knows what's down there, and if I can, I'd rather go to those two forks and wait until the support equipment arrives before continuing to explore." ”

Glancing at the red dragon, Cervantes asked a little strangely, "How is it that at this time, you, the proposer of the proposal to explore here, retreated?"

"Because I don't want to destroy everything here!" Ziegler said with a serious expression, "everything here has some research value in my eyes, and if I can, I want to lead a team to stay outside this ruin for a long time." Even though I have seen a few ruins, including one that I opened, those ruins are different from here, those ruins are only single-story structures, and the structure is relatively simple, in terms of the size of the space occupied, this ruins may be much larger than any ruins, even the ruins of studying the 'god-killing puppet' are not so huge!"

Ziegler's words reveal a lot of information, and the ruins here are larger than the others - you know, these ruins are 'research institutes', and they are buried deep underground, so you can tell at a glance that some kind of unsavory research is being done.

Such research institutes can be found in almost the entire Mendez continent, and the number of ruins that have been discovered is close to fifty.

From the Hellheath Wilderness in the extreme south to the Atoso Mountains, these ruins exist throughout the northern and southern regions of the Mendez continent.

There may be more undiscovered ruins in the Black Forest, and it is a little suspicious that the Arcane Empire did something to cause such research to be almost all over the continent of Mendes.

"Let's just say that this kind of 'elevator' mechanism, we can also make it now, but the cost is also extremely expensive, and this is after the 'Heavenly Sheep' alloy was developed, so back then, even if the Arcane Empire had a lower-cost magic alloy formula, the cost should not be low, but this place is equipped with this kind of elevator, what does this mean?" Ziegler asked rhetorically.

Without even thinking about it, Cervantes replied: "Maybe the 'elevator' is not worth mentioning compared to what is down here!"

"That's right!" Ziegler nodded, "so we have to be careful, don't act rashly, try not to destroy the things here, maybe the things down here can bring us a lot of gains." ”

Cervantes thought for a moment and thought that Ziegler was right.

"Assemble!" Cervantes shouted, calling everyone back.

His gaze swept over everyone, and he didn't notice anything unusual about them, so he continued: "That's the end of today's exploration of the ruins, now let's return to the mine, explore the two forks in the road as we go, and then wait until a few days, we'll do the next exploration." ”

Cervantes explained the situation and asked Ziegler to lead the team away, this time it was his turn to be the queen.

The team left the unusually empty hall, and before making a final departure, Cervantes glanced back.

Although he himself is not afraid of any difficulties, if he is exiled to the other world, it will be difficult to return to the world of Assatom.

Mages often place magic traps in their mage towers, and [Exile] is one of the magic traps often used by high-level mages, and this ruin does not necessarily have no magic traps, so even he needs to be careful.

After all, he doesn't know any magic himself, and if he is exiled to the Atlas, it will take a long time for Sera to find him.

On the way back, they explored two forks, only to find that they were the same as the previous corridor, which led to a door......

This is even more strange, instead of another passage at the other end of the hall, three passages were set up in the same direction, what are the arcanists who designed this institute have in their heads?

Upon returning to the mine, they immediately applied for support from Windtown, which was approved not long after.

By this time, Cervantes and Ziegler were already sitting together and discussing the strange ruins.

"What do you think there's down there?" Cervantes sat down in his chair with his hands folded, "How many floors do you think the institute has?"

Ziegler thought for a moment, "I think...... Although this institute has elevators, the Arcane Empire is different from our principality, a research institute does not need so many clerks, and the researchers should also be arcanists, so the number of people will not be too many. ”

"What exactly does that institute study...... Ziegler's eyes flickered a few times, "I think the secrecy should not be much higher than that of the research institute that studies the 'god-killing puppet', after all, outside one passage is a shallow vein, and the other two passages don't know, but it shouldn't lead to any particularly deep place, but there is an internal independent energy ...... there."

Many conditions contradict each other, so Ziegler was not able to speculate on anything.

Finally, he sighed: "Let's talk about this when the support arrives, it's useless to say anything now......"

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