Chapter 1114: City of Angels
After Aurelia awoke, we solved a lot of things that had been bothering us before, including teleportation issues in various Lost Worlds. Before that, we can only wait for the opportunity to teleport to the Lost World Realm, and honestly wait for the shuttle according to the "Cycle Calendar" of the mother continent, and Aurelia brings us not only the knowledge of the ancient Hiling Empire, but also the positioning coordinates and guidance codes of various imperial facilities, as long as we have the coordinates of these imperial facilities, we can directly teleport to the corresponding Lost World Realm - according to statistics, about one-third of the Lost World Realm has imperial facilities, Our goal, of course, is the third of the Lost World, and the remaining two-thirds are left unattended, and they will not be affected in any way during the activation of the home planet.
Of course, the teleportation coordinates to the Dragon Kingdom are needless to say, it is the Forgotten Garden, this ancient Xiling City that has been hidden in the conceptual layer has been open for a long time, and we directly teleported over, and the teleportation exit is the square in front of the assembly hall.
Sagina and Sona, as well as Lilina and Vanima, should have stayed in the mother continent, after all, they were still busy with the religious activities of the whole world, but the attraction of the name of the city of angels was too great, they all wanted to come over to open their eyes, and it happened that the missionaries from all over the world would not have any major problems themselves, so we brought the four of them with us, so this was another group dispatch.
As soon as I stood in the square in front of the assembly hall, I felt that this place was a little different from when I left before, so I couldn't help but look around, and suddenly I noticed that the tops of many buildings were emitting a faint light, and the crystal facilities that seemed to be dim a few days ago were also emitting a soft light, in short, it gave people the feeling that the city seemed to be resurrected.
There was a very soft, musical, but indescribable tone in the air, and I still remember that it was what I had heard when the Forgotten Garden first appeared, it is said. It's the system sound that is characteristic of the large facilities on the mysterious side of the Empire - well, I have to say that this sound is a little better than the humming of spectral devices, although the latter sounds quite impressive.
"The Garden of Oblivion is gradually activating, and at the same time as the City of Angels is released, it will also be restarted, and now sixty percent of the city's functions have been restored," Aurelia said to us, floating in the air not far ahead, pointing to the surrounding city buildings. "However, the city is mainly used as an administrative center, and the scientific research and production facilities are not here, so the activated buildings are not used for the time being, only the central control hall of the city is somewhat useful. I've been working there for the past few days. ”
I nodded in understanding. Aurelia has been busy traveling between several Lost Worlds and the Mother Continent these days, and sometimes brings Alaya or some of the five members of the Protoss to help, and the rest of us...... All right. In terms of cutting-edge occult techniques, even Sandora is semi-literate, so she can only stay in the Holy Capital to tease the children.
Aurelia said, suddenly floating over, adding, "The energy supply of the Forgotten Garden was not sufficient at first, but fortunately, this problem was solved by the siblings Ilson and Monina, and I want to thank them specifically." ”
I suddenly showed a look of surprise, and looked at the two Divine Realm envoys who usually just ate with me (if I don't say that you probably forgot that this brother and sister still have such identities): "Okay, you still have research on the magical energy equipment of the Xiling Empire?" ”
"Anyway, the Light is universal energy. I'm the best at the Holy Light, and we're just giving the city core the energy to restart," Ilson smiled very much, his expression full of self-satisfaction, "Brother and sister and heart work together to break the gold." ”
Shallow asked curiously: "How did you get it?" Monina will also be of the Holy Light? ”
Monina shrugged: "Tie my brother to the furnace of holy light, and I'll cheer on the side." ”
Me: "......" I knew that this was actually the case! And that's the only way it can be......
"Where is the City of Angels? Where's the City of Angels?! Lilina was not interested in the topic of Monina's strange siblings, so she jumped up again and again, shouting to see the City of Angels, and Aurelia pointed to the sky: "It's there." The Garden of Oblivion is 17 kilometers in the air. ”
Only then did everyone notice. The skies of this space are much higher than the last time we arrived—as Aurelia said, when new Imperial Facilities appear in the space. The available space has been expanded. And in the clouds, which were already farther away, we saw a complex of shadowy buildings in the sky.
"Wow!" Shallow suddenly let out an exclamation, and then without saying a word, he pulled me towards the sky, a group of people followed, a distance of more than ten kilometers in an instant, we flew to the clouds in a moment, looking at the magnificent scenery in front of us, holding our breath - only the two of Sakina and Vanilla were panting, and the flight just now was a little exciting for them.
We had seen the shattered City of Angels in the different dimensions of the Assembly Hall, but we didn't expect it to be so amazing when it was reassembled and complete - if the Battlefortress made by the technological side of the Xiling Empire was shocking with the power of steel and the beauty of technology, then the City of Angels was intoxicating with a sacred and fairy tale atmosphere.
We searched for a while over the City of Angels, found a white-gold tower at the top, which had pierced through the clouds, and landed on the half-moon suspension at the top of the tower. From here, you can look down on the city of angels, and you can see the magnificent scenery: huge spires floating in the air are high and low in the clouds, without any regularity, as if they are arbitrary, but with an indescribable harmony and grace, and between the towers, you can see the cloud-covered aerial corridors and large areas of hanging buildings, most of which are connected to each other by suspended ramps or stairs, but some buildings are obviously floating independently in the air. Perhaps the only way to get there was by flying or teleporting - only angels would get used to such a place. Seventy or eighty percent of all the buildings in the City of Angels are the giant floating towers and circular crests, which are probably the most beloved architectural forms of the Angels of Hilling: Alaya stood next to me, her eyes already shining with joy. Like the Forgotten Garden, the architecture here follows the usual style of the Mystical Side, elegant, elongated, reaching out to the sky, with a predominantly white colour palette and only gold lines at the edges of the building. On the exterior walls of the building, large pieces of blue crystal are inlaid with them.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought that such a city would only be something that would have appeared in fantasy.
As far as I could see, I saw that on the outskirts of the complex, between the towers and the platforms, floated unusually large wall structures, those with curved surfaces, also inlaid with energetic sappherstones, and at the top of which were wide, parapetless ramps, and Alaya seemed to be a little distracted by them. stared blankly into the distance, and only raised his arm for a long time: "Brother Sovereign, I want to go up for a walk......"
"What you see is the Eastern Angel Wall," Aurelia's voice was full of reminiscences, "In the past, I used to patrol the ramps of the Angel Wall with Lord Alayya. Check the growth of the new core - you can see those huge crystals embedded in the wall, in fact, inside each crystal is a plastic energy field, the Angel Wall is a huge set of energy harvesting and conversion devices, it infuses complex energy and data from various buildings into the energy crystal, and creates the angel core inside, which is our original form, a ...... An aggregate of light that is difficult to describe in words. There are dedicated 'caretakers' who collect these cores and send them to the tower at our feet, where they are catalyzed for a while. New angels will be generated. Now, however, the production system has been shut down. ”
"Brother Sovereign, I want to go up for a walk......" Alaya repeated again, pulling my arm.
I smiled at her: "Go ahead, be careful not to fall......"
"It's okay, the City of Angels is built at an altitude of more than ten kilometers, and even if you fall, you will have enough reaction time to fly again." Aurelia seemed to be laughing, her voice full of pleasure.
Me: "...... "Is this designed specifically for Alayya?"
Sister Angel spreads her wings and happily flies towards the Eastern Angel Wall in the distance. She usually falls when she walks on the ground. Flying in the cloud city showed a dexterity and agility that I couldn't believe, hovering over the spires with ease. Rounding the clouds, through the fog, and then landing steadily on the far walltop ramp, almost as a tiny dot, waving at us, Lynn bowed her head in shame...... The reasons are well known.
"This is the East Angel Wall, is there a West Angel Wall, a South Angel Wall or something?" Asking curiously, Aurelia shook her head slightly, "No, it's only the East Angel Wall." Shallow was stunned: "Huh? ”
"The Angel Wall is the general name for the Angel Core Shaping Plant, and the name of this Shaping Factory is 'East.'" Aurelia explained in a flat tone. As for me? Well, I kind of regret hearing this explanation...... It always feels like something is shattering.
"The tower under our feet is the Angel Catalytic Center, also known as the Angel Manufacturing Factory, and it is also the control center of the Angel City," Aurelia saw that the atmosphere around her was a little strange, and she didn't think much about it, but just continued to introduce, "The lower half of it is the production area, the upper half is the control area, the control area and the Forgotten Garden on the surface use a public data link, the function is the same, you can check the activation progress of the home planet here, do you want to go and see?" ”
We readily agreed, so Aurelia came to a small pillar in the center of the half-moon suspension platform, and just gently touched its surface, and a faint rune array appeared on the ground of the entire suspension platform, and seeing this array covering the entire suspension platform, Lilina suddenly muttered: "Oh, such a complicated thing is just an access control, is it necessary to have such a high level of security?" ”
"Of course, because this is the backup control center for the home planet's mystical system facility." Aurelia is the type to answer questions, and she will take the trouble to explain even if Lilina mutters to herself, and almost as soon as she finishes speaking, everyone is transferred to the interior of the Platinum Tower by a cloud of teleportation beams.
To everyone's surprise, we didn't come to a complex dispatch center-like place, and there was no dazzling array of super equipment and rows of control terminals in front of us, the control center of the Platinum Pagoda was simpler than anyone expected, it was a spacious rotunda with a radius of less than two hundred meters, and it was extremely empty. The hall is built of the same texture as the tower body, it looks like it has a marble texture, but the surface has the same luster and texture as metal and crystal, the hall is about ten meters high, the dome presents an extremely subtle arc, you can't even see that the center of the hall is actually arched to the top of the hall if you don't look carefully, the ground of the hall has a blue pattern that exudes a faint halo as a decoration, and you can feel the regular energy pulsation from it. It shows that these patterns are also magic circle things: the facilities on the mysterious side of the empire seem to have this feature, they look like ornamental patterns, but they are also functional runes, and the Apostle of Xiling does not waste anything to make things purely for face, which is also reflected in the patterns in their buildings. In the middle of the hall, the ground is concave under the ground, forming a shallow pit with a radius of thirty or forty meters, and above the shallow pit floats a set of holographic images that are rapidly refreshing—this is the only equipment in the entire control center.
Aurelia takes us to the holograms. After a few clicks in the air, a set of floating pictures like a control panel appeared next to the shallow pit, on which there were mysterious drawings and runes, as well as the Xiling characters I knew, the former was like a book from heaven to me, and I could only barely judge through the latter. These dashboards show the City of Angels and the Garden of Oblivion.
"Now that the supply of the energy system has been restored, I have sent all the floating spirits that can still be activated to repair the Holy Light Furnace and the Magical Energy Relay Point, and finally meet the current energy needs, and the situation will gradually get better in the future," Aurelia tossed through the surveillance screen in front of her, explaining her work, "The next step is to transfer the Sky Tower in, but before that I have to go there myself." ”
"Speaking of which, what the hell is the Sky Tower for?" As soon as I heard the tower. I was immediately interested, it was in that tower that my group first came into contact with the secrets of the home planet, only to discover the anomaly of this world, and it was there that we saw the map of the home planet, and made the conjecture that the fifteen-day zone might be divided into two, so to speak, there is all the events, and it has a layer that we have not been able to crack so far. "I heard you say it. There's a Colossus control center there, but it seems to have a lot of functions. ”
Aurelia turned to me. Jing Jing said: "That used to be the main console of the universe of the capital of the Celestial Region, and the defense system of the entire world realm was controlled by it, including the gate control of the world world realm within the universe, as well as the main switch of all defense facilities on the home planet. ”
We were shocked enough that we didn't expect the Sky Tower to be so big!
This also explains why a group of high-tech individuals like us, even a treacherous and experienced guy like Bingtis, were almost unwittingly killed by the shadow system in the Phantom Tower, the defense center of the entire capital universe? Can the defense level be simpler?
In addition, this also explains one thing: why did we have no technology related to the gate of the world in our hands after the awakening of the home planet on the technology side represented by Pandora, or after that, Tavel based on the technology fragments he snatched from the hands of the fallen apostles and the database in Viska's head, he established the gate of the world and the foundation of the current Hongshi world, it turned out that in the old imperial era, the fifteen days used the technology of the mysterious side when the fifteen days were teleported, and this technology has split with the home planet, Sleeping in this universe!
"Now that the capital universe has collapsed, only this light-year fragment remains, and ninety percent of the Sky Tower's functions are probably obsolete," Aurelia shook her head slightly, "but it also controls various defense systems and authentication hubs on the home planet, this part of the function is still of great significance to us, I want to go to the Sky Tower again and restart the core control room there, so that we can obtain the accurate existing status of all the home planet's facilities and the management of the defense system, this work must be the first priority." ”
"But the core control room of the Sky Tower is still under lockdown," the sister looked at Aurelia, "You've been there twice, haven't you been able to open that door?" And ......"
"I was still attacked by those old friends' thoughts in the Phantom Tower," Aurelia shrugged, "That was indeed my mistake, I thought that my thoughts should have higher authority in the Phantom Tower, but I didn't expect that as my thoughts were taken away from the Phantom Tower, the permission list was cleared, and the security mechanism set up by Oldemseus was really impossible to drill into the loopholes." Soon though, we'll have an extra right-hand man who can take care of the Phantom Tower's defenses. ”
"Who?" I was curious.
"That's what I just said, Odmusius, he's the chief designer of the Sky Tower's defense system." Aurelia nodded at the projection screen in front of her, and a male avatar with a serious expression immediately appeared on it, the other party looked about thirty or forty years old in human beings, with dark skin, short dark brown hair, and the lines on his face were as hard as a knife and axe, and the most striking thing was that there were no eyeballs in his eyes at all—but two jumping arcane cores, strange and mysterious, I instantly had a little impression of this avatar, and vaguely remembered that I had seen this person in the old apparitions of the Assembly Hall......
"Hey, I remember," Shallow suddenly realized, "I saw this person in the assembly hall at that time, and the old emperor sent this man named Odumtius to send Alayah on the road......"
A group of people looked at the shallow sideways, and I slapped it on the head: Old emperor, send Alayah on the road...... Although the meaning is similar, the girl ...... You can't say that!