Guided by the information sent back by Asharena, the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet led by the Cold Winter began to move towards the sea area blocked by clouds. As the sun became stronger and stronger, the aftermath caused by disorderly turbulence gradually faded, and the clouds shrouded on the sea surface gradually dissipated over time. Between the increasingly thinning clouds, the "pillar" that seemed to connect the heaven and earth gradually emerged.

Byron stood on an observation platform at the head of the ship Winter, looking at the vast ocean in the distance. In his sight, the "high tower" that had penetrated the clouds and disappeared at the end of the sky was an increasingly clear black shadow. As the fog on the sea dissipated, it was like the pillar of the sky that descended in front of mortals in myths and legends, pressing down on this side with a suffocating majestic aura.

The sound of giant wings stimulating the air descending from the sky. The red dragon wearing mechanical armor flew over the tower, hovering over the cold winter and gradually lowered its height. Finally, with a loud "bang", Asarena, who turned into a human form in mid-air, landed on the "Tingjiping" not far away. The dragon-born lady took care of her long red hair, and walked briskly to Byron: "See, this thing..."

"It must be left by the Departures. The style is very obvious. This is not something that the civilization on our planet can build," Byron said in a deep voice, his eyes staying on the distant sea. "The messengers of Tallond said that the Departures once left three 'towers' on this planet, one of which is located in the North Pole, and the other two are located on the equator, on the sea and on a continent. Our Majesty also mentioned these towers... Now it seems that what we are facing is the tower located in the equatorial waters."

He paused for a moment, and his tone inevitably sighed: "This is a feat that humans have never seen in history... How much have we deviated from it?"

"It looks very different from the tower near the continent of Tallond," Asharena frowned and looked into the distance, saying thoughtfully. "Although the tower in Tallond is also very high, at least you can still see the top. Even if you are braver, you can fly to it. But this thing... I tried to fly up for a long time just now, and I still couldn't see where it ended until the limit height that the steel wings could support. It was as if the tower had been penetrated through the sky."

Byron didn't say anything, but frowned and looked at the tower in the distance, the cold winter still moved in that direction. However, the tower still looked far away, and its scale was far beyond human understanding, so that even now, he could not see the full picture of the tower base: nearly two-thirds of the "Island of Steel" is still below sea level.

But as the fleet continued to approach the sea where the tower was located, he noticed that some changes had begun to occur in the surrounding environment.

The waves were becoming more fine and smoother than other places, the color of the sea water began to become lighter, the wind on the sea was weakening, and these changes became more and more obvious as the cold winter continued to advance. By the time he could almost see the whole picture of the "Island of Steel" under the tower, the entire sea area was as calm as the small pond behind his home.

This is an unimaginable environment in the unpredictable sea, but here... I'm afraid that this sea area has maintained this state in the past Bai Wannian.

"Where are you close to just now?" Byron turned his head and looked at Asharena, "Didn't you climb up to that island or touch that tower?"

"I'm not like you," said the red-haired Dragon Seal Witch, shaking her head immediately, "I have been flying around for a few times and haven't entered the area of ​​that island recently. However, according to my observation, there should be some things on the tower and the island under the tower. I saw the moving mechanical structure and some lights, and in the shallower sea water on the edge of the island, there seemed to be some things moving."

"... It is normal for the Settler to move to this day," Byron muttered, "In the legend of the silver elves, the primitive elves of ancient times had fled from the land of their ancestors and crossed endless oceans to the continent of Loren. In the middle, they were hiding from the storm in such a giant tower standing on the sea. They were also "cursed" because of their reckless entry into the "forbidden zone" in the tower and divided into a large number of elves subspecies today... His Majesty mentioned these legends to me. He believed that the elves met the tower at that time the tower was the tower left by the Settler. Now it seems... it is probably the one in front of us."

"Then we should be more careful. This tower is very likely to react to the creatures entering it. The differentiation and degeneration of the primitive elves sounds like some kind of drastic genetic information change," Asharena said solemnly. As a dragon seal witch, she has the responsibility of "keeping knowledge and inheriting memory" in the Holy Dragon Principality. Before being a combat and diplomat, she was first a scholar who had stored a lot of knowledge in her head. "It is said that the towers left by the starter on the surface of the planet each have different functions. The tower in Tallond is a 'maternal factory'. The tower in front of us may be related to the planetary ecology..."

The tower is finally approaching.

The towering giant tower was supported between the sky and the sea. Until it reached the base of the tower, the officers and soldiers of the fleet realized what kind of giant it was. It was larger in scale and more complex in structure than the tower in Tallongd, and the base of the giant tower was also larger. The shadow of the tower was cast on the sea surface, which could even cover the entire fleet in this huge shadow. Even the cold winter was reflected like a sampan.

"How is it? Do you need to go up and explore?" Asarena glanced at Byron next to her, "I finally found this thing, so you can't just walk around it, right? But this may be a bit risky, so it's best to be cautious..."

"I'm used to risks, and nothing is smooth along the way," Byron shrugged. "We need to collect some information, but you're right. We have to be careful about this. After all, this is something left by the setter..."

"Then send a small boat to the side first? I observed that there were some extension structures on the edge of the steel island that could serve as a dock, which was just enough to dock the mechanical boats. I sent a few dragon-born soldiers to provide support to the exploration team from the air."

Byron thought about it and just as he was about to nod and agree, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Wait, let's go over and take a look first."

Byron turned his head and saw Ms. Cassandra, a siren navigator with a tear mole on the corner of his eyes, swaying her long snake tail and "walking" towards this side. Two other siren were following her. He noticed Byron's sight. The "deep sea ally" who had been operating with the Imperial Fleet since North Port showed a smile on his face: "We can start exploring below the sea surface, and then land on the island to check the environment. If we encounter danger, we can retreat directly into the sea. It is much more convenient than you humans running away."

As she said that, she looked back at the two siren she brought with her, with a proud look on her face: "And we can't die easily anyway..."

Byron subconsciously followed the second half: "...just go to death?"

"About the same meaning," Kassandra inserted her waist, not thinking that there was anything wrong with this conversation. "We Siren are a race that is very good at exploring. Siren's talent for exploration mainly comes from our fear of death, and our fear of death is very cold..."

Byron thought about it and was convinced on the spot.

After a while, with a few plops, Cassandra and two Siren Exploration Team members who were said to have "rich experience in exploring foreign countries and dying" jumped into the sea. With the rapid disappearance of several ripples on the water, the three ladies' flexible figures quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

The seabed scene in the shallow water area near the giant tower of the sky was transmitted back to the control center of the cold winter with the magic net terminal carried by Kassandra.

On the picture sent back, Byron saw them first crossing a sloping seabed covered with gravel and fine black sand. On the seabed, some small creatures with agility could also be seen scattered and dodged by the appearance of intruders. Then, there was a "dividing mountain" with obvious artificial traces. The gentle seabed ended abruptly in front of the dividing line. On the other side of the dividing line, there was an astonishingly large, crisscrossing alloy structure, as well as giant pipes and columns buried deep in the canyons, which were probably deeply nailed into the earth's crust.

Under sea level, the base of the giant tower has a more exaggerated and astonishing "infrastructure" than the exposed parts on the sea surface.

This picture lasted for a while, and then began to move obliquely upward. The sunlight shining from the sea penetrated the thin sea water, moving around the three Siren explorers like floating aurora. They found an alloy ramp that was leaning deep into the sea, like a transport pipeline. Then the light flashed on the picture, and Cassandra floated onto the sea, climbed up the steel island, and began to move towards the tower.

"We have already landed on the island, General Byron," the voice of the Siren lady came from outside the screen at this time. "Many facilities here are obviously still operating. We just saw the moving lights and mechanical structures, and in some areas you can hear the buzzing sounds from the buildings, but in addition, they are very 'calm' and there are no dangerous ancient guards and traps... To be honest, this is much safer than the tower we found on the continent south of our hometown."

The Siren once explored the southern waters of Anta Vien in the ancient times, and found a primitive continent with dangerous ancient machinery everywhere. On that continent, the third "tower" left by the sailors on this planet was standing. It was also the tower that Gowen Cecil climbed seven hundred years ago. Byron also knew about this, so he did not react at this time. He just asked seriously: "Are there any traces of biological creatures on the island?"

"Although this 'island' is built as a whole, there are still many signs of living things that can be seen near the wetlands near the coast, including silted algae and small creatures living in the cracks... Oh, I also saw a seabird! There may be other natural islands nearby... Otherwise, the seabird would not fly so far. This is probably its temporary place to settle?"

Byron breathed a sigh of relief: These signs of life show that the vital state of life is not a "death state" near the giant tower. At least there can be ordinary creatures outside the tower for a long time.

After all... Siren is a special race. These gangs of undead deep-sea salted fish are not comparable to ordinary material creatures. No matter how alive they are around the giant tower, Byron dares not use it as a reference...

Kassandra led his two subordinates to continue moving towards the tower. The strong sunlight in the equatorial area shone on the three sirens. In the picture sent back from the Magic Net terminal, Byron and Asharena saw the scales on the tails of the two siren exploration team members with strong sunlight, and vague water vapor was circling around them.

"...I won't be dried into dried fish, right?" Asarena suddenly said with a little worried, "I see their heads are 'smoking'..."

"Don't worry, Ms. Ashalina," Kassandra's voice immediately came out of the communicator. "In addition to exploration and death, my sisters and I also have very rich experience in drying. We know how to avoid dryness in the strong sunlight... If it really doesn't work, we have rich experience in condensation and rainfall."

Asa Lena Byron: “…”

What strange experiences do these deep-sea salted fish have?!

After a long exploration journey, Kassandra and the two sisters she led finally arrived at the connection between the giant tower and the base, an integrated alloy ring-shaped structure connecting the tower body and the steel island below. Around and above the ring-shaped structure, you can see a large number of attached connecting corridors, ramps and suspected entrance structures.

"Now we are here to the main part of the tower," Cassandra said to the portable magic net terminal hanging on her chest, and at the same time stepped forward and knocked on the huge alloy ring. Due to its amazing size, the side of the ring was like a towering arc-shaped metal barrier facing Cassandra. "No danger has been found so far..."

The siren lady said abruptly and stopped halfway. She stared at the point where her fingers hit, and saw layers of light blue halos spreading rapidly on the silver-white metal!

"Deep sea! This thing is shining!"

...

At the same time, in Cecil City, Gao Wen, who had finally finished handling the matter at hand, was about to rest in the easy chair in the study, but a sudden sound in his mind made him bounce off the chair:

"The local smart creatures contact the rail elevator of the ring-rail space station was sensed, the pre-processing process was started, the safety protocol was 766, and the elemental life was detected, the sequence abnormality was detected, and it was gentle and harmless.

"Transfer to process B-5-32, the system temporarily remains silent, waiting for further contact."

Gao Wen jumped directly from the easy chair to the ground, standing there stunned, with only one sentence circling repeatedly in his mind:

What's the thing?

After reacting on the spot for a few seconds, he finally realized where the sound in his mind came from the guard system of Cangqiong Station!
Chapter completed!