The space or this part of hidden facilities opposite the Magic Gate is even larger than Gao Wen imagined.

Not only was there a hall that everyone saw at first, but after the soldiers expanded their search scope, they soon discovered that there was a surrounding corridor structure outside the hall, as well as rooms arranged outside the corridor.

The rooms are fully furnished, including tables, chairs, equipment, and various living or research tools, kept in place, without being transported all over the room outside.

"The things here have not been moved," Hetty looked at a room that had just been opened. This room seemed to be a place for many people to gather for dining. There were long tables and chairs in the room, and the neatly arranged sinks could be seen in the corner of the wall, but there was no longer any water flowing in the sink. "And the storage of these things... is much better than outside."

"The entire facility seems to have been subjected to large-scale magical effects, and the decay of all items becomes extremely slow," Gao Wen looked down at a long table at hand. The long table had mottled rust, but the table itself was still solid and intact, "...it still has a considerable degree of corrosion."

Tyr wandered among the long tables with her fingers brushed across the dusty tabletop and said thoughtfully: "It feels like it is ready to be re-activated at any time. As long as someone returns here, he can start living immediately."

Gao Wen did not say anything, but walked by the long tables that had begun to rust. At this moment, a team of soldiers who were heading forward to explore the way suddenly returned to this room, and the leader came to Gao Wen: "Sir! We found a warehouse in front!"

"Take me over and have a look."

Gao Wen quickly arrived at the warehouse where the soldiers discovered. The scene in the warehouse made him frown.

This is the place where supplies are stacked. You can also see neat stacking platforms and various signs that can't be clearly seen in the warehouse. However, what made Gao Wen frown was that the originally packaged goods on the stacking platforms had been taken apart.

A large number of wooden boxes were pried open, and empty boxes and jars were piled up everywhere. Some were stacked neatly, but some were simply scattered throughout the room. Apart from these messy "packaging", there was no useful material here.

"This..." Hetty immediately clasped his staff when he saw a scene in the warehouse. She subconsciously looked at Gao Wen, "Ancestor, this..."

"Someone took the supplies here!" Gao Wen said the only possibility, "Someone has been active here at least in the first period after the facility was blocked!"

"How is that possible?" Hetty was shocked. "Didn't this place be abandoned and blocked a thousand years ago? Didn't everyone evacuate?"

"I thought so too, but looking at the fact that these already consumed materials were consumed before the facilities were closed, the logistics manager would not allow the warehouse to become like this," Gao Wen pointed to the messy empty boxes and empty cans. "This is obviously the result of continued consumption after the facilities are closed, and it may have been consumed for a long time."

Hetty couldn't help swallowing: "This...is really unsettling..."

Tyre asked a question: "If there are people here after the facilities are closed, where are they now?"

Gao Wen shook his head: "I don't know, but if all the people working here are humans... then no human can live for a thousand years."

Soon, the soldiers discovered more material warehouses, and most of the things in the warehouses had been consumed by people and only a small part of them were retained. Judging from the thick dust on the sealed boxes, they had been left unattended for many years.

Even with the protection of magic power, these materials cannot be stored for thousands of years. Even if they are well-packed, the contents inside have already rotted and deteriorated, so Gao Wen just checked these things and lost interest in them.

After checking the corridor outside the hall, the group arrived at the end of the corridor, where the road converged, and a sloping staircase extended from the intersection of the corridor to the upper level of the secret facility.

"It seems there is a structure on it," Hetty looked up at the dim space at the end of the stairs. This ancient facility had a surprising energy system, but no matter how advanced the energy system was, it could not completely resist the erosion of time. The light in the upper area was obviously dim than the lower one. It seemed that there was some problem with the energy supply. The light was not only dim but also very unstable. Hetty summoned a mage's eye to go up, and after a moment she nodded, "There is no danger above."

The exploration team advanced along the steps and soon arrived at the upper floor of the hidden facility. At the end of the steps, a thick metal door blocked their way.

"The magic lock on the door has expired," Hetty soon found the magic mechanism that controlled the locking state of the door. Several dim runes were engraved in the center of the door, but these runes had no response to the external magic stimulation. "Now it is just an ordinary iron door that can be directly destroyed."

The two soldiers immediately stepped forward and pointed the thermal ray gun at the lock in the center of the gate. After several consecutive bombardment of scorching rays, the magic mechanism in the center of the gate was directly melted away: without magic protection, the advanced ancient magic mechanism was just a piece of metal with a not-so-high melting point.

Gao Wen put his hand on the door and, with the powerful power of the legendary knight, slowly pushed open the door that originally needed magical devices to push.

Squeak

Accompanied by the harsh metal friction, the ancient gate, which had been around for thousands of years, slowly opened to both sides, and a stale breath leaked out of the space inside the gate, but a slight cool mist suddenly appeared out of nowhere and surrounded everyone, isolating all these potentially harmful auras.

Gao Wen looked back and saw Tyr waving his hand as if nothing had happened, while the power of the water element flowed quietly between her fingers.

He did not tell Miss Siren that in fact, every soldier's armor had a long-term "Breeze Shield" effect, but smiled and thanked Tyre for his kindness, and then walked through the door.

The next second, the scene in front of him shocked him on the spot.

Inside the gate is a large semicircular room, rows of neatly arranged seats in the room along the arc, and on the rows of seats, there are corpses after corpses!

These people have obviously died for many years, but because the entire facility is covered with magic power fields that slow down the decay of things, they have not turned into dead bones over time, but have become some kind of mummy-like existence. They are wearing magician robes or short robes from the ancient Gondor Empire, and this costume is enough to illustrate their identity:

They were the people stranded in the facilities after this ancient facility was closed!

Hetty widened his eyes. The impactful scene in front of her made her unable to speak for a long time. It was not until more than ten seconds later that she muttered in a low voice: "They... are all here... all dead here..."

"Why are these people left here?" Tyre also heard from Gowen the origin of this facility. She was very puzzled by the existence of these people. "Is it because of the evacuation operation that year that time, and these people were forgotten?"

"It is impossible to have such a big mistake," Gao Wen frowned, "The evacuation operation back then was obviously orderly, and there was no condition for mistakes in the busy situation. Moreover, the warehouses we discovered before were also clues... Those supplies indicate that the people stranded here were planned."

After saying that, he began to walk carefully between the semicircular seats. After passing through rows of seats, he came to the front of the semicircular hall.

Gao Wen turned around here and saw rows of seats arranged neatly in front of him. Nearly a thousand silent corpses were sitting on those chairs. Due to the arrangement and shape of these seats, the focus of the "visit" of the corpses was exactly where he was.

This strange feeling made him unable to help but sweat a layer of cold sweat, but also made him notice his feet: on the ground under his feet, there was an inconspicuous bulge, and between the runes on the surface of the device, there was still some remaining magical light flowing slowly.

He recognized that thing was the technology of the ancient Gondor Empire, a magic device used to convey messages. With the help of the huge power of the Deep Blue Well and the magic diversion devices spread throughout the empire, these devices can closely link every inch of the empire. However, with the explosion of the Deep Blue Well, this communication network has completely collapsed and no longer possible to rebuild. The communication spells and magic messaging towers used by human countries today are just a little residual light of this ancient technology.

This device can still be used. Although it is impossible for it to send any messages or receive any messages after leaving the "Deep Blue Magic Website", the flickering glimmer on its surface shows that there is still a little residual energy inside it, and the information it stores is not lost.

According to the memory of seven hundred years ago, Gao Wen tried to inject some magic into the device, so the ancient device that had been silent for thousands of years was instantly "resurrected". The runes on its surface flashed violently, and a beam of light was emitted from the top of the device and shot towards the wall behind Gao Wen.

Gao Wen turned around and avoided the projected beam of light. He saw the ancient device projecting a message on the wall, in front of nearly a thousand corpses in the hall. It was a series of words written in the common language of ancient Gondor, which was short and incredible:

"You are the last survivors, live and don't come back."

Only one sentence is stored in the communication device. It is obviously the content of the last communication, while other early contents were either deleted or failed to withstand the passage of time.

"The last survivor..." Tyre saw the message. The sir who had lived for a long time actually recognized the text of the ancient Gondor Empire. She arched it up with curiosity, "What does this mean?"
Chapter completed!