The two people took the lift platform and descended slowly.

Meng Chao noticed that this lifting platform adopts a purely mechanical structure. In addition to a psionic power system similar to a hoist, there is also a human control system using cranks and pedals.

The entire machine looks large, thick, black, and extremely sturdy, ensuring maximum safety and stability in an environment where psychic interference is severe and matter can deform at any time.

Almost all the buildings and facilities at the bottom of the underground space are of this style. They are clumsy, thick, heavy, and solid. There are a large number of gears, chains, and crisscrossing pipes exposed to the outside. When many pipes make a sharp scream, they will also

A stream of colorful spiritual energy spurted out, immersing the entire space in a colorful haze.

Except for the slightly different construction style, this place is like a combination of the university town where the Five Schools Alliance is located and the military base in Jiangnan District of Longcheng.

Hard-top tents with silver shells were lined up one after another. Many tents had signs with lightning, flames or crossed skulls hanging on the outside, representing "extreme danger, no entry". There were also similar mechanical failures and the roar of artillery inside.

And monsters roaring... all kinds of weird sounds.

Next to these silver tents, Meng Chao also saw many strange and strange things excavated from the ground.

There is a ruins like the legendary "Sword Tomb", densely packed with hundreds of strange swords.

Although these swords are rusty and even twisted, let alone the blades, even the runes engraved on the surface are blurred, but there are still bunches of murderous intent rising into the sky, like endless ghosts of injustice lingering in the swords

, trying to break through the rusty seal and descend to today's Dragon City.

Judging from the size of these swords, they do not seem to be prepared for earthlings who are less than two meters tall.

Rather, they are weapons of ancient intelligent life that are several times larger than human beings.

At this moment, some scientists are busy around the sword tomb.

They carefully scraped the rusty metal powder from the ancient sword, analyzed its ingredients, and cleaned and rubbed the runes on the sword.

Refining the metal components of ancient swords can help Dragon City's new cold weapon forging technology, and these runes, combined with the agitation of crystal stones, can greatly increase the power and range of cold weapons.

There is also a ruins where countless fragmented war machines are buried.

Judging from the shape of the wreckage, it looks quite like the six-legged crab-shaped rune machine manufactured by Dragon City, but it is larger and more clumsy than the human rune machine.

The rattling weapons attached to the wreckage can still make Meng Chao's pupils shrink after being corroded by millions of years, not to mention the murderous aura that emanates from the depths of the machine, like a ferocious beast.

It's like...still alive.

Staring deeply at the remains of this ancient war machine, Meng Chao seemed to hear the roar of ancient wars in his ears, and in a trance he saw a picture that was a hundred times more magnificent and tragic than the monster wars, painted with blood and flames.

"Is this... the ancient summons?"

Meng Chao took a deep breath to calm himself down.

In order to divert his attention, he cast his gaze towards the center of the underground space.

But immediately something else took away all his attention.

There are no research facilities set up in the center of the underground space, within an area of ​​approximately 100 meters.

Instead, a circle of heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, magnetic coils, high-voltage power grids, fully automatic fire fortresses, and other defensive weapons were deployed around the perimeter.

Judging from the airtight configuration of three floors inside and three floors outside, it is simply more stringent than the defense line deployed outside Dragon City to deal with the impact of the beast tide.

Behind the defense line, there is a special forces unit equipped with the most advanced "Black Horn Battle Armor", full of murderous intent and ready to attack.

Meng Chao sensed the slightly trembling life magnetic field of these "Black Horned Warriors".

It shows that they are in a state of high tension and even a little fear.

It was as if surrounded by numerous defense lines, something from the depths of the underground space would jump up at any time and slaughter them all, who were armed to the teeth.

Meng Chao looked past the black-corner warriors and heavy defense lines and saw a bottomless gap in the center of the underground space.

It is seventy or eighty meters long and about twenty or thirty meters wide at its widest point. It is like an ugly reptile covered with tentacles, crawling on the ground and spewing out a faint black air all the time.

Above the gap, there are several lifting and landing machinery similar to gantry cranes across the gap.

There are also hanging baskets and lifting platforms that can transport people or materials deep into the gaps.

Around the gap, more than ten meters apart, there are four tall drilling wells erected, like four huge nails, driven deeply into the corpse of ancient civilization.

"Is that the entrance to the ancient ruins?"

Meng Chao murmured, "It's so... spectacular!"

"That's right, the space we are in is just the surface of the ancient ruins. From this gap downwards, there are several faults. The horizontal gaps and caves all contain the mysteries of the ancient times. This vertical gap downwards

The gap is extremely deep. At least our depth detection equipment is far from reaching its limit. Perhaps it does not exist in our space. If it descends tens of thousands of meters all the way, will it travel to another brand new world?

"

Wu Haibo introduced, "The ancient ruins now are much more deserted than they were twenty or thirty years ago. When the Extraordinary Tower was first completed, the number of researchers and explorers here was ten times more. That was called 'spectacular'!"

"

"Yeah?"

Meng Chao looked around and saw many traces of the relocation of facilities, and many construction engineering equipment were simply abandoned after completing their historical missions. There was indeed a desolate smell, and he couldn't help but ask, "Why?"

"Because all the ancient mysteries that are easier to discover and study have been discovered and studied."

Wu Haibo shrugged and said, "Many research projects have been moved to the ground, Longcheng University, the Five-University Alliance, the other three major research institutes, and the laboratories of super companies. No one wants to stay here and may encounter the ancient times at any time.

Monsters, or simply themselves are attracted by the 'call of the ancients' and become a haunted place for ancient monsters.

"Besides, the remaining ancient mysteries are difficult to discover, highly dangerous, and difficult to copy and study. They are all hard bones with little flesh and covered with spikes. Among the ancient mysteries that have been discovered, they have not yet been discovered.

No one wants to chew on these hard bones until they are thoroughly studied.”

Meng Chao thought that "God of War" Lei Zongchao had said similar things.

He asked Wu Haibo: "I see, has our exploration of... the 'deep submersible zone' stopped?"

"Paused."

Wu Haibo sighed and said with regret on his face, "As a researcher and explorer, there is nothing more uncomfortable than a mysterious treasure right in front of you, only a door away, but unable to open the door. After all,'

The mountain is right there'.

"But considering the overall situation of Dragon City, I also know that our civilization is not yet qualified to continue exploring.

"The current situation of the people of Longcheng is like a group of primitive people who drink blood. They are surrounded by powerful enemies of jackals, tigers and leopards. When their lives are hanging by a thread, they accidentally discover a highly advanced nuclear powerhouse that has been covered in dust for thousands of years.

Military base powered by energy.

"In this military base, a variety of weapons, production lines, R&D centers and laboratories are displayed from the outside to the inside.

“There are both ordinary pistols, rifles, sniper rifles, and heavy machine guns.

"There are also grenades, mines, mortars and rocket launchers.

"There are also tanks, armored vehicles and attack drones.

"Of course, there are also bacterial bombs, poison gas bombs, incendiary bombs, various chemical weapons and small tactical nuclear weapons.

“Ultimately, there may also be the information to develop all weapons, including theoretical textbooks on all basic sciences, and the nuclear reactors that keep it all running.

"How far do you think we, as primitive people, should explore in this military base?

"If it's just individual weapons driven by gunpowder such as grenades, rifles and rocket launchers, even primitive people who drink raw hair and drink blood, are chaotic and ignorant, can still master them after paying a certain price.

"Even if something goes wrong, the most you can do is blow yourself up with a grenade, shoot a few of your companions, or blow up a hundred or so of your companions into the sky. For the entire primitive tribe, compared with the power of thermal weapons, this kind of

The price can and should be borne.

"Tanks and armored vehicles...if they adopt modular design and fool-like operation methods, they may not be able to be mastered by primitive people.

"Primitive people may not be able to understand the principles of firearms, grenades and main battle tanks, including the mathematics, chemistry, physics...all kinds of mysterious and complicated knowledge contained in them.

“But that doesn’t stop them from knowing that these things that can ‘whoosh’ and spit out flames and lightning, make roars like thunder, and help them smash all jackals, tigers, and leopards to pieces, are artifacts given to them by God or the Creator.

"But, do you think primitive people should spend their time studying bacterial bombs, nerve gas bombs, various chemical weapons and even tactical nuclear weapons?

"Regardless of whether primitive people can figure out how to use these deadly weapons, even if they really figure it out, do you think it is a big deal for primitive tribes to let primitive people who drink blood have tens of thousands of nerve gas bombs that are ready to go off?

Good thing?

"The most important thing is energy.

“Energy is the starting point of all civilizations, no, all life. Without energy, there is nothing. If you master energy, you can master everything.

"But this does not mean that primitive people should rashly explore and study the nuclear reactor that drives the entire military base before the wolves, tigers, and leopards have been wiped out, and they do not have even a junior high school level of physics knowledge.

"For primitive people, as long as they can master individual weapons proficiently, coupled with at most tanks, armored vehicles and attack drones, it is enough to kill all the wolves, tigers and leopards or domesticate them into poultry and livestock.

"For the people of Dragon City, the known ancient technology is enough to help us wipe out the monster civilization and transform all the surviving monsters into biochemical pets that are obedient to us. For the time being, this is enough.
Chapter completed!