Chapter 583 Vision

Corridors and rooms that had been silent for seven centuries were reanimated.

As it gets closer to the core control area of ​​the pedestal, the corridor inside the "ridge" becomes wider and wider, and more and more flickering runes and energy veins begin to appear on the walls on both sides. Stylized decorative columns are arranged on both sides of the wide space in front. At the end of this wide corridor, all the internal passages of the "ridge" converge and form a hexagram-shaped radial hall, and a cylindrical The "room" is located in the center of the hall, guarded by numerous pipes, metal beams and runic pillars.

This is the control center of the Sentinel Tower, the place where the minds of the demons are placed—in Gawain's view, it is the central computer room where the artificial intelligence is located.

The entrance to the computer room was tightly closed, and two beams slanted down from the sky illuminated a small open space in front of the entrance. Amber raised her head and looked up along the outer wall of the cylindrical room to see its top floating. There is a hazy layer of light and shadow, and the huge cloth curtain hangs down from the light and shadow. The cloth curtain depicts the emblems of the Silver Empire and the human kingdoms, some of which have been seriously rotten by the erosion of the years. Only the tattered strips of cloth hang quietly high in the sky, like...shrouds.

Amber blinked, and for a moment, she felt that she saw something from the curtains - some gray shadows, wriggling, rolling, like silt growing and rolling in those dark corners, and then again. A vague figure emerges from the bred shadows, spying on the uninvited guests who suddenly break in here.

But in the next second, these things vanished like hallucinations.

"What's wrong?" Gawain's voice woke Amber from his daze, "What have you been staring at?"

"No... I must have read it wrong," Amber blinked and rubbed his eyes, "What's on it? It seems like there's a layer of clouds floating around."

"That is the magic cloud top, and above the cloud top is the outer space. The ceiling of this base is actually open, and the magic focus draws powerful energy from the leylines and magic focus, creating a powerful magic cloud in the open area of ​​​​the base, On the one hand, it supplies the 'stone monument', on the other hand, it maintains the protection system of the entire base," explained Banner, the wizard magister.

Amber snorted incomprehensibly, and Banner came to the entrance of the cylindrical room and injected magic power into the elf relief on the entrance again.

Luckily, the door wasn't stuck this time—he didn't have to pull out his elbow wrench again.

The room where the Demon Mind was placed was opened, and the Iron Ranger soldiers, led by Solderin, guarded the entrance of the room.

Gawain stepped forward and walked into it with Amber.

A magnificent blue floating light filled the cylindrical room, Amber couldn't help but exclaimed softly as soon as she entered the door-she saw that the entire floor of this room was made of the purest and most flawless obsidian, and it was as dark as night. The obsidian surface of the room is engraved with extremely intricate rune patterns. Those runes emit a light blue shimmer and complement the blue crystals inlaid on the walls of the room. In the center of the room, a length and width of about A one-meter black cube is quietly floating in an anti-gravity field.

The surface of the black cube has straight blue lines, and the overall material seems to be some kind of metal, with vague runes floating on each plane separated by the blue lines, looking mysterious and mysterious.

It seemed to sense that someone was approaching, and there was a pleasant sound in the cube, and then it turned, and the blue lines divided it into countless large and small squares. The method was reorganized, and a slightly dull synthetic voice sounded in the room: "Sensing that the organism is approaching...recognizing...builder authority, authorized visitor, commander...error, this commander authority is illogical, renew Certification, Commander... error, this commander authority is illogical, re-certify..."

The sound from the cube became more and more confused and confused, and Gawain finally couldn't help but coughed softly: "Cough, I came back to life."

"...Voice Authentication, Passed, Organism Magic Pattern, Passed, Human, Reanimated Individual, Incomprehensible, Incredible... Ignore errors, fix database, reload Commander permissions. Gawain Cecil, Human, Leader , nice to see you again, sentinels salute you - you've lived so long."

The sound of the cube became smoother, and while it continued to reorganize itself like a Rubik's cube, it continued: "The system has been running for 706 years, 22 days, 7:13:12, and this is the first visitor interaction during the operation. May I ask what happened? What's the matter?"

Banner waved his hand in front of the cube, and after releasing some kind of special control spell said: "Sentry, keep running, let's check the system."

"Sentry understands, keep running."

There was a low hum inside the cube, and then its constantly changing blocks quickly returned to their original positions, and the whole cube became complete and tidy again, and continued to float peacefully in the anti-gravity field, while Banner came. Going to a certain silver-white alloy column not far from the cube, activated the ancient magic formation and began to check the operation of this "magic mind".

Amber's eyes widened, and only then did she exclaim: "Wow - is this the 'Tower' of the Sentinel Tower?!"

"The tower spirit is the name of the artificial mind of the mage tower built by humans, and the name of the elves is the 'magic mind'. The two have different names and the technology is not common," Sonia explained, and then looked at her face with some curiosity. Amber, dazed, "Little girl, didn't your father tell you about the Elf Kingdom?"

She judged from the shape of Amber's ears that the mixed-race girl's father should be an elf.

"I don't even know who my biological parents are," Amber shook his head and said calmly, "I was adopted by two humans..."

"Ah, sorry," Sonia was a little embarrassed, and she couldn't help but look at Amber with a soft look, "It turns out that humans raised you, no wonder you know so little about elves... Your adoptive parents are still there Is it?"

Amber's pointed ears shook slightly: "My adoptive father is gone, but the other adoptive father is still... Well, yes, the two humans who adopted me are male."

Sonia was stunned, her expression a little dull: "It turns out that the atmosphere of mankind has been so open in seven hundred years..."

Gao Wenlai was still listening to the excitement, and he couldn't hold back immediately: "Cough, I think you may have misunderstood, the one who adopted Amber..."

However, Sonia seems to have been unable to listen to Gawain's follow-up words. The still-looking elf mother has fallen into deep anxiety, and one person muttered: "This can't be done...Soldrin is here. In such an environment... Could it be because of this that he couldn't find a girl he liked..."

Gawain & Amber: "..."

It seems that the elf mother had a serious misunderstanding of Amber's two adoptive fathers, but before Gawain could continue to explain anything, Banner suddenly broke his silence not far away: "High-ranking messenger, Duke Cecil , no fault records can be found here."

The elf magister raised his head as he spoke, and then noticed a little embarrassment in the atmosphere: "Ah, what are you talking about?"

Everyone's attention immediately returned to the business, and Gawain waved his hand quickly: "No, it's nothing—you said there is no fault record here?"

"Yes, the log shows that the Sentinel Tower has always been functioning normally," Banner turned sideways. Behind him, a large number of illusion projections were emerging around the silver-white alloy column. According to the operation records of the Sentinel Tower in the past two or three years, "the alarm information of the first overload was not found, and only the last overload was found."

Sonia couldn't help frowning. She looked at the metal cube in the center of the room: "Sentry, ask."

The cube responded quickly: "Sentry on call."

"Has the tower been overloaded in a period of two to four years ago?"

"Search...no results. This tower has not been overloaded during this time period."

"Everything was fine during this time? No glitches?"

"The tower was operating normally during that time period without any malfunction."

The atmosphere at the scene became serious and silent, and several people exchanged glances subconsciously.

There is something wrong with this AI's answer.

Sonia has brought a clear conclusion - the first overload failure occurred, this sentry tower in the southeast of Ansu! ! It had a malfunction about three years ago before Gawain opened the coffin, and it was this malfunction that led to the destruction of the old Cecil Territory by the wandering aberrations.

However, the Demon Mind, which has been running for seven centuries without stopping, said...it didn't even know about this malfunction!

The Sentinel Tower has not sent any failure reports back to the Silver Empire's main control center!

Gawain frowned and looked at Banner, and asked in a low voice, "Is the operation of the demon's mind itself normal?"

"Everything is normal, I have checked all its mental nodes, and there is no sign of tampering or self-reorganization," Banner said with a serious face, "In this case, the Sentinel can never defect."

"Then the problem lies elsewhere," Gawain took a deep breath. "If even the Sentinels lose complete control over the tower, then we'll be in big trouble."

This was one of the reasons why Gawain insisted on coming to inspect the Sentinel Towers—these towers really had a problem!

However, as the control core of the Sentinel Tower, the tower's demon mind has no record of malfunctions, which is precisely the most disturbing situation.

The failure occurs in the dead end of the system.

"What can block the sentinel's perception and control of the tower, or tamper with its recorded results without leaving a trace?" Gawain looked at the only expert on the scene, Magister Banner, "If the tower is overloaded If so, where would the alarm signal first come from?”

"It is theoretically impossible for any alarm signal to bypass Sentinel monitoring," Banner said immediately. "Its priority is the highest."

Sonia, Gawain and Banner then discussed and analyzed the sentinel's operating mechanism, trying to find potential loopholes in the system, but Amber, who was standing next to him, couldn't understand these technical fields at all. Miss Half-elf began to wander out of the sky.

She blinked, looking around the room filled with soft blue light and magical energy.

Once again she seemed to have hallucinations—

In a corner of the room, near a rune focal point full of magic power, a black crack suddenly appeared in the air, a shadow spread from the crack, and grew and trembled in the air, Amber blinked. Blinking his eyes, the shadow did not disappear immediately, but a hazy figure emerged from inside.

It was a figure without facial features or details of limbs, his whole body seemed to be bound by some kind of loose cloth, ta swayed twice between the black cracks, leaned out half of his body, and then waved to Amber.

Amber whispered in surprise: "Huh?"

The figure raised his hand, pointed directly above, pointed hard, and then gradually dissipated.

"What's wrong?" Gawain noticed Amber's distraction again. He found that the other party was staring at an empty corner, and immediately said, "What are you looking at?"

"I seem to see someone... a shadow dweller?" Amber blinked and woke up and found that the fissure and figure were no longer in front of him. "Strange, how can there be a fissure here... I can't even perceive it..."

Then she shook her head and looked up straight above curiously: "Hey, auntie, is there anything on it?"

"Auntie..." Sonia's expression froze for a while, but she still looked up and said, "The roof. The magic cloud top is outside..."

At this moment, Banner suddenly reacted: "Wait, it's not just the magic cloud top! It's a stone tablet!!"