dark moon

Chapter 24 Cursed Metal
"Who, who." He first raised his shield to protect his body, carefully observed the surroundings, and confirmed that there were no creatures around. In the dark environment, he couldn't find the source of the sound, so Moback complained loudly, "Damn, there is If you have the ability to come out, what is the ability to hide?"

"Shut up." The cold Mia glared at him fiercely, "The speaker is not here. Have you never seen the magic of sound transmission?"

"Huh? It turns out to be sound transmission magic." Moback scratched his head. The great dwarves disdain to understand such mysterious things as magic. Well, they definitely disdain it.

"Of course not, it's just similar, achieved through other methods. Moreover, the pronunciation is repeated back and forth, and a few sentences are kept looping. It can only be a message. Shuer, are you awake?"

"I don't know how to sleep while walking. Of course I'm always awake. I just had to maintain my magic and couldn't be distracted. I listened to what you said." The surrounding light shield disappeared at some point, and the floating Holy Scripture also disappeared. Falling back into his palm, Shuer finally had time to observe everything around him.

It can be said that this is another smaller version of the underground city, with the same hemispherical cave and the same internal buildings, but there is only one floor here, and the scope is much smaller.

"No, the top is not made of hard glass. Both the top of the head and the feet are sealed with metal. This must be one of the most important institutions." Shuer pointed to the top of the head, "I think so, the daily activities of this underground city depend on Energy support and tight defense are inevitable. Mia, the location of the energy supply equipment."

"Eight buildings, the third from the left has a high energy response, the problem is that the backup energy pipeline ends in the fourth building."

The same hemispherical building, the same curved outer wall, but it always looks stronger.

"Transit node?"

"I'm talking about the 'ultimate' end."

"Okay." Shuer nodded, "There's no need to make wild guesses, just go and take a look. Everyone, the alert level is lowered to level one."

"Boss, it's okay." Although the alert level was lowered, he had been burned once and had just witnessed the whole process of Xiure being attacked. Macajerun did not dare to take it lightly anymore and stayed with the team at all times.

"It's closed, there are no gaps. It's obviously chaos outside, but it's not affected here, it's still normal, so the safety factor is very high. Huh? There is indeed a high-energy reaction here, and the temperature has risen."

Indeed, although the house is made of stone and metal, and the walls are very thick, you can still feel a rush of heat coming through the walls.If this was really the location of the main energy supply equipment, this level of energy spillover could blow the city into the sky at any time.

"Mia, Meridi, protect yourselves."

Although there is no need to worry too much about the presence of strange enemies now, the closer he gets to the house, the more violent the energy he senses becomes. Xiuer has to be extra careful, lest any wrong move detonates the scorching energy inside.

"Morbuck, guard the entrance, Moria, guard the perimeter, and Mirity, support with your back against the wall. The three of you stay outside."

A high safety factor is also relative. Beware of being cut off at all times.

"Everyone else, come in with me, Macajron."

"The door is open, I'm a professional."

"What is the structure of this type of door and is it physically locked?"

"No, the kind that is mechanically controlled to shrink to both sides. There is no lock. It is controlled from other places. I used fighting energy to directly control the inside through the wall..."

"Uh, no need to go into details." Shuer interrupted the halfling's cheerful introduction, "Mia, be ready to suppress the energy runaway inside at any time."

"The strength is not enough, the difficulty is too great, and the possibility is not high."

"I know, I will help."

"That's not a big problem. Come on, I'm ready."

"Wow", this time, the metal door slid silently into the walls on both sides without making any harsh noise. It seems that the high temperature has reduced the moisture in the environment to a minimum, allowing the metal to temporarily escape the fate of rusting.

"Tsk, this structure is really..."

Just inside the door is a second layer of metal wall, the radius of which is two meters different from the outer layer, leaving a corridor between the two walls.In desperation, he walked along the corridor until he was directly opposite the entrance. After passing through the second door, he could see...the third metal wall.

"This group of frogmen really know how to design. Are they going to build a maze?" After making a big circle again, they made a detour to the third door. It’s interesting to open another wall.”

"Probably not. Their design seems to be guarding against something. Surely it's not guarding against explosions and isolating the temperature? It doesn't seem like it." Xiu Er found that Ma Kajielun was looking at him with a questioning look, and nodded, "It doesn't matter what the defense is." What, the three metal walls are almost there, let's see what they use as energy." As soon as the door opened, bright light shot out, the strong light was unobstructed, and it hurt people's eyes.As the strong light burst out of the door, there was also an astonishing high temperature. Even standing at the door, the skin on his face was still burning hot, and even the hair on his temples was slightly curled.

"It's so bright." Saff, who was behind Shuer, was the last one to react. Even with glasses, her vision was still very insensitive. The girl rubbed her eyes and tried to see the scene behind the door clearly, but failed in the end. , "Xuer, what is it, gurgling?"

"Did you hear that? It's magma." Seeing everything in front of him, even Xiuer was stunned for a few seconds and said with a twitching corner of his mouth, "An underground crater, a natural magma pool. These people really have imagination, and they actually used it directly Geothermal energy.”

Indeed, this is the source of energy for frog people.

The magma pool, which is hundreds of meters in diameter, exudes terrifying high temperatures. Thanks to the physiques of the professionals, if it were the aboriginal frog people, they would have been fainted by the heat wave.

Around the magma pool, the frog people built a large number of mechanical equipment. Although the specific function is not known, they must be used to convert geothermal heat into usable energy.

"I probably know the purpose of the first two buildings." Mia seemed particularly relaxed. The elemental mage was always accompanied by violent energy. This level of high temperature did not make her feel uncomfortable.

"Well, the other place for replacing special equipment such as insulating suits should be a water storage station, specially used to provide water and cooling to the equipment here." Shuer nodded, "Let's go out."

"Well, let's go out." Mia actually nodded in agreement blankly.

"What? Are you leaving now?" Macajerun was startled and said in surprise, "Aren't we going to restore the power supply? Why don't we check these equipment?"

"You are a mechanic yourself. Do you think they can still be used? Equipment that works at high temperatures loses cooling water, which is equivalent to being declared dead. It would be a waste of time to check again. Moreover, even if one or two can be saved, I'm afraid it's also seriously damaged. This type of energy conversion equipment Parvatija is rare. You can solve small problems. Can you repair this big problem, which is almost the same as making a new one?"

"Okay, no." The halfling had to admit that what Shuer said made sense. He had just made a cursory observation and found that all the equipment had been shut down, and most of them had signs of melting in appearance. It was indeed unrecoverable. room for, “What should we do?”

"Sasa, can you break the wall? Forget it, don't try, just go back the way you came." Two layers of metal sandwich a layer of insulating rock. A wall is at least one meter thick. It's not impossible to break, but it's pointless. .

"Don't worry, there is still hope. Don't forget that there is a building next to it. That is the end of the energy pipeline. Mia, here..."

"Theoretically, the energy here is also going to be sent there, that is the end of the pipeline. But there is no energy output here now, so there is no way to prove it."

Although Xiure said there was still hope, even he himself was not very optimistic about the so-called hope.

Geothermal energy is a nearly inexhaustible energy source. Since we have the ability to convert geothermal energy, there is no need to manufacture other energy supply equipment. The possibility of restoring energy supply to the city is extremely slim.

However, not letting go of every possibility is one of the aims of the Shadow Chasers. Even if there is only [-]% hope, we must try. If we really can't do it, we will have to spend a lot of time exploring the city in the dark. up.

However, when they saw the fourth building clearly in the darkness, what they saw was not hope, but weirdness.The shape of the building is no different from other buildings, at most it is bigger. However, unlike the metallic appearance of other buildings, this building has a rough and dusty appearance, with no sense of beauty at all, and looks like a shoddy building. Inferior quality.

I tentatively touched the wall, and it seemed that the roughness was not just a visual effect, it also felt matte to the touch, and the entire building was like this, which was obviously intentional.

"This is a bit strange." Shuer walked around the wall for a few steps, frowned and said in thought, "Moback, what are the metals outside?"

"Chrome-nickel alloy, we can also make this stuff over there, but the raw materials are not very common." Mineral experts often only need to knock a few times to determine the approximate composition of the metal.

"What about this?" Xiu Er patted the gray wall behind him, "It should be other metals."

"This one is weird, it's lead alloy." Moback stroked his beard with a joking tone in his tone, "This kind of alloy has very low hardness and I can make a hole with just a punch. I really don't know why they want to Using it to build a house is simply..."

"Wait, you said this is lead alloy?" Xiuer suddenly clenched his fists, his eyes shining, "Are you sure? You'd better confirm again."

Seure rarely asks for repeated confirmation of his teammates' conclusions. He will only be as cautious as he is now when it comes to the most important aspects.

"Uh, I'm sure." Moback punched the wall twice this time. As he said, there were two shallow depressions on the wall.

"Heh, if it's lead alloy..." Xiu Er licked his lips with a bright smile, "You should have heard of cursed metal."

"Holy shit, oh my God."

(End of this chapter)