dark moon

Chapter 37

Finding the breakaway point wasn't difficult, at least not with Sapph around.

The most important job of the projection energometer profession is to measure abnormal fluctuations in space energy through their own abilities and the assistance of a variety of equipment, so as to determine the exact scope of the projection world.The next step is to find the approximate location of the entry and exit points through extremely complex calculations.

The higher the personal level of an energy meter, the more accurate the calculation results will be. There are not many expert energy meters like Saff in the entire Parvatiga world. Of course, there is no problem with the accuracy of the calculation results. With her assistance, all problems will be solved. All can be easily solved.

Skip the second floor and go straight to the third floor. The environment on the third floor has changed significantly.

The houses began to become sparse, but both the height and the floor area increased significantly. Even some factory buildings on the first floor could not compare with the construction area on the third floor.

In order to find the departure point, I entered some buildings and realized that the interior of these buildings is actually composed of a large number of rooms, rather than a whole through structure like a factory building on the first floor.However, it is a different world after all, and even the types of energy sources are different. The specific purpose of most of the rooms is unknown. It can only be inferred that it is a very professional research place.

"It seems that some kind of insects are being studied here." As usual, Saff was taking measurements, and Shuer was wandering nearby with his hands behind his back, but his attention was always focused on the female swordsman to prevent her from being unnecessarily disturbed.

Others were also wandering around, continuing their journey from yesterday, looking for strange objects they had never seen before.

The entire Shadow Chaser team was not at all nervous because of Macajron's disappearance, as if the missing person was an insignificant stranger.

Of course, everyone is not in a hurry. Even if they are not worried about their teammates, they are at least worried about themselves. There is a sharp sword hanging above everyone's head that can be chopped off at any time. How can they not be in a hurry?
The current relaxed state of everyone represents the true professional quality of Shadow Chasers.The situation in Chasing Shadows changes rapidly, and the possibility of encountering danger is too high. If there is a problem, it can be solved without making a fuss.

What's more, the more problems you encounter, the less anxious you are. Nervousness and anxiety are meaningless in solving problems other than causing trouble. Only by maintaining the most normal mentality can you successfully get through difficulties.

Of course, the reason is very simple, but the vast majority of normal people can’t do it. Fortunately, Shadow Chasers have never belonged to normal people. Quickly adjusting their mentality is the basic requirement of Chasing Shadow activities, just like everyone is doing now.

"Are they really not greedy when they study insects?" Moria put her face on a glass cover. Inside was a ferocious insect specimen. "What if one day, a precious specimen disappears?" Yes, after a careful investigation, it turned out that a scholar was hungry halfway through the research, and ate the specimen conveniently."

"They are frogs, not forest spirits." Xiuer tugged on his hair and pulled away this guy whose thinking could go off the rails at any time. "Let them go. They are already specimens. No matter how hard you scare them, they won't fly." Let’s go.”

"Hey, I've been discovered." The deer pouted, and its long black hair seemed to come alive, crackling and beating on Xiure's body.

"It seems that most of this floor is a laboratory for studying insects." The two mages walked back with Moback. "I didn't find anything interesting, but is this really a city?"

"It depends on how you define the concept of a city." Shuer also discovered the weirdness of this city. "A city of laboratories can also be regarded as a type of city."

"Hmm... It seems you think so too." Mia said with a straight face, "The purpose of building this city is not to house people at all, the houses are just for convenience."

"No, not even on this floor." Saff hurriedly packed up the equipment spread out, "Go to the upper floor."

"Huh? Didn't you measure the upper layer this time?"

"No, the height difference gets bigger as you go up, and it's beyond the measurement range." Saff avoided the eyes of others and lowered her head in shame, "I'm sorry."

"Oh, it's okay, I forgive you." Xiuer had given up trying to get this idiot to change his habit of thinking everything was his fault. He could only pat her head and encourage her like a child, "You did it. Great, go ahead.”

"Yeah." The simple comfort made the timid girl happy enough, and she even had the courage to explain on her own initiative, "In fact, the higher you get to the top, the easier it will be to measure."

"Is the range too small?"

"No, there is less interference, due to the interaction between Rose's force field and Alese's energy wave..."

"Stop, stop, stop, there's no need to explain in such detail." The swordswoman was forcefully pushed toward the stairs, and several people gave up the opportunity to explore the entire city without any hesitation, and climbed directly to the fourth floor.

The scene on the fourth floor has changed again. Not only is it more open and has better light, it is also... lined with trees.

"Plants?" The six people looked at each other. No one expected that such dangerous things could be seen in the city.

"Ah, it's not a plant." After all, she was a plant expert. Moria reacted the fastest. She looked at it carefully and shook her head, "It's just a model." Indeed, these are just models of plants.

Whether they are trees or flowers and plants, they are all made of metal, but their appearance is so realistic that it can be misleading.The surfaces of all models have been specially treated so that you can't feel the coldness of metal to the touch. If it weren't for the hardness of metal, it would be hard to believe that they were just models.

Presumably living in the underground city all year round, the frogs are under too much mental pressure, so they build this kind of artificial garden to relieve pressure.

"It's on this floor." As soon as he regained his attention, Shuer heard Sav's low voice full of joy, and at the same time felt his sleeves being gently shaken, "Shur, Shuer, it's on this floor. "

"Well, yes, Shuuer is on this floor. What an amazing discovery."

"You bastard, you know exactly what I'm talking about." Biting her lip and rolling her eyes, Saff whispered with a slight smile, "I'm sure the target is very close."

The goal is indeed very close.

In fact, the higher the level, the smaller the area of ​​the floor due to the limitations of the hemispherical dome. On the fourth floor, the overall area is only half of the bottom floor, and the part cut by the boundary line is naturally smaller, which means , there are fewer and fewer points that need to be determined, well, so few that there are only four points left.

The location of the first point is a garden. There are benches on the roadside for people to rest. There are also a few carts parked in the middle of the road. There are various strange food patterns painted on the ceilings of the carts. You can just imagine a few frogs. Scenes of people pushing carts and selling goods along the road.

Strangely enough, neither the third nor the fourth floor had the end-of-the-world scene that I saw on the first floor. The upper and lower floors were simply two different worlds.

The second point is the empty warehouse. Everyone knows that this is a warehouse because Shuer can already understand the signs at the door.According to Xiure himself, he can now read most of the uncomplicated frog characters normally. Of course, he mainly relies on brainstorming.As for the more complex ones, you can still read them, but the brain supplement content will be so high that it will affect the understanding of the core content.

The third point is the interior of a huge building. It can be said that this is the largest building that everyone has seen since entering the underground city.Although the interior is also divided into a lot of rooms, some of them are surprisingly large.

"Tsk, tsk, here...it's really ironic." As soon as he entered the room, Xiure showed a meaningful smile. Not only him, but almost everyone had the same sense of irony.

Because what is studied here is plants.

The room everyone is in is actually a showroom. Just like the insect research site we saw earlier, the showroom here displays a large number of plant specimens.Some only have part of the plant, such as roots, stems and leaves, but more often, the entire plant has been made into a specimen.

Hundreds of plant specimens are arranged in several rows along the wall. The largest tree is as thick as two people hugging each other. It is tightly covered with a glass cover, while the smallest one is embedded in the glass frame. If it were not specially painted, An arrow guides the direction, making it difficult for viewers to find the target.

It's really ironic. There is no doubt that the frog people here eventually died under the attack of plants. Now seeing these plants that have been deprived of life and made into specimens makes people feel quite emotional about the grievances between the two sides.

"Sure enough, it's right here." Others' attention was first attracted by the plant specimens. Only Saff noticed the abnormal energy in the surrounding space as soon as she entered the door. The girl's eyes lit up and she shouted excitedly, "It will be there soon." Found my way home.”

"This is the best news I heard today." Shuer was a little distracted. He didn't look at the specimens, but he didn't look at Saff either. Instead, his eyes focused on a room at the end of the showroom. "You test first, if there is any Let’s wait until we find a way.”

"There is no need to measure anymore." In fact, Saff had been hanging two instruments on her arm, and the various readings on the instruments were constantly changing. She had been adjusting these instruments along the way. "Just outside the door, I had already drawn The scope has been set, come in and take a look, it’s just for final verification... you see it, you see it, that space fluctuation."

Indeed, while Safu was speaking, an extremely concealed spatial fluctuation suddenly flashed across the center of a particularly spacious open space on the right. If Safu hadn't kept everyone looking there, it would have been impossible to detect it.

"It's right here." Sapph was rarely so sure. After all, he had already observed it with the naked eye, so it would be strange to be unsure.

"Okay, I also made a little discovery." Shuer pointed to the small door at the end of the showroom, "The purpose of the room is marked there."

"Director of the chamber."

"They call this building the Institute of Botany. In other words, it is the room of the administrator of the institute."

"I'm thinking that since everything here is related to the plants outside, maybe there we can have a chance to find out what happened."

(End of this chapter)