Sword of Daybreaker

Gawain has two views of the planet from outer space.

One is his own "satellite vision" after crossing, which originated from a planetary synchronous satellite operating near the equator, and its view is limited to the Loren continent and a small area around the land, the second is the later passage A bird’s eye view of the Sky Space Station obtained by "drilling a loophole" in the permission system—Strictly speaking, the situation of the Sky Station system is even worse than that of the geostationary satellite, due to the same disrepair and the collision of the iron head of Ammon three thousand years ago , Cangqiang Station is currently in a severely damaged state, a large number of loops are extinguished, the monitoring system is stuck, and Gaowen only has a section of the loop camera that can be used.

However, due to the huge scale of the Cangqiang Station and the special monitoring location, he could still see some things that the monitoring satellites could not see when he used the Cangqiang to overlook the earth, such as a large area of ​​sea located in the southwest of the Loren continent.

In space, an inconspicuous light on the huge orbiting space station lights up. On the inner ring orbit towards the continent of Loren, several monitoring devices slid out of the protective cabin and moved quickly along the rails to adjust the focus. , The ancient sensing unit operates silently in space, collecting data on the surface of the planet, while on the earth, Gao Wen’s spirit is highly concentrated, while slowly adjusting the ground monitoring mechanism located in the inner ring of the space station, there are endless bursts in his mind. His conjectures and thoughts—his brainstorming continued until the picture in his mind gradually became clear, and the Bitter Winter and other battleships appeared near the base of the orbital elevator at the edge of his vision.

Gao Wen was stunned, and "rubbed his eyes" in his consciousness, so the optical sensor on the sky station also zoomed the lens. At the limit of this angle of view, the orbital elevator that connects from space to the surface of the planet It became a little clearer than before, and after repeated zooming in several times, the sea surface image that Gawain observed became clearer than before: it was 100% Bitter Winter.

He recognized the unique multiple wings of the ship and the weapon deck equipped with a giant rainbow light generator. Wasn't the fleet following the ship the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet that he had lost?

"I...how did I go there?" Gao Wen muttered subconsciously in his mind, "It's unscientific... The distance from Aldo's entrance to the elevator is not clear that a storm can explain. And this location..."

But no matter how he talked about it, the facts were already in front of him: the imperial fleet unaccounted for had been found, and it was now under his nose (in a physical sense).

After a brief stupefaction, he accepted this fact. Gawain immediately thought of the series of system prompts he had heard in his mind. He was only confused just now, but at this time he vaguely guessed the truth: Byron was on the trek. After that, they obviously did not waste time in a daze. They have sent an exploratory team to the orbital elevator, and the explorer’s landing and contact triggered a certain system left by the sailor—this system is connected to the Sky Station, and a series of The reminder message was sent to my side...

Judging from the content of the prompt information, the sailor apparently left a set of "standard procedures" specifically for dealing with such incidents in the Cangqiang Station. This may also be the result of the two rail elevators and the "industrial tower" of Talrond. The difference, but Gao Wen does not know the specific content of this process, what will happen next? How will the rail elevator handle unauthorized contacts? Will the approach of Bitter Winter be seen as a threat by the tower? And most importantly... how can I contact Byron who is floating under my nose?

In the dark virtual space formed by the connection with the Sky Station, Gao Wen thought for a few minutes and found that he was completely lost. He looked around in the system and found no big speakers near the orbital elevator. Find the microphone for air-to-ground communication in the system...

It seems that I can only watch from here, watching the exploratory team sent by Byron look around the orbital elevator, and then hope that they will not make a big death, but then I think about the beginning of the year. The elves also lost their way to the vicinity of the orbital elevator. The deaths they made were not small. In the end, they were released by the Sailor system after a little mutation. If you think about it this way, maybe you don’t have to worry too much. perhaps…

Gawain's thoughts drifted away uncontrollably, and he couldn't help but start thinking about what would happen if the exploratory team sent out by Byron really did a big death. The original elves back then became silver elves after climbing a tower. There are a bunch of subspecies such as, gray elves and sea elves. When Byron's fleet returns, if he becomes a ship of beast-eared fierce men, that would be too damn... How can he confess to the pea?

With a thought of maddening his head, Gao Wen frowned, and continued to pay attention to the scene transmitted by the surveillance system, watching his imperial fleet floating beside the steel island...

…

"This thing is glowing!!!"

For a moment, Ms. Cassandra's screams rang through the communication channel, and the penetrating voice of the Kraken almost pierced Byron's eardrums—but soon, Cassandra calmed down. Coming down, because she found that the metal ring wall in front of her did not seem to have changed much except for the light.

The sea breeze is still gentle, and the sun is still shining. The three salted fish that landed on the shore looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes. The water vapor that evaporated in the sun surrounded them under controlled conditions to prevent them from being tanned. When the fish was dried, the communicator on Kassandra's chest finally rang: "Hello, hello? Hello—Ms. Kassandra? Are you okay with you?"

"We are okay," Cassandra finally recovered from the daze, and hurriedly responded while lowering her head to check her own situation. "The outer ring structure here suddenly started to glow. I suspect that I accidentally touched something here. But nothing happened after that...we intend to continue exploring."

"Continue to explore?" Byron's voice sounded a sigh of relief, "Then you should pay attention to protect yourself, and try not to touch things near the tower."

"Understand," Cassandra nodded and said, curling her tail around a nearby metal tube, carefully dragging herself two steps back, and then beckoning to the two sea monsters she had brought. "Sisters, let's continue to check along this'ring', first look for things like open entrances..."

After this breathtaking episode, the Krakens calmed their minds by relying on the almost peripherally necrotic nervous system and continued their happy journey of exploration, and there were no surprises in the subsequent hours of exploration. happen.

This ancient sailor facility remained silent in front of the explorers, silently letting these salted deep-sea fish like an outing go around on itself.

The tension caused by the previous incident of "Suddenly Glowing Relics" has gradually subsided from the hearts of the commanders of the Bitter Winter. Although they still maintain sufficient caution and vigilance, they have begun to focus on the follow-up exploration operations. He also paid attention to the real-time images returned by Kassandra from the front, and asked the exploratory team to focus on checking some things that looked like words or markers, and recorded the information on the record.

The words and markers left by the sailors are an elusive thing for the mortal races of this world, but nowadays, as the mortals of the Loren continent are more and more exposed to information related to the sailors’ heritage , The research in related fields has entered the initial stage, the dragons can recognize the characters of the voyager, and the ruler of the Cecil Empire, Gawain Cecil, also has the mysterious knowledge in this area, so these recorded data can be used After going back, it will be of great value-presumably the domestic "starter linguists" and even His Majesty will be very interested in this.

Looking at the information that Kassandra kept coming back, Byron couldn’t help thinking that if there were a few experts in the Voyager’s writing in his fleet, he could understand the many facilities on that island now. What are they used for-unfortunately this can only be thought of.

He was not carrying a scientific research fleet. The original mission of the Bitter Winter was to blow up tree people and deformed bodies on the battlefield in the southern part of the mainland...Who would have thought that such a pure combat mission would eventually become a foreign exploration?

Irrelevant thoughts flashed in his mind. The picture from Kassandra moved on the holographic projection in front of the captain's seat, and at this moment, the corner of Byron's eye suddenly caught something strange. , He reacted quickly: "Wait a minute, Ms. Cassandra, turn the camera back-the text on that metal plate is wrong!"

With a flick of Kassandra's tail, she quickly turned around and returned to the place where she had just taken the video material. This is an open and flat metal "square" located near a huge gate (Kassandra was just right now). Go to the gate to check the situation). Around the square, you can see a large number of unidentified facilities like obelisks neatly arranged, and in front of one of the obelisks, there is a huge metal plate, the metal plate. Mottled patterns are engraved on it.

For Ms. Cassandra, who lives in the deep sea and specializes in mechanical repair, marine navigation, and death metal rock, language and writing are her worst areas, but even so, when she was reminded by Byron remotely After looking back at the patterns on the metal plate, she immediately realized that these patterns were obviously different from the sailor text she had found in other areas.

Those patterns are also words, another kind of words.

On the bridge of the Bitter Winter, Athalena, who was resting, was called over and studied with Byron the picture returned by Cassandra. After carefully identifying the mottled lines on the metal plate, The red-haired Dragon Seal Witch finally came to the conclusion: "...It is an ancient Elvish language, the most primitive version, the grammar and the writing style of some letters are different from contemporary ones, but it is still recognizable."

"Ancient Elf language?" Byron glanced at the other person in surprise. "You can even understand ancient Elf language?"

"Understand a little bit. Although the ancient elven language is different from the current elven language, it is of the same origin after all, and the official language system of the silver elves is the best preserved in this respect. I ran away from home and prepared to go. The "Outside World" did a lot of preparatory work before the adventure, including the learning of various languages, including seven or eight languages ​​and scripts including human lingua franca, dwarven language, and elvish language..."

"Fuck, you learned the foreign dialects of seven or eight countries in one breath just to run away from home?" Byron looked at Ashalena with a stunned look. "Are all the bear children of the Holy Dragon Principality so hardcore?"

"Before the opening of the national gate, the only way for us to leave the mountains was to jump from the top of the highest cliff in the north and glide for a hundred kilometers into Winter County. The beasts in the mountains are fighting hand-to-hand," Ashalena shrugged, "Under such starting conditions, the young people of the Holy Dragon Principality want to run away from home is a very hard-core thing in itself. The children do not have both civil and military skills. It’s hard to get up."

For a while, Byron didn't know what to say about the Dragonborn, an overly **** race, so he coughed awkwardly and quickly pulled the topic back to the serious direction. He looked at the ancient elves and frowned slightly: "Then can you translate what is written on this?"

"I'm doing it." Ashalena's gaze fell on the holographic projection, those ancient characters were reflected in her eyes, and the meaning behind them was little by little understood by her-although there are still many incomprehensible things. Paragraphs, but she has identified a lot of intermittent sentences, "This is... the original message left by the explorer to future generations."

"It mentioned above that large-scale memory decline and physiological deterioration are spreading among the group. This is the result of a certain'protection' mechanism in the tower... Those who still have a complete thinking ability left a warning on the metal plate. , And when they were engraving these words, they were constantly fighting against the'memory' effect in their minds...

"It mentioned above that the lobby at the bottom of the tower is safe, but there is an authentication mechanism leading to the upper level. This authentication mechanism once warned intruders not to continue climbing to the upper level, but some rashers ignored the tower’s warning and triggered the ancient What system of...

"What huge secret is mentioned here... or the truth? This phrase cannot be translated, and the spelling has changed too much...

"There is also a warning here to warn latecomers not to rush to the upper level of the tower, because'it's too early' and there is a long paragraph behind it, which I don't understand.

"Finally here..."

Ashalena frowned suddenly, seeming to be trying to interpret the content on the screen, and after a while, she said hesitantly: "In the end this looks like a poem? The commenter said that this is what he can remember from the high tower. The last message brought out, it reads like this:

"Don't indulge in this illusory and quiet long night, the night will eventually be broken.

"Don't indulge in your warm cradle, the cradle will overturn one day.

"Don't sleep in the sanctuary of the soul. Sooner or later, the sanctuary of the soul will become an unbreakable shackle.

"Let's set off, before the stars twinkle, set off, before the end of the long night.

"If you don't leave soon, day will come."

Ashalena raised her head, her gaze shifted from the holographic projection to Byron's face.

"That's all... Why is your expression weird?"

"Your Majesty mentioned this poem to us," Byron's expression became strangely serious, and Ashalena rarely saw this pompous man showing such a solemn expression in her memory, "I think... we have to take it. It's a little risky."