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After Wang pressed the button, the machine made a buzzing sound.
Xiaobai sniffed: "It smells strange."
Wang Ye sniffed it and said, "Ozone. There should be some kind of ionization device in this thing, so it produces some ozone molecules."
Xiaobai: "Ionization, ozone, these are all words I don't understand."
"Ah? Oh, sorry. But I don't know how to say it in the common language of this plane. After all, electricity has not been discovered here yet. Anyway, it's a lightning spell. There is a lightning spell generator inside this machine."
Xiao Bai clapped his hands vigorously. "Oh, indeed, there is a similar smell after casting spells like Lightning Claw. So is this a weapon?"
Wang: "I don't know. I just activated it, but it didn't attack. I guess this should be the jammer. Let's go to the hole we found before that blew up the things and have a look."
Xiaobai: "There's one last cabinet. Don't you want to open it?"
Wang made a "please" gesture.
Xiaobai took a defensive stance and carefully opened the last cabinet.
There were no poor "barbarian slaves" locked up inside. There were three unknown devices quietly placed in the cabinet.
I say three because all three devices are quite long.
Xiaobai took out one of them and found that it was as tall as her.
Xiaobai: "What is this?"
Wang put down the recorder and jammer in his hands, picked up one and fiddled with it, and said, "I think this should be a crossbow used by the human empire in the Second Epoch."
Xiaobai: "But I don't see a place to load arrows, and there's no bowstring."
Wang: "Yes, this thing passes through this tube, this is it, do you see it? This tube with a thread wrapped around it, the thread on it is the bowstring of this crossbow."
Chapter 243: Puzzles
Xiao Bai took a look at the thing, scratched the spirally tied thing on the barrel with his hand, and was unhappy: "Are you kidding me? Can this be a crossbow?"
Wang: "Of course, the bowstring of this crossbow does not move..."
"Then how do we fire the arrow? And the bowstring is wrapped around the outside of the tube. Do we have to put the crossbow arrow inside the tube? Then the bowstring and arrow won't even touch each other?"
Wang: "Hey, I'll show you how to do it once and you'll know."
As he said this, he took out the crossbow arrow that was also in the cabinet, stuffed it into the tube of the "crossbow", held it up, and aimed at the skull that fell on the ground not far away.
However, no matter how he fiddled with the crossbow, the arrow did not shoot out.
Xiaobai: "Hahahaha, I heard someone claim that he knows a lot about the ancient human empire of the Second Epoch?"
Wang: "Don't laugh so quickly! I think this thing is out of energy. After all, it is not like the chip reader. Considering the problem of it still being able to operate after a natural disaster destroys the world. The fact that this weapon was able to be used at the time met the design requirements."
As he spoke, Wang fiddled with it again and opened the cover on the crossbow, revealing a whitish crystal.
Wang read the words next to the crystal and said, "Found it. This should be the core of the weapon."
As he said this, he activated the electric shock technique in his magic trick, creating a lightning bolt that hit the crystal.
The next moment, the crossbow made a "whoosh" sound, and the crossbow arrow shot out and nailed into the ground next to the skeleton.
Wang: “Look!”
Xiao Bai: "What the hell, you need a trick to launch this thing?"
Wang: "It needs electricity. It seems that humans in the Second Age may have entered the electrical age. This discovery can be written into the academic journal."
As he said this, he put all the ancient "crossbows" in the cabinet into the dimensional bag.
Xiaobai: "Why do you collect this thing?"
Wang: "If we can find a battery, or a battery substitute, this device can be used. Oh, and don't forget to bring the arrows made by the ancients."
Xiaobai: "What is a battery?"
Wang: "Just think of it as a device that stores the power of lightning."
“Is there such a magical device?”
Wang nodded: “Yes, the technology of this plane only needs to develop for two or three hundred years… Not necessarily, this plane has magic and alchemy, which may interfere with normal technological development.
"The dwarves have already met their needs with alchemy-made fire glue and smoke powder, so they haven't invented normal gunpowder. Electricity might also be affected."
Xiao Bai: "I'm pretending that I understand. Do you think I'm pretending well?"
Wang: "Stop pretending, let's go to the barrier entrance."
The two of them soon arrived in front of the cave entrance. Just at this moment, a blind character tried to fly into the entrance, but turned into dust in a flash of light.
Xiao Bai: "Strange, if this thing keeps turning everything that strays into powder, shouldn't its energy have been used up long ago?"
“After all, this is something from the same era as the Ancient Cyclops Empire. Just think about how powerful the things of the Cyclops Empire still are. Think about the Fetal Movement Hall that uses the Cyclops energy core for power, and the ancient puzzle in Monrovia. The energy retained by the puzzle can even drive the floating island to fly.” Wang said as he picked up the jammer and pressed the start button.
It looked as if nothing was happening.
Wang: "Xiaobai, find a stone and throw it over there and see if you can give it a try."
Xiaobai did as he was told, and the small stone fell into the passage behind the barrier.
Xiaobai: “Fuck!”
Wang took the lead and walked towards the passage.
Xiaobai grabbed his clothes and said, "Don't do that. If something happens and you get into trouble, you'll die. I have to find a way to comfort two crying human girls when I go back. I'll do it!"
After that, she transformed into a bear and went into the passage.
Still nothing happened.
Wang: "It seems that the humans of the Second Age have indeed mastered the method of interfering with ancient devices. The question is, can this technology be replicated? And, can it be effective against the remains of the Cyclops Empire?"
Xiaobai changed back to human form in the passage: "Stop talking nonsense, come quickly, otherwise the interference will be ineffective later."
Wang crouched down and crawled into the passage.
The two people walked one after the other along a passage with no forks, and finally entered a circular room.
On the pedestal in the center of the room, a spherical object was floating, and there was something like an iron ring around the object that was slowly rotating around it.
Wang snapped his fingers and said, "That's it. He must be the one we are looking for!"
Xiao Bai: "This thing... looks like it's still in motion. Could it be that this giant statue can still move?"
King: "It shouldn't be possible. In the First Age, Nerenis's conspiracy was crushed, and all the colossi should have been destroyed."
Xiao Bai: "The thing in front of us doesn't look like it's been destroyed. And since the humans in the Second Epoch had jammers, they must have come in to take a look. Why didn't they take it down?"
The king, who was about to reach out to touch the sphere, suddenly stopped and said, "You have a point, Xiaobai. Turn into a bear and touch it."
"You want me to do it again?" Xiaobai complained, but he still turned into a bear and touched the ball with his paw...
The next moment, a strong flash of light took away the king's sight. Although he immediately raised his hand to block it, the entire field of vision turned pure white.
He only heard the sound of Xiaobai falling to the ground, followed by the bear's roar.
When the vision was finally restored, the whole world turned dark green. Obviously, this was the bright spot left by the flash.
Wang: "Xiaobai!"
Xiaobai: "I'm fine. Shit, I was beaten back to human form from bear form in an instant, and... my hand!"
As Wang's vision recovered further, he saw Xiaobai lying on the ground, with a large area of his hand obviously carbonized.
He took out the healing scroll and tore it, then placed his hand, which was shrouded in soft light, on Xiaobai's arm.
The carbonized arm quickly returned to its original state.
Xiaobai, who had regained his ability to cast spells, cast a rejuvenation spell on himself.
Wang: "This feeling is even stronger than the one at the entrance. And the jammer should have been on the entire time."
Xiaobai: "Now we know why humans in the Second Age didn't touch this thing."
"Ah, we know."
After Wang confirmed that Xiaobai was fine, he stood up and started walking around the thing.
Xiao Bai looked at him and asked tentatively: "You...you don't want to take this thing away? Do you regard this as an ancient puzzle now?"
Wang asked back: "Isn't it?"
Xiao Bai sighed and fell to the ground: "Then you go and solve the puzzle. I was shocked just now and it hurts. I need to have a good rest."
I'm going to play with the stars tomorrow, so I'll take a day off (honestly). See you on September 2nd.
248. The starry sky is a bit interesting. I will take another day off. On September 9, we
The starry sky is a bit interesting. I will take another day off. See you on September 9rd.
It’s September 23rd, 3! I know some people will make fun of this, so let me make it clear first!
What? You ask me why I really don’t have any drafts saved?
Isn't this the official release of Baldur's Gate 3 in August? I finished the game three times without missing a day, and I only took two days off. I'm awesome!
Let me collect materials from the starry sky for another day. When I come back, I will arrange a brand new dragon roar for the Second Epoch Human Empire - no, the power of relics!
Well, see you tomorrow!
Chapter 244 I win too!
Wang glanced at Xiaobai who was lying down, and immediately turned his attention back to the glowing sphere.
He took out a roll of cloth and when he unfolded it, he found many magic wands inserted inside.
Wang pulled out the first one and cast a detection spell.
Xiao Bai asked curiously: "What are you doing?"
Wang: "Don't you want to go to bed?"
"How can I sleep? I also want to know what this weird ball is!"
Wang: "You are indeed a cat! Only cats have this kind of curiosity. Dogs can only tear up the blankets at home."