Extraordinary Voyage Chapter 644: Infinite Penrose Stairs
Da...Da...Da...
The crisp sound of footsteps kept ringing in the pitch-black world, but there was no echo that could be heard again. The deep and dense darkness seemed to be able to swallow all sounds and light completely.
In this completely imperceptible space, there seems to be nothing. Within the extremely dim lighting technique, the five-person team only has a stone staircase at the foot of which there is no place to come or where to go.
This is the fourth floor of the [Clock Tower] that the adventure team came to after they had all merged on the third floor.
Like many mysterious things, the structure of this [Clock Tower] also uses the most magical number "seven". There are seven floors from the outside to the inside. Moreover, the progressive space continues to grow, and the strength of the force is also increasing.
After the first three explorations, the deepest place that the latecomers were able to advance to was the sixth floor. No one had ever stepped into the seventh floor, let alone knowing what treasures were hidden there.
It's just that it can be vaguely sensed by the various means of the transcendent.
According to the notes received by Jeros, the location of [Ocean Treasure·Ancient Scroll] is located in a certain space on the sixth floor "the sea in the tower-the eye of the giant".
"Aven, are we just going all the way up like this? How do I feel that we have been walking for a long time?"
Anita, who was in charge of the formation at the end of the team, suddenly spoke. The voice was clearly in her ears, but in this special environment, it seemed to be far away, which made people feel a serious sense of dislocation.
Especially, Aiwen and An Qi felt as if they had returned to the "forgotten desert" in [Hades]. The depressive atmosphere that even their heartbeats can be heard clearly makes people a little irritable.
But Aiwen didn't know how to answer his sister's question.
One is that in the dark, human instinct will drive itself upwards, not downwards. The second is... I took a look at Milan, who was walking by my side, and I can only trust the judgment of this professional "prophet".
Before this, whether it was [Illumination], [Low Frequency Pulse], or even the Great Wizard’s [Spirit Field], or Universe Dragon’s [Space Perception], any detection method could not extend from the boundary of the stone steps. go out.
And every time Ivan flew out to find the idea of the boundary of this space, a huge sense of fear would make him repress this idea, and honestly led the team to walk in this carriage that can accommodate two rows of carriages. Parallel on the stone stairs.
This should be the specific rule that will begin to appear since entering the fourth layer of the core layer. At least under the suppression of the [Clock Tower] whose essence is equivalent to a demigod, almost no one can resist.
Suddenly.
After Aiwen used the "data-based vision" to accurately measure the distance traveled by his group and walked almost ten kilometers, new changes finally appeared in the front.
"That's a... corner!"
Olivia has a faint excitement in her tone. In this depressed atmosphere, any new changes are enough to make people feel excited.
However, as soon as he saw the corner, Milan, who was in the second place in the marching formation, suddenly drew his gun, and the revolver [Black Steel] roared like a wild beast.
Boom!
At the same time, a weird thing that looked a bit like a big dog and a bit like a mutant lizard suddenly jumped out of the 90° corner, and was hit by a powerful bullet with a headshot.
After instinctively shot the opponent, Milan's face showed a trace of astonishment.
"Isn't it? These guys are chasing here?"
But this is just the beginning.
At that corner, the "Daloth Hound" constantly jumped out of the void, and every one of them just appeared, regardless of others, and went straight to Milan.
Wow...
Going forward and succeeding in succession is almost like the tide. Standing at the front of the queue, Ivan’s head, sharp canine teeth, and long tongue dripping with saliva are the most intense when facing the petals.
I suspected that it wasn't the dog monsters in the entire [Clock Tower] who had madly killed here. What a hatred is this?
Without hesitation, he took a step forward and waved his hand suddenly.
Huh--!
Using the power of the "Storm Dragon", a terrifying storm was violently set off, and the "Daloth Dog Demon" who kept jumping out of the corner flew into the darkness under the stone steps in one breath.
For a long time, I couldn't hear the sound of landing.
"Hurry up, let's rush over!"
This situation gradually subsided after leading the team away from the corner and leaving the sensing range of the "Daloth Hound".
At this time, Aiwen couldn't help but put his gaze on Milan:
"How did you do it, did you guy steal someone else's wife?"
Milan coughed twice with a guilty conscience:
"Probably, probably, almost.
When I was on the second floor, I was on the water, and there was no corner less than 120 degrees; I barely stayed after the third floor merged. Although there are early warnings in spirituality, I didn't expect that they would directly chase here across several spaces. "
As he talked, he took out a magic book from his magic pocket, with a huge mechanical dial on the surface, and its name-"Echoes of Time and Space" was written on the cover in Lingwen.
Then slowly opened the table of contents of this book under the light of illumination technique, and explained:
"I don't know why I got such a tricky thing after clearing the level!"
The other three wizards in the team looked over at the same time, and after seeing what was written in the catalog, they couldn't help but exclaimed collectively: "This is... the inheritance magic book of the Clock Tower School???"
Before.
From "The Wandering Mysterious Source: Clock Tower", they have long known that the "Prophecy School" has a high probability of inheriting part of the "Clock Tower School" knowledge (Chapter 635).
In addition to the ability of the "Clock Tower School" to cruise the long river of history, it has established the "All-Seeing Eye" that abandons most attacking witchcraft and is only used to spy on the mysterious source of the present and the future.
The meaning is the same as the "Tree of Life School" presupposing a greatly simplified [Crown of Miracles] before the ultimate mysterious source [Tree of Life].
This should be the main reason why Milan volunteered to sign up after knowing the destination of the adventure.
Up to now, the distribution of the "Prophecy School" is even wider than that of the "Alchemy School", and they are present in almost every country on the mainland.
Compared with the "Gem School", which is also influential on the mainland, the "School of Prophecy" already has a Tier 4 crown wizard, and can already pay the price to borrow the mysterious source "Eye of All Seeing" at the critical moment. Powerful.
In addition, this "Echoes of Time and Space", the inheritance magic book of the "Clock Tower School", has also solidified a universal witchcraft [Space Springboard]. So far, Milan is no longer the weak chicken that used to be, but a Only... a weak chicken that can run very well.
The survivability is greatly improved.
The most important point is that under the premise that all members of the "Clock Tower" school have died, this magic book may be a valuable opportunity to inherit the greatest heritage of the wizarding world! Enough to make people reach the sky in one step!
But the prerequisite is to first understand that the "Clock Tower School" has clearly completed the concrete representation of the "mysterious source" at the beginning. Why did it fail in the final stage of integration? It also swallowed all the members of the school.
If you don’t understand this, embarking on this path rashly will probably end up in the mouth of the sheep.
Especially under the control of [Clock Tower], the front foot has just sent out the precious inheritance magic book that is one of the foundations of the school, and the back foot has sent out the "Dalus Dog Demon" title tail that can continuously jump in various spaces. Pursuing and killing, in principle, it doesn't make sense at all.
Unless, the basis for these two diametrically opposed behaviors is...two wills!
After helping Milan analyze the current situation for a while, Ivan patted him on the shoulder:
"The situation is not clear. Let's put it away for now. Two birds in the forest are not as good as a bird in hand. We will talk about it when we get out from here. But from now on, everyone should pay attention to the angle of less than 120° to prevent being'Daros' Dog demon' sneak attack."
"Okay."
At this time.
After passing the first corner, there seems to be a turning point in this space.
Squeak...
There were louder and louder bugs, and they began to ring in the darkness around the stairs. And as they continued to move up, the voice began to become louder and louder.
Staring at the path under his feet that continued to extend upward into the darkness, like a completely endless ladder, Ivan couldn't help but think of a theory-"Impossible Penrose Ladder".
This theory says that four stairs are connected by four corners, but the direction of each staircase is upwards, so it can extend indefinitely. But that kind of thing can only fall on two-dimensional paper, and it simply cannot exist in the conventional three-dimensional world.
But in the [Clock Tower], which is focused on space-time research, it may not be impossible to achieve.
It just gave Aiwen the feeling that they are not always up or down in the conventional sense, but have been striding forward into a deeper dark space.
It is actually walking in another dimension outside the three-dimensional world.
Soon.
It seems to be to confirm Ivan’s guess. When they walked through four 90° corners, they successively eliminated several waves of "Dalus" who jumped out because they felt the breath of Milan. In theory, they should have been Back to their original starting point.
What appeared in front of them was still a long stone stairway that was rising, with no end in sight.
Squeak...
At this time, it seems that two parallel lines finally meet. The frantic sound of insects broke through an invisible and intangible barrier, and had already moved rapidly from far to near from the darkness.
Giggle...
Led by the tall beetle with a human skull-shaped head and four arms, a large group of strange-shaped bugs emerged from the darkness on both sides of the stairs, and climbed up this path invisible to humans. Branched rock ladder.
It seems that under this continuous ladder, there is actually a huge wormhole connected.
In Aiwen’s opinion, the angular bony carapace on the four-armed bug man ~ IndoMTL.com~ is quite the same as a human being wearing a powered exoskeleton. It's like the [integrated circuit] that I harvested earlier that was contaminated with chitin, and it has traveled from the future to the present.
Actually at this time.
After synthesizing everyone's experience, they have realized that [Clock Tower] is very likely to have encountered some unknown pollution, and it is most likely to be related to bugs.
Because as they continue to advance to the inner layer of [Clock Tower], from the first, second, third to the current fourth, this kind of weird pollution has become more and more obvious, and weird looks become more and more curious. The bugs are endless.
The secret behind it will be put aside for now.
The big thing they are going to do now is—killing insects!
Standing at both ends of the team, Aiwen and Anita, the two top combat powers in the third tier, opened their mouths at the same time.
Boom----
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