The ball seemed to have been stuck in this world for a long time. Considering the state it was in when it pretended to be a stone ball, even Gwen, who had been hanging in the sky for many years, could not help but admire it. Its composure was not something that could be explained by the usual Buddha nature.
And after being stuck in the life of pretending to be a stone for so long, now it could finally open its mouth. The ball chattered endlessly. It kept lamenting how pleasant it was to talk to people, and how boring the people of this era were.
"Sigh, if it weren't for the fact, who would dare to believe that your civilization has regressed to this point? Those soldiers on guard don't even know the concept of the atmosphere and geomagnetic field … "
"That Druil called Pitman, there must be something wrong with his brain. I tell you, I don't know how many times he came over these two days. Every time he came back, the same topic, that is to persuade me to admit that I'm a dragon egg. He also asked me if a dragon needs to hatch from its shell twice. Damn it, it's so annoying. I've really come out of the shell, okay? I'll die if I hatch again! "
"And that female human in the red dress, all day long, holding all kinds of strange magic tools and making gestures on my body. She even talked to me about scraping some fragments from my body to study. Eek — scared the hell out of the ball! She's as abnormal as those magisters back then … "
Gwen could not help but interrupt. "That, that abnormal female human in the red dress you mentioned is my family, my granddaughter."
"Sigh — then you have to educate her. You can't do research like this. Sooner or later, you'll have mental problems." The ball bobbed up and down, seemingly a little embarrassed. "But then again, those magisters a thousand years ago knew something. At first, I was going to communicate with them and study how to go home, but who would have thought that the only thing they wanted to do was to study me. Tsk tsk, if only those people back then were as easy to talk to as you."
Gwen looked at the ball with some curiosity. "How many years have you been in this world? Or, how many years have you been in this world before you were caught by those magisters? "
"Oh, I was caught as soon as I got here," said the Ball gloomily, "and I've been locked up in that laboratory for a long time, it seems - so long that I've learned your language."
Gwen looked at him from head to toe. "Those magisters never realized that you're actually an intelligent creature?"
"Hehe, I'm being cautious," Ball said triumphantly. "When I first landed in this world, I instinctively created a protective shell for myself out of metal and rock. I even put myself into a semi-hibernation state. There's no sign of life at all. And because I didn't understand the language of this world at first, I didn't know what was going on here, so I pretended to be a rock and secretly observed.
"Later on, those magisters found me and brought me to the laboratory. At first, I wanted to run, but they were too powerful. The slightest movement would alert them, so I didn't dare to move at all. But I was lucky. Those magisters found that there were always some unexplainable phenomena around me. They thought that I was an ancient sealed artifact or something like that, so they didn't cut me open immediately... "
At this point, Ball's voice suddenly sounded a little scared. "But it was really close. I remember that after they finished the first phase of the research, they were really going to cut me open. But at that time, there was a sudden order for all personnel in the entire facility to evacuate immediately, and no one was allowed to take away any test samples excavated from the local area. That was how I managed to keep my life. But when those magisters left, they even added a seal on the laboratory. As a result, I slept for many years, and you know what happened after that."
After Ball finished talking about its experience, Gwen immediately noticed its last few words. "You said that the researchers suddenly received an order, not only to evacuate quickly, but also to leave all the samples excavated from the local area in the facility?"
"Yes," Ball replied casually. "They never found out that I was actually alive, so they didn't hide anything from me. The order was also directly read out in the laboratory. I remember it very clearly."
Gwen immediately frowned and rubbed his chin in thought.
Ball asked curiously, "What's wrong? Is there a problem? "
"This kind of evacuation order is not normal," Gwen explained. "Back then, the Kingdom of Gondor withdrew the various pioneering teams because the benefits were not proportional to the effort, and there was no emergency problem. But the evacuation order you heard was obviously an emergency order, and no test samples excavated from the local area were allowed to be taken away... Why can't the samples be taken away?"
Ball thought for a moment. "Is it because the samples are contaminated? Or some facility used for the research samples is out of control, and there's no time to rescue? "
"The former is very likely, but the latter is unlikely." Gwen recalled the situation in the mountain ruins. "Although it was an emergency evacuation, I have observed the ruins. It was emptied in an orderly manner. Many large equipment were taken away, so there was no problem of not being able to transfer the samples in time. Speaking of which, what were they studying in this mountain back then? "
"That I don't know. I'm not doing research, I'm being studied," Ball said helplessly. "But there were a few times when they moved the laboratory for me, I saw something. They pushed some mutated and swollen corpses into the crematorium. I suspect that those corpses were made from human experiments. Although they no longer looked human, you could tell that they used to be human at a glance."
"Human experiments?" Gwen was stunned. He really did not expect that such a secret was buried in the Gondor research facility here. "Do those test subjects have any other characteristics?"
"Let me think... Oh yes, in addition to being taller than ordinary people and having signs of deformation of their limbs, there were many crystal-like things growing everywhere on their bodies, like crystals from biological tissues. What did a researcher say... "Ball thought hard and finally remembered the word." Ah, it's called 'Abomination'. But I don't know if the Abomination they were talking about refers to the crystals growing on the test subjects or the test subjects themselves. Your language is too troublesome. "
"Abomination?" Gwen frowned and could not help but repeat the word.
This was not a word to be used casually!
The Abomination of God was not allowed, violated the rules, and betrayed the will of God. It was something born from divine power but should not be born at all. Some people thought that it was the negative factors released by the pain when God lost his mind and fell into depravity. Some people thought that it was a mortal who had encroached on God's authority and angered the gods, and the latter sent messengers to punish the sinners. But no matter what, the word was related to God.
In the Kingdom of Gondor, the belief in the gods was as flourishing as it was today. Those researchers would not use the word 'Abomination', which had a special meaning, to refer to their research products for no reason.
An emergency order a thousand years ago had emptied the research facilities in the Gloom Mountains, but this emergency order had asked them to leave all the samples excavated there and not to take them away. So, what was the connection between the 'human experiments' that Ball saw and the 'local samples' mentioned in the emergency order?
Was the latter the material of the former? Energy? Or the source of the technology?
Of course, these were not what Gwen was most concerned about. What he was most concerned about was whether the samples that the imperial researchers did not take away a thousand years ago were still in the ruins in the Gloom Mountains.
A thousand years had passed. Were the samples weathered? Decayed? Decomposed? Or was there no change at all, and it was even subtly affecting the area?
"You seem a little nervous?" Although the metal ball was not human, it had learned how to analyze human emotions in the process of long-term observation. "What are you worried about? That was a research project a thousand years ago. At this time, all the people were dead, and the facilities were abandoned. What impact can it have?"
"I'm worried about the samples that they did not take away." Gwen frowned. "Do you know where they put those samples?"
The metal ball shook from side to side. "I don't even know. Although I was classified as a 'local sample' back then, those magisters were obviously not stupid. They would not mix me up with their real samples, so I have never touched the real core of the facility. Why, do you want to find those things? "
Gwen curled his lips. "At least if I find them, I'll know what they are."
The scale of the ruins in the mountains was so huge that it was unimaginable. Gwen had led people to explore it once, but he suspected that the area he explored was not even one-fifth of the entire ruins. In other words, in the remaining four-fifths of the ruins, there was the possibility of hiding anything!
"If you want to explore, you'd better be careful." The metal ball saw through Gawain's thoughts and kindly reminded him. "Based on the scale and danger level of that facility, it's almost impossible for the people in your camp to explore all of it."
"I know." Gwen nodded. "I'll do what I can. Let's not talk about this. Let's talk about you first. "
The metal ball was stunned. "Me? What do I have to say? "
"Don't you know how eye-catching you are in this world?" Gwen did not know whether to laugh or cry. "There's no creature like you in this world. If you go out like this, how are you going to introduce yourself to others?"
The metal ball said, "Saint Nicholas, President Egg."
Gwen was speechless.
"Well, I'm kidding." Nicholas' egg slowly sank a little, almost touching the ground. "Most people in this era are stupid. There are very few people who are smart and can communicate with people like you. So, tell me, what do you want me to do?"
"I'm going to explain your identity to the outside world. I'm using the excuse that you're a magical device that stores ancient souls. But this excuse is only known to some soldiers. Most of the civilians in the camp have not seen you yet. If you think it's okay, you can show up in the camp with this identity in the future."
"Aha, that sounds pretty cool!"
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