From the notes alone, Hao Ren could already infer two shocking key points:
First, when the ancient magic empire created the demon hunters (or rather, the ancients), they not only used amazing biochemical technology but also touched on divinity. Of course, Hao Ren believed that the ability of the magic empire at that time was not enough to touch the real power of the gods. What they came into contact with should be the product of the further decay and evolution of this power. But even so, it was enough to show that the mage emperors had indeed carried out research on the power of the gods. They called their research results "divine cells," which were obviously a real product that could be manipulated and replicated!
Second, their research turned out to be carried out under the guidance of the gods!
The last paragraph of the notes was obviously not nonsense. The person who left these notes mentioned the divine words and the will of the goddess of creation, and even said that progress could only be made under the blessing of the goddess. On the one hand, this confirmed Hao Ren's previous speculation that the demon hunters were not the product of blasphemy but were created under the premise of faith in the goddess. On the other hand, it was far beyond Hao Ren's speculation.
Not only did the mage emperors create the demon hunters under the condition of insisting on the belief of the goddess, but even their project itself … was also because of the divine words of the goddess of creation?!
Did the goddess ask them to create these "perfect creatures"?
"Let me see, let me see!" Seeing Hao Ren in a daze, Lily, of course, could not suppress her burning curiosity. She immediately snatched the notes from Hao Ren's hand. The husky maiden's golden eyes were wide open as she quickly flipped through the pages. Within a minute, she had read everything and looked surprised.
"According to this … the creation of the demon hunters was ordered by the goddess of creation?" Lily also saw the key point at a glance. Although she was usually silly, her judgment and observation skills were much better than others. After all, her instincts were strong. "It's obviously the process of creating the demon hunters … Wait! Mr. Landlord! I think I have a problem! "
"What problem?" Hao Ren was stunned. He did not see any clues from these notes, but Lily did.
"This relic is the place where the demon hunters were developed, right? Time here used to be still, and it only started to flow recently, right? The equipment here is only a semi-finished product of the Sacred Relic of Origins, so there is no way to successfully create a real demon hunter, right? " Lily asked one question after another without pausing. Apparently, these questions did not need to be answered. "Looking at this notebook, it is obvious that the people here had not succeeded in creating a real 'finished demon hunter' until the moment when the ruins were sealed and time was frozen."
Before Lily finished speaking, Hao Ren already understood what she meant.
"That is to say, this is not the final place to create the demon hunters, but an experimental base used in the early stage of the project." Hao Ren looked at the laboratory equipment around him, which was as clean as new, and his eyebrows gradually knitted together. "At the most critical step of the project, which was the successful synthesis of stable 'divine cells', it was suddenly abandoned. The entire experimental base was frozen in time, and the people who evacuated from here moved to other places with the experimental data and other things to complete the final part of the project, which was to create the first generation of demon hunters (Ancients)."
"That should be the case," Vivian agreed. "I didn't expect you to be so good at discovering the problem, Doggie."
"Of course, I'm smart!" Lily, the big dog, who had been called Lily for a long time, no longer reacted to the word. Instead, it wagged its tail happily, and its beautiful pointy ears trembled slightly.
"Then explain why they suddenly abandoned this place," Vivian raised her eyebrows. "Why did they suddenly abandon this place when the experiment was going smoothly? The entire experimental base looks intact, doesn't it? "
"How would I know?" Lily waved her hand carelessly. "Maybe the higher-ups suddenly ordered the demolition of this place. Anyway, it was 10,000 years ago. Who are you going to confront?"
"And there are some details that I don't understand." Hao Ren's eyebrows were still furrowed. "The experimental projects here seem to have been abruptly terminated, as evidenced by the magic circles and alchemy containers found by Master Hymer. But the people here seemed to have enough time to evacuate. They took almost all the research data with them, leaving us only these insignificant diary entries. How do you explain this? "
Hymer, who had been listening quietly, suddenly spoke. Although he was still confused about the ancient secret that Hao Ren and others were talking about, it did not prevent him from sorting out some personal guesses based on the available information. "Taking the data with them means that they had time to evacuate, or at least received a notice a few hours before they left. The reaction vessels and magic circles that were still running were left behind because it was not easy to stop them. You may not understand that some magic experimental devices with chain reactions are difficult to stop abruptly because most of the magic circles have a 'self-sustaining' characteristic during operation. They will run on their own, and stopping abruptly will easily cause an explosion and backfire on the caster. For this sturdy base, as long as all the personnel are evacuated and all the data is taken away, it does not matter if the devices and magic circles are left behind. They will naturally stop after the energy is exhausted. Of course, letting these things run on their own without supervision has a certain risk of losing control. But compared to the possible consequences of forcibly shutting them down, the former is obviously much easier to accept. "
It was much easier to sort out these details with an expert who was familiar with Holletta's local magic technology. Hao Ren nodded as he listened, but he still felt a little incredulous. "But leaving the running experimental equipment behind doesn't sound like something a magic laboratory would do."
"But if it is an emergency, then there is no other way," Hymer spread out his hand. "There must have been an unexpected change at that time. They only had time to collect the ready-made data, but they had no time to deal with the various experimental devices that had already started running."
"What kind of change would it be?" Hao Ren said as he subconsciously looked around at the seemingly intact buildings around him. From the surface, it was hard to tell what had happened here that would cause the entire base to be wiped out.
Lily's ears twitched. She could not help but look in a certain direction. Her eyes passed through the door of the laboratory and fell on the door at the end of the hall.
"What are you looking at?" Vivian glanced at the husky maiden.
Lily's ears turned back and forth. "Will there be an answer behind the second door? The people here evacuated in an emergency, but when they left, they carefully closed every door. If it was the outermost door of the base, it would be fine. But why did they also seal the door inside the base? And the deeper the door is, the tighter the lock. Hymer also said that the second door is far more difficult to deal with than the main door of the base. "
Hao Ren once again had to overestimate Lily's intuition. The husky maiden's words made him think that the change might not have come from the outside. Something might have gone wrong inside the base!
Soon, they arrived at the second door. Facing the tightly shut door, everyone felt a little nervous.
It was a door made of an unknown super-hard alloy. The nearly five-meter-high metal door was painted with decorative patterns in the style of the ancient Magic Empire. Tiny sparks jumped between the gray-white metal door and the surrounding pale gold door frame. These sparks were injected into the flat lines and grooves on the door, faintly with a texture like flowing liquid.
For the alchemists and magic-engineering technicians of Holletta, this door alone was a precious heritage. At a glance, anyone with a discerning eye could see that it contained charging reinforcement, rune encryption, energy deflection protection, stress shield, and a lot of other sophisticated settings. It was no wonder that Master Hymer, an outstanding genius of the Royal Magician Guild, was at a loss when faced with this door. He had made no progress for several days and had only just figured out the charging principle of the door.
"MDT, can you do it?" Hao Ren took out the MDT and let it scan the energy flow of the door.
"It's not a problem, but it will take a little time." The MDT roughly scanned and figured out the operating mechanism of the door. "Give me 30 minutes. Of course, if you are willing to give me two high-explosive armor-piercing bullets, it will be faster."
Hao Ren threw the MDT at the door. "Get out of here and do your work!"
"Tsk, what a labor squeeze," the MDT muttered.
The MDT grumbled, but it still floated in front of the second door. It connected its energy to the magic conduit on the door and began to crack the encryption using the normal procedure.
Its computing speed was many times faster than that of Hymer and his team of apprentices!
Master Hymer and several apprentices looked at the scene in front of them in a daze. The energy flow on the door was becoming more and more smooth, which was a sign that the various alarm circles had stopped working. They had been toying with the door for several days, but nothing worked. How could this thing, which looked no bigger than a brick, be able to open the door after a few minutes of fiddling with it?
However, Hao Ren did not care what Hymer and his apprentices were thinking. He just quietly looked at the super alloy door, thinking about what had happened inside the base. Although he guessed that it was an internal problem that led to the evacuation, he felt something was not quite right. The hall outside looked too clean and intact.
Although the emergency evacuation back then inevitably caused the laboratories to be a little messy, apart from that, there were no signs of damage in the periphery of the base. Even the gate in front of them, which was probably used to block out danger, did not show any signs of damage or impact. If a major accident really happened deep inside the base, how could there be no leakage at all?
It could not be that 10,000 years had erased these traces. Because time and space here were once static!
While Hao Ren was thinking about these things, the MDT's cracking work was coming to an end. The runes on the door were dimming one by one, and it looked like it could open at any time.
"Stand back, everyone." At this critical moment, Hao Ren was still cautious. He signaled for everyone to step back in case something dangerous rushed out from behind the gate and caught everyone off guard.
After a series of mechanical creaking sounds, the door gradually slid open to both sides.
Suddenly, a strong sense of danger hit them!
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