The originally clear image had now become a blurry mess. I could only roughly make out the original figure and the distinctive giant wings. I reckoned that even the image of the missing angel would have a higher resolution than the image in front of me. Looking at the blurry image that was constantly trembling as though it was about to lose power at any moment, Sandora asked curiously, "Is it what?"
"Alaya — I was going to say this," I scratched my head and briefly explained what had happened. "It's like this. My sister and I think that this should be an image left behind from a long time ago. It's highly possible that it was left behind by Alaya back then. However, we don't know what recorded it. My sister thinks that it might even be this flower …"
"Alaya's image?" Sandora revealed a surprised expression. Of course, she wouldn't doubt what I said, but this discovery was a little unexpected. Then, her gaze fell on the small pillar in the middle of the empty space. She looked at the small blue flower and pondered, "This plant … Hmm, I have an impression of it. I saw it in the Sky Tower! Do you still remember that the Sky Tower has a built-in primeval forest? The plants in the forest have this kind of light blue luster, and the leaves of some of the lower plants are also dark blue with a crystalline texture. "
With Sandora's reminder, I also remembered why I felt a sense of familiarity when I saw the flower. Even though I had never seen it on Earth, there was no such thing on Gaia. So the last time I saw its kind was in the Sky Tower?
The angel sister stood silently in front of the pillar, facing the blurred image of the past two to three meters away. Suddenly, a complicated expression appeared on her usually blank face. Then, she lowered her head to look at the flower on the pillar and whispered, "Brother Monarch, this flower … Can I take it with me?"
It was rare for Araya to show such a sorrowful and solemn expression. Her angelic sister, who was always a little dazed, was usually calm and tranquil, always wearing a gentle smile on her face. But now, when she saw the pale blue wildflowers on the pedestal and the image of herself that might have been left a long time ago, she showed such an expression. Perhaps she wouldn't be able to remember what happened back then, but some kind of emotion that had nothing to do with her memories surfaced. This emotion was transmitted from the image, through the small blue wildflower as a medium, across tens of thousands of years, to the angel's heart. After getting my approval, she extended her hand to the small wildflower. "I will protect it."
Holy Light condensed in Alaya's hand and enveloped the wildflower with it the moment the small barrier was opened. Inconceivable divine energy enveloped the wildflower layer by layer, preventing it from withering away in the blink of an eye. In the end, the wildflower turned into a metallic specimen that glowed with a faint golden luster. Alaya carefully held it in his hand.
"I will bring you out to see the outside world," the angel sister said softly.
The old phantom still stood quietly in front of the pillar. Of course, it wouldn't react to what was happening around it, but the angel sister still nodded slightly at it, as though she was bidding farewell to it. Then, she heaved a sigh of relief. "Brother Monarch, let's continue forward. The others might be waiting for us up ahead."
The four of us regrouped and continued forward. However, this time, I felt an indescribable heaviness. This heaviness came from my intuition, as though some ancient secret was about to be revealed here, but I didn't know if I was ready or not. Shaking my head, I threw these messy thoughts to the back of my head. My heart felt relieved: Prepare my ass. Ever since that nap four years ago, which of the things that happened to me weren't prepared before they happened …
"I just checked these broken pieces," Sandora said as she pointed at the broken stairs and platforms that were being swept past. "There aren't any signs of external attack. Everything disintegrated into this state on its own. Therefore, these broken pieces don't seem to be the result of an explosion or any other means of destruction. I analyzed the flow of information at the spatial boundary and found that there is a 'Senarus Recombination Phenomenon'. Oh, it means that the original orderly information has collapsed due to internal reasons. Then, it randomly recombines and re-enters a state of long-term equilibrium. "
"This place has collapsed from the inside?" I had already learned to filter out the things that I couldn't understand when I was talking to Sandora and picked the things that I could understand. "Do you think that the giant guarding the entrance knows that there is a problem with the ruins that he is guarding?"
"Who knows?" Sandora leaped onto a giant stone pillar that was floating horizontally in the air. Then, she looked around and suddenly called out to the public channel through our mental link. "Pandora! I see you! Stand there and don't move! "
I followed Sandora's gaze and looked over. Finally, I saw a different light flickering on the platform a few thousand meters away. After enhancing my vision, I was able to make out the figures beside the light. Visca was jumping and gesturing in our direction. She took out her ship cannon and tried to shoot a signal flare at us. This move was blocked by Lin Xue who was standing beside her. Pandora had her back facing us and seemed to be looking at something in a daze. Great, I picked up another three. At this rate, the team would be complete soon.
The distance of a few thousand meters was covered in a blink of an eye. Even if we didn't use teleportation skills, it was just a matter of two steps. Very quickly, the four of us arrived at the small platform where Lin Xue and Pandora were. Visca was already prepared. The moment I landed on the ground, he pounced on me. Like an agile monkey, he quickly climbed on my body and hung on my neck without moving. Pandora leaned over like an older sister and calmly rubbed against my leg. Then, she domineeringly pulled Visca down from her brother's body and started to chop his head. The relationship between these two sisters was really subtle …
"You guys have already met up?" Lin Xue saw that Sandora, Monina and Alaya were together with us. She curled her lips and said, "You didn't meet with any trouble on the way here, did you?"
The missy used a reluctant tone to express her concern. I knew her temper very well. At this moment, all I had to do was silently express my acceptance. Don't be too pleased with yourself. Otherwise, she would dare to repeat over twenty combat techniques on you. Thus, I smiled and said, "Of course I'm fine. However, I heard that Alaya went down the stairs a few times …"
"Looks like you guys also met with the same thing." The elder sister looked at the situation on the platform. Suddenly, she noticed that there was an indistinct projection hidden in the shadows of a broken wall not too far away. In an instant, everyone's attention was focused on this projection. It seemed to be the same thing as Alaya's projection!
It was a short human silhouette with a petite figure. I could vaguely make out that the silhouette was wearing a well-ironed military uniform. I couldn't make out the silhouette's facial features. Just like Alaya's silhouette, it was so blurry that all details were lost. However, I was still able to guess the identity of this silhouette in an instant. Then, I pulled Pandora over and pressed her against the silhouette.
"Judging from her height, there's no doubt that it's Pandora," I raised my head and said solemnly.
Lin Xue let out a sigh and said, "I made up my mind for a long time but didn't dare to say it out loud. You sure have guts."
* Bang! * Basically, as soon as Miss Lin's voice fell, I felt a fierce headbutt on my stomach. It was Pandora who rammed into me with a stupefied expression. If I wasn't mistaken, she had intentionally raised her head to gather strength for a long time before ramming into me …
"Cough cough, in short … We also met with the same situation. However, that projection was Alaya's …" I bent down and pressed down on Pandora's head, who was still expressionless as she attempted to ram into me again. At the same time, I roughly described what happened to me. "That was how it was at the time. However, we could still see each other's faces at the start."
"Why does it suddenly feel like a ghost story?" Lin Xue couldn't help but twitch her lips. "Ancient bricks and walls are sealed with images from many, many years ago. When there's a storm, a ghost will jump out to scare people …"
I had the same feeling as well. However, when the ghost appeared in those stories, the person in the shadow was already dead for who knows how many years. In this distorted space, the person in the shadow was still alive and kicking when the shadow appeared. Furthermore, one of the people in the shadow had been trying to ram her head into my stomach at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour …
After bringing along Pandora, her sister, and Miss Lin, only Icetis, Shallow Shallow, and Lin's group of three had yet to meet up with everyone else. The others were waiting outside the assembly hall. Oh right, there was also Jingle. That little one was still missing. However, I was in a good mood. At least, there was a lot of good news. First of all, everyone had confirmed that we were in the same space. We weren't separated into parallel spaces, which saved us a lot of trouble. Secondly, this space was limited, and Jingle was definitely here somewhere. It was only a matter of time before we found her. Lastly, we hadn't met any guards yet. The chances of us meeting any enemies could be determined to be zero. It was a pity that the probes that Sandora had released were all washed away by the chaotic flow of information in the space. Otherwise, we would have found Jingle a long time ago.
No matter how much debris there was, there was still an end to it. After advancing for an unknown amount of time, we finally saw the highest point of our target. In the deep darkness above our heads, the number of twisted corridors, stairs, and suspended platforms had decreased sharply. At the end of our vision, there was only a huge circular platform floating at the highest point. Around it were five or six fragments of broken pontoons. The destination was right in front of us.
"We can see the destination!" I said in the public channel through our mental connection. "It's a huge circular platform."
"It's a pity that we aren't there yet. We probably got lost on the way." Icetis sounded a little depressed. "Your wife is a vandal. Let me tell you first. She egged on that little dragon to knock a few crystals down, saying that she wanted to give them to you as a gift. I can't control her, so you do as you see fit."
"Ah Jun, Ah Jun, we saw two recordings left behind by Pandora!" Shallow Shallow snatched over the microphone. "I thought we had met up with you guys, but it turned out to be a recording left behind from back then. I have no idea what was used to record it, and I can't see the projector. Did you guys see it?"
Sandora and I couldn't help but exchange glances. We asked in unison through our mental connection, "Can you see the face?!"
We had the same thought at once. When we first saw Alaya's old phantom, it was rather clear at first, so clear that I almost mistook it for a real person. But when Alaya really came over, the projection became a blur, and the faces of Pandora and her sister couldn't be seen clearly from the start. At that time, we didn't think that there was anything fishy about it, and it seemed a little pointless to go back and confirm it now. Shallow Shallow's group had indeed encountered the same situation, which was why Sandora and I asked.
"Face?" Shallow Shallow was stunned for a moment. Then, her unique cheerful voice rang out. "Of course! Otherwise, why would I have thought that we had met up with Pandora! One of the two projections seemed to be listening to someone, while the other was staring blankly at his weapon. He was even wearing that familiar military uniform. Oh right, Pandora was 1.2 meters tall tens of thousands of years ago … "
I replied, "… Pandora is about to cry. Come back and comfort her yourself."
After ending the communication with Shallow Shallow, Sandora looked at me. "I'm guessing that when the real bodies of the old phantoms appeared, they interfered with the signal, which led to the situation we encountered. Alaya can't see his own projection clearly, and so can Pandora. "
"We can confirm it later." I nodded and looked at the platform above us. "Let's go up first."
There were many broken stone pontoon bridges around the highest point of the platform. One of these pontoon bridges was connected to the flight of stairs we were standing on. We followed this dangerous path that floated in the void to the top of the platform. We discovered that we were standing on a gigantic circular plaza.
"Ah! Ah Jun! You're here? "
The moment we stood on the plaza, before we could take a good look at our surroundings, I heard a small but familiar cry of joy. I turned my head and saw a blurry green figure rushing over to me. It pressed itself against my nose. This feeling of being rubbed against my face couldn't be any more familiar — —
"Jingle! Why are you here?! " I couldn't contain my joy. I stretched out my hand to grab the little one and rubbed her face forcefully. A huge boulder fell from my heart. That's great, this little one is fine. To think that I was worried all the way until now!
Even though I wasn't worried about Dingdang's safety before, this little thing had gone missing after all. It would be a lie to say that I wasn't worried at all. I just had to stay calm. Now that I saw Dingdang floating in front of me, all of us let out a sigh of relief. The little thing, on the other hand, was grabbed by me and rubbed against me for a long time. Finally, it loudly protested, "Ah Jun! He's too strong! Jingle is about to be squashed flat! "
I quickly let go of the little one and helped her tidy up her tiny dress and wings. "I haven't told you yet. Why are you here? I tried to connect with you mentally a few times, but it didn't work. What happened? "
"My mental connection seems to have been disrupted on this platform." Jingle extended her toothpick-like hand and pointed around. "There seems to be a barrier around the platform. Jingle isn't good at dealing with this, so she was trapped after being teleported here."
Under Ding Dang's guidance, I noticed that there was an extremely dim barrier surrounding this circular plaza that was the size of a few football fields. However, when we came up, we didn't bump into this barrier at all. It seems like this is a one-way barrier?
Sandora furrowed her brows and used her hand to probe the barrier. It seemed that she encountered quite a bit of resistance. Light blue ripples appeared where her hand touched the barrier. After extending her hand for a few centimeters, Sandora couldn't go any further.
"It seems like she's trapped here." Sandora turned around and glanced at me. "But if you use a strong attack, you should be able to break through. It's an internal barrier. It doesn't seem like it's used for defense, but to divide the field. I can't close it now."
The only thing I didn't expect was that Jingle wasn't afraid at all after being teleported here and trapped by the barrier. I originally thought that I would have to welcome a crying little one, but it seems like Jingle is quite happy here. The only thing I didn't expect was that Dingdang was teleported here by herself and was even trapped in a barrier. Unexpectedly, she wasn't afraid at all. I originally thought that I would have to welcome a crying little thing, but now it seems that Dingdang was quite content here.
"Because Ah Jun will definitely come to find Jingle." The little one looked at me with a face full of trust and happiness. "Although I was a bit scared at first, I'm not scared anymore after eating the candy. Even though Jingle is small, Jingle has fought before! Plus, Jingle is an adult. Jingle has reached the age of changing leaves! "
The little one looked excited as she bounced around my hand, showing off that she was already an adult. Looking at this scene, everyone revealed a knowing smile. Even though the little one said so much, she was actually scared for a while. Otherwise, why would she be so excited after seeing us? The reason why she was bouncing up and down was half because she was happy, and the other half was probably to dispel the shadow in her heart. However, I didn't point it out. Besides, what Jingle said was right. She has fought before, after all. Usually, I only saw the little one acting cute and rolling around in a daze. I almost forgot that she was a goddess who participated in the [Star Field Expeditionary Force]. She was even the real captain of a combat team. Her three-inch nail also fought on the battlefield.
"I don't see anything valuable here," Han Shuo said.
Visca squatted on the ground and kowtowed for a long time. When he lifted his head, he looked disappointed.
"Ah, there is something valuable! There is! There is! " Jingle seemed to have just remembered something. She flapped her wings and pulled my hair. "Here, there is a command knife that looks very old! It looks like it was left behind by the people who evacuated back then! "
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