Chapter 185
Kodos and his team could only use visual observation and estimation to determine the time of the city's descent, and their accuracy was certainly not as good as Ye Bai who had the key.
During the past two days of walking around, there were several times when Ye Bai was very close to Kodos's army, but because the paper man had a farther sensing range, she was always able to avoid it earlier.
When the critical time for the traction was about to end, Ye Bai directly looked at the countdown in the item description, activated the teleportation array at the moment of the countdown of 01 second, and dragged the city for a "drift" at the last moment.
In this way, even if the other party teleports again at the fastest speed, they always need to determine the location of the city, and will always be one step behind Ye Bai.
While Kodos and others were reorganizing their army and using various means to lock onto the city's location, Ye Bai, who had just emerged from the teleportation array, immediately headed towards the city.
The city landed without any collision with the ground. It seemed to merge with the surface with a slight tilt, as if it had always stood there.
“Da da…”
Ottophis's footsteps sounded on the green boulders, and in a mist, Ye Bai entered this mysterious city.
Before Ye Bai could carefully observe his surroundings, he received a system prompt:
[You discovered the hidden location 'Lost Royal City', you gained 1000 historical experience points, and you gained 50,000,000 experience points.]
Looking at the 50 million historical experiences, Ye Bai couldn't help but take a deep breath. It was indeed a main task, and the experience points gained were the most of all her current "historical discoveries".
Now, another month has passed. Through the effect of [Poseidon Breeder], Ye Bai's accumulated experience points have approached level 80. This wave of historical discoveries directly filled up the last experience points. However, for the invincibility frames and blood and mana recovery effects of each upgrade, she has kept the experience points and has not upgraded.
"The Lost Royal City..."
As Ye Bai walked, he took in the surrounding scenery.
To her surprise, the interior of this city, which looked so magnificent on the outside, turned out to be like this.
The interior of the city that came into Ye Bai's eyes looked like a dislocated Rubik's Cube. Various grand yet exquisite buildings were incomplete and neat, as if they were neatly cut by something, and then the remaining parts were stacked together.
Here Ye Bai saw various extraordinary technological buildings engraved with inscriptions in the Ethereal Language, Elven Language, Dragon Language and even the Infernal Language. There was a fountain with more than half missing and a teleportation array with the other half missing. There was a spiral windmill on the base of the magic tower, and even the greenhouse was connected to a smelting furnace.
It is not just the buildings that are pieced together, but also the roads and bridges. Some roads are even connected to the roofs and walls. They have experienced years of erosion together, and coupled with the lingering fog, they have formed the current appearance that is difficult to distinguish up, down, left, and right.
However, even with this stacked and misplaced appearance, we can still get a glimpse of the former appearance of these buildings, which is indeed worthy of the name of "Royal City".
But now, this royal city seems to have become a complex maze.
Ye Bai jumped off Ottophis's back, approached one of the ruins of the building, and took out his secondary job prop [Archaeological Magnifying Glass].
Moonstone
Sun Stone
【Magic Crystal】
[Rock of Silence]
Looking at the series of materials and information fed back, Ye Bai curiously retracted the archaeological magnifying glass. She didn't expect that even though she had reached the pinnacle of historians, she still couldn't get any historical clues from this piece of ruins.
You have to know that in the past, in the even more dilapidated ruins of the Sky City, Ye Bai was a historian of a lower level, but he obtained a lot of historical information and even learned the dragon language.
Ye Bai remembered that this place was called the 'Lost Royal City', and the great annihilation mentioned by the Elf Queen... What if it was because it itself had no historical information?
The disappearance of mass annihilation will take away other people's memories of a person or thing. Correspondingly, logically speaking, history is also produced by the "narration" of other people's memories. If it encounters mass annihilation, it is very likely that related historical traces will also be wiped out.
Thinking of this, Ye Bai suddenly had an idea. She thought of a prop in her backpack - a fishing set that was as effective as a magical artifact but had no historical clues.
Thinking about it this way, it is possible that the three-piece fishing gear set really belonged to the God-King who had suffered the Great Annihilation!
This discovery cheered up Ye Bai, and he felt a sense of clarity. At the same time, the voice of the paper man also sounded:
"Lord Bai Ye, I have sensed the location of the key."
"Okay, let's go." Ye Bai came back to his senses, looked at the ruins here with some regret, and then rode Ottophis and set off.
This was once the capital of the God King. Any material from these building ruins is rare or legendary. Unfortunately, Ye Bai has more important tasks to do right now. Unfortunately, she doesn't have much material in her backpack, otherwise she would definitely stay here and dig these materials back to her territory to upgrade the buildings.
On the other side, after Kodos and others came up empty-handed, they had no choice but to return to the main group. The mystic in the group spent some time releasing secret spells and finally locked onto the location of the city.
"Ancestors..."
Kodos walked to the wooden box, but before he could speak, he heard a hoarse voice coming from inside:
"I know... I still need to regain my strength."
Kodos immediately lowered his head: "...Yes!"
After a while, the fluctuations of the teleportation array finally lit up again under the team's feet. Everyone who had had many experiences in the past two days stood still and waited, and then watched the light of the array under their feet flicker, light up for a moment, and then dimmed as if it had lost its power.
This went on and on twice, and when everyone was feeling uneasy, the light finally stabilized, spatial fluctuations began, and a large-scale transmission was carried out.
This time, the sky city that had been pursued finally appeared in front of Kodos and his people.
"Let's go, don't waste time."
"yes."
Kodos responded and quickly led his team into the city.
Only when he actually stepped into it instead of standing on flat ground did Kodos breathe a sigh of relief with lingering fear. Then, seeing the surrounding scene and the dilapidated buildings piled up in disorder in the city, he took a deep breath like everyone else around him.
After calming down, Kodos remembered what his ancestors had said before and said to everyone:
"Don't act on your own. This is a giant maze. Everyone, follow my instructions."
"Something's wrong. I've been to this place before."
Looking at the huge half of the moonstone sculpture not far away, Ye Bai stopped. She was very envious when she saw it before, so she recognized it immediately when she saw it again.
Hearing this, the paper man was immediately surprised and said, "From my perception, the distance of the key has been decreasing at a relatively slow rate, and there has been no sudden increase in distance."
"Ah!" Ottophis also shouted, as if echoing the words of the paper man.
"The distance hasn't increased?" Ye Bai looked at the sculpture in confusion. It was still connected to the half green roof. She was sure that she was not mistaken.
When she entered here before, she confirmed that this place had become a maze.
I just didn't expect that even with the guidance of the paper man, I would still get lost. Judging from this situation, the mechanism of this maze should not be to change the spatial distance.
"Go ahead and give it a try."
Ye Bai thought about it, then set off again.
Along the way, there were all kinds of familiar patchwork buildings. The central area indicated by the paper man was blocked by fog and buildings. Even if you flew into the sky, you couldn't see anything clearly. Only the outer wall you saw in the distance when you just came in was hidden and appearing among the scattered buildings.
After a while, Ye Bai stopped again.
In front of her was the familiar sculpture.
"The spatial distance remains unchanged?"
The paper man on the leaf of life shook his head: "No."
"If it's not a maze that changes space, then consider other types..." Ye Bai pondered for a moment, and after a moment, she thought of something: "Could it be a knowledge maze?"
"A knowledge maze...a maze that uses knowledge to create obstacles?" The paper man made a guess based on Ye Bai's words. Although he was "well-read", he didn't seem to have any knowledge in this area.
"The knowledge maze is a maze formed by changing cognition. It does not change the space, but changes the consciousness of the people in the maze. It is the legendary magic of the Void Spirit Clan." Ye Bai explained, but his tone was a little uncertain.
The reason why she thought of this was actually because she used the process of elimination. So far, during the course of this main quest, Ye Bai has come into contact with the four top races in the divine world: ancient dragons, deep-sea tribes, infernal creatures, and high elves.
As the champion of the God Realm Championship, the God King naturally has connections and influence in every top race.
Among the current mission-related ones, the only ones left are the human race and the virtual spirits that Ye Bai has not yet come into contact with. Those trackers containing the power of light may come from the current human principality forces, while the virtual spirits who represent knowledge and secrecy have no trace at all except for the teleportation array text they left behind.
When encountering this maze without space, Ye Bai thought of the setting of the Void Spirit Clan, who are good at control spells and pursuit of knowledge. One of their signature legendary magics is the [Knowledge Maze].
It was just that the knowledge maze covered the entire royal city, which really caught Ye Bai off guard at first, just like she didn't realize at first that the Elf Queen could hide the entire Emerald Forest in her dreams.
"Influencing consciousness... that might actually be possible, because even in my current state, my consciousness would be affected." At this point, the paper figure exclaimed, "Master Bai Ye is truly knowledgeable. I've never seen such a record in any book."
No record in the books? Ye Bai's expression changed when she heard this. This was one of the racial settings that she knew. If the paper man hadn't been seen in the books, excluding the fact that he really hadn't come into contact with the relevant records, it was more likely that all the information about the Void Spirits had been deliberately hidden.
The Elf Queen had previously said that it was the abnormality of the Void Spirits that led to the civil war between the two human duchies. Until now, Ye Bai knew very little about the situation of the Void Spirits.
However, the most important thing right now is to get out of the maze. After calming down, Ye Bai turned his head -
"If we are truly in a maze of knowledge, we must first find the place where it 'asks' questions."
As she spoke, she looked towards the outer city wall not far away, which had always existed no matter how the buildings changed.
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