Leaving the control room, Alan headed straight for the staircase to the lower level and drove the wind-down. The door was soon closed, and Alan was forced to light a fireball in the gloom. The flames remained motionless in the darkness, and there was hardly any air movement. Alan did not dare summon a fireball too hot for fear that the precious air would be used up in the enclosed space. When I looked down, the firelight could not reach the bottom at all. Only a few meters around it could be slightly illuminated, and further down it was pitch black. The surrounding walls are just like the light-network corridor on the upper floor. The white walls without any cracks are smooth as jade. I do not know how such materials are made.
Alan's descent was slow, and as he floated through the air he looked down with his head in case he missed anything important. I don't know how long it was before Alan finally saw the bottom of the staircase, where a metal door with a bird and a picture of a beast stood. After landing gently, Alan approached the metal gate and got a glimpse of the unusual gate.
"What's going on here? Alan caught sight of the gate and wondered if he had been mistaken. There's supposed to be three floors down from the control room, and there's only one door down here? Where are the other two underground palaces? What about the two ways out?
"No, didn't you miss it?" Alan thought over his journey again and again, and to make sure that he had not missed the hidden entrance, he had no choice but to try to get through the gate.
Countless lines compose a circle around the shakedown delaying the door to the whole picture, like a lot of hyphae Qun clings to them. Still, seemingly random rough growth of hypha ManHui collusion, out-of-order full of links, inescapably, cannot completely stripped, guarded the door of the unknown secrets.
The middle door was so thin it looked like a sheet of metal from a distance. The growth of the mycelium stops when it reaches the crack of the door, and even gradually gathers into wisps and bundles. The bundles of mycelium eventually form a small mushroom shape.
Core!
This little mushroom must be the key to the whole gate! Alan realized that the artsy carving of the door was a simple arcane rune that functioned as a simple switch to keep the door open for a certain period. After entering the base lower level, it seems that the designers have not placed so many kill machines!
The mushroom lock was so high that Alan had to use his windboots to levitate himself and then squeeze his palm into the sunken mushroom. Arcane energy was injected into it, and the gate glowed blue. Countless hexagonal runes began to spread outward from the mushroom and soon touched the edge of the gate before finally stopping to glow. Then a strong blue light began to shine from the mushrooms in the middle of the door, like a blue river, along the mycelium, as their channel lit up the whole sculptured relief!
The whole gate is made of Mithril! As Arcane energy spread through the metal gate at an unheard-of speed, Alan realized that such a large slab of iron was full of Mithril. When humans use mithril, they usually place it only on the core of Arcane weapons. For example, Shen's longsword has a piece of Mithril embedded in the hilt, which makes the only Arcane-friendly metal play the role of central control so that the whole weapon can receive Arcane from the inside out. Of course, it would be best if we could use all mithril, just because it's so rare and pure Mithril weapons are too expensive to be worth it. The Bacterial, who have no concept of money at all, have made a door with so much mithril, which is probably more than ten tons!
Not even a weapon, just a door!
The metal door swung open in the middle with a loud bang, and Alan hastily withdrew his hand. When the door opened to a space that was just open to the public, Alan could not resist the thought of ripping a little mystery off the door and carrying it away. Who knows if breaking the gate will trigger the hidden mechanism?
"Channel, channel, channel!
Alan practically yelled through the door, praying that he would see only two escape hatch entrances, hiding two pathways out of the forest. However, reality failed him. Behind the gate, instead of the exit he had been expecting for a long time, it was the extremely high underground five floors in the holographic map, with a height of more than ten meters above and below. There was not much room for movement behind the door, a large tank of fluid behind a simple console. Inside the tank, the visibility was very low, filled with translucent colorless bacteria, and there was not even a bubble floating beyond the walls, let alone other algae or animals.
Alan smiled wryly, he was just trying to find a way out, the result is that the base designed to force him to know the secret here, directly brought him in: "I'm not interested in your secrets ah, I tell you mushrooms can let me out first!!"
There was no use in Alan's talk, except to observe his surroundings. This floor was, as always, unadorned, with white walls. I didn't expect the always aesthetically grandiose Bacteriol to advocate simplicity so much in important places, not a single decoration.
But it was so simple that Alan could not manage it. After searching the floor outside the VAT and the door, Alan could not find any way down, as if the mysterious escape on the map did not exist. Along with the drill layer on the map, Alan could not find any way up. There are three parts to the deep base, two of which seem to be completely missing!
With nothing to show for it, Alan returned to the console in front of the tank, which seemed to cooperate. There were mechanical noises, and Alan saw a plugboard spring out.
"What is it? Alan was expecting another Gertri hologram, but Gertri surprised him with a physical place board.
The six slots were in the lower half of the regular dodecahedron, exactly as Alan had seen them at the ground level, except that the size of the slots was a full circle larger than before, which meant that Alan would have to cram in six huge crystals. All that was missing was a note next to it that said, "Please hand over your crystal jewel, thank you."
"Are mushrooms all robbers?" Alan touched the last of the six diamonds, one of which he could not help but bellow. 'You've all got so rich you've built such a big base, and you won't let go of the money!'
Never let go... Let go of... A...
Alan's curses echoed through the empty room, but it was clear that no one, no mushroom, would jump out to speak to him. The flesh wrenched away from all the diamonds, and one by one Alan inserted the diamond into the empty slot, which, sensing the diamond's presence, took hold of it like a hungry tiger, and could not even pull it out once it was in. If Alan hadn't found no other way, he would have turned away by now! What can you do now? Pinch your nose! Back to face the beam corridor and the collapse of the entrance, only forward to open the situation.
When Alan reluctantly inserted the biggest diamond Abel had given him into the console, the slot version was snapped at without the least courtesy. Alan gritted his teeth. 'You made my visit! Mushrooms are stinky stupid *!"
Stupid *... Stupid *... *...
The angry voices echoed through the room again, as if the Bacterial were Shouting back, and had the effect of a concert hall resonance. In a fit of anger, Alan decided to shut up, and instead of scolding the northern mushrooms who had built the base, he was scolding himself: scolding an empty room wasn't stupid.