Chapter 31 Recording Chip

Author: Jack Wills

Chapter 31 Recording Chip

The ruins are a buried city-state, from the outer city to the inner city, the characteristics of that era are still intact.

Doraemon nimbly shuttles through the ancient streets, with the rushing underground river beside them. The sound of water fills their ears and becomes the most important sound in the ruins.

Fu Xi was not attracted by the ruins. He held up a handheld terminal to record the map, while Tilu paid attention to the marks left by the adventurers who had entered the ruins before they could see them anytime and anywhere along the road.

Fast food packaging bags can also be found on the ground. The brands on the surface of the bags are still active today, indicating that they are not very far apart.

Occasionally, you can see some carved characters on the stone buildings of the Solomon Empire.

"This road is blocked, not here."

"There is no treasure ahead, go back."

"There is a basement here, and there are dead bones in it."

"..."

Tilu frowned at these funny slogans and couldn't help but ask Fu Xi:

"Boss, who did you say came here first? In the past few years, I have never heard of anyone making a fortune from finding ancient ruins in the wilderness."

Fu Xi kicked away the stones at his feet and replied casually:

"Either it's better to hide, or you couldn't get out from here in the end, or the person you know well just doesn't know he's been here. Which do you think it is?"

After hearing this, Tilu became more alert and guarded Fu Xi at all times, fearing that threatening monsters would come around the corner and attack them.

The wind blew in their ears, flowing from top to bottom deeper into the ground.

This is not a normal natural phenomenon, it can only mean that there is a huge ventilation system in operation underground.

The magic entropy detector in Fu Xi's hand lit up, almost confirming one of his guesses.

As the two people advanced, the collapsed buildings became denser and the roads were cut off. The ruins became darker and darker under the buildings, and Tillu's electric ball became almost the only source of light.

After walking some distance further, the two of them picked up a recording chip next to a fire with signs of camping.

The two looked at each other, Fu Xi nodded and said, "Play it and see what's in the chip."

Tiru inserted the chip into the handheld terminal, and a few seconds after reading it, a video shot from a first-person perspective began to play.

They stopped, and Doraemon did not urge them, but quietly crouched in the distance waiting for them to follow.

The person who shot the video is a male.

[It’s incredible! The relics of the Solomon Empire are so well preserved. I have seen no less than forty valuable cultural relics along the way, which can be sold for high prices in some academic cities!]

[I infer that this is the former capital of the Solomon Empire, because the palace in the center is obviously in the style of the Solomon royal family... If I publish a paper, it will definitely overturn many historical research conclusions, but I have to think carefully about how to make money from the paper.

]

[Why do I think so much? I have to find an exit quickly, otherwise my daughter will be in trouble if she misses her birthday!]

[Hey hey hey, my little princess, hey hey hey]

The last series of crazy laughs left Fu Xi with black lines all over his head.

Tilu hesitated for a while and said: "Boss, I know this voice..."

The two looked at each other, and Fu Xi asked tentatively: "Arthur Bofill?"

Tilu nodded and looked at each other speechlessly.

It seems there is no need to guess who came here first.

Fu Xi closed his eyes and thought about the expected answer.

The two ended the conversation for the time being and continued walking deeper into the ruins.

After walking around the ruins of the palace, they picked up several recording chips of the same style one after another. The contents were almost the same, which was about Arthur Burfield's exploration of the underground ruins.

He seemed to be trapped for several days and could not find a way out.

As Fu Xi and Ti Lu went deeper and passed through the cramped collapsed palaces, the space suddenly opened up.

It's like walking into a cavity under an eggshell, where underground rivers converge to form lakes, and there are fluorescent plants that glow in the dark.

As Tiru raised the lighting thunderball, the cavity was completely exposed in front of the two of them.

He suddenly held his breath.

Because he saw something that did not belong to the era of Solomon's empire appeared in the cavity, which were metal pillars surrounding the semicircle supporting the entire dome.

The metal pillars are black and penetrate into the underground lake water, revealing the black mechanical platforms they are connected to.

The water inlet in the center of the platform is like a giant mouth of a monster, swallowing a huge amount of groundwater and spitting out airflow.

Fu Xi was distracted for a moment. The reason he held his breath was because he recognized this giant platform.

Just like in the game "Borderline", this is the entrance to an important map, and the name of the map it is connected to is called "Black Gorge".

The so-called "Black Gorge" originally refers to the intelligent equipment production base left by the Interstellar Development Bank. It is a modular factory building made of capsule aggregates, which is convenient for demolition and movement.

After the omnic "god" got out of control, this factory became a hotbed for the production of out-of-control omnics, a mobile fortress hidden underground in the wasteland that could change its location when necessary.

The entrance to the Black Gorge is in the water not far away. The circular door is a mechanical lock with tight gears, and it still retains the identity verification facilities from the interstellar development bank era.

The Black Gorge, which disappeared near the town of Sallam, actually appeared in this underground ruins!

etc!

Fu Xi squinted his eyes and observed again. The mechanical pillars on the periphery of the Black Gorge had been completely integrated with the surrounding rock walls. There were water plants clinging to the platform of the underground lake. They were obviously old.

"Meow~"

Doraemon finally stopped outside the platform and quietly looked at the entrance of the platform.

And where it crouched was the last fire with traces of a camp.

Like before, Fu Xi and Ti Lu also found a recording chip next to the fire, probably the last one.

"Stop it for now, that's it for now."

Fu Xi glanced at Doraemon, and then said to Tilu: "It seems that its ultimate goal is to bring us here, the entrance to the Black Canyon we have been looking for."

Who would have thought that there is such a huge ruin underground in the wasteland?

It's really hard for people to find you hiding here.

"Black Gorge..."

Tilu stared blankly at the ruins, then came back to her senses after a moment:

"Boss, what's going on?"

Fu Xi shook his head: "I don't know either, but we will know soon."

He played the last Arthur Burfield chip, and a familiar male voice sounded.

[This is the entrance to Black Gorge!]

[Hahaha, as expected, this is the real entrance to the Black Gorge. The one in Sallam Town is just an omnium factory, a cover. It seems that I have found the right place.]

[If there is an entrance, there is an exit. You can definitely get out from the Black Gorge!]

[The information of... is indeed correct,... is divided into two, and there are indeed two entrances. They never imagined that I...]

[This way...there is hope...]

[Wish me good luck.]

The content of the second half of the chip was incomplete, but one could still feel from Arthur Burfield's ecstatic tone that he was coming for the Black Gap.

"I remember you said before in Sallam Town that there is a legend that your father rose to prominence step by step after obtaining treasures from the Black Gorge. Now it seems that this is not a random guess."

Fu Xi said to Tilu.

He was not very familiar with Arthur Burfield either.

In the background of the game, this is just a background character, not even a model.

There is complete information about him in the database of the giant company, but it only mentions the part after Arthur Burfield set off the White Flag Movement. There is indeed a blank about the history of his fortune.

"I don't know...he never told me this..."

Tilu was also a little shocked and incoherent: "Could it be that Xiaomi is the 'treasure' he brought out from Black Gorge?"

"It's hard to say."

Fu Xi took one last look at the entrance to the Black Gorge: "Let's go back first. It seems we need to make a new plan."

In the game, there is no text that mentions the relationship between Arthur Burfield and Black Gap, nor does it mention things like "split in two" or "two entrances" mentioned by the other party.

The information in his hand is incomplete, so it's best to be sure of it first.

It is not too late to start exploring again after re-investigating and determining the risks.

Ti Lu nodded. Her mood at the moment was even more chaotic than Fu Xi's, and she had completely lost her mind.

The two returned the same way, but before they had gone far, a shrill cat meow suddenly came from not far away.

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Chapter completed!