nagpurpolice Chapter 154 Observer's Legacy Message
Chapter 154 Observer's Legacy Message
Chapter 154 Observer's Legacy Message
Looking up, Rolin saw that the energy circuits in the center of the hall's dome, which had originally emitted only a soft white light, were now flickering with alternating brightness and darkness, at an increasingly faster frequency!
At the same time, a deep, rhythmic mechanical sound, like the turning of gears, faintly came from all directions.
"The energy readings are rising!" Duden glanced at the monitoring equipment, his expression changing slightly.
"Some systems in the lobby seem to have been activated by our action of opening that hidden compartment!"
"Activate? It's not the defense system, is it?" Ayla's staff lit up with fire.
Luo Lin quickly sensed the changes in the energy flow.
The energy was indeed rising, but it flowed in an orderly manner and did not exhibit any aggressiveness.
Instead, it seems more like a self-examination?
Or is it responding to a low-level wake-up command?
Just then, one by one, the dim crystal panels on the central control console lit up!
Complex, constantly scrolling symbols and lines appeared on the panel, along with some blurry images resembling star charts or energy distribution maps!
"The console is up!" Duden was both surprised and delighted. He wanted to go forward to check, but Gorson stopped him.
"Be careful, the situation is unclear."
Rolin stared intently at the control panel, then glanced at the hexagonal metal cylinder and polyhedral crystal he had just taken out.
A thought flashed through my mind.
He walked up to the console, which had no physical interfaces on its surface.
He tried to position the six-sided metal cylinder close to a relatively flat area in the center of the control panel.
When the metal cylinder was still an inch away from the surface of the control panel, a soft blue halo suddenly appeared in the corresponding area of the control panel.
Immediately afterwards, the metal cylinder seemed to be drawn by an invisible force and gently adhered to that area.
Click.
A soft sound.
A small, circular opening silently slid open at the top of the metal cylinder.
Inside the interface, tiny specks of energy flicker.
Almost simultaneously, the scrolling symbols on the largest crystal panel of the console suddenly stopped, and then refreshed like a waterfall, displaying lines of clearer and more orderly symbols.
These symbols bear a striking resemblance to the basic characters of the observer's common language speculated in Soria's notes!
The response unit began operating at high speed, combining fragmented information obtained from various channels to attempt basic vocabulary matching and grammatical structure inference.
"This is—the system interface?" Duden's voice trembled.
Rowling did not answer; all his attention was focused on the jumping symbols on the panel and the polyhedral crystal in his hand.
He vaguely sensed that this crystal might be a key or authorization token of some level.
He tried to gently place the polyhedral crystal into the circular opening at the top of the hexagonal metal cylinder.
hum!
The moment the crystal made contact with the interface, the entire control panel suddenly lit up!
The shimmering circuitry on the dome of the hall instantly stabilized, emitting a brighter, softer white light.
On the crystal panel, the refresh rate of the symbols increased again, eventually settling on a relatively simple interface.
At the center of the interface is a complex emblem that rotates continuously, composed of multiple halos and rays, which is highly similar to the incomplete mark on the gray stone slab and the structure that Rolin had previously simulated!
Below the emblem, several simplified symbol options appear for selection.
After rapid comparison and deduction, the echo unit determined the most likely meanings of these symbols:
[Status Inquiry]
Log Access (Low Privilege)
Environmental Maintenance
[Emergency Protocol (Lockdown)]
External Interface (Hibernation)
They successfully activated the underlying interactive system of this historical site!
Although the permissions may not seem high, at least we are no longer completely in the dark.
Duden was so excited he almost jumped up and quickly recorded the interface image.
Ella and Gorson breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed it wasn't an attack on the system.
As Luo Lin looked at the options, his mind raced.
Status query? Log access?
His hand, trembling slightly as if searching for history, lightly touched the symbol for "Log Access (Low Permission)".
When the fingertip hovered over the symbol for "Log Access (Low Privilege)", the crystal panel of the console flashed briefly.
Immediately, the interface switched.
The scrolling stream of characters reappeared, this time more orderly, like the turning of pages in a book.
Occasionally, extremely simple line drawings are inserted next to the characters.
It could be a star image, an energy flow map, or a simple sketch of some kind of device.
The echo unit was running at full speed, combining the speculations in Soria's notes with previously accumulated fragments of information, like a most diligent translation apprentice, laboriously trying to piece together the meaning of these ancient texts.
Progress was slow, many characters were unrecognizable, and the grammatical structure was obscure and difficult to understand.
"It worked! The system responded!" Researcher Duden stared intently at the panel, clenching his fist excitedly, but dared not make too much noise, for fear of interfering with Rolin's operation or the fragile connection.
"How much can you understand?"
Luo Lin frowned, completely focused.
"I don't recognize many of the words—but judging from the image, it seems to be listing entries—like some kind of index for observation records or log maintenance."
The stream of characters scrolled for a while before finally settling on a few relatively short entries with clear timestamps and numbers.
At the end of each entry, there is the same flashing triangle symbol that indicates "accessible".
Rowling tried to focus his attention on the first item, his mind racing.
When an item is selected, the text instantly enlarges, and more detailed content unfolds below.
It still uses obscure text and simple illustrations.
This time, however, the diagram showed a clearer outline of the continent of the Scorching Hell fragments, marked with several flashing dots. The location of one of these dots roughly matched the Burning Mountains region where the Inferno Observation Tower was located.
From the text section, the echo unit managed to extract a few keywords: "anchor point establishment".
"Energy Tide Monitoring"
"Sector 7 stability assessment is normal".
"This seems to be a record about establishing an observation point in this world," Rowling whispered as he relayed the deciphered information.
"The Seventh Sector—this name has appeared again."
Duden quickly jotted down notes on his notepad and used the imaging crystal to photograph every detail on the panel.
Rowling continued to examine the second entry.
This illustration is more abstract, resembling a diagram of the diffusion of an energy wave, with its source marked in the void outside the continent of Scorching Inferno.
The vocabulary extracted from the text is even more fragmented: "Unexpected energy disturbance — Source: Deep Void."
Attributes: High chaos, strong erosion — posing a potential threat to local energy balance —
Recommendation: Increase monitoring frequency and record evolutionary patterns.
"Deep Void Realm? High Chaos, Strong Corruption?" Ella caught these words and her expression changed slightly.
"Sounds... kind of like the Corruption Source?"
Luo Lin was also startled.
Observers detected energy disturbances similar to the corrupting force a long time ago.
And is it viewed as an unexpected and potential threat?
The third entry is a more complex, multi-layered, nested chart with a striking, ever-expanding red wavy pattern at the center.
The textual information extracted by the echo unit is even more alarming: "The disturbance intensifies, showing a tendency to materialize—unpredictable interaction with the local fire element—producing stable mutated energy deposits (sample marker: Purple Plague Stone)—"
Warning: This mutated energy deposit exhibits disruptive properties and may interfere with the stability of observation network nodes.
Purple Plague Stone!
The observer not only observed the infiltration of the corrupting source force, but also recorded the process by which it interacted with the environment of the Scorching Hell to produce the Purple Plague Stone!
It even explicitly points out the threat that the Purple Plague Stone poses to the observation network nodes!
"They already knew about the Purple Plague Stone! They knew its dangers!" Researcher Duden gasped for breath.
"This record is extremely important! It directly proves that the Purple Plague Stone is a product of external energy pollution, rather than a natural mineral of this world!"