Amber's head came from behind Gao Wen's arm. She blinked and looked at the scene in the wooden house in a steady manner. Her eyes finally fell on the pillar in the center, on the two plain-looking pink and white flowers.

"...Is this really where Philna and Lerna have lived... I mean the 'real' elf Gemini..." She turned her head and looked at Gao Wen, saying in a somewhat unsure tone.

"The clue points to this answer," Gao Wen whispered and stepped into the cabin, which was a bit low and narrow to his burly figure, but in such a small room he could still see that it was once a warm residence - whether it was the carefully crafted living utensils or the dry bouquets of black wreckage left on the corner table, it seemed that he could imagine what it looked like when someone had lived here.

Amber also walked in, followed by Carmier, Melita and Daniel's master and apprentice. The not-so-spacious cottage became a little crowded in an instant. Those who entered the room opened their eyes wide and looked at everything in the room with curiosity, but only Carmier knew clearly about the story of the pair of elves a thousand years ago - this former disobedient fell on the vines in the room, and whispered for a long time: "So you have been here all the time..."

"It seems that there is a long story behind this," Melita said softly, and then she glanced at the cottage that seemed overcrowded by the influx of people. "The fragile structure here is probably not suitable for so many people to search in it. I will go out and see what is happening nearby - I seemed to see something interesting in the distance before the spacecraft was docked just now."

"Let's go out too," Daniel said in a deep voice. "I will take Mary to search around to see if there are any other valuable clues - Mary, don't be dazed, go."

Melita and Daniel, Mary left, and the cabin suddenly seemed much spacious. Gao Wen nodded to Carmier and Amber who stayed here: "Look separately. If they lived here for hundreds of years... they would always leave some information."

"I think I have found the 'information'," as soon as Gao Wen finished speaking, Amber on the side raised his hand and pointed to a wall not far away. At her prompt, Gao Wen finally noticed that there seemed to be a vague mark on the wall, "It seems that there are words, and there are all walls."

After Amber finished speaking, before Gao Wen could speak, Kamier had already floated towards the wall. The ancient disobedient raised his hand and waved it. A bright white ball of light appeared out of thin air in the air. The darkness in the hut was instantly dispelled, and the faint marks on the wall suddenly became clear. The words were indeed full of the wall, perhaps they had been carved a long time ago. Time had not completely weathered the wall built by the "divine wood wreckage", and the dust covering it did not completely cover up the words. Gao Wen opened his eyes in an instant. His eyes found the beginning of these words. This "letter" written in the elf language was finally presented to the readers for the first time:

"To the latecomers--although we are not even sure if anyone will come here, nor do we know whether the next 'person' who comes here can recognize these words and understand everything we are saying, we can only with ardent hope that you are the ones we are waiting for, and that it is not too late.

"Our names are Firna Baishuang and Lernna Baishuang, from the Silver Empire. As consultants of the Gondor Empire's "disobedience plan", our responsibility is to analyze the mystery behind the existence mechanism of the gods, find the internal mechanisms of the gods' gradually becoming crazy in the process of civilization development, and try to find ways to make mortals resist natural disasters and divine disasters from these mysteries...

"As a result of a serious experimental accident, our sisters were trapped here. It has been hundreds of years since we have cut off communication with the outside world for these hundreds of years and are deeply trapped in a deadly dangerous environment. But fortunately, we have found a safe shelter in this terrible place - whether we want to admit it or not, this "sanctuary" standing in the dark seems to be the kind of force we are trying to fight against, this huge wreck of divine tree... It seems that it is the "reincarnation tree" of the main god in the elves' faith, the god of nature, Amoen...

“…and around this tree of the Kingdom of God that withered and died for unknown reasons is an ancient ruin that mortals cannot imagine—exhausting the knowledge and wisdom of our sisters, we cannot imagine when who built this shocking wonder and allowed it to float among many Kingdoms of God, and even become a cemetery for the ‘Giant Tree of Reincarnation’.

“… During the days we were trapped, we spent many years exploring this place, exploring the giant tree of reincarnation and the steel world outside the giant tree. We were unable to find the way home, nor the reason why the giant tree of reincarnation was "stranded" and died here, but we were not completely lost—in the hundreds of years of active in that steel world, we found words, pictures, logos, and some... 'terminals' that could display information.

"During the long and difficult learning process, we summarized the meaning behind the sporadic materials little by little. It took a long time before we finally extracted some useful information from the scattered text and logos:

"'Sentinel' - this is the name of this steel world, and what created it all was an extremely ancient and advanced civilization called the 'Starter'."

Gao Wen's eyes became sharp in an instant, and his eyes were staring at the marks left on the wall. The aura that was inadvertently revealed on his body even scared the amber next to him. However, soon, Gao Wen's expression returned to his usual calmness.

This is the sentinel, and this "home port" with a scale almost the same as a mortal country is the sentinel - it is not a weapon or a powerful ancient warrior, but a giant building with a scale that can be compared with the sky!

But although all this was astonishing, it did not completely exceed Gao Wen's imagination, because when he saw this giant building floating in the dark chaos, he had already vaguely made speculations in this regard. At this moment, it was just that the speculation was confirmed. He was shocked in his heart, but he was not overly at a loss.

"Continue to watch," he took a breath, and woke Amber and Carmier, who were also in shock, who were next to him. "They haven't mentioned why they should be 'beware of the sentinel'."

Carmier and Amber nodded, and looked up at the wooden wall full of elf words, looking at a long letter on it and continued to tell the ancient story-

“…After the initial results, our exploration efficiency of this ‘Iron World’ has improved significantly, and we have begun to gradually discover some… truth, and this is the beginning of all the terrible things, the reason we must leave this information here. If the outside world has not yet fallen into the worst situation, then remember one thing, remember-beware of the sentinel! It has been polluted, it has broken free from its duties and logic, and it may want to end everything on this planet!

“Now, we have communicated the warning, and then the specific ‘truth’ we discovered.

"'Starter', an advanced civilization that once created sentinels, visited our world a long time ago. According to the sporadic information we have discovered, this powerful group had defeated the 'gods' on this planet and took away most of the intelligent creatures on this planet at that time. We don't know what the purpose of this advanced civilization did this, but one thing is certain that when they left, they left a lot of things in our world, and this giant called the 'sentinel'... is one of them.

"The original mission of the 'Sentinel' should be to perform some kind of monitoring and waiting task. It can monitor the operation of many kingdoms of God and record the long history of the entire world for millions of years. It has an ancient and exhausted mind that can support it to complete this nearly eternal mission and wait endlessly before a final 'goal' is achieved... However, hundreds of years ago, as early as when our sisters came here, all these plans were actually destroyed!

"Something terrible corrupted this ancient and powerful 'legacy'. We don't know what kind of power can be broken so easily... or bypassed the extremely advanced protection system here, nor do we know what the source and form of this corruption are... Initially, what we found was actually some dirty traces, some ancient terminals running in a disorderly manner and some cabins destroyed by unknown forces. At that time, we only thought that the biggest problem here was the failure of the old system, until... we found the copied and abandoned 'self' in a hidden cabin, and found our deleted memories there!

“We were ‘captured’ when we fell here. For some frenzy, the Sentinel collected material data from our sisters and successfully created a replica of one of us in a very short time. We don’t know how it did it all in a short time, but it was obviously a link where it ‘leaved’ here…

"Yes, leave here, this ancient and powerful mind, which can theoretically run tirelessly and be loyal to one's mission, has gone crazy. The traces of pollution and decay we have discovered seem to have been subtly polluting the "sentinel" for the long years of the past. This power of pollution seems to have given the sentinel a "human nature", but it is a human nature as fragile, changeable and induced to madness. In the memories we have recovered, we can still feel the depression and distortion of the sentinel when creating our replicas and stuffing our minds into that mortal body, and the breath is filled with a chilling ecstasy...

"And the most terrifying thing is that all this has happened long ago, as soon as we fell into the depths of this dark chaos - and the pollution and out of control of the sentry occurred earlier! Everything was too much and many years late, and even hundreds of years late when we finally realized that we had been the props for the sentry to escape!

"We don't know why we survived after that. After the sentry completed the capture and copying of us, we should have lost value to it, but we were just wiped out our memories and threw them into the ruins of the giant tree of reincarnation... But this mystery does not make much sense, and it does not make much sense compared to the already crazy "sentinel"...

"To this day, we still don't know what the sentry who "gets out of trouble" wants to do, nor what future will the outside world face, but one thing is certain... This world will face great danger because the sentry escapes. This danger may even far exceed the demon tide and the divine disaster...

"After finally realizing how terrible things had happened, we sisters have been thinking about how to warn the outside world - although we ourselves know that this warning may have long been meaningless. We have been trapped here for hundreds of years, which means that it has been hundreds of years since the sentry left this space with the help of one of our replicas as a springboard. The outside world may no longer exist. Even if there is a warning to the outside world, the warning will face very likely just a ruin after being destroyed, but we have never given up hope, and... we have really seen a glimmer of hope.

“One day about four hundred years after we were trapped here, the space once welcomed a weird…traveler.

"We don't know how he came here, and even he himself didn't know. He called himself Modir Wilder, a traveling adventurer. He lost a memory of his journey and had arrived in this space after waking up. The only thing he remembered was a goddess as huge as a mountain, who held a black and white scepter, giving him guidance and help... We don't know what he said, "goddess", which sounded like nonsense in hallucinations, but no matter what, a visitor entered the space, which means that our warning message had a chance to be spread - we told the great adventurer about the sentinel, and soon after that, the great adventurer disappeared in front of us...

"We don't know if he has returned to the real world, and whether he can complete this "warning". We can only sincerely hope that he can bring the warning about sentry to the world - from his mouth, we know the big explosion and the impact of the demon tide in Gondor, the earth-shaking changes and the disobedient inheritance. We don't know if all this is related to the "sentinel" who escaped, but at least the outside world has not been completely destroyed, at least the orphans of Gondor have begun to rebuild their country... The current situation of the world is countless times better than our worst idea, which is enough to rekindle our hope and continue to wait in hope.

"But unfortunately, we cannot wait forever...We are just mortals, mortals with slightly longer lifespans.

"Now hundreds of years have passed since the strange adventurer left this space. We can feel the passing of vitality in our bodies... Despite the protection of the giant tree of reincarnation, our lives here are about to reach the end. Perhaps it was because the experience of being captured by the sentry that had lost our lifespan, or it could be that the special environment here is accelerating our aging, no matter what the reason is... As elves, we are aging ahead of time.

"We can't wait for rescue or new news from the outside world. We still don't know if the world has been saved by our warnings, or has gone to an end helplessly... Unfortunately, latecomers, if you really exist - it's a pity that you can hear our fragmented and scattered stories in this way.

“If the outside world is still safe, if everything is still too late…

"Beware of the sentinel."
Chapter completed!