Chapter 77 Tower Phantom
Before the shadow chasers entered the Tower of Babel, Shur threw a Moria's acorn far away into the soil outside the tower. At that time, it seemed that they were just playing with each other, and the mechanical bodies didn't care. As for the mechanical beasts, they would not react to the fruits of a plant. In Moria's words, they were not Shur, so how could they react to the plants?
When everyone entered the Tower of Babel and the focus of the mechanical bodies had shifted to the shadow-chasingers and pilgrims in the tower, no one noticed that the acorn outside the tower suddenly cracked, an unknown seed fell out of the acorn, then sank into the soil, quickly took root and sprouted, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into a tiny vine.
Soon, among the mechanical beasts crawling around patrolling, an inconspicuous vine roamed like a lively animal. Although the speed was slow, it never stopped. Even the monitoring equipment all over the tower ignored the plant that continued to change its position, allowing it to easily approach the exterior wall of the tower and then began to climb upwards.
In fact, there are also many monitoring equipment and defense weapons outside the tower, but there are also many climbing plants. The exterior wall of the tower is not metal but stone, and it is difficult to prevent plants from growing, and there is no need to prevent plants from growing. After all, in this world, plants have never followed the orders of organisms and become a precedent for their helpers. No matter how careful the mechanical body is, it is impossible to think that Pavatiga will have a strange existence of half-plant and half-organisms, such as forest spirits.
So, as Moria's eyeliner, the arabi began to penetrate like the top of the tower, which was also a backup plan that the shadow-seekers had prepared long ago. Before entering the tower, Shuer had already thought that the mechanical body might not allow them to climb to the top, and if they forcibly rush up, they would inevitably go to war with the mechanical body head-on.
This is not a good choice. It is too dangerous to be attacked by thousands of mechanical bodies. Moreover, when Wei was checking the city network of machinery, she once saw information about giant metal puppets in their information database. The giant puppets, both in their strength and defense, will suppress the shadow-seekers, and in addition, the heavy energy weapons that are more advanced than Pavatiga, may really be reduced once the war begins.
Therefore, the shadow-tracking players have formulated a backup plan to attract attention while everyone negotiates directly within. The real explorer is actually Moria's vine, so as long as one of them successfully reaches the top. After all, the top of the tower is not a sealed structure, so it is not difficult to enter.
However, no one expected that Moria would say such words and still climb upwards. What a hell is this?
"What's your surroundings now?" Shuer asked with a frown, "Is there any change?"
"Environment?" Moria looked around blankly, "I was surrounded by a group of people, and there was a fool asking me what the environment was...Oh."
Shuer with expressionless face retracted the fist on the head of the fool deer who was not distinguished from the occasion, and said angrily: "It is not the time to make trouble when speaking seriously."
"Okay, okay, the environment is actually quite strange." Moria covered her head aggrievedly and said with a bitter face. "Sightfully, I floated in the air and couldn't see any objects around me, let alone such a obvious tall tower. You can see the top of the tower down, which is no different from what we see from below. But from the touch, I can be sure that the vine is clinging to the entity and is still extending upwards. In other words, the Tower of Babel is definitely not only as tall as we see, it is at least twice as tall as the tower we see."
"Hell, is it an illusion?" Shure frowned and thought for a moment, "Mia, can there be a similar spell?"
"There are similar spells, but it is difficult to achieve such perfection." The voice of the mountain elves came from the empty position. In fact, the two mages did not stay outside the tower, but were always following the shadow-trapping people. "Some powerful legendary mages can indeed use magic to hide or cover part of their mage tower, but either they are completely invisible, or they can clearly see that the mage tower is incomplete, and then hide part of it like this, and then create a false appearance to replace the original image, which makes us unable to see the flaws. I am afraid no one can do it."
"Huh, isn't illusion good either?" Xiuer's finger hitting his thighs was getting faster and faster. He didn't know when the Supreme Master will appear. Once the Supreme Master appears, it would be difficult to discuss freely like now. Otherwise, it would be too rude. If he didn't figure out what was going on in advance, he would probably lose his initiative in the subsequent negotiations. No wonder he became more and more impatient, "Wei, is it possible for your technology to be realized?"
"Your Excellency Commander, there is this possibility, but we have never made similar equipment." Wei's indifferent voice sounded as beautiful as a divine sound at this time. "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be an advanced application method of holographic projection technology."
"Very well, right, that's it." Shure nodded seriously, "but it's better to say it again in words we can understand."
"Hiss Commander!" Wei's voice once again contained a subtle contempt, "If you don't understand, please do not mislead the judgment of artificial intelligence."
"Ahem, Wei, time is tight, don't change the topic and answer questions."
It is obvious that a capable female soldier must have punched and punched the commander's projection in virtual space again: "In the era of interstellar development, similar technologies were often used. When a colonial ship landed on a new planet, an outpost colony would be established for the first colonists who developed a new planet. Since most planets are not livable planets, the colonies would often establish an ecological dome with a fully enclosed structure, which would only adjust the interior of the dome to a livable environment so that the survival of the colonists would not affect the survival of the colonists."
"But there are also big problems in doing this. Due to limited space, colonists cannot move freely. In addition, they are far away from their home planet, which can easily cause psychological problems. In this closed environment, once someone has psychological problems, it is likely to lead to catastrophic consequences."
"Therefore, the ecological dome at that time often had its own holographic simulation system, which simulated an environment similar to the parent star from the outer wall of the dome, such as blue sky and white clouds. Although the colonists knew that these were fake, after their vision was deceived, their hearts would naturally change, which was much more relaxed than before, and their psychological problems were greatly reduced."
"You said that before, it was not used later?" Shuer asked strangely, "This method is very humane, why give up using it?"
"Because in modern times, oh, it is the modern world of my hometown. The development of livable transformation technology has greatly accelerated the transformation speed. It is often only a few months to initially transform a planet to meet the basic living needs of the colonists. Therefore, there is no need to use ecological domes and holographic displays."
"Okay." Shuer touched his nose, lifting his own question was stupid.
"Of course, that's just a way of application of holographic display. There are many other ways, such as the tower described by the commander, which should be one of them. In fact, the tower seen by the commander is just a projected illusion, but it overlaps with the tower in reality, so it is impossible to distinguish the essence of its illusion. The part above the tower is simulated as a blue sky and white clouds, thus fooling everyone's observations."
"In other words, only the tall tower is fake?" Shuer asked, "All the other things we see are real?"
"It is impossible to judge, Commander, I am not equipped with suitable observation equipment and cannot observe things that are so far away. I can only say that at least everything around us, such as the ground, plants, and these tables and chairs, is real."
"Then it cannot be ruled out that the City of Sky and the Tower of Babel actually exist in one...what is it called...oh, it exists in an ecological dome?"
"It's still impossible to judge. Commander, you can only say that there is a possibility, but it's not very likely." Wei said uncertainly. "Generally, ecological domes only set up holographic displays on the ecological wall. There is never a precedent for hiding a tower alone. This is illogical and unnecessary. The greater possibility is that there is some secret on this tower that they must hide."
"I think this is very likely." Shuer squinted his eyes and thought, "Mobak, do you still remember your geological test?"
"Of course I remember, captain." Mobak said in a rough voice, "Yes, the soil layer distribution is too standard, and the standard ones are a bit fake."
"Well, think about it carefully, it is difficult to guarantee such a standard for the naturally generated soil layer. If the soil layer is artificial, it can be explained." Shuer looked at Delia and finally decided to continue to say it and not hide it from her. "It is not just the soil layer, but if it is really in a man-made space, many things can be explained."
"For example, why can't cities communicate? It's not because there are mechanical bodies blocking the road, but because humans cannot leave the ecological dome at all. Why are even mechanical bodies not allowed to leave the coverage of the Tower of Babel? Because they don't know that this is a closed space, and once they leave the range, the true image will be revealed. Why does mechanical bodies have a flight ban? Because the aircraft cannot fly too high or too far, otherwise the dome will be broken."
"But Shur, there is nothing to say." Saf said timidly, "The floating city flies so high that it does not break the dome."
"Maybe it's because the height of the dome itself is higher than that of the floating city."
"But there is no need to cover the tower." Saf looked at Shur's expression and retorted carefully, "It's still impossible to explain why he did this, and who did these things?"
Shuer was silent. Indeed, his guess might make some sense, but there were too many questions that could not be explained.
Chapter completed!