Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Chapter 247 Partition Layer

【Underground well】

When Klein was still an ordinary programmer, he had heard many online legends about underground wells.

It is said that a few hundred years ago, a team of scientists and an engineering team started an experiment to dig as deep underground as possible. This project was called "Underground Well". If the space travel technology is human beings exploring the boundaries of survival, then the "Underground Well" is exploring the boundaries of human activities downward.

But in the end, after a year of continuous excavation, the [Underground Well] was suddenly terminated, and all the staff were dismissed within just a few days. It is said that many of these staff members went crazy, especially those who were responsible for going down the well. Their mental state deteriorated day by day, and finally collapsed completely one day. With the dissolution of the [Underground Well] team, the data of this project was completely sealed.

No one knows how deep the well was dug.

Some people said that [Earth Well] dug up something that shouldn’t have been dug, and thus was punished by the gods; some people said that the project team discovered a shocking truth underground, and was silenced by the government and the church who wanted to cover up the truth; some people even said that the [Earth Well] team had achieved an unprecedented success, and they dug through the planet in one fell swoop, opening up a passage leading directly to the West Road, but the opening of this passage interrupted the monopoly of the original route and damaged the interests of some transportation giants, so the project team suffered a huge blow from the consortium, and the staff members directly climbed along the passage to the West Road to avoid the bloody disaster...

As for the last crazy conjecture, many Western Continent countries denied it, with an attitude of "don't get involved in such outrageous things." Most of the time, the communication between continents is separated by the Internet and roaming satellites, so there are conspiracy theorists who sneer at it, thinking that in the face of information asymmetry, it is unknown whether the Western Continent is lying or not.

Compared to the various outrageous legends on the Internet, Klein believed more in the information Leonard had communicated with him on the ground. Leonard believed that the [Underground Well] team encountered unknown pollution underground, and the church urgently stopped the project. The development of the Sixth Epoch has led people to start an almost fanatical development of underground space, but the church has never relaxed its alarm on underground construction: the deeper it is, the closer it is to pollution and loss of control.

Since the [Underground Well] project took place after the Sky Curtain War, Leonard had not participated in the case and did not know much about the project. But he was sure that the closure of [Underground Well] was the result of the church's intervention, and the original site of [Underground Well] must have been handled by the church, otherwise the location of [Underground Well] would not be completely lost on the Internet.

Now that Evan and Miss Christine dare to bring them to this space, it means that at least the [underground well] at this location is safe.

Everyone followed the light into the cave and their view suddenly became clear.

This is a very wide circular space, far larger than a "well". It is about ten meters in diameter and more than eight meters high.

The whole environment looked very dilapidated. It was obvious that it had not been used or maintained for a long time. Only the footprints on the floor showed that someone had been here. Klein stepped on the floor, and it creaked. Leonard stepped hard twice, and some muffled sounds came from under his feet. It seemed that the materials used for these partitions were very strong. Both the church and the royal family were determined to seal this well.

The divination results showed that this was indeed a [underground well], but after the accident, the [underground well] was divided into pieces, so both the ceiling above and the floor below of this section of the well blocked everyone's curiosity to peek in.

But when Leonard lifted his foot, he found some floor debris stuck to his foot.

"The strength of the sealing material here has begun to deteriorate."

There was nothing that could be done about it. The moment these materials were buried underground, the ruthless corrosion of time began. Klein and Leonard could feel the traces of spirituality that had once been there under their feet, but now they had almost disappeared.

Maybe it has something to do with depth, Klein thought.

Klein carefully observed the curved wall. There were still some numbers and scale lines left on the peeling wall, indicating that it was once a rigorous scientific experiment. Most of the handwriting had long been blurred, and the only thing that could be vaguely recognized was the number 2500.

Now this place is located 2500 meters underground in Backlund.

It's already this deep, Klein thought. This is a really dangerous number. He is now getting farther and farther away from his safe house apartment.

In fact, since the underground city's route always requires detours and back and forth running, Klein briefly lost contact with the safe house puppet several times along the way. According to this calculation, when he arrived at Hazel Street, he would probably lose contact with the safe house.

But 2500 meters was just the beginning for the underground well. According to Pales, when the underground well reached a depth of meters, it was reported in the newspapers. But there was no sound for a long time, and then one day it suddenly disbanded in silence. No one knows how many meters the underground well dug during this period.

As for the entrance to the [Underground Well], it should have been blown up directly, and it seemed to be put into the construction of a new city. But Klein and Leonard would definitely not believe such nonsense to deceive the public. They believed that the land connected to the [Underground Well] was still in the hands of a certain extraordinary force.

Therefore, when building these sealing methods, the church should have used a layer-by-layer method, and the more the barrier layers were, the higher the level of extraordinary power was. The reason why the spirituality on this platform had almost dissipated in more than 2500 years was probably because meters was really not an important place for the well, at most it was just some superficial things.

But no matter how strict the prohibitions or how terrifying the legends, they cannot stop people's desire to survive. Klein could clearly find some traces of life in this space. All kinds of scattered damage and dismantling should be human-caused. In order to survive and trade over the years, the people in the underground city have begun to destroy the [underground well] and its isolation facilities to the best of their ability.

Of course, they didn't know that this thing was a [underground well]. To them, it was just a solid and spacious place that could be lived in, demolished and walked on. This was attractive enough for development.

On the other hand, like all underground cities, the abandoned [underground wells] could not escape the fate of being destroyed by natural forces and extraordinary disasters. It is very likely that some fractures have occurred, or even [sinking]. However, looking at the solid inner wall, Klein felt that these [underground wells] may have some fractures, but they have not sunk too much. The 2500-meter mark is still credible.

"Not every partition in the [underground well] has a way to go through. In fact, I know of several partitions that can be walked through, but their conditions are different. I haven't even found a way to enter the remaining partitions."

Evan suddenly appeared from behind Klein.

"How about it, do you want to listen?"

"Do you want money?" Klein asked subconsciously.

"The one just now is a free gift for you. The next ones can be given to you at the regular customer price. After all, it is an additional service."

"let it go."

"This is the information from [Dijing]."

The two eyes under Evan's messy hair glowed faintly, making this sales method seem even more weird.

“It’s a good deal!”

"Can I give it away for free?"

"Uh...can't."

"Then no, thank you."

"It's so boring."