Enhanced Perception

Su Luo could only extract this sentence from the gate; why was it engraved there?

The Land of Darkness has no Stars; could it be that when this ruin was built, the night sky still held starlight?

Su Luo inexplicably felt like she was doing archaeology, and casually retrieved one of the Soul Servant that had entered the exploration.

There was no danger inside; at least the Soul Servant were not injured.

Su Luo slowly entered through the gate, her senses spreading out. Compared to the massive gray-white ruins, it was like a speck of dust next to Giant Whale.

There was no air at the entrance, and many buildings and vehicles were also without air, including Su Luo's Laboratory and the Deep Space Mothership captured in the Continued Battle; the gas was too much of a hindrance.

The material of the ruins was an alloy he had never seen before. Su Luo casually cut off a small piece and tested it with Black Flames Burn. He found that its strength was not as good as the No. 3 Alloy he used in the Laboratory. The fact that it could support such a huge size was mostly due to the effects of various Spells and structures.

Moreover, although the entrance to this ruin is magnificent, most of the internal passages are too small to accommodate his enormous Laboratory.

So he jumped down decisively and floated down for several minutes, still unable to see the bottom, only an endless gray-white passage extending downwards, with a kind of silvery-white glimmer on the walls.

Several minutes later, their feet finally touched the entrance to a horizontal passage. Another set of Soul Servant scattered in different directions emitted mental fluctuations:

"The same markings as the main gate? Got it."

A full day has passed.

Su Luo had traversed the upper and middle levels of the ruins. Apart from the grand, gray-white structures and empty halls, he found almost nothing, except for a few sentences of systematically translated text.

"Use light as shackles, and desire as chains."

"The Eternal Night Court, a glorious prison forever."

"The music and songs have ceased, and civilization has turned to dust."

Su Luo extracted a great deal from just these few sentences, but only these few could be fully extracted and translated. It was a thankless and arduous task.

There must have been more words truly engraved on the wall than just these few, but without exception, they have all been Corrosion by the long years.

Has time... Corrosion... anything?

This building is at least hundreds of thousands of years old, longer than the time human civilization has been in history, and it has managed to maintain its structure. How could it not even have a single piece of Text preserved?

It is clear that the other statements have been erased by some force.

Moreover, the sentences translated by the system are all cryptic and mystical, not straightforward. This is probably due to the nature of the sentences themselves; they are clearly narrative sentences, not very obscure, but if you were to interpret them, there are too many possible meanings.

Light becomes a shackle, eternal night imprisons brilliance, songs fall silent, civilization turns to dust... This is like an epitaph for civilization, recording the dramatic change from light to darkness, from prosperity to extinction.

Therefore, this building is a tomb of civilization.

Standing in the empty corridor, Su Luo looked around at the magnificent yet lifeless creation, feeling nothing but a touch of regret:

"I'm sorry to have intruded into the graveyard of your civilization... but could you leave me something? I've been wandering around for over a day and haven't found anything."

Su Luo made a comment, then continued exploring the next location.

All the Survivors who did Exploration Quest fantasized about finding some kind of magical Relic, but the undeniable reality forced them to face the truth.

That means there's nothing there. The system lets you explore, and that's really it. There's no combat, no rewards, and the exploration location isn't even very dangerous.

The only extra effort Su Luo put into exploring compared to others was extracting a few lines of Text.

After all, the real difficulty of Exploration Quest lies in accepting Exploration Quest and getting there.

For example, the location where Su Luo accepted the Exploration Quest was the Gravity Mountain Summit with a gravity of ten thousand times. In addition, she would encounter natives who had adapted to the exaggerated gravity during the climb. According to Su Luo's calculations, she needed 21 points in pure Constitution to accept the mission.

In addition, the strange and bizarre terrain along the way and the significant amount of time consumed make up the difficulty.

Su Luo relied on her self-developed skills to reach a mental Attribute 22, and with the modified Laboratory, she should have easily passed the test.

If even Su Luo has a near-death experience, how are the other Survivors stuck at Attribute 21 doing Exploration Quest supposed to compete?

Several hours later, Su Luo had explored all the buildings in the upper and middle levels of the ruins, and it wasn't a complete waste of time.

He casually dismantled a portion of someone else's grave and carefully studied its construction Craft. The mechanical mysteries and Spell enhancements of the giant structure gradually took shape in Su Luo's mind.

Upon reaching the bottom of the ruins, Su Luo sensed the passage and found that secondary passages, Spread like tree roots or blood vessels, split open from the main passage wall and extended into an unfathomable darkness. At the end of the passage, there was a relatively open space.

Several hours later, Su Luo finished exploring the secondary passage and stepped into the main passage. The environment suddenly changed drastically.

A viscous resistance came from outside the shield, as if she were immersed in a high-density non-Newtonian fluid. The medium was saturated with Mana, which severely interfered with Su Luo's Mana perception, making everything blurry and indistinguishable.

After slightly adjusting her perception, Su Luo discovered that this place resembled a giant, inverted bowl-shaped space, possibly tens of kilometers in diameter.

The hall was filled with countless grayish-white raised structures of varying sizes, resembling sarcophagi or egg sacs, densely packed and stretching to the very edge of perception.

Countless slender filaments hung from the ceiling and walls of the hall, connected to the ridges below. Some remained connected, while others had broken and hung limply.

"Finally, I've seen something meaningful."

Su Luo confirmed that there was no problem with the surrounding medium and stepped forward to examine it carefully.

The threads connecting the upper and lower parts looked like an umbilical cord for delivering nutrients, or a conduit for extracting something.

Those stone coffin-like objects were completely empty.

The silk threads had been Corrosion by time, leaving only their structure. As soon as Su Luo touched them, they turned into powder and fell away, yielding nothing.

But there were also those markings on the ceiling of the hall. Su Luo began to extract them with practiced ease, and this time her words were unexpectedly long:

"The New World arrives... The Starry Sky... Disappear... The Second World... Migrates... Survives..."

Almost simultaneously, a system notification appeared:

[Exploration Quest completed]

You have acquired the Purple Skill - [Enhanced Perception]!

"That sounds a lot like a blue skill..."

Before Su Luo could finish speaking to herself, she caught a glimpse of a faint light appearing in the center of the hall out of the corner of her eye—soft, stable, and Jingjing suspended.

A new spot of light? Exploration Quests can be triggered in a chain? Or is it just a lucky coincidence?

Before Su Luo could even explore the new skill, she quickly stepped forward and touched the light spot.

It can save time in finding and acquiring light spots, and the journey might not even be that far.

[Exploration Quest activated]

[Mission Objective: Directions have been given; explore the area and any remaining ancient structures.]

However, Su Luo couldn't sense the direction the system was guiding her. She spun around in place several times, but the system's directional guidance was nowhere to be found.