Global Mining.

Chapter 580: Airships also have black boxes

The wreckage of the airship 200 kilometers outside of Silver City.

For ordinary players, this would take one or two days of traveling day and night. But for Sanchenghua and Gabriel, they could just use magic to fly and arrive before dark.

As for the other investigation teams accompanying them, they would continue to follow along the way. If Chenghua did not find any valuable information, they would just turn back halfway.

The airship crashed... to be more precise, Alpha had cleverly arranged it in a valley wall covered in vines. This location was protected from the sun and rain, and the vines provided shade, making it difficult for passersby to detect it. This meant it could indeed survive for a century through the game's timeline. And indeed, thanks to the advantageous terrain, the first Chinese team to arrive was able to retrieve the box.

At this time, the four people wearing protective clothing each performed their duties.

Leah was responsible for detecting and sampling the plague, Tifa was responsible for studying the mechanical wreckage, and Remia did her best to "play her part as the host" and took Gabriel to investigate the terrain and topography within a dozen kilometers around, although Remia, the host, did not understand the terrain of this area.

Meanwhile, Remya was also confused: "Ms. Sage, what does the crash of the airship have to do with our investigation of the surrounding area? Even if it was shot down, it was an accident a hundred years ago. What can we find out now?"

It was actually difficult for Gabriel to explain this problem to the NPC.

Because the game's intelligent system has a logic-generating mechanism. For example, if Alpha secretly delivers a black dragon egg to Iron Flame Village, all he needs to do is quietly modify the code. But once the game is running, he has to infer the logic behind the dragon egg, suggesting that Iron Flame Village has a complex secret passage connecting to Hell, and that there's a Black Hand organization in Hell stealing dragon eggs. This is clearly not the original design during development.

So, Alpha could easily change the code to drop the airship here, but the system had to infer a logical reason for it to crash here. It also had to provide a reason why the airship had landed so precisely in this hidden valley.

Gabriel had just been robbed in Alpha's main city, so he was in no mood to explain. He could only perfunctorily say, "As a sage, I seem to have predicted something unusual around here."

Remia was surprised and asked, "Could it be that Miss Sage can also do astrology predictions?"

Gabriel was a little annoyed: "My angel's true form is a dream angel. There is a kind of dream that is predictive, which is different from astrology."

Remiah became even more interested: "But Miss Sage didn't sleep and dream?"

Gabriel was impatient: "I had a dream a couple of days before I came here! Please investigate with peace of mind, Your Excellency, otherwise I will forget this prophetic dream."

Remya was a little embarrassed: "I know."

Sariel immediately expressed his dissatisfaction in the chat group: "Gabriel, how can you treat my baby like this?"

Gabriel said unhappily, "I'm in a bad mood!"

Raphael sighed, "I think Remya is a bit strange. She's not the type to talk a lot, and she's not familiar with Gabriel."

Sariel also came to his senses: "That's right, she and I can't even talk for more than three sentences."

Gabriel said unhappily, "Of course it's because I'm attractive. How could you possibly compare to me..."

At this moment, a magical beam from Tifa came from the wreckage.

Remia said in surprise: "Miss Tifa has made an important discovery, go back and take a look immediately."

So he teleported directly back to the wreckage.

Tifa connected a piece of wreckage equipment with her own instrument and said solemnly, "I received a weak signal. It doesn't belong to any frequency band of magical communication. It's more like a life sign, but ordinary life forms can't send such... I can't describe it. Anyway, when the airship crashed, there must have been a vital device, and it has been operating for a hundred years."

Leah said, "Yes, this signal is very similar to a brainwave consciousness, but it doesn't look like a human."

Gabriel couldn't believe it. It was clearly a black box! As a developer, he hadn't realized games had evolved to the point where even airships had black boxes!
Gabriel immediately called out in the chat group live: "Everyone come and see, there's a black box!"

Raphael was shocked: "Isn't this too advanced?"

Sariel asked in amazement, "Is this technology developed by the Emperor? Or has Alpha's modifications evolved into the game?"

Michael said solemnly: "No matter what it is, we must find it no matter what!"

Gabriel said excitedly: "I understand! With three city beauties here, there's no reason why we can't find them..."

Remya asked, "Can we track this signal and find that important device?" Leah replied solemnly, "It's not a magical signal. It's difficult for us to track it, but Gabriel might be able to."

Gabriel was surprised: "Me?"

Remya said in surprise: "Yes, Miss Sage is a dream angel, and this consciousness signal corresponds to the ability of a dream angel!"

Since the server was launched, my abilities have been so advanced that I've never found an opportunity to display them. Now I finally have a chance to put them to use!

Gabriel was so excited that he said, "I'll try!"

Liya said solemnly, "But the enemy is not human and may be very powerful. If anything goes wrong, you must retreat immediately."

The stronger you are, the more challenging it is!
Gabriel showed no fear: "I understand!"

Liya casually unfolded a luxurious outdoor tent: "Miss Sage, please lie down!"

"Thank you, sir!"

Tifa then wrapped the device's thread around Gabriel's head. "This device should be able to help you track down consciousness signals as much as possible."

Gabriel asked with a smile: "What do you mean by should be able to?"

Tifa sighed, "Because I haven't tried it either."

Leah took out a syringe and said, "Now all you have to do is fall asleep."

Then a needle was inserted, and Gabriel's perception instantly became blurred and dark.

Gabriel officially activates the dream angel form - system prompt: You have entered the nightmare plane!

The pitch-black scene turned into a blurry void filled with colorful light and fog.

Metatron became excited: "Gabriel, you should come to my Bronze City and help me solve the case."

Gabriel dismissed him and said, "Stop it. How can I be so rude to just a few dozen female workers?"

Then, Gabriel really saw a series of light beam signals pointing the direction.

It seems that Tifa's instrument is still useful, so let's speed up.

The further they flew, the clearer the signal became. After flying for half an hour, a fuzzy "nebula" appeared in front of them, confirming that the signal was coming from it.

Enter!

As if suddenly diving into deep water, Gabriel instantly felt a strong resistance! What was this?
The dream artifact is activated!

At this moment, a gloomy voice came from the nebula: "Who?"

found it!
Gabriel was extremely excited: "Dream Angel, Sage Gabriel. Who are you?"

The voice replied, "Dragon Mother Astaya."

The chat group was in an uproar: "Who is this?"

Sariel was even more confused: "Dare to call her Mother of Dragons? This is quite a story, but there wasn't such an NPC during the development period, right?"

Michael said solemnly, "It must be the system's self-evolution! Gabriel, take advantage of it."

(End of this chapter)