While thinking, the group passed through the gate of the Upper Central Star and came to the elevator in the center of the hall.
"This elevator will go straight to the top of the antenna tower, and the view from there should be pretty good."
There were little stars in Shaya's eyes, and she was obviously very excited.
The elevator door opened, and the space inside was large enough to accommodate an entire tour group. Perlis and her group entered the elevator. Lian had to retract her four slender mechanical tentacles when she came in. She was very vigilant in checking the facilities inside the elevator, but it seemed that she did not find any clues.
The elevator began to move upwards, with the sound of whistling wind, and Perlis actually felt a great sense of weightlessness.
According to the speed on the elevator dashboard, it would only take thirty seconds to reach the top of the tower. According to Perlis's visual observation, the antenna tower was at least five hundred meters long, which meant that the speed of the elevator was about sixteen meters per second.
"My mother said that if the elevator is fast enough, we can even ride it into space!" said Saya.
"Did your mother bring you here when you were a child?" Aoi said.
"Yes, yes! And dad!" Shaya smiled, "When we were little, our family of three came here once! Dad was away on business trips all year round, and he would only come back on my birthday. I was only five years old that year, but I remember it so clearly!"
The distress she had when she learned that she was going to Shangshu City was gone from her face. Now Shaya looked radiant, like a little tour guide introducing her favorite city to her friends.
"This elevator goes directly to the top of the tower. The observation deck there is so beautiful! It has 360-degree panoramic glass! Let me tell you, it's——"
Shaya didn't say anything, but suddenly there was a violent shaking in the elevator shaft.
It seemed as if light and shadow flashed before everyone's eyes. In the blink of an eye, the scene in the elevator suddenly turned into an abandoned iron box. The dashboard on the wall was broken and it looked like it had been dilapidated for a long time.
The illusion suddenly disappeared!
"I knew it!"
Lian roared, and the mechanical arms on her back suddenly unfolded, breaking out from the four corners above the elevator room and suddenly drilling into the wall of the elevator shaft.
This is the only action that can stop the elevator from falling, but it is also very crazy - as the main body of the robotic arm, Lian's body will be pulled up directly, and she will become the load-bearing part of the entire elevator.
At the moment when Lian was about to touch the ceiling of the elevator, Aoi suddenly jumped up, blocked Lian, and hugged Lian tightly.
"Boom!"
The elevator stopped, and Aoi and Lian were both firmly fixed to the ceiling, unable to move.
"...Pure White!" Aoi shouted with difficulty, "There is something down there...!"
Of course, Perlis heard the sound from below. The moment she crossed the boundary of space, Perlis immediately sensed the entanglement of factors from below the elevator shaft.
——It’s a black water entity!
Unspeakable monsters are climbing in the elevator shaft. These monsters did not turn the city into their ecosystem, but they turned the elevator shaft into a nest.
Perlis and the others were obviously prey that entered the nest.
"cover me."
Perlis patted Shaya's shoulder gently, then pulled out the [Star Breaker] from the crack and slashed it hard at the floor -
"boom!"
A hole large enough for a person to pass through was created. Perlis turned the handle of the sword, and the blade of [Starshatter] exploded into pieces, rolling towards the darkness at the bottom of the well like a storm.
The sound of flesh bursting was accompanied by the sound of wind. The followers of the Black Tide had obviously never suffered such a terrifying attack. Perlis sensed that their approach speed was slowing down.
Seeing that Perlis had resolved the battle, Saya looked up at Aoi and Lian on the ceiling and shouted:
"We entered the elevator and ascended for twenty-five seconds, which means we ascended about four hundred meters, and there is still one hundred meters left!"
"That doesn't sound easy at all..." Lian's face turned purple, "Why is the lifting shaft of this elevator broken... We promised quality assurance..."
"Because of the Kuroshio followers..." Aoi felt a little breathless. She was bearing the weight of the entire elevator with her body. "Is there any way...?"
"If the load was lighter, my mechanical tentacles could climb up..." Lian said, "but now the load is too heavy..."
"We are more than 400 meters above the ground. If we fall, we will be smashed to pieces," Shaya said quickly. "Let me think... let me think... if we can reconnect the lifting shaft..."
"What are you going to do?" Lian shouted.
"Ms. Lian, are three robotic arms enough to support the elevator car? It won't take long, just a dozen seconds." Shaya asked.
"Of course it's no problem. My robotic arm is made of alloy..."
"Then use a mechanical arm to throw me up," Shaya took out a multi-purpose launcher from her back and put the rope spear into the muzzle. "I will use the rope spear to build a load-bearing rope, and that should be enough."
"But we don't know what's going on up there. Aren't you afraid?"
"If I were afraid, I wouldn't have come back here," Saya said softly, "Trust me."
As he was speaking, the roar of the black water entities was heard again from the bottom of the elevator shaft. The power of [Star Crusher] was very strong, but the number of those black water entities seemed to be increasing, and the balance would be broken sooner or later.
"Let's do it!" Lian shouted.
Aoi cooperated by warming up one of her hands, and then tore open a portion of the elevator's roof. Lian's mechanical arm came in through the gap, picked up Saya by the collar, and threw her up.
3) Temple of the Old Blessing (Part 5)
"call--"
Saya climbed up quickly, calculating the distance accurately, ready to launch a rope spear with her multi-purpose launcher at any time.
The range of the rope spear is about fifty meters, and the elevator is still one hundred meters from the top, so Saya has to make sure she shoots after flying fifty meters.
She raised the multi-function transmitter in mid-air, the rangefinder turned on, and the numbers on it dropped rapidly:
"Seventy-five...sixty-seven...fifty-three...forty-nine...!"
Saya raised the multi-function launcher, aimed it at the dark roof, and prepared to pull the trigger.
But at this moment, a melodious song floated from the end of the world, and in a blink of an eye, the scene in front of Shaya suddenly changed -
"Sasha? Are you distracted?"
When Saya blinked, she found herself standing in an intact elevator car, surrounded by people.
A familiar voice sounded beside her ears. Shaya turned her head tremblingly, and the familiar wheat whip passed by her eyes.
"...Mother?"
Shaya stared blankly at the person in front of her. There was no doubt that it was her mother: deep blue eyes, long hair tied into a whip of wheat ears, and a gentle face as pure as a girl - she was smiling at Shaya.
"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?" Mom gently straightened Shaya's messy hair behind her ears. "Were you too excited to fall asleep last night?"
"I..."
"Today is your birthday, so don't fall asleep before you get to the point." Mom smiled gently.
Shaya wanted to say something when another hand patted her shoulder. She turned around and found it was her father.
The kind-looking father was looking at Shaya with a smile. He looked very strong, with his hair and beard meticulously groomed. In Shaya's memory, even when her father was on the road for business or meeting clients, he rarely dressed up so carefully. But today was his daughter's birthday.
"...dad?"
Saya suddenly realized that she had returned to the past - she was in the elevator of the Upper Nexus, rushing to the highest point of the city with her parents.
Those were her fondest memories in Upper Hub City, and she knew what was going to happen next.
The family of three will overlook this prosperity from the top of the city, imagining a bright future while opening Shaya's fifth birthday present.
The gift was a pair of headphones. Shaya loved listening to music, and the noise-canceling headphones she had been using were modified from the shell of that pair, so they looked a bit old. Tianshi suggested many times to buy Shaya a newer pair, but Shaya kept refusing, saying that it was the last memory of her parents.
"We're almost at the end," the mother pointed to the dashboard beside her, "This is the highest point in the city. Although we can only go this high now, maybe we can take the elevator to the sky in the future! Then you can take your children to travel in the universe~"
The same lines were repeated as if from the past. Saya's mouth trembled slightly and there was light flashing in her eyes.
She said softly:
"I want to go with you..."
"Huh? Why do you look unhappy?" Mom looked at Shaya with concern. "You can go with mom and dad if you want. Mom and dad will accompany you anywhere."
"Little girl, you're old enough to start being sentimental," Dad patted Saya on the back, "but don't fall in love too early, you're still too young."
Saya didn't say anything, she lowered her head, her vision blurred by tears.
After a while, she repeated softly:
"I want to go with you."
"What's wrong, my dear?" Mom finally realized that Shaya was not in a good mood. "Are you thinking of something sad?"
She squatted down and hugged Shaya gently. Shaya could feel how gentle the embrace was.
"Did your father secretly scold you? I will help you get revenge!"
"How can I bear to scold our daughter? Stop it," the father's face showed the dignity of a businessman, "Did your classmates say that you are not good? I remember you mentioned before that there was a classmate..."
"I want to go with you!"
Saya screamed and tears burst out, but she broke free from her mother's arms and rushed towards the elevator door resolutely.
The elevator door opened, and she closed her eyes and stepped through the door. At the last moment, she did not turn around to look at her parents, but she could feel their eyes following her all the way.
"...I want to go with you..."
The sound of whistling wind came, and Shaya opened her eyes. She was forty-five meters above the top of the elevator shaft.
As tears flowed, the girl raised the multi-purpose launcher and pulled the trigger towards the darkness above her head.
"boom!"
The rope spear shot into the boundless darkness. After a brief delay, a "clang" sound was heard - Shaya succeeded!
She descended quickly, pressing the button on the transmitter to gradually tighten the rope and slow down her descent.
Just as she approached the elevator, a pure white figure flew over, stepping on the wall and hugged her in mid-air.
"Beautiful." Perlis whispered.
The two fell from the sky and landed back in the elevator shaft. After Perlis settled Shaya, she turned the hilt of the sword again, and the violent storm of sword blades rolled downwards, forcing the Black Tide followers back again.
But Polys couldn't hold on forever. There was no extra destructive factor in the entire elevator shaft. She was overdrawing the storage capacity of the bracelet. When the storage capacity of the bracelet was used up, she could only burn blood.
Seeing this, Saya immediately threw the multi-function launcher to Aoi. Aoi held the launcher tightly and pressed the button on it to retract the rope, and the rope immediately became taut.
"That's... enough!"
Due to the establishment of a supporting axis, the burden on the robotic arms was immediately lightened a lot, and the four robotic arms began to drag the elevator car and climb in the shaft, with the speed getting faster and faster.
Lian seemed to be putting all her efforts into doing all this. She and Aoi were struggling to hold on at the top of the elevator. Aoi hugged Lian tightly, sharing the pressure with her and cheering her on.
It seems that it succeeded...
Seeing that everything was settled, Shaya fell into a corner of the elevator car, her eyes suddenly becoming dull.
Scenes of the past flashed before her eyes. Shaya hadn't been hugged by her mother for a long time. She knew that everything just now was just an illusion and false, but the reality of the hug made her tears flow.
Dad and Mom seemed to still be alive in that place, always looking at Shaya tenderly, as if they had never left.
But the brand new elevator became old in an instant, and the memory remained there forever, leaving Shaya alone in the elevator car, rising towards the future.
"......"
Shaya wiped away her tears and stood up. Perlis was still at the edge of the breach at the bottom of the elevator, fighting the followers of the Black Tide below. Shaya drew the pistol from her waist, unlocked the safety, and then shot at the deep darkness below.
She gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with the rage of someone who had lost her homeland.
......
3) Temple of the Old Blessing (Part 6)
More than ten minutes later, the elevator finally reached the top, and the group quickly left the elevator, as if escaping from a boat that could sink into the sea at any time.
Lian was the last one to step onto the top floor. The moment her feet were firmly planted, the four mechanical arms quickly retracted, and the elevator car roared and smashed down along the contour of the well. The screams of twisted flesh and blood came from the empty well, incessantly.
"Finally...Finally..."
Lian collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath. The little girl was soaked all over. Bearing the pressure of the mechanical arms and operating them had almost exhausted all her physical strength and willpower.
Aoi immediately squatted down beside her sister and took out a handkerchief to wipe her sweat. She checked Lian's body and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that she was not injured.
“It was so thrilling…”
"You guys take a rest first," Perlis looked down from the edge of the elevator shaft to confirm that no followers of the Black Tide had climbed up, "Saya and I will look around."
"Okay," Aoi wiped the sweat off her head. She was almost exhausted. "Come on, Lianbao, drink some water..."
"......"
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