Chapter Twenty-Five: The Immortals
Early the next morning, we arrived in a valley in several buses.
Getting out of the car, Hans went to a small cabin, knocked on the door, and an old man in a sheepskin jacket opened the door, and we entered. Hans said to me, "The entrance to the secret realm of the gods is in the hands of the army, and we go into the cave, and this shepherd can help us open the entrance to the secret realm." ”
I nodded to the old man, but the old man's cloudy yellow eyes shot a fine light, and suddenly he stretched out his right hand and pressed my collarbone, and I was so painful that I couldn't help but bend down. Hans was taken aback, but Xiao Zeng had already raised his leg and kicked the shepherd's crotch. The shepherd's left hand resisted, but he was forced to let go. Xiao Zeng stepped forward, and I said in a deep voice: "Enough." He turned to look at the old man.
The old man laughed, and said in Chinese: "The immortals of the East are too rare. ”
I stared into his eyes and said, "Do you know the Immortals?"
He laughed, the mustache on his lips twitched, and said, "Do you still need me to open the entrance for you? ”
I smiled slightly and said, "I don't know how to do immortal arts." ”
"Oh?" he looked at me suspiciously, and said, "You went in looking for someone, right?"
I nodded, but he said, "Since you are in the world, it means that the person you are looking for should be dead." ”
I said, "You're wrong, I'm not looking for my relative, I'm looking for someone who has recently entered the other world." ”
He nodded and said simply, "Let's go." ”
I did not expect that the cave was just behind the cabin, and even more so spacious that a dozen armored personnel carriers and wheeled combat vehicles and even a Leopard tank had already been parked.
The shepherd led us to the end of the cave and said to me with a smile, "You should be able to walk through it." ”
I smiled and didn't speak.
I saw him raise his right hand, muttering something in his mouth, and then slammed it down.
Before our eyes, the mountain wall shook for a moment, and then a little ripple appeared on it, like a pebble thrown into the calm surface of the lake. The wave-like spiral pattern grew larger and larger, and gradually a small hole appeared.
The old man raised his hands, and the incantation in his mouth became louder and more urgent. The entrance to the cave gradually widened until it matched the size of the cave.
Through the entrance of the cave, I saw that there was also a cave on the opposite side, and there was a light not far away, which should be the exit.
I vaguely felt a little suffocated. When I turned around, I found that all the people had already put on their helmets and exoskeleton armor, and Hans and Xiao Zeng were looking at me, their eyes shining with surprise behind the masks.
Qiao Zhijun's eyes were full of fanaticism, he slowly knelt down, and muttered: "God's chosen one, God's chosen one." The black buddies in the back also knelt down, bowing their heads and not daring to look at me.
The shepherd turned his head, already wearing a leather mask on his mouth, squinted his eyes and said, "Please, immortal, you are different from them, you are like returning home to the other world." ”
I said to Qiao Zhijun: "What the hell, get ready to go." ”
Only then did Qiao Zhijun come back to his senses, stood up and turned to the commandos and said, "Stand up, follow the chosen one, and find the glory of the ancestors." Prepare for battle. ”
I smiled helplessly, turned around and strode towards the other world.
Battle Diary:
September 10th
The fifteenth day of entering the Atlas. As we did the other day, we cleaned up two self-proclaimed gods and their retinue, and killed a few strange beasts, which Hans said would sell for a lot of money and had to be shipped back. We organized ten people to act as a transportation team, but Mr. Xu asked Qiao Zhijun to send a person back to organize the transportation, and asked to organize two hundred large trucks to wait outside the valley.
I understand that this is to replenish ammunition, according to Qiao Zhijun's calculations, the ammunition we have consumed in the past fifteen days is enough to fight a small battle. Mr. Xu said that talent is the most important thing, and we must transport back all the things that are not available in the human world to make up for the consumption of this dispatch.
Every battle starts with Mr. Xu luring the enemy deeper, and he always approaches those otherworldly gods alone, using various methods to lure them into our encirclement, and then gather fire to destroy them. Hans said that his style of play was extremely despicable, but it also contributed to the fact that we still have zero casualties.
Qiao Zhijun and I discussed privately that it was not good for Mr. Xu to always be in danger like this, but he was so elated that he had a speed faster than a bullet and an amazing bounce as soon as he arrived in the other world, so much so that he was happy to do something to lure the enemy.
I withdrew my boots from the face of a so-called "god" who was still muttering curses.
Squatted down, stared into his eyes and asked, "Where is the closest way from here to the passage through the Eastern Immortal Realm?"
It was a Western alien who looked like Hans, about three meters tall, with yellow curly hair that was messily covered on a high raised forehead, and a look of horror flashing on his dirty beard and yellow hair.
"I'm just an ordinary god, I don't know anything. He said in English.
"Robinson, peeled his ribs alive. "I turned my head away, deaf to the screams of the stranger.
Walking to the tent and sitting down, Xiao Zeng brought coffee, I took a sip, and looked at the jungle outside in a daze.
It has been half a month since I entered the Otherworld, from sneaking over the defense line of the confrontation between the armies of the two realms at the beginning, to wading through the Gobi Desert for more than 200 kilometers, until now I have penetrated 3,000 kilometers into the Otherworld.
During this time, we went out day and night, bypassing the larger cities and villages, attacking lone aliens and strange beasts, and finally gained a preliminary understanding of the world.
The basic environment here is the same as that of the earth, starting from the entrance, the further you go inside, the higher the oxygen content in the air, and after going five hundred kilometers, everyone takes off their masks.
There are mountains and rivers, animals and plants, men and women, and four-colored people. It's just that there are people who call themselves "gods" and ordinary people. Ordinary people are divided into divine servants and human slaves, divine servants are the natives of this world, and human slaves are the descendants of people captured from the earth.
There are also two types of animals here, one is a strange beast called a "divine beast", and the other is an ordinary beast. The beast is tall and fierce. And ordinary beasts can only be reduced to food.
"God" comes from people, and there is a chance that an alien and a stranger, a stranger and a divine servant, an alien and a human slave, a divine servant and the descendants of a divine servant, all have a chance to give birth to an alien. And human slaves and human slaves cannot give birth to aliens.
In the video taken by the drone when it was scouting from the town, we found that the height of the Inhuman is generally between two and a half meters to three meters, and there are also those that are taller than three meters, but it is very rare. Inhumans are strong, powerful, and, as Robinson says, have a dense body that we must use special armor-piercing shells to set fire or bazookas to kill them.
There is also a kind of person who is also called "God", but it is an ordinary person who is about the same size as us, and should be part of the servants of God. According to Robinson, this kind of "god" is a magical god servant, this kind of "god" is even rarer, we have only killed one so far, fortunately this unlucky guy is only the same body as a normal person, I deceived his trust and shot him.
The lowest in this world is human slavery. They are almost slaves to Inhumans and Servants of God. And the most infuriating thing is that both Inhumans and Alien Beasts like to eat people, not only eating human slaves, but also eating divine servants, and there is a complete roasted human hand in the Inhuman bag that Robinson killed just now. Almost all of the human slaves we met were enslaved, and when they saw us either shouting in horror or being forced to give us the information we needed, and then trying to escape, we were finally shot down by our people.
According to the confessions of the captives and the videos sent back by the drones, we have a rough idea of the form of social organization here, which is somewhere between a feudal dynasty and a slave society, and there are no thermal weapons. The gods are at war with each other, but the "gods" are beings who surpass these lords, helping the lords to fight when they are in a good mood, and even eating the lords when they are in a bad mood.
Thinking of this, I sighed and spread out a map with rough workmanship to compare it with the electronic map drawn by the drone on the PDA next to me.
Xiao Zeng came up to me and stood beside me and said, "I've collected more than 100 ribs." ”
I nodded, Inhuman's ribs were hard to get, and most of them had been blown to pieces by armor-piercing shells. According to Hans, Inhuman's ribs can be auctioned for hundreds of thousands of dollars on the underground black market in our world, but he doesn't know what to do with them.
"Where are you tracking our otherworldly army?" I asked.
"Hans's message back shows that we are still hundreds of kilometers away. Xiao Zeng said.
"I haven't figured out how European armies have attacked the Atlas in the past, how can they return with a feather every time they attack the Otherworld?" I said.
Xiao Zeng laughed and said, "They are aiming to conquer the city, and they will fight the Inhuman army every time. We're fighting a guerrilla war, and you don't even want to bang the search party of the Servants. Besides, there is you, the chosen one who runs like the wind, of course, you are invincible. ”
I ignored him, looked at the map and said, "According to the last time I captured the human slave teacher, we still have to travel at least three hundred kilometers to reach the passage to the Eastern Wonderland. ”
Xiao Zeng thought for a while and said, "Brother Xu, do you say that Longshou Mountain, the secret realm of the gods, and this passage will be a wormhole?"
I said, "Probably not, there is only one sun here, and we can see the five planets at night, as well as the constellations that we are familiar with, and I think we are still on Earth, and this may be a folded space, or more likely a folded dimension." ”
He opened his eyes and thought for a long time, and finally picked his head and said, "I didn't ask." ”
I put away the map, picked up the walkie-talkie and asked, "Hans Hans, where are you?"
The walkie-talkie rustled, and Hans's voice rang.
"Lao Xu Lao Xu, we have arrived at the mouth of the passage, this is a high-altitude cableway, not a wormhole, it seems that we are located on the plateau, and the so-called Oriental Wonderland is on the plain. Hans said.
I said, "Keep scouting, we'll be there in the evening." ”
Hans replied, "Okay, we've set up camp in the jungle five kilometers from the ropeway, the roads here are in poor condition, and you'd better arrange for someone to call the vehicle back." ”
I informed Qiao Zhijun and arranged for personnel to hide the vehicles and excess equipment in place, and this dense forest would be used as our secret transit base.
After packing up the base, installing explosives, laying out booby traps, and camouflage, the rest of the people put on individual aircraft and flew towards the ropeway at a low altitude.
Standing on the edge of the cliff, I was a little stunned by the thick iron lock that was more than one person hidden in the clouds and mist.
"The drone has flown more than 600 kilometers, and it is still coming back with cliffs. Hans said behind me.
Xiao Zeng spit out the toothpick in his mouth and said, "I'll go, how high does this mountain have to be?"
"If it doesn't work, I'll just sit on this thing. I turned my head to look at the iron boxes, which were about ten square meters, and said.
"Without brakes, this thing can't fall into a patty?" said Hans hatefully.
Qiao Zhijun squatted by the iron box and watched for a long time, then raised his head and said to me: "It takes about an hour to build shock absorbers and brakes, and the boat bridge assembly has tools." ”
I looked at him and said, "Are you sure?"
He laughed and said, "My internship in the Metalworking in the Gila Valley is 100 points. ”
I turned to the people behind me and said, "Take action, all help Xiao Joe." ”
A few hours later, all the staff got on the cable car, and Qiao Zhijun pushed the first cable car we took to run a few steps, and rushed into the car with a brisk step.
Qiao Zhijun's shock absorption system is very good, and the cable car is moving fast but very stable. But the crunch of the brakes and the iron lock still kept me awake.
I sat up, pulled my grandfather's bayonet from my thigh, and carefully wiped it with a cotton cloth.
When I saw this bayonet, I said it was a treasure knife and stuck it on the outside of my backpack as my external equipment.
When I met the second Inhuman, I was attacked by the other party. My paratrooper* knife got stuck in the stranger's chest, and I had to pull out my bayonet in desperation. Unexpectedly, the bayonet stabbed into the chest of the stranger without much effort.
Since then, this bayonet has replaced the Paratrooper* knife as my exclusive weapon for melee combat, and it is compatible with the abilities I have gained in this world: speed, including super reflexes, ghostly foot and hand speed, and killing Inhumans like chopping melons and vegetables. So I was the only one on the team who could fight one-on-one with Inhumans in melee combat.
Xiao Zeng looked at me and smiled, and said, "Brother Xu, have you ever killed people before?"
I gave him a blank look and said, "Are these strangers human?"
He smiled and said, "Aren't you nervous?"
I said expressionlessly: "I am a mature and steady uncle who has gone through a year of confusion, and I have experienced almost everything, what else is there to be afraid of?"
He let out an "oh" and looked out the window, not knowing what he was thinking.
I lied, but I was nervous. The first time I saw Inhuman's majestic body, the first time I shot at a servant of the same structure as me, the first time I pulled out a knife and stabbed Inhuman's body, I was trembling with nervousness, and my palms and heads were sweaty.
But after the first experience, I became more and more proficient in doing this kind of thing, and even faintly liked it. At one point, I had some suspicions, suspecting that I was suffering from multiple personality disorder, and that out of danger was the personality of a killer.
Shaking my head, I inserted my bayonet and took out the book with "The Battle of Longshou Mountain" written on the cover. Since entering the other world, I have to believe that Lao Liu's stories are true, so I began to read this book that is suspected to be handed down by my ancestors. Turn to the page where the page is folded, and begin to read it with difficulty, word by word.