Lird's words were like a cold wind blowing through the valley, which made the atmosphere between him and his father suddenly cold, and although Pym did not look back, Lird still felt a bit of solemnity oozing from his father's body.

After a moment, Pym sighed and said, "So you think so I am?"

Lird swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his throat felt hoarse, and his heart became more nervous, but this was definitely not the time to withdraw from the group, especially when facing his father.

"Isn't it?" said Lird, softly, using this frivolous rhetorical question to retreat.

Pym smiled faintly, the aura on his body had subsided just now, and then said, "You saw the sacrifice a few days ago when this idea was born, right?"

Lird said: "I wanted to solve my doubts that night, but in fact my confusion has become more and more, and now it seems that you can only guide everything. ”

Pym nodded, "That's right, after all, I'm the cause of all this, otherwise you should be sitting in front of the fireplace in Wyatt Manor and living a peaceful life right now, sorry." Pym's words were extraordinarily sincere, and there was nothing sarcastic about it.

Lird shook his head and said, "You are my father, and I will come to you for this final goodbye no matter what." ”

Pym laughed and sighed, "yes, if you don't say I'm almost forgetting that I'm a patient." After that, he shook his head and said, "I don't want to die, there are still a lot of things I haven't done in my life plan, at least I want to see the moment when you start a family, but..."

Liard's throat rolled, and a strong sour feeling welled up in his heart.

Pym continued: "After this episode I can clearly feel the condition of the body, hehe, have you heard of the phenomenon of elephants before they die? When I first heard about this phenomenon, I was surprised and thought it was strange, but now I understand it, but I didn't expect this to be my final destination. ”

Lird stopped the cart, turned to Pym, squatted down and said excitedly, "Why would it... Is there really nothing that can be done about it? Only... Death?"

Pym reached out and stroked the top of Lird's head and said, "Child, what awaits us in the end is death, but it may come sooner or later. ”

Lird choked up, "But...", Pym patted Lird on the shoulder, "there is nothing, everything is predestined." ”

Lird closed his eyes in agony, and after a long time he opened them, his affection had regained some calm.

"Father, what is that so-called curse on you?

Pym's expression became a little complicated, and he slowly shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be true, the sacrifice has done its best, originally my injuries were very serious, almost irretrievable, I didn't dare to imagine seeing you at that time." So every day I'm living now is very hard, and I feel like I've earned it out of thin air. ”

Lird trembled, "Does such a thing as a curse really exist?"

"Just as an elephant can perceive his own death, the so-called curse is also a thing that cannot be explained and proven by common sense, but it is also the same as the elephant's perception of death, which is strange but does exist," Pym said. ”

Lird's lips trembled, and this time he couldn't help but believe it.

Pym sighed softly, then reached out and slowly unbuttoned the collar to expose the skin on his chest.

Looking at his father's bare chest, Lird gasped, and then his pupils shrank.

Pym's chest was colorless, and the skin was an inky black, and as Lird looked closely, he suddenly noticed that the black was not an irregular variation of color blocks, but had come together to form a pattern of extremely cumbersome forms!

The black pattern is trapped in the body like a lifelike tattoo, but its unique realism is far from being comparable to ordinary tattoos, and if it were not for the fact that Lird had seen his father's body, he would have even suspected that it was his father's birthmark.

The incomparably real black lines exude a unique and eerie feeling on Pym's body, revealing a strangeness that cannot be described in words.

Lird's body began to tremble slightly with fear, and although he tried to restrain it, his body did not obey him.

Somehow, Lird raised his arm, trying to touch the black patterns, but when his palm was about to touch the skin on Pym's chest, the patterns seemed to feel something, and they suddenly changed, like a mimosa suddenly closing its own leaves, and the intricate black lines of the right time suddenly contracted, forming a denser pattern in an instant.

Seeing this, Lird was taken aback, his fingers suddenly retracted as if he had been electrocuted, and his eyes showed a look of extreme horror.

Lilde never imagined that this seemingly strange black pattern could actually perceive himself as if he had a sense of life.

And as Lird's palm left, the black lines suddenly spread again, and the scene was like a black dahlia in full bloom.

Looking at Lird's panicked appearance, Pym smiled, and then said, "What, do you believe it now?"

Lird looked up at his father and said in a hoarse voice, "What the hell is this!"

Pym looked at Lird and said softly, "It can be said that this is [power], of course, it is manifested in another form. ”

Strength!

The word slammed into Lird's chest like a thump, making him feel inexplicably suffocated.

"Unexpected?" said Pym as he looked at Lird with a smile on his face, as if the illness wasn't growing on him at all.

Jim, who was in the distance, saw this scene and didn't say anything, just stood where he was, looking into the distance.

After a long time, Lird finally said to Pym with trembling lips, "Father, this... What the hell is going on, please... Tell me..."

Pym's eyes showed helplessness and sadness.

"I'm going to tell you all about it, my kid, or I wouldn't have let you here..."

…

In the warm tent, Pym lay back on his hospital bed, and Lird covered him with the quilt, and when his fingers touched his father's chest, Lird subconsciously retracted his fingers as if he were electrocuted.

Seeing this, Pym smiled and said, "Don't worry, it won't be contagious if you touch it." ”

Lird shook his head vigorously, indicating that his father had misunderstood him.

"These black lines are like a countdown to death, reminding me that my life is running out," Pym said. ”

Lird listened to all this with great pain, closed his eyes in pain, opened them again, and said, "This... How exactly is the curse done? I've been exposed to some paranormal phenomena when I was studying navigation, but this time... It's so impressive—" By this point, Lird had found it extremely difficult to describe.

Pym said indifferently: "The process of the matter is a bit complicated, so I will focus on it, the reason why I was injured was because I designed a plan that was extremely 'against the sky', and this plan that was supposed to be perfect ended up failing, and I was reduced to such a world." "Lird knew that his father's perfect plan was the great plan that Jim had mentioned to save the entire Atlantean family.

Pym said to Lird, "How do you think we should deal with the present war, or how to avoid it?"

Lird pondered for a moment, then shook his head, not having any idea of such a fateful matter that would determine the future fate of the tribe.

"The situation in India is now extremely chaotic, almost to the point of a kind of dog-tooth interlacing, you see this is like a paradise, but this is already the last position of the Atlantean nation, and this peace does not know how long it will last, maybe in the next moment this peace will be broken." ”

There was great helplessness in Pym's gaze, and it was evident that he had been exhausted and deeply helpless by the protracted war.

"The priest and I had several elaborate plans to find a safe escape route for the day, but all plans fell through. The British, Indian, and Japanese armies almost completely blockaded the area, impervious to wind and rain. ”

Lird couldn't help but think of what he had seen on the Ganges when he came here, and he had now understood the general situation.

Pym continued: "And even if they are lucky enough to break through these lines, the entire tribe can only go closer to East Asia, but now East Asia is even more chaotic than India, and I am afraid that there is no place to go to such a foothold." ”

Lird felt the difficulty and complexity of the situation, frowned, and said, "Is there no way out at all?"

Pym shook his head and said: "This is not a family of a dozen people, but a large tribe of hundreds of people, and the difficulties that will be encountered in the process of migration can be described as unprecedented. ”

Lird thought for a moment and said, "What about breaking up the entire tribe into pieces and dividing them into several groups to act quietly?"

Pym shook his head resolutely, "We've considered this plan, but the answer is that it's less feasible to act in batches than to act as a whole. If you divide the entire tribe into separate operations, you risk getting lost, as you can see that most of the people here are unable to speak other languages, which is an absolute fatal wound in the operation. ”

Lird could only sigh at this.

"In the end, after all kinds of discussions, we reluctantly came up with a plan, which is to completely get out of this troublesome war zone and go to a relatively peaceful area, and there is only one choice in front of us, and that is Australia," Pym said. ”

As a nautical scholar, he naturally understands the power of this "unsinkable aircraft carrier", and compared with the war-torn Asia, Europe and Africa, Australia can be said to be the only remaining paradise on earth.

Although Australia is now facing a threat from the development of the Japanese Navy, the threat from Japan to Australia is not serious due to regional reasons and the help of the United States.

"A long time ago, for business, I got acquainted with an Australian naval officer, who was not one of the supreme commanders, but who still had a lot of power under his command, and who could get in very smoothly if I managed it very well," Pym said. ”

Pym's description sounded so much like a picture of ease that Lird even fantasized a little obsessively.

Speaking of this, Pym sighed softly again, this is not known how many times he sighed tonight, obviously all kinds of unhappiness made Pym feel helpless.

"It's the same as before," Pym said, "and although we barely managed to find a place to stay, it was overwhelming to get there. As with the problems I have just mentioned, to get to Australia you have to take the whole tribe to some dock, at least where you can board a giant passenger ship, and it is impossible to break through the Ganges cordon on a bamboo raft, so the problem is back to square one. ”

Lird said: "The only way to escape is to break through these defenses, but the problem is..."

"It's impossible, isn't it?" Pym chuckled, and Lird nodded.

"That's right," Pym said, "that's where we're in a complete dilemma. Lird said, "But you still made a plan after all. ”

"Yes," said Pym, "the plan failed and sounded ridiculous, but I still think it was a wise choice. Somehow, Liard's breathing became heavier.

Pym said slowly, "The way is simple, and that is to start a war. ”

Pym's words, though soft, were like thunder in Lird's ears, shocking him.

Pym didn't seem to care about Lird's shock at all, and continued: "It's simply whimsical to want to break through that layer of restrictions with normal methods, God will not give such a great luck to allow hundreds of people to escape in the intertwined power environment, and the only way to escape smoothly is to throw a huge smoke bomb, and in the current environment, the only thing that can create the most time for it is war." ”

Lird shook his head and said, "I still don't understand what you mean. ”

Pym said: "Now all forces are in a sensitive state, at that time the United States has not yet announced its entry into the war, but the signs of participation in the war have been revealed, it can be said that at that time is the most sensitive period, as long as there is a slight wind and grass, then all the guns will be fired, and only when we can buy a time when we can fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to break through." ”

Liald said in a hoarse voice, "What do you want to do?"

Pym said indifferently: "Cause an explosion." ”