Wilbur Orwell was at a critical juncture in his life.

According to his grandfather, it was the most important time to be off the coast of Kitty Hawk in the cold wind.

In simple terms, he was robbed.

Standing around the young man were three bounty hunters who didn't seem to be easy to mess with.

Wilbur probably knew that these people had met in the tavern just now, presumably the participants of the [Marathon], and they saw that they seemed to be bullying, so they blocked him here and demanded money.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in Greenwich recently, as many as thousands of contestants brought several times the crowd of onlookers, and under the mixed environment of dragons and snakes, there are naturally more robberies and other things.

And most of the contestants are the goal.

Some are because of the revenge of past enemies, and some are simply because of watching the players loot by rich masters, although the organizers have also severely punished the criminals caught, but the crime will always be prohibited.

"You should be a competitor, do you have a car?"

One of the bounty hunters asked in a deep voice.

"You're going to get caught by the organizers."

Wilbur reminded.

"It's okay, we've already confirmed, there's no one else here at all, and no one will know that we did it."

Another bounty hunter licked his lips and said.

Most of the cars participating in the [marathon] are not bargains, and they can be worth a lot of money if you get one and sell it, anyway, there are so many people now, as long as you do it hidden, no one can find a prisoner.

And they have observed that this young man is not a member of a consortium, but just a miscellaneous fish who fights alone.

The death of the miscellaneous fish, no one cares at all.

"Really?"

Wilbur asked seemingly reluctantly.

"Say your last words."

The last bounty hunter had already pulled out his gun.

"Then I'll be relieved."

Wilbur Orwell smiled brightly.

The next moment, the guns in the hands of the three bounty hunters were suddenly deflected by Wilbur, and then, the trigger was pulled, and before they could figure out what was happening, they were all shot and fell to the ground, showing painful expressions.

"Since no one has seen it, no one will know who killed you, uncle."

Wilbur kicked the other two pistols away, then picked up the third one, ready to replenish it.

At this time, Wilbur suddenly had a premonition of danger, and he hurriedly turned around, and saw a mature and capable man, who was putting his hand on his shoulder.

"There's no need to do that."

The man smiled kindly.

Almost subconsciously, Wilbur shot at the other party, but after pulling the trigger, he found that the bullet in the pistol was missing for some time.

The man asked, as if he didn't care, as if he didn't care, leaning over to check on the bounty hunters.

"That's how you usually come to catch these guys?"

"Are you a companion to these people?"

Wilbur said warily, and at the same time, reached for his holster.

"No, I didn't know them at all, and at first I just thought you might be in trouble with them, but now it seems that these guys who think they are hunters are the prey."

The man smiled, and just as Wilbur didn't quite understand the man's intentions, he suddenly saw the man reach for the head of one of the bounty hunters.

He touched the air as if his hand were in the bounty hunter's head!

Ascender!

Wilbur immediately sensed that something was wrong, but the scene before him was so terrifying that he froze in place.

The man's hand quickly roamed over the bounty hunter and removed the three men's bullets.

At this point, the three bounty hunters didn't seem to die, but fainted, and there were no wounds on their bodies, leaving Wilbur stunned.

Although he knew that the Ascended had extraordinary powers, Wilbur didn't know much about it due to his father's limitations.

"Don't worry, I just found the loopholes in their bodies and took out the relevant memories and bullets."

The man laughed.

Bullets and ...... Memory?

Wilbur didn't understand it even more.

The bullet is still understandable and can be remembered......

"They won't remember what they've done when they wake up, and they won't remember what you've done, don't worry."

The man said firmly.

"Why are you helping me? Or are these To's acting skills, in order to gain my trust? ”

Wilbur asked.

"You're thinking too much, I'm helping you because I want to hitchhike, that's all."

The man stretched out his hand to Wilbur, and the young man was stunned, as if he still felt a lingering feeling at the man who had just probed into the bodies of several other people with his bare hands.

"Hitchhiking?"

The more Wilbur listened, the more confused he became.

"My name is Arthur Heinlein, and I am a runner in the [Marathon], for some reason, my transportation has a problem, so I want to cooperate with you to compete, although there is no such rule, but the official does not seem to prohibit it."

Arthur Heinlein, also known as Bai Ge, said.

Some of the participants are not alone, but small groups of two or three, who race in a single car, with a driver and an escort, and are counted as the same group of participants, sharing points and prize money.

Bai Ge didn't plan to be in a group with this young man, just to take a ride.

"What if I refuse?"

Wilbur asked tentatively.

"Would you say no?"

Bai Ge asked rhetorically.

“...... Please come this way. ”

Wilbur pointed out the alley.

He briefly judged the situation, this Arthur Heinlein had just helped him, and this was completely unnecessary for him, as for this gentleman's request for a ride, Wilbur, although confused, could only lead the way.

Was this robbed by Ming?

When Wilbur took Bai Ge to the corner of the square, his mood suddenly became a little better.

"Look, this is my ride."

He pointed to one of the cars with a somewhat unique shape.

"It's a car?"

Bai Ge looked at the things in front of him and suddenly regretted it.

Can this really run?

It was more of an animal-shaped vehicle than a car, with all four wheels fitted nicely, a pair of outstretched wings on top of the car, and a propeller at the front.

It's not so much a car as a ...... Aerocraft?

"It's Flyer One, uh, it's been rebuilt several times, but it's still pretty much the name, it's my grandfather's legacy."

Only when standing in front of this car did Wilbur look like a young man in his twenties.

"Although the old man said that he used to fly into the sky with this thing, everyone thought he was."

"Flyer?"

Bai Ge frowned slightly, and he looked at the sky.

Although he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he still knew from the movies of the old times and various history textbooks that this thing was made in imitation of something.

Plane.

Once upon a time, humans conquered the skies with such a huge iron and steel creation.

With incredible power, the heavy steel was able to fly into the sky as lightly as a bird, and even break through the constraints of gravity to reach the distant stars, which is an almost mythical legend for humans after the Great Collapse.

Bai Ge also didn't understand why steel, which looked so heavy, could actually fly into the sky.

After the Great Collapse, the related technology was completely lost, and people lost their dominance of the sky.

Not only that, but if it is just a technological remnant, relying on the ingenuity of the creator prototype and some historical records, the current human beings are fully capable of restoring the flying machines of the past and reigning in the sky again.

However, Bai Ge had learned the relevant knowledge when he was in Jingjiang, and he knew very well that the reason why human beings could not soar in the sky again at present was because of two existences.

One of them is naturally the [Night Sky], a mysterious creation that even natural disasters are not enough to describe, which covers the night of the entire planet, blocking the sight and exploration of human beings outside the planet.

The other, and the main culprit of the inability to fly in the atmosphere, is natural disasters.

[Feather of Steel].

This is the first natural disaster that has appeared on this planet since the Great Collapse.

Its appearance is also quite retro, according to eyewitnesses, the shape of [Steel Feather] resembles a legendary dragon from the old times, and in the first sightings, this dragon is more than a few kilometers in size, more like an active continent than a living thing, and even the largest cloud whale known to man can hardly match.

Wherever Steel Feather goes, the sky is stained with sunshine, a scorched earth, and any human technology, armament, and ability of the Ascended will be reduced to ashes and swept away by this dragon-like natural disaster.

Later, someone witnessed the [Steel Feather] incarnated into a dragon with a body length of dozens of meters and a vigorous posture, spreading its wings glowing with steel, breaking through the air, and the fierce wind set off made the ground fly sand and rocks for dozens of kilometers, and the dust covered the sky and the sun.

It has also been witnessed that the wings of the [Steel Feather] are burning with fire, like shooting stars across the night, lighting up the night like day, it has a pair of red eyes, a mythical body, and exudes terrifying power.

It has also been seen that the Steel Feather is covered in steel-like scales, and it can lead a storm and transform mountains and rivers with the wind flapping its wings alone, and it can bring destruction to a region as well as a new life.

No one knows exactly where the [Steel Feather] is, but everyone knows that when the [Pioneer Era] after the Great Collapse, human beings once built a flying machine similar to the aircraft of the old era, and when the steel creation flew into the sky, the [Steel Feather] came.

It completely destroyed the creation of steel, along with the many scholars and engineers who conducted the experiment, and after many experiments, mankind finally discovered one thing.

That is the appearance of [Steel Feather], which is to block the airspace of mankind.

Whenever a human mechanical creature wants to take to the skies, this unruly dragon will appear as soon as possible, causing a huge disaster, and finally leave, and even when the whole world is flying simultaneously, [Steel Feather] can travel the entire planet in no more than a minute, destroying these creations that humans are trying to challenge the sky and plunder the authority of the gods.

But other than that, apart from the occasional appearance on the wasteland and a violent storm, the [Steel Feather] does not harm humans in any other way, and it does not even appear near human settlements.

Once, there were some beliefs about [Steel Feather] among human beings, believing that this was the divine punishment caused by the sins committed by humans before the Great Collapse, and the gods sent down this curse-like heavenly punishment to punish mortals who tried to touch the sky, therefore, the best choice for human beings is to no longer try to covet the sky where the gods live, these believers spread their faith everywhere, and gathered many believers who believe in [Steel Feather].

It's just that later, because these believers began to collect wealth and seize power in the name of religion, in the end, such beliefs were completely extinguished by various countries, and only survived in the history books.

However, since then, like artificial intelligence technology, the research of aircraft has also been sealed and banned, and the core technology has long become the lowest secret of various countries.

Therefore, the Flyer 1 left by Grandpa Wilbur is nothing more than a car with the shape of an airplane.

"Don't look at it like this, in fact, the interior space is quite large."

Wilbur said, and he opened the door and slipped inside.

"I've done my research, and I'm going to spend several nights in the wilderness for this race, and if it's a normal car, it's definitely hard to stand the temperature difference between day and night, and I can't get a good rest, so I modified it a little......"

He opened the door of the back seat, and Bai Ge saw that the original seat there had been converted into a bed, and there were many food and supplies under the bed, and there were more in the trunk, as if he was surviving in the wilderness.

"The organizers said that gasoline and the like can't be carried, so I prepared a lot of food, but it is said that the cars of the contestants from the far north can be started directly by pouring vodka into the fuel tank, which is really envious."

Wilbur sighed.

"Very well prepared."

Bai Ge nodded.

"But then again, you don't have a car yet, what are you going to do if you don't meet me?"

Wilbur asked curiously again.

"Go and hitchhike with someone else."

Bai Ge briefly confirmed the situation of the bed.

"And what if they don't agree?"

"Then let them agree."

Bai Ge turned his head and looked at Wilbur.

“...... Reasonable. ”

Wilbur felt an inexplicable murderous aura, thinking of Bai Ge's surprising operation just now, and suddenly had no objections.

After thinking about it, Wilbur suddenly felt that it was not a bad thing to let Bai Ge go with him, he was just an ordinary person, and Bai Ge was obviously a strong upgrader, and in the wasteland, it was always good to have a powerful partner to accompany him.

After a simple formality, it was already evening, and the tents around the square were lit up one after another, and some people even had a bonfire party.

Bai Ge stared at the crowd and glanced at Wilbur.

"Let's go get something to eat."

Instead of eating in a tented restaurant near the square, they made a slight detour to one of the most well-rated restaurants in West Greenwich.

Wilbur naturally didn't have the money to come here to spend, and after entering the restaurant, he looked around, looking a little reserved.

Bai Ge was very familiar with it, and chose a table with a good view and a distant view of the square.

As soon as the two of them sat down, Wilbur noticed that a young girl was enjoying her meal alone at a table not far away.

She has short flaxen-colored hair and a typical Zhuxia face, which is eye-catching.

Bai Ge followed Wilbur's line of sight and saw the girl as well.

His movements suddenly stopped.

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If there are two more, I will explain it~