Act XXIII. Kerris, the city of plenty

Wrong.

Bai Ge felt it like this.

It was the evening of the second day after the Eris Supply Depot, and since they continued to find the Ort Field, an endless wasteland, a real wasteland that even the Supply Depot might not encounter, they decided to stay at the Kiris Supply Depot for one night and make plans when they had enough supplies.

It's just that when he spent the night on the wasteland last night, Bai Ge discovered something unusual.

They had parked their car next to a ubiquitous rock, but the next morning, they found that the position of the rock seemed to have changed.

Since Bai Ge and Zhu Shuangluo took turns keeping vigil, they were sure that there were no other monsters or accidents, and it was impossible for the car to move on its own in the middle of the night.

At the same time, they did not observe any signs of the stone moving, as if suddenly the stone changed its position without paying attention.

In normal times, Bai Ge probably wouldn't have seriously explored this thing, after leaving the Kuiper Wilderness, there would not be many such stones left, and even more complicated, untouched terrain and landforms filled the Ort Wilderness.

However, considering the previous situation at the Eris Supply Depot, any anomalies on the wasteland are worth noting, given that the Abyssal Relic that the Big Guy was carrying has already been contaminated and leaked.

Therefore, after arriving at the Keris supply station, Bai Ge decided to investigate to see if this was a common phenomenon.

Not surprisingly, almost all of the contestants who spent the night on the wasteland last night had this kind of situation, a slight one like Bai Ge who was only aware of the change, and a serious one who encountered their own things being crushed by a rock.

Thankfully, no one was hurt.

Or, the injured may not be able to reach the depot at all.

“...... You've also encountered stones that move, right? ”

After listening to the courier brother of Panda Logistics in front of him, Bai Ge confirmed.

"Yes, yes, fortunately I was still a little far from the stone, otherwise I might wake up and be crushed by the stone under the mountain."

Luke had palpitations, although the man in front of him looked vicious, but he was quite kind after the conversation, which made Luke unconsciously relax his defense.

"Can you mark the spot where you encountered the stone...... here?"

Bai Ge took out the map that already had a lot of markings, and asked the courier brother to recall his location last night.

After roughly marking it, Luke was a little confused, after all, these stones should be wonderful items in the wasteland, and they have little to do with the race, as a participant in the [marathon], there should be no need to investigate these things.

"But I didn't expect that there would be couriers to participate in this competition."

After thanking him, Bai Ge chatted casually.

“...... You may not believe it? I'm actually here to deliver a courier...... That's right? Since you're investigating this and questioning so many people? I don't know if you have any impression of this person? He has a parcel waiting to be signed for by me, the name is ......"

Luke pulled the notes out of his jacket pocket? Turn to the last page.

"Yes, Bai Ge? Do you know each other? ”

“...... I don't know. ”

Bai Ge only has a moment of stagnation? He quickly pretended to remember for a while but without results, and shook his head.

"What about you, do you know this person?"

also deliberately turned his head to look at the bamboo frost beside him.

“...... I don't know either. ”

Bamboo Frost smiled.

"Well, it looks like I'll have to wait until I get to the finish line."

Luke sighed? Said to himself again.

"It seems that this express also has a note that it can be sent directly to the Holy Alliance's Mona Kea? It seems that the white singer should be able to reach the finish line. ”

Hiss......

Bai Ge sighed in his heart, on the one hand, for the accurate grasp of his situation by the person who sent him the courier, and on the other hand, he was also surprised by the dedicated attitude of Panda Logistics.

It's no wonder that he had just settled down in the Pan-Western Sea at the time, and he was able to receive the storage device with the [Panda Council] installation package.

But? Bai Ge was curious about who had sent him something, and he was also a little worried about whether this courier brother would encounter any accidents during the long [marathon]? So, he opened the [Panda Council].

[Goo-goo]: Excuse me? Did some of the big guys send me something?

Originally, there was no one talking to the group at this point where he had already gotten off work, and he was silent for a moment? Only then did someone respond.

[No one knows faith better than I am]: Not me.

Do Not Disturb in the Abyss: Obvious? Nor me.

[Lao Tzu's first cuteness in the world]: It's definitely not me!

[Red Kite]: I sent it? Did you receive it?

[Goo Goo Goo]: ...... You use my real name as the recipient, how can you receive it?

Bai Ge was embarrassed.

[Red Kite] is Shi Wutong, after the incident in Alexandria, she left the Panxi Sea and returned to Zhuxia without any more contact with Bai Ge.

However, from some later exchanges, Bai Ge felt that although this big sister seemed to be leaky, she was often confused to a certain extent.

Maybe Ruan Qingqiu's body originally represented some of Shi Wutong's situation before he became a demigod?

I remember that according to the records of the internal documents of the Abyss Relic Affairs Division, Shi Wutong's father was indeed a businessman, and by chance, she took the rainbow of promotion and became the upgrader, as for the later records, it is a little vague and not clear.

[Red Kite]: Huh? I use my real name, I can't remember clearly, anyway, according to the reservation, you will definitely meet the courier.

"Scheduled?"

Bai Ge suddenly felt that Shi Wutong might have exerted some extraordinary power on this express, or that this express itself was an extraordinary thing.

[Red Kite]: This is one of the panda logistics, well, the contract, as long as the contract is established, then this courier will definitely be able to finally deliver to your hands, and the courier will also be protected by the contract.

It's really an extraordinary ability......

Bai Ge pondered for a moment, although he could now directly take the courier from the courier brother's hand unconsciously, but considering the other party's loss and the danger in the next wasteland, he decided not to take the courier for the time being, and used it as a talisman for the little brother.

[Coo-goo]: Can I ask what's in the courier?

Of course, if it is something very important, then Bai Ge will probably have to take it away and then persuade this little brother to quit.

[Red Kite]: You shouldn't need it now, but you'll find out when you get to the Holy Alliance.

[Goo-goo]: Oh......

It's mysterious.

Bai Ge decided to follow Shi Wutong's words and wait until the Holy Alliance to check it out.

Anyway, since Shi Wutong said that this thing will definitely be delivered to him, then Bai Ge doesn't need to worry, let's solve the problem in front of him.

“...... Did you encounter a ghost hitting the wall? ”

Just when Bai Ge was rubbing her phone, Zhu Shuang was not idle, she patiently dealt with a local vendor, and quickly came up with some words.

For Zhu Shuang, who can rely on pheromones to distinguish the emotions and thoughts of the other party, the dialogue is like a strategy in the game to see the favorability, and in just a few words, the mercenary businessman can tell some information.

"Ghost Hitting the Wall......"

Bai Ge didn't expect to hear such a down-to-earth description at the junction of the Pan Western Sea and the Holy Alliance, he took a closer look, and the other party's black hair and black eyes looked like they were from Zhuxia.

"Well, this happened in the past two months, not long after it was said that there was going to be a [marathon], this Kuiper moorland, in the old days, was said to be the bottom of the deep sea, and then after the sea froze, the glaciers scattered these stones here, so it is also called the ice crushed belt, of course, now there is almost no rain."

The peddler spoke eloquently.

"Dozens of kilometers from here to the west and east, all of them are these stones, which were nothing special originally, but then, probably in March? Some people got lost in this ice belt, and the terrain they marked out changed, whether it was a big rock or a small stone, it seemed to change its position, so we went out in groups during this time. ”

He complained about the lightning that might have been caused by the appearance of [Silver Wind Dawn] and some rumors of monster infestation that he couldn't figure out, and began to sell goods to Bai Ge and them.

"I said, I've got some good stuff here that can make your nightlife richer, automated, don't worry about leakage, do you want to try it?"

As he spoke, the vendor pulled out a black pillar from the slightly rough bag.

Bamboo Frost's cheeks turned crimson suddenly, and his gaze turned away.

“...... No need. ”

Bai Ge said angrily, he stuffed some money to the vendor at random, and then pulled the bamboo frost to leave there and returned to the side of the Flyer One.

Wilbur was holding a notebook, writing and drawing, as if this was his daily habit.

Seeing Bai Ge and Zhu Shuangxia, he hurriedly put away his notebook and stuffed it into the box in front of the co-pilot.

"How?"

He asked, after all the events he had been through, Wilbur was no longer surprised, and he was excited by all the novelty of the moor compared to the danger.

"The stones may have been affected as well, and there was something wrong."

Back in the car, Bai Ge concluded.

He opened the map he had marked, and could see that a similar movement of stones had occurred within a radius of about thirty kilometers, centered on the supply station of Kerres.

The common feature of these stones is that they have a smooth surface, but they are not hard, they are scattered one by one, generally larger than a small car, and the large crystallization is a small three-story building, and the stones are originally distributed in the crushed ice belt, as the vendor said, the result of geological movements during the Ice Age.

These stones have existed in the Great Kuiper Wilderness for thousands of years, and may have existed in the old days, when it was still a sea.

However, in the past records, these stones have never been in an anomalous condition, and only in the last few months have they been in such an unusual condition, except in the last few months.

It can be inferred that these stones, or this area, may also have been contaminated by the Abyssal Relic.

Merely......

"Look the direction in which the stones are moving."

Bai Ge took out a pencil and made a simple gesture.

According to the contestants they learned of who had encountered the movement of the stones, the stones were all in a different position after the day than they were the day before, and, judging by the trajectory, they all seemed to be moving in the same direction.

"To the west?"

Bamboo Frost saw Bai Ge's mark.

The stones, as if they were attracted to something, moved in the same direction.

According to Bai Ge's calculations, the distance these stones move every day is about less than ten centimeters, and when you look at it in one night, it can almost be seen as standing still, if there is no reference, maybe even Bai Ge may not be able to find out that there is something wrong with this.

But over time, it is possible that the stones will move a considerable distance to the west, spreading the ice fragmentation over the Oort Field.

"Is this also evolution?"

Bai Ge muttered to himself, after seeing the matter of the Eris Supply Depot, he had a new understanding of the so-called "evolutionary" ability of this abyss relic, which was not just as simple as an ordinary mutation, in the polluted realm, the species could change in essence and become a new existence.

In any case, the best way to find out the exact state of the matter is to find another stone and study its composition carefully.

"We'll rest here tonight and leave early tomorrow morning."

Bai Ge made a decision.

He and Zhu Shuang bought food, fuel, etc. at the supply station, and completed the confirmation at the check-in point of the Atlas Consortium that had been arranged here in advance, and when they finished these things and rested, it was already after eleven o'clock in the evening.

Due to the lack of human light interference, the starry sky here is more transparent, and you can clearly see a milky white star-dotted river, in the old days, such a star structure was called "Milky Way", but nowadays, when this starry sky is known to be hypocritical, this galaxy is more and more terrifying.

The star of the ascender appears in the position of the sky, and the brightness is not regular, such as Bai Ge, his star is located in the corner of the galaxy, a barren, inconspicuous area, and the brightness is also very gray, only of the sixth rank.

"What are you looking at?"

Zhu Shuang was holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, this tea was bought from the supply station, it was not good, but Bai Ge saw that Zhu Shuang liked it and bought it directly, at this moment, the teacup was fragrant, and the white tea mist was swirling, floating to the sky.

The temperature of the wasteland at night is very low, as if it is late autumn, and the heat quickly dissipates and becomes invisible.

"Tonight is my vigil."

Bai Ge said that he didn't need normal sleep anymore, but the bamboo frost was obviously still needed.

"It's okay, I'd like to stay with you a little longer."

Zhu Shuang said as a matter of course, she sat down next to Bai Ge, puffed out her cheeks, and gently blew into the teacup.

“...... Not. ”

Bai Ge straightened up, not knowing how to deal with it for a while.

Obviously, he has more experience as an upgrader, but when facing the bamboo frost, he is still like a young boy.

When he hesitated, Zhu Shuangluo suddenly approached and put his small head on Bai Ge's shoulder.

The dumb hair on Bai Ge's head stood up.