"Nope! Not at all! Did you say the lord of the city lied to us? ”

Xingtong searched for a long time in a pile of moldy books and still didn't find what they wanted, so he simply threw the books on the ground in anger and leaned back in his chair to sulk. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"There are only a few of the most humble books with 1958 written on them, so it should be a hundred or two hundred years from now, right? What can such a book do! ”

Zhenyan was also unhappy, and several people set their eyes on Longfall.

Dragonfall was still flipping through the books in the library of less than fifty square meters, and the smell of decay was everywhere, and each book was covered with thick dust, and many of them had many small holes.

This library is located in a small corner of the city's giant tower, and no one has used it for I don't know how many years. Most of the books they found were no more than 2,000 years old, which was a very distant past for Dragonfall.

"Okay, I've read all the books here, and there are only these three?"

Dragonfall put the books back in their places one at a time, leaving only the last three on the table—"The Encyclopedia of Firearms", "The Origin of Firearms", and "The Construction of Guns".

After turning a few pages roughly, Zhen Yan said categorically: "But these are useless, putting things from hundreds of years ago in front of us, the city lord must be trying to hide something." ”

"Yes," Drifting said, turning his gaze to Xingtong's body. "Gunpowder bullets have now been completely eliminated. Both their anti-aircraft guns and the guns they held emitted a small beam. Is that a laser gun? ”

"No, that's probably an ion beam or a particle weapon." Xingtong explained. "Moreover, now the blue stars have reached the level of electronic equipment and holographic projection technology, how can the information be recorded with these papers! Eighty percent of the old man is playing tricks on us! If we had such weapons, our combat capability would definitely have increased dramatically! ”

Long Fall was not as radical as Zhen Yan and Xingtong, he just shook his head: "What I did was just to understand the truth of the matter. No matter what they are doing behind their backs, we have only one goal, to save the planet. ”

Doodle!

Dragonfall's mechanical arm let out a warning, and without any permission, the holographic projection of the city lord appeared in front of them.

"Dragonfall Squad, have you found the information you're looking for?"

The city lord's smiling appearance immediately angered Xingtong: "There is nothing good here at all!" You old man......"

Before Xingtong finished speaking, he was blocked from the city lord's sight by the dragonfall: "Is there something wrong?" Lord Castle. ”

"The extremely strong combat power displayed by several of them in the fight against the Golden Dragon yesterday has spread to the hearts of every citizen of our Hanging City, and they are all looking forward to your next performance. So today I'm going to give you an official mission to reach our forward base in Hanging City, where there is a monster that has been causing trouble, and I hope you will be able to defeat it. ”

"When are you leaving?"

"Now, the black is waiting for you at your quarters. The transport plane you flew on yesterday will also be your exclusive equipment, so please cherish it. ”

With that, the city lord once again unilaterally interrupted the communication.

Xingtong still held a grudge against that push, and said dissatisfiedly: "How is it? Do you want to do what he says? Dragonfall Squad Leader? ”

"Well, let's go." Dragonfall placed the three books on the table back on the shelf.

"Hey, keep up with a naïve captain, we will have a hard time in the future." Xingtong said and walked out of the library without looking back.

The frontier base is not located in the urban area of the Hanging City, strictly speaking, the frontier base belongs to the production area of the Hanging City. The lonely city surrounded by iron walls is a true portrayal of the frontier base, and the Hanging City has twenty such production bases.

Only sufficient land can ensure the sufficient food needs of all the citizens of Hanging City, which is a problem that the old city lord has been worried about. However, the size of the empty island was not large enough for large-scale cultivation, and he had to put agricultural production in a dangerous area - the surface.

The Iron Wall is a means of preventing the invasion of monsters. However, even these thirty-centimeter-thick iron plates could not withstand the impact of the giant monster. This is also the reason why the forward base is a forward base, where you will always face all kinds of monsters with divine endowments, and it is a real front line of war.

Dragonfall's transport plane was hacked to autopilot, and it didn't take any action to reach the outermost forward base.

From the air, the forward base was surrounded by verdant vegetation, except for the golden yellow inside the iron wall, and their transport plane landed inside the base without any signs.

Xingtong looked out of the wheelhouse window, whether it was from the Paradise database or yesterday's Hanging City. He had never seen a land with only one plant stretching for kilometers, so he asked, "What do you say such a large area is full of golden plants?" ”

"Is it medicine?" Drifting tried to guess.

"No, it's food." Black explained for them.

"Food?"

"Well, a grain that can only be obtained after a long period of cultivation."

"Ah, I thought the food was made by the machines on the Heaven."

"In a sense, yes."

"Xingtong be careful, there seems to be someone there?"

Drifting pointed to a place on the ground, and when he looked down from the sky, the man looked like a dot. But they could all see that it was a girl who was not much older than Dragonfall and they were shouting in the open space in the middle of the rice field, "This way! This way! Be careful, please don't crush our crops! ”

Xingtong gave up automatic navigation and switched to manual operation, accurately landing to the position designated by the girl. The strong wind made it difficult for the girl to open her eyes, but she still did not take half a step back, guarding their field to the death.

The door of the plane opened, and the girl immediately greeted her and asked, "Is it the Savior Dragonfall Squad?" ”

Dragonfall nodded.

When the girl saw it, she was immediately overjoyed: "Great! You're finally here! My name is Zhong Mengya, and I am the person in charge of this forward base. ”

Zhong Mengya was dressed very plainly, and her entire dress was pure gray. There was almost no decoration on her body, which was really different from the full armament of the True Swallows.

Zhen Yan looked at her slender body and couldn't help but exclaim, "There should be a few square kilometers here, right?" You're alone in charge of such a large area? You don't look much older than we do! ”

"It's all fully mechanized irrigation, and it doesn't require much manpower. Actually, I'm not alone, there is also my father and mother here, and we manage this base together as a family. ”

"Father? Mother? Long Cheng looked at Zhong Mengya suspiciously. What is that? ”

"Nothing." Zhong Mengya smiled awkwardly, "It's just a relationship name." Come with me, and I'll explain everything to you in detail when I get back into the house. ”

Crossing a large rice field, the five Dragonfall followed Zhong Mengya to her cabin. The wooden structure is made up of giant trees with only one low floor, and it has a different style than the concrete structure on the Hanging City.

When I opened the door, there was not much space inside, almost all of it was wooden furniture, not even a little polished, it looked extremely rough, similar to Zhong Mengya's simplicity.

"Dad, Mommy, I'm back!" As soon as she entered the door, she didn't see anyone yet, so Zhong Mengya shouted briskly.

"Are you back? See the Savior? Zhong Mengya's father came out of the room, a stout man, with dark skin, and a total of twice the size of Dragonfall.

"Well, they're all here. What about Mom? ”

"He went to Forward Base 08 to borrow some materials, and it should take some time to come back. Stop being verbose and get down to business. ”

"Oh." Zhong Mengya began to introduce the Dragonfall to her father one by one, and invited them to sit in the hall.

Father took out a paper map, spread it out in front of the others, and asked Dragonfall, "Do you know the purpose of coming here?" ”

"Crusade against monsters."

"That's the ideal scenario, and I don't believe you can do it."

"Daddy! Why do you say it so ugly! Zhong Mengya was anxious, "They have repelled the Golden Dragon!" ”

"That's just luck. I'm just telling the truth and don't give them too much hope. After all, in the face of something like that, if you are not careful, you will die. ”

"We're all quite conscious, so go on." Dragonfall said calmly.

"Good. Our forward base is a grain production area that guarantees the survival of thousands of people in the Hanging City. You should understand that it's not just the Golden Dragon, there are more monsters on the surface of the Earth. One of the boar kings has smashed our walls through the void, and while we've filled the gap, his power does put us in danger of being attacked. ”

Longfall, Xingtong, and Zhenyan looked at each other and smiled: "Boar King? ”

"Yes, King Boar." Zhong Mengya's father did not understand the secrets of these three people, and continued: "He is the lord closest to this area, and he will destroy all objects in the territory that have 'hostile intentions'. ”

"Isn't the lord a golden dragon? What's going on with this boar king? ”

"The Golden Dragon is the Great Lord, and the Boar King is the Minor Lord. There is a hierarchy between them that is determined by power, and the lesser lords will submit to the big lords, and the lesser lords can divide their own territory within the confines of the larger territories. To put it simply, the Golden Dragon is the territory that occupies the territory between here and here, including the Hanging City. ”

Zhong Mengya's father pointed his finger on the map. Above, the Hanging City is just a small dot, and the Golden Dragon's sphere of influence is as large as the range of thousands of Hanging Cities.

"And the Boar King, only here, a swamp twenty kilometers away from us." Father put a little more on the map, and there really was only one point. "Originally, his territory was not involved here, probably because the lord here was defeated, so we built a base here. He'll just take the opportunity to intervene.

At the very least, you have to drive it out of your current territory and thirty kilometers north, and then our forward base will be safe. ”

"What if you kill it?"

"Congratulations, you've won another piece of land for humanity. By the way, there are now seven of the largest lords on Earth, and each extraterrestrial meteorite 'God's Gift' has spawned a super-powerful monster. If you can kill them all, you will be the true saviors. ”

Zhong Mengya's father said, not really expecting much. On the contrary, he seemed to be using these words to scare Dragonfall, the saviors who had just arrived at the Blue Star.

"Now, please go at once."

"Daddy! They've just arrived, are you going to chase them away?! ”

"Don't meddle, you're still young and ignorant."

"Let's let them finish lunch before leaving!" Zhong Mengya was very uncomfortable with her father's ruthlessness, and in her eyes, the saviors of Longfall were at least benefactors who came into contact with their crisis.

"It's okay, we've got supplies on the plane." After Long Cheng finished speaking, he gave Zhenyan a look and got up and walked out of the room.

"Wait!" Zhong Mengya rushed into her room, took out a crystal necklace and ran out, and handed it to Dragonfall. "This is a talisman, please accept it!"

Dragonfall took the necklace and looked at the jewelry in his hand that was connected by twenty crystal crystals, and couldn't help but wonder: "Talisman? ”

"Yes! We have always used crystals as a prop to ward off evil spirits, and this crystal necklace will surely bless you with peace! ”

"Thank you." The dragonfall was directly put on himself and put it in the white robe. "Then let's go."

"Wait a minute." Zhong Mengya's father followed out of the room and sighed deeply. "You only know the scope of the territory, but you don't know the danger inside, let me tell you."

"What, Uncle wasn't a bad guy either." Xingtong said, and several saviors smiled together.

Chapter 10: The Starry Swamp (1)

Under the guidance of Zhong Mengya's father, Dragonfall and their plane flew to the location of the Boar King, which is also the edge of the Starry Swamp. They were advised not to use the transport plane to drive the Boar King away, as it would be easy to summon the Golden Dragon.

Nowadays, human beings are like living in the cracks of monster attacks, and once they use weapons and technologies that are different from the natural world, it is easy for monsters to have a sense of danger. The next step is for monsters to attack the human habitat until the area is completely destroyed.

Except for Hanging City, which relies on natural hazards to survive round after round of monster attacks, almost all ordinary cities built on the ground have been completely destroyed in a few decades.

In the past, human beings were not always under beatings. At the beginning of the fall of the Seven Stars, their weapons were able to destroy one monster after another, which is now claimed to be the strongest.

However, the animals in the city that were not originally mutated occasionally received divine endowments, and just one could tear through a city's defenses. No matter how slaughtered, defended, and closed in a hundred airtights, monsters or group raids, or sneaked in the night, the news of the destruction of one city after another never stopped.

Gradually, they found that the city was declining faster than they could have imagined. The biggest problem is not that human beings lack a place to live, but that they lack the power to produce. The number of human beings has declined dramatically, and there are fewer and fewer people who know how to produce food and resources, and there are fewer and fewer places where they can produce food and resources.