Chapter 147: An Unexpected Discovery
No matter how dense the corpses of the autobots on both sides of the road were, it still looked like piles of scrapped cars after all, and Cheng Shi and the others got used to it after a while, and they no longer felt any horror.
After briefly communicating with Brian about the approximate location of the information network, the bridge determined that it was in a place called Covenes, which was also called Yalong Mountain by the locals due to the abundance of pterosaurs in the area.
Yalong Mountain is located in the northwest of the royal city of Montoio, the highest mountain in the kingdom of Montoio, people call the main peak of this mountain as Dragon Peak, it is said that Dragon Peak can connect those small peaks suspended in the clouds through the waterfall, but no one has ever climbed to the top, and I don't know what is there, but people's beautiful yearning for those small peaks in the clouds has never stopped, and it is described by people as a wonderful and beautiful heavenly world.
The kingdom of Montoio has a long history, and the current king, who claims that their ancestors first came from the heavenly kingdom in the clouds, has been ordered to come down to end the suffering of the world. In order to facilitate the commutation between the ground and the kingdom of God, the first protoss to come to the ground established an information network on the mountain of Yalong Mountain, which is closest to the kingdom of God, and then weaved teleportation points in various places on the ground, and controlled the transfer to and from the kingdom of God through the information network, and the car was their daily means of transportation.
Many years later, the war of the human race gradually subsided, and the life of the god race also settled down, and then the king's ancestors broke the taboo and intermarried with humans and gave birth to offspring, because the blood of these descendants of the god race was impure, and it was found when they returned to the kingdom of God, for which the king's ancestors were severely punished, but he did not give in, but called for all races in the world to unite against the kingdom of God, after hundreds of years of melee between gods and men, the information network on the mountain of Yalong Mountain was destroyed, and the function of transiting the kingdom of God was completely lost, and the world settled down again.
Although Cheng Shi and the others had never met the king of the Montoio Kingdom, they heard these crude myths and stories told by Brian, and they also knew that this was just a lie made up by the ruling class in order to fool the people, so they also listened to the story and learned about the human beings in this world by the way to understand the truth of the universe.
Although the myth and story are rough, there are two details that Cheng Shi still noticed, that is, the main information network is indeed near Yalong Mountain, and the automobile is not a product of the industrial revolution, but has existed since ancient times.
The car continued along the winding and deformed road, and everywhere it went, in addition to the increasing number of car wrecks on both sides of the road, there were some charred towering trees, which fell to the ground horizontally, and some even leaned on the road, because it did not affect the normal driving of the car, so no one cleaned it up.
The further you go, the fewer cars you go with, the more charred the forest becomes, and it's hard to see even the greenery back then, a desolate apocalyptic sight.
"Are we really going to keep going?" Brian had a trilling voice in his voice, turned his head to look at Cheng Shi and asked.
Cheng Shi smiled comfortingly: "Don't worry, we haven't arrived at the destination yet, didn't we buy a resurrection, it is estimated that a few of us may not be able to use it, and we can use it for you when the time comes." ”
"Don't talk if you can't comfort people, who has nothing to do?" Barbara muttered softly in Cheng Shi's ear.
Cheng Shi coughed lightly twice to relieve the embarrassing atmosphere, and then patted the coffee table in front of him: "This is a god car, different from those car people of yours, not only to carry the beating, but also to take us away in an emergency, in short, we are now an airplane and a parachute, double insurance, rest assured." ”
"You are only able to carry the beating, can you comfort people not to talk about Ben, Ben's main responsibility is information communication and material analysis, not your shield." The information bridge immediately resisted the rhetoric of the agenda stone in the spiritual connection.
Cheng Shi smiled dryly and ignored the information bridge, Brian saw Cheng Shi's relaxed face, so he looked around the interior of the car again, but he still
I didn't see anything special about this car, but I thought that before a few people left the city, in addition to buying some food, they didn't buy other important ammunition supplies, so I felt that they still had some special abilities, otherwise they wouldn't be so careless. After thinking about this, he felt a little more at ease.
"We shouldn't be able to get to Yalong Mountain before dark today," Brian said, gesturing ahead, "There's a hunter's town not far ahead, we can go there and rest for the night, but we can only stay in the car, it's not safe outside." ”
"Is there some kind of monster?" Barbara asked curiously.
"There are often some wild wilds and wild beasts here, and sometimes hunters from different city-states will fight for unknown reasons, the situation is very complicated, and it is far from as calm as it seems on the surface." Brian explained with a serious look on his face.
"It's terrifying, so why don't we keep going?" North muttered on Cheng Shi's shoulder.
"Is there anything good to eat in town?" Yang Yang asked with a bag of snacks similar to melon seeds in her hand, she was relieved and didn't take the danger seriously at all.
Cheng Shi thought about it, although there is no fatigue driving in the information bridge, but the group does need to rest, after all, when they come to this other world, they have never seen what the enemy looks like, let alone know what their combat effectiveness is.
"Then we'll rest for the night in the town ahead, and we'll be on our way tomorrow morning." Cheng Shi looked at the center console of the car and said.
Brian nodded, and the group didn't discuss it anymore.
As the sun set, a blood-red sunset quietly appeared on the western horizon, Cheng Shi looked up through the car window, several rounds of bright moons were already clearly visible, and the looming peaks in the clouds were covered with a layer of mystery at this moment. He really wanted to let the information bridge transform into the Kate Eagle spacecraft and fly up to find out, but in the face of such an unstable space, he didn't dare to act rashly until he learned more about the situation.
The car finally arrived at what Brian said was a hunter town before it got completely dark. It's a small town, but it's better to say a Dragon Gate Inn built on ruins.
Cheng Shi saw that there was no water source around the town, no farmland, no decent streets, not even green, some were just scorched earth, seven or eight wooden buildings that looked not very solid stood there, it seemed very abrupt, not far away a breeze blew, rolling up the dust, showing a sense of desolation in the apocalypse, combined with the style of those Gothic buildings, people felt as if they were in a deserted castle complex somewhere in Europe.
The group got out of the car and walked towards a larger building in the middle, led by Brian, with some charred branches under their feet and rattling along the way.
According to Brian, this is a hotel that can provide catering and accommodation, the owner is a kind old man, the service is not bad, but he only provides hotel services, security-related problems need to be solved by the guests themselves, even if he hears someone fighting, he will not come up to help, and when the guests are finished, he will come up to collect the body for the guests, break the broken things, he will use the guests' relics to pay off the debts or let the guests who did not die compensate, but most of them are not finished, mainly he has nothing valuable in this hotel, As long as the house doesn't fall apart, his loss won't be too great.
When the group entered the hotel, the innkeeper greeted him with a smile, probably because the lights were dim at night, at first the boss did not see the appearance of Cheng Shi and his party clearly, and when he approached, the smile on his face suddenly stopped.
"Miss Vina, why are you back again?" The innkeeper asked, staring at Barbara, who was standing next to Cheng Shi.
The wrinkled old face of the innkeeper full of stories was barely amiable if it was greeted with a smile, but when it became serious in this dim light, it looked extremely terrifying.
"You are
Talk to me? Barbara pointed at herself, a little incredulous.
The innkeeper was stunned for a moment: "Yes, why has your voice changed?" Are these all your friends? ”
"Old man, you can see clearly, we just came here." Yang Yang stepped forward and looked at the strange old man and said.
The innkeeper looked at Yang Yang suspiciously, and then smiled: "It turns out that there are people in the world who look so similar, come, a few people please come in, are you staying or eating?" ”
Cheng Shi pondered how much a person who could make a hotel owner who had read countless people recognize how much he should look like, and thought that Barbara and the world were inextricably linked, so he felt that this might be an important clue.
"Eat!" Cheng Shipi replied with a smile.
The innkeeper took the six of them to a square table in the middle of the hall on the first floor and sat down, during which he had been secretly looking at Barbara from time to time, and the others might not have noticed, but Cheng Shi saw it.
After the innkeeper brought the menu, Yang Yang and North began to order, but Cheng Shi gave Barbara a look and asked her to follow him to the innkeeper.
"My name is Cheng Shi, what do you call the boss?" Cheng Shi came to the counter of the hotel and looked at the innkeeper with a smile and asked.
The innkeeper seemed to understand Cheng Shi's intention to come over, and he nodded slightly: "My name is Derian, and I am the boss here." ”
"Can you tell me about the guy named Vina?" Cheng Shi said and glanced at Barbara, "Does it really look like this friend of mine?" ”
Derian turned his head and glanced at Barbara: "It's very similar, I didn't see it clearly just now, she was just a little thinner than your friend, wearing a black jumpsuit, she looked weak, not like a hunter, she said she came through the woods from outside the east gate of the royal city, I don't know why she was able to walk through the woods alive, but I don't think she was lying, when she came to me, I saw that she was pale, maybe she was tired of walking, she said she wanted to live in the hotel, but she didn't have any money on her, but her hands can be discharged, As if by magic, I let her pay for the room with electricity, and she agreed to stay with me for three days, and if it weren't for this friend of yours denying it, I would almost have thought the two of them were the same person. ”
"How do you know her hand will discharge?" Barbara asked, looking surprised.
Cheng Shi looked at Derian and nodded.
"She also came at night, and when she entered the door, she held a lightning ball that would glow, and I speculated that it might be used for lighting in the woods, and it was not a matter of a day or two to walk here from the east gate of the royal city." Derian explained.
"How long has she been gone?" Cheng Shi then asked.
Derian frowned and thought about it: "Probably just after lunch, she said that she was going into the city, I began to think that she knew the direction of entering the city, and when she walked to the main road outside, I followed out, and saw that she was walking in the direction of Yalong Mountain, so I hurriedly called out to her, but she didn't hear my voice, and walked quickly, and disappeared after a while, she was a weak woman who went to Yalong Mountain, even if her hand could be discharged, it was almost death, so when I saw your friend, I thought she had figured it out." , and breathed a sigh of relief in my heart. ”
"I just heard you say that she uses electricity as room bills, doesn't she eat?" Cheng Shi noticed a detail of the conversation just now and asked puzzledly.
Derian shook his head: "She doesn't eat, until she leaves, she never goes out, I went up and knocked on her door several times, she said she was sleeping, she is such a big girl, although she can be my daughter, but it is not convenient for me to go in, and then when she went downstairs and said that she was leaving, I saw that she was in much better condition than when she came, so I didn't ask much." ”
"What? Skipping meals for three days? Barbara and Cheng Shi said in unison.