Chapter 287: Speculation about the Abyss
It's hard to imagine that when the abyss has a blue sky, what Leon saw when he came to the abyss was a little orange-red sky, but when he got up this morning, he looked up and saw an incomparably clear blue sky, as well as dodging white clouds, as if they were playing with each other, constantly changing shapes.
"What's going on?" Leon looked at the blue sky and white clouds with a look of surprise, but Betty didn't show any surprise at this.
"Well~~ Counting the days, it's indeed time for the return of the Endless Sea." Betty counted with her fingers as she ate her breakfast.
"What is the Endless Sea?"
"The sea, it's a big, big sea." Betty drew circles in the air with her hands, trying to represent the concept of bigness.
After asking for a long time, Betty couldn't tell why, only knew that it was a big sea, I don't know how big it was, there were many creatures in it, what they were, I didn't know.
Betty could only shake her head blankly as to why the Endless Sea moved, and even in her opinion, the Endless Sea was supposed to move.
In her opinion, the return and departure of the Endless Sea is not like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, it is a very normal natural phenomenon.
"How often does the Endless Sea return?"
"One hundred years."
"Huh? So you haven't seen the Endless Sea either. ”
"That's right."
No wonder this girl doesn't know anything, she has never seen the endless sea at all.
When he came to the top of the Tower of Babel, Leon finally had a preliminary understanding of the so-called Endless Sea.
Today's weather is very good, you can see far away at a glance, the horizon in the distance is completely occupied by a large slightly raised blue arc, look around, at least half of the area is occupied by this blue arc, this is the endless sea, right?
To go to the second layer of the abyss is not much different from teleporting from Boulder City, pay for a ticket, and then wait for a full wave of people to open the teleportation array, the exact same process, the only difference is that the price is more expensive, two hundred magic crystals per person.
A flash of brilliance flashed, and if he hadn't looked up and saw the huge blue irregular gem that was larger than the first layer of the entire abyss, Leon would have suspected that he was still in place.
"That's what the Endless Sea looks like." Betty muttered.
Leon and Betty are now in the second layer of the abyss, and what they see when they look up is naturally the first layer of the abyss, but it is not directly above them, but as long as they look up slightly, they can see a stone block embedded in the air that is also crescent-shaped, that is the first layer of the abyss, as for the third layer of the abyss, even the fourth and fifth layers, etc., they can't be seen here.
And on the edge of the first layer, there is an irregular blue gem, the size of which is probably hundreds of times the size of the entire first layer, no wonder it is called the endless sea, I am afraid that all the eighteen layers of the abyss combined are not as vast as it.
"How do I get to the third floor?" Leon's ultimate goal was the sixteenth layer, and the target of the golden bounty he received at the Blood Blade Tavern was on the fifteenth layer, so he had no intention of staying at all, but this time the bounty was not limited to ten days, as long as it was completed within three months, there was still plenty of time.
"We have to go to the central city of the second layer, Huoyun City, and only there is a teleportation array to go to the third layer." Betty didn't know where to take out a book, she was looking at it carefully, and when she looked at the cover, it said Abyss Travel Guide, what the hell is this, are we here to travel?
While Leon and Betty were chatting and walking away, in an inconspicuous shadow, a diminutive demon was holding a pen and paper to record something, and a pair of cold triangular eyes were always watching Leon and Betty with their peripheral vision.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a month has passed, and Leon and Betty have also been continuously teleported to the fifteenth layer of the abyss.
What he has seen and heard in the past month has completely refreshed Leon's understanding of the abyss, or his original impression of the abyss has completely collapsed, and then he has re-established a new worldview about the abyss.
Based on the experience of this period of time and everything he saw in the abyss, Leon had a bold guess that the so-called eighteen-layer abyss was likely to be a complete world, a planet like the earth, but much larger.
But I don't know what happened, I don't know when, the planet shattered and became eighteen, no, nineteen fragments, eighteen layers of abyss plus the endless sea.
Nineteen fragments floated in the vast universe like this, but what Li Ang couldn't figure out was why this planet, which had obviously been shattered and disintegrated, had not completely dispersed, and although the eighteen-layer abyss was far away, its relative position would not change.
Moreover, on each fragment there is the rising and setting of the sun in the east, the cycle is still the same, and the shape and position of the other abysses seen in each layer of the abyss never changes, and it is obvious that these fragments are still rotating together as a whole.
What kind of magical force pulls these fragments along? Unknown.
However, there is one piece that is different, and that is the Endless Sea, except that it does not move with the whole, but has its own independent trajectory.
Judging from the information obtained from various sources, it should have an elliptical orbit similar to Halley's Comet, and after circling all the fragments of the abyss, it will move away, wander outside for a hundred years, and then come back again, and so on.
In a month's time, Leon walked through the fifteen layers of the abyss, and these fifteen layers of abysses also have their own characteristics, such as the first layer is mostly grassland or wasteland, and there are only a few small forests.
The second layer is a continuous mountain range, mountain after mountain, high peak and valley, and there is hardly a flat place to find, and most of the cities are either built on top of the mountain, or the mountain is hollowed out and built in the belly of the mountain.
The third layer is a vast snowfield, and there is nothing but snow white as far as the eye can see.
The fourth layer is the desert, where the yellow sand is flying, half of the time is scorching sun, and half of the time is a dust storm that covers the sky.
There are also islands, all dense forests, and so on, some of which are similar, but not the same, and some of which have multiple terrains at the same time.
All this is also one of the reasons for Leon's bold guess, isn't this a patchwork of terrain all on earth?
The fifteenth floor is a fragment of the abyss with multiple terrains, and Leon and Betty are now in Cloudsdale, as its name suggests, is built on top of a towering mountain.
I don't know what the demon who founded this city thought in the first place, how inconvenient it was to build on such a mountain, which was five or six meters high, to say the least.
Moreover, the mountain is surrounded by cliffs close to 90 degrees at 360 degrees, and it is impossible to go up and down at all, and the only way to enter and exit is to use the unique airship here, which is an olive-shaped airbag on the top and a closed cabin below, which can carry two or three hundred people at a time.
"When was the city founded?" Leon looked at the scenery outside the airship and asked Betty casually.
Betty once again turned to her Abyssal Travel Guide, a magical book that not only records the paths and ways to reach various parts of the Abyss, but also the history of most of the Abyss's cities.
Yes, you read that right, it's history! Since the establishment of the city, there have been almost all records of what happened during the period, what powerful people have appeared, and what the situation is now.
In addition, there are places of interest in each layer of the Abyss, but in the abyss's parlance, the Jedi drink the ruins.
The so-called Jedi, as the name suggests, is a place that should never be visited, because it is very, very dangerous, either with a deadly environment or with extremely strong creatures.
Ruins are easier to understand, ancient ruins are, abandoned cities or something, unlike the ruins of the earth, the ruins here often contain large or small opportunities, and almost all of the ruins that have not been developed can find very useful things, or treasures that can improve strength.
According to legend, the ten major magic weapons of the abyss were all found in the ruins, but whether they are true or not, no one can say for sure.
Opportunities often come with crises, and ruins with great benefits naturally have great dangers, so ruins are usually compared to Jedi.
After flipping through the book for a while, Betty finally found the record of this Cloudsdale: "According to legend, the founder of Cloudsdale is named Yunzhongzi, who led his people to establish the city in the tenth year after the cataclysm, and the descendants named the city Cloudsdale in honor of him, which has been more than 6,000 years ago. ”
"Wait a minute? What was the name of the man who founded this city? "It's not that Li Ang didn't hear clearly, but he couldn't believe it, he wouldn't be surprised at all when you said that you wanted to call Nicholas or something, even if you added Zhao Si, but this cloud neutron is a bit wrong with the painting style.
"What's wrong?"
"No, nothing." There seem to be a lot of secrets in this abyss, Li Ang looked out the window with deep eyes: "What is the cataclysm?" ”
This is the first time Leon has heard this term, although he has seen the introduction of other cities before, but perhaps because of the time of the city's founding, he has not mentioned this word, the oldest of other cities is more than 4,000 years, but Cloudsdale has existed for more than 6,000 years.
"I don't know, it's not written in the book."
Finally, there is something that you haven't recorded in this book, but you have all kinds of messes, but the only important thing is not to write, what a broken book! Leon despised the author of the book.
Leon and Betty's destination on this trip is a place called the Sunset Mountains, located in the westernmost part of the fifteenth layer of the Abyss, where the sun sets.
Cloudsdale is the westernmost city that can be teleported to, and airships can take them to Sunset Town, which is also named after Sunset, but is actually a long way from Sunset Mountains.