In the deep and quiet darkness, there was an occasional cold gust of wind that blew the ferns on the cliffs.

It was a cold, barren world, with no other source of light except for the rocks scattered on the cliffs on either side, emitting a faint green glow. These stones are called "Gloomy Stones" and are substances unique to the bottomless abyss. According to scientists' research, they can slowly absorb psionic sand in the air, emitting a dim glow.

After the cold wind passed, the area fell into a deathly silence again. I don't know how long it took, and suddenly there was a "snap" from above...... Click......"

If you look up at this moment, you can see two eyeballs that flicker on and off, emitting a crimson glow. It is a juvenile abyssal monitor lizard, a behemoth about 15 meters long and weighing about 2.5 tons. At this point, it is looking for food. Abyssal monitor lizards are omnivorous animals that eat both plants that grow on cliffs and eat meat.

However, it has not tasted flesh for many days, and it will not be able to evolve to youth if it eats ferns alone. So, it ventured into the area to hunt for food, or to become food.

Hours later, the abyssal monitor lizard, which had been crawling downward, rounded a raised boulder and suddenly stopped, alertly raising its massive triangular head. In an instant, a white spot of light appeared in its red retina. That's exactly where it was foraging this time, a human stronghold built on a vertical cliff across the abyss, the Fortress of Dawn.

Of course, all creatures in the abyss have a certain level of intelligence, and this abyssal monitor lizard is no exception, and its target is not a fortress, where it will only be an ingredient for cooking, not a predator.

Its real target is the intricate passages around the fortress, which lurk in some dark corner. With any luck, it can swallow a few Scouts and quickly leave.

At the same time as the Abyssal Monitor Lizard crawled downward, on the approach bridge across the cliffs on both sides of the Dawn Fortress, a simple-shaped, suspended plane gate was emitting a blue faint light. If you look closely, the olive-shaped door is flowing with a liquid fluorescence, rippling blue waves and ripples.

At this moment, not far from the gate of the plane, two small nobles of Silver City wearing second-generation psionic power armor were standing together, talking in a low voice.

"It's just a ground person, is it necessary to come so early? Is it necessary to be so serious? One of them complained to the other.

"Don't talk nonsense, this ground man has been favored by the three major faiths at the same time, and it is not something we can offend." The little nobleman said. His name was Billy, and he was a fourth-order psyker, and the companion he had complained to him about was called Udis, who was also a psionic, and was of the same rank as him.

"He's not a nobleman, so why should we be noble when we meet?" Yudith continued to grumble.

"Have you forgotten? Her Royal Highness the Princess has already canonized him as a guardian knight at the commendation ceremony, according to our tradition, the Grand Duke of Gold, his first heir to the throne will extend the title of Marquis, and the heir's guardian knight will extend the title of earl, he is already a nobleman of Silver City, we should call him Lord Earl. Billy said.

"It's just an honorary title of nobility, and it's not officially recognized by the World Parliament." Yudith said disdainfully.

"Even if it's an honorary earl, we can't afford to slack off, didn't General Brian emphasize it repeatedly before we came?" Billy said.

"Well," said Yudis, ...... sighed, "it seems that our leader was frightened by the princess, and I really don't understand, Reinhardt is also a great nobleman, and there is no need to make such a concession." ”

"We don't know what the deal is between the big guys, so don't think too much about it, just do your part." Billy persuaded.

"Cut ......," Yudith said unhappily, "what purpose can they have?" Isn't the introduction of this so-called Knights of the Wilderness just to set an example for those civilian cadets to actively participate in dimensional exploration? That man was just lucky, not of noble character, and I heard that ......" Yudith deliberately lowered his voice and said, "The previous Commander Alan Rudolph and Commander Macro were both killed by him, and their ultimate purpose was to occupy their legions, but during the war, it was impossible to collect evidence, if ......"

"Don't talk about it, they're coming." Just then, Billy suddenly interrupted the former and reminded.

Suddenly, I saw that there was a substantial fluorescence surging in the gate of the plane, as if a stone suddenly fell into the calm surface of the lake, stirring up a circle of water waves that spread outward.

The next moment, dozens of material trucks and armored personnel carriers rushed out of the rippling void and drove to the bottom of the bridge, and the roar of an engine suddenly sounded on the originally quiet approach bridge.

After the convoy appeared, the two little nobles put away the casualness on their faces and their expressions became serious. They stared intently at the gate, and after a few more minutes, a jeep followed the convoy and drove out of the gate.

The two little nobles glanced at each other and immediately stepped forward and waved vigorously. The jeep stopped, and there were two people sitting in the car, a very white-skinned male driver and a young man in a tarp military uniform.

"Good evening, Lord Wilderness Knight." The two little nobles greeted in unison. Iron Slag nodded, in response to the other party's greeting.

"I'm Billy, I'm Yudis, and we're here to meet you on the orders of Major General Brian Reinhardt." Billy said respectfully.

"Well, you've worked hard." Iron Slag said, then waved his hand and motioned for the two to get into the car. Before coming here, You Ge told him that she and the Reinhardt family had reconciled, and that Brian was now an ally, so he was relieved to accept the other party's hospitality. Although Iron Slag didn't understand why they were enemies one moment and became friends the next, he believed You Ge and knew that she would definitely not harm him.

Facing his motion, the two little nobles did not immediately get into the car, but advised him to get out of the car first and stand on the bridge to watch the panoramic view of the entire Dawn Fortress.

At their suggestion, Tie Slag and Bai Xiaoyun got out of the car. Standing on the side of the bridge and looking around, I saw that the cliffs on both sides were brightly lit, and the buildings made of steel and glass were embedded in the vertical stone walls.

Billy then explains that the fortresses of the Abyss are generally built in narrow positions on the cliffs on both sides, so as to facilitate the construction of bridges and expand the area of control. However, Dawn Fortress is a little different, because the exit of the rift in time and space is here, even if the cliffs on both sides are a little far away, but it is still built here. This is the human stronghold established by the Silver City World / through hundreds of years of hard work, condensing the blood and sweat of several generations.

The Dawn Fortress, also known as the "Light of the Abyss", is the original and largest stronghold of humanity in the bottomless abyss. It's so big that it's a small city. The pioneers dug hundreds of meters into the cliffs on either side until they reached the rocky layers.

The stone wall of the bottomless abyss is roughly divided into four areas according to the different hardness, namely the hard stone area, the hard stone area, the soft stone area, and the earth and stone area. The hard stone area, also known as the "boundary stone area", is so hard that it cannot be excavated with the current technology of human beings. The hard stone area can be blasted with explosives, although it is very difficult to excavate, but it can be used as a permanent base, and the soft stone area is relatively easy to excavate, generally used as a passage or temporary base, as for the earth and rock area, also known as the "collapse area", in which there will be certain dangers, generally only used as a temporary passage.

With that, Billy looked at the plane gate and continued. The Dawn Fortress is bounded by this bridge and is divided into east and west sides, and the two sides are divided into three areas, namely the East Upper Layer, the East Middle Layer, the East Lower Layer, and the West Upper Layer, the West Middle Layer, and the West Lower Layer.

Since the Abyss is an endless space, it is possible for a fortress to fall stones or objects that spill from other lower planes. Most of these falling objects will burn to ashes as they fall at high speeds, and a small part of them can hit the top of a bridge or fortress, making the overhead platforms of bridges and upper decks the most dangerous. The impact of these objects falling at high speed is extremely terrifying. Although there are several layers of buffer nets above the fortress, the probability of falling objects penetrating the mesh is extremely low, but absolute safety is still not guaranteed. Billy advises that if it is not necessary, try not to stay on the overhead platform of the bridge and the upper area for too long.

After a brief introduction, the four of them returned to the jeep and, under Billy's guidance, went all the way down the approach bridge. After a while, the jeep pulled into the road connecting the approach bridge and headed for the eastern middle area of the fortress.

It is a spiral-shaped tunnel road, half built in the middle of the cliff and half exposed outside the cliff. The lights along the road are bright, the traffic is endless, and it seems very prosperous.

A few minutes later, the jeep pulled out of the spiral road, passed a section of the lead road, and entered a very wide tunnel. As far as the eye can see, the tunnel is lined with shops on both sides, and the sidewalks are bustling with people.

"This is Shanggrati Street, the most prosperous part of the Dawn Fortress...... Billy said with gusto, "and it is said that the street is named after a female writer named Shanggrati, who, according to legend, had long, pale blonde hair soaked in milk, and eyes that sparkled like rubies; For some unknown and mysterious reason, Shangrati ended her young and short life somewhere here, with one of her small handkerchiefs and a small stick; Later, in honor of this peerless female writer, the street was named after her. ”

"I admit that this is a sad story, but why don't I feel sad, but I feel some inexplicable happiness." After listening to Billy, Bai Xiaoyun couldn't help but ask.

"Maybe it's because the way she killed herself was so weird...... "Billy said, gesturing, "with a little handkerchief and a little stick, it's unimaginable......"