Chapter 80: Finding the World's Frontier
"Well, I feel like I'm almost numb to this kind of thing." Looking at the rapidly decomposing corpse of the mosaic monster, Everam stretched out his trembling hand and pushed his glasses, pretending to be calm.
"It's a good progress, and I'm sure we'll have more monsters like this if we keep the chase going. You're not going to back down at this point, are you? Su Qin asked casually.
The heavy black blood demon armor slowly withdrew into his body, which made him have a very tired look on his face. The continuous battle for more than ten hours continued to drain his physical strength, and after unleashing that astonishing slash, he felt that even the soul resonance between himself and the magic sword had become weak. However, the news that the Northern Association was trying to open the gates of hell did not care about resting.
The shadow of the transport plane is now completely invisible. The simulated creatures that manifest through the power of the magic sword are not on-call taxis, these seemingly living creatures, their cores are all constructed by Henig using soul power, so it will take a period of time to repair themselves after being destroyed by external forces. Counting this time, when the eight-legged horses are summoned again, God knows where the people of the Northern Association have gone. The only way now is to find their destination in advance in order to get there before those people succeed in opening the gates of hell.
"Are there any records related to the world's borders in those remaining materials?"
"We arrived in time, and they didn't even have time to completely destroy even the most critical part of the information."
Upon returning to the Eagle's Nest, Everam brought Su Qin into the Northern Society's collection room. There are all kinds of precious ancient artifacts everywhere, and even the walls are hung with many murals and stone carvings from all over the world. This is obviously Na. The Germans deliberately collected during the war, including not only the whole cut frescoes of the pharaohs, the Dunhuang murals, but also the fossils of trilobites with hundreds of millions of years of history.
Many members of the Northern Society had all sorts of items openly on their desks, and they simply didn't have time to pack up these priceless items when they evacuated in a hurry.
"Fortunately, they didn't have time to destroy these artifacts, otherwise it would be a loss for the entire human civilization." Picking up a Viking-style horn helmet from a nearby desk, Su Qin said with emotion.
Hearing his words, Efram shrugged his shoulders noncommittally. He pointed to a stone tablet next to his desk that had been deliberately broken, and said in a slightly flukely tone.
"In fact, they have already caused quite a bit of damage. Fortunately, God willing, the part we need most is not completely destroyed. Take a look at the broken steles, and if I'm not mistaken, the book's obscure world frontier seems to be on an island off the coast of Scotland. ”
Although the inscription was engraved in a dying language, Efram used his vast knowledge to translate it.
"Is there a thought record on the map?" After listening to his translation, Su Qin pulled a world map from the side. After some investigation, it was discovered that there were no islands off the coast of Scotland that matched Everram's description.
"No, I've looked for it before. The island is not marked on the map. Judging by the remaining intact inscriptions, it is believed to be a very, very small island, and it is located so far away from the shipping route that most ships will not pass through it. Efram said distressedly.
"So?"
"Maybe we can hire a boat and search the ...... along the coast," Efram said quietly, apparently realizing that this was too inefficient.
"It's too slow." Su Qin waved his hand and rejected the other party's unreliable plan, but found that he couldn't think of a better way for a while.
"Let me think, let me think... The immense pressure makes Everam impatient to walk around, and saving the world is not as simple as it is in the novels or movies. More often than not, the audience only sees the glory that the protagonist achieves after success, but often ignores the heavy burden they have carried before. Just like the deepest darkness before dawn, Su Qin and the others still have a long way to go before the glorious end of the day called victory.
"There it is!" Everam jerked his head up as if he had thought of something, and he scrambled to push away the overturned desk, rummaging through the clutter. "I remember it around here."
"What are you looking for?"
"In the past, when the association was not in a state of madness. Most of our researchers focus on this area, and I remember one researcher having a crystal pendant in his hand that he could use to find something. It is a mysterious object obtained illegally from England, and legend has it that it houses a fairy named Molphy. With the help of this item, I may be able to use astrology and radiation detection to find out the location of islands on the map. Lifting open a drawer that was buckled upside down on the floor, Everram carefully picked up a lilac crystal pendant.
"The materials are a lot worse, so I have no choice but to make do with what I have at hand." When it came to his area of expertise, Efram suddenly became calm and composed. He kept looking for their strange bits and pieces among the ruins, and Su Qin, who was watching from the sidelines, found that he couldn't intervene at all. When he finished his preparations, Efram placed the map in a ring of rubble and wood chips.
With all that done, he lifted his chain and volleyed the prismatic crystal pendant over the map. After a long time, the pendant did not move. Fine sweat continued to spill from Efram's forehead, and the hand holding the pendant was even more pale because of the exertion.
"Please, if you find that island, I promise to return your property to its rightful owner and return it to the descendants of the Dassel family."
Perhaps because of hearing this, the lilac crystal pendant shimmered slightly and began to shake slowly. Su Qin subconsciously looked at it with his spiritual vision, but found that a vague figure with thin wings quietly appeared in the pendant. After a few counterclockwise rotations, the tip of the pendant seems to be pinched, and it suddenly stops in an inconspicuous corner of the map.
"Finally found it!" Putting away the pendant, which had lost its light, Everam let out a sigh of relief. It's not certain whether it's the so-called world frontier or not, but there's no time to think about more possibilities.
The only way to gamble is on this only possibility.
"The question now is how to get past." Silently converting the scale of the map to the actual path, Su Qin found that if he relied on his own strength, he could not directly cross this distance. Even if he could reconstruct the eight-legged horse with black blood now, he couldn't guarantee that it would last that long.
"I have a way." Rhedia appeared in the doorway panting, apparently having come all the way from a distance.
"We haven't been able to completely destroy the alchemical sequence in Berlin, and now most of Germany has become a living disaster land. Even the Allies didn't dare to go deep into this land, so you wouldn't suggest that we take a train or a plane there, would you? Efram said helplessly.
"There are prototypes of new fighter jets underneath the base."
"What? Are you kidding? How is it possible to store the most advanced fighters of the Reich in such a place. ”
"Go over and see for yourself, the underground part of this base is more exaggerated than you think."
Passing through a long tunnel, the unstable power supply causes the lights along the way to flicker on and off. Soon, the three of them came to a secret hangar located underground. Although the monster had dug a large hole in the roof of the hangar, and the collapsed rocks damaged the already scarce number of planes in the hangar, a complete plane covered with a tarp had survived in the corner.
"That's what I'm talking about."
Lydia pulled the tarpaulin away, revealing a strange-looking plane. There is not even a propeller to be found on it to provide power. Unlike other famous aircraft from World War II, this one resembles a boomerang, with two jet engines powered on one left and one on the right in an extremely rare flying wing structure.
At first glance, this aircraft is very similar to the B-2 stealth strategic bomber developed by the United States in the later era. However, if chronologically, it should be B-2 like it.
Inside the cockpit, Rhodia retrieved a bound document from under her seat. It recorded a lot of information written for test pilots, all of which were related to the aircraft.
"The Ho-229M, the third prototype completed by the Northern Society after using alchemy to strengthen the material. It also looks like the only fighter plane that can fly here at the moment. ”
"I didn't know that the association also had research in this area." Hearing this, Efram said with half surprise and half admiration. Then, he frowned and thought of a key question.
"But who's going to drive it? Tell me up front, I can't even skydive. ”
"I learned about it at the association's early school, and even though it's a new plane, there's no one else to choose it for." Redia said helplessly, indeed, in this case, they have no extra effort to find a test pilot who can fly this kind of aircraft.
"This plane is crammed into two people at most, Efram, you stay."
"But..."
"You've done enough for your mistakes, don't worry, we'll find a way to solve the next problems." Patting the cold and hard wings, Su Qin said solemnly.
...... was silent for a moment, and Everam sighed
"Good luck to you."