Chapter 66: Silent Night
Lin Yuan fiddled with his newly acquired stargazing telescope in the room. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is a birthday gift from Lin's father to his son on his birthday.
This gift was actually the prize that Lin's father was lucky enough to get during a friend's banquet during the gift lottery, and then borrowed flowers to worship the Buddha and gave it to his son.
"What the hell are you going to do with this thing?"
Lin Yuan took the manual and adjusted the height of the frame on the stargazing telescope and the focal length of the lens, so that the telescope, which was still a little hazy, could see more clearly.
He placed the stargazing telescope by the window of his room and was observing the dark night sky.
In a metropolis with serious light pollution, you can't see the stars at night with the naked eye alone, even if you use a stargazing telescope, you need to choose a suitable location, and the building where Lin Yuan's family lives is not a suitable place for stargazing.
After Lin Yuan finally adjusted the lens to be clearer, he moved the lens of the stargazing telescope and placed it horizontally.
"Ah, you can see a little bit. ”
Lin Yuan is not observing the sky now, but the coastline east of Canglan City.
Canglan City is an offshore city, and sea transportation is quite developed, and several cargo ships can be seen sailing on the sea at night.
"Move around...... There is barely a ...... to see here."
Lin Yuan moved the stargazing telescope and found a gap in the city with high-rise buildings that could be observed above the sea.
On the far northern sea, on the edge of the dark coastline, there is a place that is shining brightly, like a night pearl on the sea.
"The Connecting Door ...... the Two Realms"
Looking at the blurred outline of light and shadow, Lin Yuan muttered.
To the north of Canglan City, on the eastern sea of another city, there are only three of the most important locations in the world.
The two realms are connected, and the only means by which humans can travel to and from the magical world.
Although he couldn't see the appearance of the connecting door between the two realms from this position, Lin Yuan was already quite familiar with the real appearance of the place through various news media.
As the name suggests, the Gate of the Two Worlds is a huge gate connecting the two worlds.
It is a natural phenomenon that distorts the portal of the entire space, connects the spatial passage of the scenery of another world, and makes people scratch their heads.
From the outside, the door connecting the two realms looks like a strange mirror that has been cut apart from space and stuffed into another picture, erected in the world.
The entrance and exit of the gate are about 15 meters high and 20 meters wide, and the appearance is a huge oval, and if you look at it from the side, its thickness is only a few tens of centimeters, as if it is a mirror forcibly embedded in the space, but the shadow reflects other scenes.
The state of the three connecting gates of the two worlds in the world is similar, and they all exist in the world in this way.
After Lin Yuan watched many pictures of the Connecting Door of the Two Realms, he was a little concerned about the outline of the edge of the Connecting Door of the Two Realms, which was like a blurry and distorted mirror that was very similar to his magic portal.
"But it's all things that go back and forth between two worlds, so it's not strange that there are similar places, right?"
The Connecting Gate between the Two Realms is extremely important and the only means of communication between the two worlds, so at the portals of the three different places on Earth, the Wizard Alliance has several strategic-level Magus guarding it twenty-four hours a day to prevent any accidents.
After hundreds of years of development, the location of the connecting gate of the two realms can be described as a super fortress-like defense base, and no monsters will come closer, but what the Magic Alliance needs to be careful about is man-made destruction.
A thousand years ago, there were more than three portals to the wizarding world.
In that era when the wizarding world first appeared, the Connecting Gate between the two realms was still an unstable spatial rift, and there were hundreds of them on the entire earth, providing a convenient shortcut for different countries to explore the wizarding world.
However, this is also the cause of disputes.
There are some large countries that do not have a door connecting the two realms in their country, and after hearing about the growth rate of crops on the other side of the passage, in order to get the passage in and out of the magical world and get more available materials, they launched a war against other small countries with entrances, and the result is also obvious, and the small countries that are powerless to resist can only obey the invaders.
The princes and nobles of some countries who were invaded chose to simply retreat to the magical world, with the army and the people to develop there, seeking the opportunity to make a comeback, which can be said to be one of the reasons why human beings moved to the magical world before the large-scale colonization of the magical world.
But this kind of war for the connecting door between the two realms soon ended again, for no other reason, because the unstable spatial passage naturally collapsed after a period of time.
According to scholars who study the connecting doors of the two worlds, at the time of the contact between the two worlds, the space had not yet fully stabilized, so there were a large number of entrances and exits in the world, and then these entrances and exits were very fragile, and it was not surprising that they would collapse at any time.
It is precisely because of this unstable spatial connection that the two worlds often suddenly appear in the world, and then suddenly collapse and disappear, until a full century later, the spatial connection between the earth and the magical world gradually stabilizes, and the gate no longer collapses casually.
At that time, the earthlings had already begun to learn the power of magic from the races of the wizarding world, and they had really begun a large-scale immigration plan to the wizarding world.
At that time, there were still more than 100 gates connecting the two realms, but there were still occasional gate collapses, and in the world, there were no new gates, and the dispute over the ownership of the connecting doors of the two realms unconsciously happened again.
The many gates connecting the two realms were affected by the war, collapsed under the power of magic, and then in order to get a new entrance, another war recurred, and the gates were destroyed again in the war, becoming an unsolvable cycle of death.
Because they want to obtain the resources of another world, because they have obtained the power of magic, the powerful countries that have expanded their military force have begun to invade the lands of others, and the entire earth has been plunged into strife.
It wasn't until the appearance of the first strategic magician, the great hero Garan Aria, that the chaos on Earth was stopped.
But at that time, due to the impact of the war, there were less than ten connecting gates between the two realms left in the entire world, and the gate connecting the world was not impregnable, and a powerful magic could destroy the gate.
Then there were many changes, and because of the impact of the two world wars, to this day, there are only three connecting gates between the two realms left, in order to prevent these precious world passages from being destroyed, the Magic Alliance has taken extremely strict protection measures.
The exchange of materials between the two worlds is quite frequent, and the flow of people who have to pass through the connecting gate of the two realms every day is extremely large, but the Magic Alliance still did not relax its vigilance, and sent strategic-level magicians to stay at the gate for a long time, and the inspection procedures were also meticulous.
Especially in recent years, the relationship between them and the wizarding world has become worse and worse, and the inspection has become very strict, and the average person wants to enter the wizarding world, and the audit will take several years.
"It's still full of loopholes. ”
Lin Yuan remembered the matter of Narretia, the man who betrayed his companion, under the arrangement of the Vientiane Research Association, obtained the resident status of the Earth Alliance as a cover, and lived a luxurious life on the earth, and no one arrested this stowaway.
After observing the distant sea surface that he couldn't see clearly for a while, Lin Yuan left the stargazing telescope, he looked at the time, and found that it was almost early in the morning.
"It's almost time. ”
Lin Yuan stretched his waist and prepared to enter the dream.
"Well, it's time to visit the friends of the seekers of truth. ”