Revised Edition, Volume 20, Like Paradise, Chapter 14: The Ideal Country of Loneliness in the Distant World (II)
Hongxiang is still recuperating at home, and his spirit seems to be good, but he still can't stop the depressed look on his face. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info I comforted him with two words, "Rest well, it's okay for a while anyway". Unexpectedly, although he was decadent, he was not ignorant of the outside world, and asked me: "Everyone has nothing to do for the time being, but what are you busy with?" β
I hesitated for a moment and smiled, "I'm busy with what great men should be busy with, conquering the final fantasy of humanity." β
Hongxiang asked angrily, "Why didn't you let me participate, but invited that guy instead?" β
I made no secret of it: "There will only be a small number of people participating in this operation, and it is better to belong to the kind of people who will disappear from the world at any time and will not cause trouble to others, and you do not meet this condition." β
"What about you?"
"Haha, now, I'm afraid there are countless people who want me to suddenly disappear from the world. And it's really good for someone else to disappear. It's been more than a year since you disappeared from Selmo, and you guys have been calling well? β
Hongxiang said: "In short, it makes me feel very uncomfortable, I feel that you are hiding a lot of things from me. β
"I don't know the truth yet, but the fewer people who know it, the better. After all these years, you should trust me and if I think you should know that, I will definitely take the initiative to tell you. I sighed softly: "You are the one who is going to the future, and you should not be burdened with things that should be forgotten forever." β
Hongxiang saw that I didn't say anything, so he pouted and said, "Don't say it, forget it, what do you want me to do?" β
"First, lend me your flagship, the Leilondo. That should be the modern class with the best defense in the universe, right? β
Hongxiang said with a smug face: "Take it." The weapon is not as good as Chen Xiangda's current one, but the armor is indeed due to habit, and it has been maintained for many years. β
"Second, you have to get back to work as soon as I leave, and it's best if you can come out now. You must keep control of all the fleets and obey my orders alone. No matter how ridiculous that order may be, as long as it is given by me personally, you must carry it out to the end. β
Hongxiang couldn't help but ask, "Did something happen?" β
"I don't know, but I have a strong feeling that I have to rely on a lot of force to solve the problem."
"Got it, I'll go to work right away. When are you leaving? β
"If you want to renovate a battleship, you have to deal with some chores, so you have to leave it clean, and I have to blame you for everything. It will take about half a month. β
"I'd like to take the ship and see what's going on with you, but it's impossible." Hongxiang smiled and stretched out his hand to me: "Come, let's shake hands with comrades." β
I reached out to shake his hand and said, "What are you doing with these tunings?" β
"It always feels like this is the last big thing you'll ever do, the last big adventure. This time I'm not next to you, I'm worried about you. Hongxiang shook my hand hard: "The dinosaur princess and that guy are very people, you are much weaker than them, I don't know why you have to join in this fun!" But you've made up your mind, so I'll give it my full support. β
Many miscellaneous matters were dealt with for more than half a month before they were gradually resolved, and Hongxiang's Leilondo Modern Class has also been refitted. On 28 February, after announcing the founding decree of the Shogunate to disperse the forces of the Shogunate into the Sixty Kingdoms, I led more than 100 carefully selected officers and soldiers on an adventure that puzzled everyone. Many people maliciously thought that I was a madman, and that I couldn't do anything but kill myself after defeating my last formidable opponent, Overmars. Even Liu Cheng and others, who were traveling with me, did not understand that I had taken the risk on my own despite the sensitive period of the current political turmoil.
Of course, I don't need anyone to understand.
In the middle of the night of 14 March, after more than 10 days of non-stop searching, the Modern-class giant ship Relondo finally found something in the sea 600 kilometers northeast of Ankima, which is very close to the outer boundary of the Arctic storm circle. The crew wrapped the contents retrieved from the probe in a plastic bag and carried them to me. It turned out to be an armor paint plate on a battleship, but it was used purely as a coat of arms, the least sturdy of kindsβbut it had a coat of arms of the Overmars shogunate, with two large Chinese characters on it: "Asahi".
That's right, it's him. I was trembling with excitement, and hurriedly urged: "Bomb everyone up and start work with all your might!" β
At dawn on the 15th, the results of the full detection came out one after another. There was an ice cave in the mountain ahead that was very close to what it is now, and it continued to a very deep place, wide enough for two Hyundai-class ships to sail into side by side, which showed that Hua Song's prediction was correct. It was probably here that Overmars's Asahi hung up the emblem plates on the side of the hull when it drilled into the iceberg. According to the established deployment, Liu Cheng took over the command of the Leilondo at this time, and when he saw that I was tired and had my eyes fighting, he suggested that I go to rest: "It will take a long time, there is no need to suffer." These technical tasks are our business, so you can rest. β
I was tempted to protest that I was originally a technical cadre, but the desire for sleep finally suppressed the pursuit of fame. When he returned to the bedroom listlessly, he met Shizuki at the top of the stairs. She had slept to her heart's content, and was about to see how we were boiling water through the glacier. I casually said a few perfunctory words to her, and was about to turn around to leave, when she suddenly asked, "Why didn't you go to Nagano Island to see her?" Called her before leaving, and she was disappointed. β
I yawned and replied, "Is it okay to answer the heavy responsibilities ahead, the responsibilities are like mountains, and I am afraid of shaking my mind?" β
Jing Wei, who was gradually moving away on the elevator, sighed in a delicate voice: "If you reunite with her, you probably really don't want to make any more adventures and sacrifices, and would rather exchange the destruction of the world for temporary happiness?" It's so romantic, it's so romantic~~~"
The tone was so sour that it gave me goosebumps. I shouted back to her, who I couldn't see anymore, "Bastard, I've read too many women's magazines!" β
To be honest, before this expedition, I didn't have the idea of revisiting the old dream for Jing Wei - although I must be sorry for Chen Qi, but now it can be said that I am messing around day by day, who knows what will happen in the future? However, since I got on the ship, Jing Wei has been deliberately alienating me, and I haven't even eaten together, and it's rare to meet like this again, I really don't know what she thinks in her heart! I went back to my bedroom and slept until the evening. I had a casual meal and went to the main control room. At this time, Liu Cheng also went down to rest, and the leaders on duty were Hua Song and Hong Zhifeng. Hua Song pointed to the holographic map and said, "We are making rapid progress, and we will probably be able to enter the storm circle in the early hours of tomorrow morning." β
"Will it be so soon?" I asked, "If it's so fast, wouldn't Ovimas have been in for a long time?" Why haven't you seen any movement until now? β
"We have added tracks to the hull of the ship, which can be attached to the ice to move forward, much faster than the Asahi ship of Overmars. So he won't be ahead of us for too long. But there's a strange thing: this strange underground channel doesn't seem to have existed since ancient times. Hua Song said: "Shicai traveled all the way, and collected several samples for analysis and testing along the way. According to the results of the assays, the 'river channel' is flanked by a hard stone formation, but it is the most fragile part of the formation, and it was formed very closely, as if it had just been dug up yesterday. β
"No way, you're again." Hong Zhifeng said disapprerovingly: "Dig a large river channel hundreds of meters wide and hundreds of kilometers long under the frozen soil, rocky mountains and ice under the storm layer? No one can do it, and no machine can. You're not going to say that Overmars' Asahi did it, are you? β
"If the Asahi could, we could, but apparently that was impossible." Hua Song said with a solemn face: "But the location of this 'river' happens to be the most fragile place in the geological structure, and it is difficult for people to believe that it is not caused by man......"
I had already begun to wander at this time, and Hua Song didn't listen to the rest of the words anymore. The answer he couldn't understand was already in my heart - it must have been made by the Deep Sea Sacred Beast, and Yoko finally went in. Overmars, on the other hand, was nothing more than thawing the frozen river of ice that she had passed through and poured into the sea, as we do now. However, counting from the fingers, it has been three months since Yoko entered the Great Hollow, and Ovimars has also been in the Great Hollow for more than half a month, but there has been no movement, what did they encounter? My heart suddenly felt a chill.
At 7 a.m. on March 16, the Leilondo reached the end of the glacier journey, breaking through the ice and crawling onto a huge ice field. Unexpectedly, the temperature here is not as terrible as imagined, only about minus 20 degrees, for me who has lived in northern China for a while, I can even swagger out of the cabin just by wearing a cotton coat. Liu Cheng did not dare to slack off, while sending several teams to urgently build fire fortifications around him, while further measuring various environmental parameters. After more than an hour, Hong Zhifeng took the lead and led a small team of expedition soldiers to explore far away.
Hong Zhifeng didn't go far before he turned back, and Liu Cheng and I, who were watching at the door, said, "You'd better come and take a look in person." β
We followed him in disbelief, and when we had walked about 500 meters, there was an endless cliff covered with snow and ice in front of us, with a drop of at least 500 meters from the ground below. In the distance of the ice and snow plain below, surrounded on three sides by cliffs, there seems to be a gap leading to the distance. In the distance, it was covered in white wind and snow, and it was completely impossible to see.
Hong Zhifeng pointed to the gap and said, "There is a very ominous feeling there, it should be in that direction." Out of an abundance of caution, I have sent people to search both sides, but it seems that there is no way to go down. β
I proposed, "Go with the Thunderlondo?" β
"Better not, that's our only means of escape and the last bulwark. As a last resort, it's best not to use it lightly. Liu Cheng shook his head and said, "There are jet back clips, but I didn't take this situation into account, we didn't prepare too much, and the number of our expedition team should not be too large." β
"There's no need to bring too many people, this place makes me feel uneasy." Hong Zhifeng looked around, frowned, and said, "Pick the most capable personnel, otherwise the damage will be too heavy when encountering danger, which will be detrimental to morale." β
After a while, the expedition team members made a decision. I, Hong Zhifeng, Jing Wei and Liu Cheng each took four team members to form four teams of five people, and slowly walked forward in a long snake formation. All the expedition members were dressed in pressure-resistant spacesuits, which did not hinder their physical functions at all in the low temperature of -20 degrees Celsius, but the heavy spacesuits and thick snow had a great impact on the speed of the march, and we walked for a full four hours to reach the ice and snow plains below the cliff to the breach. It was when people were sleepy and wanted to sit down and eat something to replenish their strength, but Liu Cheng pointed to the snow at the gap and shouted, "There is something there, it's a metal object!" β
One of the expedition members stepped forward to inspect it and exclaimed, "There's a hand here, it's a human hand!" β
Hong Zhifeng stopped the other people's intention to go over and check, and asked loudly, "What is it?" Dig it out and take a look! β
"The snow here is very loose, there is no thawing, I will just pull it out and see it!" After the team member replied loudly, he used all his strength to pull the "human hand", but there was no body underneath, and he sat down on the snow. Hong Zhifeng and the others immediately rushed up to check, and soon someone shouted:
"What is this? It's a knife! β
"Very beautiful knife, it looks sharp, and it has words engraved!"
"This is an ancient Chinese character, right? Who knows? β
I squeezed into the inner layer amid the chirping of everyone and saw the switchblade that Hong Zhifeng was holding in his hand. I had seen this knife a few months ago. After reaching out to take it and making sure I was there, my gaze shifted to the stump that was holding the knife. The lifeless hand took on the color of dead ash, as if to reveal what had befallen its owner and what was about to happen to us?
I closed my eyes and said, "This is the word 'Seven Nights.'" β
Liu Cheng came out from behind me and said in the Celestial Language, "What else? You obviously know better. At this point, you should have a lot to say. β
I changed the Celestial Dialect and said, "This knife has been in Nebuchu for hundreds of years, and its closest owner is Yoko, Yoko Mido. β
Liu Cheng and Hong Zhifeng didn't know Yoko, but Jing Wei had already screamed "ah", and her face turned pale. I let out a long sigh and said, "Maybe this is her last relic of her." I don't know the details yet, but I'll know if we go a little further. β
After advancing more than two hundred meters, some mutilated corpses and weapons of the Ferians appeared in the snow and ice. As we were observing, suddenly something faintly moving appeared in the wind and snow in the distance.
Hong Zhifeng suddenly shouted: "It's not good, it's coming to us, everyone is ready to fight!" β
As he spoke, a group of white monsters approached us in the whirlwind. After a few hours of marching in the snow, most of them were exhausted and alert had dropped considerably. Standing at the front, Jing Wei's team pounced on the monsters in an instant, until the monsters pounced on the head of the rainbow to Feng's team, Jing Wei rose from under the monster's feet and slashed down three monsters in a row, but the other members of her team had been torn to pieces in an instant. I never expected the monster to come so quickly, so violently, I panicked, I was thrown to the ground by a monster, and my left arm was in sharp pain, as if the spacesuit had been torn and my arm was injured. Fortunately, Hong Zhifeng moved very fast, and he flew up and slashed down the two monsters that attacked me, saving me from danger.
After Hong Zhifeng and Jing Wei reacted, the tide of the battle quickly turned around. They quickly slay the rest of the monsters, but the ground in the distance shook again, and this time there were many more! I looked around and saw that there were only four or five members of the expedition who could still stand, and I couldn't help but be shocked - these were all veterans of a hundred battles, each of them was the best of the best, and several of them had even fought in the ice and snow of the Gakelay Plateau, but they were so vulnerable to the monsters!
The second wave of monster blasts is here again. The monster that came this time was different from the last time, and as soon as it got closer, it caused everyone to exclaim:
"Why did the dragon monster of the main star come here!"
Indeed, the monster characteristics of the second wave are very obvious. In terms of appearance, except for the difference in the snow-white body, there is almost no difference from the saliva lobster chicken in the dragon family project made by SD! As far away as they go, they begin to spew filthy venom, which not only does not freeze at temperatures of more than minus 20 degrees Celsius, but also burns holes in the spacesuit. Immediately, two members of the team were burned by the venom and fell to the ground, seeing that they were hopeless. Jing Wei and Hong Zhifeng didn't expect this kind of monster to come, and they didn't rush forward to slash and kill after they launched their venom, but it was too late. The venom that flew from the sky quickly burned the other team members into black coal. Although Hong Zhifeng and Jing Wei quickly eliminated them, after these two waves of offensives, the rest of the expedition fell, leaving only Hong Zhifeng, Jing Wei, me, and Liu Cheng.
After the shock, I said to Liu Cheng, "I really didn't expect you to survive." β
Hong Zhifeng shook his head and walked over and said, "Don't underestimate him, that guy is the only black mage in the illusion world, and none of the twenty-seven ancestors in the spirit world are his opponents." It's just that they have been under the guise of scientists on weekdays, and there are ways to defend against these attacks. β
Listening to Hong Zhifeng's words, some anger accumulated in my heart slightly, and I asked Liu Cheng: "Then why didn't you protect other people just now?" β
Liu Cheng shook his head and said, "If you can keep it for a while, you can't save it for a lifetime." Dark mages are not good at protecting others, and my magic is only used when it is needed most. β
I glared and said, "When is it most needed?" β
Liu Cheng replied leisurely: "I naturally understand. β
"Don't fight, it's not good to be a teacher." Jing Wei slowly walked back: "What the hell is going on with these monsters?" Why are the monsters of the three stars and the main star here? β
"I'm afraid it's the monsters here that appear in the three stars and the main star. The order of order is difficult to determine, but there must be a correlation between them. Liu Cheng smiled slightly: "It's getting more and more interesting, don't worry, at least the four of us are still alive, we should be able to see the answer." β
At this moment, a burst of laughter suddenly came from heaven and earth. When the four of us looked at each other, we heard a rich baritro voice say in pure Chinese: "Four strong men, welcome to the final destination of the contemptible people, 'the ideal land of loneliness in the distant world'." β
Hong Zhifeng shouted: "Who are you?" You sent that monster just now? β
The owner of the voice said in a very soft tone, "You can call me 'Huilongjun'. There have been no guests for many years, but recently there have been a lot of mortal things. Today, I am very happy to meet four heroes who can still maintain themselves in my ideal hometown. As for those little monsters, they are just insignificant puppets, because the despicable people don't want to be with mediocre people anymore, so they have to use these puppets to send your useless companions back. β
Jing Wei shouted angrily: "Who are you? Dead perverts, killed our companions and pretended to be there, and there was a kind of standing up with real knives and real guns! β
The voice suddenly seemed unhappy: "I haven't been in contact with an opponent worthy of me talking to for many years, but you are so rude, little girl. I wanted to talk to you here, but now I don't want to, so you can come to me slowly, don't let the dragons on the road eat it~"
When the sound was gone, I noticed goosebumps on my neck. Liu Cheng also shrugged his shoulders with a wry smile and said, "It's really perverted." β
Jing Wei turned around and shouted, "What the hell is going on? You all seem to know a lot, but you just don't say it! β
I spread my hands and said, "Actually, we don't know much, it's all up to that Hui Longjun to confess himself, but you talk nonsense, but people refuse to explain." β
"Okay, okay, I'll summarize. General, it seems that you already know a lot, please verify it and see if I am right. Liu Cheng stopped the possible exchange of fire between me and Jing Wei, and said calmly: "Humans have been to Nebuchu a long time ago, and that knife engraved with the word 'Seven Nights' is enough to prove it, right?" β
"Not bad."
Liu Cheng said again: "The 'Hui Longjun' just now speaks Chinese with a straight and round tone, and the accent is close to the dialect of the Beidu region before the Great Era, right?" β
I smiled wryly, "I don't have much research on this. β
"Yes." Jing Wei replied: "The common Chinese template in the Wuji army is the Beidu dialect before the Great Era, which is almost exactly the same as what Hui Longjun spoke, but it is quite different from the Beidu dialect after the Great Era. β
"Then his identity is obviously very strange. In addition, he calls it 'the ideal land of distant isolation', which means that the Great Arctic Hollow and the Storm Circle are likely to have been created by him. If that's the case, that guy's power will be unimaginably strong. Overmars is here in pursuit of strength and power, isn't he? β
"I suspect the Elder is here too, or rather, the Elder is here with Overmars." I finally spoke my inner thoughts: "It is said that the Feria royal family has always had nightmares against humanity, and I suspect that it is also related to that Huilong-kun. But what he thinks, I don't understand yet. β
Liu Cheng asked again: "In other words, human beings should be aggressors rather than counterattackers for Nebuchu, right?" Also, a lot of the monsters that came just now look like the SD Dragon Project, that guy should have something to do with SD? β
"Can't answer you." I shook my head and said, "I can't answer you until I get an accurate answer." β
"Okay, we generally understand the situation, let's go quickly." Hong Zhifeng clapped his hands: "It feels dangerous to stay here for a minute longer, so hurry back to Longjun as soon as possible." (To be continued.) )