Chapter 11 Choices Next
Sufficient and powerful medicines, Helen's superb surgical skills, and strong physical recovery ability made Su's heavy injuries basically heal after seven days. (Read the full-text novel as much as possible on the Pick-up K Literature Network)\()The update is super fast/Although the combat power has not yet reached 100, Sue, who does not want to wait any longer, still follows Peperos to the territory of Lanaxis.
The convoy of three SUVs left Dragon City early in the morning and sped south along the coastline until dusk, when the convoy finally stopped in front of a pier by the sea.
Standing on the long trestle, a strong and violent sea breeze blew in his face, blowing Su's fine light blonde hair. Beneath his feet was the roaring sea, which would sometimes raise waves several meters high, slapping heavily on the breakwater, and the splashes could sometimes soar over dozens of meters, splashing Sue's cheeks. The sea is bitter, salty, and has a prickly burning sensation, which is a sign of intense radiation.
In this era, the deep sea has long been synonymous with incomparably dangerous, and the radiation that is several times stronger than the land alone is enough to discourage ordinary people. Moreover, dozens of huge and ferocious mutant beasts have been detected in the shallow sea, and there are countless mutant fish that are small in size but even more deadly. And the distant deep sea is almost still a forbidden area for human beings. Someone may have explored the endless depths of the sea, but the relevant records were not within Su's purview.
You don't have to really go deep into the sea, just standing on the seaside, Su has been shocked by the coercion hidden in the vast waves.
There is a small speedboat more than ten meters long tied to the pier, although there is a small circle of breakwater protection, but the aftermath of the huge waves surging outside the embankment still makes the speedboat continue to do more than ten meters up and down, it seems that it may break the cable at any time, be swept into the deep sea by the waves, and seem to be torn into a pile of metal by a row of waves at any time. However, although the speedboat was thrilling, it never capsized.
The speedboat had already started, and there were two big men standing on it, with a height of more than two meters, knotted muscles and a shiny bald head, all of which made Su involuntarily think of Gehrer. However, their dark brown skin and the rusty steel chains around their waists and arms were different from those of Geller. Sue noticed that a section of the steel chain had passed through the leg bones of the two giants and was locked onto the side of the speedboat. It seems that these two giants should have been locked to the speedboat at all times, at the mercy of the wind and waves.
Peperos jumped to his feet, jumped into the speedboat first, and then beckoned to Sue. Su did not hesitate and jumped into the speedboat, but the speedboat shook violently, almost causing Su, who had never been on a boat a few times and had never been out to sea, to fall!
The two giants expertly untied the cables, pushed the engines to the fullest, and drove the speedboat towards the vast deep sea in the midst of strong winds and waves.
By the time we went out to sea, night had completely fallen. The high-powered searchlight in front of the speedboat looked so dim in the dark sea. The speedboat travels through the waves, sometimes being swept over the crest of the waves, sometimes falling into the trough, and it seems that it may sink at any moment. Not long after going to sea, a big wave swept over the speedboat and wet all the people on the speedboat, and the sea breeze blew in the hunting, even with Su's physique, he felt the cold and piercing, and he couldn't help but shiver. Despite the darkness, the ultra-tactile sensation was still sùsu, and Peperos' elastic body was trembling slightly but rapidly, generating heat against radiation and cold. Only two giants were casual, and they didn't seem to know what cold was at all.
The wind and waves are strong, and the powerful engine still pushes the speedboat through the waves. After about 20 minutes, a faint light gradually appeared in the darkness ahead, and in the blink of an eye, it had become a brilliant light! The outline of a steep island gradually emerges from the darkness, and the most eye-catching thing on it is a majestic castle, and countless lights shine through the windows above and below the castle, faintly glimpsing the magnificence and magnificence of the architectural complex.
The speedboat docked at the pier, and although Su's estimate of the terrain was somewhat wrong at sea, it was still possible to judge that it was an island of about a dozen square kilometers, about 30 kilometers from the coast. Two kilometers of breakwaters protect the wharf, and there are no lighthouses on the breakwaters, except for low light poles every 100 meters or so, emitting a faint red light. The faint light is difficult to illuminate even a range of more than three meters, and does not play any role in illumination. No matter how good the eyesight is, ordinary people can only see a few points of red light like fire at this time, and unless they have a number of visual enhancement abilities, they can't sail at night at all.
The sea surface in the harbor was surprisingly calm, in stark contrast to the fierce wind and waves on the sea, and Su vaguely felt an invisible force field suppressing the waves.
The giant man expertly moored the speedboat, and Peperos led Sue up the trestle and through the docks, up a winding mountain road that led to the castle at the highest point of the island. There is also a wide road in the dock area, but there are many long detours, and it is a special road for vehicles transporting large goods.
There was not a single figure to be seen along the way, and one of the strongholds of the Bloody Council seemed completely unguarded, completely different from the heavily guarded it had imagined. But in Su's keen senses, although he couldn't distinguish the traces of human activity, he instinctively felt that there were countless dangers lurking on the side.
The trail is paved with black stone, polished to a very smooth surface, and in the cold, wet weather it forms a thin layer of frost that is almost slippery to stand. I don't know what kind of material the black stone is, but it actually emits an extremely faint luminescence in the dark night, and the intense radiation is not much different from nuclear waste. But in Su's sense, the radiation of these black stones is somewhat different from the radiation of nuclear waste, and the direct damage to the body's cells and tissues is much less, but the genes will become more unstable.
On both sides of the mountain road, there are low street lamps one meter high, which also emit a faint red light that does not play much illumination.
A shadow suddenly sprang out of the darkness on the side of the road, swift and silent, and exuding an icy killing intrigue! Su immediately squatted down, tapped the road with his left hand, and all the light gold hair flew up, and he instantly entered a combat state!
"Don't worry, it's just here to lead the way." Peperos said.
The black shadow stopped in front of Sue and Peperos, looking somewhat human, but on all fours, and its joints were reversed, like a humanoid insect. Oversized eyes, a mouth full of small, sharp teeth, long limbs, and a thin body reminded Sue of Malim, a poor fellow who was clearly over-mutated. But the humanoid creature in front of him was covered with many hard exoskeletons at various joints on the surface of the body, black and red, similar to insect carapaces, and several sharp protrusions like blades erected in key parts. With these two things alone, it is clearly stronger than Malim.
It hissed twice and jumped along the mountain path towards the castle. As they walked up the road, black shadows appeared in the darkness on both sides, and they were forced back by its demonstrative roar.
After about 10 minutes, Sue finally stood in front of the castle!
The castle is made of dark black stone throughout, and the castle's façade is more than 30 meters high, turning everyone who stands in front of it into tiny ants. The castle façade is covered with huge, irregular crimson streaks that emit a faint glimmer even in the dark.
The ten-meter-high gate is majestic and magnificent, with a huge spider pattern in the center, a striking black and red stripe on the abdomen, and eight compound eyes on the head with faint brilliance.
Standing in front of the castle gates, Sue felt that the spider motif, which was supposed to be decorated, seemed to have a spirit, and those eyes were looking at him in a way he didn't understand! A similar feeling was felt on the huge dark dragon head hanging in the hall when he first entered the Dark Dragoon headquarters.
Before Su could probe the wonderful and hideous spider relief with his perceptual ability, the gate of the castle slowly opened, and then the brilliant light poured out like a waterfall accompanied by the roaring sound of the organ, completely submerging Su!
The main hall of the castle is wide and lofty, with three huge dark black round stone pillars arranged in two rows, extending from Su's front to the depths of the castle, supporting this magnificent space with a height of more than 20 meters. The floor is also dark black, and a wide scarlet carpet runs through the hall to the end. At the other end of the carpet, the same black stone material was built into a five-meter-high, thirty-meter-square altar, and the middle of the altar was empty, and it was impossible to tell that it was a sacrifice or something. The altar is also decorated with blood-colored stripes, and from a distance it looks like a flowing river of blood! This should have been a simple decoration, but in Sue's perception, he seemed to smell a thick smell of blood, which made him involuntarily have the illusion that this huge altar was constantly spurting blood!
Above the hall, more than a dozen fiery fireballs floated, emitting dazzling light that illuminated the entire hall. They slowly followed an irregular trajectory, casting shifting light and shadow that seemed to bring the black and red halls to life.
With a dull thunderclap, the castle gates slowly closed behind Sue, completely isolating the cold and damp outside world from the blazing fantasy castle hall.
Su suddenly turned around and found that Peperos had not followed him into the castle, and at this moment, he was the only one left in this huge, somewhat unreal hall!
However, Su vaguely sensed that there were a lot of cunzài who were spying on him in a very subtle way.
Just when Su felt a little suffocated, there was a squeak, and a small red copper door opened on the side of the hall, and out of the door came an old man with white hair, who looked like the head of the castle from his humble demeanor and meticulous dress.
"Mr. Su, please follow me." For some reason, Mr. Su felt that there was something meaningful in the old man's gaze. Still, he followed the old man through the side door, through a long corridor, and up the two floors up the ancient double spiral staircase.
In front of Sue is another corridor, 5 meters wide and 20 meters long, with a huge oil painting hanging at the end.
The lady is seen standing sideways in front of a crimson curtain decorated with gold stripes, behind which a richly decorated chair is revealed, just in time to see a hanging crown on the chair. The ladies were dressed in off-the-shoulder medieval court costumes, the main color was black and gold, and if you looked closely, the ornaments were golden roses in various postures. The hair is pulled up high, and the diamond crown of the garland is pressed to accentuate the graceful and noble neck like a swan, and the large white skin that extends all the way to the chest.
Her appearance was very young, her face was very classical and beautiful, her demeanor was dignified and elegant, and her light gray eyes with aristocratic indifference seemed to be alive and quietly watching the people walking in the corridor.
In her solemn and luxurious appearance, there is also a faint childishness, which makes it almost impossible to guess her real age. The woman in the painting was younger than Sue remembered, looking like she was in her early twenties.
Su remembers her, in fact, even if there is no permanent memory area, Su will not forget her appearance, let alone what happened in the town back then, just like as the old man immediately recognized him. Seven years have passed, and now she is approaching her eighth year, and her appearance in the portrait has hardly changed, as if she is still a little younger.
He still remembered that day, those light gray eyes looked at him at an extremely close distance, and in the depths of the pupils, in addition to the obvious banter, there was some surprise and amusement. Before that day, no one had been able to get so close to Sue except little Medirri.
Her gaze not only penetrated Sue's body, but even searched Sue's consciousness in an incomprehensible way. And while scrutinizing, infinite horror accompanied the gaze into the depths of Sue's heart. This was not her intention, but her untestable strength like a mountain made Su instinctively fearful.
"My full name is Angelina Fenlana Xes, remember my name, and I hope you can surprise me when you come to me......" Sue still vaguely remembered her soft but sonorous voice.
"Angelina......" Sue whispered the name. Angelina, the old man and Medirri, all seem to have gone back to that day seven years ago.
"In the realm of the Bloody Council, few people dare to call the Empress by her name. Of course, you can be an exception. The old man's voice was flat and gentle, but it startled Su.
As far as Su knew, if there was anything more powerful than the Dark Dragoon or the Inquisition, it was undoubtedly Bebraz, the Speaker of the Bloody Council, and Lanaxis, the Spider Queen, who lived in the Crimson Castle. As a dark giant that was as far away as two mountains, Sue heard their names and put them aside. The Bloody Council is too far away from the current Sue, Sue has no ambitions, and the goal is very simple, and she doesn't want to have anything to do with these big shots, so she doesn't associate Angelina, who took away the little girl, with the Spider Queen.
When the "Spider Empress ......" looked at the portrait hanging high again, Sue's gaze was a little different.
The old man looked up at the portrait and said with a smile, "This painting took three years to paint, and it was not completed until last month. ”
To the left of the portrait are two closed doors, the crimson ones inlaid with dark gold spider motifs. The difference is that under the spider, there is also a horizontal giant sword, which looks like Hellkill.
The old man pressed lightly on the side of the door, and the dark red scanning light formed a virtual keyboard, and after scanning out the old man's genetic information, the door slowly slid open to both sides. When the door opened, Su found that the seemingly wooden door was actually a meter thick and was made of some kind of alloy. Judging only by the means of scanning and the silent range of the gate sliding back, this castle that looks like an ancient castle is actually of a very high level of technology.
Behind the door is an extremely large hall, and at the end of the fifty-meter-long hall is a cast steel dragon coffin. A beam of light shot down from the 20-meter-high dome and shrouded the steel coffin. Under the action of light and shadow, the dragon head carved at the side end of the steel coffin seems to be alive, looking hideous and arrogant.
The old man stood at the door, but did not enter the hall, but made a gesture to Sue to invite him in, and said, "This is Miss Medirri's residence." Before going to Judgment Town, the young lady had been living and practicing here. Now that the lady is inside, you can go and meet her for three minutes. I'm waiting for you right here. ”
With only three minutes, Su stopped being polite to the old man, strode into the dome hall, and walked towards the dragon coffin placed at the end of the dome. He had a gut feeling that Medirli was in that steel coffin.
Although he had a premonition in his heart, and confirmed the news from Peperos's mouth that Medirri had been asleep, when he really saw the steel coffin in front of him, Sue's heart was still contracting violently, almost draining all his strength.
Only three minutes.
Su still walked in front of the steel coffin, and at this time, several rays of light shot out from the ground next to the steel coffin, forming a virtual screen, and in the center was the imprint of a palm. Remembering the old man's authentication mode in front of the gate, Sue tried to reach out and press it on the screen.
The dark red screen turned green after a second, and the lid of the steel coffin slowly floated under the support of the magnetic field, rising to a three-meter space and stopped, hovering there.
Su forcibly suppressed his mood, walked to the side of the steel coffin, and looked inside.
The steel coffin was filled with blood!
These blood have some function of shielding perception, neither perspective nor ultra-touch can extend into the blood, and even mental sensing is blank.
Small swirls rose on the surface of the blood, and the blood was leaking from the hidden holes, and the blood surface was rapidly falling. But Sue, who had only been three minutes, still felt that the blood was flowing too slowly and too slowly.
A minute later, nearly half of the blood in the steel coffin had flowed, and a snow-white carcass gradually emerged from the blood.
Although seven years have passed, her appearance has changed a lot, but Sue still recognizes at a glance the girl lying in the half-coffin of blood like a sleeping girl, it is the little girl who has been with her for eight years, Medirli.
The blood was still falling, and Medirri's body was gradually revealed. Like Persephone, her skin was like snow, but unlike Persephone's softness, which seemed to be broken by accident, Medirri's body had a faint glow that was a sign of infinite power. This extremely beautiful carcass can actually be called a humanoid weapon!
It turned out that the little girl had grown up.
Su looked at Medirli in the coffin in a daze, and couldn't tell what she was feeling in her heart at the moment.
Medirli seemed to be asleep, her soft, pale gray hair spilling on the pale blood, exuding a poignant show. Just like when she was a child, all the blood didn't leave even the slightest trace on her body or hair.
Sunrather she's asleep!
However, no matter how hard he tried, he could not detect even the faintest sign of life in Medirri's body. Indeed, her body appeared intact, but even the deepest of long sleeps were not entirely lifeless. Now Medirli is more like a delicate and perfect statue.
From the first time she saw Medirli, Su had already understood that she was already a corpse lying in a bloody coffin.
Corpse......
Sue's face quickly turned pale, sweat rolling down his forehead, and he summoned all his detection power, frantically scanning Medirri's body. The overused ability consumed most of his body in just a dozen seconds, and Su's eyes suddenly darkened, and the irresistible vertigo sensation hit him one after another, and all the abilities faded due to exhaustion. No matter how hard Sue tried, it only confirmed the fact that she had been asleep for a long time.
Ding Dang!
A crisp copper bell rang, and there was some kind of vibration hidden in the bell, which easily pulled Su's already somewhat frantic thoughts back. The lid of the coffin, which began to fall slowly, let Su know that three minutes had arrived.
Su exhaled a long breath, and finally knew what the old man meant by seeing her. He took one last look at Medirri, and suddenly saw something in her hands crossed over her chest. After a moment's hesitation, Sue gently pulled out what she was holding.
It was a folded piece of paper, the edges a little torn, and it looked like it was some years old. It's just an ordinary piece of paper, not as tough and tough as Medirri's body. Because of the long soaking in blood, the paper has turned a completely dark red, and it is impossible to see what was originally written on it.
The lid is closed again. Sue stood for a few more minutes before heading outside.
The door slowly opened, and then slowly closed behind Sue. Su's face was calm, and he couldn't see anything unusual except for a little tiredness. Su looked at the old man and suddenly said, "Can I ask you a favor?" ”
The old man smiled slightly, and said with a look of understanding, "Do you want Mishosi's whereabouts?" It seems like it's too early to do this, and it seems that you are not enough. ”
Although he already knew the unfathomable strength of the old man in front of him, Su Youshen's left eye still looked at the old man indifferently: "I won't go to trouble Mi Xiusi now." Maybe in a few years I won't be as capable as Misius, but it's not always the more capable who won. ”
There is one question that Sue didn't ask, that is, why didn't she ask Mitheus for her guilt after recovering Medirri's body with the powerful power of the Spider Empress.
The old man had complete insight into Sue's thoughts, and he smiled again and said, "You misunderstood. Her Majesty the Empress is the one who can wake up Miss Medirri......"
"What!?" Sue, who had always been calm, shook all over his body and grabbed the old man's arm!
The old man easily broke away from Su's hand, smiled and repeated the words just now: "Your Majesty can wake up Miss." However, it is limited to one time and comes at a great cost. Her Majesty means that if she really needs to do this, then she needs to see sincerity, reparation, and strength. ”
Su forcibly calmed down from the great joy and said in a deep voice: "What kind of compensation does Your Majesty need, please explain, I will do my best." ”
The old man said, "I have seen the sincerity, and as for compensation and strength, they can actually be combined into one thing. It will take three months for the young lady to recover, and when you return to Crimson Castle in three months, the Empress wants to receive a million dollars as a symbolic compensation. ”
"A million...... Okay, in two months, I'll bring a million. Sue took a deep breath and became calmer.
"As for the power ......," the old man smiled meaningfully and said, "The Empress wants to get a surprise from you, but your current strength is not even qualified to meet the Empress." Three months later, when you enter the Crimson Castle again, hopefully your powers can give Her Majesty the Empress a real surprise. Only then will you not lose the opportunity to choose. ”
As for what kind of choice, the old man didn't say, and Su didn't ask. He knew that even if he asked, the old man would not give him an answer now. Su was very smart, so he knew that he could only do what the old man said, and there was no choice at all.