Chapter 22 Rest in Peace
A resting place full of mystery, just an ordinary town on the coastline. There is a small harbor here, and the undulating waves are constantly lapping against the pier full of time, and a few old sailing boats leaning on the pier are rocking. Several sailboats should be decades or even centuries old, but they are well maintained and look like they are used regularly.
Due to the abundant warm currents, the ports in this area are frozen all year round. It is also normal to have sailboats. However, the sea of this era is a veritable sea of death, and it is no secret that oversized mutant creatures have appeared in the sea. Even if you don't encounter these sea overlords, storms, cold, and radiation can kill the ship's riders. Like the sky, the ocean no longer belongs to humans. So who would sail on these old sailboats that didn't even have power?
The sea at night looks peaceful and hideous. It was a bottomless world, and whoever saw it would subconsciously feel like they were being consumed by cold and darkness.
In the shadow of a small house by the sea, Sue is standing there, staring at the piers and sailboats that can be loaded into the camera. He was completely at one with his environment and didn't feel any different at all. A teenager hurried over with his head down and against the cold wind, accidentally hitting Su's body headbutt. He rubbed his shoulder, looked at the place he had hit, muttered a few curses, and ran forward again, not realizing that he had hit a man.
It wasn't until the boy walked away that Su withdrew his gaze from the dock and the sailboat, looked at the boy's departing figure, and glanced at the sailboat again. Only then did he leave the shadows under the eaves and walk leisurely along the seashore. Even in the process of walking, he always exudes a cold inhuman aura, like a walking stone statue. Su was almost on it, and the faintly emerging bone armor protected the vital parts. There is a faint glow on the surface of his body that allows him to disappear into his surroundings, but not completely dissolve.
The town is peaceful, with hundreds of large and small buildings gently surrounding the harbour. It's not time to fall asleep, and the windows of every house glow warmly and softly in the low-hanging night. The smell of food fills the air in the town, and most of the families have just finished eating, and now it is a warm time for the family to be together.
To Su's surprise, most of the people living in this town, which had never been unveiled by the Dark Dragoon, were ordinary people with little ability! In a trance, Sue had the illusion that she was in a seaside town in the old Federation, peaceful, slow, and warm. It's just that the faint light circulating around his body reminds him that he is in the enemy's home field, and this is the home field that completely covers the entire town and covers an area of hundreds of square kilometers, which is unprecedentedly huge!
The force field that makes up the main field is distorted and transmitted to the other side when it comes into contact with Sue's body. Some of them were twisted and shattered, turning into pure energy that Sue absorbed and became part of his power. Compared to such a huge home field, the power absorbed by Su is very small, and whoever presides over the home field will think that this is a natural loss of energy, and will not find Su's existence. Su is not trying to seize energy, but is spying on the composition rules of the home field, looking for support nodes, so as to destroy the opponent's home field by attacking nodes on a large scale at a critical time.
However, after sneaking into the resting place for a while, as he gradually learned more about the rules of the home field, Sue felt more and more doubts.
As far as he knew, home generally has three characteristics, one is to limit the enemy's ability, and the other is to increase its own strength. The first two points do not necessarily appear in the form of a large-scale force field, the terrain and a specific environment can also play the home effect, of course, the effect of a large-scale force field is much stronger than a simple environment construction. Finally, the home field is generally made up of carefully constructed and selected nodes, which are usually activated when needed. The amount of energy consumed to maintain a large home arena is huge, and even high-level Saint Rank powerhouses can hardly support it for a long time. The panorama of the Sue can also be seen as a special kind of home field.
However, the super-large home field of the resting ground does not have the above three characteristics, and all the analysis points to one conclusion, that is, the biggest function of this home field is like the four large force field generators in Dragon City, which is to filter excess radiation to provide a friendly environment for ordinary people to survive. But the role of the resting ground home field is far greater and much more than that of the force field generator. At the same time, the home field has the function of preventing environmental heat loss and large-scale, low-intensity physical impact. The latter, to put it bluntly, can prevent excessive wind waves and even the impact of tsunamis. In this era, the sea is much more violent than in the old days.
This is a conclusion that Sue finds hard to believe. Is such a huge home just to provide a friendly environment for the people who live here?! There is no more absurd conclusion than this, even if the status of the capable and ordinary people in the Holy Radiance Crusader is relatively equal, there is no need to consume such a huge amount, just to provide a living environment for about a thousand ordinary people. Even Sue, who has always been willing to help weak people live, finds it incredible. But no matter how he analyzed it, Su couldn't find any other conclusions.
He turned his head slowly, his gaze falling on the only prominent building in the center of the resting place, a small church. The church is unique in style, white throughout, with pillars carved with stars and light, but without the angels or apostles that are most commonly found in religious stories. The style of the church is also different from any old-time church Sue has ever seen, and the overall style is light and agile, with bright colors. This type of architecture is rarely seen in northern environments. Many of the town's houses are over 100 years old, which means they have been preserved from the old era, just refurbished. And this church is obvious, less than fifty years old, and it is very likely that it was built by the founder of the first generation of the Holy Radiance Crusade.
The church was brightly lit at the moment, with a faint glow of soothing and solemn music, and occasionally one or two people entered and exited through the half-concealed side door. There seemed to be some ritual going on in the church, but Su didn't perceive many people, so it shouldn't be an important ceremony. But it doesn't matter, what matters is that this church is the only building in the resting place that has a strong energy response at this moment.
After watching quietly for a few minutes, Su moved his fingers a few times and walked towards the church.
The closer you get to the church, the more you can feel the burst of energy rushing to your face. A few minutes later, Sue was already standing in front of the half-open side door of the chapel, and the warm light that poured from the crack in the door sprinkled on him, stirring up a faint smoke on that delicate face. Su was bathed in a warm light, frozen, her face as if frozen in ice, and she couldn't see any joy or sorrow.
This book. D