The cold winds of the Northland are like eternal ice blades, plowing through the permafrost as hard as steel. A gray steel giant emitting a black pillar of smoke shattered into several pieces, scattered within a radius of several hundred meters.

Lazarus. The dragon landed lightly to the ground, and with his thumb he flicked the lid of the flask open, pouring some syrup into his mouth. Dressed in a tightsuit with a near-future design, another young man stepped out of the air without saying a word, holding a sphere that seemed to be two gears snapping together, still spinning.

"Count as public loot." The Qi Refiner took another sip of wine, "What about Fan's monitoring?" ”

[Su Jing and his technician are discussing...... A woman named Helen Keller. Do any of you have an impression of the name? 】

“…… Helen. Keller? Sounds like the name of the Old Earth era. I guess it's someone from his world. Lazarus pursed his lips and recalled, and the stainless steel rat standing aside shook his head in nothing.

【…… He's talking about "what it's like to sleep with Helen Keller", and I think that judging by the context of the conversation, "Helen Keller" is a blind woman who is deaf and dumb, and the topic of their conversation is sexual fetishes related to disability. 】

The Qi Refiner took a deep breath and sighed, "We have spent more than ten days collecting a piece of information, and what we hear every day is this kind of bullshit except for Qingqing and me...... Is there any practical significance for these people whose brain circuits are very different from those of humans? ”

[If there is a choice, I am willing to exchange with you.] Van Newwen's voice was also tinged with a hint of helplessness, [But at least. We dragged on for a few days, and in the past few days. The "Demon Son" has slaughtered more than 100,000 infernal creatures of all classes, and the overall assessment is about the threshold of seven stars...... His strength is enough to force out the opponent's hole cards. 】

"We're playing with fire. If it's so strong that we can't contain it, it's self-immolation. Damn Konstantin, we were left with such a mess. Lazarus cursed in a low voice.

Ever since your divination shows that Konstantin is still alive, we know that he must be causing something. It's a pity that we couldn't pinpoint his location, otherwise disposing of him would have saved us a lot of trouble. In the communication channel, there was a hint of coldness in Van Newwen's strange voice, [The notorious liar Konstantin, we know that he is not a man who can easily die like this. It's a clever move to sacrifice his body, but his energy fluctuations are more than 97% synchronized with the wavelength of the "Demon Child". And Tong Guò merges with the power of the NPC in the story, and he will gain quasi-gold-level power in an instant, which is well planned, but the mistake is that he should not use us. 】

James. Digrez was intently wiping his weapon with a handkerchief: a grotesque-looking pistol. Hearing this, he nodded approvingly.

"I admit, Konstantin is a cunning guy. However, those of us who have been invited by Endless Hell are all elites in this industry. ”

[Let me argue that Konstantin is a liar.] And I'm a businessman. 】

"Is there a difference?" Lazarus asked rhetorically.

"Disclaimer: I am a criminal with a high sense of morality, not a liar. Or a businessman. Although I have a number of part-time jobs, I mainly focus on thieves and espionage, and I focus on wonderful crimes with both intelligence and skills as the main direction of my career development. "The stainless steel rat who has not spoken all this time has also made a rare speech. The voice was unexpectedly green.

Lazarus stared at him for a moment. In the end, it was Van Newwen who broke the siege.

[Under our guidance, the "Demon Son" traveled all the way from Europe to Central Asia and devoured several of the oldest demon nobles. At the moment it is crossing the hinterland of China, and in five hours it will cross the sea. Entered the Japanese archipelago where they are currently located. 】

"Optimistically estimating their efficiency, the island has been transformed into a nest for mechanical spiders. I'm looking forward to seeing when the Demon Son lands on that island. ”

[I'm also looking forward to their expressions.] Even if they now find out that something is wrong. It's too late. If the spider web is destroyed, they will have no bargaining chips with us, based on my assessment of the character of Su Jing and Lu Mengyao, and with their pride that they will never give in. It's going to be an uphill battle. 】

After cutting off the communication, Lazarus, who was not in the mood to clean up the mess, slowly volleyed into the air and looked into the distance. In the distance are the Ural Mountains, which stretch for thousands of kilometers. In the middle of the Eurasian continent, further north is the polar region of the Arctic, within the polar circle is the blue ice sea and towering icebergs and ice fields, and further afield, there is darkness. A gloomy darkness, like a dark cloud hovering at the edge of the world, slowly spreads outward.

Everything was planned, but he still felt a faint sense of unease. There were too many variables, and the hexagrams given by the turtle shell and yarrow were vague and he couldn't read them. It's not a matter of divination, it's actually my own heart is disturbed. I am afraid, afraid of the hole cards that the other party did not turn over, and afraid of the result of the divination before the death.

Or maybe it's an old man in his twilight years when he is faced with a youth with infinite possibilities...... Hurt yourself and feel sorry for yourself.

"It's already winter?" The red-haired Qi Refiner stood high in the air and muttered to himself.

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"The Hanshin Industrial Zone is very rich in metal resources." Su Jing pinched a piece of beef with two fingers, teasing the mechanical warlock like a puppy, and the latter grabbed Su Jing's arm with both front hands and gnawed on his fingers, leaving deep tooth marks.

It's late autumn, and the members of the Plane Traveler team spend their free time fighting monsters and traveling, and doing some minor adjustments by the way. Su Jing and Gai Qi, two technologists in the technology stream, showed a huge influence beyond the reach of the rest of the people after they had time to develop the technical foundation. The von Neumann Robot Spiders are growing rapidly in theoretical exponential terms, and after taking Tokyo and restoring basic social functioning, trucks, trains, and planes are loaded with mechanical spiders and transported across the country, primarily targeting Japan's major industrial towns.

In just a few days, the spider web has covered the whole of Japan with the transportation network as nodes.

With the spider web as a weapon, it is not a very difficult job to take over this desolate country in the event of the complete collapse of the original administration. Humans who are controlled by spiders (the main model now used has been changed to "electric spiders" that can be charged at home outlets) are suppressed most of the negative emotions, and all the emotions that are meaningless to the collective work are removed, leaving only the hormone secretion that is imprinted on the cerebral cortex and associated with the positive feedback of behavior, and everyone works frantically for the benefit of the whole, suppressing physiological desires to a minimum.

All unnecessary metal products became the material for the new spiders, the factory gates were opened, and the workers moved the steel and metal out of the warehouse, and fed the crab army with all the lathe and milling machines. There are great march of silver spiders on every road, bears being driven out of their holes in the mountains, towering trees collapsing because their foundations have been dug loose, mountains collapsing on small or large scales - these are still happening.

Billions of spider legions crawled all over the Japanese archipelago in a very short period of time, and with the take-off of one plane after another, these quiet little things quickly waved their limbs and climbed onto the land of various countries, spreading the rapidly spreading spider web to the world.

The initiators of a qiē are sitting at the moment having a picnic in a forest in Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.

"In summary, the Chuo Tectonic Line and the Shizuoka Tectonic Line are two faults that transverse Japan. The Japanese archipelago is located on a fault line between the four major continents, so the geology is very harsh - earthquakes and tsunamis are frequent, and I think it is very easy to understand that their native Shinto culture is so thriving, and even that there are eight million gods and such an exaggerated primitive spirit system. Because since ancient times, living in such a place full of natural disasters has given rise to a very deep worship of the gods. Speaking of which, the primitive religions mentioned in "The Golden Bough" ......"

“…… Wait a minute. Pause a little. Lu Mengyao raised her hand to interrupt Su Jing's nonsense, "A minute ago, the topic was whether Helen Keller had a sensitivity to touch that was difficult for ordinary people to achieve because of the lack of the three main senses, and whether her sexual pleasure might be more intense than ordinary people. I was distracted by the rice balls, and in these 60 seconds, how did the topic jump from the self-compensation of the central nervous system to the geology and religious culture of Japan? ”

Su Jing put down the chopsticks in his hand and pondered, "Let me recall the context of the conversation......

In the mountain forest dozens of meters away from the dinner party, Sadako Yamamura, dressed in white, stepped on the soft fallen leaves, and Su Luo was holding a telescope to watch the majestic Mount Fuji in the distance.

“…… What are you looking at? After considering a few openings, Sadako Yamamura decided to start with this sentence, "I thought you would be happy to join the party." ”

Su Luo didn't put down the binoculars in her hand, and said with a shallow smile: "I'm the same as my brother, sometimes I like to be alone and quiet - I don't mean to drive you away, I'm glad to have you to talk to me." ”

Sadako Yamamura then accompanied her to see Mt. Fuji without saying a word.

"Has it erupted?" After a while, Su Luo asked.

Sadako Yamamura recalled a little and said, "Last time...... It must have been in the 18th century. But everyone thinks that sooner or later Mt. Fuji will get angry again. It is precisely because it is a dormant volcano that it has such a majestic charm. ”

"I suddenly felt like we were a bunch of ...... in these worlds Innovators. Su Luo sighed, "We destroy the past and then build a new world...... Like a fire in a forest. But none of us knows whether the changed world will be a better place, or the other way around. ”

"That's why we're called 'adventurers.'" Sadako Yamamura said.

"You have a point." (To be continued......)