Volume III: The Isle of Night

Chapter 1

We shared a helicopter with Wiñola, and she told us, "The helicopters we flew in were the most backward flying equipment on the Night Island, but they were also much more advanced than the most advanced flying equipment in the United States today." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe island of Night is equipped with a jamming system for aircraft signals, and even artificial satellites cannot observe the location of the island of Night, and it can only be reached by boat. ”

About half an hour later, a large 19th-century warship appeared on the sea not far in front of us, which I remember spotting on the way from Europa to the American Federation, but I didn't expect it to be ours.

The helicopter's hatch slowly opened, and Winora was the first to jump, her arms fully extended, and she sped down in the icy air currents and landed on the deck of the ship, where we followed.

There were more than fifty crew members on board, and they treated Winora with the same respect as their superiors, and the crew called her "Colonel". She shouldn't be the supreme leader of this ship, maybe she's my father's right-hand man, and she doesn't look to be underestimated.

The sea breeze blows, the sea fog thickens, and the moon begins to blur and is finally obscured by dark clouds.

Winora took me and Frank to the bow of the ship, and she told us: "The Island of Night is an island that is not marked on the map, an island that cannot be found on the earth, where there are only two seasons, spring and winter, and the Emperor Mountain on the island is the only place where you can see the sun, and the rest of the place is shrouded in darkness at all times, so it is called the "Island of Night". There, the moon is seen every twenty-four hours, and the rest of the time the stars are seen, and the vampires there come from the seventeen countries of the continent of Europa. ”

"You know all of them?" asked Frank.

"They all know me anyway, and this ship is the oldest in Hallelujah. It's a great honor to be able to use something retro, and it's a sign of respect to invite someone to take a retro boat. Hallelujah is a modern, low-carbon and environmentally friendly island, and all the equipment on the island is low-carbon and environmentally friendly, and will never cause pollution to the environment. There are many things out there that modern humans can't imagine. There is also some advanced equipment on the island that existed before we came, and some of which we still use today, you can't imagine it, and whether it is the work of the Atlanteans, we are only guessing. ”

"Interesting. ”

"It took me months to complete the boat, and the sketches for its design were designed for me by Mr. Siegfried, who was Isabel's father. ”

"What do the islanders do every day?" I asked.

"In addition to the research and development of low-carbon and environmentally friendly new technologies or cutting-edge weapons and equipment, every day is a boring banquet and masquerade ball, and sometimes a grand concert. ”

"What else do you do?"

"I can't tell, but when you get there, you'll know. ”

"How long do you think it will take to get there?"

"Soon. ”

I didn't ask her about the Dark Elemental for a while. After about two more hours, an island loomed in front of us as the fog faded. The light from the island's lighthouse swept across the sea in the distance.

"Is that there?" I asked, pointing to the lighthouse in the distance.

"Yes, when we get to the island, we have to take a train to get to the city center. "There are a lot of undulating peaks on the island that block the lights of the city, and most of the downtown buildings in Hallelujah are in the Gothic style, some places like Paris and Amsterdam, some places like Vienna and Prague, there are many similarities." ”

"There's not going to be another Elias there, is there?"

"We don't, but we can see it. ”

"What do you mean?"

"The Savono family has a magical crystal ball through which you can see everything that is happening in the Alps, you can see your every move in the American Commonwealth clearly, and your father can control the corpse thieves there with his mind. ”

After listening to Wiñola's statement, I was even more yearning for the Island of Night.

Our ship docked at a port called "Skull Point", which looked very mysterious in the moonlight. We got off the boat and stepped on a 19th-century train to a place called "Morion".

Along the way, the train crosses a treacherous road that winds around the mountainside, passes an iron bridge, then passes through a dark tunnel, and finally leads to a ghostly forest.

I looked out the window and saw the trees on both sides of the quiet road lined with strangely shaped trees, each like a beast with a wide mouth or a dancing devil. Deep in the woods is a dark and ghostly swamp that exudes the smell of death, and the ghosts that emerge from the water cry out and cry eerily, which is terrifying.

I closed the curtains and said to myself, "The dark element my father was looking for couldn't be here." ”

When Isabel, who was sitting next to me, saw my listless appearance, she said, "I'll see our family soon, cheer up, don't think about the dark element." ”

Suddenly, there was a cry outside the window, a mournful cry that revealed a hint of desolation. I opened the curtains again and looked out over the swamp, some ghosts emerging from the depths of the dark swamp, wandering among the eerie trees.

I poked my head out of the window, the cool night breeze crossed my face, and not far in front of me was a stone bridge that we had to cross, and I could clearly hear the sound of running water under the bridge. I fixed my gaze and saw the two ghosts sitting against each other on a raised boulder on the edge of the bridge. It was a young couple, the man was playing beautiful music with a lyre in his hand, and the woman was holding one of his partner's arms with both hands, resting her head on her shoulder, and her eyes closed, as if feeling the breath of nature. The cries of the surrounding ghosts quickly died away, and they were all intoxicated by the touching music, and the animals in the whole forest seemed to feel the atmosphere. In the giant mushroom forest in the distance, some terrestrial animals that like to live in dark places are gradually emerging from the moist burrows under the giant mushrooms. They were some prehistoric animals that had disappeared, or newly discovered species, and they resembled moles, some like armadillos.

In the distance, the plains and snowy forests can occasionally see some prehistoric animals, such as saber-toothed tigers, ground sloths, mammoths, giant short-faced bears, and so on. It's like going back in time, giving people the feeling of going back to prehistory, and the scene in front of them is like a lost continent.

The singing and music of the ghosts echoed throughout the forest, and all the creatures listened, as if they were intoxicated, and a couple of saber-toothed tigers leaned against each other on a flat rock by the side of the road, and their intoxication temporarily lost their killing nature.

I wanted to say hello to the two ghosts, but I didn't, because I didn't want to interrupt the beautiful sound, and only then could I continue listening.

This ghost couple made me deeply appreciate affection and true love. If God can resurrect them, I will exchange all my wealth for this beautiful melody.

By the time I arrived at Morion, I couldn't hear the piano at all. It's a seaside city, and the setting reminds me of Paris, Salzburg, St. London. In addition, there are some stone viaducts that are still in use, as well as saucer-shaped buildings and prismatic buildings that are not seen at all in the human world. There are several stone monuments erected on the surrounding meadows, which are carved with the pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China Republic, the Empire State Building of the United States, the Eiffel Tower of France, the Skyscraper of Dubai and other world-famous buildings.

The cold streets were silent, except for a handful of Bloodclan members standing on the top floors of the building looking down. The wide boulevard flanks the Gothic ruins of granite stone carvings of lions, dragons and other beasts, and are covered with lush vines and exotic flowers.

In the center of the city, there is the largest conical fountain on the island, the huge fountain is about 500 meters on top of each layer, and at the top is a stone angel with wings spreading, and the water jets sprayed out by each layer of water pipes are at least 20 meters high, and the water mist released is shrouded in a large amount of vegetation around it. It is said that the fountain existed a thousand years before my father's arrival, when many of the water pipes were broken and after some careful repairs, it was finally given a new look.

On the edge of a ruins resembling an ancient Roman racecourse, stands a kilometer-high straight skyscraper shaped like a dragon's blood tree tightly together, with a rooftop and a recreational sports area at the top of the canopy, which houses a tourist restaurant that overlooks the whole city and beyond.

Winora pointed to the skyscraper and said, "That's the largest hotel here, and one of the tallest and most peculiar buildings on the island, called the Star Tree Hotel, a full kilometer high. ”

"Incredible. I said.

"There are almost all kinds of food in it. ”

"And what if someone wants to drink blood?"

"There are no humans on the Isle of Night, and all the Bloods who come to the Island must adapt to a vegetarian diet, and the so-called 'vegetarian' refers to those foods that are common in the human world. In the beginning, many of our compatriots died of hunger because they could not adapt to the vegetarian diet. If you want to survive on the Island of Night without drinking blood, you have to adapt to a vegetarian diet. ”

"Just like surviving in the wilderness, if you want to survive, you have to accept and adapt to the new environment. ”

"Exactly. ”

Frank couldn't resist wanting to take a few pictures with his camera, and he asked Wiñola, "Wiñola, do you have a camera?"

"Do you want to take a few pictures? I can't see it, Frank. Winora said.

"Why?"

"Photography is not allowed here. ”

"Just one. ”

"It's the rule on the island. ”

"Wait a minute, Frank. I said.

Frank was disappointed.

The train then crossed a wide stone bridge across the canyon, the longest span on the island, and the canyon was shrouded in thick fog in the depths. Winora told us that the bridge is called the Devil's Bridge, and the canyon is called the Devil's Canyon, because legend has it that the devil often haunts the depths of the canyon.

After passing through the canyon, you will enter the ancient city ruins area. Giant airships patrol through towering clusters of mushroom-shaped and inverted cone-shaped stone pillars. In the distance, on a hillside covered with greenery, the occasional wreckage of one or two small UFOs has blended in with their surroundings, but the shriveled alien remains can still be seen through the shattered glass of the cockpit.

It seems that there have been quite a few stories that have happened here and made me feel like I am on another planet. Since then, I have been convinced that there are aliens living on Earth.

In the green fields below, a river winds its way to the sky. There are many millennium-old minarets on the green fields, and almost all of them have astronomical telescopes installed on their rooftops. Huge minarets soared into the clear night sky, miles high, at least miles, many of them so deep into the clouds that one could not see the top as if they were supporting the whole night sky, while others had fallen and broken into several pieces, and lay there thousands of years old, at least.

In addition, in some places where gravity is low, some large and small stones flow slowly in the air, forming a stone path leading to the distant starry sky, some stones suspended between the cliffs, which look like a suspended stone bridge, and a region similar to Saturn's rings is suspended on the surface of the lake in the distance, which is composed of countless fragmented crystals, crystal clear, beautiful, under the illumination of the moon, showing a dazzling and colorful light, setting off the beautiful night scene by the lake.

The train passes through a damp area with sparse woods on one side of the tracks and a large giant mushroom forest on the other. When the airship passes through the depths of the mushroom forest, it needs to use a searchlight to see the road ahead. Huge mushrooms covered the ruins of ancient buildings and the ancient swamp below like large umbrellas. Some of the Titan Pythons are the owners of this mushroom forest and swamp, and they are one of the favorite foods of the Titan Eagle, except for the Titan Eagle, which occasionally circles around for a while, no one dares to provoke those pythons.

The train traveled a few more miles before finally stopping at a train station outside Morrian. We got off the train and walked into the city, outside a large Gothic musical theater. From the outside, this concert hall is more like a cathedral, and the square outside is neatly parked with carriages that come to participate in masquerade balls, and from their magnificent carriages, it can be seen that these blood families are some families with status and status.

"This is the largest concert hall in Hallelujah and is also known as the 'Golden Age Music Palace'. Winora said.

"Looks like you're here a lot. Frank asked.

"I'm not used to being in music all day. ”

"Everyone else is in there, so why can't you just blend in with them?"

Instead of answering, Winora changed the subject: "We're long late, let's go inside, the people inside will be surprised when they see you." She pushed the door open and led us into the hall, and as soon as we entered the door, the music inside stopped abruptly, and we were greeted by a bright crystal chandelier and a cold mask facing us, everyone consciously gave way to a narrow path before us, and Frank and I followed the road until we saw a man without a mask appear in front of us, it was my father. I'm glad to see him here, he doesn't look the same, he's still imposing and awe-inspiring. "Father. Frank and I shouted in unison.

Verola walked up to my father, "Master, I've found them." ”

"Wiñola. My father said, "I thought it would take you months to find them, but it only took you two weeks, and well, your mission is done." I would also like to thank you and your sister Ingrid for your recent efforts. My father walked up to me and Frank, "Welcome home, my child." Frank and I bowed to our father, then hugged him, and he said, "Anyway, you're back safely." He turned his gaze to my companions, who had been born and died with me, "Thank you very much for being by my two sons' side. ”

I saw a few old faces around me who were not wearing masks, and I was lucky that they had survived the war thousands of years ago. Time flies, and the "Last War on Poppy Island" seems to have just passed.

My father never said a word to me and Frank, but put on his mask and motioned for the ball to continue, perhaps because he didn't want the atmosphere to stop. Elegant classical music resounded again, everyone found their respective dance partners, and with the music, everyone danced with slender bodies and beautiful dance steps.

Frank couldn't resist finding a dance partner to dance with him, so he chose Wiñola, who was willing to be his dance partner, and I felt that Cupid's magic arrow had firmly held their hearts together.

Isabel and I couldn't stand still, and after making eye contact with each other, we danced hand in hand to the music.

Two hours later, the short ball ended, and the families left in their carriages. Frank walked out the door with his arm around Wiñola's slender waist, flirting with each other. The two got into the same carriage and went nowhere. My father and I were the last to leave, and we rode in the same carriage toward his estate.

Along the way, I first learned about the girl Winora Lucas through my father, it turned out that Winora and her sister Ingrid were the daughters of Servio Lucas, Servio was a military engineer on Poppy Island, served in the Dark Realm Society, and was tragically killed in the "Last War on Poppy Island", and his two greatest inventions were the nine-shot trebuchet and the long-range dense arrow launcher. It's just a pity that these weapons were only used in the "last war on Poppy Island". Fortunately, there are models of these two weapons on the Island of Night, which are outdated but can only be appreciated as antiques. So many years have passed since the war, but the Lucas family has never given up on the study of the military industry, and Winora and Ingrid have always followed their father's teachings and continued the family characteristics to this day.

In addition, I told my father about some of the things that Frank and other companions and I had experienced in Europa and the Commonwealth since he left the Alps. My father listened attentively, and he told me about the Isle of Night with great interest. It is said that this mysterious island is the only land in Atlantis that has not sunken, and it is difficult to find this land with the ordinary power of humans, and only supernatural species can find it. I was amazed to hear the ghosts of the island, which my father called "Atlanteans".

Through the car window, I could see that some vague motifs resembling satellites, space shuttles, and submarines could still be seen on the reliefs of some of the ruins. The Atlanteans are truly remarkable, but the disappearance of the Atlantean continent remains an unsolved mystery to this day.

The carriage drove to the head of the bridge a hundred meters away from Auguste Manor, where you could hear the sound of the waves, and the scenery here was so charming that I wanted to walk around the island alone, so I said hello to my father, jumped out of the carriage, and came alone to the beautiful ruins of ancient buildings by the sea. I breathe in the fresh air of the island and walk along the mossy stone brick paths, feeling the beauty of the place.

The huge full moon slowly rose from the sea level in the distance, and everything was illuminated, and I walked around a crystal clear pool to a gate that led to the ruins of the underground palace, which did not look as dark as I had imagined, and could hear the "rumbling" of a waterfall from inside. I walked into this mysterious palace with curiosity. The inside is very wide, the stone statues on both sides of the road hold stone torches wrapped in dark gelatinous objects, when the wind blows on the stone torches, these gelatinous materials will burn, and they will naturally be extinguished in the absence of wind, the gelatinous materials on each torch can last for nearly a hundred years, and the brightness of each flame can reach the brightness of forty watts of light bulbs, I have heard Wiñola say: such gelatinous is the gum of an ancient tree on the island, which can be found in the spiral stem woods twenty miles west of Morion, and there have been such trees here since the birth of the Atlanteans, and the Atlanteans have never cut down and logged down on the island except for the rational use of forest resources on the islandThey conserve the island's resources and care for the environment in exchange for the abundance of its products.

I walked to an open-air stone bridge near the waterfall, which flowed from the mouths of a row of huge stone lions into a deep river valley, and the thick mist almost became level with the unguarded stone bridge. As I walked on, there were two thick stone pillars at the head of the bridge, carved with reliefs that resembled aircraft and submersibles, and some text that we couldn't read. I then walked into a large hall surrounded by clear containers that had long been disused in the corners of the walls, and in the center of the floor was a large circular metal pattern, which could be the entrance to a tunnel, and I crouched down and slowly groped for the pattern on the ground. I looked closely, and the pattern was a dragon, and the dragon's eyes were like a button, so I couldn't help but press it, and then stand next to the pattern. After a few seconds, the pattern makes a "creaking" sound and rubbing against it, and then a gap appears in the middle and opens to both sides, revealing a spiraling staircase. I boldly descended the stairs to a place littered with a large number of shipwrecks, all of which were modern. I continued along a narrow winding path between the wreckage piles, occasionally finding some oddly shaped USO wreckage in the wreckage pile. What the hell is this place? Interestingly, it's like watching a science fiction movie.

I felt as if something was watching me in the darkness around me, and at first I thought of the Evil Spirits or the Witchers, and then I thought it might be my friends stalking me and wanting to see something new. "Come out, don't hide. I shouted tentatively. A moment later, Isabel emerged from the shadows beneath a thick stone pillar. "It turned out to be you. I said, "Why don't you come out generously?"

She came to me instantly, "I'm bored by myself, I just want to walk around, I didn't expect you to be there." ”

"I just came in out of curiosity. ”

"It's weird here. ”

"It's incredible, I didn't expect there to be these things here. ”

"Did you find anything?"

I glanced at the wreckage, "What else would there be? I don't know what those submersibles were for, they probably invented by the Atlanteans, I don't understand why they collected them." ”

"I don't think it's any surprise, it's probably where the Atlanteans store their metal waste. ”

"I don't want to go on with these unanswered questions, I'd rather visit some beautiful places on the ground. I think it's better to go up there and have a look. ”

We went back the way we came, to the beach. Not far away, on the cliff there is a broken bridge over a remote island in the sea, and there is a ruin of an ancient castle on the isolated island, although only the ruins remain, but it is still so majestic and magnificent. Waves wash away fossils of prehistoric sea creatures on reefs, distant seas reveal palace pillars that sink to the bottom of the sea, and gigantic sea monsters occasionally churn on the surface of the sea, stirring up huge waves and occasionally making eerie roars that are intimidating.

So, the reason my father stayed here wasn't because he was looking for the dark element, but because he was fascinated by the beauty, right?

Suddenly, there was a long, piercing sound in the night sky, and when I looked up, I saw many Titan carvings hovering in the sky, as if they were greeting me. Sometimes they flew into the distant sky, sometimes they skimmed over the undulating sea, as if they were patrolling, as if they were watching, and soon flew into the distance, disappearing into the dark mountains.

In the face of the roaring ocean, the scene of "the last war on Poppy Island" resurfaced in my mind, the bloody scene made me forget everything around me for a while, I could not see the vast sky and the vast ocean, nor could I hear the sound of the waves echoing, and the only thing that echoed in my ears was the sound of a cold weapon cutting into the flesh, which could not disappear in my mind for a long time. At the same time, a voice sounded in my ears, exactly the same as mine, telling me: "Killing the enemy is the only way to solve the war." When I heard this, I couldn't help but shudder, and at the same time woke up from distant memories.

"What's wrong with you?" Isabel asked me.

I made up my mind, "It's okay, I'm just ......"

"Your face is not very good. ”

"It's too windy here, and I suggest talking somewhere else. ”

She seemed reluctant to leave the beautiful coast, but she accepted my advice, "Okay, listen to you, where are we going?"

"How about going to my father's estate?"

"Your father is at home, is it convenient for us to talk?"

"Look at what you said, he's not an outsider, why don't we just say what it's inconvenient to say?"

"Then let's go. ”

A Titan Eagle landed in front of us, and it seemed to know that we needed it. I whispered to it, "Will you take us to August Manor?" and we climbed onto its plump, oily back and flew into the night sky.

I felt like I was back in the night in the Alps and Isabel soaring in the night sky with the Titan sculpture. We see a huge extinct volcanic crater with many unknown flora and fauna, like a small lost world, a wild mushroom in the humid area under the thousand-year-old trees by the river, which is much smaller than the giant mushrooms, only two meters high, a mysterious cave in the depths of the mountain, a few saber-toothed tigers fighting a sloth at the foot of the snow-capped mountain not far away, a bridge halfway up the mountain and a minaret towering over the grassland become a beautiful sight here, the geyser under the bridge spews hot spring water into the sky, and several triangular flying saucers with green plants are parked on the concrete castle platform on the high mountain。 It's full of fantasy, mystery and the unknown, and what we see is just the tip of the iceberg, because there is so much to explore.

As we passed over a small abandoned castle, we saw the observatory where time was measured, and all that remained of the astronomical instruments was an empty shelf. On a triangular platform jutting out into the distance sits a large convex lens, which, according to my personal suspicion, is a weapon used to prevent the incursion of foreign ships. The Atlantean civilization will always be mysterious and unknown, and I wonder what other incredible secrets of the Atlanteans are hidden at the bottom of the mysterious Atlantic Ocean?

We walked through the large suspended rocks and a wide tunnel on the mountainside to a calm lake above the calm lake, where the most conspicuous building was the huge glass pyramid in the distant clouds, and we could clearly see a sky-blue irregular crystal suspended inside the pyramid, which I thought might be the dark element that my father was looking for. The strange blue light it emits fuses with the blue aura gathered on the surface of the pyramid, and then gathers all the energy on the water crystal, making the water crystal brighter and brighter, and finally shoots a sword-like blue pillar of light from the top of the pyramid into the night sky in an instant, radiating every few minutes. I deduce that it is an Atlantean relic, and I don't know what it was for.

Deep in the forest there is a mysterious little lake, the water in it is so clear that it has some kind of magical power, and there is no sign of the water swaying, and it is level with the ground like a mirror. In the distance, there were a few rays of light waving into the night sky, as conspicuous as the light of a searchlight, and it must have been a brightly lit city, I suspect it might be the island's tech hub.