Chapter 2

We reached the sky above the August Manor, where the greenery of the yard made the entire estate almost one with nature. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Titan sent us outside the decadent stone arch of the manor, and before we could say goodbye to it, it flew away.

Isabel and I walked into the broken arch. The cold and silent manor was enveloped in a ghostly aura, and the flowing white mist haunted us like ghosts. A sharp-eyed owl crouched quietly in a tree and watched us.

As we walked, a castle appeared in front of me, with only one window with a light on. A strangely shaped dead tree with its twisted branches stretched out like a tall devil around the castle, and many spiders had made their homes on it. We walked up the stairs to the castle entrance, where the eaves were crowded with fatal vampire bats, and outside the door was a stone angel covered in vines, and on closer inspection, a thick python was entwined around it.

The door was open and we walked inside. The colorful ceiling at the top of the corridor is hung with chandeliers made of human bones, and some strange statues are placed on both sides of the corridor. We walked down the hall, up the second floor, and then to the third floor. I knocked on the room where there was a bright light in the crack of the door, and no one said, and I knocked several times in succession, but there was still no one, and then I found that the door was not locked at all. I pushed the door open and walked in, but there was no one inside.

The furnishings are vintage, including a painting of Adam and Eve, which must have been brought by the father from Europa. In the corner of the wall stood a coffin with an open lid, which seemed to be used regularly. A lamp on the table still flickered faintly, and the shade was made of human skin.

But there seemed to be no one here, so we left the castle and went to the back garden. Here we found a sophisticated villa, and we quickly climbed onto the balcony of the villa, separated by light from an open floor-to-ceiling window. I knocked on the door, only to hear the person inside, "Please come in." ”

As soon as I heard my father's voice, I pushed the door open and walked in, "Father." ”

My father was glad to see me come back, "My child, you're back." ”

Isabel followed, and she greeted my father: "Hello, Mr. August!"

"Isabel, I knew you would come too, boys, and I'm really glad to see you. "My father arranged chairs for both of us.

Sitting across from my father was a square-faced man with a whip, strange to me and Isabel, with a crystal ball in front of him. The man looked at me and then at Isabel and greeted us in a friendly way: "Hello!"

"What do you call it?" I asked him.

"Anthony Savano. He stood up and shook hands with Isabel and me, respectively, in a gesture of friendship.

Anthony Savanno was an elder of the Dark Realm, most focused on "prophecy", and was a professor of "prophecy", "mathematics", and "navigation" at the Mekley School of Geology on Poppy Island, and was a well-known figure at the time. Now, he works under my father, and he's a big figure in the Underworld Society's ranks.

Isabel and I went to the crystal ball and saw colorful smoke in the crystal ball. "What's that?" I asked curiously.

My father glanced at the crystal ball, "It seems that I still can't find it." ”

"What can't you find?"

"Our loyal compatriots. ”

"Who?"

"Schuster? Phoenix. A few years ago, he led a team of 200 people to Europa, hoping to find the missing fragments of the Dark Element, but their whereabouts are still unknown, and it is unknown what happened to him there, and the crystal ball could have seen his whereabouts. Two weeks ago, he was no longer visible in the crystal ball, and we couldn't get in touch with him through communication devices. ”

"Could it be that the crystal ball is failing? No, it won't. Anthony was anxious, his eyes full of doubt, "Could it be that they are no longer there?"

My father slapped the table and stood up, looking manic," nonsense. Anthony's expression was slightly frightened, and my father immediately calmed down and apologized to him: "I'm sorry, Anthony, it's none of your business, I'm just worried about them, it's been two weeks, they haven't heard from them at all, and we don't know what's going on outside." ”

"Maybe we shouldn't always stay here, don't you think?"

"What the hell did they encounter? Who knows?" said the father, "Schuster has always been cautious and cannot make mistakes. ”

"Father. I chime in.

"What's the matter?"

"Did you really find the legendary dark elemental?"

"Of course. ”

"What exactly do you mean by Dark Elemental Shards?" I asked reluctantly.

He was stunned for a moment, looked at Isabel and then at me, and said, "It is the crystallization of the supermatter of the universe, and once you get it, you will have the power to destroy the world or rule the world." ”

"Crystals in a glass pyramid?"

"No, it's just a crystal left behind by the Atlanteans, and you can't control the real dark element. ”

"How did the pieces end up on Europa? What the hell is going on?"

The father was silent for a while, and his expression instantly became serious, "I don't want to talk about this topic now, you will slowly find out in the future, the most important thing now is to find Schuster? Phoenix, do you understand?"

Why didn't my father say, "Why was that fragment on Europa?" Could it be that the Dark Elemental exploded? Why was he so sure that the fragment was falling in Europa and not in America or Asia?

My father was silent for a long time before he said to me, "Don't you just want to know why the fragments landed on Europa?"

I nodded, "Yes." ”

He continued: "Then I will tell you, because in the process of our research, the dark element produces an explosion, and this substance will fly far away with the shock wave generated by the explosion, even out of the earth. Fortunately, our radar predicted where the debris could land based on the trajectory of the debris, and it was likely to fall in Sicily, Italy, and now there is only that piece of debris, and after finding it, we can ......"

At this moment, I frowned, wanting to hear my father's true purpose, for fear that his purpose was to "rule the world".

When he saw my frown, he didn't say his true purpose, but said, "I'll talk about it when I find it." ”

If his purpose really wants to destroy or conquer the whole world, I swear to stop him. Now, no matter what he wants to do with the Dark Element, I must find the Dark Elemental fragment before Schuster, in case my father gets his hands on it, bringing disaster to the world. Suddenly, an inexplicable impulse suddenly surged into my heart. "I can go find Schuster's whereabouts. I couldn't help but blurt it out.

Everyone suddenly looked at me with surprised eyes, and they were completely stunned.

"What's wrong with you?" Isabel looked puzzled by my words, "Are you crazy?"

And my father looked proud, "It's really my son, do you really want to?"

Now, I can only bite the bullet and go forward, "Yes, I decided." ”

Isabel felt helpless, she shook her head and said to me, "It's not your behavior. ”

My father asked the servants to bring me two glasses of red wine and gave me a glass, "Son, I toast you." He took a sip of his wine.

I drank the wine too. "As long as the fragments exist, I'll be able to find them, and I'd better go now, the sooner the better. I said.

"You are very brave, my child, and you are also the person I believe in the most, because you are my son, you will not deceive your father, right?"

"It is only natural for a son to serve his father. ”

"I'm relieved to have your words, and I'll find someone to inform Frank at once, hoping that he will also be willing to go with you. ”

Isabel also seems to want to join me on our adventures to Europa, she is an adventurous girl who has been honed over the years and has become fearless of the cruelty of reality. "Will you come with me?" I asked her.

My father and Anthony also turned their gazes to her at the same time, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and she said firmly, "I do." ”

My father smiled even more this time, and he asked, "Isabel, I admire your courage, but do your parents approve of this?"

"I don't think I have to ask for their opinions, it's my own business. ”

"Oh, by the way, I haven't equipped you with supplies to Europa yet, I'll take you to the technology center in Hallelujah later, there are things you didn't expect, maybe there are things you can use. The father looked at his watch, "Don't wait, we'll go now." Anthony, arrange an airship for me, and we'll go together. ”

Anthony quickly contacted an airship and waited outside the house.

We boarded the airship and flew to the Tech Center.

The interior of the airship is very simple and advanced, the wide field is bright, the size of a tennis court, it is divided into multiple rooms, and there are all the equipment necessary for life, the air here is smooth, and you can also watch the beautiful starry sky.

After about a quarter of an hour, I looked through the windshield of the cockpit and saw a brightly lit city in front of me. A towering octagonal castle sits in the middle of the lake, and the islands in the lake provide the natural foundation for the castle, and the entrance to the castle is connected by a stone bridge that rises far from the mountainside. Surrounded by a metropolis, tall towers emit beautiful beams of colorful light, and several huge aircraft carriers with combat vehicles patrol the night sky.

I also saw several buildings that looked like the Eiffel Tower scattered around the city, which were electronic systems that could defend against human nuclear attacks, which could receive information from tens of millions of kilometers away, and could also change information by cracking codes, misleading a launched nuclear bomb into changing its orbit, and sending commands to the nuclear bomb to fly to any area we wanted to attack.

Power plants and industrial facilities work around the clock, every landmark is a giant science and technology center, water from street fountains is safe to drink, exotic plants are genetically cultivated in greenhouses, experts in isolation suits study the advanced weapons of the future in transparent and sealed chemical laboratories, vacuum-piped maglev trains have become the most common means of transportation here, there is no sewage in the whole city, even the water in the sewers is clear and unpolluted, street cleaning trucks clean the roads 24 hours a day, and every factory is surrounded by green belts, making it a completely low-carbon city。

We landed at the airship take-off and landing area at the airfield. Led by my father, we started walking into this tech city. Since Anthony still had one job to complete, he said goodbye to us outside the gates of a UFO research center.

We first visited the factory of the colorless liquid silver and tested the power of this new liquid silver bullet with clones of the Evil Spirits, and we were surprised by the results of the experiment, which corroded the skin in an instant, contaminated the blood, and the victim could die in a matter of seconds, eventually turning into a pile of dust. We also visited the aircraft base, where there are flying aircraft carriers, butterfly aircraft, upgraded versions of the Horten Ho2-29 stealth fighter in Nazi Germany's "Doomsday" plan during World War II, etc., which are modified by modern technology, like a tiger with wings, and are also the cutting-edge weapons of the future, which are fully capable of turning a military power into a living disaster.

In the command center, we see a five-dimensional dynamic image of the Night Island in the center of the hall, and as long as you wear a special smart glove, you can control the entire image at will, and you can even view its entire sectional view. In the human world, these high-tech technologies can only be read in science fiction. In the lab, everyone wears smart contact lenses that project images in front of their eyes and manipulate them with touch. There is also a chip that can be implanted into the human body, which contains personal information, deposits, file information, etc., and can convey personal information or payment amounts to others through a body scanner, which greatly solves people's burden and avoids information theft. We also found a lot of people in Nazi uniforms sitting in a glass lab filled with white gas, with neural sensors attached to them.

"What's wrong with them?" I asked, pointing to the Nazi officers.

The father smiled and said, "They are still alive, but they are sleeping, they have been sleeping here for decades." ”

"So they came before us. ”

"Of course not, remember that it was near the end of World War II, and we learned that Nazi Germany was on the verge of extinction. Later, several U-boats landed here to everyone's surprise, and they were manned by Nazi "black technology" experts, who carried a lot of drawings about black technology, so we controlled them and let them continue to invent and develop new weapons. Later, we combined their technology with that left behind by the Atlanteans to create the Science Center. ”

"Why are these Nazis here?"

"They want to rise again, and they want to use these weapons to launch a surprise attack on the US Federation on the other side of the Europa continent, and they also plan to research more terrible lethal weapons, so we stopped them and let their nerves lie dormant forever, rest assured, we will not let them wake up, but I don't want humans to discover this place again, if I find human activity in the surrounding waters here, I will not hesitate to destroy them, everything here will not be allowed to be obtained by humans." ”

"So, do you want to be like a Nazi?"

"Of course not. ”

"What's that?"

"I just don't want the land on Earth to be harmed by the land that is not polluted by human garbage, and once humans know about this place, they will inevitably come to develop it, which will lead to a fight, and everything here will disappear with it. ”

At this time, a young woman who was flying a flight simulator caught my attention, and I smelled human breath in her, so I asked my father, "Father, is she human?"

"Good eyesight. ”

"You said you wouldn't let humans set foot on this land, why can?"

"She came uninvited. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"It was on May 25, 2012, when a plane from the 30s made a forced landing on the beaches of the South Beach, and our people found her, judging by her dress and hairstyle, it was the style of the 30s of the last century, and when she told us where she came from, we were shocked that she was Emilia Earhart, a famous female pilot of the United States in the 30s of the last century. ”

"Emilia Earhart, July 2, 1937, the first American female pilot to fly across the Pacific Ocean. ”

"Exactly. ”

"How is this possible?"

"I think it's very likely that she entered the gate of time and space when she flew across the Pacific Ocean. When we told her about 2012, she was completely stunned, she couldn't believe it was true, and then she learned that she had been pronounced dead by the government on January 5, 1939. ”

"Then why didn't she hurry back to China and stay here?"

"Because she doesn't want to go back to that federal country full of aggression, greed and lies. ”

"Does she have a position here?"

"Of course, most of us agreed on her piloting skills, and she became a flight instructor here for at least three years. ”

"But she is human, she can't stand the erosion of time, and one day she will grow old. ”

"Rest assured, our science and technology center already has human-machine integration and the most advanced cell gene technology, which will keep her young forever. ”

After listening to some of Emilia's deeds, we developed a sense of reverence for her, and Isabel jokingly said: "If I have the chance, I will fly over the Atlantic, no, the Pacific." ”

I smiled, "Then good luck in advance." Then, I looked up at the dynamic cross-sectional view of each of the new weapons displayed on the big screen, and I was surprised, "It's not weak." ”

"These weapons may be available, and maybe there are many more that have not been processed. ”

"This is just a façade. "At the beginning, those Nazis not only wanted to use their last high-tech to attack the United States Commonwealth, but also planned to attack the United Kingdom and Canada, using sophisticated weapons to wipe out the Atlantic fleets of the United States, Britain, and Canada in one fell swoop." ”

"I'm not interested in your weapons, can we talk about the Dark Elemental Fragments. I said.

"What I mean is simple, I just want to provide you with some supplies. ”

At this time, Anthony suddenly appeared next to us, and he said to my father, "It's almost, absolutely fine." ”

Father nodded, "Okay." As if suddenly remembering something, he turned his gaze to Isabel, "There is another thing I didn't tell you, we have a party going to Greenland, and your father is one of them, and he may take you there." ”

"I'm not going. Isabel said in a firm tone.

"It's dangerous for you to follow Alex, the continent of Europa is full of dangers, and I am afraid that there will be no return, Schuster is an example, his whereabouts are still unknown. ”

"No matter how sinister the world is, I think it's my responsibility to help Alex find the Dark Elemental Shard, and no one can change my mind. ”

"What a brave boy, Alex didn't misunderstand you. Alex, don't you feel very safe with such Isabel by your side? Alex, you listen to me well, you have to take care of Isabel, if something happens to her, I will not be the first to spare you. ”

"I'll take care of her, father, don't worry. I said.

My father gave me a smile and looked at the watch on his wrist, "Look, it's been five hours." Anthony, you've worked hard. ”

"I wonder when we're going to Europa?" asked Anthony.

"We still have some time to prepare, and it will take months to find the best candidates, the right route, and careful planning. ”

"Okay, then you can talk about it, and if it's okay, I'll go and get ready first. ”

"Goodbye. ”

Anthony left.

"If it's all right, should we go and get ready?" I asked my father.

He pondered, "Before that, I'll take you somewhere where you might need." ”

So he led us to a small arms depot with a large number of advanced guns and ammunition to deal with the evil spirits and werewolves. My father explained to us the performance and lethality of these new weapons. He picked up a pistol called "Tip of the Wasteland" and showed me that the guards here were each equipped with such a pistol, and once the bullet entered the body, it would immediately drill through the body, making life worse than death, and the venom on it would quickly spread through the body until the victim's body became a pile of ashes. It sounds scary, but if you deal with powerful vampires or werewolves, will it have the same effect that my father said? We quickly tested the weapons and the effects of various bullets.

It seems that I have to go to Europa, and the reason why I rushed to Europa to find the Dark Elemental Fragment is entirely because: I don't want the Dark Elemental Fragment to fall into the hands of my father, once he gets the Fragment, maybe it will be even more terrifying than the Nazis. As soon as I find the Dark Elemental Fragment, I will destroy it and leave it unobstructed by anyone. I'm sorry for Isabel, I haven't been safe since she joined me and Frank, and now I'm going to let her go on adventures with me, I feel like I feel a little guilty, but if I don't take her there, I'm afraid of an emotional rift.

It was not too early, and my father seemed to have not rested for a long time, and Isabel and I decided to leave, but my father, for some reason, suddenly disappeared from us without a trace.