Chapter 4: Trapped

Paradise Island ushered in its centuries-old unchanged sunset, and the fiery red glow covered the entire sky at sea level.

The island is close to the center, and on top of the towering terrain, a building surrounded by rocks and vegetation -

Paradise Island's 'Birdcage' prison welcomed its first foreign customer in more than 200 years.

"Hey, hey... I don't really have any ill will..."

Chen Sheng raised his hands in the air, and was pushed and shoved by two white Amazonian female warriors who pretended to be expressionless, one after the other, and thrown into the iron bar.

"You see, I don't even have any weapons in my hands, and I can't pose any threat to you when I'm alone, so I am brought to this place indiscriminately, is this your hospitality?"

In his hands, Chen Sheng held the rusty but still hard crude iron bars in his hands, and tried to persuade the two of them, although they pretended to be serious, they always secretly looked at the Amazonian warriors who looked at him.

"Huh."

A white female warrior standing in the doorway glanced at him and shook her head slowly.

"Believe me, man, you don't want to see the true 'hospitality' of our Amazons. If you're still a good acquaintance, you'd better keep your chattering mouth shut and honestly wait for our queen's arraignment. ”

"Until then, you just need to stay here honestly and don't try to play any tricks, otherwise our Amazons' bows and spears will not be as gentle as we are now."

After the female warrior finished speaking, she shook the steel spear in her hand, which was exquisitely made and looked very sharp.

‘... Nima, gentle with me? What kind of gentleness is this? ’

Chen Sheng was extremely speechless in his heart, this group of Amazon women was really full of muscles, it seemed that they had some misunderstanding of the word gentleness.

"Ugh."

Chen Sheng couldn't help but feel aggrieved in his heart, his performance was too stupid.

What the hell did you say? Amnesia is a reason that the Amazons don't believe easily at all.

But what should he say? Do you want to say that you have traveled from another world? I'm afraid that if I really say this, I will only be more suspicious, and maybe I will be caught in the palace to be sliced and studied by now.

As for other reasons, the situation was urgent just now, and he didn't know how to make up a reliable reason casually, because no matter how he said it, it might not be reliable.

It's just that in his subconscious luck psychology, he originally thought that he had neither weapons nor any hostile moves, relying on Diana to help him out of the siege, this group of Amazon women would not treat him as a prisoner, but the facts show that Chen Sheng thought too simply.

It's neither a movie, nor a novel, nor a comic, but it's hard to predict how a group of Amazonian women will treat an unexpected intruder like him.

"Fake... Why don't you cross over, but you just crossed over to this 'daughter country'. ”

Chen Sheng scratched his hair irritably.

Paradise Island is a place more beautiful than any real world, but it is home to a terrifying army of women, in a sense, it is a perfect response to the old Chinese saying that 'the most beautiful thing is usually the deadliest'.

"I don't know what era it is... It seems that Wonder Woman has not yet left Paradise Island, at this point in time, there are no superheroes like Superman and Batman in this world... That's right...! ”

Chen Sheng, who had to give up on the status quo for the time being, took a few steps back and leaned against the solid dirt wall of the prison, and he suddenly thought of the mysterious voice that appeared in his ears before.

"What was the voice that appeared just now, could it be the legendary traverser plug-in? Goldfinger? ”

Thoughts swirled through his mind, and he muttered to himself.

“... System? ”

Chen Sheng glanced at the two female guards outside who had already turned their backs, and whispered in a slight voice.

He didn't have time to confirm the speculation in his heart just now, although his situation was not optimistic, he finally had some time to breathe.

“.......”

There was no movement.

Nor did any voice appear to answer him.

'Am I just hallucinating?' ’

Chen Sheng did not give up, he tried to use various methods to try to awaken his imaginary 'system', but it was not until half an hour had passed...

"Open System"

"System Live"

"Wake up the system"

"Activate System"

"Lord God, I want to check the mission"

"Knock you, system!"

- He still got nothing.

Poof!

Chen Sheng sat down on the haystacks on the ground of the prison with some disappointment.

Aren't traversers usually supposed to have a golden finger?

Could it be that the routines and online articles serialized on the Internet of a certain novel are all deceiving him?

But what was that mysterious voice he had heard before?

..........

Night

Paradise Island, the royal palace.

Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, dressed in a splendid robe, was sitting upright on a golden throne at the end of the main hall.

She leaned slightly to the left of her upper body, her elbows rested on the armrest of the seat, her arms bent upward, her four fingers propped up and her palms supported on her forehead hanging slightly, her eyelids slightly closed, as if she was pondering something.

For a moment, a dark-skinned Amazonian warrior walked up the silent hall.

She came to Hippolyta's throne and fell on one knee.

"Her Majesty."

"How's that man doing?"

Hippolyta asked without raising her head.

"Back to Your Majesty, that intruder is now in a real prison, and there are several of our sisters guarding it."

“... Well. ”

Seeing that Hippolyta seemed to be thinking about something, a look of confusion appeared on the dark-skinned Amazonian warrior woman's face, thought about it, and asked in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, when are you going to interrogate this intruder?"

"Interrogation?"

Hippolyta, with her head down, seemed to chew on these two words for a moment, then opened her eyelids, slowly lowered her arms, and sat up straight.

"No interrogation. When the moon rises to the highest point in the sky, you call on some of the palace's most elite warriors to take out the man. ”

"Huh?"

The Amazonian female warrior below looked stunned, and seemed to be a little unresponsive.

"It's... Why is that? Your Majesty, is there any special danger to that man? ”

Hippolyta did not answer the warrior immediately, she thought of her unexplained throbbing throbbing in the middle of the night.

As the queen of the Amazons, she has one of the biggest secrets in her heart, and that is that she was born with a psychic sense that can sense the presence of the gods.

And now, the gods are long gone, and the only 'god' that may be left is the worst enemy of their Amazons.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the sworn enemy of Hippolyta.

More than two hundred years had passed, and after so many years, Hippolyta had almost forgotten what it was like to be in danger, but only last night she felt it again.

Regardless of whether this sense of danger points to that 'demon' or what kind of connection it has with Chen Sheng, the sudden intruder today, she will strangle any potential danger that may occur in the cradle.

"That's right, for Paradise Island, any intruder that appears is dangerous, this intruder who fell from the sky has brought an unforeseen crisis to our Paradise Island, man, can't stay."

Hippolyta said lightly.

"This..."

The dark-skinned Amazonian warrior was stunned for a second, and subconsciously continued

"But Your Majesty, why now, if you think that the man who came out of nowhere has brought a risk to Paradise Island, why didn't you directly at that time..."

"Because of Diana."

Hippolyta was silent for a second.

"This matter must be kept in secret from Princess Diana."

"She doesn't understand anything yet."

“.....”

The dark-skinned Amazon warrior underneath was about to reply, but suddenly turned his head and found a tall figure walking behind her.

"You go down first."

The bronze armor glowed with a warm yellow glow under the light of the main hall, and the sonorous and powerful sound of metal friction froze, followed by a low, but faintly majestic, neutral female voice.

The female warrior looked up, but it was the commander of the Amazon Army, General Antiop, who was still dressed in battle armor.

"I have something to talk to Her Majesty."

Antiope glanced at the female warrior and turned her gaze to Hippolyta in front of her.

“... Be. ”

The female warrior rolled her gaze back and forth at the two supreme commanders of the Amazons, and bowed back first.

"Antiope, what do you mean by that?"

Hippolyta cast her sharp gaze on the tall and heroic figure in front of her, frowning at her own sister in front of her.

"Her Majesty. We are not murderers who do whatever they want. ”

Antiope looked directly into Hippolyta's eyes and replied calmly.

"You know that's not what we Amazons do. This goes against our traditions. ”

“... All I know is. I should protect my daughter. ”

Hippolyta's voice suddenly rose up.

She rose from her throne and stepped down, within a finger's throw of Antiope, both of whom could see all the subtle expressions on each other's cheeks.

"Antiope, does even my sister now know that she is against me?"

"Your Majesty, I have never been against you."

Antiope remained calm.

"Oh yes? So who secretly trained Diana martial arts behind my back? ”

Hippolyta's eyes narrowed almost in a straight line.

"You know that the stronger she is, the easier it will be for Ares to perceive her."

As she spoke slowly, Hippolyta's face even overflowed with a trace of extremely anxious anger.

"At the beginning, I didn't agree with you training Diana, but you went against my will."

"Don't you feel that inexplicable sense of danger last night!"

Hippolyta knew that, as her own sister, Antiope also had an extraordinary perception of danger.

She can also sense the gods.

"Ares has always been alive. We have no way of knowing when he will find Diana, will find us. Or tomorrow, or a year, or ten years, or now. ”

At this, Hippolyta took a deep breath.

"If he attacks Paradise Island, he'll take Diana and that thing."

"Antiope, do you understand? I had to nip that possibility in the cradle. I have to promise that there will be no accidents on Paradise Island. ”

"I understand, my sister. I know better than anyone. ”

Antiope's eyes didn't mean to dodge.

"You understand? What do you understand? What if this strange man was sent by Ares? ”

Hippolyta took another step forward.

"This man actually fell from the sky, and just happened to fall on our paradise island? Who do you think will fall from the sky? ”

"My sister, you need to be calm, I'm not covering anyone, I don't mean anything, at the end of the day, I'm just pointing out that you're already very easy to go extreme when it comes to Diana. And my job is to make sure that our queen is always right. ”

Antiope stood unmoved, untouched by Hippolyta.

"I love Diana as much as you do, and she is not the most cherished 'daughter' to me?"

Antiopus had no children. Her eyes are incomparably clear, and her sonorous words are also from the bottom of her heart, and in the long years of her life, the only person she cherishes is her own sister's daughter, Diana.

It's just that she may be more of the one who plays the 'master'.

"But that doesn't excuse us from crossing the line. If we really take the lives of others away without knowing it, then what is the difference between us and the demon of Ares? ”

In the end, Antiope had already raised his voice.

"We can protect Diana as we do now, but you and I both know that this can't last forever."

Antiope sighed deeply in his heart.

After a moment of silence, she continued.

"We've been hiding on Paradise Island for too long. We've even forgotten a little bit about it... We are still in this 'world'. ”

“.........”

Hippolyta was silent, but her expression changed very ugly.

"My sister, as you said, if Ares does find Paradise Island, maybe it will be difficult for us to resist him, and maybe we will pay a big price, but there is only one exception."

Antiope's eyes glowed with a strange light.

"That's Diana herself."

"I've never doubted it."

Hippolyta's face changed for a long time before she sighed.

“... Antiope. You know, I've never been afraid of Ares. But Diana..."

She spoke quietly.

"I understand, my Queen."

Antiope took a step back and fell to one knee.

"We Amazonians all have our own mission. Diana... There are no exceptions. ”

"The only thing we can do to protect her is to let her make her own choices to follow her heart."

"She is our most precious treasure. But equally, she will be the most powerful and outstanding warrior of our Amazons. ”

Antiope summed it up word for word, in a categorical tone.

"I believe that she will definitely become a great hero in the future."

"Just like Hercules."

"Hercules... The same...? ”

Hippolyta muttered to herself, she seemed to be a little out of strength, and slowly fell back a few steps, and sat down on the golden throne with a very complicated expression on her face.

"That's right."

Antiope looked up, his eyes as clear as the stars in the sky.

"I've always believed in that."

After a long silence between the two Amazons, Antiop was the first to break the air that was about to freeze.

"That man, tomorrow I will interrogate him personally, and if I make sure that he is harmless, I will arrange for the fighters to send him away."

.............