Chapter 460: See Xu Xiake Again
The upper part of the disc-shaped body has the largest space in the boat, but this part is extremely damaged, and it is difficult to restore the complete form with the notch.
The only thing that is certain is that, by the standards of an average human, the top passenger compartment will not carry more than four people.
The tail of the long cone in the lower half is relatively well preserved.
The cross-section of the breach reveals numerous unevenly sized pores, like some kind of bone.
Lu Yao looked at the bottom of the spiral.
Inside, there are small compartment-like structures side by side, each of which is crescent-shaped, and these meniscus spaces are next to each other, and they follow the spiral structure until the bottom.
He took a closer look and noticed that there were clear grooves in the crescent moon grids. These grooves are like some kind of slender and delicate pipes that connect each crescent cell together.
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The Wave Ship was empty, and it was difficult to deduce what it had contained in the past, and what it relied on to propel it to sail and break boundaries.
But Lu Yao had a faint feeling.
Both the material and the internal structure of this thing exhibit a form similar to that of a biological skeleton.
Could it be that the Wave Ship is really a giant conch that has never been seen before, a large creature vehicle that has been modified?
As he pondered, the tyrant made a discovery.
"My lord, there's another one in the air."
The apostle, wearing a helmet of bones, pointed diagonally to the heavens in front of him.
Lu Yao looked up.
This time, the boat was not stuck in the cracks, but drifted in the air with the wind. It swayed and stumbled in the air like a large kite, but it maintained a delicate balance.
There are quirks.
Lu Yao summoned [Hurricane] and grabbed it from the air to the ground.
The snail boat fell into the dust, and a small bird with red light condensed flew out of the opening, and it flew around Lu Yao, and then flapped its wings in front of the boat and signaled to enter.
Then the bird dissipates into the air.
Lu Yao could clearly feel that this was a miracle left by the fire of faith.
The boat on the ground was completely silent.
Unlike the one pulled out of the gap, this one is very intact, it has no signs of damage, but its health, mana, and speed are still 0, and it is still unusable.
"This one is a lot bigger."
The tyrant also looked at the new harvest, and his eyes opened with a hint of curiosity.
Even though she knew it was just an uncontrolled prop, she kept a safe distance from it.
"My lord, please allow me to go in first and make sure the environment inside is safe."
Lu Yao wanted to say no, but he still respected the tyrant's profession.
"Go ahead, stay safe."
"Yes."
With the permission of the order, the tyrant cautiously approached the target.
She looked serious, her right hand pressed to the hilt of her sword at her waist, and her left hand pressed the shell of the boat, and she peered in through the wide screw before deftly entering it. This appearance reminded Lu Yao of the cats exploring the grass in the community.
The Apostle was inspecting the inside of the vehicle, while Lu Yao focused on the shell.
At the top of the boat is a wide saucer, like an oversized nut.
The disc cap is made up of a combination of fan-shaped pieces that are connected to each other, like some kind of special scale armor attached to the outside. These fan-shaped pieces are also grayish-brown in color, between stone and bone shells.
Lu Yao touched it with his hand.
The touch is smoother and textured, reminding him of the back of a crab.
It's just that the shell of the boat is thicker, and the fan-shaped dorsal armor is layered on top of each other.
Lu Yao tried to press it with his hands, and found that the top shell could be further retracted.
It is very flexible, and the overall structure is also very ingenious, like an umbrella that can be opened and closed, but it takes a lot of strength to do it.
If it is somehow retracted, the flying saucer-shaped boat becomes a thin cone that can sail like a needle or a cone or pierce into the sea.
Do you want to break a piece and take a look?
Lu Yao was pondering, and the voice of a tyrant came from the snail shell.
"My lord, everything is safe in the boat."
"But there's an unknown handwriting on the top."
Handwriting?
Lu Yao immediately lowered his head and dived inside.
The saucer area is divided into four pieces by the inner bone, like a crescent lattice at the bottom. It is not difficult to deduce that the partition here is a private space used by the occupants.
There are several coilable shells in the partition that appear to be fixed or used as a protective structure, similar to the deformable scalloped shell at the top.
The unidentified handwriting of the tyrant was on the wall in one of the partitions.
It reads at the top.
"Tale of the Journey to the Valley"
Chinese traditional, Duanxiu's calm calligraphy style, Xu Xiake's handwriting is very recognizable.
Lu Yao's gaze went all the way down.
At the end of the long article, the inscription is indeed "written by Jiangyin Xu Hongzu Xia".
He immediately confirmed that the little red bird was the guide left by Xu Xiake, and relied on miracles to keep the flight and relative integrity of this boat.
Lu Yao immediately started from the beginning
"The first seven lines of 90,000 miles arrived at Wanqu ......"
According to the travelogue, Xu Xiake managed to find and reach the rumored country of Wanqu, but it was not as he imagined, and it became an empty place without knowing what happened.
The whole world continues to collapse, but there is another force pulling here, so that the Wanqu country will not be torn apart. For such a miraculous phenomenon, Xu Xiake investigated everywhere and found the reason.
Wanqu Country is on a bizarre entryway.
The other side of the passage is constantly exerting suction force, causing the Wanqu Kingdom to shatter and shrink, while the forces on the outside side are pulling and pulling the surrounding world, allowing a large amount of debris to merge into the Wanqu Kingdom.
The two internal and external forces interact with each other, causing a wonderful state of Wanqu country collapsing and reuniting.
The unique dangerous natural environment of Wanqu Country makes traveler Xu Xiake unforgettable. After the first visit, he revisited the same place, and the second time he stayed here for a few days to further observe the world.
Then Xu Xiake made a new discovery.
「…… This is not Wanqu has not been explored before, and it is a shame to swim fast."
Lu Yao translated word by word with the help of a search engine, and he barely understood it.
Xu Xiake believes that this is actually not Wanqu Country. He couldn't see the true face of Wanqu Country when he revisited again, and he felt both a sense of joy and regret for getting the truth.
In the long text, he gives detailed arguments and inquests.
Wanqu country is said to be the country where the people of Wanqu are located, flying thousands of miles with snail boats, going to the sky and entering the water, everywhere. But there is no water in this world, and there are still several snail boats left, and they are all out of control.
These snail boats were considered by Xu Xiake to be "tamed by spirits", which means that he judged that the Wave Boat was a creature that had been domesticated by the people of Wanqu.
is consistent with Lu Yao's guess.
The difference is that Xu Xiake said in the article that the snail boat is not only a vehicle, but also a kind of "shell of the house".
The people of Wanqu cannot leave the boat for a long time to appear in the world, and this vehicle is as important to them as the shell on the back of an insect.
If you can't return to it, you will turn into a "dragon and black phoenix, flying and screaming".
The people of Wanqu turned into dragons and black phoenixes, and flew around in the air screaming—a kind of mutation and bestiality.
Lu Yao continued to look down.
Xu Xiake recounted that the snail boats flew through the passage of this Wanqu country because the people of Wanqu who controlled it had left or died. The rest of the snail boats regained their spirit nature, killing and hunting each other.
The winner eats the loser, but the snail shell can still float, and even borrows it to cast an illusory shadow, becoming a local spectacle.
But this is not a purely natural phenomenon, but a deliberate bait released by hunting snail boats to lure outsiders in, who then rush up to hunt them down.
Xu Xiake killed a few snail boats for the first time, and even cooked snail meat, thinking that the taste was very bad, the smell of mud and sand was very strong, and the meat was as old as a rag.
However, except for Xu Xiake, almost no gods came here, and the destructive-level gravity of the outer vortex world alone was a natural persuasion.
The gods don't have the power to exploit the vortex world, and the title gods don't waste time and the fire of faith in a world of debris of destruction.
Seeing this, the assumption in Lu Yao's heart was confirmed.
Sure enough, if they are not strong enough, who would dare to travel for a long time in the perilous void?
Xu Xiake is not a weak scholar, but a monster-level title god who can tear a snail boat alive, and has rich experience in survival and combat in the wild.
At the end of the travelogue, the ancestor of the trekking changed his words again.
"This is the land of Wanqu, not the country of Wanqu"
It is said that this place does belong to Wanqu, but it is not the native country of Wanqu.
Lu Yao can understand.
The world where the feather people live is on the other side of the void, and this is a passage from the past. Looking at the current situation on the ground, it should have been abandoned for a long time and can no longer be used.
In order to facilitate the distinction, let's call it Waiwan Canal here for the time being.
It was a point mentioned by Xu Xiake at the end of the article that made Lu Yao feel energetic.
「…… The treasure of the center of the earth is not visible, and I want to lie down in a few steps."
He said that there was some kind of treasure here, but he couldn't really see it, and he was so annoyed that he couldn't sleep.
That treasure is deep in the heart of the earth, guarded by unknowable monsters.
But once it is about to drill into the center of the earth, it is likely to cause the balance of the two forces to be broken, causing the destruction of the entire area, and triggering the attack of the monster, and it will be difficult for Xu Xiake himself to survive.
So he finally chose to leave, leaving this line for the latecomers.
Even the well-informed Xu Xiake tossed and turned......
Lu Yao looked at his feet.
Of course dude has to dig and give it a try.