Chapter 1: The Nightingale
It's quiet and peaceful, everyone is elegant and beautiful, the streets are spotless, and the so-called paradise is nothing more than that.
--Preface to Castle in the Sky
Walking out of this English-style building, Li Shangcai found that this lady seemed to be full of curiosity about the whole world. She is curious when she sees a panda acting as a doll in a storage store, a cute little fox on the street, and an elephant carrying heavy loads asks if he is tired. He also planned to take Li Shang to the coffee shop next to listen to the lark singing, but Li Shang didn't want to waste his time here, he just wanted to send this lady to Xi'an as soon as possible, and then leave with a huge amount of money.
Li Shang decided to take a glider from the Sky City to Xi'an, far away. Moored in the sea of clouds next to the Sky Castle, the glider looks like an old-fashioned sailboat with two wings and travels through the sky.
As soon as Xiong He stepped on the glider, she became curious about everything around her, and she asked curiously: "Why does this boat fly in mid-air, it only relies on two wings, won't it fall?" Li Shang can only explain that this is the technology of the 22nd century, which is available in every city, and as for a more detailed explanation, he doesn't know.
"You seem curious about this place? Haven't you usually come out? Li Shang checked the guns and ammunition in his schoolbag, made sure that there was no less, and asked casually.
"My dad is the city lord of Sky City, he has been very strict with me since I was a child, I have never come out, this time I go home, it is a rare opportunity to go out of the city." Xiong He lay on the guardrail of the glider: "Eh, Li Shang, what kind of bird do you see that?" ”
"That's a wild goose." Li Shang was still counting the weapons in his schoolbag: "Huh? Why is there one less bullet, I haven't used it along the way, count again. ”
"Eh, what kind of bird is that?"
"That's supposed to be a cuckoo." Li Shang glanced up and said angrily.
"Eh, Li Shang, look at that bird, it's so big."
Li Shang glanced up, and was about to answer, but then as if he remembered something, he raised it suddenly: "Damn, that's a nightingale!" ”
The Nightingale is the guard of the city in the sky, an incomparably gigantic steel monster with wings spread even larger than an entire glider. It usually doesn't go out of the city easily, but as long as it goes out of the city, it means that the lord of Sky City, the unlucky child's father, finds out that he has taken his daughter away.
The nightingale struck the glider quickly, and the sound of its wings breaking through the air almost punctured Li Shang's eardrums.
Li Shang didn't have time to think about it, he took out a rocket launcher from his school bag, leaned it on his shoulder, and the scope popped out from the left side, locking and launching in one go.
"Death to Lao Tzu!" Then a cannonball shot out of the launcher with a tail fire, hitting the nightingale's head and exploding in mid-air. The loud roar caused the surrounding passengers to fall to the ground.
But the nightingale was not damaged in the slightest, only changed direction. Rushed over the top of the glider and then turned back halfway. Li Shang retracted the launcher and realized that ordinary weapons could no longer solve this steel monster, and it was just that the city lord was afraid of killing his daughter, so the nightingale did not directly hit the glider.
"Let's go!" Li Shang shouted, then took out a gun from his schoolbag and shot a few shots into the sky: "Now the boat listens to me, everyone lies on the ground and is not allowed to move!" ”
Then he ran to the front of the glider with Xiong He, and the wheelhouse was here. The pilot here has received the order of the city lord, the speed of the glider has slowed down, and the wings on both sides have changed to gliding mode, if this continues, the city lord's guards will soon catch up from behind.
Li Shang was in the aisle and explained to Xiong He: "Listen, there are bad guys chasing you behind, I will take you home, I will come back immediately, stay here well." Then Li Shang rushed to the door of the cab and fired several shots, breaking the hatch, and the two co-pilots immediately pounced to control Li Shang. Li Shang took out a Tang knife from his schoolbag, slashed it straight at the co-pilot's waist, divided it into two pieces, and then shot the other co-pilot. The main driver was just about to stand up when he was shot dead by Li Shang several times.
Li Shang walked to the driver's seat, pushed the main driver's body aside, tore his clothes, and wiped the blood from the driver's seat as a rag: "Let me think about it, how to drive." Then he pushed the starting gate with his left hand to the end, and the glider accelerated violently, flying quickly into the distance.
But at this time, the city lord obviously didn't want to let go of Li Shang, and the nightingale flew over from behind at a faster speed, even if Li Shang had used the maximum speed, he didn't fly the nightingale's wings. The huge nightingale pounced in front of the driver's seat, and the fierce claws smashed the windshield of the driver's seat in one fell swoop, and the huge air flow suddenly poured in, blowing Li Shang away from the driver's seat, hitting his head against the wall, and he was in a trance, and he saw the nightingale smash the driver's cab. A paw stretched out to Xiong He, at this moment, suddenly lightning and thunder, countless white lights appeared on Xiong He's body, the surrounding time and space were distorted, the huge power made the nightingale in front of him be crushed, and the hole in the glider was repaired, as if... As if time has been turned back?
At this moment, Li Shang's head suddenly felt a sharp pain, and he remembered the legend that circulated among the people:
"The lord of the Sky City, Papa Bear, is a legendary prophet who can predict the future, so he created the magical Sky City, where all disasters can be predicted in advance by Papa Bear, so as to obliterate them in the cradle. But there was only one thing he could not have predicted, and that was the fate of his daughter.
This is because Papa Bear's power does not come from himself, but from his daughter. ”
The scene in front of him reminded Li Shang of that legend.
Xiong He walked in front of Li Shang, then leaned over, looked at several corpses on the ground, his calm face was dissatisfied, and said slowly: "You are too violent." ”
Then he stretched out his hand and brushed it in front of several corpses, and then, a strange scene happened, the wound on the corpse flashed white, and then the wound was strangely healed. Several bodies stood up from the ground, not yet aware of what had happened.
Xiong He said softly: "Let's go sail." Several people sat in the driver's seat as if they were out of control.
"Do you really have legendary abilities?" Li Shang said in surprise.
"I don't have the legendary ability to destroy the world." Xiong He stepped aside, his eyes were flat, as if he was saying something innocculate: "What I have is the ability to see through the timeline of a person or an event, I can see through your past, your future, and I can also modify them."
I can set back your life to a time when something didn't happen, like you shot them just now, I can go back before you shoot them, so that their wounds heal. It is also possible to fast-forward the nightingale's life to the point where it decays, thus destroying it. ”
Li Shang suddenly woke up, I was afraid that when she arrived at the door of her room, all her thoughts had already been seen through, so why did she still come out with herself: "Then you, then why did you still come out with me." ”