The conversation with Captain Borken was smooth and pleasant—at least on the surface.After the talkative captain left, Hao Ren and Vivien began to sort through the information they had just gathered."
This old captain is not ordinary," although Vivien has been poor for ten thousand years, she still has a little accumulation of human sophistication, and she can see at a glance many problems that Boken unconsciously revealed, "He behaves very well, talkative, enthusiastic, and sincere, but it is because he is too talkative, too enthusiastic and too sincere, that it seems not so natural, at least it has exceeded his description of his identity." ”"An ordinary captain of a civilian ship, who has been doing passenger business over the 'rift in the world' all year round," Hao Ren recalled the old captain's introduction to himself, "Unless there will be a spaceship with the same strange style as us in this world, a 'ordinary captain' like him will not behave so calmly after boarding the starship."
All his curiosity was kept to a minimum, and he seemed to be enthusiastic and sincere, but many of the things he said were vague, and his enthusiasm and sincerity were a big problem in itself—he didn't need to be so close to us strangers who met for the first time, even if we had just saved his life, and the enthusiasm of gratitude was not the same as the enthusiasm of the near. ”Leah shook her head beside her, "But it doesn't matter. ”Hao Ren smiled: "It's true, it doesn't matter. ”His party was just a passer-by, and he stopped in Lahrien for a short time to investigate some things, and the grievances or conspiracies of the people here had nothing to do with his group, and the captain named Boken, even if he hid anything, was only for self-preservation or similar purposes, and it would not affect the operation itself."
But from him we can learn some basic things about the world," Lily said, "and he doesn't consciously hide anything from him." ”Hao Ren said the collected information one by one: "The place where the Lahrien people divide this planet into two is called the 'World Rift', from which the ocean, the land and even the entire planet are torn in half, and there are several stable elemental vortices above the World Rift, which can provide energy for the magic equipment, so the locals built a 'airship' that can fly to follow the elemental vortex across the world rift and connect the two hemispheres; The eastern and western hemispheres of the planet each have relatively powerful kingdoms, and there are dozens of large and small kingdoms in the eastern hemisphere.
The Western Hemisphere has a unified and powerful empire called Dragon, and there are no other climate-forming countries on the half planet where the empire is entrenched, only a bunch of loose city-states and even barbarian dominions live around the Dragonon Empire in the form of vassals......
"The data terminal projected a holographic image of the planet Lahrien, which was taken in outer space by a probe, and included the ancient kingdom of Isu, the White City Federation, the Dragonon Empire, Words such as world rifts emerge on the image.Of course, this map is not perfect, after all, the information obtained from Boken is quite limited."
There is a balance between the White City Federation and the Dragonon Empire, but it is not the balance of friendly neighbors, but purely because of the difficult transportation between the two halves of the planet, the limited elemental vortex simply cannot send enough troops to the opposite side of the planet, so there is often friction between the two sides but there is never a real fight," Hao Ren said as he pointed to several place names on the holographic map, "I don't know what the strength of the two sides is, but this big empire is significantly stronger than any single kingdom on the other side of the planet......
However, listening to what Boken meant, the Isu Ancient Kingdom in the White City Federation is a ruthless stubble, and as the head of the Federation, it has been firmly on the throne of the boss for hundreds of years. ”"The White Pearl was attacked by pirates after passing through the Sea of Shining Clouds," Lily added, "Listening to the old captain, these pirates are quite common, because of the high concentration of high-altitude elemental power in Rahrien, and all kinds of natural phenomena that hinder observation, pirates hide in the turbulent sea of clouds, and often come out to attack lone civilian ships......"
Hao Ren digested these materials in his mind and looked at Leah who was sitting on the side: "Obviously, The planet has taken on a whole new world line after being torn apart and reshaped, and the 'history' of the previous world's destruction has completely disappeared, and the new history has developed entirely on the basis of the 'natural phenomenon' of the planet being divided into two halves.The captain had no idea of the end of the world—and no such legends had ever been handed down. ”"That is, the history of this planet has been completely reshaped," Leah sighed softly, "at least in human society.Coupled with the fact that Rahrion has also undergone a devastating 'rebirth' in terms of physical structure, it may be difficult for us to find any clues from before the Dark Realm Age on this planet. ”Vivian rubbed her forehead: "It's man-made, you can't leave no clues."
Now I'm interested in the Dragon Empire, which Boken says has the blood of a dragon and an immortal soul......
If the soul is immortal, maybe you will know something.At least......
You should also know what happened when the 'New World Line' of this planet opened. ”"That 'Dragon', the pronunciation of the country is dragon, and the ruler also claims to have the soul of a dragon, which is a bit interesting," Hao Ren pondered, "Then we have to find a way to meet with His Majesty the Emperor."
It's best not to use small means, it is the best plan to complete the contact with the active cooperation of the other party, you say......"
He was just about to discuss with everyone how to contact the legendary "Dragon Soul Ruler", Nolan's hologram suddenly appeared in the room: "Boss, there are two 'hitchhikers' who want to see you." ”"Hitchhikers?"
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "Those refugees who came up?"
What do ordinary passengers do with me?
”"Not necessarily ordinary passengers," Nolan smiled, "two people to keep an eye on: the young man named Charlemagne and his sister Avenna, whom you met on the deck of the White Pearl and then monitored their conversation in the room......
Heard something interesting too. ”After listening to Nolan's monitoring report, Hao Ren also matched the two people in his mind, and he remembered the handsome gray-haired man equivalent to 0.93 Nangong Sanba, and the dirty man who helped the ship's technicians rescue the power source that had been seriously damaged from the magic center of the White Pearl on the deck.Of course, the rescue didn't work, and the White Pearl eventually lost all power, and dozens of minutes ago it crashed into the depths of the planetary rift, burning up in that hot space."
It seems that the ship we saved is really not ordinary, there are still amazing characters hidden on the ship, are those pirates just a disguise......"
Hao Ren pinched his chin, feeling that this matter was quite interesting, "Okay, then let them in." ”Charlemagne and Avanna entered the room of the ship's owner.They carefully observed the internal structure of the ship all the way, and tried to roughly deduce the functional division of the ship and the role of various facilities through the direction of those walls and corridors, but the more they observed, the more frightened they became, the structure of this ship did not match any known airship was surprising enough, and they found that the structure of the ship they had seen along the way always had a sense of dissonance: there would be spacious cabins where there should be only one wall, There were longer corridors before the corridors that should have reached the end, and some places should theoretically even be outside the ship: if their perception of distance and orientation had not been disturbed, the ship should not have such a large space at all.But these doubts were buried in their hearts, because under the guidance of the alchemy creature like a mechanical squid, they had reached the end.The owner of the ship sat in front of them.Hao Ren looked intently at the pair of siblings in front of him, and the other party behaved very well: the right amount of uneasiness and fear, as well as uncontrollable curiosity, the younger sister hid half a body behind the elder brother, while her elder brother grabbed the buckle around his waist with a little nervousness."
You want to see me?"
Hao Ren retracted his gaze and asked with a smile."
Yes, Mr.
Captain," Charlemagne coughed lightly, straightening up, "my sister and I are grateful for your help, but we want to know when we will be back on the surface - the family will be worried about us." ”"This maybe," Hao Ren spread his hands, "We are on a mission, depending on the progress of the mission, it is possible that this ship will find a place to land tomorrow, but it may not land." ”This question obviously greatly surprised the other party, and Charlemagne's surprise this time was genuine: "No landing?!"
You can't fly in the sky forever?
”Hao Ren waved his hand: "This question is not important, what I want to say is - you are really just here to ask this?"
”Charlemagne frowned: "We're just worried about the trip.Of course, our family will be grateful for this assistance, and they will definitely give it ......"
Hao Ren interrupted the other party: "Ahem, I think you misunderstood what I meant, I want to say ......
The eavesdropping technique we use is quite special, and I am afraid that we can't find it out with things like magic runes.While we have no intention of invading the privacy of our passengers, this is a warship, and your identity is unknown – it would be no fun to go on. ”The handsome man with a handsome 0.93 Nangong Sanba and the quiet long-haired girl showed panicked and wary expressions at the same time, but they quickly controlled their emotions.Vivien spoke lightly beside her, "So now we can talk openly and honestly?"
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