Led by Soldier Willy, the group set out along the Road of Plenty and the Kingdom Avenue to the family fiefdom known as the "Fireplace City".The roads beneath their feet are the streets and highways of the original Vault City, but the disrepair has made them less glamorous and difficult to navigate.The crumbling concrete pavement rolled up, the man-made earth exposed, and the potholed road seemed to have never been repaired, and walking on it was almost indistinguishable from a wilderness trail.Nangong May was walking on such a road with a lot of difficulty, and she even thought about whether it would be easier to simply turn into a water snake and crawl away, but thinking that Vivian would scare the locals out of the country by just putting a little ice, she still suppressed the urge to slam and conjure a tail of more than three meters.It's still inevitable to complain: "Anyway, your roads here are so difficult?"
”"It's hard to walk?"
Willy looked down at the road, "Oh, it's really not as good as the magnificent road of the Tower Kingdom, after all, this is just a backwood, and neither the Iron City State nor the Tower Kingdom will send people to sort out the roads in such a place." ”"Why are you two ......
'country' fighting?
What is the deep hatred?
”Hao Ren asked awkwardly.Willie blinked: "Why?"
Winter is coming, and the flames of the end of the world must be ignited, and the souls of those who die on the battlefield are the firewood of the flames.The Four Kingdoms were never fought out of hatred.I think this should be common sense. ”Everyone looked at each other, and Vivien frowned slightly: "You are still divided......
The Four Kingdoms?
”"Are you really from the Winter World?"
Willy swallowed, "Everyone should know - the Kingdom of the Tower, the Iron City, the Free City, and the Star Fortress, these are the four kingdoms of this world. ”Hao Ren's heart was full of strange feelings after hearing this, and he felt that this was a bit absurd - in a starship, in a shelter city built by ancestors, the territory and power were redivided, and it turned into scattered small city-states and village settlements, the former streets became the traffic arteries between various "cities", the buildings became bunkers and market towns, the factory vacant land became "wilderness" and "wasteland" after being demolished and cleared, and the shelter was unrecognizable.
A primitive society grew strangely on the ruins of an advanced civilization – and the ruins were still so small.It's like a twisted dream.He looked up at the sky, from which he could see the city land on the other side of the closed space, and he wanted to ask Willy what he thought of such a strange structure of the world, but he soon realized that he couldn't ask anything: the young man in front of him was born here, grew up here, and received all the education from childhood to adulthood here, and the world he had in mind was like this, and if no one in this ship knew the concept of "ark", I am afraid that the people who lived here would treat the whole world as a giant eggshell.The icy space outside the steel shield was meaningless to Willy.Willy was a little trembling along the way, and he was reluctant to move along the avenue, especially after his comrades had fled, and following Hao Ren to a group of people of unknown origin who knew "witchcraft" made him seriously insecure.But the young soldier had no choice, he still had to lead the way to the strangers in fear, and always be on the lookout for ambushes from the Iron City or Free City from the side of the road.But after walking on this road for a long time, Hao Ren didn't see anyone else appear, and he couldn't help but be a little suspicious of what Willy said: "You say this is a very dangerous road?"
Why didn't I see anyone passing through here?
”Willy rubbed his hands and tightened his cuffs, now that the weather was cold, it made him shiver a little: "I don't know either......
Normally, there would be soldiers passing here, or at least merchants between the city-states......" he said as he looked up at the sky, the dim lights of the city inside the ship shone like fireflies in the darkness, dotting this enclosed space like a strange cave full of fireflies, and the young man's light brown eyes were a little uneasy: "The world has been getting worse in the past ten years, I can't count how many times I've encountered something unusual, maybe the patrols of the Iron City and Free City happen to be lazy today?"
”"Going from bad to worse?"
Hao Ren asked curiously.Willy opened his mouth to say something, when a strange, low sound suddenly interrupted him.The sound came from deep underground, sounding like a low descending tone of some kind of massive device gradually ceased, and it spread along the earth, and although it was not very loud, it seemed that the whole space was vibrating.At the same time, Hao Ren felt that his body was light, and a feeling of about to float off the ground came from under his feet.Willy's face changed instantly, and he screamed in horror: "Don't move, everyone!
It's 'Ascension'!'
Ascension Phenomenon'!
”Almost as Willy's words fell, everyone felt their bodies lighten completely: the artificial gravity in the vault was gone.Hao Ren saw a red light flying rapidly from one end of the enclosed space to the other, followed by another, which looked like some kind of alarm light, while Willy stared at the light with frightened eyes, silently remembering the number: "One......
Two......
Three......
Three meteors!
Great, it doesn't look like it's going to last long......
Don't move, everyone!
Especially don't jump!
”At this time, artificial gravity has completely disappeared, and although Hao Ren and his people are still "stepping on the earth", their bodies are actually in a floating state, but the soles of their shoes are still slightly touching the ground.Willie tensed his body and did not dare to move, for fear that the slightest movement would lift him off the ground: it would cause him to fly uncontrollably into the sky, and even to the other side of the earth in one breath.Hao Ren quickly understood the reason for the young man's fear, and he tried to ease Willy's tension: "Don't worry, don't worry, you reminded me in time, no one will fly out - does this happen often?"
”"No, it only happens once in a few months, but it is said that before I was born, it happened less frequently than it does now," Willie took a deep breath, he was no longer curious about Hao Ren's "ignorance", and at this time someone could talk to him to make him relax a lot, "Winter is coming, the heart of this world is slowly freezing, and the earth is no longer able to hold us to the surface......
My grandmother told me.But as long as I can rekindle the ancestral furnace, everything will go back to normal, which is what my grandmother told me. ”Hao Ren casually looked up at the huge pipes and alloy bridges that ran through the entire space, and there were lights on the surface of those things, and those lights had not appeared before.It's probably some sort of automated maintenance system for the Ark Ship, and it's clearly out of order, but it's still lingering.Artificial gravity disappeared for nearly an hour, during which time Willy pressed his hands to his chest, muttering as if he were praying to some god.Eventually, the hour had passed, and Hao Ren heard a different kind of muffled voice coming from the depths of the earth, and when the sound gradually subsided, his body sank, and he once again felt the feeling of being grounded.Willy's feet were weak and he almost fell to the ground, he barely stood up, and showed an embarrassed smile to Hao Ren: "You don't seem to be afraid of 'ascending to heaven' at all." ”"As long as you don't fly, you won't fall."
Hao Ren said casually.Willy's face darkened, "My best friend used to say the same - but in the end he died in the square of 'Windy Valley' on the other side of the earth. ”As he spoke, he looked up at the upside-down city buildings overhead: "It was a long 'ascension' that lasted a whole day and a night, poor Birkenstock, he just accidentally stretched his leg, and then I watched him rise from the earth, higher and higher, higher and higher......
At that time I did not know how to judge the duration of the ascension phenomenon from the meteors, and I thought it would soon be over, but I saw him become a little black dot in the sky, and his sister was next to me, poor girl......
Her brother even crossed the 'axis of heaven and earth' all the way.When Mother Earth regained her vitality, Birkenstock was left on the other side of the world, and it wasn't until a few days later that the lord of Windy Valley sent a large box to bring Birkenstock back. ”(To be continued.) )