The word Nibelungen comes from German and refers to the people who live in Niflheim, the "Land of Fog" in Nordic mythology. It is also called the "Land of the Dead" in Nordic mythology and is closely connected to the underworld.

Since there is no clear boundary between the land and the underworld, only the souls of the dead will echo in this land. The name "Land of the Dead" is worthy of its name.

Su Xiaoqiang had come into contact with Nordic mythology, but her understanding was not deep. However, no matter how shallow the theology was, she could tell that this was not a good place. As for the name of the Lord of Bronze and Fire, she had actually heard of it, and Yu Linnian helped her popularize it.

I learned about it when I was reading "Dragon Genealogy", an introduction to dragon history.

The four great monarchs hidden in the depths of history, the noble first-generation species, the controllers of earth, fire and feng shui, no more titles can describe their greatness. The text of history says that humans learned fire, not because of the flames caused by lightning striking trees.

, but the monarch named Norton gave mankind the knowledge of "fire", so mankind learned to drill wood to make fire and awakened the first line of bronze and fire spirits.

Oasis instantly turned into dust in the Sahara Desert, Attila destroyed Western Rome, the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, and the mysterious drying up of Lop Nur, the Sea of ​​Death. There is a king behind countless histories that have made people look at them from a distance and feel panic.

shadow.

It is a flat knitting machine that spans millions of years. The majestic historical atmosphere makes its silhouette so huge and awe-inspiring. Those who face it are like facing the entire history of mankind, with a sense of heaviness and oppression.

It felt like a mountain was collapsing, but even so, the hybrids had made it their lifelong goal to kill him, and they had pursued him for centuries, until today everything seemed to have finally come to an end.

"This is the Nibelung of the Lord of Bronze and Fire." The man whispered, as if he was reciting the words of a nightmare. Anyone who heard it would feel pain or hatred, and they would hug their knees with a distorted face or resentment.

Staring resentfully at the man who brought up old things again.

But so what, the man did not shut up because of the fear caused by those sights. He just stated the most straightforward and unvarnished reality, the plight of everyone in this room and this entire castle-like villa.

"Where are the mixed-races? Don't you care about the mixed-races?" After letting go of the restrained man, Su Xiaoqiang's first reaction on the sofa was this common-sense question. Although he had only been in contact with Kassel Academy for a short time, Ling Ling

In short, she also roughly knows what the world is really like.

No matter how creepy and terrifying the background of the world is, the real world is still dominated by humans and hybrids. Pure-blooded noble dragons are not hunters, humans are the real hunters. The resurrection of such a king should be the first to cause trouble.

Ant colonies are generally hunted by hybrids, right?

Twisting his sore arms, he sat back on the sofa. When he saw Su Xiaoqiang's gaze, he thought for a moment and sat on the ground beside the sofa. At this point, there was nothing they could do wrong.

But after hearing the question that Su Xiaoqiang subconsciously asked, the man looked at her with a particularly strange look, but suddenly he sobbed twice and could not say anything, and lowered his head so that Su Xiaoqiang could not see his face clearly.

expression (the reason for the beard and hair cannot be seen clearly).

"Everything is dead, no matter whether they are humans or hybrids, they have all died in the war. Those monsters are simply unstoppable. Even humans have their secret hands. They respond internally and externally, and cause internal troubles and external troubles.

How could he be an opponent under such circumstances?"

"Are you dead?" Su Xiaoqiang's face suddenly tightened, but suddenly relaxed. She was reminding herself that although she didn't know what the situation was, this place should be just an illusion. In her perception, the world was still that world, with singing and dancing, peace and harmony.

, there are at most half-breeds running around the world, slaying dragons and grabbing alchemy items, etc. How could it be possible that the world would end as soon as I woke up?

Unless she has "travelled" like the heroines in those danmei novel platforms. But she is not a stupid girl who reads novels into her head, and she doesn't believe in those things at all.

Quietly, she grabbed her arm again, but she still felt no pain. She heard others say that people can't feel pain in dreams. Was she really dreaming? Before the dream, she was still in the 3E exam room, so

Is this her vision?

Lin Nian's voice still lingered in her mind. She was clear about the situation, reaction, and composition of the spiritual vision, but she still couldn't be sure whether it was the so-called spiritual vision or something worse. If it was a spiritual vision,

Doesn't it mean that she is a pure "mixed race" like Lin Nian?

His mind was in chaos, and it was impossible not to be in chaos. Anyone in Su Xiaoqiang's situation would be confused. In comparison, Su Xiaoqiang was even calmer now, and he could restrain his impetuous emotions and try to straighten out the current situation one by one.

But if Lin Nian were here, the whole room would probably have people sitting in rows with guns pointed at their heads to answer his questions one by one. After all, it is still a question of the strength of the wrist.

"How is it outside now?" Su Xiaoqiang asked after considering his words.

"Outside? Where do you mean outside?" The man surprisingly did not dig into the various bizarre reactions shown by Su Xiaoqiang. Compared with the other "dead people" in the room who were as desperate as the walking dead, in front of Su Xiaoqiang he

It seems more "lively".

Although he still had a strong aura of decay, his conversation still seemed relatively normal, at least it was much better than the Indian who had been pinned to the ground and howled like a wolf, crying in agony.

"It's just outside the house." Su Xiaoqiang didn't quite understand what the man meant. He looked around and hesitated and asked, "Why do you want to hide in a place like this?"

"Because we will really die if we don't hide here." The man stared at Su Xiaoqiang for a while and realized that the other party was serious about this question. He smiled bitterly and lowered his head. He now really understood that this girl really didn't understand her situation. She didn't even know her own situation.

It seems that he didn't understand what the general environment was before he asked such a stupid question.

"What's outside the house?" Su Xiaoqiang keenly heard the meaning of this sentence. In addition, a voyeur could only tell from the wooden strips on the sealed windows of this huge living room that these people were not hiding here.

Like a beggar, he resigned himself to joining a group for warmth, but huddled in this shelter as a last resort? This was the closest word to the truth that she could blurt out.

Since this place may be a refuge, it is naturally to avoid some kind of "disaster". In addition, the other party mentioned words like "Lord of Bronze and Fire" and "Nibelungen" before. Even if the man has not answered yet, Su Xiaoqiang

It sank lower and lower, and in my somewhat cold heart I roughly guessed the answer.

"Deadpool." The man replied.

Su Xiaoqiang took a slight breath, and the smell of copper in her mouth made her sneeze again. Why did she still have this wonderful stimulating feeling even though she no longer felt pain? She was no stranger to the man talking about Deadpool. The process of the Pearl Tower incident

She could still remember it vividly, it was a nightmare that she would never forget for the rest of her life.

Those pale dead cheeks, and the power that is strong enough to tear human body limbs into pieces, the monster named Deadpool has long become the source of fear in her heart that she does not want to touch. If she comes into contact with Cassel College

What is the most feared thing? It is undoubtedly those "Deadpools". Even though Lin Nian and Professor Guderian have explained that Deadpools are not such common and crowded creatures, she is still full of fear of such monsters.

Seeing the resistance and fear in Su Xiaoqiang's eyes, the man shook his head and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the girl knew about common sense, otherwise there would be too many things to explain. He wanted to say it for a while.

There may not be enough to say.

"How long have you been trapped here?" Su Xiaoqiang simply didn't ask the man why no one came to save them. From the previous conversation, she already had a rough idea. It seemed that the background of this dream was the end of the world? Of course there would be no end of the world.

Reinforcements were called. Being trapped in a room by a group of dead men and lingering was tantamount to waiting for death. No wonder this place was filled with despair.

The man did not answer Su Xiaoqiang's question and pointed to a wall in the distance. Su Xiaoqiang looked up and saw scratches one after another on the wall. They should be the markings of time. Someone used a blunt instrument to cut open the wallpaper on the wall.

What was left was a group of four vertical lines intersected by one horizontal line, representing the five days, and this kind of engraving occupied the entire wall!

Su Xiaoqiang was a little shocked, but he still counted numbly. There were 400 groups of scratches in total. If one group of scratches was counted as 5 days, a shocking and desperate figure was born.

5 years.

This group of people was trapped here for 5 years.

"What have you been eating and drinking over the years?" Su Xiaoqiang asked a common question. Although there are not many people here, if you want to supply rations for five years unless there is a basement full of food, and the stored food is still

It must be concentrated munitions, so that it is reasonable.

"Is this your first time entering the Nibelungs? We don't need to eat. Everything in the Nibelungs is 'dead'. Naturally, 'dead people' don't need food or even excretion." The man said, "

There may have been fights over food during the formation of the Nibelungs, but later we discovered that we didn't need food to survive and there were no more fights. We won't die, but our bodies will only get closer.'

dead'."

He opened his clothes to reveal his skinny abdomen. The shocking scene made Su Xiaoqiang couldn't help but turn his head to avoid it.

"If we are not really killed here, we may wait until the day when we become dry skeletons." The man said with a sad smile, his eyes full of pain and helplessness.

It's no wonder that the people in the room were not surprised by Su Xiaoqiang's arrival. To them, she was just another poor person who strayed into the Nibelung Sea of ​​Bronze Trees. Finding this refuge was her only lucky and unfortunate place.

One day, the clothes on her body will rot and the clothes will not cover her body. The body that was originally desirable will rot and shrink, becoming a skinny monster, no different from them. Everything is just a matter of time.

"Have you never thought about escaping?" Su Xiaoqiang shuddered slightly, hugged her knees on the sofa and asked in a low voice.

"We can't escape the maze with a sea of ​​bronze trees outside. The maze is full of ferocious dead warriors. Some people have collapsed and rushed out, but they were killed by things in the sea of ​​bronze trees before they could escape a hundred meters away." The man.

Said quietly.

"Sea of ​​Bronze Trees, so we are in a forest?" Su Xiaoqiang paused. How could such a mansion (visual inspection from the living room) be built in a sea of ​​bronze trees?

But when he met the man's eyes, he suddenly realized that he had asked a stupid question. The man had already said where this place was.

The Nibelungs, the home of the Lord of Bronze and Fire.

It was not that there was a sea of ​​trees first and then there were houses, but that there were houses first and then there was a sea of ​​trees. The dragon king forged a majestic dark forest made of bronze trees between the roaring heaven and earth, and countless dead waiters and

The corpse guard wanders in the bronze forest, and the center of the sea of ​​trees is naturally the Dragon King's palace, the Baidi City, a palace made of bronze.

"No one can leave Nibelungen without the permission of the monster in the Bronze City. No one can come to save us. People here have given up hope." The man said.

"But you are not dead either." Su Xiaoqiang whispered.

"" The man opened his mouth, then closed it, revealing a miserable smile.

"How did you get here or where was this place originally?" Su Xiaoqiang asked in a low voice. She didn't mind asking more questions before the dream ended.

She had a hunch that compared to men and these poor people being trapped in this illusion called "Nibelungen", she was just a passer-by when she came here, and she was not worried that she would be left here too.

It will leave and soon. This is an unfounded but extremely certain premonition from deep in my mind. It is really like a dream to determine the continuation and development of the dream.

"Everyone knew this place before, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the gateway to the Three Gorges from Qutang Gorge in Fengjie County." The man said, "I traveled here with my girlfriend five years ago until we stood at the scenic spot of Kuimen Langyan Fort and saw the underwater floating

When the corpse of the 'dragon' was picked up, everything was too late. His body blocked the wide river area. The cruise ship hit his broken right wing and was stabbed by broken bones. Then he came back to life and climbed towards the mountain. He stood

It flapped its wings and roared at the highest point of the Three Gorges, shaking the peaks of the canyon and causing water roars and mudslides. My girlfriend and I fainted. When we woke up, we found that we were already in the Nibelung.

I slowly found this place and hid with the other survivors."

"What about your girlfriend?" Su Xiaoqiang saw the man's pleading eyes just as she opened her mouth. She seemed unwilling to bring up this question. She was in a dull mood and did not continue to ask.

"This house was originally overcrowded." The man only said one sentence, and finally he leaned against the sofa and stared at the ceiling, not knowing what he was thinking.

Su Xiaoqiang was silent for a long time in the dead silence, and then asked, "Are you sure that the corpse you saw climbing up from the Yangtze River is the 'Dragon'? Or is it the 'Dragon King', one of the four monarchs?"

"I don't know what can be more terrifying than that terrifying corpse. It is definitely the corpse of the Dragon King. For some reason, he was resurrected. All such horrific corpses in the world have been resurrected. The first is Japan.

Tokyo, then Shanghai and California, and then the dragon king awakened in the interior. They brought countless monsters and natural disasters. It was an apocalyptic scene that we did not see with our own eyes but heard on the radio in the house.
To be continued...