Author: Moon into the Cold Abyss

After the unremarkable dinner, Zhang Wei got straight to the point and said that the relevant departments had arranged for him a small team of followers, called the "Fabre Team". The five members were grasshoppers, bees, ants, beetles, and mantises.

Because the periphery of the Asgard ruins is a relatively safe area, this research team will follow them to explore the periphery, and for deeper places, Zhou Ming and Wang Siyan, who have higher levels of spell power, will go together.

The actions of the Lighthouse Nation made the relevant parties feel a huge sense of crisis. The pressure from Ye Liuyun also forced Zhou Ming to speed up the pursuit of Ping Xingyue. He believed that the notes left by Ping Xingyue must have a result.

The direction is correct.

After a brief farewell to their families, Zhou Ming and Wang Siyan set off again with the unfamiliar Fabre team.

The team followed the ocean current from the port of China and landed in Iceland. They met with the guide who had already communicated with the local government and were led all the way to the entrance to the ruins of Asgard. Every step went smoothly without any accidents.

At the entrance to Asgard, separated by the vast gray fog, the notes Zhou Ming carried with him finally showed new content: [Finally arrived in Asgard. I have always been curious about why a vast ruins.

Named after the lair of the Nordic God Lord, there may be an answer this time.】

"Let's go in." Zhou Ming's voice was disguised in a hunter's suit. It was rough and weathered, which fit his image as a spell master. With the hunter's intimidating appearance, he has established a good reputation among the team in the past few days.

It gained considerable prestige.

Just like themselves back then, Team Fabre had an indescribable fear of their two "big men" with exaggerated levels of spell power. Compared to Zhou Ming himself before, everyone in Team Fabre could be considered to be advanced magicians.

My personal spell level is around A-, and I am a very good specialist with a stable personality.

Of course, compared to the two monsters Zhou Ming and Wang Siyan, these five people are still far from enough.

"Okay." As the captain, Tianniu nodded slightly, followed Zhou Ming and Wang Siyan, and slowly passed through the gray fog.

After walking for an unknown number of steps, the hazy fog in front of their eyes finally dissipated, and the colorful light was stepped on by their feet. This rainbow-like light was broken and blurry, and the feet on it felt as rough as stepping on broken glass.

It is full of instability, as if it will collapse at any time.

On both sides of the Rainbow Bridge, there is a bottomless abyss.

"Rainbow Bridge? Is it because of this that it was named Asgard?" Longhorn muttered.

Zhou Ming remained silent and took the lead to walk across the Rainbow Bridge. He found several modern buildings standing on the vast ruins. There was also a signboard on the building [Spell Master Service Area]. This atmosphere did not have the sense of danger of the ruins in the past.

, instead it feels like exploring a wild place that has been lost for thousands of years, but is extremely safe.

Zhou Ming casually asked a few official personnel stationed in the service area and learned that these buildings were specially set up by the Icelandic government to facilitate the rest of the magicians. There are more service areas further ahead.

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The receptionist's exact words were: "This ruins is not scary at all. In other words, the scary thing is that it is not scary at all. Some people often cannot come back as they go deeper into the ruins.

But no one has ever heard of anything terrible happening."

Beetle: "You should have studied the ecology here, right? I see there are plants here too."

"Well, it's just like the ordinary ones. It's no different from the outside world. Although they are plants that contain magical power, the characteristics of their magical power are like ordinary plants, so there is no difference. You can pick them with an ordinary knife, and it's also

It's edible...it's the kind of very pure magic power that scientists say is twisted into a 'normal' state." The receptionist replied.

Wang Siyan turned to look at everyone in Fabre's team and said with a smile: "It seems you have nothing to study."

Longhorn: "I asked about it before I came here, and I have already thought of this situation. The current research progress of Asgard is still in the depth of exploration, so if you want to make new discoveries, you still have to go deeper. I believe this ruins must have it."

According to the rules, since it is a relic, it can never be normal."

Zhou Ming: "Then we can walk in in a few hours."

"I guess we won't be able to reach the inner part of the universe, but there are many people returning along the way." Tianniu said.

"People who returned? Didn't you mean that there were no people who returned at all?" Zhou Ming's expression changed slightly behind his scarf.

"It's not the people who return after exploring the truth of the ruins, but the people who give up halfway. According to the theory provided by Iceland, what affects people's perception of the flow of real time is actually not the depth of exploration, but the distance traveled inside.

If you just walk inward, it will indeed be the same as the depth of exploration, but if you add the return journey, it will be different. Just like a swimming competition, everyone thinks that there is an island in a distant place, and many swimmers start from here to measure.

The distance between the two islands means that if you want to swim as far as possible, you can't save the energy for the return journey, but if you can't reach the other shore, you will have to drown on the way.

In the same way, if you save your energy for the return trip, you will definitely not be able to see the scenery further than the swimmer who is risking everything.

After I heard that walking to the back was not just a wilderness, but also had many side roads. Many people felt that they could not leave and walk to the exit of the ruins to eliminate this influence, so they stayed inside and waited there without moving.

Yes, they all rely on people outside to bring them food." Longhorn said.

Zhou Ming nodded, thinking that it would be even more unfeasible to use drones. He could think of it, and the Icelandic government must also think of it, that this ruins should only be explored by magicians with their bodies.

After purchasing large and small bags, the team set off again. The vehicles used to carry the luggage were not cars, but solid and reliable wooden carts. Everyone in the team dragged a large load of luggage like laborers before the industrial revolution.

The carts piled with daily necessities moved forward slowly.

Along the way, in addition to the beetles constantly educating themselves on Asgard's common sense, it was the members of Fabre's team who joked to lighten the atmosphere.

The reason why people use carts instead of cars is that in a wild environment, the simpler things are, the more reliable they are. Just like a mobile phone without a signal tower cannot communicate, and a car without gasoline cannot move forward.

Although you can switch to an electric-driven car and rely on solar charging to move forward, in the final analysis, this kind of car still relies on the motherboard, engine, engine, etc. As time goes by, the failure rate will gradually increase, but the possibility of repair is getting closer.

at zero.

In this environment, they couldn't build a car out of thin air, so a wooden cart that could be repaired by cutting down wood at any time was actually the most reliable transportation tool.

Regarding this explanation, Zhou Ming raised a question: "Is the distance so far that the car will break down?"

"Cars are very fragile and cannot be driven on all roads. Tools like wooden carts that can be dismantled, put the wheels on the boards, and put on ropes can be pulled up the cliff manually. There are things that ordinary cars cannot overcome.

The advantages." The beetle explained dutifully.

After explaining, he did not forget to add: "Don't worry about the journey. From the time you enter Asgard, the flow of time is abnormal, and the aging rate of living creatures will also be abnormal. The aging of the human body and the perception of the spirit are not normal."

Synchronously, the ruins seem to have set different time flow rates for the spirit, the body, the spiritless dead things, and the stationary creatures.

There are even some rules that are contradictory. For example, it may take us a day to walk from one service area to the next, but when we arrive at the second service area and return to the first service area, maybe only ten minutes have passed.

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It's almost as if the owner of this ruins is testing those who enter the ruins.

Some people say that this feeling is like there is someone at the end, declaring to everyone that this is an endless journey of suffering, and that one must adopt a pilgrim attitude and put everything aside and keep moving forward in order to see the final truth.

Therefore, people who come here should not use science to understand this kind of journey, let alone think logically, but should start from a religious perspective to understand the meaning of this journey."

After a morning of hiking, we arrived at the second service area.
Chapter completed!