Following the roar, a huge car descended out of thin air.
If he hadn't been mentally prepared, Tang Zhao would hardly have recognized it as a car. In his opinion, it was a ship, a giant ship.
This car is probably not five feet tall. It is made of metal like gold and iron. There are mysterious silver threads on the body, which are traces of strange stones.
The body is pointed at one end and rounded at the other, and is wide in the middle, like a drop of water. The huge carriage is like a round belly. I don’t know how many people and horses it can accommodate. It can only be seen that it is divided into four floors.
On the four-story carriage, there are double-digit numbers of doors alone, spread in all directions of the carriage. The wide door on the lower level can even accommodate four fully armed knights running side by side.
so……
"Is this a train?" Tang Zhao couldn't help but be surprised.
Lan Xiuzhu looked at him strangely and said, "This is called a fire car."
Tang Zhao nodded and said, "I know, I just said it."
He really knew that fire engines were described in many classics.
On the front line, the chariot is a very common weapon of war. Because the front line is so unstable, even a swordsman walking alone will inevitably encounter risks. Therefore, it can transport soldiers, weapons and supplies, and is equipped with formations to provide a stable safe zone.
The chariot came into being.
This kind of tank is not so much a vehicle as a mobile fighting and resting platform, giving soldiers a place to stay.
From this point of view, this car is really similar to a ship. The front line is like the sea, vast and full of unpredictable dangers.
Thanks to the updates and iterations of talisman technology, the tanks on the front line are getting bigger and bigger. Tanks of this size are by no means giant. There are even bigger and more complete equipment, like a giant vehicle like a mobile fortress.
It's not very polite to call it a fire train, so it would be more polite to call it a "bonfire train".
These are things that those ancient sages who struggled on the front lines with their lives as swordsmen could not have imagined.
"boarding!"
Li Yijian gave an order, and all the disciples filed into the carriage and went directly to the second floor of the carriage. The war horses were led to the first floor.
The second floor is very large and is divided into large carriages. The interior of each carriage is separated by simple partitions and is regarded as a room. Candidates naturally do not have the treatment of a single room. Seven or eight people enter a room. In the room
There is no furniture, only blankets on the ground for students to rest.
These students are considered well-trained. They often sleep in the open air and seek food in the wild. Now they have a room and a blanket, which is already good. They lie down in order and fall asleep.
As a guide, Tang Zhao climbed to the third floor.
The third floor is the second floor from top to bottom of the chariot, and the top floor is the headquarters. If there is no commander, it is generally unoccupied and is only used for the command headquarters.
The conditions on the third floor are much better than those on the second floor. The rooms are all single, small and luxurious. They are just complete with tables, chairs, beds and cabinets. After all, they are just temporary residences.
Many officers fighting on the front line have their own fixed fire trucks and fixed rooms. They treat them as part of a household, so they carefully decorate them. Tang Zhao is just a passer-by, so he can sleep.
The students had not slept for more than a day and a night, and the same was true for the instructors. Even if they were not locked up in the stable, they still had to stare at the examination room attentively, and there was no way for students to answer questions and explain how to sleep.
Although the swordsman is different from ordinary people and his need to eat, drink and rest has gradually decreased, he is still a mortal and it is inevitable to feel tired. Tang Zhao also hurriedly washed and rested when he entered the room.
After sleeping for three or four hours, Tang Zhao woke up and went upstairs to the headquarters to discuss the next exam as planned.
When we arrived at the spacious command post above, we saw no one. Only a door leading to the roof of the car was open, and there was wind blowing down from above. I heard Li Yijian say from above: "Tang Jiaoyu is here, come up here."
Bar."
Tang Zhao walked up the steps, and as soon as he came up, his eyes felt hazy.
It was already night at this time, the twilight was getting thicker, and now there was a heavy fog. The fog was like thick smoke in the night, and it was so sweeping that you couldn't even see your fingers.
On the deck, the three teachings were all present. At least on the surface, they maintained a friendly atmosphere. They gathered around the railing on the roof of the car, as if they were admiring the thick night view.
Tang Zhao first greeted him and said that he was late. An Jiaoyu sneered and said: "Tang Jiaoyu is young and will inevitably sleep in. If his memory is poor and he is careless, it will not be surprising that he is late."
Without waiting for Tang Zhao to reply, Li Yijian directly stopped him and said: "Tang Jiaoyu said politely, what are you serious about? We didn't agree on when to come up."
Everyone was stunned. It wouldn't be surprising if Lan Xiuzhu said this. She always loved the fire, but Li Yijian rarely said such words directly, and she always favored Tang Zhao.
An Jiaoyu shut his mouth and thought: I almost forgot that they are a group. This is their car, and they are even more unscrupulous.
Li Yijian said calmly: "You came just in time, you are about to go up."
Tang Zhao was shocked. It was also his first time to enter the legendary Broken Realm.
It's just that the night is too dark and the fog is too thick. It's hard to see the road three steps away, so I really can't see any difference.
He was about to try to use his mental power to detect the distance when he suddenly smelled the smell of green grass.
It was the smell from the forest, the smell of countless thriving plants and trees. It was said to be a fragrance, but it was so strong that it became intense and irritating, and it poured down from the nose.
No need to ask why, Tang Zhao had already felt that there was a dense forest not far away.
Sure enough, the vehicle got closer, and without any mental effort, he could see the dense shadows of vegetation in the thick fog. Some branches were so dense that they would come to him through the fog, as if vine whips were coming towards him. The leaves were blowing in the wind.
There was a roaring sound, like a dense drum beat.
"Tang Zhao."
Li Yijian suddenly spoke and called Tang Zhao's name directly, "Come and see, what's the difference between these trees and ordinary trees?"
Tang Zhao didn't expect that he would be asked to answer questions even though he was not a student. He hesitated for a moment and did not answer the most obvious answer: "These trees have a particularly strong smell." Instead, he observed carefully.
There is no abnormality in the leaves, there is no abnormality in the branches, the trunk... the roots...
"Um?"
Tang Zhao noticed the clue and looked down. Before he could see clearly, the car shook and began to tilt.
It's uphill.
This is a very wide slope. You can't see where the slope starts. You can only see the lush vegetation on the slope, and the trees are getting more and more dense. Except for the main road where the car goes up, almost all the surroundings are covered with green vegetation, like a very thick road.
green blanket.
"These trees...are not rooted in the soil."
When Tang Zhao looked carefully, he found something strange. Compared with soil, the ground was too hard and rough, and it was also full of looming wrinkles, like...
"Bark? These forests are all one big tree? No..."
These trees are not branches of the same tree. They come from different families, different genera, and different species. You can tell the difference at a glance. There are tall trees, low shrubs, and unknown weeds. They do not grow from the same roots, but just They happened to grow in the same community.
However……
They literally grow from trees.
All of them are parasitic on an unimaginably large tree.
"What we are climbing up is a large leaning tree?"
"Well, you can see it." Li Yijian nodded, "This is a big tree that grows from the Broken Domain. It grows from the ground to the ground, just like a bridge connecting the two worlds. Our car drove down from above , now we have to go back up there.”
What a tree!
Tang Zhao only felt incredible.
This is such a big tree that you can’t even see the edges when you look to the left and right. The path that the four-story-high chariot travels on is not even a drop in the bucket, and there are even layers of large trees growing on it. forest.
At that time, Xia Shangzhuguo once summoned a big tree, claiming that it was an explosion of life. But considering the power of nature, what was the tree he summoned? It was just a sapling.
"Is it alive?"
"I don't know, probably alive. After all, so many trees depend on its vitality. If it dies, how can those grass and trees survive?"
Tang Zhao said with emotion: "It is said that a whale falls in the sea. It is said that when a whale falls, all things come into being. This big tree has already given birth to all things before it dies."
Whale falls and so on are too unfamiliar to Li Yijian and the others. He did not respond to Tang Zhao's sigh and only said: "Half of the big tree is in the Broken Domain. Our car has to cross the border between the two realms. I don't know when we will arrive." Can you feel it?"
Tang Zhao smiled and said: "It should be possible, right?"
Although he has never been to the front line, he doesn't know anything about the Shattered Realm, okay?
He has read a lot of ancient books and has a general understanding of the Broken Realm. He knows that swordsmen are not unimpeded in the Broken Realm. After all, a mortal body cannot face the pressure of the Broken Realm directly and needs a sword to protect it. But as long as the sword is in the person's body, he can't face it. Here, there is no need to be constrained by robes or safety zones. This is why they can stand on the roof of the car unscrupulously.
"When we arrive at the Broken Realm, we have to be extra careful. If these students can avoid losing anything, it's better not to lose them. Although we are all our own people when entering the city, the Broken Realm is always full of all kinds of dangers. Not only Students should be careful, even you and I should be careful. In the Broken Realm, swordsmen are not invincible."
Lan Xiuzhu smiled and said: "Who doesn't know this? How can local forces be simple? Don't talk about others, Brother Tang is in danger. If someone from Caiyungui takes a fancy to him..."
Li Yijian said unhappily: "Don't mention those people. Tang Zhao is a man who is going to the city and is already a swordsman. Why should they like him?" At this point, he still gave Tang Zhao a warning, "Tang Zhao, you If you see women in colorful clothes on the street, don't look at them too much, don't use rhetoric, and just talk to them in unpleasant ways."
Tang Zhao said "Huh?" and said: "I seem to have heard of Caiyungui, they are..."
An Jiaoyu said: "They are also one of the six major forces. Huh, a group of sneaky and whimsical women."
"Did you see the big tree?"
Unlike Tang Zhao and others who were standing on the top of the boat chatting, a group of students could only lean on the windows and look outside. Their vision became increasingly blurry in the fog, but when they saw half a claw, they were all excited.
"Brother Qu, you know a lot. What is the name of this big tree?"
"It didn't have a name originally, but it seems that it was named... Jianmu according to ancient books!"