Chapter 837: There are no high walls on the stormy sea (please vote for the super large chapter)
The undulating waves beat against the rocks of the port, making a crisp sound under the night.
"careful!"
The red-haired woman shouted softly and looked back at the dragoon fighter plane chasing at low altitude.
She raised her hand, and the jet-black dagger flew out instantly, piercing the Dragoon fighter plane.
boom--
Accompanied by the roar and flames of the fighter plane explosion, she grabbed Willy next to her and turned deeper into the alleyway.
The falling snowflakes passed through the gaps between the rusty shacks and fell on the hair and shoulders of the two people.
"Are you familiar with this place?"
Willy glanced at the dilapidated shacks around her, and then looked up at the approaching Dragoon fighter plane in the distance.
"I grew up here,"
Lena shrugged. She wiped the mud spots on her cheeks and looked back at the dragoon fighter planes in the sky. "These mercenaries are like hyenas. Their noses are so sensitive that they can even catch up with them."
She lowered her head and looked at Willie beside her, "We have been bitten for too long. The B-level mercenary group has probably arrived. We need to leave immediately."
"good!"
Willy nodded quickly.
Her eyes swept over the surrounding shacks. In the gaps of the rusty shacks, pairs of dry eyes were hiding in the darkness, watching them.
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"Captain."
A loose military coat was draped over the charred man.
The man raised his hand and took out a loose cotton hat to cover his half-bald and half-burnt hair.
"What the hell, don't let me know who fired the cannon."
"Captain, your cigar."
A mercenary next to him wiped the sweat from his forehead and handed a lit cigar to the man.
The man's charred lips were split, revealing his white teeth. He held the cigar in his mouth and glanced at the mercenary beside him.
"Where are the two little girls?"
"Captain, we have been sealed in the Linhai encirclement, but the red-haired one is a little troublesome."
The mercenary next to him said quickly, he raised his bracelet and showed a holographic map.
On the map, two small red dots are moving quickly towards the seaside, and a dense circle of light dots around them is rapidly closing in.
"fine,"
The man took off his cigar, blew out a puff of smoke, and walked forward slowly, "The Sea of Storms is a dead end, they can't escape."
The end of the cigar splashed with two flying sparks, blending into the dense and falling white snow.
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stormy sea
The brilliant golden city is isolated from the thunder and the sea, and the hazy light shines on the mountains of flesh and blood of the huge monster.
Scattered raindrops hit the young man's red scarf. He raised his head and looked at the hazy golden light in front of him.
The vast and majestic city stood in front of him, but when his eyes fell on this city, it seemed that he was just passing through a hazy golden light.
"How should we get in?"
Captain Neeson stood beside the boy, staring at the golden city.
He stretched out his hand, trying to touch the giant city, but he could only pass through a hazy light and shadow.
The city seemed to be in reality, but also seemed to be in fantasy.
The young man carrying the knight's sword lowered his head, opened his left hand, and stared at the gold brooch wrapped in hazy light.
Then he raised his hand and took out the fossilized finger bone that had been in his pocket.
The flowing golden light outlines fine lines on this phalange fossil.
After he shouted the words 'Atmolaya', the fossilized finger bone seemed to have undergone some kind of change after being exposed to the pollution of eternal light.
An inexplicable attraction came from the gold brooch, pulling the finger bone fossil.
The boy let go of his hand and let the gold brooch and finger bone fossil come closer.
Both of these items were items he obtained from the old cult leader Bright.
The gold brooch itself contains some kind of power related to eternal light, and the finger bone fossil seems to have been modified by Bright and carved with the pattern of the magic circle, which is a 'knocking stone' that can open any door.
The finger bone fossil and the gold brooch suspended in the air slowly approached, and then were connected together in the hazy light.
A series of fine lines lit up from the back of the gold brooch, connecting with the lines on the fossilized finger bones to form a complete whole.
The phalange fossil was embedded on the inside of the gold brooch and became the ‘buckle’ of the brooch.
He Ao stretched out his hand to hold this new 'brooch' and stuck it on his scarf.
A faint hazy light escaped from the brooch, wrapping his body like a thin film.
Then he took a step forward, towards the dark void beneath the undulating waves.
boom--
Roaring thunder exploded above his head, and the shining light spread behind him to the top of the golden city.
His footsteps fell slowly and touched a hard entity.
Buildings emitting golden light appeared in his field of vision.
He turned around and looked behind him.
The misty golden light covered his rear. Behind this golden light, the flickering thunder and the undulating sea surface could be vaguely seen.
Just as he had guessed, Bright carried the 'key' to enter the true eternal kingdom of God with him.
The blood-colored paper butterfly standing on He Ao's shoulder stretched its wings, and the dark figures gathered around He Ao.
"These buildings look like Winter City more than 20 years ago,"
Nissen raised his head and glanced at the golden buildings around him, and said with some emotion, "There was no United Industries back then."
He turned back and looked at He Ao, "What should we do next?"
He Ao raised his head and glanced ahead, raised his steps, and said slowly, "Go to the square where it was more than twenty years ago."
In the silent golden city, only the gentle footsteps of two people sounded one after another, echoing among the somewhat dilapidated streets.
In this city more than 20 years ago, everything seems to have changed from the current Winter City, but nothing seems to have changed.
Dilapidated shanties still dot the edges of the city, and the old buildings covered by time just look a little younger.
There are not so many streets, but they are still dilapidated.
Soon, the two arrived at a vast square, which was the core square of Winter City that had been demolished more than 20 years ago. In the current Winter City, the towering United Industrial Building stands at the location of this square.
At this moment, in the square of this golden city, grids are painted and densely packed with seats, as if some kind of celebration is being prepared.
The young man's figure slowly moved forward along the path drawn by lines in the square.
His figure first passed through grids that seemed to be standing areas, then passed small plastic stools that looked cheap and inferior, then slightly stronger plastic chairs, then metal chairs, then solid wood chairs, and then decorated
Leather, high-backed chair with cotton padding.
The standing area is the largest and widest, but it is also on the outermost level of the entire square. The more expensive the chairs, the closer they are to the inside of the square.
Each area has clear boundaries, with narrow lines dividing these areas from the chairs.
Although it only takes a short step to cross these lines, these lines are like deep canyons, clearly separating different areas.
In the center of the entire square, at the end of all areas, is a temporary but beautifully made podium.
Above this exquisite podium hangs an exquisite oil painting.
In the center of this oil painting, an old man with an old face is kneeling on the ground, and bright light spreads evenly on the old man's body.
The old man in the painting looks almost dead, but his skin is as moist as a baby's. The strange sense of holiness created by life and death is revealed in this painting.
At this moment, on this podium, an old man with gray hair is standing in front of the oil painting. His body is motionless. He seems to be admiring the painting, but he seems to have fallen into some kind of 'long sleep'.
It wasn't until He Ao's footsteps stopped that he slowly turned his head and looked at the young man's young face.
"I have thought about many situations where visitors might arrive, and I have also guessed about many 'uninvited guests' who might arrive here, but I really didn't think about it being you,"
The old man sighed slightly, "But when I think about it, it is true that only you can find this position,"
He looked at the young man's thin and fair face with unconcealable surprise and curiosity, "So, how did you discover all this?"
"It's not difficult,"
He Ao shrugged lightly, "I just returned to my original starting point,"
His tone was calm,
"Isn't that why you went through the bushes and ordered that mercenary team to 'recover' my 'coffin'?
"You had people manipulate their ship's system, ostensibly to allow them to carry out the mission, but in fact they were unable to return and were buried in the stormy sea, forever burying the truth that they had been 'close'."
The mercenary team that came to 'salvage' Ho, including the white-robed priest, were once members of the same prospecting team. They once went deep into the Sea of Storms to search for new minerals.
The direction in which the nutrition cabin of 'Ilo' floated away was the direction from which they went deep into the Sea of Storms during their last prospecting trip.
Because it was the route they had 'used to' look for, they naturally found their way to the pursuit of Iroh.
And when they happily went to 'catch the prey', they did not realize that they themselves were the 'prey' being sent out.
The damaged navigation and the B-class sea monster that 'happened' to appear at the bottom of their ship had already doomed their fate.
In the original 'plan', they should probably sink into the violent storm sea together with 'Iroh'.
Of course, in fact, they did sink, but the 'insider' who was lying in the small coffin and most unlikely to come back alive came back alive.
It is actually very reasonable for a mercenary team to disappear forever on the stormy sea, but a team was specially sent to chase a vegetative child, and they even happened to meet a B-class sea monster nearby, and they happened to meet the navigator.
broken.
The superposition of all these coincidences does not seem to be such a 'coincidence' anymore.
Before He Ao opened his eyes, no one would realize what potential the vegetative child lying in the coffin had, even though he might have a C-level 'hidden viewer' in him.
In the dangerous stormy sea, there are many things more dangerous than this.
To deal with a C-level being, it is obviously unreasonable to send a mercenary team whose highest combat strength is only close to C-level.
Unless this mercenary team itself is not a hunter, but a 'prey'.
They had unknowingly approached places they were not allowed to touch, and this led to fatal disasters.
Of course, all this is He Ao's review after the fact. Before coming into contact with Alice, he did not even think that there might be a "carrier" in reality for the Eternal Divine Kingdom.
But the existence form of Alice made him realize a problem, that is, if the Eternal Divine Kingdom wants to reduce its own consumption and meet the design needs of the Eternal Secret Cult, it is the best choice for its core part to be in the real world.
When He Ao entered the horizon of truth for the first time, he actually saw the light of the eternal kingdom of God in a very short period of time.
For a long time, he thought that the light was in the city of Winter.
At the beginning, he actually thought that the 'original body' of the Eternal Kingdom of God was in the Novite District.
But when he stepped on the spot, he unexpectedly discovered that he could only see a vague 'light' in the Novit District in the horizon of truth.
This was completely different from the light he first 'saw' outside the city, even though the light completely disappeared after he saw it that time.
At that time, he realized that what he saw at that time might not be the light in the 'city', but the light 'behind' the city.
At that time, he just felt that there was something behind the dense patterns in Winter City, and wanted to look deeper.
Then I directly came into contact with the ‘Eternal Divine Kingdom’, which was not too concealed at the time.
This could also explain why after he saw it that time, he never found that light again when he searched in Winter City.
A large part of the reason is that the Eternal Divine Kingdom deliberately restrained its existence after being stimulated, and another part of the reason is because the Eternal Divine Kingdom itself is not actually in Winter City at all.
After thinking about this, He Ao compared his position at the time, the general direction of his sight, and the direction in which Iroh initially drifted into the sea obtained from the church. He surprisingly found that although the two directions were biased, they were still the same.
Basically pointing to the same sea area.
And without that initial drifting route, He Ao would not have been able to find the Eternal Kingdom of God just based on that 'snapshot'.
Because the direction under the horizon of truth does not completely correspond to the direction in reality, and the brilliance of the Eternal Kingdom of God at that time was somewhat misleading, and it was almost impossible to determine the location, otherwise He Ao would not have mistakenly thought that this brilliance was hidden in Winter City at first.
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Of course, even with all these clues, He Ao was still not completely sure that the Kingdom of Eternity was really on the Sea of Storms.
However, through the induction of the horizon of truth, he was able to roughly determine that there was no real eternal divine kingdom in Winter City.
After excluding all other options, this seemingly impossible option became the most likely one.
Standing in the deepest part of this golden city, He Ao could vaguely hear the sound of waves on the stormy sea.
This place is actually not far from the place where he woke up on the stormy sea.
After going around in a circle, he returned to the starting point.
"Kid, you are really smart,"
After hearing He Ao's words, the calm expression on the old man's face changed slightly, and he said slowly,
"It has only been eight days since your parents died. In these eight days, you have obtained the support of the Twilight Society, the Security Federation and the FBI, destroyed my main church and the sky beast, and killed
The death of my Archbishop forced me to destroy part of the Eternal Kingdom of God in Novite District to seal you,"
He let out a long sigh, "But even so, you are still standing here at this moment."
He smiled slightly and said softly, "To be honest, I am a little frustrated and even a little jealous of your talent."
A slight sea breeze blew into the city, blowing up his white plain robe. He stared at the young man in front of him, his eyes sweeping across the square.
"If I had met you more than 20 years ago, I might have taken you to talk by candlelight at night about the future, hopes, ideals, and eternity. We might have become best friends."
"Then you kill me without mercy?"
He Ao glanced at the oil painting hanging in the sky, "Just like when you killed Scone and Vincent?"
"You have known my true identity for a long time?"
This time, the old man's face showed far more surprise than before.
"This is no more difficult than inferring the location of the eternal kingdom of God,"
The young man glanced at the oil painting above his head,
"The reason why Skone was killed is most likely because someone took away the "Baptism" and discovered it, and there were only a few people who could enter his study."
He lowered his head, stared at the old man, and paused slightly, saying,
"When he was assassinated, the B-class city defense troops were still there, but they did not protect him. The B-class city defense troops were following your orders."
He glanced at the seats in front of the podium,
"Scone trusted you very much. He had already lost control of United Industries at that time. If anyone else had taken away this painting, he would most likely find you as soon as possible, and then use the power of the city defense army as soon as possible.
to control the situation,"
He came back to his senses and looked at the old man's slightly stiff cheeks and white hair, "Unless, in this matter, he can't rely on you."
"Did he leave any special hints for Willy?"
The old man asked in a low voice.
To see through the underlying logic of this matter, you must know that the painting "Baptism" is lost, and under normal circumstances, no one would open the glass cover that is dangerous at first glance.
Unless you get some kind of 'reminder'.
"No, he left nothing behind,"
He Ao's tone was cold, "He still trusted you until his death, Mayor Endil."
The cold wind blew through the young man's red scarf and the old man's white plain robe.
It blows under the golden light and makes a hunting sound.
"Is it."
The old man lowered his head and murmured to himself.
Then he raised his head, his white hair scattered in the wind, and looked towards the end of the golden city,
"If you knew my identity from the beginning, you should also know that 'rescuing me' to obtain the support of the city defense army was impossible from the beginning, so it is also impossible for you to invite reinforcements through the high wall.
"
He turned back and looked at the young man in front of him, "So, are you prepared to completely give up the lives of everyone in Winter City and let the ceremony proceed, but just come here with the spirit of a young man, ready to fight to the death?"
"child,"
He paused for a moment and looked above his head. An illusory city reflection appeared in the clouds in the sky. It was Winter City at this moment.
"I can tell you clearly that the final order has been issued. If no one can stop it, the ceremony will still go smoothly in the end. You found the Eternal Kingdom of God, uncovered all the mysteries, successfully deceived me, and arrived here.
It doesn't change anything.
"Even if you find reinforcements, the city defense army has already blocked the high wall at this moment. Without the support of the city defense army, your reinforcements cannot pass through the high wall, and it will be of no use."
He lowered his head and looked at the young man in front of him, "Unfortunately, you can't change anything."
"In fact, change never stops. The people of Winter City are not silent lambs on the altar,"
The young man calmly glanced at the old man in front of him, looked up at the reflection of the sky, "There are no high walls on the stormy sea."
The wind from the stormy sea roared through the golden city, and also blew through the reflection of the sky, blowing the thick cloud curtain and blowing the scattered sparks of stars under the wind and snow.
