Under the dark night, the big white boat slowly cut through the water, creating ripples behind it.
We are already inside the Arctic Circle. If it is not summer, only icebreakers can continue to move forward.
The "Dream Dragon" cruise ship is a large passenger luxury cruise ship. Although some of its configurations are not comparable to those giant icebreakers, it is more than enough to sail on the Arctic waterways in summer.
It is only the end of June now, and some ice floes have not completely melted away. After all, the most suitable season for navigation on the Arctic waterways is September.
During the year, the highest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere ocean is in August, and it will take some time before the ice floes melt, so September is the most suitable month for sailing.
But this is not a problem for this ship.
The boss behind the scenes spent huge sums of money to build this giant ship "Dragon of Fantasy". It was not completed until January this year. A heavy water nuclear reactor was directly added to provide the ship with endless power. Adopt
The hardest alloys create that thick shell armor.
The most advanced technology currently used is used internally to maintain the operation of this giant ship.
Although it is not as good as some military-grade Big Macs, it is far higher than other giant wheels in terms of performance.
The ship has nine floors up and down and is more than 30 meters high. Six of the floors are luxurious cabins. These cabins can accommodate 1,200 tourists, plus almost 1,000 crew and service personnel. It can be said to be a floating ship on the Arctic Ocean.
of small cities.
However, because this ship has just been put into operation, not many people know its name. There are only 300 tourists on this ship at most.
Compared to the numerous crew members and service staff, it seems a bit deserted.
Lao Tang is one of these more than 300 tourists.
Old Tang didn't expect that he would actually take on this task.
When he first saw the specific content of this mission, he even suspected that the viewer had a brain problem and needed to see a doctor.
That audience actually wanted to find the legendary Avalon, the land of eternity, the place guarded by elves, and the island of life and death.
What’s even more special is going to the Arctic Ocean to look for it.
Avalon is a holy land in Celtic mythology, the central belief of the ancient Druid religion, and the nickname of the Welsh Elysium.
The Garden of Eden in Jewish mythology is very similar. In the Arthurian legend, Avalon is the final habitat of King Arthur and the paradise in the other world, which is guarded by nine fairy queens.
According to legend, Avalon is surrounded by swamps, woods and fog, and can only be reached by boat. In the legend of King Arthur, Avalon symbolizes the afterlife and the place after death. It is a mysterious paradise in the other world, composed of nine people.
It is guarded by a fairy queen who is good at magic.
When King Arthur was betrayed and killed by Mordred, his nephew and illegitimate son born to Morgan (also said to be Morgause) during the Battle of the Sword Parade, Morgan, one of the nine fairy queens, and the other two witch sisters
His body was brought there in a black boat and buried here.
Strangely, Morgan, who had been an enemy of King Arthur for a long time, sent King Arthur to Avalon Island for recuperation when King Arthur was dying, and became one of King Arthur's guardians.
The forest outside Lake Avalon is guarded by the Green Knight of the Lake Witch, preventing ordinary people from breaking into the territory of the Holy Land of Avalon. Once an intruder is discovered, the Green Knight will kill them mercilessly. The Lake of Avalon
There lives a group of proud and beautiful lake witches, and Vivian is their leader. In Irish mythology and legend, the fairy Morgan is regarded as the goddess of the trinity, because the Celts regard "three" as the symbol of the trinity.
The sacred number, so three to three makes nine, expanding the number to nine people, who together guard the magic furnace of Anwen in the Elysian World, and rule the legendary island of the dead, Avalon, headed by the fairy Morgan.
Judging from the description of Avalon, it cannot be located in the Arctic Ocean.
Even the employer's high offer of 10 million U.S. dollars couldn't impress him. He even wanted the employer to use the money to cure his brain.
He is more interested in things involving strange powers and chaos, and he also wants to take on tasks related to this type. But there is no need to accompany a crazy lunatic!
If you want to find Avalon, just go to the Mediterranean!
Just when Old Tang wanted to refuse without hesitation.
The other party suddenly sent another message. It was an oil painting with a line of text.
The painting depicts an isolated island on the sea that serves as a mausoleum. A small boat is carrying the deceased towards this dark final destination. The entire picture is shrouded in heavy darkness, and the bright stone houses on the island and the towering dark cypress trees form a strong
The contrast between light and dark; the mourners standing on the boat in white mourning clothes add to the eerie feeling against the dark background. This is a mysterious and unpredictable place of death, which is creepy.
Old Tang is not interested in art. If he knew anything about painting, he would have discovered that this oil painting was "Island of the Dead" painted by the famous Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin.
This strange painting is accompanied by a line of words, the font is twisted, just like flowing blood:
【Have you ever heard of...Nibelungen?】
Old Tang trembled and rubbed the goose bumps on his arms.
This weird painting, coupled with the weird text, looks awkward no matter how you look at it.
In addition to this weird and terrifying feeling, Old Tang actually felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. It was as if... he had met him somewhere before...
But how could Avalon in Celtic mythology be related to the Nibelungs in Nordic mythology?
Nibelungen, originated from nilfheim (nibelheim) in ancient Northern Europe, means "the country of the dead" or "the country of the fog" in Nordic mythology. Medieval German called the people who lived there "nibelung" (plural "niebelungen"),
That is, people living in the "Land of Fog".
It fits well with the name of Avalon, the Island of Dead Souls.
Is it possible that the Kingdom of the Dead still has some dramas?
Old Tang relied on complaining to dispel the uneasiness in his heart.
It was precisely because of this that he suddenly ran out of ideas and was unsure whether he should take on this task.
His intuition told him that if he followed, he would see something beyond imagination.
"..." Old Tang was silent for a long time.
The person on the other side didn't seem to care, and kept waiting quietly.
"I'm coming, but how on earth am I going to get to the Greenland Sea? I'm so poor that I have to eat dirt." Finally, Old Tang agreed.
"It doesn't matter, I will provide you with a ticket on a luxury cruise ship, with free food and accommodation, and a reward of 10 million."
Old Tang's heart moved shamefully.
He has never been on a luxury cruise ship like that in his life.
"I will provide you with a ticket on the Dragon of Fantasy, a journey to the end of the world."