She took a gentle breath of mist, but the mist lingered on her glasses. Miss Scholar hurriedly waved her hand, and her voice was confused, "...'frozen' here means that the active wind element will become silent in winter, and the longer the
To the north, the lower the temperature, the more obvious this phenomenon becomes. At first, people thought that this was related to the north wind coming from the glacier, so people who made a living at sea made it a custom not to go to sea after winter.
However, later, scholars discovered that this phenomenon is actually related to the tides on the etheric sea, and it can be overcome by certain means. Therefore, there are now shuttle ships in the inner sea of the cloud sea even after winter. However, traveling across the ocean is affected by the seasonal wind direction.
The impact is still limited. Generally speaking, after late winter, the route from Yis to the Empire will stop until the spring and summer of next year."
Tianlan was stunned for a moment. It turns out that there are so many details to sailing on the open sea. It turned out that she thought that as long as she had a boat, it would be enough. "Then if you think about it, it will be late winter soon, leaving us
Aren’t we running out of time?” She suddenly remembered this matter, “Brother Ed is so strange, why did you bring us here?”
"Believe the captain." Baggins replied from the side. A fire was lit in the boiler room below, and the pipes were being heated. The boatswain bent down and opened the wooden grille window, letting the steam rise from below and curl up. "It's now about December.
There is still a month left in the second half of the year, and we still have time to leave Ithurian."
After leaving Ithurian, turn all the way south. After passing through Harina, there will be ocean currents above the Sea of Mist - the south wind prevails. Then you don't have to worry about the northerly wind in the Ithurian Sea.
"understood."
Tian Lan seemed to understand. She patted her face with her thickly gloved hands and couldn't help but complain: "But it's so cold in the north. I didn't expect it to be even colder on the Baozhang Coast. How long do we have to wait?"
Indeed, the ancient pagoda is not further north than the northern border, but people like to call the Baozhang Coast the northern border of Ithulian, not only because it is on a large glacier, but also because of the north wind here all year round.
, severe cold - in the past, few ships except the ancient Ta people came to this area.
This is the boundary of civilization.
Fang Plover is also waiting patiently.
He was looking through the window of the captain's room, looking in the direction of Hanshui Port, and gently pulled his collar.
Compared with the anxiety of others who were just waiting, Fang Yu actually had more different emotions in his heart. Ever since he learned about his parents' past from Su Changfeng, he had a deeper understanding of the hand that pushed him into this world.
More questions and speculations.
Shana.
R.
Could it be them, his... teachers?
In the port, there are only a few ships at the moment, with sparse masts and sails.
The weather was unusually sunny.
The year-round cold wind turns the ice and snow into thousands of glaciers, which shine with ice-blue light in the sun. The port grows from the glaciers, and the buildings are distributed in a ladder shape. Several trestles extend into the fjord, which is solid.
The granite is hung with sharp ice edges that will not melt, and it is covered with scratches.
Those are the traces left after the last storm.
The locals call it the claw marks left by ‘winter trombones’——
It's not just Miss Naturalist who knows this land.
Fang Plover is also familiar with the age of the frozen soil under this glacier.
The entire Baozhang Coast's narrow and twisting bays are filled with sparks of civilization left behind after humans' struggle with the severe cold. Fortresses, camps and outposts are dotted like embers in the long night, scattered across this harsh environment.
On the harsh earth.
In this winter world, death and silence are everywhere. After every snowstorm, destroyed villages and abandoned settlements abound. There are several cities in history that were buried in the cold after a long winter.
Under the ice and frost.
Yet death also confirms new life.
About a thousand years ago, it was these little bits of fire that formed many city-states on the harsh frozen soil.
Among them, twenty-one city-states existed until the time of "the fall of kings."
Until that ancient hunter began to hunt in the forest, the trombone remained immortal.
After that, the ancient kingdom collapsed, and seven more city-states disappeared after that, just like the seven moons that disappeared in the prophecies of the mountain people.
The raven's trombone brought an era of eternal darkness. Kingdoms fought against each other in the turbulent era. The wars continued. Three kingdoms were destroyed. Countless dead people slept in the cold forest. Crows pecked at the corpses. The children of the winter kingdom
The people shed their blood in one disaster after another.
These people are the Guta people, the ancestors of the mountain people.
But the stories of the past have now gone with the wind.
Now the kingdom has fallen apart, and today's Guta people are just vassals of the Kaulin-Ithurian Kingdom. Faced with the descendants of these unruly pirates, the kingdom's governors rule this area with harsh methods, but
Oppression brings resistance.
The people of Guta have never stopped fighting unyieldingly.
This is also the reason for the current situation of this land.
However, Hanshui Port has not yet penetrated deep into the fjord. This is the last area covered by the Kingdom Order. If you sail further south, the ancient tower mountains and forests will not be so friendly.
Fang Plover's eyes suddenly flashed and he saw a small boat coming from the port with a small red flag hanging on it. It was the signal agreed upon in advance - he stood up from his position and felt a little excited.
, the people sent by Shana arrived.
…
"I have inspected the goods," Xueye Yaoyue looked away from the rows of wooden crates and nodded with some satisfaction, "The quality passed the standard. He said he could trust you, but I was still a little skeptical."
She says what she says without reservation.
Xueye Yaoyue picked up the suitcase at hand and put it on the table in front of everyone, "Here is the agreed reward. The deposit has been paid before, and this is the remaining part. There are five hundred thousand Lisels in the box.
The cash is one-third as agreed, and the remaining two-thirds are deposited in Stargate Bank as you requested."
She took out another crystal and pushed it in front of Fang Yu: "This is an information certificate."
It was her.
Fang Yu did not reach out to pick it up at the first time, but looked at the woman with some surprise. The woman seemed to have forgotten that he had met everyone at Traveler's Rest, but he remembered clearly - at that time, the woman was still with the immortal worm.
, red leaves have crossed hands.
She actually knows Shana and those people?
Fang Yu couldn't help but wonder why the other party appeared there at that time. Was it really such a coincidence?
Whether it’s ‘R’, Shana, or this woman, are all of these too coincidental?
As he took the crystal, he scanned the information inside. Since this was a standard crystal made by the Craftsman Association, it had Stargate Port's special anti-counterfeiting mark on it, making it almost impossible to forge, so he was actually not too worried that the other party would do something like this.
Playing tricks on.
But he raised his head and was about to ask something.
But the other party spoke before him.
"And this thing..." Xueye Yaoyue took out something from her pocket and paused, "...this is what he entrusted me to give to you."
That's a metal plate.
It is about half an inch thick and two fingers wide, with a colorful luster on its surface.
Its surface is not flat, but covered with strange patterns, which are composed of parallel, non-intersecting lines that bend together at a certain position, giving people the feeling of some kind of magic circuit.
What is this? A key?
Fang Plover saw that there were several uneven gaps on one side of the metal plate, which looked a bit like a door key.
But compared to this, he was more concerned about another thing, and subconsciously asked: "Is it the teacher?"
"Yes," Xueye Yaoyue replied, "...well, he said you are his student."
Fang Plover fell silent.
Shana and 'R' know each other, this is something he has known from the black-haired young man.
However, further confirmation, especially after Su Changfeng provided him with the information, still couldn't help but make him feel a little confused. Are they really them? What is the relationship between Shana and 'R' and their parents? Enemies, or were they once?
teammates?
"Teacher..." Fang Yusheng resisted asking questions directly, but turned to the thing in front of him, "This is?"
Xueye Yaoyue was also looking at this young man with some curiosity.
As a 'Master's Wife', she did not know much about this 'picked' student. 'R' praised him highly, but this was the first time she 'met' him.
She didn't see anything.
I just felt that the other person looked familiar.
"Don't ask me," Xueye Yaoyue looked at Fang Plover and shook her head. 'R' asked her to hand over this thing, but did not tell her what it was. "He never told me this. Maybe you can go directly
Ask him."
"Do you know the teacher and..." Fang Yu tentatively asked, "Shana?"
"Shana?"
Xueye Yaoyue was also stunned, thinking what kind of strange ID this was. It sounded like a woman. Does that guy have a woman outside?
She frowned, a little distracted for a moment, "If you want to ask me about this matter, you're asking the wrong person. I haven't known him for more than two years."
She didn't lie completely, she just concealed the relationship between the two.
Fang Yu couldn't see any clues after careful observation. He was mistaken for a moment and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed subconsciously.
He thought for a moment and then asked: "...You want so many basic models of magic furnaces. Are you planning to establish a guild on the Treasure Staff Coast?"
"ah?"
Only then did Bloody Night Yaoyue come back to her senses.
She didn't think about it for a moment, and replied smoothly: "...No, it's almost the same. The Baozhang Coast area is the edge of the kingdom, and the competition pressure of the guilds here is not that great..."
"But I heard that there's going to be chaos here," Fang Yu couldn't help but sweat for his teacher after hearing this, "It should be difficult for the new guild to survive, right?"
"Ah, well," Xueye Yaoyue was a little flustered for a moment, thinking why do you care about this, "it shouldn't be a big problem, but I'm not responsible for this direction, and I don't know very well. But since they chose to build that here
What... the guild shouldn't have considered this issue, right?"
This irrelevant answer made Fang Yu couldn't help but look at the other party suspiciously.
However, he also understood that it was unlikely that the other party would tell him the truth.
…
Inside Hanshui Port.
The black-haired young man was withdrawing from his thoughts.
He pulled up his shawl to cover the silver Vislan emblem on his left collar. Although he was just a 'temporary worker', he still had to not be too conspicuous when doing private work. He had a good impression of 'Ms. Lin' and didn't want to
It was not pleasant to have trouble with the other party.
After waiting for another ten minutes, he saw Xueye Yaoyue coming back from the direction of the warehouse.
"Sister Yaoyue, is the other party coming?"
The black-haired young man immediately came up to him and asked.
But Xueye Yaoyue didn't say a word. She only stopped, looked at the other party, and then set her eyes on the other party's hands.
The black-haired young man slapped his forehead and suddenly realized, "I forgot."
He then took out a emblem and showed it to the other party.
Xueye Yaoyue glanced at this guy angrily, and after confirming that the emblem was correct, he handed a projection crystal to the other person's hand.
Then she didn't say anything, passed by the black-haired young man, and hurriedly left in the other direction.
"Mysterious." The black-haired young man shook his head, then picked up the projection crystal and looked at it. It was not an ordinary projection crystal, it contained some hidden information, including several addresses, and a series of
number.
After reading it, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said: "No. 7, Warehouse No. 12, the boss is very generous."
Then he raised his head, "The Northern Territory is in constant turmoil, and the Ancient Towers can't hold it back any longer. Crow's Claw Temple, Ancient Lord Hunters, the two major alliances, have a lot of fun. But it's okay, the more chaotic they are, the more suitable they are.
When we acted, the boss and the others chose a good time."
The black-haired young man suddenly stretched out his hand and nodded his forehead, a trace of surprise flashed in his heart, "Shouldn't they have expected all this? These old guys are really scary..."
He silently looked at the projection crystal in his hand.
There will be a big fun next, maybe it will change the history behind this star gate.
But it's a pity that those people should have been given a surprise, but perhaps by the time the surprise actually arrives, they will no longer have time to pay attention to this 'little thing'.
The black-haired young man put away the crystal and took one last look in the direction of the port.
…
Dark bathroom.
Lin Qingzheng used a razor to carefully shave off the foam on his chin, then lowered his head and poured water on his face. He looked up at the handsome face in the light mirror - as if he was back again
By the time he looked so high-spirited on the field, he had lost his childishness and had a little heavy dark circles under his eyes.
He smiled to himself, put away his business, and walked out of the bathroom. He happened to see his 'roommate' packing things by the bed. The other person was about the same height as him, but what made him uncomfortable was that he was taller than him.
He is much more handsome. Fortunately, he is already married and has entered the grave called 'family'.
"'F'," said the young man who was packing his things with his head down, "have you seen my personal terminal?"
"Here." Lin Qing directly threw something the size of a watch in his hand over.
'R' caught the terminal with his backhand without looking back. Then he turned around and looked at the other party angrily, "I've told you more than once, don't touch my things."
"Anyway, we won't need it soon." Lin Qing shrugged.
"It has nothing to do with that," 'R' opened the terminal and looked at the message left above, "My purpose is to get you to get rid of this bad habit."
Lin Qingqing changed the topic tactfully and asked: "...has there been a reply over there?"
‘R’ nodded. “The original time, the plan remains unchanged.”
"What about your private affairs over there?" the former asked again.
The icon on the screen flashed, and 'R' glanced at it from the corner of his eye before replying: "There just happened to be a letter from 'X'... As I expected, Ed has already shipped the stuff, and the quality is very good.
High, the scrap rate is lower than we expected.”
Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
He said somewhat happily: "I was still worried that he wouldn't come."
"My student is much more reliable than you," 'R' glanced at him, "If it weren't for his character, you think I would teach him those things. He is sometimes a bit dull... But here
But he is absolutely excellent in terms of performance. How about it, did he give you a 'surprise'?"
"Surprise? Shocked!"
The former put his hands behind his head and complained a bit unhappily: "He has entered the fourth gate, and there are still two levels left. Odin and Pluto have also taught him a lot...and that little Anrothe.
I don’t know where this guy got the things I left behind, and he’s almost entering the realm of ‘keys’, with just a layer of paper missing. No one would believe this in the second world, let alone...”
"What a little monster." He concluded.
"It's a coincidence." 'R' replied, feeling a little lost in thought for a moment.
"But he does have extraordinary talent in this area. I originally thought that he would not enter that world and only regard it as a pastime... But now that I think about it, he was already extraordinary at that time. I gave him the
Some of the questions are questions for training top novices in the second world. Even if they are placed in a first-line guild, not everyone can answer them.
Of course, Ed can't answer every question. He is only outstanding in certain fields, and he also has partial subjects. But even so, he is an all-rounder among novices. The "Chapter of Keys" is in the second world.
It is a top field, but after all, it does not require other foundations, and we have been away from the front line for five years, and five years after the Star Gate is already a generation."
"Three years," Lin Qing corrected him. "I gave him the multiple parallelism and margin skills not yesterday, but more than a year ago."
He looked at the latter with some amusement, "The children can no longer catch up with him. You and I personally selected those seedlings. It took two or three years, but the result is not as good as yours casually in the community."
I met a brat. Do you think we have fallen behind the times?"
‘R’ shook his head.
Of course he understood that Lin Qing was just joking. If he really had such a mentality, he would not do these things with him.
But he didn't expect that his whim would have such a result. Maybe it was God's will. Originally, 'R' didn't believe this, but at this time, he couldn't help but become a little superstitious. In his life
There have been many important moments in it.
But nothing compared to the next ten hours.
‘R’ looked towards his companions.
Lin Qing's eyes just happened to look over, and this fussy man was rarely serious at this moment, "Actually, what I want to say is that this is not the most important part of our plan, but the lack of hundreds of sets of equipment will have an impact.
Not small," he couldn't help but sigh, "Fortunately everything went well, even so good that I had some doubts...
We haven't been so lucky in the past five years, have we? What I'm curious about is why you didn't take action on such an important matter. After all, you have much more influence on Shana than Shana, an ID of unknown origin."
‘R’ did not answer.
There are things he can say to his students, but he will never tell the man in front of him that he has forgotten his account on the community again.
He zipped up his backpack and ended the topic with just one sentence, "Success requires luck."
But luck alone is not enough. They have put in so much effort. If they only blame it on luck, it would be disrespectful to everyone who worked for it. But luck is so important. If not, they would
There won't even be a chance to do it again.
Lin chuckled lightly.
In fact, the goals of the two people were not consistent at the beginning. He knew what the man in front of him wanted. It was revenge, which might not be that serious. But he did want someone to pay the price for what had happened. Apart from that,
, is a return to justice.
As for him, he was unwilling to give in. But it was this unwillingness that connected him, them, and many people together. Through the factors of chance and coincidence, until now, in the next ten hours,
, everything will have an answer.
Then.
It's the wider world.
The two pushed the door open and went out. As soon as the temperature dropped, they both cheered up. There was a window at the end of the corridor, and there was a snowstorm blowing outside, howling wildly, and a vast expanse of white. In the distance, you could even see
I saw a large coniferous forest, which seemed to be in a certain area of Siberia.
Someone came to them through the corridor and said: "Everyone is ready. Bases A1, A3, and A4 have been assembled. There are some problems at base 2, which may delay time. Miss Viurs will arrange for them to
It’s the second batch.”
‘R’ nodded silently.
The three of them walked out of the corridor and came outside.
"I don't know how Stargate will view the current situation." Behind him, Lin Qing tightened his thick clothes and said suddenly.
The wind and snow almost drowned out his voice.
"They should be making first-hand preparations," 'R' knew that the other party was just joking, but still answered seriously, "There is nothing to ridicule. This matter is equally important to everyone, but we were earlier.
Just prepare some."
He looked up at the sky.
"Union Port didn't even have time to deal with those voices of protest," Lin chuckled softly, and also raised his head to glance at the weather. "There have been more and more climate anomalies in the past two years. In some places in the north, the temperature has reached such a level that it can freeze the air.
Although the extent of the rise is an exaggeration, it can be seen... There is a large area of drought in the Middle East, and there are also strange astronomical phenomena that they cannot fully explain."
"This is also good for us. They may not be able to spare the energy to care about the situation here," 'R' said. "Now the conflicts between all parties in the Star Gate are becoming more and more prominent. The Super Competitive Alliance is just a symptom.
But also for this reason, the strength of the inspection organization is the weakest in this direction..."
Having said this, he turned around and asked:
"Can the rented transport ship take off and land normally in this weather?"
"As long as the weather does not exceed Level 5, it's no problem," the visitor responded. "The pilots of the Federation are very courageous. All you have to do is pay."
‘R’ nodded.
"Then let everyone set off," he checked the time on the terminal and said, "According to the original time, we will meet at the breaking point."