The word Nibelungen comes from German and refers to the people who live in Niflheim, the "Land of Fog" in Nordic mythology. It is also called the "Land of the Dead" in Nordic mythology and is closely connected to the underworld.
Since there is no clear boundary between the land and the underworld, only the souls of the dead will echo in this land. The name "Land of the Dead" is worthy of its name.
Su Xiaoqiang had come into contact with Nordic mythology, but her understanding was not deep. However, no matter how shallow the theology was, she could tell that this was not a good place. As for the name of the Lord of Bronze and Fire, she had actually heard of it, and Yu Linnian helped her popularize it.
I learned about it when I was reading "Dragon Genealogy", an introduction to dragon history.
The four great monarchs hidden in the depths of history, the noble first-generation species, the controllers of earth, fire and feng shui, no more titles can describe their greatness. The text of history says that humans learned fire, not because of the flames caused by lightning striking trees.
, but the monarch named Norton gave mankind the knowledge of "fire", so mankind learned to drill wood to make fire and awakened the first line of bronze and fire spirits.
Oasis instantly turned into dust in the Sahara Desert, Attila destroyed Western Rome, the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, and the mysterious drying up of Lop Nur, the Sea of Death. There is a king behind countless histories that have made people look at them from a distance and feel panic.
shadow.
It is a flat knitting machine that spans millions of years. The majestic historical atmosphere makes its silhouette so huge and awe-inspiring. Those who face it are like facing the entire history of mankind, with a sense of heaviness and oppression.
It felt like a mountain was collapsing, but even so, the hybrids had made it their lifelong goal to kill him, and they had pursued him for centuries, until today everything seemed to have finally come to an end.
"This is the Nibelung of the Lord of Bronze and Fire." The man whispered, as if he was reciting the words of a nightmare. Anyone who heard it would feel pain or hatred, and they would hug their knees with a distorted face or resentment.
Staring resentfully at the man who brought up old things again.
But so what, the man did not shut up because of the fear caused by those sights. He just stated the most straightforward and unvarnished reality, the plight of everyone in this room and this entire castle-like villa.
"Where are the mixed-races? Don't you care about the mixed-races?" After letting go of the restrained man, Su Xiaoqiang's first reaction on the sofa was this common-sense question. Although he had only been in contact with Kassel Academy for a short time, Ling Ling
In short, she also roughly knows what the world is really like.
No matter how creepy and terrifying the background of the world is, the real world is still dominated by humans and hybrids. Pure-blooded noble dragons are not hunters, humans are the real hunters. The resurrection of such a king should be the first to cause trouble.
Ant colonies are generally hunted by hybrids, right?
Twisting his sore arms, he sat back on the sofa. When he saw Su Xiaoqiang's gaze, he thought for a moment and sat on the ground beside the sofa. At this point, there was nothing they could do wrong.
But after hearing the question that Su Xiaoqiang subconsciously asked, the man looked at her with a particularly strange look, but suddenly he sobbed twice and could not say anything, and lowered his head so that Su Xiaoqiang could not see his face clearly.
expression (the reason for the beard and hair cannot be seen clearly).
"Everything is dead, no matter whether they are humans or hybrids, they have all died in the war. Those monsters are simply unstoppable. Even humans have their secret hands. They respond internally and externally, and cause internal troubles and external troubles.
How could he be an opponent under such circumstances?"
"Are you dead?" Su Xiaoqiang's face suddenly tightened, but suddenly relaxed. She was reminding herself that although she didn't know what the situation was, this place should be just an illusion. In her perception, the world was still that world, with singing and dancing, peace and harmony.
, there are at most half-breeds running around the world, slaying dragons and grabbing alchemy items, etc. How could it be possible that the world would end as soon as I woke up?
Unless she has "travelled" like the heroines in those danmei novel platforms. But she is not a stupid girl who reads novels into her head, and she doesn't believe in those things at all.
Quietly, she grabbed her arm again, but she still felt no pain. She heard others say that people can't feel pain in dreams. Was she really dreaming? Before the dream, she was still in the 3E exam room, so
Is this her vision?
Lin Nian's voice still lingered in her mind. She was clear about the situation, reaction, and composition of the spiritual vision, but she still couldn't be sure whether it was the so-called spiritual vision or something worse. If it was a spiritual vision,
Doesn't it mean that she is a pure "mixed race" like Lin Nian?
His mind was in chaos, and it was impossible not to be in chaos. Anyone in Su Xiaoqiang's situation would be confused. In comparison, Su Xiaoqiang was even calmer now, and he could restrain his impetuous emotions and try to straighten out the current situation one by one.
But if Lin Nian were here, the whole room would probably have people sitting in rows with guns pointed at their heads to answer his questions one by one. After all, it is still a question of the strength of the wrist.
"How is it outside now?" Su Xiaoqiang asked after considering his words.
"Outside? Where do you mean outside?" The man surprisingly did not dig into the various bizarre reactions shown by Su Xiaoqiang. Compared with the other "dead people" in the room who were as desperate as the walking dead, in front of Su Xiaoqiang he
It seems more "lively".
Although he still had a strong aura of decay, his conversation still seemed relatively normal, at least it was much better than the Indian who had been pinned to the ground and howled like a wolf, crying in agony.
"It's just outside the house." Su Xiaoqiang didn't quite understand what the man meant. He looked around and hesitated and asked, "Why do you want to hide in a place like this?"
"Because we will really die if we don't hide here." The man stared at Su Xiaoqiang for a while and realized that the other party was serious about this question. He smiled bitterly and lowered his head. He now really understood that this girl really didn't understand her situation. She didn't even know her own situation.
It seems that he didn't understand what the general environment was before he asked such a stupid question.
"What's outside the house?" Su Xiaoqiang keenly heard the meaning of this sentence. In addition, a voyeur could only tell from the wooden strips on the sealed windows of this huge living room that these people were not hiding here.
Like a beggar, he resigned himself to joining a group for warmth, but huddled in this shelter as a last resort? This was the closest word to the truth that she could blurt out.
Since this place may be a refuge, it is naturally to avoid some kind of "disaster". In addition, the other party mentioned words like "Lord of Bronze and Fire" and "Nibelungen" before. Even if the man has not answered yet, Su Xiaoqiang
It sank lower and lower, and in my somewhat cold heart I roughly guessed the answer.
"Deadpool." The man replied.
Su Xiaoqiang took a slight breath, and the smell of copper in her mouth made her sneeze again. Why did she still have this wonderful stimulating feeling even though she no longer felt pain? She was no stranger to the man talking about Deadpool. The process of the Pearl Tower incident
She could still remember it vividly, it was a nightmare that she would never forget for the rest of her life.
Those pale dead cheeks, and the power that is strong enough to tear human body limbs into pieces, the monster named Deadpool has long become the source of fear in her heart that she does not want to touch. If she comes into contact with Cassel College
What is the most feared thing? It is undoubtedly those "Deadpools". Even though Lin Nian and Professor Guderian have explained that Deadpools are not such common and crowded creatures, she is still full of fear of such monsters.
Seeing the resistance and fear in Su Xiaoqiang's eyes, the man shook his head and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the girl knew about common sense, otherwise there would be too many things to explain. He wanted to say it for a while.
There may not be enough to say.
"How long have you been trapped here?" Su Xiaoqiang simply didn't ask the man why no one came to save them. From the previous conversation, she already had a rough idea. It seemed that the background of this dream was the end of the world? Of course there would be no end of the world.
Reinforcements were called. Being trapped in a room by a group of dead men and lingering was tantamount to waiting for death. No wonder this place was filled with despair.
The man did not answer Su Xiaoqiang's question and pointed to a wall in the distance. Su Xiaoqiang looked up and saw scratches one after another on the wall. They should be the markings of time. Someone used a blunt instrument to cut open the wallpaper on the wall.
What was left was a group of four vertical lines intersected by one horizontal line, representing the five days, and this kind of engraving occupied the entire wall!
Su Xiaoqiang was a little shocked, but he still counted numbly. There were 400 groups of scratches in total. If one group of scratches was counted as 5 days, a shocking and desperate figure was born.
5 years.
This group of people was trapped here for 5 years.
"What have you been eating and drinking over the years?" Su Xiaoqiang asked a common question. Although there are not many people here, if you want to supply rations for five years unless there is a basement full of food, and the stored food is still
It must be concentrated munitions, so that it is reasonable.
"Is this your first time entering the Nibelungs? We don't need to eat. Everything in the Nibelungs is 'dead'. Naturally, 'dead people' don't need food or even excretion." The man said, "
There may have been fights over food during the formation of the Nibelungs, but later we discovered that we didn't need food to survive and there were no more fights. We won't die, but our bodies will only get closer.'
dead'."
He opened his clothes to reveal his skinny abdomen. The shocking scene made Su Xiaoqiang couldn't help but turn his head to avoid it.
"If we are not really killed here, we may wait until the day when we become dry skeletons." The man said with a sad smile, his eyes full of pain and helplessness.
It's no wonder that the people in the room were not surprised by Su Xiaoqiang's arrival. To them, she was just another poor person who strayed into the Nibelung Sea of Bronze Trees. Finding this refuge was her only lucky and unfortunate place.
One day, the clothes on her body will rot and the clothes will not cover her body. The body that was originally desirable will rot and shrink, becoming a skinny monster, no different from them. Everything is just a matter of time.
"Have you never thought about escaping?" Su Xiaoqiang shuddered slightly, hugged her knees on the sofa and asked in a low voice.
"We can't escape the maze with a sea of bronze trees outside. The maze is full of ferocious dead warriors. Some people have collapsed and rushed out, but they were killed by things in the sea of bronze trees before they could escape a hundred meters away." The man.
Said quietly.
"Sea of Bronze Trees, so we are in a forest?" Su Xiaoqiang paused. How could such a mansion (visual inspection from the living room) be built in a sea of bronze trees?
But when he met the man's eyes, he suddenly realized that he had asked a stupid question. The man had already said where this place was.
The Nibelungs, the home of the Lord of Bronze and Fire.
It was not that there was a sea of trees first and then there were houses, but that there were houses first and then there was a sea of trees. The dragon king forged a majestic dark forest made of bronze trees between the roaring heaven and earth, and countless dead waiters and
The corpse guard wanders in the bronze forest, and the center of the sea of trees is naturally the Dragon King's palace, the Baidi City, a palace made of bronze.
"No one can leave Nibelungen without the permission of the monster in the Bronze City. No one can come to save us. People here have given up hope." The man said.
"But you are not dead either." Su Xiaoqiang whispered.
"" The man opened his mouth, then closed it, revealing a miserable smile.
"How did you get here or where was this place originally?" Su Xiaoqiang asked in a low voice. She didn't mind asking more questions before the dream ended.
She had a hunch that compared to men and these poor people being trapped in this illusion called "Nibelungen", she was just a passer-by when she came here, and she was not worried that she would be left here too.
It will leave and soon. This is an unfounded but extremely certain premonition from deep in my mind. It is really like a dream to determine the continuation and development of the dream.
"Everyone knew this place before, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the gateway to the Three Gorges from Qutang Gorge in Fengjie County." The man said, "I traveled here with my girlfriend five years ago until we stood at the scenic spot of Kuimen Langyan Fort and saw the underwater floating
When the corpse of the 'dragon' was picked up, everything was too late. His body blocked the wide river area. The cruise ship hit his broken right wing and was stabbed by broken bones. Then he came back to life and climbed towards the mountain. He stood
It flapped its wings and roared at the highest point of the Three Gorges, shaking the peaks of the canyon and causing water roars and mudslides. My girlfriend and I fainted. When we woke up, we found that we were already in the Nibelung.
I slowly found this place and hid with the other survivors."
"What about your girlfriend?" Su Xiaoqiang saw the man's pleading eyes just as she opened her mouth. She seemed unwilling to bring up this question. She was in a dull mood and did not continue to ask.
"This house was originally overcrowded." The man only said one sentence, and finally he leaned against the sofa and stared at the ceiling, not knowing what he was thinking.
Su Xiaoqiang was silent for a long time in the dead silence, and then asked, "Are you sure that the corpse you saw climbing up from the Yangtze River is the 'Dragon'? Or is it the 'Dragon King', one of the four monarchs?"
"I don't know what can be more terrifying than that terrifying corpse. It is definitely the corpse of the Dragon King. For some reason, he was resurrected. All such horrific corpses in the world have been resurrected. The first is Japan.
Tokyo, then Shanghai and California, and then the dragon king awakened in the interior. They brought countless monsters and natural disasters. It was an apocalyptic scene that we did not see with our own eyes but heard on the radio in the house.
After hearing everything on the radio, terrible battles broke out all over the world. Hybrids and humans were all at a disadvantage. Every day was darker than the day before, and bad news kept coming one after another."
"Later, when everyone in the room was afraid of turning on the radio, but had to turn it on to understand the information released by the hybrids, the Nibelungs were completely formed, and we could no longer receive signals from the outside." The man looked at it
Glancing at some radio fragments on the ground in the center of the living room, he hissed, "Many people are playing the last recorded broadcast in a loop. But it seems that people outside probably thought this was just an ordinary bronze forest. They were looking for
No one can save us until we reach the Nibelungen.”
She was getting more and more negative, and the despair in the man was about to overflow again. Su Xiaoqiang didn't know what to say to comfort him. Her current thinking was not on how to relieve the man's despair, because when she heard the words Three Gorges, Qutang Gorge and Dragon King,
At that time, my mind suddenly connected some things.
Lin Nian said that the goal of the Secret Party was to find the four great monarchs and the more ancient and powerful dragons. The Bronze and King of Or was one of the four monarchs, so he was naturally the sworn enemy that the Secret Party would kill for the rest of his life.
, these mortal enemies cannot be killed. Every time they die, they will be hidden in the hidden corner of the world waiting for resurrection. According to the man's words, Qutang Gorge is the burial place of the King of Bronze and Fire?
Her spirit slowly became tense, because even as a new member of the secret party, she understood the significance and value of this news. If this was true, if everything in this dream was true, she would convey the news after waking up.
For Lin Nian, wouldn't it be possible to find the dragon corpse one step ahead of time and deal with this terrifying enemy?
this
Can this still be called spiritual vision?
Su Xiaoqiang's mind became more active, but the backlog of panic and worry became more and more intense. Isn't he really dreaming? But if this information is true, doesn't it mean that he has foreseen the future?
She shook her head to throw the weird and horrifying thoughts out of her mind, and when she wanted to continue to ask about the news about Kassel College and Lin Nian, a scream suddenly interrupted what she was thinking about.
The cry is as pure as a baby's cry, and the vibrations resonate in the skull, creating an ethereal feeling. Finally, extending to the back is the fear that creeps up to the back of the head and the top of the head, the instinctive fear of the screaming creature!
The neighing sounds were not one, but one after another, surrounding and seeping into the living room. In an instant, several survivors in the whole room fell to the ground as if they were struck by lightning, holding their heads. Su Xiaoqiang originally thought that they were sick, so he got up from the sofa.
When I stood up, I heard the thin voice that sounded like murmuring.
"Why so early?"
"They come and they come"
"They want my flesh and blood."
"Don't die. I don't want to die. I've lived for so long and I don't want to die."
Beside the sofa, the man's face was also pale, and his throat couldn't help but make swallowing movements, but there was actually no saliva for him to swallow in the dry mouth like tissue paper. This was a sign of fear.
"It shouldn't be so early. It shouldn't be so early." Even Su Xiaoqiang, who was the most normal person in the room, was now in panic, and he suddenly turned his head and looked at the corner where he was pressed by several people as if he remembered something.
The man who went crazy after trampling on the radio crushed it. The man's face was covered with blood beads from scratches, which dripped onto the floor and seeped into the floor.
Su Xiaoqiang seemed to be aware of it, and looked at the window that was sealed with wooden bars. In this situation where despair overwhelmed everyone, she had the courage to cross the sofa and approach the window. It was not difficult.
She found a weak gap in the place where the wooden strips were joined together (perhaps these people stayed here specially to observe). After squinting outside, the cold air spread from her back to her whole body in an instant.
It was a black and twisted forest. Under the night, every giant bronze tree was like a standing giant. The traces of vines on the trees soared to form different "words", and between the "words" there were faint traces.
The shapes of human faces were pieced together. Those faces all had their eyes closed, as if they were sleeping and guarding this land of the dead.
In the dark sea of bronze trees, figures walked out one after another. Su Xiaoqiang knew that those were not real "people" because their faces were pale, their exposed claws were slender and long, and they were covered with black cloaks.
Above their heads, the glimmer of light that illuminated their dead white cheeks in the shadows came from those cold golden eyes like fireflies.
Deadpool, a follower of pure-blooded dragons, a walking dead who longs for flesh and blood and power.
"It's you, your blood attracted them! It's you!" A woman in the crowd pointed frantically at the man whose hands and feet were trapped, and roared hysterically. Her twisted face was the most expressive expression Su Xiaoqiang had ever seen from a human being.
The most tense form of resentment.
"Throw him out! If he attracts them, let him satisfy them!" The woman repeatedly pointed at the Indian man and growled, but before she could get the approval of others, the man next to Su Xiaoqiang suddenly stood up.
, rushed over and slapped the woman on the cheek, dragging her clothes and pulling up the skinny body. Their bodies were all the same withered, one person lifted up the other like the wind blowing
The moving reed overpowered the other reed, so light and fluttery but now full of emotions like a mountain of anger and panic.
The man stared at the crazy woman like an angry beast. His attitude and behavior did not cause panic or stop the people around him, but instead made everyone calm down. However, the man gently let go of the fear.
The anger dissipated, leaving only the trembling and frightened woman, who turned around and walked towards the sofa.
Su Xiaoqiang, who was standing by the window, didn't know what the man was going to do for a moment, but she immediately turned around and faced him as a conditioned reflex, raising her arms slightly to prevent herself. The well-proportioned muscles under her fair skin were taut with some results. If the man was offensive,
The first time she moved, she would use the powerful Baji Fist to knock down this weak guy. Maybe she, a normal person with full flesh and blood and plenty of energy, was the strongest unit in this room.
But the man didn't care about Su Xiaoqiang. He was now completely filled with negative emotions, and his fingers and legs were trembling with fear. He was already familiar with this kind of fear. He had been doing it for five years, but he still stopped in front of fear.
He kept hunching his back like a poor person drinking muddy water, drowning in fear, and struggling in drowning.
He ignored Su Xiaoqiang, who was filled with hostility and vigilance, and bent down to stand in front of the sofa where the girl had slept. He lifted up the surface of the sofa and found that there was a small space inside the sofa. Su Xiaoqiang's heart suddenly jumped when he saw what was inside.
As soon as it was tight, the other party took it out before he could take any action.
The three revolvers have different styles, colors, and details, but there is no doubt that they are three real guns. There are scattered yellow bullets around them.
"Are you going to fight back? How can I help?" After Su Xiaoqiang saw that the man did not point the gun at anyone, and that the people in the room were not shocked by the firearms, he naturally knew that these revolvers were not used to kill each other.
.
She was originally just an ordinary girl. After experiencing some unavoidable things, her first reaction when encountering the current situation was to help the enemy.
But when the man held out three guns, everyone in the room also stood up. There was no anger, only trembling with fear. But amidst the agreed-upon "rules", they did not run away or fight with each other.
, instead he moved closer to the center of the living room and sat down with a peaceful trembling.
When the man picked up the revolver and loaded only one bullet into it, Su Xiaoqiang by the window opened her eyes wide and breathed heavily because she never imagined that in a desperate situation and surrounded by monsters, these people's guns would
Actually towards themselves.
The man looked at Su Xiaoqiang, and everyone else looked at Su Xiaoqiang, including the Indian man who went crazy at the beginning, as if waiting for her to go with him.