The conversation with Captain Boken went smoothly and was quite pleasant, at least on the surface it seemed that way.
After the talkative captain left, Hao Ren and Vivian began to sort out the intelligence they had just collected.
"This old captain is extraordinary." Although Vivian has been poor for ten thousand years, she still has some experience in the world of people. She can see many problems that Boken unconsciously revealed at a glance. "He behaves very well."
, talkative, enthusiastic and sincere, but just because he is too talkative, enthusiastic and sincere, it seems unnatural, at least it has exceeded his description of his identity."
"An ordinary civilian ship captain, who has been doing passenger transport business over the 'World Crack' all year round," Hao Ren recalled the old captain's introduction to him, "unless there will be spaceships with the same unique style as ours in this world every now and then.
Come visit, otherwise an 'ordinary captain' like him would not behave so calmly after boarding the starship. All his curiosity is kept to a minimum, and he seems enthusiastic and sincere, but many of the things he says are very vague.
, and his enthusiasm and sincerity itself is a big problem. He does not need to be so close to strangers like us who are meeting for the first time, even if we just saved his life. The enthusiasm of gratitude and the enthusiasm of getting close are different. "
Leah shook her head beside her: "But it's not important."
Hao Ren smiled: "That's true, it's not important."
My group is just a passer-by, stopping briefly in Lahirien to investigate some things. The grudges or conspiracies of the people here have nothing to do with my group, and even if the captain named Boken is hiding something,
It's just for self-protection or similar purposes, and it probably won't affect the action itself.
"But we can learn some basic information about the world from him," Lily said. "He will never hide anything in this regard."
Hao Ren talked about the collected information one by one: "The Lahirian people call the place where the planet is split into two the 'World Crack'. The oceans, land and even the entire planet are torn in half from here.
There are several stable elemental vortices above the world rift, which can provide energy for magic equipment, so the locals built flying 'airships' to follow the elemental vortices across the world rift and connect the two hemispheres; the eastern hemisphere of the planet.
The Western Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere each have relatively powerful countries, and there are dozens of large and small kingdoms in the Eastern Hemisphere. Led by a country called the 'Isugu Kingdom', they established an international organization called the 'Baicheng Federation'. As for the word Baicheng
The origin is still unclear; there is a unified and powerful empire in the Western Hemisphere called Dragon. In the half of the planet occupied by this empire, there are no other climatic countries, only a bunch of loose city-states and even barbarian autonomous dominions in the form of vassals.
Survive around the Dragon Empire..."
The data terminal projected a holographic image of the planet Lahirien. This image was captured by a detector in outer space, and terms including the Ancient Country of Ys, the White City Federation, the Dragon Empire, and the World Rift emerged one after another.
On top of the image. Of course, this map is not perfect yet. After all, the information obtained from Boken is quite limited.
"The White City Federation and the Dragon Empire maintain a balance, but it is not the balance of good neighbors. It is purely because of the difficulty in transportation between the two halves of the planet. The limited elemental vortex cannot send enough troops to the opposite side of the planet.
, so the two sides often have friction but have never really fought," Hao Ren said while pointing to several place names on the holographic map, "I still don't know how the strength of the two sides compares, but this great empire is obviously stronger.
Compared with any independent kingdom on the other side of the planet... But according to what Boken said, the ancient country of Ys in the White City Federation is a serious problem. As the head of the federation, it has been firmly seated on the throne of the boss for hundreds of years."
"The White Pearl was a 'flight' from the ancient country of Ys to the Dragon Empire. It was attacked by pirates after passing through the sea of shining clouds." Lily added, "From what the old captain said, these pirates are quite common.
, because the concentration of high-altitude elemental power in Lahirion is very high, and there are various natural phenomena that can hinder observation, pirates hide in the turbulent sea of clouds and often come out to attack lone civilian ships..."
After Hao Ren digested the information in his mind, he looked at Leah who was sitting aside: "Obviously, this planet has a new world line after being torn apart and reshaped, and the 'history' of the previous world's destruction has been
Completely disappeared, and the new history was completely developed based on the 'natural phenomenon' of 'the planet split in two'. The captain had no idea about the end of the world and there were no similar legends handed down."
"In other words, the history of this planet has been completely reshaped," Leah sighed softly, "at least human society has been completely reshaped. In addition, Lahirien has also experienced a destruction in terms of physical structure.
With the sexual 'rebirth', we may be hard-pressed to find clues from before the Dark Realm era on this planet."
Vivian rubbed her forehead: "It depends on people. You can't leave no clues. Now I am very interested in the Dragon Empire. Boken said that the ruler of that country has the blood of a dragon, and his soul is immortal.
...If the soul is immortal, maybe he will know something. At the very least... he should know what happened when the 'New World Line' of this planet opens."
"That 'Dragon'? The pronunciation of the country is dragon, and the ruler also claims to have the soul of the dragon, which is a bit interesting," Hao Ren thought, "Then we have to find a way to meet with the emperor.
It’s better not to use small tricks. The best solution is to complete the contact with the other party’s active cooperation. You said..."
He was just about to discuss with everyone how to contact the legendary "Dragon Soul Ruler" when Nolan's holographic image suddenly appeared in the room: "Boss, there are two 'hitchhikers' who want to see you.
"
"Hitchhikers?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "Those refugees who were rescued? What do ordinary passengers want from me?"
"Not necessarily ordinary passengers," Nolan said with a smile on his face, "but two people worthy of attention: the young man named Charlemagne and his sister Evanna, you will meet on the deck of the White Pearl
I passed them and then monitored their conversations in the room...and heard some interesting things."
After listening to Nolan's surveillance report, Hao Ren also matched the two people in his mind. He thought of the gray-haired man who was as handsome as 0.93 Nangong Sanba, and the dirty man who ran out from below the deck.
Now he already knew that the girl in the long skirt was in the White Pearl's magic center, helping the technicians on the ship to rescue the severely damaged power source.
Of course, the rescue effort didn't work. The White Pearl eventually lost all power and fell into the depths of the planet's fissure dozens of minutes ago, burning up in that high-heat space.
"It seems that the ship we saved is indeed extraordinary. There are some great people hiding on the ship. Are those pirates just a cover..." Hao Ren pinched his chin, feeling that this matter was quite interesting, "Okay,
Then let them in."
Charlemagne and Evanna entered the cabin of the ship's owner.
They carefully observed the internal structure of the ship along the way, and tried to roughly deduce the functional division of the ship and the role of various facilities through the directions of those walls and corridors, but the more they observed, the more alarmed they became.
, it was surprising enough that the structure of this ship did not match any known airship. They also found that there was always a sense of violation in the structure inside the ship that they had seen along the way: what should have been
There will be spacious cabins where there is only one wall, and there will be longer corridors before the corridor that is supposed to reach the end. Some places should even theoretically be outside the ship: if their perception of distance and direction is not compromised.
If it's disruptive, this ship shouldn't have such a large space at all.
But these questions were buried deep in their hearts, because under the guidance of the mechanical squid that looked like an alchemical creature, they had reached the end.
The owner of the ship sat in front of them.
Hao Ren looked attentively at the brother and sister in front of him. They behaved well: appropriate uneasiness and fear, as well as uncontrollable curiosity. The younger sister hid half of her body behind her older brother, while her older brother looked slightly nervous.
He grabbed the belt buckle at his waist.
"You want to see me?" Hao Ren looked away and asked with a smile.
"Yes, Mr. Captain," Charlemagne coughed slightly and straightened his back, "My sister and I are very grateful for your rescue, but we want to know when we can return to the ground. Our family will be very worried about us.
"
"That's not certain," Hao Ren spread his hands, "We are carrying out a mission. Depending on the progress of the mission, the ship may find a place to land tomorrow, but it may not land at all."
This question obviously exceeded the other party's expectations. Charlemagne's surprise this time was genuine: "No landing?! Can you fly in the sky forever?"
Hao Ren waved his hand: "This question is not important. What I want to say is that you really just came to ask this?"
Charlemagne frowned: "We are just worried about the schedule. Of course, our family will be grateful for this assistance, and they will definitely give it..."
Hao Ren interrupted the other party: "Ahem, I think you misunderstood me. What I want to say is... the eavesdropping technology we use is quite special. I'm afraid we can't find it using magic runes and the like. Although we
No intention to intrude on the privacy of the passengers, but this is a warship and it would be pointless to continue talking about it if your identities are unknown."
The handsome man with a handsomeness of 0.93 Nangong Sanba and the quiet long-haired girl looked panicked and wary at the same time, but they quickly controlled their emotions.
Vivian said calmly next to her: "So now we can talk openly?"