Under the leadership of Soldier Willy, the group set off along the Road of Plenty and Kingdom Avenue, heading towards the family fiefdom known as "Hearth City". The roads under their feet were all the streets and highways in the original city of refuge.
However, long-term disrepair has made these roads no longer as glamorous as they used to be, and they have become very difficult to walk. The broken cement pavement has rolled up, and the man-made earth is exposed. The potholed roads seem to have never been repaired, and walking on them makes it difficult to walk on them.
One kick was no different from a wilderness trail. It was quite difficult for Nangong Wuyue to walk on such a road. She even thought about whether it would be easier to simply transform into a water snake and crawl around, but she thought that Vivian was just letting go.
Ordering ice cubes scared the crap out of the locals, but she still suppressed the urge to suddenly conjure up a three-meter-long tail. But she still couldn't avoid complaining: "Isn't it true that the roads here are so difficult?"
"Is it difficult to walk?" Willy looked down at the road, "Oh, it is indeed not as magnificent as the High Tower Kingdom's road. After all, this is just a remote country. Neither the Iron City State nor the High Tower Kingdom will send people to sort out the roads in such places.
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"You two...why are the countries at war? What's the deep hatred?" Hao Ren asked awkwardly.
Willy blinked: "Why? Winter is coming, and the flame at the end of the world must be lit. The souls of those who died on the battlefield are the fuel for the flame. The four kingdoms have never fought because of hatred. I think this should be
It’s common sense.”
Everyone looked at each other, Vivian frowned slightly: "You are also divided into... four kingdoms?"
"Are you really from the winter world?" Willy swallowed, "Everyone should know about the Tower Kingdom, Iron City State, Free City, and Star Castle. These are the four kingdoms in this world."
After hearing this, Hao Ren's heart was filled with a strange feeling. He thought it was a bit absurd. In a starship, in a sanctuary city built by the ancestors, the territory and power were re-divided. It turned out to be scattered.
Small city-states and village settlements, the streets of the past have become transportation arteries between various "cities". Buildings have become fortresses and market towns, and factory empty spaces have become "wilderness" and "wasteland" after demolition and clearing. Refugees
Beyond recognition, a primitive society grew strangely on the ruins of advanced civilization, and the ruins were still so small.
All this is like a twisted and weird dream.
He looked up to the sky, from where he could see the city land across the closed space. He wanted to ask Willy what he thought of such a strange structure in this world, but he soon realized that he couldn't ask anything:
The young man in front of him was born here and grew up here. He received all the education from childhood to adulthood here. The world in his mind should be like this. If no one in this ship knows the concept of "ark",
I'm afraid the people living here will regard the entire world as a giant egg shell. The cold space outside the steel shield is meaningless to Willy.
Willy seemed a little trepidatious along the way. He was very reluctant to walk on this avenue, especially after all his comrades fled. He was left with a group of people like Hao Ren who had unknown origins and knew "witchcraft".
There was a serious lack of security. But this young soldier had no choice. He still had to fearlessly lead the way for strangers, and he was always vigilant about whether ambush soldiers from Iron City or Free City would rush out on the roadside.
But after walking on this road for a long time, Hao Ren didn't see anyone else appear. He couldn't help but doubt what Willy said: "You said this is a very dangerous road? Why didn't I see anyone passing by here?
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Willy rubbed his hands and tightened his cuffs. The cold weather now made him tremble a little: "I don't know... there should be soldiers passing here, at least there are merchants between city-states..."
As he spoke, he looked up at the sky. The dim lights throughout the city in the ship were shining like fireflies in the darkness, decorating the enclosed space like a weird cave full of fireflies. The young man's light brown
There was some uneasiness in his eyes: "The world has been getting worse and worse in the past ten years. I can't count how many times I have encountered unusual things. Maybe the patrols in Iron City State and Liberty City happened to be lazy today?"
"Is it getting worse?" Hao Ren asked curiously.
Willy opened his mouth and was about to say something, but a strange low sound suddenly interrupted him.
This sound came from deep underground. It sounded like the low and falling tone of some huge equipment gradually stopping its operation. It spread along the earth. Although it was not very loud, it seemed that the entire space was vibrating.
At the same time, Hao Ren felt his body lighten. A feeling of floating away from the ground came from his feet. Willy's face suddenly changed, and he screamed in horror: "Everyone, please don't move. This is the phenomenon of ascending to heaven."
Almost at the same time as Willy's words fell, everyone felt that their bodies suddenly became completely lighter: the artificial gravity in the shelter disappeared.
Hao Ren saw a red light flying rapidly from one end of the closed space to the other, followed immediately by another one that looked like some kind of alarm light, while Willy stared at the light with fearful eyes.
Silently remembering the numbers: "One...two...three...three shooting stars are great, it looks like they won't last long...Everyone, please don't move, especially don't jump."
At this time, the artificial gravity has completely disappeared. Although Hao Ren and the others are still "foot on the ground", their bodies are actually in a floating state, but the soles of their shoes are still slightly touching the ground. Willy tensed his body and did not dare to move, for fear of
A tiny movement will lift him off the ground: this will make him fly into the sky uncontrollably, and even fly to the other side of the earth in one breath. Hao Ren soon understood the reason for this young man's fear.
Trying to ease Willy's nervousness: "Don't worry, don't worry, you reminded me in time, no one will fly out. Does this happen often?"
"No, it only happens once every few months, but it is said that before I was born, it happened less frequently than it does now." Willy took a deep breath. He was no longer curious about Hao Ren's "ignorance".
Having someone to talk to him at this time made him feel more relaxed. "Winter is coming, the heart of the world is slowly freezing, and the earth is no longer able to fix us on the surface... My grandmother told me. But as long as we can re-
Light the ancestral furnace and everything will return to normal. This is what my grandmother told me."
Hao Ren said casually and silently looked up at the huge pipes and alloy bridges that ran through the entire space. There were lights wandering on the surface of those things, and those lights had not appeared before. This was probably some kind of automatic function of the Ark giant ship.
Maintenance system, this system obviously has a problem, but it is still surviving.
The artificial gravity disappeared for nearly an hour. During this period, Willy kept pressing his hand on his chest, muttering to himself as if praying to some god. Finally, this painful hour finally passed, and Hao Ren heard a different kind of low voice.
The sound came from the depths of the earth. When the sound gradually subsided, his body sank and he felt down to earth again.
Willy's feet went weak and almost fell to the ground. He reluctantly stood up and showed an awkward smile to Hao Ren: "You don't seem to be afraid of ascending to heaven at all."
"As long as you don't fly up, you won't fall down." Hao Ren said casually.
Willy's face was dark: "My best friend once said the same thing, but in the end he died in the square of Wind Valley City on the other side of the world."
As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at the hanging city buildings above his head: "It was a long ascension, which lasted for a whole day and night. Poor Birkenstock, he just accidentally stretched his leg, and then I watched helplessly.
He soared from the ground, flying higher and higher, flying higher and higher... At that time, I didn't know how to judge the duration of the ascension phenomenon from the meteors. I thought everything would be over soon, but I watched him become
A small black dot in the sky, his sister was next to me at that time, poor girl... Her brother even crossed the axis of heaven and earth. When the mother earth regained its vitality, Birkenstock fell on the other side of the world.
On the other hand, it was not until a few days later that the lord of Wind Valley City sent someone to send Birkenstock back in a big box." To be continued.