After bidding farewell to Edmund, Elaine and his party drove their iron cavalry towards the coast without being blocked by the group of Vikings along the way. The group of exiles probably really thought that Elaine and the others were distinguished guests.
"Why are there all men in the village?" Daniel asked curiously as he flew over the village.
"Because they were exiled from the Viking tribe, mostly criminals and political prisoners. He, they didn't bring many women with them. The few women in the village were also hidden in the house for protection.
." Elaine replied. Then he thought of the bad habits he had seen in this village before, and felt unhappy: "I, can we not talk about this? We are approaching the coast. Lower the height of the iron horse and keep it close to the sea.
Fly. The stealth system needs to be turned on."
"Understood." Daniel obeyed. The two iron cavalry slowed down and flew quietly on the sea. The reason for hiding was to guard against sea beasts in the sea, and to lower the flying altitude to avoid Atlantis' air attack.
gunfire.
"Have you ever gone to Atlantis like this before?" Daniel asked again.
"No, no, it's a rental boat. Use it and row it slowly at a very slow speed." The white lion boy replied.
Moreover, they were blackmailed a lot by the guys in that village. The only ones in charge of rowing were Elaine and Bors, and the group of Vikings didn't dare to follow them. The Exile was very interested in the lost city of Art that suddenly appeared in the sea.
Lantis is quite taboo, claiming that it is a cursed city.
"The Vikings are obviously so keen on finding the Golden Land, but are they afraid of Atlantis..." the little fox Bailey muttered behind Elaine.
"Well, well. Because Atlantis is definitely not the golden land they are looking for. Just by looking at the appearance, you can tell it's not." Elaine groaned: "There is nothing in that ancient city except death, death."
Perhaps this topic was too scary, so the blue fox boy hugged Elaine's waist tightly and shuddered.
"Whether it is a dead city or a ghost town, I really want to see it." Daniel said, "Of course, I will go back after seeing it once, haha."
(This guy has no intention of helping at all, he just wants to join in the fun...)
The sky was perfect, and the day that was supposed to be windy and snowy turned into a sunny day. They drove quietly on the microwaved sea, and could already see the legendary lost city from a distance.
There are many dangerous shadows swimming under the sea. They are special sea beasts created by Atlantis. They seem to be existences called sea beasts of the abyss. Among them are the most dangerous individuals, which Elaine has seen before.
[Leviathan of the Abyss - Karason].
However, Karasen is definitely not in this sea area now. It appeared in Edinburgh in Great Britain before. Naturally, it is impossible to swim back here in a short time to guard this sea area. Many ancient abyssal sea beasts no longer exist.
Under the control of the Atlantis system, they left this sea area (and caused trouble everywhere in the world!). Those who are still haunting this sea area are actually new ones created by the system in the near future (perhaps within a hundred years).
The beast of the abyss.
Elaine seemed to vaguely remember that he had forgotten something. He was almost killed again and again in Atlantis, and then was cleaned out by the system like rotten meat... something terrible happened.
But no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't remember exactly what happened.
He shuddered, hoping that that kind of thing was just his imagination, and tried to put everything out of his mind.
After nearly an hour of quiet sailing, the two iron cavalry approached Atlantis.
The city is like a huge rose in bud, a crystal rose. The huge, highly transparent "rose petals" in the sky are actually a special crystal exterior wall, a kind of solar panel.
It absorbs the high-energy ultra-short waves in sunlight, the part of light that cannot be seen by the naked eye. The low-energy light waves it does not need directly pass through the panels and become the city's natural light source. That's why the crystal exterior wall is so transparent
.
This is the state of Atlantis when it surfaces once in a thousand years. If it sinks to the bottom of the sea, these crystal walls will completely shrink and firmly protect the city. Even the high-pressure seawater in the deep sea cannot destroy it.
The hardness of these crystal exterior walls is even comparable to the "theoretically indestructible" wall of the world.
The golden ring surrounding the crystal outer wall is actually an anti-aircraft turret. The barrel cannot be seen like this, but it can indeed shoot thousands of tracking beams from the huge ring, shooting down
Any spacecraft that tries to get close. If Elaine and his cavalry approach Atlantis without knowing it, what awaits them is intensive bombardment and subsequent destruction.
Approaching quietly by boat from the sea is the only way to enter Atlantis. Of course, Elaine and the others are no longer on a boat...
Daniel saw all this in his eyes and remembered it carefully. His intuition told him that these knowledge and insights were very precious and would be useful one day.
The opened crystal outer wall of Atlantis is not completely closed. There is a place on the edge of the circular platform to land, and after landing, you can go around the edge from one of the crystal outer walls. This ancient
The city displays an attitude that neither welcomes nor rejects visitors.
If it were just to defend against foreign enemies, it could obviously seal off all the ways in, giving intruders a headache.
But it doesn't. It leaves a gap for people to slip through, allowing intruders to take advantage.
Then it also set up a large number of murder traps in the city, so that few people who dared to break in could leave alive.
"Nepenthes," Daniel said suddenly.
"Huh?" Elaine was stunned.
"This ancient city is simply like a tropical carnivorous plant I have seen before. It uses open traps to lure insects in, then traps them inside, and eventually digests them." Daniel hummed: "This is the same...this
It's obviously a trap."
"You, you are right." Elaine let the iron horse stop on the metal floor at the edge of the ancient city, and used the iron horse's magnetic lock to secure it firmly to the ground.
"Even so, do you still want to throw yourself into a trap..." Daniel said slightly sarcastically: "This is not a wise move."
Elaine shook his head. Even if it was unwise, he had to do it. His father Boles was still deeply involved and needed his rescue.
"Let's go in." Daniel also fixed the iron horse and jumped onto the vehicle with Queeg.
"This, this way." Elaine led Bailey to one side of one of the crystal exterior walls.
Go around here and then pass through the gaps between the other three layers of crystal exterior walls to enter the city. In fact, you can vaguely see the situation in the city from this position, because the transparency of the crystal exterior walls is quite high, which only slightly changes the view.
It was folded a bit - because part of the petal-like exterior wall is curved.
"Is there...a city inside?" The young Silver Knight asked as he observed from a distance.
"Yes, it's a city." Elaine replied: "It's just an empty city."
"The army was stationed here before," Queeg also said.
"When was the army..." Daniel asked curiously.
"Four thousand years ago, the dragon-slaying war, the human alliance." Quigg replied.
"...Seriously?"
"Seriously." The cloud-patterned leopard still replied.
"Are you really thousands of years old?"
"No. He has been sleeping." Queeg shook his head: "When you are asleep, is it considered alive?"
Daniel scratched his head and did not continue to ask.
Then they easily bypassed the gap in the crystal outer wall and entered the interior of the lost city of Atlantis.
It was an ancient stone city, filled with empty buildings that were no longer inhabited. The interiors of the buildings seemed empty, and it didn't seem like there would be furniture. Queeg said that human armies were stationed here thousands of years ago.
They probably used the empty buildings outside as shelter from wind and rain, and did not go deep into the truly terrifying places in this ancient city.
"It's so hot." Bailey began to feel stuffy and took off his hood.
The outside world is still a world of ice and snow. But inside Atlantis, the space of the ancient city wrapped in those transparent crystal exterior walls is as warm as a greenhouse.
No. Actually, this is a greenhouse.
The crystal exterior wall is a solar panel, which only absorbs high-energy shortwave radiation such as ultraviolet rays in sunlight, leaving the rest intact. The infrared rays refract back and forth inside the ancient city, constantly heating the space.
, producing the so-called greenhouse effect. There is a reason why human armies chose this place to station themselves thousands of years ago, and they were even very smart.
"Can you take off your coat too?" the little fox asked.
"Well, well, take it off." Elaine also took off her cold-proof down jacket due to the heat, "It's a constant temperature here, so you don't have to worry about catching a cold. Let's find a place to camp next."
"Aren't there any monsters here?" Daniel asked.
The white lion boy shook his head. Anyway, he had never seen a monster appearing on the surface of Atlantis. Besides the underground city, the above ground should be a non-combat area.
"But it's so deserted here. There isn't even a tree." Daniel looked around and could only see old buildings.
Although the buildings of different heights and staggered shapes in the Stone Ancient City are well preserved and can still be inhabited, there are no green plants around them. Not to mention no plants, there is not even the slightest breath of life here.
, not even a single insect or ant.
No wonder. It is said that Atlantis only surfaced once a thousand years, and each time it surfaced it would last for more than a month, just to obtain energy from the sun.
In other words, most of this lost city sleeps under the sea, in the deep, lightless sea. There is no way for plants to grow in that environment - those special deep-sea plants on the seabed are another matter
, and it is impossible to have that kind of thing in this ancient city that is isolated from the sea.
No sunlight means no plants, and without plants there is no food. Without food, everything will die, including small insects. No matter how tenacious a creature is, it is impossible to survive the thousand years of darkness in the deep sea and wait for the light to come again.
that day.
So Elaine is right. This is completely a dead city. There is nothing but death in this place, let alone the golden land that the Vikings dreamed of.
"It's warm as spring all year round" is partly true, if it had been floating on the water. However, once Atlantis sank into the deep sea, it would probably be as cold as the arctic in this dead city.
This is not a golden land at all, not a pure land, it is just an abandoned and forgotten place. Even the adventurers who once tried to come here to find treasures never came back and were swallowed up by the deathly silence here.
"Here, here! The house looks good!" Bailey chose a square house that was not too big or too small, and waved everyone over: "Let's camp here?"
"Yes, it's okay." Elaine walked over with a smile and prepared to set up camp with Queeg.
In fact, any house can be used. At most, they will just sleep in a tent. But the location of the house is more important. If you enter from the outside, you can easily find the camp. It will not be too difficult for Edmund later to find this place.
There was no furniture, so they moved some rubbled stones and gathered around the bonfire. The bonfire was built with the materials they brought with them, but there was no need to light a fire yet because the temperature was relatively warm.
An army was stationed here in the past, which means that there may be other human supplies, firewood or fuel or weapons, and even military rations left in some of the surrounding rooms. However, after thousands of years, these things may have weathered into ashes.
Even if it is not weathered, it may have been contaminated by moisture in the deep sea and cannot be used to make fire. Military rations are even more inedible. Who wants to eat things from thousands of years ago?
"Lunch?" Queeg suddenly asked as he put down his tent.
"I, I'm not in the mood." Elaine shook his head. They brought two months' worth of food stocks, and the supplies were actually quite sufficient. But Elaine just didn't have the appetite, especially at this time.
"But you must eat on time." Leopard warned: "Otherwise, you will ruin your health."
"Then, just cook it a little." The white lion boy said helplessly.
"Okay, lunch!" The little fox came over and prepared lunch with Queeg.
"It's time for me to go back." Daniel looked at the clock on his phone and said, "I can only send you to this place. I can't go into the dungeon adventure with you, I'm sorry."
"No, it's okay. Well, that's not considered an adventure, it's just a way to die." Elaine smiled bitterly and said, "It's wisest to turn back in time."
"Then why didn't you look back in time, idiot." Daniel also smiled bitterly and looked at the white lion boy.
Elaine showed a painful expression: "Yes... I'm sorry."
"You don't need to apologize to me. Just take care of yourself." Daniel said jokingly: "Goodbye, Your Highness."