Chapter 1239 Return and Distant Place

In front of the towering throne, the figure of the uninvited guest disappeared in the suddenly rolled up gray-white dust, like a phantom, and the black book lying quietly on the stone pillar seemed to be stunned for a few seconds, until the sound of the wind came again. From the beginning, Wilder's confused voice came from the book: "There seems to be someone here just now..."

As soon as his words fell, a slightly lazy and majestic voice came from high above: "What did you say? Mr. Adventurer?"

Wilder heard the words and "looked" at the throne in front of him. On the majestic and towering throne, Ms. Ye was sitting there lazily in a long dress as dark as the night. curled up in the corner of her skirt.

"Ah, Ms. Ye, are you back?" Wilde asked subconsciously, "Where did you go just now?"

"Me? I've been here all this time, just took a nap," Ms. Ye said unhurriedly, "Great adventurer, did you fall asleep just now? Why do I feel that your words are a bit strange?"

"I...maybe I had a dream?" The voice in the black book was obviously confused, "I don't know... I seem to have seen a visitor who strayed into this place just now, and I said something to her What, that seems to be a very interesting girl, but suddenly she disappeared, and I can't remember the specific conversation with her... I also saw the empty throne, you disappeared, I thought you went to the border to deal with it That guy."

"Then it seems that you are really sleepy, Mr. Great Adventurer," Ms. Ye's voice showed a hint of a smile, "It's not so easy for 'guests' to appear here. I'm sure I'll find out right away..."

Then the ruler of the shadows paused for a moment, and then said with a hint of expectation: "I remember it's your turn to tell the story this time... Can we continue the story from last time? About the story that flows at the bottom of the magma." A glacier, and the elves in the glacier..."

Wilder's voice was a little helpless: "Ma'am, although I am very happy that you like my stories so much, can you appreciate those more reasonable and rigorous stories? I think the stories of magma, glaciers and elves are outrageous. Already... If it really doesn’t work, I’ll make another one for you?”

Ms. Ye laughed, as if her laughter could dispel the chaotic haze that hung over the desert forever. She lowered her head, like a dark cloud covering the earth that suddenly descended from the height, in the depth of the huge, high and hazy shadow From there, Wilder saw a pair of amber eyes that were full of smiles but also majestic looking down at him.

"Mr. Great Adventurer, I have seen too many rigorous and reasonable stories. In this boring place, the outrageous and absurd are more interesting, aren't they?"

...

Amber Jiling suddenly woke up,

She opened her eyes and realized that the hard feeling under her body was not an illusion—she was lying on her back on the floor of the room, but the familiar chair fell not far away, and she seemed to have fallen from the chair , and fell into a strange dream in the process of falling - that brief moment was magnified in the dream into an adventure and a wonderful conversation that lasted for several hours, and as her body touched the ground, she went from Woke up in a dream.

"Is falling a shortcut to waking up from a dream..." Amber couldn't help but recall the words she heard in front of the throne, but soon she noticed the sunlight shining into the room through the cracks in the curtains—she still clearly remembered, When I first started to study those grains of sand, it was still a sunny afternoon outside, but at this moment... the light of approaching dusk sprinkled into the room.

"It seems that the experience of those few hours is real, at least the flow of time is real..." Amber rubbed her forehead, trying to wake up her slightly chaotic mind as soon as possible, "It was squeezed out from 'there' Is it gone?"

She muttered, and stimulated her mind to wake up quickly by talking to herself, but in the next second, she seemed to notice something strange, and her eyes suddenly fell on her fingertips.

Some fine grains of sand were scattered around the floor touched by her fingertips, and those grains of sand were covered with a layer of off-white color that seemed not to belong to this world, and a kind of blurred gray-white texture diffused from around those grains of sand , "dyed" the original dark brown floor into a large area of ​​off-white.

"...Mom..." Hu Po's eyes widened for a moment, realizing that she might have played too hard this time, but while she was staring at the sand, an inexplicable sense of "connection" suddenly came from her. Emerging from the bottom of her heart, she felt that the sand scattered on the floor was not a pile of dead objects, but... like an extension of part of her own strength.

She stared at the sand closely, feeling the "connection" that loomed in her heart. This sense of connection was very subtle, a bit like her usual perception of the Shadowlands, but it was much more specific and clear than that. , she even felt that she could control every grain of dust, and even...

She snapped her fingers lightly, and the sand on the floor disappeared like a dream in an instant, and the grayish white that was "smudged" on the floor gradually returned to its original state.

Amber opened her mouth and looked at her fingers again, as if she still couldn't believe what happened just now, then she showed a thoughtful look, and after a long time of thinking and perception, she stretched out her hands and rubbed them gently Rubbing—a wisp of gray-white quicksand emerged out of thin air like water, and with the sound of rustling, it fell on the floor, and the quicksand gathered more and more, and the gray-white "field" quickly spread to the entire room...

"Oh my god..." Amber Jiling reacted at once, hurriedly stopped calling for the sand, and then hurriedly "retracted" them again-fortunately, there was no accident, and the room gradually faded after half a minute. Normalcy returned.

After everything recovered, Amber sat on the floor in a daze. She kept this state thinking for an indeterminate amount of time before she finally slapped her thigh: "Hey, I'm amazing!"

Immediately afterwards, she jumped up from the ground and was about to run out the door excitedly: "Then I have to show off to the old rice dumpling..."

She ran to the door in a hurry, but stopped as if she remembered something the moment she pushed the door and walked out. While trying to suppress a little excitement, she murmured to herself: "No, no, I have to test again. , let’s find out what the hell this is, and more importantly, it’s the information, it’s the book that claims to be Wilder..."

...

The cold wind blows through the barren wasteland under the night, and millions of years of ancient cold starlight shines on this land as old as starlight. Victoria stands on the towering wall of New Argondor, and she looks into the high wall , saw row upon row of rough and majestic houses, big and small lights illuminated this isolated city that sheltered all living beings in the cold winter night, she looked outside the high wall again, and saw the wilderness stretching out in the starry night, and the rolling land was covered with The scorched marks left by the war, everything in the distance seems to have been swallowed by darkness and cold, only the huge destroyed factories or palace buildings are silently telling the glorious scene of Tarrond in the past.

The world outside the city walls looks bleak and hopeless, but Victoria, who has lived here for a few days, has learned that there is not really nothing in the dark and sunken ruins - some sporadic and faint lights are shining in the dark depths Then, among the lights, you can occasionally see the figure of a giant dragon passing by the starry night. Where the lights shine, there are some old factories that the dragons dug out from the ruins and are still functioning or used to monitor the border of the safe zone. Even in the underground of those ruins, the dragons are doing their best to clean up the collapsed underground transportation network and storage facilities, and they work around the clock.

This reminded Victoria of the ancient years recorded in the books, of the pioneers of Ansu Kingdom's past efforts in reclamation and construction on the edge of the wasteland, and of the wasteland in the southern part of the Dark Mountains. As well as the series of plans His Majesty conceived to counterattack the wasteland—in the near future, those plans will become actual actions.

At this moment, a gentle and smiling voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting the Duchess's thoughts: "I'm sorry, Victoria, I still have to take you out for a 'walk' in such a cold place—accompany It’s not interesting for an old man like me to blow cold wind on the city wall, is it?”

Victoria woke up from her thoughts and saw an old man wearing a black soft hat and a black robe standing beside her smilingly looking at her, she quickly shook her head: "Of course not, don't think so—— I'd love to walk with you."

"Really?" Modil was obviously not convinced. "There are not many young people who are patient. I usually tell people about my adventures, and they run faster than anyone else."

"It's just their shallow knowledge," Victoria said immediately, and then tried to put on a smiling expression—she felt that she should have succeeded, because the smile on the face of the ancestor in front of her was obvious, "As for me...in fact, I have already It’s been a long time since I’ve had such a leisurely time, and it’s actually a very rare rest and relaxation for me to be able to temporarily put aside the things at hand like now and accompany you for a walk outside.”

"It sounds like your usual work is very heavy." Modil nodded, and then he was a little worried, "Then you haven't gone back for such a long time, won't your work be delayed?"

"I... asked for leave with my superior when I came out," Victoria quickly explained. In a sense, she did not lie, "I have also arranged for colleagues and subordinates to help with work matters. Will not go back without delay."

"That's okay." Modil laughed, and did not ask Victoria's real "job content" as usual, and Victoria took this opportunity to quickly change the subject: "Have you ever been caught by that 'dream' again in the past two days?" Entanglement?"

"It's been fine these two days, and I didn't have that 'strange dream'." Modil shook his head, "Maybe it really works if you stay by my side? But then again, that 'dream' itself is also It doesn’t happen every day, in fact, I have only encountered three dreams since I got on that mechanical ship, which is not too frequent—it’s just that the dream itself is a bit scary.”

"You can't relax," Victoria said with a serious face, "The dream clearly points to the power related to the gods. As long as this kind of thing is careless, it is often beyond redemption..."

"Okay, okay, I know, I know," Modil said while waving his hands. The old man's expression looked a little weird, and he couldn't help but look up and down Victoria. "Is your character brought out by your father? Why are you so young?" He looks more rigid and serious than an old man like me..."

There was finally a hint of embarrassment in Victoria's eyes. She obviously lacked experience in this kind of conversation with people, so she could only bite the bullet and say: "I... have always had this personality, and my father's personality is indeed similar. In fact, the rigorous style of acting It has always been our family tradition…”

"Family tradition?" Modil couldn't help blinking, pointing at himself in astonishment, "Is this tradition passed down by me?"

Victoria's expression didn't change, but there was a sudden movement in her heart. She instantly remembered the embarrassing things about "my ancestors didn't recognize the ancestral precepts" mentioned by the other party when chatting with Heidi, and thought that she had finally encountered a similar situation. However, these few exclamations did not affect her response speed. Facing the curious expression of her ancestors, she quickly said: "This... should have been passed down by earlier ancestors, and the family records say that you His character doesn't quite fit the tradition..."

"That's okay." Modil patted his chest immediately when he heard this, "I thought I was once a serious and old-fashioned guy. How boring."

Looking at the ancestor whose reaction was somewhat exaggerated, Victoria didn't know what expression to make for a while, but after thinking about how she usually couldn't make any expression, she was relieved and asked a little curiously: "Why do you like to go around so much?" adventure?"

After her words fell, the city wall suddenly fell silent. Modil didn't speak for a while, as if a lot of thoughts were aroused by this sentence. After thinking in silence for an unknown amount of time, he finally broke the silence: "You Don't you feel curious? Don't you feel curious about those unknown fields, unknown things, unknown knowledge... Our world is so vast, and the more you explore its end, the more you will be aware of that' The end' is still beyond your cognition, and in such a boundless field, you are constantly discovering things that have never been discovered before... Don't you find it interesting?"

Victoria opened her mouth, and her ancestor's answer did not surprise her, because many records about this great adventurer and many remarks he left six hundred years ago have long been in the family books, and she is very concerned about those They are all familiar, but looking at the light in the eyes of this great adventurer, she still couldn't help saying: "Have you ever thought that these adventures may kill you one day, Even now you are entangled by the power of the ancient gods... Maybe it is even a 'sequel' caused by a certain adventure..."

"Haha, child, be more confident, remove the 'maybe'," Modil suddenly laughed, "I am a fool who is messing around, I will definitely not be able to die peacefully on the bed at home. Encountering some weird troubles is definitely an extra 'gift' brought about by exploring the unknown territory—girl, I don't need you to remind me, I know better than you about this."

Victoria seemed unable to understand the old man's almost paranoid "hobby", so she couldn't help but said, "Then you..."

"Then I will continue to go out, yes, I will continue to go out," Modil smiled, and turned his eyes to the darkness in the distance, looking at the deepest part of the wilderness that has exceeded the limit of vision, "I have nothing noble The reason for this is not to open up the borders of civilization—in fact, I haven’t thought about it, I just think it’s like this polar night, if this polar night never ends, and human beings live in this night As a short-lived bug, we spend our entire lives in our homeland, and we can’t see the sky beyond the night, but if we go out for a walk, no matter which direction we go, we can see the sunrise if we go farther. Seeing the sun rise in the sky...

"A lot of bugs might think it's no big deal, but the sun... it's really there."