Chapter 1340 Blocking the Starting Point of the Wall

The surging power of the magic engine drove the mechanical device, and the black armored engineering vehicle drove towards the distance on the temporary hardened road. After crossing the invisible "boundary", the wind and snow once again filled the field of vision outside the window. Fendil, who was sitting in the back row of the soldiers on shift, turned his head subconsciously to look behind the car, and saw that the mysterious mansion standing on the hill was gradually shrouded in wind and snow in the chaotic sky. become blurred.

However, the feeling of being watched did not gradually disappear until they were far away from the mansion—the pressure brought by that gaze also took a long time to completely dissipate.

"Is that the coercion of the legendary powerhouse..." An accompanying technical soldier couldn't help but whispered at this time, "This is the first time in my life that I have faced a legendary mage face to face... It is exactly what everyone said , Unfathomable, unfathomable..."

"I'm scared to death!" The soldier driving ahead murmured with lingering fear, "I even said that the lady might be ugly... Fortunately, she didn't hear..."

"She may have heard it a long time ago. Do you think a distance of several kilometers can hide the perception of that kind of character?" The soldier beside Fendil curled his lips, "Ms. Mina just didn't care about you, she must be a big hearted person." Broad people..."

"You said...how old is that Ms. Mina?" The soldier who drove the car held back for a few seconds, and then couldn't help but said, "I feel like she looks about the same age as my sister, and she is the same age as my sister , is a very kind person...but she gave me a feeling that she can see through everything, that kind of feeling is like a very learned elder..."

"Then who knows, maybe what we see is an illusion from the beginning to the end, and I heard that the legendary strong can live for two or three hundred years casually, and can use magic to maintain their appearance for a long time before aging, Maybe Lady Mina has..."

"Ahem," Fendil finally couldn't help it here, and interrupted the conversation of the two big soldiers with two coughs, "it's impolite to talk about a lady behind her back—not to mention that lady is A venerable scholar alone in charge of a research facility on the front line, the two of you are pretty much fine with it."

"Ah, good sir, sorry sir," the soldier driving ahead hurriedly nodded and replied, then couldn't help but look at Fendil more, and asked curiously, "Sir, what are you thinking? I feel that your expression is very serious..."

"...It's nothing." Fendil was silent for two seconds, shook his head and said, "Drive your car well, we haven't crossed this wilderness area yet, pay attention to the movement on the side of the road-I need to take a break. "

The two soldiers fell silent, while Fendil breathed a sigh of relief, closed his eyes slightly and leaned back on the seat to rest his mind—he couldn’t tell the soldiers that he had accidentally recalled it while listening to them talk about “the coercion of the legendary strong” It reminds me of the fear of being dominated by my aunt when I was a child...

...

North of the Dark Mountains,

In the Cecil Palace, Gawain was sitting behind his large desk. The afternoon sunlight was slanting into the room through the window next to it, causing some of the furnishings on the desk to cast elongated shadows on the table. It added a sense of tranquility to the room—Gao Wen was looking down at a document that had just arrived at noon today. After concentrating for a long time, he put down the document in his hand and took a long breath, making Gao Wen tense. My nerves relax a little.

Amber's voice came from the side at the right time: "What's the situation, I feel that your expression just now has been quite scary-what's wrong with the wartime supplies?"

"It was sent by Byron. His fleet has crossed the southern coastline of the Dwarf Kingdom and successfully restored the communication from the Dwarf Kingdom to the south-central coastal area of ​​Ogulei. Sky Communication Network, our communication problems on the western front have finally been solved for the most part..." Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "Now the imperial fleet is approaching the mouth of the 'Holy River'."

"Just arrived at the mouth of the holy river?" Amber couldn't help but widen her eyes when she heard this. "Why is it so much slower than the expected plan? Even if they need to restore communication along the way and communicate with coastal countries, they should still be there in the first two days." The sky is over there..."

"That's why my expression was so serious just now," Gawain said in a low voice, "Byron mentioned in the report that after the fleet crossed the coast of Forge City, the sea situation began to be a little strange, with frequent dense fog and dangerous 'staggered waves'. ', even in the offshore area close to the land, this kind of bad weather has appeared. Although the Winter and other main naval ships have been specially strengthened to resist the open sea environment, the bad sea conditions have greatly delayed the speed of the fleet, and... ...The Kraken and Naga navigators who accompanied the fleet also frequently sensed abnormal energy surges around the Loren continent, and they advised Byron to sail cautiously."

"The abnormal energy around Loren Continent? The scale is a bit scary..." Amber was stunned. "Could it be related to the energy fluctuations released by the wasteland? That thing has already started to affect the sea?"

"...it's not sure yet, we know too little about the wasteland, and it's not until now that Mirmina has established the first real 'wasteland laboratory'. How many unimaginable powers have been sealed in the seven hundred years of magic power?" Gawain shook his head slightly, and then looked up at Amber, "Let's not talk about this for now, how are things going with you?"

"... To be honest, some people's lower limit can always break your cognition, even at this moment when the survival of the race is at stake, there will be people who are driven by huge interests to take risks," Amber sighed, "The clues It has been confirmed that we caught a group of guys who resold military supplies during the war, and no one pleaded for them, but I doubt we can catch all of them..."

"Of course you can't catch it all. The complication of mortals is that the most glorious and the basest individuals tend to exist at the same time and exist forever. Benefits' will not affect the overall situation, so at this time, you need your people to give them a little help," Gao Wen said calmly, "Prepare them a few beautiful flagpoles, and some strong ropes, ropes They pay for the money for the flagpole themselves, to make things a little bit more sensational, and to guide public opinion well—we need to deter the rest of the people, but we can’t dampen the people’s trust in the imperial order.”

"Don't worry... I'm familiar with this process," Amber nodded, but her expression was still a bit unacceptable, "But I just can't figure it out, what do those 'people' think—even if it's a country-to-country I can understand wars, but this time we are facing a natural disaster that can wipe out civilization. Why do people still take risks for gold pounds... The most despicable rotten people I have seen in the slums can't do this at this time Such a thing, but are those people unmoved by the bloody battle on the front line of the empire?"

"You are wrong, they are precisely the group of people who trust the soldiers on the front lines of the empire the most - they trust the protection provided by the empire so much that they take it for granted and forget how this protection came about, Forgetting that their own lives are tied to it. They are the ones who dig the bricks from the walls and believe that there will always be another group of 'fools' who will add the bricks indefinitely... they just don't understand that they are the next batch The source of the material for the wall bricks." Gao Wen shook his head, "From the very beginning, I knew that these people would appear sooner or later, so I let your counter-revolutionary operators keep an eye on the material flow and the underground trading market."

Amber stared at Gao Wen for a long time, then murmured softly with a thoughtful expression: "Is this what you often say? The strength of the imperial order is not that there is no darkness under our laws. Rather, our order will never recognize this darkness..."

Gawain nodded slightly, but before he could say anything more, a low buzzing sound came from the Magic Net terminal next to the desk, and a projected sign marked "Special Confidential Line" floating above the Focusing Crystal, a small emblem formed by the outline of a tall tower and an eye can also be seen in the corner of the mark.

Amber noticed the inconspicuous small emblem at a glance, immediately turned around and locked the door of the study room, activated the barrier system in the room, and at the same time said casually: "Oh, you just mentioned our waste soil laboratory, now let's Here comes the news."

"It seems that the communication system over there is already usable," Gao Wen said casually, raising his hand to activate the magic network terminal, "Our lady 'Gaota' is really efficient."

Before he finished speaking, a series of jumping light spots appeared in the sky above the magic network terminal. It seemed that there was some powerful source of interference on the opposite side of the communication device that was affecting the stability of the communication line, but soon these interferences dissipated by themselves. The clear projection of Na also appeared in front of Gao Wen and Amber—not the "mythical body" shrouded in thick fog, but the "incarnation" form with a clear appearance and wearing a court dress.

"Can you hear it? Can you see it? I shouldn't be mistaken... This device seems to be different from what I usually use..." Mir Mina's voice came from the other end of the holographic projection, " Oh, it seems to have come out, it’s not too difficult.”

"It's very clear, Ms. Mirmina," Gawain greeted the lady on the opposite side of the communication with a smile, "It seems that your side has settled down?"

As he spoke, he took a look at the state of the lady across from her—behind her was an open indoor space, and judging from the furnishings, there were many experimental platforms running on their own and arcane servants coming and going not far away. That should obviously be the main working area of ​​the "Frontline Laboratory", and Mirmina in the center of the communication screen is standing on a separate platform. Judging from the proportions of some furnishings on the platform, the avatar this lady is using at the moment Should still have a fairly tall build.

But at least it should be within the acceptable range of human beings.

The current Milmina should be called Milmina.zip.

A slightly weird association flashed through his mind, but Gao Wen still had a calm smile on his face as usual, while Mirmina, who was on the opposite side of the communication, didn't even know that she already had an extra zip in Gao Wen's mind. suffix, just glanced back at the laboratory he had just set up and replied happily: "That's right, the main experimental area has been almost set up, and the rest are some minor problems-fortunately, I'm the only one here. People don’t need to consider the needs of ordinary people’s lives, and this incarnation of mine doesn’t need to eat or sleep.”

"How is the avatar you are using now?" Gao Wen asked, "I mean when you get in touch with other people—is it going well?"

"If you are referring to the few young people who came to help install the network today, I think it went well," Mirmina.zip said with a smile, "They were a little surprised by my laboratory, but it was only a little Surprised, my identity in front of them is "a legendary witch who has been living in seclusion for a long time and has only recently been recruited by Emperor Gao Wen to serve the empire". It seems that they quite believe in this identity.

"By the way, I met that young man named Fendil. It is said that he is Victoria's nephew? He looks good. He is more mature and stable than I thought, and he seems to have fully adapted to his position. Before you It seems that he is still worried about whether he will be a pampered 'noble boy', I think you can rest assured-the pampered person can't walk through the wilderness of the front line in a snowstorm like him."

"How are the anti-divine barriers and safety limiters working?" Gao Wen asked again—although he had approved Mirmina's setting up a frontline laboratory before, after all, the incarnation of the other party will be in this world for a long time in the future. activities, and the time for Mirmina to be separated from the god position is still short, some necessary caution is still indispensable.

"Everything is normal," Mirmina said with a nod. The danger of divinity pollution leakage—the young people who helped install the network came here today and stayed for a while without any response. But then again, I think they were a little nervous the whole time... Could it be that my smile is not friendly enough Is it?"

"This...I think you're overthinking it," Gao Wen subconsciously glanced at Mirmina.zip across the way as he spoke, "Not everyone has the same ability to accept as me or Amber... , it is the most normal reaction for most people to be nervous when they step into your 'laboratory'."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Po, who had been distracted for a long time beside him, seemed to come back to his senses suddenly: "If you have a thick nerve, you have a thick nerve. Why are you talking so mildly... Oh, including me? It's okay."

Gawain glanced at the half-elf and didn't pay attention to him. Instead, he confirmed some information about the frontline laboratory to Mirmina, and then brought the topic back on track: "Now let's talk about the wasteland—— Now that your avatar is inside the wasteland, you should be able to see the situation of that land more clearly than before, have you found anything?"

"In such a short period of time, I have not achieved anything that can be called a 'discovery'," Mirmina.zip said, shaking her head slightly, "But...after placing the avatar in this polluted area, I did see Some 'sights' that cannot be seen from the outside.

"Just as I guessed before, this wasteland is shrouded in a magic field with a large scale and a very fast change speed. The environment inside has been alienated, and this alienation has directly led to the material world and the non-material world. Blurred dislocation of boundaries between worlds.

"I think I can start planning the direction of the first 'Wasteland Blocking Wall'. The laboratory I set up is the initial starting point..."