Chapter 1372 The Long Road Home
From the next step until boarding the ship, the entire team seemed unusually quiet, and even orderly. Although the unavoidable atmosphere of alienation and mutual vigilance still lingered around everyone, at least order was guaranteed. It has to be said that since being sent to this place beyond the scope of most people's cognition by the portal, the strange sights here and the incredible journey that followed have greatly diverted the attention of the "chosen ones", and they can no longer Concentrate on the questions they wanted to think about before, because even if they put all their energy into understanding and observing this place, it seems a little insufficient.
The Giant Turtle Platform anchored in the dedicated star port slightly broke the quiet and almost dull atmosphere: it is a beautiful spaceship. Although it is not as big as those giant civilian transport ships or low-tech warships, from its size alone The uniqueness of this ship can be seen from the special port it occupies and the large and sophisticated servo facilities near the port. The selected candidates were all amazed when they heard that this was the ship Hao Ren had arranged for them. They looked up and watched under the hovering bracket of the starship - Hao Ren felt that more than 90% of their attention was on the ship. Observing the husky head painted on the deck of the spaceship...
"This is a boat sticker, a personalized boat sticker - haven't you ever seen a car sticker?" Hao Ren said with a sullen face, trying to explain the huge dog head on the boat seriously.
Lily's innocent big face ran through three armored belts on the spacecraft, from the waistline secondary battery to the engine cover at the stern...
Vivian's expression remained unchanged but she squeezed out a voice from between her teeth: "I don't think you should have been deceived by the big dog in the first place. Even if you draw Guo Degang on the spaceship, you are better than Husky's stupid face." Bar."
Hao Ren: "Be more serious when leading a group..."
Fortunately, no one bothered to find out what the husky head printed on the spaceship meant. They accepted this style of painting in surprise and fun, and some even smiled knowingly: It seems that in this cold and unfamiliar world After seeing a lot of incomprehensible things, the space station finally saw something familiar to them. Even the husky's face seemed to be a little heart-warming.
Under Nolan's guidance, the passengers boarded the spacecraft in an orderly manner under the action of the tractor beam. So far, no unexpected incidents have occurred.
Hao Ren came to the bridge and took a look at the passenger cabin (actually it was a large lounge. There were only a hundred people in total anyway, so there was no need to modify the Gnaku). After confirming that the situation inside was okay, he looked at the Kuiper station. The guidance station sent a request signal for the spacecraft to leave the station.
"Then it's time for us to lead a group to witness the miracle." Hao Ren gave the signal and rubbed his hands with a confident and proud expression on his face. "This is a trip that I carefully designed and carefully arranged for them. , it will definitely open the eyes of these guys..."
Before he finished speaking, the feedback message from the Kuiper station guidance desk had been sent to the bridge: "Departure request has been accepted - Confirm the Z88-1350 special line, the 'Sunset Red Returning Home Visiting Group' is about to leave the star port, repeat, The 'Sunset Red Returning Home Visiting Group' is about to leave Starport..."
"Just because of the name of this group," Nangong Sanba looked at Hao Ren with a strange look for a long time, "Do you dare to say from the bottom of your heart that you planned it carefully?"
"Nonsense, can you find a name that is more deeply rooted in people's memory than these few words?" Hao Ren said confidently, "And anyway, this kind of informal personal flight does not leave long-term files, so why would a temporary name be different? ."
Others on the bridge waved their hands: "Okay, okay, you have a point, you have a point..."
The Giant Turtle Rock rolled up a burst of blue brilliance in space. After gradually accelerating away from the gravitational circle of the Kuiper Station, it suddenly disappeared into the mirror sphere formed by the warped space. At the observation tower of the Kuiper Station A recorder recorded this scene:
"On XX, XX, XX, the imperial prosecutor, His Excellency Hao Ren, led the 'Sunset Red Returning Family Visiting Group' he formed to embark on a journey. This was the first time that the survivors of the Dream Plane formally visited the Earth after 10,000 years of wandering. The journey back to the hometown, although it is only a small-scale and short-term return, marks the biggest progress in the Dream Plane incident so far. Perhaps we can finally expect that those lost descendants who have wandered in foreign lands will have the opportunity to return to their hometown. Maybe today It is a new turning point in history..."
Hao Ren is right, special flights like this will not leave long-term files in the database - but it will go down in history...
However, people who have already set off on the spacecraft will not know what a recorder on the observation tower wrote. At this moment, they are already in a closed vesicle created by space warping, and are rushing towards the crack in the depths of the universe at super-light speed.
Adni stayed quietly in the starship lounge, looking at every stranger around her with a cautious attitude, while trying to remember everything she saw here. She knows that everyone around her is the same, so there is no need for her to hide her attitude and eyes: in other words, this kind of aboveboard vigilance is one of the conditions that can guarantee "peace".
She is a Silver Witch who has established herself as a high-ranking counselor and mentor in a South American vampire monastery. Unlike those human wizards or witches who were once slaves and learned a little bit about magic from the ancient "gods", "silver witch" or "silver wizard" is a special term, a member of the real ancient gods, Ade Ni's memory can be traced back to the ancient Sumerian period. In that barbaric pioneering era of civilization, she was once the patron saint of a city on the Mesopotamian plains - but those glorious days are far away. Gone, and now there are only some silhouettes of city-states stained with yellow sand and some collapsed and burning ruins of ancient cities left in her memory. These fragmented memories make her bored and depressed. Perhaps in order to relieve this boring life, she He agreed to the vampire monastery's request, responded to the call of the Dark Council as a representative (according to the plan, this is called a "chosen one"), and became a member of this team.
Now she was looking curiously at the place and the strange members of the team.
The werewolf from South America seemed to be a boy from the Eben family. The guy he often dealt with was as noisy and frivolous as ever.
Vampires from Europe are no different from the guys in the Priory. They are dull, dark, and unsmiling. Except for the one named Hesiana, they basically have zombie faces, but they themselves call this the elegance of a gentleman. Reserved.
The rune dwarves from Australia, ah, the guy who realized something was wrong before the end of the mythical age, built a big ship to escape from the center of the whirlpool and lived in seclusion underground, if they had not left Northern Europe so early, maybe the Asaph tribe I can hold on for a while longer.
Sirens from the deep sea, those mysterious races also appeared, and their queens seemed to appear in person. Ms. Katrina and her followers are probably the only really happy people here. They have not participated in the mythical war, nor have they been involved in any alien melee. Sometimes I really envy these people who live in the deep sea without fighting against the world. guy.
And them, the witchers from the North Pole...
Adni's eyes inevitably fell on the demon hunters. The latter were sitting at the other end of the lounge, forming two distinct circles with almost all the aliens. There seemed to be an invisible force field surrounding them. , even the most irritable werewolf is unwilling to take another look in that direction. However, these demon hunters seemed to be somewhat different from what Adni had in mind.
There was a lot less murderous intent in them, and there was no such completely unreasonable fanaticism. They sat together, talking to each other in low voices or exchanging some food and drinks. Occasionally, some people even looked at them twice and smiled suspiciously. The expressions were nodding - the expressions were very stiff, and it was obvious that they themselves were unwilling to make such a move, but they still reluctantly said hello.
Adni frowned, but still nodded reluctantly.
The Witcher girl named "White Fire" looked very active. She was talking loudly among her friends, which seemed to show her knowledge of this place. She mentioned Star Wars, Gundam, Halo and Steam. There were a bunch of weird words that didn't sound like a reliable explanation, but her companions listened with great interest.
It turns out that witchers can also joke.
This is such a strange place, Adni thought. Why do these people hang out together? Why are people of all races, camps, and generations crowded into this metal-cast vehicle to participate in a "trip" that is said to be "significant" but is mysterious from beginning to end?
Adni thought of the things she saw along the way, and then had to admit that those things seriously shook some of her perceptions.
The same should be true for everyone else sitting here - anyone with above-average intelligence.
For the first time, they had to add the concept of "cosmic level" to their thinking process, and then turned around and thought about their overt and covert struggles and scheming on the little blue planet in the past thousands or even ten thousand years. The magnificent battles, the glorious temples, and the countless treasures all seem to be insignificant at that moment when you look up at the universe.
"Attention, the spaceship is about to leave the hyperspace state. Attention, the spaceship is about to leave the hyperspace state..."
The lights in the lounge suddenly began to switch. After the brightness decreased, holographic projections slowly appeared on the metal walls on both sides, showing the scene outside the spacecraft.
Some red and blue stripes formed something like a tunnel, and the spacecraft moved forward in the tunnel. Then the tunnel quickly shortened and dissipated, forming a stable pattern of stars and nebulae, and it seemed to freeze.
The spacecraft is still flying at an astonishing speed, but on the large scale of the universe, its relative speed to the surrounding celestial bodies has become almost stationary.
A magnificent spiral nebula appeared in front of everyone, making everyone who saw it for the first time unable to hold their breath. The terrifying oppression brought by the all-devouring material storm even made an old hunter like Hasselblad instantly beat his heart. Paused for half a beat.
"...I probably won't be able to play VR in the future..." Bai Huo muttered and sighed.
The huge group of space buildings around the Rift Nebula and the blue-green planet that is very different from the Earth and orbits near the "eye of the storm" like a sentinel have attracted the attention of many people. They speculate about the functions of those space buildings and discuss whether the gate is Isn't it the crack in the center of the nebula? At the same time, some people also noticed the "strange scenery" floating above the blue-green planet: something like an alien continent floating in space, and connected by huge green vine-like structures. This sight made some people wonder about Asaph. The aliens and demon hunters who knew something about it all showed thoughtful expressions.
"Passenger friends, I am the captain of this ship," Hao Ren's voice rang out at the right time, "You have come to the key part of this journey - what is in front of you is the door that connects the two worlds, the universe. Gate, which you can see in the rift in the center of the nebula. Later we will pass through this gate, and you will truly reach the Dream Plane, the home of all of you. Before that, I want to tell you a little about the Eye of the Rift Storm The planet next to it is called Purgatory. Some of you may know this name, because in the past thousands of years, the entrance to Purgatory has appeared on the earth more than once..."
"That's purgatory!?"
"It actually exists, and it's in this place?"
There were uncontrollable exclamations in the lounge.
Hao Ren's explanation did not end, and quickly moved to another topic: "Some people should have noticed the 'alien continents' floating above the planet Purgatory and the plants spreading between the continents. Some of you should be interested in It is more familiar: that is Yggdrasil. In the information set I gave you, its other identity was mentioned, which was the vehicle that all supernatural creatures on the earth used to ride when they entered this universe ten thousand years ago. The Ark of Time and Space'. It was once the territory of the Asaph tribe, but now it has become one with Purgatory..."
The candidates in the lounge exchanged looks in astonishment, and then many people quickly took out those thick information sets (they were part of the plan, which Hao Ren jokingly called the "Sunset Red Returning Home Visiting Group" "Travel Manual DLC Integrated Pack"), and began to read the sensational truths above carefully for the first time.
Obviously, they had never really looked at these things before... It had to be said that the cheap travel advertisement cover that Lily downloaded from the Internet and randomly photoshopped it out was one of the major factors that led to this result.
The Giant Turtle Rock Platform slowly accelerated and approached the "Cosmic Gate" in the center of the Rift Nebula. The image of Yggdrasil was gradually swept to the rear in the picture transmitted by the external monitor.
Ten thousand years ago, countless refugees from the dream plane came to this universe on the huge "time and space ark".
Ten thousand years later, a hundred survivors from the Dream Plane who had forgotten their hometown passed by the ark on the Inquisitor's spaceship, and embarked on their first journey back home in a daze.
"We are about to pass through the gate of the universe." On the bridge, Hao Ren switched the internal line. The communicator showed the image of the cluster consciousness of the drone group. "Swarm, turn on all monitoring points. From now on, we will I want you to monitor the cosmic parameters of all known spaces in the Dream Plane."
The Giant Turtle Rock Platform number was like a shining drop of mercury, falling lightly into the gate.