Chapter 940 A System that Is Still Surviving

Led by the soldier Willy, the group set out along the Road of Plenty and the Kingdom Avenue to the family fiefdom known as "Hearth City". The roads under their feet were all the streets and highways of the original sanctuary city, but their disrepair had made these roads no longer as shiny as they once were, and they had become very difficult to walk. The broken cement pavement rolled up, and the man-made earth was exposed. The potholed road seemed to have never been repaired. Walking on it 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 along, but she thought that Vivian just put some ice cubes on it and scared the shit out of the locals. , she still suppressed the urge to suddenly transform into a three-meter-long tail. It’s just that complaints are still inevitable: “Isn’t it true that the road here is 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 organize the roads in such places. .”

"Why do you two...'countries' want to fight? What hatred do you have?" 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 the dead on the battlefield are the fuel for the flame. The four kingdoms have never fought because of hatred. I think this should 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 - 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 had been redivided, and it turned out that each individual Scattered small city-states and settlements of villages and towns, the streets of the past have become transportation arteries between various "cities", buildings have become bunkers and market towns, and vacant factory lands have become "wilderness" and "wasteland" after demolition and clearing. , the shelter was beyond recognition, and a primitive society grew strangely on the ruins of advanced civilization - and this ruins are still so small.

It's all like a twisted and grotesque dream.

He looked up at the sky, from where he could see the urban 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, grew up here, and received all the education from childhood to adulthood. 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 meant nothing 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". Serious lack of security. But the young soldier had no choice. He still had to fearlessly lead the way for strangers, and he was always alert to 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? "

Willy rubbed his hands and tightened his cuffs. The cold weather now made him tremble a little: "I don't know... Usually 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-pitched 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 become lighter, and a feeling that he was about to float away from the ground came from his feet. Willy's expression suddenly changed, and he screamed in horror: "Don't move, everyone! It's 'ascension'! 'Ascension Phenomenon'!"

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 count: "One...two...three...three shooting stars! It's great, it looks like it 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 "footing the ground", their bodies are actually in the air, but the soles of their shoes are still slightly touching the ground. Willy's body was tense and he didn't dare to move, for fear that a small movement would cause him to lift off the ground: this would make him fly into the sky uncontrollably, or even fly to the other side of the earth in one breath. Hao Ren quickly understood the reason for the young man's fear, and he tried to ease Willy's nervousness: "Don't worry, don't worry, your reminder was timely and 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 relax a lot, "Winter is coming, the heart of this 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 on the surfaces of those things, and those lights had not appeared before. This is probably some kind of automatic maintenance system of the Ark giant ship. There is obviously something wrong with this system, but it is still surviving.

The artificial gravity disappeared for nearly an hour, during which Willy kept his hand on his chest and muttered to himself as if praying to some god. In the end, this agonizing hour finally passed. Hao Ren heard another different low sound coming from the depths of the earth. When the sound gradually subsided, his body sank and he once again experienced the feeling of being down to earth. .

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 'ascension' 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 earth."

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at the hanging city buildings above his head: "It was a long 'ascension' that lasted a whole day and night. Poor Birkenstock, he just accidentally stretched his leg, and then I watched helplessly. Watching him soar from the earth, 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 helplessly. Turned into a small black dot in the sky, his sister was next to me at that time, poor girl... Her brother even went all the way across the 'axis of heaven and earth'. When Mother Earth regained her vitality, Birkenstock fell 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."