Chapter 999 Bai Huo’s Childhood

The far north is shrouded in darkness under the long night, and the ice fortress of the demon hunters is like a lighthouse in the long night, holding on to a ray of light on this dark ice field. For thousands of years, no matter what aliens have done to these demon hunters No matter how much you hate it, and no matter whether these demon hunters can really be called "noble", at least one thing must be certain, that is, these night watchmen have actually protected human civilization and ensured that fragile humans have survived the turbulent times in history. The darkest years.

Even without considering this historical significance, Hao Ren could not allow this ice fortress to fall just thinking about the consequences of those crazy Presbyterian Orders once they broke out of Corpus.

Led by several master demon hunters, Hao Ren and his party walked through the depths of the Ice Fortress. Under their feet is the solid ice that has not melted for thousands of years, and above their heads is the clearest sky on the planet. From time to time, they can hear the whistling of the wind, while the heavily armed hunters in black quietly stand guard at every post. A strange feeling came to his heart, and Hao Ren felt that he was standing on a watchtower. This tower was nailed to the North Pole, nailed through the thick ice cap, nailed through thousands of years of history, and nailed through this star. All races and cultures of the planet. The age of mythology was ended by it, magical civilization was also ended by it, human civilization grew up under its watch, and countless hunters in the dark night stood here quietly watching the entire world...

However, ordinary people are ignorant of all this.

Lily was still very energetic despite the cold wind, or she was more energetic than anyone else since arriving at the North Pole. The husky girl ran around Hao Ren happily, enjoying the feeling of the cold wind blowing on her face and sighing. : "It's so kind, so kind... It feels like I'm home. But having said that, the environment in this place is bad enough for ordinary people."

"Actually, it's the same for witchers," Bai Huo seemed to smile, "I never feel that my hometown is very comfortable. It's dry and cold here. Besides ice, I can't see anything else every day. Color, the only food that can be eaten is fish and seals, and other food has to be transported from the inland with a lot of effort. Life on the ice sheet is very boring, training, patrolling, day after day, so when I was very young, my biggest dream was Becoming a hunter is a very low level, but even young hunters can have the opportunity to travel around the world. Unfortunately, the blood of my ancestors was detected in me, so I trained twenty years longer than an ordinary witcher. In this way Speaking of which... I quite envy those young hunters who were born outside the Arctic."

"Were you born here?" Lily glanced at Bai Huo in surprise, "I thought you were sent to the headquarters to receive an elite education. It's like this in movies. By the way, your parents are here too. In this castle?”

"They died many years ago," Bai Huo said lightly, "when I was very young."

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment, because what everyone immediately thought of was the countless generations of endless war between demon hunters and aliens. Hao Ren twitched his lips unnaturally: "It's... when we fight against aliens. "

"Ah, no," Bai Huo saw that everyone had a misunderstanding and quickly waved his hands, "My mother is sick, and my father took too much magic potion and went to fight with the volcano..."

As soon as she finished speaking, the place fell silent, and the atmosphere was instantly colder than the big ice field outside. Even Lily's incredible reflex arc couldn't react. Normal people would look at Bai Huo's setting and think that she is the kind of girl who suffers from great hatred and bears her fate, the kind of girl whose parents died and the whole family died at the hands of monsters, but who would have thought that her father was taking drugs? Damn it...girl, why don't you act according to common sense?

Bai Huo didn't feel any difference in the atmosphere yet, and one person continued: "It was all a long time ago, and I don't have a deep impression of them... It was my mentor who brought me up. Why don't you talk anymore? ?”

Vivian opened her mouth: "...It's nothing. I feel like your life experience...is a bit different from what I imagined. I thought you were going to settle a series of family grudges. All the demon hunters in my impression have this style of painting." "

"Are all the demon hunters in your mind bitter and vengeful?" Bai Huo shrugged, "We also have our own lives, family and friends, emotions, hobbies and personalities. 'Hunting' is not everything to us. .My tutor likes chess and I like reading comics. Do you think this is incredible?"

Vivian said lightly: "How many demon hunters have ever thought that the 'monsters' you hunted are actually the same."

The topic was a bit tense for a while, but before the atmosphere turned bad, Master Ksuzov, who was leading the way for everyone, suddenly coughed twice: "Now the overall situation is more important, so we should put this kind of irrelevant private conversation back for a while."

According to Vivian's usual habits, if a "junior" lectured her like this, she would definitely have to retaliate, but this time she just waved her hand indifferently and nodded lightly to Bai Huo: "There is no malice."

Bai Huo lowered his eyes: "Me too."

Watching all this, Hao Ren felt some subtle emotion in his heart. There was originally no essential difference between demon hunters and aliens. Even the aliens from Horleta were distant relatives of the demon hunters. However, the ten thousand years of disputes completely severed the connection between them, and even The division is deeper than the contradiction between different people. I don’t know since when, the demon hunters no longer even regard the aliens as spiritual creatures with the same feelings, but roughly refer to them as "prey". The aliens also don't care at all whether the demon hunters have emotions and six desires, but just Consider it an extreme plague. This absurd contradiction and separation will eventually produce an even more absurd result, that is, when a demon hunter talks about his family life, an alien will find it incredible.

Even though they know from common sense that this is normal, they cannot emotionally believe that the other person is the same flesh and blood creature as themselves.

This absurd separation situation...when will it really end?

His thoughts were suddenly interrupted by Master Ksuzov's voice: "Ahead is the Tower of Stars. The gate has been closed, and the situation on the other side is not optimistic."

Hao Ren immediately woke up from his meditation and looked forward with great curiosity. Along the way just now, he was curious about where the Star Tower was - because there was no obvious tower building clustered in the middle from the appearance of the Ice Fortress, but according to Bai Huo's description, the tower should be It's a magnificent facility, there's no reason you can't walk down the street without seeing it.

After seeing the situation in front of him, Hao Ren finally understood why the "tower" could not be seen outside the fortress.

A huge pit appeared in front of everyone!

The diameter of this deep pit is estimated to be up to 100 meters, and its shape is a regular circle, extending like a shaft leading to the center of the earth. A kind of chaotic darkness shrouded the shaft, and thick fog filled its depths, as if there was another world. A wide spiral staircase and a series of complex supporting and dividing structures are arranged on the pit wall, which should be the road to the lower level and a rest stop.

Surrounding this shaft is the largest square in the Ice Fortress. Countless heavily armed demon hunters are stationed in the square, and patrolling soldiers can be seen everywhere. It is really heavily guarded.

This is the Tower of Stars.

"...Didn't you say it was a tower?" Hao Ren stared for a long time, feeling deceived, "This thing is a trap!"

"This is the Tower of Stars," Bai Huo nodded expressionlessly. "It extends downwards, all the way into the Arctic Ocean, but at a certain stage, it will 'go up' and pierce into the space of Corpus. Entrance."

"Normally we call this thing a well..." Nangong Sanba's mouth twitched, "Are you sure this wasn't the original construction plan that had the drawings turned upside down?"

"You talk so much nonsense," Nangong Wuyue slapped her brother on the head, "To us sea people, this thing is just a tower!"

"Ignore Tabuta for now," Hao Ren waved his hand and turned to look at Bai Huo, "Can you open the door now?"

"Now?" Bai Huo was a little surprised, "Aren't you waiting for the large army? They will arrive soon."

Hao Ren nodded: "No wait, I want to see the situation on the other side first."

Bai Huo asked the old hunter beside him: "Master Kesuzov, is it convenient to open the door now?"

Ksuzov put his hand on the icicle beside him, and then the icicle shimmered and made a subtle ringing sound. After a moment, the old hunter exhaled: "You go in."

As the old hunter finished speaking, the strange chaos inside the "tower" of stars suddenly disappeared like a phantom, and the thick fog deep in the pit also became thinner.

A passage appeared.