Chapter 399: Verora (Big Chapter, Please Subscribe, Collect, and Vote Monthly)

after class???

"Hey, have you watched that video?"

"Which video?"

"It's the video of the sea train that is very popular on the Internet now."

"Ah, ah, that video of a train running on the sea? I've seen it. It was a special effect, or a pre-heating promotional video for a certain movie. You can't even see the railroad tracks below. How could there really be a train? Running on the sea?"

"Maybe the railroad track is hidden? The angle of his shooting happened to be in the blind spot where the railroad track can't be seen???"

"It's possible???"

The people around him were talking and walking by, and He Ao also started to pack up his books.

"Would you like to go have lunch together later?"

Liu Nan asked softly while collecting the books.

"There's a meeting later, at the institute."

He Ao glanced at his phone and picked up his schoolbag.

"good!"

Liu Nan nodded and said nothing more.

The three of them said goodbye, and He Ao walked out of the classroom, opened the institute's software, and then took out his headphones and put them on.

The software interface is showing the chat history between Yang De and him just now.

[Are you free at twelve o'clock later? Let's chat on the phone. ]

This was the message Yang De sent him after he replied that he also heard the strange voice.

Of course, Yang De originally wanted to call him from the beginning. He said that he had something to do now, but Yang De changed it to twelve o'clock.

Judging from Yang De's reaction, this matter was relatively urgent, so he didn't say much.

get out of class ends at half past eleven. This half hour is enough for him to walk home.

When he walked downstairs in the community, He Ao suddenly found a middle-aged man standing downstairs in his house.

The man saw him coming back,

He hurriedly came over and said, "Xiao Ao."

"Brother Fang, what's wrong? Is Grandpa Fang feeling better?"

He Ao smiled and said hello.

Grandpa Fang is an old man who sells noodles at the gate of the community. He has taken care of He Ao since he was a child. Previously, a crazy transcendent was contaminated with some twisted aura, causing him to fall into a coma. He Ao used corpse flowers mixed with water to barely save the old man. return.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, it was almost only a week ago. Now it seems like a long time has passed.

"Much better, I will be discharged from the hospital this afternoon,"

Fang Cheng also looked at He Ao with a smile, "Originally, I wanted to stay for two more days for observation, but the old man didn't want to stay in the hospital. We brothers discussed it and prepared to take the old man to live in the city."

"It's good. Grandpa Fang is old and needs someone to look after him."

He Ao nodded slightly, and then he was about to go upstairs, bypassing Fang Cheng, "If there's nothing else, I'll go up first."

"Um, Xiao Ao," Fang Cheng shouted quickly, holding a roll of banknotes wrapped in his hand and stuffing it into He Ao's hand.

"That medicine of yours is really useful. We don't know how much you made it for, but we can't let you lose money???"

"It's okay," He Ao smiled and waved his hand, "Without Grandpa Fang, I might have starved to death when I was a child."

He blocked it lightly, and Fang Cheng felt like a thick wall blocking his movements. When he reacted, He Ao was no longer in front of him.

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After getting rid of Fang Cheng, He Ao went upstairs. Just when he inserted the key into the door, Yang De called.

"Hello."

He Ao opened the door and answered the phone.

"Mercenary?" the person on the phone asked softly, "can you hear me clearly?"

"Can."

He Ao responded and locked the door.

"That's it," Yang De said directly without being polite,

"At about eight o'clock this morning in Central-Earth time, everyone at the C-level and above in the institute 'heard' a strange sound. Everyone heard a different sound, but the effect seemed to be similar.

"The sound was very soft, but it seemed to easily trigger some of our most primitive emotions. Two of our injured colleagues just now almost lost control when they heard the sound.

"How are you doing there?"

"I'm fine here, there's basically no impact."

He Ao replied calmly and sat on the chair in the living room.

At this time, he suddenly realized that C-level people in the main world could not hear such nonsense. They were not like the extraordinary people in the copy world who had been surrounded by these nonsense since their promotion and had gradually developed a habit.

Although this kind of gibbering is gentle, its never-ending sound can easily drive people crazy.

??????

The extraordinary beings in the dungeon world seem to be much more violent than those in the main world, which may not be due to the influence of these gibberings.

"Did the institute find out what happened?"

He Ao had previously speculated that the babble was related to the existence of high-ranking people in the dungeon world, because after Super Memory was promoted to D level, some background noise similar to babble could be heard when it was activated.

This background noise is basically inaudible in the main world, it is intermittent in the ruins, but it is very clear in the dungeon world.

The ruins are obviously closely related to the original federation of the copy world.

"Our current guess is," Yang De said softly, "This is probably related to the ruins. Judging from the frequency of opening the ruins in the past ten years, the ruins seem to be 'approaching' the main world."

"This involves another question. Were you promoted to C-level in the ruins?"

Yang De said slowly.

"Not exactly in the ruins."

To be precise, only a little bit was in the ruins. It was the little bit of Qi produced by practicing martial arts in the ruins that pushed him a little bit towards the C-level.

Martial arts is a gradual upgrade, so he didn't lie.

"Almost," Yang De said in an expected tone, "Many stable C-levels completed their promotions after returning to the main world."

When he said this, He Ao suddenly thought of the way to be promoted in the main world.

Part of it was achieved by relying on the secret medicine obtained from the ruins, and the other part was achieved by accidentally eating the corpses of high-level alien beasts of the same path in the ruins.

The puppet that He Ao is currently controlling, 'The Rough Bandit Hu Wen', was promoted through mad chaos after eating the corpses of C-level beasts.

This promotion method is actually very dangerous, because promotion from D to C requires rituals, and the corpses of alien beasts that have not been mixed into secret medicine are also seriously contaminated.

Hu Wen should have completed the 'violent bandit' ritual by chance and ate contaminated flesh and blood before completing his promotion.

But whether it was due to the pollution in his flesh or the incomplete completion of the ritual, he became bloodthirsty and violent after his promotion, taking pleasure in killing people. In fact, he was half crazy.

This is a lucky one. As for those who are unlucky, they may die directly in the ruins, or mutate into monsters. No one knows whether they have tried it.

"You should have found the special potion that can promote promotion in the ruins. It is said that those potion test tubes will be marked with something called a ritual."

Yang De continued, "I don't know what methods the humans in the ruins used. Although we can't understand the words above, we can naturally understand the meaning of the words. If you are promoted according to that ritual, there is a high probability of maintaining mental stability. .”

"Um."

He Ao nodded slightly.

The writing on those mithril test tubes should be Denis writing.

The dungeon world should have the habit of using Denis characters to write mysterious contents.

The 'Collector' secret medicine formula he got in the copy of Regit was also written in Denis script, but he didn't know Denis script at that time.

If it is a secret medicine produced in a standard way, or a secret medicine of a specific product, it is possible to directly engrave it on the test tube with Denis characters.

In this way, it can improve the quality and increase the selling point.

Secondly, Denis text seems to be able to achieve some magical effects. For example, if Howao got the 'Collector' secret medicine, it would have the effect of burning after reading.

He Ao guessed that the Denis words on the secret medicine test tubes engraved with rituals might also have some kind of "disappear after reading" effect.

Now that he had reached this point, He Ao asked casually, "Did Minister Yang also use the medicine to get promoted?"

"No," Yang De said with a smile, "I'm not as lucky as you."

He didn't seem to want to delve deeper into this topic, and He Ao didn't continue to ask.

In fact, the answer is very simple. There are only two ways to advance in the main world, take secret medicine or eat strange beasts.

Since Yang De wasn't taking secret medicine, he was eating strange beasts.

Reminiscing that his research institute's code name is 'Warrior', and according to the institute's habit of using talents instead of names, it is very likely that Yang De's talent sequence is 'Warrior'.

The ritual of a warrior is to live towards death. It is very possible that Yang De was promoted after eating the corpses of alien beasts in a deadly battle.

It's no wonder he is so strong.

Compared with other talent sequences, the warrior's combat effectiveness is indeed abnormal.

However, He Ao felt that Yang De's combat effectiveness was still a little bit behind. If he were replaced by He Ao's 'warrior', there would have been no subsequent plot at sea. He would have stabbed all those C-level ones to death one by one.

At this time, Yang De has already begun to continue explaining, "You should be a C-level person who completed the ritual promotion in the main world, so you may not know that C-level extraordinary people can vaguely hear those 'voices' in the ruins."

I know???

I don’t know the information you thought I knew that you gave me in advance.

Of course, He Ao couldn't really say 'I knew it a long time ago', he quickly concluded,

"So you guess those 'voices' are brought by the ruins?"

"Yes, there is actually another supporting evidence."

Yang De said slowly.

Then He Ao felt his phone vibrate, and a picture was sent by Yang De.

He Ao clicked on the picture, which was an old-fashioned train speeding on the twilight sea.

Twilight, sunset, the sea reflecting the sunset, and the old-fashioned train crossing the sunset between the sky and the water are full of simple and beautiful feelings.

"The name of the car in the picture is 'Velola'. It is a cross-border train that departs from the Republic of Jola in Western Turkey and crosses most of the Western Territory to Velola, the capital of the Kingdom of Ankana. The journey lasted seven days. During the seven nights, it passed through seventeen countries and was known as one of the most scenic trains in the world at that time.”

Yang De explained.

"then?"

He Ao caught the key word.

"Yes, this train suddenly and mysteriously disappeared while traveling twenty years ago, and all the passengers on the train were also lost."

Yang De explained.

He Ao: "Twenty years ago? I remember that the ruins only appeared eighteen years ago. What is the relationship between this car and the ruins?"

"Yes, the passage to the ruins was first opened eighteen years ago, but the influence of the ruins on reality did not begin eighteen years ago. In fact,"

Yang De paused and sent another piece of information to He Ao, "According to our information, someone saw this car in the ruins."

"In the ruins?"

He Ao clicked on the information.

The time ratio between the ruins and the main world is one to twelve. It disappeared twenty years ago. If it is really in the ruins, this car should have a history of more than two hundred years, but from the photo, it is still smooth and clean. New, seems like it was serviced yesterday.

But since it appeared in the ruins and now in the main world, this car should not be as simple as before.

He Ao opened the information.

There are two copies of the information, from two different institute staff.

One was from six years ago, and the other was from last year, both of which were people who entered the ruins.

They were all transported to the wilderness far away from the city, and they all encountered this car on the road. They were all surprised to meet the car from the main world in the ruins.

Some explorers got into the car, then closed the door and left. They never came back, and they were not teleported out after the ruins ended.

"This vehicle is dangerous and we determined it may be a Class B pollutant,"

While He Ao was looking at the information, Yang De continued, "In fact, the B-level director of the institute has already gone to find it once. It was very cunning and seemed to be able to sense the B-level aura, and it disappeared before the director arrived. .”

"So it's wandering around now?"

He Ao flipped through the information.

"It has some ability to travel through space. The places where it appears now are places with particularly beautiful scenery."

Yang De sent another document to He Ao,

“We used a piece of pollutant that can achieve a certain level of ‘prediction’ and roughly figured out where it might appear next.

“From our past data, it will stop and let some people get on, but we don’t know what the conditions are for stopping and getting on.

"According to intelligence, it seems that a C-class person in the Tia Empire once wanted to get into the car, but the car did not open the door."

"What do you need me to do?"

He Ao flipped through the copy sent by Yang De about where this B-class train might stop and when it would stop.

He knew that there was so much foreshadowing, and now was the focus.

He went to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. Since Yang De was so anxious to find him, he must have something to ask for.

"We are going to wait for it to penetrate deep into the territory of Middle-earth, mobilize C-level to stop him, and then ask B-level directors to take action to see if we can keep it. We haven't set a specific time yet. Are you free in the past six days? "

A simple and crude but probably effective plan, the institute probably still has some pollutants in its hands that can affect the operation of this train.

"Yes, you can just contact me when the time comes."

He Ao nodded slightly.

"Okay, then I will contact you after the details of the plan are finalized."

Yang De said quickly and then hung up the phone.

Ten minutes to set up, thirty seconds to get down to business.

He Ao smiled and shook his head. He put his phone on the desktop and the page he browsed just stopped at the place and time when the train would appear next.

Aranonoti Island, 6:50 a.m. local time.

It is known as one of the most beautiful places for sunrises in the Western Hemisphere. uuread a book

He briefly activated his super memory and memorized this information.

The world around him flickered for a moment, and Chaoyi's uncontrollable need for comfort seemed to become stronger.

The time left for him to complete the ritual is not unlimited.

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Alano

He Ao walked out of the mayor's office. It was already midnight and the stars were shining brightly.

A pirate who was keeping watch quickly ran over, "Boss?"

This is one of the pirates who came to the town with He Ao before. He is not very smart, but he is loyal.

"Get me a speedboat and don't tell anyone."

He Ao looked at the bright starry sky above his head, took out a colorful ring from his pocket, and put it on the little finger of his left hand.