Gray snowflakes were still floating in the sky, falling on Charles and Anna. After a while, the two people sitting on the steps had turned into two snowmen.
"Huh~" Anna's entire body split apart, and more than a dozen tentacles quickly stretched out, shaking continuously, and then quickly retracted.
Anna, who was suddenly clean, stood up and pulled Charles' arm, trying to help him stand up. "Let's go inside and eat something. You haven't eaten anything since this morning."
"You go and eat, I have no appetite." Charles refused in a low voice.
"So what are you thinking about now?" Anna asked.
Charles stared blankly at the gray snow in front of him, his eyes full of confusion. He paused for a long time before slowly saying, "I'm thinking a lot, thinking about many things in the past. My mind is very confused now..."
Just as Anna was about to say something, the sound of "da da da da~" came from far away, and the pathfinder came back.
The strong wind stirred up by the propeller blew the gray snow everywhere, revealing the dry and cracked brown earth.
The pilot of the helicopter rushed towards Charles holding something.
Charles stood up quickly and looked into his arms. It was a long, curled-up worm, its shell not made of chitin, but half-melted scarlet flesh. If it weren't for the rows of long legs underneath, it would be hard to tell it was a worm.
Charles stretched out his prosthetic limb to grab the worm's head and swung it violently. The curled body quickly straightened out and the worm's length reached 1.5 meters.
This is not a creature from Earth, at least not a creature from Earth in the 21st century.
"Where did you pick it up?" Charles asked in a hoarse voice.
"I picked it up at 20 kilometers away at 3 o'clock. It looked dead. 50 meters to the left of the object was a boundless black fog. I didn't dare to go in. There seemed to be something alive in the fog."
Charles nodded and threw the worm back. "Isolate it first, and then have someone dissect it to see what's inside its stomach."
As the man left with the bug, more and more helicopters returned quickly. 16 helicopters went out and 15 came back.
They brought photos of the nearby landforms, as well as various special plants and animals. But these things were completely different from the creatures on Earth before, and they were weird and distorted.
Charles seemed to have calmed down. He carefully checked the things the helicopters brought back. Anna, who was standing next to him with her arms folded, looked at his back with some concern.
Suddenly she saw Charles stopped, staring at a photo in his hand without moving.
Anna walked over and grabbed the photo. In the photo was a mountain whose top could not be seen, but on the right side of the mountain there was a faint glow of light, a cold-toned light that was different from the dark purple in the sky.
"Is there anyone? Or other intelligent creatures?" Anna asked, looking at the photo.
Charles frowned and shook his head, then turned and walked towards the airship. "Whatever it is, let's go take a look first."
The airship began to change direction and headed towards that direction.
The gray snow continued to fall, accumulating into a thick layer on the airbag of the airship.
Although the airship is not good at high-speed flight, it is stable.
Soon, Charles, standing on the bridge, saw the huge mountain, which stood there motionless and full of oppression, like a sleeping giant.
Charles also saw the light, but this time the color of the light turned indigo, which further confirmed Anna's guess that the light was not natural light. Under normal circumstances, there would not be such a color change.
"Go over there." As Charles gave the order, the airship slowly approached that direction.
At the same time, machine guns and bombs were also in place. If there was any trouble over there, the armed forces of these five huge airships would not be to be trifled with.
Slowly, the source of the light appeared in front of everyone.
However, the moment Charles saw that thing, he was suddenly horrified and shouted loudly: "Everyone get down! Pull down the sunshade curtains!!"
That light source is the God of Light! He has not left the surface of the earth!
"Huahuahua~" The black curtains quickly blocked out the light coming in from outside.
Charles walked to the window, carefully opened a corner, and looked outside.
The huge body of the God of Light disappeared, leaving only its sun head lying on the ground and moving slowly.
Its color should have been a bright, warm white, but now it was a strange indigo blue, and it flickered slightly from time to time, a bit like a light bulb without power.
"Telescope." Charles reached behind him.
He grabbed the telescope that was handed to him, held it in front of his eyes, and looked towards the God of Light.
Soon he discovered that the God of Light was not moving by himself, but someone was dragging Him.
Humans are pulling an indigo sun in the gray snow. The scene is both spectacular and weird.
Charles threw the telescope away and turned to rush towards the exit. "Anna, don't follow me. I'll go over and take a look first."
But it was obvious that the other party would not listen to him. Just as Charles grabbed the parachute and jumped down, he felt a heaviness on the back of his neck and Anna was already sitting on his shoulders.
"Go back quickly! I can go alone! I have something to ask the God of Light!"
Anna's legs tightened slightly, "Don't even think about it."
The body behind her cracked open, and several tentacles wrapped around the parachute rope and pulled it slightly, and the parachute quickly fell towards the position of the God of Light.
By the time Charles landed, he had already appeared before the God of Light.
Only then did he realize that the person pulling the sun was the Pope. It was the Pope who used more than a dozen giant chains, each two meters thick, to put on the God of Light and pulled Him along with difficulty.
The naked Pope had his lips tightly pursed and his eyes were red, as if he was trying hard not to cry.
"God, please hold on! We will be able to go back soon! Let's go home!!" The Pope pulled the chains hard and shouted loudly in tears, his voice seemed to be filled with endless grievances.
With a "pop", the light on the God of Light suddenly exploded, leaving only pure blue on His body, and this color became even lighter, almost on the verge of going out.
"Ledger, forget it, I'm dying, don't waste time..." A female voice with endless fatigue suddenly sounded.
Hearing this, the Pope finally couldn't hold it in any longer and he started to sob. Tears fell in large drops. But even so, he didn't let go of the chains on his body and continued to pull with all his strength.
"God! Please, please don't leave me! I'll do anything you ask me to do!!"
Charles, who was standing nearby, opened his eyes wide, looking at the scene in shock. The God of Light, who had almost wiped out all the humans on Earthsea just by showing his face, was actually going to die. What kind of existence could do such a thing
"Ledger, I'm sorry, I can't fulfill our promise, but... at least you didn't lose anything. Goodbye, old friend..."
A sky blue light shot from the God of Light to the Pope, and his body covered with wrinkles and age spots quickly became firm and elastic, and the white hair that represented old age quickly turned back to black and finally turned into a beautiful golden color.
Even as his body rapidly shrank, his mutilated body was completely repaired, and eventually the Pope's body returned to the appearance of a ten-year-old boy.
But at the same time, the light on the God of Light became dimmer and dimmer, and it seemed that He was using the last of His strength to rejuvenate the Pope.
Charles became anxious when he saw this. The God of Light was about to die, but he still had many things to ask Him.
"Wait! What on earth is going on? How did the surface become like this?! Who hurt you?"
The body of the God of Light suddenly shone brightly with an extremely dazzling blue light, and a resounding voice resounded throughout the desert. "They deceived me! They deceived all of us!"
"Bang~!" The God of Light exploded and turned into all kinds of brilliant lights. After a few seconds, as all the light receded, the huge God of Light disappeared completely.
The rejuvenated Ledger put down the chains in his hands and walked blankly to the position where the God of Light was.
Suddenly his legs went weak and he fell to his knees, bursting into tears. He was no different from when he was besieged by the teenagers 120 years ago, desperate and helpless.
Charles and Anna stood aside, watching everything in front of them. Suddenly, Charles moved. His prosthetic limb turned into a chainsaw and started spinning rapidly. He walked straight towards the Pope.
In response to Charles' actions, the Pope did not move and continued to kneel there crying in despair.
Anna's tentacles grabbed Charles, "Let him live. You're only helping him out by killing him now."
The crying pope crawled on the ground, slowly crawling forward, and finally crawled to the place where the God of Light disappeared and curled up. "God... I can feel your warmth, you didn't leave, right..."
"What are you going to do next? Continue looking for your family on the surface?" Anna asked.
Charles lowered his raised hands and looked up at the hazy dark purple in the sky.
Suddenly he reached out, grabbed Anna's right hand and walked towards the airship. His voice was no longer excited or hesitant.
"No, I won't look for them anymore. My family is not on this surface. They are all in the Earthsea. Anna, let's go home. My family needs my help. As for here... whoever wants to come can come."
Volume 2 (End)
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