The northern land shrouded in the long night is deep in darkness, 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. How much I hate it, and no matter whether these demon hunters are really "noble", at least one thing must be affirmed, that is, these night watchmen have in fact protected human civilization and ensured that fragile human beings have survived the turmoil in history. The darkest age.
Even without considering the historical significance, Hao Ren couldn't allow this ice fortress to fall if he just thought about the consequences of those crazy Presbyterian Orders rushing 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 fully armed hunters in black are quietly standing guard at every post. A strange feeling welled up in Hao Ren's heart. Hao Ren felt that he was standing on a watchtower. All races and cultures of the planet. The age of mythology was ended by it, and so was the civilization of magic. Human civilization grew up under its watchful eye. Countless hunters in the dark night stood quietly watching the whole world in this place...
But ordinary people know nothing about all this.
Lily was still very energetic in the cold wind, or she was more energetic than anyone else after she came to the North Pole. This husky girl ran around beside Hao Ren enthusiastically, sighing while enjoying the feeling of the cold wind blowing on her face : "It's so kind, so kind... It feels like home. But then again, the environment in this place is bad enough for ordinary people."
"It's the same for demon hunters." Bai Huo seemed to smile, "I never feel that my hometown is very comfortable. It's dry and cold here, and I can't see anything except ice every day. Color, only fish and seals can be eaten, and other food needs to be transported from the inland with a lot of power. 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 safari, although this level is very low, but even young hunters can have the opportunity to travel around the world—unfortunately, the ancestral blood was detected from me, so I trained twenty years more than ordinary witchers. So to say Come on... I am quite envious of those young hunters born in areas other than the North Pole."
"You were born here?" Lily glanced at Bai Huo in surprise, "I thought you were sent to the headquarters after receiving an elite education, it's easy to act like that in movies. By the way, your parents are also there In this castle?"
"They have passed away for many years." Bai Huo said lightly, "When I was very young."
The atmosphere was suddenly a little awkward, because what everyone thought of was the endless generations of endless wars between the demon hunter and the aliens. Hao Ren twitched his lips unnaturally: "It's... the time to fight the aliens."
"Ah, no," Bai Huo quickly waved his hands when he saw that everyone had misunderstood, "My mother is sick, and my father has taken too much magic drugs to go to the volcano duel..."
As soon as she finished speaking, the scene became silent, and the atmosphere was instantly colder than the great ice field outside. Even Lily's incredible reflex arc couldn't respond to it. Normal people looking at the setting of Bai Huo must think that she is the kind of girl who bears the fate of bitterness and hatred. The kind where both parents died and the whole family died at the hands of demons, but who the hell would have thought that her father died from taking drugs... Girl, why don't you play cards according to common sense
Baihuo didn't feel the atmosphere was different yet, and a person continued to say: "It's all happened a long time ago. I don't have a deep impression of them... I was brought up by my mentor all the time. Why don't you talk anymore? "
Vivienne opened her mouth: "...it's nothing, I feel that your life experience...is a little different from what I imagined. I thought you were going to share a series of family grievances. My impression of the witcher is this style of painting."
"Are all demon hunters in your mind bitter and vengeful?" Bai Huo shrugged, "We also have our own lives, relatives and friends, emotions, hobbies and personalities, and 'hunting' is not all we have. .My mentor likes chess, and I like reading manga, do you think this is incredible?"
Vivienne said lightly: "How many demon hunters have thought about it, the 'demons' hunted by you are actually similar."
The topic suddenly became a little stiff. But before the atmosphere turned bad, Master Ksuzov, who was leading the way for everyone, suddenly coughed twice: "Now the overall situation is the most important thing. Let's put this kind of irrelevant private conversation for a while."
If Vivian's usual habits were followed, a "junior" would definitely have to retaliate, but this time she just waved her hand indifferently, and nodded slightly to Bai Huo: "There is no malice."
Bai Huo lowered his eyes: "Me too."
Hao Ren, who watched all this from the sidelines, had some subtle emotions in his heart. There was no fundamental difference between a demon hunter and an alien. Even those aliens from Holleta were distant relatives of the demon hunter. However, the 10,000-year dispute completely severed the connection between them. The division is deeper than the contradictions between heterogeneous species. I don't know when, the demon hunters no longer even regard the aliens as spiritual creatures with the same emotions, but roughly call them "prey". Take it to the extreme as a plague of disasters. This absurd contradiction and division will eventually produce an even more absurd result, that is, when a witcher talks about his family life, a foreigner will feel incredible.
Even if they know this is normal from common sense, they cannot emotionally believe that the other party is the same flesh and blood creature as themselves.
This absurd split situation... When will it really end
His thinking was suddenly interrupted by the voice of Master Krsuzov: "The Tower of Stars is ahead. The gate has been closed, and the situation on the opposite side is not optimistic."
Hao Ren immediately woke up from his contemplation, and looked forward with great curiosity. Along the way just now, he was wondering where the Tower of Stars was—because from the appearance of the Ice Fortress, there was no obvious tower building surrounded by clusters, but according to Baihuo's description, the tower should be a The magnificent facility is right, there is no reason why you can't see it while walking on the street.
After seeing the situation in front of him, Hao Ren finally understood why he couldn't see the "tower" outside the fortress.
A huge pit appeared in front of everyone!
The diameter of this deep pit reaches 100 meters by visual inspection, and its shape is a regular and perfect circle, extending down like a shaft leading to the center of the earth. A chaotic darkness shrouded the shaft, and its depths were filled with thick fog, as if there was another world. The wide staircase that rotates downward and a series of complex supports and partition structures are arranged on the pit wall, which should be the road leading to the lower level and the rest stop.
And around 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, which is really heavily guarded.
This is the Tower of Stars.
"...Didn't you say it was a tower?" Hao Ren stared at it 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 'up' and pierce into the space of Corpus Entrance."
"Usually we call this thing a well..." Nangong Sanba twitched the corners of his mouth, "Are you sure it wasn't the construction that turned the blueprints upside down?"
"It's just you talking nonsense," Nangong Wuyue twitched her brother's head, "From the eyes of us Haili people, this thing is a tower!"
"Don't worry about the towers or not." Hao Ren waved his hand and turned to look at Bai Huo. "Can we open the gate now?"
"Now?" Bai Huo was a little surprised, "Don't you wait for the big troops? They will be here soon."
Hao Ren nodded: "No, I want to see the situation on the other side first."
Bai Huo asked the old hunter beside him: "Master Krsuzov, is it convenient to open the door now?"
Krsuzov put his hand on the icicle beside him, and then the icicle shimmered and made a slight sound. After a while, the old hunter exhaled: "Go in."
As the words of the old hunter fell, the weird chaos inside the "tower" of the stars suddenly disappeared like a phantom, and the thick fog in the depths of the giant pit also became thinner.
A passage appeared. (to be continued~^~)