As expected, Wendell was very surprised when he saw the spherical aircraft. Obviously, this advanced space-atmosphere general-purpose shuttle somewhat exceeded his expectations. But soon, the old man recovered from his astonishment, he just thought about it: "The Twilight City also has machines that can fly in the sky, but I've never seen anything like this... Asgard is the kingdom of ancient gods , I am afraid that this thing has been passed down by you from ancient times?"
"The Twilight Capital also has flying machines?" Hao Ren was surprised, "I'm really curious about your social situation."
Wendell boarded the spherical aircraft with everyone, and under the control of Anthony and the guidance of Vivienne, the aircraft flew towards another rainbow bridge. As the end of the earth gradually appeared in the distance, those huge groups of tentacles gradually came into view. The tentacles of the eldest son were the only thing that survived in this purgatory. Apart from these tentacles, Vanaheim had no life left.
Looking at such an environment, it was hard for everyone to imagine how Wendell's people survived.
"Tell us about the Twilight City." Nangong Wuyue looked at Wendell curiously (she had already turned into a human form at this time), "What kind of place is that? How did you survive after the world collapsed?"
"The world is collapsing..." Wendell repeated the word in a low and hoarse voice, "You all know the disaster of the war more than two thousand years ago—I don't know how much history is preserved in Asgard, But in the Twilight City, there are many ancient books that record the things of the past, and there are many scholars who specialize in these things: after all, they are trapped in the barrier, and they have nothing else to study. As far as I know, the war of the gods The balance of the world was broken, and Nidhogg's gnawing made the great World Tree extremely weak, so the Outer Gods took advantage of it and ignited the world. The fire burned for three years and burned the entire universe All the light, so the long night fell, and there was only a scorching heat in the darkness. Midgard was also shrouded in a scorching heat. In just a few days, the population dropped sharply to less than 10%. Seeing that all life in the world was about to be destroyed, However, at this time an ancient sage suddenly appeared in the crowd. This ancient sage was called 'Traveler'. He aroused some great power sleeping deep in the earth, and used the power of the earth to form a barrier, blocking the long The poison and evil fire in the night, within this barrier is the twilight capital.
"The Twilight City is not a city for us, but a kingdom. Although it is smaller than any country in the ancient times, we still survive in it and have existed for more than two thousand years. The Twilight City They were first formed by the connection of several city-states—the limit of the barrier’s envelopment is so large, all the places outside the few city-states were destroyed—and as time went by, we continued to build homes within the barrier, and now the Twilight There is not an inch of vacant land in the capital. My biggest impression there is that it is crowded, crowded and old. Buildings of all ages, from a thousand years ago to a hundred years ago, are all chaotically crowded together, and the air is everywhere. It's all smoke and dust. The whistle of the steam workshop often sounds in the middle of the night, the big gears rattle, and the locomotive sometimes rumbles through the center line of the Twilight City. The vibrations brought almost make people doubt that the entire city will be destroyed It collapsed, and the clothes hanging outside the windows facing the street were often blown off by the strange wind that passed through the block—all the way to the oldest abyss of the city. The city was built too big, too high, too old Wow, even the builders and planners of the city don’t know what is the structure underneath those layers of houses, and I don’t even know. I only know that our city is like a nest that has been piled up. The stacked barriers almost touch the sky, and every time I open my eyes, I feel like the hazy sky is about to collapse."
Lily said to herself, "Sounds very unsafe."
"Yes, it's very unsafe, but few people think that way," Wendell muttered, "Everyone is used to living in it, and no one thinks there is anything wrong with such a city. Anyway, everything seems to be stable at present. But delving into Ancient books and people who study machines don’t think so. We know that the Twilight City is limited, and the lifespan of the city is even more limited. The world has been extinguished for more than two thousand years. Once the embers go out, it's over."
"So the 'Light Seeker' appeared?" Vivienne asked curiously.
Wendell nodded slightly: "There is a reason for this."
From the day when the Twilight City was built, people always keep in mind the fact that the outside world has been burned—they fear the dark night outside, fear that the light in the city will be extinguished one day, and fear that the whole world will sink like this forever , and fear begets courage, and the Lightseeker was born. These brave, curious, and restless people are the eyes of the Twilight City. With the blessings and expectations of others, they bravely break into the darkness and look for other lights in the wreckage of the world, such as another Twilight City, Or a piece of pure land that has not been burned by the evil fire, or...
A sign of dawn.
"Some scholars believe that the long night will eventually end," Wendell said slowly, "Yugudora Hill, the world tree, is not dead, he is just healing, and when those sacred branches complete the transformation, this universe will be re-created." Light up, that is the dawn after the long night, and the dawn will first start from Nibelungen and Niflheim, the land of the dead. One of the important missions of the light seekers is to look for signs of dawn, but to be honest... hug There are not many people holding this hope, including the light seekers themselves, most of them are just looking for another Twilight City."
Speaking of this, Wendell sighed: "However, even so, there are still fewer and fewer light seekers, and fewer and fewer people support us. In the past, light seekers had a lofty status and were regarded as challenging the long night." Warriors, our predecessors were once engraved on the foundation stone at the bottom of the Twilight City, but slowly, the journey of seeking light turned into an incomprehensible reckless act, because batch after batch of people broke into Darkness, eventually either swallowed by the long night, or returned madly, few can bring anything back from the night - to support such an exhausted team is a heavy burden for the Twilight City. Light Seekers The headquarters of the city was originally the most magnificent building in the city, but now it has also become a dark alley area in the sewer of the city's bottom... "
The old man's voice was low, and finally ended the topic with a lack of interest: "Forget it, let's not talk about this."
"To be honest, this is an inevitable choice for the group," Galazore shrugged, "it can't even be said to be ignorant. For the survival of the group, most intelligent races will be too cautious, and onlookers will think that this caution is in the Missed opportunity, but most of the time it prolongs survival in extremis."
Wendell looked at Galazore with a strange expression, and felt that the other party's detached way of speaking was weird—but this was the most pertinent and sincere evaluation made by an inspector who was used to the rise and fall of civilization.
The second half of the journey became dull because of Galazore's comment.
And during this dull journey, Hao Ren and the others saw the real situation of the space chain of Ugudora Hill after experiencing the twilight of the gods.
Worse than expected.
What he saw in Asgard earlier gave Hao Ren a wrong first impression. He thought that the situation in the Nine Kingdoms after Ragnarok was not so tragic, but when he started to go deeper into the layers of alien After the space, he realized how destructive a big explosion that penetrates the nine-story space is. Just like the wounds produced in the target body after the bullet hits the target are far more terrifying than the surface layer, the damage caused by the demon hunter's beam cannon and magic energy explosion also produced a similar effect, and the deep space of the Nine Kingdoms was extremely devastated. serious.
Vanaheim has become a wasteland full of poisonous gas and radiation; Walter Alheim has been completely torn apart, and the entire continent is divided into two parts floating in a void, only those tentacles that run through the continent connect the broken earth. Together; Alfheim is in turmoil, a storm called "Frenzy" is raging in the darkness, this storm absorbs the magic power in space and has been running continuously for two thousand years, and now almost everything on the continent has been completely ground into pieces powder…
They also saw the kingdom of giants, Jotunheim, a desert of despair, silent and silent, stagnant there for thousands of years, and the crazy heat wave gushed out from the ruins of the giant city, It is still scorching the earth to this day.
However, Jotunheim is nothing compared to Mspelheim, where two-thirds of the continent is covered by lava lakes.
All these kingdoms have one thing in common, and that is that they are shrouded in darkness.
Smoke and clouds covered the sky, and the surge of magic energy destroyed the sources of skylight in various countries. Seeing the situation in those countries, Hao Ren understood why Wendell's people called the era after Ragnarok the "Long Night".
As the literal meaning goes, after the end of the world, night fell and eight of the nine realms were ruled by darkness, in which only the embers of the end shimmered, hot and deadly, hiding behind the twilight barrier The survivors are trembling, and anyone who dares to take a step into the darkness is enough to be called a warrior, let alone those who dare to travel through the Nine Kingdoms. (to be continued~^~)