After saying good night, Miss Magician waved the wand in her hand, and then floated towards the outer wall of the tower, walking along the tower wall as if stepping on flat ground, and walked towards her laboratory and bedroom at the top of the tower.
After she left, Nangong Sanba said with emotion: "Aha, I didn't expect this Miss Liya to be an atheist."
"Strictly speaking, they are those who don't worship God, or those who despise belief," Vivienne corrected seriously, "Atheism means that they don't believe in the existence of God at all, and Leah is the one who doesn't have much respect for God regardless of whether God exists or not." — This is actually quite normal. Magicians are born to be a group of indifferent people. After all, they study the laws of nature and the truth of the universe. Naturally, they are unwilling to set up a god to explain everything. This is not in line with the way of thinking of researchers. "
"It's really dramatic." Hao Ren looked up at the sky. The broken heaven has left the highest point of the night sky at this moment, and is slowly sliding to the other side of the sky along the trajectory from east to west, gradually hidden in the sea of stars , "The land where the kingdom of God fell, the place where the Goddess of Creation had the strongest influence, now gave birth to scholars like Liya, no wonder Raven 12345 once lamented that the gods are property owners, but if the water pipes do not leak for two consecutive months , residents can forget that there is a property in their community... "
Nangong Wuyue curled her lips, and did not comment on the distinctive metaphor of the goddess sister. She and Hao Ren looked up at the fragmented celestial body wreckage, and said in an uncertain tone: "Landlord, do you think those are really the founding stars?" remnants of
"I'm just guessing," Hao Ren said, "After all, we don't know how many celestial bodies were dragged into the dark field when the founding star exploded, and we don't know whether those celestial bodies that were dragged in together were related to the founding star. The star is torn apart, so those floating in the sky may be the founding star, or it may be something else. The biggest problem now is that Nolan can’t leave the atmosphere, and even the detector can’t get out. There was so little to see."
Nolan had been keeping silent since just now, and only then did he resume the connection: "Boss, I was using an optical detector to observe those celestial fragments just now, and on the part of them facing Laherian, I did find artificial objects. The wreckage—it seems to be some kind of base, has been severely damaged. In addition, in the space between those wreckages, small pieces of building fragments have also been observed, which may be the temple of the goddess of creation."
Hao Ren pondered for a moment: "Well... This adds some credibility. We can first assume that the 'Broken Heaven' floating above Laherien is the wreckage of the founding star."
Nangong Wuyue shook the tip of her tail: "Isn't the surface of the founding star covered with a layer of red sea water? Did it all evaporate?"
Izaks nodded: "It's hard to say, such a large-scale energy explosion, even the entire planet was torn apart, and the probability of the liquid sea of origin being completely evaporated is quite high, but the sea of origin is not real. Sea water is not the standard source blood, who knows what its physical properties are?"
Hao Ren thought for a while and began to assign tasks: "Nolan, you continue to try to launch probes into space, and at the same time collect various physical parameters of this 'Lahrian' continent, and try to find out the reason why it cannot escape the atmosphere. Don't stop tracking the Broken Heaven, find a way to map its relative trajectory with the Lahrian Continent, so that even if we are trapped in the atmosphere, we can at least make a rough model of the celestial body. Others continue Let's act according to the original plan, follow Leah to the Great Tunnel, and see if we can find the historical reason why this world has evolved into what it is today."
The rest of the night passed peacefully like this.
By the time we set off the next day, it was already noon.
The group enjoyed a not-so-rich but delicious lunch in Leah's Mage Tower, and then followed Ms. Mage to the open space in front of the Mage Tower. Leah took out an exquisite brass carriage model from the pocket of her faded old robe, and threw the model on the ground while chanting a spell. With a strange creaking sound, the palm-sized yellow The copper model turned into a complete carriage in front of everyone's eyes.
There was even a bronze horse hitched to the front of the carriage, assembled from gears, springs, springs and levers.
"Amazing, isn't it?" Seeing the astonishment on Hao Ren's face, Liya looked very proud, "I made this with my own hands—it was restored from an ancient document found in a certain ruin. Tsk, those idiots They always laugh at my research, they have no idea how much valuable knowledge is waiting to be dug in those ancient relics."
No, no, Ms. Mage, what those people laugh at is only the risk you take every time you act and the price you charge for it...
Hao Ren resisted the desire to complain in his heart, and watched Liya skillfully inspect the gears and clockwork of the alchemy bronze horse, and embedded a new mana crystal in the back of the bronze horse. After a few minutes of tossing, the bronze horse released There was a piercing neigh, and the connecting rods and bearings in its stomach were running happily.
"Let's go~" Liya turned over and jumped into the carriage, and at the same time extended her hand to Elizabeth who was standing next to Izaks, "There is still one person sitting on it, kid, come with me~~"
Elizabeth suddenly flew into a rage: "You are a child! You have been a child all your life!"
"Cut, if you don't sit, don't sit. But you don't have to worry about walking all the way to the destination with me. Let's go to the carriage and horse dealer in the west and rent a horse for each of you. The place we are going to is not close."
Miss Magician was obviously in a good mood, as if deliberately to show that she had already got a group of people, she also drove the extremely eye-catching brass carriage to the gate of the Mercenary Union, At the same time, he blew the horn on the car—Hao Ren quite doubted if this guy was driving on the earth, would he become a high-beam dog and horn dog, the kind that would be beaten to death within ten meters of the road.
After playing hard, Liya started to get down to business. She helped Hao Ren and his party prepare the horse's luggage, went to the store to replenish some commonly used spell-casting materials and dry food for travel, and finally almost mercenary in the city They left the place with their good-bye.
Those mercenaries who heard the news and came to see him off had an expression of "It's better to die outside and not come back" on their faces.
It's not easy for a person to be as angry as Liya.
The towering city walls of White Maple Leaf City gradually faded away in sight. The group of people left the avenue not long after leaving the city, and began to follow Leah's guidance to step on those paths and even animal paths that few travelers tread, looking at the direction of progress , this route seems to be parallel to the mountain trend of Changfengling.
Leah's wonderful alchemy carriage once again showed its incredible side: it looks cumbersome, but it can run extremely smoothly on the rough path, and the bronze horse driven by gears and clockwork can walk on the wild path like a ghost. On flat ground, even better than a real horse.
"This is an essential thing for me to travel north and south." Liya pulled down the foldable roof of the carriage, which made it easier for her to chat with Hao Ren and his party who were riding beside them on horseback. Miss Magician He patted the tailgate of the carriage proudly, "I took it to the deep mountains of Changfeng Ridge, to the hinterland of the Great Plains, and even through the Changfeng Ridge Tunnel, to the Heluwei tribe on the other side of the mountain range. Ah, only when you go out will you realize how big this world is. Compared with the real world, what you can see in books is just a drop of water in the endless sea. Those who shut themselves in the magic tower all day Diehards will never understand."
Speaking of which, she glanced at Hao Ren with a smile: "Of course, you adventurers who run around all day must have more say in this aspect than I do."
Looking at the pure and cheerful smile on Miss Magician's face, Hao Ren couldn't help but think of her brave and heroic demeanor when she was cursing with a group of people at the gate of the mercenary union.
It's like two different people.
It seems that apart from encountering things that really make her angry, this lady magician is still very approachable when facing friends or areas of interest.
Of course, the ruin that Leah was looking for couldn't be in a place where people come and go. In fact, the real distance between it and White Maple Leaf City was farther than what Leah had described.
A group of people trekking in the wild for two full days.
At noon on the third day, they finally arrived at the entrance of a forest.
This is a dense jungle next to the Changfengling Mountain Range. The mountain range turns a corner here to form a sunken bow-shaped "safe haven", and towering ancient trees are growing lush and vibrant in this safe haven. Countless ancient trees that have reached the age of a hundred years or more stand here. The dense canopy blocks the sunlight, making the whole forest dark like dusk. Even though it is noon, Hao Ren and his party still feel like It was almost evening.
Soon, they reached a place where ordinary horses could not go further: the vines and rotting leaves all over the place made it more difficult to walk on horseback. Instead of riding on a crumbling horse, they might as well trust their legs.
After all, those standing here are not ordinary people.
Nangong Sanba used the Leta rune to carve restrictions on the surrounding tree trunks to prevent the horses from running around or wild animals coming in and hurting everyone's mounts. Liya re-sized the brass carriage into a palm size and carefully retracted it. into your own pocket. Before leading everyone to continue to the dense forest, she specifically mentioned: "It will be a little dangerous to go further. According to the records, the ruins are not completely underground, and part of it is exposed. This is very likely. It causes magic energy to leak out, and the creatures in the forest will be full of aggressiveness as a result."
Lily muttered: "...It's really an old-fashioned setting."
Leah didn't hear clearly for a while: "Huh?"
Lily quickly rounded up the words: "Oh, I mean we have a lot of experience!"
Hao Ren didn't get involved in the conversation, he just concentrated his energy and carefully sensed any trouble in the forest.
Because I don't know if it is an illusion, since entering this place, he has always felt a sense of disobedience haunting his heart. This feeling is indescribable. If I have to say it...
It was like suddenly falling into a slight trance, not understanding why I was standing in this place, and feeling inexplicable about what happened around me, as if some kind of force was shielding my thinking and slowing down my spirit.
This made him greatly increased his vigilance.