The conversation with the Borken captain was smooth and pleasant—at least on the surface.
After the talkative captain left, Hao Ren and Vivian began to sort out the information they had just collected.
"This old captain is not ordinary." Although Vivienne has been poor for 10,000 years, she still has a bit of accumulation in the world. She can see many problems revealed by Borken unconsciously at a glance. "He behaved very well. , talkative, enthusiastic, and sincere, but it is because he is too talkative, too enthusiastic, and sincere that he seems unnatural, at least it has exceeded his description of his identity."
"An ordinary captain of a civilian ship has been doing passenger business over the 'rift in the world' all year round," Hao Ren recalled the old captain's introduction to himself. Come to visit, otherwise an 'ordinary captain' like him would not behave so calmly after boarding the starship. All his curiosity is kept to a minimum, he seems enthusiastic and sincere, but many of his words are very vague , and his enthusiasm and sincerity itself is a big problem-he doesn't need to be so close to us strangers who meet for the first time, even if we just saved his life, the enthusiasm of gratitude is different from the enthusiasm of being close."
Leah shook her head beside her: "But it doesn't matter."
Hao Ren smiled: "That's true, it's not important."
My group is just a passer-by, and I stayed in Laherien for a short time to investigate some things. Any grievances or plots here have nothing to do with my group, and even if the captain named Borken conceals something, It's just for self-protection or similar purposes, and it doesn't think it will affect the action itself.
"However, we can learn some basic information about the world from him," Lily said, "He will never consciously hide anything in this regard."
Hao Ren talked about the collected information one by one: "The people of Laherien call the place where this planet is divided into two 'world rift', the ocean, land and even the entire planet are torn in half from here, There are several stable element vortices above the world rift, which can provide energy for magic equipment, so the locals built a flying "airship" to cross the world rift along the element vortex and connect the two hemispheres; the eastern hemisphere of the planet There are relatively powerful countries in the Western Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere. There are dozens of large and small kingdoms in the Eastern Hemisphere. They are headed by a country called "Ysu Ancient Country" and established an international organization called "Baicheng Federation". As for the word Baicheng The source is still unclear; there is a unified and powerful empire in the Western Hemisphere, named Dragon, and there are no other climate countries on the half of the planet occupied by this empire, only a bunch of loose city-states and even barbarian dominions in the form of vassals Survive around the Dragon Empire…”
The data terminal projected a holographic image of the planet Laherien, which was captured by a probe in outer space, and terms including the ancient country of Yisu, the Federation of White City, the Dragon Empire, and the cracks in the world emerged. over the image. Of course, this map is not perfect. After all, the information obtained from Borken is quite limited.
"There is a balance between the White City Federation and the Dragon Empire, but it is not a balance of good neighbors, but purely because of the difficulty in transportation between the two halves of the planet, and the limited elemental vortex is simply unable to send enough troops to the opposite side of the planet. , so the two sides often have conflicts but have never really fought," Hao Ren said while pointing to a few place names on the holographic map, "I don't know how the strengths of the two sides compare, but this big empire is obviously stronger. It doesn’t belong to any single kingdom on the other side of the planet... But according to that Borken, the ancient kingdom of Yisu in the White City Federation is a ruthless stubble, and as the head of the federation, it has been firmly seated on the throne for hundreds of years.”
"The White Pearl is a 'flight' from the ancient country of Ysu to the Dragon Empire, and was attacked by pirates after passing through the sea of shining clouds," Lily added, "From what the old captain said, these pirates are quite common. , because Laherien has a high concentration of high-altitude elemental power, and there are various natural phenomena that hinder observation, the pirates hide in the turbulent sea of clouds, and often come out to attack lone civilian ships... "
Hao Ren digested the information in his mind, and looked at Leah who was sitting beside him: "Obviously, this planet has a new world line after it has been torn apart and reshaped, and the 'history' of the previous world destruction has already been destroyed. Completely disappeared, and the new history was developed entirely on the basis of the 'natural phenomenon' of 'the planet split in half'. The captain had no idea about the end of the world - and there are no similar legends handed down."
"In other words, the history of this planet has been completely reshaped," Leah sighed softly, "at least the human society has been completely reshaped. In addition, Laherien has also experienced a destruction in terms of physical structure. Sexual 'rebirth', we may find it difficult to find clues on this planet before the era of the dark realm."
Vivienne rubbed her forehead: "It's up to man, there can't be no clues left. Now I'm very interested in the Dragon Empire. Borken said that the ruler of that country has the blood of a dragon, and his soul is immortal." ... If the soul is immortal, maybe you will know something. At least ... you should also know what happened when the "New World Line" of this planet opened."
"What about 'Dragon'? The pronunciation of the country is Julong, and the ruler also claims to have the soul of a dragon, which is a bit interesting," Hao Ren thought, "Then we have to find a way to meet the emperor. Yes. It’s best not to use petty tricks. It’s the best plan to complete the contact with the other party’s active cooperation. You say... "
He was just about to discuss with everyone how to contact the legendary "Dragon Soul Ruler", when Nolan's holographic image suddenly appeared in the room: "Boss, there are two 'hitchhikers' who want to see you. "
"Hitchhiker?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows. "Those refugees rescued? Why do ordinary passengers want me?"
"It doesn't have to be ordinary passengers," Nolan said with a slight smile on his face, "it's two people worthy of attention: the young man named Charlemagne and his sister Awenna, see you on the deck of the White Pearl Go past them and then monitor their conversations in the room... also heard some interesting things."
After Hao Ren listened to Nolan's monitoring report, he also matched the two people in his mind. He remembered the handsome gray-haired man who was equivalent to 0.93 Nangong Sanba, and the dirty man who ran out from below the deck. The girl in the long skirt—now he already knew that the girl was in the magic center of the White Pearl at that time, helping the technicians on the ship to rescue the severely damaged power source.
Of course, that rescue didn't work, and the White Pearl lost all its power in the end, and fell into the depths of the planetary rift dozens of minutes ago, burning up in that hot space.
"It seems that the ship we rescued is really unusual. There are some amazing people hiding on board. Are those pirates just a cover..." Hao Ren squeezed his chin, feeling that this matter was quite interesting, "Okay, then Just let them in."
Charlemagne and Evanna entered the room of the owner of the ship.
They were carefully observing the internal structure of the ship along the way, and tried to roughly deduce the function division of the ship and the role of various facilities through the direction of those walls and corridors, but the more they observed, the more frightened they became It is surprising enough that the structure of this ship does not match any known airship, and they also found that the internal structure of the ship they saw along the way always has a sense of disobedience: in what should have been Where there is only one wall, there are spacious cabins, and there are longer corridors before the corridor that should reach the end, and some places should even theoretically be outside the ship: if their perception of distance and bearing is not affected by people If it's disturbing, this ship shouldn't have such a large space at all.
But these questions were buried in their hearts, because under the guidance of that mechanical squid like an alchemy creature, they had already reached the end.
The owner of the ship sat before them.
Hao Ren looked intently at the pair of brothers and sisters in front of him. The other party's performance was very good: proper anxiety and fear, and uncontrollable curiosity. The younger sister hid half a body behind her elder brother, while her elder brother was slightly nervous He grabbed the belt buckle at his waist.
"You want to see me?" Hao Ren looked back and asked with a smile.
"Yes, Mr. Captain," Charlemagne coughed lightly and straightened his back, "my sister and I are very grateful for your rescue, but we want to know when we can return to the ground—the family will be very worried about us .”
"Maybe," Hao Ren spread his hands, "We are on a mission. Depending on the progress of the mission, this ship may find a place to land tomorrow, but it may not land at all."
This question was obviously beyond the other party's expectations, and Charlemagne's surprise this time was genuine: "No landing?! Can you fly in the sky forever?"
Hao Ren waved his hand: "This question is not important, what I want to say is - are you really just here to ask this?"
Charlemagne frowned: "We are just worried about the itinerary. Of course, our family will be grateful for this assistance, and they will definitely give it..."
Hao Ren interrupted the other party: "Ahem, I think you misunderstood me. What I mean is... The wiretapping technology we use is quite special, and I'm afraid we can't find it with things like magic runes. Although we didn't intend to Invasion of the privacy of the passengers, but this is a warship and your identities are unknown — it's not interesting to go any further."
The handsome man with a handsome figure of 0.93 Nangong Sanba and the quiet long-haired girl showed panic and guard at the same time, but they quickly controlled their emotions.
Vivienne said lightly from the side: "So now we can have an open and honest talk?"