The sky is blue, and this place is extremely close to Tianyu. Looking up, you can almost see stars in the outer universe through the atmosphere.
When the line of sight changed from looking up to looking up, in his eyes, it was a majestic city. There is a square paved with white rocks, a temple with a simple shape, and an ancient altar built in each of the four directions of the square. Above the altar, there is a golden crystal ball with a diameter of three meters floating. They exude hazy energy flames, and when the flames reach a strong point, they will flow like water from the bottom of the crystal ball into the altar below, then flow to the ground through the grooves, and finally walk in the entire square. From a high altitude, the groove pattern on the square exudes a mysterious atmosphere, it is like an electronic circuit. The energy flame is transmitted to the whole city through the grooves in the square. The four crystal balls on the altar are the energy source of the city!
The square is the center of the entire city, starting from the four altars, and on the edge of the square are four arch bridges made of gray and white rocks leading to the city below. There is a ring-shaped river between the square and the city. The river is clear and emerald green, and aquatic creatures can be seen swimming freely in the river from time to time.
The inner city is connected to the square through the Baiyan Giant Road, which has magnificent palaces, straight and spacious streets, well-planned green vegetation, graceful sculptures and colorful fountains. This is the private land of the nobles, and only those with prominent status are eligible to live in the inner city. The inner city is followed by the outer city, which are separated by a circular wall.
The area of the outer city is dozens of times that of the inner city. This is an area where civilians live, and it is also an important commercial area. Spaceships would take off and land in the outer city from time to time. It was a busy scene, representing frequent business exchanges with the people on the ground. The reason why we say people on the ground is because this city is floating in midair, the top of the white clouds.
Its name is Atlantis!
How many familiar pictures, even the fresh smell in the wind is the same as before. He wanted to reach out to touch and feel, but at this moment a woman's voice came from behind: "Franklin..."
So he turned his head, and when he couldn't see the figure in front of him clearly, a violent shock and explosion appeared. A large area of flames filled his eyes, and he shouted "No", but he couldn't restore the figure that was engulfed by the flames.
When the flames passed, what you saw was a burning city. The magnificent palaces of the past are now ugly ruins, the clean and white streets are covered with black scorches and red blood, the sculptures and fountains have become broken stones, and even the clear surrounding river is now polluted Unbearable. The sky is no longer bright, and a huge shadow covers the entire city. If you look up into the sky, you can see the black nebula that almost covers half of the planet outside Tianyu.
On that day, Proseus came to the edge of the universe across the endless sea of stars, entered the Milky Way, and came towards the only life-responsive earth in the Milky Way.
In the black nebula, there are dense cloud pillars like tentacles breaking through the sky. They passed through the atmosphere, landed on the floating city in the sky, and even more landed on the earth, rivers, and mountains. These pitch-black cloud pillars are constantly drawing the life force of the planet, and some cloud pillars that fall in the sky city or the earth city-state continuously drop black cloud clusters from inside.
These clouds are like the cocoons of some creatures. When they land on the ground, dark demons will drill out of them. These demons are reptilian and incorporeal, they are like energy beings. Only energy hedging can inflict damage on them. The army of Atlantis fought bravely against them, but the number of energy bugs was too many, so there seemed to be no hope of victory in this war.
In the burning sky, countless lives are withering. The trembling earth is playing the movement before the Great Crash!
"No!"
He cried out and woke up. What he saw was a shoal, most of his body was immersed in the smelly sea of radiation, rising and falling with the waves. Looking up, the sky is gray, and the thick radiation clouds block the deadly cosmic rays, but also prevent the creatures on the earth from seeing the sun for decades.
Cataclysm.
This is a noun that flashed in his mind, and then the explanation about this noun was automatically generated in his mind. This is one of the knowledges of this era that he obtained after connecting with the intellectual brain array in the Pope's Hall, and it also made him understand that the world today is no longer his Atlantis, but a brand new era.
It was also an era of disorder.
My head hurts and my memory is muddled. He couldn't remember what happened to Atlantis in the end, but judging from the current situation, it was probably destroyed. And what about Protius? Has the cosmic star beast that feeds on the life of the planet been expelled? This too is an unanswered question.
He has too many questions, the biggest of which is how he survived. Moreover, it has broken away from the form of ordinary life. Otherwise, he would not be able to generate fish-like organs in his body to swim in the sea of radiation, nor would he be able to change the shape of his hands and feet to adapt to sailing in the sea. Now he looked like a murloc, but as he came into contact with the land, the changes in his body began to disappear, and finally returned to his normal shape, a male human over three meters tall.
Franklin. He repeated his name in his head, then scrambled onto the sand and saw a pair of legs. The owner of these legs quickly backed away a few steps and fell down on the sand. This is a girl wrapped in a cloak, judging by Franklin's knowledge from the Pope's brain*, she is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old woman. Before the cataclysm, women at this age could only be called children, but in this era, they are already fully capable of giving birth.
Just judging by the ugly pink polyps covering the calves with the breasts outside and parts of the face, abnormal tissues inevitably appeared for ordinary people like her living on the surface. These things are like parasites, one day they will cover the whole body, and oppress the vital organs of the host, causing the host to die. But before that, they can isolate the radiation for the host, providing them with the capital to survive on the surface.
Judging from the girl's expression, Franklin judged that it was an expression of fear. Of course, anyone who sees a naked, nearly three-meter-tall giant suddenly getting up from the sea will be frightened, especially the girl in front of her who is obviously an ordinary person.
"You... are you a pirate?" the girl asked hesitantly.
pirate? Soon, an explanation of the word appeared in Franklin's mind. In the old days, pirates did exist. However, in the new era, especially near the continent of Xizhou where the city of New Rome is located, this kind of role only appeared in the past ten years. At the beginning, they were just some refugees who were oppressed by the pope and escaped from the city of New Rome. They used some ancient sailing ships of the old era to live in the nearby waters to escape the pursuit of the city of New Rome.
Gradually developed later, they had better equipment with the support of the rebel army, and they began to plunder the caravans of New Rome in groups. The West Continent is not a complete continental plate like the Central Continent. After the former Eurasian plate split, it became an island-like structure. The location of New Rome City is undoubtedly the largest piece of land in the Western Continent, but apart from that, there are hundreds of islands of different sizes around it like global satellites.
The population of New Rome City had reached its upper limit ten years ago, so the troops of the Holy Seal Knights began to go to other islands to open up new residence bases, and in the past ten years, at least half of the islands have fallen into the hands of the Pope's Hall. The bases on the island basically adopted an autonomous management model, but in order to obtain the protection of the Pope's Hall, they had to pay tribute to the city of New Rome in two seasons every year like the ancient vassal states.
In addition, there are often commercial exchanges between the mainland and the islands, which has also contributed to the vigorous development of the pirate industry. The first batch of pirates funded by the rebel army originally only attacked the merchant ships belonging to the Pope's Hall in retaliation, but later on, as more and more refugees joined the business, the rules gradually changed.
Except for a small number of pirates who insisted on only dealing with the Vatican, there were quite a few pirates who had no principles or positions at all. Regardless of whether the target was the Vatican or ordinary civilians, as long as they were targeted, they would be attacked. Sometimes, a large group of pirates will run to the island to kill and set fire, which is also an important reason why the islanders are afraid of pirates.
For this reason, the Knights of the Holy Seal have encircled and suppressed pirates many times. Unfortunately, the environment in the waters between the islands is complex, the radiating currents are varied, and there are hundreds of tributaries between the islands. It is impossible to form an effective encirclement and suppression. Therefore, pirates are still rampant to this day.
These materials flashed through Franklin's mind,
"No, I'm not a pirate." He propped himself up on the beach, half kneeled on the ground and said to the girl, "My name is Franklin, and I'm a refugee..."
"Escaped from New Rome?"
"That's right, it's just like what you said." Franklin looked at his naked body, and said for a while, "My clothes were broken when I escaped, you..."
Only then did the girl realize that the giant in front of her was not wearing clothes. Her eyes first fell on Franklin's strong chest, and finally she came to the majestic place where he stepped down, and her face blushed immediately. Then said: "Wait here, I'll get you something to wear, I don't know if there is a size that suits you."
Franklin nodded, looked at a coconut grove not far from the beach, and said, "I'll wait for you there, just call my name when you come."
"Okay." The girl stood up and said again: "My name is Anilu, I'll be back soon, wait for me big."
After saying that, the girl ran away.
Franklin stood up, looking out of sight. His sight passed through the sea of radiation, through the mist on the sea, and fell on the outline of a continent far away. He escaped from there, but he had to go back again, because there were still some compatriots waiting for him. After silently looking at the sea, he took a big step towards the coconut grove.
Not long after, Anilu came back. She brought some clothes, but none of them Franklin could have worn, and finally she took the extra precautions to bring a threadbare bed sheet. Wrap it around Franklin's waist, and it hangs down as a robe, which finally covers the important part of the giant's body. Anilu told Franklin that this is a small island, and there is only a village with a hundred people on the island.
The village usually makes a living by catching aquatic creatures near the island, and those mutated aquatic creatures will be stored and raised. Every month, merchants will come to buy them, and the villagers will exchange them for living supplies. Although life is difficult, it is still passable. Franklin listened silently, of course he didn't want to stay on this island, he also wanted to go back to the West Continent to save his compatriots. But when editing the information, he also understood what kind of force he was facing.
The New Rome City cannot compare with his Atlantis in terms of scale or technology, but now he has only one person, but he has to face the Holy Seal Knights in units of tens of thousands. Obviously, it is almost impossible to save one's own compatriots in this way. However, when editing the materials, Franklin also came into contact with a noun.
Rebels!
They were a force against the Vatican, Franklin thought, or they could be used. But the first task is how to contact the rebels.
After Anilu introduced the general situation of the village and promised him that an old tailor in the village would make a suit for him, she said hesitantly, "But you have to do me a favor."
Franklin nodded and said, "There is no such thing as a free lunch. It's fair. Tell me what you need from me."
Anilu's eyes became moist. It turned out that her parents died at the hands of pirates a long time ago, and Anilu was brought up by her grandfather. Her grandfather has always been fishing for a living, but he was attacked by a ferocious mutant creature in the sea not long ago and lost a pair of legs, and now he can no longer work. This is a very cruel era. Not being able to work means having no income, and without income, one will starve to death.
Even though the people in the village sympathized with Anilu's family, they were living in a very difficult situation and could not provide any extra food to support them. Today, Anilu originally planned to go to sea by herself, but unexpectedly, she ran into Franklin as soon as she arrived at the beach. Anilu said: "We have a fishing boat. I hope you can go fishing with me. In this way, we can exchange for food and clothing, and you can also live in my house. How about it?"
Franklin nodded and said, "Deal."
He intends to stay on this island for the time being, so that he can inquire about the news of the rebel army, and secondly, he can learn how to integrate into the human society of this era. After leaving this small island like this, he knew how to face other humans.
Anilu looked at Franklin and said, "There are very few people as tall as you. You must not be a person with abilities, right?"
There are also related records in the materials of the Pope's hall for capable users. They can be said to be the supermen of the new era, possessing power beyond the reach of ordinary people. In the era when Franklin lived, even though the humans at that time were as tall as him, they did not have the abilities that were as numerous as the stars. The people of Atlantis conquered the sky and explored the endless sea of stars by relying on a technological civilization that is beyond the reach of this era.
And it wasn't until the appearance of Proseus that the lives of people with similar abilities appeared in the later stages of the war. But there are only two of that kind of life, they are the giant called God and another life called "Gaia", but they were not created by Atlantis, but...
"What’s wrong with you?"
Anilu stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Franklin's eyes, breaking his memory. Franklin shook his head, nodded again and said, "That's right, I'm a capable person. The Holy Seal Knights wanted me to be drafted into the army, but I refused and escaped."
On this small island, Franklin gave a disguised secret, and Anelu believed it. On this day, the whole village knew that the girl picked up a giant from the sea. At the beginning, the villagers were wary of Franklin. But as we get along for a long time, watching Franklin and Ai Ni go out to do homework every few days, every time it is rewarding. Then Franklin would distribute the excess aquatic organisms to the villagers, thus gradually winning the favor of the villagers.
Anilu told everyone that Franklin was a capable person, and the big guy used his power to do some real things for the villagers from time to time. After such a month, he seems to have become the patron saint of the village. Whenever Franklin didn't have to go to sea to work, there would always be a few children pestering him, asking Franklin to teach them how to fight. Of course, the big guy just laughed it off.
It was another dusk, and Franklin was sitting on the beach where he met Anelu that day. Through this month's photos, he has a deeper understanding of the world, not just staying in the cold data. He heard from the villagers that the rebel army was hiding on an island named Istar, which was named "Paradise for the Fallen" by the Pope's hall, and it was also a concentration camp for criminals and murderers. But to go to Ishtar, you have to go through Roaring Bay, where there are many undercurrents and the fringe area where pirates gather, so it is not so easy to get there.
Even if Franklin could change his form according to the surrounding environment, it would be impossible to swim across the Roaring Gulf to reach Istar with his bare hands.
"Anyway, we need a boat." He sighed.
Footsteps sounded behind him, he turned around and saw Anilu. Still covered in the hooded cloak, the girl quietly walked to Franklin's side. Looking at Anilu, Franklin wondered, "Isn't it time to cook now, Anilu?"
"That kind of thing, let this little girl do it later. How long have we not seen each other, Franklin Art?" Anilu said in a low voice.
Franklin's whole body stiffened suddenly, and he stood up like a hill, exuding an astonishing sense of oppression all over his body, and said in a penetrating voice: "You are not Anelu, who are you? Why do you know about me?" full name!"