Chapter 484 Arrival at the Mission Execution Area
In response to Colin's question, Akahi thought hard for a long time and finally shook his head.
"The voice that brought 'revelation'...did not tell us who was summoned, but only provided us with the method."
After a pause, she added:
"I don't remember the details, but it seems to be a clear and useful method."
"I don't even know who was summoned, but I dare to believe it. This branch office is really full of talented people..."
Colin complained in his heart, then thought about it and continued to ask if anyone knew who the so-called "mysterious voice" was.
Akashi continued to think for a while, still shaking his head. "I received a certain 'revelation' during my prayers. Later, guided by the events of the 'revelation', I heard that voice and followed the guidance, step by step leaving my tribe and coming here... I can only feel that she should be a woman, but I can't remember the rest..."
Through the guidance and indirect communication of mission events, a woman...
After listening to this information, Colin estimated that it was most likely Ms. Rabbit.
After all, this series of techniques gives a strong sense of déjà vu.
Plus, it seems to be some weak connection from the task in my mind...
The situation should be pretty much the same.
"Oh right, that's consistent with her style. Usually, it's hard to know who she'll rock until the very last moment."
"But this time, if nothing unexpected happens, it will be either the army or senior employees. There won't be any surprises."
The thought flashed through his mind, Colin thought about it, and asked some more questions.
Compared to Winnie, she knew more details, which made Colin's knowledge more complete.
Now, in the world where Akashi lives, the periodic natural disaster that occurs every ten to fifteen years and lasts for about a year has just passed.
Everything that was built in the past few years has been destroyed, and strange and terrifying deformed creatures remain everywhere on the earth.
After the natural disaster, the power of "Night" began to fade...
They will then find an opportunity at the right time to perform the "Eternal Night" ritual and regain their strength.
In this way, they can expel the deformed creatures, reclaim the land, continue to accumulate supplies, find a way out, and think of ways to deal with the next cyclical crisis.
"After every periodic disaster, the extraordinary power in your hands will be greatly weakened, and then you need to start all over again?" Colin discovered the key.
"Yes..." Akahi nodded.
"So, if you don't perform the ritual after a natural disaster, will your power disappear completely?"
After a while, Akashi thought for a while before saying, "It seems like they will completely disappear. The former Extraordinary people will become ordinary people. The stronger they are, the greater the price they pay, and they may even die."
"If we don't perform the ritual, everyone's power will be completely lost. Are you sure?"
Colin asked again, and after receiving a positive answer, his mind immediately began to think.
From this perspective, "Night" only grants power that can be lost at any time, and does not provide permanent properties or anything like that...
That is why periodic natural disasters occur and the power of "Night" cannot be maintained and will be interrupted or even disappear.
Akashi and their people are believers in a sense.
But there is a high probability that they are not involved very deeply...
"A true believer in the Night should be like the people of the Night on the starship. They have undergone a certain transformation in their lives and possess some inherited characteristics..."
"Whether 'Night' is there or not, their power will not disappear."
"Only in this situation is there truly no hope..."
"And the ordinary people in Akashi's world are probably like veteran drivers who have seen countless movies but have no practical experience. No matter how many techniques they know, it's meaningless."
After sorting out the situation, Colin felt that everything was not as difficult as he had thought.
I just don’t know whether the “night” doesn’t give them “characteristics” because it doesn’t want to or because it doesn’t have the ability to give them.
If you can't give "characteristics"...
It can be predicted that the lid of "Dark Night"'s coffin must have been nailed firmly by the company.
They died much more than ordinary heretics.
After all, the "great will" believed in by some heretics can still provide some special power, such as agents such as bishops and patriarchs.
Even though he has millions of followers, he still cannot create any "extraordinary person" with any characteristics.
It can only mean...the coffin is sealed with cement.
"Okay, okay, the tighter the seal, the better. This way it should be half-stable."
Colin felt a little relieved, then he looked out the window.
Seeing that nothing unexpected happened and that it seemed that they would not reach the seventh station for a while, he withdrew his gaze and focused his attention back on Akashi who was receiving treatment.
"By the way, what about the so-called periodic natural disasters in the world?" he continued to ask.
If there was any possibility of a surprise, it would obviously be this unknown thing.
The thing that can block the disaster of "night" is probably not a simple thing.
"We don't have much information on this. We only know the characteristics of some distorted biological populations. Other than that, we don't know why the disaster happened, etc ...."
Akashi shook his head.
Although they had been stationed there for hundreds of years, they had only opened up a very small part of the known active area.
And every once in a while, it would be completely destroyed and rebuilt, and it would be impossible to get out at all.
Not only are they unable to break out, but the harsh living environment has also led to an overall decline in population.
The population has decreased from tens of millions hundreds of years ago to less than one-third of its original size today.
In this situation, it is difficult to survive, let alone expand.
"It hasn't been able to take root for hundreds of years, and every time a natural disaster strikes, it has to start all over again. From this perspective, the world itself is indeed not to be underestimated. I just don't know what the situation is..."
Colin felt that this might be another out-of-control numbered world.
"By the way, do you know anything about your own past?" Colin asked in depth.
According to Akashi, although their race has experienced many disasters over the years, there seems to be no interruption in the generations.
But, unfortunately...
"Perhaps someone in my tribe knows, but I'm not sure. I only know that when we passed through there from outside the sky, we stayed there because of a widespread disaster, and we've been there ever since..."
"Except for the world we live in, all other worlds have been destroyed. This is the common understanding of our tribe."
"But... the truth is obviously not like that. Your presence is enough to break the lies spread by this 'Night Party'."
Akahi looked at Colin and the others as if he was looking at something called "hope".
"Girl, I'm afraid things aren't too good out there..."
Colin pursed his lips, but after thinking about it, this thing was ultimately decided by comparison.
If the next world is really that bad, then even if they go to "World No. 13", they will regard it as heaven.
"Well, it's not that there's no gap in the history, but rather that a lot of things were lost when the disaster that forced them to stop occurred... over three hundred years ago?"
This time point almost matches the time when the company encountered trouble.
And once you face...
It's basically a bad debt that cannot be determined at present.
Colin shook his head and tried his best to ask Akashi about the situation.
However, after waking up, he kept staying awake and communicating for several hours. Akashi's condition obviously deteriorated and his speech began to become a little confused.
Thinking that the general information had been obtained, Colin asked her to rest for a while, and then took out two "colorless crystals" and gave one to "Fire Tree" and Akashi respectively.
"How much can her body recover at most in the next two days?"
Colin looked at the "Fire Tree" who had been treating Akahi and Winnie.
"She's definitely safe. After some surgery, her appearance will be restored. However, her strength should only be restored to the fifth or sixth level. Her fundamental injuries have been sustained, and she's not a true Beyonder. She won't be able to recover much in the short term, at least not in a short period of time. A complete recovery will probably take at least half a month."
When talking to Colin, Huoshu is usually quite honest and doesn't use any weird word order.
At the same time, when Colin was chatting with Akahi, when he heard some dangerous words such as "night", he simply "closed" his ears.
For some things, knowing too much is not a good thing...
"OK."
Colin nodded. Ikashi's strength was not bad, at least stronger than the two D-level warriors who followed him, but much weaker than that Lavinia. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been beaten so badly in such a short time that she couldn't even run...
Of course, he didn't expect the other party to provide much combat power, as long as he didn't die.
After the conversation, the carriage became a little quiet, with only the occasional "clang clang" sound coming from under the train floor.
The "Master of the Fish Pond" came over carefully, looked at Colin, raised his hand and tapped his head.
Then, Colin realized that the team information in his mind contained the other party's words.
"Brother Shunzi, can you really believe what they said?"
After the conversation began, the two employees kept watching Brother Shunzi talking to the other party without interrupting.
They were all confused and felt that Brother Shunzi had almost no doubt about what these people said, as if he believed everything they said.
"Judging from the damage to their brains, there's even a high probability that their memories were tampered with. There's a mixture of truth and falsehood here. How can I really trust them?"
Colin complained in his heart, his face expressionless, but he responded to the two of them in his mind, expressing his uncertainty.
For this kind of situation, his usual approach is to get the news first and then talk about it.
Then, through follow-up actions, we can verify its authenticity bit by bit.
This is better than knowing nothing at all.
Seeing Shunzi's response, the two of them didn't think much about it and continued to ask other questions, such as what "dark night" was...
"You are really fearless, asking anything..."
After Colin complained, he thought for a moment and said, "The root cause might be something even more terrifying than those 'robots' in the internal group. If you don't want to die suddenly one day, it's best to forget about it."
"Hiss...Okay."
The two might not be afraid of the general explanation, but with the "robot" as a backdrop, they were suddenly terrified.
For those employees who haven't encountered any truly terrifying missions yet...
"Retarded robots" are already one of the most dangerous things they know.
Time passed little by little, and after another two hours, the speed of the train began to change.
"We're about to stop."
As Colin spoke, the flames on his body began to spread, gradually enveloping the carriage, making everything around him invisible and preventing the "Night Faction" killers from coming to attack.
After all, Colin didn't know where Laniweya went after she "exploded herself".
Either she is a clone, or she has a unique way to return to her original world...
Soon, the thick gray fog outside the car window began to thin out, and then he saw that he seemed to have come to a pitch-black, port-like area again.
In the port, many stones and a large amount of unknown building debris were floating in the air due to the lack of gravity.
It looked like another abandoned dangerous area.
The style is similar to the cosmic platform, but the difference is that as soon as Colin arrived here, he felt that there were many indescribable, flowing, and shapeless things casting their gaze upon him.
Their gazes were filled with undisguised malice.
only……
When Colin caused the flames to erupt further and spray out from the car door, the "eyes" of the invisible thing suddenly became "clear" at this moment, and then it let out a fear-filled and sharp "scream" and fled.
"The 'Bonfire' card is quite useful in many cases."
Colin looked at the stones and metals that turned into powder as it "screamed" and was shocked.
Afterwards, the train completed its daily check-in and set off again.
But this time, Colin thought it would be another long ride. Unexpectedly, the train door had just closed and the train had been running for less than three minutes when a cold sentence accompanied by text appeared on his retina.
[Notice: From this moment on, this section of the train will begin to transfer. Passengers will be transferred to "Train in the Mist - 9713-31". To avoid boarding the wrong train, please leave this section of the train in an orderly manner within ten minutes...]
"'Transfer'?"
Orange Cat and the "Owner of the Fish Pond" were stunned when they saw this, and then after they realized what was happening, they subconsciously stood up from their chairs and looked at Brother Shunzi behind them.
"We don't have to leave."
Colin waved his hand. The intuition given by the mission told him that the real destination was after the transfer.
After hearing his words, the two sat down again .
As for Akashi and Winnie, who were woken up, they didn't say much when they saw that the three people were unmoved by the strange voice.
That is, ten minutes after the prompt appears.
Everyone in the car was suddenly in a trance for a moment, and then the train in front of them suddenly changed.
I saw that the originally futuristic-style carriage has now returned to its steampunk theme.
Brass upholstered velvet chairs, exposed pipes, differential engine decorations, exquisite ceiling lights, etc.
In addition, there is a more obvious change.
The carriage, which was previously about 100 square meters, has now expanded more than ten times and become very spacious.
"Holy crap, it's so huge, is this a train?"
Orange Cat exclaimed in surprise, but the "Owner of the Fish Pond" next to him heard this and said disdainfully:
"Only those who are ignorant will make such a fuss as you do."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but recall the memory of how he and a group of people struggled to get through the three carriages of the "Ghost Train".
That train compartment is even bigger than this one...
However, just as he finished speaking, he looked at Colin, wanting to ask if he had any instructions, but he found that the other party was frowning and staring outside with a serious expression...
The "Owner of the Fish Pond" raised his eyebrows, looked in the direction, and took a deep breath through the car window.
"What the hell, what the hell is this place?!"
