Volume 3 Chapter 178 Assassination
"Is it and isn't it? Speak clearly, is it or isn't it?" Nanzhu couldn't stand the two people playing guessing games and almost slammed the table.
Zuo Wenda and Ke Wen were so frightened that they almost ran away on their swords.
But in the end, reason overcame emotion. They thought that if they couldn't escape and were caught, they probably wouldn't be able to sit down and talk like they do now, so they endured it.
"Calm down, don't scare others. Don't be anxious, talk slowly." Lin Xu comforted the two.
I was greeted with grateful looks from the two.
"Please don't blame me, senior. It's not that we want to hide it on purpose. It's just that we two are not clear about it. The secrets of the prehistoric world can only be understood by the saints of the prehistoric world. We are just two small immortals. How can we understand these things?" Kewen explained carefully.
"Primordial Saint? What is that?" Lin Xu continued to ask curiously.
When Zuo Wenda and Ke Wen heard Lin Xu calling him the Saint of the Great Desolation, they were so scared that they almost jumped up.
But then he remembered that this was not the ancient times, and the saints here were not that powerful, so he calmed down.
"The ancient saint is naturally a saint. We actually know very little about saints. We only know that saints have great magical powers, know everything, and can do everything." Kewen tried his best to explain.
"Have you ever seen the so-called saint?" Nanzhu asked.
"I am no match for two little immortals. How can I be qualified to meet a saint? Please stop joking, senior." Zuo Wenda waved his hands repeatedly.
At this point in the conversation, Lin Xu probably realized that although the two people in front of him acted like immortals who could call the wind and rain on the outside, they were actually just two small characters in that primitive world, and they only knew the results but not the reasons behind many things.
"If we want to go to Honghuang, how do we get there?" Lin Xu asked directly.
Instead of continuing to ask these two people, it would be better to go directly to that Honghuang and take a look.
"If an ordinary person wants to go to the prehistoric world, it will naturally be extremely difficult. But senior is an immortal himself, and his strength far exceeds that of ordinary immortals. It is naturally very simple for him to go to the prehistoric world. As long as he finds the location of the immortal gate and is led by the immortal envoy, he can reach the prehistoric world." Kewen replied immediately.
"Immortal Gate, welcome the immortal envoy." Lin Xu nodded slowly.
Afterwards, Zuo Wenda and Ke Wen immediately provided the coordinates of the location of the Immortal Gate without waiting for Lin Xu to continue asking.
The location of the Immortal Gate is not a secret in this river system.
Perhaps the indigenous civilization where they are now does not know where the immortal gate is, but that is only because this indigenous civilization is too weak and lacks strength.
Generally, civilizations that have reached a certain level of strength will know the location of one or two immortal gates.
There are twelve immortal gates in the river system, located in twelve locations within the river system.
Zuo Wenda and Kewen directly contributed the locations of all twelve immortal gates.
As for the guiding immortal envoy, as long as you find the immortal gate, you will naturally be able to find the guiding immortal envoy.
What you always need to consider is whether your strength can be recognized by the guiding immortal envoy and lead you across the immortal gate.
Rather than whether or not one can find the immortal messenger to guide them.
Just like that, after Lin Xu had obtained the information he wanted, he stood up and said goodbye and left.
Zuo Wenda and Ke Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief, and saw them off with much greater enthusiasm than when they received Lin Xu and his companions.
"Seniors, are you going to the Immortal Gate next?" Zuo Wenda asked carefully before they parted.
Kewen on the side quickly kicked him, but the words had been spoken and could not be taken back.
"What? Are you in such a hurry for us to leave?" Lin Xu looked at the two of them with amusement.
"How could that be? We think that it is a great fate for us to meet you when we come here to preach. If you have time, would you like to give some guidance to those who have just attained enlightenment in this civilization?" Kewen immediately put on a smile and explained enthusiastically.
"Me? If I were to give them guidance, I would tell them not to believe in cultivating immortals and that science is the right way. Is that okay?" Lin Xu said, looking at the two of them with amusement.
"This, senior, you are joking. Science is just a minor path. How can it be compared with the orthodox path of immortality?" Zuo Wenda laughed as if the joke you told was really funny.
Even Kewen reacted the same way. They both thought Lin Xu was joking.
"Really? Then I won't tell you. They won't believe me anyway even if I tell them. Let's not waste time." Lin Xu suddenly lost interest. He didn't know how this river system ended up on this road.
But everything should be related to the so-called primitive times.
Therefore, Lin Xu wanted to go and take a look even more.
And just like that, we parted ways with the two of them.
Lin Xu and his companions did not stay on this planet, but came directly into space. Lin Xu waved his hand to summon the Skylark, and several people entered the Skylark and then headed towards the coordinates of the nearest immortal gate.
In the low-Earth orbit of space, Zuo Wenda and Ke Wen, who were seeing Lin Xu and others off, breathed a sigh of relief after watching Lin Xu and others enter a spaceship and then speed away.
The two of them were just considering whether to give up this mission and just run away.
Unexpectedly, Lin Xu left so cleanly.
It’s good this way. If you give up preaching halfway, the sect will punish you.
So after confirming that Lin Xu had really left, the two returned to the planet and continued preaching according to the original plan.
As for the encounter with Lin Xu and others, the two of them only regarded it as an episode.
On the other side, the Skylark, which had left the galaxy, also entered a space jump state.
The nearest immortal gate is only two thousand light years away. With the Skylark's speed of jumping a thousand light years at a time, it only needs two jumps to reach it.
So after just two jumps, the Skylark drove out of the space jump channel. According to the coordinates given by Zuo Wenda and Kewen, the Immortal Gate was only a few light years ahead.
At the same time when the Skylark sailed out of the space jump channel, the hyperspace radar detected a high-energy void signal response several light years away.
"Master, the signal response location coincides with the coordinates of the Immortal Gate we obtained. The suspected source of the high-energy void signal is the so-called Immortal Gate." Miss Qiu reported.
"High-energy void? Let's go and take a closer look." Lin Xu ordered.
So the Skylark first carried out two short space jumps, each jump covering a distance of only about one light year, so the preparation time could be ignored.
Then, at a thousand times the speed of light, it quickly traveled towards the Immortal Gate, which was less than one light year away.
Finally, as they got closer and closer to the Immortal Gate, the Skylark detected more and more signals from various spacecraft.
"Is this the so-called Immortal Gate? It looks like a fairy ship!" Nanzhu lay on the porthole, looking at the so-called Immortal Gate in the distance.
As for why Nanzhu said this place looks like a fairy ship.
This is because the huge immortal gate is not isolated in the universe, but stands on a base.
And that base is a huge ship similar to a fairy ship, a huge ship as big as a planet, and the fairy gate stands on it.
Compared to Nanzhu, Mu Xiyue, who was born in the fairy ship Penglai, felt more touched when she looked at the ship that looked similar to the fairy ship from afar.
"Are there any relatives here too?" Mu Xiyue murmured to herself.
"Go and take a look and you'll find out." Lin Xu reached out and patted Mu Xiyue's shoulder to comfort her.
In this way, the Skylark got closer and closer to the huge ship that looked like a fairy ship until it arrived at a checkpoint.
Checkpoints like this are scattered all around the huge ship. Various spacecraft from all over the universe stop at the checkpoints and undergo inspection.
Only then were they allowed to approach the huge ship.
From a distance, Lin Xu also saw that surrounding the huge ship carrying the Immortal Gate, there were more than a dozen motherships, each of which was the size of the moon.
These motherships look different in style and should belong to different civilizations.
All of these civilizations are guarding the huge ships, and they should be in a subordinate relationship.
Soon, the Skylark passed through the inspection station's scanning device, and no dangerous goods were detected on it, so it was allowed to pass.
Well, actually, there were quite a few dangerous goods on the Skylark, but the technical level of the checkpoint was insufficient and they were unable to detect them.
In this way, the Skylark followed the guidance and flew towards a mothership on the side of the huge ship carrying the Immortal Gate.
All spacecraft that passed through the checkpoint were guided to the motherships and could not directly board the huge ship.
Nanzhu was lying on the porthole with great interest, observing all the time, and she actually discovered something.
"Lord Lin Xu, these motherships we are going to dock look like the products of technological civilization. They are all surrounding that fairy ship. Are they surrounding the fairy ship and the fairy gate on it? But this doesn't make sense. Don't they think that the fairy civilization is the best? Why do they need technological civilization to protect the fairy gate?" Nanzhu asked puzzled.
"What if these technological civilizations have turned into immortal civilizations?" Lin Xu signaled Nanzhu to observe carefully.
So soon, when the Skylark docked on the mothership, Nanzhu also noticed it from the silhouette flying over the mothership from time to time.
"There are so many immortal cultivators here, so this is a civilization that is in the process of transitioning from technological civilization to immortal civilization?" Nanzhu suddenly realized.
Then he asked again in confusion.
"So are they serving as volunteers now? Volunteering to maintain order near the Immortal Gate?"
"Who knows?" Lin Xu shook his head.
Soon, the Skylark had docked.
Lin Xu and others also got off the spaceship.
As they were walking out of the port along with a large number of merchants or travelers of various races who had just arrived at the port, an alarm suddenly sounded above the port.
"What's going on? Are we wanted?" Nanzhu immediately remembered that he had been wanted in the Galaxy Alliance, and said subconsciously.
"We haven't done anything wrong, so why are we wanted? It must be something wrong." Lin Xu guessed.
Sure enough, there was a broadcast announcement soon, and all personnel preparing to leave the port immediately returned to the spacecraft and wait for notification.
"What's going on? Why do we have to return to the spaceship? Aren't we just a few steps away from leaving the port?" a passenger nearby asked in confusion.
"Brother, is this your first time traveling to Xianmen?" Someone who knew about it immediately responded.
"Yeah, it's my first time here, what else can I say?"
"Of course there are. The port is blocked and everyone returns to the spacecraft to wait for the notification to leave the port. I encountered this once last time. Later I found out that it turned out that an immortal had entered the port, so they organized so many of us to avoid it."
"The immortal is entering the port? I came here just to see the immortal. Brother, is there any way I can avoid going back to the ship? Can I just hide here? And take a look at the immortal from afar?" The man immediately became excited.
"Of course not. Why do you think we have to blockade the port and ask everyone to stay back on the ship? We are trying to prevent people like you. Otherwise, if we bump into an immortal, who will be able to take responsibility? I advise you not to think about hiding secretly. If you are caught, you will be put in a detention center, and I don't want to stay there for a few days." Brother Dong said as he walked towards the spaceship, shaking his head.
Those who heard the conversation between the two also started a heated discussion.
"An immortal, he really is an immortal. It seems like this trip to Xianmen is a good decision. Maybe I can actually have a chance to see an immortal."
"So what if you meet an immortal? Do you really think that the immortal will discover your hidden talent and take you in as his disciple, and you will soar to the sky in a few years?"
"What's wrong with me thinking about it? Do you dare to say that you haven't thought about it?"
With infinite yearning for the immortals, everyone walked back towards the spaceship, looking back every few steps.
Although everyone wanted to stay and see the immortal's elegance, they did not dare to violate the port regulations.
Soon, everyone returned to the spaceship, with the exception of Lin Xu and a few others.
That's right, they didn't return to the Skylark.
Instead, it was hidden above the port.
With the reconnaissance capabilities at the port, if Lin Xu and his companions intentionally hid, they would naturally not be discovered.
However, they did not leave the port, but hid in the dark until a moment later, when a sword light flashed across the starry sky.
A flying boat over a hundred meters long, wrapped in sword light landed at the port.
"It's a flying boat." Mu Xiyue recognized the flying boat at a glance.
That is the most commonly used mode of transportation for the clan members on the fairy ships and the Great Wall of the Galaxy.
"It's a flying boat, more advanced than the one we used before." Nanzhu sighed.
But this is normal. After all, when humans were still in the Milky Way, their technological level was indeed not comparable to that of later times.
"Lord Lin Xu, do you want to say hello?" Nanzhu watched the sword light fall to the ground, and a male figure walked out of the flying boat, moving away from the port quickly, seemingly slowly.
But Lin Xu frowned, because he had discovered that something was wrong with the male immortal.
Sure enough, the next moment, the immortal who was quickly leaving the port suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood towards the sky.
Then it rolled to the ground and remained motionless.
In an instant, the air in the entire port became quiet.
"Lord Lin Xu, that person?" Nanzhu widened his eyes, finding it hard to believe for a moment.
"Dead." Lin Xu didn't need to go over to see. He could determine the status of the male immortal through the feedback from the nanorobot. He was indeed dead.
"No, how could he die so suddenly?" Nanzhu expressed his incomprehension.
And then, alarms sounded one after another throughout the port.
Countless guards rushed out from every corner.
This was the first time they had encountered an immortal dying at the port in thousands of years.
Countless people who had just returned to the spaceship and were watching the descending immortals from afar through the portholes were now looking at each other.
Some people saw the death of the immortal, but many people didn't see it at all and were still wondering why the alarm sounded again.
Until a somewhat cracked notification sounded.
"The Immortal has been assassinated. The port is blocked. No one is allowed to escape. I repeat, no one is allowed to escape."
"It's really an unexpected disaster." Nanzhu slapped his forehead, speechless.
"What happens next has nothing to do with us. Let's go. If we don't leave now, we might get into trouble." Lin Xu turned around calmly and walked directly out of the port.
"Let's go, let's go. We are here to find the immortal messenger to lead us to the prehistoric world, not to get involved in these messy things." Nanzhu hurriedly followed Lin Xu.
Miss Qiu, Mu Xiyue, and Lu Yao followed closely behind.
An endless stream of security team members ran past them, but no one noticed them.
Lin Xu and his group left the port and came to the entrance of the city inside the mothership.
Like all highly developed civilizations, this is an extremely prosperous city.
It was still daytime, and the sunlight simulated by nuclear fusion was shining in the sky, making me feel warm on my body.
It turns out that it is the nature of intelligent creatures to be unable to separate themselves from the warmth provided by stars.
At the junction of the port and the city entrance is the identity processing office.
Anyone who wants to enter the ship city must apply for a temporary identity here.
The port behind them suddenly became chaotic. Many people who had left the port earlier and were in the process of applying for identity documents were confused as to what was happening.
The staff who were processing identities seemed to have received some news and quietly sped up the process.
Soon, it was Lin Xu and his group's turn.
"Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, what are you doing here? Tourism? Or business?" the female staff member of the office asked with a smile on her face.
"We were just passing by." Lin Xu replied.
"Passing by here? What is your next destination?" the staff asked puzzledly.
"Go to Honghuang." Lin Xu answered directly without hiding anything.
After all, this was his purpose, and there was nothing to hide.
"What? What did you say? I don't think I heard it clearly. Could you please say it again?" The female staff member thought she had heard it wrong, so she asked again.
"We are going to go through the immortal gate and go to the prehistoric world." Lin Xu simply explained it in a little more detail.
"You mean, you want to go through the immortal gate and go to the prehistoric world?" The female staff member's expression was beginning to become a little tense, and she looked at Lin Xu as if he were a fool.
"That's right." Lin Xu nodded.
"Um, may I ask this sir, is this you?" The female staff member had no choice but to look at Nanzhu, Mu Xiyue, Lu Yao and Miss Qiu who were with Lin Xu with a pleading look.
Look at your companions, as if to see if they are sick.
"What's wrong? Isn't this where the immortal gate is?" Nanzhu asked curiously.
"Well, this is indeed the Immortal Gate, but only immortals can pass through the Immortal Gate to the prehistoric world." The female staff member discovered that the people in front of her seemed to have mental problems, so she had to answer with an embarrassed expression.
"Well, we are immortals." Unexpectedly, Nanzhu nodded and said as if it was a matter of course.
"Um, you mean immortals? You are all immortals?" The female staff member seemed to have heard something extremely funny.
But she kept reminding herself, I have received professional training, no matter how funny it is, I cannot laugh.
So, I was so exhausted from holding it in that my face became a little deformed.
"What's wrong? Don't you believe it?" Nanzhu's expression was a little helpless. She had already seen that the person in front of her obviously did not believe that they were immortals.
Not only did she notice it, but Lin Xu and others also noticed it.
However, it is only natural that several of them are immortals . Even saying that Lin Xu is an immortal is underestimating him.
But how to prove it to an ordinary staff member?
"Then how do we prove that we are immortals?" Nanzhu asked directly.
"Well, if you want to prove that you are an immortal, it's actually very simple. You just need to do a simple little test. But are you sure you want to take the test?" asked the female staff member .
"Is there any problem with this test?" Nanzhu asked puzzled.
"There is nothing wrong with the test, but if you choose to take the test and fail, then we can only assume that you are here to cause trouble, and you will need to bear the consequences yourself." The female staff member advised very kindly.
Obviously, in her eyes, these were just a few guys with unclear minds.
