Chapter 1291： The way home

The entire port area was shrouded in a cloud of rising smoke and dust and a loud crash like billowing thunder.

The blue dragon rose into the sky and rushed into the sky in a dust cloud. The crown of the giant tree of reincarnation collapsed behind her. The huge wooden structure that had been supporting for thousands of years was like a huge city shattered in a dream. It's divided into pieces, the thick branches like a bell tower, the huge dried leaves and the vines that have just died broke apart in a series of loud noises, and fell on the ground of the home port. Every collapse made that piece of steel land a deep depression. It trembled, and rolled up a larger-scale smoke and dust.

Gawain and others stood on the edge of Melita's broad back, looking down at the earth, the sight of the place where they entered the eyes was so spectacular that everyone was stunned.

It is as if an entire city collapsed from the sky in front of your eyes. Thousands of years of history were shattered into fragments within a few minutes. The entire port area was shrouded in dense clouds of smoke and dust, and even the lights left by the sailors were covered. Covered up.

A grand funeral.

"Everyone is standing firm!" Melita's voice came from the front, as if she was struggling, "The smoke and dust below are rising too fast, we have to speed up!"

As soon as Miss Lan Long’s voice fell, Gao Wen and others felt a shaking coming from their feet. They immediately did not care to watch the spectacular scene below, but immediately stabilized their bodies. At the same time, the surrounding ones continued to rise and spread. The dust started to be accelerated behind Melita, she rushed out of the most severely collapsed area at the fastest speed, and the spaceship anchored in the harbor finally appeared in front of everyone.

Where the spacecraft connects with the port, the spreading dust has enveloped various indicator lights, and the remains of the giant trees on the spacecraft and the shrubs and flowers in the debris have also been turned into fragments, but fortunately the entire spacecraft The scale is huge, and the dust-shrouded area only occupies a small area on the edge of the deck. Melita directly crossed that deck, passed low above a pile of ship buildings, and finally landed on an open alloy platform.

Gao Wen was the first to jump on the deck. He stood on a high place, looking up at the direction of his home port. Under the background skylight brought by the dim light and energy barrier, the towering crown of the giant tree of reincarnation and the view from the sky After disappearing in the middle, only a "sea of ​​clouds" rises up in the same place, covering the harbor where the giant trees once were like a continuous, fast-growing mountain range.

"...In this way, the investigation team we send here may not be so easy to act next time," Carmel said in a low voice, floating from the side. "The collapsed giant tree of reincarnation seems to have completely sealed the whole In the port area, if the investigation team wants to explore the home port in depth, I am afraid that it will have to make a way through the collapsed ruins."

Amber who jumped down beside him let out a long sigh: "That's a lot bigger than the giant Thorin tree... Even if you send engineering troops over, I'm afraid you will have to dig into the ground..."

Listening to Amber and Carmel next to him, Gawain just stared into the distance quietly, without saying a word.

Until another period of time passed, a low mechanical hum suddenly came from the depths of the spacecraft’s deck below everyone’s feet. The mechanical locking devices between the ship and the port were unlocked one by one, the huge ancient engine suddenly started, and the ship itself The protective barrier raised automatically. The distant port area gradually moved away from the field of vision. The spacecraft under his feet once again embarked on a cruise among the many kingdoms of God. Gao Wencai seemed to wake up from contemplation, and said lightly: "The spacecraft set sail. Now, let’s take a break and eat something to regain strength."

Since the spacecraft left the kingdom of God of War and the team embarked on this unprecedented journey of exploration, everyone’s nerves have been highly strained. Feeling exhausted, but now they finally left the "Sentinel Homeport", although the next return journey will be spent on this spacecraft, but at least the most uncontrollable and risk-prone part of the journey It's over, everyone can relax more or less.

The exploration team found an open space suitable for rest near the entrance to the ship’s internal passage, took out the food and water they carried and started eating and regaining strength. In order to prevent accidents during the last period of the journey, Merita did not regain her human form. Instead, lying on the nearby deck to rest while maintaining the form of the dragon, the huge dragon body is like a raised city wall, bringing a convincing sense of security out of thin air.

Melita was lying on the deck, her huge scaly tail bent slightly, like a barrier around the exploratory team that was temporarily camped, but her head went to the other side of the team, and her huge head was resting on an alloy platform. At the edge, one eye was watching the movement on the side of the deck, and the other eye was watching Amber and others who were resting, looking a bit boring.

Amber walked over with a piece of sweet dough at this moment, and shook it in front of Merita, “Hey, don’t you want something to eat?”

"Are you talking about my dragon form or human form?" Merita raised her eyelids and made a low rumbling voice in her throat. "In the form of a dragon, your piece of dough is not enough for me to stuff my teeth, but the form of the dragon itself doesn't need it. I eat frequently. I had eaten before I left yesterday, and I can eat again next week."

"...you dragons are amazing," Amber was stunned, put the dough into his mouth while chewing vaguely, "I can't, I am most afraid of being hungry."

Merita immediately closed her eyes towards Amber, and at the same time moved her huge head to the side. The scales and steel rubbed together like a metal crashing sound: "Hey, eat far away. It's in my eyes!"

"Ah, sorry, sorry." Amber quickly took a step back, swallowing the cake in her mouth and clapping her hands, Merita opened her eyes and looked in the direction of the rest of the team before saying: "Hey , Did you see Gawain? I didn't seem to see him just now..."

"He just went into that passage and said he wanted to see what's inside the spaceship again." Amber slapped cleanly, rubbed his clothes on his clothes, and turned to look at the gate leading to the inner passage. "He still wouldn't let me follow, but I still decided to sneak in after I had eaten to see if he was obviously worried, and he was acting alone. I was not at ease."

While talking, she shook her head, her expression looked rather helpless: "Everyone looked at me with a lot of thoughts, Modil, and Victoria, too, and even Carmel's body look was not quite right. That is to say, I don’t quite understand your expression...but I think you must have something on your mind. Now, Daniel and his female apprentice have not changed much. The expression of the former seems like the sky will never fall, and the expression of the latter seems like the sky. It keeps falling..."

Merita raised her eyelids and looked at her. She was stared at by such a big eye. Amber, who was very nervous, suddenly felt all over her body. She couldn't help but ask: "Why are you staring at me like this? My face? There is still scum on it?"

"You seem to be the biggest and big-hearted of the people around Gawain, but in fact you are one of the most sensitive and attentive people among the Loren people I know..." Melita seemed to have a smile in her tone. "You are always observing everyone and every detail around you, but most of the time you are pretending to be doing nothing, making yourself seem like the most useless one."

Amber was stunned, waving his hands indifferently, turning around and walking in the direction of the passage gate while muttering casually: "Slum survival rules, this is called survival rules..."

Melita used one eye to watch Amber drift away, and finally slowly retracted her gaze, and near her tail, Modil was walking to a secluded place, some dreamily looking at the spaceship shield. The chaotic and dark masses passing by, seem to be in a daze.

Victoria came to Modil. She looked at the old man in front of her with some worry, hesitated and said: "Ancestor, are you worried about your remaining time?"

"...I went through an unprecedented adventure," Modil said suddenly. "On this ship, I have seen more than everything I have seen before. These mysteries unknown to the predecessors are almost forgotten. Something...I think I should be satisfied, Victoria, I have walked so far, I can't be too greedy even after I have lived for six hundred years."

"...You can't give up yet," Victoria said immediately, "Amber has a way to temporarily stabilize your situation, and during this time we can slowly find a solution. We can find the kingdom of Lady Ye and find your divided The other half of the body and soul, this is not unimaginable. We even defeated the God of War, reached the deep sea, and found the legacy left by the sailors. The ancestors, even without relying on the gods, mortals can create miracles..."

"I have always believed in miracles," Modil laughed, with an indifferent expression on his face that surprised Victoria. "I didn't give up, Victoria, don't get me wrong, I just have no regrets about any ending. But if there is a chance of survival, of course I am very happy that under normal circumstances, who would take the initiative to seek death?"

Victoria was a bit embarrassed for a while: "Um...that's good, I thought..."

Modil just looked at this lady who was theoretically his descendant but was actually a stranger not long ago with a smile, and suddenly asked curiously: "Do you care about me? Victoria, I may be a bit straightforward, but until recently, you and I did not know each other. We were originally strangers. The only thing that connects you and me is a very thin blood that spans six centuries... You There are people who are closer, and there are people who are more familiar, and I... shouldn't be that close to you."

Victoria looked at the old man in front of her with some surprise. She didn't seem to expect that the other party would take the initiative to talk about this somewhat subtle topic, but after a moment of silence, she still spoke softly to break the silence: "You are right, from Theoretically... there is actually no deep family relationship between me and you. For a long time, you were just a story circulated in family records for me. Now you have come out of the story, and You personally are far from my imagination.... Indeed, I cannot treat you as a kind and familiar elder, although I know I should do this..."

"Then how do you see me?" Modil asked curiously.

Victoria thought carefully, and it took a long time to finally say: "A great man, this great man was once very far away, and now I am close by my side trying to understand your things, perhaps just like Hetty and Rebecca back then. "

After finishing speaking, she looked at Modil who seemed to be thinking, and then asked, "Do you have any arrangements after you go back?"

"I haven't thought about it, Miss Amber helped me temporarily stabilize the situation, but if nothing happens, I should only have a year or so to arrange the rest of my life. I have just been considering whether to use this year to complete this life. The last adventure is to go to a place as far away as possible to witness some more bizarre things, but just now, while looking at you...I had another idea."

"Another idea?" Victoria asked curiously.

"...I have traveled the whole world, maybe even traveled more than once. Although some things have disappeared in my memory, I still have a vague impression of many places in the world, but there is only one place... I am very strange, unfamiliar. I don't even remember where it is," Modil suddenly looked into Victoria's eyes and said in a very serious tone, "I want to go there and see."

"Which place you are talking about?"

"Take me home and have a look," Modil said slowly, "Perhaps the last'adventure' of my life was to return to my hometown, Victoria, which has been completely forgotten by myself. It is in a mountainous area. Huh?"

"Yes," Victoria's face with little change in expression seemed to come alive. She met Modil's gaze and recalled the place where she was born and raised. "There is a very beautiful castle, the tallest in the north. On the mountain, where it is cold most of the time, only warm in the room with the fireplace, but the view there is very good, you can see the snow-covered mountains in the north, you can also see the white courtyard and the prosperity under the mountain The towns here are not as advanced and new as Beigang, but in the streets and alleys, you can see the six hundred years of the ups and downs of the Wilde family after you left."

"Oh, that sounds great," Modil Wilde laughed, "I should definitely go and see."

...

In the vast desert covered by gray-white fine sand, the majestic throne stood among the ruins of a collapsed altar. The mountain-like figure on the throne slightly lowered its head, staring at a small stone pillar at her feet, watching it. The ancient book on the top of the stone pillar.

"Oh, you're awake, adventurer," Madam Ye's majestic voice resounded between heaven and earth, "have a good dream?"

"Right," the old man's voice came from the **** book at the top of the stone pillar, and there was a trace of confusion in that voice that had just woke up from a dream, "I haven't had such a dream for a long time..."

"What did you dream of?"

"I dreamed that I was packing up and embarking on the way back to my hometown," Wilde's voice was low, and in the deserted and empty sandy sea, his voice told the only listener in a low voice, "I seem to have not been for many years. Going home..."

"...Yes, adventurer, home is a very distant concept, do you want to go back?"

"Probably, I think I should have this idea, but I'm not sure if it was my idea..."