The sudden change made Gawain stunned for a moment.
The vast and vivid scenery has stabilized in his field of vision. The brief dizziness and trance have faded. All his senses and thinking abilities have returned to normal. The seascape and the distance at dusk The low sky and the clouds overhead were slowly moving as Melita flew. Suddenly, the dragon lowered some height, and the sound of flapping wings sounded from both sides, making Gawain wake up from his stupor.
He suddenly turned his head and saw Amber's amber eyes shining brightly in the dusk light. She was looking excitedly at the sky and sea in the distance, with a happy look on her face. , as if he had never experienced the shocking change before.
Veronica was also sitting quietly not far away, looking like she was concentrating with her eyes closed, as if she had been in that posture from the beginning and had never changed.
Gawain raised his gaze and looked into the distance in the direction of Melita's tail. He saw that spectacular and majestic cloud wall - the barrier of the eternal storm had been left behind the dragon, although Viewed from this distance, it is still very spectacular, but it is no longer as suffocating and oppressive as when it rushes towards you. It slowly moves away from Gawain's sight, and many details on the appearance of the cloud wall are reflected in the dim skylight. It gradually became blurry.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Why didn't you say anything all of a sudden?" Amber's voice suddenly sounded from the side, her tone full of confusion, "Are you still looking at that storm? Didn't we just come out from there? "?"
Gawain looked into Amber's eyes, trying to find even the slightest sense of disobedience on her face, but he found nothing. Before the confusion on Amber's face became more obvious, he looked back and asked seemingly casually: "Did we get through the storm... It seems to be going well?"
"Of course it went well, Amber nodded, "Although it was scary when I first rushed in, Melita's flight was quite stable. After getting used to it, it was quite interesting..."
Gawain frowned a little. He stood up, and before he continued to ask, Veronica, who was sitting next to her with her eyes closed and concentrating, suddenly opened her eyes: "Is there anything abnormal?"
"Do you remember how we walked through the storm? Is it a process?" Gawain looked at Veronica and asked while quietly pinching his thigh - although in this world where there are all kinds of extraordinary powers, pinching yourself does not necessarily verify whether you are good or bad. He fell into a dream or hallucination, but when the pain came, he felt a little relieved.
Veronica didn't seem to notice Gawain's little movements. She just thought about it carefully after hearing the other party's question, and then nodded: "After breaking into the cloud wall, we flew in a In the dim cyclone filled with discharge clouds, the outside environment was very harsh, but Melita was not affected much. Amber seemed very excited along the way, and you had been carefully observing the lightning and various phenomena deep in the cyclone. ——There were no twists and turns during the whole process. Afterwards, Melita emerged from the eye of the storm.After nearly bypassing the central area and passing through the cloud wall at the other end, we came out safely. "
"That's all? "Gawain couldn't help but confirm again. After seeing Veronica's serious expression, he thought for a moment and asked, "Then what else did I say or do after crossing the center of the storm? "
"You continue to observe various phenomena in the cyclone, Amber has been talking a lot of nonsense, I am resting, and Melita is flying seriously. "
Veronica said slowly with no expression on her face. Then she looked into Gawain's eyes and her tone became serious: "So, what went wrong? ”
Gawain didn’t answer for a while, but just scanned the surroundings quietly - his eyes swept over a certain dragon scale nearby, and that dragon scale looked smooth and flat, with no scratches.
He still remembered that he had left writing on this scale, but the writing seemed to have disappeared.
"What happened in my memory is the same as what you said. It seems different..." He said casually, and then his eyes fell on a large magic network terminal not far away.
He recalled what happened in the storm cyclone The incident recalled Amber's first reaction to rescue the data when Melita's flight suddenly became unbalanced. After a moment of thinking, he strode to the Magic Network terminal, bent down and opened a button at its base. The metal cover—a palm-sized crystal plate that was emitting a faint blue light—appeared in front of him.
The memory crystal plate was still well inserted into the machine, and it did not appear to have been removed by anyone.
No matter how nervous she was, Amber realized something might be wrong at this time. She came over from behind and looked at Gawain's actions curiously: "Hey, what did you find? "
"...It would be great if we had audio and video records of the whole process...The preparations in this area are still not thorough enough...In the final analysis, the technology is limited. "Gawain muttered with some regret, what he said was a bit incomprehensible to Amber.
The Magic Network terminal has the function of recording images. After Melita took off, the one installed on the dragon's back In addition to collecting meteorological and magic data in the ocean environment, the device also continued to collect images for a period of time. However, modern magic technology was not advanced enough after all. After approaching the eternal storm, the various devices on Melita's back Due to the strong interference, they all lost their function, and the only Magic Network terminal that could record audio and video was no exception.
So Gawain now has no way to trace back what happened at that time from the data recorded by the device. And to be honest, based on the strange situation in front of him, he suspected that even if there was a photographic equipment here that recorded Melita's entire journey through the storm, what was recorded there might not be reliable...
Some mysterious power has erased what happened, and the only clue left seems to be his own memory...
Up to now, he even has some doubts about his own memory.I'm confused - maybe...as Amber and Veronica said, nothing happened at that time? What was left in his memory was just an illusion? Some kind of dream?
Gao Wen sighed and casually closed the metal cover on the base of the equipment. However, when his fingers brushed the edge of the metal cover, he suddenly touched a small uneven mark, and his movements were subconscious. The ground stopped.
He took his fingers away and saw a very inconspicuous small mark on the edge of the cover. It looked like it had been pried by something sharp and hard, and it was definitely It is not a shape that was originally designed.
Those were the scars left by being forcibly pried open with a dagger in an emergency.
At this moment, Amber's whirring voice came from the side again: "Hey, what's wrong? Why is your expression so serious all of a sudden?"
< p>Gawain raised his head and glanced at Amber, and then at Veronica who was not far away and was casting a curious look. After a brief silence and thinking, he suddenly smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry about it, what? None of it happened."Hu Huo didn't understand the situation for a while: "Huh?"
Gawain didn't explain anything, but suddenly reached out and touched the short winter melon's hair. With a little gratification and praise: "You performed well."
When Melita suddenly encountered a situation before, Amber's first reaction was to run to rescue the data regardless of life and death... If nothing else, It was definitely an unimaginable thing for her a few years ago. Even now, Gawain still couldn't believe that that was the reaction Amber would make. However, she did do that - even though she seemed to No longer remember.
Amber was dumbfounded as she felt the touch on her head. Looking at Gawain who suddenly smiled like a gratified old father, her first reaction was whether flying at high altitude for a long time would be harmful to the elderly. It had some adverse effects on her mental state, but at least she did not say the disrespectful words in her mind. Instead, she accepted the compliments calmly. Although she could not understand what happened, Miss Amber was very grateful for the arrival of Pingbai. Advantages are always given without taking advantage of them.
Veronica on the other side has been watching all this quietly. The things she is thinking about are obviously much deeper than Amber, and she is also vaguely aware of the previous process of passing through the storm. There may have been some "abnormal phenomena" that only Gawain could detect, but she did not take the initiative to ask anything, but conveyed a hint of inquiry intention with her eyes.
Gawain just shook his head slightly.
Veronica withdrew her gaze clearly, sat back down where she was resting, and continued to rest with her eyes closed.
As the dragon continued to fly north, as a guide and means of transportation, Melita became the "person" who was least aware of the situation at the scene, and it seemed that she didn't care much about what was happening on her back. interest. She could already feel the cold wind in her hometown, and she could already sense Taal from the changes in the nearby magnetic field and magical environment.Lund's breath, attracted by the warm dragon's nest and mission perks, made Miss Blue Dragon let out a low roar of pleasure, moving a little faster than before.
Night has fallen, and the stars are shining on this endless ice ocean. In the dry and cloudless Arctic region, the stars in the sky are obviously more brilliant than those in the continental region.
Gawain could clearly feel that the speed and method of nightfall were different from those in the mainland - they did not clearly see the direction from which the sun set, nor did they see the complete change of sunset. The night didn't rise from the sky, but more like... they sat on the back of a dragon and flew into the night.
The polar night in the Arctic region - this phenomenon has been mentioned in Modier's travel notes and various writings by scholars.
Under this night, Gawain seemed to suddenly regain a certain sense of "reality". He breathed out slightly and stared at the sea in the distance - under the night sky, the sea in that direction had already emerged. A hazy light appeared, as if a large number of artificial lights illuminated the sea in the polar night. In the depths of the hazy light, the outline of the land and what seemed to be some kind of shield device could be vaguely seen. , a slightly raised arc.
"We are almost there!" Melita's slightly excited voice came from the front at this moment, "That's Tallond!"
"I want to continue Lowering the altitude - you are ready! ”
Then, with the thunderous roar of the dragon lady, Gawain felt his feet shake slightly, and the picture in his field of vision tilted. Melita began to adjust her flying attitude. Under the night, the altitude continued to decrease, and the perfect balance point of speed was reached through a short dive - during this rapid flight, the outline of Tallond became increasingly clear.
Amber was the first one who couldn't help but run forward. She stood in front of Melita's shoulder blades, stretched her neck to look at the continent appearing on the sea in the distance, and let out an exaggerated exclamation in a long voice: "Wow - I See it! I see it! A continent! Tallond, that is Tallond! "
"The lights are brighter and denser than the Cecil Empire...even more than the imperial capital of Gondor." Veronica couldn't help but stand up. She looked into the distance and looked up at the sky. Wen sighed, “Did you see that dome-like thing? That... seems to be a huge shield, covering the entire continent? ! "
"...The technical strength of the Dragon Clan obviously exceeds that of any country on the Loren continent," Gawain said solemnly. The scene he saw did not exceed his previous judgment of the Dragon Clan, "It is also It makes sense - after all, they have existed in this world for so many years, and the several civilization eras on the Loren continent have not affected the Dragon Clan. They will naturally be more advanced than us..."
"Tallond will definitely open your eyes! "Melita said happily, with obvious pride in her tone - during this trip back home, Miss Dragon seemed to beShe seemed to have finally put aside the elegant and calm persona she wore as a senior agent of the Mithril Treasure House. She seemed to talk a lot more and her personality became more lively and agile. "I will show you where I live and our The city and the temple... Of course, you have to listen to the gods' plans first, but don't worry, it won't be too troublesome. After all, you are all guests of Tallond..."
Gawain. He responded casually, but his attention was actually completely focused on the continent in the distance, and he didn't pay much attention to what Melita said.
He opened his eyes wide and looked at the ancient land that was bathed in starlight and countless artificial lights. A sense of anticipation and excitement that he was about to visit an unknown place inevitably filled his heart. He looked at the glimmering dome that was most likely some kind of super-advanced shield, looked at the city lights on the land and the dazzling lights passing by at low altitude, and looked at the clear and brilliant starlight in the Arctic region reflected in the tower. On the sea near Tallond, he watched the white glaciers and undulating waves in the ocean glow slightly in the night. He watched as some kind of giant tentacle-like mass of flesh and blood suddenly emerged from the sky above Tallond. Come out and sweep across the entire dragon kingdom like a lick, watching countless pairs of eyes vaguely appear above the sea, looking at the entire continent with cold and cold eyes...
A huge, twisted , something twisted and mixed with countless tentacles, limbs, eyes and other various chaotic things appeared in Gawain's sight, covering the sky over Tallond like some kind of stitched monster that surpassed the limits of human intelligence. It is covered with a "cloak" made of starlight and flowing fire. Sword-holding arms, giant animal limbs, chaotic flames and flickering crystals emerge from the flesh. It covers the entire sea in front of it like a curtain, with countless chains. The same fine structure extends from its surface and connects to the ground of Tallond. There is also a chain extending from the darkness and extending to Melita's body.
Melita was wearing this chain without any knowledge, and flew forward with the joy of returning home.
Gawain suddenly took a breath of cold air.
He blinked again, and the indescribable illusion had disappeared.
The clear and bright starlight shines on Tallond. Under the quiet night, there is only a prosperous and ancient country. In the bright lights, it is the hometown of survival in the age of dragons.
"We are here!" Melita said happily, "I want to slow down for the last time!"