At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the minivan drove the two people into Cangshou District. They first entered an underground garage in a remote location, and then walked through a secret passage in the garage for about 20 minutes. When the car finally drove out of the aisle, a green-painted modified aircraft was already within the passengers' sight.
"I know they like biochemical technology." Gongsun Ce said with a dark face, "But do they need to make the plane green?"
"The name of this aircraft is the Lightning Caterpillar." Rei Shigure said seriously, "I heard that the designer placed his childhood dream on it, so he insisted on giving it a special painting."
Rei Shigure's voice was filled with 100% emptiness and twice as much certainty.
"You people in Sky City all have brain problems."
It's all facts without a trace of bias, and there's no reason to refute it at all.
The two investigators got out of the car wearing long trench coats and carrying suitcases. Gongsun Ce looked at the driver affectionately and said, "Brother, if I don't come back, remember to smash the computer for me and physically smash it."
"I will." Shiyu Reiichi added in his heart, I will bring this sentence to Qin Qianbai. He watched the two of them walk towards the plane not far away and silently activated their abilities.
(Don’t worry, Gongsun. What Sister Ling hates the most is Zero Island and the Research Institute. The Capital of the Sky is nothing compared to the hatred you have in her heart.)
Gongsun Ce was not surprised. Rei Shigure, who regarded himself as more important than anyone else, actually accepted the collar that restricted his freedom. This is enough to show how much she wants to settle the past with her own hands.
(She never hated me, what should I worry about?)
Gongsun Ce waved back, turned around and asked: "Then the mission has officially begun... Miss Shigure, at least before returning to the Sky Capital, let us get along well with each other wearing masks, right?"
The blue-haired woman replied in surprise: "What are you talking about, boy? Shigure is obviously the target of this mission. I'm kidding again, big sister, I won't even remember this bit of information wrongly..."
She acted as if she had just met the day before. She put one hand on Gongsun Ce's shoulder and said playfully: "Besides, aren't we good partners to work together to prevent the dragon disaster in February?"
I have to admit that your psychological quality is better now.
"Needless to say? It's a pleasure to work with you again, Miss Hunter."
"Me too, superpower~"
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The boarding ladder was retracted, swallowing Alice Adar and Gongsun Ce into the belly of the Lightning Caterpillar. This modified aircraft with a unique name had 20 pairs of pulleys growing from the bottom. It crawled quickly on the runway like a big caterpillar, leaving transparent traces on the ground, and finally jumped into the sky and soared into the sky.
Shigure-kun looked up at the caterpillars in the sky, feeling deeply that this mission was ill-fated.
"Well, let's go." A man came to the car silently, "Zero Island is an interesting place, and I haven't been there for several years."
"Hello, Mr. Mingke." Shigure Reiichi saluted respectfully, "Are you going to travel too?"
Ming Ke looks very relaxed. He was carrying a shopping bag in his hand, which contained swimming trunks, goggles and beach shoes.
"I want to go diving in the Nanyang Islands." Mingke said happily, "Do you want to come with me?"
If the traveler was not Miko but Caldesia, Reiichi Shigure thought that he would definitely be tempted.
"Thank you..." he sighed, "but I also have my own tasks."
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The bumps when the lightning caterpillar set off were so big that Gongsun Ce had to use telekinesis to fix the two of them on the seats.
Neither of the two good partners wanted to sit together, so there was an entire aisle between his and Rei Shigure's seats. Gongsun Ce inserted the chip donated by his friend into his mobile phone, muttering: "Now is the time to explain the background of the mission... Then we can rush over with swords, guns and clubs to kill the enemy."
Shigure Rei stabbed: "Do you still need weapons?"
Let me give you an example.
After the data chip scan was completed, Gongsun Ce's mobile phone screen was occupied by a UI similar to a live broadcast room. The pink-haired girl smiled and waved at the screen, and pulled out a bubble-shaped dialog box: [(*??-)☆Data reading completed! Do you need audio explanation? 】
He glanced at Rei Shigure beside him and quickly typed back: [Thank you for your kindness, I will just read the text. 】
【(′·w·`)Oh oh. 】
Qiluo hid at the edge, and the content displayed on the screen was replaced by a massive amount of text. Gongsun Ce read it roughly, combined it with the common sense he had learned in high school geography class, and made a brief summary.
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Zero Island is an island country located in the east of the Yongguang Empire. Its current total area is about 400,000 square kilometers. According to statistics at the beginning of this year, its total population is 173,776,444 people. .
The earliest written record of Lingdao in the world appears in the "Exotic Islands Chapter" of the book "Overseas Geography". This book was written during the great opening period that began in the 200th year of the Yongguang calendar. Imperial seamen more than 1,800 years ago recorded this:
"...the land is mountainous and dangerous, with little farmland and plains. There are no rare treasures and there are always dragons.
...The barbarians are ignorant, uncivilized, speak strange words, and stir up gods and ghosts.
...There is nothing to choose from, so it is called Zero Island. "
To express this passage in an easy-to-understand way, this island has many mountains and few plains, rare things are hard to find, and dragon disasters often occur; the local savages talk about gods and gods and do not speak the imperial dialect; it is not a habitable place no matter how you look at it. It was a good place, but it had no redeeming qualities at all, so I called it Zero Island.
This record contains great subjective elements and limitations of the times. In fact, Lingdao is rich in natural resources. It has abundant aquatic resources backed by the sea, and there are many rare minerals in the mountains. The locals have already formed a civilization and religious worship before the arrival of the imperial fleet, which is not necessarily as good as that of the distant mainlanders. How stupid is that - you know that at that time, the savages of Morton were still wearing skirts and killing, while the savages of Usters were still thinking about how to fight a grizzly bear.
But one thing the ancient imperial books say is correct, that is, Zero Island is indeed a broken place.
There is a dragon disaster in this place, and a giant dragon comes every few years. The local people who have struggled to survive in the dragon phenomenon worship the dragon as a moody god, so the dragon phenomenon is known as the god of filth and disaster on Lingdao.
The frequent arrival of giant dragon phenomena has brought about extremely large-scale destruction of reality, making Zero Island inhabited by various inhuman and wonderful creatures since ancient times. These creatures are as elusive as ghosts and spirits. They often move in areas far away from human habitation, so they are called hidden gods.
Legend has it that a very small number of the Hidden Gods are kind to the locals. They helped the people of Zero Island get through the most difficult period of time, and they are respected as the Nao Gods.
The terrible disaster god, the hidden hidden god, and the friendly direct god. These three types of gods are an important part of the local belief in Lingdao, and are collectively referred to as the eight million gods.
Due to the widespread primitive beliefs, religious organizations that worship gods and interpret divine will have great influence on Zero Island. They are the de facto ruling class. After the arrival of the empire, the local religious power of Lingdao was further strengthened: the Yongguang Empire brought a technology called the Impermanence Method, which gave Shenzhu and the witches truly powers that were different from ordinary people.
The local impermanent envoys of Lingdao were born in the extremely strong mythological atmosphere. They protect the country and slay dragons, sacrifice to the gods, and have overwhelming control over the secular government. All the impermanent magicians on Zero Island in the early days acted under the leadership of the same organization. This was the oldest and once most powerful impermanent law association on Zero Island: Qiyao Shinto.
The techniques of Qiyao Shinto originated from exchanges with the empire, and received a lot of help from imperial experts during the development process. Therefore, Zero Island under the rule of Qiyao Shinto has a very close relationship with the distant mainland, and there are often cultural exchanges between the two countries. Communication, talent circulation.
The situation on Lingdao has been in such a stable atmosphere for 1500 years...until the year 1709 of the Yongguang Calendar, the Disaster of False Light came to Lingdao.
This dragon disaster completely changed the appearance of Lingdao, and led the country to an incredible development direction.
Before the virtual light disaster struck, Zero Island was a complete crescent-shaped island with a total area of approximately 520,000 square kilometers. It was the second largest island in the world at that time. After the Void Light Dragon left this land, Lingdao lost more than one-fifth of its territory. The complete Crescent Moon was divided into three small islands, and each island became an island with the power of the dragon. It looked like there was no connection at all.
The local religious forces suffered an unprecedented blow during the Void Light Disaster, and the foundation of Qiyao Shinto was severely damaged. Another group of neglected people took this opportunity to step onto the stage of Zero Island. They are samurai who have been suppressed by Shinto forces for many years, businessmen who have never had great power, and who serve all high-ranking people but hide themselves. Ninja in the dark side.
Samurai, merchants, and ninjas, important figures from the three forces formed an alliance during this period, and a new organization born from the ancient soil emerged.
This is the official organization that still dominates Zero Island to this day...
Martial arts meeting and military front!
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After summarizing it by himself, Gongsun Ce thought he needed more details.
"Excuse me, Miss Alice?"
The hunter next door snorted.
"There is something really hard for me to understand..." Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses, "Why did the empire directly teach the impermanence method to the people of Lingdao at that time? Isn't this too generous?"
The Impermanence Method is a technology developed in response to the dragon phenomenon. According to conventional thinking, how could this technology be easily handed over to foreign forces? Even if they are not allowed to surrender, they still have to use a lot of rare treasures and other resources to get a place to study.
Alice rolled her eyes: "You are still a member of the empire, and you have even forgotten the basic national policy that your Eternal Light Empire has been talking about for two thousand years?"
Gongsun Ce replied without even thinking: "Unite all forces around the emperor, cast the eternal glory of human civilization, and move towards complete victory in the fight against the dragon."
Even kindergarten children can memorize these sentences.
Alice flipped through the magazine in front of her seat boredly: "Don't you understand this very well? This is what the Imperial people did in the ancient times. They really believed that dragon slaying was a cause for all mankind, so every time they went to a new place, they would Special personnel were left in the local area to teach the indigenous people about the knowledge of impermanence, and the position of 'walker' at the grassroots level of the ceremonial hall evolved from this incident."
The blue-haired woman enthusiastically started to popularize science: "Let me tell you, ancient travelers have been to more places than Lingdao. The impermanence method of the Nanyang Islands was taught by the imperial people during the second great opening period. The most interesting thing is The impermanent magicians of Usters, do you know where they came from?”
The corners of Gongsun Ce's eyes twitched, and he once again remembered the jokes the principal told in the elective class.
"I remember that the first contact between the ancient Ustus tribe and the empire was... a war?"
"That's right, the dragon disaster came in the middle of the battle between the troops on both sides, and the war ended without an end. As a result, during the peace talks between the two sides after the war, Emperor Yongguang said that the war on earth is over, and now the great empire will teach you how to resist the dragon. Mysterious technology." Alice beamed, "When I first heard this, I felt so outrageous. They really did it!"
One dared to teach and the other dared to learn, which made Gongsun Ce sincerely lament that the ancients thousands of years ago were really honest and simple, and repaid evil with kindness. In today's world, not to mention the emperor, even the monitor of a high school key class would not be so careless.
"I remember that the emperor at that time was Emperor Xing'an Chi Yuhuang. He was a wise king in the history books."
"The records in the history books are not wrong. Emperor Xing'an did not give the gift in vain, he negotiated the conditions. It is a pity that the gentlemen of Yongguang did not expect the ways the barbarians used to attack, and they gave them a solid trap. Us. The word Tesi was a joke that came out of the peace talks..."
Alice suddenly reacted when she saw Gongsun Ce's expression mid-sentence. She turned her head and made a cut: "Why am I telling you this!"
Aren’t you quite enjoying yourself?
If you think about it carefully, Alice Adar has always been a good teacher, and a considerable part of his basic understanding of the law of impermanence came from the other party's explanations. The gray-haired young man once again lamented that it would be great if Alice had always been Alice.
"Just do some popular science for your teammates. After all, the two of us have to act together. If I make a joke about common sense, your face will be shameful, right?"
"Hiss...you..."
This sentence subtly touched Rei Shigure's pain point, causing her to seriously struggle with it.
The superpower took the opportunity to ask: "Tell me more about Zero Island? For example, ninja, I always thought this was a profession that only existed in comics."
The word ninja brought an immediate reaction, Alice said without thinking: "Ninjas are a bunch of weirdos."
What kind of profession is it that makes you call it a weirdo?
Alice said with a headache: "First of all, they speak very strangely, and the way they think is even more... I don't know what to say, you will understand when you see a real ninja."
At this moment, a calm male voice came from the end of the aisle.
"——As for the introduction of ninjas, please let me come down and do it."
The gray-haired young man looked up and saw a middle-aged man wearing a white pilot uniform walking out of the cab.
"Good evening, both of you. I am the captain of this flight, Takuya Mori. The technology of Sky City is actually very advanced, and the Lightning Caterpillar has switched to autopilot. Please rest assured."
While introducing himself, the middle-aged captain gave a thoughtful reassurance: "The so-called ninjas are the impermanent magicians unique to Zero Island. Ninjas have mastered karate, judo, swordsmanship, hidden weapons, sumo wrestling, poisoning, etc. There are countless ways to kill people, and he also has expert-level attainments in the law of impermanence - he is a ruthless, iron-faced killer!"
Gongsun Ce nodded in cooperation: "It seems that ninjas are very powerful."
"Exactly! The two of you are bound to be hostile to Wuhui and Junfeng during this trip. Ninjas are the strongest combat force under the organization." The captain stretched out his hand to unfold a scroll and pointed to the simple drawings on it to introduce one by one, "Wuhui ·Junfeng divides ninjas into the following three levels, the Hundred-level Ninjas in the Lingzhao and Clear Realm, the Thousand-level Ninjas in the Tongshen Realm, and the Soul-cutting Level Ninjas who have reached the Appearance Realm.”
Captain Mori glanced at the blue-haired woman and said categorically, "As the leader of the ninja army, the soul-killing ninja is stronger than Shigure based on the comprehensive risk assessment!"
Alice sneered and made no comment, while Gongsun Ce echoed with a smile: "Ninjas are very strong!"
"Exactly, ninjas are very strong!" Maori replied seriously, "And life is very important! Because of this, I can't sit back and watch you go to Zero Island in an almost novice state without even understanding the basics!"
Gongsun Ce unbuckled his seat belt and stood in the aisle.
"If you have any suggestions, please feel free to tell me."
"Very happy."
The air beside Captain Mori was slightly distorted by the energy fluctuations. The orange-yellow color that appeared from nowhere turned into strips of cloth under the guidance of inner strength, and the arms and faceplate... turned into an orange-yellow ninja outfit with flame patterns embroidered on it!
Within 0.1 seconds, which was difficult to detect with the naked eye, the captain in uniform disappeared. What appeared in his place was a real ninja equipped with psychic weapons!
The ninja in orange ninja uniform clasped his hands together, bowed forward, and gave a sacred greeting before the start of the battle with etiquette that even the leader of the ninja army could not fault.
"Domo, Majin=san. I am a Thousand-forged level ninja of the former martial arts club Junfeng, Kuanghuo!"
With just this greeting, he completely believed Miss Alice's introduction.
...Ninjas are all weirdos.
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