The huge terrace of Fengxue Library is silent.
In the breathless silence, the great elder slowly told the whole story.
Even if you look at the entire Orange Islands, the Snowstorm Battle is one of the largest competitions. The need for a full live broadcast and the special competition method resulted in an unusually large number of staff. It took them two days to finally find out the identities of all the staff staying in Fengxue Mountain.
On the eve of the game, they temporarily added some staff to adjust the set due to the recent bad weather - and among these new employees, two appeared to have used forged identification documents. The Himi family, who noticed this, was about to send out men to control them, but then received news that someone had jumped off the cliff.
No one knows why the middle-aged man who used a false identity behaved like this. The surveillance video only captured him running wildly on the road, jumping off the cliff without hesitation, and disappearing into the endless ice, snow and fog. There is no doubt that for a human being who falls into a rocky place, the only path waiting for him is death.
As for the other person, on the night of the cliff falling incident, she fainted silently in her room. Although she was fine after being rescued, she seemed to have completely lost her memory for nearly a month and had no idea why she was in Snow Mountain Villa.
"——We found a broken spherical gray crystal on the amnesiac woman, which is very similar to the one found in the Valley of Flames. Judging from the abnormal behavior of these two people, perhaps they have been exerted strong mental control."
The old man paused before adding: "Although I know it is difficult."
People on the terrace looked at each other.
As we all know, it is not difficult for people or Pokémon with superpowers to temporarily interfere with the minds of others, but it is almost impossible to control a human for several days. What's more, no one has ever seen such people or Pokémon appear in Snowstorm Mountain.
The information they obtained at the moment was too little to make any guesses, so they had no choice but to put their conjectures aside for the time being.
"Next, about the black ships in the rift."
The third elder took over the topic.
The dedicated villain in the script is responsible for investigating the mysterious black ship - he said that the sound wave transmitter on board is connected to the remote control system. However, when the transmitter was about to be destroyed by Eolup, the self-destruct command from afar turned all the precision instruments into ruins. It was almost impossible to find any clues or even trace the source of the signal. The analysis of the shipwreck is still continuing, and perhaps some useful clues can be obtained in the future.
The elders reported the progress of the investigation one by one, and then looked at the only person with a different skin color present.
The charred middle-aged man scratched his head, as if he couldn't figure out why everyone was looking at him.
Sandy said helplessly: "Mr. Relf, although we already know roughly what kind of technology the enemy uses, young people have not yet understood it."
"Oh, oh." Ralph suddenly realized, "It's easy to say, I was thinking that children don't like to listen to this stuff. So let me start with the new definition of GR filter technology -"
Night:"……"
Yang Yu: "Huh?"
Karl: "...Mr. Relf, let's cut the story short and get straight to the conclusion?"
The excited Jiao Tan immediately drooped his eyebrows.
"Okay." The second elder waved his hand and finally took back the words he was accustomed to using in the society's speeches.
With Ralph's restraint and the tribesmen's efforts in translation, the three young men barely understood what he said.
As everyone knows, the Himi family once restored the ancient ice puppet technology and used the results in the snowstorm battle; and what the enemy did - manipulating the giant ice elephant, was essentially the same as Himi's ancient books The technology documented in has the same origin. Perhaps the only difference is that the Himi family has only restored a small part of the ancient mysterious skills from incomplete documents, while their enemies seem to have never lost the knowledge from thousands of years ago. The sound waves of the giant beast are changing. It moves freely, almost as if it has been given life. At least for today's Himi family, that is simply unimaginable.
As for the "ice explosion" that began to appear before the game started, the investigation finally has some clues.
Relf explained that the essence of ice blast is the same as ice puppet technology, which is to manipulate ice energy through sounds of different frequencies. After repeated experiments, the Himi family has determined that extremely dangerous phenomena such as "ice explosions" can only occur in strong, vast and stable energy fields, and the "violent frequency" is different in each location. Looking at the entire Orange Islands and even the entire Alliance, there are very few places like Fengxue Mountain where the energy field remains unchanged for many years. There is basically no need to worry about encountering similar situations in the future.
After finishing his story, Ralph sighed.
"Sorry, it was our negligence that made the burden finally fall on you children."
The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and rubbed Yang Yu and Karl's heads vigorously several times until their hair styles looked like thousand-needle fish. Xiaoye, who was sitting on the edge, was just glad that she could probably escape with her hood on, when she saw the big black hand reaching out and hitting her on the back of the head several times.
"..."
The dizzy trainer looked at each other and her two fried friends, and silently moved their chairs further away.
"Speaking of which, before I had time to ask, why did you come so quickly?" Sandy cast his probing eyes on the two red-haired people, "——Don't bother me about feeling the breath, from Frozen Bird It only took two minutes from the time I showed up to the time you guys arrived."
Yang Yu, who was arranging his hair, looked up at Uncle Jingmu. Seeing that he showed no objection, he smiled and said, "Actually, Niyu-sama had noticed something unusual the day before. So we have been paying attention to the live broadcast and saw As soon as the ice elephant appeared, we set off and rushed here."
As he said that, the red-haired boy turned his smiling eyes to Xiaoye. The Himi clan members also looked over, with expressions of astonishment on their faces, which made Beidou himself look like a question mark.
She opened her mouth hesitantly, wondering what this matter had to do with herself. However, before she could speak out, the Lord of Fengxue Mountain had already changed the subject in a hurry.
"Beidou, Karl. You two were at the front line at the time. Did you notice anything along the way?"
The two looked at each other. Seeing the ice-haired boy making a "please first" gesture, Xiao Ye said: "I don't know if this is useful information - during the entire battle, no human breath was detected near the mountain top. The enemy most likely remotely monitors the situation in the Canglan Lake area through some means and controls the giant elephant accordingly."
Third Elder Morton nodded after hearing this.
"We did find the remains of a drone on the mountain that did not belong to us, and that could be part of the enemy's 'eye'."
——Unfortunately, even the drones have been blasted mercilessly, making it extremely difficult to identify the model, and even more difficult to find useful clues.
"besides--"
The adventurer took out a burnt black block.
Not long after the game started, she once encountered a crazed Pangolin in the monster tide in the Warcraft Forest. This was the miniature player that fell from the Pokémon. Although she had already reported this matter to Sandy, she had not yet had time to hand over the player to the lord - now that she thought about it, this was probably a trap deliberately set to muddy the waters.
"Speaking of the player, Clive and I also found similar things when we went down the mountain to investigate." Karl continued, "I rechecked the photos and videos last night and found a lot of doubts that I had not noticed before. I’ll sort out the information and send it to everyone later.”
After the exchange of information, everyone became increasingly aware that they were facing an enemy with strange, unfathomable but extremely dangerous methods. Even though the opponent has made two consecutive attacks, both the Flame Valley and the Snow Wind Mountain seem to have fallen into mist, unable to grasp any clues at all.
Even the only definite motive, "to destroy the bond between humans and gods," is puzzling. Even if humans and mythical beasts hate each other and no longer interact with each other, what good will it do to the shadows behind the scenes?
The anxious atmosphere lasted only a brief moment. Within minutes, Sandy was clapping her hands.
"Okay, let's end the heavy topic here. I will inform you of any new developments in the future." The lord of Fengxue Mountain said, temporarily putting a stop to the post-war meeting.
The Himi people also knew that there was little point in thinking hard, so they immediately resumed the task of tasting snacks. It wasn't until the food on the long table was cleared away that people got up and walked out of the top floor of the library in twos and threes.
"Although you may be tired of hearing this - I still want to thank you on behalf of the Himi family."
Before leaving, Third Elder Morton bowed lightly to the young trainer.
The middle-aged man who played the villain so lifelikely now relaxed his eyebrows and looked at the stranger who once turned the tide with the gentlest look.
"I've seen your physical examination report. It's better to get more rest in the past two days." He paused, recalling the tragic injuries that were glimpsed at the end of the war, and then looked at the young man's expression and added, " Don’t be afraid, we will provide the best medical resources and will never leave you with any sequelae.”
Xiaoye quickly removed her serious expression from being immersed in the intelligence analysis of the mastermind behind the scenes, and smiled at the third elder, "Thank you for your concern. I'm not worried about this. It's just..."
Before she could elaborate on the enemy's purpose, future precautions, etc., the "gentleest look" of the third elder suddenly turned dark immediately.
"What? How can you not worry!!"
Xiao Ye, who was about to leave the terrace, was caught and talked about for almost twenty minutes. From how to cultivate the body after the war to a thousand nutritional supplements for broken bones, Xiao Ye was so confused that she didn't know where she was. There was also a sense of familiarity in the trance.
Not long ago... yes, it was in the Valley of Flames.
Had she heard the same thing...?
The instigator at that time, Kabara Yasumi, glanced at Saya who was being caught nagging non-stop, turned around and walked away without any sympathy.
It wasn't until Karl couldn't help laughing and stepped forward to change the subject that the third elder reluctantly stopped preaching.
Xiaoye quickly changed directions with lingering fear and decided to go downstairs from the other side of the exit. As soon as she walked to the door, she saw Sandy standing behind the tall bookshelf, frowning and flipping through the ancient books in his hands.
Hearing the footsteps, the lord of Fengxue Mountain raised his head and waved to the person.
"Beidou, there happens to be something I forgot to tell you."
The adventurer in white walked between the bookshelves. The smell of old paper flowed into his nose along with the fragrance of flowers, making the little Piqiu in his pocket sneeze slightly.
"Do you remember what was written in Morton's diary?"
Xiaoye was stunned for a moment before she realized, "You mean the diary in the story?"
"That's right." The young lord nodded, "After the kind and righteous elders in the past came into contact with ancient magic, their minds gradually sank into it, losing themselves, and even abandoning the family they once valued - these are just scripts The plot is set in the movie.”
"But, have you ever heard that the same thing happened in reality?"
Seeing the trainer's eyes widen slightly, Sandy closed the ancient book in his hand and put it aside casually.
In fact, "magic messes with people's minds" is not just a fictional story.
As we all know, in the "Glory Era" that was thousands of years ago, there were many strange magic spells that existed in the land beneath our feet. At that time, people did not understand the habits and moves of Warcraft, and they did not have any advanced technological products. However, they relied on their own strength to build cities in the wasteland surrounded by ferocious beasts.
It is said that in ancient times, humans were able to control the wind and rain, peer into the past and present, make flexible puppets out of ice, and even give life to cold metal and soil. The writing that records these strange technologies is now called "Ubo hieroglyphics", also known as "God's language".
"You should know that Ubo hieroglyphs are words that were born by humans to describe the figure of an unknown totem. Unlike today's Alliance language, Ubo hieroglyphs seem to have elusive spiritual power in themselves, which will gradually contaminate frequent contact with them. People. In the past, many scholars who studied ancient civilizations suffered from mental illness, and even completely fell into madness and could not wake up. Therefore, the Pokémon League established a law decades ago that without permission, any No one is allowed to pry into the blank history of thousands of years ago."
"If you come into contact with them in the future, please proceed with caution and do not delve deeper."
The girl nodded slightly, taking the elder's warning to heart.
And Sandy's expression became more serious.
"So now, I have an important thing to ask of you."
Xiaoye heard the impending storm from the other party's tone. She raised her head and listened solemnly to the Lord of Snow Wind Mountain's request.
"——The edited version of the game will be online soon, and you have to help shoot a few more shots."
Night:"……"
Night:"?"
"That's right, just keep this position and don't move - OK! Okay, next line!"
Beidou stood up silently in front of the green screen.
Alright alright. Although Lord Sandy's "so" seems to have nothing to do with the first half of the conversation, helping people to the end, and the smooth and smooth game video also help to conceal the truth of the matter, don't they.
"Is it enough to just repeat what I said at that time?" Xiaoye glanced at the script book and secretly felt lucky that the "contestant Beidou, who is ruthless and doesn't talk much" didn't say a few words during the whole battle, and the workload was far less than that. Half of the Terashima siblings next door.
"You also have to look cool!" The photographer gave the adventurer a thumbs up.
"What about the combat part?"
"Well, I can't trouble you with this. We have a stuntman."
The photographer pointed to the snow in the distance. Between the rocks, there is an adventurer in white running in the cold wind.
Xiao Ye was stunned as the man turned over and jumped up, quickly avoiding the flying boulders.
——The light purple hair under the hood fluttered in the wind, and the eyes behind the mask shone coldly in the wind and snow. That face is exactly the same as hers!
Xiaoye couldn't help but rub her eyes. When he looked over again, the adventurer in white had disappeared, leaving only a soft pink creature jumping around.
"... Variety Monster?"
"Yes, that's one of our family's ace actors."
"I see. I thought it was human just now."
The photographer burst into laughter upon hearing this.
"What are you talking about? How can a human being do such an action?"
"..."
Xiaoye, who was expelled from the human race, was speechless for a moment. Looking at the cheerful smiling face of the photographer, she just chose to be autistic like Clive.
After reciting a few lines with a strange and weird look, Xiaoye's reshooting work quickly ended, and she walked away under the envious eyes of Terashima's sister and brother.
At this time, Jing Mu was being pulled around by Yang Yu to visit. The red-haired boy curiously looked at the stuntmen and monsters, and even almost thought that Xiaoye, who was approaching, was one of them - Xiaoye really didn't want to remember when she greeted her friends, but she was greeted with a "How could you actually do that"? Talk!?" How did you feel when you spoke?
Seeing that the sun was rising, the three of them went to have lunch together. Later, a call from the doctor forced Xiaoye to pause her wandering and return to the hospital.
The dedicated nurses pushed the young man back into the medical cabin and kept her for several hours before releasing her. Thanks to their supersaturation treatment, the adventurer's serious injuries were basically completely healed, and even the broken The leg bones are so strong that it can kick three ivory pigs away. It is difficult to recover from the overdraft of physical strength immediately, and it may take a few more days to get rid of the torturous feeling of weakness.
——Of course, for Beidou, a southerner, this does not seem to cause any trouble.
By the time she walked out of the hospital, it was already dark.
The western skyline was dyed red by the setting sun, but a few stars were already emerging in the east. Warm and cold tones meet above the head, creating a breathtakingly beautiful gradient.
The lanterns of the snow-shrouded town began to light up. Thousands of lights illuminated the white snow, and even the cold wind became warm and pleasant.
A contestant who looked familiar ran past the hospital door and waved to Xiaoye.
"Hey, the celebration party is about to start. If you don't hurry up, you'll be late!"
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small theater:
Ralph: They don’t even want to see me in the text, so they just kicked me here to hang out. So does anyone want to hear my new definition of GR filtering technology? (Aggrieved Baba)
