Caesar looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.
There was a violent turbulence in the air, just like the heat rising from the hot asphalt road in midsummer, and everything within sight froze for an instant.
A drop of water fell on his exposed skin, freezing to the bone.
Caesar took a step back and looked up. The outer glass wall of the breeding pond was filled with water droplets at some point. The water vapor in the room was suddenly so thick that it couldn't be added.
"The Nibelungs," Chu Zihang whispered, "We have entered the Nibelungs!"
"Nibelungen?" Caesar was stunned.
Strictly speaking, he was the only one of the three Japanese team members who had never been to the Nibelungen. As for the time under the deep sea, he could not tell whether it was the Nibelungen for the time being, because Takamagahara is a real city.
"There is nothing but rich water vapor. Is this the Nibelung?" Caesar's eyes narrowed.
"There is currently no assertion about the Nibelungen," Chu Zihang said. "No one can tell whether it is an alien space or an illusion. The Nibelungen I have been to is more like an extension of the human world."
"An extension of the human world?"
"It's very similar to the human world, but fundamentally different. For example, the Nibelungen in the BJ subway. Later, the college found Fenrir's hidden cave, which was an abandoned military train warehouse. The one in Lu Mingfei's report
Space has been destroyed, but it is intact in the real world." Chu Zihang whispered, "The Nibelungs are a modified human world, a paradoxical space, between reality and illusion. If
When you find that the rules around you are changing, then the Nibelungs are opening up."
"Like these water mist?"
"One thing you may not know is that some time ago Professor Guderian put forward a new perspective on the connection between the Nibelungs and the present world."
"Really? I really don't know this!" Caesar said in surprise.
"Well, you and Lu Mingfei are equally matched in this respect. You can escape from classes if you can, let alone lectures." Chu Zihang said calmly,
"In that lecture, Professor Guderian believed that the power controlled by the dragons was nothing more than speech and alchemy, while the Nibelungs were a creation based on alchemy and a distorted real world. If you want to enter or leave the Nibelungs,
Bolongan must pass through some kind of interface, and water is a very suitable interface, and mirrors are also excellent interfaces.”
"There are many records in history of demons being sealed in mirrors or demons using mirrors as a medium to attack humans. Professor Guderian believes that this may be some kind of 'communication' between the Nibelungs and the real world through the mirror."
Caesar suddenly realized: "I understand, wait..."
His face suddenly became ugly.
"It's been raining heavily in Tokyo these days. Could it be that..."
Chu Zihang looked at Yuan Zhennu's back and said in a low voice: "Not necessarily, this all has something to do with him now. I think he will give us an answer."
Caesar nodded after hearing this and said nothing more.
They stood side by side behind Yuan Zhennu, carefully watching everything around them.
Sudden.
"Did you hear any strange noises?" Caesar asked.
Chu Zihang closed his eyes and listened carefully, but he could only hear the sound of water droplets clinging to the glass wall.
"There are footsteps all around, and something is approaching us." Caesar said with a grim expression.
He did hear incredible sounds coming from all directions, including the glass wall in front of him. It seemed that vines were growing rapidly, and tentacle-like twigs penetrated deep into the wall structure, disintegrating the building.
Something is invading here, coming from all directions!
But the question is, how could there be footsteps coming from in front of him?!
He stared straight ahead. The water in the pool inside the glass wall was rippling. The dead waiters in the breeding pool seemed to have felt something, and the whole tank was stirred as if they were frightened.
How could the sound of footsteps so clearly and so close be heard in such a glass pool filled with water?
There are also noises coming from all directions, as if someone is wandering around here, but this research institute is built at least tens of meters underground. Only the internal elevator can directly reach it. It is surrounded by rock layers. What can be done in this kind of place?
Wandering around the place?
Is this the Nibelungen?
Chu Zihang was right. The Nibelungs are a product between reality and illusion, just like another dimension. They overlap but do not overlap.
But now this dimension is coming, gradually overlapping with the real world!
These footsteps are undoubtedly coming from the Nibelungs. What is there in the Nibelungs? Humans? Or Deadpool?
Caesar was startled and doubtful. He expanded the territory of Kamitachi to the extreme. The world in his ears became more and more delicate and vast as the sound was dismantled.
His hearing is extending to the invisible world.
Water drops dripping onto the surface, the restless noises of the Deadpools, the sound of heavy footsteps getting closer and closer, the sharp friction of the blade across the ground...
And the low, beast-like howls coming from all directions!
"What sound do I hear?" Caesar asked in a low voice.
"They are hunters, creatures between humans and dragons. You also call them deadpools. Some of them have been wandering in the Night Food Plain for hundreds of years, and some may have been for thousands of years, or even longer.
Some may have become demonized.”
The young girl stood in front of the glass wall and raised her head. It seemed as if there were golden mandala flowers blooming deep in the hole.
"They are called 'hunters' because they only have the instinct of hunting, which is determined by the bloodthirsty genes of dragons. They were the ghosts of the eight Sheqi families for generations during their lives. The former eight Sheqi families
It was even more cruel than it is now. Once a ghost is born among the blood descendants, the ghost will be thrown into the Night Food Plateau. In modern times, after the merger with the world and the cultural fusion, differences arose within the family. In the end, this system was abandoned and ghosts were replaced.
Being imprisoned in the mountains, even though they are in prison, they have a chance of survival."
"What the hell did you open?"
"You two must have been to the deep sea and witnessed Takamagahara under the sea."
"Yes, does it have anything to do with this?"
"Yoroshihara is the opposite of Takamagahara, the city in the mirror. It is far less famous than Takamagahara, but it does exist. The myth says that after Inzenagi gave birth to three children, he ordered Amaterasu to guard Takamagahara, and his order was Zuo
The man who guarded the sea frontier, and the place given to Tsukuyomi to manage was the Night Food Plain, which is the kingdom of night, a world without light. Anyone who knows this myth will remember Takamagahara, because it is the residence of the gods and the sun.
The place where the sky rises, but no one cares about the Night Food Plain, because the purpose of the Night Food Plain is not mentioned at all in the myth. But if the gods all live in Takamagahara, then there is no light in the Night Food Plain.
What are you wearing?"
"The world of the dead..." After a long silence, Chu Zihang whispered.
In the field of alchemy, the Nibelungs are synonymous with the world of the dead, which contains endless alchemical raw materials.
"Yes, the so-called Food of the Night was originally the kingdom of the dead, that is, the Nibelungs."
"Did you open this Nibelung?" Chu Zihang asked.
"To be precise, I just woke it up." Yuan Zhennu said softly, "Emperor's blood is a curse. Everyone who possesses imperial blood can communicate with the Food of the Night. If the history recorded by the family is correct,
Then what maintains this Nibelung root is neither dragons nor humans, but a huge alchemical matrix."
"Alchemical Matrix?"
"Yes, it is almost the ultimate in alchemy. The Nibelung roots maintained by it will not collapse over time. It is just sleeping, waiting to be opened, and the royal blood is the key to unlock it."
"Are you opening it now to banish these dead warriors?" Caesar listened to the footsteps getting closer and closer to his ears, and found that the corpse guards in the breeding pond were becoming more riotous and even fighting each other.
"They have completely degenerated into deadpools. There is no way to save them. I can only send them to where they should go."
Yuan Zhennu turned her head and smiled, but his face was extremely pale.
"Speaking of which, this is the first time I have tried to actively communicate with the Alchemy Matrix, and the Alchemy Matrix actually responded to me..."
…
…
"Water is the medium of the Night Food. The thing that can merge the two worlds is water. It is said in ancient books that when the Night Food is opened to the human world, a great tide will wash through Tokyo, and the moon in the sky will be black.
.”
"Where is Night Eater Dream?"
"Where is the Night Food?" Uesugoshi laughed strangely and pointed at his feet, "It's right here. The most dangerous and prosperous place in Japan is right under your feet."
"You said earlier that the eight Sheqi families in the past dynasties imprisoned their clansmen whose bloodline was out of control in the Night Food Plain?" Ange cursed in a low voice, "How many of you have descended from Deadpool? How many of you are you using as a Nibelung?"
Roots as prisons?”
"
Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands?" Master Yue scratched his head and said, "Anyone whose bloodline is out of control has been removed from the family tree. We don't know how many people were sent to the Night Food Plain before. And because of their pure bloodline,
, most of them may not have died completely until now, but have turned into zombie-like creatures, unconsciously killing everything they see."
"What will be the consequences if the Night Food Plain is completely opened?" Ange's face was already extremely ugly.
"According to family history, once the passage between the Night Food Plain and the human world is opened, without Tsukuyomi to guard it, the walking dead who are hungry for flesh and hate life will rush out like a swarm of locusts and flood the entire Tokyo!" Uesugi!
Yue sighed.
Ange finally breathed a sigh of relief: "This is the first good news I heard tonight. So we only need to find Lu Mingfei, and we will not be afraid of the invasion of the Night Food Plain."
"No, this is just the beginning." Uesugoshi said in a deep and deep voice, "The emperor's blood can awaken the night food source, but to truly open its door, the only way is to obtain the holy bones. Once the night food source is truly opened,
Proves that someone has obtained the holy remains!"
"What exactly are the sacred remains?"
"The bones and blood of the White King, whoever gets it will gain the power of the White King, but we suspect that the spiritual will of the White King is also hidden in it. The last person to get the holy bones was Suzuo Noo, who slaughtered the Yamata-no-Orochi,
The holy bones were obtained from the body of the big snake, and eventually the brothers and sisters teamed up and sank into the sea."
"Sounds like a very dangerous thing." Ange nodded slightly, "But we are not ready for a decisive battle with King Bai yet. Can it be postponed?"
"This is just a precursor. The White King has not really awakened yet, but you should act quickly. Generally speaking, the royal blood can indeed awaken the food source of the night, but this refers to the ancestors of the first generation. Since the death of the ancient priests,
No one can enter and exit the Night Food Plain on their own, and even sensing the descendants of the Emperor's bloodline is extremely difficult, let alone opening the door."
Speaking of this, Uesugi glanced at Minamoto Chisheng and said rudely: "Now I believe you are truly the emperor. The only thing I am curious about is who your cheap father and mother are."
Yuan Zhisheng smiled bitterly.
He stood up solemnly and stood in front of Angers, "Principal, even if we cannot form an alliance, we can still interact at the information level and exchange intelligence with each other."
"In what capacity are you talking to me now?"
"Yuan Zhisheng, an outstanding graduate of the 03-level advanced training class."
Angers raised his eyebrows: "You admit that you are my student now?"
"I have never denied it." Yuan Zhisheng said slowly, "The time I studied at Kassel College was short, but it was an unforgettable time for me. I also received your president's scholarship."
"Unforgettable? Just because you are far away from that past?" Angers shook his head and said, "After so many years, you are still chased by the past and still obsessed with your righteousness. What is the difference between you and Ahe? In my eyes
It’s full of kids who haven’t grown up yet.”
Yuan Zhisheng was startled: "What are you talking about?"
"Have you forgotten? The afternoon you were invited to have tea with me, I suggested that we enjoy some old whiskey, and we ended up drinking three bottles. You asked me, smelling of alcohol, how much a person could pay for justice.
Woolen cloth?"
"...I don't remember." Yuan Zhisheng murmured.
A flash of lightning flashed across his mind like a dark night, and what Sakurai Akira asked him on behalf of someone on the train that day echoed in his mind -
Mr. Yuan, what exactly is justice? How much can a person pay to protect an important person?
He was suddenly filled with shock.
"Then you must have forgotten my answer, right?" Angre said calmly.
"...Can you tell me one more time?" Yuan Zhisheng said with a pale face.
"Do you really need me to say it again?" Ange said with deep meaning, "I think I have said enough tonight."
Minamoto was left sitting alone at the table, lost in thought. Ange raised his glass to Ugasugoshi, "Old bastard, the land you own has something to do with the Night Food, right?"
Uesugoshi was silent for a moment and nodded: "Yes, the Food of the Night is actually a Nibelung root. It was created by the blood descendants of the original White King. The power source that maintains it is a huge alchemical matrix, and this
The fundamental core of the alchemical matrix is the holy skeleton in the well of corpses."
"But now the holy bones in the well of corpses have been taken away. Things like the Night Food Plain, which are maintained by giant alchemical matrix, can exist for thousands of years, but they are not eternal. They will eventually collapse."
"The collapse process opens an unstable gateway to the real world."
"This street is one of the passages. It is exactly at the intersection of the real world and the Night Food Plain. It is the gate to the human world and the dragon world, as well as the gate to the world of the living and the world of the dead." This chapter has been completed!