Knownes hung up the call and threw the phone into the undulating waves of the night.
"Hey, old man, how long do you have to row? You'd be dead if you changed to a yacht!" The woman turned around and said in disgust.
She was standing on the bow of a small boat.
"That will scare it." The priest sitting in the stern of the boat in charge of the ferry shook his head and said, "It is naturally timid and doesn't like noise. If it were a yacht, the sound of the engine would scare it into the deep sea just a few kilometers away.
"
"Are you sure you're talking about the sea monster Leviathan, which is as famous as Behemoth?" Knowns asked curiously, "By the way, the world has been restarted so many times, how can it still be alive?"
"There are many rumors in the world, but how many people have seen the real Leviathan?" the priest asked, and then sighed, "It's not the same as before."
Knowns didn't let go of rabbits when he saw them, and the priest was annoyed by the questions, so he had no choice but to say: "You have always been to the ice cellar at Kassel College, right?"
"The ice cellar you're talking about that even rats can invade?" Knownes blinked.
"Well... although the defense system needs to be investigated, the intention is still worthy of recognition." The priest shrugged, "The ice cellar preserves more than 120,000 species of plants, 8,000 species of animals, as well as a large number of embryos, pollen and seeds.
All human civilization, as well as the knowledge of alchemy and speech spirits, are sealed there. It can be said that it is a Noah's Ark secretly built by the secret party."
Norns raised his hand and said angrily: "Return Noah's Ark, and I warn you to stop advertising your old club! On the day of the cycle, everything will restart, and a base buried slightly deeper underground will connect the first wave of the earth's crust."
If you can't even survive the "Eagle Takes Off", how can you expect the Humankind Fire Recovery Plan?"
"Don't be so impatient." The priest said calmly, "This can be regarded as the secret party's good hope. After all, they don't know the horror of the 'cycle'. In addition, the Ark plan is not just a legend. We really prepared a six-square ark back then.
, to restart the fire of civilization after the disaster.”
Knowns suddenly said: "Do you still have time to prepare six similar gene bank bases? Someone told you about the arrival of the cycle?"
"No." The priest shook his head and said, "No one told us. It's just that my superior predicted the disaster and made corresponding preparations. But unfortunately, the first five bases failed without exception."
Knownes was silent for a while, then flexed his fingers and said seriously: "I'm not good at math. Can you teach me what six minus five equals?"
The priest smiled and said: "Six minus five equals one."
Norns stood on the bow of the boat and looked sideways, the sea breeze blowing in her face ruffling her long hair, revealing her white and delicate bare shoulders.
On the dark and empty sea, the boat rises and falls with the waves. The sea tonight contains great uneasiness, as if the restless devil on the bottom of the sea is about to break the seal, and all this will subside in an instant. In just a blink of an eye, there is no wind on the sea.
There were no waves, and even the silent moonlight falling from the sky was frozen at this moment. There was a great majesty radiating from the boat to all directions.
Within the sea area with a radius of ten kilometers, everything is silent.
"Where is the last place?" The cold voice sounded as high as falling from the sky, and the woman's eyes staring at the priest were deeper than the sea at night.
The priest slowly swung the oar, breaking the frozen tranquility.
"Why do you think I have been living until now? And why can I survive the cycle of the past?" He asked without answering, then narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I am just a poor migrant worker, but I am not as good a father as someone else.
.”
Knowns slowly frowned his beautiful brows, and said with some surprise and a somewhat reasonable tone:
"You are the sixth ark?!"
The priest slowly paddled the paddle and said: "Yes, I am the last 'ice cellar' of the second era. You can also understand it as the fire in the 'fire recovery plan'. There should be nothing surprising, right? You and I... There’s no difference in any sense.”
Knowns narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "What do you mean?"
"We have been friends for so many years, why do we do this again?" the priest said dumbly, "Besides, when your father made the final decision, I was actually there, and I even suggested to him that we should be used as a reference, but He glanced at me, rejected it directly, and finally chose the current path."
Norns's eyes were a little distracted, and at that moment he returned to the end of that year, where everything had not yet begun...
"Do you know why he rejected you after just one glance?" Knownes said suddenly.
The priest's eyes narrowed, and the corners of his mouth twitched as he said, "I'm not curious about the answer, so you don't have to tell me."
Norns smiled and didn't intend to miss any point that hit him.
"Looking at your appearance, I can tell that your plan has failed. You still have to keep the plan. No matter how stupid my dad is, he will never take a path that has proven to be a failure."
The priest glanced at her and said, "Speak as if the path you have chosen has been successful."
"At least it hasn't failed yet." Norns said with a smile, "Then Leviathan is your creation?"
"Creation is out of the question." The priest shook his head and said, "I just released a piece of preserved genetic information. I'm not sure whether it can transform into 'Leviathan' in the end, but it seems to have been successful now."
"What about Behemoth and Sheets?" Knownes tilted his head.
The priest laughed and said: "There is no area on the earth where they live, and only the vastness of the ocean can prevent them from being discovered by humans."
"Have you ever tried this in our time?" Knownes asked curiously.
"Yes, but it failed." The priest sighed. "There is a mysterious force that is preventing the species of the previous generation from coming back to the world."
"Then in this life..." Norns' brows gradually became serious.
"I don't know." The priest said frankly, "I don't know what the situation is in this life, but if this life is the final destination, then nothing will happen. Maybe one day, the world tree in your imagination can really Open the sky, and countless undead souls hidden in the ideal land will have a chance to be reborn."
Norns turned back silently and said nothing. He just stood quietly on the bow of the boat blowing the sea breeze in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Why are you telling him this?"
The priest at the stern ferry asked suddenly, changing the topic back to the beginning in an instant.
"What can't you say?" Knowns stretched lazily and said with a smile, "I am looking forward to that day."
The priest was silent for a moment and asked: "Do you really think that one day he can stand in front of those people and ask what is right or wrong?"
"Everyone is different in this world. Even if some people pat their chests and say beautiful words, they still give people a feeling of frivolity and unreliability. And some people, even if they never promise or swear, just say casually, But it's enough to make people believe from the bottom of their hearts that he can do it. Coincidentally, my boy, Zihang, is the latter." Knowns smiled brightly.
The priest raised his brows and said thoughtfully: "That's true. Chu Zihang is... indeed very interesting. However, he is still a little weak. He alone cannot achieve this step. Even if he reaches those places in the future,
In front of people, I'm afraid it's just a joke in their eyes."
The woman standing next to him lifted up her long hair that was blown by the sea breeze and smiled slightly.
"Isn't there still me here? Everyone really regards me as a mascot?"
…
…
"Say it again." Nissos clasped his hands together, resting them on his chin, and said with a smile.
The man on the screen trembled, and his smile was worse than crying: "Boss... You really can't blame us for this... This time it's clear that it was a trap set by Odin for us."
"Odin has set a trap for you, and you have to step on it? Are you the actors he hired to play me?" Nithos said in a gentle tone.
The man was as silent as a cicada.
"Where's that idiot Lao Liu?" Nissos gradually put away the smile on his face and said coldly.
"...Sixth brother is missing." The man said calmly.
"Missing?!" Nissos' tone suddenly increased by ten points, "Why don't you disappear with me?"
"Am I not allowed to come back and report to you?" the man said with an apologetic smile.
Nissus just stared at him.
The man wiped his sweat, but finally couldn't hold on anymore and muttered: "Brother Six... was kidnapped."
"Kidnapped? Who, Odin?" Nissos said calmly.
"According to surveillance... it's a woman." The man said cautiously.
"A woman?" Nissos said with an angry smile, "A third-generation pure-blooded dragonborn was kidnapped by a woman? Are you sure you weren't seduced?"
"Brother Six was attacked by Odin in the beginning and was seriously injured. That's why..." The man tried hard to defend Brother Six who was kidnapped.
"That's enough." Nissos stood up suddenly and came to the screen, "Don't tell me, you haven't even investigated each other's identity until now."
"...We didn't find out." The man held it in for a while and said, "But we found out the whereabouts of her and another group of suspicious people. They all returned to the port of Chicago."
Nissos took a deep breath to make sure he wouldn't be pissed to death by these idiots.
"Where did the other group come from?"
"Well, they are a man and a woman. We checked their identities on board the ship. The man's name is Xia Zihang and the woman's name is Chu Mi." The man quickly pulled out two photos from the side.
"Xia Zihang, Chu Mi?" Nissos frowned, feeling a little familiar.
He fixedly looked at the man and woman on the projection screen, and suddenly snapped his fingers, "Fujin, check the identities of these two people in the database for me."
A chaotic stream of data instantly appeared on the projection screen, and soon, a cold female voice sounded.
"Male, Chu Zihang, a prospective junior student at Cassel College, the new ace in the executive department...Female, Xia Mi, a prospective sophomore student at Cassel College, her identity is questionable..."
Nissos slowly turned his head, looked at the man on the screen, and said expressionlessly: "I will board the plane to Chicago in an hour. I hope you can kneel down to greet me with your head on your head."
The man was shocked and said: "Boss, you want to go out personally? Isn't this inappropriate?"
"If I don't take action, who do you expect to save that idiot Lao Liu? Could it be that I'm counting on you guys who can't even tell the ace of Kassel's execution department?" Nissos cursed in a calm tone.
"But..." the man hesitated.
"But if you, you stupid little loser, keep forcing me to get off the plane, I will take you..."
Nissos enjoys the most extreme bad breath with the dullest tone.
"But Mr. Lu Mingfei, who you focused on reminding us of, is already on the plane to Chicago."
The man finally spoke out and carefully looked at the boss's expression.
Nithos fell silent for a moment.
"Fujin, help me send a message to Mr. Mars and ask him if he is free tomorrow. I want to visit his winery." Nissos turned around and raised his hand to order.
"Process it immediately..." A synthesized electronic female voice sounded in the room, "Unfortunately, Mr. Mars replied that he has not been at the winery recently and cannot receive you."
"I'll be back in a second." Nissos sighed and waved his hand, "Lao Jiu, go ahead and buy a good tomb for Lao Liu. I'll tell everyone to go burn incense sticks for Lao Liu when they are free."
"...Brother, aren't you going to save Brother Six?" the man called Lao Jiu asked with wide eyes.
"Save? How to save?" Nissos raised his head and glanced at the clock, "I will have a dance later. I remember that Lao Liu's lifelong dream is to become the dance king of the dance. I will try my best to realize this wish for him. You guys
Let’s just treat him as dead from now on.”
"...Brother, what if Brother Six betrays us?" Lao Jiu whispered.
Nissos's expression suddenly became solemn. He jumped up from the seat he had just sat down in angrily, and glared: "Why didn't you fucking tell me earlier?!"
"Fujin, please contact me the resident committee member of the Presbyterian Church. I want to apply to return to the Presbyterian Hall to worship my father!"
"OK."
"That so-and-so, Lao Jiu, informed everyone to lurk. I hope to see you alive at the next gathering!"
…
…
"Nithos's men were attacked by Odin?"
Mars looked thoughtfully at the message sent by Fujin, the artificial intelligence controlled by the Presbyterian Church.
"Chicago?" Mars raised his brows, called up a map projection of the whole world, and asked, "Has there been any change in His Majesty's movements recently?"
"He bought a flight to Chicago in an hour."
"No wonder." Mars sighed: "Who said that Nissos is a clown who can only tell bad jokes? Isn't this quite smart? Emotions have been acting before?"
He shook his head, pondered for a moment and then suddenly said: "Fujin, what are the recent developments at the top level in Kassel?"
"According to our latest information, the Kassel School Board will add two new directors, and the next school board meeting has been put on the agenda."
"Two of you?"
"One is from the Sheqi Bajia family, and the other has actually been a member of the school board for a long time, but has never appeared in any meetings before."
Mars was silent for a long time and said: "Investigate the information about this school board member at all costs. If the authority is insufficient, ask Mr. Edjo for it. If he doesn't agree, tell him that I may have found important discoveries about His Majesty's awakening.
"
"Okay, we are processing it. It is expected to take two hours and thirty-seven minutes."
Mars nodded and suddenly said: "When is Your Majesty expected to arrive in Chicago?"
"Eleven hours later."
"Prepare one for me... No, I'll do it myself." Mars stood up and began to wander around the room, murmuring, "What should I give? Flowers? Gold? Or..."
"Fujin, what suggestions do you have? Use your database to see what humans usually send to bosses they haven't seen for a long time."
Mars stopped and looked at the projection screen.
A few seconds later, the artificial intelligence Fujin replied: "In the human world, gift-giving habits depend on the differences in customs and humanities in different places. In China, people advocate that etiquette should be taken lightly but affection should be emphasized."
Mars frowned and said, "I can't pick up the plane in person with flowers in hand, right? Send myself out?"
"I don't recommend such stupid behavior." Fu Jin said, "Perhaps, you can send a relevant distribution map of Loki's forces. Maybe that adult will like it."