The music box half the size of a palm fell on the off-white concrete floor, and the little figure on the steps fell to one side.It was tethered to the travel rod behind it, still rattling and spinning.

There is a song "Canon" in the music box.

The pure music that tinkles like spring water is briskly flowing in the churning mist, and the machine is running non-stop from the moment the human finger is pressed.The energy comes from the blowing wind, falling rain, lightning and thunder in the clouds, it seems that as long as someone in this world is still willing to listen, it will not throw its broken and old body into the trash can.

After an unknown amount of time, a hand that looked like the same material as the cheap models placed in the mall picked up the music box, carefully patted off the dust on it, and placed it on his shoulder.

Then it limped and hobbled towards the depths of the dense fog with its companion who had no vital signs.

**

Igor found himself falling into the sea.

This is simply unreasonable. The last second they were driving on the wide man-made street.The development of tourist attractions around Kemingting Town has been going on for decades, and no one is stupid enough to risk their lives to visit the vision.

Prior to this, it took the Federation several years to dare to conclude that there would not be any unexpected phenomena that cannot be explained by science within one kilometer of the white fog. The decision of Kemingting town government's fiscal expenditures was included in the legal category.

But this situation is obviously unusual now.

The car is still slowly sinking in the sea.The window seal is good, and there has been no water leakage so far.The engine had been turned off, and the doors were difficult to open due to the pressure in the water.

What is even more alarming than the current situation is that there is no one in the car except Igor, Azathoth in the passenger seat, Hugo and Erica in the back seat are all gone .

This made Igor feel that the rushing ocean around the vehicle was more like his hallucination or dream than the real scene.

But he still took out a survival hammer from the storage cabinet under the seat, and smashed it hard at the intact car glass!

The moment the sea water poured in, Igor held his breath to avoid the shattered glass slag, and after the water pressure dropped enough to open the car door, he swam towards the position above the water level where the light could be seen.

The young man didn't even feel fear or helplessness because of this sudden and unexpected situation.

As always, he quickly adapted to the harsh situation and was ready to face the challenges of life and death alone. This ability stems from the dangers he encountered many times in his life less than 30 years ago.

However, the oxygen stored in the lungs is decreasing bit by bit, and sea level still looks out of reach.Fortunately, the bionic prosthesis manufactured by the federal high-tech weapon research and development department is not only waterproof, but even more flexible than normal limbs in this environment.

The human body of flesh and blood soon gradually lost consciousness due to the too cold water temperature, but thanks to the mech technology - not only his left leg was functioning well, but the seemingly useless flipper conversion function also seemed to be particularly useful to the developers. Plan ahead.

God bless.

Like all human beings who have faith in their hearts, Igor recited the name of God when another burst of hypoxia caused his eyes to turn black, and the long distance made his survival seem futile and ridiculous.

This is not a habit he has developed in the past few decades. Human beings should learn to redeem themselves.But the arrival of Azathoth changed a lot.Although the young man didn't really hope that the other party could save him from the sky, but after all, as a believer——

Igor's idea is that he is absolutely unwilling to cause trouble for Azathoth because of the predicament he encountered. Praying to the gods in his heart is another matter, it should be a kind of trust, and the remaining Living hope and vision.

In other words, as long as the name of God is chanted, people will have the courage and strength to struggle again.

But he actually got one thing wrong.

Of course, other people's gods don't have the time to control the food and drink of their tens of thousands of believers, and sometimes it may be difficult for the mud bodhisattva to cross the river to protect himself.However, the gods of Igor's family are not only very idle, but also only willing to devote all their energy to paying attention to him, his favored one.

Azathoth has always respected Igor's choice, and never forcibly interfered with the other's life trajectory just because he was stronger than him.

For him, everything in the world is more fragile than a glass ball, and Igor is the most precious one among them.The gods have a lot of experience on how to take care of their own treasures, one of which is: Excessive protection is also a kind of harm.

What he wants should be a living, intelligent and emotional free human being, not a beautiful and useful room decoration.

So when Igor didn't ask him for help, the gods just watched him silently, ready to pull him up when the other party accidentally stepped into the swamp, throw him into the bathroom to wash off the mud and heal the wound.

—and fall into sweet dreams in a warm place.

And Igor never let him down.

When the human youth spat out the name intermittently, a violent undercurrent suddenly surged in the deep sea.

There was nothingness in the deep darkness, no schools of fish or seaweed.Therefore, when the hurricane cleared the waves and the air poured into the sea water more than ten meters below, only Igor was coughing and carrying the salty sea water all over his body. Before he could react, he was hit by a tentacle that fell from the sky Pick it up and push it to the shore.

"……gentlemen?"

After Igor was stunned for a few seconds, a little embarrassment rarely rose in his heart.The gray-haired young man is sitting on the foggy beach, his half-length hair is still dripping wet, his coat has been taken off and thrown into the car, his shirt and suit pants stick to the surface of his skin, outlining a beautiful and powerful curve .

"Sorry." He lowered his head, the drops of water from his eyelashes dripped onto his cheeks, his face was pale with cold but the tips of his ears were red, and he pursed his blue-purple lips to look even more pitiful, "I have caused you trouble .”

Azathoth has no doubt that Igor is usually the kind of person who would rather die in a corner where there is no one, and is unwilling to drag his companions into the water.Because of the trust of the other party who read his name without hesitation in a critical moment, the god felt a strange soft emotion in his heart: "It's okay, I was not far from you just now."

Judging from the surrounding fog, they should still be on the outskirts of Kemingting Town.

But Azathoth looked around and said to Igor: "I think the terrain here is a bit familiar."

The shirt on Igor's upper body became crumpled after being wrung out of the water, but everyone present didn't pay attention to such trivial matters.Compared with the highway designated as a scenic spot, the visibility is less than ten meters, and the speed is limited to fifteen miles, the fog around here is slightly thinner now.

You can even see the round orange-red stars in the sky through the fog above your head, and the tall buildings that look like ruins not far away.

It was as if someone had lived here.

At first, Igor thought it was a remnant left by the Federation's development planet before the thick fog appeared in this area.

But he soon discovered something was wrong.

At this moment, from an unknown distance, there was a burst of music that seemed to be reverberating for a long time, light and sweet, and continuous.

Intelligent life may appreciate beautiful things regardless of race. Zerg, like humans, will indulge in superb art and great literature. Even Azathoth admits that he sometimes indulges in those things that praise the world. In the tune, so as to understand some human feelings that are sometimes stingy and sometimes surging like a river.

The music that is carried by the breeze now is a kind of enduring civilization.

It transcends the limitations of time and space, and whenever it is played on this land, it is like a jar of alcohol with the lid lifted, and the fragrance is released again.

— people like to call it a classic.

The earth gradually vibrated, and the broken sand on the ground was lifted up, jumping higher and higher, until a huge monster with the height of a hill walked through the buildings of different heights.

If Hugo were here, he might feel that this creature looked like the body of the faceless man in Spirited Away magnified hundreds of times.

In people's eyes, it was as if a movable, pitch-black mountain hundreds of meters high suddenly appeared below the sun, casting a long shadow in the thick white fog.Dust was raised more than ten meters high under its feet. When it came to the front of a building, it stopped suddenly, and a huge bright red eye suddenly opened at the position of the head.

Igor's hair stood on end and he became alert, because he noticed that the eye rolled around and landed on the position where he and Azathoth were.

It found them.

But the mountain-like monster just stared at them for a moment, and then set off again, walking to the distance amidst the tremors of the earth.

"...What is that?" Igor asked softly amidst the fluttering, invisible ribbon-like music.

Azathoth watched it leave thoughtfully, without answering Igor's question.

"Let's find Hugo first." He said, "Don't worry, it should explain your question."

"Before that, you can try to guess where the latitude and longitude coordinates on the invitation correspond."

**

Around the bionic man is another scene.

Azathoth took Igor through the dilapidated city familiarly, and when they came to a plain of ruins, they found that they were in a gray-green tent set up like a wandering circus, isolating the outside world. Huge monsters and never-ending mist.

Hugo took Erica to sit in the auditorium, followed by Nixon and Mike, and a small, brand-new music box in front of him.

At this time, the music playing from somewhere had stopped.

"what is happening?"

Nixon pinched the chair and squeezed his doubts through his teeth.He looked extremely disturbed, and although he was still able to maintain his sanity, he was inevitably panicked by the sudden and unexpected situation.

"You finally found it!" Hugo turned around and cheered, waving at Azathos and Igor, "I thought I would have to wait a long time before you, Asa, would remember what this is." where."

"So where is this?" Mike Nixon's colleague asked curiously, "Have you ever been here?"

Azathoth said: "I am familiar with that ocean."

Hugo showed his small canine teeth and smiled: "I see...you just asked where this is?"

When speaking the second half of the sentence, Hugo turned around and knelt on the chair, leaning on the back of the chair to face Nixon and Mike, and seemed quite happy—because the bionic man actually responded to the stranger's question.

It answered irrelevantly: "I don't know if you have heard that there was once a collection of celestial bodies in the Milky Way. In the past, some people called it the 'solar system'."

"There is a planet in the solar system that once gave birth to countless lives."

"The distance between it and the star it depends on is less than 0.0001 light-years, and our current position is about 300 light-years away from the solar system. Although this distance is not worth mentioning compared with the entire Milky Way, it is normal Under the circumstances, it is impossible to reach the other side of the universe without the help of wormholes."

While speaking, it snapped its fingers, and the conical roof of the tent suddenly opened, revealing the gray sky above.

"Did you see that star hanging in the sky?"

The bionic man said, "That's not the sun we saw inside Kemingting Town."

"It's false...or in other words, we are actually in the projection of the planet that once had life."

"It took less than 0.0001 years for the light of the stars in the solar system to shine on the planet, and the light reflected by that planet traveled through the universe for 300 years before reaching the planet where Kemingting is located."

"So apart from the mist and the monsters born in the mist, the scene you see now is the true appearance of the wreckage of a certain civilization abandoned by humans more than 300 years ago."

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