Twilight War

Chapter4 Human World

The sinners of God want to rebel against the heavens, and their sins are many. This is the beginning of the first twilight battle.The throne god folded his wings and stained nine glaciers with blood.Imprisoned in the country of the dead, the dragon tendons are the chains, and the snake liquid is the punishment.

——"Eda Fragments"

01

Huangxuan Jin wrapped his clothes tightly and leaned against the classical style pillars of the corridor of the Palace of the Holy Rose. The morning wind blew his half-length black hair into disorder.

The distant buildings in Corinth were shrouded in endless mist, and the huge steel skeleton of the steam machinery factory in the East District was faintly visible in the mist.

Yilier came over, looked into the distance, and turned to Huang Xuanjin, "What are you looking at?"

"Watching sea whales."

Huang Xuanjin half-closed his eyes and said, the broken hair on his forehead covered half of his eyes.

"Sea whale?"

"Yes, sea whales." Huang Xuanjin smiled with the corners of his mouth upturned, his eyes were confused and downcast, "Sometimes I can see sea whales leaping out of the fog in Corinth. And sometimes At that time, the sea whale was just floating in the steam of Corinth. I could see it as soon as I turned my head, and saw it slowly floating in the steam of the factory, floating on the scattered streets and buildings, like being caught by the wind. Blowing the walking clouds."

"Have you ever seen a sea whale?" Eliel asked.

Huang Xuanjin nodded.

"I only saw it once, a long, long time ago." Huang Xuanjin said, and then thought about it seriously, "It should be four years ago."

"What?"

"It's huge, it's huge." Huang Xuanjin said.

Yilier stood aside and looked at it. After looking for a long time, he didn't see the sea whale that Huang Xuanjin mentioned.

Under the tall and magnificent white building, two teenagers in red military uniforms stood in the corridor. They were slender, and their red coats were blown up and down in the wind. There are Corinthian streets and mists everywhere.

The chestnut-haired boy stood for a while and left, leaving only the black-haired boy leaning against the white porch, looking for a cigarette from his arms, and smoking it slowly between his fingers.There is mist in the boy's black eyes, and there is also a sea whale.

What do you think of when you are quiet?I think of the endless sea, the huge sea whale jumping out of the sea.

……

02

In the 991 year of the Apocalypse Calendar, the Or Sea area.

The black-haired boy was a bit bored staying on the boat, so he looked for a book on the bookshelf to read. Halfway through, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the dusty window of the boat.

Zichen turned his head and saw a silver-haired man standing in front of the window. Before he could react, he saw the man pointing his finger at the surface of the sea.

Zichen followed Vehipel's fingers and looked over.

The sky light coated the endless undulating sea surface, and the huge and blue creature broke through the golden mirror in an instant and jumped into the air.

Between heaven and earth, everything is small.

There will always be a moment when you will suddenly feel that you are just a dust in the sky.

The first time Zichen felt that way was when he saw the phrase "the world is dark and yellow, the universe is prehistoric".

And in an instant, the boy seemed to have returned to the time when he saw that sentence for the first time, fearful and at ease.

Zichen stared blankly.The huge creature outside the window seemed to be able to swallow everything in the world, and the man just quietly leaned against the dusty glass window, looking at the huge creature with distant and indifferent eyes.

Zichen opened the window and climbed onto the window sill. Just as he was about to jump off, Wichpel handed him a glass of milk. Zichen took it and found it was still warm.

Wihipel turned around and continued to look at the sea, another cup in his hand.

Zichen sat on the window sill, drinking warm milk quietly, looking at the man with long silver hair blown by the sea breeze beside him, he felt that he should say something, but he didn't know how to say it.

"It's rare to see such a big sea whale in the sea of ​​Xilu now." The man said suddenly, his voice was a bit cold and pleasant to hear, making people inexplicably think of the collision of broken jade.

"Is this a sea whale?"

"En." The man nodded, "Haven't you seen it before?"

"Donghuang has a ban on the sea. Although my home is very close to the sea, I have never been out to sea." The black-haired boy said, "Just now I was wondering if this is Kunpeng."

"The Kunpeng in the South China Scripture?" the man asked.

"Well, when I read the Nanhua Mantra for the first time, I was wondering what Kunpeng looked like. Just now, I really thought I saw Kunpeng." The young man lowered his head and drank the milk in his hand.

"If it's Kunpeng, it should be bigger than this." The man said with a smile.

"Well, it should be very big." The boy lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Actually, I have been wondering what Kunpeng is looking for?"

The man looked back at the teenager sitting on the windowsill, "What?"

"I remember the first time I saw the scriptures of Nanhua at my uncle's place, I wondered what Kunpeng was looking for." The young man said, "If it wasn't for something, why did he fly here? How about flying? Thousands of miles, tens of thousands of miles, so many times.”

"If it were me, if it wasn't for looking for something, I'd rather walk around in the basil like a scolding cat."

In the distance, a giant whale jumped into the sea. The boy lowered his head and drank the milk in his hand. The air smelled of sea salt.

The man didn't speak but just quietly looked at the distant sea.

"Mingling is [-] years old, Dachun is [-] years old, Kunpeng should have lived longer. If it is not for looking for something, what is the purpose of such a long life?"

"A 100-year life goes by in vain, and a 1000-year life won't make any difference." The man suddenly said, "Most people in this world live just to live, and even 1000 years are nothing more than walking corpses." Just walk the world."

"Is that so?" Zichen lowered his head and said, but he really thought about what the big Kunpeng was looking for.

Passing through the wild horse dust between the sky and the earth, carrying the blue sky and clouds on his back.

Just like when he was in the temple of Donghuang before, he would always feel that he saw a big Kunpeng passing through the endless sea of ​​clouds in the mountains facing the wall. for what.

"It should have been found." The man said suddenly.

Zichen looked back at the man blankly.

"If you've been looking for it for so long, and it's been so hard, then you should find it."

The man held half a glass of milk that had gradually cooled down, and looked sideways at Zichen, his blue eyes reflecting the clouds and mist on the sea.

The blue-black sea calmed down, and the sea whale sank to the bottom of the sea, quietly and slowly, just like the huge and blue creature that the black-haired boy saw in the clouds of Corinth many years later.

The Kunpeng soared, and the sky and the earth became one horse.

02

After sailing at sea for more than ten days, the giant ship docked.

The steam ejected from the steel giant ship enveloped the coast, and the resounding whistle echoed across the entire sea area.

After Zichen was led onto the deck by Arthur's soldiers, he saw Vichypel almost instantly.

There were many people around Vihipel, all dressed in the white military uniforms of the Arthur Empire, with the silver World Tree coat of arms on their chests, and all the soldiers had the chilling aura unique to soldiers.

But no matter how strong the other people's aura was, it still couldn't cover up the coldness on Vehipel's body like a white emperor.

Vehippel's long silver hair was gently bound by a piece of white silk at the end.A black crow was parked on his shoulder, its bright black eyes kept rolling, and when it saw Zichen, it flew suddenly.

Zichen was holding something in his arms, which was the bread given to him by the cook on the boat. He looked at Vehipel standing among the chilling army from a distance through the crowd.

Vichypel suddenly turned around and looked at him, beckoning to him gently.

Zichen froze in place, not sure if Wispel let him pass.

Wei Xipel turned around impatiently and slowly walked off the boat with the group of white army behind him. Zichen quickly ran over with the things in his arms, and followed Wei Xi almost cautiously. Behind Per.

The look just now seemed to be engraved into the flesh and blood, even though that look was almost indifferent.

Many years later, when the young man was on the black tower, he would still often think of that indifferent glance. Looking from afar in such a chilling army, it seemed that he was separated by thousands of miles of clouds and dust.

There are many steam cars parked under the boat, and the steel bodies are joined together with rivets, like huge beasts dormant.

Zichen couldn't help but took a step back, Wisipel put his hand on his shoulder, and helped him open the car door.

After Zichen got into the car, Wischpel sat in the front passenger seat.

The boy was holding the package in his arms, and from his angle, he could just see the profile of Wisipel, and Wisipel just kept staring out the window.

Zichen fell asleep leaning on the window of the car after a while, and felt the car stop after an unknown period of time, woke up from the dream, and looked around blankly.

Wischpel helped Zichen open the rear door of the car.

"Asgard is here." Vihipel said, his voice was still cold and clean, but it seemed to be a little sad.

...so cold.

This was the boy's first impression of Asgard. All the places were covered with a layer of snow that could not be swept away, and the breath he exhaled seemed to be frozen in the air.

The young man stood blankly in the center of the Plaza of the Gods, holding the package in his hand and looking around in bewilderment.The statues of the twelve main gods in the myth stand around the square, each of which is more than ten meters high, with solemn and dignified faces.

For some reason, Zichen felt an inexplicable sense of oppression when he saw these statues.He stood in the middle of the square and turned around, trying to see the faces of the statues of the gods clearly, but it seemed like he couldn't see them clearly.

The holy white city of Asgard.

Asgard has been established as the capital of the Arthur Empire since the reign of Constantine the Conqueror 700 years ago, and now the entire royal city remains as it was a hundred years ago. All the buildings are built with white bricks and are solemn. like the dwelling place of God.

In the early days of the development of steam machinery technology, Asgard also built a large number of large-scale steam machinery factories like Corinth, and after Wispel became the consul, he ordered the dismantling of all the steam machinery factories in the capital, and the important machinery factories moved elsewhere.

And even today the main streets of Asgard still implement the curfew system that has been inherited from a hundred years ago, and the lights must be turned off after the curtain falls.

So even now, the stars of Asgard can still be seen at night.

The black-haired boy followed the man in the corridor of the Golden Palace, passing soldiers in white military uniforms. Everyone immediately clenched their right fists on their chests when they saw Wisipel, and stuck the silver World Tree badge on their chests. Come on, then bow his head and salute, and Vehippel just nods.

No word was spoken during the whole process, and the corridor was as quiet as the sound of military boots.

Zichen kept turning his head to look at the soldiers who passed by, and when those people saw Zichen, their eyes also flashed with doubts.But he would never look back curiously like Zichen, let alone whisper to his companions.

Everyone is like gears running in a huge machine, precise and orderly, there is no other sound except the sound of clicking and clicking when running.

There are many heavy iron doors with copper-wrapped corners in the corridor. There are no unnecessary decorations on the doors, only numbers used for identification.It looks like a place where wild animals are kept, and it feels like you will be thrown down by ferocious beasts after opening the gate.

Wihipel stood still in front of a gate marked No. [-], knocked on the door, and then unscrewed the iron handle and walked in.

A white mechanical robin slowly flew over, circling around the two of them, and finally landed at the feet of Wisipel.

The man with twinkling holy lake-like eyes turned around from the swivel chair, with a slight smile on his lips.

Wischpel picked up the mechanical robin under his feet and put it on the table, "Tang De, why don't you stay in your own military intelligence department, what are you doing here in Weier?"

"There are too many things going on in the Hall of Valor recently, and Will is too busy. Let me help." Tang De leaned back on the swivel chair and dangled back and forth.Squinting his eyes, he looked at the young man who was following Vehipel, "Your Highness, who is this behind you?"

"Zichen." Wihipel said.

"It seems to be from Donghuang." Tang De said with a smile, "What do you do in Donghuang?"

Zichen looked at the young man whom Wichpel called Tang De. The eyes of that person were beautiful, but there was a feeling that he couldn't see through them. After thinking for a while, Zichen looked at Tang De and said: "...Jiangnan Ranger."

This time it was Tang De's turn to be stunned, "A ranger? Does Donghuang still have this kind of thing? It sounds like Donghuang's script."

"What are you doing here?" Tang De asked.

The boy lowered his head and said nothing.

Tang De shrugged and did not continue to ask.

"Those old men in the Ministry of Political Affairs actually want to reach out to the Hall of Valor, don't they know that the Hall of Valor is always in charge of the Military Department?" The man standing behind the desk suddenly threw a thick stack of documents on the table On the face, the man is very handsome, but he has the coldness of a soldier all over his body.

"Why, does the Ministry of Political Affairs want to send someone to the Hall of Valor?" Wihipel asked.

"This time not only do I want to send people to the Hall of Valor, but I even want to insert my own people into the upper echelons of the Hall of Valor." Weier frowned, "Both Scipio and the Claudius family want to intervene in the Hall of Valor, The few old men in their family can only hide in the basement like ghosts all day and dare not see the light, but they still hold on to the power in their hands, as if they want to hold the blue-blooded Arthur It’s like going to the coffin with their names.”

After gritting his teeth for a while, Weier inserted the pen into the ink bottle, then looked up at the black-haired boy who was following Vihipel, "Your Highness, what happened to that kid who was following you?"

"I want him in the Hall of Valor," said Vihipel.

"Your Highness, are you joking?" Tang De shook his head and smiled, "He will die in the trial of the Valkyrie."

Tang De looked at Zichen up and down. Compared with the people in Xilu, the young man's frame was indeed too slender, giving people an inexplicably weak feeling, only his face was a little fleshy.

"All those who can enter the Hall of Valor are real soldiers." Weier stared at Zichen and said, "His words are too weak."

"You don't need to enter the combat department, just enter the mechanical department."

"The mechanical department of the Hall of Valor also needs combat power. I think it is more suitable for a place like the mechanical research institute." Weir said: "Those people in the mechanical research institute are immersed in those machines all day long. It’s like living by smoking the steam of the silver of the great abyss all day long, I suspect that they eat mechanical blueprints for three meals a day, and I can break three of their arms at a time.”

"I once went there to see the progress of the latest mechanical weapon development, and I felt that the mechanical developers really floated past me one by one." Weier continued: "They wore military uniforms inside and white clothes on the outside. The lab coat is full of stains from the silver of the great abyss and marks of mechanical dirt. The inside is really gloomy and unbearable."

"Let him give it a try. If he can't pass the test of the Valkyrie, I'll arrange for him again." Vehipel said.

Tang De poured himself half a glass of wine, looked at the boy who had remained silent all this time, sighed and said, "Alright."

After Arthur's soldiers took Zichen down, there were only three of them left in the room.

Wischpel stared at the heavy metal iron door, as if thinking about something.

Tang De also poured a glass of wine for Wisipel and handed it over, "What is going on with that Zichen?"

"He has something to do with the guilty." Wihipel took the wine and said, "When I went to encircle the slaves on Dragonscale Island, those people were using him as a blood sacrifice."

"I think the gang of ring slaves made a mistake," Tang De said, "Everyone knows that the culprit is Queen Isabel of Vaner."

"Gulveig's prophecy says this - the Emperor will wake from the guilty man with the eyes of the twilight burn, and he will return with a bloody twilight and death."

Tang De shook the wine in his hand, watching the transparent old ice ups and downs in the wine, "And when Isabel was born in the dusk, when she slowly opened her eyes, her eyes were actually red, like all the things in the dusk. It was as if the redness of her eyes was burning in her eyes. And the priestesses of the Vanir Cult cried out in horror, the sinner who brought strife and death has been born, and the evening is at last, and there is no escape for us."

—Evening is at last, and there is no escape for us all.