Ember Gun

  Chapter 497 Return

  Inervig, the naval port of the Horn of Raging Waves.

  This is a secret port at the end of the wilderness in the northern part of Inervig. Because the overall terrain is like a sharp corner protruding from the land, and the waves that constantly hit the reef below, it was named the Horn of Raging Naval Port.

Inervig tried to develop the desolate northern part, but gave up due to various reasons. Of course, these remarks are superficial. In fact, it was secretly developed as a military facility. After several years of development, finally Became what it is now.

  It is directly controlled by the decontamination agency, which can be regarded as the second heart of the decontamination agency. It has complete military and research facilities and functions as a secret port as well as industrial development.

It was on this desolate land that people dug out strange crude oil from the depths of the soil and turned it into the paint antimony used today through complex processes. The destination is here, but fortunately, it was finally bombed into the sky, keeping the secret here out of sight.

  Maybe it is close to the north, or it may be the reason why it is too desolate. Arthur walked here and couldn't help feeling a winter-like cold.

   Looking around, besides the **** and weeds, here are those tall man-made buildings, like a steel jungle rising from the wasteland.

  He stopped, stopped in place, looking at these steel behemoths.

That is one after another new iron-clad ships, using lacquered antimony as fuel and carrying weapons derived from the pump of perpetual motion. This will be an invincible fleet, and it will also be a major battle that Inverweg is confident about. The reason is that they have been parked here for too long.

  The fog in the early morning completely engulfed this place, and the field of vision was not limited much, but it added a lot of mystery.

  But today’s focus is not on them, but a guest who has not yet arrived.

   "According to time, Lorenzo and the others should have set sail," Arthur lowered his head and glanced at his pocket watch, looking towards the boundless north, "full of responsibilities and expectations, I hope they will bring back good news."

   "I think he should be wondering why no one came to send him off. Obviously he was given high hopes, and he left like this."

  The voice sounded, it was a woman in a wheelchair, wrapped in a thick coat, and there was a medical team on standby in the distance.

   "Probably... this should be the furthest place you have been to in recent years. I remember when you came last time, there were not so many buildings here, it was just a construction site still under construction."

  Arthur walked to the queen's side and stood with her, waiting for something here.

   "Yeah, everything changes so fast."

  The queen greedily looked at the surrounding scenery, the boundless sky above her head, the vast and desolate field, the twisted and hideous buildings, and the blue sea in front of her.

  She is like a prisoner temporarily released from prison. If she can, the queen really wants to engrave everything she sees deeply into her mind.

  "Every time I see these, I can feel myself ridiculous. As a queen, I don't know much about my country."

  The Queen said sadly.

   Arthur didn't know what to say, he put his hands behind his back and looked straight ahead.

The atmosphere fell silent. Both of them didn’t know what to say to pass the time. They could only stare at the front, maintaining this long silence until a breeze hit, and they gushed out of the dense fog on the sea. , As if a huge monster was hiding behind the fog and breathing at the two of them.

  Something is coming, from the other side of the ocean.

"So... is it really as you said that day? The distance between us and them is not as far away as we imagined. It was just for isolation reasons. The builders modified the map and misled the people. All information is blocked, right?"

   Arthur remembered what the queen had said, and remembered the guests he was going to see next, he couldn't help asking.

"Isn’t this kind of obvious? Jiuxia’s territory is all over the Caucasus Mountains. No matter how huge the Caucasus Mountains are, as long as you sail along its borders, you will be able to reach Jiuxia one day, but in fact, no one can. arrival."

  The queen said calmly, and the words made Arthur's heart cold.

  This is like a fog that is difficult to see, and all the uninvited will be lost in it.

"Except for the visit a few decades ago, Jiu Xia has no traces of appearance anymore. They seem to have disappeared out of thin air, but sometimes from the other side of the sea, some strange monks and some Bronze products. They linger around us, and when we are about to forget them, they release some news to prove their existence."

  There is a strange relationship between the western world and the eastern world, and sometimes the queen can't explain it clearly.

   "It reminds me of those conspiracy theories."

  Listening to the queen talking about this, Arthur also remembered some interesting things, and he couldn't help but relax a little bit.

"Many people say that there is nothing in the East, there is just a vast ocean, and all nine summers are lies made up by our Inervig...After all, after the Kuilong Fleet, they never appeared again, as if There has never been the same."

"Yes, this is what the country builders hope. It is a misleading and lie. You must know that Jiu Xia and our specialization are in a different direction. We have a sound industrial foundation, and they have a deep research on antimeme. Now the scavenger forces It’s based on Jiuxia’s antimemetic technology."

  At that time, due to time and other reasons, the Queen actually had a lot of things to say during the underground talks at the Platinum Palace. Of course, these were minor details and did not have much impact on the development of the whole situation.

"After years of research by the country builders, it has been found that the erosion intensity and frequency of the Western world is far greater than that of the Eastern world. In order to maintain isolation, Jiu Xia built a city wall to protect itself from the evil forces. Refused to be outside."

  "The city wall?"

  A great wall of thousands of miles emerged in Arthur's mind. It can isolate the sea lanes. It must be as tall as a mountain, erected on the sea like a miracle.

  It's really outrageous to think so, Arthur is thinking about whether the queen is joking.

"A city wall that does not exist is precisely an antimemetic system called the'Forgotten Great Wall'. They cover the entire Eastern world. When you sail towards the east and step into the scope of antimemetic influence, you will Will be affected by the Forgotten Great Wall."

  The queen explained that from this point of view, Jiuxia's antimemetic technology has developed to an astonishing level.

"You will get lost in it, forget your purpose, or even who you are, until you give up all this and choose to return to the voyage. Jiu Xia relies on this Forgotten Great Wall to completely isolate and block yourself, plus the intensity of erosion within their territory. And the frequency of occurrence is low, and the completeness of their knowledge and technology is much higher than ours, but this is only limited to the antimemetic part. You also know that when they arrived in Inverweg, the ship materials were still used wood."

   "In other words, the meeting a few decades ago was a technical exchange between the two countries on the surface, but it was actually a sharing of technology within the country builder, right?" Arthur had an afterthought.

"Almost, in the face of erosive memetic pollution, antimemetic technology is the only way out. After several years of exchanges within the country builders, we regarded the country builders in Jiuxia as a researcher and provided technical assistance to them. , To conduct a deeper study of antimemetics, and also support them in the blockade, and bear these major pressures here."

  It may be fatigue on the road. The queen coughed a few times, her expression was a little bit painful.

  "Part of the reason is to share the knowledge of the keeper."

  "Knowledge of the Secret Keeper?"

"Well, the builders of the country split from the initial golden dawn and spread all over the world, but because of the Forgotten Great Wall of Nine Summers, many people ignore the existence of Nine Summers," the queen continued, "To be honest, many times I I am about to forget that there are also state builders in the East."

   "At that time, the knowledge of the secret guards made us carry out an industrial revolution, but there were not only industrial knowledge, but also the part about antimemetics, but we had no research basis for antimemetics, so we could only guard the treasure and couldn't use it.

Until the arrival of the Kuilong Fleet, their main purpose was to take away this advanced antimemetic technology to supplement their technology. At the same time, they also left the basic technology for us. As you can see, the scavengers did a good job. , He made many people forget some bad memories about demons, hiding the existence of demons behind the scenes. "

   "Is this..."

  Listening to all this, Arthur couldn't say anything, and could only sigh weakly.

   "Your Majesty, Lorenzo once said this to me."

"what?"

  "He said that the world is shrouded by lies one after another, one after another, one after another.

  You have seen through a lie and opened a curtain, but maybe you are still in a bigger lie, shrouded by a bigger curtain. "

   Arthur picked up the cigarette, started to light it, and after a few puffs, he remembered to ask.

"Do you mind?"

  Think carefully, I have never smoked in front of the queen to relieve stress.

"Go on."

  The queen answered calmly.

"In fact, this sentence sounds like now, but I understand a lot. I still remember the first day I joined the cleansing organization. I learned about the existence of demons and these mysterious alchemy and violent organizations. I thought I was Heroes ready to save the world.

But later I discovered that the world is not that simple. After I met Lorenzo, the feeling intensified. Unknown puzzles were answered one after another, and one lie was seen through. I kept breaking through the curtain, and finally walked to here. "

   Arthur smiled, and he turned his head to look at the queen.

   "I'm curious about how many curtains are still hanging over my head. Will this kind of struggle really come to an end?"

   "We will get the answer soon."

  The queen also smiled at Arthur.

  As they were talking between the two, the oncoming wind became more violent. They rolled up the fog to disperse them, their vision was elongated, and the turbulent sea was fully visible in front of them, as if an invisible hand had split the world.

  The melodious siren sounded, and the crimson flag slowly rose after the fog.

  Prepared in advance, but when this moment came, everyone's heart changed slightly, as if something had been touched, the hideous monster appeared on the surface of the sea and strode towards them.

It was not until close to 100 meters that the hideous face was clearly seen. It was just the painting on the ship. It was different from the iron armored ship as expected. Although the whole is still cast of steel, the decoration of its appearance maintains a strong style, arc shape. The hull of the ship is covered with clouds, and the flag is raised at the forefront.

  It is like a beast traveling on the sea, and there were hundreds of such beasts a few decades ago, but now it is the only one here.

  This is enough.

   After a few decades, the people of Jiu Xia walked out of the Great Wall of Forgotten, and once again set foot on the Western world.

As the big ship slowly entered the port, the thick fog all over the morning gradually dissipated. Only then can you see not only Arthur and the Queen, but also a large number of entourages. Some are serving as escorts and some are serving as Translation, everyone looked very excited, especially the translator.

At this moment, the excitement in Rod’s heart is difficult for others to understand. He still remembers his childhood yearning for the mysterious East. Since then, he has determined to study this mysterious nine summers. He has worked hard to study and enter the best university. In the eyes of everyone's puzzlement, he devoted himself to the subject of language, and learned the Jiuxia language under the guidance of his instructor for many years.

  On the day he left the teacher, he was like a warrior about to embark on a journey, ready to use this ability to break into the world, but at this sacred moment, his mentor apologized to him in pain.

  Rod was puzzled.

  The instructor said with great sorrow that since appearing in the port of Rendona decades ago, the Nine Summers have never appeared again, and the route to the east has never been opened.

Rhodes’s world collapsed at that moment. It felt like he had learned martial arts for more than 20 years. As a result, on the day he became a master, his master held up a gun and said to him, " Hey! Rod, this thing is much easier to use than martial arts!"

  I thought that the blood in my heart would never be resolved, but Rod, who was proficient in Nine-Xia language, was recruited as a special talent into the cleansing organization until today.

  The big ship stopped, and under everyone’s gaze, a knight got off the ship.

In fact, everyone present is not sure whether to call this man a knight. Although he is wearing an armor, it is obviously very different from the armor recognized in the Western world. It does not look bulky, and most of it is made of metal scales. It is wrapped around the edges of clothing and vital parts of the body. Compared with traditional armor, it is much lighter.

  He has a sword tied around his waist, but on his back he is carrying a gun bag with a delicate spear inserted in it.

   Then everyone saw the knight’s face. It was an old man with gray hair, but his dark eyes revealed light. He saw the queen, recognized her at a glance, and moved forward with a big laugh.

   "I think you are now Queen Victoria."

   Surprisingly, this old man can actually speak Western dialect. Although he has a vague accent, at least he doesn’t have much trouble communicating.

   "This is not the first time we have met."

  The queen smiled and stretched out her hand in the wheelchair.

   "I know that the biggest advantage of our Zuo family is good memory. I remember you, when you were with your mother, you were a child, and it has been so long in a flash."

  The old man and the queen held hands together. He seemed to be happier than everyone present, and his eyes were still looking around during the conversation.

  "I never thought that I would have a chance to set foot on this land again." The old man sighed, "Time flies. The last time I set foot on this land, I was a young guy, but now I am a bad old man."

  “Now there are new changes in Inervig. For you, this will also be a new world.”

   "Is that so?"

  The old man has a lot of expectations in his eyes.

   "In short, you are welcome to come back, the builder of the country, General Zuozhen."

  　1. Thank you all for your monthly ticket support, thank you boss, the boss is generous.

  　　2. I am working hard to adjust and recover. It should be stable and more updated.

  (End of this chapter)