Pillars of Ita

"Cold Water Harbor is not completely 'frozen' yet."

Keita's face was flushed red with cold.

She took a sip of the mist, but the mist lingered on her glasses, Miss Scholar hurriedly waved her hand, and her voice became chaotic, "...here 'frozen' means that the active wind element will be silent in winter, and the more To the north, the lower the temperature, the more obvious this phenomenon is. At first, people thought that it was related to the north wind from the glacier, so it was a custom for people to live at sea, and they would not go out to sea after winter.

However, later, scholars discovered that this phenomenon was actually related to the tides in the Ether Sea, and it could be overcome by certain means, so now there are ships in the inner sea of ​​the Cloud Sea even after winter.However, traveling across the ocean is still limited by the direction of the seasonal winds.Generally speaking, after the late winter, the route from Yis to the Empire will stop until the next spring and summer. "

Tian Lan was taken aback when she heard it. It turned out that there was still so much attention to sailing on the empty sea. It turned out that she thought that as long as there was a boat, it was enough. "In that case, it will be Mudong soon, isn't there a lot of time left for us?" She suddenly remembered this matter, "Brother Ed is so strange, why did you bring us here?"

"Trust the captain," Baggins replied.There was a fire in the boiler room below, heating the pipes, and the sailor bent over to open the wooden lattice windows and let the steam rise from below, "There's still a month left until late December, and we still have time to leave Ihew. Ryan."

After leaving Ithurion, turn all the way to the south, and after passing through Hanrui, there will be ocean currents above the sea of ​​fog - the prevailing southerly wind, then there is no need to worry about the north wind in the Ithurion sea area.

"understood."

Tian Lan seemed to understand, but patted his face with his hand wrapped in thick gloves, and couldn't help complaining: "But the north is so cold, I didn't expect the Baozhang coast to be colder, how long do we have to wait?"

It is true that the ancient pagoda is not further north than the north, but people like to call the coast of Baozhang the northern border of Ishulian, not only because it is above the big glacier, but also because of the constant north wind here all year round. , severe cold - in the past, few ships except the Ghoutas would come to this area.

This is the border of civilization.

Fang Plover is also waiting patiently.

He was looking in the direction of Hanshui Harbor through the window of the captain's room, and gently pulled his collar.

Compared with the anxiety of others who are just waiting, Fang Ping actually has more different emotions in his heart. Since he learned about his parents' past from Su Changfeng, he has a sense of the hand that pushed him to this world. More questions, and guesswork.

Shana.

R.

Could it be them, his... teacher?

In the port, there are only a few ships at this moment, sparse masts and sails.

The weather was rare and sunny.

The year-round cold wind turns the ice and snow into glaciers, glittering with icy blue light in the sun. The port grows from the glacier. The buildings are distributed in steps, and there are several trestle bridges extending into the fjord, which are sturdy. There are sharp ice edges that do not melt on the granite, which are covered with scratches.

That's the traces left after the last storm.

The claw marks left by what the locals call the 'winter trombone'—

It's not just Miss Naturalist who knows about the land.

Fang Plover is also familiar with the years of permafrost under this side glacier.

Between the long and winding bays of the entire Baozhang Coast, there are sparks of civilization left behind after human beings fought against the cold. Forts, camps and outposts are dotted with stars, like embers in the long night, scattered in this harsh environment. on the harsh earth.

In this winter world, death and silence go hand in hand. After every blizzard, there are many destroyed villages and abandoned settlements. There are still several cities in history that were buried in the cold after the long winter. Under ice and frost.

However, death also confirms the new life.

About 1000 years ago, it was such dots of fire that formed many city-states on the harsh permafrost.

Twenty-one of these city-states survived until the time of the 'Fall of Kings'.

Until the ancient king hunter began to hunt in the forest, the trombone was immortal all year round.

After that, the ancient kingdom fell apart, and then seven city-states disappeared, like the seven moons that disappeared in the mountain people's prophecy.

The trombone of the raven brings the age of eternal darkness. The kingdoms fight against each other in the turbulent age. The war is endless. The people shed their blood in disasters.

These people are the ancient tower people, the history of the ancestors of the mountain people.

But the stories of the past are now gone with the wind.

Now that the kingdom has been torn apart, the ancient tower people today are nothing more than vassals of the Korin-Ithurian kingdom.Faced with the descendants of these rebellious pirates, the kingdom's consuls ruled the region harshly, but oppression brought resistance.

The unyielding struggle of the Guta people has never stopped.

This is also the reason for the state of the land today.

However, Hanshui Harbor has not yet penetrated into the fjord. This is the last area covered by the kingdom order. If you sail further south, the ancient pagoda forest will not be so friendly.

Fang Yan suddenly flashed his eyes and saw a small boat coming from the port with a small red flag hanging on it, which was the pre-agreed signal - he got up from his position, feeling a little excited , someone from Shana has arrived.

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"I have checked the goods," Xue Ye Yaoyue looked away from the rows of wooden crates, and nodded with some satisfaction, "The quality is passed, he said he can trust you, but I had some doubts."

She speaks directly, but she doesn't hold back.

Xue Ye Yaoyue picked up the suitcase at hand and put it on the table in front of everyone, "Here is the agreed remuneration, the deposit has been paid before, this is the rest. There is 50 Rissel cash in the box, It is one-third of the agreement, and the remaining two-thirds have been deposited in the Stargate Bank according to your requirements."

She took out another crystal and pushed it in front of Fang Plover: "This is an information certificate."

It was her.

Fang Plop didn't reach out to pick it up for the first time, but looked at the woman a little surprised. The other party seemed to have forgotten that he had met with everyone at Traveler's Rest, but he remembered clearly - the other party was still with the eternal worm at that time. , Hongye played against each other.

She actually knew Shana and those people?
Fang Yu had to wonder why the other party appeared there at that time. Was it really that coincidental?

The 'R', Shana, and this woman, isn't it all too coincidental?
He took the crystal and scanned the information inside.Since this is a standard crystal made by the Craftsmen Association, with the special anti-counterfeiting mark of Stargate Port on it, it is almost impossible to counterfeit, so he is not too worried that the other party will play tricks on this kind of thing.

But he raised his head to ask something.

But the other party opened his mouth one step ahead of him.

"And this thing..." Xueye Yaoyue took out an item from her pocket and paused, "...This is, he entrusted me to give it to you."

It was a metal plate.

It was about half an inch thick, two fingers wide, and had a colorful sheen on its surface.

Its surface is not flat, but full of peculiar patterns, composed of parallel, non-interlaced lines, which are folded together at a certain position, giving people the feeling of some kind of magic circuit.

what is this?key?

Fang Plover saw that there were several uneven notches on one side of the metal plate, a bit like a door key.

But compared to this, he was more concerned about another thing, and subconsciously asked: "Is it the teacher?"

"Yes," Xueye Yaoyue replied, "...Well, he said you were his student."

Fang Plover fell silent.

Shana knew 'R', something he had known from the dark-haired youth.

However, after further confirmation, especially after Su Changfeng provided him with the information, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed.Is it really them? Shana and 'R', what is the relationship with their parents?Enemy, or former teammate?

"Teacher..." Fang Yusheng resisted asking questions directly, but turned to the thing in front of him, "This is?"

Xue Ye Yaoyue was also looking at this young man curiously.

As a 'mistress', she really didn't know much about the student who was 'picked' by the other party, and 'R' praised it, but this was the first time she 'seeing' the other party.

She didn't see anything.

It just feels a little familiar to the other party.

"Don't ask me," Xue Ye Yaoyue looked at Fang Wei and shook her head, 'R' asked her to hand over this thing, but didn't tell her what it was, "He didn't tell me this, maybe you can go directly Ask him."

"You know the teacher and..." Fang Plover asked tentatively, "Shana?"

"Shana?"

Xue Ye Yaoyue was also stunned, thinking what kind of strange ID is this, it sounds like a woman, that guy has a woman outside?

She frowned and was a little absent-minded for a while, "If you want to ask me about this, you are asking the wrong person. I haven't known him for two years."

She didn't lie completely, she just concealed the relationship between the two.

After careful observation, Fang Ping didn't see any clues, but his mind would be wrong for a while, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed subconsciously.

He thought about it for a while, and then asked: "...you want so many basic models of magic furnaces, are you planning to establish a guild on the coast of the treasure staff?"

"what?"

Xueye Yaoyue came back to her senses now.

She didn't turn her head around for a while, and replied casually: "...Poor, about the same, the Treasure Staff Coast area is the edge of the kingdom, and the competition pressure of the guilds here is not so great..."

"But I heard that there's going to be chaos here," Fang Ping heard, and couldn't help sweating for his teacher, "It should be difficult for the new guild to survive, right?"

"Ah, this," Xue Ye Yaoyue was a little flustered for a while, thinking why you care about this, "It shouldn't be a big problem, but I'm not in charge of this direction, and I don't know very well. But since they chose to build that one here What... the guild, shouldn't they have not considered this issue?"

This irrelevant answer made Fang Jiu couldn't help but glance at the other party suspiciously.

But he also understood that the other party was unlikely to tell him the truth.

……

In Cold Water Harbor.

The black-haired youth was pulling his mind back from his thoughts.

He pulled his shawl to cover the silver Vislan emblem on his left collar. Although he was only a 'temporary worker', he should not be too public when doing personal work. He had a good impression of that 'Ms. Lin' Not having a good time with each other.

After waiting for another ten minutes, he saw Xue Ye Yaoyue walking back from the warehouse.

"Sister Yaoyue, is the other party here?"

The black-haired youth immediately greeted him and asked a question.

But Xue Ye Yaoyue didn't say a word, just stopped, looked at the other party, and then set her eyes on the other party's hand.

The black-haired youth patted his forehead and suddenly realized, "Forgot."

Then he took out an emblem and showed it to the other party.

Xue Ye Yaoyue glanced at the guy angrily, and after confirming that the emblem was correct, handed a projection crystal to the opponent's hand.

Then she didn't speak, passed by the black-haired youth, and hurriedly left in the other direction.

"Mysterious." The black-haired young man shook his head, then picked up the projection crystal and looked at it.It was not an ordinary projection crystal, it contained some hidden information, including several addresses and a series of numbers.

After reading it, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and said, "No. 12, warehouse No. [-], the boss has a lot of money."

Then he raised his head, "The northern border is turbulent, and the Guta people can't hold back. The Crow's Claw Temple, the Ancient King Hunter, the two major alliances, there is still a lot of fun. But it's okay, the more chaotic they are, the more suitable they are. We act, boss, they picked a good time."

The black-haired young man suddenly reached out and nodded his forehead, a hint of surprise flashed in his heart, "Wouldn't they have expected all this earlier, these old guys are really scary..."

He silently looked at the projection crystal in his hand.

There will be a big fun next, and maybe it will change the history after this stargate.

But unfortunately, they should have given those people a surprise, but perhaps when the surprise really came, they should have no time to pay attention to this 'little thing'.

The black-haired youth put away the crystal and glanced at the direction of the port one last time.

……

Dim bathroom.

Lin Qingzheng used a razor to gently scrape the foam on his chin, then lowered his head and flushed a handful of water on his face.He looked up at the handsome face in the light mirror - as if he had returned to the high-spirited look on the field back then, except that he had taken off his childishness and the dark circles under his eyes were a little heavy.

He smiled self-deprecatingly, put away his business, and walked out of the bathroom, just in time to see his 'roommate' packing things by the bed.The other party was about the same height as him, but what made him uncomfortable was that he was much more handsome than him. Fortunately, he was married and entered the grave called 'family'.

"'F'," said the young man who was packing his things with his head down, "did you see my personal terminal?"

"Here." Lin Qing directly threw the watch-sized thing in his hand.

'R' caught the terminal with his backhand without looking back.Then he turned around and looked at each other angrily, "I said more than once, don't mess with my things."

"It won't be used any time soon." Lin shrugged lightly.

"It has nothing to do with that," 'R' opened the terminal and looked at the message left on it, "My purpose is to get you to fix this bad habit."

Lin lightly and cleverly changed the subject and asked, "...Did you reply over there?"

'R' nodded. "The original time, the plan remains unchanged."

"What about your private affairs?" the former asked again.

The icon on the screen was flickering, and 'R' glanced out of the corner of his eye before replying: "It happened that a letter came from 'X'... As I expected, Ed has already shipped the item, and the quality is very good. High, and the scrap rate is lower than we expected.”

Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

He said happily, "I'm still worried that he won't come."

"My student is much more reliable than you," 'R' glanced at him, "if it wasn't for his personality, you would think I would teach him those things, he's a bit dull sometimes...but here In terms of aspects, it is absolutely excellent. How about, did he give you a 'surprise'?"

"Surprise? Scare!"

The former put his hand behind his head and complained a little angrily: "He has already entered the fourth gate, and there are still two levels left. Odin and Ming have also taught him a lot of things... and that Anluose. The guy didn't know where he got the things I left behind, and he's about to enter the realm of 'keys', just a layer of paper. No one will believe it in the second world, let alone..."

"What a little monster." He concluded with an epilogue.

"It's a coincidence," 'R' replied, dazed for a moment.

"But he does have an extraordinary talent in this area. I originally thought he would not enter that world and only regarded it as a pastime... But now that I think about it, he was already extraordinary at that time. I gave him the Some of the questions are questions for the top novice training in the second world, and even if they are placed in the first-line guilds, not everyone can answer them.

Of course, Ed is not able to answer every question. He is only outstanding in certain fields, and he also has partial subjects.But even so, it's an all-rounder among novices. The 'Chapter of Keys' is a top field in the second world, but it does not need other foundations after all, and we have been out of the front line for five years, and five years have been a generation after the Stargate. "

"It's three years," Lin Qing corrected him, "I gave him multiple parallel and margin skills not yesterday, but more than a year ago."

He looked at the latter with some playfulness and said, "The children will not be able to catch up with him. Those seedlings were chosen by you and me. It took two or three years. In the end, they are not as easy as you are in the community. A stinky boy I met. You say, are we actually not keeping up with the times?"

'R' shook his head.

Of course he understood that Lin Qing was only joking, if he really had such a mentality, he wouldn't do these things with him.

However, he did not expect that he would have such a result on a whim. Perhaps this is the will of God.Originally, 'R' didn't believe this, but at this time, he couldn't help but become a little superstitious. There were many important moments in his life.

But nothing compares to the next ten hours.

'R' looked at his companion.

It happened that Lin Qing's eyes also came over, and the man who escaped was also rarely serious at the moment, "Actually, what I want to say is that this is not the most important part of our plan, but the impact of the few hundred sets of equipment is not enough. Not small," he couldn't help but sigh, "fortunately everything went well, even so good that I had some doubts...

We haven't been so lucky in the past five years, have we?What I am curious about is why you are not involved in such an important matter. After all, you have a lot more influence on Shana, an ID of unknown origin. "

'R' did not answer.

There are some things he can say to his students, but he will never tell the man in front of him that he has forgotten his account on the community again.

He 'zira' zipped up his backpack and ended the conversation with just one sentence, "Success requires luck."

But luck alone is not enough, they put in so much effort, and if it's just luck, there's disrespect to everyone who has paid for it.But luck is so important, if it weren't for that, they wouldn't even have the chance to come back.

Lin chuckled lightly.

The goals of the two were not the same at the beginning.He knew what the man in front of him wanted, and saying it was revenge might not be that serious.But he does want some people to pay for what has happened, and beyond that, to return to justice.

And he, he is not reconciled.But it is precisely this kind of unwillingness that connects him, them, and many people together, and through the factor of coincidence, until this moment, in the next ten hours, everything will have an answer.

then.

is the wider world.

The two pushed out the door, and as soon as the temperature dropped, the spirits of the two of them were lifted together.There are even large coniferous forests in the distance, which seem to be somewhere in Siberia.

Someone came to them across the corridor and said, "Everyone is ready, bases A1, A3, and A4 have been assembled. There are some problems with base two, which may delay the time. Miss Viurs will arrange them in The second batch."

'R' nodded silently.

The three walked out of the corridor and came outside.

"I don't know how Stargate will see the current situation." Behind him, Lin Qing tightened his thick clothes and said suddenly.

The blizzard almost drowned out his voice.

"They should also be preparing first-hand," 'R' knew that the other party was just joking, but still answered seriously, "There is nothing to ridicule, this matter is equally important to everyone, but we are earlier Just prepare some."

He looked up at the sky.

"United Harbor is too late to deal with the protests," Lin chuckled lightly and glanced up at the weather, "In the past two years, the weather has become more and more abnormal, and the temperature in some places in the north is so high that it can freeze the air. Although it is an exaggerated statement, it can be seen that the extent of the increase in the Middle East is a large area of ​​drought, and there are strange astronomical phenomena, they can’t explain it all.”

"This is also good for us, they may not be able to tell the energy to care about the situation here," 'R' said, "Now the contradictions between all parties in the Stargate are becoming more and more prominent, and the Super Competitive League is just a symptom. But also for this reason, the strength of the inspection organization is the weakest in this direction..."

Having said that, he turned back and asked:
"Can the leased transport ship take off and land normally in this weather?"

"As long as the weather doesn't exceed the fifth grade, it's fine," the person replied. "The pilots of the Federation are very courageous, as long as they pay."

'R' nodded.

"Then let everyone go," he said after checking the time on the terminal. "According to the original time, we will meet at the breaking point."

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