Abyss Express

The 1773 Secret Library is located in the first district.

It is very close to Jiujie Station, it only takes an hour's drive to cross the 180 kilometers of basalt caves and arrive at Moho. When you see the colorful gabbros, the First Transportation Department is not far away.

Early in the morning, Jiang Xueming made a video call with Brother Ye Bei from his hometown to pay homage to his early years, and boarded the train with Meteor to the area under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Department.

It is a pity that there is no VIP carriage for this intercity express. There is no transfer station, and the name of the end point is [Magic City·Barazong].

On the special day of the first day of the Lunar New Year, except for Xue Ming and Meteor, only the crew members remained, and no other passengers accompanied them.

Looking at the road sign lights outside the car window, the colorful gabbro intrusion rocks are like stars in the sky.

Xueming was full of thoughts, but only one thought in his mind——

——I hope to gain something from the big library.

Meteor was still catching up on sleep. He received a call from Mr. Jason last night and was severely scolded for half an hour. He received a call from Teacher Victor and was severely scolded for another half an hour.

Jason hates cockroach jokes.

Victor received the news and was very dissatisfied with Meteor, the big apprentice, who deliberately destroyed the copy of the manuscript.

But these are just trivial matters.

Ah Xing was very quiet when he slept, and he could see his strong and powerful chest rising and falling slowly, without snoring or dreaming.

During this leisure time, Jiang Xueming sat in the staff lounge and asked the flight attendant about the area under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Department.

The flight attendant is an elder brother in his thirties, with a tough and clean face, and short hair in uniform. He looks very neat and neat. When he sees Xue Ming, an Asian, he immediately greets him.

"Happy New Year! What's the matter?"

Jiang Xueming walked into the staff lounge, found a folding seat, and just sat down.

He took out his notebook and prepared to sit down and discuss in detail.

"Happy New Year, brother flight attendant, I want to ask, why is this traffic department built in Nansha? There is only one station? There are no other stations?"

"Yes, there is only one station. As for why it is built here? The Transportation Department usually chooses a site to settle in the Jedi. If the railway reaches a certain place, it cannot be repaired, and the engineering equipment cannot dig a new road, which means that the terrain here is steep. , the geology is complex, like the junction of the Pacific plate and the East Asian continent, because of the movement of the plate, there is a huge difference in depth and height underground. This is a natural barrier that is difficult for manpower to break through. The secret library is selected here for the engineering team that will break through the natural barrier in the future. Prepare technical support in advance and carry out environmental scientific research investigation work.”

"Why is it called Baratheon?"

"Barazon was once the bluestone people's favorite insecticide. It is a highly poisonous insecticide. A thousand years ago, the Green Gold Guards used it as a weapon enchantment. It smells strong. The smell of garlic - which later became a rumor in the market, that garlic can expel vampires."

"Is that so?"

"It wasn't until seventy years ago that this miraculous insecticide finally had an official name, and the area under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Department where the secret library is located was renamed the Magic City of Baratheon."

"The redstone people used mustard pheromone to drive away Mrs. Bai, and the bluestone people used insecticides to deal with Mrs. Bai."

"That's right, what else do you want to ask?"

"I saw a part of the railway route map in my passenger log. These places" Jiang Xueming turned to the new page of the log. city."

Xue Ming's fingers moved to the boundary of the Pacific section following the marking lines on the journal page.

Starting from Nansha, all the way up, passing through Hokkaido, Japan, until the Bering Strait.

"Why did these junctions turn black?"

The tone of the flight attendant was strangely calm: "Because they are close to the country of the dead, these stations often lose contact in spiritual disasters. The closer the stations to the Pacific plate, the higher the concentration of spiritual disasters."

Jiang Xueming had a strong curiosity: "What's under the seabed of the Pacific Ocean?"

The flight attendant thought for a while and searched for relevant information in his brain: "There is oil and volcanoes."

Jiang Xueming asked: "Where is the further down? The further down is the excavation area of ​​the Abyss Railway, right?"

Flight attendant: "Nobody ever got there."

Jiang Xueming: "I can't dig anymore? Or is it that the special geology makes it difficult for engineering equipment to operate?"

Flight attendant: "It is extremely difficult to dig through the Moho. Human beings can drill holes up to a deep pit of more than 10,000 meters underground. At this depth, the temperature in the geothermal environment will reach 100 degrees Celsius. The engineering equipment has already started Plastination, it just doesn't work. It's a great thing the Soviet Union created."

Jiang Xueming: "But BOSS can build a station 17,000 meters underground."

Flight attendant: "That's because it has spent countless hours transforming underground ventilation cavities and underground water circulation channels - and the ancient giants who opened the way and repaired buildings for it, but now only with our human wisdom and strength, it is For those who cannot conquer the Moho, it may be difficult to go from a deeper place to the underground world of the Pacific Ocean."

Jiang Xueming was silent.

The flight attendant went on to explain the detailed reasons.

"We have now found an entrance, a steep level similar to the epic legend. It can take us to the bottom of the seabed of the Pacific plate."

"Where?"

"In the northern part of the permafrost of Siberia, near the North Sea, there are continuous huge snow peaks in the underground world, which are completely different from the natural environment, and you often hear it from the radio station. The sixty-eighth to seventy-ninth areas of the northern border—— —These underground mountains are bitingly cold, and change with the seasons. The temperature fluctuates between 11 degrees above zero and 50 degrees below zero. In three seasons throughout the year, there are eight-level strong winds, as if you have come to the border of the kingdom of the dead. Home of the frost giants. Not even geothermal heat can affect its natural temperature."

"Someone went here to explore?"

"It was the pioneers of the Soviet era. They crossed this bitingly cold and crazy mountain range, and discovered the ruins of giants as numerous as stars, and finally stopped at the Red Star Hill."

"Red Star Mountain? This is where my friend is going, why did he stop here? Is this place dangerous?"

"It's very dangerous. As for why you stop exploring—because there is no way, this place is the entrance to the Pacific Ocean's underground world. It is a vast expanse of mire with almost no limit. The Dead Sea is the ocean under the sea, the darkness in the shadows. , as described in the myth, here is filled with poisonous smoke and smog with dioxin all year round, which can cause hallucinations. Newborns can't live here for a week. Adults will die if they live in up to seven years. It is in There is an alias in Northern Europe called Niflheim, the root of the world tree is here, and it is also the kingdom of the dead."

"Is there anything else?"

"The range that can be detected by manpower is the tens of kilometers of continuous fossil forest land near the beach of Hongxing Mountain. The lighting conditions are poor and the climate is cold. The machinery here is fragile because of the brittleness of the metal. Some researchers tried to salvage the ocean. Precipitates in , which are full of highly toxic chiral molecules."

"Chiral molecules." Jiang Xueming was born in a chemical battery industry. He knows the meaning of this word. It refers to molecules that are asymmetrical but similar in structure. To explain it in detail, we need to use a metaphor.

It's like when people look in a mirror, the reflection in the mirror is by no means the real world itself.

The left and right sides of the portrait are reversed, and in the chemical molecular formula, the result of the left and right molecular structure reversal often produces strange and novel, strange and terrifying substances.

"If you know something about chirality, in fact, based on my many years of experience in the secret library—" the big brother of the flight attendant smiled mysteriously: "—the blue morpho butterfly in nature and the red morpho butterfly in the underground world may be the ones in the chirality rules. two creatures that are alike, yet completely different."

There is one chiral carbon atom in methamphetamine.

If it is left-handed, it is a panacea for mental illness.

If it is in a dextrorotatory state, it is a hallucinogenic drug that is addictive.

The molecular structure similar to it also includes catecholamine transmitter, which is also a drug for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

According to the elder brother of the flight attendant——

——In this dead sea where the poisonous fog spreads, its mudflats are composed of substances composed of such chiral molecules. I am afraid that it will take a huge amount of racemic agent to return to a natural environment suitable for human survival.

After a long time, the flight attendant said slowly: "Actually, this is nothing, we just found the entrance to hell. The one that is really difficult to break through is the gatekeeper of hell."

"There are still creatures living in this ocean?" Jiang Xueming couldn't imagine what kind of life could be bred in this miserable and evil soil.

The flight attendant gestured and explained patiently.

"To be specific, it should not be regarded as a living thing, but a dead thing imprisoned by runes - trolls and giants of different physiques wander here, they are active in the offshore area, and their flesh and blood follow Vita The brand eroded and decayed, from which grew huge crazy butterflies, the smallest of these pure black butterflies had a wingspan of six meters, and the largest wingspan could reach more than 30 meters."

Jiang Xueming thought of the Church of the Blood of the Skull and Bones Society. Originally, he thought it was just a religious exaggerated sculpture technique, but he didn't expect that the crazy butterfly flying out of the giant's body could really achieve this physique.

The flight attendant went on to say—

"—When these crazy butterflies were born, they died with the harsh environment, fell into the mudflat and became part of the chiral molecule, and the giants stepped on the cold sediment to absorb the drama in the mudflat Toxic substances, the broken flesh is constantly recovering and collapsing, and the insect nests in the body drive them to continue to move. Provide more human sediment for the mudflats, and serve as gatekeepers for Niflheim. Maybe they are behind The pitch-black ocean is the legendary Golden Gallon, the legendary star world, and the beginning and end of life on Earth.”

The scenery outside the window slowly changes with time.

There are more and more man-made buildings, initially scattered post stations and locomotive depot towers.

Later, it became a satellite township and artificial vegetable garden shed in the jurisdiction.

The field of vision along the railway line is suddenly clear, and the intercity road several kilometers away can be seen in the distance.

After listening to the flight attendant's description of the Red Star Mountains, Jiang Xueming took a deep breath and broke into a cold sweat for Mr. Jason.

If it is true as the flight attendant said, Mr. Jason's journey this time may be a near-death experience.

With Jason's keen inspiration, he will see crowds of ancient creatures, as well as the gates of the kingdom of death.

The brave Slavs built the railway to the gate of hell, but were finally blocked by these giants. Maybe one step forward is an infinitely smooth road, or an underground dead sea that is worthless to explore.

Silently writing down the information, Jiang Xueming thanked the flight attendant brother and prepared to get up and leave.

The train is about to stop, and the steward brother needs to explain a few more words.

"Let's talk about the secret library! Young man, this is the city of the Lazure Guardians, and it is the territory of the Bluestone people. After you get off the car, follow the rules, don't ask too many questions, and don't wander around. There are thousands of criminals in the underground world. There are all kinds of tricks, and the Qingjin who are in charge of the escort don't like to gossip with strangers - if you are just reading, you can read quietly."

Jiang Xueming could understand the implication of the elder brother of the flight attendant, and thought to himself.

According to the BOSS's temper, the criminals who can be specially kept alive, escorted by Qingjin all the way, and sent to Barazón for trial, are probably not good people.

Qing Jin has exhausted his energy just dealing with the escorts. If I gossip with them again at this time, I am afraid that these hot-tempered film policemen will directly send me into detention for obstructing official duties.

Think about Mr. Victor's waiter, that bloodhound also looks like someone owes her millions all day long, dealing with criminals all the year round, and his life is full of negative energy.

Xue Ming nodded his thanks, and immediately ran back to the carriage to wake up Ah Xing——

"—get out of the car."

Ah Xing turned over in a daze, blinked his eyes a few times, and immediately yelled: "Are you there? Are you here? I'm going to see Grandma Wolf?"

Xueming persuaded earnestly: "When you enter the city later, don't run around, and don't talk to others casually."

Ah Xing pouted: "Why?"

Xue Ming told Meteor the reason completely, and also told the whole thing about the Red Star Mountain Range. Ah Xing immediately became serious, stopped thinking about other things, and prepared to concentrate on serving Grandma Wolf.

Ah Xing looked worried: "Do you want to talk to Brother Jason about this?"

Jiang Xueming shook his head: "His stone is lapis lazuli, and he knows more about Hongxing Mountain than we do. I believe he has realized it long ago."

Xue Ming didn't bring any luggage, and the trip to the library was very safe. This is the hinterland of the Nine Realms Station, and it is also the transportation department of the scientific research station, so there is no need to carry a gun when traveling.

Ah Xing followed Xueming out of the car, and when he heard that Jason was going to such a ghostly place, the kid was out of his mind all the way.

"Brother Ming, Brother Ming"

"Yeah. I'm listening." Jiang Xueming followed the station broadcast and led the way.

Barazón is called the Magic City. The facade of the city's train station is also like the old British platform in Harry Potter. There are brass and chrome steel gold and silver pipes everywhere, regular platforms and towering towers. The Observation Tower, like coming to Azkaban, is a gorgeous prison for felons.

When the two walked out of the train station, they didn't see the square, but the entrance of a stone path alley that was getting higher and higher. All the way up the slope, you will see winding roads on both sides and various old wooden facade signs.

Occasionally, there are gorgeously decorated ones, but most of them sell strange lucky charms or sacred objects, special ammunition, and explosive pots for heavy crossbows, which are used to deal with blood-imparting monsters.

Commercial medicines used by hunters can be seen everywhere, and Guanglingsan Xiaolongbao, which increases physical activity, was also developed and manufactured at the scientific research station and sold all over the world.

The trademarks of the Bluestone School are divided into two families.

One family is the totem of the great wolf Van Cleef, representing the lapis lazuli guards.

The other family is rulers and compasses, both of which are drawing tools. The name of the school is Fools' Square.

Lapis Guardians are mostly hunters who catch criminals.

The Fool's Square is the people who draw prey illustrated books, produce hunter equipment, and conduct biological research in the underground world.

Jiang Xueming glanced at these shops, and there was also a magic wand workshop that made special designs for pyroxenes and customized modifications for sticks—but he didn't have time to go in and wander around. You can take a look at it when you have a chance in the future.

The two began to climb along the sparsely populated stone path. They were going to the municipal center 700 meters away. According to the guide's map instructions, they boarded the mounted police carriage there and headed east to the city to the secret library. .

On this road, Bu Meteor talked about Jason.

"Brother Ming, I want to go to the Red Star Mountains with Brother Jason."

"Well, it's dangerous there."

"I know it's dangerous, but if we go together, there must be a way!"

"Aren't you going to persuade him? Instead, come to persuade me?"

"Because I like 3301."

"Your jumping thinking is too outrageous, you have to speak slowly."

"I like Teacher Sansan. I think Brother Jason's former waiter, the former Wendy Mills, is also a very important person to Brother Jason. It is absolutely impossible for me to persuade him to give up this journey. "

"Makes sense."

"I think there is strength in numbers, why don't we make an appointment and go to this ghostly place with him! Crush his demons!"

"good."

"Brother Ming, you promised me?"

"accepted."

"It's that simple?"

"if not?"

"Hehehe, I thought that you would give me a scolding first, and then tell me something wronged. Life is important, safety first and so on."

Jiang Xueming and the staff handed over the passenger documents, yawned lazily, and turned around to mutter to Ah Xing.

"Jason Megan is the cook in our store, he can't die. And during the trip to Skull and Bones, he has a lifelong friendship with us. I have to sacrifice my life for righteousness. This is not a time for greed and fear of death, but a time for sharing weal and woe. "

Meteor's eyes lit up, and he slapped Brother Xue Ming's shoulder vigorously.

"Wow! Brother Ming! Every time you talk too much, I'm always cheered up! Say more, say more!"

Jiang Xueming shrugged his shoulders and pursed his lips, put on a strange expression, and stopped talking.

Until the two of them boarded the carriage, the coachman hunter in the front seat also had a decadent look of resentment and insomnia.

Meteor finally couldn't help it, and wanted to have fun and make friends.

"Brother! Why do you use a horse-drawn cart? Can't afford a motorcycle? Can't you use an electric car? Isn't your city government very poor? Isn't it right? Aren't all scientific research cities rich? It doesn't make sense! Is it just because you are handsome? It is indeed handsome. Is your horse good-tempered? Will you kick me? If you don't kick me, can I make friends with it? Brother, what is your zodiac sign? What constellation do these two horses belong to?"

Xueming wanted to stop him, but he didn't, feeling regretful in his heart.

The driver's eyes were bloodshot, and he could clearly feel the pressure of strong inspiration from the wide-brimmed hat and the black passenger coat.

The eldest brother was very upset, almost driven crazy by this enthusiastic redstone man.

Finally, a hoarse growl came from the scarf, as if in a demonstration, suppressing his manic mood, and replied with a thick smoky voice.

"This is a dead place. In order to reduce carbon emissions, reduce pollution, and create a good environment for the vegetable garden of the scientific research station, most people use horse-drawn carriages to travel. The freight station occasionally uses large diesel-powered vehicles to tow goods. Our passenger station , all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation are very retro.”

Xue Ming quickly said, "Thank you!"

Meteor wanted to ask a few more questions, but Xue Ming immediately covered his mouth.

When arriving at the destination, the secret library is another scene.

Among the intricate low-rise buildings, there is a comprehensive building area covering an area of ​​35 square kilometers. It is almost the area of ​​a provincial-level university town.

The living area and study area are fully functional and diverse. You can see a huge signboard hanging on the door opening of the main building, called [Galahad School of Magic].

Bu Liuxing was so excited that he almost went crazy, so he almost talked to the doorman about enrolling in school.

Jiang Xueming grabbed the big dog that was gone after he left, and headed towards the secret library. The big carriage was replaced by a small one. On the campus road in a dark environment, you could see the mottled luster of gabbro in the buildings, and A sky-coloured paint for deep domes.

After a few minutes' drive, the two walked into the gatehouse of the big library and headed for the main hall.

The staff at the director's counter were all dressed up, ready to ask the two passengers for their documents.

The giant cotton chair behind the counter is about thirty meters wide——

——The great wolf Van Cleef was lying on the chair, like the patron saint of the city, welcoming every little guy who came to visit the secret library.

Meteor stuttered, almost unable to restrain his inner excitement.

He saw VanCleef covered in layers of fine hair spun in blue, gold and gray, with wolf-kissed jaws and golden wolf eyes. He almost wanted to throw himself into grandma's arms and touch her.

Xue Ming had already raised his fist, ready to deal with emergencies—he regretted not bringing a gun, at least when Ah Xing went mad, the bullet could break the kid's leg.

"Grandma! Grandma! I'm here to see you! I'm here to study in the big library!"

Van Cleef immediately jumped off the padded chair, moved his huge wolf head to the director's counter, squeezed the two clerks away, and breathed heavily at the meteor.

At that moment, Meteor could no longer laugh.

He felt as if he had been licked by a foul tongue all over his body.

When this vicious and vicious ancient creature stared at its prey, the spiritual pressure produced almost made him breathless, and patches of wheal erythema quickly appeared on his skin, which was an allergic reaction to stress.

A deep female voice came from the big wolf's throat: "I don't know you, why do you call me grandma?"

Meteor immediately said: "3301 is my waiter! I want to marry her as my wife!"

Van Cleef tilted his head and thought about it carefully. It was like searching for more than 200 names in a genealogy, and then searching for more grandchildren's names from more than 200 direct descendants, and finally remembered this strange man. granddaughter.

"Oh, I see." It said so, retracted its body, jumped onto the big chair, and continued to maintain an elegant and dignified paralyzed posture.

Meteor: "No more? Is it over?"

Xue Ming whispered: "Otherwise? There are so many children in the family, each of them will talk to it? No matter how powerful its spiritual essence is, it will be crazy. It is a shame for you to reply to you. Meteor, you Be sober, it has already recognized you without asking you to give a dowry."

"You don't need to talk about it in private, I can hear it." Van Cleef said immediately: "But what the nameless said is right, Bu Meteor—your physical body is very good, I think you are qualified to join my clan, your blood is Best dowry."

Van Cleef, an ancient beast, expresses his marriage appeal very straightforwardly, without any euphemistic intentions.

Meteor didn't know how to answer the conversation for a while, so he nodded vigorously, and was immediately dragged by Xue Ming to the back hall to look for a book to read.

The process of meeting Grandma Wolf is like going through a simple cutscene. If you still have the opportunity to study in the library or go to the [Galahad School of Magic] in the future, you may have the opportunity to learn more about it.

After explaining the purpose of coming to the guide assistant of the library, Xue Ming also learned that this [Galahad School of Magic] is an exclusive school for passengers——

——Passengers have a long vacant period after obtaining soul power. During this period, it is difficult for them to understand the true ability of soul power, or they cannot skillfully use soul power to fight for survival.

In the four stages of pupation, cocooning, emergence and adulthood, you can apply to BOSS to go to this school for further study.

The process of searching for bibliographies didn't take long——

——This quaint secret library, in addition to the original paper version, also has an e-book version that is convenient to circulate.

According to the guide assistant, the ancient books that need to be preserved for more than a hundred years are all drawn with lead, aluminum, copper and nickel as stereotypes.

After all, electronic hardware such as hard disks is very easy to damage, and it is also easy to damage sectors when data is relocated. Even if one of the compressed files is damaged, it will be a huge loss. Therefore, two forms of physical documents and electronic files are needed to preserve these precious knowledge. .

The bibliography that Jiang Xueming wanted happened to be the dragon-slaying technique that most passengers wanted to learn.

Homo sapiens is the top predator, and the hunting nature makes the passengers very concerned about the [death gate] of other creatures.

Such books are easy to find--

——Someone made a bound edition based on ancient books from different eras.

Author: King Hunter

Book name: "All Things Cracked: 1984 Bound Edition"

[There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in]

[—Leonardo Cohen, "Ode\