Do you believe me when I say I’m not a dragon?

Mercer glanced around, then looked at Amo aside.

"What kind of jobs do these survivors do? Have you done any statistics?"

Amo, who witnessed what Mercer did, nodded silently and said: "...Yes."

"I want them to get on the spaceship and leave here. How many spaceships do you have here? How many people are there who can fly the spaceship?"

"This..." Amo looked confused after thinking for a while, "I don't remember, it's all written in the documents."

"Go get it,"

He trotted away and came to the crowd. Finally, he came to Mercer with a stack of documents and an old man.

"He is Root. He served as a spaceship instructor in the port ten years ago. He knows everything about the crew."

Facing Amo's introduction, Mercer nodded slightly.

Facing this old man, Mercer felt a sense of decadence and hidden sharpness from the pink scales.But now facing Mercer, he exuded a feeling of uneasiness and vigilance.

Mercer lowered his head and looked down at the old man.

"What's your name."

Facing Mercer's question, he stiffly raised his head, then lowered it slowly, not daring to look at him:

"...Root."

"So, Root, I want to use the spaceship to transport you back to my territory. How many people and usable spaceships are there who can skillfully operate the spacecraft?" Mercer asked.

"This... we have no shortage of skilled helmsmen. I haven't counted them in detail, but there are probably more than a dozen. Except for a few professionals, most positions only require a period of study to control the spacecraft. I can do the job." After hearing the knowledge he was familiar with, the old man thought for a while and then answered smoothly, but after that, his tone stuttered again:

"As for the spaceship... if you want to carry so many people, you need at least two spaceships - three if those Direwolf Dragons want to go aboard, but we don't even have a small ship now... .so......"

Hearing this, Mercer glanced not far away and said, "I understand, you wait here."

He glanced at everyone, turned around and left, spread his wings in the open space and flew away.

——Watching Mercer leave, Root breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Amo: "Captain Amo, what is going on? What on earth is this black dragon..."

"If you ask me, I'm also confused." Amo also relaxed from his tense state. He looked around and found that there was still a Dire Wolf Dragon watching them, and his expression became tense again.

He whispered: "The voices coming from my head, and the black dragon's wisdom that surpasses humans... I can't understand it at all. When facing the black dragon, I feel like everything about me has been seen!"

"How about we run away?" The captain pursed his lips and said uneasily: "If everyone disperses and runs away, even the Dire Wolf Dragon will have a hard time catching us, right?"

"You are thinking too much." Amo glanced at the Direwolf Dragons around him and said in a deep voice: "The Direwolf Dragons are the creatures that are best at chasing, and your physique is too poor. If the Direwolf Dragons use a little more force, you will It’s useless, even if we try to escape, we can’t escape anywhere.”

Hearing this, Root lowered his head in despair again: "Then there is nothing we can do. We can only hope that what Black Dragon said is true."

"Do you really believe in the territory it talks about?" Amo asked with a frown, "The sounds we heard must be its tricks. No matter what it says, it will never help us in vain?"

"Even so, I still want to give it a try..." Root sighed, clasping his hands together tangledly: "I don't want to stay here anymore."

Hearing this sentence, Amo remained silent, and he had the same thought in his heart.

——Soon, along with the strange sound of steel colliding, shadows enveloped them. When they looked up, they found a dilapidated spaceship falling from the sky and landing in the open space of the port.

And Mercer slowly fell down and stood on the spaceship.

Chapter 200: Searching for answers

Mercer remembered clearly that ten years ago, there were many hunters who came to kill him in spaceships, so there were by no means few spaceships in this area. At most, they had become dilapidated after a while.

There were also three spaceships in the ice-veined snowfield, but considering the time it would take for Mercer to fly there, the spaceship to fly over, and then fly back, he thought he might as well try it here now to see if he could take them back directly. .

Mercer stood on the spaceship and looked at the stunned people. He thought about Root and said calmly: "Check the spacecraft for any damage and inform me later."

After saying that, he spread his wings and flew again and left here.

——After a total of five trips, five spaceships stopped in the port.

Some of the pterosaurs felt the movement here and wanted to come forward to watch, but they fled in a hurry after feeling Mercer's aura.

The search for supplies, the harassment of ferocious beasts, and the long journey were all the reasons why they were trapped here and unable to leave, and these factors were all solved by Mercer's men in an understatement.

"These...five ships in total..." Root stammered.

"If something breaks, just replace it with something else. I need efficiency."

Mercer ordered. Hearing this, Root nodded repeatedly. When he started to check, Mercer flapped his wings, landed from the spaceship and came to Amo:

"Tell people, if you have any instruments or books that need to be taken away, please apply immediately and find someone to record them." Before he finished speaking, Mercer paused, squinted his eyes and said, "Also, do you have any scholars here? It would be best. There’s enough to know.”

"Scholar?" Amo was stunned for a moment and was about to nod. After hearing the next sentence, he shook his head and frowned: "Many scholars had already escaped soon after the fall. Not only them, but many senior officials also They all boarded the spaceship and left as soon as possible. Now there are only some young people with no seniority."

"Really? That's a pity." Mercer said, but he was not surprised, and then said: "Forget it, young people can also call them all over."

"understood."

Amo left here, and not long after, he led a dozen people to Mercer.

And Mercer frowned slightly when he saw that they were all running around.

After all, ten years have passed, and these people have probably wasted ten years. Mercer doesn't think they still remember much, but at this point, there is nothing to criticize.

Mercer looked at Lika and sent a message.

Lika stepped forward and howled at the Dire Wolf Dragon group. Nearly half of the Dire Wolf Dragons walked out, and the remaining half continued to stay here.

Then he glanced at Amo again and said, "I will ask my subordinates to find food for you, but remember, this is not free."

——Subsequently, three more Dread Wolf Dragons walked up to Mercer, and Mercer said to the scholars:

"Get on them and follow me."

Everyone did not dare to resist. After struggling for a while in front of the fierce Wolf Dragon, they still uneasily climbed onto the back of the Dragon and supported each other.

Seeing this, Mercer spread his wings and flew in one direction.

Amidst the screams of the scholars, the Dire Wolf Dragon began to run, following closely behind Mercer.

——On the way to find the spaceship, Mercer briefly visited the huge floating island and had a general understanding of the surrounding buildings.

And the direction he is taking everyone to is the library of the floating island.

......

After a while, Mercer landed on the ground and came to the ruins in front of him.

Opening it casually, there were old books inside.

Fortunately, this is a desert, and there are a lot of gravels on top of the books, so the probability of being destroyed by rain is very small, and most of the books can be well preserved.

He glanced at the scholars who had jumped off the Direwolf Dragon with weak legs, and stated the purpose of his trip:

"I called you here to find me something."

"Is... what is it?"

A scholar asked with a trembling voice while suppressing his fear of Mercer.

"The energy of the floating island, I want you to find out all the information about this thing."

Mercer said calmly, his tone as calm as the sea without a trace of wind and waves.

"This thing... is usually a confidential document, and those of us have no right to read it..." the scholar replied cautiously, and Mercer turned his head and looked him squarely in the eyes.

"I asked you to find it, where did all this nonsense come from!"

After a brief scolding, the scholars immediately started to act in panic and ran to the pile of ruins to look through it.

Mercer also looked around. In a place where the scholars had not noticed, a dozen ape-like creatures were standing there, looking at them with evil eyes.This is their territory.

- But not anymore.

Mercer glanced at them with murderous eyes, and the group of apes immediately left the place in fright, and ran away without looking back.

Withdrawing his gaze, Mercer focused on the group of scholars.

The black mist surged around him and extended out, like tentacles browsing the pile of books on the ground.

"Changes in the Ecosphere", "Ecological Variation", "On Human Changes in [Catastrophe]", "What is a Natural Disaster"...

After roughly scanning the books, Mercer quickly caught his eye on one of the documents.

Natural disaster... Thinking of the red phoenix, Mercer felt that he needed to take a look.

After reading it carefully, Mercer found that this was just a brief description and did not record many details:

"As we all know, the power of natural disasters is unshakable. Their every move can trigger large-scale ecological changes - sometimes for good, sometimes for bad. But the reason why they are called natural disasters is not because of their strength, but because of their Unscientific power.”

"Easily summon strong winds, bring about tsunamis by turning the body, and cause earthquakes at will... This is something that no single creature can do. Some even call them gods. But the most terrifying thing is , their death seems to trigger changes in the world, and the specific reasons are unknown - I can only remember that a long time ago, a natural disaster that could control the cold died. At that time, within an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of square kilometers centered on that area , everything turned into a world of ice and snow, and no living thing can survive here."

...Will the death of a natural disaster trigger changes in the world?

Seeing this scene, Mercer gradually frowned and looked deeply at the line of words.

He remembered the battle with the red phoenix. What would have happened if it hadn't woken up at that time, or if he had killed it himself?

He thought with some luck.

Chapter 2: New Victim...Follower

——Other than these few lines, there is not much information that Mercer wants to know in this book.

He kept these in mind, withdrew his gaze and looked at them.

"found it!"

After a while, a dirty-looking scholar stood up from the ruins and raised the book in his hand in surprise.

The title above states: "Supplementary Teaching of the Core Energy of the Floating Island"

The scholar quickly ran over and handed it to Mercer.

Holding this thin book in his hand, Mercer looked at the old marks on it. This book had obviously gone through a long period of time.

"..."

Mercer was speechless, but Black Mist helped him flip through the books and read everything in them.

——Workers, instruments, factories, materials...

This book does not have many professional vocabulary and seems to be a book specially made for ordinary people.

The workers who are asked to read this book will leave the floating island and go to the ground to replenish the energy of the floating island.

Mercer's eyes gradually narrowed as he scanned the sentences.

It's very vague...the information inside seems to be covered with a layer of gauze, extremely obscure.

It only teaches people who read this book "how to do it", but it does not tell them "why to do it". In other words, it actively hides the information principle about the energy of the floating island.

However, the more he kept silent, the more Mercer's curiosity was aroused. He raised his head and looked at everyone.

"Keep looking."

......

On the west side of the book, a book was found. These are books related to the energy of the floating island. They were placed in front of Mercer and he read them.

——As expected by Mercer, the information here is very fragmented, as if it has been deliberately separated so that no one can understand it.

But even so, Mercer found a clue from a large number of books:

A case.

The owner of the case was a worker who replenished the energy of the floating island. After he came back from the ground, his body developed ulcers and other conditions. He lost all his money and could not be cured. He died in less than a month.

Different from other books, the medical record records the patient's physical condition in detail, starting with the skin, blood vessels and muscles, and finally the internal organs... When it was found, the surrounding area was also filled with information about the energy of the floating island. Books, combined with symptoms that were very similar to his own, gave Mercer reason to suspect that the worker was in the same situation as his.

He browsed for a while, looked at the symptom names at the end, and his eyes froze in it.

"...Ley Line Radiation Syndrome."

He paused and reiterated: "Leyline radiation?"

...The only thing I gained from this trip was this name, but even so, it was a good start.

"All right."

Mercer raised his head and glanced at the dim sky and the scholars who were extremely tired, and said:

"Stop and go back."