Abyss Express

Foreword:

[Patience is bitter, but the result is sweet. ]

[—Jean Jacques Rousseau]

[Part① Yuan Zu]

Pushing aside the thick fog in the ocean, Materialism walked at a water depth of about 1,400 meters.

It is getting farther and farther away from the beach, and the relative distance has exceeded 20 kilometers.

The water is getting clearer and the visibility is getting higher and higher. It seems that after breaking through the Iceman's first line of defense, there is a smooth road.

But the puzzling thing is-

——The closer you get to Niflheim, the water temperature gets lower and lower, almost to freezing point.

It is very similar to the strange phenomenon when Xue Ming first came to the northern territory. The powerful geothermal heat should have turned this land into a purgatory on earth, but at this moment, not only is there no boiling in the deep water area, there are no stones such as gabbro or basalt. , On the contrary, it is dominated by strong magnetic and strong electric seashore sand and igneous rock.

The underwater detectors failed to detect any useful signals, and the remaining three corrupt giants seemed to evaporate out of thin air in the ocean.

Jiang Xueming remembered clearly that when he was fighting Liren in the shallow sea area, he could see the shadows of the last three gatekeepers of the underworld lurking underwater a few kilometers away.

"Brother Ming! Could it be that they are afraid!?" Meteor yelled carelessly: "The big fire man is so majestic! They dare not come to trouble us, they are hiding!"

Xue Ming: "There is a possibility"

The Laughing Man will still make an expression of fear before dying. These giants have not lost their instinct to survive.

In the story described by [Liren], the undead rune is more like a curse, leaving these super ancient creatures here as tool people. But when encountering a strong enemy that cannot be defeated, these tool people will still be afraid, will be terrified, and will be so frightened that they will show fear and fear.

Perhaps materialism has already broken into Niflheim, into the territory of Heim's underworld. Leaving the gatekeepers far behind, they hid in the deep and dark mud, not daring to come out to meet people.

Nevertheless, the situation is still not optimistic.

[Phoenix] is the data monitoring center of various departments, its UI column is on and off, which means that VIP Su Ling's mental state is very bad.

Starting from the Albert scientific research station, she has been taking care of the inspiration of the main combatants like a dedicated nurse. From the Pavlov substation to the central square of Red Star Mountain, she exchanged fire with the frogman troops and fought with the chaos. Wrestling with all kinds of warriors, stained with the brand of Vita, fighting with the salary king, controlling the materialist oil bomb reserve control center, and then took the [Red Salamander] to the deep ocean, without the protection of materialism, facing it alone. abyss.

She was still in the state of [bleeding], the injury of her broken arm had just healed, and part of her essence was taken away by the unreasonable water man, which added to the injury.

This has gone beyond Xue Ming's understanding of "human beings". This woman is like a peerless work made of iron. Perhaps this is the origin of the phrase "A Ling is super powerful" in Xia Xia's mouth.

Except for sleeping in the outpost tower, Su Ling stayed awake and fought continuously for more than fifteen hours.

The voice of the VIP came from the broadcast center.

Su Ling said, "I want to rest for a while."

Her face was pale, she lost a lot of blood, and she couldn't regain her vitality even after eating several packs of military rations.

In a low-temperature environment, it is difficult for any wound on the human body to heal. The wounds suffered in winter and the scars will not disappear until spring.

When she said these words, people finally understood——

——This VIP is also a human being, a [person] who suffers from pain, fatigue, and needs rest.

The light of the [Phoenix] was gradually extinguished. Whether it was the Ibrahimovic in the war department or the meteor who was in urgent need of a spiritual shield, the hearts of those who were favored by the Phoenix immediately became tense.

An unparalleled vicious Reiatsu almost swallowed them alive.

Xue Ming's psychological defense was impacted, let me make a wonderful metaphor——

——It was like when he was in the battery factory, when he was stripping the paint of the workpiece, the strong acid paint remover splashed on the exposed skin, and it was hot for a while, and it was cold for a while, accompanied by severe pain.

The spiritual pressure in the dark abyss can already cause substantial damage to the human body!

Just listening to the strange cry of meteors on the radio——

——The big boy saw dense red spots on the skin of his hands, which looked like frostbite. Unlike Vita's brand, this was just a strong pain stimulating the nerve endings, and the body's natural irritating allergic reaction.

Great William sat stiffly on the chair in the cab. This direct descendant of Surte was shivering from the cold. He had been observing the indoor temperature. The temperature control value on the dashboard was kept at around 27 degrees Celsius, which was very comfortable. temperature.

But William still felt the cold—

——This coldness comes from Niflheim's Reiatsu.

Without the protection of the phoenix, his core temperature plummeted, as if the blood in his body was about to coagulate, and his metabolism dropped to freezing point along with the signal of brain disorder, and his heart rate dropped from 81 per minute to 42 .

He could hardly speak. The cells in the brain were rapidly apoptotic due to ischemia and hypoxia, and they were unresponsive and unable to respond.

What Jiang Xueming felt was even more bizarre——

——He can often hear inexplicable abnormal noises from the quiet control room.

It was similar to the screaming of mosquitoes or mice when they moved quickly, brushing against his ears and cheeks, as if a small furry animal had just run past his shoulder, neck or thigh.

He stretched out his hand to scratch, and immediately saw the muddy meat and broken skin remaining between the nails.

When he raised his head, he saw his bloody face reflected in the mirror-like porthole—that was indescribable chaos and madness.

But in the blink of an eye, these hallucinations disappeared immediately.

There is nothing but red marks on the cheeks and the dry and cracked texture of the epidermis.

When the annoying noise struck again, this terrifying phantom disturbed Xue Ming's nerves again.

Their death gates are half-opened and half-closed, and the essence of their bodies becomes fragile and fragile, as if they are getting closer to Heim's underworld, and closer to death.

Materialism moves forward blindly and finally reaches its destination.

The pilot headlights on the shoulders and necks shone, and immediately saw a bottomless trench.

It was quiet everywhere, and the spectral value of the sonar detector jumped violently. The distance near the cliff wall of the ramp was 3,110 meters, and the bare rock and strange rock below the cliff wall was 5,561 meters.

After a full minute, the powerful shock wave of the mine explosion proved the final depth of this trench for materialism—it was 15,600 meters deep.

Dozens of fluorescent tracer flares fell into this bottomless trench, and at the same time there were pilot light sources firing forward.

Materialism's chest shot out a high-energy beam again, but this time, the bright red laser could not sweep out any movement on the bottom of the sea.

Only the transpiring water vaporizes into huge bubbles, slowly floating towards the sea level.

"What is that?" Jason was surprised, as if he had seen an incredible sight.

Far away, far away.

There is a wall—

——Specifically, it is a transparent wall that cannot pass through.

When the laser beam hits this wall, it is immediately deflected and scattered, and is absorbed and refracted by countless tiny crystals.

The light spread on this wall, gradually turning blood red. In the vast wilderness approaching tens of kilometers to the left and right, this high wall reached directly to the sea.

It is like a piece of ice with high transparency. In an environment with extremely low temperature, it turns into a wall naturally and orderly. Its internal ice flower angular texture is very regular, just like the rare earth unit semiconductor parts in modern society. Injection of energy or photoelectric signal - it will light up all the ice flowers and pass this picture to the visitor.

It's very similar to the real world --

— but completely different.

Just like the structure of chiral molecules, it seems to be the inside and outside of the mirror, the boundary between life and death.

At this moment, Jason Megan finally understands why living people can never reach Helm's Underworld, and why [Liren] told Surte that all this is in vain.

Things that have a physical body cannot pass through this high wall.

Only a spirit body can get out of this delicate and ingenious door.

Wendy: "Jason, that thing was shaped by the divine power of a giant."

Jason: "What is it?"

Wendy: "It's [Isa · Isa]—another kind of [Iceman]."

Jason: "Didn't we blow up the Iceman already?"

Wendy: "Different from the [ice] in the ordinary material world, this rune symbol means [stopping movement, eternal peace, freezing and cooling.] - it originally stood not far from the beach of Red Star Mountain , Materialism takes a step forward, it takes a step back, and finally hides in the gate of Niflheim, loyally guarding the underworld of Niflheim.”

Jason: "We can't make it through."

Wendy: "Let's take a closer look, we finally got here, we need to take a few more photos."

As soon as the words were spoken, the Canaan unit immediately started working. Under the interference of such a strong magnetic and electric environment, the work efficiency of Little Canaan can be seen to drop a lot with the naked eye.

They gathered in the industrial area, made several thick lenses out of aluminum oxide, used primitive optical instruments to resist environmental interference, and built a telescope for materialism.

After a full six minutes, a golden titanium-plated steel pipe popped out from the shoulder of Materialism. Both ends of the mirror were crystal clear. The damage management department held it with his left arm and immediately looked at the iceberg in the distance.

A clearer picture is transmitted to the control center——

——The energy beam once again illuminates the iceberg.

The extremely transparent ice flower shines with dense red lines, and there is a giant among them. From the perspective of shape, [Isa · Isa] is a woman.

The flaxen long garment wrapped its body, and the neck ring and head ring made of green osmanthus had turned black and dark. The undead rune climbed up the side face of this white-haired goddess, and the right eye and right nose lost the protection of flesh and blood. The bones are exposed, the black brain tissue is sprayed out, and it is frozen in eternal frost.

It was in a hole in the ice, motionless.

In order to deal with the rampant Soult, it seems to think that this method can stop Pyro and make Pyro go astray.

Farther behind [Isa], is a huge pyramid.

The tower temple is not like an ancient Egyptian mausoleum or a Mayan temple. Instead, it is as sharp-edged and simple in structure as a crystal that stores the ashes of Soviet martyrs.

It's just that it is black and gold in two colors, and the golden lines of the polygonal rectangle are like a circuit board, spread on the surface of the triangular prism, and sometimes emit a strong current, like a heartbeat.

[Part② Gatekeeper]

Everything in the world is quiet--

- No sea life, no dust or mud.

There is no fog, and not even the sound of the materialist engine can be heard.

This strange and magnificent tower seems to have life. When observing it carefully, everyone in the originally bustling war department stopped talking.

They wanted to use words to drive away the powerful spiritual pressure of Niflheim's terrifying hallucinations, but at this moment their minds were sucked in by this strange ancient building.

Wendy: "Can't watch anymore!"

Jason woke up suddenly, and the moment he came back to his senses, he manipulated the fingers on the warhead of his right arm and crushed the telescope severely.

The picture signal from the electronic detection screen was suddenly interrupted, turning into broken mirrors and twisted steel bars.

Jiang Xueming breathed a sigh of relief, and recovered himself from the blurred hallucinations.

Among the huge icebergs, that temple seemed to eat people. Just looking at it, Xue Ming's spiritual body involuntarily left his body. fly out——

After the brain recognizes Niflheim's true face, it seems that the soul will involuntarily return to Niflheim's underworld.

Right now, right now.

The release of two consecutive energy beams seems to have alarmed a certain giant.

The soil under their feet began to vibrate, and the brothers in the war department were worried, and they were always on guard against the whole body.

"The enemy is coming?"

"And the last three. And the last three."

"Where will it come from?!"

[Materialism] suddenly lowered his head, a high-energy signal came from the deep abyss of the trench beneath his feet!

A golden light lit up in the dark abyss. In the invisible and unobservable weird darkness, you can suddenly see part of the bottom of the abyss clearly!

The lighting environment is good, and the transparency of the seawater is also sufficient.

It seems that everything has become bright and refreshing, brightened up!

Looking down from the cliffs of the trench, the soft light makes people feel warm inexplicably.

Great William woke up from the state of confusion and confusion, and Niflheim's spiritual pressure was swept away by this magical light source.

At the bottom of the trench, Jason's transcendent inspiration gave him visions.

Blood was flowing from his mouth and nose, just like the experience of looking directly at giants in the past, his head sent wrong instructions to his body, and the sudden surge of intracranial pressure caused the capillaries to burst.

With Surte's eyes, he glimpsed the true face of the "mother".

According to [Liren], Niflheim is very close to Mother Gaia.

At this moment, in the deepest part of the trench, there is a mass of black mud flowing continuously. It is simply impossible to describe its specific form in words.

This huge elemental substance is distributed in the endless abyss of nearly 30,000 square kilometers under the trench.

The cilia on its body surface continuously discharge and absorb energy. The process of energy circulation seems to be trying its best to absorb the heat in the external environment, turning this ocean into lifeless ice water.

Its shape is like a entangled black-spotted golden-scale serpent ball whose head and tail are difficult to distinguish. The smooth and oily sludge is separated and reassembled. It is beaten by thunder and transfers substances and information between the thick cilia.

It is embedded in a wider and deeper igneous rock, as if it has sucked up the heat of the volcanoes and is hidden deep in the mantle.

It's like a living animal! is a life!

The exposed essence is like a very small part of its organs, including the pyramid-shaped temple, which seems to be more like the worship of the ancestors of life by the giants. Angular statue.

At this very moment—

——Two shining runes emerged from the depths of the trench.

That's [Algiz (Ogiz) Elk]

And [Thurisaz (Suri Saz) Thunder]

At the moment when the rune appeared, the dull vibration of the hooves trampling on the rock was heard from the bottomless darkness. This is how the earthquake that everyone felt just now came from.

Before Ibrahimovic shouted the slogan "ready to fight".

Two dead bones rushed out of the abyss of the trench.

Riding on the giant-horned elk, the knight ran upwards from the golden light of the trench on the solid ice.

The webbed aponeurosis like a cow's hoof opened and closed, bringing countless rotting insect corpses to hit the water flow. The stimulation of the thunder and the violent pressure change made it produce pieces of ice out of thin air as footholds.

The larvae of the mad butterfly nearly ate the knight and mount empty.

They seem to have been bitten and parasitized by mosquitoes and bloodflies, and a complete piece of armor cannot be seen in the cavalry armor and elk armor.

The flesh and blood of the limbs are half hung on the bones. If it is not in the ocean environment, I am afraid that I will not be able to stand up!

The knight held a bone warhammer surrounded by thunder in his hand. His head also had the face of a skeleton, and his hollow eyes shone with light.

They fell behind materialism, and the elk raised its front hooves and kicked out a turbulent spray to bring the enemy back to their senses and urge them to a decisive battle.

The knight held the rein in one hand and the warhammer in the other. The golden streamer on his body touched the ocean, and the dazzling thunder broke down the water, and a raging flame burst out immediately.

They are like loyal watchdogs guarding Princess [Isa]. Leaving your companions on the mudflats near the sea, return to the home of this near-death Jedi to meet the challenge of Burning Surt.

Jason looked at the two giants. Together, they were more than 600 meters high. The huge elk became a strong support for the knight.

"Patience is bitter, but the result is sweet."

Meteor: "We want to fight this kind of thing?!"

Ibrahimovic: "Are you scared?"

Booming music came from the radio station.

Meteor: "Listen! Listen! I'm filled with determination!"

Xueming: "Meteor, turn off your phone!"

Meteor: "It's not me! I'm really not serious! But this time it's not me!"

Sirte had already awakened, and he picked out a playlist for his comrades in private.

"It's the rebellious boy Surte playing the battle song for us." Su Ling turned over and slept for fifteen minutes, her eyes were bloodshot, ready to fight the final battle. She did her best in this event: "I'll open Netease Cloud Music to identify it."

"Aling, wake up! Where is the net here!" Xia Xia shouted excitedly: "Old Touhuan! It's "The Final Battle" by Old Touhuan, the final battle is here! Perverted... Oh no, faded ones! "

Big William and Meteor complained in a super low voice: "Can't this bitch respect my father? What is a rebellious boy?"

Su Ling: "Then call it rebellious Lao Tzu?"

"I need data monitoring. VIP! It's here!" Jason gritted his teeth, and saw the knight stepping on the waves with his hammer in hand.

Phoenix is ​​back online.

Two lines of bright red blood streaks suddenly appeared in front of everyone, accompanied by rumbling earthquakes and thunder.

The spirit body of the VIP stamped a line of big characters in the center of the partner's line of sight and on the teledetection screen, unveiling the curtain of the final battle.

[Gatekeeper of Helm's Underworld]

[Surisaz and its loyal big elk]