Chapter 9 Incineration
Gao Wen looked at the direction of the horizon for a long time. In the first few minutes, the huge cognitive conflict even made him unable to guess what he saw - no matter what it was, it was far from the sun he only had.
The wide and magnificent arc continued to rise, and in its initial stage it rose much faster than the sun. So after a while, Gao Wen saw a small part of its arc. The arc was indeed glowing, with hazy colors and indescribable structures on the edges, as if they were clouds and mist. The light and heat of this world should be provided by this thing, but its light is not as dazzling as the sun that it cannot be seen directly - in fact, on the contrary, Gao Wen can not only look directly at the arc, but also see some subtle patterns from the arc.
After roughly judging the arc of the thing, Gao Wen realized that this was a thing with a visual diameter dozens or even hundreds of times larger than the sun - of course, its true size should be smaller than a normal star, but it was too close to the earth.
At this distance, if it rises, it may cover about one-fifth of the sky... Of course, this is just Gao Wen's rough sense, because the touch he was really touched, and things he intuition will inevitably have great deviations.
The oppression caused by watching a giant celestial body rise in front of you is hard to express.
Quickly searching the memory of Gowen Cecil, and sure enough, I found countless equally spectacular "sunrises" in that memory. The thing in the sky was not an abnormal celestial phenomenon, but the most normal landscape in this world.
So what about the explanation?
Gao Wen quickly made many interpretations based on the knowledge he had mastered. Perhaps because the physical rules of this world are completely different from the universe in his hometown, the light and thermal efficiency of stars are quite low. The planet under his feet is very close to the stars, so you can see such a huge sun, while the earth is not burned; it is also possible that it is not a sun at all, but a hole that emits light and heat radiation, or something that is not scientific at all but magical...
But what is more likely is that the planet under my feet is not orbiting the sun, but a gas giant planet. It is not a planet at all, but the latter's satellite, rising from the sky...
It is the home star of this satellite.
At this moment, Gao Wen felt the feeling of "a foreign land" stronger than ever.
"Ancestor? Lord Ancestor?" Hetty's voice came from the side, and finally woke Gao Wen, who was in a state of dullness and contemplation.
"Ah...ah?" Gao Wen suddenly woke up and looked at N's great-granddaughter beside him in a little shocked and suspicious manner.
The beautiful lady left the dark, cramped and dangerous underground tunnel. At this time, she slightly regained her former style. She bowed slightly to Gao Wen: "Ancestor, you were in a daze just now, but we must leave here first."
Gao Wen stammered for a few times, then he noticed that the exit of the tunnel was an unobstructed hillside. It was indeed not a wise move to stand here stupidly in the unknown surroundings. So he nodded: "Go to the high ground first and check it out to confirm the situation nearby. What I know is the terrain from seven hundred years ago, and it may not be easy to use today."
So the group advanced towards the hillside not far away under Gao Wen's instructions, and on this road, Gao Wen couldn't help but look up at the huge "sun" for several times.
"Sir, have you been watching the sun?" Rebecca, who was walking behind Gao Wen, couldn't help but ask with some concern, "Is there any problem?"
Amber next to him casually said, "Your ancestors have been sleeping for seven hundred years but haven't seen the sun. After finally seeing the sun, you must look at it twice."
Gao Wen ignored Amber, looked at the great-granddaughter of N+1, shook his head slightly, and confirmed the name of the locals in this world to the thing in the sky - it was indeed called the Sun.
Or, no matter how you pronounce that word, in the minds of people in this world, what the word refers to is the sun, and nothing else.
Gao Wen searched the memory of the original owner of the body again. After trying the keywords and vague information several times, he finally raised his head with some sense and looked at the slightly dim sky on the other side.
In the sky that had not yet become completely bright and there were still many stars, he found a "star" that was about the size of a rice grain and was brighter than all stars.
Humans in this world call that special star "O" and give it many symbolic meanings in religion and magical rituals.
The previous two guesses may be overturned, but only the third guess is reliable.
"Ao" is the star of this galaxy, which is incredibly distant. Its light shines on the ground under Gao Wen's feet, almost as cold as other starlights.
And in the cool breeze in the early morning, Gao Wen climbed to the top of the hillside.
A land that was burned by war and showed a strange and festering state appeared in the distance.
Just like strong sour is poured on the flesh, the earth is rotten, large tracts of rocks and soil have turned gray-black, cracks can be seen everywhere, the vegetation on the land has long been corroded, and the remaining tree trunks have been twisted into a demonized state like a sharp claw of the devil. Further away, you can see collapsed walls, burnt houses, and the Cecil family castle shrouded in smoke and dust.
A distorted monster like a giant wandered around the wasteland.
The fields and crops have long been destroyed in the demonic tide brought about by monsters, and they are completely indistinguishable.
"The territory of the family..." Rebecca lay on the hillside, gritting her teeth tightly, her eyes were a little red, and tears of anger or sadness were circling around her eyes. This girl who had just inherited the family business and had not even adapted to the identity of a lord seemed to have lost everything at this moment.
"This is the land that was corrupted by the demon tide," Gao Wen sighed, "The Gondor Empire was corrupted from the inside out, and I guess that until today, those corruptions should still be entrenched on the wasteland of the old empire - the new corruption appeared in the territory of civilization again."
Amber broke out in cold sweat: "The God of Shadow is above... We have been surrounded by these things before?"
Hetty thought about the possibility of the family recovering: "Is there any help?"
"No help," Gao Wen shook his head, "You have not blocked the attack of the distorted bodies. They have formed a group resonance. The elemental infestation caused by the demon tide caused is irreversible. Even if all the monsters are eliminated, the pollution entrenched in this land will last for a long time."
"How long will it last?" Hetty still seemed a little unwilling to give up.
"Has human civilization returned to the land of the Gondor Empire now?" Gao Wen asked a seemingly irrelevant question.
"…It is still a forbidden zone for life, and no one dares to get involved in the land on the other side of the magnificent barrier."
Gao Wen shrugged: "It seems that the corruption of Cecil's territory will last for at least seven hundred years."
Rebecca and Hetty looked at the ancestor in surprise. They could not understand why the great man who created the Cecil family could be so calm when facing the scene where the last part of the family was destroyed by monsters - neither angry nor sad, as if he was watching something that had nothing to do with him. This attitude even made them a little scared.
However, Gao Wen quickly noticed the eyes of the two and asked, "Is there any problem?"
"Sir, aren't you... angry?" Rebecca asked carefully, "This is the last part of the Cecil family..."
Gao Wen was stunned and immediately realized that he had not been able to fully play into the role, which revealed his flaws, so he quickly put his face on his face and put all his acting skills into mind: "It would be useless to indulge in these things. Gao Wen Cecil is a pioneer. Every inch of land and wealth in this family was built from scratch. If there is no territory, there will be no more. At worst, you can find a place to explore again - what is the mother-in-law and mother doing?"
Heti and Rebecca quickly nodded repeatedly, nodding while admiring their ancestors in their hearts. They thought they were indeed legendary ancestors, and their vision and mind were indeed different - they didn't know that in this era when all the land had been divided by the existing aristocratic system, the land without a border was basically all forbidden zones, where did the ancestors plan to open up the land...
"There is nothing good here. We have to plan the itinerary next. The next step is to find the town and then find a way to meet with the group of people who broke through the siege." While pretending to be a powerful man, Gao Wen quickly changed the topic. "I remember that a knight named Philip led the people to break through? Have you discussed the meeting place at the beginning?"
Rebecca quickly replied: "The agreement was made to the town of Tanzan in the north. If Tanzan is also attacked by monsters, continue north along the Kingdom Avenue."
Gao Wen nodded and was about to leave when a strange feeling suddenly made him stop.
After a moment of stunned silence, he and the Byron Knight next to him shouted almost at the same time: "Let's go down! hide!"
Although it was unknown, Rebecca and Hetty immediately followed the Byron Knight to hide under a huge rock nearby. Amber had already escaped into the shadow and crawled into some corner when Gao Wen opened his mouth. Gao Wen followed behind Rebecca and hid, but suddenly saw the little maid Betty who looked a little stupid and stood there with a blank look on her face, so she rushed out and pulled the other person back - and almost the next moment, a sense of oppression that made everyone's heart tremble fell from the sky.
In the rising "giant sun" brilliance, an elegant and huge creature slowly flew across the sky.
It was a giant dragon with a body length of dozens of meters.
In a panic, Hetty subconsciously cast a third-level spell "Qu Guang Stand" to hide everyone's figures, but she was completely unsure whether this superficial spell could hide from the eyes of a legendary creature.
But the dragon did not find the person on the ground—or perhaps he was disdainful of it at all. He or she just flapped her wings slowly and flew across the sky gracefully and majesticly. In those huge eyes, the land of Cecil, destroyed by the demon tide, was reflected in the gigantic land.
Chapter completed!