Chapter 1291 homecoming
The entire port area was shrouded in a scattered fog and a loud collapse like rolling thunder.
The blue dragon soared into the sky and rushed into the sky in a cloud of dust. The canopy of the giant tree of reincarnation collapsed behind her. The huge wooden structures that had been supported for thousands of years were as broken as a giant city in a dream. The branches as thick as a bell tower, withered and shrinking huge leaves and the vines that had just died broke in a series of loud noises and fell on the ground of the home port. Each collapse made the steel land tremble and rolled up one more stream of smoke and dust.
Gao Wen and others stood on the edge of Melita's broad back and looked down at the earth. The scene at the sight was so spectacular that everyone was stunned.
It was like a whole city collapsed from the air in front of me, and thousands of years of history turned into debris in a few minutes. The entire port area was shrouded in the thick smoke and dust clouds, even the lights left by the setter were blocked.
A grand funeral.
"Everyone is standing firmly!" Melita's voice came from the front, as if there was a gust of force, "The smoke and dust below are rising too fast, we have to speed up!"
As soon as Miss Lanlong finished speaking, Gao Wen and others felt a shaking sound from their feet. They didn't care about watching the spectacular scene below, but immediately stabilized their bodies. At the same time, the rising dust around them began to be accelerated and thrown behind Melita. She rushed out of the most severely collapsed area as fast as possible, and the spacecraft parked in the port finally appeared in front of everyone.
The dust spreading across the spacecraft had already shrouded all kinds of indicator lights, and the wreckage of giant trees left on the spacecraft and the shrubs and flowers in the wreckage had also turned into debris. Fortunately, the entire spacecraft was huge in scale, and the area covered by dust only occupied a small piece on the edge of the deck. Melita directly crossed the deck, flew over the low altitude between a pile of ship buildings, and finally landed on an open alloy platform.
Gao Wen was the first to jump to the deck. He stood high and looked into the direction of his home port. Under the hazy light and the background sky light brought by the energy barrier, the towering canopy of the giant tree of the reincarnation disappeared from his vision. There was only a "sea of clouds" rising on the spot, like a continuous, rapidly growing mountain range, covering the port where the giant tree was once located.
"...In this way, the investigation team we sent here next time will probably not be so easy to act," Carmier floated from the side, saying in a low voice. "The collapsed giant tree of reincarnation looks like it has completely sealed the entire port area. If the investigation team wants to explore the home port in depth, it may have to open a way in the collapsed ruins first."
Amber, who jumped down next to him, sighed: "That's a lot bigger than the giant Solin tree... Even if you send engineering troops here, you will probably dig it forever..."
Listening to Amber and Carmier next to him, Gao Wen just stared quietly into the distance without saying a word.
Until a while later, a low mechanical buzzing sound suddenly came from the depths of the deck of the spaceship under everyone's feet. The mechanical locking devices between the ship and the port were unbuttoned one by one. The huge and ancient engines started to activate. The ship's own protective barrier automatically rose. The distant port area gradually moved away from its sight. The spaceship under its feet once again embarked on a cruise between many gods. Gao Wen seemed to wake up from his contemplation and said lightly: "The spaceship has set sail. Everyone should take a rest first and eat something to restore their physical strength."
Since the spaceship left the Kingdom of War God and embarked on this unprecedented exploration journey, everyone's nerves were very tense. Even as a superman with strong physique, people would feel tired when they were full of nerves. Now they have finally left the "Sentinel Home Port". Although the next return journey will be spent on this spaceship, at least the most uncontrollable and most likely to encounter risks in the journey has ended, and everyone can relax their nerves more or less.
The exploration team found a suitable open space near the entrance to the inner passageway, took out the food, drinking and water, and started eating and resting. In order to prevent accidents during this last journey, Melita did not regain her human form, but instead lies on the nearby deck in the form of a dragon to rest. The huge dragon's body was like a raised city wall, bringing a convincing sense of security out of thin air.
Melita was lying on the deck, her huge tail covered with scales bent slightly, surrounding the temporary camping exploration team like a barrier. But her head was around the other side of the team, with a huge head resting on the edge of an alloy platform. One eye was watching the movements on one side of the deck, and the other eye looked at Amber and others who were resting, looking a little bored.
At this moment, Amber walked over with a piece of sweet cake, approached Melita and shook it: "Hey, don't you eat something?"
"Do you mean my dragon form or human form?" Melita raised her eyelids and made a low rumbling sound in her throat. "If it is dragon form, your dough is not enough for me to stuff my teeth, but the dragon form itself doesn't need to eat frequently. I had eaten before I set off yesterday, and I can eat it next week."
"...You dragon clan is powerful," Amber was stunned for a moment, stuffing the dough into her mouth and gnawed it while vaguely, "I can't do it, I'm most afraid of being hungry."
Melita immediately closed her eyes towards Amber, and at the same time moved her huge head to the side. The scales and steel made a sound like a metal hit: "Hey, eat away, the cake dumplings burst into my eyes!"
"Ah, sorry, sorry." Amber quickly took a step back, swallowing the cake in his mouth while clapping his hands. Melita opened her eyes, looked at the direction of the team resting, and said, "Hey, have you seen Gao Wen? I didn't seem to see him at the beginning..."
"He just went into that passage and said he wanted to see what was going on inside the spacecraft again," Amber slapped her hands, rubbed her clothes casually, and turned her head to look at the gate leading to the passage inside the ship. "He didn't let me follow me, but I still decided to go over and see if he was obviously worried after eating, and he was acting alone, so I was worried."
As she said, she shook her head, her expression seemed quite helpless: "Everyone who looks at it is full of worries, as is Modir, Victoria, and even the color on Kamair is not right, that is, I don't understand your expression very well... But I think you must have something to worry about. Now, it's just Daniel and his female apprentice that has not changed much. The former's expression seems to never collapse, and the latter's expression seems to be falling all the time..."
Melita held up her eyelids and looked at her. She was stared at by such a huge eye. Even the thick-sung Amber suddenly felt furry all over her body. She couldn't help but ask, "Why are you staring at me like this? Is there a scum on my face?"
"You seem to be the biggest carefree one among the people around Gowen, but in fact you are one of the most keen and careful people of the Lorens I know..." Melita seemed to have a smile in her tone, "You always observe every person and every detail around you, but most of the time you pretend to be idle and make yourself look like the most useless one."
Amber was stunned for a moment, waved his hand indifferently, and turned around and walked towards the gate of the passage, muttering casually: "The code of survival of slums is called the code of survival..."
Melita watched Amber gradually move away with one eye, and finally slowly retracted her gaze. Near her tail, Modir was walking to a secluded place, looking at the chaotic dark mass that was constantly passing through the spaceship shield, looking like he was in a daze.
Victoria came to Modir. She looked at the old man in front of her with some concern. After hesitation, she finally spoke: "Ancestor, are you worried about the rest of your time?"
"...I've experienced an unprecedented adventure," Modir suddenly spoke, "In this ship, I have seen more than everything I have seen before, mysteries unknown to our predecessors, these almost forgotten things... I think I should be satisfied, Victoria, I have walked so far, and even lived for six hundred years. I cannot be too greedy."
"...You can't give up," Victoria said immediately, "Amber has a way to temporarily stabilize your situation, and during this period we can slowly find solutions. We can search for Ms. Ye's Kingdom of God and find your split partner's body and soul. This is not unimaginable. We even defeated the God of War, arrived at the deep sea, and found the legacy left by the setter. Ancestors, even if they do not rely on the gods, mortals can create miracles..."
"I have always believed in miracles," Modir smiled, with a look of indifference on his face that surprised Victoria. "I didn't give up. Victoria, don't get me wrong. I just have no regrets about any ending, but if I could have a chance to survive, of course I would be very happy under normal circumstances, who would take the initiative to seek death?"
Victoria was a little embarrassed for a moment: "Uh... that's good, I thought..."
Modir just looked at the lady in front of him with a smile, who was theoretically a descendant of his own, but in fact, she was a stranger not long ago, and suddenly asked curiously: "Do you care about me very much? Victoria, I may be a little straightforward, but until recently, I didn't know you and I. We were strangers, and only a very thin bloodline that had spanned six centuries... You have people closer to you, and there are people more familiar with me, and I... should not be so close to you."
Victoria looked at the old man in front of her unexpectedly. She didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to talk about this somewhat subtle topic, but after a moment of silence, she still spoke softly and broke the silence: "You are right, theoretically... there is no deep affection between me and you. For a long time, you were just a story circulating in the family records. Now you have come out of the story, but you are far from my imagination.... Indeed, I can't treat you as a kind and familiar elder, although I know I should do this..."
"Then how do you think of me?" Modir asked curiously.
Victoria thought carefully and finally said, "A great man, who was once very far away, is now close to me, and I am trying to understand your affairs, perhaps like Hetty and Rebecca in the past."
After saying that, she looked at Modir who seemed to be thinking and asked again: "What are your arrangements after you go back?"
"I haven't thought about whether Miss Amber has temporarily stabilized my situation, but if nothing unexpected happens, I should have only one year to arrange the rest of my life. I have been thinking about whether to spend this year to complete the last adventure of my life, to go to a place as far away as possible, and witness some more bizarre things, but just now, just as I was watching you... I had another idea."
"Another idea?" Victoria asked curiously.
"...I traveled around the world, maybe even more than once. Although some things have dissipated in my memory, I still have a vague impression of many places in the world, but there is only one place... I am very strange, so strange that I don't even remember where it is," Modir suddenly looked into Victoria's eyes and said in a serious tone, "I want to go there and see."
"Which place you are talking about?"
"Take me home and see," Modir said slowly, "Maybe my last 'adventure' in this life is to return to Victoria, the hometown of my own completely forgotten. It is in a mountainous place, right?"
"Yes," Victoria's face with few expressions seemed to be vivid. She faced Modir's sight and recalled the place where she was born and raised. "There is a very beautiful castle, on the highest mountain in the north, which is cold most of the time, and it is warm only in the room where the fireplace is burning, but the scenery is very good. You can see the snowy mountains in the north, and you can see the white courtyards and the prosperous towns at the foot of the mountain. It is not as advanced and brand new as North Harbor, but on the streets and alleys, you can see the rise and fall of the Wilder family after you left."
"Oh, that sounds really good," Modir Wilder laughed, "I should really go and have a look."
...
In the vast desert covered with fine gray sand, the towering throne stood in the middle of a collapsed and collapsed altar ruins. The mountain-like figure on the throne slightly lowered his head, staring at a small stone pillar at her feet, and at the ancient dictionary at the top of the stone pillar.
"Oh, you're awake, big adventurer," Ms. Ye's magnificent voice rang between heaven and earth, "Have you had a good dream?"
"That's right," the old man's voice came from the big black-skinned book at the top of the stone pillar, and there was a hint of confusion that had just woken up from the dream. "I haven't dreamed like this for a long time..."
"What did you dream about?"
"I dreamed that I was getting dressed and embarked on the way back to my hometown," Wilder's voice was low. In this deserted and empty sea of sand, his voice was quiet to the only listener, "It seems that I haven't been home for many years..."
“…Yes, Big Adventurer, home is a very distant concept. Do you want to go back?”
Chapter completed!