Abyss Express

The original meaning of Mimir [Mimir/Mim] refers to the wise man in Nordic mythology, the wise giant known for his knowledge.

The story of Mimir is recorded in two poems in the Edda.

This giant, the owner of the Fountain of Wisdom, taught Odin, the god of the gods, to learn magic.

Like the rune [Rune Talisman], Odin obeyed the guidance of the giant Mimir and exchanged for the divine power at the price of one eye.

Regarding the big topic of Nordic mythology, the Icelandic epic "Eda" and the Germanic epic "Nibelungen Song" are relatively well preserved in modern society. There are countless cultural commodities derived from such myths—like the post-90s For people born in China, the fantasy novel "Dragon Race" is a window for them to understand Nordic mythology.

About the hot spring market in the eighteenth district.

——This place is named after the wise giant Mimir, which implies that it is a fountain of wisdom that bestows knowledge and introspection on passengers.

In myths and legends, the Wisdom Spring [Mímisbrunnr] is located in Jotunheim of the World Tree and is the second root of the tree.

Jotunheim is home to mountain giants and frost giants, full of rocks, cliffs, and wild forests.

After drinking from the Fountain of Wisdom, the Great God Odin gained amazing knowledge, but the burden of knowledge made him lose his smile ever since.

The train bound for the abyss is heading all the way to 64 degrees north latitude.

Jiang Xueming tried his best to cheer up, leaning on Bu Liuxing's arm, staring at the passenger's log.

Most of the information about Mimir Hot Spring Market can be found on the new page of the log.

It’s just that Xue Ming is not suitable for reading at the stage of transformation, or he is not suitable for any complicated thinking and learning. The state of his brain has almost returned to his childhood, and he can fall asleep by doing a few simple quadratic equations.

Ah Xing was patient, and chanted the contents of the diary aloud, as if reading a bedtime story to Brother Ming, so that Brother Ming could cheer up and remember these things clearly.

"The first official destination of the Abyss Railway General Administration is Mimir Hot Springs - passing through the large-scale mine deposits dominated by the Gold Country, where the prehistoric mines are winding and rugged. The traces of human excavation show that these mines stretching for thousands of kilometers , is the title page of another mythical civilization.”

"Starting from the Nine Realms, using this golden town as a fulcrum, the Beast of Mingde built three railway networks at different altitudes to Reykjavik, Iceland."

"The place with the highest altitude and the closest to the Nine Realms Station is the Mimir Hot Spring Market. BOSS called it the official destination, and built a second station in Reykjavik, hundreds of kilometers away— ——Huge Mountain [Huge Mountain]. The reason for using this name is that after that, the BOSS reached a mutually beneficial construction agreement with the mountain giant through the introduction of the mountain monster. These huge humanoids are willing to build stations for the BOSS. Related facilities, and then the Frostfire Giants of the two big clans also joined in."

"These stories can be seen in a more complete and detailed version in the big library. There is an explanation about the Mimir Hot Spring Market in the diary, and there is a long, long paragraph. Brother Ming, can you hold it?"

Bu Meteor waved his broad palm in front of Xueming's eyes.

Looking at the endless darkness outside the car window, Xueming held back his sleepiness, pulled himself together, and said slowly: "I can still listen for a while, tell me more about this hot spring market, I want to make money, so I have to do as the Romans do. "

"Okay." Bu Meteor turned to the next page and explained in detail the historical significance of the hot spring market itself and its personnel composition.

"When the Mingde monster arrived at Mimier Hot Spring, it was still a deserted ancient ruins. There was only a geyser, which spewed out dirty water with a sulfurous smell from time to time. After years of development and transformation, it has changed from a human settlement to a town. into a city."

"Although there was nothing when we first arrived here, the runes in the ancient ruins, the wandering mountain monsters, and the offspring born from the crossbreeding of mountain monsters and wild beasts—all of these keep the BOSS full of curiosity. Humans and cataclysmic monsters rely on geyser water to survive, guard against each other and cooperate to win-win."

"After [data deleted], the beasts here have gradually disappeared in the wilderness, and the springs have dried up. There is no golden age of mythical creatures and human beings enjoying themselves. Only different Scandinavians are left here to pick precious prey, Conduct trials, fights, and finally transform."

"Today, it has become a landmark city in the 18th District, with a resident population of 1.4 million and a floating population of 810,000 per year. The Red Stone School is the mainstay. The name of the Senate is [Mason Society]. The main fiscal revenues are the metallurgical industry, mining, catering, tourism, and... entertainment and gambling industries."

"District 18 is a resource-based area relatively close to the civilization on the surface. It is located on the Mohorovic discontinuity between the crust and the mantle - rich in electrolyte resources and rare earths. The strong geomagnetic environment allows it to breed many wonderful creatures , a splendid civilization. We can still see the remains and fossils of many disaster beasts in the Mimir Hot Spring Market, as well as statues and paintings related to them. But if you want to see the whole picture, I’m afraid you have to go deeper into the wilderness.”

"This city has a lot of food, wine, and by-products of poaching. Even if there are many disaster beasts on the list of protected animals at the station-but people who like red stones are all carnivores. In the dark corners of the bazaar, you can still see precious and expensive vegetables.”

"These beasts come in different forms. They used to be enemies of the station pioneering team. Their origins are weird and bizarre. The blood of many monsters is related to mountain monsters and giants. But you don't have to worry, Homo sapiens is still the top predator in nature. ——Before you arrive at the hot spring market, 90% of the large animals in the local natural ecosystem have been eaten to extinction."

"About the geyser, before [DATA EXPUNGED] years ago, it was like a small gift brought by the Mohorovich discontinuity. People drank the spring water, gained transcendental knowledge, and the spiritual essence sublimated and mutated in a very short period of time , We have tens of thousands of strange people and strangers, and we have survived the most difficult pioneering era."

"It may be the divine power brought by the rich eclogite in the Mohorovic discontinuity. The Lingweng once asserted that if the Mimir Hot Spring drops manna again, it will be the most vicious curse and the most beautiful blessing."

"All in all, the city is currently in the hands of the Redstone people. They are affectionate and brave, and have a strong sense of martial arts. Many generations have passed, and they are still a group of happy and simple hunters. In the first January and mid-July, they will organize two The second large-scale hunting festival is called [Dionysus Sacrifice] - they like to catch all kinds of disaster beasts and protected animals at the station to cook, and they can use all kinds of magical spices and wine to stimulate the five senses and complete the transformation of the three elements."

"If you are a good cook and a cheerful and lively person, BOSS highly recommends you to visit this place. You don't have to remember anyone's name, and you don't have to take any precautions—on the second branch of the World Tree, there are everywhere It's wine and flowers."

Bu Meteor closes the log.

There are still many, many contents that have not been finished, but Brother Ming has already fallen asleep.

Just the description in the book already gave Ah Xing a strong sense of anticipation.

He pondered carefully, is there really such a place where people can completely let go of their guards, where they don't need to remember anyone's name, where they can make friends, drink together, enjoy flowers together, bleed and hunt together, and cook and eat together?

Xueming was half asleep and half awake, raised his hand and patted Ah Xing's face, telling Ah Xing to wake up.

"It sounds so nice."

"It feels like a group of iron fools."

"No wonder the old man would say that if the Fountain of Wisdom gushes out again, it will be both a curse and a blessing—at least for the Hongshi people, everyone has maintained a level of intelligence at present, and they don't have to intrigue all day long and live with a sad face."

"Hey!" Meteor immediately became excited: "Isn't this what you said, Brother Ming! We want to be adults with sad faces! It's still early!"

Xue Ming corrected: "Brother Ye Bei told me this. Me."

He suddenly froze——

——There are many, many things on my mind.

Is there a possibility, that is to say, is there a possibility that brother Ye Bei has already come to the underground world to take risks, otherwise how would the stick be explained?

And Mr. Chen is also a member of [Anonymous].

Xue Ming's brain was having trouble working, and it was hard to think about these complicated things. He only felt a pair of invisible warm palms, trying to bring him into a deep, dark sleep.

"A Xing, you go"

"VIP VIP compartment, take a look. Be careful, inquire on the road if there is something to call"

After saying this, Xue Ming lost consciousness.

"Call the flight attendant to help you."

Meteor took off his spirit clothes and covered Xueming. Hearing Brother Ming's order, he immediately ran towards the rear of the car in high spirits.

You can see many redstone people on the train alone——

——He set off from the third car, took out two cigarettes, six boxes of egg tarts, and ran to the tail of the train, exchanged these gifts for eighteen pieces in return, all of which were eaten, with spicy and sweet snacks Mainly snacks, but looking at the shape of these jerky noodles and dried vegetables, it is difficult to tell what ingredients are used.

The words that popped out of the mouths of the brothers and sisters became more and more strange, and most of them were foreign translations. After finally catching a fellow Chinese, the gift he sent back was yak meat with Chaotian pepper. Meteor gnawed on it and tears came out.

These passionate people like strong smells very much. In the past, Meteor pulled people to ask about constellations, but this time they didn’t have to wait for him to ask—people who returned home for the New Year in the car all told Ah Xing their home addresses. If Ah Xing and his companions are asked to have a New Year's Eve dinner together, even people in the same carriage will make this kind of invitation together.

At that time, Ah Xing couldn't fix it——

——Emotions These brothers and sisters are a family? The New Year's Eve dinner is also a big table?

However, Ah Xing cannot be allowed to think too much.

Because what these Redstone people say is probably rubbish information in the eyes of Brother Ming——

——Things like the guy from the next door got into a fight with the kid again, or the kid from the other family got a bad test result recently, got angry because the test result was too bad, and beat up the teacher again.

It's okay to say that one or two people are like this, Meteor can still happily catch up with a few words.

Of the more than 300 people in this car, more than 200 are like this-no matter how fun he is, his madness index will have to rise gradually.

In the penultimate car, Meteor can also see two rows of super good-looking young ladies, doing vibrato live broadcasts outside the VIP car. Show the audience a cloud tour of the underground world.

I don't know that the BOSS doesn't care about this matter. At that time, Ah Xing thought that if he and Brother Ming went to live broadcast together to make money, who would do the backflips during the whole work?

In the end, Ah Xing felt that he already had two girlfriends, and he didn't go to these live broadcast teams to ask for the phone number of the young lady, but when he walked to the door of the VIP compartment, he realized that there were six extra cards with contact information in his pocket. note.

Looking back--

——Several older sisters were winking at him.

This scene scared him so much that he knocked on the door of the VIP car, for fear that Miss Shayang would say that he smelled of other women's perfume.

The hustle and bustle in the car ends here——

——The story begins with the door of this VIP carriage.

No one responded to Bu Meteor, as if the VIP in the carriage was not in this car.

The gate was of heavy white marble, inlaid with many obsidian stones.

These obsidian are arranged into three square English letters.

[J.O.E]

The translation should be called [Joe].

Or unknown people, ordinary people, ordinary people.

"Little brother! Is this your first time taking this car?" Someone shouted behind him, reminding Ah Xing.

Ah Xing didn't know who was shouting. After all, these live broadcast teams had too many fill lights and mobile phone light sources, and there were too many people in the penultimate carriage.

Across the connection channel, Ah Xing replied: "Yes! I'm here to find VIP! This is the first time I took this car."

In the distance, another young lady shouted enthusiastically: "Brother! You have found the wrong place! There is no one in that VIP car! Or in other words - there was a long, long time ago, and then it disappeared!"

Ah Xing shouted: "What do you mean?"

The lady with a quiet and elegant voice replied in English: "That VIP compartment was originally the location of [JOE]—a terrible spiritual disaster occurred in the Mimier Hot Spring Market one hundred and fifty years ago. According to legend, In the depths of the geyser, a very powerful beast appeared."

Another little girl followed, and hurriedly described: "The disaster beast wants to reopen the spring, drink the spring water, and become a four-legged flying dragon in mythology."

Immediately afterwards, a big camera man shouted: "[JOE] defeated it and never came back, even the stick and stone were not recovered. The BOSS has been keeping this compartment and wants to wait for this VIP to come back."

Meteor froze—

——He looked at the heavy stone gate with black and white.

If we say that the decoration of the door of the VIP compartment is related to the personality of the VIP himself.

Teacher Victor is a warm golden red.

Then this [JOE] is black and white without emotion, and he is as dull-tempered as Brother Ming.

There are so many Redstone people in the Mimir Hot Spring Market. From this story, these Redstone people will never let go of this opportunity for the brave to fight the dragon.

Unless they can't beat it.

But [JOE] went to challenge the dragon.

I went alone and won the battle, but I didn't come back, leaving only this unresponsive carriage.

Ash became even more curious.

He exerted all his strength, clenched his teeth, and wanted to push the stone door open——

——He thought, what a precious resource is the transport capacity of the train, and the BOSS is willing to spend a lot of money to leave a precious place for the tamped and heavy stone gate, so it must be a very important person, right? !

It's a pity that in the end, Ah Xing failed to push the door open, so he had to go back angrily.

As Christmas draws to a close.

Xue Ming and Meteor got out of the car, and following the station's announcement, they were going to meet a tour guide, but they didn't say their name—they lived on Digua Street in Mimier Hot Spring Market, not far from the station.

Xueming turned into a luggage state again, and let Ah Xing carry it. When they passed the underground passage of the June platform, the two of them felt that this Mimier hot spring market is really magnificent, and the platforms are three more than the Nine Realms. .

When they walked out of the station, the two brothers took the pass and went to the shopkeeper to ask for directions—only then did they know what the meaning of the abundant martial arts in the diary was.

When the newspaper seller saw the new face, he enthusiastically sent two rhinoceros revolvers, both of which were high-quality goods with carved ivory grips, a welcome gift for the city.

There's no such thing as gun control in this area -- gunshots can be heard everywhere.

Xue Ming was so frightened that he almost turned into a koala on Ah Xing's back, and stared wide-eyed at the streets and alleys.

There are too many stalls and barbecue stalls in the side streets and alleys. There is no statement from the city management. Occasionally, armed employees can be seen lighting cigarettes with the flame of a pistol. One or two unlucky shot swallows asked the vendors to pick up the corpses, remove the shrapnel and bones, and didn't even deal with the feathers. There was an authentic new dish with the smell of thunder mercury gunpowder on the barbecue grill.

Illuminated by more than 40 big braziers in the square in front of the station, the whole Digua Avenue is a bustling color.

Although there are still brightly lit buildings and buildings in the distance, the railway station street that welcomes new guests is more like a mercenary group gathering place in an ancient western fantasy novel.

Some yelled to pull people's heads to go hunting outside.

There are loud calls for marriage, and the conditions require age to be improvised, and gender is not limited.

There are people who fucking want to compete in the United States Chuanwu Juheshu, one thousand pyroxene coins per game, the winner has to feed the loser to save his life, as long as he can save his life, he is not allowed to start.

The most mysterious thing is that this kind of duel ceremony is considered a popular sport in the local area, and there will be cowboys to accept the appointment immediately.

It's too late to say it.

Fifty meters away——

——The two cowboys pinched the stopwatch, drew their guns and shot at each other.

When the bullets were fired six times in a row, and when the strong wind with a strong smell blew on Xueming's face, people hurriedly hid the rhinoceros revolver given by the peddler on this day, for fear of being stopped by the enthusiastic Redstone people and dragging them to compete in the Western Juhe surgery.

The two young men came to the tube building on Digua Street according to the address with trepidation, and found room 307.

It's just that seeing that scene made Xueming more and more flustered.

Because room 307 is on the first floor, not the third.

The entire tube building seemed to have been bombed once, and the lower two floors had been turned into basements. I heard from the aunt who hangs clothes downstairs that a gang of robbers came to rob the train in the early years and were driven into this tube building. It's an old building next to the train station, considered a prime location, the masons' association couldn't afford the demolition fee, so the local residents just had to continue to live there.

The delicious smell of barbecue wafts out from the tube building.

The two followed the smell and found the tour guide.

Their tour guide is a Chinese, very young. Dressed in slaughterhouse clothes, with disheveled hair and beard, he looks like a young man in his twenties, but his eyes are dull. Holding a fragrant spine in his hand, it is an unrecognizable animal tissue at all, it is a gift for the guests.

The backbone was hanging out on the grill—beside the spice jars and oil brushes, and a very, very old firearm. Xue Ming had seen it in a documentary, and it was a cultural relic product of the Remington Arms Company.

The tour guide snapped his fingers, and the powder from his fingertips and the sparks from the charcoal floated out together. Xue Ming immediately woke up from the drowsiness, as if his spiritual essence was awakened by the pungent smell at that moment.

The little tour guide knocked on the door of Room 307 behind him, revealed his identity, and greeted the two new guests.

"Hey! [JOE Jun boy]!"