Wasteland Echoer

The pitch-black bullet went straight through the kid's brain, exited from the chin on the other side, and with the remaining power, hit the concrete floor with a crisp sound.

"Brother...what are you doing?" The kid Crusted turned his head with difficulty, trembling all over, staring at Wright with his blood-red eyes.

The revolver bullet didn't explode in his brain, it just passed through.

His eyes were filled with blood and tears, and he stared at Wright resentfully with his clear eyes, and continued to mutter something, as if he was pleading.

However, red blood overflowed from his mouth, making it impossible for him to speak a single word.

"You are the monster's... body, right?" Wright asked.

After the contact and battle between Qiao Yin and Sowkod, Wright finally wiped out the remaining sympathy for the child in his heart. He now pays more attention to whether the battle can be won or whether contact with him will be dangerous.

In other words, in the battle between Yu Xinxin and the Lost One, he has lost a small part of his emotions as a human being.

"Gulu gulu... gulu gulu." The Crusted child in front of him made the sound of water flowing in the sewer.

Immediately afterwards, he was thrown out by Wright and lay on the cement floor. After struggling twice, there was finally no movement.

"This monster is still trying to seduce me." Wright smiled bitterly, pulled the trigger of the pitch-black revolver in his hand again, and pointed it at the head of the Crusted child in front of him.

The brown curly hair and the childish look on his face are really pitiful. However, wearing Crusted's attire should be the information provided to me by the coat of arms. "Daughter of the Mechanical Element" is related to Crusted, and the coat of arms that opens the stone gate of his divine domain must also be related.

The bottom of the room just now should be roughly in the style of the Krusted Empire, and there are portraits of their emperors, including the legendary [Order], the great Ivan XXII.

This monster kid just said... His grandfather warned him to exercise more. His father had been ill for a long time and hoped that he would grow up quickly. But as far as I know from the history of Crusted, the three generations of emperors who have this kind of relationship should be No.

Could it be that the prototype of this monster child did not serve as emperor, but died young? Just because of the connection between the two coats of arms, it was reproduced here? What is the connection between "Heraldry of Tomorrow" and "Heraldry of Tomorrow"?

It seems that most of the secret files of the Sequential Monster Foundation are factual statements. If the "Silence Advent" military operation fails, or Sogra's "Blood Night Ritual" succeeds, I will go to the Crusted Empire in the future. , if you have the opportunity, you must learn about the "Heraldry of the Future" created by Ivan XXII himself.

This monster kid...it's been a few minutes, he should have done something, right?

Wright stood there thinking for several minutes.

As he expected, in the dim space composed of weak light, the body of the monster child in front of him was suddenly wrapped in a light blue viscous liquid.

Then, the viscous liquid collapsed inward, like a squirming slime, and completely swallowed up the Crusted child.

As a dazzling light flashed, except for the "black basketball" quietly "lying" under the wall, there was no trace of the Crusted child in front of Wright.

"Maybe this is a test, maybe it's also a test by the sequence monster. It seems that it's not far from the core position. That room... that so-called room should be right in front. It doesn't seem that far away. This The pistol... I'll treat it as a gift from the monster. It can be used anyway, right? It's better than exhausting the magic power in the body."

Wright rarely read the soliloquy aloud.

Immediately afterwards, he took the revolver in his hand, weighed it up and down a few times, and walked forward quickly.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom."

After three or two steps, Wright felt that the road under his feet had returned to the hollow metal plate it had been before. After walking for almost two minutes, a huge metal door stood erected directly in front of him.

Stopping and looking up, Wright saw that the metal door was almost ten meters high. Although it was much smaller than the door he saw when he left Sugra, it looked extremely gorgeous.

It seems that the craftsman who built the giant door put all his luxurious thoughts into the design from the beginning, and used all the expensive materials he could find and imagine.

At the top of the giant door is a round "sun" more than one meter wide, made of gold and shining with a golden luster.

On the right is a moon, with silver-white brilliance emitting from the inside, shining brightly, and it seems that it will never go out.

Surrounding the huge door are palm-sized diamonds, one half a meter apart. Under the intricate and colorful brilliance, they exude colorful light and are extremely dazzling.

In the very center is a scene of a huge ax and a huge sword fighting.

The giant ax is red and the giant sword is purple. Under the light caused by diffuse reflection, it looks particularly gloomy. It is not the color that a normal palace should have.

But Wright's eyes only glanced at these decorations. He did not bother to look at these depressing parts. Instead, he focused his attention on a screen-like part about one meter high from the ground at the bottom of the door.

Taking two steps closer, Wright observed that the "screen" was only as wide as a human face, with nine black spots of "3 rows x 3 columns" neatly pointed out on it. The top part of the "screen" was even written in the Zine Empire language. with the word "crack".

"It seems like this is the key to opening the giant door, right?" Wright guessed.

He stretched out his right arm and touched the bottom few black spots with his palm.

Immediately afterwards, the text at the top of the "screen" became distorted, changing from pure black to dark red, and the background of the "screen" also instantly turned into pure white.

A few seconds later, Wright heard a noisy sound of electricity. He stared at the twisted words with all his concentration. They turned into phrases written in the common language of the West Continent.

"Connect, one stroke, four lines." Wright translated silently.

"Use a stroke and four straight lines to connect these points? It's too simple. Although it is a puzzle question, there are only two correct solutions." With an extremely confident smile, Wright stretched out his index finger and clicked hard. above the first black dot in the upper left corner.

Then, he swiped to the right, and a straight black line appeared on the "screen" as he swiped.

After connecting the three black dots at the top, Wright did not rush to connect the other black dots. Instead, he drew a part of the black line outward. Then, he connected the third black dot in the second row and the third black dot in the third row. Two black spots.

Then, he connected the first black dot in the third row and the first black dot in the second row, returning to the original position.

"last step."

Wright said, and stroked to the lower right to finish the last stroke.

After doing this, Wright took two steps back.

Immediately afterwards, the "screen" in front of him suddenly turned into pure black, and the ten-meter-long magnificent door was cut off from the middle with a gear pattern, revealing a wider and slightly dark room inside. space.

"Another [Order] welcomes you."

A young and powerful voice came from directly in front of Wright.

After jogging forward a few steps, a cloud of green smoke suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Who are you? The true form of the alien water?" Wright held the gun in both hands and pointed it at the center of the smoke.

"I am, or I am not, you will come here. My existence or my absence will not affect the operation of this world. But Mr. [Orderer], do you know? This profession is very rare, and you are The second [Order] I met spanned two eras, and I just met you two."

The green smoke in front of him was filled with irrepressible joy. In front of Wright, the green smoke intertwined and changed, and actually transformed into a human form.

To be precise, he was a young man about the same age as Wright.

If you look carefully, you can see that he is wearing a military green coat, a black leather felt hat on his head, his lower body is in very standard military tactical trousers, and he wears a silver knight's sword at his waist.

Looking down, he saw that his shoes were green military boots, but they were embroidered with simple patterns of the sun and the moon. As for the sun, Wright felt very much like the ones he had seen on the windows of the Scottish City Library. .

There was nothing special about his brown eyes, and his face looked fair but full of vitality. He had a friendly smile and his hands were in his trouser pockets.

"I'll just take it as you. After all, there are no other living things here except you and me, right?" Wright sneered and glanced at the young man.

"Then you can just call me the Water of Different Faces. Having said that, the child just now is also me, but it was my state a long time ago. At that time, the Krusted Empire was not completely destroyed. Although it was affected by unintentional people, The virus has invaded us, but we still persisted for a long time." Strange Water looked diagonally upward with his eyes and said melancholy.

"Wend mentioned this period of history to me, and he also said that the Krusted Empire tried its best in the end." Wright looked directly at the alien water with regret in his eyes.

"We lost the southern plains, the Aventale Icefield, the most important resource and industrial city of Shaita, and more than 70% of the country. In the end, our royal family could only huddle around Binglin City. In an area surrounded by a barrier formed by several mountains, the remaining humans were abandoned with great difficulty. No, not just abandoned, but after a fluke was executed and all of them were killed, they formed a federation."

As Alien Water spoke, his youthful face became ferocious.

When Wright looked at him, his face was filled with a mixture of anger, resentment, and fear.

Then, he raised his head and stared at the chaotic mechanical headspace for a few seconds, then lowered his head and groaned in pain for a few seconds.

"But it is undeniable that Crusted is a great country. It has a strong economy, a prosperous culture, a strong military, and prosperous science and technology. Any human being who wants to forget her is stupid, but anyone who wants to try to resurrect her Humans are unintelligent, aren't they?" Wright commented.

"Forget it." Alien Water nodded slightly, sighed, took two steps forward, closed the distance with Wright, and said:

"You just met Saukod, right? The orc who has been trapped here for a thousand years. Your body is now filled with a lot of his energy, which is enough to prove that you have power." The strange water made He made a gesture of clenching his fist to show his strength.

"The questions you asked when you entered the giant machine just now, the questions you entered here respectively tested your understanding of philosophy, history, culture and mathematics. I think, at the most basic level, you have the ability to become a true [Order]." Nianzhi Shui added.

"The real [Order]?" Wright asked curiously.

"It is the level of order level 3 and above, which can learn or copy the abilities of other professionals. Before this, [Order] did not have any superpowers. If he had not possessed the power of magic, he would probably be inferior to ordinary people." The Strange Face Water explained:

"However, there is a mutually reinforcing relationship between the upper-level professions that sometimes exists, and sometimes is not so obvious. For professionals who have come to 'order' through divination of sequence cards, after coming to the conclusion of 'persistence' People will be your best guides and catalysts.”

Before Wright could ask for specific details, Alien Water stretched out two white palms.

After lightly rubbing his index and middle fingers, two cards with mainly dark colors appeared in his hand.

"Order." Alien Water held the card in his left hand and took two steps forward to hand it to Wright.

"The man wearing the crown holds a sharp sword and inserts it into the skull. Yes, this is the content of the card I saw when Natasha and Aaron were doing divination." Wright smiled bitterly, thinking of Natasha. , that "crazy woman" [Goddess of Love].

"This is, hold on." Alien Water handed over the card in his right hand.

After taking the card, Wright looked at it extremely carefully.

The top of this card is written with "2" in Roman numerals, and the word "hochi" is written below in the Chinese language used for divination. If the meaning can be compared, the translation of this word is "persistence", that's right. .

Then looking up, Wright saw a muscular man with his upper body naked.

His body is a healthy wheat color, and his lower body is wearing white trousers. He is pushing a huge round stone with all his strength on the slope towards the top of the mountain.

Not far above his head is a blazing sun, and a dark creature is hidden on the far left of the picture. It is staring at the man with its scarlet eyes wide open, seeming to laugh at his meaningless behavior.

"The meaning of 'persistence' is that when faced with something that others think is meaningless, a wise person can understand the true value of the matter and create his own future with constant persistence. It corresponds to The upper level profession is [Watcher]. The people who stick to the top of the mountain watch for the arrival of light. When the light comes, 'order' comes. So, Mr. [Orderer]," the voice of the alien water began to change. Soften, twist, weaken:

"My power is indeed about to run out. I should not have existed in the world in the first place. Since the death of the great emperor Ivan XXII, I have been like a 'watchman' waiting for another [Order] ]'s arrival. I've been waiting for it, I've been waiting for it."

As the alien water shouted emotionally, his body completely turned into a squirming ball of water, but he still said impassionedly:

"I know that the 'Emblem of Tomorrow' will no longer support me after meeting [The Orderer]. I have no regrets. I existed. After telling you this information, I completed my mission. Look, [The Orderer] Sir, the 'Emblem of Tomorrow' has consciously entered your hands. Here, there will no longer be an alien plane under this lake, and you are destined to become a savior-like existence."

"Savior??" Wright repeated in surprise.

Before he could continue to ask for more information about the alien water, endless blue water suddenly surged out of the room in front of him and completely enveloped him.

He saw everything around him turn blue, become chaotic, and eventually turn into pitch black.

…

Days seemed to pass, centuries seemed to pass.

When Wright was illuminated by the dazzling sunlight, he finally woke up from the soft soil without any trace of plants.

He supported his heavy body and looked around. The halls, rooms, the world under the lake, the huge machinery, Soukode, and the alien water all lost traces, as if they had never appeared.

It should be noon now, and he was still in the ruins of Donusk.

Blocking the harsh sunlight with his right hand wearing a tactical glove, Wright looked around curiously.

The steel wall surrounding the lake has disappeared. Although the tall dilapidated buildings and the "Volga Tower" in the distance still maintain dilapidated and mottled traces, patches of green vegetation have already covered them.

The ruins of this city are regaining their natural vitality.

He opened the palm of his left hand and looked down. The palm-sized, hexagonal one was made of steel. The front was engraved with a sunflower pattern surrounding the edge, and in the center was a simple "Crest of Tomorrow" with a sun. It is reflecting the brilliance of the sun.

After putting the coat of arms into the inner pocket of his coat, Wright took a few steps forward unconsciously. Suddenly, he tripped over a hard object.

After getting up and brushing off the dirt on his body, he looked down and observed that the thing that tripped him was none other than the dirt-covered "Wild Bear" pistol he had been carrying with him, and his familiar dust-covered gun. khaki military backpack.

"It seems that everything is going well, as if someone is deliberately guiding me to become the so-called 'savior'." Wright smiled, stood up straight, and looked into the distance.

Next, we officially enter the Silent Highlands chapter.