Chapter 614 Call Me Captain One
The sky is blue, and this is very close to the sky. Looking up, you can almost see the stars of the outer universe through the atmosphere.
When the line of sight changed from looking up to looking up, it was a majestic city in his eyes. There is a white rock paved square, a quaint temple, and an ancient altar built in each of the four directions of the square. Above the altar, there is a golden crystal ball with a diameter of three meters. They emit a hazy energy flame. When the flame reaches a strong place, it will flow into the altar below like water from the bottom of the crystal ball, then flow to the ground through the groove, and finally swim through the whole square. From a high altitude, the grooves on the square exude a mysterious atmosphere, which is like an electronic circuit. The energy flame is transmitted to the whole city through the groove of the square. The four crystal balls on this altar are the energy source of the city!
The square is the center of the whole city, starting from four altars. At the edge of the square, there are four arch bridges built of gray-white rocks leading to the city below. There is a circular river between the square and the city. The water is clear turquoise, and aquatic creatures can be seen swimming freely in the river from time to time.
Connecting the square through the Baiyan Road is the inner city, which has gorgeous palaces, straight and spacious streets, well-planned green vegetation, beautiful sculptures and colorful fountains. This is the private land reserved by the nobles, and only prominent people are qualified to live in the inner city. The inner city is followed by the outer city, which is separated by a circular wall.
The area of the outer city is more than dozens of times that of the inner city. This is an area inhabited by civilians and is also an important commercial area. From time to time, spacecraft will take off and land in the outer city, which is a busy scene, representing frequent business dealings with people on the ground. The reason why people on earth are said is that this city floats in mid-air, on the top of white clouds.
Its name is Atlantis!
How many familiar pictures, even the fresh taste in the wind is the same as in the past. He wanted to reach out to touch and feel it. At this time, a woman's whisper came: "Franklin..."
So when he turned around and couldn't see the figure in front of him, violent vibrations and explosions appeared. A large area of flames occupied his eyes, and he shouted "no", but he could not recover the figure swallowed up by the flames.
When the flame passes, you can see the burning city. The once gorgeous palaces have now become ugly ruins. The white and neat streets are covered with black burns and red blood stains. Sculptures and fountains have turned into broken stones, and even the clear river has now become polluted. The sky is no longer bright, and huge shadows cover the whole city. Looking up to the sky, you can see the black nebula that covers almost half of the planet outside the sky.
On that day, Prosius crossed the endless sea of stars to the edge of the universe. It entered the galaxy and came towards the only life-reacting earth in the galaxy.
In the black nebula, there are dense cloud pillars like tentacles breaking through the air. They passed through the atmosphere, fell on the suspended sky city, and more fell into the earth, rivers, mountains and rivers. These dark cloud pillars are constantly extracting the vitality of the planet, while some cloud pillars that fall in the sky city or the earth city-state are constantly falling from them.
These clouds are like the cocoons of some creatures. When they land, a dark demon will come out of it. These demons look like reptiles and have no entities. They are like some energy life. Only the energy hedge can hurt them. The army of Atlantis fights bravely with them, but the number of energy bugs is so large that there seems to be no hope of victory in this war.
In the burning sky, countless lives are withering. The trembling earth is playing the movement before the collapse!
"No!"
He shouted and woke up. What I saw was a shallow beach, and most of my body was immersed in the smelly sea of radiation, with the ups and downs of the waves. Looking up, the sky is gray, and thick radiation clouds block the deadly cosmic rays, but they have not seen the sun for decades.
The catastrophe.
This is a noun that flashed through his mind, and then the explanation about this noun is automatically generated in his mind. This is one of the knowledge he gained from this era after connecting the brain array in the Pope's Hall, and also makes him understand that today's world is no longer his Atlantis, but a new era.
is also an era of disorder.
The head hurts and the memory becomes chaotic. He can't remember what happened to Atlantis in the end, but from the current situation, it is mostly destroyed. What about Prosius? Has the cosmic beast that feeds on the life of the planet been expelled? This is also an unanswered question.
He has too many questions, the biggest of which is how he survived. Moreover, it has been separated from the form of ordinary life. Otherwise, he will not be able to generate organs like fish in his body as he is now to let himself swim in the sea of radiation, and he will not be able to change the shape of his hands and feet to adapt to the navigation in the sea. Now he looks like a fishman, and as he touches the land, the changes in his body begin to disappear, and finally return to a normal body, a male human more than three meters tall.
Franklin. He repeated his name in his mind, then climbed up the beach with difficulty and saw a pair of legs. The owner of these legs quickly stepped back a few steps and fell on the beach. This is a girl who wraps herself in a canopy. Judging from Franklin's knowledge from the Pope's Hall, she is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old woman. Before the cataclysm, women at this age could only be called children, but in this era, they were fully fertile.
Only **'s outer calves and parts of her face are covered with ugly pink polyps, and ordinary people like her living on the surface inevitably have mutatic tissue. These things are like parasites, which will one day cover the whole body and compress the vital organs of the host and lead to the death of the host. But before that, they could separate radiation for their hosts and provide them with capital to survive on the surface.
From the girl's expression, Franklin judged that it was an expression of fear. Of course, anyone who sees a giant nearly three meters tall suddenly getting up from the sea will be afraid, especially the girl in front of him who is obviously an ordinary person.
"You... Are you a pirate?" The girl asked hesitantly.
Pirates? Soon, an explanation of this word appeared in Franklin's mind. In the old days, pirates did exist. However, in the new era, especially near the western continent where the city of New Rome is located, this role has only appeared in the past ten years. At the beginning, they were just some exiles oppressed by the Pope's Hall, who escaped from New Rome and used some ancient sailboats of the old era to live in the nearby sea to escape the pursuit of New Rome.
Gradually developed, with better equipment with the support of the rebels, they began to plunder the caravans of New Rome in groups. The Western Continent is not a complete continental plate like the Central Continent. After the former Asia-Europe plate split, it became an island-like structure. The location of New Rome is undoubtedly the largest land in the western continent, but in addition, hundreds of islands of different sizes are distributed around the continent like global satellites.
The population of New Rome reached its upper limit ten years ago, so the army of the Holy Seal Knights began to go to other islands to open new residential bases, and in the past ten years, at least half of the islands fell into the hands of the Holy See. The bases on the island basically adopt an autonomous management model, but in order to get the protection of the Pope's Hall, they must pay tribute to the New Rome City in two quarters a year like the ancient vassal states.
In addition, there are often commercial exchanges between the mainland and islands, which has contributed to the vigorous development of the pirate industry. The first batch of pirates funded by the rebels were only retaliating against the merchant ships belonging to the Pope's Hall, but later, as more and more exiles joined the industry, the rules gradually changed.
In addition to a few pirates who insist on only doing things with the Pope's Hall, there are many pirates who have no principles and positions at all. Whether they are targeted by the Pope's Hall or ordinary civilians, they will be attacked as long as they are targeted. Sometimes, a large large of pirates will run to the island to kill and set fire, which is also an important reason why islanders are afraid of pirates.
For this reason, the Holy Seal Knights have besieged pirates many times. However, the water environment between the islands is complex, the radiation current is varied, and there are hundreds of tributaries between the islands, which cannot form an effective encirclement and annihilation at all, so pirates are still rampant to this day.
These materials flashed through Franklin's mind,
"No, I'm not a pirate." He propped up on the beach and half knelt to the girl and said, "My name is Franklin, a refugee..."
"Escape from New Rome?"
"That's right, just like you said." Franklin looked at his ** body and said for a long time, "My clothes broke when I escaped, you..."
The girl realized that the giant in front of her was not dressed. Her eyes first fell on Franklin's strong chest, and finally came to the majestic place where he stepped on, and suddenly blushed. Then he said, "Wait here. I'll get you something to wear, but I don't know if there is a suitable size for you."
Franklin nodded, looked at a coconut forest not far from the beach, and said, "I'll wait for you there. Just call my name when you come."
"OK." The girl stood up and said, "My name is Enil. I'll be back soon. Wait for me, big man."
After saying that, the girl ran away.
Franklin stood up and looked out. The sight passed through the sea of radiation, through the water mist on the sea, and fell on the outline of a continent far away. He escaped from there, but he had to go back, because there were still some compatriots waiting for him. After looking at the sea in silence, he strode towards the coconut forest.
It wasn't long before Enilu came back. She brought some clothes, but none of them could be worn by Franklin. Finally, she kept more attention and brought a shabby sheet. Wrap it around Franklin's waist and hang down with a robe skirt, which finally covers the important position on the giant. Enilde told Franklin that they were an island with only a village of more than 100 people.
The village usually makes a living by capturing aquatic creatures near the island, and those mutatical aquatic organisms will be stored. Every month, businessmen come to buy them, and villagers exchange them for living materials. Although life is very hard, it is still acceptable. Franklin listened silently. Of course, he didn't want to stay on this island. He also wanted to go back to the West Continent to save his compatriots. But when it comes to * information, he also understands what kind of force he is facing.
New Rome can't compare with his Atlantis in terms of scale or technology, but now he has only one person, but he has to face the Knights of the Holy Seal in tens of thousands. Obviously, it is almost impossible to save your compatriots in this way. However, at the time of * information, Franklin also came into contact with a noun.
Insurgents!
They are a force against the Pope's Hall, Franklin thought, or he could use their strength. But the first task is how to contact the rebels.
After Enilu introduced the general situation of the village and promised him to let an old tailor in the village make a suit for him, she said hesitantly, "But you have to do me a favor."
Franklin nodded and said, "There is no free lunch in the world, which is fair. Come on, what can I do for you?"
Anilu's eyes became wet. It turned out that her parents died at the hands of pirates a long time ago. Anilu was brought up by her grandfather. Her grandfather has been fishing for a living, but he lost his legs when he was attacked by a fierce mutable creature in the sea not long ago, and now he can't work. This is a very cruel era. If you can't work, you will have no income. If you don't have income, you will naturally starve to death.
Even the people in the village sympathize with the Enilu family, but they themselves are very difficult and can't afford extra food to support them. Today, Enil was going to go to sea by herself, but she met Franklin as soon as she arrived at the seaside. Enilu said, "We have a fishing boat. I hope you can go to sea and fish with me. In this way, we can change to food and clothing, and you can also live in my house, okay?
Franklin nodded and said, "It's a deal."
He intends to stay on this island for the time being, on the one who can inquire about the rebels and learn how to integrate into the human society of this era. After leaving the island in this way, he knew how to face other human beings.
Anilu looked at Franklin and said, "There are few people as tall as you. Aren't you a capable person?"
Those who are capable also have relevant records in the information of the Pope's Hall. They can be said to be supermen in the new era, with power beyond the reach of ordinary people. In the era in which Franklin lived, although human beings at that time were as tall as him, they did not have the ability to appear as many stars. The Atlantis conquest of the sky and expedition to the endless sea of stars rely on scientific and technological civilization beyond the reach of this era.
And it was not until the appearance of Prosius that the lives of people with similar abilities appeared in the later part of the war. But there are only two kinds of life. They are the giant called God and another life called Gaia, but they are not created by Atlantis, but...
"What's wrong with you?"
Anilu stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Franklin, breaking his memory. Franklin shook his head and nodded and said, "Yes, I'm a capable person. The Holy Seal Knights wanted to force me into the army, but I refused and escaped.
On this island, Franklin gave a camouflage*, and Enilu was convinced of it. That day, the whole village knew that the girl picked up a giant from the seaside. At first, the villagers were still very wary of Franklin. But as we got along with each other for a long time, I watched Franklin reveal his homework with Eni every few days, and every time he came back with a full load. Then Franklin would share the excess aquatic creatures with the villagers, so he gradually won the favor of the villagers.
Anilu told everyone that Franklin was a capable person, and the big man did some real things for the villagers from time to time with his own strength. In such a month, he has become the protector of the village. Whenever Franklin doesn't have to go to sea to work, there are always a few children pestering him and ask him to teach them to fight. Of course, the big man will only laugh it off.
It was another dusk, and Franklin sat on the beach where he met Enilu that day. Through this month's photos, he has a deeper understanding of the world, not just staying in cold information. He heard from the villagers that the rebels were hiding on an island called Ista, which was named "Fallen Paradise" by the Pope's Hall, and was also a concentration camp for criminals and murderers. But to get to Ista, you have to pass through the Roaring Bay, which is on the edge of many undercurrents and pirates, which is not so easy to get there.
Even if Franklin can change his shape according to his surroundings, he knows that it is impossible to cross the Roaring Bay to Ista.
"In a word, we need a boat." He sighed.
There were footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw Enilu. Still covered in a hooded cloak, the girl quietly walked to Franklin's side. Looking at Enil, Franklin wondered, "Isn't it time to cook, Enil?"
"Let this little girl do that kind of thing later. How long has it been since we saw each other, Franklin? Yat?" Anilu said in a low voice.
Franklin suddenly stiffened and stood up like a hill. His whole body exuded an amazing sense of oppression and said in a penetrating voice, "You are not Enil. Who are you? Why did you know my full name!"