The thin cylinder that Lily found looked like some kind of remote monitoring device. The holographic images floating around the thin cylinder showed images of certain areas outside the Garden of Asgard. Although Hao Ren could not determine the specific location of these areas, some of the iconic landforms in the images were what he saw when he flew over Asgard in the spherical spacecraft. They were all located on the edge of Asgard.
In one of the surveillance images, he could clearly see five or six figures moving on the scorched earth. They were obviously not Asgard or the Vanir. These people were wearing bulky leather clothes and all kinds of messy equipment. They looked more like wandering warriors than the survivors of the ancient gods. These men and women wandered around the wasteland as if they had no idea that their every move was being monitored. They were like scavengers picking up the remains of the battlefield. Every one of them was trembling with fear and excitement. Their behavior was very suspicious.
Hao Ren could not tell when the images were taken, but judging from the situation on the battlefield, it was after the end of the Twilight of the Gods. The magic flames on the wasteland had extinguished, and the tear in the sky caused by the demon hunters' laser cannons had healed. Those people who appeared in the images were obviously the survivors of the Twilight of the Gods.
Hao Ren immediately turned to the Valkyrie and asked, "Are these real-time surveillance?"
The Valkyrie hugged her knees and squatted on the seat like a cub in a defensive posture. "Real-time surveillance?"
Vivian repeated, "I mean when were these images taken? Are they the images now? "
"No." The Valkyrie glanced at Vivian with some fear. It seemed that she had finally recovered a little of her memory and began to remember the ancient vampire in front of her, who was a distinguished guest of the Garden of Asgard more than 2,000 years ago. Perhaps she was simply frightened by Vivian's electrotherapy. "This is … a few thousand days ago? More than a few days ago … I don't know. I'm just guarding Valhalla. I don't know what's going on outside. I don't know … "
"What happened on Vigrid Plain is too much for her to pay attention to the situation outside Valhalla," Nangong Sanba whispered. "It's a typical self-protective hypnosis."
"It seems that these are videos." Hao Ren nodded after hearing what the Valkyrie said. "After all, when we flew over, there was no sign of human activity on the ground."
"Can you tell where these surveillance images came from?" Galazur turned to look at Anthony Alfonso.
"I don't have to. I can probably guess," Vivian interrupted. "The Valkyrie just mentioned the lower realm and the Bifröst. It should be in the southeast of Vigrid Plain. I know that place. If we want to go to other dimensions, we will certainly pass there."
Seeing the curious eyes of Anthony Alfonso and Galazur, Vivian explained, "The Nine Worlds are connected by the branches of Yggdrasil. The weak points of each dimensional barrier are naturally attached to those branches. The gods of Asgard built an acceleration device called the Bifröst between the largest branches, which allows people to cross the barrier between the Nine Worlds in a safer and more stable way. The Twilight of the Gods destroyed all the Bifröst, but those remaining gates should still be passable, at least enough to carry us. If Odin is really not in Asgard … then we can only go to other dimensions. Maybe the situation in other places is different from what I think. It is also possible that there are more surviving areas. "
"Then let's go to the Bifröst and see the situation." Hao Ren nodded immediately, but then looked at the Valkyrie. "The question is, what should we do with her? Just leave her here?"
The crazy Valkyrie heard the noise and looked up. Her turbid eyes were full of bewilderment. She seemed to feel uneasy because she didn't know what was about to befall her.
"Are you coming with us?" Vivian smiled and asked kindly.
The Valkyrie thought hard for a moment and immediately shook her head frantically. "No! I want to guard the palace with my sisters! There must be no gap in the line of defense here! "
"Leave her here first. After all, she has been like this for more than 2,000 years." Hao Ren waved his hand. "We will deal with her when we come back."
No one objected. So after checking the other monitoring equipment in the central control room and confirming that there were no more clues and no traces of Odin, they left Valhalla.
When the crazy Valkyrie saw that they were about to leave, she silently followed them all the way to the palace gate. She spent most of her time staring at Hao Ren. When others talked to her, she rarely gave a logical answer. It was not until Hao Ren was about to step out of the gate that she nervously said, "Will you return the spear to the Holy Father?"
Hao Ren was stunned. He had said something casually to calm the Valkyrie down, but she took it seriously!
But he obviously could not be perfunctory, so he could only nod. "Ah, yes, as long as I see Odin, I will give it to him."
"Please tell him." The Valkyrie lowered her eyes, trying not to look at the other parts of the Garden of Asgard, pretending that the glorious city was still standing. "Ask him what orders he has next … orders for the Valkyries."
"I will, I will …" Hao Ren could only nod repeatedly and then ran away from the place.
"It's terrible," Hao Ren said to Vivian after returning to the spherical spacecraft. "Dealing with a psychopath is really killing me. How are we going to explain this to her when we come back?"
"Don't ask me. You can cover up your own lie," Vivian turned her head. "Now I hope we can really find Odin's whereabouts. If there are survivors in other dimensions, maybe we can also find clues about Odin there."
It did not take long for them to arrive at the location of the Bifröst that Vivian mentioned.
The Asgard dimension was not on Earth, so naturally there was no way to rely on the magnetic poles to determine the directions. But for convenience, the gods of Asgard still manually delineated the directions of each dimension in the Nine Worlds. Although their original method of calculation had been lost, Vivian still knew how to determine the directions based on the direction of the mountains.
From the scorched Vigrid Plain to the southeast, to the end of the plain, and then across a dry beach and a twisted jungle, they would come to the end of Asgard.
The end of the dimension in the real sense.
The earth stopped abruptly in front of them, and the endless mountains on both sides also revealed a huge gap here, like a piece of cake being cut off. The whole land ushered in a neat and smooth fault. Looking down from the sky, there was only a horrifying endless abyss and chaos under the cliff.
There was a river flowing from the mainland, but the river was cut off along with the earth, and the rushing water rushed all the way out of the mainland, suspended in the vast emptiness ahead, and gradually turned into an endless thick fog in the distance: this thick fog shrouded most of the border of Asgard like a barrier, and with some kind of complex airflow movement, it would eventually return to the mainland, and then turn into rain and snow to return to the cycle.
And the most awe-inspiring thing here was neither the cut earth nor the floating river after rushing out of the continent, but the countless huge vines extending from the earth and spreading all the way out of the void.
The spherical spacecraft landed on a small plateau at the end of the earth, which was actually a knot of a vine. After getting off the spacecraft, Hao Ren once again stepped on the tentacles of the First Born. He saw a dozen extremely thick tentacles extending from the earth under his feet and the distant mountains, growing wildly and piercing all the way into the barrier-like cloud. These tentacles were identical in shape to the First Born, but the surface was shining with mysterious silver runes. Each of these runes was hundreds of square meters wide.
This was the body of Yggdrasil. These amazing giant tentacles grew and spread in the depths of each continent and even into other dimensions, eventually connecting the nine different dimensions like a skeleton. Now these things were quiet, as if they were unaware of the 'tiny microbes' that were moving around nearby. Only when they were in a state of sleep would the tentacles in the distance twitch a little. The shaking was so small that it was almost undetectable to the naked eye.
But it was enough to prove that Yggdrasil was still alive.
"It is indeed the biological tissue of the First Born, but the mutation is very serious. I can't tell why he grew like this," the MDT said after scanning the superficial structure of a tentacle. "I dare not go too deep. There is nerve activity inside the tentacle, and it is not very stable. If he wakes up in this state, he will definitely make a scene."
"Ymir is still comforting him," Hao Ren nodded. "It's not too late to stimulate this big guy after we have explored the other places."
"Let's split up and search," Vivian looked into the distance. "There seems to be some traces here."
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