Unsurprisingly, Wendell was surprised when he saw the spherical spacecraft. Obviously, this advanced space-atmosphere universal shuttle was beyond his expectation. But soon, the old man recovered from the surprise. He just said thoughtfully, "Twilight Capital also has machines that can fly in the sky, but I have never seen one like this. Asgard is the kingdom of the ancient gods. I'm afraid this thing has been passed down from ancient times, right?"
"Twilight Capital also has a spacecraft?" Hao Ren was surprised. "I am really curious about your society."
Wendell boarded the spherical spacecraft with everyone. Under the control of Anthony Alfonso and the guidance of Vivian, the spacecraft flew to another Bifröst. As the end of the earth gradually appeared in the distance, the huge group of tentacles gradually came into view. The tentacles of the First Born were the only things that survived in this purgatory. Apart from these tentacles, there was no life in Vanaheim.
Looking at such an environment, it was hard for them to imagine how Wendell's people survived.
"Tell us about Twilight Capital." Nangong Wuyue looked curiously at Wendell, who had now changed into human form. "What kind of place is it? How did you survive after the collapse of heaven and earth? "
"The collapse of heaven and earth …" Wendell repeated the word in a low, hoarse voice. "You all know the disaster of the war more than two thousand years ago. I don't know how much history is preserved in Asgard, but in Twilight Capital, there are many ancient books that record things of that time, and many scholars specialize in these things. After all, trapped in the barrier, they have nothing else to study. As far as I know, the war of the gods broke the balance of the world. Nidhogg's gnawing made the great World Tree extremely weak, so the gods took advantage of the situation and ignited the world. The fire burned for three years until all the light in the entire universe was burned out. So the long night came, and there was only heat in the darkness. Midgard was also shrouded in a scorching heat. In just a few days, the population had plummeted to less than 10%. Seeing that all the life in the world was about to be destroyed, an ancient sage suddenly appeared in the crowd. This ancient sage was called the Traveler. He had awakened some great power sleeping in the depths of the earth and used the power of the earth to form a barrier to block the poison and evil fire in the long night. Twilight Capital was inside this barrier.
"Twilight Capital is not a city for us, but a kingdom. Although it is smaller than any kingdom in ancient times, we still survive there and have survived for more than two thousand years. Twilight Capital was originally formed by the connection of several city-states. The limit of the barrier was so big, and the places outside the city-states were all destroyed. As time went by, we continued to build homes inside the barrier, and now there is no empty land in Twilight Capital. My biggest impression of the place was that it was crowded, crowded, and old. Buildings of all ages, from a thousand years ago to a hundred years ago, were all crowded together in a mess. The air was full of smoke and dust. The whistle of the steam workshop often sounded in the middle of the night, and the big gears rattled. Sometimes the locomotive would roar through the center line of Twilight Capital, and the vibration almost made people think that the whole city would collapse. The clothes hanging outside the window were often blown away by the strange wind passing through the block, all the way to the oldest abyss of the city. The city was built too big, too high, and too old. Even the builders and planners of the city did not know what the structure was under those layers of houses, let alone me. I only know that our city is like a nest stacked layer by layer, which is almost touching the barrier of the sky. Every time I open my eyes, I feel that the dim sky is about to collapse. "
Lily said to herself, "It sounds very unsafe."
"Yes, it is very unsafe, but few people will think so," Wendell muttered. "Everyone is used to living here. No one thinks there is anything wrong with such a city. Anyway, everything seems to be stable. But people who study ancient books and machines will not think so. We know that Twilight Capital is limited, and the life of the city is even more limited. The world has been extinguished for more than two thousand years. We have survived for too long on the embers. Once the embers are extinguished, it will be over. "
"So the Lightseeker appeared?" Vivian asked curiously.
Wendell nodded gently. "There is a reason."
Since the day Twilight Capital was built, people always remembered the fact that the outside world had been burned. They were afraid of the dark night outside. They were afraid that the light in the city would go out one day. They were afraid that the whole world would sink forever. But fear gave birth to courage, so the Lightseeker was born. These brave, curious, and restless people were the eyes of Twilight Capital. With the blessings and expectations of others, they bravely broke into the darkness and looked for other lights in the wreckage of the world, such as another Twilight Capital, or a pure land that had not been burned by the evil fire, or …
The sign of the coming dawn.
"Some scholars believe that the long night will eventually end," Wendell said slowly. "Yggdrasil, the world tree, is not dead. He is just healing. When the sacred branches complete their transformation, the universe will be relit. That is the dawn after the long night, and the dawn will first start from Niebelungen and Niflheim, the country of death. An important mission of the Lightseekers is to find the signs of the coming dawn. But to be honest, not many people hold this hope, including the Lightseekers themselves. Most of them are just looking for another Twilight Capital. "
Speaking of this, Wendell sighed. "But even so, there are still fewer and fewer Lightseekers, and fewer and fewer people support us. In the past, the Lightseekers had a high status and were regarded as warriors who challenged the long night. Our predecessors were engraved on the cornerstone of the bottom of Twilight Capital. However, slowly, the journey of the Lightseekers became a reckless act that was not understood. Because groups of people broke into the darkness, they were either swallowed by the long night or came back crazy. Few people could bring anything back from the night. It was a heavy burden for Twilight Capital to support such a team that consumed a lot of resources. The headquarters of the Lightseekers was originally the most magnificent building in the city, but now it has become a dark alley in the gutter of the bottom of the city … "
The old man's voice was low, and he finally ended the topic. "Forget it, let's not talk about this."
"To be honest, this is an inevitable choice for the group," Galazur shrugged. "I can't even say it's stupid. For the survival of the group, most intelligent races will be too cautious. Bystanders will think that this caution is a missed opportunity, but in most cases, it can prolong the survival time in a desperate situation. "
Wendell looked at Galazur with a strange expression, feeling that the other party's detached way of speaking was strange. However, this was the most pertinent and most sincere evaluation of an inspector who was used to the rise and fall of civilizations.
Because of Galazur's evaluation, the second half of the journey became dull.
And in this dull journey, Hao Ren and the others saw the real situation of the dimensional chain of Yggdrasil after the Twilight of the Gods.
It was worse than they thought.
The scene he saw in Asgard gave Hao Ren a wrong first impression. He thought that the situation of the Nine Worlds after the Twilight of the Gods was not so tragic. But when he began to go deeper into the layers of different dimensions, he realized how destructive a big explosion through the nine layers of space was. Just as a warhead would cause a more terrible wound in the target's body after hitting the target, the damage caused by the beam cannons and magic explosions of the demon hunters had a similar effect. The deep space of the Nine Worlds was severely damaged.
Vanaheim had turned into a wasteland filled with poisonous gas and radiation. Svartalfheim had been completely torn apart. The entire continent was divided into two and floated in the void. Only the tentacles that pierced through the continent connected the broken land together. Alfheim was in turmoil. A storm called "Frenzy" was raging in the darkness. This storm had absorbed the magic in the space and continued to run for two thousand years. Now, almost everything on the continent had been completely ground into powder …
They also saw the kingdom of the giants, Jotunheim. It was a despairing desert, silent and still, stagnating there for thousands of years. The maddening heat waves surged out of the ruins of the giant city and were still roasting the land.
However, compared to Muspelheim, where two-thirds of the continent was covered by lava lakes, Jotunheim was nothing.
All these kingdoms had one thing in common: they were shrouded in darkness.
Smoke and clouds covered the sky, and the surging magic destroyed the source of light in each kingdom. Seeing the situation in those kingdoms, Hao Ren understood why the people of Wendell called the era after the Twilight of the Gods the Long Night.
As the name implied, after the end of the world, night fell, and eight of the nine kingdoms were ruled by darkness. In that darkness, only the embers of the apocalypse glimmered, scorching and deadly. The survivors hiding under the Twilight Shroud trembled. Anyone who dared to take a step into the darkness was worthy of being called a warrior, not to mention those Lightseekers who dared to cross the Nine Worlds.
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