Chapter 1837
by 林方方Chapter 1837 Arrival at Antarctica
This guy… what exactly is he thinking?
Lin Qiye looked at the familiar small courtyard before him, and only after a long while did he come back to his senses, frowning and muttering to himself.
He found that he was increasingly unable to understand An Qingyu.
When An Qingyu first betrayed Da Xia, he always felt that the other had some difficulties, but his heart was still with Da Xia. But then he killed Cao Yuan… His trust in An Qingyu constantly wavered around the bottom line, sometimes high, sometimes low. For a period, he even thought that An Qingyu had truly betrayed them.
But thinking carefully later, Cao Yuan’s death was also full of mysteries. If nothing else, since Cao Yuan’s “prison” was broken, then where was the Black King who was imprisoned inside? The Black King, who should have regained freedom, did not appear, and even Cao Yuan’s body could not be found… What exactly happened at that time?
Seeing this small courtyard in the capital city, the doubts in Lin Qiye’s heart erupted again. How could someone who had made up his mind to betray Da Xia secretly replicate such a building in the headquarters of Cthulhu in the mist?
What was his purpose in replicating the capital’s courtyard? Nostalgia? Was he nostalgic for Jiang Er, or… [Night Curtain]?
After pondering for a long time, Lin Qiye could only temporarily put his doubts aside and walk through the maple leaf-filled courtyard toward the misty wall.
But before he could touch the misty wall, an invisible barrier blocked him. Dense mysterious patterns appeared in the void, as if some kind of force field was isolating him inside.
Lin Qiye frowned slightly. Just as he was about to try to force his way through the field, a voice came from the mist:
“It’s useless. This barrier is an improved version that I created by combining the defensive barriers of Asgard and the Temple of Gods. If it were your Burning Angel avatar trapped here, there might be a possibility to open it… but this body that has not yet become a god cannot break through.”
An Qingyu’s figure emerged from the misty wall. He stood outside the force field, facing Lin Qiye.
“What’s the deal with this courtyard?” Lin Qiye asked directly about his confusion when he saw An Qingyu.
An Qingyu looked at the courtyard and calmly replied, “Although I can work on dissections without rest, it doesn’t mean I don’t need to rest at all… Is it strange to build a place to live in such a place?”
“If you just needed a place to live, was it necessary to completely replicate a courtyard?”
“For me, replicating a building that once existed is simpler than creating one from scratch.”
“…Is this place where you live?”
“Yes.”
“Now that I’ve moved in, where will you live?”
An Qingyu glanced at him, then turned and walked toward the outside of the misty wall.
“You should worry about yourself… Don’t try to force your way out of here. Even if you break through the barrier, outside is [The Black Goat]. It won’t touch you while you’re in here, but if you deliver yourself to its doorstep, I won’t be able to save you from its hands.”
As the words fell, An Qingyu’s figure completely disappeared between the misty walls.
The capital courtyard once again fell into silence.
Lin Qiye stood alone in place, thoughtfully rubbing his chin…
“Deliberately sealing me in an ice coffin, not letting me see the process of entering this place, indicates that the method of entry isn’t too difficult. If seen, it could probably be learned.”
“Need to think of a way to first confirm the exact location of this place…”
…
An Qingyu returned to the laboratory, lightly sliding his fingertip across the wall, and the extinguished lights lit up one after another.
The spotless laboratory was enveloped in light. At the same time, the low sound of machines operating arose. Numerous unknown devices started up, and at the outer top of the laboratory, there was even a miniature signal collection tower.
An Qingyu took a white lab coat from the table and put it on, walking to one of the devices and tapping his fingertips.
As the light at the top of the signal tower flickered, steady waves were transmitted across the screen.
An Qingyu stared at these waves, his expression completely calm.
A gray figure flew in from afar, landing lightly behind him. Fish Four lowered his head and respectfully said:
“The matter you asked us to handle has been completed.”
“All the messages have been spread out?”
“Yes.”
“What reactions are there from [Divine Paradise] and [Hidden God]?”
“After hearing the news, the Holy Master of [Divine Paradise] quickly organized personnel and set off southward… As for [Hidden God], their actions have always been more secretive. It’s unknown if they’ve taken action. Fish Two is still investigating.”
An Qingyu narrowed his eyes slightly and said calmly,
“This world doesn’t need disobedient pawns, nor pawns that escape control…”
“Take five Cthulhu-system gods and eliminate [Hidden God].”
“Yes.”
Fish Four nodded, his form transforming into a stream of light, quickly disappearing without a trace.
Not long after Fish Four left, the previously steady waves in front of An Qingyu suddenly began to fluctuate violently!
These waves were chaotic, seemingly without any pattern, but at the same time, the lights in the entire laboratory flickered intermittently, and a faint rustling sound came from the player at the edge of the laboratory.
Under the flickering lights, An Qingyu’s gaze was fixed on the device screen in front of him, muttering in a voice only he could hear:
“Found you… Jiang Er.”
…
Mist.
A golden stream of light flashed across the sky like lightning.
Although he was in the headquarters of the Cthulhu-system gods, Lin Qiye had now placed most of his energy on his Burning Angel avatar.
After all, the urgent matter at hand was to find a way to break the time labyrinth and rescue the Night Goddess Nyx…
As Lin Qiye continuously approached the extreme south, the temperature around him rapidly decreased. Above the vast sea, apart from endless mist, no land could be seen.
A moment later, scattered ice layers began to appear along the ocean currents. At the end of the horizon, snow-white lands appeared in Lin Qiye’s vision.
Lin Qiye had been to various divine realms and continents, but it was his first time coming to a place like Antarctica. Seeing the world covered by glaciers, he felt somewhat curious.
Only after personally coming to Antarctica did Lin Qiye realize just how vast this place was. Looking around, there was nothing but ocean and ice layers, even larger than the entire area of Da Xia.
According to Wang Mian, they had wandered on the ice layers of Antarctica for several days before accidentally entering the time labyrinth, so there was no exact route to enter the labyrinth. To enter the time labyrinth again, one could only rely on luck or spend enough time exploring.
Fortunately, it was his Burning Angel avatar that had come here. If he really couldn’t find it, he could just use “miracles” to try a few more times.
Lin Qiye flew over Antarctica for a long time, carefully examining the general terrain. Just as he was about to find a place to land and throw his sword to gamble on a direction, his gaze suddenly stopped on a certain spot below.
On the vast ice layers, more than a dozen figures were gathered together, slowly walking. They were carrying a heavy black sedan chair, and a strange fragrance was spreading wildly from that chair…