Aion World, Southwest Region, uninhabited wilderness.

It used to be a fertile grassland, where many villages and towns established a huge breeding base, and a large number of cattle and sheep were released from here, along with hundreds of merchant ships, galloping to the entire southwest land.

But three years ago, a natural disaster destroyed all this, the once fertile land dried up, cattle and sheep starved to death, or were eaten alive by hungry homeless people, and the people who had gathered on this grassland were either displaced or left far away.

Migration is the daily life of the people in the Aion world, and it is needless to say that mobile cities are naturally scattered, even if they are fixed villages, they will often be scattered for various reasons.

Meeting and parting is the main theme of this world.

However, there will always be some people, for various reasons, who stay where they are and refuse to leave.

For example, if you set your hometown as the origin of teleportation, you won't come back for seven or eight years, so that your hometown is gone, and there is no space explorer you don't know about.

Buzz - a circular circle of light appears above the wasteland of flying gravel, and a slender figure emerges in it.

"Uncle Ben, come back!"

Energetic voices reverberated through the wind and sand, and a young woman in leather armor, carrying a large crossbow, carrying an apparently sci-fi style plasma gun at her waist, and carrying what looked like an armored box in her hand, strode out of the aperture.

She had short shoulder-length hair in fiery red, and her eyes were golden oranges like fire, and the wind in the wasteland blew her hair, and the yellow sand burrowed into her neck, so that the lady who was in a good mood didn't react for a while: "Wait, what is this?" ”

"What's going on?"

"What about my big grassland and cattle and sheep?"

"What's going on?"

However, she quickly reacted and couldn't help but shake her head: "...... Ha, what the hell is developing, has my hometown been razed to the ground by natural disasters? ”

"Fortunately, the old lady's parents died of demonization disease a long time ago, otherwise I would have to pretend to shed a few tears...... Hmm, there doesn't seem to be a resurrection option in the space? Forget it, even if there is, don't let the old people come back to life and suffer. ”

Muttering a few words to herself, the red-haired lady who was dressed quite outrageously, but in general had a wild vitality, snorted, and kicked the dust around her with a little sullenness: "I was thinking of being sent back by the space, just to go back to my hometown, go to Papa John's bar to eat some roast whole lamb, I am so cute to death - now the devil knows if there is such a thing." ”

"Then again, how many years have I been gone? Seven years, or eight years? In a word...... Wow, ah?!!hhh What the hell?! ”

As she was talking to herself, the red-haired woman accidentally kicked a skull out of the dust, which made her startle, "I'm sorry, buddy, I didn't want to disturb your rest!" ”

As she spoke, she squatted down and poked the skull's skull: "Hey, since they are all bones found in my hometown, then you probably may be my former acquaintance, of course it may not be, anyway, I'm sorry first." ”

Standing up, clasping her hands together, the red-haired woman sincerely apologized to the skeleton, then frowned and turned her head, looking around at the boundless wilderness in front of her: "Anyway, this is too outrageous, even a natural disaster can't make the Simitel Plain what it is now." ”

"There is also the source energy concentration around here, and sure enough, the source energy concentration in my hometown is outrageous! And it's even more outrageous than it used to be! ”

Lowering her body, the red-haired woman Funia carefully picked up a little dust with her hand tweezers, she put it in her mouth and tasted it, and then took out a similar-looking instrument and shone it at the sun in the sky, and confirmed: "The source energy of land siltation has increased by more than 27%, and the light of the holy day has indeed decreased by 5.24%. ”

With a long sigh, Funia simply sat down in the dust and lay on the ground, she was shoulder to shoulder with her previous skull, and turned her head sideways to complain to the other party, "Did you say?" The environment here in my hometown is too bad, and the [Second World Destroying Flood] I experienced last time was not so weird, and it was almost as miserable as the [Wandering Planet] that Isis and the others had experienced. ”

"But the wandering planet can run anyway, and my hometown is a continent world with a round sky, so I'm running a fart!"

As you can see, Funya, who speaks to the skull, is an explorer of the pioneer space, and has now returned to her hometown due to the repatriation of the pioneer space.

To be honest, if it weren't for the forced repatriation, Funia would never have returned to such a bad ghost place as the Aion World.

Let's not say that this is a continental world, and the things that should be explored have already been explored, even if there are really some secrets buried deep in the earth...... Can that compare to the infinite world in the multiverse?

You know the answer with your toes!

Originally on a mission in another world, in a dark remote city, fighting monsters stained with the blood of the old gods, her team had just revealed the mystery of the dream, and before she could recuperate, she was thrown back to her hometown after treatment.

If it weren't for her cheerful and optimistic nature, she might have been depressed by the space this time.

"Hey, this broken environment in my hometown, demonization diseases everywhere, if it weren't for my strength, which can be regarded as divine will, I can suppress the symptoms of demonization, I'm afraid I would have died a long time ago."

Lying on the ground, feeling the yellow sand of her hometown, the red-haired lady stood up energetically again after being silent for a while: "Forget it, it's all here, you can't be decadent!" ”

"Let's dig a grave for the bones of my hometown, although I don't know who you are, but it's too human to kick a skull out of a kick of sand."

Two hours later, a large crater, apparently blown out with explosives, was littered with a large number of fragments of corpses collected from the ruins of surrounding villages.

Turning mass graves into mass graves, Funya didn't think about what was wrong with her actions.

Because of the good deeds, she was even in a good mood, humming the nursery rhymes her parents taught her when she was a child, and leaving this hometown that had been reunited for a long time, but she remembered it all from scratch.

A few days later, the south.

A small-town pub on the edge of the moor.

Wearing a mask and hiding her face, Funia sat at a single table by the window, enjoying a roasted whole lamb.

"The spices are insufficient, and the meat is not tender enough, so it can't compare to Daddy John's five-point skill, so let's play forty points."

Although a failing grade was given, the explorer ate cheerfully.

In recent times, she has been able to get a rough picture of the current state of the world of Aion through the Pioneer module and her own information gathering.

The current situation on the mainland is similar to when she left in the past, the empire is still an empire, the barbarian tribes are still in the wilderness, the Yanshuang army is also stuck in the north, and the Tianlong nobles who are close to the sea have not left their sea island fortresses.

Except for the famous Earl of Evender in the South, who was killed by an incognito former rebel member some time ago and his bones are gone, there has been no big news worth paying attention to in the past ten years.

"[The Holy Day Will Go Out] [Dusk Falls] [Plague of the Demon Moon]...... These three world-class tasks are obviously not something that I, a small elite explorer, can solve, at least it is only possible if the leader is at the peak, or even a strong person of the overlord level, comes over? ”

While eating the roast whole sheep, Funia knew very well: "Since I am back, then I will spend my days in the mess, enjoy the dirty air like shit in my hometown, and then pat my ass and run away...... Saving the world obviously has nothing to do with me, but I have to be an immortal-level super powerhouse to do it! ”

Funia knows very well that the meaning of the existence of explorers is to explore the unknown, but if you want to explore the position in the long run, you have to be a little cowardly.

Fear, fear, and fear are the good qualities of every explorer.

Those who forget these points, either they are unbelievably strong, they all forget what it is like to fail, or they die quickly.

"Then again, Count Arvind, I also remember, a stupid mentally handicapped nobleman, it's better to die."

Turning her thoughts back to reality, Funia couldn't help but laugh, she slapped the table, and then threw a strip of red gold at the counter: "Boss, give everyone a tie, it's all mine, don't look for it!" ”

"Oh, oh, oh! Good! ”

After accepting Chijin, the bar owner, who had thought that this crazy woman was troublesome, changed his attitude, he showed a fiery and intimate smile, and then immediately beckoned the waiter to bring the drink, and everyone in the bar cheered and raised their glasses to Funia.

"Boss atmosphere!"

"Good guys!"

And the red-haired lady who likes this feeling the most, and has the potential to go crazy with a bit of people, laughs and enjoys everyone's flattery.

Until a man with a girl in the dust opened the door of the bar.

Cicero is not handsome, at most because of his past years as a mercenary, he seems to be a little capable, and he will naturally be alert and cautious when he walks around with a little girl.

He had come here to ask some information about the local boss - he was an old acquaintance, fifteen years ago when they fended off the source energy beasts that invaded the village, hoping that the other party would remember the friendship of the bloody battles in the past.

But the moment his figure appeared, the eyes under Funia's mask widened, and the golden-orange eyes were firmly locked on the man, and he even forgot to drink, and the wine glass in his hand spilled on his thighs.

"Good guy, I'm straight good guy!"

She muttered to herself in astonishment, "This guy, what kind of guidance technique is he practicing?" ”

"How can his soul impurities be reversed and reduced?!"

Funya's golden orange eyes are actually the product of exchange, some people with civilized backgrounds call them 'fiery eyes', she is currently only exchanged to the intermediate level, which is far from the top real fiery eyes, which can only allow her to ignore the flames of the explosion, see the trajectory of the bullet, and the breath derived from the human soul.

In this world, there are many demonizers, and most of their souls are gray-black, filthy, and opaque.

And the soul of ordinary people takes on a variety of colors, even if there is occasional black, but the clear black and the dirty black can be distinguished at a glance.

The moment Cicero walked into the bar, Funia noticed that the boy and the child were demonics, and their souls were gray and black.

However, unlike all the other Enchanters.

The souls of the two...... Little by little, I 'fade' by an amplitude visible to the naked eye!

It's as if there is a flame that is calcining the magazine out of the soul, completely restoring the soul that was originally polluted by the source energy and the instinctive will of the flesh to its original appearance!

"This difficulty is comparable to a fish that does not drink water in the water, but spits out water!"

Muttering to herself, Funia was really stunned, she could figure it out with her fingernails that this father and daughter had quite a high level of soul cultivation, and they had only been practicing for a long time, so there was such a trend.

And this kind of cultivation can curb the demonization disease!

At the moment, the guests in the bar were laughing—Cicero bringing a little girl into the bar was a rare sight and a laugh, and the man turned a deaf ear to it, and he walked all the way to the bar counter, and after a brief conversation with the owner who had become serious, he handed him a notebook full of words.

"You can believe it or not, but you can try."

He said: "If you think it's good, spread it to other people as you want it – why should I lie to you? Think about it, Mike, what do you have to fool me, and what do I need to fool you? ”

With that, he took Cecilia's hand and turned away, laughing again in the tavern.

Syllable.

Funia snapped her fingers.

Source energy fluctuations are clearly diffused.

Rumble!!!

A violent explosion appeared outside the bar, and a materialized shockwave erupted in the sky like thunder.

The whole bar fell silent.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the red-haired woman with the mask, their eyes in awe.

Even Cicero's footsteps froze, and he stared blankly at Funia, for he could sense that the other's gaze was focused on him.

"Hey, that uncle over there, come here."

Without the slightest hesitation, Funia got up directly, she walked out of the bar door, and then glanced back at Cicero: "Come along, I have something to tell you." ”

Outside the bar, in a secluded corner of the village.

Syllable.

A hand pressed against the wall next to Cicero's face, and the strong source energy fluctuations were like facing the heart of a factory source energy furnace that was about to explode, even if Cicero had faced the might of Professor Svetley, he could only ensure that he trembled and did not kneel down.

At this moment, Funya was expertly reciting the Explorer's Bible: "Good brother, I want to make a win-win deal with you—give me your soul-purifying channeling method, and I can give you more wealth than you can imagine!" ”

"Do you want red gold, or some other secret method of cultivation? Your daughter isn't in good health, right, I have a fortified nourishment with no side effects! ”

Forced to buy and sell, using cheap materials that are only worth dozens or hundreds of points in the pioneer space, in exchange for at least a few cultivation secrets that open up thousands of exploration points in the branch,

- Standard Pioneer Behavior.

And Cicero, who understood why the strong man in front of him, who was obviously enough to go to the empire to be a general, suddenly took off his disguise in front of him and took a deep breath, he knew that the current situation was already very good, and the other party was just planning to buy and sell by force, and did not do anything bad or bad.

So, after settling down, the man forced a smile and said, "This lady...... I don't want money for this practice. ”

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Funia raised her eyebrows, and she smiled, "So, do you want some rare materials, or other cultivation?" ”

"No, I mean to say that this cultivation doesn't cost anything."

Hurriedly correcting his statement, Cicero's mind calmed down at the moment.

He recalled what Professor Svetley had said, and said in a deep voice, "The creator of this exercise gave it to me without asking for any price, and my mission is to spread this cultivation that can save all demonic beings, so that more people can survive. ”

"This is my mission, I can't get paid, so ma'am, if you want it, take it, I promise absolute integrity, nothing is missing."

With that, Cicero took out a pamphlet from his bosom and generously handed it to the shocked Funia.

"Amazing, the guy who gave you the cultivation method...... The noble one is too rare! ”

Although she is often hilarious and has a different personality, Funia is not stupid, and she can confirm that the strength of the person who wrote this cultivation is higher than she doesn't know how much higher she is by just reading this booklet a few times.

No, no, no, compared to a second-rate explorer like her, it's simply to lower the opponent's compulsion!

"Hometown Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,!"

After reading the entire booklet, Funia gasped - good fellow, she just read it once, and then imitated it, and felt that her soul was much clearer.

How to say...... Just like purification, many impurities in her soul turned into smoke and dust, although the absolute amount was burned off a lot, but what was left was essence!

Thigh! The thighs of the home world!

Tasks that seem intractable...... Maybe there's a joke!

“…… Do you still have a contact with that master? ”

Dafang took the booklet into her arms, and Funia was not ashamed of it at all, she withdrew the fist she had used to threaten Cicero before, and then took off her mask, revealing a big smile, compared to a thumbs up: "Don't worry, as long as you tell me, from now on, you are my brother!" ”

"Uh, I mean ......"

Cicero pushed the curious Cecilia behind him as if he didn't want his children to follow such an example: "I don't really have a way to get in touch, but I think if I spread this channeling technique to the entire Southland...... Professor, he'll know! ”

"Oh?" And Funia keenly grasped the conviction between the other party's words: "Indeed, if you have achieved something, then the other party will definitely know and pay attention...... Even if the other party does not intend to contact you again, it is impossible to ignore such a situation. ”

"Right?"

Facing Freya, who had already begun to hook her shoulders and was a little too familiar, Cicero said with a sad face: "Well, maybe, maybe...... Ma'am, please respect yourself, I am a family man. ”

Fonia was not embarrassed at all, and laughed, "Hey, I'm not interested in men and women, I'm more interested in cannons and explosions - anyway, I'm going to start helping you spread the word about this channeling now!" ”

Saying this, before Cicero could react to what the other party could do to help him promote the channeling technique, he immediately looked ahead in amazement.

Because, Funia had already pulled out a giant fully armored off-road vehicle from the metal box she was carrying.

- Equip storage crates, a necessity for explorers who love heavy weapons and large vehicles. High-tier equipment storage crates can even hold an entire mobile battleship without any weight!

"Let's go!"

Already in the driver's seat, Funia opened the door of the passenger seat and the rear compartment, and confidently pulled out a giant horn and laser printer larger than half a person: "Let's start now, and carry out the path of spreading the truth!" ”

"Now, you start reciting aloud everything in this booklet, and then don't be stupid to copy it by hand – come, put this booklet in this automatic printer...... It'll take care of everything, just wait! ”

After Cicero got into the car in a daze, Freya showed an unrestrained smile: "What mission haven't we explorers done?" It's just spreading the Dharma, it's so easy! We explorers have always had no taboos...... What is propaganda? I'll tell you today! ”

"Now, let you know how powerful the loudspeakers and big-character posters are...... Wait, all the villages in the south, from now on, Uncle Benphnia's propaganda offensive is about to begin! ”

"What?" Cicero was still in a state of confusion at the moment, he didn't understand what Phunia was saying: "What offensive?" ”

"It means brainwashing - have you heard that you don't receive gifts during the holidays this year?"

"No ......"

"What about O-bubbles?"

"There is no ...... either"

Bang!

The engine of the off-road vehicle sounded like an explosion and thunder.

Stepping on the accelerator to the end, the wild beauty with red hair and golden eyes laughed: "It's right if you don't know!" ”

"From today onwards, all villages within a radius of 500 kilometers can only hear the same voice!"

Boom, the buggy roared through the dusty wilderness, and at the same time there was the sound of preaching from the loudspeaker, which was more powerful than thunder.

Simple, brutal, effective.

That's the secret of the explorer.

Until a week later, Cicero still still hadn't figured out what those inexplicable advertising lines meant.

But there is no doubt that what has already been fast-forwarded cannot be fast-forwarded anymore.

Originally, it would take him a long time to get a person to accept it with half-heartedness, and to start practicing this practice, it was like an unknown person selling saucers under the flyover.

But since Funia, things have accelerated to the point where eighteen villages are brainwashed in a week, and almost all demonizers have begun to practice.

Isn't it scary? Yes, it's scary.

Eight times faster, it's really exaggerated!

This is probably the dimensionality reduction blow of advanced propaganda tools to the previous era.

Unlike Cicero, who suffered from gains and losses, and didn't know if such an action could be regarded as a true diffusion of the Eight Sutras, Funya was so happy when she did this, she even forgot that this was to follow Cicero's clues and find the theoretical thigh, she was immersed in this new experience from the bottom of her heart, and she enjoyed the fun of this free promotion of the Dharma cultivation very much.

It wasn't until a week later that she calmed down a little and began to prepare to transfer this never-before-seen practice back to the Pioneer Space.

"The pioneer encourages the act of uploading unknown cultivators, although it is only one or two thousand points at most, but it is still meat, and it should be eaten."

Activating the Pioneer Space module in such a beautiful way, Funya got a hint from the Pioneer Space: [Unfinished version of the Burning Ember Fire, the Spiritual Purification Cultivation Method, upload it to get 2500 exploration points. 】

[Creator: Primordial Candlelight.] 】

"Let me see which big guy invented this method......

The 2500 exploration points, which are basically the highest level of the relevant upload inheritance, prove that this cultivation has just been completed, and it is a new unknown thing-Funi Adden was happy, and caused several big explosions in the wilderness on the spot.

But things changed when she shifted her gaze to the creator.

"Oh, it's the primordial candlelight......"

“……”

"Huh?! Primordial candlelight?! ”

Jumping in shock and hitting the roof of the car, the entire tank-like giant off-road vehicle shook slightly: "Why for?!" Why is there a candle in my hometown, and I've never heard of it before?! ”

"Can this be messed into? Wouldn't it, wouldn't it?! ”

And just when a pioneer space explorer began to get suspicious and scared himself.

At this moment, the primordial candle in her mouth was lining up with the camouflaged primordial ship, slowly approaching the mobile warship harbor of the coastal capital.

The seaside capital, the largest neutral area between the southeastern borders, the trading center of the southern part of the continent, and the best seaport in the surrounding area, welcoming the maritime merchant fleet of the Draco nobles.

As a place beyond the reach of the Asmodean Empire, the laws and customs of this place are completely different from those of the Empire, and as the busiest commercial and mobile city, its ports are obviously full all year round, and even the entrances and exits for cargo distribution are full of ships coming and going, as if there is no stop.

Unless there is a natural disaster in the sea, or a typhoon that is too terrible, the seaside capital will always be so busy, and only then can the busy workers and merchants of the past stop and rest for a while, enjoying the rare desertion.

Clearly, this is not the time to be cold.

At this time, the Chu Yao ship was lining up to enter the port, its front and back were huge merchant ships, these behemoth steel creatures were full of courage, slowly docking with the moving city.

Su Tian stood on the deck, watching the large and small mobile warships in the harbor roll up dust, in and out of it, and bring up large patches of smoke and dust between heaven and earth, this scene even reminded him of the crowded crowds of cars on the streets of the Tiandu Demon Capital in the past, but the size of the mobile ships was far better than the cars, and the same was true of the spirit.

"Hello, we are the staff of the port of the coastal capital, and we are now registering for the port."

And at this moment, with a fluctuation of source energy, a winged man with a halo on his head flapped his wings and came to Su Sun's body.

The winged man seemed to have been weathered for a long time, with scars on his originally handsome face, and his left eye was deeply sunken, with only a pitch-black hollow.

But even with such a terrifying appearance, the attitude of this winged staff member was like a spring breeze, and he kindly invited Su Sun to provide his name and traces of source energy as proof of entry registration.

"Is that all it takes?"

Su Yan naturally filled in all of them, forging a name and source energy fluctuations was as simple as breathing, and in terms of 'entering the city', he naturally filled in 'Trade and Year-end Auction'.

"Oh? Sir, are you planning to attend the year-end auction? Can you show me the physical object you're planning to trade? ”

Seeing the reason filled in by Su Day, the Yiren staff asked curiously, but then he explained: "This is a must, if it is not a particularly precious treasure, but an order for bulk commodities, then it is necessary to see the real thing - the port location of the coastal capital is very precious, and we provide the port location for free, so naturally we also need merchants to prove their worth." ”

"No problem, I understand."

Su Tian, who had already been informed by Suiguang, nodded slightly, and he took out a perfect metal ingot from his arms and handed it to the wingman staff.

The perfect metal ingot has a bright silver color and an almost crystalline texture.

After taking the metal ingot cautiously, the winged people carefully took out the instrument and examined it in detail.

Then, his mouth opened wider and wider, and his eyes showed consternation.

"The most, highest grade of source energy alloy steel...... Holy day, this is the material of the core component level of the Metropolis Source Energy Furnace Core......"

"That's it, just such a metal ingot, it will be worth more than 50,000 imperial coins......"

In an instant, the attitude of this staff member changed from the original friendliness to respect.

After gasping, he bowed deeply to Su Sun, and even the brightness of the aura on his head increased by one level: "Please go to the VIP passage next to it, sir, do you still need any more services?" ”

"We have a complete set of service process, almost free, quality is guaranteed!"

"Thanks, no need."

Su Yan didn't care about this, he came to this city to get all kinds of supplies, and it was naturally good to be courteous.

He's also used to being courteous wherever he is, which is probably the benefit of being good-looking.

Even, what Su Sun really cares about is the minutiae in the hearts of some locals.

He lowered his head and looked at the weather-beaten Wingman in front of him.

"You're a demon, aren't you?" The man whispered, staring at the demonic scales that appeared behind the other's ears: "In this city...... Aren't demonizers discriminated against? Even let you take on such an important position as an entry registrar. ”

"Of course not, sir!"

In this regard, the originally respectful registrar raised his head, he puffed out his chest proudly, and his empty left eye seemed to glow again: "The seaside capital treats everyone equally - the demonizer is among them!" ”

He stretched out his hand and showed Su Sun the magnificent and magnificent city behind him, emitting endless light, which could be illuminated even by the night sky, and smiled proudly: "I have experienced a lot, I have suffered a lot in the world, and after finally coming here, I have regained my dignity!" ”

"Welcome to the seaside city, sir, the most equal place on earth!"

And Su Sun raised his head and stared at this glorious city with bright lanterns.

The man's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the black-and-white softening of curses and wishes in the city.

"Really?"

Then, he lowered his eyes, and Su Tian said lightly: "Then take me in to have a look, sir." ”

"I can't wait."

Ask for a monthly pass!

(End of chapter)