A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

Everyone was shocked by the impact at the moment of entering the water. It was Barbaria who woke up first and punched a button on the operation panel that was blinking non-stop; When it bounced off, the high-pressure liquid air stored in the fuselage quickly opened the valve, allowing several airbags to expel the surrounding water and inflate, and gradually stopped the sinking of this tens of tons of construction machinery.

A few seconds later, the boring machine began to rise slowly.

Ripley rubbed her knocked forehead, sat up straight dizzily, and asked, "What's going on?"

"...We fell into the underground lake from a fissure in the rock formation, and we are urgently surfacing. But we guessed right... Seth Star does have an underground world!"

Barbaria said.

When the boring machine surfaced completely, the marines also climbed up and looked out the front reinforced window.

This underground space is not just as simple as a cave or a cavity, it is so huge that you can’t see the end at a glance; The reflection on the rock wall makes this underground world as bright as day.

"What is that...it looks like a vertical city." Hicks whispered to himself.

Ripley also stood up, pressed her hand on the window, and replied: "That must be our goal. The 'city' of Seth is indeed underground!"

"...But you look at the city below, why does it look like a maze?"

Everyone immediately looked in the direction of Hicks' finger. At the foot of the city like the Tower of Babel on the top of the mountain, rock walls intersected vertically and horizontally, at different heights, covering the entire area, extending to the city not far away. By the lake, it really looks like a huge and daunting maze, even the Minotaur would be ashamed to see it.

Before a few people finished marveling, they felt that the boring machine floating on the water seemed to be pulled by something, and moved towards the shore of the lake.

It was a group of people walking out of the maze. While a few people were throwing the hook rope onto the boring machine and pulling it over with force, there were also a few people holding strangely shaped weapons, pointing to this side, with vigilant expressions on their faces. look.

Several earthlings were dragged to the land for unknown reasons. When they were wondering, they saw a mustache wearing brown leather clothes coming forward and asked them sternly: "Are you sent by the queen?" ? Damn, isn't it safe here..."

"...What queen? Was Set star originally ruled by a queen? We are Earthlings..." Barbaria said.

The mustache on the opposite side looked at her suspiciously, scratched his head, and asked, "What earth?"

Several people looked at each other for a while, and finally reached a consensus in a long chicken-and-duck talk, and decided to change places to have a good talk.

Mustache was very vigilant, and kept telling the other Setters to point weapons at these uninvited guests, but the marines with rich combat experience could tell...the weapons in their hands were quite primitive and not standard, It looks like it was hand rubbed; most of the weapons are even projectile cold weapons, and even gunpowder-propelled weapons are very rare.

The conversation that followed further proved the backwardness of these Setes. Although they spoke English, they did not know that their genes originated from the earth; they only knew that they were the "Queen of the Night" who ruled the "Night City" Expelled from the city, exiled into the labyrinth, they don't even know that there are still many Setes on the ground acting as primitive tribes and attracting tourists from the Earth Federation.

The brightly lit "Tower of Babel" at the end of the maze is the legendary "Night City".

The Queen of the Night there controls the terrifying behemoth "Matsmoss", lives on the top floor, and has fun with a group of courtiers and her favorite evil people all day long. They would be captured by those dog-legged black-clothed guards, tortured to death, or thrown directly into the maze.

Up to now, there are several million Sets living in the maze, and these people can only live by fishing and hunting in the underground world, and picking up the leftovers of the Night City.

Mustache was originally a resident of the lower classes of the Night City. At first he tried hard to become a black guard, but for a reason he didn't want to explain, his admiration for the queen quickly turned into hatred, so much so that after he was exiled , He is still using the combat knowledge he learned back then to resist the rule of the Queen of the Night, and he has organized a group of like-minded people, vowing to destroy the hypocritical and depraved Night City.

But the resources in the labyrinth are really too few...and the rebels are not as good as the black guards in terms of weapons. The first reaction was "Is this the queen who sent me to kill me?"

Seeing that a few people really didn't know who the Queen of the Night was, and they had always been very friendly, the mustache finally believed them and told his men to put down their weapons.

Barbaria also roughly talked about what she and the others are here for, and what the earth is, then suddenly remembered something, and asked Mustache and the others: "Speaking of which, have you ever seen people like us, from Something that fell from above?"

"Yes. But it fell not far from the center of the maze... We thought it was thrown from the Night City. There was nothing to eat in it, just a big lump of iron." Mustache replied, for fear of a few people walking in the maze Lost, and led the way there specially.

As soon as she got close to the falling object, Barbaria recognized what it was, and quickly said to Ripley, "This is it! Duran Duran's spaceship! He is indeed in Night City!"

Ripley rubbed her chin for a while, then exchanged glances with Hicks beside her, and then asked the mustache, "You said you couldn't beat the black guard... Do you want more advanced weapons?"

She is an American, and she is born with this trick.

Chapter 20 Strike East and West

"Queen, queen! Something is wrong!"

In the palace of Night City, a gray-haired middle-aged man was running across the smooth corridor floor while shouting.He was wearing a black chitin-studded wool tights, a long white robe over his coat, and a big belly. He ran very funny, but the guards in black around him were also good, and those who occasionally walked by wearing tulle skirts Ladies, no one dares to laugh at him... because he is currently the most favored steward in the queen's palace.

In the silver palace with bead curtains, a woman in a tight-fitting black gauze dress with only mink fur covering the key parts yawned and woke up from the soft bed.

As the queen of Seth, she is actually a humanoid... Just look at the unicorn sticking out from under the black hair.

Her eyes are always half-closed and half-opened, and there is an occasional seductive light under her long eyelashes; her red lips always draw a mysterious and mocking arc, as if she will be in your ear at any time Said with a wet murmur.The body under the gauze is healthy and plump, fine and well-fitting, and the wheat-colored skin is smooth and delicate. The courtiers and the people always praise her...saying that she is the most beautiful woman in the entire Seite planet, and even the entire universe.

But she knew in her heart that the universe was much bigger than these ignorant people imagined.She prides herself on her attractiveness, but never thinks that there aren't more beautiful women in the universe.

Among other things, the... girl named Barbaria I knew a few days ago, she is very beautiful, and she is also a versatile adventurer, which makes people curious.

She grabbed the fur gloves at the head of the bed and put them on, stepped on her boots, swayed her body and walked slowly, and opened the door in front of the bedroom.

"You idiot... don't you know what will happen if you disturb my sleep?"

The head of the court immediately lowered his head in fear, and said in a trembling voice: "Yes, yes, the great Queen of the Night, I know this. But those rebels, they actually got the weapons of the earthlings, and now they are attacking the Night City! Even if you want to whip your servants for disturbing them, I have the courage to tell Her Majesty the queen, please put state affairs first."

"Oh? What kind of earth weapon?" The Queen of the Night walked to the sofa beside her, reached out to pick up a grape, raised her legs, and tilted her body, revealing her slender and round thighs covered in black gauze curve.

As a courtier, the court chief did not dare to raise his head, so he could only bow his body lower and lower, and replied to his queen's inquiry: "That is... a laser weapon, Your Majesty. They used laser weapons to attack the black guards."

"Hehehe...then these black guards are really useless. I thought those people would overthrow me with warships from the earth...that would be exciting. The laser gun is nothing more than another individual weapon, it's no big deal .I now authorize you to use all the black-clothed guards, and don't bother me with such trivial matters!"

The Queen of the Night waved her hand and told the favorite to get off.He is smarter than others, but he is just a mediocre person... and the leader of the "rebel army" is really out of character.

She was expecting someone with anger and hatred to cruelly and tyrannically try to destroy her kingdom, and even destroy herself... But all the people who received her were timid and incompetent people, even she used high heels There is no qualification to trample to death.That being the case, it is better to simply suppress it.

Otherwise... find another reason to fight with the Earth Federation?

But the universe has been at peace for too long, and even the Earth Federation has disarmed most of its weapons. Another fight will only be destroyed by ultra-long-range weapons along with the galaxies.

"Oh, Barbaria...I'd love to meet you and see if you're a brave man, a true warrior."

The Queen of the Night lay down on the sofa again, squinting her eyes while hugging the pillow, and licked her lips.

The palace steward who walked out of the door of the bedroom changed into another state. He called the black-clothed guards at the door, and said with a smug smile, "The queen authorized me to command all the black-clothed guards. Now you must immediately mobilize your manpower and go to the front line." Support the counter-rebels! You can use deadly weapons, but you must remember to leave them alive. Their weapons must have been obtained from Barbaria!"

Remember when the skyport reported that a mining ship found Barbaria's ship in outer space?She definitely sneaked in, somehow got in touch with the rebels, and gave them the earth weapon.

Just defeat them, capture them, and you should be able to find Barbaria herself.

The palace chief thought so, and glared at the black-clothed guard: "Hurry up and pass the order! Waste!"

After speaking, he stood in front of the window on one side of the corridor, knowing that the black-clothed guards of the palace were running towards the lower city gate, so he nodded in satisfaction and walked to the other end of the corridor.

The floor where the queen's bedchamber is located is located outside the night city, with volcanic rocks on top... and besides the queen herself, this is where the nobles and upper-class people party and have fun.

On both sides of this corridor paved with smooth marble slabs, each room has a specific "theme", such as food and wine, music and dance, theater and performance, painting and sculpture, etc., to satisfy every sense. need.

Before returning to the office hall to confirm the results of the black-clothed guards, the head of the palace still had time to visit one of the more special rooms.

Impatiently, he came to the door of a certain room and walked through the archway.

This room is full of elevated transparent spherical water tanks. At first glance, it looks like a bathroom, but the people soaking in the water are all strong young human boys, and they swim in the water with a look of panic; Below these water tanks is a luxurious gold support frame, and under the frame is a thick fur carpet. On each carpet, there are aristocratic women leaning on the pillows, sucking something from the pipes, A look of intoxication.

The palace steward ignored the ladies' hands stretching towards him, but went straight to the back of the room, the counter run by a man with butterfly wings.

"Give me a bottle of Drunk Girl."

Drunken girl is not wine, nor is it a girl...it is the name of a kind of aromatherapy lamp oil.The steward of the palace loved this scent the most, and he couldn't fall asleep without it.

The butterfly-winged humanoid agreed: "Okay, my lord the palace steward."

But just as he was about to take out a bottle of "Drunk Girl" from the cabinet, his expression suddenly changed, he stared at the back of the court steward, his wings trembled slightly, and he raised his hands.

The palace steward had a bad feeling, and turned his head quickly, only to see an unfamiliar human man wearing a uniform with the words "Wilander-Tangu" holding a gun and pointing it at his forehead with a smile.

The gun seemed to be an ancient earth weapon, the kind that threw projectiles; but no matter how old it was, it would open his skull in an instant.

He quickly raised his hand like the counter clerk, opened his eyes, and asked tentatively: "...Rebels? Don't do anything...you can't escape."

"We don't want to run away."

Ripley, on one side, said she was pulling Barbaria out from under a raised floorboard.There is a hole that can only be passed by one person, and I don't know how the little beard dug the tunnel all the way from outside the Night City to the upper floor... If you have this ability, you can directly dig into the palace, can't you already solve the queen!

As a result, now we have to adopt other methods to solve the problem.

Seeing that several people in the team had crawled out, Ripley signaled Hudson to put the floor back, then turned her head and said to the court steward, "Are you the steward of the Queen of the Night? Didn't you see the black guard leaving the city?" How did we get in here? Now take us to the queen, or you may never smell this scent again."

"...Okay, heroes, I'm just following orders... You can just deal with the Queen of the Night, but don't accidentally hurt me." The palace steward said very politely.

"Then what are you waiting for?"

"...Can I get my aromatherapy first? I can't live without that."

Ripley and Hicks were also speechless. They turned their heads to look at the Butterfly Wing clerk, and gestured for the gun in his hand, which meant that you should stop being dumbfounded and satisfy this man's little happiness!

On the other side, Barbaria seemed to have paid attention to the ladies on the carpet, and was approaching a woman closest to her, curiously asking, "What are you smoking?"

The noble lady, who was indifferent to everything that happened in the room, put down the tube in her hand and replied with a chuckle, "A man's... essence."

Barbaria opened her eyes wide, only to realize that although those glass jars were larger, they were obviously like hookahs!I don't know what kind of liquid is soaking in the young men. The pipes in the hands of these ladies are connected to the top of the glass tank through a gold frame.

Is this Saite star so good at playing?

The lady handed her the tube in her hand again, wanting her to try it too; she wanted to try it too, but Ripley was already urging her, so she quickly rejected the other party's kindness, jumped up and followed the big team. Walk outside the room.

I don't know if people in this universe are all single-minded. At this time, even the guards in black guarding the queen's bedroom ran to the city gate to participate in the battle.

The steward was bold enough to open the door and barge in before knocking or notifying, but the Queen of the Night was nowhere to be seen in the bedroom.

"Are you kidding us, sir?" Hicks grabbed the middle-aged fat man by his collar and pushed the muzzle of the gun to his chin.

"No, no, how dare I? By the way, the silver lady must have gone to the 'real' bedroom because she was afraid of people disturbing her."

The palace steward waved his hands and explained excitedly.

A few people think you will give me a nesting doll, right?When I came to Seth, I found that there was a "real Seth", and when I went underground, I found that there was a "Night City", and when I arrived at the dormitory, I was told that there was still a 'real' dormitory.

However, seeing the impatient expressions of several people, the palace chief had already stretched his neck and shouted again: "I can go in! I have the key! I'll just take you there."

What else can I do?

Hicks let go of the steward's clothes, sighed and said, "Okay...keep leading the way."

Chapter 21 The Sleeper

"...What the hell is this place?"

A few people followed the footsteps of the court chief all the way down, and after an unknown amount of time, they came to a place that seemed to be real.

There is a shallow layer of running water on the ground, clusters of white needles grow everywhere, and transparent things like glass bubbles float in the air.What appeared all around was not walls or rock formations, but lights floating and flickering in the darkness.

The light is constantly changing colors and shapes, sometimes it looks like bubbles floating in a viscous green potion, and sometimes it looks like the burnt yellow of the edge of the film.

As far as everyone could see, the Queen of the Night was sleeping on a strange bronze bed.The shape of the bed was like a person in a lying position, with the abdomen open, covered with a thick layer of black plush, and the bronze hands stretched out upwards, as if struggling, but also as if embracing the person lying in his arms.

"This is the 'Dream Box'... where the Queen really sleeps. Only here can contain her wild dreams, and no one can come in or out of it after the doors are closed."

said the steward.

Ripley looked around and shook her head: "I don't see any doors."

"That door is right in front of you... It's a real dream. It has a form but is invisible. It can be touched but cannot be destroyed. It can only be passed through with a specific key."

The manager said so, shrugging his shoulders: "Did I just say that I have the key? Actually, I don't have it, no one has it. Only the queen has one, and the other one has disappeared into the abyss forever..."

"I have the key," Barbarella said suddenly.

When the eyes of several people looked at her, she smiled unconsciously, reached out and touched her chest: "The leader of the rebel army gave it to me. It seems that he still has some skills... ..."

The steward looked back at the black-haired woman, and the more she looked at her, the more she looked familiar, and she couldn't help frowning and asked, "Sorry, but where have we met before?"

"I think we met for the first time today...I'm Rena Baba!"

Barbarella answered, and held out her hand to shake his.

But before the two hands touched each other, the originally harmless manager stretched out his hand and pulled Barbaria directly into his arms, pulled out the gun from her waist, and held her back temple.

The marines didn't know whether they hadn't reacted or just didn't expect it. When they raised their guns, they had already watched the supervisor hold Barbaria hostage, and could only cast angry glances there.

"Haha, haha...you idiots...you are Barbaria's accomplices, do you think I don't know? Every earthling who landed on Seth is under my surveillance! She came to catch me right, they trampled on my ideals, and they will trample on my inventions!"

[50. No. 50]

The gray-haired manager shouted, and it could be seen that his expression was quite angry.

Ripley, who was standing opposite him, was stunned, looked him up and down, and asked suspiciously: "You are... Duran Duran? But didn't you say that Duran Duran is a young and handsome scientific genius?"

"I was very young before I came here." Duran Duran, who had been the steward of the court for a long time, said sadly, "The Star of Seth was built on the body of Matzmoth... Didn't you see it just now? You You don’t think that any liquid can extract human essence, do you?”

Before anyone could ask him what was the matter, he had put the gun on Barbaria's head again.

"You discovered us a long time ago, why didn't you do anything and let those black guards rush out of the palace?" Ripley asked again.

"Of course...you, and your weapons, are all available to me. The Queen of the Night is simply a pervert. I only stay here to serve her because of the power of Set and Matzmoth... If you don't come, how can I have the chance to lock her here forever? Stop talking nonsense, get the key and open the door! Otherwise, I will kill this racecourse lady."

There was nothing to do, so Ripley stepped forward and untied the invisible key from Barbaria's chest.The invisible key can open the invisible door, which is very reasonable... But when the key touches her finger, it automatically makes a crisp sound like a wind chime. It is probably designed so that people will not be able to find it.

According to Duran Duran, Ripley stepped forward and knocked on the door with the key.

As if the sound of the harp was rippling in the air, Duran Duran, who had been waiting impatiently, immediately held Barbaria up and walked forward, beckoning everyone to open the door and go in.