Chapter 10: Chapter 10 : Farewell to Avalon
The team traveled in one of Master Wu's medium-sized airships, which Master Wu had designed and built with so much care and ingenuity that Master Wu named it "Newton". Few scientists of the current era have such respect for the great scientists who laid the foundations of science three centuries ago. The airship is fully equipped with built-in facilities, minimizing the size of the cockpit and dividing the extra area into living quarters and a small laboratory.
The airship is equipped with both manual and autopilot systems. In today's highly advanced technology, autopilot functions are commonplace, but Master Wu installed a wireless interface to Robo's system in the Newton's autopilot system.
Robo's intelligent system is comparable to the most advanced electronic computer in the world, and is on par with the intelligent computer carried by the spacecraft sent to space by the Western World. Plus it is highly intelligent and extremely capable of learning, Robo can control the airship even during autopilot.
The team of ten is a giant target when traveling, and it is easy for each of them piloting an airship to get separated in the future journey with numerous uncertainties, while other airships are both huge and inconvenient for long trips. Luckily, Master Wu was also willing to contribute his own airship to this "sacred journey", in his own words.
As the airship sailed into the intercity of Avalon, the surrounding fog was like a nightmare from ancient times and the visibility was extremely low. Looking out of the windows of the airship, it was a vast expanse of whiteness, like entering the body of a giant white ghost or driving in a glass of spoiled and rotten milk.
At this moment, Merry's heart was lost beyond measure.
The sudden death of her mother, her father who has greatly changed his temperament, Dao who was by her side day and night but whom she knew nothing about, and this impromptu team...
It seemed that everything around her had become distant and blurred, without a touching presence.
No one in this world share the same happiness and sorrow. This is an old saying that Merry has read in a book, and only at this moment did she realize the true meaning of this saying.
"What was that you said about having some information about Dao?" Merry asked Jason.
"What do you know about Dao?" Jason asked rhetorically.
"I've told you everything I know." Merry replied.
"No, I mean, what do you know about how Dao currently is in the eyes of the outside world?" Jason looked at Merry with a serious expression, "or rather, how much do you know about the value of Dao?"
Merry felt a bit uncomfortable when she heard Jason ask so, "I only know that several laboratories in Avalon want to spend money to buy Dao, saying that... they suspect that Dao is an alien creature and want to do related research..."
"More than that, it's not just those few labs that want to compete for Dao, or rather, those labs are just a minuscule fraction of them." Bob, who had been silent since just now, said.
Merry looked at Dao, who was asleep, she had mixed feelings in her heart. In the past two days, she was busy planning to leave Avalon, busy reading the information given by Robo, and hardly cared about him. Dao, who had always loved to play tricks and make fools of others, probably felt that Merry's current situation was all due to him, so he became very quiet and well-behaved, which made people feel uneasy.
"Others also want to compete for Dao?" asked Merry.
"Yes. In addition to the major labs in Avalon that your father approached, there are people in the military, the black market, the consortium... The news about Dao is not only widely known in Avalon, major cities of the Western World are all excited, even the Thousand-Island Sea and the Far North forces are expected to have known the existence of Dao, not to mention the Eastern World. "
"Consortium? They are also involved in it?"
In Merry's impression, the consortium was a mysterious existence, rarely involved in the various disputes in the major cities. In all the previous wars, including the war for the Thousand-Island Sea, they rarely appeared directly. However, the practice of the major consortia making profits through war and using capital to influence the situation on the battlefield has also always been frowned upon. She had only heard these rumors that they were very wealthy and ran by very ruthless means, sounding like a vault full of metal gears.
There existed one of the largest mysterious consortium in the Eastern and Western Continents, and for each of the ten main cities in the Eastern and Western Continents, there was also a consortium in support, with varied composition, for example, the consortium of a main city in the West was controlled by the religious forces formed during the Great Exodus. As for whether there were interests involved between the consortia, it remained unknown.
"Yes." Bob said, "this time, they're sending people straight out and chasing Dao around, too."
"More than that, I also noticed a strange thing." Master Wu, who had been on the side, also spoke up, "after you arrived at the slum, you have logged into the Loft, and the lab was installed a tight signal shielding system, by definition, before you arrived at the lab, definitely someone would be able to locate you through the black tech, but actually no one has followed you there, that's why I have always found it a little strange. "
" I didn't notice until you said that, there are quite a few people in the slum who know me. It is actually very easy to find us, just find a guy on the street to bribe, clues can be found, it is impossible to give us two days for preparation." Jason said, "it's like someone is secretly helping us."
"So it seems that the situation is a lot more complicated than we thought, everyone should be mentally prepared." Merry said seriously.
"Oh, there is no need to be so melancholy. With me Jason in the team, what can the little consortium do to me?" Jason slapped both hands on the table and loudly proclaimed in a serious manner. Everyone took a breath in unison and had a speechless expression on their faces.
Seeing that something was not right, Jason scratched his head and hurriedly said, "I mean, with everyone, with our leader Merry, with a team strong like us, what can a little consortium do to us?"
In everyone's icy gaze, there added a little bit disgust.
"Jason, don't be kidding." Bob in a serious political look, persuaded patiently and seriously.
"Stupid you, I was just joking to ease the atmosphere!" Jason clenched his teeth and said indignantly with disappointment.
"Oh, okay!" Bob nodded clumsily, looking like there was a light broke in upon him.
Rather, Bob's clumsy look made Merry and Cici almost laugh out loud.
The Newton sailed out of Avalon.
Cici has been sitting at the very end of the airship since a while ago, listening to Merry's conversation from afar. Looking out from the aft cabin of the Newton, Avalon looked like a huge deep-sea monster fish wrapped in a thick fog, emitting a faint blue fluorescence.
Suddenly, a white dot lit up in the thick fog that wrapped around Avalon. It was like the strange fish that was about to die, extending a thin but highly poisonous tentacle when it was on the verge of death.
"Merry, come and see, what is that?" Cici hurriedly asked Merry to see, Mimi aside also looked nervous.
Cici moved out of the way with Mimi in her arms, and Merry and Jason came close to the window to look out.
"An airship!" Jason said, raising his voice.
The airship suddenly sounded an alarm and Robo informed them from the radio, "there is an airship approaching fast, no information about it has been detected yet."
The atmosphere in the airship was once again tense.
The airship in the distance, already gradually approaching, poked its head out of the fog, and its huge size could be felt from afar. It was like a giant beast hiding in the shadows, sniffing the scent of prey and coming after it.
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