People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

"I'll go to Academy City and rely on you for free food and drinks!"

The third cargo hold rushed into the blizzard, crossed a distance of more than one hundred kilometers, and landed in front of Joseph.

The shrill beeping sound made Joseph frown.

What is this thing that fell from the sky?

ding dong~

At this moment, his bracelet suddenly made a message alert sound and vibrated. He was alerted and raised his wrist reluctantly. He saw a prompt message on the screen - the airdrop cargo hold has landed in the nearby area. Please follow the beeping sound to the cargo hold to collect survival supplies!

He looked at the cylinder not far away and struggled to crawl over. When he approached within a certain range of the cylindrical object, the buzzing sound suddenly stopped, and heat enough to dispel the cold was released with it as the center. Then, a mechanical female voice without any emotion came out from it.

"Target survivor detected, UID: 335942695, target confirmed, cargo hold open, survivors please take the survival supplies in the cargo hold as soon as possible."

"Rescue is on the way, estimated arrival time is one hour and forty minutes, please hold on."

Joseph was stunned. Before he could react, the hatch in the middle of the cargo hold opened automatically, revealing ten heat-releasing bottles and a thick, self-heating blanket.

The heat from the cargo hold gradually dispelled the chill from his body, and the mechanical female voice gave him hope of living again. So he moved his body with difficulty, came to the cargo hold, and put the blanket on himself.

He was reluctant to use the heat bottle. The heat in the cargo hold and the cold-proof blanket were enough to keep him going for the next hour and forty minutes.

"I can survive... I can survive..." He murmured excitedly, but quickly controlled his emotions.

He is also an experienced adventurer and knows that when in distress in a low temperature environment, if the body is very weak, one should try to avoid drastic emotional fluctuations, because this will speed up the heartbeat, change the blood flow rate, put a greater burden on the body, and easily lead to danger.

The wait was tormenting, because the sight of the snow flying all over the sky and the sound of the wind blowing in his ears seemed to have never changed. He could only feel that the temperature on the snowy mountain was getting lower and lower. Even with the constant heat provided by the cold quilt and the cargo hold, he could feel the cold invading his skin.

He had to use an exothermic bottle to keep the temperature up.

It seemed like a long time had passed, but it also seemed like only a moment had passed. In a trance, he saw several people riding flying skateboards through the wind and snow coming to him. There seemed to be an invisible spherical cover around them, and the blizzard could not get close to them at all.

The scout knight with long brown hair jumped off the skateboard, came to him, and asked anxiously: "Sir, are you feeling okay? Are you alone here?"

Seeing someone he could trust, Joseph's strength suddenly disappeared, and tears flowed from his eyes: "I'm the only one... Thank you... for saving me..."

After saying this, he immediately fell into a coma.

Amber was startled and immediately used the bracelet to scan his vital signs. She was relieved to find out that he was just unconscious due to exhaustion and had someone take him back to the Mingguan transport truck parked 400 meters away on a stretcher.

Of course, the cargo hold launched by the cargo catapult was also recovered.

They had rescued four people in distress before, and knew that it had suddenly fallen from the sky, bringing vital survival supplies to the people in distress!

Then this is obviously the masterpiece of Shen Qin and Albedo. Only their brains can think of such an unexpected way of delivering supplies.

Bang!

After closing the heavy car door, the severe cold was instantly blocked outside the cockpit, and the temperature inside the car remained at around 23 degrees, making it the only place in the snow-capped mountains that could maintain warmth for a long time.

"Let's go! Go to the location where the last adventure group is trapped!" Amber gave the order with full energy.

The driver stepped on the accelerator, and the Mingguan was driving on the snowy ground, where the road conditions were not very good, as if it were flat ground.

"The Mingguan is amazing. We were worried about how to go into the snowy mountains for search and rescue, but we didn't expect it to ignore the blizzard and the thick snow on the ground. Moreover, it can still work normally even with such a low temperature outside!"

"I remember when I was learning to drive, my instructor told me that it is suitable for working environments ranging from -100 degrees to 80 degrees Celsius. It can work normally within this temperature range."

“How cold is it outside right now?”

The driver glanced at the in-car screen and said, "Minus eighty-three degrees!"

"Fuck! It's so low? If someone stayed outside for more than ten minutes, they would freeze to death!"

"Thank goodness Master Shen Qin delivered heat bottles and cold blankets to those in distress, otherwise they wouldn't have survived until we could rescue them."

An adventurer sighed: "This time our Adventurer Association owes him a huge favor!"

A knight laughed and agreed: "So do our Knights."

Their mood also relaxed at this moment. As long as they rescued the last adventure group, the rescue mission would be successfully completed.

As for other people in distress in the snow-capped mountains who are not wearing terminal bracelets, they can only send these survivors out of the snow-capped mountains and then go back into the mountains to conduct a needle-in-a-haystack search and rescue operation.

However, those in distress have no survival supplies, and even if they are found by the rescue team, the chance of survival is infinitely close to zero.

Chapter 163: Buried Civilization

While the three rescue teams were carrying out the rescue operation in an orderly manner, Shen Qin, Albedo, Venti, Jean, and Serius were gathering together to discuss how to deal with the changes in the snow mountain.

The disorder of the earth veins is the direct cause of the blizzard. This is the view put forward by Venti, and Albedo also agrees, but no one has much idea as to why the earth veins suddenly became disordered.

"Could it be that something went wrong with the Honeysuckle Tree? Or is it related to the Frost Sky Nail?"

Shen Qin provides ideas for everyone based on the plot in the game.

"The honeysuckle tree has been dead for more than three thousand years." Albedo shook his head. His face was a little pale. He had consumed a lot of his energy by rubbing the cargo catapult. "Even if it revives, it will bring warmth to the snowy mountains, not a blizzard."

Albedo's words surprised Shen Qin a little, because it was somewhat different from the game plot he knew.

In the game, after the poison dragon Durin died, the roots of the Honeysuckle Tree absorbed the poisonous blood flowing in the snow-capped mountains and the earth. The tree revived due to the powerful vitality in the blood, and truly revived after the twins lifted the seal of the ancient ice.

Albedo has a laboratory in the snowy mountains, so it is impossible for him not to conduct research on the honeysuckle tree. If the plot of the game is correct, why didn't he notice the revival of the honeysuckle tree?

"One of the functions of the Frost Sky Nail is to maintain the stability of the earth veins. If something goes wrong with it, it may indeed cause abnormalities in the earth veins."

As Wendy said this, he collapsed on the table like a puddle of wind slime. After firing twenty-eight cargo holds in a row, his body had been drained of energy.

"The Frost Nail... is it the cause of Shar Findnir's destruction? I have seen related records on some stone tablets in the snowy mountains - wind and snow all over the sky. The Pillar of Heaven broke into three parts..." Albedo looked at Venti, as if asking him for confirmation.

Wendy said weakly: "Don't look at me, I don't know these details either...When Shar Findnir was destroyed, Mondstadt was still under the rule of the demon god Dekalapian (the ruler of old Mondstadt and the lonely king of the tower)."

Qin and Serius listened to the three people talking about something they knew nothing about.

They had heard of Shar Findenir, a lost kingdom built on the snow-capped mountains three thousand years ago, but they were completely unfamiliar with the Honeysuckle Tree and the Frost Nail.

Finally, Serius couldn't help it and asked the three people in confusion: "What are the honeysuckle tree and the winter nail?"

"Cough cough!" Shen Qin coughed lightly, attracting everyone's attention, and then he spoke slowly.

"Let's be honest. Those who understand this matter will understand it. Those who don't understand won't understand it even if I tell them, so it's better not to talk about it. Don't ask me. There are many complicated things going on here. It won't do you any good if you know about it. Just pretend you don't know. There are many important people involved in this matter that cannot be mentioned. Anyway, the specific information has been destroyed, and those who knew about this matter have been dealt with. So I can only say that those who understand will understand it, and I can't do anything about those who don't understand it."

Shen Qin spoke in a deep voice, the shadow of his bangs cast on his face, covering his eyes and making it impossible to see his expression.

Wendy: "..."

Albedo: “…”

Serius said seriously, "So what are you talking about?"

Qin chose her words carefully: "What he meant by this sentence may be - he doesn't know either!"

Albedo laughed dumbly: "Well, Wendy and I will share all the information we know about the snow mountain, and we will sort it out together to see if there is any useful information."

Albedo and Venti began to share the known information, and even Jean and Serius could say a word or two, but Shen Qin felt very uncomfortable standing aside.

Because he knew all the information they shared, and he could even piece together the fragments into a coherent story, but he couldn't tell them the information directly.

He can be a riddle teller, but he cannot be a know-it-all.

Just like the player with the Sky Eye in the script-killing game, he knows the secrets of the characters played by all the players and also knows who the real murderer is, but once he directly exposes these things, it will arouse public anger and be beaten by other players.

Shen Qin will not be beaten up by a group of people, but justice will come to him.

What? Are you an advent? Or are you from a higher dimension? Is Teyvat just a game in your world?

This child cannot be kept!

Therefore, he just gave a few "hints" during the discussion, and the ancient history that had been buried in the dust was presented to everyone in an incomplete manner.

More than three thousand years ago, when the tower king Diecarapian and wolf king Andrius were still fighting, the whole of Mond was covered with white snow. To avoid the wind and snow and stay away from disputes, a group of humans migrated to the south of Mond, and eventually came to the snow-capped mountains - at that time, the snow-capped mountains were as warm as spring, full of vitality, and not harmed by wind, snow and cold.

The silver-white tree is connected to the veins deep in the earth, continuously providing the snow-capped mountains with power to resist wind and snow.

This group of people settled in the snow-capped mountains and established a verdant country called Shar Findnir.

Messengers from the gods came from heaven, bringing them knowledge and wisdom. They also followed the footsteps of the gods and built their country more and more prosperous.

But one day, the Frost Nail fell from the sky, and its enormous energy destroyed the veins of the snow-capped mountains and shattered the silver tree that shielded Shar Findnir from the wind and snow.

The ice and snow carried by the Frost Nail covered the entire country. The priest Faruxi went up to the sacrificial site to pray to his god, but received no response from the god and was buried in the sacrificial site.

The daughter of the priest, the princess of Shar Findnir, asked the foreign warrior Imon Rokar to go to the "Land of Snow and the Deep" to seek a way to help Shar Findnir survive the disaster.

At the same time, she did not give up and found the most complete branches of the Silver Tree in the ruins. She wanted to revive the Silver Tree through grafting and repair the fragmented veins of the snow-capped mountains.

But the grafting failed, the branches of the silver tree died, and the princess was frozen to death by the severe cold not long after.

The people of Shar Findenir did not wait for Imon Rokar's return. They died in the ice and snow with resentment towards the sky and contempt for Imon Rokar, the defector.

When Imon Loka returned empty-handed, Shar Findnir no longer existed. All that remained in the snow-capped mountains were the wind and snow and the cold ruins of the city.

"You in heaven just want to see the tragic scene of the suffering of all living beings. In that case, I will entertain you with the song of steel and blood."

He left the snowy mountains and went to Old Mondstadt, the center of Mondstadt's strife, and established the Imon Rokar family.

Two thousand six hundred years ago, the two major families of Imon Rokar, Lawrence and Gunnhildr, led by six warriors and a wind elf, overthrew the rule of the lonely king of the tower and opened the chapter of New Mond.

Chapter 164: Time waits for no one!

After reviewing this history with everyone, Shen Qin's scalp suddenly went numb and cold sweats broke out all over his body.

Because he suddenly had a bold idea - the gods high in the sky seemed to use Shar'l Findnir as an experimental field for human civilization.

He imparted wisdom and knowledge to Shar Findnir and promoted the progress of civilization, but when they came into contact with forbidden power, he mercilessly threw down the Frost Nail and completely destroyed the civilization.

What are they experimenting with?

Or there is another possibility. The god who has been in contact with Shar Findnir is not the god who dropped the Frost Nail to destroy them. Their gods disappeared in the War of Demons and Gods long ago.

So what caused the disputes among the gods? Why did their struggle involve ordinary human kingdoms?

Or is it that the gods' target of destruction is only the Silver Tree, which has undergone some kind of change (perhaps contaminated by forbidden knowledge/power), and the people of Shar Findnir are just insignificant insects in their eyes?

Shen Qin had too many doubts in his mind. He was afraid that his system was also arranged by a certain god, and the route of technological development of Teyvat he took was similar to the development route of Shal Findnir and Kanreya.

In the snow-capped mountains, there are many machines sent from afar by Kanreya. The Kanreya people seem to want to gain experience and strength from Shar Findnir to fight against the gods.

Will I follow their old path and become an enemy of powerful gods?

Wendy blew away the snow and wind that covered the entire Mondstadt, leaving only the snow-capped mountains.

Is it powerlessness or fear?

Everyone was looking at Shen Qin worriedly at this time, and his expression changed several times in just one minute.

"Shen Qin, Shen Qin!" Albedo patted his shoulder and woke him up, "What's wrong with you?"

Shen Qin came back to his senses and forced a smile: "Nothing, just remembered some unhappy things in the past. Let's continue the topic of snow mountains."

Albedo looked at him deeply and said, "This is roughly the history of the Snow Mountain. The Silver Tree - what everyone now calls the Honeysuckle Tree - died three thousand years ago, so Shar Findnir could not withstand the erosion of the wind and snow."

"The extreme cold brought by the Frost Nail is also the key reason why the Snow Mountain remains covered with ice and snow all year round. But after it fell, it broke into three pieces for some unknown reason. These three pieces are located in the 'Snow-Covered Road', the 'Snow Burial City' and the 'Starlight Cave'. If we want to continue our in-depth investigation, we can start from these three places."

Serius stroked his chin and thought, "Speaking of which, there were adventurers in our association who saw strange ice in the snowy mountains before. Even fire could not melt it. Could it be that this was affected by the fragments of the Frost Nail?"

Unlike the other three who focused on the Honeysuckle Tree and the Frost Nail, Jyn felt the weakness of mankind through the destruction of Shal Findnir.

The gods in the sky can easily destroy a once prosperous human civilization by simply throwing down a Frost Nail. What if the gods turn their attention to Mondstadt?

Should they sit back and wait for death, or... rise up against the injustice of the gods?

If Shen Qin knew what she was thinking now, he would probably say: Captain Qin, your thoughts are very dangerous!

However, old Mondstadt had overthrown the rule of the gods by human power 2,600 years ago - that's okay, because Mondstadt, a free country, has a history of "rebellion"!

She looked at the now retired old man Wendy, only to see him wink at her mischievously, and immediately felt extremely relieved.

At least He will not betray and abandon the people of Mondstadt.

Even if he was an enemy of other gods, she believed that He would stand on Mond's side.

At this moment, the door of the temporary meeting room was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a knight came to report that the three rescue teams had returned, and everyone rushed over immediately.

Three tall Mingguan vehicles were parked side by side in an open space. Rescuers got off the vehicles, and medical staff from the church got on to treat the rescued survivors.

Now the temperature at the foot of the mountain has dropped by about ten degrees. It would be better to let the wounded stay in the cockpit where the temperature is suitable.

Among the medical staff, the tall medical-type Dabai was particularly conspicuous. For the first time, it showed its amazing medical skills in front of everyone, which attracted the admiration of all the medical staff.