Chapter 1854: Chapter 1852: The Mysterious Land (Big Plate Chicken Really Is Delicious)
Early the next morning, Fang Zheng appeared refreshed before everyone, but Kuroko Shirai, beside Misaka Mikoto, was yawning continuously.
"Kuroko, what’s wrong? Didn’t you sleep last night?"
"Sister Dear? No, it’s nothing, just lost track of time reading a book..."
Saying this, Kuroko secretly glared at Fang Zheng, then quickly averted her gaze. To be honest, Kuroko didn’t quite like Fang Zheng even now, but her mind thought so, yet her body didn’t agree!
Even feeling Fang Zheng’s gaze, Kuroko could feel her body starting to heat up, clear sweet spring water slowly surged out, her whole being had already eagerly prepared. And being directly hugged by Fang Zheng, Kuroko would feel as if all her strength disappeared, eagerly awaiting... oh, better not think about it.
She slapped her face hard enough to finally draw her focus back.
After Alisa’s unexpected incident, the group continued to move forward. Although Fang Zheng had attempted to track down the Wild God that drove Alisa mad during the journey, the creature obviously ran fast, at least not within their route range. Alisa seemed relieved by this outcome; evidently, though she barely recovered normalcy, she wasn’t confident to face the Wild God in another showdown.
Though Fang Zheng could use Ratziel to find that Wild God, he certainly wouldn’t do so. Just like the progression in animations, the protagonist suffers a setback in the third episode and needs to go till the tenth episode for recovery, then finally defeats the BOSS in the twelfth episode for a grand finale.
You get knocked down in the third and go seeking the BOSS for revenge in the fourth?
The audience wouldn’t approve.
Now that Alisa wasn’t clamoring to desperately hunt the Wild God, naturally Fang Zheng and the others tacitly wouldn’t bring it up again—but soon enough, another matter seized their attention.
"Wow, look over there!!"
Having spent a day sailing on the Void Glorious Ship, just when the sun was about to set in the afternoon, Saten Reiko, initially sightseeing from the window, suddenly raised her hand excitedly and shouted toward the distance, whereas hearing Saten Reiko’s cries, others curiously gathered around, and upon seeing the situation outside, everyone was simultaneously shocked!
In the northeastern direction outside the window, a swath of verdant green color quietly emerged before everyone’s eyes, through the dusk light, everyone could clearly see the emerald green lawn on the ground, and the woods at the foot of the distant hill, casting their gaze afar, they could even glimpse the flowing stream in the distance.
Under normal circumstances, this would merely be an ordinary nature landscape, but not now—not in a post-apocalyptic world, where the entire globe was already polluted! All the animals basically died off, trees and flowering plants long wilted, even surface water sources dried up, leaving only scant underground water fit for drinking!
In this context, this scene seemed quite bizarre!
"Something’s wrong..."
Looking at the scene before him, Fang Zheng immediately frowned, as a Deity, he could sense, this place was very wrong!
It’s not just looking strange, as a Deity, Fang Zheng could feel that the "Domain" order of this place was entirely different from elsewhere! Exactly, like some DLC instance of a sandbox game with a bug, causing a conflict between the instance itself and the main game suddenly!
"Mr. Fang Zheng, let’s quickly go over and take a look!"
At this moment, Saten Reiko was also impatiently reaching out her hand toward that area, having grown weary of the desolate deserts and barren wastelands ever since arriving in this world, such that seeing verdant mountains and waters at last, she was eager to head over!
"No problem."
Hearing Reiko’s request, Fang Zheng swiftly controlled the Void Glorious Ship to alter its course, advancing toward that strip of green.
However, what everyone couldn’t anticipate was that just as the Void Glorious Ship entered the green region, suddenly a violent shaking ensued, followed immediately by the abrupt jumping of outside visuals, whether the blue skies or white clouds or the lawn and woods on the ground, at this moment they all started crazily tearing and jumping like a disturbed TV signal.
Furthermore, simultaneously, the Void Glorious Ship rapidly lost power, plummeting toward the ground!
"Whoa———!"
Reiko clung to the nearby Lei, shut her eyes, and screamed, the next moment she merely felt a chill on her body, followed by her feet landing softly on the grass turf. Meanwhile, a tremendous explosion sound frightened Reiko.
She opened her eyes to find everyone else somehow already on the grass; as for who rescued them from the falling Void Glorious Ship... a glance at Kuroko Shirai throwing her hands nearby gave it away.
"Damn, my warship, ah ah ah ah ah!!"
Looking at the crashed Void Glorious Ship nearby, Fang Zheng was teary-eyed, cursing whatever sin brought upon himself... this warship had barely functioned for two days...
"Ah, um... Mr. Fang Zheng... I’m sorry..."
At this moment, Saten also walked over with her head down, obviously thinking that if she hadn’t brought Fang Zheng over, the Void Glorious Ship wouldn’t have crashed...
"It’s okay, it’s not your fault, it’s this place that’s strange."
Fang Zheng sighed helplessly. Perhaps others were still puzzled about how the warship, which had been flying perfectly, suddenly fell, but Fang Zheng knew what was going on.
The information exchange failed.
Of course, from a scientific perspective, the energy system of any vehicle is different, and the Star Spirit’s is no exception. However, generally speaking, regardless of what your power system is, the resulting manifestation is constant. Magnetic levitation, anti-gravity, supersonic, light speed propulsion, time warp, ultimately all manifest as movement.
And in the words of the Order Clan, this is actually a type of information exchange. When a Star Spirit warship is flying in the sky, it can be viewed as spiritual energy propulsion or as "the Star Spirit warship’s propulsion system generating sufficient propulsion data requiring information alteration."
It’s like vehicles in video games; even if set up with advanced technology to fly, it ultimately is shown through data.
But here, just earlier, Fang Zheng sensed the information exchange between the Void Glorious Ship and the external environment was cut off, which is why the Void Glorious Ship crashed.
It’s like using a radiation mod in Elder Scroll, and the game immediately reports an error and crashes.
And the mod itself... naturally, would directly invalidate.
In fact, even now, the crashed Void Glorious Ship isn’t oozing flames, but rather something like mosaic and mold fragments—because this world simply doesn’t have such information data and textures!
"Sigh..."
Fang Zheng made a gesture, collecting the Void Glorious Ship, and then looked again at the world before him. Earlier, he felt something was wrong here, and now it seems this place is clearly more than just wrong.
"What do we do now?"
At this moment, the others also reacted, staring at each other bewildered. They had always used the Void Glorious Ship for travel in this world. Although the scenery was lacking, everything else was fine. But now...
"No choice, this place clearly doesn’t allow the use of those outrageous things."
Fang Zheng opened his items inventory to look, but couldn’t find anything good. He’s sure now that tools from other worlds probably aren’t working, and maybe only vehicles compatible with this world’s principles can be used. But currently, all the random stuff he has are either advanced tech or magic, and he couldn’t find anything that isn’t advanced...
After searching his inventory for a long time without finding anything, Fang Zheng finally, in resignation, opened the system shop and redeemed the only thing he could activate...
"Is this... a tank?"
Misaka Mikoto, Kuroko Shirai, and Saten Reiko widened their eyes in surprise at the huge object before them, while Lei, Alisa, and Feli curiously circled around the steel monster, trying to figure out what exactly it was. It looked kind of like a stray bus, but why did it have an iron pipe attached at the front?
"Are we going to ride this?"
"The Maus super-heavy tank, it’s the only thing that can start right now. Unless you all want to walk, we’re going to have to ride this."
"That’s fine, but who’s going to drive it?"
"Me, I guess, it should be simpler than driving a car."
In fact, in the store exchange menu, besides these tanks, there were also crew members available for exchange. But what use are they to Fang Zheng? A bunch of girls who look only fifteen or sixteen, and their profile only mentions they can drive tanks... It’d be okay to drive this ghostly tank for a short while, but I can’t drive it forever!
Moreover, according to the information, these tanks are World War II relics. Fang Zheng is now engaged in at least cosmic-level warfare, so what use is an old World War II relic? Once in a while, exchanging one for fun is fine, but exchanging for a crew as well, what sense does it make? If there were really a battle, not to mention a Thunder Beast, even a Hydralisk would probably flip this hunk of iron over.
Besides, Fang Zheng chose to redeem a Maus among the tanks because it was just enough to accommodate everyone. If he redeemed a crew too, where would they fit themselves?
They certainly couldn’t hang on the turret.
Thinking of this, Fang Zheng helplessly patted the tank.
"Alright, get on. Earlier, we saw a small village not far from here. Hopefully, there are people living there who can offer us some convenience."
