Chapter 1352： Lost contact

Cecil City, a series of information from the commanders of the Expeditionary Forces on various fronts was sent to Amber in the first place, and was sent to Gawain after sorting it out.

"...It can now be determined that the abnormal discharge phenomenon in the atmosphere and the large-scale'aurora' occur irregularly throughout the continent," Amber stood by Gawain's desk, and the sun shone on her face from the side. , Those amber eyes carried a rare serious and serious color today, "The distribution is random, and the time of occurrence is also random, but they are all concentrated in the past twelve hours. The first to find the abnormal celestial phenomenon is the Ogure tribe. After the garrison in the Red Jade City, abnormal aurora and electric discharge appeared in the northern border of the Empire, the Principality of the Holy Dragon, Typhon, the Gaoling Kingdom, and even Tarrond, which is far across the ocean..."

Gao Wen frowned, flipping through the documents in his hand quickly and asked: "What do scholars think about this?"

"The Magic Research Institute believes that this is a large-scale magical'resonance' phenomenon. The powerful magic field suddenly entered the atmosphere and reacted fiercely with the high-altitude clouds and magnetic field." Amber carried the conclusions of the experts with a single glance— Although she basically has few words to understand, "Considering the randomness of the occurrence of the vision and the delay in time, they believe that there should be more than one source of magic power that triggers resonance, but the source of magic power distributed everywhere. Leakage and resonance occurred successively.

"In addition, considering the scale of the anomaly, especially considering that even the anomalous phenomena were observed in the sky above Tallund, they think this is definitely a planetary incident..."

"...The planetary star incident may be behind the planetary magical circulation system," Gao Wen raised his eyes and looked at Amber with a very serious expression. "It seems that the sentry can't sit still anymore, it is activating ahead of time. The layout in the Deep Blue Network, this may only be a test-but it won’t be easy to say next time."

"The northern and eastern lines are speeding up the construction progress of the'blocking wall'. At present, the Aberrant Corps seems to have not reacted. The Silver and Gaoling coalition forces on the southern line have also taken a firm foothold near the remains of the Temple of Stars. They will Activate the first purification device today," Amber said quickly, "On the Western Front, Duke Baldwin has readjusted his deployment, and a large number of reinforcements sent from the hinterland of Ogure and from the direction of the Dwarf Kingdom are currently being arranged. In the scorched mountain area, the main ground force of the Imperial Expeditionary Army and part of the Gorgon Fortress have begun to move in the direction of the wasteland ahead of time. This should cause enough pressure on the deformed body on the Western Front... Then, they will also start the first phase. Blocking the wall project."

"...In the current situation, what we can do is to grab time. No matter how many conspiracies are behind the sentinel, we must take down the frontal battlefield," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, before asking again, "Current domestic order and public opinion guide this. On the other hand, you must pay more attention. As the war continues, the pressure on the people caused by the long-term maintenance of the wartime system may trigger emotional transformation. Even if we maintain the normal production and life of the people, the shadow of the war will be practically looming. Above everyone's head—you understand this aspect better than everyone else."

"Don't worry, I've never slackened on this piece," Amber said, nodding his head immediately. "In addition to regular propaganda and guidance and maintaining stability, Film is also preparing to shoot a batch to defend the civilized border. I have already started to follow up on the magical drama with the theme of regaining the homeland of Gondor. I think the effect should be very good."

"Well... I know this project is very good," Gao Wen nodded, "It can be connected to a series of official propaganda work that we started at the beginning of the war, and..."

Halfway through what he said, a rapid buzzing sound suddenly came from the magic net terminal on the desktop next to him, interrupting the conversation between him and Kohaku. The two in the study subconsciously glanced at each other. , And then Gao Wen raised his hand to activate the ringing terminal. With a flash of light above the focusing crystal, Heidi's holographic projection clearly appeared in front of him-there was undisguised tension and solemnity on his face.

Herty is a steady person. Although she has the wonderful act of drawing dark circles on herself, she rarely exhibits this kind of performance, so Gawain immediately realized that a major event had happened: "What is the situation? What is your expression?"

"Ancestor, the communication between us and the Imperial Navy led by Byron has been interrupted," Heti said quickly, and Gawain was taken aback when she spoke, "All channel calls are unresponsive!"

"What did you say!?" Gao Wen's eyes widened, "Byron lost contact? An entire fleet? All gone?!"

"Yes, one hour before the last contact, Bitter Winter sent a message using the enhanced channel, stating that they had encountered an abnormal storm, and the communication might be disrupted, and then the communication was completely interrupted," Heidi immediately began to report that she had just received a message. For the detailed information, "The location at that time was near the southwestern coast of the mainland, near the entrance of the Holy River Aldo, but the monitoring device on the nearby shore showed that the entire fleet was moving away from the land..."

"Away from land?" Gao Wen frowned, "And there was a storm in the offshore area...Have you tried the temporary air communication network? When and where was the last sighting from land?"

"All communication channels have been tried, including the west coast communication chain set up by the Imperial Fleet along the coastline, the air communication chain just established, and several Monet communication lines that have just been restored in the Ogure tribe. It can be confirmed that it is not a mainland communication channel. The problem; the last sighting report was this morning when an engineering ship of the Imperial Fleet rushed to repair the Alliance communication station on the local coastline at the northern part of the Aldo Seaport. After that, no one saw those warships approaching the land or entering Holy River."

Gawain was lost in thought, while Heidi couldn’t help but with a worried look: "Ancestor, will Byron..."

"Don’t be so pessimistic, Bitter Winter and the main fleet it leads are the latest magic warships, with powerful armor and a shield system designed to deal with sea disasters, and there are also the waves of the sea monsters and the children of the storm. The text technology, several previous tests have confirmed that those warships can be safe even if they encounter the disorderly turbulence in the far sea-from the information you just mentioned, they moved away from the land during the last communication, more like It’s yaw in the disorderly turbulence...” Gawain frowned and thought while slowly saying, “Considering the special nature of disorderly turbulence, once you encounter something, whether it’s in the offshore or in the far sea, even the magic warship will It will inevitably deviate from course, but..."

He paused and his expression became more serious: "It's just that there are Kraken and Naga in Byron's fleet as navigators. Even if there is a problem with the ship’s navigation equipment, those navigators will not lose their course. Correct…"

As soon as he finished speaking, Amber next to him showed a thoughtful expression: "It's not necessarily true. You see, we still live here because when we went home, we had a sea monster who got lost on the land because it swam backwards... "

"In theory, it shouldn't be," Gawain said seriously, "I asked Tyre before, and she said that the whole Antavien was the only one who lost fish like her..."

Then he shook his head, temporarily left behind the sea caterpillar that was arching in his head, and looked up at Hetty in the communication interface: "Continue to maintain the calls to the imperial fleet from all channels; to the Dwarf Kingdom and The Silver Empire sent a letter asking them to help monitor the situation on the west coast and the western coastal areas, especially to pay close attention to all floating objects on the sea; notify the Earthly Dawn, and let Gina Prince send an air reconnaissance force to the west coast to assist in the search …"

Speaking of this, he paused, seeming to be thinking and hesitating something, and finally looked at Amber: "Go and call Tyre over-if you fall asleep, drag it over."

"Good!" Amber immediately agreed, and in the next second, black smoke disappeared in front of Gao Wen, and Heidi on the communication interface next to Gao Wen bowed slightly and said calmly: "Then I will go first. Schedule calls and searches."

"Go." Gawain nodded and waved his hand. After Hedy's figure disappeared on the communication interface, he spit out slightly. He calmed down the unavoidable trace of anxiety in his heart. He leaned back on the back of the chair slightly to let himself. Enter a state of mental concentration and "uplifting". As the familiar feeling of soul peeling and the perception of continuous improvement came along, his thinking quickly detached from the shackles of the current body, and within a short period of time, he successfully connected to the satellite monitoring system in space.

The old and blurry satellite surveillance lens began to zoom and adjust. In Gawain’s mind, a bird’s-eye view of the Loren continent gradually emerged from the darkness. He focused his “sight” as much as possible within the limits of the satellite lens. To the southwest of the Loren continent.

The entrance of the holy river "Aldo" finally came into his sight, along with a small area of ​​the surrounding sea. In theory, he should be able to see the fleet that is not too small—even the old satellites. It's not very useful anymore, but the ship led by Byron is not a small sampan. In the relatively clear ocean background, Bitter Winter and the main battleships it leads should be clearly distinguishable.

Especially the weather conditions in the southwestern part of the mainland are not bad at the moment. The storm that passed by the offshore area seems to have ended, and the view from the satellite's bird's eye view is still good.

However, Gawain did not see anything—theoretically, the Imperial fleet that should sail in the southwestern part of the mainland, about to enter the Holy River Aldo and go to support the southern battlefield, disappeared, and there was no trace even in the nearby waters. .

"...Even if it deviates from the course, it is impossible to run out of sight in such a short time...Even if you fly, you can't fly so fast." Gao Wen couldn't help muttering in his heart, and constantly switched while controlling the satellite perspective to search in the offshore area. With various sensory views, he didn't withdraw from the satellite connection until he suddenly sensed that there was a breath in the real world approaching, and brought his main consciousness back to reality.

Gawain opened his eyes and saw that the door of the study was pushed open from the outside, and then the first thing that caught his eye was a ball of big snakes-Tyre was wrapping himself perfectly with his tail. He fell asleep soundly inside the ball, with only his head and shoulders exposed, and there was no sign of waking up when he was pushed all the way through the door.

After the snake ball stopped, Amber's figure came out from behind. The shame of the league wiped the non-existent sweat on his forehead, panting and reporting to Gao Wen: "I'm exhausted...I want to take her I dragged it here, but she got a ball, I had to push her all the way from the room to here—you find a way to wake her up, I went and rested..."

The voice fell, the half-elf had braved the black smoke and rushed to the rest sofa nearby. He was paralyzed and motionless, leaving only Gawain staring at this scene dumbfounded, not knowing how to speak for a while.

Fortunately, this situation is not the first time that this happened. Gawain is quite familiar with it. He quickly reacted, and then opened the side drawer with his hand, and took out a bottle labeled "Very Toxic, Dangerous, Don't Open" from it. Brown-black liquid, unscrewed the lid and walked over and put the mouth of the bottle close to Tyre's nose: "Wake up, I will pour it down if you don't wake up again."

Tyre sniffed her nose in her sleep. After a short two-second delay, the sea caterpillar woke up with a sound of "ah", and the whole snake ball instantly shrank and bounced, and then she began to untie herself hurriedly. While looking at Gawain with a ugly expression, "Is there anyone like you! You can't think of a way to wake people up? Ms. Egg's aging can also be taken out casually-you can't pour me some boiling water?"

"When boiling water is useful, I don't want to put a bottle of this thing in the study," Gawain said casually as he screwed the lid of the brown-black liquid that had started to emit purple smoke again, "I have something to do with you. You need to contact your compatriots."

"Contact your compatriots?" Tyre blinked, as if he had just regained consciousness, "Didn't you have tried many times before? The entire continent of Loren was shielded by the energy field, and the psychic singing and racial resonance between our Krakens There is no way to penetrate this barrier. Is it possible that you have already broken the barrier?"

"It's not for you to contact Antavien, but for the pilot lady next to Cassandra-Byron," Gawain explained, "Try to see if you can sense her position."

"Kassandra? Byron's fleet?" Tyre was taken aback for a moment, and then he reacted, "Is something wrong? You can't contact the fleet?"

"Byron's fleet is missing, communication is interrupted, and no trace can be found near the sea. The last location shows that they are moving away from the mainland," Gawain did not hide. "Now we can only hope for the racial induction between your sea monsters, although The connection between Loren Continent and Antavien has been interrupted, but within the Interference Zone, you can always sense Cassandra and the others, right?"

"This...well, let me try," Tyre nodded, "As long as they are not too far away from the mainland, I can sense them in the offshore area or even part of the ocean."

After speaking, the sea-monster closed her eyes-but this time she did not want to sleep in, but began to hum softly with a low and gentle voice, singing songs that humans can’t understand, sweet and difficult for humans. The sound started to reverberate in the study, and in the melody of this ballad, more "shocks" beyond the perception of most races spread out from this space, drifting into the distance on invisible ripples...

When contacting Antavien, Tyre needed to use a device like the Magic Net Pivot Tower to amplify his "singing voice". That was because the middle distance was too far, and he had to cross the ocean full of strong interference, but this time The target she wanted to contact was not that far away, so she didn't resort to additional assistance.

Gawain waited patiently, until Tyre's voice gradually entered a frequency that was completely inaudible to human ears. It was not until a long time passed before the Miss Sea-Monster slowly opened her eyes.

...Seriously, Gawain is a little suspect that this guy slept again, but he has no evidence.

"How's it going?" Gawain asked as soon as Tyre opened his eyes.

"...I can't hear Cassandra's response," Tyre blinked, with a misunderstanding on his face, "She is no longer in Loren, not even near the mainland of Loren..."