For the girls, Fang Zheng's arrival helped them find a backbone, so they also hoped that Fang Zheng could help them.
"investigation?"
"Yes, Miss Eloi found a very important clue in another tribe before..."
According to Kakaguya Shayue, Eloi had traveled to the Far North before, where she met an isolated tribe. She also met their priest, and according to the priest, she had talked to the gods, who wanted her to help them regain their freedom...
"God?"
"Uh... Actually it's an AI. It seems that the AI has been taken away from control by something else, so I hope someone can help take it back."
"so what?"
"Because we don't understand this, but President, you are very familiar with this aspect, right? I still remember your invasion of the Holy Mother's Cord before."
As Imari said this, Toudou Qilin and Julie nodded. They all remembered that Fang Zheng had hacked into the main database of the Holy Mother's Rope right in front of them. Although they didn't understand what Fang Zheng was doing, the girls all agreed that Fang Zheng was much better than them in this regard... This was nonsense.
Originally they had no confidence, so they planned to investigate somewhere else first, and then see if there were any more clues. Now that Fang Zheng is here, then... just leave everything to Fang Zheng.
Girls can now just do things without using their brains like before.
Although Fang Zheng was speechless, he agreed to take over the matter. After all, Fang Zheng had no place to investigate the situation here. If there was really an AI left behind, the information obtained from it should be more reliable. So Fang Zheng controlled the airship to change direction and came to the location of the tribe mentioned by the girls.
Just as Toto Kirin and the others said, this tribe is located in a valley in an extremely cold place, isolated from the world. The people of this tribe are also quite tough. In fact, according to the girls, Eloy originally planned to go to the mountain alone to check the situation of the "god". But the leader of this tribe strictly forbade anyone to go up the mountain. So Eloy decided to go all out and challenge him - well, as long as she won, she would be the chief and could go up the mountain.
Simple, rough and straightforward.
The result was that they won the battle, but they didn't choose to go up the mountain immediately, because no one knew much about AI. So the girls also advised Eloy to find more clues before going... After all, they didn't understand this, what if they broke it?
Now that Fang is there, there is no need to look for other clues, so everyone fights back again.
Of course, when the tribe saw the airship falling from the sky, there was a burst of excitement, but fortunately, Eloy quickly dealt with the matter and then brought a few people to the foot of the mountain called Leigu Mountain.
"So how do we get in?"
Arriving at the foot of the frozen mountain, looking at the smooth cliff in front of him, Eloy frowned and looked at the man and woman behind him. They were the priests and former chiefs of the tribe, and also a pair of siblings. In fact, the reason why the elder chief banned the road to Thunder Drum Mountain was to prevent his sister from going to save the gods. According to him, they had taken the strongest warriors of the tribe to go there before, but they were surrounded by those evil machines halfway and finally fled back with heavy casualties.
Because of this, he refused to let his sister die again, so Eloy had to challenge him directly.
Otherwise it wouldn't be so troublesome.
"Leave this to me."
As she spoke, the priestess came forward, and behind her were three burning iron basins. The priestess picked up the charcoal in her hand and drew a triangle on the ice wall in front of her. Then her brother came forward, raised the spear in his hand and smashed it hard at the triangle!
"Bang!!!"
The next moment, the originally smooth ice wall suddenly shattered, and then something that looked like a huge vent appeared in front of everyone.
Do we have to go in through this vent? It seems that these primitive tribesmen are not stupid.
Seeing this, Fang Zheng nodded slightly. However, at this moment, the priestess spoke.
"Next, we will communicate with the gods. As long as the gods hear our prayers, the gate will open!"
“……???”
Why are you praying into the vent?
Hearing the priestess' words, Fang Zheng, Tou Teng Qilin, Julie and Banjiu Shayue looked at each other in bewilderment. But at this moment, the priestess had already come to the iron basin, raised the flag, and began to wave it while shouting loudly. In simple terms, it was a primitive tribal version of the shaman dance.
But... is this really useful to you?
This isn't some sort of god's gate, it's just a vent?
Just when Fang Zheng was confused and didn't know what to say, he saw the smoke from the burning iron basin mixed with sparks going into the vent under the fanning of the priestess.
Then...
“Boom boom boom…!!!”
The mountain began to tremble, and the originally solid ice wall next to it shattered and fell down. Then, a huge metal door hidden in it suddenly slid open. At the same time, a mechanical prompt sound came from inside.
[Alarm: Smoke spread detected. Please evacuate immediately along the designated route. Please note that this is not a drill. Please evacuate immediately along the designated route to the emergency exit. Please note that this is not a drill.]
“…”
Hearing this, Fang Zheng and the others fell silent.
The priestess wiped the sweat from her forehead and turned to look at Eloy with pride.
"It seems that God has heard my prayers."
“…”
Watching the priestess proudly step into the gate in front of her, Banjiu Shayue quietly approached Fang Zheng.
"President, I will never be able to look directly at those myths and legends again."
"Just pretend you didn't see anything."
Fang Zheng was speechless. He had to admit that although the ancients were backward, their imagination was first-rate. Didn't you just create a smoke alarm to activate the automatic alarm? What the hell, the God's Gate came out after hearing the prayer!
From this perspective, the ancient myths and legends may just be the ancients’ far-fetched ideas… Although there have always been claims that ancient myths and legends from all over the world are actually ancient humans’ descriptions of alien civilizations, only by experiencing it in person can you realize how outrageous this is.
Those who understand will naturally know what is going on.
If you don’t understand... God knows what kind of explanation he will come up with for you.
Just like now.
Walking through the gate, the first thing that caught his eye was a row of mechanical production facilities. Eloy asked as he looked around the huge manufacturing workshop in front of him.
"What is this place?"
Hearing Eloy's question, the priestess gave a very proud answer.
"The gods told me that all of this was originally its domain. This is a fortress that protects humans from a terrible disaster."
"Okay, let's discuss the details inside."
Fang Zheng interrupted their conversation helplessly. To be honest, he felt so embarrassed just listening to it.
It was just like two middle schoolers standing in a manufacturing workshop, talking seriously about "God's Domain" and "The Power to Create Everything" and the like... The people watching nearby felt awkward. Not to mention that each of them looked serious, as if what they said was real...
Fang Zheng had not received any professional training, so he was about to burst out laughing if he continued listening.
So he interrupted the two people's completely imaginary conversation, then took out his terminal and tapped a few times. Soon, the lights around him suddenly changed, and then the huge machine that had been motionless next to him began to move slowly, making way for the road that was originally blocking there.
Seeing this scene, the priestess was shocked, then she turned her head and looked at Fang Zheng.
"Who are you? Why can you control God's servants!?"
“…”
If I were to reply to you seriously I'd feel like there's something wrong with my brain.
Fang Zheng curled his lips.
"Don't worry about that. Anyway, we are more familiar with the things here than you are. Well, let's move on. We still have a lot of things to do, right?"
“Ancestors!!!”
However, before Fang Zheng could finish his words, he saw the priestess screaming and rushing in front of Fang Zheng and the girls.
"You must be the ancestors! Are you finally back?! The ancestors didn't give up on us! They are back!!"
"Well……"
"this……"
Looking at the priestess crying in front of them, Toudou Kirin and Julie were confused, and Imari and Ikaruga Satsuki didn't know what to say for a moment.
We are just ordinary high school girls, how can we become ancestors?
Looking at the crying priestess, Fang Zheng was speechless. If there were no one else around, it would be fine for him to act like a big shot. But the problem was that Julie, Toudou Qilin, Banjiu Satsuki, Imari, and even Katima and Mikasa were watching.
What is he going to say?
Is he going to proudly tell the priest in front of him, "Yes, we are the great ancestors who created you?"
Damn, this is going to become a dark history!
Helplessly, Fang Zheng looked at Eloy standing on the other side and patted her shoulder.
"I leave it to you."
Although this person also came from a primitive tribe, she had traveled with Julie and others before, and it was said that she had also visited many technological relics and even used things inside, so at least she would not think of herself as a god like this group of uncultured people.
"OK."
Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Eloy nodded, then she looked at Fang Zheng curiously.
"I say...are you really the people of our ancestors?"
“…”
Hearing this, Fang Zheng was completely speechless.