The Terra Travel Diary of Neither Sacred, Rhea, nor Terra

Right in front of the motorcycle, a large iron hammer that looked rusty and had been exposed to the wind and sun for a long time was standing upright on the ground. It seemed that someone had hammered it hard into the ground, with half of the hammer body embedded in the ground.

"So, what does this mean? Declaration of war? Or surrender?" Miku asked as he climbed down from the motorcycle.

Unfortunately, neither Kristen nor the Earth Spirit knew what this scene meant.

They only knew that this organization was called Rusty Hammer, and they didn't know that this organization actually had a hammer.

Seeing Miku approaching the hammer, the Earth Spirit quickly warned him:

"Beware of traps."

"If it really is a trap, then I'm definitely not the one who needs to be careful." Miku walked towards the rusty hammer indifferently.

The BT that had been flying behind the motorcycle also landed, and a small radar extended from its round head and scanned the area.

The BT that didn't find any hidden life forms in the sky or on the ground beeped at Miku.

A sound.

"Is it a gift for atonement?"

While guessing the intentions of the Rusty Hammer Organization, Miku walked to the side of the hammer.

Wearing a monocle that can check combat power, Miku carefully looked at the hammer on the ground and found that it was just an ordinary hammer that could not be more ordinary.

The materials listed on the glasses are also normal iron elements, but I don’t know if it’s due to poor craftsmanship or because some other elements are mixed in to meet the needs.

But they are all normal elements, there is no element 115 and no element zero.

However, this does not mean that this hammer has nothing. After all, there is magic in the world of Terra, no matter how pioneers like Kristen incorporate this magic called Originium Art into materialism.

At least in Miku's eyes, this is magic.

After making sure there were no obvious traps on the hammer, Miku grasped the handle of the hammer and pulled it out of the ground under the wary eyes of Kristen and Di Ling.

As soon as he picked it up, Miku paused for a moment when he noticed a slight change, but continued to hold it in his hand without paying any attention.

As Miku moved, the rust spots on the hammer fell to the ground like shedding skin.

In just ten seconds, the hammer in Miku's hand was no longer a rusty one exposed to wind and sun, but turned into a shiny new hammer.

"Pretty good magic." Miku seemed to be talking to himself or to the air.

"It's just a little trick, nothing to mention." A smooth voice, as if it had been soaked in sea water for who knows how long, sounded beside Miku.

The last time Miku heard this voice was when he was arguing with the captain of the Henan ship.

Fortunately, the one making the slimy sound this time was no longer a fish... Or rather, the fish used a set of clothes, a long cloak, and an iron helmet as big as an iron barrel to stuff its soft body into a human form.

Seeing Miku turn his gaze towards him, the humanoid octopus wrapped in the iron barrel said in a slightly exaggerated tone:

"Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, my friend."

Hearing such a strange greeting, Miku looked at the other party's iron helmet for a while and said:

“Nice helmet.”

"This is not for sale, my old friend."

The strangely dressed octopus man said something that made Miku's expression slightly change, but Miku did not continue to follow the other party's words, but said with a playful look:

"I mean, I have a hat just like that."

"It seems that great minds think alike." Perhaps because he saw that Miku was not fooled, the helmeted man did not continue to play tricks.

"So, you are a businessman?" Miku, who had the initiative in the conversation, asked knowingly.

If he wasn't a businessman, the other party wouldn't have come up and emphasized that his helmet was not for sale.

"As you can see, I am a merchant walking in the wilderness. You can call me Cannot or Goodinnaf."

Said Cannot, who called himself a businessman.

"I see, we are indeed old friends. However, your subordinates just now seemed not to acknowledge this friendship." Miku said without any change in expression.

"It was just a misunderstanding. I didn't expect to meet an old friend in this wilderness," Cannot continued.

"So it was a misunderstanding. That's fine then. But what are you selling lately, old friend? Do you have anything good for me to see?" Miku said as he waved his hand behind him.

After receiving Miku's signal, BT put away the small radar on his head and replaced it with another device that looked like a laser transmitter. It illuminated a circle with a radius of more than five meters at a position about ten meters away from Miku and Kannot.

Christen, sensing something, raised her head and looked towards the sky, and saw a circle of the same shape but several times larger appearing in the sky about a hundred meters away, and some metal structures were slowly emerging from that circle.

Kannot also looked at the sky and said quickly:

"Of course, you give me the Originium, and I will give you goods. As long as civilization has it, I will sell it."

As he spoke, Cannot raised his hand and opened his cloak, revealing several dark red octopus tentacles hidden within. One of the octopus tentacles took out a "goods" from the dark area deeper inside the cloak... or rather, a bottle of wine.

"Oh?" Without even mentioning paying, Miku reached out to take the bottle of wine and carefully looked through the brown bottle to see the slightly thick wine inside.

"sweet wine?"

Although the bottle cap was not opened and the label on the bottle was written in another kind of Terran language that he had not yet learned, Miku was able to identify the type of wine at the first time based on his experience.

"Royal Liqueur, once the symbol of the Gallic Empire, the bottle in your hand should be the last few hundred bottles." Cannot used a weird method to express the meaning of "this wine is out of print."

"Not bad, is there more? Give me some more." Miku said without rushing to drink. It was obvious that this bottle of wine was not enough to compensate for the "mental loss" just now in Miku's eyes.

"This bottle of wine is just an appetizer. What I really want to sell to you is the origin of this bottle of wine," said Cannot.

"What's the origin?" Miku felt that this kind of conversation was very familiar, as if he encountered it often.

“Although many

Wine connoisseurs all want to collect a bottle of Royal Liqueur to show off their expertise, but the dwindling surplus obviously cannot meet their needs." Cannot suddenly said in a boastful tone.

"Where."

Miku realized that Kannot's attitude looked so familiar. Isn't this the standard NPC line for starting a side quest?

Since this is the setting, you can skip it.

"..." Unaccustomed to Miku's directness, or perhaps it was the first time he was skipped, Cannot paused for a while before saying:

"It is an ancient castle, a castle that few people have heard of and few have seen, a castle where operas of different repertoires are performed from beginning to end."

"Oh, location" Miku continued to extract the key word skip.

"No one knows where it is. Those who are lucky enough to come back alive will only talk about Deklebrathon and the Scarlet Theater over and over again." said Cannot, who was beginning to get used to Miku's skip.

"Emm, there is still a puzzle to solve." said Miku, who suddenly lost interest in this task.

"That castle is a mysterious place to others, but to you, my old friend, when you want to go there, the castle will automatically appear in front of you."

Kannot, who noticed that Miku was about to give up the mission, spoke quickly.

"Just get to the point. What do you want? What can you give me? If you say too much, I will kick your helmet hard with my boots." Miku, who was not very interested in solving puzzles, said directly:

"Oh yes, the boots I was talking about are these boots."

Miku pointed to the sky. In the circle in the sky, most of the blue and white painted steel robots had fallen, but the boots that Miku pointed out were red.

"I have a pocket watch that was left in that castle. If you can help me find it, I will give you a more valuable reward." Cannot stated the mission objective.

"I hope to get a reward now." Miku doesn't like blank checks, although demolishing castles is indeed a pleasure in life.

"..." Kannot was silent for a while. Just when the blue and white steel robot in the air was about to completely emerge, the tentacles under Kannot's cloak took out something from the darkness again, and this time he took the initiative to hand it to Miku.

"If there is good wine, how can there be no wine glass?"

What Kannot took out and handed to Miku was a pure golden wine glass. Although Miku didn't know the value of gold in Terra, in a world where gold was a general equivalent, this wine glass made entirely of gold would definitely arouse people's madness.

But in addition to gold, Miku also saw something else in the wine glass.

"Deal." Miku took the wine glass directly and put it into the "backpack" together with the bottle of Royal Liqueur. The blue and white robot in the sky disappeared as if it had never appeared.

"Well, I wish you success and all the best, my old friend." Cannot's tone returned to its initial sticky tone. He took the initiative to stand aside and make way.

32: Scarlet Troupe

After Miku took a wine glass from Mr. "It Won't Be Better" and returned to the motorcycle, he did not immediately explain to the two ladies what the wine glass was, but first told BT that Exia was trash and Titan was the best in the world.

But in terms of deterrence, a twenty-meter-tall robot is obviously more useful than a five-meter-tall fearless mecha Titan... BT doesn't really like the oversized Titan that Miku got him, because he feels that the Titan is not flexible enough and lacks soul.

Having said that, for the Terra civilization that is capable of building a space station of the scale of Wanxingyuan, a humanoid mecha several meters tall should not be technically difficult.

If we work harder, it doesn't seem to be a big problem to build a Titan that is dozens of meters tall.

After calming down the machine spirit named BT, Miku asked the two ladies where Claybrason was, what the Scarlet Troupe and the castle related to the Scarlet Troupe were.

Although Kristen and Di Ling were more curious about who the iron bucket man was, they still answered Miku's question first.

"Scarlet Theater..." Christen searched through her memory for a long time before finally finding this term from a corner.

"It seems to be a killer organization from many years ago, but it has disappeared for a long time."

Christen knew the news, not because she liked these things... To be honest, these things were folk legends that Christen didn't want to know at all.

Would a mass-produced mecha unit be useful to assassin organizations? In Rhine Life's laboratory, there are many things that can be considered strategic weapons.

If those strategic weapons are brought out, any killer organization will have to kneel down and call us daddy!

The reason why Kristen knew what the Scarlet Troupe was was purely because the Colombian Blue Carpet Studios had filmed several movies about that mysterious killer organization.

Moreover, the screenwriters and directors of those films mysteriously disappeared after filming was completed.

Some of them were purely publicity stunts, and some of them really disappeared.

But whether it is true or not, the only effect is that these movies attracted Kristen's attention.

So Kristen watched some movies about the Scarlet Troupe in her spare time to relax...especially the ones where they actually disappeared.

Unfortunately, even those few that are really missing

, Kristen’s only comment was that the popcorn was delicious.

If Miku hadn't asked, it would have been difficult for Christen to even find this information from the depths of her memory.

"Many years ago? You mean it has disappeared for a long time?" Miku grasped the key point in Kristen's words.

"It doesn't make much difference whether these shady things disappear or not." Christen expressed her conclusion.

"That's true." Mystery is what the assassin organization needs most. It's about working in the dark. Miku has been an assassin before. In some worlds, Miku is even at the level of the ancestor of assassins.

Moreover, it can be made into a popcorn movie. Even if this assassin organization has not disappeared, it is estimated that it has no ability anymore.

A few directors and screenwriters are nothing.

I just don’t know whether the Terrans, whose cultural industry seems to be quite developed, have made these scripts into games.

Miku has also played an assassin game in which the protagonist is himself, or the legendary himself.

I have to say this is a very novel experience.

The Earth Spirit didn't know about these things. These legends were a bit far away for her. Moreover, as a Earth Spirit who was out exploring every day, it was obvious that she didn't have the leisure to watch any popcorn movies.

However, the earth spirit gave a crucial clue.

"This is Klebrason." The Earth Spirit said to Miku, then paused and added:

"It used to be the territory of Claybrason that belonged to the Gallic Empire."

"Oh." Miku understood why Mr. No Better was here.

Perhaps he was looking for that castle. The Rusted Hammer members who attacked Miku before were just an exploration team arranged by the other party. They attacked Miku and his party only because there was an order to exclude all outsiders in advance.

"who's that person?"

After answering Miku's questions, Kristen finally expressed her own questions. Di Ling had similar questions, but given his current status, these questions could only stay in Di Ling's throat, and he definitely didn't dare to say them out loud.

"There won't be a better sir. As for whether the boss of those Rusty Hammers is the biggest boss, I don't know." Miku said without hiding anything.

And he directly translated the other person's name.

Although the Colombian language of the Terra world is very close to the English that Miku knows in pronunciation and vocabulary... it is even closer to Old English, which sounds more like some kind of slang.

But the difference between the two is basically the difference between High Gothic and Low Gothic.

There is no "Cannot" or "Goodinaf" in Colombian.

Calling himself by this name, it is obvious that Mr. "No Better" has a close connection with the ancient humans in this world.

This is not surprising. Miku can smell the scent of the outer god emanating from the other party from a long distance.

This is also why Miku can directly use the Angel Knight's kick to deter others. Who knows what strange things these tentacle monsters can come up with.

By the way, this textual connection also means that the ancient humans in this world were legitimate citizens of the Earth... As for whether they were like Deneb or Scylla, it is not known for the time being.