Chapter 529 Aftershock
An earthquake episode did not affect the celebration banquet for Nicole's promotion. On the contrary, it provided a good topic for small talk.
"Sir Nicole!"
At the climax of the banquet, all the guests raised their glasses together and shouted Nicole's name.
Nicole stood on Russell's shoulder and excitedly drank a glass of red wine handed by Russell. Two blushes appeared on her face in an instant.
Then she flew up and circled the entire banquet hall, shouting randomly: "Nico Nicole Nicole!"
When she was tired of flying, she landed on Russell's shoulder again under the gaze of the guests' envy, jealousy, amazement, and taste.
Russell smiled slightly and raised his glass: "Everyone, drink to victory!"
"Drink to victory!"
"Drink to victory!"
"Drink to victory!"
The guests in the hall all raised their glasses and drank with Russell.
When the lunch was over, many guests who had given gifts and finished the banquet set off for the Fluorescent Castle under the leadership of Baron and Baron Roman.
They will rest in the Fluorescent Castle for one night, so that they can get up early the next day.
Uncle Major, Baron Gvedas, Baron Dyson, and other relatives, as well as old lady Ingrid, Aunt Robbie, Uncle Rosen, etc., will stay in the Cigar Castle for one night and make arrangements after tomorrow.
In the afternoon.
The women formed a card game, and the knights formed a team to go to Lei Ze and Qing Qiu to enjoy the new warm enclave of the Shadow Flame Grand Duchy.
Russell did not accompany them.
He met Charles in the study: "How is the investigation going?"
"My Lord, the entire Black Fire Land, as well as the surrounding Lei Ze, Qing Qiu, and the neighboring Youguang Valley, have all experienced earthquakes. However, the earthquake is relatively minor. There are currently no houses collapsed and few casualties."
"That's good." Russell felt much more at ease.
The Shadow Flame Grand Duchy has recorded many natural disasters such as earthquakes. As long as there are no casualties, there is no need to make a fuss.
Although Longmian Continent is a world with extraordinary power, it is still a planet after all. The movement of continental plates will always bring earthquakes and volcanoes... Of course, Russell does not know whether the naturally erupting volcanoes will give birth to dragons.
If every volcanic eruption can give birth to a dragon, then he really hopes that the world will be full of earthquakes and volcanoes.
In this way, it will not take long for the dragons to rule the world again and wipe out the invading frost trolls.
"I don't know where Shuangda is hiding. I haven't seen it for nearly a year. I really miss it." At night, the weather cleared up. Russell stood on the terrace and looked up at the starry sky. The sky was full of stars and twinkling. He used his naked eyes to identify the planets.
Summer No. 1 is in the east during the warm season and in the west during the ice age. It is easy to find.
But the other three confirmed planets, Winter No. 1, Autumn No. 1, and Spring No. 1, are difficult to distinguish.
The position of the planet in the starry sky is not fixed, and it may appear in different positions every day.
Suddenly.
Russell saw a star in the sky suddenly flashing several times. When he wanted to observe it with a small astronomical telescope on the terrace, the star suddenly went out and he could not find it anymore.
"Strange!" Russell frowned, "Could it be an airplane or a drone? How could it be possible? This is Longmian Continent!"
After waiting for a long time, the flashing star did not appear again.
Russell simply rode on the black oil dragon Luo Sai and flew directly to Jiandaoshan Observatory to ask if the observatory had observed the star.
"Lord Russell!" Director Sullivan attended the banquet at noon and came back to preside over the work of the observatory in the afternoon. Seeing Russell at this moment, he was excited, "I was just about to report to you that we found the missing planet No. 1!"
"Found the missing planet No. 1?" Russell was surprised. The missing planet No. 1 was the strange planet that was transiting the sun.
Sullivan said excitedly: "Just now, we captured a flashing star. Although this star flashed a few times and disappeared, after orbital comparison, we found that it was the missing planet No. 1!"
Then
Sullivan took out a planetary orbit map with six orbits drawn on it, five of which were nearly circular, belonging to the four planets Longmian Continent and Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter No. 1, and one orbit was an elongated ellipse.
"The orbit of Missing No. 1 passed through the orbits of five planets. According to our speculation, only it would pass through this starry sky... But what I can't understand is why it suddenly flickered and disappeared."
The light of the planet is reflected sunlight.
In theory, this reflection is continuous, just like the moon, which is always reflecting and shining except when it is blocked by clouds.
"What blocked the light?" Russell frowned.
"The blocking object should reflect the light, Lord Russell." Sullivan shook his head, "The starry sky is vast, and there is no way anything can block it."
As soon as the voice fell.
Suddenly, the entire observatory and even Jiandao Mountain shook, but it only took a few seconds for the shaking to stop.
"Ah!" Sullivan didn't stand firmly and fell to the ground.
Russell didn't reach out to help him, but frowned deeply, carefully sensing the magic power surging in the ground under his feet.
He couldn't help but think: "Is this the aftershock of the earthquake at noon, or..."
Thinking of this, he looked up at the starry sky: "Is it related to the missing number one? This planet may be the world of the frost trolls, and the earthquake is the frost troll world passing through the gate of the other world and invading the Longmian Continent?"
There is no answer.
Humans have fought with snow demons for tens of thousands of years, but have never found the gate to the other world, and they don’t know where the snow demons came from.
Even the frost trolls have only suddenly appeared in recent years and have never appeared in any records before.
"Keep observing, Sullivan, the first task of your Sharp Knife Mountain Observatory is to find this missing number one for me!" Russell gave the order.
Sullivan immediately responded: "Yes, Lord Russell!"
"In addition, let some of your students and assistants go out, and after the ice age ends, immediately go to various parts of the Grand Duchy to set up new observatories."
"As you wish, Lord Russell."
After giving these instructions, Russell had no intention of staying in the observatory and waiting for the missing number one to reappear, and went straight back to the Cigar Castle.
"Russell, you are finally back. There was another earthquake just now." Aunt Luo Bi had stopped playing cards and grabbed Russell's hand with some anxiety, "This earthquake is endless. Will there be another earthquake in the middle of the night?"
Russell comforted: "Aunt, don't worry. No matter how big the earthquake is, it will not collapse the Cigar Castle. You can play cards and sleep without worry."
"That's right, Luo Bi girl, what are you worried about." Old Lady Ingrid said, "The Cigar Castle is a ceramic castle. The materials are all clay from our fluorescent mushroom family. Not to mention collapse, you can't even find cracks."
The main material of the Cigar Castle is slag bricks. Although it is not as good as ceramic metal, it is much better than ordinary rocks.
There are also various magical materials filled, which is definitely an indestructible castle.
Even if it is a giant dragon, don't think about destroying the Cigar Castle in a short time-unless you are willing to burn it with dragon flames, which can melt everything in the world.
"Okay, continue playing cards!" Old Lady Ingrid waved her hand, and the Cigar Castle returned to a happy atmosphere.
Russell didn't plan to stay up late, so he took a shower and prepared to rest.
Before he entered the master bedroom, he saw Neeko flying over: "Russell, Neeko is here!"
Neeko drank wine at lunch and dinner, and now she still had a thick tongue, and the blush on her face hadn't faded.
"Neeko, you're here just in time." Russell waved his hand, motioning Neeko to sit on his arm, "Now that you're a big elf, you have to set an example in the future, manage the elf room for me, and take good care of every elf and elf bug."
"Leave it to Neeko!" Neeko immediately patted her shriveled chest.