"Sister Qingqing and I are pure friends," Li Yao said solemnly. "Don't get it in your head. Also, I'm going to visit my professor and figure out the collapse of the Virtual Spirits Sector as well as Lu Qingchen's background!
"Listen up. Here's my plan.
"In a moment, Ling Xiaole from the Secret Sword Bureau will come and take me to the Tinder Base. I was planning to go there alone, but since you've guessed so much, why don't you come with me? If anything goes wrong, we can take care of each other. It won't be a bad idea.
"After we arrive at the Tinder Base and visit the 'Tinder Plan', I will certainly have a chance to get in touch with Professor Mo Xuan. I'm going to ask him the truth about why he left the production team of 'Civilization' and divorced my masteress.
"After I figure everything out, I will contact my wife through Professor Mo Xuan's communication line. Professor Mo Xuan is a big shot in the Federation. He must have his own private line that leads directly to the capital or the Grand Desolate War Institution, right? Besides, Ding Ling Dong is from the Grand Desolate War Institution, too. She was in a good relationship with Professor Mo Xuan in the past. Even if Professor Mo Xuan cannot reach out to Jin Xinyue, he will definitely be able to reach out to my wife!
"Alright. After I reach out to my wife through the professor and tell her the good news that I'm back, I will be able to communicate with the Union Army through my wife and gain some control rights in the Hundred Flowers Space Zone. At the very least, I will be able to summon a batch of the Union Army or the Patriots Front.
"My wife's side is settled. With the support of the Patriots Front and the federal army, we will return to this place and confess to the other ten experts of the Ancient Sages Sector. I will tell them that I am the legendary Monster Li. When they are shocked, dumbfounded, scared, and sweating hard, I will persuade them with reason and benefits. How can they not join the federation when they are overwhelmed with shock and gratitude?
"Even if something does go wrong, I've already mobilized the Union Army and many powerhouses. I'm sure I can handle it.
"As a result, the Federation has gained twelve experts at the peak of the Yuanying Stage and even the Divinity Transformation Stage without the enemy knowing anything!
"I don't care what kind of tricks the enemy has up their sleeves. I don't care what kind of tricks they have up their sleeves. This time, I'm going to bully the weak! Anyway, when the enemy reveals his true intentions and thinks that victory is in his hands, the twelve of us at the peak of Yuanying and the Divinity Transformation Stage will slap the enemy's face! Yuanying and Divinity Transformation slapped their faces. Tell me, how could we lose this battle?
"This is my plan. It's simple and crude, but it's definitely effective. After listening to it, do you think it's a good plan?"
Long Yangjun frowned and pondered for a long time. "I think … it should be fine, right?"
"That'll do!"
Li Yao clapped his hands and said, "Of course, when time permits, if we happen to run into each other, you can say goodbye to Sister Qingqing and ask her how she has been doing over the years. By the way, you can ask her to bring my blessing to the people billions of years later. It will be perfectly reasonable!
"Alright, enough of the talk. Ling Xiaole is here. Let's go to the Tinder Base and meet Professor Mo Xuan!"
…
Hundred Flowers City, located at the center of the vast sea of stars in the Hundred Flowers Space Zone, near the overlapping gravity sphere of two stars, was made of hundreds of circular space stations. Not counting the workers and their families who lived on the hundreds of 'space gates' nearby, the main district alone had a population of 150 million.
Although it was not the largest space city in the entire Star Glory Federation, it was definitely a 'future city' with the highest quality of population, the most developed techniques, and all kinds of cutting-edge techniques, magical equipment, and experimental training arts.
Because it was at the center of the sailing routes of the seven Sectors of the Federation, it was a place that everybody had to pass on their way to and from the south. It was naturally suitable as a transportation hub and a data exchange center for the Federation. As a result, the top talents of the seven Sectors and countless sects, groups, research teams, and even academic institutions related to crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus were attracted to the city. After decades of development, the central database and supercomputing center of the 'grand-unified Spiritual Nexus', the control and interaction center of the game 'Civilization', and the 'Future University of the Xing Yao Federation', which had just been established, all settled in the city. It had become a veritable 'think tank' of the Federation.
According to statistics, there were three 'Gai' -level super crystal processors, which boasted the highest computational ability in the entire Federation. Hundred Flowers City had one of them. As for the 'Jing' -level super crystal processors below 'Gai', Hundred Flowers City had more than half of them. It was an out-and-out 'city of crystal processors'.
It was the calculation, analysis, interaction, and transmission of the super crystal processors day and night that ensured the smoothness of the sailing routes and the stability of the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus among the seven Sectors of the Federation.
When Li Yao and Long Yangjun, led by the half-fox demon Ling Xiaole, traveled inside Hundred Flowers City on a shuttle that was in the shape of a silver water drop without a sound, they indeed felt that the city was much more advanced, tranquil, and profound than Fish Dragon City, Firefly, and even the Uranian Ring Orbital City.
On the surface, Hundred Flowers City looked like an absolutely precise cube made of hundreds of spheres dozens of kilometers in diameter, which were flawless on the surface and looked like mirrors.
Such a shape that was completely against the laws of nature and the normality of the universe was the best symbol of the 'anti-nature' or 'nature-defying' civilization that mankind had been in the past.
However, when the shuttle traveled inside Hundred Flowers City, it seemed that they were traveling in a splendid, spectacular, and ever-changing nature.
One moment, they were traveling on a boundless prairie and appreciating the beautiful scenery of cattle and sheep through the transparent floor below their feet. Another moment, they saw a series of pearl-like lakes in the middle of the rolling sand and the green oases around the lakes. Another moment, they passed through a dark, deep canyon and arrived at a vast primitive forest. They even saw the bizarre views on a lot of resource planets, which were dazzling and splendid.
The natural scenes were all illusions created by the enormous 3D light beams.
In the space cities that were too small to be spacious, such facilities were almost everywhere, bringing virtual comfort to the human beings who originated from the planets.
The illusions in Hundred Flowers City were particularly vivid. They were ten times more real than the illusions in Fish Dragon City, Firefly, and the Uranian Ring Orbital City, to the point that they could pass for reality. One might even say that it was some sort of 'Grand Illusionary Land' that covered the entire city.
When ordinary people came here, they would have the illusion that they were really on a certain planet after only a couple of scenes were changed.
"In the 'mountains' up ahead is the future university of the Federation. It is the highest institution established together with the new Federation. Right now, the most distinguished elites of the seven Sectors of the Federation have been gathered here. It is particularly distinguished in the fields of crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus. It is far more advanced than other universities.
"The silver, egg-shaped buildings in the 'desert' over there are the data interaction and control centers of the game 'Civilization'. Also, the production centers of the new plots and the new games are here, too. Yes. The climate here is set to be so dry for the needs of the super-large crystal processors.
"The 'Tinder Base' is up ahead."
Ling Xiaole, Li Yao's guide, introduced the place attentively, wagging her fox tail.
While talking, the girl stuck out her tongue. "I'm really lucky to have you here. There are a lot of cutting-edge research centers and secret planning bases in Hundred Flowers City that are 'off-limits'. Even I, as one of the 'Top Ten Distinguished Newcomers of the Secret Sword Bureau in 1999', do not usually have a chance to visit them … Wow!"
After the shuttle drove into the Tinder Base, it seemed to have passed through a nonexistent gate or pierced a bubble. The picture in front of their eyes suddenly changed into a dirty undersea.
No. It was not the blue ocean of modern times or the ocean that was deeper and darker, but the undersea volcanoes that were erupting everywhere at the beginning of the planet's birth turned the ocean into a pot of boiling soup. Black pillars of smoke were rising from the highly unstable ocean in the primeval times, like the hands of devils extending out of the gaps at the bottom of the ocean.
However, such 'hands of devils' had brought tremendous precious metals and minerals from the depths of the crust, which had amazing reactions with the materials in the ocean and the primitive air, giving birth to the first batch of unicellular lives.
Even though they knew that it was an illusion, such a magnificent picture of the primeval undersea still deeply shocked Li Yao and Long Yangjun.
The Tinder Base seemed to have a deeper purpose for deploying such illusions at the periphery.
The shuttle pressed on, as if it were passing through a time tunnel. The illusions around them changed nonstop, too. The undersea volcanoes gradually fell asleep, and the color of the ocean was getting lighter and lighter. Thick layers of ancient fungi grew near the craters of the ancient undersea volcanoes, extending to the end of the ocean like a white carpet. The primeval sea creatures that fed on the ancient fungi showed up one after another, too. Red algae, green algae, trilobites, anomalocaris, nautilus, Devonian fish …
"Aya!"
The shuttle seemed to be moving toward the middle of a primeval ocean when it suddenly leaped out of the ocean. Unfolding in front of their eyes was a paradise of gymnosperms and ferns. All kinds of reptiles and giant insects were growing blatantly in the woods. A monster that looked like a tyrannosaurus rex crawled out of the luxuriant woods and opened its bloody mouth at them, as if it were going to swallow them whole.
Naturally, the shuttle was safe and sound. Ling Xiaole, however, uttered a half-genuine exclamation of shock.
After the brief darkness, mammals and primates gradually replaced the reptiles and ruled the world. Very soon, a few apes that were covered in black hair and had high eyebrows and low foreheads became the main characters of the picture. They were dancing around a bonfire, and an enormous starship of the Pangu clan seemed to be observing them coldly in the sky.
Starting from the picture, time passed faster and faster. The branches in the apes' hands turned into sticks, which were tied to stone axes, which turned into bronze spears, which turned into flying swords, and armor. Caves and tree nests turned into pavilions and towers, which then turned into floating mountains and islands in midair. It was the first brilliant outburst of the civilization of mankind, the age of the ancient Cultivators!
After the age of the ancient Cultivators, it was the Great Dark Age ruled by the demon race for thirty thousand years. Then, it was the Star Ocean Imperium, followed by the Armageddon Rebellion, followed by the second Great Crash and the second renaissance. Today, the seven broken worlds at the edge of the cosmos were condensed into the Xing Yao Federation again …
From the birth of the ancient creatures, to the enlightenment of the Pangu civilization, to the development, setbacks, and renaissance of the civilization of mankind in the past hundred thousand years, everything was reflected in the 'time tunnel' that was not very long.
Every illusion represented a phase of the development of life. However, the skyscrapers and the ocean of starships that represented the Xing Yao Federation today were arranged in the second last segment. The last segment, in which the 'future' of the civilization of mankind was represented by some silver metal balls that were floating in midair like balloons. There was no telling what they meant.
As if they had sensed the arrival of the honorable guests, all the silver metal balls melded together like liquids and turned into two lines of glittering words.
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