The Cultivation circle in Chaotian had been working hard for the Great Formation of Heavenly Arrival more than ten years ago, or rather, more than ten days ago. The battleship that looked like a black coffin was advancing silently by the edge of the Sea Yin Nebula. The hole on the hull of the battleship looked rather gloomy and gloomy under the stardust.
The battleship had been shielded from the outside world the entire time. The two madmen had no idea what had happened on the Moongazing Planet, and they had no idea that Jing Jiu and the Snow Girl had finally shown themselves. Even if they knew what had happened, they wouldn't pay any attention to it. In their eyes, what they were going to do next was more important than anything else.
This long voyage had lasted more than twenty days. Shen Yunmai had performed many surgeries on his brain and repaired it. Then, he used the materials and the machinery on the battleship to make a mechanical body made of all alloys for himself. He was about to finish the final assembly work.
Tong Yan walked into the control room and put the bucket of water on the workbench. Looking at the head in the bucket, she couldn't help but remark, "Is it a bit too much?"
After being repaired in the last few days, Shen Yunmai's head was not as dry as it had been at the beginning. The biomaterial had absorbed enough energy and nutrients, so it looked quite plump. His skin was white and rosy, looking like a peach. However, it looked a bit too much, and the skin was too thin. It looked like he had undergone plastic surgery.
Shen Yunmai said expressionlessly, "I'm born with thick eyebrows. Don't envy me."
Several extremely long mechanical arms reached out from the alloy wall, extremely gently holding his head, leaving the bucket and heading upwards.
There was a tall robot behind the workbench. It looked like a mecha, but its components didn't match with each other. It was evident that it was a temporary product.
Shen Yunmai's head was placed in the specially built control room, which was in stark contrast to the huge body of the mecha. It looked ridiculous.
The light blue electric arc generated on the legs of the robot along with the sizzling sound. Soon after, it formed a ring-shaped structure and moved upward, stimulating all the tiny components along the way.
Pah!!! The shapeless electromagnetic wave echoed in the control room. Tong Yan felt a tingling sensation on her eyebrows, knowing that Shen Yunmai had completed the brain-computer connection.
"My current feeling … hmm … I don't know how to describe it," Shen Yunmai's voice rang out from the head of the robot.
Tong Yan said, "I thought you were used to it."
Shen Yunmai retorted angrily, "Do you think that I would make such a pile of garbage for my body if I could?"
Tong Yan said calmly, "Whether it's trash or good material, as long as it can move, it can satisfy your spiritual needs."
This sentence sounded ordinary, but it was actually very profound.
After thinking for a while, Shen Yunmai decided to respond in a new way, which came from an old movie.
"You know what? The old man in my family has been semi-retired for the past few years. He doesn't have any hobbies, so he has been staying on the ancestral planet, digging up ruins everywhere, trying to find the roots of humanity. Not to mention, after digging for so many years, he actually managed to dig out something. Oh, I remember now. You've been to the old house and know about the museum. Yes, I saw a lot of old things in the old house when I was young. When I say old things, I mean really old things, even older than the ancient civilization. At that time, there were already poems, long and meaningless stories, and a kind of movie that was similar to a cartoon. Yes, it was also called a movie. I read poems slowly, but I speed up when I read books and movies. I transmit the data directly to my consciousness, so I can finish a movie in one minute. When I was 11 years old, I read a movie called Robocop on a cloudy evening. The movie was interesting, but generally, it was boring. The reason why I'm talking so much nonsense now is that I want to tell you that my current brain and the body of this robot … "
He raised his thick and heavy mechanical arm and pointed at his swollen head in the control box, saying, "It's f * cking similar to what I'm doing now. So, I'm in a very bad mood now. You'd better not talk to me in that mysterious language, because it will only make me more unhappy!"
Tong Yan listened to him quietly. She didn't give any response, but turned around and walked out of the control box.
Shen Yunmai was taken aback for a moment, and then he maneuvered the giant robot to follow her out, making heavy footsteps all the way. The corpses in the battleship had been dragged to the bottom level by the cleaning robot, so he didn't have to worry that the robot would trample a rotten corpse into a meat pie. It was just like how the Snow Girl trampled a frozen pear on the windowsill of Room 720.
"Don't you have anything to say?" Shen Yunmai asked loudly.
Tong Yan replied without turning her head, "You and Zhuo Rusui will become good friends."
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When they arrived at the control room in the deepest part of the battleship, the giant robot rudely lifted the cable pole and pulled out two cables to connect to the data inlet on its left shoulder, seemingly casually but actually accurately. Then he explained to Tong Yan, "It's more reliable to have a cable connection when we're doing a global match."
Tong Yan didn't like the way the robot treated her as a primitive aborigine, so she didn't pay attention to him.
It didn't take long for a series of urgent alarms to ring in the battleship. Then, the alarms disappeared abruptly and turned into electronic beeping sounds.
"This is indeed the battleship of our Shen family. The computing core is pretty good and powerful." Shen Yunmai manipulated the robot to pull off the cables and made a few clumsy dance movements, saying, "Next, let me complete the super calculation that you country players can never do!"
Tong Yan looked at him expressionlessly and said, "You should compete with that computer if you're so capable."
The giant robot froze. After a while, Shen Yunmai's voice rang out again, "I'll occupy her body one day! I'll rape her mentally! I'll own her! Then, I'll use her computing core to solve the ultimate problem of our universe! "
Tong Yan had no interest in this lunatic's fantasies. "Can you not be so noisy?" she demanded.
"No, I can't," Shen Yunmai replied.
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A few days later, the black coffin battleship finally opened the composite plates covering the surface of the battleship according to the pre-calculated procedure. At the same time, the propulsion system and the remote positioning equipment were turned on. Looking at the star chart ahead, Tong Yan was certain that there was no problem with the route ahead. They would arrive at their destination after two more space jumps.
Shen Yunmai had been modifying the robot in the control room over the last two days. It was unclear why he had such a high requirement for the appearance of the robot.
A few days later, the black coffin battleship passed through a deserted space passage and arrived in an extremely remote region of stars.
The permanent stars here were sparse, and the traces of the war in the distant ancient times could still be seen. It was not suitable for humans to live here, and it was impossible to develop it.
Along with the heavy footsteps, the robot came to the control room. Together with Tong Yan, he looked at the monitor screen.
A white permanent star hovered in the dark space ahead of them in Silence.
The permanent star looked so ordinary, devoid of any special feature; but it was special because it illuminated the void all the time.
This was the sun that could be seen in Chaotian.
"Where is Chaotian?"
Shen Yunmai's voice trembled a bit. It was evident that it was not because of the amplification of the machine, but because of his mood.
He was the perfect combination of the two civilizations, Chaotian and the Federation of the Milky Way. He had grown tired of the boring world of the Federation of the Milky Way, and he had been curious about and yearning for Chaotian since he was a child. As such, he liked wearing the ancient robe and playing the zither, his white cloth and long hair tousling.
Today, he finally had the chance to see Chaotian in person; it was impossible for him not to feel excited.
"It's over there," said Tong Yan while pointing at a spot.
It was a long distance away from the white permanent star. It was a seemingly ordinary corner of the universe, just like the other places in the universe, a patch of nothingness.
Shen Yunmai turned his head to look at the patch of nothingness. The ripples had gradually formed in his heart, and soon, the waves were surging violently.
How did the white permanent star project itself into the patch of nothingness and become the sun? Why didn't any of the cocoon breakers dare come back here? Was the vague attractive force coming from the nothingness and the deep part of their spiritual souls the reason why the cocoon breakers were so afraid of Chaotian?
Since he learned of the existence of Chaotian at a young age, he had many imaginations. After the conversation with Jing Jiu on Planet 857, those imaginations had gradually turned into more realistic conjectures. He thought that the world of Chaotian might be in a black hole. The Cultivation practitioners could come out because of a phenomenon similar to the radiation of the black hole. The reason the cocoon breakers didn't dare get close to the black hole was because they were worried that they couldn't withstand the gravitational force of the source, or they didn't dare leave like Bai Ren, or they went back like the disgraced fairy.
As for why they couldn't come out after going back, it should be because the powerful gravitational field of the black hole interfered with the reorganization of the matter. However, the theory of the recombination was merely a hypothesis. He imagined Chaotian to be a black hole. In a sense, it was the same as the ether in the ancient times; it was a last resort.
He had finally seen the patch of nothingness that day. He was certain that it was not a black hole at first glance, because it had no horizon and no real gravitational force.
The patch of nothingness was more like a foggy glass, or a dark region with a clear boundary. The sun was the projection of the permanent star in the dark region. To explain it in a more artistic way, the patch of nothingness was like a mirror of god, which could make everything reflected in it into a real existence.
Of course, this was merely his hypothesis.
Another possibility was that this dark region was a prison in the space created by a human being of a higher state a great many billions of years ago. As time went by, that civilization had vanished in the empty universe. This prison in the space had drifted for a great many years before it was discovered by that god.
That god had used a certain method to enter this prison in the space. After he was certain that the dark energy couldn't break through the boundary, he transformed this prison into the ultimate shelter and laboratory for the humans, and put a great number of lives in it, including those modified animals that imitated the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter.
Some of the modified animals had evolved into divine animals and left Chaotian after breaking out of the prison; some of them had evolved into the demons of the Underworld and the inhabitants of the Snowy Kingdom. As for those humans, they had embarked on a completely different path of Cultivation under such a special environment, growing stronger and stronger. Until now …
The so-called heavenly punishment was probably the reflection of the self-generated defense force of this prison in the spiritual world of the intelligent beings.
There was no whirlpool of thunder or lightning; it was merely an electric net.
Chaotian was right in front of him. Shen Yunmai was exceedingly excited. His brain was extremely active. In a short period of time, he had come up with seventeen possible structures of the world. Then, he told Tong Yan about the two most plausible structures, hoping to hear his opinion.
Tong Yan didn't have any opinion.
Shen Yunmai remarked sentimentally, "Though you countrymen live a comfortable life, it's not a good habit to be unwilling to find out the truth."
Tong Yan wondered why the Cultivation practitioners on Chaotian tried so hard to ascend if they didn't want to find out the truth.
However, it was not always a good thing to think about something that was obviously beyond the knowledge and the upper limit of wisdom; it could make people feel hopeless and go crazy.
It was the case for Shen Yunmai.
The black battleship was getting closer and closer to the patch of nothingness.
Since it was the patch of nothingness, it was impossible to determine the exact location.
It was because there was a marker outside the patch of nothingness; it was an old bamboo chair.
The bamboo chair hovered in the dark space in Silence, receiving the light of the distant permanent star. It looked the same as before, but many details, including the structure of the bamboo fiber, had changed a great deal. To put it more precisely, it looked like a dried flower.
Seeing the bamboo chair, Shen Yunmai suddenly recalled many scenes in the "The Path Toward Heaven". "I want to sit on it!" he exclaimed urgently.
The first generation of this bamboo chair was made by Jing Jiu in that small village, and most of the later generations were made by Liu Shisui.
This bamboo chair had a special significance for the Aoyama Sect and the Cultivation circle in Chaotian.
Jing Jiu had spent most of his life on this bamboo chair. The Snow Girl had stayed on it for many years. Besides him, Zhao Layue was the only one qualified to sit on it. Well, there were also Ping Yong-ka, the idiot, and Zhuo Rusui, the shameless one.
No matter what, Shen Yunmai still wanted to sit on the bamboo chair. It was like going to a famous scenic spot, but he couldn't take the cable car to the top of the mountain because of the strong wind. Looking at the stone monument with the name of the scenic spot at the foot of the mountain, he wanted to lean against it and take a picture.
"You can't sit on it. Do you want to put your head on it?"
Tong Yan shot him a glance as if she was looking at an idiot, reminding him, "Don't forget that those people all sat on it with their buttocks."
It was like sticking a warm face to a cold buttocks with a bamboo chair and time between them.
Shen Yunmai snorted twice and said, "I'd like to take it and have a look."
As he said this, the battleship reached out its mechanical arm to take the bamboo chair back.
Tong Yan disagreed, saying, "Don't move it. The bamboo chair has its significance."
Thinking that he couldn't sit on this bamboo chair, Shen Yunmai grew more dissatisfied with this heavy and bulky mechanical body. He was in a bad mood, retorting, "It has no significance at all."
"It's a symbol," said Tong Yan.
Shen Yunmai sneered, "Nonsense. Don't talk about it with me. I've been studying the principles of philosophy since I was five years old. It's meaningless!"
"Yes," Tong Yan said.
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
The seemingly childish conversation was repeated many times. Shen Yunmai said in a mocking tone, "I can prove that it's meaningless with countless theories and examples."
Tong Yan said calmly, "If I think it's meaningful, then it's meaningful."
These were the two most important ways to understand the world. The argument between the two was of course not childish.
After a moment of silence, Shen Yunmai asked, "You said that the people inside would be prepared if they wanted to come out. How should we inform them then?"
There was a firm and unbreakable boundary between the two worlds. The boundary was not even a real boundary, but a natural line caused by the difference in the speed of light.
The boundary could even prevent the transmission of information. However, there were ways to cross the boundary. For instance, Jing Jiu could send some of the materials inside to the outside of Chaotian by employing the method of hiding the world. The Zhongzhou School had a special method to do so as well.
The black Battleship left the bamboo chair slowly and headed to another place with its back to the empty space.
It didn't take long before the Battleship arrived in the vicinity of a patch of scattered meteorites. Looking at that spot, Tong Yan's eyes suddenly glowed. It seemed that he had discovered something. He waved his hand in the air, and an ancient bronze mirror appeared in his hand, which looked similar to the Green Sky Mirror.
In the next moment, a gloomy and deep passage appeared in the bronze mirror. The clouds and fog drifted slowly, and the stone steps could vaguely be seen leading to the bottom.
Seeing this, Tong Yan displayed a hint of nostalgia in his eyes.
Shen Yunmai remarked in a mocking tone, "You've just come out a few days ago, and you're already acting like this."
Tong Yan didn't pay any attention to him. He looked at the bronze mirror in Silence.
It didn't take long before a bright red figure broke through the darkness and the clouds and fog, walking up the stone steps and getting closer to the mirror.
Though Shen Yunmai seemed relaxed, it was actually the first time he had seen the scene in Chaotian. He was quite nervous and excited. "It's coming! It's coming! "
Tong Yan still didn't pay any attention to him. When the red figure broke through the fog and came to the front of the mirror, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
It was a young woman in red clothing who came to the front of the mirror. She still had a trace of childishness in her eyes, as if she were full of energy and vigor.
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