How big was the entire bubble zone? So far, no one dared to say for sure. Even the great scholar of the demon king's army, who had "calculated the entire universe", only gave a theoretical value of the bubble zone's boundary. No one knew how many bubbles there were within this boundary. People only knew that since the beginning of history, they had only explored a small part of the "whole world" where they lived. Even the elves and the Astrals, who had the longest history, had never set foot on the desolate outer edge of the bubble zone. Even for the planes that had been explored by humans, there were only a few that could be built into homes in the future. Most of the dimensional bubbles were directly abandoned after exploration. There were no resources, no air, no lethal radiation, no water, and highly toxic soil … Countless slaves who were thrown out to explore marked out countless uninhabitable planes with their lives. Even the greatest mage in the human world was unwilling to build his mage tower in such a place because he couldn't find anything here — except for a few crazy mages, but we won't talk about those crazy mages.
Mortals were easily self-centered creatures. Just like the people on Earth believed that they stood at the center of the whole world, the scholars in the human world also built a rough model after exploring the space bubbles. They put the explored planes suitable for living in the middle of the model, and then according to the degree of desolation, the more "out" the space bubbles were, the more difficult it was to sustain living. This rough model had no boundaries. There was only one sentence marked outside a series of border planes: Outside of this place, it was all barren.
Considering the messy spatial structure of the bubble zone and the fact that the space bubbles themselves were not arranged in three-dimensional space, the rough model proposed by the various races in the human world was not wrong. Anyway, it did not matter which bubble was placed in the middle of the model. Of course, this model was useless, because except for the known habitable planes, people still knew nothing about the desert area.
Y'zaks' demon king's army was the only group of intelligent creatures in the world who had tried to visit this desert for thousands of years, but they could not reach the real border of the bubble zone.
The fleet was traversing through strange lands with harsh environments. After passing through the last human kingdom, there was no longer any life in front of them that could stop them. There were endless storms, monstrous poisonous seas, strong cosmic radiation, and even some dangerous celestial bodies. If it were not for the Petrachelys' ability to detect the situation on the other side of the gate in advance, even the Aerymian spaceship would have been destroyed in this dangerous bubble zone. Back then, Y'zaks did not even have a spaceship, but he still dared to organize a group of people to explore this place. Sure enough, a real man relied on the word "recklessness". When he returned, he was lucky that only more than half of the people were killed.
In order to better observe the scene ahead, grasp the entire route, and more importantly, stop Lily from making a fuss, Hao Ren and the others had returned to the bridge of the Petrachelys. The external monitor was showing the spectacle of a stormy sea in a barren plane. The world was pale, and the whole world was covered with endless "snow". Huge white foam waves thousands of meters high rolled up under the pull of a giant celestial body in the sky, forming a strange shape in the air, and then slowly collapsed, turning into snowflakes that fell silently to the ground.
Lily was holding Y'lisabet. The two children, one big and one small, squatted on the chair in front of the holographic projection, exclaiming one after another, "Oh — snow!" "Wow! It's so beautiful! "" I want to put something around my neck and run around with it... "
The husky's ancestral instinct, which originated from the king of transportation in the Arctic Circle, was stirring.
But it was not snow outside. The overwhelming white stuff was nitrogen that had solidified at low temperatures. The fleet was skimming over a giant planet with extremely low temperatures. The portal to this plane opened directly in the storm formed by the snowflake-like solid nitrogen. After the spaceships rushed out, they broke into a world covered in silver. In the previous plane, they had traveled tens of thousands of kilometers in space. These uninhabitable planes were like this. You could never know what kind of terrible place you would encounter: bad, and even worse.
The giant wreckage was covered with a layer of white nitrogen snow, but other than that, it was in good condition. The gravity regulators were working well, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before they reached the world gate.
Due to dragging such a big guy, the Aerymian fleet could no longer cross the border at full speed like when they first arrived. Now the tugboat's speed was less than a third of the fleet's maximum speed. The fleet would probably have to trudge through one strange plane after another for another two days before they could reach the gate home. Nevertheless, everyone was in a good mood: the whole operation went smoother than expected, the Aerymian elves did not suffer any major losses, and the native army of this world was caught off guard by the battleship, which meant that the expected orderly counterattack only lasted for a short while, and it was not a big deal.
"You even said that before you left," Hao Ren turned to look at Y'zaks. "You really love this world."
"This will at least give them a little motivation," Y 'zaks smiled. "Since they have finally come together, they should strive to stay together for a longer period of time. It would be best if even the demons could establish a longer relationship with the human world under pressure. This way, generation after generation, the loose union will become a habit. There will still be war, after all, war is also the driving force for progress. But the internal war of blindly destroying the opponent as in the past should not happen again. In the future, they must have a common goal."
Hao Ren smiled. "Well, the common goal in the future should be to go deep into the universe and kill you again. Say, after hundreds or thousands of years, when their descendants finally research into the age of the big universe and follow the ancient prophecy to go out and fight the demon king, only to find out that the demon king was just messing with them, what do you think those unlucky children will look like?"
Y'zaks shrugged and said, "Who knows? It is also possible that the few words I left behind could only unite them for a while, or it may only be enough to push the world forward by half a step. The changes of the short-lived species are too difficult to predict, and the change of generations has made cultural heritage and historical records less reliable. Perhaps in the end, no one except the elves and the Astrals will know the truth of the demon king's prophecy. Perhaps the new generation of humans two hundred years later will regard the prophecy of 'the demon king will one day come back from the depths of the universe' as a myth. But anyway, taking half a step forward is better than staying put. At least there will be a long-term shadow hanging over their heads, so that they can work hard for a generation. "
Then the demon king laughed. "Anyway, I have done what I have to do. I am not a god, how can I guess the trajectory of the world after I leave? But at least it is better than before. Heh, I can finally retire today. "
Vivian looked at Y'zaks with a strange expression. "You really... You don't look angry or remorseful at all? You have sacrificed hundreds of years to push the world forward by half a step, and you have to put people on the blacklist for generations. Don't you feel aggrieved at all? "
Y'zaks grinned. "So this is the difference in the demon's way of thinking: Why should I care about that? My goal is clear, I want to enter the sea of stars, I want the world to end the war. Now that my goal has been achieved, what else is there to be dissatisfied with? "
Hao Ren looked up at him and said, "Is it okay to let the whole world hate you?"
"Fuck me."
Everyone was speechless.
In the end, the demon king gave this evaluation to everyone in the world.
The fleet continued to sail and finally approached the destination.
There were several planes in a row that were vast space, and the law of 'most portals near large celestial bodies' caused by some kind of gravitational focus had begun to fail. After the spacecraft passed through the plane gate, it always faced a larger and larger area of cosmic vacuum, which was a sign that the space bubble zone was coming to an end.
Y'zaks came out of the spacecraft and sat cross-legged on the upper armor belt of the Petrachelys, watching a wonderful full reflective sphere rapidly enlarging in front of the fleet.
That was the last space gate, the structure of the full reflective sphere was completely different from the previous plane gate, indicating that the real universe was on the other side of the gate.
After passing through the gate, a scene that had never been seen in the space bubble zone came into view.
The sea of stars.
Y'zaks relaxed his body, lying on his back on the armor belt, not minding the radiation of cosmic rays. He squinted under the starlight, as if he had blended into the space, feeling the brilliant stars shining in the entire universe.
Vaguely, a stooped, short figure appeared in front of him again. His hair was messy, his clothes were ragged, and his face was full of wrinkles. He shouted furiously, "You messed up my data!"
"Hey... old man, you are right. The world outside is really big."
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