It was impossible to see the entire capital of the Empire in one day. In fact, on the first day, we didn't even have the time to visit Avalon. We had to return from the Yggdrasil Temple because it was too late. Anu Lili had probably forgotten that she was here for something else. She was just regretful that she didn't get to see the even more magical space at the end of the temple path. But I promised her that I would bring her to visit Avalon the next day. Only then did the girl calm down.
Originally, Anu Lili thought that she would be arranged to spend the night in the City of Shadows. But her sister obviously felt that this wasn't the right way to treat a guest. She warmly invited Anu Lili to her home as a guest. Anu Lili was flattered and full of anticipation. Think about it. Visiting the home of the Empire's leader. This place sounds high-end, right? Also, it was said that there were even more gods living in that place … Although Anurili didn't say anything, her demeanor was tense for a long time. And before we led her through the portal, this simple girl even spent five minutes fixing her hair.
Then, she came to the legendary "Emperor's Palace." The first scene she saw was Little Bubble lying on the ground and drawing lines with a watercolor pen. Not far away, a ninety-centimeter-tall doll was rolling around with a little girl with grass growing on her head. A girl who looked seventeen or eighteen but acted like a crazy naughty child was chasing a girl with nine tails all over the house. A girl was lying on the chandelier in the living room, squawking as if she thought she was a bird. In front of the TV, a handsome blond guy was watching a documentary about Greek sculptures. The handsome guy made a few movements to imitate the beautiful Greek sculptures on the TV. Then, he asked the girl who was knitting a sweater next to him a technical question. "Monina, I think it's a little different from what I see on TV. Should I take off my pants?"
Then, there was the delightful scene of Monina beating up her brother.
This was what Anu Lili saw when she arrived at our house. I can proudly say that the shock she felt when she saw this scene was much greater than the shock she felt in the next two days in the celestial city and Avalon …
We brought Anurili around the capital world for three days.
Of course, the first day was to bring her around the City of Shadows, to let her understand this magical Empire and its even more magical "Really? Multi-ethnic Unity System. Firstly, it was to satisfy her curiosity. Secondly, we had our own plans. We wanted to use this opportunity to let Anurili tell her tribesmen about what had happened in the City of Shadows. The psychological trauma left by Mellowa's old rule had to be eliminated as soon as possible. Otherwise, the people who had just regained their freedom would definitely not feel at ease if they knew that they were now under the rule of another super civilization. This step was done well. Anurili now had a completely different impression of the City of Shadows than she had previously guessed (and I reckon that most of the slave races had guessed as well). She now quite liked this magical and prosperous City of Shadows, which had an atmosphere like that of a big family. I think that if there was a chance, she might even consider staying in this city.
The remaining two days were purely to bring her around. We let her visit Avalon's Wonderland, and also let her see the celestial city that truly had the "Divine Realm style". We also let her go to the mother continent to see the first established religion of the Schilling Pantheon, the Crow God Religion, so that she could understand the concept of a true God and religion that was different from a fake God. In the Crow God Religion's Holy Capital, she even got a holy amulet that Vanilla gave her as a souvenir. This amulet was actually a black feather. It was dropped by the little crow when it was shedding its feathers. At that time, Liliana swept two large sacks of it and sent it to the Crow God Religion. The Crow God Religion now used the Divine Feathers to reward their devout believers or to give to their most distinguished guests. The longer feathers were simply made into treasures for the city … Actually, I felt that this process was quite a waste. If Anurili wanted an amulet, I could have gotten the little crow to pluck one from her on the spot, although the latter would definitely cry.
Anurili spent the past three days in a daze. She didn't even have time to let her overworked brain rest. She was dragged around by our enthusiastic family for a stroll. Of course, everyone who came to the Empire's capital for the first time was more or less the same. It was just that Anurili was dragged around by our family's most unprofessional tour guide, which made it seem even more chaotic. She was astonished by Avalon's wonderland scenery. She didn't expect that there would be such a fairytale-like side to this technological Empire that looked like it was filled with steel. She was even more astonished by the majestic scenery of the Heaven's Holy Capital. She also discovered that she had a hidden fear of heights …
We knew that many places in the Heaven's Holy Capital were military facilities. However, there were also civilian areas that could be opened to the public. Many of the floating platforms and cloud corridors might have been military facilities in the past, but now that their structures had been destroyed, they had become purely tourist attractions in the Heaven's Holy Capital. Under my older sister's suggestion, we gathered these facilities that couldn't be repaired but would be a pity to abandon at the edge of a skyscraper road. We planned to use it as a vacation spot for the citizens of Shadow City. We pulled Anurili up to the highest floating platform in the Sky Garden. We looked down at the majestic sea of clouds and the faintly discernible Dragon Mountain Range at the end of the sea of clouds. We showed her the majestic skyscraper road that stretched all the way to the end of the horizon. We told her about the history of these floating castles and palaces, as well as their magical functions.
Then, the lady vomited and was carried off the floating platform by me …
"I think that if the civilian areas of the Heaven's Holy Capital are to be opened to the citizens of Shadow City in the future, it would be best to write in the guidebook that this place will force people with a fear of heights to their deaths." Miss Lin couldn't help but say this when she saw Anurili's legs turn to jelly.
What Anurili meant was that to be able to see such a majestic place, even if she vomited for an entire day, it would be worth it … However, even though she said this, when Char passed by the Sky Garden and passionately invited us to ride on his back, Anurili still decisively chose to surrender.
By the way, since we had already brought her home, we naturally brought Anurili to the Surface World. After we finished the preparations, we would let her see what Earth looked like. Anurili found it inconceivable that the capital of the Empire was actually in a parallel space with such a seemingly ordinary world. She was even more surprised when she heard about the process of building the capital of the Empire. This lady would never have imagined that just five years ago, the leader of the Empire before her had been struggling with the problem of food for three hundred people.
Auntie Zhao, who worked at the small supermarket on the street, was surprised that our family had a distant relative from Latin America … Because when I introduced Anurili to the neighbors, I said that she came from the other side of the world and that she had Indian blood in her body. Otherwise, there was no way to explain her exotic appearance. Of course, those who were more knowledgeable would definitely not believe that Indians looked like this, but you wouldn't expect the people on our street to know what Latin Americans looked like … Moreover, the neighbors in this area were already used to our strange family. Usually, no matter how strange I brought people on the street, it wouldn't attract any public attention. This was not only a matter of habit, it was also the credit of Sandora. If it wasn't for Sandora's mental interference, I reckon that our family would have long dominated the local newspapers based on the family members. Usually, when I brought my family out, you could feel the great unity of the people of the world just from the color of their skin and hair …
Alright, let's not talk about this. Now it's almost time to get down to business. By the way, it's a miracle that I remembered that I still have business to do.
I didn't call Anurili over just to be a tour guide and introduce her to the customs and traditions of the capital of the Empire. Although for strategic reasons (the main reason was that it sounded high-end), it was important to show her around the capital, but my original purpose was still to let her bring the spiritual creatures home.
In a few days, Gaia had completed the examination of the new spiritual creatures. They were in very good health, and their mental state had stabilized. The three days that he brought Anurili around was actually a buffer for this matter. Now that everything was ready, it was time to let these people, who were already in different forms, meet each other.
Anurili seemed to have an unexpected sixth sense. After breakfast in the morning, she seemed a little uneasy. Perhaps her ancestors were secretly watching this girl who was about to leave a mark in history. In the end, Anurili took the initiative to find me.
At that time, I was busy tidying the little crow's hair. This girl had led her little crows outside for half an hour, and then a naughty little one casually made its "mother's" hair into a bird's nest.
Anurili was already a little used to Emperor Schilling's "ordinary life" and this big house that had nothing to do with the Pantheon no matter how you looked at it. Her gaze didn't linger on the crow god who was pulling her hair for long, but turned to me. "That … Chen … I've been here for three days … Should I …"
"Oh, oh, it's been three days." I was thinking that I would look for her later, but I didn't expect her to come running over on her own. So, I patted the little crow's head and told her to find her sister to solve the problem. Then, I looked up at Anurili. "Do you remember what I said when you came? Actually, I called you over because I have something to give you."
"If it's just material support, there's actually no need to go through so much trouble." Anurili thought that I was referring to normal material support. No wonder she thought that way. "We can feed ourselves now. If there's really something we need urgently, we won't be so pedantic as to not ask at all."
"If it's just that kind of thing, do you think I would specially call you over to the capital world for three days?" I chuckled and opened the teleportation door to Gaia. "Come on, they just finished their test today, and they are in the best condition to be on the road. Also, they want to meet you. Come with me. "
Anurili was confused, but she followed me anyway.
The feeling of weightlessness and imbalance that came with the teleportation door disappeared in an instant. The next moment, we were already standing on the vast and silent land of our home planet, Gaia. Anurili subconsciously grabbed my arm. She still needed to recover from the dizziness of the teleportation. After a while, she looked up in confusion at the unfamiliar scenery around her and the majestic star mountains. "… Where are we?"
"Look up," I reminded her with a smile.
Anurili looked up and saw an upside-down land. It reminded her of the scene she had seen in the Shadow City, but this was obviously not the Shadow City. So, with simple logical reasoning, she could figure out where this place was.
"This is the continent you saw three days ago, the planet that floats above the Shadow City, our home planet, Gaia. Of course, strictly speaking, it should be said that the Shadow City floats above Gaia." I patted Anurili's shoulder to bring her back to reality. "Let me introduce you to someone, Gaia!"
"Gaia is on standby, Your Majesty." A voice suddenly came from beside Anu Lili, and then a pale blue silhouette of a woman appeared out of thin air. Anu Lili was startled by the sudden appearance of the voice and silhouette. She jumped back agilely and then looked at the strange woman curiously, thinking that it was a holographic projection. "Is this a projection? It's so advanced. I can't see where the projection is. "
"Ahem, this is Gaia. What you see … is basically her real body," I explained awkwardly. It was a little hurtful to say such things in front of Gaia, who had already lost her body and could only exist as a silhouette. Of course, Gaia herself didn't seem to mind at all. Gaia even smiled and explained, "No, I don't have a body. My real body is stored in 735 places …"
Anu Lili was instantly filled with horror as she looked at this illusory older sister, her eyes almost popping out of her head …
"Ahem!" I felt that if I didn't say anything, the two of them would end up in a stalemate due to their racial differences. "Gaia, when you have time, tell me more about your personal cloud storage plan. This is Anurili. How are the preparations for the Spirits coming along? "
"They have completed the final adjustments and core packaging. They are waiting to meet with you." Gaia pointed at a triangular building not far behind her.
I took the bewildered Anulili with me and followed Gaia into the place. It turned out that the interior of the building was a crystal facility similar to a Mother Nest. Translucent light blue crystals formed the entire structure of the building. However, its structure was much simpler than a normal Mother Nest. There was only a corridor from the entrance, and at the end of the corridor was the hall where the Spirits were.
"They already know everything, right?" I asked casually as we opened the hall.
Gaia nodded. "Yes, Your Majesty, including what happened after the Merovans were destroyed."
"Chen, what exactly do you want me to see …"
"Anurili, you should still remember your compatriots who were captured and made into the host computer of the human brain array, right?" I glanced at her, and she immediately nodded. She looked like she couldn't bear to remember.
"Let's meet them. Although they look vastly different from the compatriots you remember, I think that their souls are always the same. This is as far as we can go. "
The door opened, and before us was an irregular hall made of crystals. In the middle of the hall, there was a cluster of crystals that looked like a small mountain that connected to the ceiling. In front of the crystal cluster were three humanoid creatures with translucent bodies.
It's impossible for us to bring out so many newborn spirits to meet with Anurili, so we've only chosen three representatives here. It was said that their main consciousness was the first general who died during the resistance against the Merovans' invasion. Although they had been revived in the form of a collective consciousness, and their life form was no longer pure, I could still feel the unique aura of a soldier from these three humanoid creatures.
They were very tall, about two meters in height. Because they were Spirits, they didn't need to walk on the ground, so all three of them were floating more than ten centimeters above the ground. Their bodies had a translucent light blue luster, and although they had a humanoid shape, they didn't have clear facial features. Their entire bodies looked like a thick fog of light. These three spirit creatures had tiny electric sparks coursing through their bodies at all times. That was the energy released by the auxiliary stabilizing device at their core. As they did not possess the talents of true spirit creatures, they could only rely on this device to maintain the stability of their bodies. It was equivalent to their alternative "physical bodies." Of course, this device was definitely much sturdier and more reliable than a normal physical body. I noticed that the eyes of these spiritual beings were emitting a bluish-white glow. This was the only substitute for their featureless faces. This seemed to be a racial characteristic of the Cocokina. Perhaps, when the Parliament resurrected these spiritual beings, they did refer to the racial characteristics of the Cocokina. After all, the synthesis method of the Yuenad people might not be able to be completely copied to other races. Now I was very glad that there were so many races in the Duplicates, and the Parliament could easily find a variety of alternative methods to revive these Spirits.
The Spirits didn't need clothes or accessories, but they still had some armor-like "clothing" on their bodies. This armor didn't look like it was for defense, because it only covered the joints and parts of the limbs. But when I saw that these "armor" were connected to the electric sparks in the core of their bodies, I understood what was going on. They were obviously used to maintain the stability of the Spirits.
The Parliament really put a lot of effort into this work.
"Ruler of the Empire, I salute you." One of the Spirits bowed in my direction and spoke in a hollow but echoing voice. He then focused his attention on Anu Lili. "This is my compatriot … Now, I can feel the deep soul connection with this body. Little girl, I am glad to see that you have finally regained your freedom. "
"This is …" Anurili was a little confused. Perhaps her intuition told her that there was some kind of connection between these ghostly warrior-like beings before her, but her imagination was not enough to connect the dots between them and a spiritual being. I patted her on the shoulder. "I'm an outsider now, so I won't explain. Talk to them, they will tell you everything."
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