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Today, I was playing chess with the little crows. The chess pieces were Crow God figurines and wild Jingle figurines. These little ones wore mini armor and uniforms, and acted as the chariots and horses on the chessboard. It looked weird, but it was one of the little ones' favorite pastimes.
I commanded a wild Doraemon to take a step forward on the chessboard. Then, I watched as the little crow figurine fought with the wild Doraemon. In the end, according to the rules of chess, the little crow figurine, which should have been eaten off the chessboard, used its superior physical skills to kick the wild Doraemon out of the chessboard … Don't be surprised, the rules of chess at my house are just that amazing. Although the ones playing are other people, who wins or loses on the chessboard is still dependent on the girls' ability to play. I really don't know how I was so excited to play with the little crow until now.
At that moment, I suddenly felt something in my heart. I heard Tawil's anxious voice through our mental connection, "Your Majesty, there is news from the other side. The ancestors sent it."
"What happened?" I could tell that Tawil's tone was abnormal. I realized that this wasn't the "normal" news from a few days ago. I instantly frowned. Although the little crow on the other side didn't know what was going on, it was able to sense the atmosphere. Thus, it nimbly recalled the figurines on the chessboard back into its hair. Then, it looked at me curiously along with a large group of wild Doraemon.
Tawil didn't reply directly. Instead, he sent me an organized document. I quickly read through it and forcefully suppressed the waves in my heart, "Does Sandora know? What about Halland and the others? "
"It has been sent to all the General and above Shiring Apostles," Tawil replied. "Her Majesty Sandora suggested an emergency meeting. Should we start now? Do you want a virtual conference or … "
"Go to the Shadow City's headquarters. This is an important matter," I decided quickly. Then, I hesitated for a moment before deciding to bring a few other people along. "Also, inform the Abyss Schilling and ask her to pass the message to the apostles who meet the requirements of her authority. They are also qualified to do so. "
Tawil didn't have any questions. He agreed and went to prepare the venue. I turned around and saw a curious little face almost sticking to the tip of my nose. The little crow intimately rubbed against my body. "Master! Caw! What happened? "
"Don't worry, it's not a bad thing." I rubbed the silly bird's head. "We found the reason for the destruction of our homeworld … and we found it under such circumstances."
The little crow tilted her head and looked at me. It was obvious that she didn't have much experience with this problem. I could only pat the little girl's head and ask her to wait at home. Then, I opened the teleportation door to head to the Shadow City. Sandora was originally in the Shadow City and Shallow Shallow and her sister would probably open the teleportation door later on. They were currently taking a stroll outside.
The moment the teleportation door opened, before I could step into it, I heard the sound of bare feet stepping on the floor from the second floor. Then, a drawn-out voice sounded from afar, "My child's father, wait for me …"
I looked at the lolita child's mother in a white dress pouncing towards me like a hungry tiger. I raised my hand and caught her in mid-air. Then, I grabbed the poisonous otaku girl and shook her in the air. "Shouldn't you be working overtime in the Shadow City? Why didn't you tell me that you were back? "
The Bubble shook twice in the air. "I just came back. The first thing I did was to greet the figurine in the house. Then, I'll greet you. However, there are more important things to do now. I can only put the figurine aside. My child's father, let's hurry up and go!"
I was speechless.
However, it was normal for the Bubble to occasionally do things. At the very least, she would put down her figurine in the face of important matters. So, I didn't bother to argue with her. I just tucked the little girl under my armpit and stepped into the teleportation door.
After exiting the teleportation door, I arrived at the Shadow City's headquarters. There were already many people seated in the conference room. Those who had the authority of a general or above and were currently on standby in the Shadow City were qualified to attend the meeting. I looked around and found my seat. Then, I brought the struggling mother to her seat. As the main host, the Bubble had special authority. She wasn't a general or a branch leader, but she was the super administrator of all the databases in the Empire. So, when it came to 'confidential' matters, she had the right to know (but not necessarily the right to make decisions).
"Hey, Chen." Just as I sat down beside Sandora, I heard a loud voice behind me. "I was also called over … Why does it feel so weird? Does a half-baked Apostle like me count as one? "
"Who asked you to be the branch leader? The system recognizes that every branch leader has the authority of a general. There can't be a situation where a branch family is excluded from the circle of the Empire, right?" I turned my head and bared my teeth at Icetis. I realized that the female rogue had an excited look on her face. "Anyway, it doesn't matter if you know about this matter. It will be made public soon. But speaking of which … Now, do you understand how I feel as a Shiring Apostles? Does it feel weird for you to participate in this kind of 'internal meeting' for the first time? "
"A little," Icetis, as the weirdest Shiring Apostles in history, couldn't help but reveal a restless look. She tidied up her long dress and looked at me with a serious expression. "Then, do you think my current appearance is appropriate?"
I looked at the female rogue who was rarely serious. "It's appropriate. But put away the brick in your hand first."
"This is a notebook! I have a habit of taking notes during meetings … "Icetis wanted to quibble, but she accidentally touched the chain below the 'notebook'. Thus, she put away her brick with a dry laugh. Then, her expression changed." Is what the notice said true? The destruction of my homeworld has something to do with the construction of the bridge? "
I nodded silently and didn't say anything else. At the same time, a distorted teleportation door suddenly appeared in the air not far away from me. A beautiful silver-haired figure walked out of it briskly. It was Belavilla.
"I thought you wouldn't be able to come." Halland lifted her head to look at her. "Isn't Silvia the one in charge at this time?"
"If it was something else, I wouldn't have come. But it's different today." Belavilla smiled as she sat on the seat of the Emperor-class Shiring Apostles. She looked at the people around her, and her gaze suddenly fell on a tall and skinny man with a straight face. That was the leader of the Fallen Apostles who came with Abyss Schilling, Ivan Thain. "It seems that everyone who can come is here. Even the 'old friends' from the Abyss are here … It can be considered a grand meeting."
"The Abyss is having a meeting too." Abyss Schilling was three seats away from me. She chuckled at me. "It's being broadcasted through me. Let's not talk about the 'orthodoxy' of the two Empires first. Chen Jun was right about one thing: The Fallen Apostles are also qualified to know about these things. Our homeworld belongs to all of us. "
"Everyone should be here." I lifted my head to look at the seats opposite me. Then, I realized that two seats were empty. "Why is the seat of the general empty? This room should have automatically set up seats according to the specific attendees, right? "
As soon as I said that, two ahoge's hair stood up. Pandora and Visca's voices came from the 'empty seats'. "Brother, we are here!"
I said, "… Oh, everyone is here. Let's get down to business."
"Everyone should have received the information." Sandora didn't beat around the bush and went straight to business. "This information came from the other side of the river. The sender is Ancestor Anthus. At the end of the document, there is a guarantee of the authenticity of the information. In addition, through technical means, we have confirmed that there are no problems with the signal source and the encryption process. We can directly treat it as real information. "
"If this information is true," I naturally continued Sandora's words. "Then there is a high possibility that our homeworld was destroyed due to man-made reasons, and it was precisely because of an unsuccessful bridge construction."
Even though this information had already been sent to everyone's memory bank, when I said this conclusion again, it still caused a small buzz.
"This is the original text of the information." Sandora placed the complete report, which was divided into more than ten times, on the holographic projection so that everyone could see it. "Remember, it is not a hundred percent certain now. We can only say that there is a ninety percent chance that our homeworld is the 'new world' mentioned in the information."
I didn't look at the holographic projection because I knew what it was saying.
"… We have further contact with the Federation of Rings. They have gladly opened up their database in bridging and other fields, including various technical documents, as well as files and files related to bridging. These technical documents should have been confidential, but firstly, the technology needed for 'bridging' is difficult to apply in other aspects, and the harm is limited if it is leaked. Secondly, we have been seen as a 'technical partner', and it seems that we have gained a great deal of trust …
… The technical documents have been organized into multiple data packets, and will be forwarded to the Empire after the second relay station goes online. We have also found something shocking in the historical files: as each Void cycle is very long, enough to produce several super civilizations, many civilizations had attempted to build bridges before the Federation of Rings. These civilizations that attempted to build bridges have now all perished, but the various records of their bridging have been preserved, and have been passed down for a long time in this side of the civilization sphere …
… There was once a bridging civilization that had the ability to directly launch a probe to the other side and ensure the survival of the probe. That civilization was named Σ. Their probe reached the other side, which was the Void where the Empire and the Protoss were, and found a 'new world' that was extremely suitable as a 'bridge pier', so they unilaterally activated the starting end of the long bridge …
… as we did not know enough about bridging and did not know that building a long bridge required two starting ends for calibration, the bridging that was closest to success still failed in the end. The long bridge survived for twenty-one seconds before collapsing, and the 'new world' that carried the bridge was heavily damaged. The Σ civilization also suffered from the backlash of the Abyss, and never recovered. It lasted for 120,000 years before it was swallowed up by another super civilization …
… This file mentioned the basic situation of the 'new world', including spatial parameters, cosmological constants, matter spectral bands, and a star map. It is more than 90% similar to the world in our memory …
… The hypothetical map of the 'Void Bridge' that collapsed back then (the exact information has been lost) was in the form of a massive spatial rift, completely different from a normal Gate of the Abyss, like a long eye … It is more than 90% similar to the 'Gate of the Abyss' that destroyed the world in our memory … "
After that, there were some more fragmented descriptions. Clearly, the ancestors could not sort out too many coherent things from the numerous ancient files in such a short time. After all, they were mortals, and not supercomputing units like the Bubble. But even the slightly messy information was enough to show a lot of things.
"The situation is very clear." Sandora coughed softly. "A very long time ago, even before the Federation of Rings and the Empire on the other side were established, there were many attempts to build a bridge on the other side. One of the civilizations called Σ was the Void Overlord on the other side. They had brilliant deep diving technology and sent probes to the other side. This just happened to confirm the information we have from the Protoss: the home world was once visited by a super civilization, but the Protoss did not find any traces of the super civilization around the home world.
Now, it seems that the Σ civilization did not know enough about building a bridge, or they misunderstood the concept of 'starting work from both ends' and thought that they could start building a bridge by sending a probe here. So their bridging attempt failed, and a rift containing the power of the Abyss was opened in the home world, which indirectly led to the 'Primordial Disaster.' The Σ civilization also became a burial object in this process.
The truth that our race has been searching for until now may really be like this. "
Sandora still cautiously used the word "may", but to be honest … I think this is the truth.
In fact, I had guessed this long before today: the destruction of the home world was really strange, and the scenes before the end of the world were different from normal Abyss phenomena, so I suspected that it had something to do with 'building a bridge' from the beginning.
But it had been so long since the destruction of the home world, so long that the Schilling Civilization that was almost wiped out had developed all the way to become the Third Protoss of the Void … In such a long time, the race that almost succeeded in building a bridge never appeared, and the Void Bridge only existed in blueprints until now. There were only two possibilities: either my guess was wrong, and the home world had nothing to do with building a bridge, or … the civilization that tried to build a bridge was already extinct.
Either way, it was definitely not the Federation of Rings on the other side — their deep diving technology was obviously not up to that standard.
After Shadora's voice faded, the room fell into a short period of silence. I saw a tuft of hair swaying behind the table on the opposite side, so I asked, "Weska, if you have any opinion, just say it."
"Oh." Visca jumped off the chair and stood up … Actually, standing was no different from sitting. Since the chair was high to begin with, I could still see some of her hair when she was sitting, but now I could only hear her voice coming from under the table. "Big brother, big brother, what are we going to do? Take revenge? But the civilization that built the bridge back then is already extinct. "
As expected of Pandora's twin who was a war maniac, the first thing that came to her mind was to fight.
"As Visca said, the culprit of the original disaster has already self-destructed, so the premise of 'revenge' doesn't exist." Halland coughed lightly and said slowly, "Today, I would like to announce another matter: the details of the original command have been modified."
Since I was only a 'Foreign Apostle', when Halland mentioned the original command, I didn't realize what it meant. But soon, I remembered the concept of these four words and was instantly horrified.
The original command, the strongest obsession in the hearts of the Schilling people when they fled from their homeland, was also the first action plan that was instilled into the first generation of Apostles when they were born, and was the driving force of this powerful war race until now: revenge.
Perhaps it was difficult for emotional and fickle mortals to understand what this' original command 'meant, but to the Shiring Apostles, the importance of the original command was even greater than their own lives!
Revenge, endless revenge against the culprit who caused the 'original disaster'. They were driven by hatred until now, ignited by hatred, but not consumed by hatred. Instead, they controlled the power of hatred and allowed themselves to evolve step by step to where they were today. Everything was for the sake of revenge against the culprit, even if the culprit was something that could never be destroyed, even if the culprit was a 'natural phenomenon' in the void, they must continue to fight. That was the original command.
Before today, the target of vengeance in the hearts of the Shiring Apostles was the 'Abyss'. It was simple and clear, but now the target of vengeance suddenly became complicated. It was indeed the Abyss, but the Abyss was only a part of it. There were so many causes and effects behind that disaster: a super civilization that had long perished, a failed attempt to build a bridge, a collapsed gate, the out-of-control Abyss … A simple apocalypse had finally been reduced to a complicated and huge operation, and the destruction of their homeland was only a 'small problem' in this operation!
"The core of the original command is' revenge ', but now the target of our revenge has perished, and the Abyss is only a small factor in that' accident '. It is not qualified to be the one responsible for the whole thing," Sandora said in a low voice. "Therefore, the original command and the current situation are in conflict. According to the corresponding logic left by our ancestors, we can assume that the condition for' revenge 'is missing and has been terminated."
"Liberate the race from the obsession of 'revenge'?" A cunning glint flashed in Belavilla's eyes. She seemed to have guessed what Sandora meant. "Then our long-term war with the Abyss …"
"This war will never end. As long as the world of Order is still under the threat of the Abyss, the Schilling Civilization will continue to move forward." Sandora looked at Belavilla. "But our initial motivation is no longer the obsession of revenge, but a more simple and longer-lasting power: the defense of Order and the glory of the Empire. This is also the intention of our ancestors — but they did not force us to change the original command as creators, they only made the above suggestion. Now, let's vote. This may be the smallest meeting of the Emperors in history, and also the most diverse meeting, with all the generals and above having the right to vote. This vote is of great significance. Does anyone object to the revision of the original command? "
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