Not only did I feel conflicted, even Sandora felt conflicted when facing this technological revivalist party. Not only did I feel conflicted with the technological revivalist party, but I also felt conflicted with the Lost God Church. From the looks of it, both parties seemed to intend to save the world — and each believed in it.
The Lost God Church's actions of sealing away their technology seemed unreasonable. From my point of view, it was going against the trend of history and hindering the development of the times. However, their founders were Tree Elves, a group of people who had seen what true advanced technology was like. They wouldn't be scared to death just because technology was advanced, yet they chose to seal away their technology. Then, there was a question mark on this entire matter. The Church must have a reason for sealing away their technology. Thinking about the Tree Elves' experience, it was likely related to the pursuit after the collapse of the Old Empire, so it couldn't be denied.
The technological revivalist party's attempt to revitalize the entire civilization was also understandable. In fact, in many people's worldviews, this way of thinking was progressive (let's not talk about the radicals for now). After all, people always had to look forward. However, I didn't seem to have come into contact with a normal worldview in the past two years. So, in a situation where there were all sorts of strange worlds, it was hard to say whether the technological revivalist party's actions were good or bad. After all, we didn't know what the Lost God Church's goal was tens of thousands of years ago. What if there were two million Fallen Apostles or a Gate of the Chaos Abyss sealed in the depths of the universe or outside the World Barrier? The technological revivalist party would run out and shout at the top of their lungs while everyone was trembling in fear in their tree holes. Who would be responsible for the end of the world?
However, both parties didn't seem to know the "ultimate truth." At the very least, the technological revivalist party didn't know. The higher-ups of the Lost God Church might know, but the grassroots were just as clueless as the technological revivalist party.
So, before figuring out what the secret was, it was best not to act rashly with your imagination. This was the experience I had accumulated over the past two years. Ever since I found out that the Dark Protoss and Light Protoss were as close as a family, I didn't dare to jump to conclusions about any faction.
So, in the face of the female leader's request for help, Sandora and I could only shake our heads (of course, Sandora couldn't shake her head right now, so she chose to shake her head vigorously to express her denial). Let's wait for the truth to be revealed first. After all, a few more days wouldn't matter. Didn't this planet survive for tens of thousands of years? After the female leader heard my explanation, she didn't continue to insist. She probably wasn't convinced by me. She just thought that she wouldn't be able to convince a group of "foreigners" with her own words, so she didn't waste any effort. She was quite a smart woman.
In the end, Sandora and I talked some sense into the female leader (I think it was a kind of talk) and told her to stay here and wait for the good news. I patted my own conscience and announced that I was a good alien who was willing to help others. Of course, since the local XLTV signal couldn't be received, there was no way to find the news team to confirm this matter. However, the female leader seemed to have accepted her fate and expressed that she would cooperate with the few days of house arrest.
To be fair, this place is better than the underground palace she lived in before. Even the leader's suite didn't have a 200-square-meter bedroom like this. I really think there's something wrong with the design of this prison!
Just as Sandora and I were about to leave, the female leader couldn't help but call out to us. As a local who had come into contact with visitors from outer space for the first time in tens of thousands of years, she still had something to say. "Wait! I … can I ask what the 'outside world' is like? "
"It's hard to explain. Even if I show you a documentary, you'll probably just watch it for fun. Anyway, it's beyond your imagination." I pointed at the holographic projection on the table. "You can look for it yourself. I've prepared something to relieve your boredom. This thing supports telepathic control. It's very simple. In addition, you can also use it to contact the people in the other rooms … and at the same time, let them feel at ease. "
"You obviously have very advanced technology." The female leader seemed a little nervous. She simply stood up and weighed her words. "This means that knowledge is not a sin … In fact, there is actually a safe way to develop to your stage? You haven't sealed technology before? "
Oh, the other party finally raised the key question. As a native who grew up in an environment where technology was sealed, the education she received from a young age was that 'the higher the technology, the more likely it is to die'. She was already used to the repressed way of thinking and the slow advancement of her civilization. Even if the technological revivalists were the progressive elements of the planet, her knowledge was limited to a very small area. Now that the visitors from outer space had appeared, she had seen with her own eyes advanced technology that could almost be described as unimaginable. It even surpassed the technology of ancient civilizations. Do you still need to ask how much this female leader's worldview would need to be reconstructed after the disaster?
I reckoned that deep in her heart, what she wanted to say the most was: What happened to the promise that we would die if we developed technology?
"We haven't sealed technology, and there's no need to do so." I shook my head. "In fact, normal civilizations don't need to go through this process. You just encountered … probably encountered some very rare things. This is not a good thing, but I will help you. I just need a little time. We first have to confirm the safety of the entire process."
"In other words, the course of our civilization is really strange?!" The female leader's expression was very bad. "Are there really many other civilizations in this world? What do they look like? "
"It's not just this world. You will see many other worlds. Many worlds are filled with life, and some of them are even more miserable than you. Don't think that your fate is too unfair, because in the endless void, the concept of 'fairness' is meaningless. Life and death are largely determined by probability. Only the survivors have the right to unite and build up justice." I waved my hand and walked towards the exit with Sandora in my arms. I left her with my final words. "In the face of the natural survival rate of a trans-dimensional civilization, every civilization that is still alive should thank fate for its favor. You have at least lived one more day than those who have already died. Although you have to start all over again, at least you can start all over again."
A single cell (Actually, it should be considered a high-end bedroom? Even my house isn't as spacious as this place!) The door behind me closed softly. The female leader's last words faintly came from behind the door. "Wait a minute, I don't understand what you said about the void. It's quite impressive, but I don't understand —"
I was speechless.
At this moment, the door had already closed. Sandora was laughing hysterically in my arms. Although I didn't understand why a ball would laugh until she couldn't breathe, she was already jumping out so fast that afterimages could be seen. "Ahahaha, Ah Jun, you're doing this again … I told you not to read too many novels, and don't pretend to be deep and profound. You're not suited for this route … Can you please consider the audience's knowledge when you say these high-class lines …"
I was speechless. Hugging my wife ball, I made a threat that couldn't be replicated. "Do you believe that I'll twist you into a strip if you laugh again!"
Sandora was speechless.
After a few seconds of silence, Sandora muttered in a muffled voice, "Ah Jun, your humor is really strange."
"… Hehe …"
"Speaking of which, what do you think is the reason why the Pope only has a lifespan of a hundred years?" Sandora had lived with me for many years. At this moment, she skillfully changed the topic. "Furthermore, it's the Technology Pope and the Magic Pope who both have their lifespans limited at the same time. This means that it isn't simply a problem with technology or magic. There should be a higher reason."
I sighed. "I only know that if this information is true, then the two Popes who established the Church of God are both dead. I'm afraid that the new Pope will not know much of the truth. We might have to look for other Tree Elves to inquire about the situation … I don't know how much those legendary Cardinal Bishops know. If even the historical inheritance of the Tree Elves is a problem … The two of us can either use our unreliable archeological skills or wait until we recover to our peak and forcefully rush out of this world. No matter what, we should be able to see things more clearly by standing outside of this world. "
We left the prison camp of the Admiral of the Empire. Before setting off for the edge of the Milky Way, we first took a detour to the Medical District. The two guests who had been revived had already woken up. However, since they had died once, their spirits were still a little weak. Their souls also needed to slowly reunite with their bodies. Thus, they were temporarily placed in a cabin near the Medical District.
Qingye and Leon experienced the same psychological shock as the people who were reviving technology. When they woke up, they saw an unfamiliar alloy cabin, high-tech equipment that they didn't understand, an inhumane military life assistant AI, and autonomous robots that could stop children from crying at night (Once again, I feel that these little robots are quite cute). These things gave the two adventurers a fright. Furthermore, they had just woken up today, so they seemed to be even more panicked. However, they were luckier than the female leader in that the two of them were together. At least they had a companion, and it seemed like they could recover quickly by consoling each other. Sandora and I didn't have much to say to these two adventurers (one of them was a trainee combat nun). The main thing was to let them calm down and recuperate quietly. At the same time, let them believe that this place was neither heaven nor hell. Even the demons in hell wouldn't have eight robotic arms …
Those autonomous robots were clearly very cute, so why can't you guys understand? Do you know how cute Gaia usually looks when he hugs an autonomous robot and chats with it? Who wouldn't be interested in the combination of the Electronic Enchantress and robot pets?
Alright, I admit that a certain Electronic Enchantress (Gaia) is a little far from here. Also, her robot pets are a bunch of electronic squids and mechanical spiders that are larger than a human. This is indeed not easy to accept …
But as soon as Leon woke up, he fought with the autonomous robots in the medical area for two hours, which was more difficult to understand. "Don't be impatient, muscular demon. The" technological evil spirit "with eight mechanical tentacles in your eyes is actually a nurse here. She just wants to give you a physical examination, okay?" But now that the checkup is complete, he can jump around and duel with the electronic squids for two hours as soon as he wakes up. This muscular man's body is definitely not a problem.
In the lounge of the medical area, two autonomous robots were cleaning up the mess on the floor. Leon was sitting on the bed with bruises all over his body as he listened to me and Sandora explain the situation. I must emphasize that all the bruises on his body were caused by himself.
"Err, I'm just a little nervous. Qingye is beside me. I'm afraid that she'll get hurt. This thing called an autonomous robot that you mentioned looks really scary." Leon revealed an awkward expression after he roughly understood what was going on here. But as soon as he said this, Sandora and I lost our temper. The muscular demon seemed to be more straightforward, but this pure manly reason made it hard for us to find any flaws. After all, not every man would have the guts to duel with a bunch of electronic squids just to protect his wife.
Although he lost (courting death) quite miserably in the end.
Of the two in front of us, one was a veteran adventurer (although his brain was a little slow-witted), and the other was a trainee combat nun (although I have never seen her combat strength, she seems more like an ordinary wife). Even if we were to throw them on the planet below, they would be considered famous characters. At the very least, in some regions, they would be considered as characters that could cause chaos in Jingle. But here, they were indeed of no use. Leon was just an ordinary person. The highest understanding he had of ancient relics was that they could be exchanged for a lot of money. Thus, he could buy a big house for himself and his girlfriend to live in. Qingye was just a young Tree Elf. She was "merely" ten thousand years old. When she was born, this planet was already in an era where communication and transportation depended on walking. Originally, I had intended to search three generations of Qingye's ancestors to see if there were any elders who had survived from the Ancient Civilization until now. But when I asked her, I had to say — they were all dead …
It seemed that the Lost God Religion was also brainwashing the younger generation of the Tree Elves. Qingye didn't know anything about the Ancient Civilization.
Thus, Shadora and I categorized the two lovers in front of us as harmless but useless temporary guests. We didn't discuss the ancient civilization with them anymore. We only promised to send them back to the surface to live their own lives after they fully recovered. Of course, it was their own problem as to how they were going to explain their resurrection to Celine. In short, Leon patted his chest and guaranteed that he wouldn't reveal Sandora and my identity as "extraterrestrial visitors" for the time being. In any case, the matter should be resolved soon. When that time comes, no one would stop them from resigning and writing their memoirs at home.
After settling down all the guests of the Admiral of the Empire, Sandora and I teleported to the distant space through the teleportation gate. The edge of the local Milky Way, an empty and desolate region that wasn't normal.
This was the end of the Milky Way's rich material belt. However, the space clouds abruptly stopped here. The gas clouds a few light-seconds away seemed to be blocked by an invisible barrier. From afar, one could see a rather obvious, "smooth" layer of cloud cliffs. The stellar belt on the other side of the boundary layer also abruptly stopped. According to the distribution of matter in this area, there should be at least two stars or air masses of corresponding mass or other matter masses within ten light-years in front of us, and a few hundred light-years away, there should be an aging celestial region, but in fact, there is nothing: the matter of the Milky Way has been cut off here prematurely.
You can imagine that in front of you is a picture of the Milky Way (not necessarily the Milky Way as humans know it, any galaxy would do), and in the corner of this picture, an area that should have been bright with stars had been erased. Within a few dozen pixels, there was only darkness. This was what Sandora and I saw.
Of course, it wasn't that there was nothing. In this empty space that spanned hundreds of light-years, there were some scattered man-made facilities scattered in the center of this region, a little closer to the center of the Milky Way. For humans, they were huge, but for space, they were so small. The facilities, which were not even the size of a solar system, were like a grain of sand in the Ganges River. Their weak residual energy was almost ignored by Sandora and me.
Sandora and I sat in the newly built highly autonomous engineering ship (Thank you, the Empire Admiral, for having an awesome industrial park) and cruised in space. A few deep space probes led the way in front of us. Those probes were the ones who discovered the ruins.
"There are obvious traces of artificial modification in the entire empty region. The method is very clever. Not only did they block the flow of matter in a large area, they also made this region stick close to the entire Milky Way to prevent the environment from changing." Sandora looked at the readings sent back by the probes. She floated above the control panel of the engineering ship and seemed to be in a good mood. "The energy reaction here is very complicated. There seems to be psionic energy, but there are other types of energy that we have never seen before. The 'level' of this energy is similar to psionic energy, but the frequency is a little special. To be honest, I don't believe that this is the handiwork of the tree elves. They didn't have this kind of technology back then."
"Perhaps it was left behind by the other races that fled here with them." I thought about the mixed situation on that planet, but I shook my head with uncertainty. "It still doesn't seem right. We didn't find any psionic energy facilities on that planet. The ancient towers still use electromagnetic waves to communicate."
The engineering ship entered an ancient space facility. The image from the external monitor showed a group of strange-looking geometric structures. Although these large geometric structures looked strange, it was obvious that they were not of the same style. Some of the geometric structures were mainly cubes, while others had a smooth outer shell that was made up of spheres and ellipsoids. There were also some facilities that had energy veins similar to the Empire style (most of them were dim) on the surface. The remaining facilities did not have such characteristics. All the signs indicated that this ruin was a "hybrid." It was likely that it was built by many civilizations.
"I am scanning the structure of these things." Sandora used her spiritual power to control the engineering ship's submechs. The submechs were leading a large group of autonomous robots to the nearest building complex for analysis. "Many of the facilities are obviously defensive turrets, but the rest of the functions are unknown. This is not the style of the Empire, so it will take some time."
"How's the technical level?" I asked casually.
"Compared to the Empire? The technological level is very far apart, but it has reached the level of using supernatural energy (psionic energy and normal energy). Most of the civilizations that escaped from the polluted area were at this level. "Sandora shook her body." Hmm, these facilities are really strange. They seem to be simple warehouses, energy furnaces, docking ports, and weapons platforms. Are these just peripheral facilities? "
While Sandora was puzzled, the engineering ship began to move towards the core of the ruins.
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