Inside the Black Sun.
"We have entered an unidentifiable area."
Sandora suddenly said as the Empire Admiral sailed steadily.
"We're in?" I looked around in surprise. "There's no change at all!"
We were now on a platform at the top of the Empire Admiral. A light blue energy shield protected the area, and Soy Sauce Empire and Zeratul were standing on the platform, trying to see if there was anything spectacular inside the Black Sun.
But there was nothing. Our surroundings were still pitch-black, and we didn't feel like we had entered the interior of a gigantic celestial body. I had thought that a dark red outer shell of a star would suddenly appear above our heads …
Shallow Shallow looked disappointed. The novelty that she had been holding in for so long had vanished. "This is so boring … As expected, it's just as Sandora said. We can't see anything here."
"If you really see the inner shell of a star, you'll be scared to tears."
Sandora crossed her arms and looked at Shallow Shallow with a smile that didn't reach her eyes. She immediately bared her teeth at Sandora. "Then I'll change my personality!"
… That was an invincible solution.
"This is just the outer area of the Black Sun, but the laws are starting to lose their effectiveness," Sandora said as she ordered the flagship to release a small drone. The drone had a special identification code that prevented it from being affected by the chaotic laws. "Look."
The drone was just a shining dot of light in front of us, but very quickly, it underwent an inexplicable transformation. It turned into a huge metal cone, and in an instant, it turned into a blazing fireball. The fireball quickly burned into a huge ball of ice, and then turned into pure light as it dissipated. In the end, it flew past the fleet like a comet.
"Mm, this is a rather common situation, a change in physical form. But sometimes, it can also turn into abstract things like time, knowledge, energy, direction, degree, and so on. When that happens, it would seem as if it had disappeared from your eyes."
I heard Shallow gulp next to me. Then, she hugged my arm tightly.
"Don't be afraid." Sandora smiled as she comforted the girl who was frightened by this strange world. "Firstly, you're a high-ranking apostle accepted by the Schilling Race, and the universal Laws of the world have already determined your immunity to Laws. Secondly, your power of time is also a basic Law. In this place where everything is denied, basic Laws are the most powerful weapons, and they can affect almost everything."
The Empire's fleet slowly stealthily advanced in the endless darkness. They were now inside the Black Sun, or the 'Data Stack Area', which was equivalent to an error zone without an address in a computer's memory. Navigating within was fraught with danger, and even Schilling's army who were immune to Rule Chaos had to be careful. After all, what they were immune to was only the Rule Chaos, not the Rule itself. Everything that was Chaos here was still Order to them, but that which was Order might not be impervious to us.
Especially when there was a revelation in this place.
"It's so quiet here."
Big Sister sighed softly.
"That's because there's no interference here. If anything were to barge into the Black Sun, the Rule Chaos here would turn it into a grand carnival, and it would definitely be lively."
Shadora explained the special interior of the Black Sun in a very calm tone, while Zeratul chanted something in a low voice. The voice sounded hoarse but calm, and it had a rhythm that calmed people's hearts.
"He's praying for the missing warriors and the ancient Shel Naga airship."
Sandora spoke to me through the mental link.
"Pseudo Presence Area is about to appear. Please prepare for impact."
The mechanical battleship broadcast suddenly sounded, and then the shield above our heads turned from light blue to a blinking gold — that was the dazzling phenomenon caused by a violent increase in energy.
"Pseudo Presence Area is something unique to the Black Sun," Sandora explained slowly so that we wouldn't be alarmed. "Although the Black Sun is filled with Rule Chaos that cannot be understood by the world, even if it's Rule Chaos, it often has a self-consistent structure that can explain itself. That's the case for Pseudo Presence Area. The Rule Chaos and Wrong Concepts in the Black Sun are mixed together, and under occasional circumstances, they will form a temporarily stable and expressible state, just like the calm surface of water that occasionally appears in a turbulent flow. This temporary amalgamation of Rule Chaos is called Pseudo Presence Area. It may last for a short period of time, but it could also exist forever. If the Rule Chaos that forms it happens to form a simple temporal logic, then this Pseudo Presence Area can exist forever."
"It is indeed so, Your Majesty," Tawil suddenly took over from the public channel, attracted by our topic. Her mass projection stood beside us, and it seemed that she had suffered quite a bit of interference. "I even found an interesting record in the Empire's database: a Schilling expedition team that was exploring the Black Sun once entered the interior of a Black Sun that was ten billion years old, and coincidentally found a rather stable Pseudo Presence Area. It was actually nurturing a civilization that was born from the Rule Chaos! That civilization was even building their own model of the universe, and they set the world as six dimensions — that was all the dimensions of the Pseudo Presence Area. They believed that the universe was shaped like an egg, and the stable core was their galaxy, while the chaotic outer layer was the egg white. They believed that they could break the eggshell by passing through the layer of chaos, and then come to a more beautiful and vast life outside the eggshell … "
I was instantly attracted by Tawil's description. After all, there wasn't much fun in such a boring dark voyage. "What happened after that? What happened to that civilization? "
Tawil shrugged. "They were completely wiped out once they entered the Rule Chaos Area. They couldn't possibly have the power to resist the Laws, and recklessly venturing into the Lawless Area completely destroyed their fragile home of Order. At that time, the Empire expedition team seemed to have tried their best to save them, but they only had time to take a few photos of those insignificant intelligent beings."
We were silent for a few seconds, and the big sister suddenly said in a low voice, "This story isn't funny at all — continue your work."
As a thorough researcher, Tawil certainly didn't know why we looked a little unhappy, but the obedience in the soul of the Shiring Apostles stopped her from asking. The female researcher bowed at us and slowly disappeared into thin air.
"Life is so fragile," the big sister sighed sadly.
The big sister sighed sadly. She had been like this since young, and would occasionally fall into such a melancholy state. She would begin to sympathize with any strangers she had only heard of. I could even imagine myself being one of those strangers in the beginning. Of course, we were now the closest of kin.
"Everything is fragile," Sandora said a Schilling proverb in a rare emotional tone. "Therefore, everything can become stronger."
I vaguely remembered that this phrase came from a famous person in the Empire. This great person used a phrase to summarize the mentality that the fragile mortal civilization should have when facing their fate. After searching through the database for a long time, I finally found the name of the great person who said this, and I was instantly stunned …
Sandora, please don't show such an intoxicated expression when you say your famous phrase!
The spaceship shook slightly, but it could also be an illusion. We had already come into contact with the pseudo-existence zone. The boundless darkness began to change, and some substance that could be described appeared around us.
"We are 'salvaging'. This is a relatively easy way of saying it. In fact, this process should be called space filtration, a technology to remove debris from chaotic space."
As Sandora spoke, she pointed in the direction of the scouting team in front of us. The small spaceships of the vanguard team were emitting circles of blue and white halos. These halos were like searchlights, illuminating the chaotic space, showing the edge of disintegration on a three-dimensional level. Thus, many 'things' began to show their outlines in the boundless chaotic darkness.
I was really curious, what could be salvaged from the inside of a star? Could there be people living and working in peace in a nuclear reactor that was hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius?
But since this black solar energy was releasing some kind of energy known as a 'revelation', perhaps there really was something strange inside …
Just like how Sandora described it, some strange things were 'salvaged' and sent to us.
Some things that looked like longswords, fragments of armor, remains of crystals, and a simple ball of light — it had no mass or intensity, but it existed in a constant state, just like a point light source in a computer with a bunch of parameters set up.
"These are … their things!?"
While I was still trying hard to guess the theory behind why a bunch of medieval equipment would appear inside a star, Sandora's surprised voice directly interrupted our thoughts.
The big sister quickly turned her head and gave Zeratul a deep look. Zeratul was extremely intelligent and knew some ultimate secrets that he shouldn't know. This experienced Dark Templar bowed to us and said in a low voice, "I shall wait for the gospel that you will bring …"
"Whose things are these?" After Zeratul left the platform, Shallow Shallow could not wait to ask. In just a few seconds, this lass who did not have a steering wheel in her mind had already come up with more than four gigabytes of backstory for these cold weapons.
"Protoss, Star Region Protoss." Sandora carefully took out a black longsword from the anti-gravity field. This item seemed to be rotten, but the moment Sandora touched it, a dazzling light exploded from the sword. When I came back to my senses a second later, the weapon in Sandora's hand had already become a meter long, beautifully decorated straight thin sword. "This is the weapon that their captain-level commanders often use. It is eternal and indestructible. It can cut anything at the level of the natural order."
When this artifact (a genuine artifact!) The moment the light on it lit up, I thought of something completely unrelated: Jingle pointed to the book "Why Artifact Glows – Little Facts You Don't Know About Life", which she explained to me about the problem of Artifact glowing.
"… The reason why Artifact glows is because they all have an automatic cleaning function … The light on Artifact is used for automatic maintenance! It can effectively remove all kinds of stubborn stains … "
Looking at the new thin sword in Sandora's hand, I believed her.
"This place is a battlefield."
After putting down the super weapon in her hand that had completed its self-renewal, which was said to be able to ignore all obstacles and had the ability to "sever" in the natural order, Sandora looked around at the dark surroundings and said resolutely.
A battlefield, a battlefield of the Gods — speaking of which, just how much of a pain in the ass did the Gods have to go to the sun to fight!?
When I asked this question, Sandora smiled and shook her head as she explained, "It's not that they went to the sun to fight. Even the Shiring Apostles were able to go sightseeing in a black sun unscathed. Those Protoss who are slightly stronger than us don't even take the sun seriously. Strictly speaking, when they fight, they even treat the sun as if it doesn't exist. This star doesn't have the honor of being used as a battlefield by the Gods. It just happens to be located on a battlefield … Yep, if that's the case, then the birth of this black sun can be explained. It was formed because the shockwaves from the Gods' battle destroyed its natural order."
I was astonished by this information. This was the first time I had ever directly witnessed the power of the Gods. Just the shockwaves from their battle had transformed a star into a black sun that had lost all its natural laws. In fact, it had even created a small chaotic world within it. Although this level of destruction was only normal compared to the power they possessed, which allowed them to easily change the world, it was still an astonishing feat for an individual to do so.
Even from the perspective of the Shiring Apostles, it was still shocking.
"Who's fighting them? The Abyss? "
I asked out of curiosity as I watched Sandora carefully identify the ancient weapons that could have been hundreds of millions of years old. Sandora was obviously very knowledgeable in this field. She easily identified the markings on the weapons and categorized them. Then, she picked up the light ball that seemed weightless — now I knew that it was a Holy Light Illumination that had yet to explode. Because it was directly created by the Gods' natural order, this magic had formed a self-consistent system that could explain itself. Unless another natural order canceled it out, it would never disappear.
"It's not the Abyss, but another Protoss."
"Another Protoss!?" Shallow Shallow and I exclaimed at the same time. "Aren't the Star Domain Protoss the one and only True God?"
"No, the Star Domain Protoss are True Gods, but they're not the only one. There are two branches of the Protoss. Other than the Star Domain Gods, there's another Protoss system known as the 'Huron'. However, I know very little about the other Protoss. They have almost zero contact with the Xiling Empire. We can even view them as a story: The void is so vast that even the Gods are unable to control the entire void."
Shallow Shallow, Big Sis, and I exchanged glances for a while. We were deeply attracted by this secret that we had never heard before. "The two Protoss are on opposing sides?"
"In the past, they were mortal enemies who viewed each other as False Gods and Evil Gods. However, they were both Gods of Justice who destroyed the Abyss and protected the world. Now, they've made peace with each other. The two Protoss each manage half of the world in the void. Although they don't interact much, their relationship can still be considered friendly. Don't give me that expression. The chances of the Huron Protoss appearing here are zero. The distance between them and this half of the void can no longer be measured by distance. Just treat them as a background story."
"I've never heard of it before. Jingle didn't mention it either."
I scratched my head. I was indeed quite interested in this God System that popped up out of nowhere.
Sandora had a helpless expression on her face. "After all, it's all old stuff. That little one who only knows how to collect sweets and desserts all day long. How could she possibly seriously tell you about the history of war? I'm guessing that she's never even passed her Divine World History class! "
… That was nonsense. History that had been recorded for an infinite amount of time. To be honest, I already felt that the Protoss were too much of a pain in the ass for them to even have a history class …
"Now, we can confirm that the history of this battlefield is really ancient," Big Sis said.
How many hundreds of millions of years would it take to find a ruin from the era of war between two Gods?
And now, I finally connected it to the "Divine Equipment" in Zeratul's hands. Now, there was finally an explanation for the origin of that item: a war between the Protoss had once broken out in the Keplu Star Zone.
"Then, why did it produce a revelation? If it's just a ruin from a war, it should be dead. " Shallow Shallow asked like a curious baby. Now, Sandora had become our library. As the saying goes, if you don't know anything about internal affairs, ask Baidu. If you don't know anything about external affairs, ask Good-For-Nothing … Er, that's the logic.
"I don't know either." To my surprise, Sandora shook her head. "Everything here is chaotic. The basic laws of the universe have been ground into powder here and then reassembled at will. No matter how many times a conventional theoretical model is modified, it's impossible for it to fit the situation here. And Bubble needs some time to build a chaotic model."
The Empire's fleet was still advancing in the Black Sun. We began to come into contact with some scattered gray clouds. These were probably the areas where the nuclear reactions in the Black Sun were the most intense. After all the light and heat had faded away, these nuclear reaction clouds looked as incomprehensible as a random splashed ink painting. However, Sandora told me that these weren't the core of the star's nuclear furnace. On the contrary, these were the areas where sunspots were produced. Because the degree of their reactions was too weak, it was so obvious that it was separated from the surrounding chaos. The darkness that permeated the surroundings was the true nuclear furnace.
We weren't standing in the middle of the ocean and looking at an isolated island. Instead, we were standing on a continent and observing a clear spring.
The salvage continued, but it seemed to be meaningless. Although the battle between the Gods here was the cause of the formation of the Black Sun, it didn't seem to have anything to do with the revelation. We were catching fewer and fewer relics. Gradually, we left this pseudo-existence that was formed by the remnant power of the Gods.
The Laws fell into chaos once again.
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