I felt that we really were a bunch of people who could stir up trouble for no reason.
What could have been explained in a few words had gradually turned into a farce of finger-guessing and counter-guessing, drawing lots and counter-drawing lots, tossing coins and … well, looking for coins in the bushes during the discussion among the main leaders of the Imperium about the naming of the squad.
In the end, Lin Xue was forbidden from participating due to her prophetic ability, I was forced to be the referee due to my political status, and Big Sis expressed that she would not participate, while Liliana was underage (who asked this girl to act young all the time!). Without the right to speak, this debate about "who are we?" finally ended successfully with Qian Qian's voice being the only valid one.
"Now the problem is solved." I faced the Awakeners with all kinds of subtle feelings. "We are the Special Agents of Boundless Love, and we are here to save the world …"
Everyone: "…"
"Big Sis, is this a new entertainment program?"
After a long silence, finally a short and fat boy whose name I still couldn't remember raised his hand, but it was a question to Artemis.
The blonde girl, who had long been petrified by the speechless discussion of the Empire's higher-ups, gradually came to her senses. She blinked and then waved at us. "You are the boss, you have the final say …"
"Alright," I nodded. "Then it's settled. You already know who we are, and Artemis has also told you our purpose. No matter how unbelievable it is, you only need to know one thing: it is 100% real. Now, this world's nightmare is over, and you will soon be able to usher in a new life. That's what I want to say."
Even though I said so, most of the people still had deep disbelief on their faces. Although the world's "sleep" was inconceivable, it was something they had experienced personally, so they had no choice but to believe it. On the other hand, a group of creatures from another dimension who were old acquaintances of their leader seemed more like a fantasy. Everyone here hoped to end their current nightmarish life, but it was precisely because of this that they were unwilling to easily believe in this unbelievable salvation. They wanted to treat this as a new entertainment program arranged by Artemis, even if no one responded to this entertainment program.
Just like the exiles who had been trapped on a deserted island for decades, when one day someone suddenly said that a ship would pass by the next day, their first choice was often not to celebrate, but to self-hypnotize and doubt, because everyone was afraid, afraid of despair after hope.
Their current reaction was also within my expectations. Facing so many pairs of expectant but doubtful eyes, I didn't intend to explain too much, and just waved my hand. "Anyway, everything will end tomorrow. Everyone can disperse now."
After saying that, I didn't care about everyone's reaction and led Shallow Shallow and the others forward. Although the official start of the Shadow City's preparations would be completed the next day, before that, we still had a lot of work to do.
For the less than twenty survivors in the broken world, this was destined to be a sleepless night. The explosive news from Artemis left everyone half-believing and half-doubting. They wanted to believe, but they didn't dare to extravagantly invest that tiny bit of hope in a story that was so ethereal that it seemed like a myth. Thinking about how everything would be revealed the next morning, everyone couldn't sleep in anticipation and worry.
It was the same for us, but not because we were worried, but because we needed to spend the entire day perfecting the entire plan. Previously, Monina had only given us a vague idea, and it was impossible for her, who had skipped half a semester of classes, to know too much about the technical details, and the evaporation of the broken world no longer allowed us to leisurely flip through the data for experiments, so everything had to succeed in one go. That was why we spent the entire night under the natural light of Alaya, studying any possible flaws in the plan the next day — the next morning, the floor of the chemistry department's activity room was covered with more than two kilograms of melon seed shells.
So the next morning, or rather the next noon — this crazy world was thrown into chaos again, and we experienced a seventeen-hour long night. When the first ray of sunlight suddenly appeared in the morning, we realized that this night had lasted for far too long.
In short, after dawn the next day, I noticed that everyone, including Artemis, had huge dark circles under their eyes, and the few of us were able to avoid this embarrassment due to our strong physiques, but we were also yawning non-stop.
Perhaps the historians should record this: The world was reborn under the witness of eighteen pairs of dark circles and a bunch of yawns …
Everyone gathered in the empty space in front of the old building, and even though everyone except Artemis had hypnotized themselves into believing that this was all just entertainment, the Awakeners still gathered here, hoping for a miracle.
"World, connecting."
A soft female voice suddenly resounded across the sky, causing the slightly noisy crowd to instantly quiet down. Everyone looked around blankly, and then followed my gaze, focusing their attention on the sky.
The strange icy blue color was rapidly approaching from the horizon, as if the camera was about to lower the curtain of night. The normal sky and clouds would immediately assimilate upon contact with this icy blue color, losing their original details. When this constantly spreading blue "sky" approached the top of everyone's head, they finally saw its structure clearly. It was a translucent, honeycomb-like hexagonal canopy, like some kind of energy shield. This canopy was the latest result of the joint research of Tawil and Bubble, but due to the lack of time, it was still in a semi-finished state. In short, it was a mutated state of the Schilling Mainframe.
The Schilling Mainframe's digitalization was a common skill they used during self-replication and emergency evacuation, and only they had the talent to quickly switch from matter to information. Tawil and Bubble had managed to convert multiple mainframes into digitalization at the same time, and then temporarily maintain themselves in the middle state of digitalization. This was the basic idea of the "canopy". Now, about thirty Schilling Mainframe had begun digitalization at the edge of the world fragment, and this magnificent blue "canopy" in front of us could temporarily prevent the world from evaporating, and at the same time maintain stability when a large number of Schilling special forces intervened in the world fragment.
"Teleportation successful." The soft synthetic female voice was still echoing in the sky, and now the entire sky was almost completely enveloped by the honeycomb-like canopy. "The landing ship is about to intervene. 'Canopy', please prepare for impact."
"Look, isn't this thing spectacular?"
I mischievously moved behind Artemis, who was gaping in shock, and suddenly said loudly.
"Ah!" The blonde girl's exclamation also awakened Hu Wen and the others who were in a daze at the same time. No one could describe how they felt about the incredible scene in front of them. In the end, Hu Wen sighed and said what everyone was thinking, "… I didn't fall asleep, did I?"
* Bzzt bzzt … * As if energy sparks were ignited in a pipe, an unnatural distortion suddenly occurred in the blue grid-like sky, and a translucent, gigantic mass gradually appeared. Like the refraction of water droplets on a grid-like paper, a long and narrow special shuttle pierced through the information barrier of the world fragment and appeared before the eyes of the onlookers.
It was a small warship that was less than five hundred meters long. Compared to most of the Schilling warships, it was small and exquisite. In order to prevent the fragile world fragment from being destroyed by the violent impact, we could only open a very small spatial tunnel, and the radius of the tunnel was only enough to allow one such small shuttle to enter. Although it was only a spatial tunnel with a radius of less than a hundred meters, it still caused quite a lot of tremors, and the blue honeycomb-like barrier that covered the sky distorted violently before the tremors were neutralized.
The anti-gravity device of the shuttle emitted a faint blue light as it slowly descended and hovered less than a hundred meters from the ground. The landing hatch in the middle of the shuttle slid open silently, and the special forces who had been ordered to come jumped out of the shuttle, and then landed in front of us one by one.
One Sylvia fell, two Sylvias fell, and a whole bunch of Sylvias fell …
A total of fifty Silver Hairs were half a beat slower!
Of course, it wasn't all of them that were half a beat slower. Under the escort of these fifty clone-like girls, there was a petite but extremely eye-catching little girl. She had shoulder-length black hair and was wearing a signature white princess dress. She also had a pair of beautiful gray eyes that were devoid of emotions. She was a duplicate Bubble, and she was the most crucial member of our operation today.
"Ravens are at your command!"
The silver-haired girl who was leading the group flung her long black cape behind her valiantly, and her clear voice interrupted my fantastical thoughts of Sylvia ruling the world.
"Cough cough … Do you all understand the mission?" I came back to reality, and tried to maintain a serious expression as I spoke to the Ravens in front of me.
"Yes, Your Majesty," the Raven Leader nodded. "Enter the ruins of the World Management Terminal, establish the information link, and set up the Schilling Nest and the World Tree Vine!"
"Mm," I nodded, and then looked around curiously. "Where are the helpers that Jingle created? Are they not here yet? "
"They are here." The Raven Leader smiled faintly, and then the fifty Ravens did the same action in unison: reaching into their pockets.
It was a shocking scene. The fifty silver-haired clones took out lollipops from their pockets at the same time, and each of the lollipops had a green-haired, green-winged little thing on it. It was as though someone was shouting a slogan. The fifty little things licked the 'huge' lollipop in unison, completely intoxicated by the sweetness of the candy. They didn't even notice the dumbfounded gazes around them.
Very good, very powerful!
Jingle, just how much do you like lollipops? Even the unintelligent energy clones that you created treat your love for lollipops as a soul instinct?!
I casually picked up a 'Jingle clone' from the Raven Leader's hand. This mindless little thing was still persistently licking the lollipop in its arms, and didn't react to the 'earth shaking' changes around it. However, I reckoned that if someone were to take that lollipop away, this inconspicuous little thing in front of me would definitely explode with the battle power of a tank battalion.
"When the energy clones return, everything that they have experienced will be transmitted back to their parent's body as a collective experience." Liliana's sudden words finally revealed why the fifty Jingle clones would work so hard to eat the lollipops — that little thing wasn't afraid of being sweetened to death!
Under Liliana's lead, the Ravens headed towards the direction of the gymnasium. The shuttle that was transporting them hovered in the small square and gradually changed its posture. The head of the shuttle was facing upwards, as though it was a metal spire floating in the air.
Then, with the base of this' spire 'as the center, a hemispherical energy shield instantly expanded, enveloping the entire small square. This layer of shield wasn't like the normal psionic shield of a warship that emitted a pale blue halo. Instead, it was completely transparent, just like glass. If it wasn't for the distortion of light when passing through the shield, the onlookers wouldn't even be able to see its existence.
"Don't leave the shield! The first impact will reshuffle the fragments of this world. The things outside the shield will be reorganized. You guys will be dead if you stay outside. "
Seeing that Hu Wen was curious about the shield around him and wanted to take a closer look, I immediately shouted to stop him.
"Also, the energy on the shield can burn you into ashes in an instant. Stay away from it!"
Being scared by me, Hu Wen immediately quivered, and then obediently retreated.
"So … so powerful!" The stuttering Bell said in an excited tone, "You … you guys really … came from another dimension to save … to save us?"
"No, we came to save you on the way."
Lin Xue corrected her seriously.
"I'm more concerned about what those weird little things on the lollipops were …"
Artemis' concern seemed to be different from the others, but what you said is very dangerous, be careful of God biting you!
At this moment, everyone's attention was basically attracted by the spaceship above their heads, even Artemis was no exception. This made me a little curious. Logically speaking, she had stayed in a surreal starship like Planet Barrier, so she should have seen a lot. Why was she so surprised to see an ordinary shuttle today?
I really don't know how surprised she will be when she sees the patrol fleet hovering above the shadow city in the future.
That's right, the shadow city. This world fragment was about to connect with the shadow city.
This was all thanks to Monina's experience. Even though she had skipped countless classes, a certain Dark Goddess had quite a lot of knowledge regarding the world management terminal. When we discovered that the 'main system' had already disappeared from that half-plane that was leaking air, leaving only the ruins of the world management terminal, she suggested to us a plan that could not only stop the world's Law corruption, but also save this world fragment that was about to perish. That was to install the world fragment on the shadow city.
This sounded inconceivable, but the discovery of the demiplane that was once used to store the world management terminal made everything possible. Out of all the versions of the world management terminal, Tinker Bell's World Tree Shrine had the best adaptability and growth potential. It had the ability to grow its own "branch" in another dimension. Using this ability, Tinker Bell's Shrine was able to create a clone in the world fragment's demiplane. Back then, the Fallen Apostles who stole the world management terminal made a huge mistake by not destroying the runes at its foundation. This gave us a great advantage.
With the intervention of another set of world management terminals, the current world fragment would achieve a certain degree of "completion". It would regain the ability to generate information on its own, and its out-of-control changes in entropy value would also return to control. The main reason why the world fragment appeared to be in a "dead state" was the freezing of its internal information and the disorder of its self-evolution. With the control of the World Tree, everything would gradually become orderly, and more importantly, according to Schilling's "Information Universe" theory, enough information was solid. As the world fragment gradually produced stable information evolution, the things that had become scattered information inside it could also return to a physical state. This referred to Artemis and her companions. As for those ghost citizens …
Even though we wanted to save more people, unfortunately, their souls had already dissipated. If the current Artemis and the others were still a video, those ghost citizens were only names left in people's vague memories. It was completely impossible to restore them.
All of this was based on the surviving demiplane. If there was no OS, no matter how good a boy was, he wouldn't be able to operate a Gundam. Yep, that should be the logic …
Of course, the intervention of the Temple of the World Tree only helped to fix the internal structure of the world fragment, which was considered a software fix. We had given the system a perfect patch, but leaving the main system with its rear panel open on a Hawaiian beach with a wind speed of 30 meters per hour to suck in the sand was obviously an idiotic action. The world fragment was still damaged, it didn't have a World Barrier, and there wasn't enough time for Doraemon to create a new one for it. To be honest, it was still unknown whether or not Doraemon would be able to create such a thing that sounded so sophisticated. The number of times she had taken a make-up exam on elementary Creation had already become a legend among the Gods. While the world fragment would gradually revive internally, it would also continuously evaporate in the void. Just relying on the Temple of the World Tree to fix the internal structure of the world fragment wouldn't solve the root of the problem. And so, Qian Qian creatively proposed a method to install the world fragment into the shadow dimension. This ingenious plan caused me to be dumbfounded, but what made me even more dumbfounded was that Tarver actually announced that it was possible!
Heavens, an information bomb that had almost blown up the real world was now announced to be digested and absorbed by the Shadow Dimension?
Wouldn't our Shadow Dimension suffer from diarrhea?
"If Jingle's Basilica is able to control the laws of the world fragment, then naturally, we can rewrite it as well. We can slightly adjust the constant of the conflict between the two worlds, and then, the world fragment will be harmless to the Shadow Dimension." Tawil explained this principle to me last night. "Furthermore, we can build a powerful Schilling Mother Nest in that demiplane. Using the powerful computing power of the Schilling Host, we can continuously correct the errors caused by the conflict between the two worlds. It won't take long for the Shadow Dimension and the world fragment to merge into one. All we need is a little more time, and we will reap great rewards!"
A plan that perfectly combined technology and mystery. For the first time in my life, I felt sincere admiration for Shallow Shallow's directionless thinking ability!
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