Yan Feng Qili's conjecture about the nature of the world was as childish and ridiculous as the idea of a round sky and square earth in human ignorance. Although there were some parts that fit the reality, it was just a simple model. But I really did not expect that the [Bloody Moon] would really explode according to Yan Feng's conjecture.
I didn't even have a minute to rest. I had just killed the Roman Einherjar Legion in the inner world, and now I had to play a game with Yan Feng Qili's mini boss team in the surface world. I finally met the final boss, but after a few dialogs, the scene had to be switched back to the inner world. There was no time for me to breathe. Can you at least give me some time to pause the game?
But even if I complained, the situation would not wait for me. I still had to get down to business.
Yan Feng's magic power had been completely sealed by me. This person's only goal was to search for the truth of the world. For this kind of fellow, it was easy to deal with him harmlessly. I had Dingdang hand over the picture book she had drawn when she was in kindergarten, claiming that it was an ancient book that recorded the mysteries of the world. Afterwards, Yan Feng eagerly believed it. I reckoned that any one of the pictures in the booklet would be enough for him to earnestly study until he died. In addition, Yuanban would be responsible for monitoring him in the future. Yan Feng's Qili ceremony had been dealt with.
As for the unlucky gunman Cuchulin — please allow me to use the insignificant adjective "unlucky" to describe this man who was comparable to Xiang Lin's wife. You can't imagine how confused I was when Kuchulin, the iron-masked man, threw a pile of mosaic material in front of us. It was not until Saber explained it to me that I connected the pile of things to Cuchulin.
The process was very simple. It was a complete group fight. According to the accurate process provided by Saber, Cuchulin first relied on his complete form to become a superman for fifteen seconds. That was called "hehe". He completely suppressed Saber and the others who only had one-fifth of their strength, and then …
After that, Rider lost his temper from the beating.
It was completely unimaginable that the honest and quiet Rider, who always played the game alone, would go berserk. She directly applied for complete liberation, and even Midea and Sasaki turned into their complete forms. Cuchulin, who did not expect that everyone in front of him was level five, only had time to curse before his face was covered with a layer of mosaic.
And now, he had to respectfully bow to the three women and one man who had just beaten him up. Sakura's tentacles … cough cough, he had become a glorious recruit in the Avalon Einherjar Army.
After dealing with the last two troubles, we returned to the Otherworld. Naturally, Enban and Ilya also followed us out of curiosity. Anyway, we could not get rid of these two big and small bugs, so it was fine as long as they did not ask to follow the army to the Moon.
Renault and his army had already set up a temporary outpost at the place where they first landed. Dozens of photon cannons that had been switched to cannon mode formed a circular defensive circle. In front of the cannon, a series of bunkers and emergency missile towers were set up at a distance of a hundred meters. These small integrated buildings were obviously built using the modular technology of the Proteans. Although we did not know if they were built directly through hyperspace transmission, it was already a huge leap in construction technology to be completed in such a short period of time since we left.
And in the middle of this simple and effective fortification stood a Xi Ling Space Sensor that was about a hundred meters tall. It was obviously the Xi Ling Space Sensor that had been transmitted from the City of Shadows as a whole. The crystal-metal hybrid tower that was emitting a faint blue light had been broken down into a few independent cylindrical components. They rotated slowly in the air, making a low 'woo woo' sound in the wind. It seemed to have been activated.
As for the huge battlecruiser, the Huberian, it hovered silently in the air behind the entire defensive circle, like a dark cloud or a dormant giant beast that had landed on the ground. This was definitely not something that the original power system of the Huberian could achieve, but something like an anti-gravity engine from the Empire.
Even though there were no enemies in the inner world, Renault did not let down his guard at all to set up such a tight defensive structure. This showed the rigorous style that he had cultivated through many years of difficult wars.
Of course, it was the first time that Enaka and Ilya had seen such an alien base that only appeared in sci-fi movies. After all, the grand but dazzling alien landing battle that they had seen before was different from the super-advanced base that they could observe. The moment they entered the outpost, they immediately looked around curiously. Even Red A, who was used to keeping a straight face, did not care about his image as he looked around and clicked his tongue in wonder. The only one who remained calm throughout was Uncle B, the second in command of the Golden Duo of Archer and Berserker (Speaking of which, when did this duo appear?). The latter relied on his blockhead to obtain a spirit that was a hundred times stronger than the former. Other than the loli Ilya that he had sworn to protect, the three-meter tall giant didn't even spare a glance at the surrounding turrets and tanks.
"Yup, they moved quickly."
Sandora looked at the outpost with approval and nodded slightly. I turned to Renault and asked, "What's the situation now?"
"There was an explosion ten minutes ago." Renault was still wearing the heavy power armor. Even though he had been promoted to the Chief Executive of the New Eden Federation, he was still used to going to the frontline in this kind of situation. Kerrigan, who was wearing a special alloy light armor for Ghost Agents, stood by his side without saying a word. "The [Crimson Moon] suddenly expanded several times in our line of sight and continued to cover the entire sky within three minutes. At that time, the gravity on the ground was almost zero, and there was intense electromagnetic interference, but it did not cause any actual damage. Two sets of gravity isolation devices and temporary psionic shields from the Empire protected my soldiers. The Empire's sensors were just sent over, and your chief scientist is currently calibrating them. She did not allow us to get close."
Tychus rubbed his waist as he walked over from behind. He heard Renault's words and continued, "That woman is so barbaric. I only wanted to go over and take a look, but she threw me out of the camp. Schilling's people are so strong even when they're scientists … Tsk …"
This was what it meant when a scientist knew martial arts. Even a hooligan couldn't stop them. However, a scientist who was so violent to the point of throwing someone out of the camp … Could it be that the quiet and gentle Tawil had another identity as a masked superwoman who saved the earth?
Reynolds had an awkward expression on his face, and he said helplessly, "Rummaging through someone else's research secrets without permission, you should be thankful that you didn't get a few peanuts thrown out."
"Don't mind her. It's not that Tawil has anything against you. It's just that she doesn't like to be disturbed when she's working." I punched Tychus in the chest, who was still in pain. "You should be thankful that half of us are used to shooting first before talking. Tawil is already considered the quiet one."
"I think I should find a bottle of good wine to calm myself down," Tychus mumbled as he walked further away. "Maybe a bottle of 70 year old brandy would be a good choice for the rest of my life."
Did he hit his head just now?
"Ling, you guys are waiting here … Ugh, what are you guys doing?"
I turned my head to speak to Enaka and Ilya, but the latter was already trying to strike up a conversation with the mighty "alien warriors", making them feel awkward. Due to military discipline, it wasn't appropriate for them to casually answer a stranger's question. However, the two curious babies in front of them seemed to be their superior's superior's superior's … the ultimate superior's friend, and they couldn't afford to offend them. In the end, the two soldiers could only stammer with sweat dripping down their foreheads. In the end, they coolly pulled down their masks to show that they were just NPCs. The only thing they could say was, "Our ancestors are tricking you."
"Wow, big brother, can Ilya take a picture with them?" The silver-haired loli ran in front of me and excitedly pulled on my sleeve. The soldier who had been pestered by her earlier shivered, and I could almost see through his orange mask that he was sweating profusely.
"Stop fooling around. This is a military control zone." I had to be serious when I needed to be serious. I decisively stopped Enban and Ilya from causing trouble for the Marines. Then, I pulled Zeratul over and said, "Go and play with this alien uncle!"
"Great teacher, this …"
The unlucky Zeratul only managed to say one sentence before he was dragged away by Ilya with a cheer.
"As expected, the people who are with you will quickly become very unique," Kerrigan said in admiration.
By the time we met Tarver, the sensors had basically completed their adjustments and were beginning to guide the incoming reinforcements. Meanwhile, our esteemed female scientist was busy organizing the information that was being uploaded from the downstream information terminal, looking extremely busy. I originally thought that even if a researcher were to be sent over, it would be an ordinary Schilling technician. I didn't expect that the Chief Scientist of the Empire, Tawil, would be here personally. This made me feel that something was amiss.
"Your Majesty, you came at the right time."
Noticing our arrival, Tawil quickly walked up to greet us. "The Bloody Moon's energy explosion entered its first hibernation period seven minutes ago. However, we have already collected a large amount of information, and the conclusion is shocking."
"What's going on?"
Hearing the calm Tawil use the word 'shocking' to describe his discovery, I also became nervous. She waved her hand twice in the air, separating a rectangular screen that was suspended in the air. A series of data and diagrams flashed across the screen, dazzling me.
To be honest, if I had to point out the flaws of this intellectual older sister in front of me, it would be her strange love for coffin-shaped objects. Every time she reported something to me, her habit of taking out a bunch of complicated data was also one of the most embarrassing things. Because every time, I would feel like I was an illiterate person, as I didn't recognize a single thing on the data …
"Although I know that you don't recognize the things on the screen, please don't use manga to express your protest, alright?"
Ah, I was ridiculed by my own subordinate, and it was by a person like Tawil.
Sheepishly putting away the manga in my hand, I scratched my head and said, "Go on, go on."
The intellectual big sis sighed helplessly. Pushing her glasses, she said, "Your Majesty, when the Bloody Moon's energy exploded on a large scale, the inner world produced several information explosions that lasted for a total of three milliseconds. The information was captured by the Garden of Death, which was under constant surveillance. We analyzed some things from a long time ago. The information might have come from before the inner world fell into disorder. Due to the powerful energy of the Bloody Moon, it hasn't dissipated yet. Theoretically, that's the case."
"En en, and then?" I pretended to understand, nodded and asked.
"Then, we found that the way the information was composed was very similar to the universal shadow space."
"Oh." I nodded.
Three seconds ticked by.
"What did you say?!"
Oh no, I was half a beat too slow just now.
"This strange space that we call the inner world, which is a mirror image of the surface world, emits energy waves that are very similar to the shadow space," Tawil repeated with a serious expression.
"Visca!" I twitched the corner of my mouth and felt a toothache. Then, I turned to pat the little girl who was tugging at my clothes. "Did the worlds that you killed include this type?"
The little girl revealed a serious expression as she recalled. Her tiny brain that could calculate trillions of calculations per second counted for half a minute before she gently shook her head under my cold sweaty gaze. "No!"
"Alright, we are free of suspicion. Now, you can continue your analysis."
It must be tough to have a younger sister who had caused countless disasters, right? I can see the message in your eyes.
"Mm, that's the basic situation. The inner world is very likely to be a shadow space, just like our shadow city. It is a parallel world that was opened in another dimension using the external reality as a template. Of course, its volume is much larger, and it might even be a copy of the entire solar system. However, its management center has been destroyed.
What we are seeing now is the shadow space after it went out of control. Its external information absorption module seems to still be partially operating. Hence, in some of the 'ruins', it appears to be highly synchronized with the surface world. It made us mistakenly think that it was a natural mirror image of the external world. However, in the information explosion just now, we found traces of it being duplicated. "
After Tawil said that, he closed the dazzling information window, giving me time to digest the shocking fact.
I looked around at the desolate and ruined desert, the shattered land under the crimson moon … The entire inner world is actually a shadow space that went out of control?
If that was the case, it would be a huge problem. Schilling technology was known to be difficult to deal with, especially when they were causing trouble for us.
"Now, we can no longer find any traces of the shadow space," Tawil said softly. "Chaos is everywhere, and exploration is difficult. Everything here has been in disorder for too long. Even the most powerful Schilling computer would find it difficult to reverse engineer its creator."
"But the creation device of the shadow space is definitely still operating somewhere," Sandora said with certainty. "Otherwise, this place would have collapsed long ago. Tawil, could it be that moon?"
Sandora was referring to the giant crimson moon hanging in the sky. The latter was now emitting a mysterious and distant light, burying its secrets deep under the boiling sea of energy. "That is the most likely situation."
Tawil nodded. Obviously, her research team had also discussed this. "The Crimson Moon is the only place that we haven't been able to explore clearly. It obviously has a high energy reaction inside. If there is a control core in this out-of-control shadow space, it can only be inside the Crimson Moon. But in my database, the Empire has never had a planetary battleship like the Crimson Moon. Its surface has no substance, it is completely a layer of highly concentrated energy. The strange energy that it radiates out will still cause harm even fifty thousand kilometers away. This basically determines that it can't be used as a space base. Also, the energy form of the Crimson Moon itself is different from the conventional energy of the Empire …"
"You mean, that thing called anti-psionic energy?" I raised my eyebrows and asked casually as I looked up at the sky.
"Yes, Your Majesty. The Crimson Moon is something with the same wavelength as psionic energy, but the waveform is completely opposite. According to Schilling's theory of diminishing energy levels, this kind of energy must be the result of the decay of a higher energy level. But I have tried all the models, and I can't deduce how this strange energy should decay from the void energy. It is theoretically impossible."
"Right, in that case, those black crystal daggers that can allow ordinary people to enter the otherworld …" I suddenly remembered the two crystal daggers that Yan Fengqili had found. According to his own confession, the crystal daggers were one of the collections that he had bought at a high price from a mysterious old man when he had traveled to China. The collection also included two faded jades, a cross that had been blessed by an eminent monk, and a luminous pearl that had accidentally fallen into the fireplace and melted into jelly. The two black crystal daggers were the only real treasures that he didn't curse at.
If there is something strange mixed in the above paragraph, you can just ignore it. You must know that there is more than one wretched guy in this world …
"A key. It's just a resonating crystal that allows non-Xiling apostles to enter the Shadow Realm. It's made of a fairly common material. Aside from the Empire, there are at least a thousand other civilizations that produce this type of crystal, and when it's not activated, it's no different from an ordinary crystal." Tarver shrugged. "That's why I didn't know what it was used for at first. Perhaps it was a gift prepared by the creator of the Shadow Realm for the Empire's minions at that time. But now that the Shadow Realm has gone out of control, its identity authentication function has been lost, and anyone can use it.
"Have you observed that planet up close?" Sandora asked casually as she looked at the constantly refreshing data on a floating window beside her.
"Two unmanned spacecraft are observing from a distance of a few kilometers above the Crimson Moon. But at such a close distance, our scanning equipment still can't penetrate its energy barrier."
I was not surprised by the futility of the spacecraft's efforts. After all, the planet was most likely a product of Schilling, and it could be a special equipment from the heyday of the Empire. It was a joke to rely on two small spacecraft to penetrate the barrier of a planet's battleship-class Schilling celestial body.
"Baby, do you feel that there is something in the middle of the moon?"
I nudged Sandora, who was flipping through the data next to me. She raised her head and followed my gaze. After a while, she nodded. "It seems to be a bright spot?"
As far as I could see, there seemed to be a spot in the middle of the huge moon hanging in the sky that was not very bright, but it was out of place with the surrounding colors. With Sandora's confirmation, I was sure that I was not hallucinating. Our movements seemed to have become a signal. Tawil and the technicians who were working near the sensors also raised their heads and looked at the huge red moon in confusion. The sensors' antennas made a low buzzing sound in the wind. Then, there was a strange noise.
It was like a sharp bird chirping.
"The sensors are being interfered with. The energy intensity of the Crimson Moon is rising!"
"There is a lot of error messages flooding into the communication link. We are trying to eliminate them …"
"Sir! We have lost contact with the two spacecraft … They are all silent, and the Crimson Moon is expanding … Spacecraft No. 1 has been confirmed destroyed. Spacecraft No. 2 has escaped from the energy storm and is returning at full speed! "
A series of urgent reports sounded almost at the same time. Not only from the technicians who were operating the sensors, but also from the remote monitoring team in the City of Shadows and the observers stationed in the low-Earth orbit of the Inner World. A large amount of information flooded in at the same time, causing the staff to be instantly busy. Tawil immediately rushed to the nearest Information Terminal operator and asked loudly, "What happened? What destroyed the probe spaceship? "
"Sir, it was psionic energy. It was a direct bombardment of psionic energy at the level of a cruiser's main cannon. The image sent back by spacecraft No. 2 shows that the attack came from …"
"From the Crimson Moon."
I finished what the operator did not finish his sentence, and then looked up at the sky.
Now it could be seen very clearly. It was a bright blue spot.
The bright spot that appeared in the center of the Crimson Moon expanded rapidly. In a moment, it had reached the point where its shape could be seen with the naked eye. Its expansion rate increased exponentially, like a drop of blue ink dripping into a pool. And it was not just this spot. On the surface of the Crimson Moon, at least a dozen blue spots were expanding outward at the same time. The entire giant moon was like a paper cut that was being devoured by blue flames. In a few minutes, it had turned into a dark blue ocean hanging in the sky.
"When summoning Sasaki … the moon in the sky turned blue …"
Something that Demetrius had once said suddenly echoed in my ears, and then overlapped with the strange astronomical spectacle in front of me.
The blue moon had indeed appeared.
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