"Beware, human. The Fallen Apostle is watching you."
"You are a very special existence, even if you do not realize it. Think about it, there have been several special cases of beings who have been deeply contaminated by the abyss regaining their sanity. Those beings who regained consciousness were not only the Xi Ling apostles, but even the gods. If this is indeed one of your abilities, then as it becomes more and more obvious, you will eventually be regarded as the greatest threat to the fallen. "
"The Fallen do not dare to attack your base, because doing so could lead to a failure that could destroy their 'great cause'. However, once the day comes that they realize that the value of destroying you far surpasses the destruction of thousands of universes, they will definitely move in full force. So before that day comes, be prepared to make your Empire indestructible, or simply take the initiative to attack. They are hibernating in the shadow of the Old Empire, but regrettably, having lost my identity as a Fallen Apostle, I cannot provide you with guidance. That place is more confusing than any Shadow Dimension."
"There are still a lot of mysteries hidden in you, so many that I can't figure them out with my experience, but the prophet girl seems to know a lot … The ability of prophecy is dangerous. If you are not careful, she may collapse another originally beautiful future into the abyss of zero probability because of her own words. So the girl can't tell you a lot, but don't doubt her guidance because of this. Her every move is trying to bring you to a bright future. Apart from that girl, everyone around you has powers that I am very concerned about. Time, Misfortune, and Future. Although the powers of the past have weakened, my intuition is still there. Those three girls have not found the true way to use those powers … "
I do not know if it was because she had stayed with us for too long, but Belavilla's personality was more or less troublesome. She had embarrassed me more than once when she woke up, but finally, after teasing her enough, the woman still gave me these very important words of advice.
Based on my conjecture, even when Belavilla was in hibernation, she was still able to communicate with Sylvia on a shallow level. Perhaps she was using this limited connection with the outside world, borrowing Sylvia's access to her database to understand many things about us. Then, she prepared these pieces of advice for me based on these things. Even though she claimed that she was doing all of this because of Sylvia's request, her attentiveness was still rather touching.
Naturally, I would also attach great importance to her advice.
Looking at Sylvia who was curled up in my arms like a warm mole, muttering softly from time to time because of her dreams (this time, she was truly asleep, regardless of whether it was Belavilla or Sylvia), I sorted out my thoughts.
The Fallen Apostle was staring at me. This was something that Lin Xue had already warned me about, so I was not surprised. However, Belavilla reminded me that I possessed some kind of ability that could reverse the infection of the Abyss. This made me pay more attention to it.
To reverse purify an individual infected with the Abyss, this kind of technology wasn't completely unknown in the Empire's technological system and Mysticism system. For individuals whose infection wasn't severe and still retained a portion of their self-awareness, even though it was difficult to reverse purify them, it was still achievable. However, as the degree of infection of the infected deepened and the individual's strength grew, the difficulty of this kind of purification would increase exponentially. At present, there was a publicly acknowledged standard that no technological method would be able to reverse purify an individual whose infection had reached 100% (in other words, completely insane). If the individual was powerful enough to reach the level of an Emperor-ranked Apostle or a high-level True God, then the purification would be a joke.
However, by my side …
Apart from Sandora, who had recovered her consciousness after being deeply infected by me due to my powerful soul power, Visca had returned to normal by my side. Icetis had recovered her rationality after fighting with me, and Belavilla had also regained her consciousness after staying with me for a long time.
This was a miracle of life!
If this was truly caused by my own power, then how should I use it?
This question troubled me greatly, but I didn't have any Fallen Apostles on hand that I could experiment on … Fine, the next time I met a Fallen Apostle, I would try to capture one alive to experiment on.
The second question was what Belavilla had mentioned, about taking the initiative and whatnot …
I admit that this was a truly tempting suggestion. I was already about to die from the Fallen Apostles who appeared and disappeared even more mysteriously than Little Bubble, but what did she mean by "hibernating in the shadows of the old Empire"? Belavilla, is it so difficult for you to speak in Chinese? This sentence doesn't make sense from a subject-verb-object perspective!
If we were to understand it from the literal meaning, then the nest of the Fallen Apostles was hidden in the territories of the old Empire that had already collapsed. If that was truly the case, then we could save a lot of effort. Even though the world destruction storm caused by the collapse of the Empire caused a severe deviation in the coordinates of all worlds, with the assistance of the Protoss, it shouldn't be too difficult to find one or two territories of the Empire whose coordinates weren't that far off. However, it was clear that the situation wasn't that simple.
The "shadows of the old Empire" definitely wasn't a place that could be directly reached. It was "more mysterious and confusing than any shadow space". Based on this, there was a possibility that it didn't even exist in any dimension. In other words, it was highly possible that it was an entire encrypted conceptual dimension. If we didn't have the passcode of the Fallen Apostles, we would never be able to find its location using conventional world jumping methods!
"You really are a fellow that gives others a headache, regardless of whether it's version V1.0 or V2.0."
Lowering my head to look at Sylvia who was sleeping soundly in my embrace, I felt a headache coming on. The soft and fragrant body is not bad, but I still have to send you home.
"Sandora, are you listening?"
I connected to Sandora mentally. "Have you seen the information that I sent you?"
"Ah, I received it. I didn't think that Belavilla would suddenly wake up."
"Do you have any thoughts?"
"I finally have some clues about many things that I couldn't figure out. However, there isn't much information, and it seems that Belavilla doesn't know much either. The relationship between the Fallen Apostles is more complicated than we imagined. Their internal strife is good news for us, but it also makes it impossible for me to analyze their plans by relying on the habits of the Shiring Apostles."
"There are pros and cons. At the very least, we have figured out many things that we couldn't figure out in the past."
"Speaking of which … Is Sylvia on your side now?" Sandora suddenly changed the topic and said with a sour tone (possible?). "Err … She's already asleep.
"Err … She is already asleep. The moment Belavilla left, she fell asleep immediately. I will send her back to the candy house in a while."
"Don't do anything strange," Sandora's mischievous voice echoed in my mind. "Sylvia doesn't have her guard up against you at all!"
Although we couldn't see each other, I still made a face. "Are you that kind of person?"
"You are when you do strange things to me!" Sandora chuckled at me. Then, before I could reply, she decisively hung up the communication. That lass, she was becoming more and more like a human.
After ending the mental connection with the Queen, I carried Sylvia, who was sleeping like a dead pig, in my arms. Logically speaking, I definitely wouldn't be able to wake her up. I had to say, this lass … was really heavy.
The body density of the Shiring Apostles seemed to be around 30% higher than that of a human. However, how could a living being that was converted from energy have such a weight?
As my thoughts ran wild, I activated the teleportation application that could be used within the City of Shadows. Although the City of Shadows had a normal public transportation and rental system in order to maintain the 'liveliness and habituation of the city', this kind of convenient and quick military teleportation was still very useful. To a certain extent, it effectively restrained the expansion of the Horizontal Arm Rental Company and the Vertical Arm Rental Company in the ground market. Furthermore, it provided sufficient internship positions for the Learning Space Calibration Academy's younger sister Osaka.
The visitors who had already made up their minds to party until the latter half of the night were still bustling on the streets. The crowd was like a weave, and the noise filled the air. However, as Sylvia's shop was located beside the military control zone, it was very quiet. After carrying Sylvia back, I glanced at the bright lights and the indistinct figures of the people who were having fun on the streets. I instantly felt as though I was in two different worlds.
On one side was the hustle and bustle of the mortal world, and on the other side was the peaceful little nest that a happy silver-haired mole had built for herself. No matter how many times I came to this shop, this feeling would always surge up in my heart.
It was likely that Silvia was Belavilla's personality formed from his desire to be at peace and to let go of his burdens. Although it was only two short encounters, which totaled to less than four hours, I suddenly understood how the former Emperor of the Bardi Empire felt.
Even the Shiring Apostles would get tired.
"Eh … Did I fall asleep …"
A groggy voice suddenly came from my chest. I lowered my head to look, and happened to meet eyes with a pretty face that was muddled from sleep. The latter rubbed her eyes, seemingly oblivious to the fact that she was being carried like a princess. She only muttered softly, "You've already … seen her?"
"Belavilla? I've seen her. " I nodded and placed Sylvia on the ground. To be honest, it was quite stressful for her to carry me like this.
"I … helped you, didn't I?" Sylvia asked cautiously, her voice slow and unhurried.
"Yeah, you helped a lot. Belavilla gave me a lot of useful information." I lightly patted Sylvia's head. "If it wasn't for you, I'm afraid that guy wouldn't have woken up so early, and he wouldn't have cooperated with me."
"— That's good." Three seconds later, Sylvia said slowly with a smile on her face. She took a few steps forward and pushed open the shop door. "— Do you want to come in for coffee?"
… At this moment, I should reply like this: You can brew it first, I'll come over tomorrow morning to drink it while it's still hot.
Does this slow-witted guy even know what time it is now?!
Looking at her drowsy state, I was really worried that she would just lie on the counter and sleep for the night. Although the Shiring Apostles didn't catch a cold, the miraculous thing was that Sylvia had a stiff neck. In order to prevent her from looking up at the sky at a thirty degree angle for the next two days, I still sent her to her room.
Although I prepared a leader's private residence and a few dozen guards for her, Sylvia still insisted on staying in the house behind her shop. Because I would occasionally come here to enjoy some peaceful time, I was quite familiar with the environment behind the shop. After half-dragging and half-carrying the dazed Sylvia to her simple and tidy room, I spent a long time before I finally managed to get her to sleep: Why is she so sleepy?
Think about it, a beautiful girl in a delirious state, an elegant and fragrant girl's boudoir, curled up on the bed, and then something amazing happened. Guess what?
I went straight home …
To my dear Sandora and Shallow Shallow, your hubby is such a good man.
Belavilla's sudden awakening caused Sandora and I to maintain a solemn expression during the festival. But since it was a festival, the joyous atmosphere wouldn't be affected by this interlude. The next day, the City of Shadows' celebration continued with the rising of the first sun.
"Monina, Monina! Jingle is very worried that 123 will be angry at being hung in the sky every day! "
"Captain, please be at ease. 270,000 years ago, I already turned that idiot brother into a masochist."
This was the fierce conversation between the shameless and cute Goddess of Life and the second most shameless Goddess of Darkness over morning tea.
The first day of the festival had already passed smoothly yesterday. From the feedback from the other two venues, everything was going according to plan. Of course, there were still some small troubles that didn't lead to serious consequences, which we had already expected.
After all, the Shiring Apostles, who had never had any entertainment experience, were in charge of the official arrangements. If there were any flaws in the details, it was a problem that even the Bubble's computing power couldn't solve. The most obvious example was the Shiring Apostles's high efficiency and obedience spirit. They had thought of the flow of visitors to the festival in an overly idealistic manner. This caused the Dimensional Hub to be nearly congested when there was a sudden surge in traffic. The Eight Greats, who were planning to go to the Mars Assembly to watch Kepru's military drill, almost got into a fight with Demetrius, who was planning to go to the Azeroth Assembly to participate in the ACG Celebration. Fortunately, the Second Town Security Team, under the leadership of the Town Security God Boli Souldream, quickly arrived at the scene to maintain order, preventing chaos.
Other than that, there were also complaints from child protectionists (also known as the Loli Association) when the Empire soldiers, who were acting as guides, led Kyouchong Rin and the other primary school students to tour the weapons exhibition. The black-hooded English Puritan priests had a business dispute with a group of Troll guides in order to fight for customers. Shirley Dew, who was invited to the festival as a special guest, complained about the noise of the Ultraman team next door. However, evidence later showed that this was a false accusation by the Zenith Star, who had two consecutive red lights in the team gymnastics competition, in an attempt to salvage the situation. Ultraman Tiga expressed that the entire Ultraman team would continue to pay attention to this matter and wouldn't give up the right to lodge a protest with the City of Shadows Neighborhood Committee …
On the second day of the festival, I was shoved into the office to deal with these ridiculous matters. Looking at the table full of similar information, I felt a wave of melancholy.
If I couldn't deal with these matters before noon … My dream of bringing the girls out to play to my heart's content today would be over.
"There are still many things that we have to worry about." Liliana held up a large pile of reports and data chips and placed them in front of me. "Look at this, it's a report about the competition for customers among the volunteers. It's not just the Crusader priests and Troll guides who are fighting for customers. Almost all the worlds that have sent out volunteers are doing the same. The tribal volunteers of the Civilization Community are isolated and have a weak foundation, so they are being suppressed by the market competition to the point where they can't even breathe. Of course, the main reason is that those sensitive fellows aren't used to such a peaceful and competitive environment … Yep, there's also a complaint from Eight Cloud Purple. She said that she and Ling Meng have been troubled by peeping …"
"That's the work of Bubble." I wiped away the cold sweat on my forehead. "Ling Meng has no morals, so let's not talk about it for now. I'll try to persuade Bubble to at least let Mother Purple … Cough cough, Sister Purple will do. Then, let's discuss the problem of those volunteers. It seems like it's not appropriate for Xi Wei and Sandora to apply the highly organized Shiring Apostles to the volunteers of ordinary races. Those fellows are about to turn the world upside down in the free market competition, right?"
"They lack an effective supervision system, or perhaps a universal rating system for everyone. This makes it so that volunteers from various worlds can only desperately compete for customers to show the excellence of their world's culture. Moreover, this is unfair to some of the smaller worlds that don't send volunteers. The most obvious example is: In the areas of Azeroth where the guides are active, the Krypton gold crafts are almost sold out, while in the same area, the unlucky buy one get two free Foundation Pills aren't bought by anyone."
I understood this. Which tourist group hadn't been tricked into spending money by the guides?
"To deal with this situation, they came up with this plan."
Liliana revealed a sly smile and placed a stack of paper in front of me. "With this, Boss can continue to live shamelessly with his harem this afternoon!"
"Bang!"
After knocking Liliana away, I opened up this lass's plan.
"World Volunteer Integrity System Construction Plan during the Empire Carnival – Draft – Last night at 10: 30 PM Revision"
From today onwards until the end of the carnival, the volunteers of each world will be included in the management of this Integrity System. The results of this Integrity Rating will be the only standard to evaluate the quality of the volunteers' work.
The Integrity Rating is represented by a five-pointed star. All registered volunteers will have an initial score of three five-pointed stars. Any visitor can vote based on the volunteer's work identification number. Good reviews will add points and bad reviews will deduct points.
There is no upper limit to the number of Integrity Stars. The higher the number of good reviews, the more stars you will have. When you accumulate enough stars, you can level up. Four stars will level up to a moon, and four moons will level up to a sun …
At the same time, in order to increase the leveling speed of enthusiastic volunteers, a VIP system will be opened. After paying a small fee or praying to the Goddess of Life (remember to add your name and address), you will be able to light up the VIP logo. Currently, there are Red Diamond VIP, Blue Diamond VIP, Yellow Diamond VIP, Purple Diamond VIP … Each VIP title is only valid at the location you applied for. If you move to another location, you will need to apply for another Diamond service.
At the same time, a tourist reward and voting service will be opened. Tourists can reward or vote for the volunteers they like. The minimum reward is 100 temporary coins, and repeated rewards are allowed …
In order to show fairness, the right to interpret this system belongs to the universe's super invincible beauty, Liliana. Other than that, any other way of interpreting this system is bullshit.
I silently read through the few pieces of elementary school paper that were filled with turtle crawling words. My heart was in turmoil. Then, I took out a lighter.
"Wuwuwu … Boss, don't!"
"Don't your sister! Do you know how much trouble this thing can cause!? "
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