The monsters in Fantasy Village were a group of strange fellows. Perhaps it was because of their special race, but they were always in a state of excitement. They could hold a banquet anytime, anywhere, for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes, I even guessed that if three or more monsters gathered together, they would hold a banquet. It wasn't difficult to imagine such a thing in Fantasy Village.
Just like now, the monsters had come with Yakumo to join in the fun and listen to the legend of the Specter Ship. However, someone had come up with an idea, and this group of happy fellows had prepared the props for the banquet. Their reason for holding the banquet was, "Since there are so many people gathered together, of course, we should hold a banquet!"
Based on this magical theory, as long as many people gathered together, they would hold a banquet to celebrate. I couldn't imagine how happy they would be if they went to the Xizhimen Overpass …
At first, I thought that Zeus would have a problem with them holding a banquet on the peak of Mount Olympus, especially since they had occupied the sacred temple on the peak. I hadn't expected that the master of this place would be so tolerant. Not only did he not stop them, but the ten-meter-tall giant even took out the special food of Mount Olympus from the temple and asked the other Gods to bring it to the square. Then, he sat on the square and chatted with the monsters.
I stopped a three-meter-tall male Atlantean who was passing by and asked him about my doubts, "It seems that Zeus doesn't mind the monsters making a ruckus. Isn't the peak of Mount Olympus a holy place? "
The giant bowed to me and said with a smile, "No temple on Mount Olympus is a holy place. It's just a servant's residence. The real holy place is under your feet."
I thought for a while and asked, "If I walk around this square, you won't be able to get out, right?"
Bryndis extended her leg and kicked me, "I was just waiting for you to continue!"
The young Atlantean was stunned when he heard what I said. Then, he thought for a while and shook his head. "It's not mentioned in the Holy Scripture. I think it's okay."
Bewildered, Bryndis stared at the naive young Atlantean God of Creation. She suddenly covered her forehead and let out a long sigh. "Sigh, this kid must have been doing homework for his classmates every day before he graduated from primary school. I've picked up such an honest kid to bully back then."
I didn't know how to continue the conversation and ridiculed this perverted Goddess who would snatch lollipops from the kids in the neighborhood. So, I turned my attention to the young man in front of me and asked, "What's your name?"
I was just asking casually to divert Icetis's attention. I didn't expect her to give me such a deafening name. "Prometheus. You can call me Prometheus."
I was momentarily stunned. Then, I stared straight at the young Atlantean who called himself Prometheus, before raising my head to look at Zeus in the distance. I knew that the person in front of me should be from Zeus's uncle's generation, if the myths and legends matched up with the real Atlantean Gods.
Thus, I was at a loss.
Icetis was more outspoken than me. She had also browsed through the myths and legends on Earth when she was bored. She wasn't unfamiliar with the name Prometheus. Thus, she asked, "Oh, Prometheus. I know this name. Didn't you steal the fire seed …"
"Ah, this," Prometheus scratched his head. "When I was patrolling on the Sun Chariot, I was eating barbecue on the chariot and accidentally dropped a Molotov cocktail. That forest fire was pretty big, and after that …"
"After that, he was hung on Mount Olympus and beaten up for three days and three nights," another voice suddenly interrupted. I turned my head and saw a young girl with a smile on her face. She was at least 2.4 meters tall. This long-haired girl dressed in a silver-grey hunting outfit unceremoniously exposed Prometheus' embarrassing story. Then, she lifted her skirt and bowed to me and Sandora. "Artemis, you should be familiar with this name."
I knew that she was referring to the other Artemis of Avalon. The Artemis of the Holy Land of Avalon and the Artemis of the Moon of Atlantis. These two had always been a special attraction here. Many times, I would joke about this with the 'smaller' Artemis, and the latter didn't think much of it. Now, it seemed that the larger Artemis was already very familiar with her sister of the same name.
Also, the story of Prometheus gave me a revelation. Never believe in the things in myths and legends, because you can never imagine how nonsensical the original version was. Not to mention the others, even the famous Golden Apple was only 25 cents more expensive than Fuji …
"They really don't have a sense of urgency at all."
I, Sandora, and Icetis sat at a place far away from the big bonfire of the monsters with Eight Cloud Purple. Looking at the lively group of silly people in the distance, even Sandora couldn't help but complain.
"It's really hard for monsters to feel a sense of urgency." Eight Cloud Purple drank an unknown drink made from an unknown plant that she stole from an unknown monster and said in a leisurely tone, "When Atlantis fell, they only thought of something like 'Ah, if it falls, it might hit their heads'. To be honest, it's really hard to be at ease with these guys."
"What's going on with the ghost ship?"
I glanced at Purple and asked in a low voice.
"It happened yesterday," the space monster replied. "I went back to the fantasy land to deal with some matters. You should know that after working in the Space Administration for so long, I have some understanding of inter-world teleportation. Also, my ability is very suitable for operating these things alone. So, when I was near the destination, I deviated from the standard flight path and tried to enter the material plane from the edge of the world."
I was not surprised by Eight Cloud Purple's rash action. Although it was very dangerous for an ordinary traveler to deviate from the safe flight path and enter the seriously unstable material plane of the world, Eight Cloud Purple was different. Firstly, she had always been very confident in her ability. Secondly, she was half an expert who had worked in a professional department for a long time. Due to the limitations of her life essence, it was impossible for her to travel through the void with her physical body. However, if she were to travel from the edge of the world (This was not a geographical 'edge', but a conceptual boundary between the parts of the world that could be described and the parts that could not be described. On one side was the main material plane, on the other side was the buffer zone of concepts and laws, and further out was the world barrier, just like a virtual partition in a hard disk), it was not difficult for her to travel back and forth. As a little monster who liked to cause all kinds of trouble when she had nothing better to do, she was not only used to teasing Ling Meng by punching holes in the Fantasy Village enchantment she had built, but she also liked to scare the navigators of the dimensional hub every now and then.
"Then, I encountered those large spaceships at the edge of the world. Although I don't understand how you categorize the different types of spaceships, I'm guessing that they were interstellar warships that could fight," Eight Cloud Purple continued. Spaceships, interstellar warships, dimensional hubs, and other terms sounded a little out of place coming from the mouth of the CEO of Fantasy Village, but I was already used to it. After all, Ling Meng was already using a beam gun, and Elune was even labeled as a fluoride-free frequency converter. You could not reject the four modernizations of Fantasy Village for any reason. "They were slightly smaller than your spaceships, and the largest one should not exceed fifty kilometers. There were more than a dozen of them, and their surfaces were tattered, with many of their internal structures exposed. Those spaceships suddenly appeared and drifted at the edge of the world with unstable matter, but there were no signs of them disintegrating. So, I'm guessing that they were at least beyond the limits of the physical defense. Those spaceships had power, but I don't know what type it was. In any case, there were lights on their hulls, and they were moving on their own. "
"Are you sure that no one was controlling them?"
Sandora interrupted.
"I'm sure." Eight Cloud Purple nodded without hesitation. "I knocked on one of the spaceships a few times, but there were no signs of it fighting back. So, even if they still had power, most of the occupants inside were already dead."
"Then, the spaceships left the physical world," I mentioned what Eight Cloud Purple had said earlier.
"Yes, they suddenly disappeared. It didn't seem like they were swept away by the spatial turbulence, but more like they left the world on their own."
"Hades also encountered the same thing, right?" I looked into the distance and saw a giant who was more than ten meters tall applying medicine to his head. Originally, he could have looked for specialized repairmen to repair his artificial body, but it seemed that he had been delayed. Furthermore, this kind of injury wasn't serious for an Atlantean God. Even though there was a hole in his head, to the point where even his bones were exposed, I reckoned that it wouldn't take long for him to recover.
"Yes, he was a little later than me. He bumped into a Specter Ship while patrolling the border this morning, and it was a real collision," Eight Cloud Purple said unscrupulously. "The relative speed was over Mach 55 …"
Who did she learn that from?!
The thing that Eight Cloud Purple and Hades encountered was very strange. It was no wonder that they were nervous and gathered on Mount Olympus to discuss it. They encountered a Specter Ship at the edge of the world. It had power, but it didn't respond. It appeared and disappeared suddenly. It might have the ability to travel across worlds. Its technological level was lower than the Empire's, but it should have the right to communicate with us. Perhaps it was something more advanced than the Pan-Galactic Civilization Community. Its origin was unknown, and its movements were unknown. All these pieces of information together were enough to alarm the headquarters.
"Those spaceships only passed by the border of the Empire," I pondered as I teased the restless cat monster next to me. I wrapped Orange Meow's tail around my hand and let it go slowly. Blue rolled her eyes. "If they really traveled through space, it would be a big problem."
"Who knows about this?" Sandora asked as she looked into Eight Cloud Purple's eyes.
Purple Mother looked around at the lively monsters in the square and said innocently, "You can assume that the whole world knows about it …"
Both Sandora and I were speechless.
"Alright, arrange for XLTV to make an announcement tomorrow. Purple, you should get ready too. The Space Administration is going to send more people." I held my head and sighed. "Raise the alert level of all shipping routes in the Macro World. No private ships are allowed to leave the routes. If those Specter Ships float into the Prime Material Plane, we will hand them over to the military."
This was the first problem that had to be dealt with. Although it was the first time I had heard of Specter Ships floating in the world, it was obvious that it would be dangerous for them to suddenly fall into the Prime Material Plane. A group of uncontrollable, fully powered, giant battleships would be a disaster wherever they went. The simplest example was the unlucky Hades. I really didn't think that other than the Empire's standards, there was anyone else who could face hundreds of millions of tons of metal at Mach 55 with only a piece of band-aid …
The two Specter Ships that we had encountered so far had both happened at the edge of the world. However, there was no pattern to those things. Perhaps we couldn't rule out the possibility that they would directly enter the Prime Material Plane. Even the civilian passageways of the Space Administration could be disrupted. If that happened, I felt that it would be the most sensational rear-end collision in the world.
"The civilian passageways of the Space Administration aren't even a third as safe as the military passageways." Sandora had the same thought as me. "Because of the scale, many of the systems are built quickly. It's not impossible for such a large fleet of Specter Ships to invade the civilian passageways."
Sandora's words made sense, but there were still limits to what we could do. As she had said, the Macro World was so large that even with the super efficiency of the Empire, a large portion of the network's systems were built quickly. Therefore, to prevent Specter Ships from threatening the civilian passageways, we decided to increase the manpower of the Space Administration and send more executives to patrol all the worlds to ensure that they could find traces of Specter Ships at the first instance. At the same time, we temporarily reduced the passageways for the civilian passageways to relieve the pressure on the Space Administration.
This was also an expedient measure. We couldn't let the Macro World network slow down forever just because of a few Specter Ships. Although with the efforts of the Space Administration, the network would eventually be perfected and wouldn't be afraid of ordinary Void Floaters, but in the short term, it was more important to find out the source of those Specter Ships.
Regarding the "Specter Ship", if it was on Earth, then I wouldn't be unfamiliar with it. Captain Jack had already let us understand what a Specter Ship on Earth was through his near-death experience. But in the interstellar or even world level, the emergence and existence of the Specter Ship was more curious. Space battleships were very sophisticated things. It was hard to imagine that they still had complete power without control and could automatically start a cross-world engine. Of course, we could assume that they had an AI system of autopilot, but this couldn't explain why when Hades crashed into the Specter Ship at Mach 55, the latter didn't react at all.
"There are Specter Ships that are still operational even when all the crew members are dead," Sandora explained to me the examples of Specter Ships that she knew. "Many interstellar battleships have very powerful endurance. Once they reach a certain level, with the help of self-circulation and various super-concept systems, interstellar battleships can even operate continuously for tens of thousands of years. These battleships drift in the universe or even between worlds, becoming Specter Ships. They are very similar to Specter Ships on Earth. But this time, not only did it have power, but it could also leave the current world on its own. I've never heard of such a thing. "
"The key is that we still can't find where those Specter Ships went," I rubbed my chin. "If we can't find them, we can only wait for them to appear again. Since this is the first time the Specter Ships came into contact with the Macro World's border, they must have drifted to a location close to the Empire's territory. On one hand, we should strengthen the Garden of Departed World's scanning system to the periphery of the Macro World, and on the other hand, we should strengthen the border patrols. I reckon that it won't be long before they appear again."
Sandora nodded. But before she could speak, a particularly energetic voice came from the side. "Wow! The banquet has already started?! I'm not late, am I?! "
I raised my head in astonishment and saw Qian Qian running over with a bunch of kids in tow. Behind her was a bunch of little girls from the highest to the lowest. They looked like a train. After greeting me, they happily ran into the monsters' bonfire. Behind them was a big sister with a big smile on her face and Miss Lin who was whistling as she wandered around. Then, four of the God Race's five cops appeared. The moment they appeared, they occupied a table of mahjong. The mahjong tiles shone with a golden light. It was obvious that this was the magical Dragon God's Scale Mahjong set. Then, Kuangzi popped his head out from behind the crowd. On his head sat an arrogant Dingdang. I didn't know how these two got together, but it was obvious that Kuangzi didn't participate in the monsters' activities. Everything she saw was new to her, and she even wanted to use Dingdang on her head to play with Alice for a while … But I didn't know how they got together, but it was obvious that Kuangzi didn't participate in the monsters' activities. Everything she saw was new, and she even wanted to use Dingdang on her head to play with Alice …
What was even more surprising was that the little ghost Anveena, who hadn't left her house for ten thousand years, was actually following behind the family. This ghost maid who was extremely afraid of crowds was hiding here and there, trying her best to reduce her presence. She crawled over as if she was running for her life. Then, she hid behind Sandora and started shivering. Her entire body was flashing like an LED.
"Damn, why are they all here?"
I only had the chance to ask after my elder sister sat down in front of me. "Is it Shallow Shallow's idea again?"
"Look at the time!"
My elder sister rolled her eyes at me and pointed at the sky. "She's had this problem since she was young. She doesn't even know what time it is when she goes crazy outside. She doesn't even know when to go home."
I looked up and saw that the sky was already dark. The Atlantis continent might have already left the borders of the continent. After leaving the borders, the "light" would gradually disappear. Converting to the outside world's time, it was almost night time. Thus, I smiled awkwardly. Icetis even poked my arm. "Why do I feel like your elder sister is like your mother?"
Then … Then, my elder sister heard it …
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