The temporary world that the exiled fleets would be living in had finally been decided upon. This was a rich world that had just finished its material evolution. Its spatial structure and the balance of matter and energy in the universe had already stabilized. The model used was a common variant of the universal universe. This world's structure was rather similar to the universe we were currently in. It had the speed of light, the four fundamental forces, and the structure of an expanding galaxy. This was a gigantic universe with fewer commonly used world parameters and a sturdy structure. Basically, it would be very difficult for any dimensional laws or parameter errors to occur unless it suffered a calamity on the level of the apocalypse. Unlike the wild universe we were currently in, this newly created world had two special parameters. These two parameters were greatly exaggerated by the seller, which caused the planets in this universe to be relatively close to each other. Also, the stars would be filled with a high concentration of free energy. This type of structure was the perfect environment for creating a magical world. Perhaps after a long period of evolution, this new universe would give birth to some intelligent lifeforms that could use magic. Perhaps they would even divide the planet they lived in into three parts: Heaven, Earth, and Hell. The Church of Light and the Dark God Religion were constantly at odds with each other. The entire world's citizens believed that there was a supreme temple in the world, and this temple was called the Pantheon Group Shopping Website … which inadvertently revealed the origins of this entire world.
After all, the universe was so vast. It was impossible for the exiled fleets to occupy every inch of space. After this new world was activated, there would always be a lucky corner in which a different civilization would be born. They would probably continue to evolve in ignorance, not knowing anything about the world, nor would they know anything about the secrets of the Empire and the Void. While the wise ones among them would sit on high sacrificial platforms and ponder the secrets of the sky, the Empire's starships or the exiled fleets' spaceships would occasionally streak across the sky. Perhaps this would become a prophecy of an apocalypse. Out of the infinite possibilities, the probability of this happening would never be zero. Of course, that would be thousands of years in the future. Perhaps by then, I would still remember the little daydream that I had today, to see if the once desolate space had given birth to a new seedling of civilization. Thinking about it, it seemed like a really interesting thing.
I realized that I had decisively become artistic — these high-end associations were not my style.
But when I voiced out these strange thoughts, the first one to express understanding was the Hoodlum Goddess who had been in the room for the entire morning. Icetis was slurping on the soy milk that Anveena had specially prepared for her. Her mouth was gurgling, but it didn't affect her speech at all. "That's normal. You've seen a world evolve before your eyes. Everything in the world suddenly bursts forth from a single point and becomes a hubbub. Such a feeling is indescribable with words. For you to have such thoughts that transcend your horizons can only mean that you're gradually comprehending something broader. Of course, there's another possibility — your Void Creature side has gradually matured. Have you learned to think in terms of millions of years?"
I sat on the sofa beside Icetis and seriously combed Jingle's hair — using a CPU that had been broken in half. I didn't even lift my head as I said, "Don't, my concept of time is different from you Protoss. Tens of millions of years pass in the blink of an eye. I'm just letting my thoughts wander a little. By the way, the 'Parliament' seems to be quite satisfied with the situation of our new home, right?"
After the new world that we had prepared for the exiled fleet was finalized, Sandora immediately sent the relevant information to the exiled fleet that was still waiting for news in the Void. We didn't dare to tell them the origins of this new world. We only clearly marked out the main parameters and habitable coordinates of the new universe. The feedback was very gratifying. The Parliament and the other fleet elders were very satisfied with the situation of their new home, especially when they knew that this universe didn't belong to the Empire's territory. It was an absolutely free world that they had obtained from the Protoss. They were even more satisfied.
"To them, the environment of their new home isn't important. For a civilization that has developed to such a level, as long as there's a stable space, they would be able to create their own colonies. All they need is peace. They hope that this new home can slightly offset the mistakes that the Old Empire committed against them." The voice came from the front. Sandora was sitting by the floor-to-ceiling window a few meters away. In front of her was a small square table and a cup of red tea. She was holding the cup of red tea in a dignified manner. Under the sunlight, she looked like a quiet princess. As long as I didn't look at the meter-tall teapot behind her, I really thought that this scene was beautiful.
Lin Xue looked around and suddenly muttered, "I'm just wondering what kind of expression they'll have when they find out that the new universe is a gift for buying furniture …"
"Pfft —" Icetis instantly spat out her soy milk. It was a pity that she didn't spit it on her chest. Otherwise, it would have been such a delightful scene. "Gift for buying furniture? What's going on? How come I didn't know that this happened? "
Icetis had just come out from the Hell Eruption, so she didn't know what had happened this morning. I turned to look behind me and discovered that Monina was still hugging the pile of instruction manuals several meters away. So, I explained to Icetis in a low voice, "This new universe isn't from the Empire's storage. It's a special item that Monina got from the Divine Realm … It can't even be considered a special item. She was dazzled when she went to the market. Later, when she bought a set of furniture for her temple, someone gave her this universe as a gift. I heard that it was second-hand …"
Even though I said it out loud, I still felt that it was inconceivable. Up until an hour ago, I didn't even know that the Divine Realm had such a thing as group buying. Not to mention, it even supported ordering through handheld mobile terminals. Of course, this was just a figment of the imagination. Monina called the crystal tablet she used a Star Resonating Crystal. But no matter what it was called, seeing Monina suddenly take out something that looked like a tablet from her pocket and point at it to order a new universe left a deep impression on me.
"To be honest, I really think that Monina has my style back in the day. It's just that she's much more well-behaved now."
Icetis tapped her chin with her finger and said seriously, "Also, I didn't expect that the second-hand universe could be used for group buying. This is the same as buying and selling second-hand houses. Has the policy been relaxed for the past tens of thousands of years …"
I sweated when I heard this. Just what kind of people were in the Divine Realm? Could their daily lives be any more colorful? But just as this thought popped up in my mind, Jingle jumped from my hand onto the coffee table and brought me another surprise. "It's relaxed, relaxed! Second-hand goods and freebies are relaxed! The new entropy regulator installed in the Yggdrasil was a gift from Jingle when she bought candy! "
I had always thought that it was already shocking enough that Jingle used a seven-handed Yggdrasil that she bought from a flea market to manage the world. But now, I found out that there was something even more shocking. The key artifact that the Yggdrasil used to ensure the stability of the universe was actually a gift from buying candy … I didn't dare to continue asking her how many other such scam parts were on the Yggdrasil. In any case, no matter how I looked at it, Jingle didn't seem like someone who would save money …
But compared to the new home of the Exiled Armada, we were still considered lucky. Their universe was a gift from a certain cooking goddess.
And it was a second-hand one.
"In the future, Monina will be the new world's management god." I suddenly thought of this and said in a conflicted tone, "In the past, I always thought that the title of the world's management god was a glorious one. Why is it so sloppy now?" "It has always been like this.
To put it bluntly, the world's management god is just a landlord. "Icetis touched the grease at the corner of her mouth." Usually, when you have nothing to do at home, you'll occasionally go to the house to check on the situation, collect water and electricity bills, or mediate the conflicts between the residents. Yep, that's a little like property management. Right, the world's management god is also responsible for fixing the roof and waterproofing (probably referring to the correction of the universe's parameters). If the residents cause the walls to collapse, we have to work tirelessly to quickly fix them (this is probably because some civilizations developed ahead of time and used mathematical devices to cause their own world to collapse). If we want to fine the residents, we have to get approval from our superiors.
This is such a troublesome job … "I was stunned as I listened on the side. This was the first time that I had heard Icetis evaluate the world's management god from the perspective of a Protoss. It was quite a novel feeling. I never expected that the supreme, holy, and majestic god in the eyes of mortals would actually view himself as a poor collector of water and electricity bills. At the same time, he was also a housekeeper and a community auntie. Perhaps this was the difference in realms between mortals and true gods. True gods were generally more slippery than mortals …
"What's up with fining the residents?" Shallow Shallow had also come over at some point and was listening on the side. Perhaps she didn't hear everything, so she asked out of curiosity.
"It's a great calamity." Icetis waved her hand domineeringly. "Of course, when it's on a larger scale, mortals will call it the end of the world. "Sometimes, mortals make too much of a ruckus, such as losing their morals or aimlessly researching Rule Weapons. The former affects the Gods' judgment, while the latter could easily cause the entire world to collapse. In such situations, the God of Management would usually issue a warning and guide them, or simply tell them the correct way to use the Universal Laws. However, in extreme cases, there would be mortal races who would not listen, and that would be the time for all sorts of natural catastrophes. It could be considered a final emergency brake for the out-of-control races. However, such methods need to be reviewed, and it's very troublesome. At its peak, there are cases where the review takes up to eight to ten years, and sometimes, before the natural catastrophes arrive, they would have already destroyed themselves …"
I lowered my head to look at Jingle, who was jumping around on the table like a hopscotch board. She noticed my gaze and immediately looked up to greet me with a bright smile. She even enthusiastically invited me to jump with her — I couldn't imagine this little one requesting for the end of the world from her superiors with a straight face. It seemed that in 2012, I could only hope that the World Tree would crash, or that the demo version of her operating system would expire …
I didn't know if Jingle would start the end of the world, but what I did know was that she seemed to be fascinated by chess. I didn't know who bought this chess set back then, but it had been sitting in the living room for a very long time, and on it was the final game that Lin Xue and Shallow Shallow had created. There was only one general and one marshal left, and only the heavens knew how these two lousy chess players ended up like this. Right now, Jingle was trying to jump from "general" to "marshal" without flapping her wings. After an hour of trying, she was still crawling on all fours in front of Chu He Han. Based on the ratio of her height, this was already an astonishing result. Of course, I still thought that the little one had nothing better to do. I was thinking that if she crashed into the chessboard a few more times, it would become a Divine Artifact, and it would possess the Rule property of "all divine beings who come into contact with it will inevitably fall to the ground" …
"Actually, I have been thinking about a problem since yesterday," I said slowly with a thoughtful expression, as though I was worried about the country and the people. "I keep feeling that there is something wrong with the Fallen Apostles."
"What are you thinking about?" Icetis yawned as she looked at me. "You don't usually think about such things."
"Why do you think they stopped pursuing back then?" I thought slowly as I picked up Jingle, who had landed in front of me, and rubbed her face gently, making the little one very happy. "I am talking about when they were pursuing the exiled fleet. You know, the Shiring Apostles are a race that won't stop until they reach their goal. Whatever they want to do, unless the Emperor orders it or it loses its original value, they will never give up. Also, there shouldn't be any reason for them to give up on pursuing an enemy that they have already defeated. However, according to the known intelligence, the Fallen Apostles suddenly gave up on pursuing the exiled fleet."
Icetis thought for a long time with a solemn expression. Then, she shook her head solemnly. "Damn it, I don't know. Have you forgotten that I didn't follow them back then?"
I replied, "… Then why do you have such a solemn expression? I thought you had guessed something! "
"I was just trying to lighten the mood." Icetis waved her hand casually. Then, she raised her voice and called Sandora over. After I told her about my confusion, Sandora seemed to be a little concerned.
"That's right. I have been confused about this in the past. However, this incident seems to have cleared up the matter." Sandora nodded in agreement. Jingle, who was sitting on my shoulder, also nodded in agreement. Of course, you can treat the latter as the background. She was just a cute little animal. "I have always felt that from the destruction of the Old Empire, to the formation of the Fallen Apostles, to the reactivation of the Fallen Apostles, to the awakening of you, Ah Jun, there is a vague timetable in between. This timetable has something that makes people pay attention to it. That is, the Fallen Apostles have a very long period of hibernation!"
I noticed that Icetis' eyes instantly lit up. She also understood. "You are saying that from the destruction of the Old Empire until the awakening of Chen Yi as the Emperor, they have always been in a state of hibernation. The fact that the exiled fleet got rid of the pursuit of the Fallen Apostles is the beginning of this period of hibernation?"
"Basically, you can think of it that way." Sandora nodded. "I am not looking down on others, but I have seen the configuration of the exiled fleet. Even at their peak, it would have been impossible for them to completely shake off the pursuit of the Fallen Apostles. The enemy obviously took the initiative to stop halfway through their pursuit. According to the records of the 'Parliament', the exiled fleet took a thousand years to shake off the pursuit. Even though there were unfortunate situations where they encountered the Fallen Apostles, it was obviously not a large-scale pursuit. Instead, it was a small team that came out to 'take a breather'. The large-scale operations of the Fallen Apostles suddenly stopped a thousand years after the exiled fleet set sail."
"Therefore, during that period of time, the star region didn't discover any traces of the Fallen Apostles. They didn't even realize that they hadn't received any news from the Xiling Empire for a long time … It's because the place where the disaster happened was too quiet. The Fallen Apostles made a ruckus for a while before calming down in the blink of an eye!" Icetis clapped her hands as she spoke, causing Sandora and I to roll our eyes. You described a thousand years as a blink of an eye? What kind of magical concept of time is this!
The three of us discussed for a long time and finally straightened out this timetable that had always been hidden under many incidents. It was obvious but no one had paid much attention to it. The information that the exiled fleet brought us was equivalent to turning this originally ambiguous timetable from a conjecture into definite data. The abnormal pattern of the Fallen Apostles' activities gradually became clear.
Normally, I would call this a dramatic development.
"Let me see, the old Empire fell into a deep sleep, followed by a very short period of chaos." Sandora had already moved her small tea table and the meter-tall teapot over. Icetis was drawing on the table with her finger. "During this period of time, the Imperial Army was completely out of control. Even the newly transformed Fallen Apostles didn't have any self-awareness. They unconsciously wiped out the Empire and began to attack all the surrounding civilizations. According to the information provided by the exiled fleet, the precise data for this period of time was roughly two to three hundred years. Then, the various worlds collapsed one after another. The exiled fleet gradually merged to form the current Fourth Alliance Fleet. After that, it was a pursuit that lasted for around a thousand years. At this point, the Fallen Apostles were all out of control. In any case, the intelligence provided by the Parliament was that during this period of time, they didn't discover any traces of rationality in the Imperial Army. Their behavior was no different from that of ordinary abyssal monsters."
I nodded. "When Belavilla recalled this period of history, she was also very confused. It seems that she was in a frenzied state for a period of time after she came out from the Holy Church. At that time … I'm afraid that the infected Apostles couldn't even be considered as Fallen Apostles."
Although the Fallen Apostles were infected with the abyss, they still had the ability to think rationally. Moreover, most of the time, other than their obsession to destroy the world, they behaved like ordinary intelligent beings. However, according to the records of the Parliament, the Imperial Army that first pursued the exiled fleet were as crazy as abyssal monsters. This was obviously different from the Fallen Apostles who gradually regained their sanity.
"After that, the Fallen Apostles suddenly went into hibernation." Icetis continued to spoil Sandora's beloved black tea, drawing on the messy timetable on the table. "The intensity of their activity clearly decreased. It could even be said that they completely hid themselves from the main material plane. During this period of time, everything seemed to have calmed down. This hibernation lasted for a very long time. Due to the difference in time in the void, we won't bother to calculate how many years have passed. In short, what we can be sure of is that the time when they regained their activity was roughly the same as the day when Chen awakened …"
I rubbed the back of my head, feeling a little cold. "Err, there seems to be a difference of a few years. I'm afraid it's more than a hundred years." I rubbed the back of my head, feeling a little cold. "I've chatted with Belavilla before. Her mission to collect the Heart of the World happened one or two hundred years ago. That should be the symbolic event that marked the beginning of the active period of the Fallen Apostles …"
Icetis suddenly knocked on the table and interrupted me. She looked at me with a burning gaze, her expression abnormally solemn. "Chen, you might have overlooked something. The span of time in this entire history is measured in tens of thousands of years. The difference of a few hundred years is negligible. Furthermore, your Void Creature is essentially an inert creature. It is highly possible that you will only react to a stimulus after a few hundred years. In other words, your awakening and the large-scale operation of the Fallen Apostles can be considered to have happened at the same time!"
"Ah Jun! You're hurting Jingle! "
The sudden small protest from my hand made me snap out of my daze. I hurriedly placed God, who was almost wrinkled from my pinching, on the table. At the same time, I felt uncomfortable all over. Sandora suddenly stood up. "I'm going to look for Belavilla!"
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