I thought that God Father must have something important to discuss with me when he called me from a different world to my home. However, I never expected that it would be so important. Obviously, what he wanted to tell me could no longer be described as horrifying. I firmly believed that his main purpose was to see the various expressions on my face scrolling across the screen so that I could regain some of my composure.
Relatively calm.
"The Void Cataclysm …" I smacked my lips and repeated the words that God Father had just said. Then, I broke out in cold sweat. "The entire world is finished?"
You can't blame me for thinking in this direction. The words "Cataclysm" were too impactful. Furthermore, there was even the word "Void" behind it. I didn't even dare to imagine what the Void would look like when there was a Cataclysm. Speaking of which, the absolute Void, which was supposed to be eternal in all kinds of theories, had no beginning and no end, and could not be changed, could also experience a Cataclysm periodically? No matter how I thought about it, this was something that couldn't be discussed.
At this moment, I really hoped that God Father would say "Happy April Fool's Day" to me.
God Father pondered for a moment and shook his head slightly. "No, it's something else. The resetting of the Void … It's different from the cataclysm that we understand. Perhaps it won't destroy anything. Perhaps the world will continue to operate normally on its own track. Or perhaps all the Void Cataclysm will disappear in an instant and the world will start anew. Any outcome is possible. The words" Void Cataclysm "have nothing to do with what it might cause. Currently, there's only one thing that Huron and I can confirm. The two cycles of the Void are connected by a very grand change. However, this grand change doesn't necessarily affect every world. It's also possible that the cataclysm will end after you sleep. Other than everyone in the world losing a strand of hair, nothing else will change."
I was getting more and more confused by God Father's explanation. What I hated the most was this kind of pure theoretical stuff that went on for a few paragraphs without any conclusion. Otherwise, I would have passed my Politics exam long ago. Couldn't God Father tell me something that a normal person could understand?
"Then, how can you be so sure that this will happen?"
As I said that, I tilted my head to look at the Chaos Abyss Main God that was right under my butt, which was being suppressed by a layer of "lake water". Now, I seemed to have gotten used to the nearby environment. This Chaos Abyss Main God was obviously in its twilight years. Apart from being disgusting, it didn't pose any threat at all. Father God Karwenz probably didn't allow ordinary Gods to get close to it out of caution. At any rate, I felt that if this Chaos Abyss Main God only made people feel uncomfortable, any seriously ill patient from a mental hospital would be able to live comfortably here.
"Some time-consuming records and inferences obtained from the exchange of information with Huron," God Father said confidently. "The Void definitely has this attribute. Even though it is an indescribable existence overall, this doesn't mean that it can't be imbalanced in a short period of time. However, because there is no time and history in the Void, there is no distinction between cause and effect, so no one can be sure if the Cataclysm is going to happen or if it has already happened. Perhaps everything that you see now is already something after the Cataclysm, and they only appeared a few seconds ago. This includes the Crystal Forest in front of you and me. Perhaps we only have a history of a few seconds. All of these are possible, but as a member of the Void, you are unable to detect any of these. Anyway, what I want to say is that we can't be sure if something is going to happen, but there is definitely a basis for it to happen. Of course, just like what I said earlier, perhaps we don't have to worry. The word 'Cataclysm' is different from different perspectives. A reshuffle that affects the entire Void might not even have an impact on every world as compared to a breeze. "" Stop trying to enlighten me.
"You don't have to enlighten me anymore. My paranoia is going to act up if you continue." I hurriedly waved my hand to signal Father to stop on this topic. Actually, I wasn't really worried about it at this point. My greatest strength, other than being a happy-go-lucky person, was that I was especially good at saving my memory. I wouldn't even think about things that I couldn't figure out or that would be useless even if I figured it out. For example, I would need to be at least Level 4 in Chinese just to sort out this sentence. How much effort did I have to put into thinking about this? "Hey, only the three Void creatures, including God King Huron, know about this matter?"
I thought that since God Father had only told me about this matter now, and Sandora had never mentioned anything related to this before, there must be very few people who knew about this matter. Perhaps this was something that only the Void creatures could sense.
As expected, God Father quickly nodded. "I just figured this out not too long ago …"
At that moment, I felt like I was going to be tricked. As expected, God Father continued to say, "About two hundred thousand years ago …"
I recalled a phrase that Icetis often used when chatting with me, which was "This matter didn't happen too long ago", followed by "twenty-three million years ago …" Every syllable revealed a sense of unscrupulousness that made one's hair stand on end. This bunch of second-generation rich kids who didn't even know what time was!
"You already thought of this two hundred thousand years ago, why did you only tell others now?" I muttered with the corner of my mouth twitching. "Sandora has never mentioned anything about the Void Cataclysm."
"Because it's meaningless." God Father glanced at me. "This is a situation that even the Void creatures themselves have trouble understanding. Regardless of whether it's your Shiring Apostles or my Protoss, they are powerless in this matter. To life forms other than the Void creatures, they can't even come into contact with any evidence related to the Void Cataclysm. It's the same as giving them a name and asking them to research all the background knowledge is unrealistic. That's why I didn't tell others about this, at least not until I can confirm the nature of the Void Cataclysm. Of course, you can mention this to others when you get back, but it shouldn't be meaningful. "
I expressed my understanding, but I also said that regardless of whether it was useful or not, I would have to mention it when I got back. This was related to a person's personality and environment. When I got back, I would have to face all kinds of bombardment that I could foresee. With Shallow Shallow's personality, she would use the Ten Great Tortures of the Qing Dynasty to satisfy her curiosity. None of the girls at home were easy to deal with. In this aspect, God Father was different from me. I was certain that no matter how approachable he was, under normal circumstances, no one would hold a Shuanghui Ham Sausage to his head and yell, "Are you going to tell me or not?"
At this point, I suddenly felt a little curious. According to God Father, the Void Cataclysm was something that should happen in theory, but there was currently no evidence to explain it. Even God Father himself didn't know what it looked like. He could only confirm that at a certain point in time, the entire Void would undergo a synchronized change. If that was the case, what was the point of him telling me about this?
Since he had called me over in such a hurry, this matter should be of great importance.
Hearing my question, God Father thought about it blankly for a moment before replying, "Because you have more time on your hands."
Then he added, "And I have more time on my hands too …"
I was speechless.
"Alright, I'll stop joking." God Father laughed wickedly and patted my shoulder. "It's just that I feel that since this matter was discovered by the Void Creatures, I have the obligation to share this information with the other third of the race …"
I was speechless.
It seemed that ever since the Void Creatures' population had increased by half, God Father was a little too excited. How lonely was our race, which only had a population of three people, usually?
"Also, telling you about the Void Cataclysm was just to give you some background information. This time, the real reason why I called you here is to talk about something related to this: See this Gate of the Abyss in front of you? As I said before, if the Void Cataclysm really happened, this Gate might be a remnant from the previous cycle. This thing is completely different from any known Abyss. Before I created the God Realm, it had already existed harmlessly for god knows how many years."
"And then?" I was a little confused. After talking to God Father for a long time, I felt a little dizzy. He knew too much, to the extent that when I was talking to him, I couldn't help but feel that the topic kept jumping around. Furthermore, every time the topic jumped, it would be something that I had never heard of before. At this point in our conversation, I realized that the words that I used to say the most were already very monotonous. They were "And then?" and "Why?" This had caused great damage to my self-esteem.
"Originally, this Gate of the Abyss had not moved for hundreds of millions of years, but a few days ago, it suddenly opened once." God Father stretched out his hand and tapped lightly in mid-air. Instantly, a black spatial crack appeared tens of meters above the Gate of the Abyss, and something slowly floated out from it. "The children risked their lives to enter it, and in the end, they fished this out."
What floated out from the spatial crack was a large, irregular metal ball. Its surface was already half-melted, and I could see some sparkling blue crystals in the metal ball. These things looked very familiar no matter how I looked at them.
God Father rubbed his chin and said, "I've studied it for three days. I feel that other than you, I really can't think of anyone else who made this."
I raised my head and gaped.
This is a freaking spare part from an Empire spaceship!! This large metal ball flipped in mid-air just now, and there was even Schilling's military insignia on it! Speaking of which, God Father only came to this conclusion after studying it for three days. Should I complain a little?
"Are you sure that this thing was fished out from … this place?" I couldn't really organize my words, so I pointed at the Gate of the Abyss that was separated by a pool of water. "No, I just don't understand. Why would a spare part from an Empire spaceship fall into the Gate of the Abyss at the bottom of the God Realm? Speaking of which, you couldn't have invited an Empire spaceship to tour the Crystal Forest many years ago, right?"
God Father rolled his eyes at me. "Look at this place. Can those extra-large things of yours even come in?"
I was momentarily speechless.
God Father slowly put down the large metal ball in mid-air and placed it on top of the Gate of the Abyss that was already well-behaved. Since there was a layer of crystal lake blocking it, there was no need to worry that it would fall in. Then, the two of us circled around the large metal ball to study it. At this moment, I finally understood that the main reason why God Father had called me over wasn't because of the Void Cataclysm, which I couldn't be sure if it was a theory or reality. It was because of this Empire spaceship fragment that had suddenly appeared from the Gate of the Abyss at the bottom of the God Realm. However, to talk about this spaceship fragment, I had to first take a look at the antique Gate of the Abyss in the God Realm. And when I saw that antique Gate of the Abyss, God Father couldn't help but change the topic to his own research project. I realized that there were many similarities between God Father and me: the two of us would always go off-topic, and every time, we would go off-topic for at least three thousand words …
"I can't tell what this is for. It would be great if Sandora was here. She would definitely be able to recognize it."
After circling around the irregular metal ball that had a radius of at least ten meters for a few minutes, I spread my hands and said helplessly. If this thing was still intact, then with the half-baked knowledge that I had accumulated from dealing with all kinds of spaceships for the past two years, I might be able to tell what kind of spaceship it was from. But now, this thing had been burnt beyond recognition. The degree of disfigurement was so severe that even if you threw it to Korea, you wouldn't be able to make it look like a human even if you spent three million. Only an ordinary expert would be able to fix it.
"If that's the case, then you can bring this back when you go back."
God Father nodded to express his understanding. I then asked curiously, "I'll bring it back directly? You don't want to keep it for research? Actually, I can also send a few experts to the Heavenly Realm to assist you in your research. "
I said this mainly because I was a little embarrassed. Obviously, this was another incident caused by the Empire's random littering of non-flammable trash. And this time, the non-flammable trash was thrown in a very extraordinary place: the basement of God Father's house. Not to mention anything else, if you kicked a football into someone's living room, you can't just casually take the ball away and be done with it. At the very least, you have to compensate them with a piece of glass, right? God Father also said that this Gate of the Abyss had only recently become active. Although he downplayed and avoided this matter, I had sufficient reason to believe that this matter was related to the metal lump in front of me when I thought about the group of Protoss Sentinels that had obviously just arrived. Most likely, the Gate of the Abyss had a stomach ache because of this.
However, God Father didn't stand on ceremony with me at all. He pointed at the metal lump that was the size of a house and said, "You can take it back. It's useless for us to keep it. I still have to worry about which mischievous kid secretly dismantling it for you."
Hearing God Father use the words "mischievous kid" to describe all the Gods in the Star Field, I was a little speechless. I could only say that the person in front of me was probably the grandmaster of the Nanny class. No matter how many Gods there were in the Star Field, no matter how many white-bearded old men that looked like Gandalf, in God Father's eyes, they were just a group of especially troublesome children. Just based on this mentality, I felt that the word "God Father" might not just be a title, but it was very likely to be a position. In layman's terms, it was "Nanny God".
…
Thinking about this, I thought of God Father's family again. Then, I was confused again …
I wasn't sure if it was just my imagination, but after I took away the spaceship fragment, the surrounding environment suddenly became a lot better. Although the oppressive feeling of the Abyss was still there, the image of the Gate of the Abyss under the water's surface had obviously become lighter. Furthermore, the thin purple mist in the air was also dissipating. It gave off the feeling that the Gate of the Abyss had been stifled for a few days and was finally able to defecate freely. Yep, this analogy is a little disgusting, but it's fine as long as everyone understands what I mean.
When I left the Crystal Forest, I turned back to take a look. The Crystal Lake that was enveloped by the power of the Abyss was now only a bright line in the forest. Looking from the outside, I couldn't see the dark purple mist on the surface of the lake at all. I asked God Father curiously, "Have you ever thought of getting rid of the Gate of the Abyss? Although it's harmless, I don't think it's safe to leave such a thing in my house. Furthermore, it looks like it's useless for you to keep it. Speaking of which, do you have a hobby of collecting things? "
"It's not that easy to destroy this Gate of the Abyss. Basically, the entire God Realm might have to move." God Father's words gave me a shock. "Don't be fooled by its small scale and almost powerless. As an object that has existed alongside the God Realm until now, there must be something special about it."
God Father didn't say what exactly was special about it. I could tell that it was a bit of a secret. Of course, I wasn't a very gossipy person. Anyway, this matter didn't have much to do with me, so I didn't ask any further.
We returned the way we came. In the end, we came out from the sky plaza. When we came out, I noticed that the surrounding sentries were retreating in batches. The originally vast plaza now looked even more spacious. At the edge of the plaza, some bright lines were gradually spreading towards the interior of the platform. Following that, the plaza also started to dissipate into the air.
"Actually, ever since the children fished out the fragment from the Gate of the Abyss, the situation in the Crystal Forest has already stabilized." God Father explained. "The final sentries stationed here are to watch over the fragment and prevent others from entering the Crystal Forest. Now that you have taken the fragment, this temporary passageway can be closed."
It seemed that this was the only matter that I had to deal with in the God Realm. I chatted with God Father and listened to him talk about the Void Cataclysm. (Using God Father's words, he was sharing information with the other one-third of his race. Look at how excited he was.) Then, the most important thing was to bring back the fragment of the spaceship that had floated up from the Gate of the Abyss at the bottom of the God Realm for research. After that, I could return home. However, before I returned, I still had to wait for two people. One of them was Jingle, who was currently in the Temple of the Goddess of Life. The other was Icetis, who was currently being escorted by her father to apologize to every leader of the God Realm who had stood her up.
It seemed that I had entered a state of idleness all of a sudden.
I wanted to look for those two living treasures. So, I bade farewell to God Father at the central plaza of the Hall of Glory and strolled around by myself. Under normal circumstances, a place like the Hall of Glory wouldn't allow anyone to walk around as they pleased. However, I was obviously an exception. Putting aside my identity as an 'ally leader', just my identity as a Void Creature brought me many privileges. As I walked towards the Temple of the Goddess of Life, I tried my best to create an atmosphere for myself. I hypnotized myself that a third of the Void Creatures were heading towards the Temple of the Goddess of Life …
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