Chapter 1,213 The Unrecognizable Truth in the Shadows

The Star of God has gradually sunk below the horizon. It seems that it will orbit the planet for one week before leaving. Anulili was obviously relieved after the Star of God completely disappeared from the sky. Although protected by Lilina's power, she was temporarily She was no longer affected by the Star of God, but the golden glow still made her hide in the shadows subconsciously. Now she is chatting with Qian Qian? - To be precise, Qian Qian is dragging her to chat. Anulili has no ability to resist Qian Qian who has super strong mobility and thinking speed. At this time, she has been completely bypassed. fainted. My advice to her is: Just smile from beginning to end. Anyway, even if you answer seriously, Qianqian will probably not be able to pay attention to your answer for two seconds. At the same time, thanks to Qian Qian's rambling, Anulili was distracted and forgot about Lilina's magical ability before she even had time to ask about it. At that time, she was a little conscious due to severe nerve pain and spasm. I don’t know, probably because I can’t remember Lilina’s actions.

Pandora has no interest in this place. The extremely bored Yimi2 is leaning against the door in a daze. Her younger sister is always curious and is currently lying on the ground studying the wood in this world. Ding Dong in my pocket has fallen asleep. I can hear the very subtle breathing coming from my chest when I hold my breath. Occasionally, the little guy turns over in his pocket and utters a few words in his sleep: This is really difficult for others. Funny moments that can be relatable. Shandora opened the window and looked at the villagers who were gradually dispersing outside, her eyes flickering, wondering what she was thinking. Miss Lin looked around the room, looking at the somewhat dim but rather spacious and simple room.

The furnishings in the house are rough and crude, with wooden furniture. Wooden utensils, walls made of wood chips and grass leaves. All this looks like a primitive, simple but natural and harmonious feeling. This is Anulili's room, but we don't see much of the atmosphere that a girl's boudoir should have here - I mean according to the earth human perspective. There is a mirror made of some kind of silver-white metal against the wall, which gives people the same feeling as an ancient bronze mirror. This is Anulili's dressing table. It seems that in this world where everyone's thoughts are highly controlled, people are indifferent to personal appearance and appearance. Anulili, who is out of control, does not dare to reveal her specialness too much, so her room tries to be as expressive as possible. Unremarkable. But after some observation. I still found something that interested me: in the corner on the other side of the room, there was a wooden board placed against the wall, with something painted on it with bright paint.

"What is this?" Although it was not in line with the rules to move around in other people's rooms, I couldn't help but pick up the one-foot-square wooden board and found that it turned out to be a painting: In the vast wilderness , there is a family, no one can be seen on the screen. There is a strange-looking "car" next to the light gray hut, and in the sky above the picture...

"I just drew random things when I was bored," Anulili hurriedly snatched the board from my hand, "Imagination, no one else can understand it... By the way. Your room is across the street. , there are only two empty rooms, sorry, it may be a bit crowded, but you are a family. You shouldn’t mind, right?”

Of course I could see such an obvious intention to thank him, so I said thank you. Leading everyone out of the room. Qianqian happily pulled my arm: "Then I share a room with Ajun?"

Sandora shrugged: "Me too, you two have been clingy enough these past two days, I need to strengthen my sense of presence."

I turned my attention to the eldest lady, and sure enough, Miss Lin's face turned red immediately, and she grabbed Pandora who was making a beeping sound and Visca who was studying the wood grain on the wall: "Don't even think about it, Pandora and I A house. You piece of wood!"

Me: "..." Miss, are you overthinking it? I really just want to sleep...

Lilina poked her head around to look at the two groups of people, then came over and hugged my arm with a natural look on her face: "I'm with the boss..."

The eldest lady grabbed the girl and said, "Don't make trouble!"

This was our daily fun as a family, and then we started talking about business. Sandora touched my arm: "Arjun, did you see the painting clearly just now? Those things on the screen..."

"That's some kind of aircraft in the sky," I nodded. The content of the picture just now was still fresh in my mind. Anulili might have thought that we "ordinary people" couldn't understand the high-tech stuff on it, but I 100% dared to do so. It is certain that the one at the top of the screen is an extremely advanced spaceship, "and it doesn't look like Merova's style. There is also a car on the ground, which is also a mechanical thing, and it is also not Merova's style. This Anuri Li... knows a lot of things, and now I suspect that the Merova people have hidden a lot of things on this planet. These indigenous people who seem to have never been civilized may not be that simple."

"It's not clear yet, let's wait until tomorrow," Sandora shook her head, "I didn't eat enough at night, I'm hungry, give me something to eat~~"

I:"……"

There was nothing to say that night, and what I didn't like to hear was that there was no such thing as sleeping with me in a threesome - by the way, the eldest lady also thought of me a little too much. How can a great and upright person like us be so debauched? ? Of course, what's even more regrettable is that I didn't see the scene between Sandora and Qian Qian Lily. The two of them disagreed... What was I thinking about so early in the morning?

Originally, we planned to leave immediately after a short stay in this village to look for large cities on this planet, but the intelligence collected yesterday made everyone give up this idea. It seems that there are enough things that can be accessed in such a small village. We analyzed a lot of things. And according to the information sent back by the probe released by Sandora, there are almost no so-called big cities on this planet, so it is meaningless to look for larger settlements.

Shandora called us all together early in the morning to show everyone the intelligence sent back by the probe. The first thing is the suppression of civilization and the abnormal population distribution in this world.

"The level of civilization in all places where humans live on the planet is at the same stage," Sandora sealed the surrounding space. Prevent anyone from breaking in, and then turn on the projection device of the data terminal. Shown above are countless pictures taken by the probe: from all over the planet, various landscapes, and small settlements one after another. Although these pictures come from different places, the settlements with human settlements look almost identical. There is no difference, at most there is some difference in scale, but judging from the degree of civilization and development, they are all the same. "Mastering a certain amount of metal smelting technology, without complex machinery and automatic machinery, using the analogy of the age of the earth, it is the early feudal society. The whole world is maintained at this stage. Under normal circumstances, a planet in the stage of ignorant civilization cannot There may be such a unification process. This should be the result of the control of the Merova people. In addition, this is the population distribution." Sandora said. A panoramic view of the planet was opened, with the population distribution on the planet marked by color, and it was all gray: "Exceptionally uniform, with the same population density in every place suitable for local indigenous human habitation. This is also controlled by the Merova people." The results. What's disturbing is that it's impossible to achieve this precise balance by just controlling the birth rate. So the Merovans must also have controlled the death rates in these places...you know what I mean."

"Anulili mentioned several times that 'they' would take away some people," Qian Qian nodded, "They said they would take them to the Kingdom of God to enjoy eternal life or something like that. The people taken away are regardless of gender, age or child. . The locals regard this as a high honor, and the people who are taken away are called the Chosen Ones or something like that... Could it be that the Merova people took away the excess population and killed them?"

"If you really do this, then the Merova people are simply unreasonable and completely inconsistent with their intelligence as an advanced civilization." Sandora sneered, "In order to control the population of the indigenous residents, carry out precise massacres? And still without any If you do it in a meaningful way, no madman would do such a thing."

"What is this table?" Miss Lin looked at the image on the projection screen and found a statistical table, "Saint?"

"It is the Merova people who appear in front of the local indigenous people in the form of 'gods coming to the world'. They appear when the following situations occur: when they take away the Chosen One, when they 'gift' spiritual poison and fuel, and when the locals When an abnormal situation occurs. This information was collected by other agents. They have already contacted the indigenous people in other places on the planet... Well, Arjun, don't show that look. Imperial agents are not that stupid. They are also We will get along well with the local residents...well, although it is indeed not as smooth as ours."

I nodded in understanding, thinking that this was the right rhythm...

"Have you discovered anything in other worlds?" Miss Lin fiddled with Shandora's data terminal, "Hey, let's go, do you want to set off flash bombs like this and use this stupid wooden thing as the system theme?"

Me: "...Let's get down to business - but when did you take these photos, Sandora?"

Shandora didn't look embarrassed at all, pointing to her eyes: "Just turn what you see into image information and save it. As long as you are in sight, I will record it and put it into the database."

Everyone: "..." Lin Xue: "...That's enough for you two!"

Sandora shrugged indifferently: "Information about other worlds is here. Take a look, these are real scenes."

She pulled out a series of pictures and short videos, and we immediately moved forward, murmuring: "Eh? This doesn't look like anything? It's much more normal. Cities, spaceships, holographic billboards... they look quite advanced. of."

"That's it. Most of the colonial worlds of the Merova people have normal technological levels, which is in line with their nature as advanced civilization colonies. There are only three 'medieval planets' like the one we are on now, and they are all located in the same place. Within a galaxy.”

"There are two other planets like this one?!" I was immediately surprised.

Shandora smiled meaningfully: "Not only are the conditions the same, the indigenous inhabitants of those two planets...are the same race as the indigenous inhabitants of the planet we are on."

Everyone immediately looked at each other.

"With their current level of civilization, it is of course impossible for them to go to other planets, so there are only two possibilities for this situation. Either the Merova people took them there, just like bringing livestock to other breeding farms. , these indigenous residents were kept as animals by the Merova people, or... a long time ago, these indigenous residents had the ability to reach other planets!"

Everyone was quiet when Shandora said this. I believe she had enough reasons to make this judgment. And when she mentioned this possibility, several details of yesterday's encounter also emerged in my mind:

Anulili occasionally said words that were far beyond her "surface" cognitive level. The UFOs she left behind with random scribblings, as well as her planned and conscious actions to reduce the intake of nerve agents - this action itself is beyond the cognitive level of an ignorant civilized native.

"Anulili thinks that we are the accused who are as ignorant as the ordinary people around us, so when she spoke in front of us, she started to use a lot of words that she should not have said," Shandora turned off the Her own data terminal, because she found that Miss Lin had started playing Tetris on it, "I think we can use this opportunity to gain her trust and contact her as a native of this planet. Maybe we can get unexpected results. intelligence."

"Well, I agree," Lin Xue nodded, "It would be bad to come into contact with her as an unknown alien, and it will cause unnecessary sacrifices in the future. In addition, some of the things I saw are a bit incomplete and need to be discussed with Anuli. Li will complete it after contacting her."

"Speaking of which, how's the fleet's mission going?" I looked at Sandora. It has been a day and a night since they separated from the main force. According to the traveling speed and equipment efficiency of the Xiling Starship, they should have reached the entire territory of Melova by now.

"The blockade operation has reached 25%," Sandora replied. "The Merova people have set up highly sensitive void detection devices at the border, and the fleet has to operate in areas where the information offset exceeds 10%. Carry out a blockade. The workload is larger than expected. Speaking of which, the sentries discovered an interesting thing: the void detection devices set up by the Merova people at the border have been operating for more than 70,000 years. In other words, those things It was set up after they betrayed the empire and fled to this place, as a means of early warning to the old master. This is normal, but these detection devices have not been replaced for 70,000 years... However, the Merova people It’s not that they don’t have the technology to make such detectors. They are fully capable of updating these devices. Arjun, what do you think this means?”

"They know that the Xiling Empire has been completely extinguished, so they feel safe and secure?"

"The servants of the old empire actually know very little about the void. They generally can only get superficial technical support from their masters, but they don't get any higher-end knowledge... No one even tells them the common sense of the void. The Merova people probably think that the Empire is the strongest and only threat, so they have never thought that there are other things in the void. As traitors, the more blatantly they betray the country, the more uneasy they will become. The shadow of the Empire may have already It is infinitely magnified in their hearts, so much so that it completely blocks their eyes looking at other realms of the void.”

Shandora sighed like this, and the eldest lady couldn't help but complain: "In the final analysis, it's not that there was a problem with your policy back then..."

Sandora: "...We won't discuss this issue."

The sun shines into the house through the grass lattice of the window. It is already bright outside. The night on this planet is about two hours longer than on the earth. So out of habit, we woke up very early and chatted outside until now. villagers began to go out for activities. This is probably the first time in my life that I got up before the sun has risen - of course Ding Dong is still sleeping in my pocket. This little thing has always had a weird schedule. She always sleeps when she wants, and can't afford to be beaten. , wake up whenever I want, make noises in the middle of the night, live a relaxed and carefree life - except for being a little torturous for me. I reached out and carefully stuffed Dingdang's wing back into his pocket, then covered the pocket, only to find that several pairs of eyes on the other side were looking at me. "Um, what's wrong?"

The eldest lady pointed at my chest: "Did you just cover the little thing with a quilt?"

Lilina curled her lips: "You really have the consciousness of a mattress."

I:"……"

"Look outside, the villagers have started to work." Sandora turned to look out the window and pushed open the grass lattice fan on the window. I looked out and found groups of young and middle-aged villagers carrying various Strange-shaped farm tools walked towards the outside of the village. There was no conversation, no looking around, not even a routine greeting in the morning. After the working hours started, they only had the word work in their minds. Talking and looking around were unnecessary, which made them look like a group of people lining up in front of a queue. OK machine. In other parts of the village, children in rags and rags were squatting in front of their houses, playing with rocks, digging in the soil, and pulling out grass stems. Yes, it looked like they were indeed playing. However, the faces of these children There were no smiles at all. Even if three or two children were together, there was almost no conversation between them. They were just "playing" silently as if they had completed a task, as if they were doing this just to make a machine fit the "child" in it. " nameplate. In this way, with routine work, routine eating, routine play, and even routine breathing and walking, a village routinely begins its orderly and meaningless day with the precise running of the clock.

The Merova people have really done amazing things.

"Guests, haven't you gotten up yet?"

Just as I was sighing like this, Anuzha's brisk voice suddenly came from outside the door. The young man's relaxed and cheerful voice was in sharp contrast to the confused crowd outside. The first thought in my mind was: What a shame for Anuzha. Lili was able to hide her brother for so long before agreeing: "Oh, let's go down right now."

"Hey, why is this door so motionless, as if it's frozen... Oh, I understand, breakfast is ready. According to the village's rules, the village chief must accompany the guests to dinner in person. My sister and I are waiting for you below."

"Go down first," I looked at everyone, "and then study how to get close to Anuzha's sister."

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