Chapter 1580 The Curtain of History
Celine was quickly invited out, and she was asked out in a confused situation. Probably the battle nun couldn't figure out why she, a clergyman, was the one who wanted to go out. An archbishop told Celine to wait in a nearby lounge, and specifically reminded her not to leave the cathedral without permission: This is normal vigilance, because Sandora and I have aroused high vigilance among everyone present, including Celine. She was slightly implicated, but it seemed that Celine herself didn’t feel there was anything wrong with it.
Soon Sandora and I were the only ones left in the small reception room, facing the two popes and five archbishops. I was surprised that the other party hadn't called the guards yet: several old men were sweating on their foreheads. But they still tried their best to stay calm and sit behind the long table, and vaguely protected the Pope sitting among them. However, no one called the guards. They all seemed to be very calm people.
"Don't be nervous, you have to calm down first, otherwise we can't talk." I waved my hands to a few elderly people, and the reaction of the other people was what I expected. Looking at their attitude of keeping secrets about the ancient truth, I knew that this was a person. The topic that makes people extremely vigilant is likely to be related to the disaster that will destroy the world. Except for certain people who can know it, it is probably taboo for others to just say it. Now because they don’t know the identities of Sandora and I, plus The space ruins mentioned by Shandora were completely unlike things that ordinary pagans could know. Due to the unequal information, the two sides fell into a stalemate.
In order to break the stalemate, I took out my data terminal from my pocket, but before showing something, I very carefully looked at the four elves opposite who looked at them for a long time longer than the history of human civilization. The old man (four of the five archbishops are old men, and the remaining one is a very young girl. This is a bit strange) asked cautiously: "What, no one here has heart disease, right?"
Several old men looked at each other inexplicably, seemingly not expecting that the mysterious uninvited guest in front of them would suddenly ask such a creative question. I had to repeat it again: "Those of you who have heart disease should avoid it first. What happens next is more complicated. It’s impactful.”
"We are very healthy." An old man with the longest beard knocked on the table aggressively. "No matter who you are, stop here for your pretentiousness. If you really have something to say, please tell me quickly. Otherwise, I think you are different from other people." Those whimsical…”
"Then I'll turn on the projection." I pressed on the data terminal without waiting for the other party to finish speaking. The imperial military emblem more than one meter high was immediately projected on the table: These elves in front of them have lived for at least 70,000 to 80,000 years. There is no doubt that they must and must know this.
At the moment when the simple but powerful blue crystal cross appeared, the "very healthy" old man with a white beard clicked - without hesitation. The old man cocked his neck and opened his eyes angrily, staring at the imperial emblem in front of him as if he wanted to pop his eyes out. He was waving his hands wildly and making a gurgling sound of unknown meaning in his throat, but he couldn't say a word. He was about to die. Fortunately, the people around him reacted in time. Another old man who looked not much younger than him cooperated with the young bishop girl and pressed him on the table. The young bishop took out a handful of pills from his pocket. Lai stuffed the old man's mouth hard: "Quick! Bishop Gale, open your mouth and take the medicine! Hold on! Open your mouth and take the medicine!"
Pop the pill into your mouth. After his neck was pressed and a few more mouthfuls of water were poured down, the "healthy old man" known as Bishop Gale finally regained his breath. But just as he had time to cough twice, another bishop took out a lot of emergency medicine and put it in his mouth. Guan: "Bishop Gale, there are still these, eat them quickly or you will get sick again soon... Water, water, get another glass of water, Bishop's medicine cannot be stopped!"
Shandora and I stared at the scene in front of us dumbfounded, and we were both stunned for a while until the dust settled. At this time, Bishop Gale finally stabilized. He coughed violently for a while (due to the pain of filling him with water and medicine), and then stared at the second old man who gave him medicine: "I only had heart disease last year. This year It’s just chronic pharyngitis! Could you please stop putting my medicine with the random things in your pocket? What does it smell like!”
I feel like I will be forgotten if I don't speak. So he knocked on the table lightly: "Uncle Gale, right? Well, it sounds like the name of the tree elf, either a plant or nature. Didn't you have a heart disease when I asked you just now?"
"Ahem—" The old man suddenly coughed even more violently, as if my words had been choked into his lungs.
"This mark..." An old tree elf bishop who had never said anything finally grasped the key point from the chaos. He looked at the blue emblem that was still slowly rotating in the air in surprise, "You are Where did you get it?”
"Where did you get it from? This is our mark." I felt that the other party's suspicion was a bit unreasonable. "You must have been waiting for many years, right? Why are you not happy now that someone from the empire has come?"
"Really... it's you?" Bishop Gale Feng looked strong. He waved away the young junior who was trying to help him, holding medicine in one hand and water in the other, looking at this side with a prepared attitude, "Whether it's me or not, I have to warn you, if you accidentally got this mark from somewhere and want to cheat, the old man will risk his life to keep you here. Not everyone can use it casually! Moreover, this universe is being watched by enemies you can’t imagine. "Look, if you use that thing in your hand carelessly, it will probably end the whole world..."
"Wait a minute..." I quickly waved my hands to calm down the righteous old man. The other person's attitude was touching, but we seemed to have encountered some problems, "Why can't you recognize such obvious psionic energy... Sigh , I understand, you are tree elves."
The tree elves, the last Familia in the old empire, could even be said to have caught up with the catastrophe before they could even become a real Familia. The other Familia have been living with the Empire day and night, fighting in the north and south for at least hundreds of years, and their members can be recognized at a glance. They have the equipment of the empire, and they also have the ability to sense psionic energy (later evolved or forcibly transformed by the empire). Only the tree elves can't do it. They were forced to start fleeing before they understood what the empire was. Most of them were forced to flee. Most tree elves only knew Haran as the emperor. This shows how delicate this situation is.
The old man in front of me must know the imperial military emblem and the imperial equipment, but other than that, he has no idea how to identify the Xiling apostle, so he is not sure about the identity of Sandora and me, because as long as the intelligence is high, Anyone who is above average knows that a few tokens alone cannot prove anything. Maybe it was picked up.
What's even more subtle is: I'm not really a standard Xiling apostle. I really don't have any psionic response except for some small equipment, and Sandora...she looks more like an egg now, and she doesn't know the old... Does the empire have specialized egg-shaped troops? In our current situation, a serious family member of the old empire would have to murmur for a long time before daring to recognize our relatives. The tree elf in front of us is of course even more suspicious.
to be honest.他们要真毫无疑心纳头便拜的话珊多拉可能反而会生气：女王陛下爱兵如子，也就是说她管起手下的士兵是跟揍孩子一样不讲情面的，仆从军显然也算Soldiers, so the requirements are very strict...
"Oh, by the way, let me show you something else," I suddenly thought of the thing that could best prove the identity of the Imperial Army: the spaceship. Just hovering in space, "Do you still have the ability to observe space now? Don't tell me that even the church smashed the last telescope. In that case, I would have to drive the spacecraft into the atmosphere, but this may cause riot."
"We have been observing space to prevent encountering threats from outside the planet," an old bishop said, pressing his chest as he gradually realized the situation in front of him. So the closer he got to the truth, the more nervous he became. Even though he believed the facts in front of him from the bottom of his heart, he did not dare to nod casually, "What do you want to show us?"
"Turn on your space surveillance equipment. It happens to be night now. Even with an optical telescope, you can see: aim at the three brightest stars in a straight line in the north, right at the position of the middle star." Sandora After giving the order, these bishops began to use the intercom phone in the living room (this level of technology can still be found everywhere in the cathedral) to give orders to the departments below, while the youngest female bishop Later, he chanted a spell and created something like a water curtain in mid-air. What is shown on the water curtain is the space scene observed by the telescope. Sandora gave an order to the Imperial Admiral at this moment: "Shipboard host, remove the stealth of this ship, release all the escort formations that have been completed, and place them as large as you can."
Many people must have guessed what happened next, yes. What follows is this:
"Bishop Gale! Hold on! Open your mouth and take the medicine!" "Water, get another glass of water! Bishop Gale cannot stop taking medicine!"
Why did something so serious suddenly become like this? Is this old man who looks full of energy actually here to adjust the atmosphere?
When the Imperial fleet is displayed in orbit, everyone will know about their arrival... Forget it, the atmosphere has been ruined now and I can't continue to talk about these words. In short, facing the Imperial spaceships arrayed in space, even if No matter how low the ability of the tree elves to discern the empire, they no longer have any doubts. The reception room has experienced various unexpected commotions, but now it is developing according to the planned rhythm: the two popes returned to their seats again, and almost The old bishop also sat down again at the request of Sandora and I - it seems that the guest and host were reversed?
"Our benefactor, the disaster outside...is finally over?"
One of the bishops tremblingly supported the table and leaned his entire upper body forward, as if all his strength was concentrated on this sentence.
"It's over." I thought the other party was referring to the catastrophe in the old empire. I nodded and sighed a little in my heart: It was really because of that disaster that they decided to block technology and hide themselves, but the disaster happened 70,000 years ago. It's over. Have they been blind for 70,000 years? "Now that a new empire has been established, a new order, a new environment - I can take you back after the problems of this world are solved."
Finally, when they received this reply that was 70,000 years late, the expressions on the faces of the four elderly bishops in front of them could hardly be described in words. They seemed to be at a loss in the face of a huge impact. They looked at each other several times before Bishop Gale Feng spoke. Finally woke up: "It's over, it's over! The abyss outside has receded, and the empire has regained its lost ground?! Our tens of thousands of years of waiting have finally been in vain. We are going to open the holy treasury...open the holy treasury and put the gods into the forge." Take out your things..."
"Wait a minute!" When I heard the words "recover the lost ground", I suddenly realized something was wrong. "Let's confirm first: Why is this world blocked? Who did it? You shouldn't have this strength. It was Xiling who blocked it in the first place. Did you bring them here?"
"Xiling? We don't know the name of that will. We only know that she is a woman." A bishop calmed down and slowly opened the ancient curtain. "After the last escape route was sealed, those of us who survived The survivors had to gather together and escape to this last world that has not been affected by the abyss. The will escorted us here with the last fleet that has not been corrupted, and handed the God Forge into our hands. Having said before leaving that she would seal off this universe and erase all traces of its existence from all databases, she asked us to hide carefully and not make a sound in this shelter. 'This is a safe cave, and there is a forest fire outside. The air is filled with crazy beasts raging, and you little animals must hide in the hole and die without making a sound, if possible. Dig the hole deeper' - that's what she told us at the time."
The more I listened, the more surprised I became. At this moment, I couldn't help but stare and interrupted the other party: "Wait! You just said... you didn't escape from the Empire Zone? The last escape route was blocked, so you didn't escape at all. Go?! Then the location of this world..."
"It is in the first sky area," Bishop Gale said naturally. "It is said to be the oldest territory of the empire. It is in the hinterland of the empire area, very close to the source of the original abyss explosion. But because of what this universe is...the backup world , has never been developed. When the disaster occurred, there were almost no connection points to the outside world. The entire world was still stored in the world library, so it was the last world to survive and not be polluted, and it was probably the only world. "
First day zone! The heart of the old empire!
I was completely stunned. I stared at Sandora with big eyes and small eyes (assuming Sandora had eyes) for a long time. I realized what happened, and then slapped myself on the forehead: "Dang Dang." Yes! Is this the abyss area!? Or the center of the abyss area!"
Sandora and I have been studying where we were bombed these days. We have guessed at the White Area and the Huron Territory. We have guessed about the unknown area that has not been explored by the three gods, and even guessed whether it was bombed to the other side of the bridge, but...but we never guessed it correctly. This is the abyss area, and we have not left the abyss area from beginning to end. Instead, he was blasted into the deepest part of it!
I finally understand why the church strictly blocks technology, even to the point of locking the entire civilization in a farming society - this is not a problem of two million fallen apostles, nor is it a problem of just one or two gates to the abyss! In the past tens of thousands of years, outside this world has been suppressing the entire old empire that has fallen into madness, hundreds of millions of fallen apostles, and millions of gates to the abyss!
It's right under Abyss Xiling's nose!
Let alone jumping out of the world barrier or communicating with the outside world, even if the refugees here study the basic forces, the gravitational field and curvature, and touch any basic concept of the universe, as long as there is an operation error that touches the self-feedback mechanism of the world, They will immediately expose this sanctuary to countless lunatics, and the fallen apostles outside can tear the entire universe to pieces.
I suddenly realized that my previous lament was unnecessary. The survivors of this world definitely did not waste tens of thousands of years. They did not come to the safe zone at all. These guys hid under the noses of the fallen apostles until today - this It’s worth tens of thousands of years of waiting.
Probably the surprise reactions of Sandora and I were too conspicuous (it should be that I was too conspicuous, and outsiders probably couldn't see Sandora's surprised expression). The two Popes across the table guessed what was going on, and the Technology Pope was cautious. Di raised his hand: "Excuse me...don't you know where this universe is? Are you not from outside?"
"We did come from the outside, but the process was relatively non-mainstream." I waved my hands in confusion, thinking that it was fun now, "This world... has never appeared in any records. Sandora and I did not pass We found this place through normal void navigation. But this is all a small problem. Regardless of whether it is an abyss area or a safe area outside, the danger is indeed lifted. You don’t have to worry, the empire’s follow-up troops will find this place soon. Now let’s take a good look Let’s talk about the blockade of this world - so the interference barrier covering the entire universe is actually left by the Abyss Xiling? By the way, the Abyss Xiling is the one who guided you here. "
"We didn't witness it with our own eyes," Bishop Gale said while stroking his beard with a recalling look, "but she told her future plans before leaving, so it is certain that she sealed the universe. Ah, I was the youngest general of the tree elves back then. So many years have passed in the blink of an eye... I have been looking forward to seeing that adult leading the fleet back here to pick us up, but I am deeply afraid of this, for fear that she will bring destruction when she appears again. After all, Before she left, she confessed that even she herself was about to be corrupted. Alas...it was indeed someone else who appeared in front of us now. So, that adult couldn't hold on..."
"She is... still alive now," I thought about the life form of the Abyss Xiling, and could only sigh with the old man, "She has undergone self-reorganization, the old Abyss Xiling is considered dead, and now we The Abyss Xiling next to you is a partial copy. She doesn’t seem to know your existence - she has never mentioned it to me, and she has not attacked the world in the years since she was crazy. "
"Because she erased the world from the database, including her own memory," Sandra Ball interjected, then turned to the bishops and popes across the table, "Let's not discuss these for now, let's talk about it carefully. I’m very interested in your experiences over the years.”