Chapter 1582 Opening

We already know the origin of the Lost God Religion. The reason for the weird technological blockade of this world has finally been revealed. It’s like the fog dissipated. It turns out that everything is so simple - what Sandora and I most unexpectedly encountered was the location of this world. It turned out to be In the center of the abyss!

Not only is it in the center of the abyss area, this world was also sealed off by the Abyss Xiling himself back then! This place is right under the noses of the fallen apostles, and some of the fallen apostles were even among the original builders of the sanctuary! Reality is indeed more dramatic than fiction, because fiction must at least be reasonable, right? Reality is so random!

This universe has not been discovered for 70,000 years. Sandora and I have to admit that the Abyss Xiling in its heyday was a terrifying guy. She can call on all the computing resources and high-end equipment in the entire empire, and she can naturally create countless miracles. , and only she launched one fire plan after another in the short few hundred years when the empire was about to collapse, and the success rate was still so high. But except for the powerful protective barrier created by the Abyss Xiling, the world has survived to this day. It is also inseparable from the efforts of these survivors.

Whether it is the three elves who serve as "guardians of sobriety" or other races who are willing to accept the "degeneration of knowledge", all the survivors in this world have paid a too heavy price to continue the fire of civilization, and some of them are not even allowed to To cover the entire civilization with darkness without violating one's own conscience, as the bishops say:

Everyone is helpless, everyone is burdened with sin.

This is a world where it is never clear who is right and who is wrong. Everyone is just assuming their own role. The technological revivalists are the pioneers of civilization as a whole, but the Lost Gods have to suppress them in order to protect the fire of civilization. Who is right? Who is wrong? We just have to blame fate.

Religion and ignorance enveloped the people. Ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent of the people on this planet are ignorant of the truth, but religion and ignorance have also saved the people, so that they do not have to face the despair behind the fog, and can just embrace such ordinary days and live a better life. Until death is enough, at least for the vast majority of ordinary people. This kind of life is the most suitable: it is better to live in ignorance than to die in despair. Of course, there are also people who choose to accept the truth, those various revivalists - no matter whether they regret in the end that they were too curious and uncovered things they shouldn't have uncovered, in short, they got their wish and learned how cruel the world is. Fate is fair to everyone because it is unfair to everyone.

"Now the fallen apostles in the abyss area have been eliminated. The pollution is still there, but it has been adjusted to a harmless state by the Abyss Xiling. The next step is to find a way to lift the blockade of this universe. Oh, the Abyss Xiling refers to the second generation. ," I waved my hand to the four old bishops in front of me. "But before that we still have the biggest question - what exactly is the God's Forge? Did Abyss Xiling tell you anything when he asked you to keep it?"

I thought again of the ancient cemetery-like ruins on the edge of the Milky Way, the hidden planet fortress, and the strange and unexplorable hole in the core of the planet fortress. There are also the star ring fragments that were teleported away in front of him and Sandora. The last one is particularly puzzling: Why is Abyss Xiling's fire plan still in contact with Viska? That little lunatic seemed to have done nothing but smash, loot, and burn... Could it be that her star ring was destroyed by the Abyss Xiling? There doesn't seem to be much conflict in time: because we don't know when the star ring was destroyed...

"The Forge of the Gods... We know that its body is a planetary battleship. Some of the elven exiles escaped to this world on it." Bishop Gale frowned, and with the long lifespan of the elves, he had to recall 70,000 years ago. The details are also quite difficult. "The adult built this planet battleship and handed it over to the white elves and tree elves. She said that the planet was not just a colony ship, but a storage warehouse at the core of the planet. But we have never been there. Core: It is protected by a fully enclosed shield. The adult said before leaving that the core of the God's Forge must not be opened rashly. It is a one-time storage warehouse, and the most precious things are stored in it. It is also the switch of the 'safety barrier', which must be ensured that everything is absolutely safe. It can only be opened after the external pollution has faded or the crazy apostles are dead. In fact, one of the reasons why we persist to this day is to protect this God's Forge - where Before you leave, we promise to protect her legacy until the new Xiling Apostle appears again."

It seems that these elves don't know the information related to the star ring, but they mentioned the most precious thing? I immediately became interested in this, it was the "most precious" thing to Abyss Xiling. This means a lot!

"You know how to open the God's Forge, right?" I glanced at Liefeng, "Sandora and I went to the God's Forge a few days ago, and you got the news immediately."

"Yes, we have the key to the God's Forge in our hands," it was the Technology Pope who spoke. He and his sister stood up at the same time, "because we are the key."

Sandora and I said in unison: "You are the key!?"

"Here is the key," Morrowind (Magic Pope) pointed to his head, and the girl had a heartless smile on her face. "It's right near our brains. There are three keys to open the God's Forge. One of them is buried deep underground in this church and is connected to an ancient AI. The other two are implanted in the brains of the two popes respectively and activated through thoughts. Moreover, it is connected to the soul, which can ensure that even if the popes go crazy, they will not be affected by it. It means confusion and misoperation. Only when the three keys are opened at the same time, the God's Forge will appear from another space. This system was left by that adult, and even the scientists of the empire may not be able to solve it. The three keys have been handed down from ancient times to the present day, and have been in the heads of... well, many popes anyway."

"To put it bluntly, we are the carrier of the key. Our mission for this hundred years is to keep it well. Although the popes before us never had the chance to activate the key in their lifetime, this keeper is indispensable," the Tech Pope patted His sister's hair, with a look of doting on her face, "In the Republic Era, the keys were kept by the heads of the three elven clans. In the Empire Era, the keys were kept by the late Tree Elf Head of State alone. In the Federation Era, the keys were kept by AI and The federal speaker at the time kept it, but kept it outside. Later we discovered that this was a huge hidden danger. There was a possibility that the key would be stolen or the custodian lost control. So in the theocratic era, the key was kept by the pope and AI - through implantation in the brain. method. However, our technology is limited and we can only make very crude modifications to this imperial equipment. The races with the highest technological level at that time tried their best to make it symbiotic with the body. But there are still some sequelae... haha."

"Salute to your sacrifice," Sandora solemnly floated into the air, "You are the heroes of the empire. Then activate the key quickly, and then go to the medical bay of the Imperial Admiral to remove the implants from your brains. Come out, it’s not a good thing if this thing stays with your body for too long.”

"Okay, we have to go underground. Find that ancient AI. It will only work if the three keys are activated at the same time within ten meters of each other." The Technology Pope raised his face with an indifferent smile on his face, "It's really impossible. Thinking that Morrowind and I will become the popes who activate the key - for so many years, carrying the key through life has been the 'habitual responsibility' of successive popes, and some people almost feel that this key will never be activated."

The other bishops also stood up. I saw various expressions on the old faces, including relief, joy, and a little confused and at a loss. After 70,000 years, this long mission has finally come to an end. They have spent their entire lives On this mission, many of them may have thought that this mission would never be completed, but today it finally reached the end... Confusion and confusion naturally came to their hearts, and the empire owed them 70,000 years of life.

Sandora's voice rang in her mind: "I suddenly felt that the Xiling Apostles were not much stronger than these 'mortals' in front of me. In addition to being physically weak, their spirits were as strong as the best warriors."

We came out of the reception room and found that many people had gathered outside, most of them were gray-haired old elves, and there were also a few young elves mixed in. That was after the original founder of the church also died of old age, the successors were selected from the "sequence of saints", a total of more than forty cardinals. They are the people in this world who know the entire truth (of course, in the Third Elves There are also many elders in the clan who know what happened back then, but they are either already dying, or they are just civilians who fled and do not know the core things).

I didn't see Celine: it was a pity, but she was not qualified to participate in this matter, so she was temporarily sent back to the rest area.

Eighty percent of the group of people are old men and women with beards. They were the elf queens, elf princes, elf generals, and various young and promising elf leaders in the past. As an elderly person taking Suxiao Jiuxin Pills, I noticed that there were dozens of complex eyes focused on me, and the eyes were so weighty. Fortunately, after years of strength, I have been able to face my responsibilities and obligations calmly, so I only need to The silent and waiting crowd nodded and signaled Bishop Gale to lead the way.

We walked through the ancient and solemn central corridor of the cathedral, passed through large murals depicting the God of Technology and the God of Magic, passed through layers of arches and curtains, and continued to a deep corridor entirely carved from gray-white stones. , a long and downward passage appeared in front of everyone. Judging from the direction of travel and the building structure, I have now left the church and entered the mountain of this magnificent mountain: the church is perfectly integrated with the mountains, and its second half is carved directly on the mountain rock. I originally only I thought it was an ordinary architectural wonder, but I didn’t expect that the entire church was actually the entrance to the tunnel in the mountain!

The sloping downward passage reaches the end and is already in the center of the mountain. Here, we see an unusually large rock hall. The entire hall is carved from gray-white stones, and the walls and dome are made of solid alloy frames. Reinforcement, although the four walls are full of primitive atmosphere, traces of high technology can be seen everywhere: there are bright modern lighting equipment on the walls, security devices and sentry machine gun stations are installed at each entrance, and four machines can be seen in the four corners of the hall. It is an operating device like a data terminal, with a few clergymen working here.

In the center of the hall, there is a large elevator cabin, which is the most technological thing here. The silver-white elevator cabin is installed on a circular base protruding from the ground. Although there is no psionic response, the elevator cabin is obviously Made of Imperial extraordinary alloy.

"The entire mountain range has been modified and filled with explosives. If a catastrophic event occurs. We will detonate the entire mountain. Even if we kill everyone together, we cannot expose the God's Forge to the madmen outside," Bishop Gale Leading everyone to the elevator cabin, "Some of the building materials here are standard metal parts made by the Empire, but we dare not use psionic energy. Moreover, the Empire's equipment with cross-void communication capabilities has also been sent to the Celestial Forge. Please go inside. Come on, the lift is old, but it’s in good working order.”

The third key was located very deep underground. Anyway, the elevator seemed to have been descending for more than ten minutes before it finally hit the bottom. When the hatch was opened, I was shocked to find that there was an underground garden in front of me!

This is obviously a cave deep underground. But the top of the cave uses artificial light to create a light that looks like daytime, while the floor of the cave is blooming with various flowers and plants. In the center of the open space is a strange "tree" that looks like a tangled vine, except for the lift behind us. Apart from the cabin and the lighting above, there doesn't seem to be any trace of technology here.

"We have used special magic to build an ecosystem here that can be maintained for a long time. No matter how big a disaster happens on the ground, life will continue here. At the same time, this constant magic effect also maintains the vitality of the giant tree, making it look like "It will survive forever like the mother tree," Liefeng pointed at the strange "tree" in the center that looked like both a vine and a tree. "The third key is fused with it."

Sandora was curious: "Didn't you say that the third key was fused with an ancient AI?"

"That's right," Morrowind smiled like a flower, "This is the product of the fusion of the technologies of the three elves. We used a twig of the mother tree, the life magic of the white elves, and the programming technology of the high elves to create this mother. Tree replica - the real mother tree has left with an ark that fled in another direction, so we can only keep its twigs, but that's not bad, this is our mother tree! By the way, although No hope... There should have been another group of tree elves who escaped on a planet fortress called the Green Star. They followed a different path than us, so..."

"They are still alive. And they were rescued two years earlier than you." Only then did I finally remember that I had not told the tree elves present this exciting news. "You will be reunited soon. In addition, your mother tree is also here. , although it almost died on the journey, we used the power of the goddess of life to revive it. Now the tree elves are one of the most prosperous families in the new empire."

"Oh——" There were cheers of joy from all directions. Nearly half of the people here are tree elves, and they are tree elves who have lived for more than 70,000 years. Nothing makes them more excited than this news. , a wrinkled elf grandma even subconsciously raised her hair: "I... can I see him again? I remember that he was the navigator of Green Star when we set off... Is he still alive? After so many years, I...I have become like this, so old..."

"Everything will be rewarded," Sandora solemnly floated to the highest place, "Don't worry, we have reunited many dependents from the old empire era and refugees who suffered due to the empire's mistakes. The Xiling Apostle has never I will shirk responsibility and never forget the heroes. In the name of the head of the empire, I promise that all races will be rewarded. As for now - let us finish the work at hand and activate the key!"

The two popes nodded, and under the attention of a group of people, they approached the big tree that was tens of meters high. The latter looked like a plant, but it was obviously able to sense changes in the surrounding environment. As soon as they approached the giant tree, the latter's A light green halo quickly spread among the branches and leaves, and then many thin branches stretched out from the trunk made of entangled vines, and wrapped around the two popes to form a structure like a console. I heard someone in the bishops group talking in a low voice: "Seventy thousand years have passed, and finally today... it still feels like a dream." "Just turned the key on? We are not in an illusion, are we?" "What are you thinking about? He is an old fool and has been suspicious all his life. But speaking of it... it seems a bit hasty to activate the key like this." "Should we hold some kind of ceremony first to show solemnity?" "I also think there should be some commemorative links... By the way, remember to record this scene." "How about playing some music to cheer up?" "Get out."

Sandora and I: "..."

Are these elves using this spirit of taking pleasure in hardship to persist to this day?

Activating the three keys did not make as much noise as I imagined. Everything was done quietly. I only saw the light flowing between the branches and leaves of the big tree. After a while, the two popes left the console, and at the same time they came from the underground. There was a slight mechanical friction sound, and a circular hole with a radius of more than one meter suddenly opened on the grass, and a crystal column emerged from the ground.

The crystal cylinder is a fully sealed protective cover. In the center of it is a small empire-style device suspended quietly. It looks like a data terminal, but it is more narrow and long, and like all the equipment made by Abyss Xiling: This There are no markings on the east and west surfaces.

Gale stepped forward and opened the protective cover, solemnly took out the small device inside with both hands, then presented it to Sandora and I, and bent deeply: "The space blockade near the God's Forge has been closed. Disarm, this is the command device to awaken the planet's main engine. The tree elf general Gale, obeyed the ancient order and returned it to the head of the empire."

I took over this extraordinary ancient creation, and Gale Wind breathed a sigh of relief:

"Finally...we did our job."

(Hey, I’ll go and ask for a monthly ticket! I looked at the calendar today and realized that something almost happened. It’s now!)