Chapter 1590 The Trouble We Have to Face

Shandora was scolded by the whole family, and finally she didn't boil and eat the giant egg.

But everyone still hasn't figured out how to deal with this..."baby" that Lin brought. Anyway, I don't think it's appropriate to put it anywhere. Although I understand that Lin, as an oviparous creature (it is said that she can also become viviparous according to personal preference?), has the ability to lay eggs like this, but this does not mean that when I see her carrying a giant egg several meters high as she walks past, He could still remain calm. It was already shocking enough to know that the little crow was secretly hatching eggs, but now something even more ferocious has emerged - laying eggs, which is okay, but the size of this is simply ridiculous. Are you trying to scare people to death? At first I almost thought this was someone’s newly developed landing module!

Things that are several meters high must not be placed in the living room, unless we plan to dismantle the ceiling on the first floor and use this egg as an indoor landscape tree. It cannot be placed on the roof. Although it will not collapse the roof, it will not collapse. This is my home! Can you please stop installing some weird decorations on other people’s houses? ! Qian Qian gave an idea, saying that she could leave the dome in the yard, build a circle of chairs around it, plant some flowers and plants under the dome, and add a wide border on the egg to use it as a pavilion. It can complement the fountain in the yard. Secondly, the dome itself will glow, and it can also keep you warm in winter and cool in summer. It has physical therapy effects within several meters of it. It would be a shame for the audience not to put it to some use - I am very fond of Qian. Qian Naodong expressed his appreciation and then rejected her.

Just kidding, it’s already weird enough to have a fountain full of grooves in our house, but what’s the point of adding a dome pavilion!

What's surprising is that Lin, as the person involved, didn't express an opinion from the beginning to the end. She just hung her neck and listened behind everyone with a shy smile as usual, and even boiled the dome when Sandora suggested it. She didn't say a word while she ate, and I couldn't help but wonder if this poor doormat had been bullied into stupidity. So much so that I didn’t even know how to stand up and defend myself at this time - this silly girl, please say something! Doesn't the giant dragon regard its eggs as more precious than anything else? Aren't there stories in various legends about mortals who accidentally touched a dragon egg and were killed by a giant dragon group that destroyed the country? Although your dragon egg won't hatch any offspring, at least it's something that fell from your body. Would you like to show off a little bit?

I dragged this doormat aside and asked for a long time, but Lin just shook her head indifferently with a soft giggle: "It doesn't matter, it's not an important thing anyway, as long as everyone likes it."

I was stunned. Then he reached out and touched Lin's forehead: "Sister, are you really stupid? I remember that the Dragon Clan is very important to their eggs, or is it that the Dragon God is different from ordinary Dragon Clan and generally has a more unrestrained personality?"

"Dragon eggs that cannot be hatched are not important," Lin scratched her hair. "We all think so anyway. Outsiders seem to have some misunderstandings about the dragon clan. They think that dragon eggs cannot be touched, but in fact we only protect the offspring that can be hatched. Dragon eggs. Divine dragons and ordinary dragons have similar ways of thinking in this regard. Otherwise, some races of ordinary dragons in the lower world still lay eggs periodically before finding a mate. What should I do with these eggs? I can't. If they are hatched and cannot be thrown away, then they are all piled up in the nest? They take up a lot of space over time, and the dragon eggs will never go bad. If they are piled up for a lifetime, they will be enough to build a house."

"I think our topic is very strange..." I broke out in a cold sweat. In the end, I decided to discuss something normal with Lin, "Then how did you deal with laying eggs in the past, or what is your dragon clan's usual way of dealing with them? This thing is really immortal for thousands of years, and it comes with every birth... It's really a troublesome thing to think about. .”

"It doesn't matter, you can deal with it however you want. Sometimes they will be thrown away, but if the patterns on the eggs are very beautiful, we will also collect them, just like collecting other shiny treasures. There are too many ordinary dragons in the lower world, so I don't know everything. But God The dragons in the world will also make eggs into handicrafts, or use them for experiments... various experiments," Lin showed a clean and pure smile, "I also have three beautiful dragon eggs in my castle, two of them are mine. One of the things I planted is a gift from a friend, I can show it to you later, I rarely show others my treasure trove."

I thought about it for a long time and felt that the living habits of some different races have almost risen to the level of performance art in human society. This is the cultural difference, my friends. Do you understand cultural differences?

At this time, I suddenly remembered what I heard Bingtis say just now, and glanced at Lin curiously: "By the way... Dragons can control themselves when laying eggs? Bingtis seemed to have mentioned this just now."

"There are some things that the dragons in the lower realm can't do, but the Dragon God must be able to do it," Lin nodded vigorously, "It would be very troublesome if you have behavior that you can't control. It's easier to delay things during a war."

"...Then why did you decide to lay an egg on a whim! Isn't this fun?"

In fact, I wanted to ask her directly, "What is your motive for laying this egg?" But then I thought it would be impolite to ask, so I changed it to... well, it still sounded impolite. This question is too complicated, no matter how you ask it, it’s inappropriate! Can anyone tell me how to solve this ultimate cultural difference problem?

As a result, Lin looked up at the sky and gave me a more culturally different answer: "The weather is nice and sunny today. Anyway, I have nothing to do and I just want to lay an egg. I feel that I am in a good mood. I can probably lay a very beautiful egg..." At this point, Lin's face showed a slightly embarrassed look, but the reason for her embarrassment was not at all what I imagined: "It seems that the performance was a little abnormal, and the eggs did not look good."

Anyway, I feel that this topic can no longer be continued.

Lin has given this dome to us. She said it was to thank us for taking care of us all the time. She also felt that it was embarrassing to eat and drink here every day, so she wanted to at least express it a little bit. Let's ignore this weird gift and the cultural differences that come with it. In short, you can't refuse something kindly given by others, right, so onee-sama accepted it. But in the end, this thing was of no use - our family's outlook is very normal (at least compared to some people), and we really can't put Lin's dragon eggs in the living room as a Christmas tree or After smashing a hole in it and converting it into a boiler, the giant egg was finally hung on a newly built landscape tower in Shadow City. A circle of searchlights like a sword tomb was installed around it. Qian Qian named it "Egg" Tower (Tart)". After all, it would be a shame to turn it into something related to art...

I hope the little crow doesn't fly over to hatch the egg... It shouldn't be a problem. I have emphasized to her several times that the egg cannot be hatched.

By the way, what is surprising is that after hearing the origin of this dome, the citizens of Shadow City all expressed their acceptance. No one thought that this thing conflicted with their three views. I am very curious about the five people in Shadow City. What exactly has been built in the construction of spiritual civilization in the past year... But think about it, among the nominal leaders of the empire's propaganda department is Qianqian, a humanoid spiritual pollution transmitter. Everything seems easy to explain.

Time passes by so leisurely, and something happens every day. Sometimes it is dull and sometimes it is surprising, but most of the time it is a matter of three views. Anyway, daily life goes on like this. However, Shandora and I couldn't completely relax our spirits - because the catastrophe waits for no one.

If it weren't for the huge mental damage caused by the previous self-destruction, and the expert team would also need time to evaluate the situation after the big explosion. I'm afraid Shandora and I won't even have a few days of rest, and now the rest time is finally coming to an end: early one morning, several reports from the Imperial Research Center and Abyss Xiling appeared at the same time between me and In front of Sandora.

The meeting place this time was not at Tavel's research laboratory, nor at the Imperial Command, but at Abyss Xiling's laboratory.

This is located behind Shadow City. I believe everyone still remembers the structure of Shadow City: it is now a suspended landmass floating in the orbit of Gaia, and its scale has far exceeded the concept of "city". And it can almost be regarded as a small country. The side of the suspended land facing Gaia is the Positive Shadow City, and the back side is the raised mountains and huge inexplicable mysterious equipment, which can also be called the Reverse Shadow City. This area at the back of the city is home to the Imperial Court, heavy factories, and power generators. Only a few residents of Shadow City know the scene here, and even fewer of them will occasionally come here to take a look or two due to work needs. , but no one will stay here for long: the environment here is not very friendly to most ordinary races. At least the weird and weird landscape here won't make them comfortable.

There is a newly built building on the edge of this "counter-world". It is different from all the facilities in Shadow City: this building is a hexagonal turtle shell structure, which looks like some kind of closed The shape of the gymnasium is in the Xiling style, but it has a gloomy black and red paint. A harmless but depressing atmosphere always lingers around the building, and the nearby air patrols are inactive. Man-machine and sentry turrets everywhere are also warning all visitors who see this building: a special zone, no one is allowed to enter.

This is a facility we specially prepared for Abyss Xiling and her subordinates (researchers only).

In fact, Abyss Xiling stayed in the research institute at the beginning, and occasionally when her subordinates came to Shadow City, they stayed in the research institute or other places in the military zone. This was okay for a short period of time. But after we discovered that the bridge building project might require cooperation for a long time, we had to consider arranging an independent working place for these "special visitors". It was not because of any rejection of Abyss Xiling or her subordinates, nor was it because of the She still has doubts (although some people may have concerns in this regard). The really important reason is that many abyssal equipment cannot be placed together with other things. The abyssal apostles themselves also need a special living environment (not them). They cannot adapt to the ordinary environment. But the ordinary environment cannot bear them). After comprehensive consideration, we built such a laboratory for them behind the Shadow City.

Although Abyss Xiling herself can still operate in the front of Shadow City, if her men want to come, they will basically have to settle in the back of the city. They themselves have no objections to this: Xiling Apostle is a very pragmatic creature. Both parties know that this arrangement is not out of rejection or malice, but just "needs to do this". Therefore, the "guests from the Abyss Zone" "They readily accepted the imperial arrangement.

Abyss Xiling's office (actually, her life form doesn't need an office, but we still got one for her) is similar to Tavel's office. It is equally spacious and simple, if it weren't for the gaps in the alloy wall and some equipment You can see the dark red light flow, and I would hardly recognize that this is a room belonging to the "fallen apostles" (it seems inappropriate to call them "fallen" now). Because it is not a research site, there are no complex equipment here. The most common ones around are holographic projection devices and some anti-gravity suspension platforms displaying samples. Sandora, Harlan, Belavila, Abyss Xiling and Tavel's bodies are among me. Coupled with the two big bosses Xingchen and Sheila, it can be said that all the leaders and experts are here, and what we have to face is a fact that can drive everyone on the scene crazy:

It seems that the startup side cannot be repaired, and the security core problem is not small.

Something was displayed on the holographic projection in the center of the room: they were many groups of "strange objects" whose original forms could no longer be seen. They look like large clumps of marshmallows, white in color, neither square nor flat, emitting a faint white light against the dark background of space, giving the impression that they are like clouds floating in space. The edges of these white "foreign objects" with a slightly flocculent texture have obvious signs of blurring, making them look like phantoms. But the inside is extremely solid, and it can be seen at a glance that it is the real thing.

There are about a dozen such "tearing clouds". They are slowly switched on the holographic projection, and finally they are all listed. There are reference objects next to each "tearing cloud". That is what I have already learned. The familiar Eternal-class mothership. This reference makes people realize that the size of those white light groups is actually quite huge.

Around each white light group, you can see a group of unclear light points moving quickly. Inside some white light groups, you can also see dark red or golden blue flashes bursting out irregularly. After zooming in on the image, Only then did I realize that those light spots were some engineering teams, a joint expert group composed of the Protoss, Xiling Apostles, and Abyss Apostles. They were trying their best to repair those white light groups-the starting end.

This is what Abyss Xiling presents to us.

"I have to say... the power you used seems to be a bit too high," Abyss Xiling pointed at the scene on the holographic projection, his tone seemed to be very helpless. "Three void creatures are enough to blow up anything that may be produced on this shore. You also added an emperor-level Xiling apostle and countless high-power 'bombs'. Look at the miserable scene at the start-up end. We had to run all over the universe and even into the void to pick up its remains - some of the remains were directly assimilated into the void. It was such an earth-shattering explosion. You directly removed such a solid thing from the main material plane. The noodles exploded into the void!"

"Isn't the situation critical at the time? We were afraid that if we didn't have enough power, everything would be over when the new army succeeded." I scratched my face in embarrassment, and then I couldn't help but turn my head and glance at Xingchen and Sheila. These two came back earlier than Sandora and I. In fact, they were not blown very far at all. The two great gods fainted in the void for a long time and then flew directly back to the God Realm. "By the way, look at their complexions. nice?"

"It's okay, okay," Xingchen smiled warmly. "I went back and pretended to be injured and lay at home for half a month. They didn't let me read the report. If Sheila hadn't pretended to be so secretive, I should have been able to lie down for a few more days."

Me: "...Is it appropriate for us to talk about this publicly?"

"There's nothing inappropriate. Void creatures are just inert. They're all the same. Regardless of whether it's the Star Realm or the Huron, they'll both be the same without us." Sister Sheila waved her hands, "Look, I haven't been back for such a long time. Nothing happened at home, either."

"In fact, the world of gods will still move without us, but it will move a little slower." Xingchen quickly straightened his expression and said carefully that he was still working at ordinary times, and he was very cautious in choosing words and sentences...

I:"……"

Bella Villa couldn't stand it anymore: "Let's get down to business, can you guys restrain yourself?"

After the three of us hurriedly sat down, Bellavilla immediately touched her face and smiled: "Hey, I taught three void creatures at once. I suddenly feel that I am more powerful than before I was schizophrenic."

Harlan immediately glared over: "Let's get down to business, can you please restrain yourself?"

I:"……"

Ever since he got mentally ill, Bellavela has become completely nervous.

"In short, the situation at the start-up end is like this," Abyss Xiling has long been familiar with this situation. She determined the general temper of the leaders of the new empire and the two groups of gods in a short period of time, and after confirming that we will not Therefore, she no longer struggled with this issue after she dropped the chain. Now she just waited for the few guys who couldn't help but talk about horse racing to shut up before continuing, "The situation at that time really did not allow you to hesitate. No matter what, accept it... Let’s be realistic. At first, I thought that due to the special existence of the activation end, it could withstand any form of destruction. Now it seems that the power of the void creature is indeed beyond calculation. Its outer zone can be repaired using technical means. Yes, the trouble is the core... I used many world hearts to create this core. It is an abstract and complex thing. Although it looks like matter, it cannot be synthesized by any method. It has no material structure except You can't do any scans on it except that it can be seen and touched. Even if I made it, I don't know what its specific structure is... Do you understand?"

"You don't even know what its structure is?" Xingchen looked at Abyss Xiling in surprise, "Then how did you make it?"

"This process can only be described with formulas and mathematical methods, and there is no entity that can correspond to it. It is as if the people on earth saw a formula used to describe four-dimensional space and time before they could uncover the mystery of dimensions. Math tools can understand this formula, but they can never manipulate it in the real world. I'm facing a similar situation, the only difference is that I at least know how to forcefully transform pure mathematics into reality, but I can only force it - —We don’t know enough about the void, so when we made the launcher, we knew it but didn’t know why. I used a lot of information from the other side, but the information on the other side was also inherited from the last season of civilization, and no one could read it. Understand, if we don’t know the principle, we don’t know the second way to create the startup end...and I’m afraid we don’t have enough time for the first way.”

(The physical book is finally coming out soon... I believe everyone knows how to group buy from various channels, right?)