Xiling Empire

Chapter 750: Everyone Has the Right to Enter, Including Non-Burnable Garbage

When I woke up from my sleep, I saw darkness in front of me. There was only a very dim energy glow in the room. This was the basic lighting that automatically appeared in the room when someone woke up inside. However, there was no light outside the window, and I felt a slight chill on my body. I realized something, I fumbled, and sure enough I found the doll girl next to me who had jumped up at some point. She had wrapped herself into a rice dumpling and was sleeping badly. I pulled the quilt hard and shook the little girl out. Looking at the scene outside the window, he muttered: "It's so dark outside."

"Huh?" Mercury Lamp replied in a daze.

"What do you think of this darkness before you?"

"...It's midnight, idiot!"

I sat up and looked out the window at the thick darkness.

"There isn't even an aurora in the sky. It feels wrong." I grabbed the doll girl rolling and stretching beside me and said, "Come out with me and take a look."

"No, I'm so sleepy." Mercury Lamp held my head and slapped it twice hard, but the protest was ineffective: the guy who stayed up late at night and flew around and hung on the chandelier for two hours before he had to ask for help didn't deserve sympathy.

Ding Dong was asleep in the small box placed by the bedside. While I was busy getting dressed and preparing to comb my hair with the mercury lamp, the little thing also woke up. She blinked her eyes and was very uncomfortable with the dim surrounding at this o'clock: "Ajun, why is it so dark? Did Dingdang get up early?"

"No, it's already morning." I looked up the standard time in the information link and gave an affirmative reply. "You said so, so it seems something is wrong. It's pitch black outside now, even the aurora in the God Realm at night Can’t even see it”

"There must be light." Dingdang said, and the room was immediately filled with soft light, which gradually became brighter as the human eye adapted. However, this light was obviously limited to the room, so I went to the window sill to take a look. I found that there was no light at all outside the window sill just separated by a layer of windows. Something more advanced than Dingdang's divine power is blocking the light, and now the outdoors of the God Realm seems to have been occupied by pure darkness. I also took out a flashlight out of curiosity, and it turned out that the light beam illuminated by the flashlight was cut off directly at the window. The light-dark section looked very obvious, and it was obviously not a natural formation.

"I don't understand."

The little thing fluttered over and jumped on the window sill. "Outside, there are more advanced gods using a wide range of dark power. The light used for general lighting has been directly rejected."

Although I don’t think any accidents can happen in the God Realm, I am still very concerned about the strange scene in front of me. This may be another wonderful natural phenomenon in the God Realm, but even Ding Dong looks confused, so this possibility is a bit It makes people suspicious. So I thought it would be better to go and see if the others had woken up.

My room is located on the second floor of the main hall of the Obsidian Palace. It is not very far from the front hall where everyone usually gathers. However, in this short journey, the sleepy Mercury Lamp and I met many servants of God in the corridor. This further confirmed my hunch: it should be morning now, and something might have happened.

The servants I met in the corridor didn’t know exactly what was going on, but after asking two or three people, I learned that they were just busy preparing meals and doing daily work, so I felt a little relieved. It seems that the only abnormality at present is such a dark day, not that there is any crisis or something.

Yes, this is the divine world. If there is a crisis in this place, then all other mortal worlds will almost perish.

Because it is dark outside, the obsidian temple is lit up with eternal light everywhere. Yes, it is the kind of thing that God said that if there is light, the world will have light. Everyone who serves tea and pours water here will say that, these absolute natural lights The section from the corridor to the front hall was brightly lit, and if you hadn't occasionally looked out of the windows you were passing by and looked at the darkness outside, you wouldn't even have noticed anything unusual about the situation. And in the equally brightly lit palace front hall, I saw Sandora and my sister who were already sitting there drinking morning tea.

Of course, there is also Bingtis who is already doing radio gymnastics in the front hall at this time.

"Hey, Chen, I didn't expect you to get up at this time even without daylight," Bingtis waved his hand here, and then shrugged to Sandora who was drinking tea, "I saw that teacup just now. , credit it to the account!”

"What's going on outside?"

Seeing Sandora and Bingtis still bickering and exchanging feelings as usual, I knew that nothing major had happened, but I was still confused by the abnormal darkness outside.

"Ah, it is indeed a rare situation." Bingtis came to the huge floor-to-ceiling window and pushed open the crystal window that was a bit too wide for a palace. The thick darkness outside seemed to be coming in an instant. It seemed like it was coming in through the open window, making the hall look a little darker. "It's the power of the Dark Goddess. One of the four leaders took action personally. It seems that Father God really attaches great importance to this matter. Fortunately, you didn't I didn’t leave yesterday, otherwise I would have to ask you to come back today.”

Because things here have been busy, I and others originally planned to say goodbye yesterday afternoon, but Bingtis forced me to stay, especially because Qianqian hadn’t had enough fun, so I decided to stay one more day. In this way, according to Bingtis According to Thies, does the current darkness still have something to do with us?

"Brother, brother, it's so dark outside." Viska also ran into the front hall at this time. Next to her was Pandora, who had no apparent expression. Behind them were Bubbles and Little Bubbles, one of which was cooing. She was gesticulating and expressing her views on this darkness to the air. She was in a state of wandering mind. I couldn't imagine that she was opening several small accounts and blasting all human forums at this time.

"As expected, we are a family, and even the waking up times are quite synchronized," Bingtis waved to everyone to sit down in the hall, and turned his attention to Viska, "Don't worry about whether it's dark or not, there is no power outage in the God Realm - —It just so happens that Viska is here too, and this matter has something to do with you. Everyone, let me announce the good news first: the first group of protoss advance teams sent out returned last night, and brought back a very important harvest: with Something related to Xiling’s legacy.”

Bingtis' words really succeeded in attracting everyone's attention, and even Shandora and her elder sister put down their teacups: Obviously, although they had arrived in the living room long ago, Bingtis kept it secret and did not tell them in advance.

"By the way, you have almost collected the star ring fragments now, right?"

Bingtis didn't say it directly, but suddenly mentioned another thing.

Viska was always the most concerned about this matter, and immediately raised his hands and chirped in response: "I know, I know, including what the expeditionary forces of various worlds excavated, what was discovered in the macro world, and what we have done in several incidents. One hundred and twenty-three fragments have been recovered so far, all of which are the remains of the inner ring, accounting for basically 80% of the entire inner ring."

"You found the rest of the pieces?!"

I understood something immediately and looked at Bingtis in surprise.

"Ah, this is the not-so-good news after the good news: We did find a fragment, which is super huge." Bingtis gestured with his hands exaggeratedly, drawing a large arc in the air, "A world management god I discovered that a star ring fragment had broken into my world and called the police. The advance team who happened to be returning just recovered it. The thing actually still had fighting power, and the advance team almost lost the prize."

"Well, the last ring fragment is indeed the most powerful part. I didn't expect it to still be running." Viska scratched her hair, her face a little embarrassed, and the corner of my mouth twitched slightly: Just as Bingtis said I mean, this is actually not very good news.

Yes, it is of course joyful to discover a new imperial legacy, but the star ring fragments are a special case: many facts show that the star ring fragments are most likely caused by the fallen apostles. They destroyed the out-of-control star ring in Viska, and It was severely polluted with the power of the abyss and transformed into very dangerous void mines. Currently, nearly a hundred worlds have been attacked by these mines, and a dozen of them were even destroyed as a result - when the Imperial Expeditionary Force arrived At that time, those worlds even had only a few star fragments left after the interstellar explosion. Current intelligence shows that these void thunders have no clear attack target. The fallen apostles probably just made those things simply to destroy the world, rather than using them as formal weapons. Therefore, the fallen apostles threw them away after the transformation was completed. Regardless, those fragments still have a relatively fixed appearance pattern: they are all in non-sovereign planes far away from the areas ruled by the gods.

The hundreds of star ring fragments we have discovered are all like this. Those worlds are not ruled by the gods. Even before they were discovered by the expeditionary force, they were not in the empire's territory. They were all idle worlds. According to Bellavela once occasionally It is mentioned that the fallen apostles all have a serious tendency to destroy due to the influence of the power of the abyss. They need to rely on enjoying the destruction of the world to vent this impulse, but they do not want to be discovered by the gods because of too much movement, so unless they carry out that unknown purpose The "great cause" of the world, the fallen apostles will only take action against the idle world where no one cares and no one loves... I have always believed that there will be no exceptions.

However, the advance team of the Protoss discovered a debris attack in the area ruled by the Protoss.

"The fallen apostles shouldn't go crazy, right?" My sister frowned, "They are likely to expose their flaws by attacking the Gods' territory so blatantly. Is there anything they can rely on?"

"Who knows?" Bingtis shrugged, "The power of the fallen apostles is definitely not enough to start a full-scale war with the gods, so the sudden appearance of this star ring fragment in the territory of the gods is puzzling. Now the goddess of darkness is gradually controlling the giant The abyss energy on the fragment is trying to find the source of the fragment in reverse, and maybe it can find a lair. Soldiers can come to cover it up with water and earth. You can't guess what the fallen man is planning."

What really troublesome news. I thought I could have some peace and quiet for a while. Unexpectedly, the fallen apostles started to stir up trouble again, and this time they even directly stirred up trouble on the territory of the Gods. Their behavior was always so incomprehensible. Wait until When you finally understood it, it had already caused you a lot of trouble.

The darkness outside is caused by the power of the Dark Goddess. It does not cover the entire divine world as I initially imagined, but only permeates a small area near the garden. It just happens that the Obsidian Temple is embodied in this area. We They were all covered in, and I'm afraid they won't be able to get out until the Supreme Dark Goddess takes back her power. I don't quite understand the form of God's power, but according to Bingtis, the power of the Dark Goddess will change the abyss energy on the fragments and allow them to "solidify" so that they can be researched conveniently and safely. It can be considered that this is a more advanced method of abyss inertization than Xi Ling's psionic suppression force field, and it is far more efficient than our method that requires several days of processing to conduct contact research on a fragment—— After just two hours, the darkness dissipated.

Sandora and I led the Pandora sisters to the Brilliant Court of God again, but this time we went directly to the palace of the Supreme Dark Goddess: Yongye Palace, a black palace that is not revealing at all, but is deep and solemn.

Father God is already waiting for us in the palace, along with several high-level gods we have met, including Gaga, the highest goddess of life, and Sovare, the highest god of light. Together with the owner of the palace, Sorafel, we are equal to The four leaders of the God Clan came three at a time - but the powerful Dragon God did not appear this time. Based on the subtle smile on Father God's face after I mentioned that name, I think the Dragon God has sacrificed his life to build a harmonious society in the God Realm. I went to the solitary room to count ants.

"Bingtis should have told you the situation," Father God led the way, leading us towards the depths of Yongye Palace, "This is really surprising, the fallen person can be so careless... Well, careless. "

"Are you saying this was an accident?"

Sandora asked with just the right official rhetoric. When the star ring fragments appeared on the territory of the Gods, the whole incident developed in a serious direction: Of course, it did not affect the trust relationship between the new empire and the Gods, but it refers to the current situation. Basically, it is equal to the joint preparation stage.

"Intuition tells me that the fallen ones should be in a panic now," Father God smiled slightly, as calmly as usual, as if the serious and dangerous provocation of the fallen apostles was just a passing thought to him, "They will not be so reckless with him. The gods went to war directly, because their 'great cause' had obviously not been achieved. The appearance of this star ring fragment was very strange. I don't think it was released by the Fallen - and I even think that its appearance in the world managed by the gods was not for any reason. A weapon. But you still have to see it in person to understand the specific situation and answer our doubts. After all, the Gods still have some headaches about your technology."

During the conversation, we have arrived at a large hall on the lower floor of Yongye Palace. It is a very wide hall. The ground is paved with something as smooth as a mirror, obsidian. However, there are no furnishings around the hall or in the inner space, not even a single thread. There are no pillars. Bingtis, who came with us, told us in a low voice that this place is called the Hall of Mirrors, and it is the entrance to another space.

"That fragment is very huge, and the abyss reaction is close to the intensity of the Gate of the Abyss. Feir can only put it in another space to process," Father God said, making a gesture in the air, the obsidian ground under everyone's feet Immediately there were layers of ripples, and it turned out that the transmission port of the different space was the ground here. "It is not difficult to purify the abyss power above, but it takes a while to turn them into specimens that can be safely touched. I hope those few The hours of darkness did not affect you."

The alien space where the Dark Goddess handles dangerous goods is a place similar to the void area of ​​the shadow space. It has no gravity and direction, but has the strange anti-physical property of being able to easily see objects in the absence of light. The huge star ring fragments are still there. Suspended quietly in the infinite space, like a dry branch.

This is not the first time I have seen fragments of a star ring, but this one is larger than the fragments I have seen, and it looks more complete. Its super alloy shell was torn apart by the explosion at both ends, forming jagged shapes. There are many gaps in the surface, but there are not many scars elsewhere. We can also clearly see the weapon slots on its surface and the ejection hatch that was not fully closed. The huge machine that lost its last energy due to the battle with the Protoss advance team can now be seen. It looked dull and no longer brilliant, but this image floating quietly in the air had a somewhat desolate feeling. Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but want to write a poem - but I couldn't hold it in.

"Because it was on the verge of erupting into the Gate of the Abyss, we took it upon ourselves to deal with it, but did not change its structure." Father God led everyone gradually closer to the fragments of the star ring floating in the air, until it turned into a tower in front of everyone. Unable to see all the mountains, we landed on what looked like a parking platform in the middle of the arc. I found that there were still black two-dimensional patterns floating on the metal under my feet, but I couldn't feel the nauseating power of the abyss. A sense of distortion.

Compared to the empire's suppression force field, the power of the Supreme Dark Goddess is indeed much superior. I believe Tavel will be very excited about this new toy.

Viska looked around silently, pursed her lips and said nothing, until a red light flashed in her eyes. She seemed to have discovered something, and strode to an open armor plate a few hundred meters away. After kicking away the piece of armor that was in disrepair, his fingers turned into probes bursting with dark sparks, piercing into the exposed mechanical structure under the armor.

The dark red energy flow instantly spread from the place where the probe pierced, and quickly swept across the metal armor plates under everyone's feet. A low buzzing sound and a slow echo coming from nowhere immediately echoed in the ears. Like a mummy that was rapidly coming back to life, the fragments of the star ring started to function again. The surrounding weapon covers and ejection hatches finally closed completely after regaining energy. Viska made a reassuring gesture to us. , a few minutes later, a severely distorted synthesized voice came from a nearby broadcast tower: "...the highest command set has been re-detected...the existing mission is terminated, the weapon system is locked...system self-check error , no servo equipment and starship signals were found, warning, the system status is abnormal, please ask the upper level intelligent system to make tactical judgment...disconnect...disconnect..."

The last few characters faded away like an old-fashioned tape recorder with insufficient power. Viska also terminated the rotation of the star ring fragments, and ran back with an overjoyed expression on her face: "Brother, brother! The auxiliary system of this fragment is indeed not broken! Repair it, and Tavel can repair it! You can even use the backup data here to restore the inner ring!"

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