If the world galaxy where Mycroft's world is located is used as an isolated base point, with a distance from other galaxies that requires hundreds of years of long void navigation to reach, then the world galaxies in the outside world will all be connected together and interact with each other. The distance between us can be covered in a very short time.
Facing Joshua's straightforward inquiry, the Great Khan was unambiguous. It seemed to know Joshua's character, so it had already prepared a corresponding answer.
"The closer to the inner world galaxy, the higher the energy concentration and the stronger the civilization. Of course, the environment there is more dangerous, the number of civilizations is smaller, and the number of World Eaters is also the largest."
The white octagonal fungus projected a white light curtain in mid-air. It randomly drew a huge circle, then drew a small circle directly below the circle, then pointed at the small circle and said: "The big circle is the star of the multiverse galaxy." A collection of endless world clusters forming a huge circular structure, and the Lost Galaxy is independent of the multiverse galaxy, and has even become a legend long ago. It took us hundreds of years to get here. It takes preparation.”
Then, it bent its limbs and pointed to the part closer to the bottom and closer to the inside of the big circle: "Here is the world galaxy where our Shepherds once lived. As you can see, it is closer to the inside below the circle, and it is a very active The prosperous world galaxy has numerous civilizations."
According to the Great Khan's narration, Joshua gradually understood the situation of the galaxy in the outside world.
The closer the world galaxy is to the center of the multiverse, the more advanced civilizations can enter and exit the void. The farther away the galaxy is from the center of the multiverse, the more ordinary life worlds there are. However, life worlds may not be able to breed intelligent life. In some remote areas, Perhaps there are no intelligent civilizations in several worlds and galaxies, but only a large number of primitive life worlds.
This is actually not surprising, because according to Joshua's guess, this multiverse may be only a billion years old now, which is too young for the universe. Without the catalysis of a high-energy environment, many worlds are still in their primitive state. The stage of life evolution is like the several primitive life worlds discovered by the Department of External Exploration. The evolution of life there is still at the point where "large arthropods and jellyfish share the world", and even amphibians have not appeared.
Today, that world is home to the giant meat crab, which tastes pretty good.
The outer world galaxy, due to the lack of high-energy environmental catalysis, is basically a blank area of civilization, with only a few advanced civilizations existing. However, the galaxy where the Great Khan and his family once lived is the most prosperous and civilized area in the lower part of the entire multiverse. A galaxy.
It was an extremely lively place, and it was also an extremely dangerous place. The first-class energy concentration of the multiverse not only gave birth to countless powerful civilizations, but also gave birth to countless powerful void behemoths, hundreds of which could enter and exit. Civilizations in the void exist at the same time, with countless battleships cruising in the void, and terrifying void behemoths patrolling in groups. The World Eaters, who were originally just myths, have become more and more numerous in the past few hundred years and have become has posed many substantial threats to civilization.
"But we didn't leave our hometown because of the World Eaters, or rather, it wasn't just that."
Having said this, the Great Khan whispered: "The World Eaters are indeed powerful, but as long as we ally with other civilizations, it is not impossible to repel them. If you repel the World Eaters once, you don't have to worry about it for hundreds of years to come. It invades again and can thrive and develop in peace.”
"So, it's because of other civilizations?"
Joshua listened quietly to the Great Khan's description of the world outside. Hearing the words, he could easily understand what the Great Khan meant. He laughed softly: "If hundreds of void civilizations fall into the flames of war against each other, During this period, there are also the invasion of evil gods and the disturbance of the giant beast of the void... I really don't wonder why you want to escape from that galaxy."
The white eight-legged fungus didn't reply.
It just sent out waves of sadness, 'gazing' at Joshua.
"Strong, indeed, but not just that."
The Great Khan said in a self-deprecating voice: "If he were just the World Eater of Chaos, then he would just have to escape. Escape to other worlds and galaxies, and escape forever. Then who can chase him and control him?" What about us, the giant beasts of the void? We are shepherds wandering across the galaxy, so how can we stick to the name of our hometown, why should we try our best to come to this lost land?"
"What we are escaping from is the irresistible and irresistible 'order' - what we are escaping from is the entire multiverse."
Joshua was slightly startled.
He realized that compared to the 'group of evil gods' that he had expected a long time ago, what the Great Khan said next was the truth that made this powerful void civilization run away like a defeated dog.
"Compared to natural disasters like the World Eaters, the enemy of civilization will always be another civilization."
The Great Khan said calmly: "Strong men, perhaps you who once had good intentions and spread the seeds of life throughout the multiverse cannot understand. You who once longed to help all the weak cannot understand. You who once swore to save even the abyss You will never understand.①"
“There are always some civilizations that are inherently destined to be enemies of other civilizations.”
The Great Khan's fungal form collapsed, and his soul turned into a twisted spiritual void, while endless information surged towards Joshua in the form of soul fluctuations.
Therefore, Joshua saw everything that the Great Khan had seen in thousands of years.
He saw a cluster of black battleships sailing silently through the void, their huge mass distorting the orbits of the stars. The fleet of the 'Knowledge Receiver' was like an ant colony, covering up the starlight one after another.
He saw that one after another civilizations that were about to enter the void and ascend the stage of the multiverse were knocked to dust by a higher force. The civilization suppression platform of the 'Generation Anchor' hung high in the void, imprisoning one after another. world.
He saw the most desperate scenes happening in dozens of worlds and galaxies at the same time. The "Sky Swallowing Evil Swarm" that swallowed up the world and the oceans together gnawed at the world and starlight. Countless deformed and swollen Tianyuan Mother Nests dragged thousands of suns along the way. , as food for infinite larvae.
Two huge void civilizations have been fighting each other for a whole ten thousand years. Their endless blood hatred for alien creatures has made it impossible for them to accept each other, or even other civilizations and orders, the "Blood King's Court" and the "Fanatic Annihilation Order". The war is so huge that it even exceeds human imagination. When their emperors and patriarchs become furious, the fire of fury will burn through the void and affect millions of worlds.
The 'Civilization Trusteeship Agreement' will bring unimaginable beauty to all civilizations. These metal machine souls take care of all races and civilizations meticulously, allowing them to enjoy the supreme pleasure from soul to body, without any defects. But as part of the deal, The trustees will hand over their beliefs, wisdom, body, soul, and the future of the entire civilization as a price.
Use war to suppress war, and use destruction to respond to destruction. Wherever the 'Galaxy Maintenance Group' has passed, war no longer exists, disputes no longer exist, everything returns to peace and nothingness, and civilization and species disappear completely together - with the announcement of the extermination order, Streams of light flashed in the void, stars extinguished, and the world collapsed, turning into energy whirlpools in the void. Endless steel particles trembled and swayed into the distance, like a gust of silver wind.
When evil gods roamed the worlds, destroying civilizations one after another, the war between civilizations had already destroyed tens of millions of worlds. As the number of destroyed worlds increased, the number of evil gods also increased. The shadow of chaos has spread under the light of the demonic tide, but no one can stop it.
"In this multiverse, there is no longer any pure land. Even the most remote worlds and galaxies have long been involved in it. The endless disputes have never stopped... The Shepherds are tired. We just want to find a place to reproduce quietly. I Their descendants live on the backs of giant beasts in the void, and they have not lived in the real world for thousands of years... This is just a very small wish, but it will almost never be realized."
In the spiritual void, the Great Khan's wry smile rippled: "Crazy wars are unfolding between crazy civilizations. Even those who seem to be gentle helpers are actually more terrifying butchers... The strong ones, the era of the ancestral civilization. Tens of thousands of years have passed, and the creeds you once believed in have long been abandoned by them, or distorted - just like the 'Civilization Correction'."
"The war in the void civilization is really too terrifying, and countless civilizations have perished and been destroyed as a result. However, there is such a civilization that is dedicated to supporting weak civilizations that have not entered the void to enter the big stage of the multiverse."
Hearing this, Joshua, who had been frowning since the beginning, felt slightly relieved, but thinking of the 'distortion' mentioned by the Great Khan, he couldn't help but shake his head, and then said: "The price of support is the loss of autonomy and becoming Part of this 'corrector of civilization'?"
"If that's the case, that's fine."
A sneer came from the spiritual void that the Great Khan transformed into: "Strong man, you should understand that the culture, customs and natural habits of a racial civilization are extremely difficult to change. Some civilizations cannot enter the void. The probability is that their civilization cannot progress because of their cultural and natural habits."
"A civilization that lives too comfortably can never progress. Species that breed in the center of the earth cannot imagine the sky. It is basically impossible for this kind of civilization to develop the technology to travel to the void, and civilization correctors will use the most powerful methods means to change everything.”
What is the most forceful means
It's massacre.
Under the slow description of the Great Khan, this seemingly gentle and helpful 'civilization corrector' revealed its true nature: it will use its own civilization as a standard to design a void civilization that conforms to the local civilization. Template, it will design a new set of culture, customs and natural habits from beginning to end, and then.
Completely obliterate most of the existences that they regard as "ignorant", "ignorant" and "stubborn".
The correctors only left young children and some clones who could be taught, and instilled the 'civilization correction template' designed by them. Over decades or hundreds of years, they forcibly transformed an inferior civilization into a void that conformed to their cognition and habits. civilization.
It only takes one generation for a world to be brought under their control, and there is no need to worry about problems such as being unable to adapt to the climate and soil, because the people living in this world are native species, but civilization itself has been completely wiped out. Destroying and devouring, using this method, the knowledge correctors expand much faster than normal civilizations. Although they appear to be a multi-racial alliance on the surface, in essence, they are one civilization, one race, and one mode of thinking. .
This is the corrector.
"The territory where our shepherds originally grazed happened to be at the intersection of a normal void civilization and the boundary between the 'Civilization Trusteeship Agreement' and the 'Knowledge Receiver'. Before the chaotic era began hundreds of years ago, all civilizations were relatively peaceful. Even if we don't like each other, it won't lead to a large-scale war."
"However, due to the emergence of evil gods, several civilizations were severely damaged. Their enemies will naturally not miss this opportunity and arbitrarily encroach on each other's sphere of influence. However, the enemies of their enemies will also not let their old enemies develop freely. They will not declare it like this. And the war... Soon, the entire multiverse, dozens of world galaxies, and thousands of void civilizations were all involved in a huge multiverse war."
The spiritual void transformed by the Great Khan began to gradually shrink, turning back into the original white eight-legged fungus. Its mental fluctuations were calm, with no signs of lying or concealment: "Our galaxy has long been plunged into the most terrifying situation. Fire, we can’t turn back.”
Joshua said nothing.
He was still deep in thought, digesting the message the Great Khan had just sent him.
"Like bandits, they plunder technology, transform civilization, take over knowledge, suppress the development of vassal civilizations, harvest resources and talents, anchor the hegemon for generations, swarm of insects that devour everything, extremely xenophobic, racially obsessive empires and the Void Order... There is also a group of peacekeeping groups that fight whoever they see, attack everything indiscriminately, and believe that no other civilization is the ultimate peace, as well as an out-of-control servitor artificial intelligence that takes over civilization."
Joshua murmured to himself: "It's so chaotic outside?"
Although he himself has thought about a similar form of order - a 'paradise of peace' that imprisons everything and controls everything as a game. If it is developed to the extreme, countless players controlling puppet bodies will invade other worlds and destroy one after another. The world came under his control, Joshua.
In fact, the mother body of Paradise, that is, the world controlled by Joshua, has been completed. Even the player's prototype cannot be said to not exist. As long as Joshua's family is hatched successfully, everything will have a foundation. .
Of course, Joshua didn't intend to do this... But anyway, this multiverse is a little too lively, right
In fact, this is not all, because the Shepherds themselves are not a super void civilization large enough to span the galaxy. They just live in more nomadic places and are more knowledgeable and knowledgeable than ordinary civilizations. From the information revealed by the other party, Joshua could vaguely deduce that there are several powerful civilizations fighting on the other side of the galaxy - such as the 'Pure Energy Elemental Civilization' that is determined to transform the entire material world into a magical elemental state. The 'Purge Protocol' that indiscriminately destroys all non-artificial intelligence... This kind of weird civilization is actually a minority. More normal civilizations will also launch wars and drive war machines to destroy the world.
"The crazy order, the natural disaster-like civilization, and the shadow of chaos lurking under the light of the demonic tide are the real reasons why we, the Shepherds, want to escape."
The Great Khan saw that Joshua had completely digested the information he had given him, so he said calmly: "Except for the legendary Lost Galaxy, there is no world galaxy where we can live in peace of mind. The war is getting fiercer and the swallowing of the world is The greater the number of these people, the more I can see that an unprecedented and terrifying disaster is lurking, and when it breaks out, everything will be reduced to ashes."
Only the ruins of the war of the previous generation, the galaxies beyond all worlds, and the hometowns of the lost ancestors, may be able to survive this disaster and be independent of destruction.
This is what the Great Khan thought.
And Joshua, who knew the Great Khan's thoughts, stared at him with a strange look.
-This mushroom head has never imagined in this life that the only pure land it talks about is the end point of all the evil gods’ parades, right
The strong men of the Mycrof civilization had been arguing for at least half a year about whether they should run away to avoid the gathering of the evil gods. As a result, these eight-legged fungi came over on their own... What is this? Door-to-door delivery? Door-to-door delivery is not so appropriate. It took them hundreds of years and went through a lot of hardships to find their way to this desolate ruins.
I have never seen such unlucky people.
"Listening to what you said has indeed made me know a lot of information that I didn't know before. But Great Khan, don't pretend to be innocent. You shepherds are not good people either."
Joshua loosened his frown, narrowed his eyes slightly, and whispered to the Great Khan: "To be honest, in the eyes of other civilizations, you who control the giant beast of the void, devour the world, and wander the stars, It is also a natural disaster like other destroyers, and we will never forget this. You have devoured several living worlds just to let the void beast get some organic matter."
"The ordinary world and lower civilizations are just pasture for you - there is no difference between you and what you fear, it's just that they are powerful and you are weak."
"We admit it. We are willing to abandon this survival mode. We will not have any conditions."
The Great Khan said crisply. He faced Joshua and slightly bent his limbs: "We have already made all preparations - surrendering to the ancestors is not a shameful thing."
At the same time, all the personal guards following the white eight-legged fungus also bent their limbs.
"...It's not unexpected."
Faced with such a straightforward show of weakness and surrender, even Joshua couldn't say anything.
He personally hates the civilization form of the Shepherd, but according to previous discussions among the Mycroft Legend Powerhouses, most of them believe that the Shepherd is an important channel and intermediary for the Mycroft civilization to contact the new world galaxy outside. , although the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Site can theoretically connect every part of the multiverse, they in the Starfall Era should not put everything on the legacy of the Glorious Era.
Exhaling a breath, Joshua said softly: "But it must be more than that."
"Great Khan, what you told is the truth, and you did not hide anything - just for the question of 'Why do you want to escape from the galaxy where you are?', you did give a complete answer."
"But there must be a reason why you came up with this idea. Tell me, your real purpose - you who dare to take action against the weak evil god have never thought about living here in hiding for the rest of your life. You are not here just for the sake of To survive.”
Joshua did not have any attainments in the soul. He could not find out the Great Khan's hidden thoughts from his mental fluctuations. Even if he had a guess, there was no evidence.
But he does not need to prove it, he only needs to put forward his conjecture - this is the privilege of a strong civilization.
In this regard, the Great Khan was not angry or unwilling to be questioned.
It nodded calmly, and then said: "Yes."
"If it were just war and the World Eaters, it would indeed make us despair, but there are indeed other reasons that make me focus on the Lost Galaxy."
"What's the reason?" Joshua asked, with curiosity in his tone.
"Because of you."
The Great Khan looked at Joshua with a strange 'eye'. He looked around the entire Pioneer Fortress community and said with complex mental fluctuations: "Because of the existence of the ancestral civilization."
"According to ancient records from tens of thousands of years ago, there are endless mysteries in the Lost Galaxy... This was once the center of the multiverse, home to the most prosperous civilizations and the most powerful men, endless ancient ruins, prehistoric... The relics of civilization are among them... The ancestral civilization defeated countless World Eaters, and the power of their legacy is undoubtedly what we long for."
"It is rumored that at the bottom of the Lost Galaxy Abyss, there is a secret that is enough to fight the 'disaster'."
Hearing this, Joshua couldn't help but be slightly startled.
"The lowest level of the abyss?"
This is indeed a very familiar word.
The abyss is a concept that every world galaxy has. It is the graveyard of the world, where endless debris gathers.
The abyss of the galaxy where Mycroft's world is located is particularly unique.
There is the abode of ancient evil, the origin of the Azure Orb, the place of chaos of burned ruins and unburned fire, where the sages have fallen to the deepest depths and struck at the bottom of the abyss of sinking. Killed 'Abundance', the most powerful evil god in the observable universe.
If there is any mystery in the abyss, it is undoubtedly worthy of belief. The former battlefield of sages and fertility, the deepest part of the extremely dark abyss, does have a mystery that attracts all civilizations.
I thought about it for a long time before I dared to write... The update is late, but I still ask for votes!
(End of chapter)