"This, this is..."
A huge ship that was almost terrifying appeared in front of her. Although most of it was in an invisible state, its huge size was still astonishing enough.
The virtual world battleship that the Xuanyuan family is most proud of is like an ant in front of this huge ship.
"This is Columbia's way to save the world." Su Wan said softly, "The 'Farewell' plan that has not yet been officially launched.
"The goal is to escape from this miserable world cursed by the 'end of the world'."
Chapter 137: Lost Hometown (5k)
Silence in the pitch-black void, the terrifyingly huge ship that appeared in front of Luo Ling made her lose her mind for a long time.
After a while, Luo Ling came to his senses and said softly,
"Escape...from this miserable world?"
Since it is impossible to fight against the "end of the world" in any way, escape seems to be a good option.
But Luo Ling understood the characteristics of gods. Simply escaping... could not get rid of the nightmare brought about by "Doomsday" at all, and might even spread this terrible disaster.
Unless all the influences of "Doomsday" can be completely removed, unfortunately, even the gods themselves may find it difficult to do this.
From this perspective, perhaps it is a blessing that Columbia’s “Farewell” plan has not yet been officially launched.
Luo Ling and Su Wan landed on the deck of the ship together, looking at this place. Although Su Wan and Mao Ke had tried their best, they could still only restore a small part of the ship. They felt it all carefully and sighed softly.
Everything around was made up of an unprecedented path of "transformation". Luo Ling could sense that the previous strange feeling still existed. When she saw this ship, she also realized the source of this strangeness.
This is the place created by the Tusheng Mother, the most "fragile" place in the whole world.
This "fragility" does not mean that Columbia is easy to be destroyed, but because in this place of origin... there is a loophole deliberately left by the Transformation Mother.
A loophole that allows you to escape from this world.
If there is no help from the gods, how can we escape from this world relying only on Columbia and this ship
It can be said that Columbia, the place of origin, is located near a dimensional door.
With just a gentle push, the blockade of this dimensional door will be completely broken, and the way to escape will be opened.
Su Wan's eyes were equally complicated. She swept them one by one, her fingers gently brushed over some facilities on the deck, and said softly,
"It... is called 'Lost Homeland'. In the 'Farewell' plan, it will take one-tenth of the Federation's human population to the endless deep space and leave a spark behind."
"Lost Hometown..."
Luo Ling felt that this name carried a heavy sadness. The person who named it seemed to have foreseen the scene after the "end of the world". He couldn't help but ask,
"Does the Federation of Colombia already know about the "end of the world"?"
"I know, and I don't know." Su Wan paused for a moment and smiled bitterly, "Speaking of which, the failure of the Lost Hometown has something to do with me... or rather, with Puppet Rumor."
Colombia, the place of origin, is almost the place least affected by the power of gods compared to other places of origin.
In trying to recover this place of origin, the former Transformation seemed to have done its utmost to weaken the influence that she and Doomsday had exerted on this place.
Therefore, there are very few naturally awakened people in Colombia.
This is the most important reason why the spread of the puppet rumor was able to survive the initial and most difficult period.
If it were any other place of origin, even in Victoria, the spread of the puppet rumor would not be so smooth.
The Jiangcheng County version of Puppet Song has already evolved completely. If it had not evolved completely, it would be the form of Bai Lingzhi in Baiyan Village. Even An Yu could detect the breath of Puppet Song with the help of tools.
But Columbia did not have the conditions in this regard, and the puppet rumor that gradually evolved and spread was used by the Doomsday Messenger, which added fuel to the flames and eventually led to a terrible disaster that even the Doomsday Messenger had not anticipated.
So much so that at the final moment, they did not dare to come and pick the fruit, allowing Su Wan, the personality born from Columbia's will, to obtain "birth" and "devouring".
At the beginning, the Columbia Federation had only a vague understanding of the Awakener system. It was not until the puppet rumor began to spread on a large scale that it realized this powerful force and tried to use it to curb the puppet rumor.
But it was too late. The puppet rumor had already taken shape, and the doomsday messengers who were planning all this behind the scenes fled Colombia at this stage.
However, although the Columbia Federation is unable to cope with the disaster of the Puppet Rumor, they are well aware that the world they live in is in some kind of crisis, and "doomsday" is also eroding the world indiscriminately.
The reason why we say we know and we don't know is that Colombia is clearly aware of the crisis, but it is not clear about the nature of the crisis.
Since Colombia had no means left by the Ascendant to fight against "Doomsday", this erosion was irresistible. Therefore, when the Colombian Federation realized this, it proposed the "Farewell" plan.
They tried to build an unprecedented huge ship and travel into the endless deep space to find a new home.
This is a journey that is destined to be irreversible. No matter whether the land beneath our feet will eventually be swallowed up by the eternal darkness, or whether it is an unknown new home in the endless space, at least the generation of humans who boarded the ship has completely lost their hometown, so it was named the Lost Homeland.
The reason why Luo Ling could sense the extremely strong aura of transformation on the Lost Homeland was because the energy source of the Lost Homeland was a certain kind of ore that contained the power of transformation.
This mineral is one of the most important reasons why Colombia has been able to develop such prosperous technology.
There is no doubt that this is all that is left over from the past transformation.
only...
The "Farewell" plan ultimately failed to reach its new home, and it didn't even have a chance to set sail, and the Puppet Rumor disaster broke out completely.
Before this disaster that engulfed all Colombians, the Colombian Federation had no time to implement the path of salvation left by the Ascension.
The Lost Hometown had long been completely destroyed along with the "Doomsday" that emerged after the Puppet Rumor Disaster, leaving no trace and almost becoming a forgotten history.
Fortunately, after Luo Ling realized the essence of the Place of Origin, he gave it to Su Wan at the same time.
Su Wan paid more attention and began to search for relevant information in her huge sealed memory, and found the existence of the Lost Hometown.
Afterwards, after verification with Mao Ke, it was finally confirmed that this was the way of salvation that "Metamorphosis" left for Columbia.
It has to be said that after learning these things, Su Wan inexplicably felt that Luo Ling was somewhat similar to this god.
Even though Tu Sheng knew the despair of "doomsday", he still tried his best to save everything, and finally sacrificed himself to save the four places of origin, and even left a glimmer of hope for these four places of origin. These are four different ways of salvation.
However, Su Wan was not happy about this, but felt uneasy instead, because she knew clearly the end of the transformation.
Especially after Luo Ling confirmed her relationship with Tu Sheng, Su Wan became extremely panicked. She really didn't want to see her sister... follow the same path as Tu Sheng.
But... Whether it was persuading Luo Ling to give up or stopping her from making sacrifices, Su Wan knew clearly that these actions were in vain for her sister.
Therefore, Su Wan could only do her best to lay even just one brick for Luo Ling's pursuit of salvation.
Perhaps this brick is the final cornerstone of this road that seems to have no end
So, Su Wan boarded the Mao Ke and returned to the place that was in her heart, the destroyed Columbia, and began to rebuild the destroyed Lost Homeland.
I have to say, this is indeed a horrifically large project.
Not to mention that Columbia has been completely destroyed, many relevant materials are difficult to find, and more importantly, the information about the Lost Hometown.
After destroying the entire Columbia, Su Wan did obtain a huge database covering the entire Columbia, which indeed contained all the information of the Lost Hometown.
But the problem is that this database is extremely fragmented, and it is extremely difficult for her to find information from it.
The reason why Mao Ke was brought along was because she was a high-ranking official in the Columbia Federation and could at least determine part of the direction.
Therefore, Su Wan handed over part of the database traversal work to Mao Ke.
After all, Mao Ke is already a puppet, and can directly connect to Su Wan's database to search on her behalf.
At first, Mao Ke had no idea how difficult this thing was. Anyway, the interfaces were all ready, and all he had to do was write a few lines of code.
But after agreeing to it and connecting it to Su Wan's database, he started sweating profusely.
Such a huge and terrifying memory... Even if I just glance at it, my brain feels like it's exploding.
During this period of time, Mao Ke worked so hard that he was almost vomiting blood. He finally extracted a small part of the data of the Lost Hometown, which was not complete yet.
Then, relying on this part of data and her transformation power "Birth", Su Wan began the reconstruction of the Lost Hometown.
Fortunately, Su Wan possesses the power of "birth", so the reconstruction of the Lost Hometown is not a fantasy. Otherwise, it would be a huge problem to find a corresponding substitute for the "transcendence" energy ore that only existed in Columbia in the past.
However, Su Wan had not thought about completely rebuilding the Lost Homeland. The most important point was that it would take too long to rebuild the Lost Homeland relying only on her and Mao Ke.
Not to mention that the Lost Homeland had not completed its design at the moment Columbia was annihilated, so it was naturally unable to undertake the task of going deep into the endless deep space.
Su Wan only had memories, she was not a great scientist, and of course she could not complete the Lost Hometown, which was only a half-finished product.
Besides, even if the Lost Hometown could be completed, it would be meaningless.
Through Luo Ling, Su Wan also knew the particularity of the gods' rules and was well aware that this plan was doomed to fail. She just wanted to present another path to Luo Ling.
However, in the process of rebuilding the Lost Homeland, Su Wan gradually discovered that many of the technologies used in the Lost Homeland were completely incompatible with Columbia's technological level at the time.
It can be said that the theoretical level of the Lost Homeland itself is at least several dimensions higher, but due to Columbia's technical implementation, it has been severely castrated and can only barely reach a certain standard.
It’s just that... Su Wan couldn’t find the reason in all the memories in the database, and always felt that there was a strange blank.
This made Su Wan even more certain that the Lost Homeland did carry some secrets that even she could not uncover.
Su Wan had a strong premonition that perhaps... this secret was only known to Luo Ling.
In fact, Su Wan had thought about telling Luo Ling before, but Luo Ling was always in a hurry every time he came home, so Su Wan didn't have the chance to speak several times.
In addition, Luo Ling never asked her what she was busy with. Su Wan actually hoped that Luo Ling would ask, but her sister never opened her mouth once.
Later, she simply didn't mention this matter to anyone else, and she still kept it in mind, thinking that when it was completed, she would bring Luo Ling over with her, as a little surprise for her sister.
Luo Ling really didn't expect that her sister was busy with such a big project. She walked on the deck, feeling everything around her and was shocked.
"Has the Colombia of the past... reached this level?"
Luo Ling could slightly sense that the Lost Homeland did have the possibility of escaping from this world, and it was not just empty talk.
Compared with the Xuanyuan battleship, which can also travel in the virtual world, it can almost be said to be the difference between a whale and a krill.
Even if it goes deep into the virtual world, it will not have much wear and tear, not to mention the need to find a place to dock for maintenance, so it can drift for a long time over a long period of time.
Just based on this point, the Xuanyuan battleship could not catch up with it even at the speed of a horse.
What's more, this is just a little bit of the power that Luo Ling could feel from the Lost Homeland. Apart from this, there are many more mysteries that she has no way of knowing for the time being.
After hearing Luo Ling's words, Su Wan pondered for a moment, and sent a portion of the memory data that she had sorted out at the beginning of the day directly to Luo Ling's mind, and said,
"These are all the information on the Lost Hometown that has been sorted out at this hour. You can take a look. If it's not enough... wait until this hour to sort out more."
When Luo Ling unexpectedly received this huge memory, his consciousness was unconcealed and his head ached slightly.
After a quick glance, Luo Ling's expression became strange. He looked at Su Wan with a slight twitch of his lips.
"I see... "
She didn't discover the truth about Columbia from these materials, but... from these materials, which were large enough even if they were carefully sorted out, she could see the effort Mao Ke had put in to sort out these materials...
Luo Ling was still wondering what her sister had done with Mao Ke to make him so exhausted that he lay half to death, lying on the table like a dead fish, without even the strength to breathe.
Now it dawns on me.
It turns out that Mao Ke is used directly as a central review mechanism!
Luo Ling, who had played with the puppet computing matrix as early as the Victorian era, laughed awkwardly and said,
"That should be enough. Let Miss Mao Ke rest for a while."
After all, even if you want to squeeze, it's not this kind of squeezing method...
In fact, Su Wan is not like this on weekdays. It's just that because the matter of Lost Hometown involves Luo Ling, and may even affect Luo Ling's future safety, she was anxious and used such oppressive means.
As for Mao Ke... In fact, it can be said that she is in pain and happy at the same time. At least through Su Wan, she got a glimpse of the shadow of the past.
What's more, the rebuilt Lost Homeland was the most important and most regrettable plan of the Columbia Federation besides dealing with the disaster of the Puppet Rumor.
Everything Mao Ke did was to continue Columbia's will, but even so, it was still a bit too much overtime...
Therefore, Su Wan is not as proficient as Luo Ling in using the Puppet Rumor's ability in this aspect. If it were Luo Ling, she would directly replicate the former Victoria puppet computer matrix, so that Mao Ke would not be so tired, and the efficiency would be higher.
Of course, things have come to this point, and I'm already exhausted. I just need to go back and comfort her.
Luo Ling calmed himself down and his expression quickly became serious.
She continued to stroll on the deck of the Lost Homeland, but the difference was that in her eyes at this moment, the Lost Homeland was no longer empty, but gradually began to show the mottled and complex figures, coming and going in an endless stream.
Countless whispers rang in her ears; although noisy and chaotic, they were not annoying because they were all about the Lost Homeland.
At this moment, Luo Ling overlapped this memory with the Lost Hometown. She watched silently as scenes from the past reappeared one after another.
Su Wan did not disturb Luo Ling, but took a few steps back and left the Lost Homeland. From a distance, she watched her sister carefully feeling everything on the Lost Homeland.
As I continued to relive this memory, the mottled figures gradually became clearer, and the whispers became even clearer.
In a trance, Luo Ling seemed to have been in the moment when the Lost Homeland was being built, and all those coming and going were Colombians.
Luo Ling continued to move forward. Like her sister Su Wan, she also felt an indescribable void on the Lost Homeland.