While the creation goddess Leah was obsessed with learning, an undercurrent was quietly surging in the dark and chaotic ancient prison in the deepest part of the dream plane universe.
For 10,000 years, absolute silence has been maintained here. All celestial bodies are as quiet as if frozen in ice. There is no life change, and no galaxy evolution. The river of time seems to have forgotten this dark universe, letting it in In the cold and dead silence, it kept the appearance of the moment the seal was completed for a long time.
However, this kind of "freezing" is just an illusion, an illusion in the eyes of short-lived mortals. In the face of a time scale of a hundred centuries, this prison has never been truly peaceful, and the ancient terror that has been suppressed is always there. No longer trying to break through the prison's blockade, and more than once touched the security border of the dark abyss, the guards in charge of suppressing the prison are engaged in a war that lasted for 10,000 years—it's just that most of the battles of this war are in unobservable dimensions In the midst of this process, in the eyes of outsiders who don't know the truth, what they can probably see is the occasional flickering changes of those lonely stars, or the sudden disappearance of a piece of space ash.
A star at the edge of darkness hangs quietly and alone, without any celestial bodies around. Its orange-red surface is covered with monstrous flames. Jet streams resist the gravitational force of the celestial body itself. The dark space is like countless dazzling spears of light. However, it is difficult for the light emitted by the stars to shine far in this universe. Less than half an astronomical unit away, a strange darkness wriggles slowly like some kind of mollusk or mud. It has no entity, There is not even any gravitational force or radiation released, but the brilliance of the stars will stop abruptly in front of this creeping darkness, as if they are completely swallowed and disappear without a trace.
Suddenly, the wriggling darkness changed, and the originally blind and scattered "sludge" began to become orderly and concentrated, and it continued to move towards the dark boundary. The orange star hanging alone in this area appeared in an instant. In response, its brightness suddenly increased, and even the level of the stars also increased explosively. The orange sea of flames turned into a blazing blue-white flame within one thousandth of a second, and a formation formed by gravity and warped space The long wall blocks around that darkness.
The actions of the dark "silt" were blocked, and after a period of stalemate, the mutation gradually subsided.
But not all the changes will subside. Just less than 20,000 light-years away from this outpost, another star failed to resist the surge of the Kuroshio, and the warped space was roughly torn apart. Destructive forces invaded the interior of the ancient celestial body. The surface of the star was suddenly covered with ominous black lines, and it was torn apart along the lines. Something like runes flashed away during the disintegration of the star, and then everything They were all swallowed up by darkness, and there was no trace of them.
In the more distant universe, ripples of information rippled among the lonely stars, and the language that mortals could not understand jumped and circulated among the stars like a breeze.
"Outpost N-66 goes out, sections 73 to 76 fail, inner defenses drop to 32%, chance of containment breach rises to 68%."
"We have lost two-thirds of the inner outposts, and the remaining outposts are not in good condition. The middle outposts are also affected. In the past few days, there have been more than twenty waves of abnormal energy pulses breaking through the inner Layer defense, directly attacking our middle layer nodes."
"The frequency of attacks is increasing, the activity of the 'prisoner' is rising, and it has awakened."
"It's not good." "It's not good." "It's not good."
After a very short silence, the whispers between the stars sounded again.
"The good news is that we can finally confirm the existence of 'reinforcements'."
"It has been observed that a series of unknown facilities are rapidly forming on the border of the dark abyss, and the energy fluctuations they produce are consistent with the drones observed before..."
"One of the facilities is releasing the special pulse of our people, which should be a relay device."
"Although the details are unclear, there should be one of our compatriots in the outside world trying to establish contact with us."
"The energy explosion in the depths of the cage should also be related to this matter—that energy explosion directly caused the 'prisoner' to be weakened by at least one-fifth."
"But it also led to a surge in the activity of 'prisoners', and after that, some of the behaviors of 'prisoners' showed a high degree of logic."
After a few seconds of silence, a more ethereal voice joined the interstellar whisper: "There is not enough data to make a precise judgment, but according to the sixth plan of the ancient covenant, we should regard the recent series of changes as the 'final A signal of the start of the war."
The thoughts from other stars were turbulent for a moment, and then several voices greeted this ethereal voice with respect: "The warden."
The voice known as the warden continued to sound: "... the final moment is coming, no matter whether reinforcements exist or not, the breakthrough of the inner defense is imminent, night watchmen, prepare to fight."
Not a single voice objected, and all the night watchmen expressed their determination immediately—even though they knew very well that without reinforcements and the support of the goddess of creation, it would be impossible for the people of the starry sky to fight against the madness with their own strength. This "final battle" is likely to turn into a complete genocide. However, they have been prepared for this since the day they chose to stay in this space domain.
After issuing the order to prepare for the final battle, the warden's voice continued: "Second order: try to establish contact with the facility outside the prison."
This time, a questioning voice finally appeared: "Warden, the exchange of information with the outside world is very dangerous, this may weaken the seal strength of the dark abyss—"
"According to the fifth plan of the ancient covenant, when the containment is about to fail, and there is a tendency for advanced mind communication in the outside world, the information shielding should be lifted and contact should be established. And we have already heard the special pulse of our compatriots from those facilities, no matter what It cannot be ignored."
"Then follow your orders."
In the dark universe, the whispers between the stars finally fell silent again, and the cold and dead silence once again enveloped the entire universe.
But a few minutes later, a star at the edge of this dark universe suddenly increased its brightness, and then, countless crystal-clear lines separated from the surface of the star. The prominence jets extended to space, and quickly condensed into a solid body in space. In the center of the layer upon layer of crystals, a radiant figure formed by energy clouds and bright nodes can be seen faintly.
A moment later, a shuttle-shaped starship made of crystal appeared above the star. He hovered in the brilliance of the star for a few seconds, and then turned into a stream of light, heading towards the opposite side of the dark abyss. direction to fly.
After making several leaps in a row, he finally arrived at his destination. The dark and chaotic abnormal universe was far behind him, and in front of him was a vast and boundless sea of stars.
Although optical observation is difficult to reach, the starship can still detect a magnificent building built by drones standing in that sea of stars, and in that magnificent building is the largest antenna facility. The special pulses are continuously released through the rebroadcast of that antenna.
As long as he continues to move forward, he can leave this terrifying dark abyss cage and enter the embrace of the universe of order. However, the shuttle-shaped crystal starship still stopped at this distance. He knew that once he, the night watchman, crossed this line, Then there will be extremely serious loopholes in the defense of the cage of the dark abyss, and information leakage exceeding the threshold will allow the lord of madness to directly project his power into the universe of order again.
Establishing contact with the outside world is already the limit allowed.
The shuttle-shaped starship came to a standstill, anchoring itself with the dark abyss as the base point, and then he raised the bow, and the crystalline structure at the front of the spaceship changed like flowing water, and soon formed stretched structures like sails, These crystal sails are bathed in the bright starlight from the universe of order, shining brightly in space.
The starship carefully adjusted the angle to ensure that each sail could accurately face the drone building in the distance, and then he made the first call with the minimum power:
"This is the night watchman. The dark abyss cage has received a signal. Hello, compatriots."
This greeting spanned the vast space between the star seas, and was sent to the information processing center of the crystal nucleus research station almost without delay after being amplified and transferred by the drone network, and Asuman was the priority in the listening group The tallest member has always maintained a 24-hour uninterrupted mount state, so this greeting immediately entered his mind.
Even with the unshakable determination of the people of the starry sky, Asuman felt dazed for a while, and even suspected that he was hallucinating.
However, the authenticity of the communication was clearly confirmed on the recording device.
"The signal has been received, the signal has been received!" The ancient giant Gordon who was on duty at the information center with Asuman also heard this greeting, and this rock-like giant jumped up from his seat. , and almost knocked the things at hand to the ground, he immediately connected the communication of the entire listening team, and at the same time called Salaman in the hub galaxy, "We have received a direct communication from the dark abyss! Repeat , is a direct communication in the dark abyss!"
On the other side, Asuman has completely calmed down. The people of the starry sky fine-tuned the frequency of the drone repeater station according to the received signal to enhance the signal quality, and sent out his own response: "This is Asuman , Listening Team of the Crystal Nucleus Research Station, it’s great to hear the voices of our compatriots again.”
"Neither of us—none of us expected to hear from our fellow man again. The world out there now..."
"Please listen to me," Asuman said without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, "immediately inform the other sentinels that the goddess of creation has returned, and we will launch a glorious and decisive counterattack, so before the day of counterattack comes, Be sure to preserve your strength, and don't fight head-on with the Lord of Madness! We will still need your support when the time comes!"
Then Asuman turned to Gordon who was busy in front of the communication station: "Gordon, how is the hub? Have you contacted the goddess?"
"I have already contacted the head of the Salaman army. The head of the army said that my mother is doing her homework, and she is still missing the last half of the questions. She will come over as soon as she finishes!"
"... Well, tell the goddess, don't worry too much, the communication is very stable, and the important things have been explained to her, let her write seriously..."
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