Although the combat power is always the same, Lin Xue is indeed a mascot who can guarantee good fortune and avoid evil, no matter in her previous life or in this life—she often claims that just a sneeze is equivalent to crushing millions of enemy troops in the future, although No one has ever believed her nonsense, but her ability to seek good luck and avoid bad luck is recognized by everyone.
If it wasn't for her, or if it wasn't for the several important prophecies made by "Reki" in her previous life, I'm afraid that even the New Empire would never have appeared.
And after she assisted the Emperor of the Heavenly Region to complete the feat of dividing the capital of the Fifteen Heavenly Region into two, she also arranged a mission that seemed inexplicable to Odysseus without everyone knowing: Hide the heart of the world. Back then, no one but herself could have guessed the purpose of this mission, but in our view today, this arrangement is clearly aimed at today’s fallen apostle—she predicted the fall of the empire and the only dawn , predicting that we will enter the Assembly Hall after so many years, and even predicting the appearance of the Fallen Apostles and the value of the Heart of the World, it is really hard to imagine how much she still knows, and to what extent. Now I somewhat sympathize with those fallen apostles who have been hit repeatedly by Lin Xue's prophecy ability, and I also understand that they are forced to spend so much to develop new warships just to interfere with the prophet for a few minutes on the battlefield: with such a Such an unreasonable existence as an opponent is really incomprehensible.
Of course, she also has inaccurate predictions, such as the reason why this secret mission was entrusted to Odysseus alone. I am afraid that she foresees that a large number of Xiling apostles have become rebels for "some reason", but she cannot determine the scope of this "rebel army", so she can only arrange this matter as few people know as possible The better, in fact, she got one thing wrong: it was the Fallen Apostles who should have been wiped out in the instant the disaster broke out that really rebelled against the empire, not the surviving compatriots in the Fifteen Heavens Area. But we can't blame Reki for not trusting his own people because of this, it's not distrust, but just necessary caution. After all, even the Prophet's power is limited, and it is impossible for her to hold everything in her hands. It was as if Reki foresaw the fall of the empire back then, but was still powerless to stop everything. She sacrificed herself to the void in exchange for the last bit of life, but the price was her own downfall—the world is impermanent.
"Mu, I'm so embarrassed that you sighed," the eldest lady smiled and twisted my ears, because I didn't hide my sighs from her. "Odysseus, now I don't know as much as you do. Let me tell you more about what happened back then. Also about the seal status of the Heart of the World, you know which part of the situation we all know, just talk about you The part I know."
"Yes," Odysseus's blurry half-body projection trembled, "The mission of the subordinate is basically what I said before, to hide the heart of the world. A secret sealing system was built for this purpose.
Regarding this matter, Lady Reki and His Majesty the Emperor had directly ordered that it must be done in secret. It was even listed as an absolute secret in any imperial information link, and the subordinates did not understand why there was such an order at the time. But obeying orders is the responsibility, so after the entire mother planet fell asleep as planned, the subordinates woke up alone, transformed, and built the current Northland Ice Field, hiding the heart of the world here. "
"What kind of hiding does this mean? Hiding in a different space? Or simply blocking the breath?" Alleria asked a detailed question, and she also became very interested in this secret plan that even she didn't know about. .
"It's a combination of both. The Heart of the World is stored in a proper space fold, and at the same time, the identification features of this space fold are disguised. The degree of secrecy is so high that it can even hide from the most advanced scanning technology of the empire. "Odysseus patiently explained, "This subordinate designed this system to be able to run continuously on any secondary energy source, and created a batch of elemental creatures to maintain the seal. The task of these elemental creatures is to ensure that the entire system is permanently Normal operation until the end of the world, or the recovery of the empire. They can collect the original minerals on the northern border to maintain the magic energy array. In the era when energy is insufficient and difficult to collect, they use themselves as fuel, and if the situation is worse, these The elemental creatures will forcibly wake up the subordinates and restart everything. This is the best design possible for the subordinates. The options are really limited, and the several 'safe' areas pointed out by Master Reki are all in this planet. On a small planet, and she specifically emphasized that the current carrier of the World Heart must not be damaged, otherwise, once the World Heart is transferred, the risk will be multiplied, so the subordinates can only protect the World Heart and its carrier here Now it seems that Lady Reki's judgment is correct, only this planet has not been impacted after the disaster erupted, most of the other planets, including the mother star, have been torn apart, even if they survived by chance Traces of the warp storm's severe devastation."
I thought about it, and always felt that something was not right, so I asked hesitantly: "So, there should also be a World Heart on the technology side, after all, the mother planet is conceptually divided into two parts, and the World Heart cannot always be divided into two." There is only one, right? Since the heart of the world in this world is properly hidden, where is the other one?"
"Although my subordinates are not very clear about the situation there, the two worlds should be corresponding. Lady Reki must have arranged for the other universe. I think that the world on the other side must also have the heart to preserve the world. The place."
"But I've never heard Gaia mention it!" I replied immediately. As soon as I said this, everyone fell silent for an instant, and we found out again that everyone had neglected something very important.
I quickly contacted Gaia, and after a while, I shook my head to the people around me: "Gaia's memory bank has no information about the Heart of the World. She said that the universe where the mother star of the technology side is located has never discovered the Heart of the World. She We also questioned all the Xiling apostles who are currently online, and no one remembers any similar secret missions back then."
Lin Xue covered her forehead, closed her eyes slightly, and a worried look appeared on her face after a while. He looked at me and said: "The situation is not good. The Heart of the World may have fallen into the hands of some people, and the stealing method is quite clever, and even blocked the memory of the Xiling Apostle who may have participated in the corresponding mission back then."
"Why do you have to go to such lengths to protect the heart of the world in the capital of the fifteen-day region?" After thinking for a long time, Qianqian finally grasped another key point, "Aren't there many universes? The heart of the world in the capital of the fifteen-day region Very special?"
"Speciality, specialness, there must be specialness." Lin Xue quickly tapped her temple with her index finger, as if this could speed up her thinking, "I remember that the fallen apostles had a purpose in collecting the hearts of the world, and they didn't The World Heart of any universe is not enough. The World Heart of the capital of the Fifteen Heavens District must be a key item. I definitely saw something back then, but now... Meow. If only I were as good as I was back then... Wood, can you use supernatural powers?"
"Sacrifice yourself into the void again?" I slapped Lin Xue on the back of the head. "What are you thinking about? The situation is not too bad. Even if the fallen apostles get the heart of the world, tens of thousands of years have passed, but their great cause is still in the preparation stage. It is certain that they have a lot of things missing. We will always have Opportunity beats them down, as long as they get results every time they act."
"A wise decision," Alleria "looked" at me. "I have a general understanding of the current situation of the fallen. Their plan cannot be completed overnight. Perhaps the heart of the world in the capital of the Fifteen Heavens District is very important, but it is definitely not the only element. We should take a long-term plan. Odysseus, you The preserved Heart of the World should still be intact, right?"
"Yes, I checked its status as soon as I woke up."
"Very well, give it to us for protection. You can also be freed from this weak state. Now we need you to do a more important thing: unlock the core of the Sky Tower."
"Speaking of which, what is the heart of the world like?" Qianqian looked curious. She knew that the heart of the world was intangible and substanceless. It was just a point of information entanglement, but the heart of the world would Randomly attached to any object in the current world, only when the current attachment is destroyed, the heart of the world will jump to the next object - this is why Odysseus wants to use a different space to connect the heart of the world with it The reason for sealing the dependent object together: to prevent that object from suddenly jumping to other objects, thereby adding unnecessary variables to one's own mission. Now Qianqian is interested in the heart of the world that is protected in every way, and she can't wait to see what that baby looks like.
To be honest, I am also a little curious, because I am busy on weekdays... It is said that I am busy, and I rarely come into contact with that thing. The heart of the world that is most impressive in my memory is Milia from the world of Mobrado (many times, The body of the World Heart and its host can actually be confused), I feel that the World Heart doesn’t seem to have any special features, after all, it can hardly be destroyed before the world is destroyed, and the change of the host just makes the information entangled. It's just a jump, for the heart of the world, the current host is almost a container, even a cat or a dog is fine. And the host of the Heart of the World in the capital universe of the Fifteen Heavens District must have been selected artificially. I am very curious about what my elder sister chose to serve as the host.
Odysseus, who was in a state of lumps, readily agreed: "The moment Alleria contacted me, this task was actually completed. If you want to see it, I can send the Heart of the World now." The access to the storage point is open, it's just outside."
As he said that, the two-foot-square crystal block that Odysseus was living in shattered and quickly reassembled in the air. After a burst of crackling sound, he became a person similar to the Gudelman outside. He moved his body and said apologetically to us: "I'm sorry, this state can only last for less than ten minutes, and you can't leave the ice field, but it will end soon."
We left this small igloo, and found that the wind and snow outside had subsided, and in the far distance, a hurricane of ice and snow that pierced through the sky was hovering strangely in the sky, and was gradually approaching here. There are a lot of crushed ice and rocks in it, so you can clearly see its boundary and shape. The shape is not like natural formation at all, and it is still changing: in the process of gradually approaching here, it even gradually appears Make the face of a middle-aged male with a snarky beard—there's only one face. Appearing at the upper end of the hurricane in a very strange state, the lower half of the hurricane only has a pair of huge arms that seem to be twisting and shaking clouds, which makes it look like a quick-frozen version of Aladdin.
After getting quite close, the hurricane has turned into a giant nearly 100 meters high—but only the upper body, the lower body of the giant is still a whirling storm, and it emits deafening roars.
"Oh, this is the giant storm rumored on the mainland," Lin Xue pointed at the hurricane. "It does look spectacular."
"Different from the ancient spirits and natural phenomena incarnated by other compatriots, the storm giant was created consciously by its subordinates. Its mission is to guard the sealed place of the heart of the world, so it can never leave the ice field. It is entrenched in the ice field The wind and snow on the ground are the incarnation of the storm giant, so he can always sense the wind and grass of the entire ice field. After his subordinates fall asleep again, he is the most powerful guardian of the planet. Although only a small part of his subordinates fragments of his soul, but he still completed the task very well."
"I may know how those Gudel elemental creatures were made." I looked at the storm giant in the distance. Around his inverted cone-shaped lower body, small-scale whirlwinds are continuously splitting. After being split, these small-scale whirlwinds seemed to have their own consciousness, and began to wander around, collecting nearby ice, snow and stones to build their own bodies, and soon became crystal clear "ice breakers". , there are some icebreakers flying in the air, so they don't have a lower body, they look like smaller storm giants. And those icebreakers walking on the ground looked exactly like our guides.
"Yes, the storm giant and the Gudel elemental creature were created at the same time. The latter is the fission of the former," Odysseus said. "The storm giant's body is the seal hub. Now the subordinate and this incarnation share the same consciousness. Please see, that is where the heart of the world is stored. It has been opened."
As Odysseus said, he pointed to the storm giant hundreds of meters away with his transparent arm made of broken crystals. Deep in the latter's body, a red core was rapidly brightening and gradually getting out of the storm. The giant's body is restrained. I saw many bright lines and runes imprinted on the red core, and connected to the surrounding hurricanes. When the core floated away from the body of the storm giant, these lines and runes also broke one by one. Judging only by my little occult knowledge, this means that the entire set of seals is a one-time use, once opened it will be completely destroyed, and only by destroying these runes in the correct order can the stability of the space be guaranteed, otherwise something will happen Particularly inharmonious things—such as the Northland Ice Sheet becoming the Northern Hemisphere Ice Sheet, or the Mother Continent turning into the Ice Continent, and then the Heart of the World would be collapsed onto God knows what in the remotest corners of the world.
Odysseus pointed to a group of luminous objects that gradually floated over and said, "That is the Heart of the World that my subordinates were ordered to hide, and it is intact."
When the halo finally dissipated and I saw the appearance of the thing clearly, I was dumbfounded.
A huge and heavy metal ring, dark black, about one meter in diameter, with dots of blue-purple starlight shining on the surface, floating in mid-air as if unaffected by gravity, radiating radiation visible ripples around it: it should be the air in the air. Some kind of force field has produced a distortion. It is also possible that what is distorted is light, or even space itself.
Now let's combine two things: my sister, and the circle.
A huge circle from the peak of my sister's power...
The moment we saw this metal ring, Lin Xue and I, even the often careless Qianqian, involuntarily took a few steps back, sweating all over our bodies layer by layer, jingling on top, in this sub-zero Baidu cold place , I'm sweating all over my forehead!
There were two people at the scene who didn't respond: Alaya and Aurelia. The former probably didn't react, and the latter couldn't tell if there was any change. Who knows what her expression is now
"You can't touch this thing directly with your hands, right?" I kept a safe distance and pointed to the metal ring.
Odysseus nodded: "You seem to understand His Majesty's power very well. This metal ring itself is also endowed with the ability to protect itself. Your Majesty's power is attached to it and has never dissipated for tens of thousands of years. It is too important. , so His Majesty tried his best to make it more difficult to destroy. Oh, the system shows that the information entanglement point of the Heart of the World is still attached to the ring."
I continued to sweat coldly, you said such a thing... how can it go back!
After thinking about it for a long time, I still got through the communication with Avalon and contacted Miss Artemis, the director of the local sub-district office: "Little Artemis, I need support here, immediately send a battalion... no, send a regiment Gunners come over..."
Before I finished speaking, Lin Xue interjected directly: "Don't bother with him, we can handle it by ourselves." Then hung up the communication, and then the eldest lady looked at me angrily: "Don't be so exaggerated, okay, you bring It goes back."
"If I wipe it, life would be worse than death!"
"What are you afraid of?" Eldest Miss rolled her eyes, "You are not an enemy, sister Chen Qian's curse will not be launched on you."
"You made a mistake, this is the power left by the emperor of the fifteenth day zone back then, she doesn't know me! Put this thing in the portable space, it will peel off your skin even if you don't die!"
The eldest lady was taken aback: "Oh, I forgot about this."
"Odysseus, there must be a transfer method for this thing, right?" I looked expectantly at the crystal-clear imperial officer standing next to me, "Packing box? Switch? At least give me some protection." Gloves are also fine, this thing is untouchable, how can I transport it to the City of Angels?"
Odysseus shrugged: "Your Majesty's power cannot be isolated, but it can identify the enemy and us. As long as you have the identification code of the empire, you will not be affected by the curse in theory. Of course, if you call Your Majesty now, Let her lift the curse herself."
I thought it would be troublesome to call my sister over just for this matter, so I looked at the group of people around me. Odysseus doesn't need to think about it now. Lin Xue and Qianqian did have identification codes back then, but their imperial household registrations were revoked 70,000 years ago, and the same is true for Alaya. Now the two parts of the home planet still exist. The reorganization has not yet been completed, she is a black household on the side of the mysterious side mother planet, and among the rest of the people...
Finally my eyes fell on Alleria.
"Aurelia, can I leave it to you?"
The always indifferent kite angel trembled unprecedentedly this time, then nodded, and almost approached the black ring that was still floating in the mid-air with a gesture of death-defying attitude. Touched the latter.
To my relief, nothing happened.
"It's possible." Alleria was also very happy, she nodded, and put the ring into her portable space.
I smiled, stepped forward and patted Alleria's wings in praise: "Good job, now hurry back to Angel's..."
Before I finished speaking, I felt my eyes go dark... RQ