We already know the origin of the Lost God Cult, and the reason for the weird technology blockade in this world is finally revealed. It turns out that everything is so simple—the most unexpected thing for me and Sandora is the location of this world. It is in The center of the abyss area!
Not only is it in the center of the abyss area, but this world was sealed off by Abyss Xiling himself! This place is right under the eyes of the fallen apostles, and even some of the fallen apostles were one of the original builders of the shelter! Reality is indeed more dramatic than novels, because novels must at least be reasonable, right? Reality is all about nonsense!
This universe has not been discovered for 70,000 years. Sandora and I have to admit that Abyss Xiling in its heyday was simply a terrifying guy. She can use all the computing resources and high-end equipment of the entire empire, and she can naturally create countless miracles , and only she launched one fire project after another in the short hundred years when the empire was about to collapse, and the success rate was still so high, but except for the protective barrier made by the abyss Xiling, this world has survived to this day It is also inseparable from the efforts of these survivors.
Whether it is the three races of the elves as the "sane guardians" or other races willing to accept "knowledge decay", all survivors in this world have paid a too heavy price for the continuation of the fire of civilization, and some of them may not even have to. To cover the entire civilization with darkness without violating the heart, as the bishops say:
All are helpless, all are guilty.
This is a world where it is never clear who is right and who is wrong. Everyone is just playing their own role. The technological revivalists are the pioneers of civilization as a whole, but the Lost God Cult has to suppress them in order to protect the spark of civilization. Who is right? Who is wrong? We can only blame fate.
Religion and ignorance have enveloped the people, making 99.99% of the people on this planet ignorant of the truth, but religion and ignorance have also saved the people, so that they don't have to face the despair behind the fog, but just embrace the truth. Such an ordinary life is enough from birth to death, at least for the vast majority of ordinary people, this kind of life is the most suitable: instead of dying in despair, it is better to live ignorantly. Of course, there are also people who choose to accept the truth, those revivalists of all kinds—whether or not they will regret that they were too curious to reveal something that should not be revealed in the end, in short, they have fulfilled their wish to know how cruel this world is. Fate is fair to everyone, because it is not fair to everyone.
"Now the fallen apostles in the abyss area have been purged, and the pollution is still there, but they have been adjusted to a harmless state by Abyss Xiling. The next step is to find a way to unblock the universe. Oh, Abyss Xiling refers to the second generation , "I waved my hand to the four old bishops in front of me, "But before that, we still have the biggest question—what exactly is the God's Forge? Did the Abyss Spirit explain anything to you when it asked you to keep it?"
I thought of the ancient cemetery-like relic community on the edge of the galaxy, the hidden planetary fortress, and the undetectable weird void at the core of the planetary fortress. In addition, there are star ring fragments sent away in front of himself and Sandora, and the last one is particularly puzzling: How come the fire plan of Abyss Xiling is still in contact with Viska? That little lunatic didn't seem to be doing anything but smashing, looting and burning back then... Could it be that her star ring was destroyed by Abyss Xiling? There seems to be no big conflict in time: because we don't know when the star ring was destroyed...
"The Forge of the Gods... We know that its body is a star warship, and some elf exiles fled to this world on it," Bishop Gale frowned, recalling the events of 70,000 years ago with the long lifespan of elves. The details are also quite difficult, "The lord made this planetary warship and handed it over to the white elves and the tree elves. She said that the planet is not a simple colony ship, but a storage warehouse at the core of the planet, but We have never been to the core: it is protected by a fully enclosed shield. The lord said before leaving that the core of the God Forge must not be opened rashly. The most precious thing is also the switch of the "safety barrier". It must be turned on after ensuring that everything is absolutely safe, the external pollution fades or the mad apostles are dead. In fact, one of the reasons why we persist until now is to protect this god forged Furnace—before that lord leaves, we promise to guard her legacy until the new Apostle of the Spirit appears again."
It seems that these elves don't know the information related to the star ring, but they mentioned the most precious thing? I immediately became interested in this. It is the "most precious" thing for Abyss Xiling, which is of great significance!
"You know how to open the God's Forge, right?" I glanced at Gaefeng, "Sandora and I went to the God's Forge a few days ago, and you immediately got the news."
"Yes, we have the key to the God's Forge in our hands," said the Pope of Technology, who stood up with his sister at the same time, "because we are the key."
Sandora and I said in unison: "You are the key!?"
"Here is the key," Morrowind (Magic Pope) pointed to his head, the girl's face was filled with a heartless smile, "It's near our brain. There are three keys to open the God's Forge, One of them is buried deep underground in this church and is connected to an ancient AI, and the other two are implanted into the brains of the two popes respectively, activated by ideas, and connected to the soul, which can ensure that even if the pope goes crazy, he will not be affected by it. Confusion of consciousness and misoperation. Only when the three keys are turned on at the same time, the god forge will appear from a different space. This system is left by the adult, and even the scientists of the empire may not be able to solve it. The three keys have been handed down from ancient times to the present, and have been in the heads of... well, anyway, many popes."
"To put it bluntly, we are the carrier of the key. The mission of this hundred years is to keep it well. Although the popes before us had no chance to activate the key in their lifetime, this custodian is indispensable," the Pope of Technology clapped His sister's hair, with a spoiled face, "In the Republic era, the keys were kept by the patriarchs of the three elves. In the Empire era, the keys were kept by the late Tree Elf head. In the Federation era, the keys were kept by AI and It was kept by the Federal Speaker at the time, but they were all placed outside. Later we discovered that this was a huge hidden danger. The possibility of the key being stolen or the custodian losing control existed. Therefore, in the age of theocracy, the key was kept by the pope and AI—through the implanted brain Way. However, our technology is limited, so we can only carry out a very simple transformation of this imperial equipment. The races with the highest technological level at that time tried their best to make it symbiotic with the flesh, but there are still some sequelae... Ha ha. "
"Salute to your sacrifices," Sandora floated into the air solemnly, "You are the heroes of the empire. So hurry up and start the key, and then go to the medical bay of the Admiral of the Empire to remove the implants in your brains." Come out, it’s not a good thing for this thing to coexist with the body for too long.”
"Okay, we're going underground to find that ancient AI. It will only work if the three keys are activated at the same time within ten meters of each other." The Pope of Technology raised his face with an indifferent smile on his face. Thinking that Morrowind and I will be the Pope who activates the key—for so many years, it has been the 'habitual responsibility' of successive Popes to spend their lives with the key, and almost some people think that this key will never be activated."
The other bishops also stood up one after another. I saw various expressions on those old faces, including relief, joy, and a little bewilderment and bewilderment. After 70,000 years, this long mission is finally over. , They have devoted their entire lives to this task. Many of them may have thought that this task will never be completed, but today it has finally reached the end... Feeling bewildered and helpless, the empire owes them seven Ten thousand years of life.
Sandora's voice sounded in my mind: "I suddenly felt that the apostles of Xiling are not much stronger than these 'mortals' in front of me. Apart from their weak bodies, they are as strong in spirit as the best fighters."
When we came out of the reception room, we found that many people had gathered outside, most of them were gray-haired old elves, and there were also a few young elves mixed in. It was after the founder of the original church died of old age, from "Saints" The successors selected in the "Sequence", there are a total of more than forty cardinals, they are the people who know all the truth in this world (of course, there are many old people in the three elves who know what happened back then, but they are either dying, Or they were just civilians who fled at the beginning, and didn't know the core things).
I didn't see Celine: although it is a pity, she is not qualified to participate in this matter, so she was temporarily sent back to the rest area.
Eighty percent of the people in the group are bearded old men and old ladies. They were the elf queens, elf princes, elf generals, and all kinds of young and promising elf leaders in the past, but now they are all For the dying old man of Suxiao Jiuxin Pill, I noticed that dozens of complicated gazes were focused on me, and the gazes were so important. Fortunately, after years of strength, I have been able to calmly face my responsibilities and obligations, so I only need to look at myself. The silent crowd nodded and signaled Bishop Gale to lead the way.
We walked through the ancient and solemn central corridor of the cathedral, through large murals depicting the gods of technology and magic, through layers of arches and curtains, until we reached a deep corridor completely carved from gray and white stones , a long passage sloping downward appeared in front of everyone. Judging from the direction of progress and the building structure, I have now left the scope of the church and entered the mountain of this magnificent mountain: the church is perfectly integrated with the mountain, and the second half of it is directly carved on the rock. I thought it was an ordinary architectural wonder, but I didn't expect that the whole church turned out to be the gate of the tunnel in the mountain!
At the end of the sloping downward passage, we are already in the center of the mountain, and here we see an unusually large rock hall, the entire hall is carved from gray-white stone blocks, and the walls and dome are made of strong alloy frames Reinforced, although the four walls are full of primitive atmosphere, traces of high technology can be seen everywhere: there are bright modern lighting equipment on the walls, each entrance is equipped with security devices and sentry machine gun stations, and four of them can be seen in the four corners of the hall. The operating device is like a data terminal, and there are a few priests working here.
In the center of the hall, there is a large elevator cabin, which is the most technological thing here. The silver-white elevator cabin is installed on a circular base protruding from the ground. Although there is no psionic reaction, the elevator cabin is obviously It is made of Imperial Extraordinary Alloy.
"The entire mountain range has been remodeled and filled with explosives. If a catastrophic event occurs, we will detonate the entire mountain. Even if we drag everyone to their deaths, we cannot expose the god's forge to the lunatics outside," Gale said. The bishop led everyone to the elevator compartment, "Some of the building materials here are standard metal parts made by the empire, but we dare not use psionic energy, and all the imperial equipment with cross-void communication functions have also been sent to the forge of the gods. Please go to The lift is very old, but it works well."
The third key is located very deep underground. Anyway, the elevator seemed to have been descending for more than ten minutes before finally bottoming out. After the cabin door was opened, I was shocked to find that there was an underground garden in front of me!
This is obviously a grotto deep underground, but the top of the grotto uses artificial light to create a day-like light, while the ground of the grotto is full of flowers and plants, and in the center of the open space is a plant that looks like entangled vines. Blame the tree, there didn't seem to be any trace of technology here, except for the elevator behind us and the lighting above us.
"We have established a long-lasting ecosystem here with special magic. Even if there is a catastrophe on the ground, this place will continue to grow. At the same time, this constant magic effect maintains the vitality of the giant tree, making it like a tree. Live forever like the mother tree," Gale pointed to the strange "tree" in the center that looked like a vine and a tree, "The third key is fused with it."
Sandora was very curious: "Didn't you say that the third key was fused with an ancient AI?"
"That's right," Chen Feng smiled like a flower, "This is the product of the fusion of the technologies of the three elves. We used a twig from the mother tree, the life magic of the white elves, and the programming technology of the high elves to create this mother." Tree Replica - The real Mother Tree has left with an ark fleeing in the other direction, so we can only keep its twigs, but that's not bad, it's our Mother Tree! Yes, though not What hope... Back then, another group of tree elves should have escaped by boarding a planetary fortress called 'Green Star'. They didn't follow the same path as us, so..."
"They are still alive, and they were rescued two years earlier than you," I finally remembered that I hadn't told the exciting news to the tree elves present. "You will be reunited soon. Besides, your mother tree is also here. , although it almost died during the journey, we resurrected it with the power of the goddess of life, and now the tree elves are one of the most prosperous families in the new empire."
"Oh—" Shouts of joy came from all directions. Nearly half of the people here are tree elves, and they are tree elves who have lived for more than 70,000 years. Nothing makes them more excited than the current news. A wrinkled elven grandma even brushed her hair subconsciously: "I... can I see him again? I remember that he was the navigator of the green star when I set off... Is he still alive? After so many years Now, I... I have become like this, so old... "
"Everything will be rewarded," Sandora floated solemnly at the top, "Don't worry, we have reunited many family members from the old empire era and refugees who suffered due to the mistakes of the empire. The apostles of Xiling have never Will shirk responsibility, and will not forget the heroes, I promise in the name of the head of the empire, all races will be rewarded. As for now—let us finish the work at hand and start the key!"
The two popes nodded, and under the attention of a group of people, they approached the huge tree tens of meters high. The latter looked like a plant, but it could obviously sense changes in the surrounding environment. As soon as they approached the giant tree, the latter's A light green halo quickly diffused among the branches and leaves, and then many twigs protruded from the tangled trunk of the vines, and wrapped around the two popes to form a structure like a console. I heard someone whispering in the bishop's group: "70,000 years, it's finally here... It still feels like a dream." "Just turn the key on? We're not hallucinating, right?" "What are you thinking about? I am old and confused, suspicious all my life. But speaking of it... it seems a bit rushed to turn on the key like this." "Should we hold some ceremony first to show solemnity?" "I also think there should be a commemorative link... By the way, Remember to record this scene." "How about some music to cheer it up?" "Fuck off."
Sandora and I: "..."
Are these spirits persevering to this day with this spirit of making fun of hardships
Activating the three keys did not cause such a big movement as I imagined. Everything was completed quietly. I only saw the light flowing between the branches and leaves of the big tree. After a while, the two popes left the console. There was a slight mechanical friction sound, and a circular hole with a radius of more than one meter suddenly opened on the grass, and a crystallized cylinder emerged from the ground.
The crystalline cylinder is a fully sealed protective cover, and a small empire-style device is quietly suspended in the center of it. It looks like a data terminal, but its shape is narrower and longer, and it is like all the devices made by Abyss Xiling: this There is no sign on the surface of the thing.
Gale stepped forward and opened the protective cover, solemnly took out the small device inside with both hands, then presented it to Sandora and me, and bent down deeply: "The space blockade near the God's Forge has been closed. Release, this is the command device to wake up the host of the planet. General Gale, the tree elf, obeyed the ancient order and returned it to the head of the empire."
I took over this extraordinary ancient creation, and the strong wind breathed a sigh of relief:
"Finally...we did our duty."
(Hey, I'm going, ask for a monthly pass! I looked at the calendar today and found that something almost happened. It's about time!) RS