By the time we returned to the Empire District, it was already the afternoon of the second day—3:30 pm capital time.
The reason for delaying this day is not for other reasons, but to drag that refuge world into the territory of the empire. Although the abyss area has been made harmless by the abyss spirit, and the surrounding pollution has also become inert, the abyss environment is not suitable for ordinary races to survive after all. No matter how inert it is, it is harmful. Those old empire survivors still live in the empire area Be safe. In fact, there is no need to drag the entire universe over just to resettle refugees. After all, all the survivors now live on one planet, and their number is not large. It’s just that after a wider range of scanning, we found many abandoned ruins all over the universe. Considering that these things can still be used when rebuilding, even if they are not used, they can be dismantled for Tavel to play with, so Sandora simply swiped a pen and wrote the word "Qian" in the cosmic background radiation.
Then the whole world was demolished.
Now the world has settled down in the Empire District, and a series of infrastructure constructions have begun.
A large number of engineering ships are busy in space. This is an open area less than one astronomical unit away from the "Planet of Refuge". The engineering troops will build a permanent world gate here to connect this universe with other parts of the empire. into the world network. Every new territory has to be dealt with in this way. Building a world gate is the first step, and the second step is to build a sovereign hub in the depths of the universe. If the universe is set as a military or industrial world, then a large number of empire bases will also be built. — but the last step is not needed here. The civilians on the refuge planet will not know that a door to a new world is opening so close to their own planet, let alone how many starships are shuttling around their galaxy, preparing for their future life , but even if they don’t know anything, they are experiencing the most earth-shaking moment in tens of thousands of years: The Lost God Sect announced to the whole world that the dark years of civilization freezing are over.
Countless priests—who don’t know the truth of history—have obtained a carefully rhetorical propaganda document from the Holy City Cathedral. This propaganda document has been set many years ago and was adjusted and revised just yesterday. , the promotional documents explained the god of technology and magic's forgiveness to mankind in a way that complied with the doctrine, and the process of reopening the forge of the gods by the supreme gods. And roughly announced the schedule for the full opening of global relics in the next few years, as well as plans for rebuilding various non-governmental academic organizations. At the same time, the priests announced news that shocked the people even more: thanks to the extraordinary grace of the gods, technological revival organizations all over the world have been "pardoned within the religious scope". Molecules and radicals will be punished by the human code, but ordinary scholars once considered heretics will be free. The impact of this announcement is almost no less than the news of "the end of the severe technological winter", and it is likely to reduce the prestige of the Lost God, but everything is in the plans of those old people: the church will continue to weaken, slowly If the influence is reduced, it is likely to become a purely philosophical organization or spiritual symbol in the end. No longer has theocracy. It will even disappear completely after thousands of years. This is what they want. This world is about to usher in a new order, and it no longer needs any chains.
Of course, in a short period of time, the church will still be in charge of the world, and it must continue to maintain its prestige so as to completely control the revival process of the entire civilization. An explosive revival following a tech winter can easily get out of control. The wise old elves knew that someone had to steer the helm in the coming storm, a mission that only the Cult of the Lost God could undertake—this was also their realization when they established the church many years ago.
There are many more things to come:
The Masked Man will appear in front of the world with a new image, and those revived who have been under house arrest (many of them have even been under house arrest for almost a lifetime) have also received the news of "pollution receding". The truth was driving mad, but now that the clouds have receded, there is no longer any need for these people to be locked up. Most of them will have the opportunity to return to normal society, while a small number of them will be transferred to the Department of Neurology.
Various schools and non-governmental scientific research organizations are quietly being built, and these teams appear to be composed entirely of non-governmental organizations. In fact, there is the shadow of the Lost God Religion behind them. They will use various channels to subtly change the people's way of thinking, and it only takes one or two generations to cultivate new enterprising forces. The younger generation used to be the biggest factor of instability and even disaster in this world, but now the Lost God Cult will personally cultivate young people who are more active and creative than before, and the boat of civilization has once again. It needs younger and stronger sailors.
Some elf monks are planning public opinion matters. This is a relatively long and time-consuming work: they must find a way to tell the people the truth bit by bit, change the atmosphere of the entire society and the direction of public opinion, and eventually Let ordinary people rekindle their interest in the starry sky above their heads - this work needs to be carried out in conjunction with the previous plan.
In short, everything is according to the plan, everything seems to be developing smoothly, and the world no longer has to worry about the danger of facing the end of the world if there is a slight mistake—now they have the backing, and even if there is something wrong with the restoration process, there is an empire And other family members will come to help: a large number of aid personnel from the Galactic Civilization Community, the New Eden Federation, and the Exile United Fleet are already in place. They are experienced, well-equipped, and have ample theoretical reserves and practical case reserves. The team for this kind of problem has been active in the empire for a long time and has a great reputation. Qianqian named them "Rebirth Company". That's right, this is a group of ultimate businessmen who specialize in providing reconstruction services to other civilizations. The service items include rebuilding after a race is on the verge of extinction, rebuilding after a civilization disintegrates, soothing people after a world-class catastrophe, etc. You can't imagine Dare to think about the business, and also undertake various technical consultations and leases of colonial stars.
Now the members of these rebirth companies have built workstations on the back of the satellite of the refuge planet, and some representatives are in contact with the Lost God Cult, because the latter itself has a thorough reconstruction plan, so the business of the rebirth company seems to be more difficult. Perhaps only technical consultation and equipment support can be discussed. But they themselves don't seem to care too much: after all, most of their activities are funded by the governments of their respective civilizations, and this can be regarded as a semi-public welfare organization—what if I think of the Animal Protection Association
I really didn't expect that such a magical new industry would appear in these races that have undergone post-disaster reconstruction, and they have also developed rapidly and formed a cross-world company, which even Sandora said was unheard of—it seems that the new empire provides The loose and gentle environment and various family policies that can enhance cohesion have produced a lot of windfalls. How could the old empire have this
Thinking about it for a while, it seems that there are really many incredible businesses in the Imperial Region today. There are void-level mercenary organizations, there are "colonial merchants" who manufacture artificial planets for wholesale and retail, there are "MRT Passepartout" moving companies that provide ethnic migrations and even planetary migrations, and "Yiwu" that spans the entire macro world. Small Commodity Wholesale Market" (yes, that's the name, who dares to have any opinions on the superficial name), and the empire itself provides the technical foundation for the above business (not everyone can build the gate of the world). Still the largest manufacturer in the world... although we never charge, we charge "loyalty".
One last sentence: The most amazing thing is that I recently discovered that the Fiali Void Consortium has a foot in almost all of the above businesses. Except that they can't create the world like the empire, they are almost becoming omnipotent businessmen. That Hawker Queen is just amazing! Jingle up. Their civilization level has just broken through the world barrier. How did these geniuses evolve
I really can’t imagine what these weird organizations in the empire will look like after the whole family of the Xiling Apostles is deified: a sign has been hung next to the World Tree Temple that reads "No stalls are allowed within 100 meters of heaven", But the Xiling God Department has established diplomatic relations with a bunch of void peddlers, we have really taken a completely different path from Starfield...
The day after returning. Shadow City Military District, Headquarters.
I looked away from the holographic projection in front of me, seeing that the refuge world was beginning to rebuild, which made me feel a lot happier. Then I thought about the stunned look of the latter when I formally bid farewell to Celine two days ago, and the little girl Elle The scene of bouncing around and clamoring to go to the god's forge to help the god burn the stove... the mood is even more pleasant. Celine seems to be interested in living in Shadow City, but she still wants to talk about it after Ailu becomes an adult. I respect her choice, but I can still bring them to Shadow City for a few days in two days. This hard-working mother and daughter can enjoy a few days of happiness in advance.
I exhale. Gathering his thoughts away from the slightly irrelevant trivial matters, he looked up at the woman sitting opposite him: black hair and black dress, calm demeanor, and a huge black box beside him, it was Abyss Xiling.
"You really don't plan to meet those elves?" I looked at the former enemy in front of me. Today... a woman who can be regarded as an ally, "They have been waiting for you for 70,000 years, and the oldest generation of the three elves still remember you."
"They have completed the task very well. The agreement between me and them has ended and there is nothing to follow up, so this kind of meeting is meaningless," Abyss Xiling's tone was flat and calm, "meaningless things are best Do less and waste energy."
I smiled: "It's really a standard Xiling way of thinking, Sandora was just like you five years ago."
"I believe she is the same now. This is the nature of the apostles of Xiling, which cannot be changed," Abyss Xiling shook his head, "And what about those elves...meeting? They still remember me, but I don't remember They, I don't think there's anything to say to a bunch of strangers."
"You wiped out your memory completely. We searched all the databases in the entire abyss area and found no record of asylum for that world," I said helplessly on the data terminal. Flipping through the reports, "Trouble is now emerging—no one knows what the thing you stuffed in the God's Forge was. By the way, you should at least tell the God's Forge, you know that you put the asylum So after the door is closed, you have to clear your own memory, so why don’t you know how to store the truth about those things in the storage vault in another place? Future generations will have a headache, okay?”
After closing the refuge, in order to prevent himself or other polluted apostles from destroying the protective layer he had just built in turn, he took a precautionary measure of dredging from the bottom of the pile, which was to transfer all the data of the refuge world from the data network Now it seems that this deletion is really clean: when we knew that there was a clean world deep in the abyss area, Abyss Xiling was more surprised than us. Then the problem came out—even she couldn't remember what the thing she gave to the god's forge was for.
Abyss Xiling rubbed her forehead, as if she really needed to use her "brain" to think: "I don't think I will make such a low-level mistake-in fact, I would rather believe that I did tell the secret of the storage room to the gods back then. The host of the forge, but the latter forgot, or she didn't listen to it at all back then."
I thought about it, and couldn't help the sweat on my forehead: "Don't tell me, it's really possible. Those crazy people created by Weiska..."
I have an unprecedented tacit understanding with Abyss Xiling: when mentioning the abnormal AI, both of them lowered their heads and sighed at the same time.
"In short, it can only be handed over to Tavel and her scientific research team. I hope they can figure out what that thing is as soon as possible." I looked into the eyes of Abyss Xiling, "But I would like to ask you personally What do you think—about that weird looking thing that looks like a bunch of ice cream scoops."
"You have so many adjectives," Abyss Xiling said while sitting on the sofa, unconsciously stroking the black box beside her, "Is it a personal guess... I'm not good at this form of thinking, but I do have some ideas, I agree What you said - that equipment is not made by the Empire. It is probably not made by me. I got it from other places. If I have to say it... I suspect it has something to do with the 'other shore' for three reasons: First, the Empire was about to collapse Well, the things I tried my best to preserve at the last moment must be extremely important. After excluding the empire’s property, it seems that only the creations on the other side have this value; secondly, the technical level of that thing is obviously quite high. Didn’t you say that it has the transformation abyss Did it even purify those star ring fragments? This kind of thing is now the top technology of the Protoss and the Empire. There was no such advanced third-party civilization near the Empire back then, so I suspect it came from the other side; the last third point... I tried to put myself in the same situation in the virtual environment again, and wanted to see what choice I would make in that desperate situation, and then I found that what I was most concerned about was to let the "later people" know the existence of the "other shore" , and know about building bridges. It's even as important to me as the Empire."
Abyss Xiling finally sighed: "Under the circumstances back then, I was not sure how many empire fires could survive, so the relics I protected were not only for survivors. The Protoss is also good, another powerful It doesn’t matter if it’s a mortal civilization, in short, no matter who it is, as long as it can realize the cataclysm of the void and build a bridge—maybe the relic in the god’s forge is to tell others about the existence of the ‘other shore’.”
After listening to Abyss Xiling's confession, I was silent for a moment. Then I changed the subject: "Speaking of which, another problem was accidentally solved this time—the tree elves finally knew what happened to the 'return memory' of their mother tree."
"Tree elves?" Abyss Xiling raised his eyelids, "I'm not very interested in them, but it doesn't hurt to listen to you."
"Actually, the green star did not return, and the memory of the mother tree's voyage is a hallucination. Although it is strange to say, that plant does produce hallucinations." I laughed, "Didn't the tree elves flee in two batches back then? One group was on the green star, and the second group failed to escape and was trapped in the refuge universe. Mother Tree knew that the second group of fleeing troops failed to escape when they rushed out of the empire area. The mechanism is unclear, but the plant got depressed, and then hallucinated from the intense depression, and it started to imagine that it had returned to the Empire area to kill and save the other elves... that's what happened."
People like Rao Yiyuan Xiling were stunned at this moment: "... a tree, is it depressed?! And it can make up brains? Are you sure the results of this investigation are all right?"
"Anyway, that's what was written in the report that the tree elves gave me." I held up the data terminal in my hand, "Didn't the green star tree elves and the refuge tree elves reunite? A group of old men and women from each side held a meeting yesterday afternoon." A warm and friendly gathering, after one-third of the people had a heart attack and were sent for emergency treatment, the remaining two-thirds decided to go to the Mother Tree to pray for blessings, and told the Mother Tree the good news of 'the reunion of wanderers', and then... um According to the report, an old elf heard the murmur of the mother tree and translated it, finally uncovering the mystery of the "return memory". All the elves at the scene had a short discussion and jointly passed a resolution to strengthen the mental health of the mother tree in the future. .”
Abyss Xiling listened in a daze, with a strange expression on her face: "This... even a plant should have such complex emotions, the world of mortal races is really unreasonable."
"Get in touch with the 'mortal' world you call more, there are many things that will surprise you," I finally finished processing the report at hand, and stood up stretched, "Tell me why you showed up to me so early in the morning." in your office?"
I have held back this question for several hours, and now I can't help but ask it out, if someone else appears here, it's fine, even if Little Bubbles comes over to make trouble, it's normal, but Abyss Xiling has been relying on me early in the morning What's the situation in your office? First of all, she is not such a leisurely person, and secondly...how can I say that she is also the current commander of the abyss area (and has become the only commander again), such a character sits in the office and chats with me, I almost feel awkward died.
Abyss Xiling glanced at me, and opened his mouth to scare me:
"Let's see if there are any sequelae after you blew yourself up. After all, you are my logical father." RU