The Hejin ground under his feet was vibrating, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, as if there was a certain pattern. The unfixed portable machines in the room made rattling noises, bouncing back and forth on the floor or the table, Yakumo Lan suddenly Jumped off the chair, the fluff on her ears and tail stood up, unconsciously half-prostrated on the ground and made a low-pitched grunt—in some cases, the instinct of her fox side was still very good. Difficult to control, such as stealing chicken legs at home and running naked, and being more sensitive than humans during earthquakes.
Saeko was also taken aback. Although she stayed with the first family for a long time, she was still an ordinary human girl in essence. Even after experiencing the biochemical crisis, she had never experienced the movement of the battleship being shot, so facing this She let out a low exclamation in a sudden earthquake, but it was just an exclamation. Her strong psychological quality made her calm down quickly, and she felt relieved after seeing that we were all quiet.
The shock came and went quickly, but it lasted less than ten seconds. Everything around me became quiet. Lin Xue made an ok gesture to me, indicating that the earthquake was over. Lan's tail drooped again, but she was still squatting on the ground with her hands on the ground. At this time, she looked around and found that she might be the one who reacted the most. She immediately showed an embarrassed look, then raised her foot and scratched her face. …
We didn’t realize it until the girl sat on the chair again, really, and Lan himself didn’t realize it. Now we can confirm a common sense: When natural disasters happen, wild animals often have very strong reactions, even if They've matured too...
Joad was a bit silly looking at Lan's weird behavior, but fortunately he didn't do the same rude thing as the brats in the town, which was trying to verify if there was a steel wire in Yakumo Lan's tail, I swear he If you really dare to do this, the fox will definitely bite people. Lan PingPing loves her tail, and she will bite anyone who touches her except our family.
"The geology here is not stable." I tried to divert Yoder's attention from Yakumo Lan who was in a wild state. "Earthquake?"
Yoder gave a hasty cry, and then frowned: "Earthquake? Do you call the shaking just now an earthquake? It's quite a vivid term."
"So, there has never been an earthquake here before?" My sister immediately heard the hidden meaning from the other party's words: This planet seems to have never had an earthquake before!
"This is not the first 'earthquake'." Yoder sat across from us and looked at us quietly. We couldn't see what he was thinking, and he couldn't guess that he brought us here alone to hide the crowd and wait. What do you want to do? "Since thirty days ago, Dacheng and a large area nearby have been shaken five times, and the interval between each time is shorter than each time. This is not a good sign. Of course, you said that there has never been an 'earthquake' 'before' here That's right, thirty days ago, for countless years, the land under our feet was as solid and eternal as this world, and no one would believe that even this land blessed by God would be turbulent at times."
Sandora frowned, and Lin Xue gently squeezed my arm from behind: "Wu Mu, do you still remember what happened a month ago?"
I was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately understood what Lin Xue meant.
Sure enough, Yoder spoke quickly. He didn't seem to intend to ask us to understand the situation first, but first said what he wanted to say: "Since the Hope disappeared at the end of the Ocean of Storms, this world has shown All sorts of disturbing changes, and then, here you go."
"Now, I have to think about what it means for you to appear here."
"Tch, you want to say that we came here with disasters?" Lilina pointed at Joad's nose, "Speaking nonsense is blasphemy."
Joad paid no attention to the little girl's disrespect, and looked at us with the same expression: "I don't mean it, but I really want to know who you are and where you come from-I have a crazy guess, but this is almost contrary to belief, but apart from this guess, I can't think of any other possibility, so can you guys relieve my pain in belief, are you from the other side of the sea of storms?!"
Sandora seemed to have expected this question. Hearing Joad's words, she was just lazy... By the way, she leaned lazily on the chair and said in a cold voice: "Good guess, We do come from beyond the Sea of Storms. But your understanding may be slightly different."
It was as if the old bellows was suddenly pulled open, and there was a hissing sound from Joad's throat. He was inhaling hard to calm down his turbulent emotions, and then quickly regained his composure: "Is it the Hope? It finally broke through the Storm Seas, and brought you?"
"No... um, maybe that's okay to say." It was my elder sister who answered him. Her eyes were lowered, and she was still a little bit sorry for what happened to the Hope. "If there was no Hope, we would not have found this world, but it has It crashed, and the last record on the battleship shows that it should have been destroyed by a group of fanatics, should it be yours?"
"Destroying the Hope was not my original intention, but I must prevent someone from taking this risk." Facing the shocking news we revealed, Yoder remained completely calm. He waved his hand vigorously, expressing his innocence in making this decision. It can be disputed that "until the mission is completed, we must live on. No matter how high the hope's success rate is, as long as we try to leave this world, we must be sanctioned..."
Speaking later, Yoder's voice became a little weak, as if he was discouraged: "But now it seems that we are one step too late after all, and the stability of this world has declined."
"You mean, the Hope crossed the world barrier rashly, causing this space to lose its balance?" Sandora's eyes flashed a gleam, and she immediately asked in a low voice.
My mood slowly became excited, and I told myself intuitively that many truths seem to be in the hands of this handsome man in front of me, including the phenomenon of a large number of ancient mechanical shutdowns around the world that we can't understand.
"The barrier of the world? It seems that there is a wall outside the Ocean of Storms. The Hope has gone so far. If we change our position, maybe they are really heroes." Yoder stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead. "The ancient records said: The world we live in is a closed kingdom of God. God forbids any filth from the outside world to enter this world, and also forbids any people in God’s kingdom to defect to the outside. If someone violates the clear rules and enters the dirty outside world with God’s blessing , the entire Kingdom of God will lose its blessings... It's too late to say anything now, I don't know how to face the ancient ancestors, and the people outside, they don't know what happened, but in fact I can hardly be sure about tomorrow's Can the solar furnace be lit again?"
"So you want to know if we from the 'other side' of the storm ocean know more." Sandora said lightly after two seconds of silence.
Joad sat on the chair, tapped the armrest of the seat with his fingers regularly, the focus of his eyes swept over us, his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and his eyes were deep and watery, it could be seen that he I am thinking, maybe even having a violent psychological struggle, and I am also trying to figure out the idea of the somewhat abrupt archbishop in front of me—we haven’t revealed our identity yet, because we want to see if we can explain it clearly. Knowing the true position of the other party under the condition of identity, after all, he once ordered the destruction of the "Hope" that was trying to escape from this ruined world, which made our impression of the world church drop a lot, but now, according to Joder's words, it seems that he This is done to protect the world, which makes people curious.
"What's beyond the Ocean of Storms?"
After nearly a minute of stalemate in silence, Yoder suddenly raised his head and looked at this side with burning eyes, "Is there really another world there?"
"There are more things there than you can imagine." Lin Xue said, "But before we tell you more, we hope you can talk about the things in this world first. I can tell you with certainty, We have the ability to solve all the problems you face, but only if you are open and honest."
"I don't believe you, I'm just telling the truth" Yoder said very bluntly, "You are indeed from across the Ocean of Storms, but that doesn't mean anything, until you can't prove that you are trustworthy..."
What Yoder said is right, he found us only because we are most likely from outside the world, and we are "foreigners" who know the truth outside the world, but the identity of this foreigner is not enough for him to confide in anyone, but Sandora She didn't care about this, she just connected the mental connection: "PL-15, now remove your camouflage, and the general flagship, remove the camouflage, and project a strong signal pulse in the direction we are now."
Two seconds after Sandora's voice fell, the signal projected at super-light speed arrived at the ruined planet. As expected, Dacheng has a radar array of sufficient specifications. Almost the moment the signal arrives, the entire city The ear-piercing air defense sirens sounded, and then the cathedral scanned two giant battleships that had been unmasked and parked swaggeringly in the "shallow layer" of the storm ocean.
There was also a rush of alarms in the room, and a holographic projection automatically popped up in front of Yoder. The pictures and words that appeared on it made the handsome man's expression dull for a moment.
"We have a lot of spaceships like this. If you need help, we can use these spaceships to take all of you out of the Ocean of Storms. If you don't want to leave, we can transport enough for you to survive for the next 700,000 years. materials and ancient machines, and what we want to know...well, let’s start with what you know about the truth of this world and the matter of the Hope. It's no longer a vitally important secret."
"Okay, okay, you really scared me." Yoder waved his hands slowly, saying that he was scared, but until now he didn't mean to panic at all, his eyes just widened just now "Then tell me My opinion. The world used to be not what we see now, don't be surprised, although few people know this, or even dare to think about it, but I believe you from across the ocean of storms should have some understanding of this sentence Your own opinion. You bring those things that make people dizzy. There should be a richer country on the other side of the Storm Sea, so you should be able to see at a glance how barren and precarious the place we live in is. For a long time, Only the absolute top of the church knows this secret: the whole world is actually a consuming system... "
Joad has been lowering his eyes slightly, talking to himself in an unhurried tone. This may be a habit he has developed in his usual reclusive life as a bishop, or it may be that we "foreigners" who suddenly appeared made him I feel the need to complete the communication as soon as possible. "This is how the world is. In the hundreds of thousands of years recorded in history, two-thirds of the ancient machines in the world have been shut down. The production efficiency of a large number of recycling factories is getting lower and lower day by day. From a thousand years ago In the beginning, we didn't have any extra materials for the maintenance of those fusion piles, and the yellow muffins that had been used as auxiliary food disappeared among the people five hundred years ago. Know that when a priest knows some secrets, he will be promoted to bishop, and then he will not leave the church for life. We know the meaning of this. This is the only way to ensure that the whole world can continue as smoothly as possible, that is People know the truth, so most senior monks are willing to bear the huge pressure brought by the truth. For so long, although some bishops leaked the news because of their weak will, they can always be organized by other bishops and archbishops. Dispose of it quickly, the only accident... was Bishop Panamon a few years ago, who was later the captain of the Hope. He is a well-deserved strong character, and he can achieve his beliefs at all costs. When you know this After the truth of the precarious world, he was very loyal for a time, making everyone believe that the young man would be the best candidate to keep this secret for the next generation, until he became the captain of an ancient Angel-class battleship... I am still I don't know how he made the entire battleship rebel with him. He has become a force independent of the church, and even dared to appear in front of the public with a powerful super battleship. The only thing to be thankful for is Baba Namon did not announce to the people that the world was about to dry up, but used another plan to compromise the church: he began to call on people to become his sailors and explore the rich new country on the other side of the storm ocean.”
"He has almost succeeded." My lord sister said.
"It has been successful, just from the point of 'crossing the sea of storms'" Yoder said, "No one thought that he could do this step. With the power of the Hope, we have no way to fight him in the Daxu ring belt." Dueling, and he also reached a compromise with the church, on the condition that we continue to keep the secret that the world is about to dry up, let us allow him to recruit sailors, but there is another restriction, that is, in any case, the Hope is strictly prohibited from passing through the Ocean of Storms unless he It can be confirmed that the world opposite the Ocean of Storms really exists—after all, even I would like to have such a small hope. But he was too aggressive. After detecting the strength and scope of the Ocean of Storms many times, he ordered the Hope to rush out. Breaking through the church's surveillance circle... Although he was still destroyed in the end, his actions ultimately destroyed the foundation of this world."
So far, everything known about the natives of this world, as well as the Hope, has become clear to us.
We exchanged glances one after another. It can be said that the development of the matter is not too unexpected, but it is also full of drama. After pondering for a while, the elder sister suddenly remembered another thing worthy of attention: "Just now you mentioned the mission... this Words shouldn’t just be said casually, right?”
I also remembered what my sister said. I almost ignored that sentence just now, and Yoder said "until the mission is not completed, we must live."
"Do people in this world have any mission?" My sister asked, "We have been in contact with the aborigines here for a while, but we have never heard of such a thing."
"Of course, we are waiting here with a mission on our shoulders," Yoder said here, with a proud brilliance on his face, but the brilliance disappeared in a flash. "However, ordinary people should have forgotten these things, only the church will This mission has been passed down from generation to generation, and we always remember that the ancient gods established this sanctuary in order to entrust us with an important task—even though it seems that the environment of this sanctuary is deteriorating day by day."
"Mission, what exactly is it?" Sandora raised her eyes suddenly, and looked directly into Yod's eyes. The golden light flashed through her hair. Just this little bit of spiritual piercing made Yod hesitate. His expression became blank for a moment.
"Mission? We have to give that to God." The archbishop said with his head down. "They asked us to keep that thing until they return to this world. We are the chosen custodians. When God returns to this world, I will take it with my own hands." It's in the hands of God."
Sandora withdrew the mental intervention to prevent it from causing any harm to the old man in front of her for too long, and then connected with me: "It seems that the two sides who fought here 720,000 years ago Give something to the ancestors of these natives."
"Do you think it's Viska or Emperor?"
"...do you think I know?" Sandora gave me a blank look.
Yoder suddenly woke up from his trance, only to realize that he had just told the biggest secret of every archbishop in a daze, and the expression on his face was very annoyed. Things like this secret like the ultimate mission can't be said casually.
But now that he has said it out, there is no way to undo it. He finally gave up on the entanglement and looked at us calmly: "Now that you also know what you want to know, should you tell me how to solve the problem of world decline? Is it? If you come here from a rich country, there must be a way."
"There's no rush for this." Elder Sister thought for a while, and said with a smile, "Can you tell me, what you mentioned just now, what is the thing that will be handed over to the gods when they return?"