"When the gods return, what exactly are you going to hand over to them?"
My elder sister looked into Joad's eyes, and her expression slowly became serious, "This question is very important.
"It is impossible to tell a stranger."
As we expected, Yoder immediately rejected it. Seeing the other party's unshakable eyes, he knew that there might not be much room for negotiation on this issue. Sandora planned to use mind control again, but now Yoder may have already Be very cautious, he may resist Sandora's spiritual power - of course, with the ability of an Emperor Xiling, it is very easy to force this ordinary person to submit, but that will definitely cause irreparable damage to the old man's spirit and even soul. Sandora is not willing to torture an old man like this just to know the answer to the question. And it's not that we have other ways to know the truth. At present, it seems that there is still some time left for us.
"Actually, I don't really know what it is, because I didn't walk into that place myself." Yoder saw that we stopped talking, thought for a while and added, "Missions are passed down from generation to generation. There have been many interruptions in various turbulent times, and at first it was known to the whole world, but now only the Church knows about it, and only its senior members believe in it. All I know is that It is a very important thing, it has a role in determining the fate of the gods, and it is hidden in a treasure house. Of course, I have nothing to say about this treasure house.”
"It's okay, that's not important anymore."
As if she felt that she already knew enough about the archbishop, Sandora suddenly let out a long breath and stood up abruptly, "Fortunately, you still remember this mission. You said that you have something very important to return to this world. Gods, then... You should be talking about us."
Jod was stunned. I didn't realize the meaning of Sandora's words for a while, and I was also a little stunned, but Sandora chose to reveal her identity at this time. That’s all, and we also took this opportunity to get a general understanding of the other party’s position and the meaning of the religious organization he leads—most of the churches in this world are guardians of ancient heritage, although most of these guardians are now I don't know my mission very well, but its core layer still roughly remembers what happened in ancient times. Seventy-two thousand years ago, Viska and an imperial army had a fierce battle here. The end of the entire army was wiped out, and then one of them handed over an important thing to the surviving natives of this world, and ordered them to guard this thing until their legion came back here with regrouping. This class is a full seven 120,000 years.
The legion that left the treasure, I preliminarily judged that it should be the emperor, because Viska was a lunatic back then, she didn't seem to be able to do such an orderly thing, but considering that this world is actually a cage in essence, and No one returned to this space to retrieve the relic for so many years after World War I until the empire fell asleep. This kind of careless and careless behavior is a bit like the little lunatic in my family... In short, it is impossible to judge.
So after understanding this, Sandora felt that it was time to reveal her identity to the other party.
In theory, it is, but in fact... Yoder froze for a few seconds and jumped up immediately.
"You're making a very nasty joke!"
The handsome old man with white hair shouted loudly, his hair standing on end, "Maybe you know a lot, but you don't want to use your knowledge to tease my belief!"
"I'll go, this uncle was either a poet or a hooligan in his previous life." Lin Xue quickly poked my lower back and said in a low voice.
Of course, Yoder will not believe the one-sided words of us foreigners. I have guessed this a long time ago. After all, strictly speaking, the other party’s trust in us should be higher than that of strangers. He told us a lot of things, that’s because Those things are irrelevant, and maybe ordinary people have no way of knowing them, but they can easily understand these things after contacting the church. He can use these unimportant information to show his sincerity (of course, that mission is that Sandora uses a little trick to Let the other party say it, that doesn't count), but other than that, in Yoder's eyes, we are just foreigners from across the stormy sea.
What is the value of a stranger? Answering his doubts about this world may also bring the hope of saving the world, or knowing a few words left by God in another world. This is the hope he places on the foreigners. Yoder is a little sick now, and the world is about to dry up, which must have put a lot of pressure on this responsible person. Therefore, after discovering a group of aliens who are most likely brought by the Hope from across the sea of storm, he immediately brought us To the front, but in the final analysis, this is just hoping to answer questions from us, but it doesn't connect us with the return of the gods at all-after all, if this is considered the return of the gods, then the gods are too low-key.
I can think of this, Sandora certainly can, she just quietly watched Joad pointing at herself angrily, not caring about the other party's faux pas, and after Joad calmed down a little, she said slowly: " You don’t believe it, it’s normal, but we can prove our identities—do you need me to summon the imperial fleet to this space? Or do you want to come to our home planet to find out the truth?”
Joad froze for a moment, then frowned and said: "Fleet? I'm afraid this is not enough proof, as you have seen, we have the same spaceship... Of course it may not be as good as your battleship, but in essence, those things are the same , maybe you just got more inheritance from the ancient gods, which can't explain anything other than proving that your world is more prosperous."
"We built those fleets." Qianqian immediately said anxiously.
"Hundreds of thousands of years ago, we were able to manufacture spaceships on a smaller scale. There are such descriptions in historical records, but as time went by, many ancient factories closed. Perhaps your ancient factories are more abundant, and they even refurbish each other …”
"I'm going!" I almost spit out at that time, "You are suspected of causing trouble, according to what you say, you have no way to judge our identities at all, okay?"
Sandora thought for a while, and suddenly said directly to the point: "Wait, I want to ask—do you know what the ancient gods look like?"
Joad was taken aback, and said embarrassingly, "I don't know."
"Then what form will the ancient gods return to this world?"
"... This one is not recorded either."
"What is the identification method of ancient gods?"
"... This... may be in the records hundreds of thousands of years ago, but it has been lost now."
"Can I swear?" Bingtis stretched out her middle finger at Yoder. The other party was taken aback by this strange gesture, but he still smiled and made a gesture to Bingtis, and then the female hooligan was shocked Petrified, clamoring to fight the other party desperately, but it's a pity that he didn't make a move after screaming for a long time.
"In other words, you only know that you have one thing that you must hand over to the ancient gods who return to this world, but you don't know what the ancient gods look like, and you don't know what will happen when they come back, and you don't know what the ancient gods are. You have no way to confirm who the other party is except for the other party's self-reported identity..." My elder sister held her forehead in pain, "Don't you realize that this is a big problem?"
Yoder was also very embarrassed, but he still insisted: "You are right, we have no way to confirm the identity of the ancient gods, but I am sure they will not descend in a garbage sorting station. As for what you just said , if I take it back now, I can let the past go."
Sandora thought for a while, then lowered her head and leaned into my arms: "Ah Jun, think about it."
What do I think? Such a wonderful stubborn old man, what do you make me think about! Is it possible to kill them? I guess big eyeballs can't write this...
Just as the two sides were in a stalemate, the ground under our feet suddenly shook again.
This time the vibration was stronger than the previous one. In just a few seconds, many devices even fell off the platform on which they were placed. Saeko grabbed the armrest of the chair and said to me anxiously: "My lord brother, I seem to hear There is a sound like an explosion outside!"
Joad was standing when the earthquake suddenly hit, but he sat back on the chair. If it wasn't for the chair behind him, the old man would have suffered a lumbar disc contusion at the worst. After the shock subsided, he immediately rushed to the room for the last 〖 The circular platform in the center operates a large number of data terminals there with a dizzying speed, even ignoring us.
The holographic projections on the walls of the room and suspended in mid-air quickly switched screens with Yoder's manipulation, and soon there were real-time surveillance videos of various locations on the planet.
Earthquakes not only occur in the surrounding areas of Ayutthaya, but earthquakes are happening all over the world!
In every picture, you can see the fleeing crowd or the collapsing shabby town. The wreckage of the starship that was originally tightly packed is gradually separating. The ground has cracked a huge rift, and energy flashes are rushing out of the rift. , rushing up into the sky like bright magma.
This is the shaking of the whole planet!
"It's started, it will be ahead of schedule..." Lin Xue stood up from the chair suddenly, and whispered to herself in disbelief, "There is a variable, there must be a variable that is intervening in this world..."
"Bishop Lei!" Yoder suddenly shouted from the console, "Tell me what's going on!"
A middle-aged man appeared on the largest holographic projection in the room. His black robe was covered with dust, and bright red blood was flowing down the bridge of his nose. After seeing Yoder, the man didn't bother to wipe the blood on his face. Loudly said: "Archbishop! The ground is cracking! There are energy explosions everywhere! The energy networks of many towns have been paralyzed, as well as transportation and communication... There are people injured here in the sixth assembly station, a large number of wounded, very serious!" The other party hurriedly said Halfway through, suddenly there was a bright flash of light and a loud explosion from the side. He looked back and shouted loudly without looking back: "A big hole was blown out of the pit wall! The cableway has been broken, and there is a transport car Blown up, just landed on an oxygen plant, possibly exploded! We need to evacuate immediately!"
The voice of the other party was interrupted by a series of louder explosions, and the sound of countless people crying and howling almost flooded into the room through the communicator like a wave. After Yoder hurriedly arranged a rescue operation, the communication was interrupted.
While he was frantically contacting bishops in all regions, reports of huge disasters were still pouring in, almost blocking the problematic information bandwidth in this room. In just a few minutes, the red alarm window became Common color for all screens in the room.
The door next to it was pushed open, and several high-ranking monks in black robes rushed into this control center-like room. Yoder raised his head from a bunch of screens and asked in a deep voice: "What's going on? No? Did you say that you are not allowed to break into this room?"
"Your Excellency the Archbishop," a monk took off his hood with a panicked expression, "The city... the city is losing its balance, and the gate seems to be sinking!"
"What?!" Yoder completely lost his composure for the first time. He rushed down from the console in two or three steps, but at this moment, another violent shock came from under his feet. After all, he was already in his fifties or sixties. The 20-year-old man, whose physical agility is much inferior to that of a young man, was about to fall down on a console with hard ridges under the violent vibration, but a thick vine caught him in time, and then he fell from not far away. A wild liliana jumped out of a large pile of hua vines, she raised her face with her hands on her hips and pointed to the sky, and said loudly: "Whenever mortals are slaughtered, it is the great goddess of life who will grace..."
"That's a lot of nonsense!" I quickly patted her, "Go to work, it's time to do something good."
A green light curtain flashed by, and Lilina switched into a green-haired elf form. She was filled with surging life energy, so much so that the room surrounded by steel seemed to have plants bursting out of the ground and began to come alive** Come on, took out her scepter of life, grabbed the jingle on my shoulder and put it in her pocket, then she ran towards the gate, yelling: "O suffering mortals, Please accept Goddess's sincere blessing... Hey, my mother, is it necessary to make the doorknob so high!"
"The wounded are being rescued by Lilina and Dingdang. Hurry up and dispatch a batch of transport ships from outside." I quickly said to Sandora, and after receiving the confirmation from the latter, I turned my head to Yoder, "Are you okay? I saw you just now The ankle seems to be turned to the back..."
"I'm fine," Joad said quickly, he was stunned by Lilina's magnificent transformation and attack just now, but with the continuous strong and weak earthquakes around him, he quickly put that scene behind him , began to order a few monks to transfer the residents of the big city as soon as possible, and just after a few words, I suddenly remembered what we just said, "Wait, you said you have transport ships?"
"I know what you're trying to say, they're already on their way."
Joad looked at us with burning eyes, and nodded vigorously after confirming that I was not lying: "Well, it seems that you can really surprise me enough. Brothers, you should return to your posts immediately, the cathedral is ready to ascend null."
Those black-robed monks showed shocking expressions one by one, and the leader quickly said: "Your Excellency, the last lock of the gate after the church leaves the city is equivalent to opening, the holy library..."
"The gate is down, isn't it?"
Yoder glanced at the other party, "Go, maybe our mission is really about to be completed today."
The faces of several monks showed even greater shock, but this time none of them spoke, they just bowed neatly and then exited the bishop's room, which was more of a control center than a prayer room.
Yoder quickly returned to the circular platform in the center of the room, completely left us alone, and began to quickly switch the processes of the data terminals. Complex diagrams and mechanical scan diagrams.
— "Battleship Control Compartment".
These words flashed through my mind.
The exterior view of the cathedral appeared on the largest holographic projection in the room. Its perspective may be a point hundreds of meters above the cathedral. From this perspective, we can see that the high ground to which the cathedral belongs has tilted... etc. Wait, not only this highland, but the whole big city seems to be tilted! All the buildings in the big city in our line of sight have formed an obvious angle with the edge of the sinkhole in the background. The foundation of this city seems to be completely flipped? !
The streets are now full of panicked crowds, but based on current observations, it seems that there are not many wounded among them, people are just in a state of distress, and the few wounded are not fatal. Due to the fact that the world is full of extremely strong metals, the earthquake did not cause large-scale collapse of buildings, and the large cities are far away from the Rift Zone (in fact, many settlements are far from the Rift Zone, because the Rift Zone is basically It is the connecting zone between the wreckages of giant starships, and the residential areas are basically in the [center] of the large wreckages, with a considerable distance from the edge), and the residents have avoided the worst two kinds of bad luck: being smashed by houses To or be swallowed by the earth. These panicked residents flocked to the outside of the city, where there were transport ropeways and spaceship launch platforms that could allow them to escape the capsized city. In the crowd, we saw those floating in the air with the help of small anti-gravity devices, constantly waving bright sticks The monks in black robes, it seems that Yoder's order has been implemented, and the monks are actively organizing the evacuation of the people from the dangerous area.
The perspective of the holographic projection scanned these blocks, and finally returned to the cathedral. Just as the latter reappeared in the center of the screen, I saw a bright blue burst from the bottom of the cathedral. fire huā.
Then... the building broke away from the high ground below and began to lift into the air!