Instead of returning to Shadow City immediately after activating the Garden of the Dead, we stayed in Kerudaq for the time being to learn from the Council about the current development of the Exiles' fleet. I have to say that due to all kinds of busy affairs one after another, we don't pay enough attention to this new epoch realm, and we don't even know when they built the current colonies, which is somewhat undeserved.

"Nearly half of the population still lives in the spaceship and the planetary fortress," there is a semicircular platform in the middle of the parliament building that protrudes from the outer wall of the building, and we overlook the alien city below, listening to the "council" talk about their recent development, "On the one hand, the ecological environment is not very stable now, and the ecosystem of the fleet cannot be closed rashly, and on the other hand, many people are really used to life on the ship. Despite this, however, the construction of these colonies is still progressing very quickly. This universe is indeed rich in resources, and the various types of planets are a bit suitable in terms of distribution, form, and number...... There is also a complete cosmic star map and a list of parameters of the world and the world that have been prepared in advance, and these conditions are simply too good. On most colonies, we only need to do a little ecological modification, and then move down the industrial facilities on the ship to live in people, and those citizens who are willing to come to live on the surface of the planet are very happy with this environment - this is the first time they have ever had the experience of breathing under the open sky since they were born, and everyone feels very fresh. ”

"It's good that you're satisfied," Sandora smiled, "for the first time I've seen a universe with a manual." Feels incredible, right? ”

“…… Yes, I was taken aback at the time," the expression on the face of the "council" became strange, "We thought we were just receiving a piece of habitation, but we didn't expect to accidentally dig out a set of cosmic instruction manuals, and even ......"

"There are also quality inspection reports issued by three authoritative temples and product nameplates that consumers can trust," mentioning the "cosmic instruction manual," the corners of my mouth couldn't help twitching, "It is said that you also found the factory timestamp in the cosmic background radiation......"

"Hmm...... Yes. The condenser beside him subtly agreed. His eyes were staring into the distance in a daze.

In the direction of her gaze, there was the center of Kairudak, an octahedral monument on a high ground in the middle of the city, which was almost entirely made up of Toberu-style "tower ball" buildings. The monument is thousands of meters high, and many things are inscribed on each face with brilliant Protoss characters. From top to bottom, there are trademarks, factory names, factory addresses, factory numbers, inspector numbers, consumer trust product honor marks, and steel seals indicating the distribution license, and inside this monument is engraved with the above harrowing content. There is a small crystal tower (which cannot be seen from the outside). The crystal tower contains several petabytes of instruction manuals, labeled "Abridged", detailing all the fixed parameters of the entire universe, as well as data for all the galaxies in a frozen state, and at the end of the pack a sincere thank you to the six sponsors......

At first, we didn't know that this thing existed, but after handing over the universe to the Exile fleet, the latter realized that the world was not functioning properly: all the celestial bodies were frozen, and the fleet entered the universe to find that it was unable to determine the basic parameters of its surroundings. There is a kind of light of unknown origin in the universe (in fact, it is the holy light, and they later learned that these holy lights are similar to preservatives and the like). They didn't report the situation to the Empire at the time, but checked it themselves. As a result, this massive monument was discovered in the central region of the universe.

When the monument was first discovered, it was very large, and the longest axis even reached millions of kilometers, and the commanders of the exile fleet were extremely shocked by this huge thing that did not look like a normal celestial body, and finally informed us that since this world was made by the Protoss, I decided to let the Protoss Sliver Five take a look at the situation, and later, according to the judgment of the authoritative person Bingtis, she thought that in order to use this universe normally, it was first necessary to press the small green button on the top of the monument.

An ordinary soldier of the exile fleet, who has gone down in history, was responsible for pressing the button, and all the celestial bodies in the universe began to function normally - as if the paused video screen suddenly resumed playing, the holy light that pervaded the universe as a preservative began to dissipate and merge into the background radiation, and the million-kilometer-long monument became a kilometer-long miniature, and then Iceis found the instruction manual for the universe from the monument and delivered it to the "council".

This was the little "episode" that happened before the exile fleet built their new home.

To be honest, I really didn't expect that some of the worldly realms made by the Protoss would have manuals and start buttons!

Later, when I asked Bingtis, I figured out what was going on: didn't Monina buy furniture for this universe in the first place? Therefore, although it is a distracting second-hand product, it is also a circulating commodity produced by the regular shrine of the divine realm, which is naturally different from those unlicensed and unlicensed and has an uncertain life span and no quality guarantee, it has product manuals and a full set of quality certification documents. And because the world itself is something that will evolve over time, after being used as a commodity or gift, they must be "stagnant", and the way to deal with it is to suspend the entire world and open it by the user after the buyer receives the goods, which can effectively prevent the unsalable world for tens of billions of years from depreciating because it exceeds the shelf life (is there really a bitter thing to this extent?). ）。 As for the opening method, there is a small green button in the center of the universe - of course, there are also some models that enter a set of activation codes, and the other world managed by Ding Dong is activated with activation codes, but it is said that everything with activation codes is easy to be pirated, or use the small green button to be safer: this is called physical encryption.

That's what Bingdis explained to us.

Monina was busy planning how to set up her newly bought furniture. She forgot to tell us this......

Looking at the towering white monument in the center of the city, a few of us showed a neat and heartfelt smirk: "Hehe, hehehe......" We are now surprised by these meaningless egg-sore things that the gods have researched in their infinite lives. Of course, it may take a long time for the "parliament" to adapt to the universe in which it lives, and even the background radiation hides the status quo of trademarks and barcodes.

"We've never been in contact with what you call the Star Domain Protoss before," after a moment of silence, the "Council" suddenly spoke. "The belief in the gods is something that we remember for a long time, many races, after jumping out of their own universe and discovering that there are countless worlds in the void, will abandon the religion and gods that have appeared in the process of their civilization, but they did not expect that there really is a race called 'gods'. Created and managed countless worldly realms. ”

"We checked the information and found that the Exile fleet came from the most remote parts of the Void. It was a place where the Starfield Protoss had never set foot in it. So it's normal for you to not know what to do, and they're fine. Sandora said casually, then looked into the distance of the city, suddenly surprised, "What's going on?" Buildings are leaving their bases? ”

I immediately looked in the direction of Sandora's finger and saw a spectacular scene in the distance: hundreds of Toberuta balls were trembling slightly, their bulging orbs at the top and the slender connecting towers below were disconnecting one by one, and then the massive orbs (the main body of the building) began to slowly rise into the air. The shell of the lower half of them has disappeared at some point, revealing a complex structure that glows green. As the spheres rose into the air, new, smaller towers slowly poked out of the exposed green cores. It's as if a living seed is gradually growing roots. From afar, there was a low, regular roar, like a huge ship of countless tons was setting sail. Then, the bulging orbs began to fly towards the east.

"There...... And there, everywhere! The sister's tone was full of surprise, pointing back and forth in every direction, and there were countless "tower ball buildings" on the outskirts of the city that were making the same change: they separated from the base, and then the giant ball at the top slowly floated in all directions. They were so huge, so numerous, that it was as if the whole city had been reduced to dandelions and were drifting away in the wind. I couldn't help but associate this scene with the shape of these buildings: like spores fluttering in the wind.

"Today is the day of diffusion, and the city has grown big enough to spread."

"Parliament" sounded behind us with a joyful voice, and I heard the word again: diffusion. Kim had mentioned the word in front of everyone before, but I didn't have time to ask him what it meant, but now, after seeing the spectacular scene of "diffusion" with their own eyes, they instantly understood what it meant.

"The Toberu Zerg increase their cities in this way," the Council retracted its gaze when no new towers rose in sight, explaining to us, "all of these buildings replicate themselves and grow, and they seem to be living despite the metal that makes them up." This is also the reason why we finally chose to use the Toberu Zerg technology to build the first colony star - in fact, the Osa people are more advanced than the Toberu Zerg in terms of surface building technology and ecological habitability technology, but the construction efficiency of the Osa technology is far less than that of these living towers, and what we need most now is building efficiency. Being able to transform so many of the colonies that are now available in just a few months (the Exiled Fleet now has more than one colony, of course, Kerudak, and in fact they have colonized extensively in several nearby star systems), Toberu's skill has made a big difference. ”

The Council also told us about her vision for the future: when the ecological problems are solved and citizens no longer have to huddle in old and aging spaceships, she will begin to gradually restore the civilization of every member of the Fourth Fleet, and according to the preserved information, she will rebuild the cities, restore the culture of the past, and tell the history of their ancestors to the newborns. What she wants to see is not just a resurgence to live under the sky, but also to see the cities she reappears on the horizon.

Even though the project could take hundreds of years.

"But I think you may encounter a lot of problems in your work, and there will even be resistance from the citizens of the Fourth Fleet." Stand on the city's second-highest viewing platform. Sandora looked at the bare connecting towers on the horizon and made her own assessment of the idea of the "council", "I'm afraid many people won't understand your thoughts, as far as I know, more than 90% of the citizens of the Fourth Fleet are now new generations, and even some are newly created mixed races in the exile of the Fourth Fleet, tens of thousands of years, how many of the people who set sail have survived so far?" Do you think these newborn citizens, who have almost nothing to do with what they did back then, still know what a home planet is? Not to mention the extermination of those races that have already gone extinct in exile. How do you restore them? ”

Sandora's words point out the most important point: the race of members of the Fourth Fleet has changed in tens of thousands of years of exile, from the beginning of the voyage to the present, many races have been hunted down to extinction, some members have merged with other races, some races have been born in the middle of exile, and the race that has emerged from the latter situation can even be called a spaceship civilization, and they have lived in closed and outdated metal cabins since the first generation. Stories about the planet and the blue sky mean nothing to them. Even now, this part of the spaceship race remains in their old cabins. Part of the reason is that the living conditions on Colony are not up to standard. Part of the reason is that they simply can't imagine leaving the ship. What it's like to live on a ball of stone drifting in space: they find it unrealistic.

With such a status quo among the members of the Fourth Fleet, the idea of the "parliament" is really a bit wishful thinking.

"I understand your feelings as one of the only crew members who have survived since the fleet's inception, but to be honest, it's better to let the survivors of the Fourth Fleet choose their own path and redevelop their own new civilization. As for history...... Just keep it in mind. Being too attached is always worthless. Sandora looked into the eyes of the Parliament, her voice a little muffled.

The "parliament" was a little stunned. For a while, she couldn't think of any Xiling Emperor who would show such a gloomy expression, but she thought of what happened in the Xiling Empire. His expression changed instantly.

"I ...... You know that, you're right, but I'm just a little bit of a little bit uneasy," the Council looked gloomy and whispered, "Almost all of the old friends I set sail with are gone, and I always feel like I should do something for them...... When hunted down by the Fallen Apostles, those races that unfortunately fell behind would always send back to their civilization database as soon as possible, and later, we even counted the civilization history of all races in the entire fleet and established a giant library, no matter who dies, we hope that this giant library will remain forever......"

"There are such things in the capital of the new empire, but the more important building is the Totem Square that commemorates the new history, and we feel that it is more meaningful to commemorate the warriors who died to open up a new history than to obsessively reconstruct the ruins of the past," said Sandora, "The Apostles of Hilin are a race that does not look back, and if you want to continue in the cruel void, you better learn not to look back." Of course, it is still important to remember history, and ...... If you don't mind, I'd like to bring together your 'giant library' with our various commemorative archives – and I'm talking about replicas, of course. ”

"Merge the Fourth Fleet's Giant Arsenal with the Empire's database?" The eyes of the "parliament" suddenly widened in shock.

"There is a famous saying in the Empire: Black history is also history," Sandora said, glancing at me, "Jun Chen, in May of the third year of the new empire, in the capital star. Therefore, we are willing to look directly at any history, even the most disgraceful moments. ”

Me: "......" Am I finally getting shot by this weird hobby of Sandora?

"Well, I'll discuss this with the other senior officials," the Council regained its composure and nodded, "It may take some time to decide." You know, this incident will not have much practical impact on the current Fourth Fleet, but it will have great symbolic significance. ”

Due to the need to check the network components on this side at all times, we left the bubble behind when we left the Exile World and promised to come and see her as soon as possible. However, the latter doesn't seem to have any opinions, and it is estimated that for her, as long as she can play games online at any time, the world is good enough. The "Council" promised to take good care of the "important minister" of the Empire, and I could only reluctantly promise that the "important minister" would not be looking for trouble anytime soon, and suggested that the "council" feed bubbles three times a day in the morning, noon and evening - otherwise the dead otaku girl would definitely not take care of herself.

And we didn't sit idle when we returned to Shadow City, and immediately found a large group of experts and began to study the small piece of information we copied from the "Council" - that is, the Fourth Fleet received a call for help from the Fifth Fleet at that time.

Although the scientists at Toberu have not been able to analyze much of the value from these distorted signals, I think that with the skills of the scientists at Hilling, they should be able to fix it more clearly, at least ......

We learn who is chasing the Fifth Fleet.

The word "Empire" appears in this distress message, which is only a few tens of seconds long, and in those exile fleets, the word "Empire" refers only to the Helling Empire. But judging by the context of the whole information, it gives the impression that the Fifth Fleet was not attacked by the emperor, and this is the biggest mystery.

And another mystery is - in the deepest part of the void that even the Empire can't reach, how did the Fifth Fleet get such a faint piece of information? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )