Take Taobao with you to another world

Astaros waited on the sea.

The sea breeze blew his long hair. He seemed to have been waiting here for many years, and now he finally got what he wanted.

He saw the human walking towards him on the gray deck as wide as a plain.

The world appears differently to the eyes of different creatures, and to Astaros, from the moment the man stepped aboard the Vanguard, all he could see was him.This is not a description, but a description.

The figure of that person is thin, insignificant like a speck of dust between the sky and the sea, and the wings of light stretch from his back to the whole world, from the sky to the sea.

This is the embodiment of the relationship between "artists" and the world here.Because of the inherent mechanical characteristics of human beings in this world, every person who has a concept of the "magician" and the things created by it, and whose fate and thought are all affected by it, will have an invisible connection with him. connected.The reason why this spiritual connection can be established is because the world has already prepared a hotbed for miracles.

Neither of the two black dragon lords allowed the seeds of miracles to germinate in this hotbed, and neither did Astaros.Until this person comes as a disturbing factor.

Today, he should have understood how special and important he is, and he has developed the potential of this special body to the limit. Manipulative, he doesn't look much different from when Astaros met him in the air. He is neither arrogant nor indifferent, calm and deep.

The majestic main control tower melted behind Astaros, and the shiny metal turned into a gray torrent rushing in all directions. The gray fluid overflowed under his feet, and he came like stepping on water.

Astaros said: "I have been friends with you for a long time, and today I finally meet."

"Good day, Your Majesty," said the sorcerer.

"Before we start, I think we still have some time to chat," Astaros said. "Please take a seat."

A set of tables and chairs rose up on the surface of the frosted deck. It was not a dignified long conference table, but a small and light balcony round table. A set of tea sets appeared on the table, and a tall young man appeared beside the table. He was dressed in military uniform. The hand holding the handle of the pot changed from translucent to solid, and quietly poured tea for the seated king and magician.

The clear liquid is poured into a snow-white porcelain cup, exuding a real sweet smell.

Putting down the teapot, Agares' image melted into the air.

"What topic should I start with?" Astaros said, "Perhaps you are interested in the origin story of this world?"

"If you are willing to answer some questions for me, of course it is a great honor." The magician said.

Astaros' posture in the chair was very relaxed, and he was very relaxed almost all the time.

"The record of history begins with a civilizational expedition. That was a very simple beginning," he said.

In a certain corner of the infinite universe, there is a civilization that has fortunately developed to a higher stage. According to their standards, they have completely ruled the star field they are in, and they have mastered the mysteries from planets to stars. The ability to reach out to the wider world.So they continued to release detectors outward, from unmanned spaceships to an entire colonial fleet, the scale became larger and larger, and more and more people walked out of the original world, and they went farther and farther.

People who are always full of imagination about the deep starry sky drive a huge spaceship like a city, leave their homes, and cross the sea of ​​stars, like spores scattered.Some of them landed halfway and developed a new civilization in a suitable star field, some were destroyed in an unknown place, leaving behind a never-ending radio wave, and some were always on the road.The one who came to this universe was an unremarkable one of these pioneers.

This fleet has been sailing in the empty and cold universe for an unknown number of years. Apart from still engraving the coordinates of the original world in the deepest part, this fleet has almost become an independent civilization. Whichever habitable place remains, they leave behind those star fields that may breed or are giving birth to new civilizations, pursuing the eternal unknown—until this fleet civilization is attracted by a cosmic spectacle.

It was the remains of a great ancient dragon in the dead star field.

It reflects the light of gold in the dark background of the universe. It is so huge that it even exceeds a star system, and it is so brilliant and magical that all kinds of incredible phenomena happen to it.For this fleet civilization with researchers as the main body, nothing can compare to the surprises and fantasies it brings to them. This is the miracle they have been pursuing all their lives.They're going to get it anyway.

So the journey came to an end, and this fleet civilization was like a group of asteroids, being pulled towards this golden star that was so huge that it surpassed common sense, by the gravitational pull of curiosity and desire.

Their initial explorations were very cautious, but the actual situation was much smoother than they imagined, and for a very long, long period of time, they encountered no obstacles that would pose a danger to them.

They have studied for so long and in-depth, and naturally achieved great results.

They are not satisfied, man's thirst for knowledge is as limitless as this universe.The more they get, the more they desire. This is an inexhaustible treasure. Even though they have studied it for so many years, they still can't really understand it, and the deeper they study, The more they rely on it, the deeper their feelings for it, and they don't even call it "it" anymore, but "he" - because they found in their research that even if the time of death is enough for a planet's civilization After repeated annihilation and resurrection, the remains of this ancient dragon still seem to have some kind of spiritual will.

This kind of "spirituality" brought them the possibility of completely resurrecting the species of the ancient dragon.

Once they realized that there was such a possibility, they couldn't bear not to do it. Even if the dead great dragon was already an infinite treasure, they still wanted a living one.They already knew a lot about him, and duplicating a living body was not a complicated technology, but the life itself they wanted to resurrect was the only thing that was complicated.

They did it with great effort, and "Dragon" was born.

The magic box was opened.

The disaster started from the moment the ancient dragon was revived. It was not that this scientific research civilization wanted to revive the ancient dragon to offend this powerful ancient creature. On the contrary, the reason why this corpse was able to wait in such a posture in the void Such a long time is precisely to wait for the arrival of prey like this fleet civilization.The spirituality that is active inside the remains of the ancient dragon is not the consciousness generated by strong energy in a closed environment, but the last and most tenacious will left by the ancient dragon at the time of death

"Life just wants to exist," Astaros said. "They were captured by this will without knowing it, and they did their best to realize his wish."

This fleet civilization got the knowledge and power they longed for, and since they started to create the reanimated dragon, their research on the ancient dragon was like a godsend. Not only has there been significant development in theory, but in practice, they have created A new space engine based on deep dragon bones has been developed.And as they dug deeper into the body, this once living planet also opened up rich life memories to them.

"That doesn't seem too bad a result, does it?" Astaros said.

"It seems so," said the sorcerer.

Even with the technology to cross the star sea, the individual beings in the fleet civilization are still far from powerful. They can only obtain what they want from the ancient dragon by the means unique to weak beings, and they will not be as direct as the star life in the early universe. Gain strength and ability by devouring——if so, any starry space behemoth that is lower than the ancient dragon will become the new mother of the young ancient dragon.Fleet civilization gave birth to new dragons in another way, but no matter for this civilization or the resurrected dragon itself, this is a tragedy.

"When and in what form did the disaster begin?" asked the sorcerer.

Astaros showed an expression of recalling the distant past, and he said slowly: "The great dragon... for tens of millions of years before he died, he has been wandering and lonely, and has never met his own kind. Will go to perish in solitude, in order to wait for the miracle after death, he devoured several star systems, compressed them in his body and burned them."

"A Dyson sphere in biological form," the sorcerer whispered.

Under their gaze, the tabletop floats a set of models that reproduce the results of the simulation in motion.

"Those galaxies, or those stars, are of a great mass," the man added.

"Yes. These stars provided the energy to sustain his body and the spirituality left behind until the end of their life as stars." Astaros said, "Before this fleet civilization came, they had already begun to collapse. "

He reached out and fiddled with the model on the table, "However, the innate power of the great ancient dragon isolated the internal crisis. Until the 'spirituality' in the corpse flowed into the resurrected larvae, the new innate power replaced the old—the balance was broken."

The researchers just felt infinite joy at the birth of the dragon, and the world was about to be destroyed.The barrier of space disappeared, and the infinite dense core located in the huge cavity inside the remains began to use gravity to tear the remains of the Taikoron stronger than the fleet's shell, and at the same time pull the spaceship of the fleet civilization towards its golden land.This is a sudden and irresistible crisis, and the fleet civilization has made the decision to flee

Astaros describes the process very briefly.

The breeze blows the curling water vapor, and the white smoke deforms, twists, and elongates along with the space model on the table. The material in the three-dimensional space cannot represent the long and arduous escape, but it is enough for people to understand that time. general condition.

Theories and models are not important here. To explain in the simplest language, even with great efforts, the fleet civilization and the escape of the ancient dragon larva still failed in the end.

"If the fleet civilization is not so deeply connected with the resurrected great dragon, as long as they have enough time, even if there is only one researcher left, they are still very likely to complete their own rescue." Astaros said, "It is a pity that , there is no if in reality.”

The revived ancient dragon is so young, it has no time to produce higher wisdom, only the instinct of survival, and it is born with the ability to obtain all power and knowledge through devouring.The ancient dragon star gave it strength, allowing it to grow extremely large in a very short period of time. The fleet civilization can open the escape channel, but it cannot leave with it in this form.

"This led to a great tragedy." Astaros said lightly.

Fleet civilization has stayed in this world for too long, obtained too many things, and has been unknowingly marked as a member of the ancient dragon.The ancient dragon was resurrected because of them, and because of them died, the entire fleet civilization was buried for them.

Astaros looked at the magician and said, "It is the consciousness of civilization that dies, not civilization itself."

But civilization without humans cannot be called civilization, but just a relic like the ancient dragon star.They were divided into two parts in the distorted space channel. Before the last independent individual of the fleet civilization died, they made a plan to build a new world based on the divided fleet, and created the future in the laboratory. A new human being polluted by the spirituality of the ancient dragon.After all humans died, the omnics ensured that these plans were carried out.

Endless stardust rolls in through the channel cracks, condensing into a large amount of matter needed by nature. The space engine props up an invisible barrier in the space turbulence, covering two worlds with the same origin but different evolution directions. Huge monsters appeared on the land covered with magma and acid rain. They were environmental engineering machines made with the ancient dragon as a template, and they began to cultivate the new world into a new world suitable for human survival.

This grand project lasted less than 3000 years, and then the environmental engineering machine retired, and the body merged into the world, leaving only vague legends and the "Dragon Heart" that still contains great power.The sky eye system used by the magician is the product of one of the dragon hearts being reused by Astaros.

But Astaros is not a driven omnic. As one of the terminals of the fleet civilization cluster consciousness, he is the last human being by definition, but in order to perform the final mission, he dismantled himself to only a few The basic function module, until the environmental engineering machine completed the construction of Middle Continent World and Keel World, he sealed himself in the temporary manager later called the Palace of Immortality, until the number of new humans increased to a sufficient number, he again Get life again.

The group consciousness of the new human who has similar but different genes to the researchers of the fleet civilization has recreated his form, personality and behavior pattern, and the only thing that remains unchanged is his purpose of survival-to continue civilization.

"Anyhow," said Astaros.

The human beings who came out of the laboratory were born as orphans. Their parents used their last strength to create two worlds for them to live in, but they did not leave them a guidepost to guide them.These new lives have to start groping by learning how to survive.

Although this is a closed world that is always in crisis, the natural world suitable for human survival has been fully formed, and with sufficient energy supply, life is flourishing.Whether it is the human race in the shell world or the dragon bone world, they have developed their own forms of civilization from scratch in a very short period of time.

Even without leaving any definitive language behind, the legacy of the fleet civilization to the new humans is pervasive.Regardless of the human race in the Middle Continent world or the Keel World, as long as their social form and scientific level have developed to a certain level, they can discover from the two cradle worlds, and by delving into these secrets, they can obtain the huge wealth left by the fleet civilization.

The sorcerer asks, "How can we be sure that they will definitely take this path?"

Astaros said: "The gifted."

gifted.They appear randomly in the world of Central Continent and are inherited in the form of families in the world of dragon bones. They are special human beings who can use "power". They should be the pioneers of new human civilization. As a model for research, it guides human beings to develop in a bright direction that can break free from this shackles of the world.

"This idea seems too idealistic." The artist said.

"If we had more time, we wouldn't have pinned our hopes on the child. It's a pity, however," Astaros said.

"Children don't necessarily grow up according to their parents' expectations," said the artist.

"But there is still such a probability that children will grow up stronger, smarter and more independent than their parents." Astaros said, "They will inherit our heritage and develop into a superior civilization."

He said to the magician: "For a long time after you came to this world, you should have been puzzled by a question, that is, why people's hearts in this world are so easy to manipulate. Once they gain their trust, people can behave The sincerity and solidarity are completely different from before, like a machine receiving instructions. But after hearing about these past events, you should no longer have such confusion."

"Yes, it did confuse me," said the magician.

Astaros looked at the table again, on which several human body models emerged. Bright lines as thin as hair developed on their limbs, indicating the similarities of these human races.

In order to adapt to the long and lonely interstellar voyage, for a longer lifespan, higher intelligence, and a stronger ability to explore the unknown, the fleet civilization has carried out several modifications to adapt to the environment during the long journey, although the appearance still remains. The human image of the original civilization, but the internal physiological structure and social form have changed.

They are not only flesh and blood, but also able to intervene, store and process massive amounts of data like omnics.This is the true gift of justice for all.

As long as people can establish a new thinking network and construct a new collective consciousness, they will be able to obtain all kinds of information left in the two worlds before the fleet civilization died out without any hindrance.The vast knowledge they gain through this information will not allow them to become Dragonborn again, they can continue to follow the path of their parents, and they can also develop their own civilization.Regardless of the human beings in the world of Central Continent or the world of dragon bones, they have the same talent to build a huge and perfect thinking network with other intelligent life born in these two worlds. They are born with this ability, as long as they are willing to sincerely Love their compatriots, love the world they live in, and have an eternal longing for the starry sky. They will definitely be able to regain the memory of civilization within the limited duration of the two worlds, and continue the plan that was set before the world was formed. Merge the two worlds into one, and break away from this hopeless cradle world one by one.

"However, good wishes are not equal to reality." The magician said.

As they talk about the past here, wars are happening almost everywhere in the world.

Astaros smiled, but his next sentence changed the subject: "Right now, the Dragons of the Keel World are merging with the space engine.

In the keel world on the other side of the boundary membrane, the dragons fused with the space engine have changed their form, looking less and less like creatures, but also not like any man-made things.The magic circle under the Palace of Immortality has expanded to the entire world—or it is not expansion, but the energy pathway engraved on the dragon after its death has finally been awakened, and the power of the ancient alien species has been induced in an orderly manner. The ocean boiled, and the mountains, valleys, and plains turned into fiery magma one by one, flowing like bright liquid on smooth metal, and the indestructible body of the resurrected dragon emerged from under the earth.

The Skynet covering the world is also shining.

As the last high-level human race remaining in this world, the Duke's image became more and more transparent in the glow of the sky and the ground. He also looked up at the sky, at the black sun behind Skynet, and looked Its blazing, swirling prominences.

He was looking at Outland on the prominence.The traces of energy jets passing through the universe reflected in his eyes.

"Even if the two worlds can't be merged in the end, we can still leave." Astaros said, "It's just a different way."

"In what way?" the sorcerer asked.

"The coordinates of the original world and the voyage of the fleet civilization are recorded inside the space engine, and dragons are creatures born from the space engine." Astaros said, "When they combine with the source, they cut the reanimated dragon's star remains as the fleet's shell And fuel, restore the space jumping function of the engine, they can escape from the shackles before the black hole evaporates. Whether they choose to travel back to the original world or go deeper into the starry sky, they have all been free."

"As for the other—the world we live in today," Astaros said, "when the black hole evaporated and the dragon fleet fled, this semi-enclosed space that had been maintained for more than ten thousand years lost one-third of its balance. With a mass of two, the world we live in will be extremely compressed in a very short time and be sucked into the event horizon of the black hole. But before turning into featureless elementary particles, people have one more chance."

As the black hole evaporates, it releases information about the matter and energy it once captured.

Black holes create jets during evaporation.

When the Space Dragon Star was destroyed, and the Destroyer Star enclosed within it revealed its ferociousness to the outer universe, the fleet civilization had already made a decision. If the escape plan failed, it would use the Dragon Star wreckage and part of the fleet as a medium to increase its internal temperature, and decided to The orientation of the resulting jet makes it point to the original world.

Maybe everything will eventually be destroyed.But they can still go home.

"Obviously, that's not what you're after," said the magician.

Astaros laughed.

"I just want to keep civilization alive." He said, "If we are lucky enough to return to the original world without losing a lot of information, if the original world still exists, and they receive this stream of information, maybe They can restore the past records from the information, and respond to my program request, so as to recreate the two life forms of researchers and new humans, plus the dragon fleet that has gone away, my mission has been completed."

"But if there are still some possibilities, we may not have to be so pessimistic and pin our hopes on various tiny probabilities. We can work harder and try to find a way to prevent history from stopping again and civilization from dying... After all Life is a miracle of the universe, and it should not be easily given up."

He looked at the dark-haired young man across from him.

"I used to think it would be difficult until you came." He said, "We are always short of time. Time to escape, time to save ourselves, time to evolve the revived great dragon... Now we There is a lack of time to wait for civilization to truly mature. But because of you, and the third generation of ancient dragon descendants who have been domesticated by you, the plan that once cost a lot of money and has little chance of success has a minimum foundation."

"And you can do more than that," he asked.

"Yes," said the sorcerer, "I know that. That's why I'm here."

Astaros looked at him for a while, and then said: "When we sent out the jump coordinates, we didn't expect to get a response. Of course, what surprised us even more is that you are the response that the original world gave us. .”

In the distant city, the sleeping youth frowned.

The war between the Human Self-Defense League and the alien race accelerated his transformation to another stage. He should have experienced this process soberly on the front line, but the bloody kiss dragged him into another unreal world .

His body is surrounded by objects full of that person's breath, and his spirit has stepped into a new field in another form.In this huge network composed of human minds, the world actually has no boundaries, no up and down, no left and right. Memories are fragments of thousands of colors that are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. They converge into an amorphous torrent and a psychedelic ocean.He walks on water.

There are invisible threads all over the void, each of which conveys to him the instant changes in the real world. He knows that wars are happening in the real world, and every moment of struggle and death is expanding the scope of this world. He also knows why he entered this world. The world, here is his evolutionary path.

His mental picture is unfolding in this world, he is breaking free from all the constraints imposed on him by the human form, his vision has become infinitely high, and his golden wings that are like fire have faded even the sea of ​​​​memory. Other directions, but in this world based on human will, he possesses almost infinite resources and nearly infinite power, the secrets of the world are readily available, and the minds of hundreds of millions of human beings are opened to him like books... …he is making himself higher and farther until it fills the world, and in this diffusion he will become everyone who lives and dies, and then…

A new self is regenerated from these countless lives.

Between the sky and the sea, Yun Shen said to Astaros: "We can start now."

Then both of them stood up from their seats.The round table, tea set and seats dissipated like blue smoke, and the iron-gray liquid metal rose up in the distance of the deck, forming a structure like a building. The gray clouds above their heads were pushed away by the wind, and the cloud waves rolled away in all directions, revealing In the clear blue sky, distant stars twinkled on the sky, and under the huge starship, the sea sparkled like dark blue silk.The melted main control tower formed an extremely magnificent, solemn and gorgeous building on the vast plain-like deck. The color changed from iron gray to a dark blue that was almost gray, like a deep starry sky, and then the starry sky changed from the starry sky Emerge, swim, and intertwine to form bright silver threads, and then these thousands of silver threads spread from the building to the deck, weaving extremely complex and beautiful patterns, and the surging energy from the space engine flows through these loops. Flowing and interacting, and then at two opposite positions, the silver threads converged into a silver star, and the silver star was brilliant, forming two beams of light, and two human figures appeared in the light.

The light thread receded, revealing the pale and solid body underneath. The once damaged bone body was covered with warm flesh and blood. Fatales, the King of Middle-earth, slowly opened his eyes. When he realized that he had returned to the In the world, that always stern face also showed a look of surprise.

But the moment he was resurrected, he knew the meaning of waking up, and accepting the influx of information only caused a momentary shock to his newly formed nerves, as if he finally got the result he had been waiting for, when he decided Accepted, they became natural memories in his mind that seemed to be familiar to him at this moment.

This is the so-called thinking network, and this is the foundation upon which the collective consciousness of civilization can be established.

He looked at the short-haired young man standing side by side with Astaros in the distance.

This network that should have been established long ago did not finally take shape until this person came.

Fatales looked at him. This life spanning infinite time and space to save this world did not have the appearance of a stalwart hero, but only a pair of unwavering eyes that knew what kind of fate he was about to meet.

Fatales looked to the other side again. Standing opposite him was Agares, a demon nobleman who had a brief encounter with him. Powerful, and his persistent and intense feelings that have never changed for a moment, so that even if he replaced Duke Delderan to power Astaros for nearly 200 years, he still has a complete form and can play with him at this moment effect.

He was also looking at that person.

Astaros said: "Although according to the theory of fleet civilization, I should also be defined as a human being, but to be honest, I don't seem to have any human feelings. I think this is not only determined by the nature of my ethnic group, but also because This is more suitable for me to complete my task. You are obviously the opposite of me. While you maintain a strong rationality, you also have extremely rich and soft sensibility, even if this world has nothing to do with you, even if you came here After that, I was trapped in one place, never seeing the wider world that changed according to you, except for a very few people, although your followers respect you like a god, they don't really want to know the real you , but only satisfied with using one's own imagination and praise to create an omnipotent and omnipotent statue..."

"It's all a little unfair to you, but I can still feel that you love this world deeply," said Astaros. Its mission, but to return all love to your dragon as you love him?"

Yun Shen watched the waterfall of light fall from the top of the temple, converging into a lake of light in front of him.

"Perhaps so," he said.

"I can only say that I am very sorry for making you say goodbye so hastily." Astaros said, "Do you feel sorry for such a glorious but short life, for such a pure passion, and for being abandoned by you? For the long-term future that is about to unfold, but you can no longer participate in it, you will give everything for you, but you will not get what you deserve, have you ever regretted it?"

"I'm just a person, of course I regret it." Yun Shen said.

"But I feel that there is no sorrow in your heart," said Astaros.

"Because this cannot be regarded as death." Yun Shen said, "and..."

The overflowing light made his face white. He looked at his way forward and said softly, "Even though I have some regrets, I don't feel lonely."

He walked forward, accompanied by silver stars flying around.

He stepped into that light.

Although almost everyone said that this body has great power, and Yun Shen has been using its power, but maybe because of the shackles of his own consciousness, Yun Shen has never actually had the actual feeling that he has mastered anything.

Now he felt his body become lighter.

His limbs are stretching, his perception is extending, facing all directions, facing the endless sea, facing the whole world, he becomes the wind.

After becoming the wind, he wanted to hug someone.

The world is so vast, it's not easy to find that person.

he found him...

A soul as bright as a star rose from the infinite sea and embraced him tightly, almost merging into one.

"I'm right here," he said softly, "with you forever."