We live on a peaceful island called ignorance, surrounded by endless black waters, and we should not set sail.

——H.P. Lovecraft

The Riel nation is undoubtedly an excellent race, but they are also an overly proud race. They don't know that weakness is not an obstacle to survival, arrogance is.

The space fleet set sail carrying the hope of the entire civilization. However, the overly excited Riels selectively ignored one thing - the astronomical observers who observed that horrific battle lost their minds in just a few years.

And Madness even cut his own throat with a knife in the end.

And before he died, the last astronomical observer wrote a line of penetrating words on the table with his fingernails soaked in the blood flowing from his throat -

It is not the dead who sleep eternally. In the strangeness of eternity, even death itself will be annihilated.

…

Through the remaining memories in this body and some information in the spacecraft, Xiao Yao and Xiao Hui quickly restored the cause and effect of the whole incident... Well, Xiao Hui was mainly responsible for shouting 666.

"Well... I always feel that this is simply a journey to seek death." Xiao Hui summed it up simply, "Collecting the remains of the gods of the past? You probably don't even know how you died."

"Yeah, but what I'm more interested in is - have you noticed that every civilization we have experienced before has an understanding of the old gods, some exist in the form of popular stories, and some

It is simply the theoretical system that is being demonstrated. But this time is an exception. This time, the Riel civilization knew almost nothing about the old gods before observing all that."

"It makes sense, go on." Xiao Hui continued to play the role of compliment.

"Then the question comes - whether everything about the gods of the old days, whether it is speculation or fact, originated from this so-called initial civilization? Everything passed down in later generations was also intentionally or unintentionally created by the Messiah at different times.

It spread with different identities among civilizations." Xiao Yao scratched his hair and sorted out his thoughts bit by bit.

"But this civilization still knows nothing about the old gods. We haven't even heard of the Messiah system?" Xiao

Hui said doubtfully, "It makes people feel...as if nothing has started yet."

"Just wait, I have a hunch that we will stay in this civilization for a long time." Xiao Yao smiled, "At least this also proves one thing from the side - the Messiah system was indeed born in this civilization.

"

This exploration gave birth to a deformed starship power assembly. The Riels forcibly built a sublight engine for the starship in a way that did not consider the loss of resources, compressing the journey that originally took nearly a thousand years to less than a hundred.

Years. The people on the starship slept in the sleep chamber for a long time, and were awakened by the computer at the same time when they were about to reach the target location.

The space starship is still moving forward steadily. The scientific researchers, biologists and adventurers on the ship are all discussing what is coming. They are looking forward to witnessing the corpse of the old god.

The moment the door to the ultimate truth of the universe opens before their eyes.

In other words, they were about to come into contact with the corpse of the old god.

"It is not the dead who sleep eternally. In the strangeness of eternity, even death itself will be annihilated..." Not interested in joining the discussion among the Riels, Xiao Yao leaned on the transparent window and murmured at the twinkling stars.

"What?" A Riel who was passing by heard his words and turned his head strangely.

"Nothing." Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head - of course he wanted to say that such a powerful life form could not die so easily, and even death itself might be just a special way for it to exist in the world.

An insignificant link in the closed loop of His life.

But this is all meaningless. He can't change what happened hundreds of millions of years ago. He knows very well that he is just reliving the history of that year and he can't change anything.

That Riel walked away in confusion, Xiao Yao didn't care. He changed to a more comfortable position and still leaned against the window, feeling silently...

The pulse that sinks and floats in the depths of the blood, that deep call that is as deep as ancient times.

In the endless galaxy ahead, there seems to be something that is in line with his power, calling from afar; there seems to be some ancient and terrifying existence, quietly entrenched, with countless chain-like invisible tentacles moving endlessly from his side.

of

The universe spreads.

Xiao Yao took a deep breath. He felt that he already knew the honorable name of the old god who was defeated or even died——

Nameless fog.

"Oh, it's getting more and more interesting." Xiao Yao looked at the universe outside the window and whispered to himself.

…

In the empty hall, the Riels on this trip happily held their first meeting since waking up.

"Everyone, after a long journey, we are about to reach the end of our journey tomorrow - of course, it is difficult to say whether the counting method of 'days' is appropriate in the universe." Riel captain Salatir led the team.

He said half-jokingly with an excited look on his face.

Captain Salatir seems to be a Riel who likes extreme sports and traveling. She has visited almost all the wonders of the planet Koro. Whether it is the abyss of the seabed or the peaks that almost touch the atmosphere, she has followed her footsteps.

"I hope to die in a place I have never reached in the future".

...Although from a human perspective, such lofty ideals are a bit strange.

As for why a traveler serves as the captain, it involves the game of the forces of all parties. In short, the final selection of an outsider who does not belong to any force as the captain is the result of the balance of forces among all parties.

The Riel race is a bit like humans in this regard. No matter how important the moment is for the entire race, they always spend more than half of their energy on the intrigues and internal conflicts between the same kind.

Salatiel knew very well that her so-called "captain" was just a good-looking mascot, but this did not affect her interest in exploring the unknown. She paused and then said: "Everyone, you are responsible for your own affairs.

Is everything taken care of?"

"The scientific research team is ready."

"The mining team is ready."

"The spacewalker is ready."

"The armed forces are ready."

"Cooking class...well, it seems we have nothing to prepare, but dinner is already being prepared."

"..."
Chapter completed!