As the sun sets and twilight approaches, a group of kids have had enough of their weird games and finally settle down. Most of them gather in a pile next to their elder sister and listen to the same weird fairy tales, while a few of them
They were studying their own affairs. There were five or six figure-sized mini Medivons hanging on Little Medivh's body, running around like a carrier ship, bending down from time to time to pull out a few weeds from the ground and feeding them to those lying on the ground.
The little guys on her shoulders, those figurine-sized mini-Medivians are like fledglings. Apart from their appearance, their living habits are exactly the same as those of birds. When faced with the weeds that little Medivh handed them, these little guys actually
They would chirp excitedly and gnaw on grass stems with great joy - their diet seemed to have expanded a bit again, from vegetable leaves to most green plants. Based on my observations over the past two days, I have determined that Little Devin is
They even feed their "children" leaves and grass seeds, and those figurine crow gods are willing to accept all of the above foods: except meat, which is still strongly resisted.
This made the little crow, who was still obsessed with the field mouse, very frustrated.
Lilina is also not interested in fairy tales - she is a professional fairy tale writer, and basically all the fairy tale books at home are sourced from her, so this guy is not one of the younger ones. This little dwarf seems to have met
To trouble me, she set up a small chair next to me and sat there like a melancholy girl, with her elbows on the small round table in front of her and her chin in her hands. The most eye-catching thing was that she had a green tree on her head.
I have been observing this strange scene with amazement for several minutes, confirming that the grass is growing on top of her head, and it seems to be part of her body. Various expressions appear on this girl's face.
And twisting and turning - this is the first time in my life that I have seen green fur, and I can see that the fur can also perform photosynthesis.
I stretched out my hand and pulled the grass on Lilina's head and found that it was quite strong: "What kind of plane are you doing?"
"The little...experiment failed." Lilina continued to hold her chin with her hands like a melancholy girl. Due to her height, her feet could only be dangling in the air. She seemed to be in a very irritable mood. "It's grown, and it's probably blooming."
I couldn't get it off before...ah, it hurts!"
I gave up the urge to pull out the grass, thinking that there would never be a shortage of such weird things around me...
"It's probably because of the 'exp+5' effect." Lilina thought about it for a long time and finally came to a conclusion.
At this time, a cry suddenly came from the side: "Master!"
As soon as I heard this unique idiom, I knew it must be a little crow. When I turned around, I saw that she was standing next to me. There were two little crows sitting on each side of this girl's shoulders, and there were two little crows on her head.
One of them, a total of five little crows, each holding a piece of wild grass in its mouth. They chewed the grass stems in uniform movements, and their five pairs of small black eyes looked at their master's master curiously at the same time.
It's so funny and fun - like a hamster.
The little crow was holding a shiny little ball of light in her hand. It seemed that she just wanted me to see this, and this thing really aroused my interest. It looked like a magical product: "What is this thing?"
"A letter from Vanilla!" the little crow said happily, raising the small ball of light in front of me. This action almost dropped the crow gods on her shoulders. "It was sent from the temple, Lily.
The method Sister Na said can be used!"
I was stunned, and turned to look at Lilina on the other side who was busy feeling depressed. The latter, while stroking the stupid hair on her head that could be used for photosynthesis, explained nonchalantly: "The prayer system, it looks like a bird's
Power has formed a stable system on the mother continent and has been written into the world's underlying data. Believers can transmit important information to the gods through prayer. This is the basis of a mature belief system, just like a backbone network. It is estimated to use
It won't take long for the Crow God Sect to end the current situation where blessings are like random draws. Well, anyway, boss, you just need to know that the little bird has grown up again."
I glanced at the little crow in surprise, who was rubbing the little ball of light in his hand and muttering: "Master, this looks like an egg!"
"Pfft -" Lilina almost slipped off the chair. She turned around and stared at the red light flashing collar around the little crow's neck. She couldn't help but pat her chest. "Fortunately, we found this bird's hatching eggs in time."
I was impulsive, otherwise something big would happen!"
I don’t know when Bingtis came over. She heard our conversation here and looked at the little crow thoughtfully: "Well, I can already accept prayers, and it seems that I have enough strength to answer any prayers, but my mind
She is still too immature. It may not be a good thing for her to establish a dialogue with believers now. This bird needs education."
"Just leave it to me," the grass blades on Lilina's head stood straight up. "Now the bird can only hear the prayer. As for how to respond, it uses the simplest feedback mechanism to respond fully automatically without involving her.
, let this pope train her into a qualified god - give me a hundred or two hundred years, and I will definitely make it happen."
"Then I will be responsible for researching an operating system for her," Bingtis also became interested, lowering his head and rubbing the little crow's face, "I am a technical geek, and I will definitely build you an operating system that even this bird can use."
A management terminal that can be learned!"
I quickly waved my hand to interrupt Sister Bing's delusion: "Save it, you forgot that you are from the Star Realm God System? Your operating system is not compatible with the Xiling God System at all, okay?"
Bingtis was stunned and scratched his chin: "Oh, you didn't tell me that I would have forgotten! I am from the Star Realm God System."
Me: "..." We have to hurry up and get online, so what you said is enough to stop me and ask questions later, okay?
However, Bingtis's words also reminded him that there were more things to consider: the infrastructure of the Xiling God System. Little Crow seemed to be growing at a steroid-stimulated speed.
In less than a year, there has been a religion and a godhead, but we still have not understood her full set of power maps. Although there is a long-term and several temporary research teams tracking and observing the growth of Little Crow,
The pressure this bird brought to them was probably no less than the deep dive plan. I thought that maybe I needed to take time to go to the mother continent again to see the situation of the Crow God Sect and say hello to Sakina and the others. However,
Before all this, I still had to solve another major problem.
With a thought in my heart, I made a call through my spiritual connection.
"Arjun, you called me?" Sandora appeared next to him with a burst of space distortion, and asked curiously. I handed over a small note (why do King Huron and Father God both have the same problem?
Are you used to sending messages with small slips of paper?) handed it over: "Let's take a look, it just came from the other side of the void more than an hour ago."
"Across the void... the signature of King Huron?" Sandora took the note and swept it over, and immediately exclaimed, "Wait a minute, those people mentioned here are..."
"The Merova people," I stood up and took a long breath, "referring to the whereabouts of the Merova people."
"So you asked King Huron to help find traces of the Merova people?" Shandora looked at me in surprise, "Why don't I know when it happened? It's not that I can't deal with the Merova people for the time being.
Will anyone send troops?"
"As for what happened the day before yesterday," I spread my hands, "didn't I tell you once? The last time I went to pick up the Fifth Fleet, I entered that weird 'escape' state, and then I met someone who was walking
Sheila. Later I thought it was quite interesting, so I tried a few more times. I met Sheila again the day before yesterday, and then I asked her to look for traces of the Merova people."
"Wait, so... the fifth fleet actually arrived in the territory of the Huron Protoss at that time?" Sandora immediately thought of this and looked surprised, "No wonder... it turned out to be such a far away place. Ah, then we left at that time
We were in quite a hurry. I didn’t expect that we would circle around the territory of the Huron Clan. Now that I think about it, I suddenly feel a bit regretful..."
"No, we haven't arrived yet," I waved my hand, "It's still quite far away, but after I came back, I communicated with Father God, and by the way, I compared the map of the void in the hands of the Protoss, and found that the distance to the refuge of the Fifth Fleet at that time was
The Huron border is within one quadrant unit - although I don’t know why the Fifth Fleet has not been discovered on the Huron side, I think that place should also be within Sister Sheila’s sphere of influence, so please ask her to stay in the world where the Fifth Fleet stayed at that time
Searching around for clues about the Merova people. After all... although we can't send troops, it's not a problem to leave those Merova people alone. I feel quite uneasy. If they happen to be within the sphere of influence of the Huron Protoss -
- Even if they are just next to each other, that is good news. At least we can know the whereabouts of the rebels."
Shandora nodded clearly: "What I said, it turns out to be the communication network of the void creatures themselves... You three are really interesting. So in the end, no trace of the Merova people was found on King Huron's side?"
"Sister Sheila is quite practical. She searched the entire territory of Huron, and then expanded the scanning range to the limit." I frowned slightly, "That is to say, all the areas where the Fifth Fleet was active at that time were scanned.
No traces of the Merovans were found at all - this is completely different from what we initially guessed."
Sandora already understood what I meant, and her expression became serious: "In other words, the Merova people did not establish a force near the refuge of the Fifth Fleet at that time. Their home base was not there... Those rebels
The army followed us all the way."
"Basically," I looked up at the night sky, as if I could see the Merova's nest from there. "The possibility of the Merova settling near the Fifth Fleet shelter has been completely ruled out. Then the rest
There are only two situations: first, they are in another completely unknown corner of the void, and we may never find that group of rebels in the future; second, in fact, their hiding place is not far away at all, just in the old city.
Near the remnants of the empire..."
Shandora followed my train of thought and said: "In the blank area between the three powers of the New Empire, the Fallen Apostles and the Star Realm, a place that no one has set foot in... This possibility is better than the first one.
The possibility is several times higher!”
"So I am debating whether to send a reconnaissance ship out to scan the entire territory," I said while scratching my hair. "In addition, I need to contact Father God and ask him to help scan the border areas of the Gods. There are many areas where the other two races meet.
The blank areas also need to be investigated. The worst case scenario is what if the Merova people are hiding near the territory of the fallen apostles. I don’t think the fallen apostles will respond to our call to search for the whereabouts of the rebels. They are busy
I definitely can’t take care of the great cause.”
Shandora frowned and thought for a moment, then shook her head decisively: "No, you can't do it this way, it will scare off the enemy."
I:"?"
"We are still not sure how much the Merova people have inherited from the old empire, and how vigilant they are," Sandora looked into my eyes, "but what is certain is that once they find out that the empire has come back, they will definitely
If you don't come up obediently and get beaten, you must flee as soon as possible - by then, it won't be that easy to annihilate the rebels. According to my experience, what rebels are best at is usually escaping for their lives."
I agreed with Shandora's view, and then asked her what she thought: "In your opinion, how to find the Merova people?"
Shandora thought for a moment and opened the holographic projection. What was shown above was a map of the void territory converted into a visual view. The territory of the gods, the new empire and the fallen apostle territory were in the center of this overlapping territory map, while the periphery was
There were large blank areas with no data. Sandora pointed to those blank areas and said: "Even if the place where the Merova people hide is 'here', it will not be near the three major forces. If they had been a little cautious when they rebelled,
, they will choose to stay away from the old master's territory. So they should be in these blank areas now. These locations are all that we have not set foot in now. Without clear world coordinates, it is impossible to find these blank areas even with imperial technology.
It is not advisable to send a reconnaissance ship to scan or overload the Garden of the Dead to scan. It is easy to be noticed by the other party before we find the rebels. They occupy the information response speed in these blank areas.
Home field advantage, and considering that they have a massive amount of heritage from the old empire, they are the oldest servants who have been in contact with the empire for the longest time, and they have 70,000 years of research time. Their mastery of imperial technology is definitely very high, so their success
The possibility of escape is extremely high.”
I looked at the map of the void territory in front of me. This map is not what the void really looks like, but it can intuitively show the scope of the void that the empire can currently reach. Sandora is right, the void is vast, and even the gods cannot
To master them all, what is in those large blank areas is a complete mystery to us, and once we start scanning these areas, the Merovans are very likely to flee after hearing the news - they have imperial technology on hand, so
Maybe they also have world drift technology, so they may even pack up and escape with their own universe. Faced with this possibility, we must take faster, more accurate and more reliable means... to directly lock their world coordinates.
"It would be great if we could capture a few Merovas alive," Lilina listened with her head raised for a long time, and finally couldn't help but interjected, "Then the pope can be responsible for torture and extorting confessions."
"Well, it's rare that you hit the point in the first half of your sentence. Oh, and the second half is not wrong either." I casually stroked the stupid hair on Lilina's head that can carry out photosynthesis, and said casually, "The question is how to capture her alive?
It has been more than four years since the new empire recovered, and the Merova people have never shown up in this area. The void is so big, maybe if we wait a hundred years, they won't come here to seek death..."
"Then hang them out." The grass on Lilina's head shook from side to side twice. "How did they attack the Fifth Fleet in the first place? Boss, aren't you mentally rusty?"
I was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, I happily took Lilina's collar and shook it back and forth: "Hey, why didn't I think of it? You can do it!" The little girl's eyes rolled, she hugged my arm and said, "Let go.
!Have you ever praised someone so much!?"
I reacted and put Lilina back on the chair: "Oh, I'm used to it. As soon as you open your mouth, I can't help but want to throw you out."
Lilina: "..."
Sandora immediately contacted the research center and ordered that the pile of ancient dormant cabins that had been dismantled into parts be restored to its original appearance, while I contacted the commander of the Fifth Fleet, Cocokina. Execution
The most important thing about the entrapment plan is that the Fifth Fleet must participate. The Merova people watched the Fifth Fleet escape from their hands with the original body. At this time, the hatred value should still be full - of course, more importantly, we do not
Knowing how the Merovans tracked the original body's signal, and not sure whether the dormant capsule that had been dismantled once by the research institute could still emit such a guidance signal, the Fifth Fleet itself... was also a decoy.
"The Merova people probably don't know that the Fifth Fleet was rescued by the empire." When arranging these operations, Sandora also considered this issue. I feel that this is really a convenience left unintentionally: "That's right.
, Fortunately, we acted quickly enough and did not directly meet the Merova people. Now the other party should not know the connection between the Fifth Fleet and the Empire. In fact, I am still curious whether the Merova people know about the existence of the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles...
…”
"Most of them don't know," Sandora showed a gloomy expression, "Those who betrayed the empire will be in panic all day long. If they knew that their old master had come back, they would probably immediately erase any traces of themselves in the void.
, instead of rushing so far to pursue the Fifth Fleet."
I nodded, what Shandora said made sense. Moreover, for more than four years after the recovery of the New Empire, the Merova people have never shown up in this area. This probably means that they are hiding far away, so that they are completely unable to communicate with them.
Empire Encounter. The vastness and discontinuity of the void are really the best barrier for escapees, not only for the exile fleet back then, but also for those who are in constant fear——