Celine was quickly invited out, and she was asked out in a confused situation. Probably the battle nun couldn't figure out why she, as a clergyman, was the one who wanted to go out.
An archbishop told Celine to wait in a nearby lounge, and specifically reminded her not to leave the cathedral without permission: This is normal vigilance, because Sandora and I have aroused high vigilance among everyone present, including Celine.
She was also slightly implicated, but it seemed that Celine herself didn’t feel there was anything wrong with it.
Soon Sandora and I were the only ones left in the small reception room, facing two popes and five archbishops. I was surprised that the other party hadn't called the guards yet: several old men were sweating on their foreheads.
But they still tried their best to stay calm and sit behind the long table, and vaguely protected the Pope sitting among them. However, no one called the guards. They all seemed to be very calm people.
"Don't be nervous, you have to calm down first, otherwise we can't talk." I waved my hands to a few elderly people, and the reaction of the other people was what I expected. Looking at their attitude of keeping secrets about the ancient truth, I knew that this was a person.
The topic that makes people extremely vigilant is likely to be related to the disaster that will destroy the world. Except for certain people, it is probably taboo for others to just talk about it. Now because they don’t know the identities of Shandora and me, then
In addition, the space ruins mentioned by Sandora were completely unlike things that ordinary pagans could know, and the two sides fell into a stalemate due to the unequal information.
In order to break the stalemate, I took out my data terminal from my pocket, but before showing something, I very carefully looked at the four eyes on the opposite side that were longer than the history of human civilization.
Old Man Ling (four of the five archbishops are old men, and the remaining one is a very young girl, which is a bit strange) asked cautiously: "What, no one here has heart disease?"
Several old men looked at each other inexplicably, seemingly not expecting that the mysterious uninvited guest in front of them would suddenly ask such a creative question. I had to repeat it again: "Those of you who have heart disease are best to avoid it first. What happens next is more complicated.
There is impact."
"We are very healthy." An old man with the longest beard knocked on the table aggressively. "No matter who you are, stop here for your pretense. If you really have something to say, please tell me quickly. Otherwise, I think you are different from the others."
Whimsical…”
"Then I'll turn on the projection." I didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking and pressed it on the data terminal. The one-meter-high imperial emblem was immediately projected on the desktop: These elves in front of me are alive at least.
After seventy or eighty thousand years, there is no doubt that they must and must understand this.
At the moment when the simple but powerful blue crystal cross appeared, the "very healthy" white-bearded old man clucked - without hesitation. The old man cocked his neck and opened his eyes angrily. As if he wanted to
He stared at the imperial emblem in front of him with his eyes wide open. He waved his hands wildly and made a gurgling sound of unknown meaning in his throat. However, he could not say a word. He was in danger of passing away. But fortunately, he
The people around him reacted in time. Another old man who looked not much younger than him cooperated with the young bishop girl and pressed him on the table. The young bishop took out a large handful of pills from his pocket and began to inject them vigorously.
The old man stuffed his mouth: "Quick! Bishop Gale, open your mouth and take the medicine! Hold on! Open your mouth and take the medicine!"
The pills were stuffed into his mouth, and he was pressed down on his neck and drank some water. The "healthy old man" known as Bishop Gale finally regained his breath, but just as he had time to cough twice, another bishop took out a lot more
First aid medicine was poured into his mouth: "Bishop Gale, there are these, eat them quickly or you will get sick again soon... Water. Water, get another glass of water, Bishop's medicine cannot be stopped!"
Shandora and I stared at the scene in front of us dumbfounded. We were both stunned until the dust settled. At this time, Bishop Gale finally stabilized completely. He coughed violently for a while (due to the pain of filling him with water and medicine).
, then stared at the second old man who gave him medicine: "I only had a heart disease last year, and this year I have chronic pharyngitis! Can you not mix my medicine with those messy things in your pocket?
Put a piece of it, what does it taste like!"
I felt that I would be forgotten if I didn't speak, so I knocked on the table lightly: "Who is Uncle Liefeng? Well, it sounds like the name of a tree elf, either a plant or nature. When I asked you just now, didn't you
Heart disease?"
"Ahem..." The old man coughed even more violently, as if my words had been choked into his lungs.
"This mark..." An old tree elf bishop who had never said anything finally grasped the key point from the chaos. He looked at the blue emblem that was still slowly rotating in the air in confusion, "You guys
Where did you get it?”
"Where did you get it from? This is our mark." I felt that the other party's suspicion was a bit unreasonable. "You must have been waiting for many years? Why are you not happy now that someone from the empire has come?"
"Really... it's you?" Bishop Gale Feng looked strong. He waved away the young junior who was trying to help him, holding medicine in one hand and water in the other, looking at this side with a prepared attitude, "Whether it's me or not,
I have to warn you, if you accidentally got this kind of mark from somewhere and want to cheat, the old man will risk his life to keep you here. Not everyone can use it casually! And this universe is invaded by enemies you can't imagine.
Look, if you use that thing in your hand casually, it will probably end the whole world..."
"Wait a minute..." I quickly waved my hands to calm down this stern old man. The other person's attitude was touching, but we seemed to have encountered some problems, "Why can't you recognize such obvious psionic energy... Sigh
, I understand, you are tree elves."
The Tree Elves were the last Familia in the old empire. It can even be said that they caught up with the catastrophe before they could even become a real Familia. The other Familia have been living with the Empire day and night, fighting in the north and south for at least hundreds of years. Their members can be seen at a glance.
They recognized the empire's equipment and had the ability to sense psionic energy (later evolved or were forcibly transformed by the empire), except for the tree elves. They were forced to flee before they even understood what the empire was.
The vast majority of tree elves only know Harlan, the emperor of the empire, which shows how delicate this situation is.
The old man in front of me must know the imperial emblem and the imperial equipment, but other than that, he has no idea how to identify the Xiling apostle, so he is not sure about the identity of Sandora and I, because as long as
Anyone with above-average intelligence knows that a few tokens alone cannot prove anything. It is possible that they were picked up.
What's even more subtle is: I'm not really a standard Xiling apostle. Apart from some small equipment, I really don't have any psionic response, and Sandora...she looks more like an egg now, and she doesn't know the old...
Does the empire have a special egg-shaped military unit? In our current situation, a serious family member of the old empire would have to murmur for a long time before daring to admit relatives. Of course, the tree elves in front of us are even more suspicious.
Obviously he is considered a soldier, so the requirements are very strict...
"Oh, by the way. Let me show you something else." I suddenly thought of the thing that could best prove the emperor's identity: the spaceship. It's just hovering in space. "Do you still have the ability to observe space now? Don't tell me.
Even the church smashed the last telescope, so I would have to drive the spacecraft into the atmosphere, but this might cause chaos."
"We have been observing space to prevent encountering threats from extraterrestrials," an old bishop said, holding his chest. He was gradually realizing the situation in front of him, so the closer he got to the truth, the more nervous he became, even though he had already stopped.
In his heart he believed the facts in front of him, but he did not dare to nod casually, "What do you want to show us?"
"Turn on your space surveillance equipment. It's night now. You can see it even with an optical telescope: aim at the three brightest stars in a straight line in the north. It's at the position of the middle star." Sandora
After giving the order, these bishops began to use the intercom phone in the living room (in the cathedral, this level of technology can still be found everywhere) to give orders to the departments at all levels below, and the youngest female bishop
Later, she chanted a spell and created something like a water curtain in mid-air. What appeared on the water curtain was exactly the space scene observed by the telescope. At this moment, Sandora gave an order to the Imperial Admiral: "Shipboard host.
Remove the stealth of this ship, release all the completed escort formations, and deploy them as large as you can."
Many people must have guessed what happened next. Yes, here is what happened next:
"Bishop Gale! Hold on! Open your mouth and take the medicine!" "Water, get another glass of water! Bishop Gale cannot stop taking medicine!"
Why did a very serious matter suddenly become like this? This old man who looks full of energy is actually here to adjust the atmosphere?
When the Imperial fleet is displayed in orbit, everyone will know about their arrival... Forget it, the atmosphere is too ruined now to continue talking about these words. In short, facing the Imperial spaceships arrayed in space, even if
No matter how low the ability to discern the empire, the tree elves no longer have any doubts. The reception room has experienced all kinds of unexpected chaos, but now it is developing according to the planned rhythm: the two popes returned to their seats again
, several old bishops also sat down again at the request of Sandora and I - it seems that the guests and hosts are reversed?
"Our benefactor, the disaster outside...is finally over?"
One of the bishops tremblingly supported the table and leaned his entire upper body forward, as if all his strength was concentrated on this sentence.
"It's over." I thought the other party was referring to the catastrophe in the old empire. I nodded and sighed a little in my heart: It was really because of that disaster that they decided to block technology and hide themselves, but the disaster ended 70,000 years ago.
It's over. Have they spent 70,000 years in vain? "Now that a new empire has been established, a new order, and a new environment - I can take you back when the problems of this world are solved."
Finally, when they received this reply that was 70,000 years late, the expressions on the faces of the four elderly bishops in front of them could hardly be described in words. They seemed to be at a loss in the face of a huge impact. They looked at each other several times before Bishop Gale Feng spoke.
Finally woke up: "It's over, it's over! The abyss outside has receded, and the empire has regained its lost ground?! Our tens of thousands of years of waiting have finally been in vain. We are going to open the holy treasury...open the holy treasury and put the gods into the forge."
Take out your things..."
"Wait a minute!" When I heard the words "recover the lost ground", I suddenly realized something was wrong. "Let's confirm first: Why is this world blocked? Who did it? You should not have this strength. It was Xiling who blocked it in the first place.
Did you bring them here?"
"Xiling? We don't know the name of that will, we only know that she is a woman." A bishop calmed down and slowly opened the ancient curtain. "After the last escape route was sealed, those of us who survived
The survivors had to gather together and escape to this last world that has not been affected by the abyss. The one with the will escorted us here with the last fleet that has not been corrupted, and handed the Forge of the Gods into our hands.
Before leaving, she said that she would seal this universe and erase all traces of its existence from all databases. She asked us to hide carefully and not make a sound in this shelter. "This is a safe cave. There is a forest fire outside."
The air is filled with crazy beasts raging, and you little animals must hide in the hole. You can't make a sound even if you die. If possible, dig the hole deeper' - this is what she told us at the time."
The more I listened, the more surprised I became. At this moment, I couldn't help but stare and interrupted the other party: "Wait! You just said... you didn't escape from the Empire Zone? The last escape route was blocked, so you didn't escape at all.
Go?! Then the location of this world..."
"It is in the first sky area," Bishop Gale said naturally. "It is said to be the oldest territory of the empire. It is in the hinterland of the empire area, very close to the source of the original abyss explosion, but because of what this universe is...the backup world
, has never been developed. When the disaster occurred, there were almost no connection points to the outside world. The entire world was still stored in the world library, so it was the last world to survive and not be polluted, and it was probably the only world.
"
The first day area! The hinterland of the old empire!
I was completely stunned. I stared at Shandora with big eyes and small eyes (assuming Shandora had eyes) for a long time when I realized what had happened, and then slapped myself on the forehead: "Dang Dang."
Yes! This is the abyss area!? Or the most central part of the abyss area!"
These days Sandora and I have been studying where we were bombed. We have guessed at the white area, the Huron territory, and the unknown areas that have not been explored by the three gods. We have even guessed whether we were bombed.
The bomb reached the other side of the bridge, but...but we never guessed it correctly. This is the abyss area. We never left the abyss area from beginning to end, but were bombed into its deepest part!
I finally understand why the church strictly blocks technology, even to the point of locking the entire civilization in a farming society - this is not a problem of two million fallen apostles, nor is it a problem of just one or two abyss gates!
In the past tens of thousands of years, outside this world has been suppressed the entire old empire that has fallen into madness, hundreds of millions of fallen apostles, and millions of gates to the abyss!
It's right under the nose of Abyss Xiling!
Let alone jumping out of the world barrier or communicating with the outside world, even if the refugees here study the basic forces, the gravitational field and curvature, and touch any basic concept of the universe, as long as there is an operational error that touches the self-feedback mechanism of the world
, will immediately expose this sanctuary to countless lunatics, and the fallen apostles outside can tear the entire universe to pieces.
Now I suddenly realized that my previous lament was unnecessary. The survivors of this world definitely did not waste tens of thousands of years of their lives in vain. They did not come to the safe zone at all. These guys hid under the noses of the fallen apostles until today——
It’s worth waiting for tens of thousands of years.
Probably the surprise reactions of Sandora and I were too conspicuous (it should be that I was too conspicuous, and outsiders probably couldn't see Sandora's surprised expression). The two Popes across the table guessed what was going on, and the Technology Pope was cautious.
The ground raised his hand: "Excuse me...don't you know the location of this universe? Aren't you from outside?"
"We did come from the outside, but the process was relatively non-mainstream," I waved my hands in confusion, thinking that it was fun now, "This world... has never appeared in any records. Sandora and I did not pass through
We found this place through normal void navigation. But this is all a small problem. Regardless of whether it is an abyss area or a safe area outside, the danger is indeed lifted. You don’t have to worry. The empire’s follow-up troops will find this place soon. Now let’s take care of it.
Let’s talk about the blockade of this world - so the interference barrier covering the entire universe is actually left by the Abyss Xiling? By the way, the Abyss Xiling is the one who guided you here."
"We didn't witness it with our own eyes," Bishop Gale stroking his beard showed a look of reminiscence, "but she told her future plans before she left, so it's certain that she sealed the universe. Ah, I was the youngest tree elf back then.
General, so many years have passed in the blink of an eye... I have been looking forward to seeing that adult leading the fleet back here to pick us up, but I am deeply afraid of this, for fear that she will bring destruction when she appears again.
.After all, before she left, she admitted that even she herself was about to be corrupted. Alas...it was indeed someone else who appeared in front of us now. So, that adult couldn't hold on..."
"She is...still alive now," I thought about the life form of Abyss Xiling, and could only sigh with the old man, "She has undergone self-reorganization. The Abyss Xiling in the old days is considered dead, and now we are here
The Abyss Xiling is a partial copy. She seems not to know your existence - she has never mentioned this to me, and she has not attacked the world in the years since she went crazy."
"Because she erased the world from the database, including her own memory," Sandra Ball interjected, then turned to the bishops and popes across the table, "Let's not discuss these for now, let's talk about it carefully.
I am very interested in your experiences over the years."