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Tulazo was brought back to the Mother Ship by the Pandora Sisters. It was the first ti I saw soone smiling so relieved while wearing shackles. The human heart truly is a complex thing.
Perhaps for Tulazo, he has been wearing another heavier chain since seventy thousand years ago. This chain has never allowed him to breathe freely for thousands of years until today. When Pandora put the shackles on him, Tulazo finally took off those heavier shackles. The mont of capture was the mont of freedom regained. Tulazo taught to truly understand this phrase.
Anu Lili and the warriors of the Resistance Organization behind her watched their "ntor" disappear into the teleportation screen. Truth be told, seeing their complex expressions suddenly made feel as though I had beco a villain—it’s a feeling without reason and quite absurd, yet it still erged. This world is so complicated...
"He still did one last thing for you all before leaving," Lilina suddenly sighed slightly, raising her head to look at Anu Lili. The little girl’s face bore a mature expression that was completely inconsistent with her appearance. "Now, the gap between the Resistance Organization and the Free Slaves that might have caused hidden dangers is finally filled. You won’t face major disputes over the lowa Conservatives... That old man wasn’t good at battle, but I truly admire him in other aspects. His thoughts were far-reaching. From the beginning, he knew that the lowa Conservatives would be a big problem between you and the civilians. If I’m not mistaken, had the Imperial Army not appeared, his original plan was likely to solve this issue by taking his own life."
Though Lilina looks young, she has a seasoned heart—this is no mockery. What she can see is sotis even deeper than what I can. Until she spoke, I really didn’t realize that Tulazo had such a plan in the end.
"It’s about ti to leave," I checked the ti. It was ti for the fleet to return to the Divine Country and rendezvous with Miss. "In a few days, this universe will border the Imperial Mainland, and naturally, there will be personnel to take over the ss left by lowa. But as I promised, if you wish to freely develop, the Empire will never interfere with the normal life of the natives here. Consider us as new neighbors. We only manage the universe, not govern the residents. Additionally... if you’re interested, you may visit Shadow City at the capital."
"Shadow City?" Anu Lili was quite intrigued by the term.
"The Empire’s capital can also be seen as the place where the gods reside—you can see what the true Divine Country should look like, and then you can kick away the bad impressions the lowa people left about gods. Rest assured, in a few days, I will adjust the permissions, and you people in the Resistance Organization will receive access and residency rights to Shadow City. If you wish to better understand the Empire, you’re welco to establish an embassy in Shadow City. There, you can also interact with the Empire’s clans, they’re quite an interesting bunch. A new life is beginning. Trust , it’ll be even more interesting than you imagine—oh right, I have a good gift for you before leaving."
I suddenly thought of sothing: just treating the sick and wounded has kept those Divine Sect disciples busy enough, and there’s a more troubleso matter to handle here: the entire planet’s ecosystem was severely damaged. The lowa people’s bombings not only destroyed the environnt at the Explosion Center but also released highly poisonous vapors and radioactive dust, which devastated nearly a quarter of the planet’s land. These poisonous substances circulate through the atmosphere and need to be treated. While dispatching more personnel can certainly solve the problem, I actually have a more efficient treasure on hand. Before leaving, I plan to leave a gift for Anu Lili.
I held onto Dingdang, rushed back to the Mother Ship where I had a small kitchen in my cabin, just enough to use. I quickly prepared a large pot of water, lit the fire, and brought it to a boil, then nudged the Little Thing in my hand: "Dingdang, Dingdang, ti to take a bath."
Little One drowsily opened her eyes and bit my thumb: "Ah Jun, Dingdang wants to sleep... Why take a bath?"
"You’ve slept the whole day, a sauna would relieve fatigue, right?"
Dingdang thought about it (she really considered it deeply), then happily nodded: "Right, a sauna feels so good—look, there’s a sauna room here!"
While I was pondering how to coax the Little Thing into the pot, Dingdang already transford into a green light flying out. Halfway, the little creature undressed and with a splash, little waves splashed in the boiling pot: "Ah Jun, Ah Jun, help cover the lid, the steam is escaping!"
I silently covered the pot, counted five minutes, and opened the lid to find Dingdang at the bottom: she was running circles at the bottom, the Little Thing always found sothing to delight herself and play for half the day alone. Noticing the light above, Dingdang gurgled up and smiled foolishly in this direction. I stirred the pot with a spoon, the Little Thing chased the spoon handle, creating a scene of sheer amusent. To enhance the effect, I added apple slices and banana slices, two spoons of sugar, half a spoon of honey. Dingdang ate one-tenth of it and left little bite marks on all the fruit slices. After simring on low fire for ten minutes, I fished the little one out with a slotted spoon, rinsed her under clean water, and the little one ran around bare and wet for several minutes before suddenly rembering she wasn’t wearing clothes...
But I was used to it, and she was used to it...
I returned to Anu Lili carrying a thermos of Dingdang-flavored fruit soup, with a fruit soup-scented Dingdang perched on my shoulder. This young lady waited for half an hour, only to end up receiving a thermos...
"This is an ecological recovery elixir, one milliliter diluted with twenty-six tons of water. Disperse it in the atmosphere using planes, and it can effectively heal the planet’s ecosystem damage—by the way, don’t use it directly on people, you’ll easily get struck by lightning..."
In the end, I didn’t forget to solemnly remind them. Because Lilina once truly validated this issue, and later we confird one thing: regardless of how much Dingdang’s Divine Power is diluted, it cannot be directly absorbed by mortals, this involves a blasphemy issue. But interestingly, there are at least two hundred ways to skirt this bizarre blasphemy judgnt, such as artificial rainfall...
It’s said that the blasphemy judgnt of the Life God System is the most bizarre. Dingdang wouldn’t fool .
Surely, other planets also need ecological restoration, but Dingdang is only so big, the "production" is probably limited. I figured it’d be hard to et demand even if simred in the slow-cooking thod, so Dingdang’s soup can only be an auxiliary ans. Perhaps I should discuss with Lilina when I have ti, to see if so leaves can be picked from the Life Tree to brew so secondary soup or sothing. Usually, Lilina seems to enjoy using the Life Tree’s sprouts for hotpot, she appears pretty happy. Maybe that stuff has miraculous effects too...
Is it really okay to seriously study such things?
Anu Lili, with a very complex expression, instructed to store the thermos properly: she didn’t know the origins of this stuff, only that its appearance seed disassociated with the notion of "dicine."
After wrapping up affairs on the planet, the Royal Fleet set sail again, headed to the "Divine Country," located ten light years away.
This planet should be renad. The "Holy Empire" established by the lowa people has already collapsed, and naturally, the so-called Divine Country should also cease to exist. This planet they chose was once the Capital Star of the Anu Lili race, and in theory, it should be returned to the hands of the Anu Lili people. However, the latter are currently rebuilding their civilization from a near-primitive society stage, making it hard to say when they will be ready to reconstruct a planet sixteen light-years away, especially since they have two other planets in worse situations to deal with. Reconnecting these three planets and allowing their people to reunite is already their biggest challenge. anwhile, due to the large-scale chaos caused by the Spiritual Plague, apart from the hard-to-destroy Xyrin Equipnt, almost everything else in the Divine Country has been wrecked. The city is left with vast dangerous ruins, and less than ten percent of it is directly habitable. This scarred planet truly doesn’t hold much rebuilding value, as everything needs to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch—so let’s leave it for now. When the Anu Lili people recover, they should be able to step onto this land once more with their strength. I believe with the technological data preserved by the Resistance Organization, it won’t take too long. They are indeed a resilient and internally explosive race: I have seen this from the faces of ard civilians.
Everything above the orbit of the Divine Country has been cleared of the lowa people’s installations. They had set up nurous orbital stations and lavish space decorations on these orbits, but none of them functioned when the Imperial Army arrived. We cannot tolerate these things that marked the "god-like greatness" of the lowa people continuing to exist in the universe, so we threw them all into the Sun: now the Divine Country is orbiting a brand new star. The original center of this star system was blown up by Sandora, so we temporarily made a new one, identical to the old model but younger. It can also serve as a gift for the Anu Lili people in the future. A small detachnt of the Imperial Fleet is on standby in orbit. After the Imperial Admiral led the other Royal Fleets here, this small fleet imdiately joined the main force, and Lin Xue soon ca to the bridge to et everyone. Lilina was glowing with joy, looking very satisfied: she must have found what she was looking for.
"It seems things are going well on your side too." I opened my arms, smiling broadly when I saw Lilina appear on the officer platform. She skillfully jumped into my arms, giving a hug: "Let show you that precious prototype—turns out, the lowa people didn’t know what it was for. They stored the deep dive ship’s communication prototype along with a bunch of inscrutable Xyrin Equipnt in a giant cavern under Antarctica. I bet they put there everything they couldn’t figure out."
Lilina transferred so footage she had taken on-site to the officer platform’s projection device, and we saw the giant warehouse where the lowa people stored their ".impressive but inscrutable items." This place must have employed spatial expansion technology; otherwise, an Antarctic underground cavern couldn’t hold so much stuff. In that vast cavern, countless large gravity-free platforms were arranged neatly, and each platform housed an Empire-style device. The communication prototype was one of these devices, placed in an inconspicuous corner, with its hemispherical main body and concentric ring set separated and put on two platforms... Well, the lowa people didn’t even realize these were two parts of a single device, treating them as separate sets!
"Well... that’s why they couldn’t discover anything in millennia," Sandora said, with a mixed expression, "how do Earthlings say it—waste of God’s gifts."
"There are plenty of such cases," replied Lilina, cozying up against my chest like a comfy pillow, fiddling with her data terminal, "See, they didn’t even know how to categorize these impressive items. According to the technicians on the scene, they placed communication devices with navigation devices and weapon systems with ecological simulators. One experintal engine was split into three parts, stored in three zones, each given a completely unrelated na..."
Everyone: "..."
"Everything here was impressive yet inscrutable to the lowa people. Back in the Old Empire Era, these were all prototypes in the validation phase or flawed experints not yet widespread. They didn’t know what to do with these contraptions, so they simply stored them together and dusted them off every day," Lin Xue shrugged, "Wood, you’re really a blockhead. Why aren’t you praising ? Do you know how many treasures I rescued for you?"
: "... Is this how you ask for complints?"
Lilina nestled in my arms, hearing this, jumped straight up without saying a word, bumped her head on my chin with a thunk—and then bounced away holding her head.
The large storage Lin Xue discovered brought surprise not only to but also excitent to the fleet’s accompanying scientists, who, optimistically speaking, if they had blood vessels in their brains, at least half of them might have had a cerebral hemorrhage by now. After Lilina returned, a team of scientists was still actively working with the engineering team to inventory the contents of that storage. Many items were prototypes from the Fifteenth Day Zone, neither recorded in the Imperial Standard Database nor equipped in the regular military departnts of the Fifteenth Day Zone. Thus, when inventorying these items, they had to cross-reference historical docunts extracted from the Heavenly Realm City. Though ti-consuming, everyone enjoyed it. Quite a few items needed on-site treatnt before they could be transported back to the Mother Ship. The lowa people scattered these ancient treasures everywhere, unaware of their value, and grouped them according to their assumptions. Now, the scientists had to re-adjust these haphazard combinations based on blueprints and the equipnt’s identification symbols. Although so of these antiquities hold little practical value for us, without a doubt, the remaining portion will substantially boost our technology tree—especially in Mysterious System technologies.
"The Fifteenth Day Zone back then seed to be a very powerful R&D Imperial District. Looking at this setup, their research directions weren’t limited to military," Sandora observed the half-finished products covering nearly every field, marking the Fifteenth Day Zone’s scientific achievents, "I rember back in my day, the research center was filled with weapons..."
Pandora excitedly grabbed Sandora’s sleeve, and the latter touched by Pandora’s gesture: "Of course, but that place is gone now."
I was curious about how a place specializing in research, with stronger prowess in the Mysterious System, and seemingly less expansive than other Sky Zones, cultivated a little "madman" like Pandora... Could it be they were forced?
At this mont, Lin Xue seed to have received a report from the on-site engineering team. She nodded, instructed them to send sothing to the officer platform, and then winked at us, "Wood, do you rember I ntioned besides the communication prototype, the lowa site had sothing quite important? The engineering team finally dismantled it."
I vaguely recalled—hence proving that Lin Xue is indeed a rare treasure by my side. Her ticulousness, thoroughness, stability, and unprecedented foresight have helped countless tis. Without her, with my careless nature, God knows how many opportunities I would have missed.
Under Lilina’s command, the engineering team seemingly found another antiquity as important as the deep dive communication prototype. Soon after, they transported that thing to the Imperial Admiral’s material stacking zone, with a squad of Scorpion Soldiers escorting it to the officer platform.
"Sir! The item is here!" Vega, in charge of the escort, saluted us with her usual vigor, then turned halfway with a click, click: on Scorpion Sister’s carapace was a one-ter-high deep blue crystal pressed by her tail to prevent it from toppling down. That was what she escorted. Scorpion Soldiers have a penchant for carrying things on their backs.
The on-site junior officers cautiously helped place this crystal on the ground, but we found it was extraordinarily sturdy. No wonder Lin Xue was bold enough to have the engineering team transport it directly to the bridge without conducting protection first. Qianqian curiously reached out to touch the crystal surface, and it emitted a series of musical ethereal buzzes in response to her touch—a common resonance phenonon of lightly charged crystals.
"The lowa people... I don’t even know what to say," Lilina had a speechless expression, "they were completely baffled by this crystal but probably thought it was majestic, so they embedded it in the forehead of a divine statue in the storage library. It took quite so effort to cut it down intact."
I knew Lin Xue wouldn’t carelessly focus on a crystal just because it looked imposing: "What exactly is this?"
"Do you rember the incident when the world heart carrier saved on the Technology Side Mother Star disappeared after the concept separation of the Fifteenth Day Zone?"
Lilina stated slowly.
I was stunned for a mont, feeling countless questions welling up in my mind... (To be continued. If you like this work, please go to Qidian (qidian) to vote for recomndation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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