This ti I’m planning to stay in the Divine Realm for a couple of days. After all, it’s been a while since I’ve been here. Just coming for business would seem too unfriendly, and Dingdang is exceptionally excited to visit her hotown. The little thing wants to spend ti with her "Sister Goddess", so as her mobile sea-view house, I naturally have to stay with her.
However, this ti, I definitely won’t dare to stay at Bingdisi’s house: Ice Dad and Ice Mom together are just too powerful. Last ti, after just a few days at their place, I fully realized how proactive parents can be when their daughters are unmarried. Fortunately, I was quite determined last ti and stayed for only a short period; otherwise, it would be hard to explain to Sandora upon my return. So this ti, I’m determined to find a safer place to stay overnight—the Father God Temple has plenty of empty rooms.
Of course, Bingdisi herself must return ho. Even though she calls herself the pinnacle of the Divine Realm and usually does as she pleases, she’s still a filial daughter at heart. Whenever she returns to the Divine Realm, she tries to stay with her parents as much as possible. According to my analysis, her rebellious personality but obedience to her father has one reason: she can’t beat him.
As I ntioned before, the main reasons for my visit to the Divine Realm this ti are threefold. First, to understand the situation of the Fallen Apostle’s invasion of the Star Domain territory and discuss a cooperative response plan with Father God. Second, to learn about the Divine Race’s deep dive activities and exchange research progress on the Discontinuous Belt. Third, to inquire about the Ancient Artifact. Despite busy tis that have divided Sandora’s and my attention, the Hotown World’s coordinates remain one of our most persistent concerns. The ball we brought back from the Red Moon-Haisenwood World has been in the Divine Realm for a while now; Father God should have made so progress.
After a group of deep dive scholars and military experts left, and Bingdisi was dragged away by her dad, there weren’t many people left in the reception hall. The Supre Dragon God was forcefully escorted out by Sovare to prevent that Sui Cui from speaking casually again and being drowned by Father God. The Dark Goddess quietly accompanied Father God, who appeared calm and graceful. Lilina and the little doll were temporarily causing no trouble in the corner of the room, playing with Father God’s collection of knick-knacks. Dingdang and the Supre Life Goddess had a tiny banquet by the fruit plate on the table, with a small bottle of cough syrup as wine and six pieces of popcorn as the dishes, appearing quite lively.
The atmosphere felt just like ho.
It was then that I brought up the big ball: "Xingchen, by the way, has that big ball Bingdisi sent to the Divine Realm been deciphered yet?"
"Oh, that recorder from ancient tis." Father God carefully took a small berry from behind Jiajia’s body, though the protective Supre Life Goddess poked him with a toothpick as he did so. While blowing on his finger, he pulled out a scroll from his bosom. "Take a look yourself. This scroll has been translated and processed. Here’s the progress so far. The coordinates you’re looking for haven’t been deciphered yet; the code rules from that ti are lost, and I haven’t rembered things that old. But aside from the coordinates, we did find many interesting things."
Curiously, I took the scroll. I rarely use things made by the Divine Race, but I’m quite familiar with scrolls and their commonly used crystals: Bingdisi and Monina often tinker with these things. Sotis, when they co across sothing fun, they’d drag to see it. Over ti, I’ve learned how to use these gizmos. They’re sowhat similar to the Empire-manufactured data terminals, though the control thods and specific functions differ. They’re divided into two types: one is the off-white crystal, palm-sized, capable of long-term use with powerful functions. It supports remote prayer reception and universe parater remote control. So advanced models even support one-click Doomsday and Genesis functions, essentially a handheld world managent terminal. Bingdisi has a crystal plate like that, and she wrote the operating program herself. The other type is the scroll in front of . It has fewer functions but is easy to operate with a large capacity, typically used for data recording but capable of read-write operations, supporting basic linkage with the world managent terminal. You can consider them as an inexpensive mobile storage device with input-output ports, equipped with a virtual machine.
Of course, this is all beside the point. This introduction is just to make them seem more sophisticated and high-tech.
I unrolled the scroll and established a compatibility-based cognitive control link with this data processing device. A control interface imdiately appeared a few centiters above the scroll. This control interface is actually "non-fixed" and would present different forms based on the observer’s comprehension to ensure everyone could understand it. This is what’s called "mutual translation", while also slightly adjusting its presentation according to the observer’s personal preferences and attention focus to ensure every observer sees the most suitable screen for themselves. Therefore, holding a data device from the Divine Realm, you’ll never know what the interface looks like in another’s eyes: this thing ensures every observer only sees their own unique screen, which is truly a... frustrating feature.
Rummaging through a main directory filled with random things, I couldn’t help but mumble as I searched: "Xingchen, do you ever organize your files properly? Jiadis’ assignnts, Jiadis’ assignnts (New), Jiadis’ assignnts (Updated), Jiadis’ assignnts (Latest), thod for Chive Pancakes, thod for Chive Pancakes (Authentic), Cynthia’s Reflection (Yesterday), New Edition of Genesis Rulebook (For Tomorrow)... Could you at least put proper dates on them?"
Father God visibly started sweating: "Actually, any major matters are usually noted by Sola. I’m a bit careless with these things normally..."
At this ti, I finally found the report Father God ntioned. Its title is very misleading: Work Docunt (New) (Especially New) (Recent) (Newer Than the Previous Docunts) - but it doesn’t have a date...
"That reconnaissance soldier discovered a total of twenty-six native worlds, and the hotown world is just one of them," I slowly read the most noteworthy part of the report, "It ntions here that she found sothing strange in one of the worlds, possibly a shuttle manufactured by a high-level cross-world civilization?"
"Yes, this is the biggest discovery," Father God nodded, "The report we saw in the Book Tower at that ti didn’t ntion this. It seems that, after losing contact with the outside world, the child searched the area they were in again and then found sothing suspected to be relics of an advanced civilization."
I was imdiately drawn to this new information, no longer bothered to complain about Father God’s usual file organization issues, and started scrutinizing the lengthy report word by word.
This report was deciphered by the Divine Race archaeologists (is that correct?) using ancient codes on a divine artifact. It consists of two parts: one part is the scattered original records of the divine artifact, left by the reconnaissance soldier who died in action, and the other part consists of corrections and annotations added by Father God’s expert team. In those scattered original texts, a strange item is described:
"Date (Note: Invalid), I have finished all post-mortem arrangents and now record a newly discovered strange thing. It is a large man-made object, size and shape (Note: This part of the information is damaged). Due to the area I am in being severely polluted by the Abyss and the cosmic constants being in chaos, I cannot determine where this item originated from, but its material clearly doesn’t belong to this universe. Furthermore, this man-made object (information damaged) does not decompose after testing. It is initially judged that it can maintain stability across various world base constants, aning: it possesses the ability to traverse the Void quadrant. This thing should co from a highly developed civilization whose makers at least mastered the technology to cross the Void, and know how to counter the worldview impact brought by the Void quadrant."
"Supplentary Record: Conducted more tests on the man-made object ntioned in the last report, still unable to determine its origin. While patrolling this area, I passed through dozens of universes, but none of those worlds could have produced such an advanced civilization. This man-made object might co from a much farther place. I found that this object exhibits many strange (information damaged) properties; its main components are so bizarre as to be almost unanalyzable. Theoretically, such peculiar materials should not appear in any Void quadrant, and many of its physical properties are unasurable. I even feel this thing cannot be self-consistent: its very existence doesn’t explain why it can remain stable. This could be because the surrounding Abyss environnt has already damaged this object, causing it to exhibit various unreasonable properties; I cannot continue the research, this thing has no value."
"Final Supplentary Record: Regarding the man-made object ntioned in the previous report, it has been confird to be polluted by the Abyss (information damaged). I am struggling to protect myself. To prevent the polluted fragnts from damaging several other Order Worlds nearby, I have decided to destroy everything except for this storage device and the Abyss sample storage box. I have recorded all useful information in the storage device, including that strange man-made object. It may point to a potentially powerful mortal civilization, and I hope the compatriots who find my relics will go and search for them."
The useful records basically end here; the rest are mostly highly specialized research reports that I can’t understand.
I returned the scroll to Father God: "Do you think this man-made object is related to our hotown world?"
"Not necessarily, I just think it’s incredible that such an advanced civilization would appear in that area," Father God shook his head, "Do you rember the records we saw in the Book Tower before? It already ntioned that many ’calibration’ signs appeared around the Xyrin People’s hotown world. Those calibration points are traces of high-level civilization activity, so we had our suspicions at that ti, thinking that your hotown world might have been visited by another high-level civilization. Now, this report ntions sothing that looks a lot like a Void shuttle, indicating that high-level civilization not only exists but had quite active activities around the Xyrin People’s hotown world."
I nodded slightly, according to this, a very advanced civilization indeed existed around the Xyrin People’s old ho at that ti. They not only had the ability for Void navigation but also mastered cross-quadrant technology, could build a World Gate, and had the capability to produce shuttles that could "survive" in a Void environnt. Considering that even after the reconnaissance soldier searched many worlds, they couldn’t find where this civilization was, the latter’s Void navigation capability might be higher than Father God and I initially imagined, perhaps even approaching the early Void transportation network of the Old Empire.
"Why do I sll conspiracy..." a little girl’s voice suddenly sounded behind .
I turned my head and saw that it was Lilina: this girl had finally stopped causing havoc with the decorations in Father God’s room. I wasn’t sure how long she had been eavesdropping, but she suddenly snuck up and muttered sothing, making everyone feel a bit uneasy. I reached out and patted her, then pressed down on her head: "Conspiracy, all you know is conspiracy, consp... But you know, I’ve got to admit, there’s sothing fishy about this whole thing."
Lilina, with her head being patted, was trying really hard to wriggle forward: "Then why are you patting !"
: "Habit."
Lilina’s ntion of "conspiracy" didn’t really need an explanation. Frankly, it was just a suspicion that the destruction of the Hotown World had sothing to do with that high-level civilization that left behind traces—even this civilization should be considered a super civilization.
However, everything about this super civilization is still speculation, not even fully-ford speculation. We only have two pieces of evidence: the first piece of evidence is a docunt seen in the Book Tower, which records that before the destruction of the Hotown World, segnts of information that appeared to be void calibration signals appeared in all surrounding universes, signals that usually precede large-scale cross-world civilization transportation. The second piece of evidence is the report I just saw, in which a Divine Race reconnaissance soldier, who sacrificed himself back in the day, discovered a Void Shuttle around the Xyrin People’s Hotown World, a Void Shuttle of extrely high technological level, clearly created by a super civilization. Even if both pieces of evidence are accurate, they can only prove the existence of this mysterious civilization; saying it is related to the destruction of the Hotown World clearly still lacks persuasiveness.
I shared my views, and Father God clearly agreed: "Currently, it can only be proven that a super civilization was active in the area before the Xyrin People’s Hotown World was destroyed, but in theory, a normal Order Race wouldn’t use the Abyss to destroy other civilizations—they don’t have that ability. Apart from the present Fallen Apostles, I’ve never known any race that has mastered such technology."
I kept patting Lilina’s head: "How did you co to suspect that the issue in the Hotown World was related to that super civilization?"
Lilina puffs up her non-existent little chest: "Of course, it’s a woman’s intuition!"
Then she scurried over to the other end of the table, while I waved at her with a smiling face: "Co here, don’t be afraid, I won’t hit you..."
Lilina poked half her face out from under the table: "Hey boss, if you’re so capable, put that basket away!"
"Normal civilizations really can’t control the Abyss, even the Divine Race hasn’t mastered the technology to manually open the Abyss Gate," Father God was stunned for a mont by the basket I took out, then straightened his expression to continue with the serious topic, "A sane mind wouldn’t think to research sothing like this, right...? The Xyrin People’s Hotown World was indeed destroyed by an Abyss Gate, so the conspiracy theory is still very hard to establish. But no matter what, I think that super civilization has to be sowhat related to the matter."
I nodded: "Yeah, at least in terms of ti, the two are pretty close."
"’Ti’ might not be an effective clue," Father God chuckled, "Don’t forget the Void has no unified tiline. Our current evidence cos from the ’third-party relative tiline’ used by the reconnaissance soldier in his report from back in the day. Due to the passage of ti, many things were missing from that report, and half of those tilines were actually deduced by the kids themselves, not highly accurate. But what can be confird is that even if the accuracy is not high, the general sequence of events is like this: Not long after a high-level civilization left its traces, sothing happened to the Xyrin People’s Hotown World, and the Divine Race has never heard of such a high-level civilization existing, they only showed up that one ti."
I clicked my tongue, indeed, they only showed up that one ti—the Divine Race reconnaissance soldier back in the day discovered a void calibration signal around the Xyrin People’s Hotown World, found tangible Vvoid Shuttles, which a hundred percent proves a high-level civilization had visited the Hotown World, and soon after, the Hotown World was destroyed, while that civilization, which left behind various suspicious traces and void shuttles, never appeared in the Divine Race’s vision again. To this day, neither the Divine Race nor the Empire have heard of a fourth super civilization in the void apart from the "Three Great Clans." That race that showed up just once seed to have really erged just to destroy the Hotown World.
Originally, we didn’t have evidence linking the destruction of the Hotown World to this civilization, but this little connection makes the word "conspiracy theory" irresistibly spring to mind.
"Hey boss," Lilina had been hiding on the side, now crawling over under the table to snuggle up against , "Do you think we should tell big sister Sandora about this?"
"Of course," I nodded as if it were only natural, "she’s more concerned about the Hotown World than anyone."
Lilina poked her head: "Will she get angry and send the whole nation searching across the void for their enemies?"
I thought about it, confidently shook my head: "No, the more significant the issue, the calr she is, not everyone is like you."
Lilina: "Boss, if you’re going to talk, can you not bring up just to take the hit!"
"Alright, let’s leave the Hotown World matters as is for now," I laughed, easily moving Lilina to the side, and looked up at the opposite side of the table, "I’ll discuss with Sandora what to do when I get back. To be honest, with the Fallen Apostles bouncing around right now, it’s really not the ti to be distracted finding family enemies, and who knows, those guys who wandered around the Hotown World back then might’ve perished for who-knows-how-many years already."
"Yeah, makes sense," Father God scratches his chin, "so shall we eat first? Today we’ll have..."
: "... I ca all the way over here..."
"Chive dumplings, alright?"
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