"How's it going? Did you find it? What's sealed underneath?" Ever since he heard about the sealed gun, the Deng God has never returned to the oil lamp and has been standing guard next to Mu You. At this time, he didn't speak for a long time. Can't help but take the initiative to ask.
"I asked, there is something called a snake sealed below." Muyou also just got this news from the game.
"Snake?" The lamp god was shocked when he heard this.
Mu You even felt a clear tremor from him, and couldn't help but be more curious about what could make a former god so scared.
"What is this thing?" Mu You asked hurriedly.
"Snake is a natural disaster..." The Djinn God sighed: "No wonder we need to use the sealing gun..."
"A natural disaster?"
"Yes, there are four kinds of natural disasters in the real world, named Yan, Gu, Mirage, and Huang. Some people call them Yan Niu, Ji Snake, Mirage, and Huang Wu based on their external animal characteristics. When any kind of natural disaster occurs, it can easily kill countless gods and cause unimaginable damage to the local environment."
"The appearance of the four natural disaster beasts is seasonal. Each natural disaster beast only appears and is active in its own season. At other times, it will find an uninhabited place to lie dormant and recover its strength.
However, the 'season' here does not refer to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, such as the Astral World and the Forgotten Land, but the natural disaster seasons divided by the era of the appearance of natural disaster beasts, which are called the Fire Season, the Fear Season, and the Mirage Season. season and barren season. "
"The disaster season and mirage season are slightly shorter, while the fear season and desolation season are longer, but on average, each season can span about five thousand years! And the cycle of the entire four seasons is exactly twenty thousand years!"
"Twenty thousand years?"
Mu You was stunned when he heard this time, and immediately thought of the boundary keepers on the stone tablet, who happened to clock in every 20,000 years. The God of Order also specifically emphasized in his message that every 20,000 years, no matter whether the sealing gun is loose or not, the seal must be reinforced.
Now it seems that this should be in response to the periodic activity of this natural disaster beast?
"I didn't expect that the original creation would be so big..."
The Djinn God had a strange look on his face. He was just an ordinary little god at the beginning. He was not able to participate in discussions of such core interests and was completely unaware of such matters.
It’s no wonder that since the creation of the Star Spirit Realm, there has been no sighting information of the snake in the subsequent season of fear. The snake has been directly suppressed in the Star Spirit Realm!
"But it's too risky. If it escapes..." The Djinn muttered in a low voice.
Although he complained about the risks, he actually understood that this was the most appropriate choice at the time. Sealing the disaster beast would be worthwhile as long as it could save the Gods from one natural disaster season, not to mention that the snake had been sealed all the time. After so many years, judging from the results, it has been a bloody profit.
As for the risk issue... Anyway, it is in the Star Spirit World. Even if it really escapes, the Star Spirit World will be destroyed once at most, and the season of fear will return to normal. If the Star Spirit World is rebuilt afterwards, it will be just a virtual world after all. .
The problem is that now that the gods have been exterminated and the entire real world has been occupied by the God-Eating Beasts, the Star Spirit Realm has become a place for surviving gods like him to linger. The result is that he is now told that there is a natural disaster beast sealed in the Star Spirit World, and Is it possible to escape at any time?
"What season is it in the real world now?" Mu You asked.
"Now……"
The Djinn frowned and pondered for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "According to time calculation, it should be at the end of the fear season and the beginning of the mirage season..."
"The end of the season of fear... You just said that the length of each season is more than five thousand years. In other words, the era four thousand years ago happened to be at the stage when the snake entered its active period?" Mu You asked with a frown.
"Yes..." the lamp god said with a bitter smile: "This is probably the reason why the snake awakened. In addition, after the extinction of the gods, the star spirit world has been unattended for 60,000 to 70,000 years, and the seal of the sealing gun may be It should have been loosened long ago..."
As soon as the Djinn finished speaking, he remembered something again and said doubtfully: "However, you said before that the tail end of the snake is the so-called fairy mother tree. This mother tree stopped growing at the same time that you fools were born. How could time be like this? coincide?"
"And when some fools went to the Bitter Garden later, the snake's tail also reacted... From this point of view, there should be a direct connection between the snake's awakening and these fools..."
"Oh? You mean..." Mu You frowned.
The Djinn God said solemnly: "I estimate that this is specially designed by someone. As long as a fool is born in the star spirit world, the snake will wake up and gradually regain its strength until it breaks free from the shackles of the sealing gun and is born. The power will destroy the star spirit world, thereby indirectly destroying you fools."
"In other words, some of the gods don't want to see NPCs with self-awareness appear?" Mu You sighed.
This is actually understandable, just like humans now have mastered innovative AI and robotics technology, but with continuous iterations in the future, robots may one day awaken to self-awareness, and then humans will naturally be at risk of being overturned and replaced. .
In order to avoid this situation, it is necessary to set up a program in advance to prevent the disorderly expansion of the robot.
The snake is obviously a tool used by the gods to suppress the fool: as long as it is detected that a fool is born in the star spirit world, and the gods are unable to supervise it, the snake will wake up and gradually regain its power. Destroy the world, thereby completing the strangulation of the Fool.
Even though the cost of doing this is that the Star Spirit World will be buried with them, it is still better than having the Fools grow up and replace the Gods.
"Did the God of Order do it?" Mu You looked at the Deng God uncertainly.
Judging from the unicorn arm sealed in the Order, the God of Order was obviously involved in sealing the snake and played an important role.
However, what is strange to Mu You is that if the God of Order did not want to see the birth of the Fool, why did he ask the Djinn to help him find a successor before he died?
"No, the God of Order would never do such a thing! On the contrary, he has always been happy to see the birth of lower beings." The Djinn God said flatly.
"Who could that be?" Mu You spread his hands.
"I think... it should be the 'God of Chaos' who did it." The Djinn God muttered.
"confusion……"
"Yes, as you can tell from the name, the God of Chaos is the opposite of the God of Order. If the God of Order is the leader of all the gods of the lawful system, then the God of Chaos is the leader of all the gods of the chaotic system. The two of them They are natural opposites. To be more precise, the entire lawful system and the chaotic system are natural enemies."
"It is said that the last retreat of the snakes back then was initiated by the God of Chaos, led by a group of gods of the chaos system. In the end, it seemed that the snakes were successfully repelled. But now it seems that they not only repelled the snakes, but even captured the snakes alive. snake!"
"I wouldn't be surprised at all if this guy Chaos set up this kind of world-destroying back-up plan without telling other gods!"
After speaking, the Djinn God shook his head and said seriously: "In short, you must deal with the snake problem as soon as possible."
"Among the four natural disaster beasts, Snake is the most difficult to deal with, because no matter how strong the other three disaster beasts are, they can only cause physical damage at most, but Snake is a monster incarnated by emotions, and has the ability to manipulate people's hearts. the power of.
Wherever a snake passes by, it will bring not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters, that is, war! Snakes can easily provoke wars of faith between gods. Every time there is a season of fear, there are always wars on the earth. In every round of disaster season among the gods, 80% of the casualties are lost in the season of fear. Therefore, the season of fear has always been the season of disaster that the gods are least willing to face! "
"Is there any way to kill this thing completely?" Mu You asked.
"Kill the disaster beasts? You are thinking too much..." The Djinn God said funnyly: "The natural disaster beasts cannot be killed because they are the incarnation of disaster and can only be sealed or dismissed. Even if the current disaster passes, Ji, they did not disappear, but their strength declined. In order to avoid conflicts with other disaster beasts, they found a place to hide and cultivate."
"As for the retreat, even in the heyday of the God Clan, it would have taken hundreds of gods to join forces to have a chance to repel the disaster beast. In the current star spirit world, there is nothing that can resist it!"
"So, you'd better seal this thing again as soon as possible. Once it accidentally escapes, the star spirit world will really be doomed!" the lamp god urged.
"All right."
Mu You nodded, understanding the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly returned to the game.
…
"Why don't you leave yet?"
At the bottom of the dark cave, Fairy King Orenz frowned and looked at the few people outside the barrier.
After it clearly explained the situation of the snake to several people, instead of leaving, these people sat down around the barrier and discussed something in a low voice in a language he could not understand.
"Don't worry, uncle, aren't there still a lot of questions that you haven't figured out yet?" The watchman smiled and said, "You said that if the bitter mother tree is transformed from the tip of this snake's tail, then you all will bear fruit from the tree. Aren’t all fairies the children of this snake?”
"The child's statement is not accurate. It should be said that we are the incarnation of the snake's power." The Goblin King said calmly: "The Creator God uses a certain method to regularly strip away the power from the snake's body, and then uses this energy to create goblins. Therefore, goblins do not have the concept of lifespan, only the strength of energy. Goblins who are lucky enough to have more energy at birth will become high-level goblins, and those with less energy will become low-level goblins."
"But it is precisely because the energy of the goblins is connected to the snake. If there is more on one side, there will be less on the other side. If a goblin dies and turns into a monster, the original energy in the goblin's body will return to the snake, and Once the goblins die on a large scale and the number of remaining goblins is reduced to a certain level, the energy in the snake's body will break through the critical point, allowing it to gain the ability to break free from the seal!"
"To put it simply, the Fairy Tribe and the Snakes are completely opposite. The more prosperous the Fairy Tribe and the larger the population of the tribe, the weaker the Snakes will be. On the contrary, when the Fairy Tribe begins to weaken and the population declines, the Snakes will also Getting stronger and stronger.
This is also the reason why the Bitter Mother Tree stopped growing immediately after Gu Snake woke up: only by cutting off the way for the birth of fairies, will the population of the fairies continue to lose, and will Gu Snake have the opportunity to slowly accumulate strength! "
"The number of fairies is so important..."
The watchman looked at the Goblin King strangely: "But what will you do during the Great Disaster? Won't the Great Disaster first wipe out all the races in the Star Spirit World? Then won't the Snakes directly gain all their power?"
"You actually know about the Catastrophe?" The Goblin King glanced at the watchman in surprise, but when he remembered that he was a fool, he was relieved. He shook his head and said: "The goblin race will not be destroyed in the Catastrophe, because the Bitter Garden It originally has the function of helping the creatures on it to avoid the Great Disaster, but during the Great Disaster, the memories of all fairies will be reset. After the Great Disaster, everything will start again..."
"Even your memory will be reset?"
"That's right..."
The Goblin King sighed, quickly regained his composure, and looked at the four of them: "So, you should leave as soon as possible. I will continue to stay here until the end of the era, but after that... go back and tell Olmedo, no need to Miss me, everyone only has more than a hundred years left, everyone should cherish the time and live the last time well..."
After the Goblin King finished speaking solemnly, he closed his eyes and entered the meditative state again, no longer paying attention to the few people.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that it opened its eyes again, looking at the four people still sitting nearby, it couldn't help but frown: "Didn't you understand what I just said? How long are you going to waste here!"
As he spoke, the giant beast above gasped again.
"Ahem, uncle, calm down, calm down!"
The watchman hurriedly waved his hands and said with a smile: "The main reason is that there is still one of us who is not here. When he comes down to take a look and confirm that we can leave, we will leave immediately!"
"Who?" The Goblin King frowned.
"Our, uh, eldest brother...and uncle, you don't have to be so pessimistic. My eldest brother is very powerful. Let him come and take a look. Maybe there will be a turn for the better!" the watchman said.
The Goblin King's brows furrowed even deeper. Just as he was about to say something, he saw the three people across from him were stunned and looking in one direction.
"coming!"
…
[You ride a broomstick, break through the darkness, reach the light, and finally meet the three clones. 】
["You're finally here, the real body! I thought you were running out of time... Huh? How can you fly, the real body?" The watchman said in surprise when he saw the broom under you. 】
Mu You raised his head and looked at the clock. It took a lot of time to get to the underground. It was already four in the morning, and there was less than two hours left before the five-day mission deadline. Fortunately, he made it in time.
When he arrived at the place, without saying a word, Mu You first controlled the character and synchronized the memory with the three clones.
["Holy shit? Kirin arms! Show me!" After the memory was synchronized, the clock watcher exclaimed exaggeratedly, hurriedly jumped to your side, lifted your sleeves, and admired the tattoo on your right arm in amazement. of epiphytic circuits. 】
[The Goblin King saw the circuit on your arm, his eyes widened immediately, and he looked at you in disbelief: "The sign of the world keeper! Are you the new world keeper?!"]
[As the Goblin King becomes excited, you hear heavy breathing from above. When you look up, a pair of huge snake eyes open from the darkness and stare straight at you! 】
[An indescribable feeling of fear rises from the bottom of your heart. 】
[The divine skin automatically appears on your body, quickly helping you suppress this unfounded fear. 】
["This is the power of the gods! Are you really the agent of the gods?" The Goblin King looked at the energy coat around you with great excitement, tears streaming down his face: "That's great, the gods haven't abandoned us yet..."]
["Uncle, please... calm down..." The watchman collapsed on the ground and spoke with difficulty. 】
[At this time, the three clones present were once again forced by the fear of the snake, and they were all trembling. Gargamel fell to the ground on the spot and passed out. 】
[The Goblin King also realized that it had lost its composure, and quickly closed its eyes and held its breath to concentrate. After adjusting for a moment, its expression returned to calm, the snake pupils in the sky finally closed, and the surrounding area returned to normal. 】
[You ask the Fairy King about the location of the Sealed Spear. 】
["Over there..." The Goblin King pointed somewhere behind. Along with its movement, a beam of light was automatically projected, illuminating a space in the distance. 】
[You all looked up and saw that on the ground in front of you, a coiled snake body dozens of meters thick was exposed to the light, and somewhere on the snake body, there was a huge golden spear, with the tip of the spear penetrating through it. The snake's body penetrated into the ground, but it was not solid. Under the squirming of the snake's body over the years, the spear that should have penetrated deep into the ground has now become shaky and may collapse at any time. 】
(End of chapter)
