The main hall of the church fell into a long silence.
Li Liang didn't want to believe that Xi'an finally chose to surrender without a fight, but deep down he had a premonition.
When the Spiritual Gate was opened, the Interstellar Expeditionary Force was denied access to the Spiritual World, which indirectly led to the defection of the Dros clan. Faced with the goblin's first blockade, they retreated to defense, unwilling to go to full-scale war. The two retreats exposed Xi'an's decision-making logic—— Zero-One, who controls Xi'an, seems unwilling to take any risks and insists on compromise. Li Liang can even guess the reason for doing so - to ensure the continuation of human civilization with the highest probability.
This surrender without a fight must have come from the same philosophy.
He could also guess the specific treaty negotiated between the two parties. The goblins would withdraw their troops and promise not to station troops on Earth, but only to establish an embassy. Later, they would jointly manufacture spiritual cores and develop a 'new world'. Later, humans would become one of the goblins' allies.
This may seem like a win-win situation, but in fact, it completely gives up its sovereignty and places its wealth and life on the spirit of contract of the goblin clan.
Will goblins view humans as equal civilizations?
Totally impossible.
Li Liang had seen with his own eyes the arrogance and disdain of the goblin messengers. In the eyes of the goblins, humans were not even qualified to be servants and could only be slaves.
Aggressors never have good intentions.
At this time.
Robben's voice came with deep exhaustion: "If the heroic spirits can become real gods, the Galaxy, the Deep Space Defense Corps, and the Interstellar Expedition Corps, the persistence of each of us will be meaningful, and we will replace The weak and timid Xian leads mankind to make its voice heard in the spiritual world. Even if we sacrifice the lower city and the upper city on the moon, and bear the blood debt and infamy, we will not regret it. But now, the heroic spirits have lost, and we must consider ourselves. ,Feel sorry……"
"Hand over the fleet authority, Robben," Li Liang stood up, "Go to Earth and guard our homeland."
Robben was stunned for a moment: "You don't want to take Xi'an back?"
Li Liang shook his head: "Not now." After speaking, he walked towards the door.
Obviously Robben thinks that he appeared here because he was forced to leave the temple. This is very similar to Andre's idea, and he will naturally come to the same conclusion, that is, he wants to use the power of Andre and Robben to rebuild his life. Return to Xi'an.
Of course he wants to end Zero One's weak rule, but the top priority is not to rush into the temple, but to sneak into the spiritual world and find a way to decipher the magical characteristics of Machisas, so that the goblin's attempt will be completely bankrupt.
Robben followed quickly from behind.
When they walked out of the church and saw Yuan Quan looking anxious from a distance, Li Liang asked: "Why did Yuan Quan's father retire?"
Robben stopped and said slowly: "Her father was the commander of the Ahiya. The Ahiya is the only mothership equipped with the 'Asiya's Needle'. I am the ship's mechanic. Years of deep space exploration have proven that human beings are the only civilization in the universe. The Axia has no use and is actually in a semi-decommissioned state. It occasionally performs some assistance tasks. Once, we received an order to cooperate with deep space mining to go to Proxima. The mission lasted nearly three years.
After arriving at Proxima Centauri, we had nothing to do. Lao Yuan suddenly had a whim and wanted to secretly visit the Wuxian-Corona Borealis Great Wall. "
Wuxian-Northern Crown Great Wall...
Li Liang vaguely felt that he had heard this name.
"He has always felt that the expeditionary force's exploration of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall was not comprehensive. That area concentrated a large number of gamma ray bursts. It is a huge structure with a length of more than 10 billion light-years. Its length is uniform. It is more than eight times the upper limit of the scale and contains millions of galaxies. It is difficult to imagine how such a structure could have formed in the early universe."
"He thinks there's civilization in there?"
"Yes, think about it now. Back then, we were self-righteous and unwilling to believe the conclusions of our ancestors, even if there were reports that clearly recorded the exploration process," Robben said with a far-reaching vision. "There were many people on the ship who opposed it, mainly due to energy issues. Problem, but Lao Yuan is a very charismatic person, so we agreed to his plan.
The process was thrilling, and finally we arrived at the core area of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall and returned successfully. Although it was delayed for nearly a year, the people at Deep Space Mining and I had a good personal relationship at the time and helped us cover up the past.
Soon after, Lao Yuan took the initiative to resign and chose to retire. "
"What did you see?"
Robben smiled bitterly: "Most of the gamma ray bursts detected on Earth occurred in the early days of the universe. When we continue to go deeper and reach areas where our ancestors have not set foot, we only see a void, and even dark matter does not exist, just like There was a void in the universe, and Lao Yuan felt that maybe there had been civilization there, but it had been wiped out by the gods."
Li Liang knew that when an interstellar explorer turned to God, it meant that his inner belief collapsed.
"Later, I was the one who encouraged Lao Yuan to go to the Otter Nebula in the hope that he would cheer up. Unfortunately, I ended up killing him. I have always felt guilty..."
Li Liang looked at Yuan Quan, who was walking quickly, and said softly: "If you have a chance, you can watch a movie called "Romantic", filmed by Yuan Quan. I don't think she has ever blamed you."
Robben looked surprised.
"Li Liang... uh, sir," Yuan Quan looked at Li Liang's face steadily, "My... piety level... is a bit low, but I still... uh... well, I'm going to remake "Beach"..."
"I promised you," Li Liang nodded.
"Okay, okay," Yuan Quan adjusted his glasses, breathed quickly, and glanced at the sculpture above his head.
Andre approached in an automatic wheelchair, pursed his dry lips, and bowed with difficulty: "Twin gods, please guide your loyal servant."
Robben frowned and lowered his eyes.
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The spiritual world.
An assault ship belonging to Terunsa's Holy Carbon-based Alliance flew in the Dark Spirit Sea.
This ship is C-shaped, has a diameter of more than 500 meters, and is extremely fast.
In the main control cabin, eight Pangbotans sat in front of a circular console. Each person was surrounded by a flickering light curtain, and above the console was a three-dimensional picture showing the location of the assault ship and the location of the assault ship. Route forward.
Compared with the average height of the Pombotans, who are five meters away, the two humans and one robot standing next to the podium appear extremely small. They are one head shorter than the Pombotans' chairs.
"Pangbotan people have so many writing strokes," Old Yang raised his head, "Sister Fu, are these also hieroglyphics?"
Leah nodded: "Yes."
"Are we almost there?" Wang Chao sat on his backpack, lowering his head and playing with a Taxing handmade dagger.
Leah stared at the three-dimensional image above, her eyes flickered, and a smile appeared on her white face for a moment: "We have entered the Dark Spirit Realm, and there are still twenty hours of flight to the next jump point."
Lao Yang sighed: "I hope it's too late..."
