"Let's go to the Spiritual Gate."
The special service ship took off again, but this time there were many more passengers.
The night breeze blew, and the cabin was very quiet. Someone soon fell asleep and snored slightly.
Li Liang stood in the center of the command cabin, staring at the annular light curtain.
The lights on the Zhongjing skyline faded away, followed by the dark wasteland. A few minutes later, a hazy light appeared on the ground in the distance.
A new command headquarters is being built on the ruins of the western mine. In the future, all orders will be issued from here. The interstellar expeditionary army, the deep space defense army, the temple garrison, and the guard robot army will be integrated into a force representing mankind. The armed forces of civilization, defend the homeland of mankind, and expand territories.
Flying over the coastline, the special service ship lowered its altitude and flew close to the sea. After reaching the sea area where the Zhenjie Fort was located, it submerged into the sea water and sank straight down.
The five-pointed star-shaped Zhenjie Fort has long been unrecognizable. The five defensive fortresses have collapsed, and a big hole has been broken in the central giant fortress. After temporary repairs, it looks like an ugly patch.
The special service ship entered the central fortress according to the instructions.
The cleanup work has not yet been completed, withered plants and construction debris everywhere, and swarms of drones are busy among the ruins.
In the center of the pyramid-shaped space, the Spiritual Gate still looks like a black planet.
The special service ship slowly landed.
Li Liang woke up the sleeping people, and everyone walked out of the spacecraft together.
Anqiao shook his head slightly at the sergeant major who came up to him. The sergeant major raised his hands in a standard salute and turned to leave.
Li Liang stepped into the door of spiritual theory.
The process of crossing the spiritual gate is like taking the last subway train at midnight. The surroundings are dark and the only sounds in the ears are the sound of wind and regular rumbling.
For a moment, the vision lit up.
The sky was filled with clouds and mist, and there was shallow water just below the feet. Looking around, one could see endless horizons.
When others arrived one after another, Li Liang said softly: "Ellen, go to the anchor space."
"Okay," Alan waved his wand.
next moment.
Everyone appears in the anchor space.
The goblin has not changed the topography of the anchor space. It still looks like the bottom of a crater, but the traces of human construction have been completely erased, leaving only large areas of withered plants.
A construction regiment of the Deep Space Defense Corps is stationed here and clearing away vegetation.
The anchor point space is the place where the physical world and the spiritual world first interact with each other. Li Liang went to Avalon to understand that the anchor point is also the hub for controlling the spiritual door. It is the most important part of the spiritual door. Generally, it is Generally speaking, every civilization will set up heavy defenses at the anchor point and regard it as the core pass.
At this moment, a temporary communication center was set up in the center of the anchor space so that Xi'an could communicate with the human delegation in Avalon. In addition, there was a temporary building next to the communication center, which contained a body made of yaling gold. Transparent sleeping cabin.
Li Liang came to the hibernation cabin and looked at Tam lying inside. It had its hands folded on its belly and looked like it was asleep. There were several broken wands beside it.
After the war, Saron, one-seventh, and Yareli returned to the spiritual world. When she left, Yareli took away the Horcrux of the secret method. She said that the secret method had compensated mankind, and she would take the Horcrux of the undead with her. Go to the Undercity.
Only Tam remained here.
Elune had created a false life before. When he saw through it, Elune showed him a scene. In the ASK Building, Tam summoned another Li Liang with the Dream of Hermes. At that time, Tam said, " My memory can be erased, but I am a member of the river toad family who was born under the whirling tree, and my spirit will forever remain in the root system of the whirling tree..."
He realized that Tam might still have a chance to survive, so he asked Li Shuang to build this "coffin" with Yaling gold to preserve Tam's body, and asked Bond to deliver a message to the King of Darkness.
this moment.
Li Liang patted the dormant cabin gently: "I'm waiting for you to take me to the shore of the eternal tide, waiting for you to treat me to the pine cones of the whirling tree..." He lowered his head and murmured: "Teacher."
Cain approached from behind, touched the cold sleeping cabin, and said nothing.
for a long time.
The two of them sat side by side with their backs to the sleeping cabin.
Li Liang straightened one leg and bent the other. He put his arms on his knees and looked at the ruins.
Cain tilted his head and rested it on his shoulder, and said casually: "I never heard you say anything about Avalon. I thought you would destroy the fairy world."
"I did think about it, but..." Li Liang said slowly, "When I opened the door and broke into Avalon, I found that my grandmother's wooden house had been moved away. The coalition forces encountered almost no decent resistance. There were only goblins in the city. Civilian, I knew then that the war was not going to continue.”
"Why?"
"Grandma's cabin's withdrawal from Avalon is a statement to the alliance. The goblin leaders are not willing to fight to the death. This is the result the alliance hopes to see. War is originally for profit."
"You are still very majestic when you split the World Tree," Cain chuckled.
"Returning to Aqilu, I could feel Axia becoming more and more blurred, the power belonging to God slowly weakening, and the Dao sword becoming difficult to control. At that time, I could no longer uproot the world tree of Nordrassil. , you can only cut off the main branch."
"You still want to pull out the World Tree? Why pull it back out?"
Li Liang smiled: "Planted in our anchor space, you know, the World Tree gathers dense spirits. If it can be obtained, it can form a new Well of Eternity and change the situation of spiritual poverty. In the future, our own Magicians, sorcerers, and psychic spaceships can replenish their spirits here.”
"oh."
"However, I told Angsa that the main branch I cut off belongs to humans. When the surrender ceremony is over, Robben can pull it back. The effect is not as good as the World Tree, but it is better than nothing."
Cain chuckled, "The Terrans agreed?"
"The Telunsan people's spiritual gate has been fully constructed. They don't care about a main branch of the World Tree. Angsa is very thoughtful and wants to win us over, so of course he has no problem with it."
Cain thought for a moment and said, "The person you chose is very suitable."
"Well, this negotiation is not only about the amount of compensation, the number of Linghe mines, and the location of the concession. The most important thing is to fight for those Linghe mines that are easy to control, have a suitable spatial location, and have suitable surrounding environment. Robben has rich experience, and the group is good at analysis. Zero One can combine their judgment to come up with the most effective negotiation plan, plus Timo as a consultant..." Li Liang sighed, "It's probably still very laborious, and strength determines the right to speak..."
"So you came back because you were afraid that the Terrans would notice that your power was fading?"
"For this reason, there is actually no point in me staying in Avalon." Li Liang lowered his head slightly, and from this angle he could see Cain's short blue-dyed hair and the bridge of her nose, "What about you? Can you tell me? ?”
"say what?"
"Laplace."
Cain was silent for a moment and sat up straight: "In the Nirvana Building, Old Tang and the others glued the bomb. Before detonating it, I heard Laplace's voice. It told me that in a few minutes, the canopy weapon would hit Nirvana. The building, its self-consciousness and the people present will die, and its power will be taken back to the moon by the heroic guards. It hopes that I can accept its self-consciousness..."
"Then what?"
"Before the identity and power were separated, Laplace could see the future with the help of Elune's power left in the magic circle. It was unstable, sometimes clear, sometimes blurry. After I accepted it, it saw the future again. There are many scenes, such as you becoming its master in the future, such as at the Zhuos headquarters, my consciousness was swallowed by the heroic spirit."
"I heard K say this," Li Liang frowned, "What I want to know is what role Laplace played in the whole plan."
"I think what it does is provide coordinates."
"coordinate?"
Cain nodded: "Do you still remember the piece of cloth that Old Tang pulled off?"
"Well, the earliest part of the loom was a binary program that could only display 'helloworld'."
"When Li Shuang summoned us, I asked him about this alone. He said that this program may be used to verify whether there are any errors in the new timeline and leave a mark at the same time."
“How does a program verify a timeline?”
Cain said dissatisfied: "Ask him yourself."
Li Liang was stunned for a moment, then realized that his brother probably explained the principle, but Cain, a semi-literate person, didn't understand. He turned to ask: "Laplace hasn't woken up yet?"
"No, in Machisas's magic talisman formation, the consciousness of heroic spirits dominates. I relied on Laplace to persevere. By the time you came in, I was almost dead and had forgotten everything..."
Li Liang remembered the scene he saw in "The Sorrow of Echoes". The heroic spirit and Cain's subconscious began to get closer. The puppy that Laplace turned into was injured. As the scene changed, the puppy became more and more... Weaker and weaker, until the dark labyrinth, Cain becomes mad and the puppy is on the verge of death.
In the end, Cain and the heroic spirit died together, and Laplace used his remaining power to protect Cain's consciousness.
When he returned from Athea and restored Cain with his godlike power, Laplace fell into a strange slumber.
Thinking of this, he inexplicably felt that Laplace's sleep was a bit like a "banana peel", and subconsciously said: "Why can't I wake up..."
Cain seemed to have a telepathic connection and whispered: "Banana peel."
"Huh?" Li Liang asked in surprise, "You also think it's a banana peel?"
Previously, Master Yuanshi used the example of a time traveler assassinating his grandparents to explain the rules of the sacred timeline. When the time traveler returns to the past, he is destined to be unable to kill his grandparents. He can only seriously injure his grandparents, forming a logical closed loop.
Li Shuang believes that this is a stable state of time. In the stable state, the time traveler will definitely encounter some sudden interference that causes the assassination to fail. For example, when shooting, he just steps on a banana peel and misses the shot.
This "banana peel" appearing in a key position is like a mechanism that forcibly changes the outcome of the event.
The concealment of "Li Liang" and the three gods was to avoid the leakage of "information" and cause new variables to be detected by time observers. It was reasonable, but Laplace's sleep seemed a bit abnormal.
"Actually, there are a lot of banana peels," Cain said, eyes burning.
Li Liang came back to his senses: "You mean K..."
"K discovered it three times. The first time at the bottom of Pier 65 of Dongjiang Port, someone cleared the entrance to the backup spaceship base. The second time he and Old Tang contacted Zhuos engineers, and someone opened the gate from the outside. The third time, In the upper city of the moon, K and Dr. Xisen took me to the place arranged by the zero-sequence bionic man to wait for you, and K saw me who was capable of magic."
"Well, I fought 'you' for the third time..." Li Liang recalled the details, "There should be two of them. When I popped out the flying sword, someone reminded 'you' to stay away."
"Are you sure it's 'them'?"
"What's the meaning?"
Cain shook his head: "Didn't K tell you? He also thought it was 'me' the first two times."
"Maybe he's pretending..." Halfway through, Li Liang remembered something and froze.
Cain leaned closer: "What did you think of?"
"In the video of the maintenance robot base... I seemed to have seen you, and that scene appeared in my dream. I'm not sure..."
"Well, also, in the Nirvana Building, after I accepted Laplace's self-awareness, someone rescued House and the others and brought Old Tang back to the ground."
Li Liang nodded: "K said that he found Old Tang in the corner at that time. Old Tang had gone crazy and kept saying 'he smiled' over and over again."
Cain lowered his eyes: "When I woke up in the ASK Building, Laplace briefly controlled Old Tang and discovered that what Old Tang saw... might be you."
"I?"
"Have you ever considered that these banana peels could be us."
Li Liang reacted: "One day in the future, we will also travel through time?"
"I'm not sure," Cain took a deep breath, "there are just too many banana peels."
"what else?"
"Li Shuang called up the sky monitor. Six years ago, your cryopod suddenly appeared in the Zhongjing garbage dump and was quickly buried. But just on the day when Mesai went to the garbage dump, someone dug you out and put you in a conspicuous place. location, and the reason why Dr. Xisen came to Zhongjing was because he received a letter from a psychic."
"I remember, Prometheus."
"Yes, when you went to Avalon, we found all the surviving psychics and checked this person. It turned out that he was one of the Dominator's cronies. It was he who tampered with the mission information and led to the hunting group of the psychics. I thought you were an ordinary 'fuel' and misjudged your reaction."
Li Liang wondered: "Is he also a banana peel?"
"At that time, Dr. Xisen came to Zhongjing and looked for him immediately. When he found him, he had been killed and a real-time memory chip was left behind. There was a video in it. It sounded like he was reporting Zhuo for the sake of justice. Si, and said that he heard your name from Tam's soul, and also left the address of the pet hospital." Cain sneered, "Actually, this person doesn't know magic. He has been responsible for releasing mission information and has never been close. After living in the 'New World', it is even less likely that I will meet Tam."
Li Liang understood that someone had instigated or forced the psychic who called himself Prometheus.
There are actually four groups of people in the entire plan.
In addition to these people, there are also "Li Liang" and three gods, time observers, and mysterious figures who act as "banana peels" to interfere with the development of events.
"Li Liang" and the gods arranged for Laplace and the group, and brought a secret base. The time observer chose Li Chengshu, but the mysterious figure quietly influenced the development of events.
To make things more complicated, the mysterious figure may be him and Cain who traveled through time one day in the future for some reason...
Perhaps, this time-related plan has only revealed the tip of the iceberg so far.
