Li Liang turned around and looked around. As expected, there was no other him behind him.
The hall was brightly lit, the leading actors of "Hans" were saying funny lines, and the crowd was silent, with smiles on their faces. Humanity had conquered Gaius Stolle, although the process was dangerous and twists and turns, and hundreds of warriors were buried alive. This is true, but it does not prevent these people from enjoying the peace now. However, for him, there are still too many unresolved problems.
Lowering his head, he gently rubbed the stone spoon, feeling the rough texture of the spoon body.
For two weeks, neither scientific methods nor magical methods could explain the origin and working principle of this spoon. Holy priest Tlipoca rummaged through all the books he brought with him, only from some ancient epics involving the creation titan. I found a few words——
Whenever a major historical event affects the entire spiritual world, several mysterious treasures appear out of the blue and then disappear inexplicably after the war subsides. According to the records of different native civilizations, this kind of treasure contains incomprehensible power. They have long spell-like names, but when translated into human language, they basically express the same meaning, that is, "incredible, inaccessible, and should not be touched." This world’s bad luck”.
It is incredible that such a thing is hidden in a spiritual core mine that has been plundered by the elves and gods for thousands of years.
Tripoca admitted that although the Federation of Law and Order includes five million member civilizations and has explored the spiritual world extremely deeply, there are still a large number of incredible items and mysteries in this infinite space full of miracles. Allen's thoughts on this were simple and direct - this thing came from the Void Domain, and the goblin didn't discover it just because of his arrogance.
However, as a spoon, it is quite handy for eating.
Ignoring Cain's disgusted look, Li Liang stuffed a spoonful of egg fried rice into his mouth with a stone spoon and chewed it slowly.
In any case, Gaius Stoll's trip has come to an end, and it's time for him to leave.
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Five days later, a meeting was held in the camp in front of the "Eternal Great Jar". Li Liang personally appointed Jin Ji and Jung to be fully responsible for the defense and subsequent development of the Gili World of Gaias Stoyle.
Based on the body structure of Gaias Stollites, Jin Ji stated at the meeting that in addition to completing the task of spiritual core mining, the garrison will crack the operating mechanism of the "Eternal Great Jar" and "Eternal Great Carving" as soon as possible, and mass " Produce Gaias Stollians and train them into a loyal engineering army.
After the meeting, Li Liang and his party left the camp on a special service ship. At a certain moment, he looked back through the window and saw the "Eternal Great Jar" standing at the end of his field of vision. Countless Gaias Stollites were moving towards the jar. "Listening" to the call of the watchers, they are gathering from all corners of the planet.
He had seen this scene in the "kick" script.
After that, the special service ship circled upward along the tunnel that was wide and narrow at times. Flashing holographic signs flashed across the portholes from time to time, indicating the correct exit. Then it flew over the "Old Nest Camp" and saw countless lighting equipment set up among the rugged boulders. Dozens of fortresses have been erected among the ruins of the ancient ruins.
He had also seen this scene in the 'kick' script.
When he passed through the spiritual door of Gaias Stolle, the hissing sound like the eruption of gas came from all directions. He recalled the experience in the illusion. Which one was fiction, that time or this moment?
Perhaps, both are true.
On August 7, 3028 in the human calendar, the expedition fleet set sail again, heading to the next spiritual core mine, Chico.
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The space where the human spiritual door is located belongs to the "remote suburbs", and starting from Gaias Stole, the expedition fleet quickly entered the "prosperous zone" of the Dark Spirit General Domain. Thanks to the "classical path" pioneered by the "Terensa Sacred Carbon-based Alliance" for carbon-based civilization, the fleet did not encounter any extreme physical rules when cruising at full speed, and the journey was smooth and safe.
In mid-September, the trip was halfway through.
In the mothership Nautilus, the "Father God"'s living module is located under the command bridge, with a single floor of nearly 1,000 square meters. It is elegantly and exquisitely decorated, equipped with a huge swimming pool and sauna room, and also has an oval window that takes up an entire wall. The view is second only to the command bridge.
At this moment, the air with constant temperature and humidity is filled with light fragrance, mixed with the smell of alcohol. A large bed of 25 square meters is majestically placed in the center of the living room, with wine bottles scattered around it, and a circular sofa on one side. There were books and clothes scattered on the floor, and the coffee table in the middle was in a mess, piled with fruits and snacks, and a few old-fashioned microphones used for singing.
It wasn't until the soft music began to play that Li Liang woke up from his deep sleep. In the darkness, he saw the fiery red light flowing and changing on the roof of the cabin.
Licking his lips, he endured the headache caused by his hangover and sat up. He looked up and saw that at some point, the window facing the bed had been fully opened.
Cain stood in front of the window, naked, and the flame-like light poured into the room, outlining the hazy crystal outline of her slender and well-proportioned body.
Li Liang silently watched her back. Her dark golden mechanical arm, the scar on her back and the "mayfly" tattoo on her waist formed a graceful picture.
For a moment, Cain seemed to notice something and snorted, but did not look back.
"you're awake?"
"Um."
Li Liang climbed out of bed on his hands and knees and walked to the window with his bare feet on the warm floor.
Looking around, the field of vision is extremely wide. Against the bright background, a dazzling fiery red light band stretches from far to near, winding past the escorting Aegis ship in front. Further forward, the majestic "Shifting Star" cross-domain battleship is seen. , two 'Hurricane' destroyers and frigates guarded the left and right.
"Li Liang, it's been a month," Cain suddenly turned his head and asked seriously: "Are you going to continue to have fun like this every day and don't care about anything?"
"Yeah, I just found a little bit of the feeling of being the twin gods," Li Liang said with a smile, "Besides, why don't I care about anything?"
"Last week, the Zaar people executed the delegation we sent, which is equivalent to a direct declaration of war, and the article written by Harlan Potter clearly supported the Zaar people..."
"Ah, didn't I give an order to that, the commander of the advance army? Within three months, the Zar people must hand over all war criminals. Otherwise, regardless of the attitude of the 'Combined' and Harlan Potter, we will start a war immediately. , how long and to what extent the fight will be fought, the president of their Zar Federation will decide."
"Then what?"
"We'll wait until we start a fight."
"What about k's intelligence? We received k's intelligence in mid-June. The civil war in the 'Mantosa' civilization. The two main camps within the "One Great Symbiosis" may use this reason to go to full-scale war. The situation also involves the alliance. Yesterday, K sent another message. Mass and Angsa rushed back to the capital of the empire at the same time, indicating that the old emperor may be dying..."
"So, I made an appointment with General Bobby to meet secretly at the Dark Spirit Nest. I haven't gone yet. Wait, why are you so enterprising all of a sudden? "
Cain stared into his eyes and took a deep breath: "I just feel that this is not the Li Liang I know."
"Tsk," Li Liangyang pretended to be dissatisfied, "I have done so much for mankind, can't I enjoy it?"
The room fell silent.
After a long time, Cain said softly: "I know, you still think that what is happening now, this ship, this room are all fictitious, and all of us are fake. You feel that you are still in an illusion."
The expression on Li Liang's face gradually disappeared and he said in a low voice:
"As you have seen during this period, I have tried various methods, science, magic, Taoism...Tlipoca is right, if I am really still in a game like "Tianling" , all the information received by the brain is false, then it is impossible for me to distinguish reality from fiction.”
He strolled towards the right side of the window. There was a wired communicator hanging on the bulkhead that went directly to the command bridge. "However, I have recently figured out a question. In that illusion, Fan Yazi asked me why players felt that the real world is fake."
As he spoke, he pressed the button on the communicator, "Stop the ship."
Li Sen's voice came from the other side, and the top commander of the expedition fleet replied without hesitation: "Yes, Father God."
next moment.
The fleet's sailing speed fell below the speed of light. Outside the window, the bright light and fiery red light strips were instantly stretched into a cone shape, and then quickly shrank away. Darkness surged from behind at the same speed until it submerged everything. A thin stream of light could be vaguely seen across the far end of the field of vision. At the same time, the fleet began to change its formation. Dozens of "Iron Crow-class" assault ships swarmed out and circled around the mothership on guard.
"Turn right," Li Liang ordered again, and the entire fleet immediately turned right, "Turn, continue, hey, stop."
At this time, the stream of light at the end of the field of vision is like a line, which just divides the window into two halves.
"What do you mean?" Cain asked confused.
Li Liang stretched out his hand and gestured, then said casually: "Don't you think this angle looks better than before?"
"Just to look good?"
"That's right," Li Liang sat back on the sofa, lit a cigarette, took a puff and shook his head, "This cigarette is fake, it has no power at all."
He looked down at the burning star of the cigarette, "The energy consumed by a 'sudden stop' like this can support the fleet's cruise for a week, but I can stop whenever I want, and no one will question it, because I am the Twin Gods and the master of the human universe."
"After experiencing such authority, who would want to be an ordinary person again? After decades of life, running around and busy every day just to live, and then giving meaning to various nouns, deceiving themselves and others in the short-term satisfaction, and finally dying and lying in bed. There is no movement there, just a piece of meat. The meat is burned to ashes, turned into a name, and then forgotten. No matter what the world will become in the future, it has nothing to do with you."
Cain said quietly: "So those players are unwilling to return to reality. What about you? If all you have experienced is just the "Tianling" game, the real Li Liang is now lying in the headquarters of Xi'an Company. Tang Xintao and Fan Yazi are Waiting for you to wake up, the out-of-control player caused an explosion at the court hearing. JC is looking for you all over the world. Maybe you will wake up in the next second and be arrested and imprisoned."
"It's not unacceptable," Li Liang smiled, "At least I'm a rich ordinary person."
"Why?"
"Because there is no difference between reality and fiction, it just depends on which world you believe is real, it is real."
Upon hearing these words, Cain was stunned for a moment, then shook his head as if waking up from a dream, and returned to the window again.
Looking at her back, Li Liang said to himself: "We will meet again soon."
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On October 11, 3028 in the human calendar, the expedition fleet arrived at the third spiritual core mine, Chico.
After reuniting with the advance army, Li Liang did not hold a meeting immediately as before, but ordered the Nautilus to slowly approach Chico's Spiritual Gate.
It was a pure black sphere, very similar to the spiritual gate of the earth. Under the lingering clouds and mist, there was a layer of rippling water on the surface.
According to the information leaked by the goblin, Chico is an independent magical being that occupies the entire universe, and has a special ability named "Thinking Field" by the goblin. The reason why it is willing to sacrifice its "body" for The goblin clan mines spiritual cores just to obtain detailed information about other life forms, and then uses the "thinking field" to build a virtual civilization and even the universe, creating a long and wonderful "dream" for themselves.
When the distance was close enough, Li Liang closed his eyes, turned his head slightly, and asked softly as if asking a friend standing next to him: "It's you, right?"
The originally noisy command hall became dead silent, so he opened his eyes.
The cabin roof unfolded silently, like a lotus blooming, until it was completely open, and the command bridge completely turned into an exposed platform. Everyone in the hall froze, still maintaining the movements of the previous moment.
Then, everything in the field of vision gradually faded away, like a background sticker being torn open bit by bit, revealing the true face hidden underneath.
Li Liang raised his head and looked around. Planets of various sizes were hovering at appropriate distances, filling the entire field of view, like a colorful "polka dot painting" or a carefully designed "display wall". Each planet had different colors and rotating speeds. Different, but close to each other, chaotic but extremely harmonious.
After taking a few steps, he came to the edge of the "platform". A familiar blue planet was slowly turning under his feet, and another smaller gray planet was nestled on the side.
He realized that they were the earth and the moon, and below the earth and moon, there was a huge planet, which should be the Gaias Stole parent star.
In addition, a vast number of "creations" like stars filled the rest of the space, ranging from spiritual gates, supply ship ports, large fleets, and human spacecraft of all types to all civilizations encountered along the way. Everything from small items to daily necessities are divided into categories and neatly arranged.
At this moment, Li Liang felt like he was in the Creator's warehouse. Whether it was a galaxy or a toothbrush, they were just the Creator's collection.
Suddenly, he felt that the scene in front of him was very much like the "edit mode" of the "Tianling" game. Everything that existed was just a model created by a program.
"Li Liang," Cain's voice came from behind.
Li Liang came to his senses, turned around and said with a smile: "Hello, Chico."
"The elves came to me and let me know what life was. In the long period of time that followed, I was immersed in creation and destruction, exploring the essence of life between countless rebirths and declines, and gradually a question arose. What is life? Am I manipulating the 'thinking field', or does the 'thinking field' create me? Is there a clear boundary between reality and fiction?"
"Cain" said with clear eyes behind his hands, "Thank you for opening your heart to me and giving me an answer."
"Uh...my answer was 'accepting fate', which is another way of saying it," Li Liang shook his head mockingly, "Actually, I can't tell the difference between truth and fiction now."
"The answer is not that sentence," "Cain" tapped his forehead with his finger, "but you, your memory, your choice, your life."
"It seems that I have passed the level," Li Liang spread his hands and asked again, "There is one more thing, what I experienced in the illusion..."
"For you, that experience does not exist, but everything you see will last forever in the 'thought field'."
Before he finished speaking, the surrounding scene changed instantly, from the bridge platform to the Xi'an Company headquarters, the room where the "Tianling" test equipment was located.
In the darkness, there was a corpse lying on one sofa, and on the other sofa, "Li Liang" was connected to the host, looking like he was in deep sleep. Tang Xintao stood aside with a pale face, and Fan Yazi sat on the floor with a dejected expression.
"What's going to happen next?" Standing by the sofa, Li Liang looked at the two unaware people and asked casually, "Am I being arrested?"
"Maybe, maybe not."
"You don't know either?"
"Cain" smiled: "Yes, because this is his life."
"That's right," Li Liang stretched, "Should I go?"
"Yes, your companions have been waiting for a long time," "Cain" pointed to the door of the room, "go out of that door and return to the reality you believe in."
"Okay, goodbye, Chico," Li Liang came to the door. He was suddenly stunned when he held the door handle, and said with a smile, "If I never meet you again, I wish you good morning, good afternoon and good night."
After saying that, he pushed open the door.
