Ruins of the past

"Cat looking for cat?"

Hearing what Qiao Zhi said in front of him, something seemed to flash slightly in Qian Wangsun's eyes.

He looked at Qiao Zhi in front of him and asked, "Can you find Christina?"

Qiao Zhi is not very familiar with the name 'Christina', but it has been a long time since she came to the main universe. For a lot of information, especially about the Void Palace, the Federation, and the Aberration Empire, As well as the information from Taishang and Yuanshi are all involved.

So Qiao Zhi knew that Yuanshi Tianzun had a cat demon friend, and that cat demon was named Christina.

It is said that the two parties are both teachers and friends. They knew each other before Yuanshi Tianzun grew up and have accompanied each other all the way to this day.

It is also said that when Yuanshi Tianzun was still a mortal, this cat demon provided him with great help and taught him a lot of martial arts and Taoist knowledge. It was a major boost to the rise of Yuanshi Tianzun.

The first time he saw this place, Qiao Zhi felt that the story about cats and people seemed a bit familiar. Later, he thought about it, wasn't it similar to his relationship with Chu Qiguang?

So Qiao Zhi has always been extremely curious about this cat demon named Christina.

After hearing Qian Wangsun's question, Qiao Zhi shook his head and said, "I have never seen this cat demon and have no contact with her at all. How can I help you find him?"

Qian Wangsun did not speak, but fell into some kind of thinking, and then said: "No, since the saint asked you to come, there must be some reason."

"There may be some kind of connection between you and Christina that you don't even know about."

In the next few months, Qian Wangsun and Li Yaofeng took Qiao Zhi to do a series of tests, constantly looking for the connection between the two cats.

Qian Wangsun also slowly told the results he obtained from the dream of Our Lady of Xuhe.

"In order to find the target, I tried to communicate with the other party using the remaining connection in the body of Our Lady of Xuhe."

During this period, Qiao Zhi also learned about the current state of Our Lady of Xuhe. Due to the growth of her distraction, 'Wuji', the current aberration empire is completely governed by this leader, while the original main consciousness of Our Lady of Xuhe was in Chu. Under Qi Guang's intervention, he fell into a long dream.

"You also know the method used. It is the ritual that Li Yaofeng and I restored through the remains of the experiments left by the Demon Saint in the Aberrant Empire."

"And the medium is dreams."

"But Our Lady of Xuhe is too powerful. Even if her consciousness is in a deep sleep, the slight fluctuations are enough to crush most human lives in the universe into dust."

"For more than half a year, I can only carefully explore her dreams through rituals."

"Most dreams are messy and meaningless, like the ravings of countless madmen."

"In those bizarre dreams, I tried to go deeper and explore the core of the sea of ​​consciousness of Our Lady of Xuhe, those parts that even she herself could not detect or observe."

"Finally...in a dream like a fairy tale world, I found that person."

"Unfortunately, our contact was soon severed."

Li Yaofeng asked: "Can't we contact you again?"

Qian Wangsun shook his head: "Since it has been discovered by him and cut off by him personally, it means that he does not want us to communicate with the other party. Trying again and again is just a waste of time."

"but……"

Qian Wangsun looked at Qiao Zhi and said: "Through the remaining connections in the body of Our Lady of Xuhe, we can roughly determine the other party's position in the main universe."

"Originally, this is of no use. The other party is hiding in one of the countless parallel times and spaces. If you just know the direction of the main universe, you won't be able to find the other party."

"But it seems that the saint sent you here did have deep meaning. You and Christina are connected by blood, and Christina should be with him at the moment."

Qiao Zhi was shocked: "A blood connection? We have never seen it before. We are not even from the same world. How can there be a blood connection?"

Qian Wangsun explained: "Although you come from two worlds, your bloodline comes from the Tianyan beast, and you all belong to the cat demon clan. Especially..."

Qian Wangsun touched his chin and said: "Both of your bloodlines are very special among the many bloodline branches of Tianyan Beast, and there are some artificial traces."

Qiao Zhi was shocked again when he heard this: "Ah? Artificial traces?"

Li Yaofeng judged: "Although the original Tianyan Beast originated from the earth, after the discovery and experiment by Huangji Tianjun, it can no longer be said to be a purely natural creature, especially the ones studied by Huangji Tianjun. The key parts all have the intervention of that person..."

Qiao Zhi immediately thought of Chu Qiguang's past experience. The other party used void projection to participate in the Void Palace War countless years ago. In the process, he seemed to have intervened in the Tianyan Beast experiment on earth.

‘Could it be that some of Chu Qiguang’s actions while intervening in the Tianyan Beast experiment led to the birth of our cat demon clan? ’

Just when Qiao Zhi was deep in thought, Qian Wangsun continued to say: "I'm afraid that your saint had some plans in the Tianyan Beast experiment. Maybe he interfered with the birth of the cat demon, or maybe he catalyzed the evolution of the Tianyan Beast. , and even directly led to the emergence of the cat demon."

"In short, both you and Christina are derived from the cat demon branch of the bloodline of the Tianyan beast, and have also been baptized by the cycle of time and space. There are some reasons that I can't fully understand now. In short, through The blood connection between the two of you can help us determine the specific position of the other party in parallel time and space."

Qiao Zhi nodded: "That is to say, through your successful research results on Our Lady of Xuhe, you can locate the target in the main universe, and through my blood connection, you can determine which parallel universe the other party is in."

Qian Wangsun said: "Yes, this should be the reason why I sent you here..."

So Qian Wangsun, Li Yaofeng, and Qiao Zhi set off together to find the target, and their first destination was the federal territory.

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Federal border.

Because of the void disaster caused by the aberration empire, the Federation has implemented varying degrees of surveillance and isolation policies everywhere inside and outside the territory.

Today, at the transit station at the federal border, there is a residence specially designed for quarantine of immigrants.

All immigrants must undergo a month-long observation here to confirm that there are no signs of distortion in their physical bodies and consciousness before they can enter the Federation.

At this moment, in the isolation point, Jiaojiao, Jiang Longyu, Lei Yushu, and Zidian Tianjun were gathered together to discuss something.

Zhou Yujiao pinched her hands and said, "I finally escaped to the Federation. Those guys in Heaven are really bastards. They can't sell us bonds, and they can't compete with us in a fair competition, so they took action."

"If my brother hadn't had time to deal with them now, I would have made them bankrupt one by one and work for me for the rest of their lives."

They were originally engaged in the business of selling Taiyi debts in Xuyuan some time ago. On the one hand, they had the Aberration Empire to help raise the price of Taiyi debts outside, and on the other hand, they had Zidian Tianjun taking care of them internally. In the past few months, It can be said that their Taideo business is booming and growing, and their users are expanding like a snowball.

From the Heavenly Lord to the mortals, more and more people in Xuyuan began to buy Taiduo.

However, Taixu Daozu seemed to have gained insight into the secrets during his fight with Taishang Tianzun, and immediately asked the Daozus to order the Heavenly Court to strictly prohibit all transactions of Taixu debts inside and outside Xuyuan.

The originally booming Pacific debt market was immediately suppressed by the Heavenly Court, causing a lot of chaos during this period.

For example, some Tianjun took this opportunity to rob private debts in the name of banning debts and make profits for himself.

Some sects reported that rival sects secretly sold debt, taking the opportunity to deal with their old enemies.

There are even some immortals who took the opportunity to frame the fault and directly hid the debt in the enemy's home, and then led the heaven to capture the opponent in the name of banning the debt...

As the Supreme Heavenly Lord and the Dao Ancestors have been focusing on frontal battles for a long time, the immortals and gods in Xuyuan now lack supervision more and more, and the heavens are becoming increasingly unorganized.

After Taixu Daozu's decree, the entire Xuyuan was shaken. This decree also rapidly expanded due to the greed of the immortals and gods, and all kinds of chaos spread.

Zidian Tianjun was disappointed and said: "The Taoist ancestors only know how to plunder the world and exploit the common people, and treat billions of living beings like cattle and horses. The immortals and gods only know how to fight for power and gain, flattering those above and bullying those below, and regard heaven and earth as their own private property."

"Whether it is Xu Dao Palace or Heavenly Court, the entire Xu Yuan is rotten from top to bottom inside and outside."

"Only after Tianzun defeats those old immortals, there may be some hope of reforming the Xu Dao Palace from top to bottom."

Jiang Longyu said: "Judging from the situation before we left, although Taiyi was officially banned in Xuyuan, there was still an endless stream of transactions secretly. I am afraid it is only a matter of time before the Taishang Saints surpass the Taoist ancestors."

He said with emotion: "Even if you reach the realm of immortals and gods, you can't do without profit after all. Facing the skyrocketing debt, these immortals obeyed the arrangements of the Taoist ancestors on the surface, but privately they traded wildly and made a lot of money. , even the transaction scale is more terrifying than what we have operated before.”

Zhou Yujiao snorted: "So what about gods? It's not like they are truly invincible if they have no desires or desires. From ancient times to the present, from the world to the outside, the conflicts of all intelligent creatures are inseparable from interests, so only those who have distributed interests can Only ability can change all realms and move the overall situation..."

Zidian Tianjun said: "But the Federation is different. Here there is a referendum, and all the people have been corrected by the consciousness algorithm. It can be said that everyone is a gentleman, and everyone is a moral person. I don't know when he will be empty. The abyss can be like the Federation..."

Seeing the longing for the Federation in Zidian Tianjun's eyes, Zhou Yujiao curled her lips and said disdainfully: "How can a civilization where everyone is a moral person continue to exist and expand to such a large territory? I'm sure there must be some kind of conspiracy within the Federation. It’s a secret and serious problem, but they can directly modify their consciousness, so that the people don’t even have the ability to resist.”

"What do you know? This is not a feudal dynasty like the Han world..." Zidian Tianjun immediately refuted Zhou Yujiao's statement and began to explain the superiority of the federal system to the other party.

While several people were discussing the situation, a bell rang inside and outside the residence. This was to notify them to test the distortion index to see if their body and mind had been affected by the demonic contamination and caused distortion.

So Jiaojiao and others followed the large group downstairs and lined up in a long line to start the test.

Looking at the neat and orderly team, Zidian Tianjun praised: "The people of the Federation are of high quality. If it were the people of Xuyuan, they would have been in chaos."

Jiaojiao said: "Ninety-nine percent of the people in the Federation are cyborgs. Most of the people entering here are either tourists or aliens who come to work for the Federation."

Zidian Tianjun: "That is because they have been educated by the Federation and have subtly improved their own quality."

Jiaojiao rolled her eyes: "With the Federation's technology and technical strength, it takes a little time to avoid queuing and gathering, and reduce the chance of the spread of magic dye. We are already in the era of faster-than-light trade, and we still have to queue up physically. This is obvious It is the subconscious laziness of the bureaucracy and the lack of attention to alien personnel..."

Seeing that the two women were about to continue to quarrel, Jiang Longyu said quickly: "You two, we have come to the Federation to take refuge, so we should keep a low profile."

Realizing that the people around them were paying attention, Jiaojiao and Zidian Tianjun looked at each other and turned away, as if they didn't bother to argue anymore.

Time passed like this day by day. Originally, Jiaojiao and others thought that they would be able to enter the federation as planned in a month, but soon they discovered something was wrong.

First, people nearby suffered distortions one after another, and the entire isolation and testing time continued to extend.

Then food prices continued to rise, material supplies were in short supply, and some aliens began to live frugally.

Then, the number of aberrations increased, and even though there was no void disaster, they did not decrease.

Jiang Longyu frowned and said: "Someone is deformed near us again. Apparently there is some unknown source of demon dye that has not been discovered. If this continues..."

Zidian Tianjun said: "We should believe in the management capabilities and technical strength of the Federation. It is estimated that they will conduct a large-scale inspection in a few days to find out the specific transmission points..."

Jiaojiao snorted: "Haven't you noticed yet? The Federation has completely different attitudes towards itself and outsiders. Other civilizations are simply colonies to them, a place where they dump goods and plunder cheap labor. They don't pay attention at all. here……"

During everyone's discussion, Jiaojiao was inclined to find an opportunity to sneak out. If she continued to stay here, she would only be threatened by Mo Ran.

Zidian Tianjun, on the other hand, prefers to wait where he is, waiting for further measures from the federation.

Jiang Longyu wanted to contact Chu Qiguang and seek advice from him.

Unfortunately, according to Jiaojiao, even she can't contact Chu Qiguang now, so this method has to be abandoned.

Just when everyone was discussing and discussing, but still unable to reach a unanimous goal, the Federation directly arranged for people to pick them out, and met Qiao Zhi, Li Yaofeng and Qian Wangsun on a border planet of the Federation.