Star Empire

"I'm sorry, we can't save him." The scholars from the empire took the lead in breaking the deadlock after a long silence.

"His bleeding could not be stopped not because there were wounds in his body that could not be healed, nor that some external factors caused abnormalities in his body, but because these guardians were in the process of "ascending to the gods". There were obvious defects in their bodies, and these defects broke the seal of the guardians' bodies, so their "bleeding" could not be stopped."

"We once thought that the Heart of the World was attached to the bodies of these guardians, which caused abnormalities in the guardians' bodies. But now, our previous guesses were not correct. Yorumu Leshang himself is still alive. The flow of information surrounding Him all shows that His problem is caused by a fault in shaping the body structure. It is useless to try to change this problem through treatment, because He does not have a "disease", so even if we are completely There is no use in "unbinding" His body from your second Hytes life."

"This result is regrettable, but we have to admit that according to our recent investigation results, this is indeed the case." After a longer silence, λ responded.

"We are a little confused about this." Looking at the text dancing in front of them, the scholars of the empire sent their questions after getting permission, "Then the seven guardians should be called your gods, right? But you don’t seem to understand their situation very well, and you are also very resistant to them.”

"The seven "Guardians" can be regarded as our gods, but we don't believe in them now. Even more than them, we want to call those entities them." After a while, there was another The information is passed through the heavy security measures in the link.

"The belief in the seven guardians of all living beings began after all living beings escaped from primitiveness and ignorance. Such beliefs quickly formed a system and then a religion. The Seven Saints belief system headed by Oto Tanla began a long time ago. It has already crossed the starry sky, it has even crossed the etheric sea, crossed the discontinuous boundaries between space-time structures, and spread to every corner of the Second Hytes Epoch.”

"These beliefs have already included part of the doctrine that requires all living beings to perform blood sacrifices to the gods. The gods are in the sea of ​​​​stars to resist possible disasters outside the domain, and their bodies will continue to lose blood during the battle. The gods are in On weekdays, they protect lives and bring strength and blessings to them, but the gods also need feedback from all living beings - that is, blood sacrifices."

"Believers who believe in the Seven Saints need to provide blood to their gods. If there is no blood, other body tissues that have similar functions to blood and can play a life-sustaining function can also be used."

"It's hard to imagine that we once had faith - the Gouchen Star that always hangs in the right direction is the faith we once had, but that is already a very, very long time ago. Although we now retain the beliefs related to it name, but we only treat all this as spiritual sustenance, so we may not be able to understand your feelings quickly." The scholars of the empire responded, "However, judging from the current situation, with the Seven Saints The core belief system should have experienced many declines.”

"You are right - the first decline of the faith surrounding them came from the death of the first Saint Mosanla Leshan. The cause of his death has been difficult to verify, and the information we can find shows more This reflects the impact on the civilization at that time: nearly one-tenth of the divine arts collapsed directly, and the magical system at that time and many magical civilizations based on magical technology declined almost overnight."

"While the surviving civilizations are rushing to remedy the situation, they also realize that the "Le Shang" are not eternal, and the country and civilization based on the Le Shang magical system are not stable enough. These trends of thought have gradually begun to trend It started to grow and got a huge response – it was the first decline of faith.”

“The second decline of faith was serious, approximately 400 billion to 600 billion years after the establishment of the Second Hytes Epoch—at that time, a huge gap appeared in the hub universe of the Second Hytes Epoch. , there are a steady stream of monsters emerging from that gap, and from time to time, weird black and red patterns will appear. Looking at it now, it should be what you call the "death tide." That gap is called " "The Moment of Nothingness". The guardians at that time shouldered the responsibility of resisting the invasion of the void, and the divine arts they taught began to be used to fight against the invasion of the void."

"In your opinion, this should have led to the expansion and prosperity of the Seven Saints' faith so far, but this is just the beginning - in the continuous battle for two hundred billion years, the third Saint Ainodin Leshan died in battle, The Leshang magic system once again collapsed. At the same time, due to the tight war situation, churches in various civilizations have more and more stringent requirements for blood sacrifices. Before this, blood sacrifices almost never caused casualties, but in After this stage, examples of death caused by direct draining of blood during blood sacrifices became commonplace - a process that lasted for hundreds of billions of years."

"No civilization can accept such behavior, and these blood cannot be produced in batches through industrial production. They must come from life itself, and they must be "naturally produced." Any means that can increase blood cannot be used to Defile this blood."

From between the lines, the scholars of the empire could feel the anger in the organizers behind these paragraphs. The words in front of them were being refreshed rapidly. The beings from the Lambda Civilization Union said so many words at such a fast speed, even in the past In the most intense negotiations, this kind of scene is rare.

"A large number of living lives died in sacrifices. If the moment of nothingness had not been successfully blocked in the end, I am afraid that the collapse of the Seven Saints' faith would have been accelerated by hundreds of billions of years. After sealing the moment of nothingness, civilizations had no idea about these things. The guardian's faith level has dropped rapidly - this should be easy for you to understand. Faith must be able to exchange for some benefits, strength, blessings, or spiritual sustenance. But now, faith can no longer provide benefits. "

"However, since the guardians still have meritorious deeds, and other churches that have splintered off from Ototanla and worship the Seven Saints still have considerable influence, the belief in the Seven Saints is only from the mainstream. It has become non-mainstream but not extinct.”

"These beliefs more often appear in places where the level of civilization is not high, or in primitive civilizations that are themselves underdeveloped - there are always many people with extreme ideas, or who are in urgent need of something to rely on. Spiritual individual existence.”

"At the same time, after the blockage of the void moment was completed, the guardians' demand for blood has been significantly reduced."

"So, even if there are a lot fewer believers, the combined territory controlled by the churches is enough to support the living guardians. As for the part outside the "civilized world", in underdeveloped places, millions of Even if billions of lives evaporate directly, they may not have time to make a sound, and naturally it will be difficult to be discovered in time.”

".We can understand that."

"You can understand that is best - the third decline of faith directly led to the rapid collapse of all religious systems that believe in the Seven Saints. That was the birth of 1100 billion to 10,000 taels in the second Hytes world. About a hundred billion years ago, and that period of time was also when the current "λ Civilization Union" was truly formed. The reason for the decline of faith this time is very simple, because we discovered that these guardians had set up on the world barrier. They do not allow us to explore areas outside the world."

"And their reason is that there is what you call the death tide in the nothingness outside the world, and you."

"You should be able to deduce the story after this - the new civilizations that have not experienced your "great expansion of the decision-making era" will definitely not understand or believe these contents.

The lords became jailers, and the second life of Hatesh became a prison. "

"λ has united a large number of civilizations with the highest memetic life as a link. We have spent every remaining billion years to continuously accumulate strength. Not long ago, when the Fifth Saint lost control of the civil war, we launched a counterattack, preparing to destroy this so-called Seven The Holy Spirit was completely wiped out, and at this moment, you appeared."

"On weekdays, they stay in the hub universe most of the time, because they claim that once the hub universe encounters a crisis, all other space-time structures will be seriously threatened. And there is a restricted area, and we can't go there even if we want to. , this is the direct reason why we don’t understand them, and the fundamental reason is that we no longer respect them as gods and no longer believe in them. Faith does not collapse overnight. The collapse of faith lasts for a long time. And in this long, long time, they can undergo many changes, and we who no longer pay attention to these changes will naturally not grasp the new situations related to them."

"So, for a long time, apart from wanting to kill them, we didn't want to know anything about them. After you appeared, we admitted that we had misunderstood the purpose of these guardians, so We hope to be able to give some help to what is left of Him.”

"But everyone in Lambda Civilization doesn't owe them anything. Even if they have owed anything, the blood that is enough to fill the ocean of countless celestial bodies has already paid off all the debts. Now that's all we can do. .”

"." After hearing all this, both parties fell into silence again.

"So, is there any other way you can save Him?" After a long time, Lambda asked again.

"The most direct way is to continue to give him blood transfusions. Of course, you will definitely not be able to accept this method. To change his body structure requires drastic action at close range - unless you allow us to send in an engineering fleet, otherwise we will This is not possible. The most feasible option at present is to import his soul into a new body. Of course, this depends on your wishes."

"Extract the soul?"

"Yes, our research believes that the soul is all the needs to maintain an independent body of information to maintain itself and continue - why am I me? The part of an individual that can answer this question is its soul."

"Of course, this is the soul in the broadest sense. The soul in the narrow sense is made up of information from multiple dimensions such as self and wisdom. Based on the information you provided and our observation of Yorumu Shangde, we judge that he has a soul in the narrow sense. , and He can naturally continue his existence in this way, He is still Him, and this will not change." After the scholars of the empire gave their answers, they quietly waited for this group of still unfamiliar wisdom They make a choice.

"What can we do?" A new question came from the other side of λ civilization.

"Provide a body - something that is not compensation. According to our previous agreement, we can't transport it yet, and our creation characteristics don't quite match him. So it's best for you to create a new body to house his soul. .According to the current situation, 20 million bodies are enough."

"Twenty million weapons?!"

"Yes, our test results are like this. Yorumu Leshang's power has been scattered before, and it was not until recently that he was forcibly gathered. They still show a trend of scattering. If all his power and soul are combined, To forcefully stuff it into a body, that body must be tougher than the one he has now - maybe it’s too late now, right?”

".knew."

After the two sides drew up the initial plan, subsequent talks quickly shifted the focus to some of the specific details.

The empire put forward more technical requirements, and as the main equipment provider, λ Civilization took on almost all creation tasks - countless information probes and enhanced transmission equipment were imported from various factories. The production line was launched, and 20 million bodies were created in a short period of time. They were displayed near the ancient body of Yorumu Leshang, which had almost no life response.

Information probes and information relays like stars are densely and neatly arranged in the sky above these newly created bodies, waiting to move the dying ancient souls into the new bodies.

By the time the empire's scholars were required to control the specific details, the Lambda civilization had neatly stacked all the materials that needed to be prepared near the "remains" of the seventh guardian in just a few days, like a group of Ants row in the yamen.

The figure is wearing a robe, holding a spear in his right hand, with a flag hanging on the spear stating that "it can only be flown in the most critical moments", while his left hand points to the ethereal distance. If measured in the standard unit of stars, the human body height of these figures is 100 kilometers, and the total height is 120 kilometers. All the figures are made of some kind of alloy-like material. Their surfaces are not smooth. The alloy-like texture reveals a thick and deep luster, which is reminiscent of mineral veins that have been deposited for hundreds of millions of years.

"Start to determine the boundaries of the individual soul. Confirm the boundaries of consciousness, confirm the boundaries of wisdom, confirm the boundaries of the story. The analysis is completed, the soul structure has been integrated, and now the sequential transmission begins."

The command was executed after a fixed delay. Witnessed by many creatures in the Lambda Civilization Union, the souls trapped inside the body of this controversial "guardian" are getting rid of this ancient body. They are attracted and transmitted by the relay equipment, and are finally delivered to the Lambda Civilization. in the new body created.

After several weak tremors, the first figure slowly opened its eyes.