Ruins of the past

Although he suddenly felt a little panicked, Jiang Longyu gradually felt at ease when he thought of the current situation in the Han world and the many masters, especially the advanced level of Chu Qiguang.

‘It’s okay, although God Huangtian is powerful, the big man now is very different from the past. ’

Thinking of the current prosperity and power of the Han Dynasty, and thinking of the accumulation of terror in the entire world under Chu Qiguang's rule over the years, the sudden panic in Jiang Longyu's heart was completely gone.

'If you think about it carefully, Huang Tian is not a great guy...'

For Jiang Longyu in the past, perhaps Huangtian was an extremely mysterious, terrifying and powerful god, and the endless unknown represented endless fear.

But for Jiang Longyu now, according to the information currently possessed by the Han Dynasty, Huang Tian is just an extremely high-level monk, and is not fundamentally different from them.

‘Even if he has reached the so-called Dao Ancestor level, there is more than one strong person at the Dao Ancestor level in this world. If Huang Tian really dares to come here, I am afraid that what awaits him is an earth-shattering siege. ’

Soon Jiang Longyu put all his thoughts about Huangtian behind him. He felt that instead of thinking about this, it would be better to think about his future life arrangements.

‘Should I go to heaven? ’

Ever since he was taken away for investigation, Jiang Longyu felt that there was such a stain on his resume.

Although it was finally confirmed that the tax evasion had nothing to do with him and was just the responsibility of the people below, the label of unclear identification and poor supervision was still stamped on him.

From that time on, he felt a vague resistance in the selection of various qi and blood circulation projects.

He was not selected for any of the major national projects with huge amounts of Qi and blood. You must know that he was a frequent visitor to those projects in the past and was the golden name of many Qi and blood circulation projects.

As a result, many of the eight generals of the Xinghan Dynasty who were behind him have been selected, but he was the only one who was excluded. For this reason, he went to see Chu Qiguang, and what he said was deeply remembered by him. In my mind...

"The operation of each project is reviewed by the Qi and Blood Center at all levels. As for manpower arrangements, I believe they have their own considerations. As a higher-level person... I am actually not suitable to interfere with them."

Jiang Longyu: "But you have to give me a chance, right? Now I won't be eliminated even if I try everything now..."

Chu Qiguang: "Xiaojiang, I understand, I understand your discomfort, but you also need to understand the difficulties of the management. After all, you have been in trouble. If you continue to let you manage some large-scale Qi and blood projects, It will inevitably make the customers who buy less confident, and when the sales decline, everyone will feel uncomfortable..."

Jiang Longyu: "You know what happened that time had nothing to do with me. It was all the people below who were messing around..."

Chu Qiguang: "I know, I know, don't worry, I will definitely help you find a way. You know, among the eight generals of Xinghan in the past, you were the one I was most optimistic about... Well... Well... let's do it, have you thought about it? Do you want to work in outer space for a while?"

Jiang Longyu: "Tianwai?"

Chu Qiguang nodded: "You just recently broke through Shenyou, right? To be honest, it's a bit late to break through Shenyou at this age. Among today's average breakout ages for field workers, it can barely be considered a middle-to-lower level... If it were in the past If you do, the good things that come to heaven will not be your turn."

"But from ancient times to the present, no dynasty or generation has made it so easy to travel to the outer world as it is now. The focus of the layout for the next hundred years will also be the outer world. You have caught up."

"Whether you have experience working outside the world will be very important in the future. Promotions and salary increases will take this into consideration. Whether your position can be moved up before you are 100 years old is also a hurdle."

"So if you can't find a job that you are satisfied with now...then I recommend you to study outside Tianwai for a while."

After Jiang Longyu thought about it for a moment, he asked again: "How long is a period of time?"

Chu Qiguang took out a stack of documents and put them in front of the other party: "Just read it here. This is an internal document. Don't tell others that I asked you to read it."

Jiang Longyu was a little surprised when he saw it halfway: "It will take at least five years?"

Chu Qiguang explained: "Adventure Ritual consumes a lot of resources, and Tianwai's work is very busy. In order to reduce costs and work efficiency, we can only go back once every five years at most."

"But as far as I know, you are neither married nor have children, right? Your parents have hibernated for a long time. You have nothing to worry about here. In that case, why not give it a try?"

"There are not many opportunities that can change a person's life in this life. They are usually only a few times. If you have the opportunity, you must seize it..."

Although he was bewitched by Chu Qiguang, Jiang Longyu did not immediately agree to go to Tianwai at that time. After all, he was no longer the brave little kid he once was, fearing nothing.

The outer world may not endanger the body, but all kinds of dark secrets, twisted knowledge, terrifying gods... these are the most terrifying poisons to consciousness.

Therefore, Jiang Longyu has always preferred to slowly accumulate and improve in the Han body, rather than descend to the outer world to take risks.

'The only person who can do such a dangerous thing is the unlucky guy who was the enemy of Chu Qiguang and owed him a lot of debt...'

‘Or maybe those old unlucky guys who were taken out of the coffin to work and owed Chu Qiguang’s life would do it. ’

Jiang Longyu originally thought so, but now seeing his income plummeting, he thought of what Chu Qiguang said again, and his original thoughts seemed to gradually begin to waver.

At the same time, except for Jiang Longyu, the other eight generals of Xinghan also applied for missions or training in the next few days.

It seems that there is an unprecedented terror that is constantly urging them to escape from this world in a way that they are not aware of.

…

Aberration Empire.

Negotiations on the currency issuance are going very well.

With the help of the Xu Dao Palace, the Federation and the Han World, the Aberration Empire uses the Taiyi debt issued by the Xu Dao Palace as the main anchor, and conducts online transactions with the Federation, using digital currency as the main form, and is supervised by the Alliance of the Heavens currency issuance based on the exchange rate.

Under the active leadership of the Three Saints of the Heavens, and with the cooperation of Wuji using his spiritual undercurrent, all preparations were carried out very quickly.

Just half a year has passed, and the spiritual undercurrent of the Aberration Empire has completed the interconnection with the federal quantum network.

At the same time, the census of the entire empire, the opening of national accounts, and various supporting identity policies, residence policies, internal economic policies, external trade policies, investment promotion, etc. are also being improved in an orderly manner. .

With countless years of experience in governing the Federation, coupled with the undercurrent of the mind of the distorted empire, all of this process was faster than imagined. Even the person involved, Li Yaofeng, always felt incredible at this speed.

In his feeling, this negotiation is not what they are talking about at all. What they are facing is the thinking network composed of the entire aberration empire. Every word they say and every progress of the negotiation will be affected by all intelligent life in the entire empire. Know.

Behind them is the Federation's quantum network, and countless decisions and information will continue to be sent to them. Most of the time, they only need to be a microphone on the stage.

'It's like countless people from both countries are sitting at the negotiating table, negotiating for their own interests...but one side is thinking assimilated and empathetic, while the other side is calm, rational and calm. As a result, the negotiation efficiency is very fast. It's incredible. . ’

Whether it was a deformed empire or a federation, these two social structures allowed Li Yaofeng to see endless potential. Sometimes he couldn't help but start to think about whether the Han world would become worse than it is now if it also used this method. More tyrannical.

On the one hand, Li Yaofeng was busy assisting in the preparations for currency issuance, and on the other hand, she was helping Qian Wangsun find a target in the distorted empire.

The initial search made Li Yaofeng very confused, because Qian Wangsun himself couldn't tell what he was looking for. Li Yaofeng just followed him around, watching him inexplicably arrange hundreds of different things at once every day. Target's spaceship, but in the end only one or two of them were taken.

After arriving at the target location, he would often just come down and circle around for a few times before going back again.

Li Yaofeng had never heard of this method of finding things, and it felt like nonsense.

But gradually, Li Yaofeng discovered some of the secrets.

Qian Wangsun seemed to have some kind of spiritual awareness. Many times he would know whether he could find what he wanted just by taking a few steps in one direction.

Just like when playing chess, the chess piece in his hand seems to never fall down. It just hangs around on the chessboard, watching the different results after each move.

Just when Li Yaofeng became more and more curious about his special ability, they found a building with an obvious fairy style deep in the mother river of the Aberration Empire, and found a large number of completely crazy people inside. Aberrations of intelligence.

What Qian Wangsun asked Li Yaofeng to do was to control these aberrations and try to read the remaining memories in their minds.

When she saw those deformed bodies that were no longer human, but had a face more or less similar to that of the Crimson Mother, Li Yaofeng finally couldn't help but ask: "She..."

But before he could ask, Qian Wangsun seemed to already know what he wanted to ask, and said directly: "The thing I am looking for is indeed related to a woman, and the appearance of that woman is very similar to the human form of the Crimson Mother. ."

"But that woman's soul, consciousness or any memory should have no connection with the current aberration empire, but she may have a certain degree of homology in power..."

Regarding Qian Wangsun's explanation, Li Yaofeng felt that there were still many secrets hidden in it, but there was nothing he could do if the other party didn't want to tell them.

Next, Li Yaofeng and the other party captured some aberrations and tried to read the other party's memory.

But Li Yaofeng soon gave up on this point: "No, these aberrations have no systematic memory at all. Their physical structure does not seem to support the operation of consciousness, so they can only maintain a kind of unconscious madness. state."

Qian Wangsun frowned and said, "Are you saying that someone deliberately made these aberrations brainless?"

Li Yaofeng touched his chin and controlled the tentacles to pierce into the flesh and blood of the aberrant body. While analyzing, he said: "Well, there is no place reserved for organs such as thinking and judgment. Everything about them Actions are unconscious.”

As the two continued to go deeper, they saw various experimental sites along the way, but most of the equipment and rituals had been removed, leaving only an empty space.

And when they opened a sealed door at the bottom, what appeared in front of them was a bottomless pit, and countless female corpses dressed in the same clothes and with the same appearance were just randomly discarded in it.

Although these corpses were motionless and lifeless, they were neither rotten nor bad, and they still maintained the same appearance as before, just lying there with their limbs twisted and their bodies messy.

Looking at these female corpses discarded in the pit like rag dolls, Li Yaofeng inspected them and said in surprise: "These aberrations are somewhat similar to the 'gods' of the aberration empire. Their flesh and blood do not conform to the normal way of heaven." The result of operation..."

Then Li Yaofeng pointed at the eyebrow of a female corpse, and his powerful perception rushed towards the other person's brain, trying to read the memory that the other person might have stored in the creature's brain.

Soon all kinds of chaotic memory fragments appeared in his eyes and flashed continuously.

The endless sea of ​​blood...

Crazy pain…

Never-ending experiments…

There are also many women’s backs...

Li Yaofeng shook his head: "It's still broken memories. The brains of these aberrations cannot be used normally at all. The people who created them had no intention of letting them have brains. I need time to analyze..."

"No need." Qian Wangsun frowned and turned to leave: "Let's go."

Li Yaofeng asked: "You already know the results of my analysis?"

Qian Wangsun glanced at the other party, seemed to think for a moment, and then said: "They are the prototype aberrations of the so-called 'gods' in the Aberration Empire. All the 'gods' in the empire originated from these experiments."

"But 'gods' are just accidental products of experiments. The real purpose pursued by a large number of laboratories in the Aberration Empire is to create the original aberrations, or the original monsters."

As if he could see Li Yaofeng's question in advance, Qian Wangsun simply explained: "The original aberration refers to the original aberration."

"In the golden age, there was no such material as flesh and blood, and there was no so-called flesh and blood life in the universe. The original flesh and blood originated from the creation of great civilizations and was a tool they used to interfere with the material universe."

"The original aberration is the original form of flesh and blood, a tool without consciousness. This is the mainstream judgment in the study of great civilizations in the universe."

"But the conductor of this experiment has a different idea. He believes that the reason why individuals of great civilizations did not create consciousness at the beginning is not that they were afraid of the backlash of their own creations. With their power, there is no need to worry about this."

"The reason why they did not create consciousness is simple...that is, there was no such thing as 'consciousness' in the past universe."

Li Yaofeng was slightly startled when he heard this: "Then... great civilizations don't have consciousness? How is that possible?"

Qian Wangsun shook his head: "Why is it impossible? The existence of all things does not necessarily require consciousness. I have seen too many substances that have existed for a longer time than all civilizations, and I have also seen many things that go towards self-destruction. civilization."

"Neither consciousness nor wisdom has ever been a necessity for us to survive in our universe."

"Great civilizations do not have consciousness. Their actions are based on a logic that is far higher than consciousness, or even illogical. This is not a completely impossible conjecture."

"Perhaps it is precisely because they have no consciousness that in order to better interfere with the universe, they created consciousness after creating flesh and blood, and even created a series of logic contained in the way of heaven."

"Both flesh and blood and consciousness are tools created by them, and all the history of the universe from the golden age to this day is under the control of the great civilization."

"This is the conjecture of the host of this experiment about great civilizations and the current universe."

Li Yaofeng rubbed his eyebrows and kept digesting what Qian Wangsun said: "Then what was the result of this series of experiments? What did they finally create?"

Qian Wangsun sighed: "I don't know."

"But the experiment did end. The experiment here ended long before we mastered the Aberration Empire."

"But don't worry. Over the years, I have seen too many conjectures related to great civilizations. There are many more outrageous conjectures than this in the Federation."

"Whatever results they get here, it doesn't appear to have had an impact that has spread out yet."

…

At the same time, on an icy planet not far from the border of the Aberrant Empire.

On the surface of a desolate and lonely planet with no trace of life, three people suddenly stood.

Two of them sat cross-legged facing each other.

One of them said, "Do you believe in the Creator?"

"Our universe seems chaotic and random, but in fact it has always been operating according to a strict logic. If there is a slight error in this rigorous logic, the current universe will not be possible."

"Everything in this world is not a coincidence, but comes from a set of mature and perfectly operating laws."

"This law is the way of heaven, and the great civilization that created the way of heaven is the creator of our universe."

After hearing what the other party said, the Demon Saint smiled slightly and said, "Your condition seems to be serious again. Do you want me to prescribe you some medicine?"

"Sick? I'm not crazy. I've never felt so good!"

The other party smiled and said: "Great civilization, listen to this name. Most intelligent beings always like to imagine the Creator as a 'god' with wisdom, personality and consciousness."

"Even after entering the era of high technological power, we still have this bad habit. We always like to imagine that the Creator is a higher civilization with super technological power."

"Wrong, all wrong. The Creator has no consciousness at all, and does not need such useless things as 'consciousness'. Consciousness is an illusion and the source of trouble. Our universe became what it is now, since the day consciousness was born. start……"

"Whether it's me or Xuannv, consciousness is just our tool, not the real us..."

Seeing the other party talking non-stop, Demon Saint touched his face helplessly: "I'm not here to discuss this with you, Zhou Bai, can we talk about something useful?"

"If you continue to waste our time like this, I can only call Master Ji over to talk to you. You must understand that you are free now because of us."

The 'Zhou Bai' in front of him curled his lips and sighed: "It's vulgar, it's too vulgar. Opening or closing your mouth is all for profit."

"If I hadn't gone back to the golden age to finally verify my conjecture, I wouldn't have cooperated with common people like you..."

As he spoke, he saw streaks of black mist floating out from his palms. If he looked carefully... there seemed to be countless faces moving in the mist.

"This is what you want, and I will arrange corresponding cooperation with the Federation."

"It's enough for you to completely harvest the aberration empire and crack Chu Qiguang's plan to issue currency in the empire."

After watching the 'Zhou Bai' disappear in front of him, Duo Chenzi, who was standing next to the Demon Saint, asked: "This Zhou Bai is..."

The Demon Saint casually said: "One of Zhou Bai's peers represents the 'crazy' among the nine disasters of heaven and man. He was once responsible for part of the distortion experiments and was also one of the top leaders of Taichu Dao Palace."

"Okay, don't talk too much, or Zhou Bai's body will hear you."

"Next, you will cooperate with the Federation as I told you..."

A flash of fear suddenly flashed in Duo Chenzi's eyes, and he said worriedly: "But what if Chu Qiguang takes action?"

The Demon Saint smiled and said: "The curtain has been raised, the show is about to begin, and the part you are responsible for is only the end of the matter."

…

Not long after the currency issuance plan was launched, the number of void disasters in the Aberration Empire continued to increase, and the data of Moran increased every day.

Initially this went unnoticed as it seemed normal for these things to happen in the Aberration Empire.

On the contrary, after the currency was issued, a large number of commercial activities and trade activities began to unfold in the Aberration Empire and the universe, and the entire empire was prosperous inside and outside.

Especially in the next few years, the Aberration Empire will lend a large amount of currency to various consortiums in the Federation. The consortium uses these currencies to rent and purchase the territory of the Aberration Empire, recruit aberrations as employees, open local factories, and purchase resources... …

In this process, the people of the aberration empire joined the federal production chain, earned currency, generated consumption, and received education.

As time passed, more and more aberrants began to leave the empire, following trade to the entire universe, and even went to the Federation and Xia Star to study abroad.

Some of them showed extraordinary talents and helped the Federation and the Han Dynasty conduct various in-depth research on void, distortion, distortion, and demon dyeing...

The volume of trade between the two top civilizations continues to surge, the Aberrant Empire has developed rapidly, and the Federation has earned a large amount of resources and labor.

With the large-scale transactions between the two top civilizations, Chu coins, Shi coins, and Tai debts have surged in status, their prices have become more stable, and they have become increasingly popular hard currencies in the universe.

The extensive use of Chu coins has also led to a surge in trade volume across the universe. Any goods in the universe can reach any corner of the universe in an instant. An unprecedented prosperous universe era seems to have gradually unveiled itself in front of countless civilizations. veil.

And because of economic development and frequent exchanges with major civilizations in the universe, the aberrations in the aberration empire are constantly learning.

With the development of the commodity economy and the impact of the Internet, aberrations continue to pay more and more attention to the concept of self, but they are repeatedly assimilated due to the mental undercurrent shaping the thinking network established, and all of this further promotes the development of the commodity economy. develop.

Just when everything was prosperous and full of vitality, the void disaster broke out rapidly, and more and more aberrations from the empire spread the demonic contamination to the federal territory.

In order to prevent the further spread of demonic contamination, the Federation began to monitor the imperial aberrations within its territory, and an isolation policy regarding the exchanges between the two sides was quickly implemented.

At the same time, detection of magic stains also began to be set up at various levels of the two major civilizations.

However, the number of demon dye outbreaks has not decreased with the implementation of these policies, and has even begun to appear in more civilizations, and hostility towards aberrations has once again surged in the universe.

Soon large-scale testing was carried out throughout the Federation, more and more void disasters and aberrations continued to appear, and various negative events broke out one after another.

The economy and trade of the Aberration Empire, which had just been on the right track, were severely hit by the outbreak of magic dye, because a large number of border checkpoints were closed, transportation was interrupted, and business was suspended... The income of the Aberrations also began to drop sharply, and a large number of Factories and businesses were bankrupted.

Wuji had to issue a large amount of currency and issue loans to support the operation of the entire empire.

At the same time, massive disruptions in trade have also caused the price of Chu coins to continue to fall.

The additional currency issuance of the Distorted Empire and the fluctuation in the price of Chu coins began to trigger drastic changes in the Taitong debt market.

…

Mother river, deep bottom.

This original dormitory of Our Lady of Xuhe is still the place where the physical body of Our Lady of Xuhe is stored.

In front of the huge body of Our Lady of Xuhe, the body of a young girl was kneeling in the sea of ​​blood with her hands clasped together.

Qian Wangsun and Li Yaofeng were making preparations for some kind of ritual not far from the female body.

Li Yaofeng said: "...According to my research and technical restoration in the past few years, with the powerful distortion power remaining in Our Lady of Xuhe, today's ritual should be able to re-establish the relationship between her and the person you want to find. connections between them.”

"But are you sure you want to do this?"

"I don't know what will happen once the connection is reestablished."

Qian Wangsun nodded: "We must find her, let's do it."

Li Yaofeng shrugged, and while preparing the ritual arrangements, he said, "There have been so many big things happening in the Federation recently, does it matter if you still focus all your attention here?"

Qian Wangsun said: "The upcoming cosmic-level economic crisis is caused by the violent fluctuations in the Taiyi debt, and the fluctuations in the Taiyi debt are caused by the excessive currency issuance of the distorted empire. What triggered this series of changes is the ongoing crisis inside and outside the Federation. Explosive demon dye."

Li Yaofeng asked doubtfully: "So?"

Qian Wangsun: "With the power of the Federation, it is theoretically impossible to suppress these demons. The main reason for the current chaos is the flaws of the Federation itself. This is a natural disaster caused by changes in the cosmic environment. But it is also a man-made disaster caused by the internal crisis of civilization."

"But these are just symptoms. All conflicts at the bottom often originate from crises at the higher levels."

He sighed and continued: "For example, Zhou Bai's condition is an important reason for the current crisis. As long as he can return to full condition, many problems can be solved. This is why Chu Qiguang supports us in doing what we are doing now. reason……"

…

Just when the world of Han Dynasty, the Aberrant Empire, and the Federation were undergoing various changes.

In the Xudao Palace, the Supreme Heavenly Lord, who was silently cultivating on the altar, suddenly opened his eyes, and a strong sense of crisis suddenly surged in his heart.

In his current state, there is absolutely no such thing as an illusion. Since there is an unusual feeling in his heart, something must be happening.

While silently calculating in his mind, he projected to the ghost world to contact Chu Qiguang and Zhou Bai, but found that he could not contact the ghost world.