Chapter 49 "Mission" of the Lost Empire
"Fifty years."
While the Dancam group was discussing what this "fifty years" were, the same voice also appeared within the "Watcher" lost empire.
They also seemed to have entered the "virtual realm" and heard the same voice.
"...My friend, are you sure we really want to do this? Judging from the information recorded in the psionic file, the existences inside the 'Virtual Realm' may not be 'gods'..." Someone was trying to persuade himself friend.
"I understand." The person who was persuaded stood up and looked calmly at the person who spoke before.
"We just need a belief to unite the spiritual strength of all people. God may or may not exist. He is just a stepping stone on our way forward. If necessary, we can also change it." The man is the high priest in "Watchmen" and is also a leader.
Now he seems to have had some arguments with his friends, and now they are patiently convincing each other.
"Then you still..." The admonisher's voice was a little annoyed, and he couldn't understand why the high priest did this.
However, the high priest suddenly smiled and said in an erratic voice:
"We have stayed at this stage for too long, and we need to find a way to go further... Those Zelo tribes have completed the feat of incarnation and sanctification long ago, but we still need to endure the suffering brought by the flesh... They can do it, Why can't we do it?"
"After trading with those things in the 'Virtual Realm', the spiritual potential of all of us has taken a qualitative leap, why not continue to use the 'Void Realm'? As long as we reach another world before the end of time, then' The Void' is nothing more than a field responsible for providing energy..."
The admonisher was silent for a while before continuing:
"...Our technology is sufficient to satisfy everyone's desires, and moving forward may not seem so important. We have all been silent in this galaxy for so long, why should we risk doing such a dangerous thing? I don't understand. "
The high priest shrugged, with a special expression on his face: "It is precisely because of this that I am the high priest; and you, have become the target of our faith, our prophet, dear Zachlan."
The admonisher named Zaklan fell silent again after hearing this sentence, with a look of disappointment in his eyes.
"...So my identity as a 'prophet' will be used as a 'great excuse' again? Just like before we fell?"
"Of course not, Prophet." The high priest had a smile on his face, "You are the spokesperson of 'God', every word of yours is an oracle, all believers will fight for you, this is not an 'excuse' .”
"...Then I'm leaving. After leaving this star field full of spiritual energy, my lifespan will also return to normal. I will find a place to spend the rest of my life. As for the reason for the outside world, you can find any one. Maybe in a few days Ten years later, another prophet will be 'born'?"
"Oh... Prophet, if you leave like this, countless of your believers will feel lost?"
Zaklan shook his head, and replied with neither sad nor happy expression: "I'm just a machine for issuing tasks. As for the believers? I've never had any believers. What I have are just a group of poor people who believe in the wrong god."
After speaking, he left here without looking back.
The high priest's expression gradually returned to calm after Zaklan left, and the hall was filled with silence.
After a period of time, the people of "Watcher" knew the news that "the prophet left to find the 'chosen people'", and then fell into deep sorrow, as if they had lost a spiritual belief.
With the help of this infecting emotion and the powerful help obtained from the 'virtual realm', the "Watcher" entered a short period of tranquility.
Maybe in a short while, they will announce their return to the world.
The earth rotates, and the screen turns to the territory of "Mechanical Lost Empire".
The scientific division of the "Gate Builder" who is cyclically researching brought a piece of news to Li Wenyuan:
"Is it the stargate of the 'Gate Builder'?" Looking at this message, Li Wenyuan began to browse through the notes in the star map, wanting to see if there is any galaxy that has what he needs.
The results were also normal, and he did not find any related galaxies.
There are many places with star gates, but they are all built manually by those interstellar civilizations themselves. Judging from the star map, no one has found a special star gate so far.
"It's a bit difficult now..." If there are specific coordinates, he can go directly, but if he wants to find a special stargate that has not been discovered in this vast galaxy, he may not be able to find it by himself. arrive.
But then, he remembered a piece of information that he only learned not long ago.
That is, the Lost Empire is not all in a state of being cut off from the interstellar.
Some lost empires are very keen to issue tasks to other young civilizations, and then give generous rewards to these young civilizations who complete the tasks.
Let's say... "Observer".
Li Wenyuan used to think that the Lost Empires were guys who were taciturn, would strike at a disagreement, and look at people with their nostrils.
But the "Observer" seems to be a more intimate lost empire, and it is also the lost empire that has the most connections with other civilizations in the galaxy.
They have released a mission all year round: to collect strange creatures in the galaxy.
Young civilizations can collect a certain number of strange creatures and "observers" in exchange for rewards. Some civilizations even hand over their own races to "observers" as "weird creatures" and successfully get a fortune for the civilization. Not cheap resource.
Some of these civilizations became the favored civilizations of the "observers" because they completed more tasks, and were directly given a small fleet of lost empires as rewards.
After this reward was exposed, it also attracted the jealousy of more civilizations, so "collecting strange creatures in the galaxy from time to time" has become a compulsory course for every civilization.
Some civilizations even set up special adventurer organizations to compete against other civilizations.
After all, "observers" don't want repeated weird creatures, they only want new weird creatures.
"Speaking of it, I seem to be a lost empire right now... Finding the Stargate of the 'Gate Builder' is a bit difficult on my own, but if I leave it to other civilizations, it may make progress soon..."
After roughly comparing the rewards of "Observer", and finding that there is basically no burden for him now, Li Wenyuan decided to send "finding a special ancient star gate" as a task to the entire galaxy until he found it.
Thus, those civilizations who were always paying attention to the movement of the lost empire suddenly all received a message from the "Guardian".
"Huh? Why is there a new one...!!"
"Big event! The 'Guardians' have issued a mission! They seem to be the third lost empire that will issue missions after 'Observer' and 'Farwalker'!"
"Good thing! Instead of competing with those guys who are already very skilled at licking, we should hurry up and make a name for the Guardian!"
"Look, what kind of mission is it?"
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Other civilizations are enthusiastically discussing the new tasks released by the guardians, but only Kribo is very sad.
"...I thought we were special... It was because we didn't impress the guardians!" Breining wiped his tears and called the inexplicable bear over.
"Come and discuss, how we can quickly, perfectly, and impressively complete the task issued by the 'Guardian'..."
(end of this chapter)