The two deep-sea hunters took their leave and went to contact the other clansmen and gather information to fulfill Pan Long's commission.

About ten minutes later, the doctor arrived at the bar and sat down across from Pan Long.

"I hear you're looking after news about the Outer Spirits?" he asked, "Are there any troubles about those monsters that deserve special attention?"

Pan Long said worriedly, "The hunters of the deep sea have a legend about them......"

Before he could finish speaking, the Doctor laughed, "You're talking about the legend that 'the spirits of the heavens are the tentacles of the will of the Star Devouring Demon Gods', right? ”

"Why do you say that?" Pan Long asked.

"The reason is simple. If there really are huge demon gods in this world who can feed on the planets, then there is no reason why we can't observe them when we make astronomical observations. "There are some professional observatories in the world that use large telescopes that can observe the Andromeda Nebula millions of light-years away. It's so far away that it would take millions of years for even light to get there...... But we've never seen a giant creature that cruises, devouring planets. ”

"You may also say, 'Maybe those guys aren't in that direction,' but our human observation of the universe is not a recent whim, but has a long history. Over the course of a long period of time, instead of observing any 'star-swallowing demon gods', we have given birth to a special discipline called 'stargazing'...... There's an operator in Babel who knows that right now, and I think you should talk to her. ”

Pan Long's spirits perked up - during the time he knew that the danger facing this world might come from eating the planet as a meatball, and using intelligent beings as a giant monster with pepper on the meatballs, he felt a lot of pressure, and the pressure was so heavy that he didn't even want to stand, just sit there and drink alcohol.

But the doctor's statement is very plausible and very convincing.

Stories can be faked, but astronomical observations can't be faked!

So the doctor made a call for him and made an appointment.

However, when they arrived at the operator's office codenamed "Astrologer", they saw that it was not only the other party, but also the "Queen", who was also one of the supreme leaders of the Tower of Babel.

"I've heard that you're looking for a 'spirit from outside'. The queen seemed a little tired, or she always seemed a little tired, perhaps because she was too tired, "I know some secrets that may be of help to you." ”

The Doctor's originally calmly smiling expression suddenly collapsed: "Hey, you're not kidding, are you......? Is there really any 'secret'?"

He knew that his old partner would never waste time doing meaningless things, and he would make her put down the work of operating on the seriously infected and come here to chat for only one reason.

Those "extraterrestrial spirits" really have a problem, and it's a big problem!

Sure enough, he heard something he didn't want to hear at all.

"Probably...... Since 20 years ago, there have been problems in the starry sky. The female administrator, who used to be an astrologer, sighed, "Since then, the accuracy of astrologers has been decreasing. Especially in recent years, the accuracy of divination has become less and less...... Now I can't do divination at all except for some trivial things. The stars that were once clear in my eyes and illuminated my way have gradually become dim and obscure. ”

Pan Long frowned and looked at the other insider.

"Like she said, about 20 years ago, the starry sky started to go wrong. And now the stars, even the twinkle is stinging. The queen sighed deeply, "The days of being free to look up at the stars are long gone. ”

"What does that mean?" Pan Long immediately asked.

"I've done a lot of research, and I've come to the conclusion that probably the stories of the deep-sea hunters are not lies. A bitter expression appeared on her face, "The stars that once existed in the sea of stars and provided us with guidance are gradually disappearing. ”

In an instant, Pan Long felt that the icy cold air rose from under his feet and spread all the way to the top of his head, and the whole person was like being doused with ice water in the cold winter, and even his heart was cold.

The Doctor couldn't help but say, "Why can we still see those stars when they're gone?"

The three of them turned their heads together and looked at him with foolish eyes.

Needless to explain, he himself came back to his senses first - the universe is so big, the vanishing stars are far away from here, although they have disappeared, but the light from the past is still shining in a steady stream.

What you see now is just what they used to be.

He pondered for a moment and asked, "Can you determine where the nearest star is that has lost contact?"

The "astrologer" smiled bitterly: "Please don't force people to make it difficult, how can this kind of thing be done?"

"That is to say, we know that there are huge monsters devouring the stars in the sea of stars, and we know that there are stars that have been devoured by it—or that they have been devoured, but we don't know where they are or when they will come to us?"

"Astrologer" nodded: "Probably...... That's it. ”

The doctor sighed, "So what are we going to do?"

The four looked at each other.

The problem is clear, but the solution is nowhere to be found.

The most practical way to solve this problem is probably to kill the star-swallowing demon gods - the problem is, they can't beat it.

Other than that, there doesn't seem to be much more reliable way to do it.

Pan Long returned to the hotel and pondered for a few days, but he couldn't think of a solution that would work.

But a few days later, things took a turn for the better.

The deep-sea hunters have found information about the "Extraterrestrial Spirits" that have appeared in the past few years, and from the intelligence point of view, in recent years, especially in the last year or two, the Extraterrestrial Spirits have indeed been increasing, which is really worrying.

If there is only this information, it will be of no other use than to make people more worried. But when Pan Long carefully examined the records of the appearance of the extraterrestrial spirits again and again, he unexpectedly found a record.

Last summer, a group of cultists summoned the spirits of the heavens with a blood sacrifice in a valley in the middle of the wilderness. The "killer whale" arrived one step too late, and the monster had already been summoned. The two sides tore apart the earth in a fight, and as a result, poisonous gases erupted from the depths of the earth, obscuring the sky and the sun.

When the poisonous gas covered the sky, the originally menacing "spirit outside the sky" suddenly became weak, and then it completely collapsed and disappeared without a trace without even using the "killer whale" to do so.

Pan Long specially found the "killer whale" and asked about the situation at that time.

"I can't understand it until now. The silver-haired girl shook her head and said, "But there are too many things in this world that cannot be understood, and I am a warrior, not a scholar." As long as I can kill the spirits of the outer heavens, I don't care how they die. ”

Her idea was simple and simple.

Pan Long smiled, vaguely conjecture.

He asked, "Are there any clues about the cult recently?"

"There will always be cults, and we have never been afraid that we have enough people. ”

"Okay, you wait for me for a few days, I'll make some preparations, and then I'll accompany you to exterminate the cult!"

Then, Pan Long withdrew from the room, left Thornton City, and found the nearest place according to the information that the doctor found for him.

The concentration of the earth shatter is good, but the quality is not good. If it was to be used to quench his body, this level of earth shattering would not satisfy his needs.

But now for Pan Long, the most important thing is not to quench the body, but to do something else.

Standing in front of the underground cave that constantly blew cold black winds, Pan Long's body shone brightly, and the map of mountains and seas emerged, and the gurgling was like a drinking water plate, sucking a large amount of earth demons into it.

These earth demons were sucked into the mountains and seas, and they were restrained by the formation, and it was difficult to disperse for a while. However, the powerful corrosiveness they possessed immediately began to erode the formation.

At this rate, it won't take more than a few days for this formation that Pan Long has improvised to collapse with.

After all, he was not a master of formation, he just made up such a temporary formation for granted.

But a few days...... Actually, it's enough. As long as there is continuous maintenance, continuous input of true qi and even merit, this formation can continue to operate.

Although this approach was probably not worth the cost, what he needed most now was the means to store the hell.

Back at the Tower of Babel, Pan Long explained to the doctor and others, and found the "killer whale" that was ready to set off at any time.

The weight of the "killer whale" is indeed amazing, although it is not at the level of a real killer whale, but it is at least equivalent to the weight of twenty or thirty people. It took some effort for Pan Long to take her into the sky, riding the violent wind in the high altitude and accompanied by a thunderous sound, flying towards the intended target.

In less than two hours, they found the cultists and wiped out all those who had not had time to hold the blood sacrifice. The leader was hacked to death, and the rest were handed over to the local police.

The next five or six days were probably the darkest and most terrifying days that had befallen the cultists of this world.

The flying duo are haunted and hunt them all over the land. As long as they show a little clue and are grabbed by the fox's tail by the deep-sea hunters, Pan Long will arrive with the "killer whale" and beat them to death.

Even so, by the end of the week, there was actually a cult organization that had completed the blood sacrifice summoning ceremony.

That day, when Pan Long arrived at the abandoned mine with the "killer whale", he saw that the mine was covered with blood, and the bodies of the people who had been killed as sacrifices were lying on the ground, and the cultists were lying in a pool of blood, shouting words in a fanatical tone that no one could understand.

In the center of the altar, a gray-green monster with an octopus head and a human body is gradually emerging.

"Killer Whale" immediately drew his sword and was about to rush forward, but was dragged by Pan Long.

"Let me try it!"

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the stored earth shatter poured out, spreading a thin layer inside the mine.

In fact, there are not many evils in this layer, and it is not even enough to poison people to death. But when these demons covered the blood and corpses, the originally glowing altar quickly dimmed, and the phantom of the "Outer Spirit" also dimmed, like a TV screen with a bad signal, flickered a few times, and then disappeared without a trace.

Pan Long exhaled deeply and smiled.

"I think I've found a solution...... Or at least a way to delay the crisis!"

Then he returned to the Tower of Babel and found the three leaders.

"I have a way to block the Spirit Tentacles of the Star Swallowing Demon God. He said, "Just cut it off with a ground brake." ”

The doctor was a little dazed, then figured out what it was, and asked, "Are those poisonous gases that erupt from deep underground?

"I've already tried, at the scene of a cult blood sacrifice, seeing that the spirit of the outside of the sky was about to appear, I unleashed some earth-shattering spirits, and as a result, the summoning ritual failed - obviously, it was the Star Devouring Demon God's spiritual tentacles that were cut off from the ritual. Pan Long said happily, "In this way, we only need to extract a large amount of earth demons and use earth demons to isolate the induction of the Star Devouring Demon God, so that this planet will not be sensed by it." ”

"Will this solve the problem?" asked the Queen.

"At least it can delay the time it takes to be discovered, isn't it?"

The queen thought for a moment and asked, "So are there any side effects of doing this?"

So they experimented.

The results of the experiment were somewhat unexpected...... Once it is covered by the Earth's Evil, not only the makeshift "Summoning Altar" will completely fail, but even all kinds of psionic power will also fail.

Even...... In the environment covered by the Earth's Evil, psionic crystals that originally contained a huge amount of energy will turn into ordinary glowing gems. The surging energy inside became extremely lazy and could not be extracted at all.

After a period of experimentation, the Tower of Babel finally came to a conclusion.

I am afraid that this thing of psionic energy was really brought to the world by the "spirit of the outside of the sky". This endless energy is actually part of the Star Devouring Demon God's spiritual tentacles.

In other words, the more vigorous a planet's psionic energy is, the easier it is to be sensed by those huge demon gods and become their food.

"It's probably impossible to completely solve the problem. "But now, at least we know a partial solution to the problem - to pour the Heist into the psionic veins everywhere, and to establish a global observing system to spray the Heist as soon as it finds an area of active psionic energy." ”

In this way, I believe that the biggest crisis in this world will be solved. ”

"Then there will be another crisis in the world – an energy crisis. The doctor sighed, "I'm against this plan. ”

Pan Long was taken aback, he couldn't believe his ears.

He turned his head, as if he didn't know the other, and looked at the doctor in shock: "Are you crazy?

"We can't afford to pay that price. The Doctor sighed deeply and whispered, "Our world...... It is inseparable from psionic energy. Did you know that without psionic energy, mobile cities will no longer be able to move, and even cars will be difficult to drive...... Have you ever imagined what would happen if hundreds of thousands of people were trapped in a city and couldn't leave?"

"You can move forward with the plan gradually, and it doesn't have to happen all at once. ”

The Doctor shook his head: "Impossible, pushing this plan will inevitably lead to the abandonment of mobile cities - we cannot afford such a price, in this world of natural disasters, mobile cities are the root of our civilization." ”

Pan Long was anxious: "If you abuse your spiritual energy like this, your entire world will be devoured." Where will there be any civilization then!"

"That's after all, isn't it?" the doctor kept shaking his head, "we'...... There's still time, and you can take your time to figure it out. ”

"What can you do?" Pan Long asked loudly.

The doctor was silent.

For a while, he came up with a good way!

The gradual abandonment of psionic energy is the only way to see some hope so far.

Other than that, it's unthinkable.

He thought for a long time, and finally hung his head in frustration: "Perhaps...... Our world, from the very beginning, has had no hope at all......"