Chapter 16: The Change of Creation
A trace of golden starlight lit up outside the distant void, and in an instant, it turned into a dazzling light, Qingyin, who was concentrating on building the universe, just saw that light, and the entire perspective was already overwhelmed by the golden light, and he only felt a sharp pain all over his body, as if his soul was torn apart thousands of times in an instant.
It was a pain he couldn't even imagine, and it instantly drove him mad to death, and then ······
"Boom! ~”
A majestic and boundless roar sounded like a devastating sound, as if the first voice at the beginning of the creation of the world, like a divine declaration, merciless and unstoppable.
At the same time as the voice sounded, Qingyin also completely lost consciousness.
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The development of the new universe has not stopped because the consciousness of the creator has dissipated, the basic framework has been built, the explosion has occurred, and under the influence of the power of Gensokyo, it has naturally evolved over hundreds of millions of years, and the earth universe that Qingyin is familiar with appears in the world of Gensokyo.
Although the scope of the explosion encompassed the entire Gensokyo, under the influence of unknown consciousness, it did not destroy the original near-star universe, but seemed to tear the original universe apart fiercely, and the radiant original universe space and the vast and profound new universe were clearly separated and unrelated, as if two different styles of starry sky paintings were torn and spliced together, full of contradictory beauty.
The original cosmic space was torn apart by the force of the explosion, and the position in the center was occupied by the new universe, and the original universe wrapped the new universe, and the two were skillfully fused together, and it was not clear which one took the initiative, but there was no doubt that with the formation of the new universe, the length of the entire Gensokyo increased by at least one-third, and it was also expanding at a corresponding high speed with the expansion of the new universe in the center.
It's like adding a perpetual motion machine to the original closed universe space, and the expansion of the new universe naturally promotes the expansion of the entire Gensokyo.
It can be said that this mirror world has ushered in the second earth-shattering transformation since its appearance, and the benefits brought are immeasurable.
After the state was relatively stable, Qingyin, who was the initiator, was gifted by the will of the entire Gensokyo and the will of the new universe, and his torn soul consciousness was re-condensed, even more condensed than before, and the deep starlight revealed from it showed that it was different from ordinary souls.
But he didn't know what was happening, the nourishment and recovery of his soul didn't wake him up from his state of confusion, and he still needed time to get used to his soul that had been turned upside down.
The changes in Gensokyo are too drastic, and the power generated by the explosion spills over and even affects the outside world, first of all, the Qingyin of the initiator.
At the time of the Big Bang, the overflowing fantasy energy was the most intense, and even used the body of Qingyin as a medium, affecting the real world.
The sleeping Keller heard a hysterical mechanical friction sound, which woke him up from his slumber, and when he looked at the meditation landline not far away, he felt a thump in his heart, and jumped up from the couch in fright.
"What's going on? I just got some sleep, how could this be?! ”
The metal machine like a seat was constantly vibrating at this time, and the lines and lights that had been flowing in an orderly manner on the surface were already chaotic, emitting an overwhelmed sound of metal distortion and a piercing alarm, and from time to time a "sizzling" electric current shot out from the machine, burning the nearby ground to a scorched black.
This situation is really dangerous, Qingyin sitting in the machine no longer knows whether he is alive or dead, Rao is Kai Leer is knowledgeable and calm temperament, at this time he was already panicked, panicked for a while before he remembered that he should do some emergency measures, busy running against the wall to a corner of the classroom, roughly opened a mechanism, closed the emergency valve, and stopped the output of electricity.
After that, the situation was finally better, at least there was no current supply, and the machine was not bursting with dangerous electricity, but he was surprised that the machine without energy was still running abnormally.
"Damn it!"
Hell, he didn't remember that the old meditation desk still had backup power installed.
Qingyin was still sitting on it, and his life and death were uncertain, but he didn't dare to get too close, who knew what the situation was now? He could only grit his teeth and run out of the classroom, talking on the phone as he ran······
After he left, no one saw the strange changes in the card that Qingyin was holding······
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In the real world, far away from the Azure Star, the headquarters of the Federal Research Institute in the capital city of Qilian Star - Kellanka.
This is an institution with an immeasurable area, the entire capital No. 7 star that seems to be covered by mechanical creations is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Research Institute, and the Federation belongs, thousands of scientific and technological research institutes throughout the entire human territory are serving here, with this as the center, it is no exaggeration to say that this is the scientific research center of the entire Near-Star Federation, which contains countless of the world's most cutting-edge technology.
One of them, a giant tower that reaches above the ground and connects heaven and earth, is the center of the entire research institute.
The sight turned into it, a neat hall full of high-precision scientific and technological instruments, dozens of scientific researchers in uniform were quietly and attentively working on the machinery, or discussing in a whisper, the atmosphere flowing in the air was rigorous and orderly, but a sudden panicked shout broke this order, and also interrupted the thinking and research of many people, causing the dissatisfaction of dozens of elite researchers working in it.
"Marcus, what are you doing? Have you forgotten the Institute's prohibition of loud noises? ”
An old man with gray hair but a radiant look frowned and scolded, the expression on his face was not angry and arrogant.
This old man is the current director of the Federation's research institute - Romat Hastings, the Federation's most well-known creator of the mechanical flow card system, a master of both card drawing and card making, and the Federation's greatest scientist, physicist, and conceptual weapon developer······ His titles are countless, and his contributions to the Federation's scientific and technological progress are well known to the world.
His prestige in the research institute is undoubted, because of his meticulous style, his scientific researchers respect and fear him, and dare not slack off in the face of his questioning, but today his prestige has not played a role.
The researcher who was scolded by him didn't reply for a long time, still staring at the mechanical screen in front of him with a face full of panic and cold sweat.
This not only sensed that something was wrong, but also attracted the curiosity and attention of everyone present.
The majestic old dean looked around, and the people who probed their brains were like rats seeing cats, and they hurriedly lowered their heads and looked away, and obediently continued their work.
Pacing in front of the exclamating researcher, Romat asked again, "Marcus, what happened to make you panic like this?" ”
In fact, Romart's heart was also very surprised, the young man in front of him was a very talented scientific research talent, and his usual performance was calm and capable, so that he had always been very optimistic, and even arranged his work in an important position, monitoring the only high-precision Gensokyo live monitoring instrument in the entire research institute, which has always been good, why did he make such an abrupt move today? It's completely lost its usual calmness.
The young man named Marcus finally came back to his senses, and said to him with a shocked and complicated expression: "Dean······, you, let's take a look for yourself, I really don't know how to report to you······"
His expression did not seem to be fake, Romat's heart began to pay attention, walked to his side, looked at the screen in front of him, but just glanced at it, the old dean's expression was uncontrollable and shocked,
"This... This is!? ”
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On the main planet of the Talos Star Field, not far from the capital star field, in the private city belonging to one of the ten major families of the Federation, the Rothfield family, the warm sun shines between the neat and orderly high-rise buildings, the white clouds are long, the blue sky is vast, and the climate is very pleasant.
Located at the top of one of the most conspicuous ornate high-rises in the center of the city, a huge frisbee-like building is suspended and overlooks the entire city from a commanding height.
This is the office and research and development place specially built by the Rothfield family for the chief card master hired by them - Master Sorov, the cost is huge, and the security measures are the top level of the entire Federation, even in the face of the eight-star fantasy card raid known as the "God Domain", it is enough to ensure the safety of Master Sorov.
This shows the importance that the Rothfield family attaches to their chief card master, but the master Sorov himself does not seem to have the consciousness to reciprocate it.
At this time, he was lying on the comfortable seat, looking at the lonely scenery outside the transparent glass window, humming a little song, and his face was leisurely.
The round metal body of the intelligent artificial assistant on the side quietly flew to his side, reminding him in a slightly magnetic female voice: "Master, the head of the Triggs family has sent a message asking about the progress of the quantitative engineering of the Star Knight's summoning card, as well as the research and development of the new Zeonable Armed Machinery converted into an armed card, how should I reply?" ”
Sorov, who looked quite young, waved his hand nonchalantly and replied casually: "Tell him that I'm already working, don't keep asking, let alone urging, it will only disturb my train of thought." ”
"Okay master," the football-sized dark blue artificial assistant paused for a moment, his small electronic eyes flickered slightly, and then reported to him: "I have already replied to the head of the Triggs family like this, but master, I am afraid that the other party will not believe it if he uses the same words perfunctory many times, right?" ”
"Hehe~, what can he do? Fire me? Don't be funny, they can't do anything without me, and unless they can find a real art master to replace me, he'll have to pretend they don't know. Sorov stroked his short silver-gray straight hair, stretched his waist and said nonchalantly, "As the chief card master, we have to have the momentum of the chief, and throwing out some results every year is enough for them to make a lot of money, there is no need to make ourselves so hard." ”
"You are always right, my master." The intelligent assistant subtly slapped a sycophant, but it suddenly paused for a moment, as if it had received another message.
"Master, there is an urgent report from the subordinate research institute, all the card masters and card painters who are communicating with Gensokyo belong to the family were all forced to leave Gensokyo at one o'clock at noon today, and the contact with Gensokyo was cut off, and then it has been impossible to communicate with Gensokyo again, and even the expert card master who can consciously travel the fantasy world cannot enter, so far I can't find the reason, so I specially ask you for a solution."
"Oh? I've never heard of this, could it be that something happened to Gensokyo? But that's none of my business, let them be patient. ”
Sorov was slightly stunned, his face showed a little interest, but he didn't react much, he has not worked at the Federal Research Institute for many years, and there is no corresponding detection equipment here, and he can't do anything about this detection.
"Yes, master." The intelligent assistant has just finished replying, and another message has been added.
"Master, Lord Romat has requested a call."
"Huh?"
Hearing its prompt, Sorov was full of consternation and muttered to himself, "It's really strange how this old guy suddenly contacted me." ”
Although there was a conflict with the other party in terms of concept, after all, it was his former teacher, and he thought for a moment and still gave an order: "Allow it to be connected." ”
The intelligent assistant blinked its electronic eye, and projected a projection of light from it, revealing the face of the current head of the Federation Research Institute in the air in front of him.
"Long time no see, I thought I had to conquer your interstellar network endpoint to get in touch with you." The old dean in the projection teased with a serious face.
Sorov rolled his eyes and replied, "Old fellow, you didn't come to me just to show me off your hackers, did you?" After not seeing each other for so long, can't you restrain your terrible personality? ”
"If you hadn't abandoned your responsibilities and chose to live this life of eating and waiting for death, I wouldn't have the same attitude towards you as I am now."
"Old fellow, I don't want to quarrel with you, I'll turn it off if you don't have anything else."
Sorov said impatiently, he didn't want to discuss this kind of old rotten grain entanglement, in his opinion, it was really meaningless.
Romart was silent for a moment, and then got straight to the point: "·······, some changes have occurred in Gensokyo, do you know?" ”
"Oh, is it that all outside communication channels are forced to interrupt the exit? Sure enough, what happened, right? What did you detect? ”
Sorov picked up the coffee on the side, handed it to his lips, and asked in a relaxed tone.
"Violent and extremely illusory energy fluctuations, the lowest energy levels detected are above 800 billion megacalories, and a big explosion that affected the entire Gensokyo world occurred at one o'clock at noon today, and the result is simply put, Gensokyo was torn apart."
"Poof~!!"
Sorov had just drunk the coffee in his mouth and he squirted it out.
"Old fellow, what are you kidding? It's not funny at all! ”
Romat didn't answer his question, just looked at him quietly, the expression on his face was enough to say it all.
"Okay, it's an earth-shattering thing, but you're going to call me, I guess you've found something."
"Of course, if it's really just as bad as it seems, I don't have time to inform you." "The explosion didn't last long, and after a brief release of energy, it stabilized, and Gensokyo expanded by more than a third and entered a state of continuous expansion that it never had before, do you know what that means?" ”
This news shocked Sorov, his eyes radiated excitement, and a storm set off in his heart, which was suppressed for a long time before he calmed down.
An inexplicable smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and he replied meaningfully:
"Na~, who knows? Maybe it means I'm going to lose my job soon. ”
"Perhaps, with the instantaneous increase in the fantasy world, the density of the space that was already close to saturation will return to the most active state, and the capacity of Gensokyo will be even greater, and from today until the future, the number of existing fantasy creations will no longer be limited in a short time, and the quantification of fantasy cards will become easier; The margin for error will be relaxed, the success rate of creating new fantasy creations will increase······· and in short, the world will likely usher in a golden age of card artists in the next few days! ”
Romat's tone became more and more excited, and he could see his current excitement at a glance, and when he said this, he was obviously in a good mood and joked: "If a guy like you gnaws at his old book doesn't regain his mentality and regain his energy, maybe he will really be squeezed out by the newcomers who are enthusiastically appearing." ”
"Instead of cursing me here with bad intentions, why should we discuss why this mutation happened, no, it should be said to be a surprise, if this mutation can be artificially controlled, won't the future of humanity you care about no longer be a problem?"
"It came too suddenly, I can't find any evidence or signs, I guess it may be that the power accumulated over time since Gensokyo's existence has reached a critical point before this kind of change will occur, or the natural advancement and transformation of a world, as for human control, my desires are not as arrogant and greedy as you think, but this is the world's largest original sin."
"Look, what do I hear? It's not like you're talking about it. ”
"People change, especially when a dream that has been pursued suddenly comes true without warning."
"I'm looking forward to your change, Sorov."
After expressing his sincere expectation, the projection automatically turned off and the other party ended the call.
Perhaps the conversation was too shocking, and Sorov looked at the empty room for a long time, as if he was remembering something, and after a long time, his whisper rang out in the room:
"Maybe you're right, teacher······"
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Similar conversations continue to occur among the top level people in this world, the mutation in Gensokyo spreads at a rapid speed among the upper echelons of human power, most people are ready to move, careerists are also starting to sharpen their knives, and the storm of the new era has begun to brew, and it will sweep through the entire near-star universe in the near future······