416. Death
When Joyna's ultra-distant vision saw that in the thick flowing clouds, several golden-domed towers full of pale yellow gradually pierced the clouds.
From the majestic momentum, it was immediately recognized that it was the top shape of the Shacheng Palace.
She was immediately stunned by the sight and speechless.
The entire Sand City, like the Ancient Iron City, had quietly risen into the air.
The difference is that the shape of the sand city is more massive, and the outline presents the appearance of a diamond-shaped or jujube kernel, and the surrounding area is not as large as the ancient iron city, but there is a drop of almost more than 20 kilometers up and down, like a pale golden giant ship up to thousands of floors, floating above the sea of clouds.
If the ancient iron city is a slightly oblate floating island, then the sand city is simply a vertical diamond-shaped air carrier! Its height is terrifying, five times the length of its maximum cross-section, and countless unfolded "thin feet" are supported, swinging slowly around the bottom of the giant ship, like the fins of deep-sea fish.
The sparkling light emanated from the middle of the giant ship, illuminating the dark night sky like stars. Joyna guessed that it was supposed to be the residential area of Sand City, which looked like a giant jujube pit that was levitating, hiding everything around it in total darkness.
She guessed it right, it was indeed a residential area with a capacity of nearly a million people.
In addition to this, there are underground farms and countless manufacturing factories, and all the functions of the town are complete, but they are not fully restored at this stage, and those high-tech equipment will not be able to operate for a short time.
The reason is simple, there is a shortage of people.
"It turns out that Sand City can also fly......"
Seeing this scene, Joyna's heart shook wildly, the expression on her face was stunned, and she had already lost her usual calm appearance.
"All this is also known to the master for a long time!" Once again, her heart was shaken by the power of her master.
As expected, the floating giant uses an "anti-gravity device". But she seemed to have the impression that the current appearance of Sand City did not look like a product of Space City, but rather like an undisclosed object secretly built by the military of a former civilization.
After visual inspection, she estimated that the two aerial giants were four or five hundred kilometers apart, as if they were waiting for each other quietly and smoothly suspended among the clouds.
"When you have complete control of this place, you can bring someone over to take care of it, and remember what I told you before." Zhuge Yun's eyes flickered in the reflection of the giant moon, and then fell into darkness like an ancient well.
"Good...... Good! ”
At this moment, she finally understood what her master meant.
In the days that Raven and the others stayed in Sand City, it turned out that they had been carrying out a huge work.
Unexpectedly, Sand City turned out to be another flying fortress in addition to the Ancient Iron City. If there were two flying fortresses like this, maybe all the people on the ground could actually come up and live there.
Although there are still many problems faced, especially in management, at least a big step has been taken in a good direction to solve the biggest hardware problem of insufficient carrying capacity.
However, there are still many doubts lingering in her heart, so that she will not vomit or be unhappy.
"Master, is this your plan? But why...... Did you already know that Sand City is a city that can float in the air? ”
"Of course." Zhuge Yun's tone was light and light.
He did know it a long time ago, otherwise, how could he have asked them to complete this work before leaving Sand City?
As early as when he was stationed in the wild land of the west, he learned through exploration that there was a huge "secret" hidden near the distant Sand City. It wasn't until he subdued Yu Linglong and Wang Hu later that he vaguely guessed the true purpose of those Black Yao disciples occupying the underground facilities in Shacheng.
After Du**, he already knew the structure of the facility there well, and found the "interplanetary engine" that had been buried for hundreds of years and had long been dusted with anti-gravity devices.
There are a total of twenty-four anti-gravity devices, hidden deep underground in the sand city, which is twice as many as the ancient iron city.
It was a huge underground facility, a military base with several floors.
Although it has been abandoned for hundreds of years, many things are still intact under the protection of super artificial consciousness.
It was there that the Obsidian Society used a mutant of the Old Gods to carry out transformation experiments, and in order to obtain a huge energy supply, they also used one of the interplanetary engines as a "generator" to drive the entire underground debugging equipment.
The huge cabin where Yu Linglong and Wang Hu were hiding was the best-preserved engine, and Zhuge Yun's job for those people was to mobilize all resources and be sure to repair it.
Therefore, he knew that those devices were still usable to this day, and under the investigation of his divine sense, the outline of the entire base had been fully seen by him.
And he knew that it wasn't a base at all, but a huge city that hadn't been launched yet!
According to Zhuge Yun's understanding, a city of this scale must have been built in the late pre-civilization era, when the high-level of the "Planetary Council" passed a resolution - to build a fully intelligent city for a period of 70 years, and replace administrative regulations with intelligent brains.
Just like people do in the outer space city.
Its purpose is to promote human migration on the ground to outer space, reduce the rapid expansion of the earth, avoid the destruction of the deteriorating environment, and restore the natural ecology.
As a result, the space city building in low earth orbit was changed to the space city building built by human beings one after another.
It is estimated that the project will be carried out in five phases, known as the "spatial re-engineering project", in which these reconstructed micro-cities will be lifted off at some point in the future, and then assembled in a weightless environment to merge into a larger livable city, the unfinished Space City 5.
Therefore, the qualified administrative areas in various places have been stationed with city executives, and at the same time, a large number of corporate sponsors with construction strength have been recruited to build and design these micro cities according to the unified concept of "modularity".
People look forward to the day when they can completely leave the ground and live a perfect life in low-earth orbit or other planetary orbits.
The current Sand City was actually built on the original "Planetary Council" military base, and many of its functions are similar to the "Space City III" floating in Saturn's orbit.
However, as for why such an advanced city was abandoned after the construction was completed, it has always been an unsolved mystery.
The royal family of Sand City is supposed to be the descendants of the humans who lived in the base back then, and they have followed the teachings of their ancestors, and have not disturbed those underground facilities even after hundreds of years.
In addition, the surviving people built a royal palace and another city on nearby land.
Who knows, even if it is forgotten by the memory of time, at some point in the future, that place will be occupied by the Obsidian Society as a hidden experimental base, and these descendants of humans will not remember that this is the legacy left by their ancestors.
Joyna saw that Zhuge Yun seemed to be deep in thought, and asked in a low voice, "But, I still don't understand...... Is everything that was said before meant to happen? ”
"Yes."
"That'...... Why did you only take action until now to save these humans? ”
Zhuge Yun glanced at her thoughtfully, and said slowly: "Do you remember what I said to you that night before, when I was in Shuangshan?" ”
Joyna suddenly remembered that the master had indeed said to herself that night, about the cosmic scale, Genghis Khan, the power button, the destruction of the new life, and something that sounded rambling.
But at the time, she didn't understand what it meant. In fact, even now, she still doesn't understand.
"Of course I remember, it's about destruction, and the plague hundreds of years ago...... Well, but I still don't understand. ”
"Okay. Quite simply, I hadn't figured out what to do or whether I was capable of it. ”
"Ability? Are you referring to the ability to save ...... all? ”
"Save humanity? Heh- I don't know where you got that idea, but you're thinking too much. The corners of Zhuge Yun's mouth rose slightly when he spoke, and his deep eyes revealed a trace of imperceptible cunning and coldness.
He is not a holy lord who saves all mankind, and after going through so much, even if all the human beings are combined, they are just a rabble.
In his eyes, they are all ants!
But he wouldn't tell Joyna that he was doing it for himself. Because, he was originally a selfish person......
A wise man in mankind once said: don't rush to the opportunity to act, wait until the profit is maximized.
Although it was not his intention to cause turmoil and even destroy the vast majority of humanity on this planet, it is an indisputable fact that this catastrophic effect was caused by himself.
That was true then, and it is true now.
If he hadn't done that, perhaps, there would be no humans on this planet.
An even greater crisis will emerge from this remote part of the galaxy, on a rocky planet in a lonely corner of the universe.
As for the future, he has seen a terrifying scene that humans can never imagine!
Mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, trillions of starfleets were destroyed, stars shattered, all life withered, and everything turned into powder in an instant, turning into dust scattered in the universe.
That's what's even more terrifying!
It's so much harder to create than to kill, and if you had a chance to define a new species, would you choose to create or kill?
The creation of life is right in front of you, on this small planet that has left behind a powerful creation, the Earth. He had no choice because it was a game and he had to do what he had to do before everything was irretrievable.
And the only thing to do is to make yourself stronger.
Transcend time and space, transcend everything, and run at the forefront. Only the strong can dominate everything, and the weak can only become beasts without independent thinking dominated by the abyss of chaos, which is the blood food of nameless existence.
Looking at the entire universe, it is an eternal truth that only when you become strong can you be qualified to speak.
Fortunately, he had already understood all these mysteries, and the brilliance of the Primal Crystal would be born from his hands, expanding the boundaries of the nameless universe and dissolving the things that had troubled him.
He couldn't explain it to anyone.
But if there is a record of those who are in the capital, there must be a key in their hands, and perhaps they themselves do not know what they have mastered.
He didn't know if the people of Jidu who were hiding in the realm knew anything, but if the people of 'Ispartine' had taken precautions, they would have been able to keep a hold on to what was about to happen.
Doing our best to reduce the damage is a necessary measure, and blocking the sunlight with the moon is only the first step, but it is a completely palliative approach, and it seems impossible to completely stop what is pouring out of the rift.
He has been delaying for more than four hundred years, and the lost strength can never be regained. All this was still unknown, and he only now realized how terrible the recklessness was in the first place, and the best way to eliminate those things once and for all was to do so.
He only got one chance, and he didn't want to miss it.
If you can stop the sunlight for thirty-six hours, the energy fluctuations in the space will be weakened, and even if this catastrophe is avoided, what about the future? The next step is to use the time you have bought to destroy the creatures that do not belong to this world. If you want to achieve this, you have to activate that, and your current ability is not enough......
This seems to be an endless loop with no solution!