Chapter 459: The Outside World
How big is the bubble zone in the whole space? So far, no one dares to say an accurate number, even the scholars of the Demon King Army who "calculated the entire universe" back then only gave a rough theoretical value of the boundary of the space bubble area, and no one knows how many space bubbles there are within this boundary. People only know that they have explored only a small part of the "whole world" in which they have lived since the beginning of history, and even the oldest elves and elves have never set foot on the desolate outer edges of the bubble zone. And even if there are people who have explored the plane, there are only a few spaces that can be built as homes in the future and can be inhabited, and most of the space bubbles are directly abandoned after exploration: no resources, no air, deadly radiation, no water, and highly toxic soil...... Countless slaves who have been thrown out to explore the path have marked countless unsurvivable planes with their lives, and the greatest magus on earth is reluctant to build their mage towers in such places, because they will find nothing here - except for a few mad mages, but we will not discuss the madmen.
Mortals are easily self-centered creatures, just as people on the earth believed that they stood at the center of the whole world, and scholars in the human world also built a superficial model after constantly exploring the space bubble: they put the plane suitable for survival in the middle of the model, and then according to the desolation process, the further "outside" the space bubble became, the more difficult it is to maintain survival. This crude model has no borders, except for a series of frontier planes with a general marking: beyond here, there is a desert.
Considering that the chaotic spatial structure of the space bubble area and the space bubble itself are not the way to sort in three-dimensional space, this rough model proposed by various races in the human world is not wrong. It doesn't matter which space bubble is placed in the center of the model anyway - of course the model is useless, because it is anything other than the known habitable plane. Desert areas are still unknown.
The Demon Kings of Izax were the only sapient beings in the world to have made the effort to visit the desert for thousands of years, but they had not been able to reach the true borders of the Bubble Zone at the farthest that year.
The fleet is traversing strange places with harsh environments. After crossing the last small human kingdom where people lived, there was no life left for them to stop. Outside the portal, there are endless storms, huge waves and poisonous oceans, intense cosmic radiation, and even direct collisions with some dangerous celestial bodies: if it weren't for the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace to detect the situation on the other side of the gate in advance, even Erim's ship would most likely have collapsed in this dangerous bubble area. And back then, Yitzax didn't even have a spaceship, but he dared to organize a group of people to explore this place, and sure enough, the real man relied on the word "reckless" - when he went back, he only suffered more than half of the casualties and was not completely wiped out.
In order to better observe the scene ahead, grasp the entire route, and more importantly, let Lily stop making trouble, at this time, Hao Ren and the others have returned to the bridge of the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace. On the external monitors was the spectacle of a barren plane: the heavens and the earth were pale, and the whole world was filled with never-ending "snow". The huge white foam waves thousands of meters high rolled up out of thin air under the traction of a giant celestial body in the sky, forming a curling and strange aerial shape, and then slowly collapsed little by little, turning into snowflakes and falling silently.
Lily dragged Elizabeth, one big and one small, and the two bear children squatted on the chairs in front of the holographic projection, and exclaimed one after another: "Whoa, it's snowing! "Wow! It's beautiful! "I really want to put something around my neck and go out and drag things for a lap......"
A certain husky, this is the ancestral instinct of the king of transportation in the Arctic Circle.
But it wasn't snow outside, the white stuff was nitrogen solidified at low temperatures - the fleet was passing over a deadly cryogenic giant planet, the portal of this plane was directly open in a storm of snowflake solid nitrogen, and the ship rushed out and broke into a world covered in silver - and in the previous plane, they had trekked tens of thousands of kilometers in space. Such is the case with these unlivable planes. You may find yourself in a bad place: bad, and worse.
The giant wreckage was covered in a layer of white nitrogen snow, but other than that, it was in good condition, and the gravity regulators were in good working order. It seems that it is only a matter of time before we reach the gates of the world safely.
With such a big guy in tow, Erim's fleet could no longer cross the border at full speed as it had when it first arrived, and now the speed of the tugboat was less than a third of the fleet's top speed. The fleet will probably have to trek through strange planes for two days before it reaches the gate home. However, everyone's feelings were good: the whole operation went more smoothly than expected, and the Elim elves did not suffer any major losses. The world's native armies reacted unprepared against the warships, allowing the expected orderly counterattack to last only a short time. Harmless.
"You left that sentence when you were leaving," Hao Ren turned his head to look at Yitzax, "you really love this world." ”
"Then they will at least have some motivation," Yitzax smiled, "since they have finally come together, let's try to hold together for a longer time, and it is better that even the demons will establish a long-term connection with the human world under pressure, so that the generation will continue to change, and the loose union situation will become a habit - war will still exist, after all, war is also the driving force of progress, but the war of internal friction that blindly exterminates the opponent as before should not appear: in the future, they must have a common goal." ”
Hao Ren hehe: "Well, in the future, the common goal should be to run to the depths of the universe and kill you again-you said that after hundreds of thousands of years, their descendants will finally study the era of the great universe, and when they follow the ancient prophecy and run out to prepare to face the demon king, they know that the demon king is teasing them, what will those unlucky children look like?" ”
Yitzhax shrugged: "Who knows? It is also possible that the few words I left behind will only unite them for a while, or they may only be enough to push the world forward half a step forward - the changes in the short-lived race are too difficult to guess, and the change of generations makes the cultural inheritance and historical records not so reliable, maybe in the end, no one except the elves and spirits will know what the truth of the demon king's prophecy is, and maybe the new generation of mankind two hundred years later will take the prophecy that 'the demon king will one day return from the depths of the universe' as a mythical story. But in any case, it is better to take half a step than to stay put, at least they will have a shadow that will hang over their heads for a long time to make them work hard for a generation. ”
Then the Demon King laughed: "Anyway, I have done everything I should have done, and I am not a god, how can I guess the trajectory of the world after I left, but at least it should be better than before." Hey, I'm done today. ”
Vivien looked at Itzhax with a strange expression, "You're really ...... It doesn't seem to be angry or regretful at all, right? You cost hundreds of years to finally push the world half a step, and you have to let people hang on the black list for generations, you are not aggrieved at all? ”
Itzax grinned, "So that's the difference in the way demons think: why should I care about that?" My goal is clear, I want to enter the sea of stars, I want to bring the races of the world to an end to the melee - now that my goal has been achieved, what is there not to be satisfied with? ”
Hao Ren looked up at him: "It's okay to make the whole world hold a grudge?" ”
"me."
Everyone: "......"
In the end, the Demon King's vision of everyone in the whole world gave these four words of evaluation.
The fleet continued to sail and finally approached its end.
Several planes have been in the vast space in a row, and the previous law of "portals are mostly near large celestial bodies" guided by some kind of gravitational focus has also begun to fail, and the spacecraft is always facing an increasingly large cosmic vacuum after passing through the plane gate, which is a sign that the space bubble area is coming to an end.
Itzax made his way outside the ship and sat cross-legged on the upper armor belt of the Giant Turtle Rock, watching as a marvelous holo-reflective sphere rapidly enlarged in front of the fleet.
It was the last spatial gate, and the structure of the fully reflective sphere was completely different from the previous dimensional gate, indicating that the real universe was on the opposite side of this door.
Passing through the gate, a scene that had never been seen before in the space bubble area came to my face.
A sea of stars.
Itzax relaxed his body and lay on his back on the armor belt, not minding the radiation of cosmic rays. He squinted in the starlight, as if to merge into the space, feeling the brilliant stars shining throughout the universe.
Faintly, a short figure with a rickety body reappeared in front of him, with messy hair, shabby clothes, and a wrinkled face, shouting and scolding like thunder: "You have messed up my number! ”
"Hey...... You're right, old fellow - the outside world is so big. (To be continued......)