Chapter 33: Reprimand

"I don't know what that means, I once asked the deity, but she just shook her head. She told me that even with the level of science and technology of my people, many problems cannot be solved, and knowing too much only adds to the troubles. "So I didn't ask any more questions, but as the gods said, under the premise of ensuring safety, patrolling within the limits of our ability, trying to save some lost people with a similar fate to us." For nearly a thousand years, there has been some success, and we have saved some strange races piecemeal and brought them to the bodies of the gods. Although the god has been asleep most of the time and rarely awakened, she still has a sense of the vitality of the outside world, and after sensing that we have brought back carbon-based life, she deliberately transformed her body to grow life-sustaining food and water for carbon-based creatures, so that they can survive here smoothly. โ€

"Nourish mortals with their own flesh and blood?" Although Shure had already guessed it, he still glanced at Moria, or rather, at the hidden soul of Lord Anika in Moria, even a god with such an unpredictable mind would do such a thing, which was really a bit unexpected.

"It's a pity that those carbon-based creatures have a short lifespan, and their numbers are not enough to maintain the continuation of civilization, for a thousand years, most of the rescued races have perished naturally, and only a small part of the long-lived races have survived, but due to the difference in life and cultural characteristics, everyone is still scattered in different locations, and occasionally some of them have meat ยท Individuals of great physical strength will also go out on patrol with us, but they will take much longer to regain strength than we do, so most of the time we will search for them ourselves. โ€

"But as time goes by, their number is getting smaller and smaller, and now there are only a few hundred intelligent beings on this planet in addition to us, in fact, some races also have the opportunity to redevelop their civilization, especially some technological races, they carry the gene pool of the race, the number is not a problem, but in order not to add too much burden to the gods, they still gave up, and chose to hand over the gene pool to us for safekeeping, waiting for the opportunity to rebuild their civilization, and they themselves chose to perish. โ€

"As for you...... It should belong to the kind of race that takes individual power as the main direction of development, and technology is the kind that serves to improve individual strength, and sure enough, you can use your flesh and body to cross the destruction space. Then you should be able to live well here, the gods have provided you with plenty of resources to support your life, you are free to choose, whether you want to live in our city, or go to contact with other races, if you want to contact other races, we can lead you and introduce you. โ€

"I'm not in a hurry to make a decision, I'm actually more interested in the space inside the source of disaster than those races. Shul asked expectantly, "Do you know anything about it for more than a thousand years?"

"Nope. Roland replied without even thinking about it, "We only follow the orders of the gods, operate within a safe range, and have not explored deeply, so we have no further understanding of the destruction space. โ€

"Well, what about the gods. "If possible, I'd love to talk to her face to face, especially what she said before, she said that this might be the only way out of the world, and I'd love to have a deeper discussion with her." โ€

"I'm afraid this request can't be met, the gods haven't woken up for three hundred years, and I don't know when the next time I wake up. Roland discouraged, "I don't know how long you have to live, but I don't think there's a chance to wait until the gods wake up before you run out of life." โ€

"Heh, whether there is a chance or not, in fact, it mainly depends on your thoughts, the gods may indeed be sleeping, but I think you, as the first group of believers to follow and believe in her, should have a way to awaken her, right? โ€

"It is not wise to awaken the gods, the gods choose to sleep in order to reduce their own consumption, and forcibly awakening will only accelerate the collapse of her power and reduce the time for her to hold on, so we are firmly against awakening the gods. "And even if you ask, I'm afraid she will give the same answer as she gave us." I think maybe she's right, like this space of destruction, we can't do anything about it, and so are you, so what if we get the answer?"

Xiuer didn't speak again, but his face was gloomy, his eyes stared directly at the metal lifeform on the screen, under Shuer's forced gaze, the metal lifeform that had lived for tens of thousands of years actually had a feeling of being overwhelmed, and the body even subconsciously leaned back, and the golden light on his head didn't even dare to touch Shuer's gaze.

"If it were your brother, he would never say such a thing. After staring at him for a long time, Xiuer sighed deeply, shook his head slowly, and said softly, "Heh, maybe I have had a memory exchange, and I have been somewhat emotionally affected, and I am really a little sorry for him when I hear you say this." โ€

Roland let out a low hum, as if muttering to himself.

"You know, Roland, I thought a lot about the time you just confided in me. Shure ignored Roland's reaction, and said to himself, as he spoke, his fingers rhythmically tapping on the mace on his waist, "I've been thinking about why you want to say these things to us strangers who meet for the first time, and I've even thought about it, could it be that this matter has been pressed in your heart for thousands of years, and you urgently need to vent your emotions, so you will choose two of us irrelevant outsiders to confide in, and after you vent, you will find a way to kill the two of us who know the secrets of your heart." โ€

"No way. Roland's head subconsciously spun rapidly, "How could I ......?"

"I already know that I misunderstood you, that you can't do such a thing. "If you can do this kind of thing, I will pay more attention to you, because no matter what your character is, you at least have the courage, but now ...... Seriously, Roland, I look down on you. Do you know why? Because thousands of years have passed, you haven't changed at all, even if you know that your brother has died heroically, even if you see the gods shelter you with their own bodies, and feed you with their own flesh and blood, you still haven't changed, for thousands of years, you haven't grown at all, not at all, you are still the same as thousands of years, you are still that timid and afraid of waste. โ€

Quite a harsh accusation, not only the geometry of the metal lifeforms on the screen trembled at a distance, but even the city under his feet trembled slightly, but Roland did not refute a word.

"Why don't you refute it, Roland, for you know in your own heart that I am not wrong at all. Shuer's face was full of sneering smiles, and his tone was full of mockery, "Don't you want to face the smallness in your heart? It's okay, you don't want to say, then I'll say it for you, I ask you, Roland, have you really thought about the future?"

Silent, obviously with a huge city-like body, Roland instinctively retreated a distance, bowing his head and not saying a word.

"Hehe, you should know that the gods may be able to protect you for a while, but it is impossible to protect you forever, she said that she will not die, but from these hundreds of years of sleep, I don't believe you can't see that she is actually no different from dying like this, and everything she does is to protect you, so to speak, you can survive all thanks to her sacrifice. Shul sneered, "But what have you done? you are parasitic on her with peace of mind, you aimless waster of the time she has bought you, you haven't even thought about whether you will die if she can't hold it anymore, let alone think about changing the status quo." Heh, you're staring at me, right, I can see it, yes, at least you still have the courage to stare at me, a little stronger than just now, the question is what are you staring at me, you think I'm wrong, have you considered changing the status quo? Okay, then tell me, since the moment she turned into a planet, has your position changed, even if it was a meter of displacement?"

"No, right, hehehe, with your size and power, if you concentrate your strength, you can completely drag her to move, move a certain distance, and if your strength is insufficient, return to her body to rest, and then continue to move, although it is slow, but in more than a thousand years, you can also move far away, during which you may be able to find an exit out of this space, this is also your only chance, but have you done it? No. Why didn't you do it? Didn't you think of it? No, it's that you don't know how to make your own decisions, and in the past you gave the burden of making decisions to your brother, and then you threw this courage to the gods, and you didn't even have the courage to make your own decisions. I'm sorry, I was wrong, there was one time, heh, isn't it ironic? The only time I decided my own fate, or was it to escape. โ€

"Why am I sure you can't talk to us and then turn around and kill us? Because you don't have the courage and courage to do this, you confide in me, in fact, because I have exchanged memories with your brother, and you subconsciously regard me as a brother, crying to my brother as you did in the past, hoping to get comfort from your brother, and then he will carry everything you should carry, so I say, I look down on you, Roland, your brother forgives you for your cowardice, and entrusts the remnants of your clan to you, just hoping that you will grow up and be like a true leader, and this is how you repay his tolerance and trust?"

"You don't want me to wake up the gods, it's not the reasons you said, I once suspected that you would be worried that the gods would wake up and you would have nowhere to stay, so even if awakening her would help her, you should prevent her from waking up, if that's the case, although you don't have humanity, at least you're a qualified leader, but unfortunately, it's not for this reason, hehehe, you don't want to wake her up, just because after she wakes up, you don't have the courage to try your best to repay her favor, and you don't know how to face the changes that may arise in the future, you would rather live like this in a mess, one day at a time, rather than make up your mind to change, and would rather watch her sleep like dead, and refused to look for a way to save her. โ€

"I really feel sorry for your god, why would she sacrifice herself to save such a timid and fearful waste of yours?"