Monsters Will Die if They Are Killed

Milky Way, distant glowing galaxy.

The great blue star burns brightly, illuminating its fifteen planets.

The seventh gaseous planet from near to far has given birth to some kind of lucid life that is based on aura crystals. They are almost like ghosts, but they are purer and more spiritual than ghosts. They are deep in the giant star. Pregnant with your own possibilities.

But they have a chance to acquire primary wisdom tens of thousands of years later, and they are not the protagonists today.

At the edge of the Yaohui Galaxy, a rather embarrassed-looking fleet was fleeing during the cooling period of the jump engine. The severely damaged outer armor proved that they had gone through hard battles.

Behind the fleet, countless dense ripples suddenly lit up, like raindrops falling on the lake. Hundreds of alien warships flew out of these spreading concentric circles, chasing the fleeing fleet. go.

It seems that it is just an extremely common scene in the universe - a weak fleet is hunted down by a strong one, and it cannot get rid of it until the end of the universe.

But it's actually the opposite.

At the very rear of the fleeing fleet, a huge spherical candle-shaped battleship was taking off. It resisted the various attacks from numerous alien battleships, and launched several counterattacks from time to time to repel the opponent's offensive.

The grid-like shield resists missiles and artillery, as well as whips. The particle light flow that hits across a few light seconds makes the bombardment that can destroy the mountain just like the water hitting the reef, being crushed on the unshakable solid wall. The collision shattered.

The Candlelight giant ship possesses overwhelming firepower, and thunder will erupt in the vacuum every time it attacks.

When the enemy's artillery fire was temporarily extinguished, the beam formed by the condensed plasma sparks and spiritual energy swept across the starry sky, like a tornado sweeping across the earth, easily destroying all enemy ships within five light seconds.

But it doesn't fight.

The Candlelight Battleship was extremely powerful, but it had no desire to destroy all the alien spacecraft: after getting rid of the encirclement of the alien warships, it continued to cover the advance of the fleeing fleet without launching any more attacks.

At the edge of the galaxy, the brilliance lit by battleship cannon fire was like starlight, spanning a long distance and illuminating many silent stars.

This is the battle between the Earth Fleet where Su Zhou's body is located, and the numerous Twilight Fleets that are pursuing it.

In order to avoid being surrounded and entangled by more and more Twilight Fleets, and then being overtaken by the four strong men of the Void Religion, the Earth Fleet chose a strategy of retreating and fighting.

The person who decided on this action strategy was Tang Yuan, who had control over Su Zhou's body.

Ever since Su Zhou left the Earth universe with the God Scale and went to the twilight world to find a way to break the situation, he has taken on a great responsibility. As the commander of the Earth fleet, he led the fleet and Zhu Zhou's body to run around in the universe, delaying the pursuit of the Void Cult. pace of.

Although sometimes Zhu Zhou's body would break away from the command during battle, but as Su Zhou said, it was just a small spontaneous instinct of the body.

When push comes to shove, the Body of Candlelight never makes a mistake - its attack, defense, destructive power, and deterrence exceed all human and civilized imaginations.

Even the combined fleets of the seven twilight civilizations cannot stop the jets of the cosmic dragon. Even the giant beast floating in the void is just a delicious meal on the plate of the body of Candlelight. It tears apart the curtain trap of the dense nebula area, After crossing the turbulent area full of asteroids, the body left behind by Su Zhou, even though it had no intelligence, could still travel through the vast void of the distant star sea and create a way for the Earth's fleet to survive.

But even so, we are constantly being caught up.

In the Earth Fleet, inside the flagship, Tang Yuan, who was having a meeting in the war room, looked haggard and serious.

When they have the entire fleet and even the future of Earth's civilization on their shoulders, most people will be crushed by the heavy load; while other people will grow up and take on the responsibility.

Tangyuan is the second type.

In the process of his 'escape' to draw away the combat power of the Void Order, he quickly became a qualified fleet commander under the guidance of Tain Prophet and several Talin and Crow people, and skillfully used many weapons from aliens. Use civilized skills to break away from the enemy's encirclement and suppression.

But skills have their limits, and the Earth Fleet's hard power is indeed a little behind.

Perhaps the psionic engine is advanced enough, and the materials science is impeccable. However, as a brand-new technology that earth civilization has come into contact with, the jump engine is indeed inferior to the major established interstellar civilizations in practical application.

As time goes by, more and more Twilight Fleets catch up with the Earth. They can always lock the jump trajectory of the Earth Fleet at the first time and quickly follow up.

The body left by Marshal Su Zhou can indeed find a way out, but in a month or two, according to our speed, we will be overtaken by the main fleet of the Void Religion - by then, we will definitely be entangled , followed by three Annihilation Envoys and a Flood Demon Lord.

Pointing his finger at the star map, Tang Yuan spoke in a solemn tone: Next, we have only one choice - to venture into some extreme areas of the universe, such as black hole jets, pulsars and neutron stars, or even one that is about to explode. We use the power of celestial bodies to cover the trajectory of our actions around the supernova, so that we can slow down the enemy from catching up with us.

And we have to do this kind of behavior more than once. Before Marshal Su Zhou returns, we have to keep doing this and dance on the tip of the knife.

All those present at the meeting could only agree. This is indeed their only recourse.

Since no one objected, Tang Yuan clicked on a galaxy on the star map: it was a galaxy with a binary system of two neutron stars. Strong gravitational fluctuations and electromagnetic wave interference would also have a great impact on spiritual energy, so as long as it is around it After turning around and then jumping, even the Twilight Fleet would have a hard time finding out where they were going in the first place.

After making this decision, even Tang Yuan, who looked serious and calm on the surface, felt extremely nervous.

Because all this is not so much dancing on the tip of a knife as it is yoga on the tip of a needle.

With just a little carelessness, the gravitational tide created by the two neutron stars is enough to tear them all apart, without even suffering in the process.

But for the future of the earth, he can only choose this way.

Oh... minister.

Sighing in his heart, Tang Yuan really felt a little overwhelmed at this time: When will you come back? We have jumped twelve thousand light years, and we are about to jump from the middle of the cantilever to the shining area...an escape route There are fewer and fewer, and more and more enemies are encircling and suppressing them.”

If this continues, we will definitely be caught up within half a year!

Turning back and looking at the Twilight Fleet that was still chasing after them, not knowing where so many elements came from, he couldn't help but start to pray: I hope something happens to these damned Twilight Familia members soon!

——With the Earth Fleet as the center, within a radius of 10,000 light years, no one prays more sincerely than Tang Yuan now.

And perhaps because of this, Zhu Zhou's body, which was originally responsible for cutting off the queen, suddenly experienced changes.

In the huge round metal battleship, a light flashed through everyone's observation lenses.

Then, there was a dusk halo overflowing, turning into a thin spiritual light like nebula material, spreading in all directions!

Everyone in the Earth Fleet noticed this immediately.

They all moved their cameras, watching this scene nervously and in shock, and then shuddered.

What!

How is this going?

The Marshal's body has undergone a change, and it seems to be a change in the direction of dusk?!

Looking at the brilliance that was very similar to the Dusk Fleet, and even purer, some people even speculated: Could it be that Marshal Su's body has eaten too much of the Dusk Familia, and finally caused problems?

He was finally assimilated by Dusk?!

Immediately, some people were upset and regretful: Damn it, I knew I couldn't let Marshal Su eat so much. The Marshal had already told me!

But in the conscience of heaven and earth, Su Zhou really didn't think so much at that time - his instructions at that time were just because he was afraid that the appearance of his body would be too poor, which would violate his perfect image of a genius master.

No, that's not right!

But unlike all the captains and commanders of the Earth Fleet.

Tang Yuan, who had certain control over Su Zhou's body, understood the real cause of this change at this moment.

He quickly walked to the large observation screen on the bridge, stared at Su Zhou who appeared on it in shock, and said with a stunned expression: This... this is an upgrade!

Marshal, he really found Dusk's weakness!

At this moment, Zhuzhou's battleship has completed preliminary changes - along with waves of information fluctuations, the number of Dusk Familia in Tang Yuan's mind, which originated from the induction of Zhuzhou's body, instantly increased by a large number.

Its sensing range was greatly expanded, and at the same time, an invisible force followed the dim light and covered the entire Earth fleet, allowing the jump engine to cool down more quickly.

At first, everyone was still panicking, fearing the spread of twilight, but soon they discovered that the Earth Fleet was faster and more concealed.

We...disappeared in the sensors?!

Some inspectors exclaimed: Our own sensors can't find us...

They can't find us!

At this moment, it can even be seen that on the outer shell of the Zhuzhi Battleship, there are some spiritual energy crystals that were originally blue-purple, but are now turning into dim yellow, and emitting an obvious brilliance, making the entire spherical battleship look like Shining like a dim sun.

How to hide a drop of water?

That is naturally to enter the sea.

If you want to hide yourself under the siege of the Void Religion, what you have to do is not hide, but simulate yourself as a Dusk Familia!

Of course, on the surface, all this seems to be the early symptoms of twilight.

Therefore, the Zhuzhi battleship, which exuded the endless aura of dusk, immediately confused the enemy's dusk fleet.

The aura that was almost the same kind spread, causing many members of the Void Cult who had no blood or tears and only knew how to attack single-mindedly to hesitate.

【how come? 】

Whether it was the Webway AI, the Cernostians, or even the headquarters of the Order of Nothingness, they all felt weird because of this scene: [Is he starting to twilight too? ! The universe is in danger! 】

[Zhu Zhou is not an enemy, but he also has the potential to become a part of us? 】

The great elder of the Celestia civilization finally couldn't help but ask the question he had always wanted to ask with the help of Tain Prophet's body.

Mr. Tang Yuan, what kind of creature is Ling Zhuzhou...?

It's a simulation!

Simultaneous Tao, it's just a simulation of dusk!

Although he was unsure, Tang Yuan still insisted on saying - he really didn't know what Zhu Zhou's change meant, but he couldn't lose face.

Xi Dao, is he so powerful?

It is unclear whether the great elder believed it or was talking to himself. The leader of the Cernostia civilization could not help but sigh and said with emotion: The inheritance of the people on earth cannot be underestimated.

Indeed, this is not the aura of the Evil God of Dusk, but just the use of Dusk's fluctuations.

Su Zhou does have such power, and the God's Scale is such an artifact.

Although both the Dusk Familia and the Cernostians seemed to have found a justifiable reason for themselves.

But what is going on?

The answer is over-the-air upgrades and self-testing modules!

At this moment, during the short period of time when all the Twilight Familia fleets paused their pursuit.

Today's Zhuzhi battleship has completed its transformation!

[Over-the-air download upgrade in progress...progress 15%, 30%, 45%...100%]

[Loading the dusk-specific cleaning detection module]

[System self-inspection is in progress, firepower optimization has begun...Optimization completed]

At this moment, the huge round body of the cosmic dragon began to transform more completely - it began to shrink, restrain itself, strengthen its defense, organize its armor, and eliminate many useless and inefficient weapons, replacing them with something more powerful and more terrifying. Brand new muzzle.

In just ten seconds, the huge dragon turned into a star.

A star that brings death and destruction!

Buzz.

In the center of the dusk-colored stars, a black hole collapsed. In the hole, there was a bright crystal light condensing. It was a continent-level ultra-high-energy psychic beam generator.

It was pointed in the direction of the Dusk Fleet in the distance.

Then, the beam lights up.

Activate the special clearing weapon against dusk.

It was like a supernova exploding in an instant, releasing a mighty stream of light like the Milky Way.

At this moment, the dusk fleet that was directly hit was vaporized in an instant, while the fleet that was farther away was also dissolved by the incredible heat, and the fleet that was farther away was stirred up by the aftermath of psychic energy visible to the naked eye, exploded, and turned into a sky-wide Fireball.

And the end of this beam of light happened to be the fifteenth planet at the farthest end of the Yaohui Galaxy, a frost planet that was frozen by the cold.

In an instant, the billion-year-old ice layer that had been frozen for eternity was dissolved in an instant. On the surface of the planet, a giant pillar of steam that was 140 kilometers high and was expanding toward outer space burst out from the area where the light pillar hit. , and then turned into the shape of layers of mountains, spreading towards the entire planet.

Incredible shock waves of heat and steam swept across the world in a short period of time, and shock waves that were enough to shake the planet would repeatedly hit the planet hundreds of times without any attenuation.

One blow - the pursuing Dusk Fleet was completely wiped out.

It will automatically search for all new weapons and equipment in the place where the aura of dusk is located, and start to activate at full power, but there are no other pursuers.

This is the result of the automatic upgrade of Zhu Zhou's body.

[Candleday·Judgment Death Star Form]

The universe became quiet at this moment.

Twilight world group, Aian world.

Su Zhou, who simply sent his thoughts back to his body, never expected that his body could be so strong after evolving.

After all, he didn't know how much the essence of civilized weapons his body had accumulated in the battle with Dusk.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible to know what kind of brilliance those weapon essences will bloom after they are condensed and transformed.

Now, he only got a lot of useful information from the fragments of the Twilight Dragon.

First of all, the soul fragments of the Dusk Dragon are unexpectedly pure. So pure that except for him, a soul tasting master who eats souls to create a sense of artistry and ritual, no one else can even tell that these things are actually soul fragments. , rather than some 'imprint'.

Moreover, the ability of this soul fragment is also very strange - it can gradually make the host's soul pure and clean.

It's like other magazines, thoughts and ideas have all been lost to nothingness.

In other words, if a patient with demonized disease obtains the soul fragment of the Twilight Dragon, then his demonized disease will not only not worsen, but will disappear completely - at the same time, the demonized person's extraordinary abilities will also Strengthened by the purity of the soul.

Therefore, this twilight mark, in the eyes of the locals in the world of Aian, may be a powerful blessing that can cure demonic diseases and strengthen extraordinary powers.

Similarly, we can think of it this way - the soul of a person with the Twilight Dragon fragment is the most efficient as an additive in the core of the source energy furnace.

Su Zhou patted his belly thoughtfully, frowned and muttered: In other words, those who hold this fragment can create a large number of pure extraordinary beings by purifying the souls of a large number of demonized people. soul.

And Count Ayvind is indeed intending to capture the demonizers in the city.

The factories throughout Ayvind City, those factories that have no protective measures and exploit the people, will continue to produce demonized ones...

Everything is linked.

The heart of the source energy furnace needs the burning light of the soul to operate at full power.

The fragments of the Dusk Dragon can continuously produce the highest quality soul additives.

Su Zhou did not forget that in the perfect deduction of Gasha and Loya, they both became the top leaders of the northern barbarians, the two major tribes of Winter and Higurashi, who were said to be believers in the Twilight Dragon. One of them was even the high priest of Higurashi.

It would be unbelievable if these two people did not obtain the soul fragments of the Dusk Dragon.

And their ending was that at the end of the day, they were killed by the emperor of the Asmodai Empire, Asmodai XIII, designated as the King of Salvation, and their souls were sacrificed to the soul-burning torch on the Tower of Babel, becoming A sacrifice for the opening of the original Dark Age.

The original dark age...

It sounds like the Holy Sun was completely extinguished and the continent fell into a dark age.

But since it can be called an era, it means that there are people living in it, and it is not just a flash in the pan, but a stable and continuous one.

So, how can humans survive in such an era?

Naturally, it is the heart of a giant energy furnace that burns souls, the so-called ‘spirit-burning torch’!

Su Zhou is not an uneducated person. He is literate and has the ability to think. With the key words, he can naturally guess how the world's original trajectory should develop.

Earl Ayvind's Dusk Fragments may have been obtained through a trade with the Rimu tribe, but Master Suiguang also said just now that the Earl is the most loyal member of the imperial party. There must be the emperor's shadow behind this transaction, otherwise how could he dare to do this? Do?

Whether it is the secret method of burning souls or the roots of the World Tree, they were all given by the emperor, allowing Count Ayvind to absorb the lives and souls of the people in the city and use them for his own purposes... Hehe, I know without guessing that at the critical moment , this secret method can definitely eat everyone in the entire city as spare food, and gather all the souls into one.

The guess is more terrifying - Count Ayvind doesn't regard his people as human beings at all. He can infect all the residents in the city into demonizers at any time by detonating the furnace core of the factory, and then Kill and devour.”

At that time, the entire mobile city was just a giant formation and altar, and the nobles with the Dusk Soul fragments could gather these dirty souls together and purify them into the purest spiritual light... Maintaining the heart of the source energy furnace was almost Eternal motion.”

The nobles treated the common people as food.

The emperor used all living beings as fuel.

Everyone is struggling and fighting, but they are just playthings in the game. The demonizers feel indignant and unwilling, but they don't even know why they are being discriminated against and excluded.

And ordinary people are even more pitiful.

Because they didn't even think carefully about why they discriminated against demonized people, and their existence itself was just a granary for creating more demonized people.

This disgusting feeling is the same as mine.

Thinking of this, Su Zhou couldn't help but sneered: Even a little more disgusting than those gods and demons in the perfect world.

Now it seems that the strength of the Asmodai Empire is actually quite strong. The two major tribes of Winter Sunset and the Yanshuang Army formed by the northern aboriginals have blocked it. The empire itself has not expended any effort at all.

In other words, they didn't want to block it at all, but just sat back and watched the two tribes gain momentum, and even sent nobles like Earl Ayvind to trade with them to increase their strength.

According to his two apprentices and the future of the Demon King, Yanshuang Pass was indeed defeated, and then drove straight in and wreaked havoc throughout the entire empire - Gaza alone killed 20 million people.

This is simply letting the Twilight Familia become more powerful, allowing them to refine their territory and unseal the Twilight Dragon.

But the Sun Emperor, who was clearly powerful enough to kill the Ten-Salary King and usher in the Original Dark Age, did not make any resistance and just sat back and watched the Dusk Dragon unseal...

Is this guy so arrogant?

Turning his head, Su Zhou looked towards the center of the distant continent, where the capital of the Asmodai Empire was located.

He narrowed his eyes.

He wants to burn all the unsealed Twilight Dragons. In fact, the Twilight Dragon is the head of the Ten Salary Kings. As an almost eternal soul sacrifice for the Soul-Burning Torch, he can use him to maintain the original Dark Age. '!

Everything became clear.

Under the unclear gaze of Master Sui Guang, Su Zhou has roughly understood the conspiracy behind this with the experience of traveling through various worlds many times and deciphering the world view - maybe all the details are different, but the main body should remain the same. .

This skill, even for a pioneer space adventurer who changed his job to explore, would probably be inferior to him.

Here comes the problem.

At this moment, Su Zhou spoke.

He raised his head and looked at the holy sun that was releasing light. His eyes were deep, as if he saw the moonlight that only appeared late at night.

The Demon Moon can activate the soul of the entire world just like the light when the soul is burning. It is more powerful than the Dragon of Twilight... With such a powerful light, what is your prototype?

Su Zhou was thoughtful.

He lowered his head and looked at the roots of the World Tree in his hand. His eyes moved and he had an answer in his heart.

Then, he turned his head and looked at Master Suiguang on one side.

Master Suiguang, do you, the Light-Chasing Order, know about the World Tree?

He asked directly.

【this……】

Zhuguang was stunned for a moment. He had just thought about how angry the empire would be if Count Ayvind died, whether Professor Sweetley would be on the empire's wanted list, and how they could leave the empire safely.

Professor Sweetley's swallowing of the Twilight Mark made him wonder if the other party was going to simply raise a rebellion and form a rebel army on the spot. The two major tribes of Winter and Sunset would cooperate internally and externally to open up the north-south corridor.

But now, the other party suddenly asked a completely unrelated topic.

[In ancient myths and legends, before the age of gods, the world was supported and created by primitive giant trees. 】

But after all, it is not critical information. It would be better if it is not a rebellion, so Master Zhuguang explained patiently: [Of course, we have not found any evidence that the giant tree once existed, neither in archeology nor in the ruins. Similar worship of giant trees - this may just be an ancient myth, the oldest imagination of the ancestors, like an elephant standing on the tip of a needle or a giant tortoise carrying the world on its back. 】

[What's the matter, Professor Sweetley? You should know more about this than me. 】

Really, you don't know...it seems like a long time has passed.

Su Zhou was not surprised by this.

As for what Sui Guang said, there is no evidence of existence, it is probably just because the so-called evidence is so huge that it is simply unimaginable from a human perspective. Their evidence exists in every corner of the world where they live. .

World Tree, World Tree...the whole world is created by giant trees.

It seems it's time to go back and ask about Dawn.

As a creation of the ancient fairy civilization, the totem of Chuyao Research Institute contains records of giant trees.

Su Zhou believed that Liming knew more about all this than others.

And it’s time to use the Book of Prajna.

But now, we should do something serious.

With that said, Su Zhou pushed open the wall of the Earl's Mansion - he didn't leave the door, he just opened the wall and left.

Just like Su Zhou didn't leave the door when he came, he kicked the door open and came through the wall.

【Business? 】

Seeing Su Zhou take action, Sui Guang couldn't help but glance at Count Ayvind's body. After shaking his head in disgust, he followed up: [Professor doesn't plan to go back? The children are waiting for you to come back...]

I know it will be resolved as soon as possible, but business must be done.

Without stopping, Su Zhou shook his head slightly at this moment. He glanced sideways at Sui Guang: Don't you think that killing a noble is avenging all the victims who died in vain and helping all the demons in this city? and the ordinary people who are about to suffer, right?”

With Earl Ayvind dead, will things end? Conflicts will be resolved, hatred will be dissolved, and order and peace will be restored, as if everything never happened?

Does it make sense to just kill and destroy without creating and creating?

【...Could it be...】

Sui Guang opened his mouth slightly. He wanted to say something, but suddenly found that he had nothing to say.

Indeed, killing Earl Ayvind would not help anyone in Ayvind City.

Whether it is the raging demonizer gangs, the demonizers and poor people struggling to survive in the lower city, or the ordinary people who are about to be attacked by the demonizers, none of these problems can be improved by killing Count Ayvind.

However, Suiguang didn't know how to solve these things specifically.

His predecessor was a scholar, an idealist who had suffered hardship himself, so he wanted to help all demonized people and ordinary people, use technology to bring happiness and happiness to the world, and expel darkness.

In fact, everyone in the Light Chasing Order, at least most of the people who just joined it, are such idealists.

They uphold this belief, so they join in and chase the light.

——But what should be done?

Now that we have technology, what should we do to prevent technology from becoming a tool for exploiting people, but instead becoming a blessing to the people?

This is a problem that all members of the Light-Chasing Order have been unable to overcome - too many inventions have not become tools that benefit the country and the people as everyone imagined, but have instead become tools for highly productive lords to suppress the people. arms.

Even more, how should tools and knowledge be used to help those who should be helped?

This answer is hard to come by.

So Suiguang chose to go to the ancient ruins, intending to dig out some knowledge and records from the history and experience of the ancients, and bring confirmation of another path to the Zhuguang Order.

——This man is looking for a way in the darkness.

Su Zhou saw the confusion in Sui Guang's eyes.

don’t worry.

So he chuckled and said, Let me demonstrate it to you.

The man turned his head and looked directly at the streets of Ayvind City.

Su Zhou opened his arms and spoke calmly: Save people to the end, send Buddha to the West... What should really be handed over to the people should be fishing nets and knowledge itself, not 'tools' and 'power'.

“Because the rich are those who can use tools, and the strong are those who have power.”

【but. 】

Although Suiguang is a robot, after hearing Su Zhou's words and following Su Zhou's steps, he couldn't help but feel his mouth go dry: [But Professor Sweetley, if there is no strong person to lead the people, the people will definitely go astray. , they do not understand knowledge, nor...]

Who says people don't know knowledge? It's just that we don't educate you well. Our ideas are not easy to understand and easy to be misinterpreted.

Interrupting Sui Guang's words, Su Zhou shook his head slightly: Of course, there is another possibility...that is, the people know everything, but they still choose the wrong path.

【so what should I do now? 】

That means humans judge themselves and must learn to take responsibility.

After finishing speaking, Su Zhou strode towards the outer city of Aiwende City: If you make a mistake, you must bear it, and then move forward, try not to make mistakes, and become better.

This is the right thing to do as a human being.

——This man has already set foot on the road.

He didn't hesitate.

He's going to start.