Chapter 119 Abandoned Position

Liemendusa and Sif were already the last guardians on the planet Suloen, but the prodigal sons they had eliminated before were not necessarily the last enemies on this planet. Considering that there might still be small pockets of rebels who had not withdrawn from this place, Hao Ren had the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace drop a group of monitoring satellites into the planet's orbit to search for any energy reactions on the surface. At the same time, he issued a requisition order to the drone fleet patrolling nearby, ordering a portion of the armed drones to rush to the Gate of Suloen.

However, so far, various search channels had not discovered any reaction from the remaining rebels, perhaps they had really left this place.

"This is already an abandoned position," Liemendusa said without surprise after hearing Hao Ren's search results. "After the interstellar barrier was broken, almost all the troops were pouring towards the Founding Star—including the guardians and those rebels. And I heard that the guardians on other planets activated planetary self-destruction or solar flare devices before leaving, it's impossible for more survivors to be found. In fact, if you had come later, this place would have been spared a big explosion."

"You don't seem to know about the Dark Territory?" Hao Ren asked.

Liemendusa shook his head: "According to Mulu, we were on the side that was caught in the explosion, and for me, that big explosion was only ten hours ago, of course I don't know what people outside call the battlefield ruins."

Lili sat on the stone platform where the golden disc used to be stored (now it has risen back to the surface and returned to its original appearance), swinging her little legs boredly while looking up at Mulu: "I've heard you talk about the Dark Territory several times, what does that place look like?"

"In fact, we don't know either," Mulu sighed slightly, "When the last big explosion happened, I and the other guardians had already left the Divine Kingdom under the order of the Mother. We only saw bursts of strong light coming from the direction of the Founding Star, the background radiation of the entire universe was shaking, and then the stars around the Divine Kingdom began to tremble, and the galaxies collapsed towards the Divine Kingdom like vortexes. This only lasted for a short time, and then all the light disappeared. The Divine Kingdom and the starlight within a million light-years around it all disappeared, and the space was as clean as if it had been dug out. I once returned to the battlefield to try to find clues, but there wasn't even a speck of dust in space, only boundless darkness. No wreckage, no relics, not even a bit of temperature and magnetic field were left. The Divine Kingdom seemed to have never existed, so we called this phenomenon the 'Dark Territory'."

Liemendusa listened with increasing surprise. Although he himself was on the battlefield, he did not see the strange phenomena that Mulu saw. Izhaks, seeing this, curiously asked him, "What did you see at the time? When the Founding Star exploded."

"Nothing special, only a strong light, and an energy shock that made the entire galaxy tremble," Sif said slowly before Liemendusa could speak. "I saw the Founding Star expand countless times in an instant. Its light almost occupied a third of the night sky on this planet, and then in a few seconds, the light began to fade, and I found that the starlight in the sky became very sparse, and the distant stars disappeared—that was probably the moment when we fell into the 'Dark Territory'?"

"I'm afraid that's right, not being able to see the distant stars means you've fallen into another dimension," Mulu frowned, "But is there no feeling at all in the process of falling into the Dark Territory? I thought the situation on this planet would be more... earth-shattering."

"In fact, we don't even know what happened," Liemendusa's expression was strange. "In my timeline, I only fought for less than a day after the explosion, and then you suddenly appeared, and told me that it was already ten thousand years later, and Suloen had just come out of a place called the Dark Territory."

Liemendusa thought that only ten hours had passed since the Founding Star exploded, but Hao Ren, like a professional detective, did not let go of any details: "In the ten hours you experienced, did you see any unusual phenomena or scenes?"

Liemendusa pressed his forehead and tried hard to think: "Apart from the large-scale disappearance of starlight and the loss of spiritual connection with other guardians, there was no change. Oh, there was one time just before you came, I saw a flash of light in the due east sky, which seemed to divide the entire universe into two, and then the stars suddenly appeared. If I'm not mistaken, that should be the moment we returned to the main universe."

"A flash of light in the due east sky?" Hao Ren immediately became concerned, and he quickly jumped off the platform. "Point it out to us!"

Except for Sif, who still needed to rest, everyone else ran out of the temple in a hurry. They came to a platform outside the temple, and at this time, the long night in this place was only halfway through, and the sky was still dark. The smoke and clouds brought by the war covered most of the sky, but from behind the clouds, you could still see many stars and some light purple stripes, the latter being the color of the Suloen cloud. Liemendusa pointed to one side of the sky: "It's that one."

Hao Ren looked up and found a crack running through the entire sky there. The color of the night sky was divided into two distinct parts on both sides of the crack, as if it had been cut off by a knife. He was stunned for a moment before he realized what it was: it was the fracture zone at the edge of the Oblique Nebula, where all the nebula material abruptly ended. Since the planet Suloen was exactly at the edge of the Oblique Nebula, the image of the fracture zone could also be seen on the surface here.

"Only a part of the Gate of Suloen has returned to the main universe," Mulu told Liemendusa what he knew. "The flash of light you saw cut off a piece of this galaxy like a blade. Are you sure you really saw a flash of light?"

"Absolutely," Liemendusa nodded vigorously. "It runs through the entire sky, it's very magnificent, I can't be mistaken, and it just happened."

Lili followed up and asked, "Where was the source of the flash?"

"I didn't see this," Liemendusa shook his head with some regret. "It's too grand, it may be a phenomenon that started from tens of thousands of light-years away and is enough to affect a galaxy. It's impossible to see the whole picture of that flash from the surface of Suloen. But based on its shape at the moment it came out... I guess it may have come from the direction of the Founding Star."

Everyone looked at each other in dismay. After a long while, Hao Ren was the first to react: "The Founding Star has exploded—but it emitted a flash of light from its original location, cutting off a piece of the Gate of Suloen and throwing it into the main universe?"

Lili's eyes flashed with light: "That is to say, there must still be something active on the Founding Star, right! And it's the particularly powerful kind!"

Izhaks and Hao Ren said in unison: "Could it be the Genesis Engine?!"

This time, they thought of the same thing.

Near the Founding Star, possessing—or rather, possibly possessing—unprecedented power, enough to change the rules of the universe or throw a galaxy out of another dimension, the only thing that seems to have these attributes is that mysterious Genesis Engine. Although Hao Ren and Izhaks didn't know what that thing was used for, they couldn't help but associate the two things together at this time. Liemendusa obviously hadn't had time to consider these things, and he also had different opinions: "I don't think so, the Genesis Engine hasn't been fully assembled yet, the Mother said it herself, it's only three-quarters completed."

Hao Ren waved his hand carelessly: "But maybe it can be used together."

Liemendusa looked at Hao Ren with a strange expression: "Can this kind of thing be put together?"

"Anyway, no matter what the reason is, we can now assume that there is really something left around the Founding Star," Hao Ren rubbed his hands a little excitedly. "And with the flash of light that Liemendusa saw as evidence, the possibility that the Genesis Goddess is still alive is even higher. I even suspect that the flash of light was made by her."

The others nodded in agreement, and this unexpected development made them all extremely excited. However, the biggest problem still lies before them:

What is the current situation of the Dark Territory?

Liemendusa only knew the situation of Suloen. The space around this planet was distorted, and the time was chaotic, but according to Nolan's observation, this distortion was not uniform. It decreased from the planet Suloen as the center to the surroundings. Therefore, it could be inferred that other places in the Dark Territory would not be in a stagnant state like this planet. So no one knew what kind of earth-shattering changes had taken place around the Founding Star.

Only one thing is certain: there is really something still active there.