Chapter 634 Over-the-Air Download Upgrade (8200, Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

Galaxy, Yao Hui Galaxy.

A huge blue star burns fiercely, radiating light and illuminating its fifteen planets.

In the seventh gaseous planet from the star, a spiritual life form based on spiritual energy crystals is gestating. They are almost like phantoms, but purer and more spiritual than phantoms, nurturing their own possibilities in the depths of the giant star.

However, they, who only have a chance of gaining elementary intelligence after tens of thousands of years, are not the protagonists of today.

At the edge of the Yao Hui Galaxy, a rather battered fleet is constantly fleeing during the cooling period of its warp engines, its severely damaged external armor proving that they have fought hard.

Behind this fleet, countless dense ripples suddenly light up, like raindrops falling on a lake. Hundreds of alien warships fly out of these expanding concentric circles, chasing after the fleeing fleet.

It seems to be a very common scene in the universe—a weak fleet is chased by the strong until they cannot escape to the ends of the universe.

But in reality, the opposite is true.

At the rear of the fleeing fleet, a huge spherical Zhuzhou warship is holding the line, resisting the bizarre attacks of numerous alien warships, and occasionally launching several counterattacks, repelling the opponent's offensive.

A grid-like shield defends against missiles and artillery, as well as whip-like particle light streams that lash out from several light-seconds away, making the bombardment that could destroy mountains seem like water flowing against a reef, shattering against an immovable wall.

The Zhuzhou dreadnought possesses overwhelming firepower, each attack erupting with thunder in the vacuum.

When the enemy's artillery fire temporarily ceases, plasma sparks and beams of light condensed from spiritual energy sweep across the starry sky, like a tornado sweeping across the earth, easily destroying all enemy ships within five light-seconds.

But it does not engage in a dogfight.

The Zhuzhou warship is incredibly powerful, but it does not have any desire to eliminate all the alien warships. After breaking free from the encirclement of the alien warships, it continues to cover the fleeing fleet's advance, without adding any further attacks.

At the edge of the galaxy, the light from the warship's artillery illuminates the light of the stars, crossing vast distances and illuminating numerous silent stars.

This is the battle of the Earth Fleet where Su Zhou's body is located, and the numerous Twilight Fleets chasing after them.

To avoid being surrounded and entangled by more and more Twilight Fleets, and then caught up by the four powerhouses of the Void Cult, the Earth Fleet's chosen strategy is to retreat and fight.

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

Since Su Zhou left the Earth universe at the Celestial Scale to search for a way to break the situation in the Twilight World, he has shouldered the important task of leading the Earth Fleet and the Zhuzhou body to travel around the universe, delaying the pursuit of the Void Cult.

Although sometimes the Zhuzhou body would deviate from command during battle, it was just a small, spontaneous instinct of the body, as Su Zhou said.

At crucial moments, the Zhuzhou body has never made a mistake—its attack, defense, destructive power, and deterrent force surpass the imagination of all people and civilizations.

Even the combined fleet of the seven Twilight Civilizations cannot stop the cosmic dragon's jets. Even the giant beasts floating in the void are nothing more than the Zhuzhou body's meal. It tears apart the curtain traps in the dense nebula area and crosses the turbulent area full of asteroids. Even without intelligence, Su Zhou's remaining body can still traverse the vast void of the distant sea of stars, forging a path of survival for the Earth Fleet.

"But even so, we are constantly being caught up."

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

When the future of the entire fleet and even the Earth civilization rests on one's shoulders, some people are crushed by the heavy burden; while others grow up and take responsibility.

Tang Yuan is the second type.

During the process of 'fleeing' to divert the Void Cult's combat power, under the guidance of Tain, the Prophet, and several Taling and Kro people, he quickly became a qualified fleet commander, and skillfully used many techniques from alien civilizations to break free from the enemy's encirclement.

But there is a limit to techniques, and the Earth Fleet's hard power is indeed a bit lacking.

Perhaps the psionic engine is advanced enough, and the materials science is impeccable, but the warp engine, as a brand-new technology that the Earth civilization has come into contact with, is indeed inferior to the major old-brand interstellar civilizations in actual application.

As time goes by, more and more Twilight Fleets are catching up with the Earth side. They can always lock onto the Earth Fleet's warp trajectory at the first moment, and then quickly follow up.

"The body left by Marshal Su Zhou can indeed forge a way out, but in another month or two, according to our speed, we will be caught up by the main fleet of the Void Cult—at that time, we will definitely be entangled, followed by the three Annihilation Envoys, and a Lord of the Abyssal Tide."

Pointing his finger on the star chart, Tang Yuan's tone was extremely solemn: "Next, we have only one choice—to risk breaking into some extreme cosmic areas, such as black hole jets, pulsars and neutron stars, and even the vicinity of an exploding supernova, using the power of celestial bodies to conceal our trajectory, so as to delay the enemy's speed in catching up with us."

"And we have to do this more than once. Before Marshal Su Zhou returns, we have to keep doing this, dancing on the edge of a knife."

Everyone participating in the meeting could only agree. This was indeed their only way.

Since no one objected, Tang Yuan marked a star system on the star chart: it was a star system with a binary system of two neutron stars. The strong gravitational waves and electromagnetic wave interference would also have a great impact on spiritual energy, so as long as they circled around it and then warped, even the Twilight Fleet would find it difficult to find their whereabouts at the first moment.

After making this decision, even Tang Yuan, who looked serious and calm on the surface, was extremely nervous and at a loss in his heart.

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

If they were even slightly careless, the gravitational tides created by the two neutron stars would be enough to tear them all apart. There would not even be pain in the process.

But for the future of Earth, he could only choose this.

"Alas… Minister."

Sighing in his heart, Tang Yuan really felt overwhelmed at this time: "When will you be back? We have already warped twelve thousand light-years, and we are about to warp from the middle of the arm to the shining area… There are fewer and fewer routes to escape, and more and more enemies are besieging us."

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

Turning his head and looking at those Twilight Fleets that were still chasing relentlessly, not knowing where they got so many molecules from, he couldn't help but pray: "I hope something bad happens to this group of damned Twilight Kin soon!"

——Within a radius of ten thousand light-years centered on the Earth Fleet, no one's prayers were more sincere than Tang Yuan's now.

And perhaps because of this, a sudden change occurred in the Zhuzhou body, which was originally only responsible for holding the line.

In the huge spherical metal warship, a ray of light flashed in the observation lens of the crowd.

Then, a halo of twilight radiated in all directions, turning into a thin spiritual light like nebulous matter, spreading in all directions!

At the first moment, the people of the Earth Fleet noticed this.

They mobilized their lenses one after another, watching this scene nervously and in astonishment, and then felt a chill down their spines.

"What!"

"What's going on?"

"Marshal's body has changed, and it seems to be a change in the direction of Twilight?!"

Watching that halo that was extremely similar to the Twilight Fleet, even more pure, someone even guessed: "Could it be that Marshal Su's body ate too many Twilight Kin, and finally had a problem?"

"Has he finally been assimilated by the Twilight?!"

Immediately, someone was annoyed and regretted their actions: "Damn it, I knew I couldn't let Marshal Su's body eat so much. Marshal had already explained it!"

But in all conscience, Su Zhou really didn't think so much at that time—his instructions at the time were only because he was afraid that his body's eating habits were too bad, which would violate his perfect image as a genius master.

"No, that's not right!"

Unlike all the captains and commanders of the Earth Fleet.

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

He quickly walked to the observation screen of the bridge, staring at Su Zhou displayed on it in shock, and said in astonishment: "This… this is an upgrade!"

"Marshal, he really found the weakness of Twilight!"

At this moment, the Zhuzhou warship had completed its initial transformation—accompanied by a series of information fluctuations, in Tang Yuan's mind, the number of Twilight Kin sensed from the Zhuzhou body instantly increased by a large number.

Its sensing range was greatly expanded. At the same time, an invisible force covered the entire Earth Fleet along with that dim light, allowing the warp engine to cool down more quickly.

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

"We… disappeared from the sensors?!"

A detection personnel exclaimed: "Our own sensors can't find us…"

"They can't find us!"

At this moment, it could even be seen that on the outer shell of the Zhuzhou warship, some of the original cyan spiritual energy crystals were now being converted to a dim yellow, and emitting a distinct glow, making the entire spherical warship look like a dim sun.

How to hide a drop of water?

That is naturally to enter the sea.

To hide yourself under the siege of the Void Cult, what you have to do is not to hide, but to simulate yourself as a Twilight Kin!

Of course, all this, on the surface, is indeed the initial symptom of Twilightization.

Therefore, the Zhuzhou warship, which exuded infinite Twilight aura, also caused confusion among the enemy's Twilight Fleet at the first moment.

The nearly same aura diffused, causing many Void Cult members, who had no blood and tears and only knew how to attack wholeheartedly, to hesitate.

[How could this be?]

Whether it was the Webway Ai, or the Senostians, or even the Void Cult headquarters, all felt incredible because of this scene: [Is he also beginning to Twilightize?! The universe is in danger!]

[Zhuzhou, is not an enemy, and has the potential to become a part of us?]

The Great Elder of the Selastian Civilization finally couldn't help but ask a question he had always wanted to ask, using Tain the Prophet's body.

"Mr. Tang Yuan, what exactly is the Zhuzhou… what kind of being is it?"

"It's simulation!"

"Imitation, just imitating Twilight!"

Although he was unsure, Tang Yuan still braced himself and said—he really didn't know what the change in Zhuzhou represented, but he couldn't lose face.

"Imitation, is so powerful?"

Unsure whether the Great Elder believed it or was talking to himself, the leader of the Senostian Civilization couldn't help but sigh, and said with emotion: "The heritage of the Earthlings is indeed not to be underestimated."

"Indeed, this is not the aura of the Dusk Evil God, but merely using the fluctuations of Dusk."

"Su Zhou indeed has such power, the Celestial Scale is such a divine artifact."

Although it seemed that both the Twilight Kin and the Senostians had found a plausible reason for themselves.

But what exactly is going on?

The answer is over-the-air download upgrade and self-detection module!

At this moment, during the short period when all the Twilight Kin Fleets paused their pursuit.

The current Zhuzhou warship has completed its transformation!

[Performing over-the-air download upgrade… Progress 15%, 30%, 45%… 100%]

[Loading Twilight-specific sweep detection module]

[Performing system self-check, starting fire optimization… Optimization completed]

At this moment, the huge round cosmic dragon body began to transform more thoroughly—it began to contract, restrain, strengthen its defense, reorganize its armor, remove many useless and inefficient weapons, and replace them with more powerful and terrifying new gun ports.

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

A star that brings death and destruction!

Buzz.

In the center of the Twilight-colored star, a black hole collapsed. In the hole, brilliant crystal light was condensing. That was a continental-level ultra-high-energy psionic beam generator.

It was aimed at the direction where the distant Twilight Fleet was located.

Then, the beam lit up.

Twilight-specific cleaning weapon activated.

It was like a supernova exploding in an instant, releasing a vast stream of light like a galaxy.

In this instant, the Twilight Fleet that was directly hit was vaporized in an instant, and the fleets that were slightly farther away were also dissolved by the incredible heat. The fleets that were even farther away were agitated and exploded by the visible psionic aftermath, turning into fireballs all over the sky.

And the end of this beam happened to hit the fifteenth planet at the farthest end of the Yao Hui Galaxy, a frost planet sealed by severe cold.

In an instant, the billion-year-old ice layer that had been frozen for thousands of years was dissolved in an instant. On the surface of the planet, a giant column of steam, as high as one hundred and forty kilometers, and constantly expanding, spreading towards outer space, erupted from the area hit by the light column, and then turned into layers of mountain shapes, spreading towards the entire planet.

The incredible heat and steam shock waves swept the globe in a short period of time. The shock waves that were enough to shake the planet would cycle back and forth on this planet hundreds of times without any attenuation.

One strike—the pursuing Twilight Fleet was completely wiped out.

The new weapon equipment that would automatically search for all places with Twilight aura began to operate at full power, but there were no other pursuers.

This is the result of the Zhuzhou body's automatic upgrade.

[Zhuzhou · Judgement Death Star Form]

The universe, at this moment, became quiet.

Twilight World Group, Aeon World.

Su Zhou, who was simply sending his thoughts back to his own body, never thought that his body would be so strong after evolving.

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

So naturally, he couldn't know what kind of brilliance would bloom after those weapon essences were condensed and renovated.

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

First of all, the soul fragments of the Twilight Dragon are surprisingly pure, so pure that apart from him, a soul connoisseur who eats souls with an artistic sense and a sense of ritual, others probably wouldn't be able to tell that this thing is actually a soul fragment, not some kind of 'mark'.

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

It's like other magazines, thoughts, and ideas have been 'annihilated'.

In other words, if a person with a demonization disease obtains a soul fragment of the Twilight Dragon, then his demonization disease will not only not worsen, but will completely disappear—at the same time, the demonizer's extraordinary ability will be strengthened because of the purity of the soul.

So this Twilight imprint, in the eyes of the locals of Aeon World, is probably a powerful blessing that can cure demonization disease and strengthen extraordinary power.

"Similarly, it can also be considered that for people with fragments of the Twilight Dragon, their souls are the most efficient as additives to the source energy furnace."

Su Zhou patted his stomach thoughtfully, he frowned and pondered: "In other words, people holding this fragment can create a large number of pure extraordinary souls by purifying the souls of a large number of demonizers."

"And Count Avendell is indeed intentionally arresting demonizers throughout the city."

"The factories throughout Avendell City, those factories that do not have protective measures and exploit the people, will also continuously create demonizers…"

Everything is connected.

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

"The fragments of the Twilight Dragon can continuously create the highest quality soul additives."

Su Zhou didn't forget that in the perfect deductions of Gasha and Loya, they both became high-level members of the Frostwind and Dusk, the two Northern Barbarian tribes who were said to be believers of the Twilight Dragon. One of them was even the Dusk High Priest.

If these two people did not obtain the soul fragments of the Twilight Dragon, that would be incredible.

And their ending was that, at the end of time, they were designated as the Fire Keepers to be killed by Emperor Asmodeus XIII of the Asmodeus Empire, and their souls were sacrificed to the Burning Spirit Torch on the Tower of Babel, becoming the sacrifices for the opening of the Original Dark Age.

Original Dark Age…

It sounds like the era when the Holy Sun is completely extinguished and the continent falls into darkness.

But since it can be called an era, it means that someone lives in it, and it is not just a flash in the pan, but a stable continuation.

Then, how can humans survive in such an era?

Naturally, it is the giant source energy furnace that burns souls, the so-called 'Burning Spirit Torch'!

Su Zhou is not an uncultured person. He can read and has thinking ability. After getting the keywords, he can naturally guess how the original trajectory of this world should develop.

"Count Avendell's Twilight fragment may have been obtained through a transaction with the Dusk Tribe, but Master Flint also said just now that the Count is the most loyal Imperialist. There must be the Emperor's shadow behind this transaction, otherwise how dare he do this?"

"Whether it is the Burning Spirit Secret Method or the roots of the World Tree, they were all bestowed by the Emperor, allowing Count Avendell to absorb the lives and souls of the entire city and turn them into his own… Heh, without guessing, I can know that at a critical moment, this secret method can definitely treat everyone in the entire city as emergency rations and gather all the souls into one."

"To guess even more terrifyingly—Count Avendell has never treated his people as human beings. He can detonate the factory furnace core and other methods at any time to infect all the residents in the entire city into demonizers, and then kill and devour them."

"At that time, the entire mobile city is a giant formation, an altar, and the nobles with the fragments of the Soul of Twilight can gather these turbid souls together and purify them into the purest spiritual light… maintaining the nearly perpetual operation of the source energy furnace."

Nobles treat civilians as food.

The Emperor treats all beings as fuel.

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

And ordinary people are even more pitiful.

Because they haven't even seriously thought about why they discriminate against demonizers, and their existence itself is just a granary for creating more demonizers.

"This disgusting feeling is consistent."

Thinking of this, Su Zhou couldn't help but sneer: "It's even more disgusting than the gods and demons of the Perfect World."

Now it seems that the strength of the Asmodeus Empire is actually quite strong. The Frostwind and Dusk, the two tribes formed by the Northern natives, have blocked it, and the Empire itself has not spent much effort at all.

Or rather, they didn't want to block it at all, but sat back and watched the two tribes become powerful, and even sent nobles like Count Avendell to trade with them, strengthening their strength.

And according to the future deduction of his two apprentices, the demon kings, the Frostwind Pass was indeed broken, and then they went straight in and wreaked havoc throughout the Empire—Gasha alone killed 20 million people.

This is simply letting the Twilight Kin become powerful, letting them perform land alchemy and unseal the Twilight Dragon.

And clearly, the Solar Emperor, who was powerful enough to kill the Ten Fire Keepers and open the Original Dark Age, did not make any resistance and sat back and watched the Twilight Dragon unseal…

"This guy, is he so arrogant to this point."

Turning his head, Su Zhou looked towards the distant center of the continent, the location of the capital of the Asmodeus Empire.

He narrowed his eyes.

"He wants to burn the unsealed Twilight Dragon together. Even, the Twilight Dragon is the head of the Ten Fire Keepers, as the nearly perpetual soul sacrifice of the Burning Spirit Torch, using him to maintain the 'Original Dark Age'!"

Everything became clear.

In Master Flint's puzzled gaze, with the experience of repeatedly traveling through various worlds and deciphering worldviews, Su Zhou has roughly understood the conspiracy behind this—perhaps there are some differences in the details, but the main body should be the same.

This skill, even if it is allowed to see the pioneer space adventurers who change jobs to exploration, I am afraid they will sigh in self-pity.

"The question is coming."

At this moment, Su Zhou spoke.

He raised his head and looked at the Holy Sun that was releasing light, his eyes deep, as if he saw the moonlight that only appeared in the deep night.

"It can activate the souls of the entire world like the light when the soul is burning, and the magic moon that is even more powerful than the Twilight Dragon… Such a powerful light, what exactly is your prototype?"

Su Zhou was lost in thought.

He lowered his head, 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 Flint on the side.

"Master Flint, does your Church of Light Chasers know the World Tree?"

He asked directly.

[This…]

Flint was stunned for a moment. He was still thinking about how the Empire would be furious when Count Avendell died, whether Professor Svetre would be on the Empire's wanted list, and how their party could safely leave the Empire's territory.

Moreover, Professor Svetre's swallowing the Twilight Imprint made him feel that the other party was simply going to raise the flag of rebellion, form a righteous army on the spot, and cooperate with the Frostwind and Dusk to open up the north-south corridor.

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

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

However, after all, it was not any key information, so it was better if there was no rebellion, so Master Flint patiently explained: [Of course, we have not found any evidence that giant trees ever existed, and there is no similar giant tree worship in either archaeology or ruins—this may just be an ancient myth, the oldest imagination of the ancestors, like an elephant standing on a needle tip, or a giant turtle carrying the world on its back.]

[What's wrong, Professor Svetre? You should know more about this kind of knowledge than me.]

"Is that so, you don't know… It seems that a long time has indeed passed."

Su Zhou was not surprised by this.

As for what Flint said, there is no evidence of existence, it is likely just because the so-called evidence is too huge, so that people's perspective can not imagine, their evidence exists in every corner of the world they are in.

World Tree, World Tree… The entire world is created by giant trees.

"It seems that it is time to go back and ask Dawn."

As a creation of the ancient fairy civilization, the totem of the Early Light Research Institute has records of giant trees.

Su Zhou believed that Dawn should know more about all this than others.

And the Prajna Sutra is also time to use.

"But now, I should do something serious."

Saying this, Su Zhou pushed open the wall of the Count's Mansion—he didn't go through the door, he directly opened the wall and walked through.

Just as Su Zhou didn't go through the door when he came, he kicked the door away and came through the wall.

[Something serious?]

Seeing Su Zhou act, Flint couldn't help but glance at Count Avendell's body. He shook his head in disgust, and then followed his steps: [Professor is not planning to go back? The children are waiting for you to come back…]

"I know, I will solve it as soon as possible, but serious things must be done."

Without stopping, Su Zhou shook his head slightly at this moment, he squinted at Flint: "You don't think that killing a noble is avenging all the wronged victims, and helping all the demonizers and ordinary people who are about to suffer in this city, do you?"

"Count Avendell is dead, is the matter over? Are the contradictions resolved, the hatred melted away, and will order and peace be restored, as if nothing had ever happened?"

"Is there any meaning in just killing, destroying, but not creating, creating?"

[… Could it be…]

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

Indeed, killing Count Avendell cannot help anyone in Avendell 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 suffer from the demonizer impact, none of these problems can be improved by killing Count Avendell.

But, how to solve these things specifically, Flint does not understand.

His predecessor was a scholar, an idealist who suffered hardships himself, so he wanted to help all demonizers and ordinary people, and bring happiness and beauty to this world with technology, and drive away the darkness.

In fact, everyone in the Church of Light Chasers, at least most of the people who have just joined, are such idealists.

They adhere to this belief, so they will join it and chase the light.

——But what should I do?

After having technology, what should I do to prevent technology from becoming a tool for exploiting the people, but to become the welfare of the people?

This is a problem that all members of the Church of Light Chasers have not been able to see through—there are too many inventions that have not become tools that benefit the country and the people as everyone imagined, but have become weapons for the lords with high productivity to suppress the people.

Even, how should we use tools and knowledge to help those who should be helped?

This answer is difficult to get.

So Flint 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 another way of verification to the Church of Light Chasers.

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

Su Zhou saw the confusion in Flint's eyes.

"Don't worry."

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

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

Su Zhou spread his arms, his tone was calm: "Saving people to the end, sending Buddha to the west… What should really be given to the people should be the fishing net and knowledge itself, not 'tools' and 'power'."

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

[But.]

Although Flint is a robot, when he heard Su Zhou's words, and followed Su Zhou's steps, he couldn't help but feel dry-mouthed: [But Professor Svetre, if there is no strong man to lead, the people will definitely go astray, they don't understand knowledge, and…]

"Who said that the people don't understand knowledge? It's just that we haven't educated them well. You, our ideas are not easy enough to understand, so they are easily misunderstood."

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

[What should I do then?]

"That is human beings judging themselves, and they must learn to take responsibility."

After finishing speaking, Su Zhou strode towards the outer city of Avendell City: "If you are wrong, you must take responsibility, and then continue to 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 embarked on the road.

He did not hesitate.

He is about to start.