The Ring: Sell Dung Beetles in Junction

Chapter 498: Supreme Will and the Sea of ​​Stars (Finale)

Above the border, in the eternal darkness, countless pairs of fingers and Esti floated in the air.

Most of the time, they lay motionless, as if dead.

But occasionally, some scattered debris would float by from a distance, and the silent Esti would immediately move, shoot out lasers, and shatter the debris.

After doing all this, Esti returned to silence, eternally watching over the area in the silent night sky, as if nothing would ever change.

Until this day, the bright and dazzling circular light below dimmed its light.

Then the clouds began to boil, and a huge pillar poked out from the clouds below.

The pillar was so huge that it didn't look like it was flying or shot over. It looked like it was stabbing over.

The two fingers were so small in front of the giant tree that they were almost invisible.

Esti was like a small insect, and was knocked away by the flying giant tree.

The usually silent night sky exploded. It was still quiet here, but countless lights lit up from the night sky. Unprecedentedly complex lights lit up in the night sky, and all kinds of information were transmitted in the nearby night sky through the lights.

Soon, Yezora's two fingers and Esti reached a consensus - everyone began to attack the giant tree frantically.

Esti subconsciously summoned the meteorite, and countless black holes emerged from behind it, with debris constantly spewing out of the black holes.

Then the rubble floated in the night sky and slowly fell towards the giant tree.

Looking at the speed, Esti seemed to have lost hope in the power of the boulder and no longer summoned meteorites. Instead, he continued to shoot rays from his head, bombarding the giant tree.

But a golden shield appeared on the surface of the giant tree, accurately intercepting the light.

After hitting the shield, the light attack turned 180 degrees on the spot and accurately hit Esti's eyes, blasting it away.

Inside the stone stage, Tops clenched his fists and said, "Okay!"

The shield that Tops improved this time introduced Serei's computing ability, which could accurately reflect incoming attacks back. In this way, no matter how dangerous the attack was, they could defend against it and attack back.

The golden tree was like a giant cannon, destroying all obstacles in its path with overwhelming force.

"Great, speed up!" Lani clapped her hands happily. She was very happy to see those two fingers deflated.

But the people on the stone stage felt a sense of weightlessness and floated upwards.

It was not until Serei activated the gravity magic that everyone returned to the stone stage.

Lani felt the change in inertia:

"Why is it slowing down?"

A red light flashed above Lani's head, and Serui considerately marked the scenes that Lani should pay attention to.

In front of the golden tree boat, there was an Esti and several double fingers blocking it.

They summoned a huge black hole, and a boulder several kilometers in size floated there.

The boulder did not have the help of gravity at the junction, but it only needed to stay there and wait for the golden tree to hit it by itself.

Fortunately, the golden tree had just broken through the sky at the junction, and its speed was not fast. The branches of the tree crown stretched out and gently caught the boulder. The branches were like tentacles, pushing the stone, adjusting their posture and sliding over it. The tree wall stretched out branches, constantly using the boulder to accelerate.

Two fingers jumped onto the outer wall of the golden tree. The shield opened, trying to separate the two fingers, but was broken by the two fingers, melting a large hole.

Esti took advantage of the opportunity and fired laser at the hole created by his two fingers.

The other two fingers immediately learned this method and rushed towards the golden tree.

The golden tree's shield immediately transformed into an offensive magic circle, firing light cannons outward to prevent the two fingers from approaching.

But there are still some fish that slip through the net. They cling to the golden tree walls and keep drilling inside.

The golden tree wall was drilled open in this way.

A Latan rushed out from inside, grabbed the two fingers and pulled them in. Lani responded from below and slashed at them with a knife.

Wuming devoured the body of Two Fingers, turned over and went outside the hull, and swept a red laser along the tree wall, blasting the other Two Fingers away.

After doing all this, the big hole in the tree wall was sealed.

"It's so cold." Wuming shrank back and touched his armor, which was already covered with a layer of ice.

"This is what the night sky looks like," said Lani.

"This way, we can't often fight outside," Latan said. "After being outside for a while, we feel bloated."

“Anyway, you guys are powerful. As long as you keep attacking at this intensity, you’ll be fine until you break out of the encirclement,” Lani said.

Just as he finished speaking, there were continuous violent earthquakes all around.

Two Fingers and Star changed their attack mode, they still summoned the teleporting black hole, but what came out were not meteorites, but other Esti.

One star pulls out a dozen stars, and then pulls out more stars, connecting into one, and shooting out lasers at the same time.

More Esti drew nebulae in front of the golden tree. The ubiquitous explosions made Serei exhausted. He was unable to let Tops' force field continue to reflect the attacks and could only deflect them as much as possible.

The two fingers also learned to be smart and were no longer confined to one place. They spread out to every corner of the golden tree, creating loopholes in the defense and allowing Esti to attack.

The other heroes did not have the ability to kill Two Fingers directly, so they used various means to repel or trap Two Fingers and wait for rescue.

"Why did it suddenly become so violent?" Wuming was surprised. He had already run to several places to help.

If Serui hadn't positioned himself well, allowing him to handle one side at a time, the two fingers would have already been penetrated.

Serui said: "The computing power is a bit tight, and some protections are not in place."

"Didn't you calculate how big a scale you needed before getting on board?" Wuming was shocked.

Serui said: "Esti can affect gravity. I need to calculate the overly complex gravity changes nearby to adjust the attitude of the spacecraft."

"Should we count this leak?" Wuming asked.

"Nothing was missed. This area is still within the monitoring range of the observatory. I can help with the calculations on the ground," said Serui. "But just now, the control center on the ground was destroyed."

At this time, on the ground at the junction, the ground command center responsible for analyzing all observatory data and transmitting it to the Golden Tree had been paralyzed and turned into ruins.

Not long after the golden tree rushed out, a giant meteorite broke through the border area, dispersed the pyroxene cloud of Cerrui, and smashed down.

The command center has a protective barrier, but the observatories at the junction do not.

The powerful earthquake directly shattered the foundation beneath the observatory, and even if the observatory was intact, it had lost its function.

And when it loses its function, the protective barrier has also lost its function.

Wuming was shocked: "Such a big thing, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"It's no use saying it anyway. We can't return." said Serei.

"Do you have enough computing power?" Wuming asked.

"Active shield, spacecraft control, and route calculation are the three that consume the most computing power." Serei said, "So I adjusted the status of the shield."

Wuming now understood why he was so exhausted.

The Golden Tree can be said to have been created by the Returning Tree. Every time it is damaged, it means that some of the people who returned to the tree have been consumed.

Marika adjusted the structure of the golden tree so that the part storing memories was in the core, and the periphery consumed the flesh.

But if the damage is severe, the core area may still be injured, and if the surface is damaged, it will be difficult to revive immediately in the next life due to insufficient materials, and it may even fail to reach the destination in the end.

In this battle, all the people in the border area are fighting with their lives and blood, and betting their souls and consciousness.

Wuming informed others of the current situation and rushed out of the Golden Tree without hesitation.

The night sky was cold. In the endless darkness, Wuming could not see any warmth except the light emitted by the golden tree.

He circled the golden tree, fire burning in his body, and the black mud ignited and spurted out, allowing him to move quickly on the surface of the golden tree.

After killing a two-fingers, it will devour it, and with the help of the power of the two fingers, it will continue to devour the next two-fingers and Esti.

In the darkness, Wuming radiated unprecedented light and heat.

Inside the Golden Tree, seeing Wuming's bravery, other heroes stepped forward one after another, braving the extreme conditions of the night sky, and fought off the two fingers one by one.

Some of them were not yet accustomed to the environment of the night sky and were not strong enough. In order to tear the two fingers off the outer wall of the golden tree, they were thrown out of the golden tree and disappeared forever in the night sky.

The two brothers and sisters of the Kalia family are the most brave. Lani's puppet body is not afraid of the cold and darkness of the night sky. A vine is wrapped around her waist, and she keeps chopping off two fingers.

Latan mastered gravity magic, and could leave the golden tree and fight freely. He held his breath and killed Estie one after another at the speed of light like a meteor.

When he is about to be unable to hold his breath, Latan's helmet will deform, and Ashmi will cover his head, giving him and the pony under him a breath.

Michaela stood on the stone stage, holding the black cat, her mind extending beyond the tree.

After further training with the Dragon King, his ability to seduce seemed to be even stronger, faintly overpowering the two fingers. He interfered with the two fingers, allowing them to leave the golden tree.

But even so, the situation is becoming more and more critical.

Two Fingers and Este are too strong. Even though they are already in the night sky, there are only a few heroes who can easily deal with them.

But Shuangzhi and Esti were like stars, densely blocking the golden tree. They even used teleportation to chase after it.

Without Cerri's shield support, the heroes became increasingly stretched.

The shield suddenly disappeared completely, and then the bark of the golden tree, where the two fingers were attached, was pierced with curved spikes.

The two fingers were pierced through, and the spikes suddenly disappeared and were thrown into the night sky by the tree boat.

Wuming looked at the two fingers that were stabbed away, not feeling happy. That stab must have consumed the vitality of thousands of people.

The night sky was too empty. Wuming looked at Esti and Shuangzhi, who seemed to have no end in sight, and could not tell how long it would take to escape from this area.

I can only fight as hard as I can.

Lani's body was already covered with several layers of blood plasma. After who knows how long she had been killing, her powerful body, which had been carefully transformed, had become dull.

"The heroes are too tired." Serei called the heroes back, "Next, activate the passive protective barrier."

"I can still fight." Wuming said.

The passive protective barrier is to cover the entire golden tree with the Tops force field. There is no need to monitor the attack direction for single-point defense, and computing power can be saved to fight against the erosion of the protective barrier by two fingers.

The disadvantage is that it consumes too much energy. The protective barrier covering the entire golden tree is burning the life of the tree every second, which means burning the lives of those who return to the tree.

“You can go to the roots,” Cerri said, “but there is no one left anywhere else.”

Lani was carried in. The joints of her puppet were filled with frozen blood, and it was difficult to control her body. The people of the Blood Dynasty used blood flames to clean her body.

Latan was almost running out of magic power and sat on the stone stage to catch his breath.

Michaela was exhausted from the repeated mental struggles with the two fingers.

The other heroes were no different. Even Ge Fulei found it difficult to move in the night sky. Although he was not tired, he could not exert any strength.

Looking around, we really have no strength to fight.

Wuming had no choice but to say nothing and went to the root.

At the root of the golden tree, after entering the night sky, there are no such strong tail flames and jets. The area here is relatively small, so Wuming can handle the two fingers more conveniently.

Occasionally, if Wuming eats too much, he can also spray out the excess power to help the Golden Tree.

Standing at one edge of the tree roots, looking at the golden tree, the rich golden light gradually extends downwards from the crown of the tree.

Wuming sighed and continued to deal with the two fingers.

But what was unexpected was that the two fingers seemed to have sensed Serui's intention and stopped attacking the protective barrier, and instead focused on the roots.

Black holes appeared one after another, and Two Fingers and Esti crawled out of them and attacked the roots fiercely.

Wuming can eat with two fingers, but he is not very fast. If he eats more than two fingers, he will not be able to eat in time.

Since there was no time to kill them, Serui could of course extend the protective barrier to the bottom, but Wuming became a little angry when he thought that he couldn't even save so many people.

He took off his armor, his whole body swelled up, black snakes emerged from all parts of his body, desperately devouring the two fingers and spewing out flames, constantly sweeping away the two fingers and Esti.

I managed to hold onto the center of the root, but there were still some two fingers on the edge.

A flash of light flew by, and the two fingers at the edge were blown away. Then there were flashes of fire, and the two fingers in the bottom circle were blown away.

Wuming followed the fire and found its source.

A steel giant was flying around the golden tree. His body was very broad, and his lower body was like a hyena, with an inverted joint.

The steel giant held a long tubular object in his hand, from which burst forth flames and high-speed missiles, which knocked the two fingers away one by one.

Esti fired a laser at the giant, and flames shot up into the sky from behind the giant. He avoided almost all the lasers, and finally a shield appeared around him, blocking the rest of the attacks.

The iron giant held up his shield, aimed at Esti, fired several shots, and blew out the eyes in Esti's head.

Wuming looked at this fighting method and inexplicably felt that it was somewhat familiar.

"Patch?" Wuming asked.

The sound disappeared in the night sky, but the pyroxene crystal in Wuming's body could still transmit sound. Soon, the crystal vibrated and also transmitted the teasing and familiar sound.

"I'll help you one last time," Patch said. "I've pulled out all the treasures from the bottom of my chest."

Wuming said, "This is the weapon you used to penetrate Lakkad, right?"

Patch didn't comment and just chuckled twice.

Wuming also laughed:
"Okay, okay, let's fight side by side until the last moment!"

The steel giant and the black giant were galloping and flying at the foot of the golden tree.

Flames, holy light, magic, lasers, shells, meteorites, and the roars and laughter of the two men intertwined and collided with each other, leaving a trail of blood and gravel at the tail of the golden tree boat.

Until Patch was hit by an arrow in the knee.

The laser hit Patch's weak feet, causing his body to tilt.

Wuming went over and caught the steel giant, knowing that this was his limit.

The two fingers had learned to explode when he devoured them, and even he had trouble maintaining it.

"Let's go back." Wuming said, "Serui, open the door and fully open the protective barrier."

The golden light gradually extended from the edge of the tree roots and closed in on Wuming in the center.

But just as it was about to wrap up the Nameless Patch, the golden light disappeared.

Wuming's heart sank, and he asked Serei:

"Another situation?"

"No, the connection with the Junction has been restored," said Serei. "The Junction has taken over some of the computing tasks, and the active shield can be restarted."

Wuming was a little surprised: "What?"

“The Corrupted Ones,” said Cerri.

At the border, all the living insects crawled out from the remaining pools of corruption, raised their densely packed hands toward the sky, and made a gesture of faith.

The consciousness of the swarm was connected, and that high level of intelligence emerged again.

The insects raised their heads, and like the stargazers of the past, they gathered, analyzed, calculated, and finally transmitted the information they had collected.

As the predecessor of Cerei, the Zerg cracked the communication method and transmitted the data they calculated to Cerei.

Without corruption, the lives of the Zerg are already like candles in the wind. They raise their heads, stretch out their hands, and transmit the last resonance of their lives to the sky.

"Gwei, well done." Wuming asked Serui to pass this message back to the border.

After a long time, Gwei's chuckle came over:
"We can't help it. You are a ruthless businessman and you have coerced us. Our mother and daughter - Lady Marenia and Millicent - have all boarded your pirate ship."

These were the last words from the Swarm, and they did not sound like a farewell at all.

The golden tree boat had already moved away from the border area and rushed out of the thorn ring formed by the two fingers and Esti.

In front of the golden tree, Shuangzhi and Esti were already very rare, and they no longer called on their friends or used the black hole to attract companions.

Perhaps it is because they still have the task of guarding the border area and cannot leave too far.

There was no more vibration or roar on the stone stage; everything seemed to have fallen silent, just like the night sky outside.

The warriors returned to the Golden Tree and enjoyed the peace, no longer having to go out to fight.

The border area could no longer contact the Golden Tree Boat, and they could not observe the more distant starry sky to provide help.

The golden tree that grew from the border area walked out of its mother's cradle. Next, it had to use its own legs to walk its own way.

For this first step, Serui chose to stop suddenly.

"Why stop suddenly again?" Wuming became alert.

"Maybe we need to turn," said Serei.

"Is there something ahead?" Everyone looked at the image pointing forward, and there was only darkness.

“There’s a wall ahead,” said Cerri.

A wall blocking it? In the night sky?

Everyone became more confused.

Cerri added, “Perhaps not the wall.”

Without waiting for Wuming and the others to ask further questions, Serui pieced the images together to form a huge screen that covered everyone from under their feet to above their heads.

As the image was processed over and over again, the darkness became clearer.

People gasped as they watched the picture gradually become clearer.

"Is that... a ship?" Wuming asked Cerri uncertainly.

From the image constructed by Serlian, people could see that they were clearly in front of a wall.

It was a pitch-black wall that almost blended into the night sky.

Looking up and down, at the end of the wall, a shape that was difficult to recognize was outlined. As Serei shrank and transformed, people realized that it was a long spaceship.

If it was a ship, it was too big.

The Golden Tree Boat, with the golden tree as the main body of the spacecraft, is a giant spacecraft exaggerated to the point of being able to accommodate all the creatures in the border area.

But the ship in front of them was so big that they realized it was not a ship.

In other words, this ship is several times larger than the golden tree.

There is obviously no evidence, but one word comes to people's minds at the same time.

Supreme Will.

Otherwise, no one could imagine what else could create such a giant thing more magnificent than the golden tree.

Just seeing it makes me feel suffocated.

Before everyone could recover from their shock, a red light lit up behind them. Serei had been using this red light to indicate the position of his two fingers.

Shuangzhi and Esti, who had stopped chasing before, suddenly rushed over together.

Just as people were getting nervous, they discovered that the Two Fingers and Esti did not attack, but flew straight past the golden tree.

No one could understand what was happening or what to do. Everyone asked the leaders and subconsciously sought guidance.

"Run, is it possible to escape?" Wuming observed the size of the ship.

“There’s no use fighting,” said Serei.

"Can we just wait to die?" Wuming said.

Serei paused:
"The other party doesn't seem to be aggressive."

"What do you mean?" Wuming looked over.

The sight that Serei showed surprised everyone.

The two fingers and Estie that flew over the golden tree all returned to the giant ship.

But soon, before they got close, they returned to the vicinity of the golden tree.

But there was no attack, the two fingers lined up in two rows, very neatly. They bent their fingers, as if leaning over, and kept interlocking their fingers with other two fingers.

Just like fingers inserted into each other's gaps, forming a corridor made of two fingers. And below the corridor, the Esti also made similar movements. They attached themselves to the two fingers, head to head, hand to hand. The stars on their heads were pressed together and placed under the two fingers.

The long, nebula-like body stretches backwards, as if paving a road made of stars.

This avenue extends from the Golden Tree Boat to the giant ship on the opposite side.

Wuming looked at the corridor:
"It seems like the other side is inviting us?"

"He definitely has bad intentions," said Lani.

"But there is no other way to go." Wuming said, "Let's go and take a look."

Almost everyone went over. Seeing the huge ship and the seemingly completely controlled Two Fingers and Star Child, no one had much resistance. Even Cerui asked Wuming to bring a communication crystal and follow with his eyes.

Walking out of the golden tree, everyone was surprised to find that the coldness and darkness in the night sky, the suffocating atmosphere, and the weightless environment had disappeared.

The corridor formed by the two fingers was illuminated by Esti. Esti also released gravity magic, making the corridor under everyone's feet seem to be at the border. The two fingers emitted holy light, warming the surroundings. The fluff on the back of the fingers just formed a grass, which was very soft to step on.

Everyone walked along the Two-Finger Corridor in amazement and came to the front of the giant ship.

A hole opened, as if inviting them to enter.

Wuming led the way in, and Lani also stepped into the giant ship holding the hunting finger knife.

The inside of the giant ship seems like another world.

The ground beneath his feet was incredibly smooth and white, reminding him of the eye in Esti's head.

Everyone could even smell a hint of grass, which lifted their spirits.

A suspended crystal slowly floated towards the crowd and made a sound:

"Welcome to the Ark. Please accept our cleaning and disinfection. Please forgive me, the master does not like people who are too dirty, and is very wary of the invasion of external viruses."

"Is your master the Supreme Will?" Wuming asked.

"This is not something that a servant like me should introduce." Crystal said, emitting a burst of light that swept back and forth on Wuming's body.

Wuming could feel a burst of light and heat, a very strange feeling.

Crystal looked back and checked everyone one by one, and soon let everyone go.

When the scan showed Lani, she secretly hid the hunting knife. She made the knife smaller and secretly handed it to Tufu.

After being glared at several times by Lani, Tu Fu made a bitter face and hid the knife in his butt.

Crystal scanned everyone and finally returned to the front:

"Disinfection is complete, please follow me."

As he spoke, the ground began to move, teleporting everyone over a very long distance.

On the way, Lani calmly asked the crystal: "Are the two fingers and Esti outside your master's?"

“我猜你是指物种编码62-163-00312-10086号，和57-749-37787-84961号？”水晶投射出双指和艾斯提的影像，“没错，这是主人留下的。”

Lani nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

She didn't need to ask whether this so-called master was the supreme will. Knowing this was enough.

Everyone was sent to a door by a conveyor belt.

"The master is waiting for you." Crystal said and opened the door.

As it spoke, the door moved sideways and disappeared.

Wuming and others walked into the room and met the owner that Shuijing mentioned.

After meeting the Two-Finger Mother and Esti, as well as this strange crystal, Wuming had completely given up hope on what the so-called master looked like. He just hoped that when he shook hands later, he wouldn't shake the wrong thing, as that would appear impolite.

But unexpectedly, this host looked quite normal. Although his appearance was slightly different from everyone Wuming had seen at the border, it was still clear that he was a human.

This man was very tall, almost 2.5 meters tall, and the thin metal belt could not hold his soft belly. He had big hands, a long face with confusion and curiosity, and his body posture was clumsy and stiff.

His skin was pale, as if bleached, and he seemed to have no hair on his body. He wore shiny blue trousers and a maroon shirt with puffy sleeves that were frayed at the ends.

On the fat man's milky white head, he wore a green baseball cap with a golden logo on the front, which looked a bit like an egg with a horizontal line in the middle.

The fat man sat on a suspended chair, with some of his fat sticking out from the chair.

Such a person really does not live up to everyone's imaginations before the door was opened.

"Welcome, my guest." The man's pale face was expressionless. "I am the captain of this Ark, a maintenance technician, and a navigator. A person always needs to learn a few more skills on a ship. In short, I am Haviland Tuf."

"My name is Wuming." Wuming said.

"To save both of our time, there is no need to go into detail," said the fat man who called himself Haviland Tuf.
"I have learned what happened on your planet through the returning antenna matrix. The details are enough to save you some trouble and clear my ears."

"Hearing both sides will lead to a clear understanding. I'm not afraid that you will misunderstand." Wuming smiled, turned his head and wanted to introduce the other people behind him.

Then he saw a blue shadow passing by him and rushing out.

Lani swung the pitch-black spiral scimitar and slashed at the fat man who called himself Haviland Tuf.

Faced with Lani's sudden attack, the man twisted his fat body with great effort, trying to get down from the seat and avoid Lani's knife.

But Lani was too fast. Her new body, which had been adjusted by countless magicians and golem technicians, reached Tuf in an instant and slashed him with a knife.

Blood spurted out, covering the entire room.

The fat man fell off his chair and landed heavily on the floor, dead.

"What did you do?" Wuming was shocked.

"This guy is the one who made the two fingers. He is the Supreme Will. What do you think I am doing?" Lani weighed the finger knife in her hand. "And this knife can hurt the Supreme Will."

"But he can communicate." Wuming said, "I think we can talk. Maybe he's willing to let us go, or even help us."

"The Supreme Will abandoned us and never came for thousands of years, only to let the Two Fingers enslave us and destroy the Eternal City." Lani said, "But now he is here, after we hurt the Finger Mother. Guess why he came?"

Lani picked up the knife:

"This is a weapon obtained by sacrificing a civilization. Its fate, and my fate, is to harm the Finger and the Supreme Will. This is also our only chance. We can only strike first against this kind of person, and we can't wait for him to show his fangs."

Outside the door, the floating crystal rushed into the room and exclaimed in the same way as Wuming:

"what have you done?"

"Don't worry!" Wuming spoke immediately, ready to calm the host, "I can be resurrected. He just died and is still warm. I can save him."

The crystal emitted light, covering Lani's finger knife and the corpse, scanning the wound repeatedly.

"Oh my god, you actually brought germs here and cut the master." Crystal exclaimed, "Let me see... tetanus... and even E. coli! The master is a mysophobe and won't even shake hands with others. How could you hurt him like this!"

As she spoke, the light of the crystal repeatedly scanned over Lani's finger knife, melting the pitch-black sword in an instant.

Then the light turned and shone onto the fat man's body, which soon dissolved and melted into a ball of meat paste.

Then a strange creature entered the room, and like a catfish, it swept up the remaining meat paste into its stomach, licked the place clean, and left.

"You need to apologize to him later." Crystal said to everyone seriously and floated out of the house.

Everyone was confused for a moment and didn't understand what was happening.

Wuming subconsciously followed the crystal and walked into another room.

I saw an identical fat man soaking in dim liquid in a large translucent vat.

The crystal covered the vat with a curtain of light. In the blur, the fat man in the vat stood out and put on another set of clothes. This time, he had no hat and a bald head.

Tuf spread his arms and the crystal cleaned the slime off his body.

Lani understood that this was a technique similar to that of the pyroxite magician. By placing the soul in the source pyroxite, one would not care about the damage to the body.

To kill this being, one must destroy its core.

Lani was ready to make a move, but just as she had the idea, a spider web descended from the wall.

Lani was wrapped tightly and couldn't move.

A closer look at the spider web revealed that it was a living creature, rolling on the wall, pulling out extremely thin and tough silk threads, cutting off all the weapons of anyone who tried to attack later.

Wuming looked very familiar:
"It looks like the spider that Patch turned into before."

"You know Patch?" said Tuff.

"Yeah." Wuming turned his head, but didn't find Patch.

"Hey, where are the people..." Wuming murmured.

Cerri's crystal vibrated, notifying Wuming: "When he encountered this ship, he ran away with Tanis and Laya. He left a message for you."

Serei made Patch's voice:
"Old friend, I have helped you in every way I can. Goodbye, never see you again."

Wuming was stunned: "Ah? Where can he run to?"

Serei said, "I don't know, but it quickly disappeared into the night sky."

"Why didn't you tell me right away?"

Serei said, "His authority is equal to yours. He asked me to keep it secret, and I could not resist."

Wuming felt angry and amused at Patch's sudden departure, but did not feel much emotion about parting.

Tuf observed Wuming's conversation:
"It seems that he is very good at escaping. His talent in this aspect is obviously beyond ordinary people."

Wuming is a little embarrassed:

"What grudge did you have against him before?"

"I invited him on board my ship, and he stole one of my incubators," Tuf said. "That's not the way a friend should behave."

"That's right." Wuming immediately agreed, "It must be that this guy ran away, otherwise I would definitely tie him up and bring him to you to apologize."

As he said that, Wuming knocked Lani on the head. She was still struggling.

"Be honest." Wuming said.

If we talk about lack of manners, it is obvious that Lani, who was invited on board but turned around and chopped her host, was even more impolite.

"You are spineless." Lani was angry. "The Supreme Will is right in front of us. If we kill him, we will have nothing to worry about."

Tufu reached out his hand and stopped Wuming from trying to defend Lani.

He looked at Lani calmly:

"It's amazing that after all this time, the life that this planet has nurtured is still so selfish. Do you mind if I extract your genes? I suspect that some kind of genetic defect called stupidity is written in your gene sequence. It can greatly enrich my biological inventory - enough to expand the number of species in my collection by such a huge amount."

Lani said: "You said we are selfish and stupid? We are trying to get rid of your unreasonable control."

"People say that actions reflect wisdom. Judging from your actions, I think the knowledge preloaded in the antenna matrix is ​​still enough to guide you." Tuf said.

"And I consider myself a fairly qualified ecological engineer. Based on my rich experience, I have come to a very difficult conclusion - the root cause of the damage to the mother body and its inability to guide you - the lacerations on its body, as well as the fragments and bacteria remaining in the wounds, are not caused by natural aging. This is really amazing."

This time Lani was silent.

Wuming tried to smooth things over by laughing:

"The child is ignorant and was just chopping for fun. I think you are very magnanimous and won't bother with us. You look very rich. What's your job? By the way, I'm a businessman."

“I used to be a businessman,” Tuve said. “Now I think the career of ecological engineer is more suitable for me.”

"It fits. You look like a hard-working gardener." Wuming said, "It's too round."

"But it's clear that the people of this planet don't know how to repay their gratitude," Tuf said. "In the past, their uncontrolled reproduction brought this planet to the brink of collapse several times. I gave them manna - you now call it rune - to solve their hunger problem, modified their genes and controlled their desires. I even sent fingers to help guide them."

"And what happened?" Tuf said. "My hard work was never respected, just as it was never respected by those on this planet. No wonder they met the same fate as Sodom and Gomorrah."

Wuming suddenly realized: "The 40 billion dead bodies melted into mud..."

"So you are here to destroy us again now?" Lani stared at Tuf.

“It seems that the knowledge I gained from the antenna is still somewhat lacking.” Tuf said, “It may be due to different customs. In my world, ecological engineers are not the same as genocides.”

Tuf said to Lani:

"Of course, your civilization may not be able to understand what an ecological engineer is, but I just hope you understand that the two words are not synonymous. I love my job and hope you can respect this profession."

"Then what are you doing here?" Lani asked. "You haven't shown up for thousands of years, abandoned everything, and yet you come to the border at this time. Don't tell me, this is to redirect us? No thanks. I refuse to be controlled by someone like you."

"There are people who take the initiative to harm others because they are worried that they will be harmed by others." Tufu said, "I used to think that only a civilization that transcends the chain of suspicion can avoid internal friction and break free from the constraints of gravity, but as expected, when the sample size is large, there will always be deformed cancer cells."

Wu Ming didn't know where to put his hands for a moment, and his eyes rolled around.

I have to say, Wuming used to think that the thin bald guy's mouth was the most delicious, but now it seems that the fat bald guy's mouth is much more ferocious than Patch's.

No wonder Patch is so afraid of this Haviland Tuf, Wuming thought.

Wuming asked: "You are not here to punish treason, nor to guide the world, so what is the reason for your visit?"

"Thank you, we can finally get back to the point," Tuf said, "which is why I invited you here—"

Tuf turned his fat head and looked at Michaela.

To be precise, it was the cat in Michaela's arms.

The black cat sensed Tuf's gaze and jumped out of Michaela's arms, landing on Tuf's broad shoulders and lying in his arms.

Tuf stroked the cat in his arms and said:
"I came to retrieve my cat."

Everyone was speechless, staring at each other, and the same thought slowly emerged in their minds -

"...?"

Mikaela held her forehead with her hand: "No wonder, no wonder it is not afraid of me and the power of my two fingers at all."

"You mean telepathy?" Tuf said. "They all do have some telepathic abilities to protect my cat, and prevent my creations from harming it."

Tuf said, "Well, I have found my cat. Thank you for taking care of it and bringing it back. I won't disturb your voyage. Goodbye."

"That's it?" Wuming still didn't react.

"Are you looking forward to something?" Tu Fu asked Wuming.

"I thought we would have some fighting, or some deeper guidance." Wuming touched his chin.

"I have a dinner, and as host I am glad to entertain my guests," said Tuf.

"That's fine too." Wuming agreed immediately.

Tuf led everyone into a hall. A huge long table was already filled with all kinds of food, each of which Wuming had never heard of before.

At the dinner table, Wuming was curious and excited, and kept asking about the information of these unknown animals and plants.

Tuve answered as best he could, and he was quite enthusiastic in answering questions on this subject.

During the conversation, Tu Fu also learned how Wuming and his team solved various problems and finally chose the Golden Tree Boat solution.

"It's a plan like the Rama." Tuv nodded in praise of Wuming's wisdom. "You have a lot of ideas. This is a good plan. Have you established an error correction mechanism?"

"What is that?" Wuming asked.

"Individual life is transformed into primordial soup, and then differentiated after arriving at the destination. This solution requires regular maintenance of the spacecraft and the establishment of a good life archive. Over time, especially when traveling in space, radiation can cause errors in the archive, resulting in problems when returning to the original position, and an error correction mechanism is needed."

Wuming broke out in a cold sweat:

"Big, probably not."

Tu Fu called Crystal over, did some operations, and asked Crystal to hand him a ball of meat.

Tufu handed it to Wuming: "This is where the error correction mechanism is recorded. You can give it to your artificial intelligence and learn how to use it."

"Thank you!" Wuming held Tufu's hand and stuffed the ball of meat into his arms.

Tufu frowned and pulled his hand out of Wuming's.

Wuming remembered that Tufu had mysophobia and smiled: "Forgive me, I just want to be more enthusiastic."

"Not everyone likes passion," Tuf said. "Apparently that puppet is very passionate, and passion means you're in trouble."

"There are pros and cons." Wuming said, "It is with this passion that life can grow and we can break through the blockade."

"Is that the idea you had when you took them into space?" Tuf said. "It's a dangerous idea."

"Why is it dangerous?" Wuming asked.

"This planet once had a similar idea, and a group of life believers reproduced crazily in enthusiasm without restraint." Tuf said, "It eventually led to war and a great collapse."

"But only with people can there be development." Wuming said, "Even if there is collapse and war, it will sublimate them. Life will find a way out, continue to evolve, and break out of the cage."

"Yes, that's what the Life Evolutionists think," said Tuf. "The enemies of entropy, the child worshippers, the spiral copulators, the gene pool stirrs, the religious fanatics, old Tuf..."

"The civilization that gave birth to 40 billion people?" Wuming asked.

Tuf nodded. "I understand the idea you advocate - life feeds on negative entropy. Even if the world in a closed system becomes increasingly chaotic and dilapidated, life can break through this fate and go against the current."

"I do hope so." Wuming said, "After all, I have seen how a closed world becomes increasingly chaotic."

"But there is another explanation," Tuve said. "Life is a spark, a catalyst, a tool that makes entropy increase faster and faster. Since the emergence of life, the speed of chaos has been increasing."

Tufu asked Wuming:
"You rushed out of the border, so what did you leave behind at the border?"

Wuming was silent.

In order to allow the golden tree to fly into the sky, the vitality of the entire border area was sucked dry by the golden tree. It has become a wasteland and no longer has the vibrant appearance that Wuming once admired.

Tufu's stature and experience were much greater than theirs, but his words still cast a shadow over everyone.

It seems that the lofty mission of running towards the night sky and the beautiful future full of hope are not so bright anymore.

The darkness of the night sky stains my heart.

"But I think we should still take a gamble," Wuming said, "to see if this spiral tower can touch the gods and break free from the shackles."

Tuf said: "I can't refute it. After all, that is the ultimate destiny of the universe that is still far away. Whether it is impossible to break through, leading to the accelerated destruction of the world, or constantly breaking through the shackles, breaking through layers of curses and barriers with eternal impermanence and struggle, I can't calculate it."

"There are still things you can't calculate. Good things, good things." Wuming laughed, "Then believe in life."

"I won't stop you. I'm just an ecological engineer." Tuf said, "I hope you won't turn the blue planet into a dead star like the civilization that built this seeding ship."

"Thank you for your good words." Wuming smiled.

Tuf said, "You can take a portion of these food materials if you like. Now, please leave my ship. I suddenly want to clean my ship."

Wuming led everyone away from Tuf's giant ship and returned to the Golden Tree Boat, loaded with local specialties from various worlds.

Tuf held the cat and watched them leave.

"Perhaps this time life can win," Tuf said. "After all, what is leading them does not seem to be a life."

The crystal hovered beside Tuf, casting a nameless figure.

Crystal said: "It looks more like a program. The endless repetition of the process of gathering strength and then exploding is a dangerous program that makes the world more chaotic and disordered."

"It sounds like the incarnation of entropy, and this incarnation is tempting life and accelerating entropy," Tuf said. "But he is willing to eliminate his own existence at any time, which may represent the hope of life."

Tufu stroked the black cat, returned to his seat, and sat down gracefully:

"Anyway, I'm just an ecological engineer. The fate of the world should be left to the world itself. If there is anything I have learned from this selfish planet, it is to respect their fate."

Crystal said, "You're just being lazier and your blood pressure is high again. You should go and exercise on the treadmill for an hour."

“You know what the benefit of being an eco-engineer is? You can eat delicious snacks as much as you want, and you don’t have to use health and moderation to extend your life.”

Tuf was curled up in his chair, stroking his black cat, eating a piece of golden rune, and turning on the crystal projection.

In the projection, the golden tree boat has begun to set sail.

"In fact, this is true moderation." Tufu said, "Those life believers who have no moderation will face endless suffering and hardship in the future. They will struggle in the constant resource dilemma and constantly try to open up new resources and the future."

The fat man raised his glass:
“I wish them a safe journey.”

In the golden tree, Wuming and a group of heroes stood on the stone stage, looking at the stars in the distance, full of vigor and vitality:

"Let's go, our destination is the sea of ​​stars!"

(End of this chapter)