The voyage begins.

The conversation with Mount Sinai was never on point, but a gradual and in-depth brainwashing method was chosen.

In the script constructed by Lin Tuo, the "evolution sand table" seems to serve as the position of a god, and he himself, from the controller of the sand table, is described as a character who acts according to the instructions of the sand table.

The inspiration for this story comes from a setting in the long novel "Inside the Battleship", which Lin Tuo believes is the most valuable piece of information revealed in this set of books.

The background of the novel is a battleship sailing in the spiritual world.

In the story, the protagonist and his group go deep into the star sea to perform a mission, fight against beings in the spiritual world, sometimes actively or passively land on planetary civilizations, and then encounter a series of events, and finally break through and win.

In the first volume of the story, the protagonist and his party landed on an unknown planet. Although early human society was born on that planet, the civilization was still at a very low stage, but the residents there had extraordinary abilities.

Ordinary organizational discipline seems to be 0 and 1 wrapped in individual clothing and operating according to fixed logic.

There, every day is repeated... This description is not accurate. It should be said that every day, the people on that planet will do the same thing.

For example, Zhang San woke up on time at six o'clock in the morning and went out to fish. At eight o'clock, her wife would have an affair at home. At five o'clock in the evening, Zhang San came back and found that everything was normal. She woke up at six o'clock the next day and went out again at eight o'clock.

Click to have an affair again... the cycle repeats over and over again.

If one day something went wrong due to an accident, for example, Zhang San's ship encountered a storm and died, and did not come back on time, the cycle would be broken, and the wife would be restless and fall into some kind of chaos.

Then another Li Si, who got rid of the old cycle due to an accident, will enter the house, take the place of Zhang San's "husband", and continue fishing the next day...

In short, the entire society is in a state where chaos and order coexist. Originally, this internal cycle on the planet was chaotic and complete.

Until the unexpected arrival of the protagonist's team broke this cycle, causing fatal bugs in the entire civilization's operating logic, and a series of magical stories took place.

Finally, with extraordinary wisdom, the protagonist finally discovers that the cause of everything lies in the "god" that the indigenous people of this planet believe in. Its essence is a supercomputer with fixed operating logic...

The entire civilization operates under the logic of "gods"...

What follows is a battle and a duel. The protagonist leads his companions to defeat the "gods" and bring them back as trophies, and that civilization finally gains true "freedom"...

The story is very simple and not very interesting, but Lin Tuo feels that it has a vague "fable" quality.

It may not necessarily be intentional on the part of the author, but it may be a reflection of some collective thought of the society in which the author lives.

Just like any "imaginary world" conceived by human novelists living on earth, it is impossible to escape the influence of real society.

Any fantasy about the future is not what the future actually looks like.

Creatures living in three-dimensional space are completely unable to conceive of four-dimensional concrete...

Lin Tuo felt that this setting might reflect something.

Of course, it is also possible that he is overthinking...

In short, with the help of this setting, he completed the theoretical upgrade and successfully made Mount Sinai realize that the truth of the "War of Gods" is a duel between two civilization masters.

And the "Empire Ueno Star Area" they are going to visit this time is just another intelligent life in the domain of another "god".

Logic!

After successfully brainwashing Mount Sinai, the group of people completed the unification of their thoughts, and the rest was a boring journey.

As Lin Tuo said, seeing too much of the same scenery is really boring.

Sailing in the spirit world is really not much different from driving a boat in the sea. The scenery is the same along the way. Under the control of Hathaway, the search ship followed the calculated route and used the "propeller" to

"The antenna creates disturbances and achieves accelerated transitions.

After leaving the earth, the surroundings became completely quiet, and not even a single ether ripple could be seen.

Not surprising.

Just like it is rare to encounter islands in the vast sea, it is extremely difficult to encounter intelligent planets frequently in the spiritual world. Probably only in novels can we encounter them so frequently.

There is a machine inside the battleship to synthesize food, although the synthesized products are really unpalatable.

But considering that there are ten people traveling back and forth, it will take two months at the earliest.

This does not include what is consumed within the empire. It is not convenient to bring too much food, so I only brought a lot of seasonings from the earth.

The Yue people are only responsible for the maintenance of battleships. They usually spend most of their time together, doing some calculations and busy researching.

This group of people showed an almost worshipful enthusiasm for the spirit world jump technology, and they forgot to eat and sleep, which was really a worry-free thing.

After Mount Sinai and Huaxi got used to the rhythm of sailing, apart from resting, the rest of their daily life was to fight against each other in the training room and hone each other.

After Lin Tuo was promoted to the Seven Meridians, his physical fitness further improved. During this period, there was already a tendency to lose energy, and his need for sleep was further reduced.

Compared to the rest of the people, what he is most concerned about is the connection between the avatar and the main body.

For this reason, he would try to switch consciousness almost every once in a while, return to Lishan, control the battleship through Hathaway, occasionally leave the spiritual world, and estimate the corresponding position in the real physical universe.

Traveling in the spiritual world is indeed very fast.

Under the influence of the earth's "ether gravity", it only took two hours to reach Neptune.

On the second day, the group officially left the "Oort Cloud", which also meant that they truly left the solar system.

This gave Lin Tuo an unreal feeling.

And after leaving the Oort Cloud, he still completed the consciousness switch with his true body... This made him very excited, because according to his estimation.

The boundary of the sea of ​​stars now displayed on the Evolution Sand Table should be the Oort Cloud.

That is to say...

"After I completely leave the sandbox area, I can return at any time." This made him feel at ease. At least he would not lose contact with the earth and the many sandboxes.

Of course, that doesn't mean he's not in danger.

After confirming this, Lin Tuo finally relaxed. This would help him avoid wasting the thirty days. According to his calculations, perhaps his promotion would be stabilized when he arrived in the Ueno Star District.

…

Day by day passed by, and two weeks passed in the blink of an eye.

Lin Tuo no longer knew where in the universe he had arrived. He only knew that he was already extremely far away from the solar system.

Even if you fly at the speed of light, it will take a long time to arrive.

During this period, they encountered no abnormalities and everything was stable.

It was not until night fell on April 24th in the Earth Calendar that Lishan Martial Arts Hall fell. Lin Tuo, who once again switched his consciousness from the earth to the search ship, instantly noticed something unusual in the atmosphere.

"You're finally awake." When he opened his eyes, he saw Hathaway floating on his face, looking relieved.

"What happened?" Lin Tuo frowned and looked around...

He was currently half-lying on the sofa in the large lounge. The room was bright and warm.

However, Huaxi and Mount Sinai were standing nearby, and even the Moon Clan maintenance team rarely ran over. There was a faint sense of tension in the air.

"There's a little problem." Hathaway said, pointing "out the window."

Lin Tuo looked over and saw that outside the curved glass curtain wall, there was still a silent spiritual world. However, if he looked carefully, he would find light blue ripples rippling in the space.

Just like the waves in the deep sea.

The source of the ripples seems to be some distance away from here, making it impossible to capture. The ripples are extremely huge. A search ship with a diameter of 100 meters is placed in it like a note on the staff.

"Civilization?" Lin Tuo's eyes flashed brightly, and he quickly stood up, "I remember that it is still far away from the Ueno Star District. Is there... is there a civilization near us?"

"It should be said that there may have been."

Hathaway carefully corrected the wording. Seeing Lin Tuo looking over, she spread her hands: "According to the battleship's calculations, there is indeed magic about 1.5 light years ahead of us...

Uh, the ether reaction is not inhaling, but spitting out, you understand what I mean."

Lin Tuo frowned and said, "You mean, that civilization is going backwards?"

Known information shows that when civilization develops, ether will flow from the spiritual world into the material world, and when it regresses, the opposite will happen.

This can be deduced from the direction of the ether ripples.

It's like the earth is developing vigorously at the moment, so it is absorbing the ether crazily, resulting in the "ether gravity". If you go towards the earth, it will accelerate, and if you want to leave the earth, it will slow down.

Similar to gravity in the real world.

"I'm afraid it's not just a simple regression," Hua Xi said with a complex expression, "Hathaway detected that the source of the ripples was very violently disturbed. Normal wars and disease-induced regression should be slow, but not like this, unless..."

"Praying candle?" Lin Tuo's eyes flickered, finally realizing what might have happened.

Such a rapid and violent disturbance is probably due to the civilization ahead experiencing a situation similar to the crazy proliferation of cakes in Sandbox No. 2.

That is, an item of the same level as the prayer candle appears and is frantically killing that strange civilization. Only in this way can the occurrence of such a strong ether reflux be explained.

"The destruction of civilization..." Lin Tuo's expression changed.

Hathaway's expression was also a little complicated, but she still said:

"Because the corrugation is on the left front, if we follow the original path, we will go against the corrugation, which will cause us to take longer to travel."

If you go against the wind, your speed will naturally be slower.

Originally it would take 30 days to arrive, but it may be delayed to 50 days, 60 days, or even longer...

"So?" Lin Tuo asked.

Hathaway glanced at him and said:

"There are two options now. One is to take a detour, walk from the front right and go around. This will also waste some time, but according to my calculations, it is definitely much more cost-effective than walking in a straight line."

"The other is to leave the spiritual world, enter the material world, and then sail in a straight line in the real universe. In this way, we only need to sail to the other side of the planet and then enter the spiritual world.

At that time, you can use the properties of ether ripples to spread outward to speed up.

If you are lucky, not only will you not waste time, but you will shorten the distance."

After saying that, she looked at Lin Tuo, and Hua Xi, Sinai Shan and others also looked over.

Wait for the "captain" to make his choice.

After a short silence.
Chapter completed!