High Above

【Do not…】

Staring at Grand Duke Thorin, Adalbert took a few steps back. His face was already very pale after he became the dead king, but now there was an abnormal color of blood: [How is this possible...how could it be so big...how? Could there be such a big barrier... such a big cage? ! 】

  【This is impossible, how much material is needed, it needs...】

  His voice dropped, and Adbert lowered his head.

  His eyes are blank.

  He couldn't imagine. Even the genius alchemist, Yadbert, the genius alchemist who single-handedly created the theoretical basis for the dead king and the dead river armament, couldn't understand the starry sky when he had never seen the stars.

  To understand the universe.

  This is impossible—on a planet without stars, it is impossible for someone to understand what the universe is, and what is the time and space that is wider than the stars!

   And Ian's heart was also shaking: "What... the gravitational limit of the Terra sun?!"

   "Doesn't that mean that this barrier was launched at a distance of 4.5 light years or even further away?!"

At the beginning, when Ian heard about the Prisoner Star Prison, he had already thought that this outrageous thing probably did not originate from the illumination of the stars or the planetary circle, but at least from the Oort cloud (an asteroid outside the solar system). Dust swarm), the radius of which may be more than a light-year in this calculation.

   This is already outrageous... But according to Grand Duke Thorin, this barrier may be even more outrageous!

   Doesn't this mean that in some places where the stars are relatively dense, there will be some barriers that are close together?

【Looked up! 】

  The Grand Duke Sorin understood what the universe is. At this moment, the disciple of Inaiga II scolded: 【Is this shrinking? 】

  【Since you can’t imagine it, I’ll show it to you! 】

  The Dead River Armed Forces spread out its arms, and the originally huge Terra shrank rapidly, as did the surrounding sun and eleven other planets, until the entire Terra solar system was embraced by him.

   Then it was shrouded in a dark prison with cracks.

   This layer of dark cage is an irregular sphere, and it is constantly changing.

As Ian thought, this barrier cage is centered on Terra’s sun to its gravitational limit, not only the most extended planet, but also the Oort cloud, and even extends to a void with nothing , everything is wrapped by it.

   However, it has a crack.

  A crack through which light can pass.

  【Ever thought about it, Adalbert? What do you think is the reason for the demise of pre-epoch civilization? 】

  Grand Duke Sorin’s voice resounded throughout Hakoba: [The power that can make the Gazing Moon shatter like a trampled biscuit, if it hits Terra, do you think the planet under our feet can bear it? 】

  【The catastrophe from the sky caused Terra to shake, the oceans were transpired, and now only two of the five continents are left. Do you think that if such a disaster happens again, can the civilization on this planet continue to be maintained? 】

  【Haha, I actually don’t know any answers to these questions—but I only know one thing! 】

  【Because the Prisoner Star Prison, high above the sky, except for the sun and eleven planets inside our Terra, there are not many stars anymore! 】

  【When all the stars are gone, when the cracks on the Star Prison are completely repaired, our last chance will be gone】

  【Since then, only the prison will last forever... This is the future we are destined to face】

  It didn't take long for Grand Duke Sorin's voice to question angrily from the beginning to exhaustion at the end.

At the end of the speech, he sighed a long time, then withdrew his hand, smashed the entire star field model of Terra, turned it into silver dust, and attributed it to the light **** surrounding him: [Actually, we have already lose]

  【After the death of Inaiga, no one can understand this anymore. Even the teacher is desperate, he can't go faster, but we can't go to Gaotian until the prison is completely sealed.]

  【Can you understand? Albert? 】

  He raised his head and looked at the dark sky in the subspace labyrinth. Grand Duke Thorin whispered to himself, with endless melancholy: 【It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, I’m used to it for a long time】

  【So I can only try his last plan to leave something for our civilization】

Adbert wanted to say something—it was really hard for him to understand, whether it was the vastness and smallness of the planet, or the vastness and emptiness of the star field—he couldn’t understand that the world he lived in, the sun was so huge, Compared with the great Eye of the Father, the planet is nothing more than a small ball of marbles.

He couldn't imagine why there would be a prison bigger than the sun or even the kingdom of the sun that blocked the entire star field... He also couldn't understand why the barrier would be broken enough to swallow hundreds of thousands of suns side by side huge cracks.

  He couldn't understand, couldn't understand the matter itself, couldn't understand the reason of this matter, and what was even more incomprehensible was the most common thing.

  —Even so.

  He thought so, and murmured to himself: [Even so, isn’t it big? 】

  【We haven’t even finished exploring the New World now...Why do we have to think about the distant future, hundreds of thousands of years later, things outside of Terra? 】

  【Even if there is a Prisoner Star Heavenly Prison, isn’t there still eleven planets? That's also eleven new worlds, since that's the case... let's talk about it later? 】

  【When the time comes, maybe... There will always be a solution, right? 】

   This time, not only Grand Duke Sorin showed disappointment, but even Ian shook his head helplessly.

  —Adelbert's greatest strengths and weaknesses are probably his overly optimistic attitude.

"Do not be silly."

Before Sorin opened his mouth, Ian shook his head and said: "The population and the demand for resources are increasing exponentially. Eleven planets? Not to mention how many people can live in, even if they can live, they can be used, and they are not exposed to the outside world." How many centuries can we persist in pioneering?"

   "Besides, the pre-epoch civilization encountered a disaster from the sky, and we may have to encounter it... Even if there is no second disaster from the sky, are there fewer inexplicable disasters on Terra now?"

  "The completion of the cage will definitely bring about considerable changes in this world. This is a trend that we humans cannot stop."

   "It's too late to think about it when the time comes—I'm afraid the end of civilization will be a good end, maybe it's ecocide, and the whole world will be reduced to death..."

   Speaking of this, Ian was slightly taken aback. He lowered his eyes, and suddenly the power of the dead king and the dead river flashed in his heart.

   Psionic ship... Shelter...

   or…

  —The world after death? !

  Grand Duke Sorin noticed the change in Ian's demeanor, and he nodded in relief: [You understand—yes, Inaiga's plan back then has become unrealistic, and I must make corresponding corrections]

  【Dead King and other plans are the final response to deal with irresistible natural disasters in the future】

"but."

  Ian's voice was extremely low, and he said hoarsely: "Who... Which civilization built the Prisoner Prison? What happened to the Moon of Observation? This is the most critical core of the problem!"

Obviously he knew so much information from Grand Duke Sorin, but Ian felt that he didn't know more—he finally understood why the star field map in the South China Sea Great Labyrinth disappeared in such a balanced manner at the same time, Because just outside a star field centered on the sun, there is a cage that isolates light and is gradually spreading, covering the entire Terra star field.

   - It's not that Terra survived... It's not that Terra hasn't been attacked yet and therefore hasn't been 'destroyed'.

   Attack and destruction have already come!

  Of course, this is not all... because there is a crack in this cage, that is, this crack, so that all living beings can still see some incomplete stars.

  This proves that there is an unknown reason preventing the cage from merging. This does not prevent the regeneration of the cage, but at least for now, Terra humans can still see some stars outside the cage.

   Even, you can worry about the "supernova explosion" outside the distant starry sky, which may cause a "natural disaster" on Terra.

   This can even be said to be a happy natural disaster.

  Because of this natural disaster, perhaps due to unknown reasons, it is the last hope left to the human race on Terra.

   But even so, these stars are gradually extinguishing... and the supernova explosion is probably not the end of a normal star.

  The reason is only one possibility.

  —Other galaxies, other stars, are surrounded by the same prison. Even, it was not shrouded, but directly destroyed.

   This is the only explanation.

  There is a civilization, a force, or a biological or natural phenomenon that is putting cages on all the stars on a scale of the Milky Way, even galaxy clusters, or even the universe, and even destroying some stars.

but why? !

   If there is a civilization that can do this, does it really need to imprison the stars?

  【As I said, Hilliard’s successor, I don’t know—in fact, if you don’t even know, then I really have nothing to say】

   Regarding Ian's doubts, Grand Duke Thorin said slowly, as if he was trying to clean up his emotions.

Although his complexion was ugly, but because the anxiety that had been hidden in his heart for decades erupted just now, his brows and eyes were a little relaxed: [I can only tell you, just as you think, the Spirit Fire Project is to deal with the prisoner Xingtian. The plan designed to fully form the prison, it has failed, we can not build the kind of spaceship and mobile shelter]

【but! For me, that is not important anymore, the essence of the dead king is only for those citizens in my territory]

  【Tera's future, I am already desperate. In the foreseeable future, the Grand Duke of Sorin will also become a battlefield of hell. In this case, I must think for all the people who believe in me and think about a future for them]

  【Even if the sky collapses, the mountains collapse, the seas evaporate, and the continents capsize... I have to create a paradise for them】

  【Even if this paradise is the same as hell, at least their souls can last forever】

  【Heir of Hilliard, if it were you, you would be able to guess it, right? The real purpose of the Dead King's plan? 】

  Under the moonlight, Ian closed his eyes.

   he thought. Contact all the intelligence and information you have ever received.

  He suddenly thought of the first ballad he heard just before entering the subspace maze.

  【—That's it, we've reached the end】

  【In the endless and deep land of souls, at the other end of the endless and vast river of death, under the rule of the invincible dead king, a new world was born】

  【Our blood and tears turned into the sea, our flesh and blood became the land, our lament rose into the sky, our despair condensed into the sun】

  【The burning of our hatred is the fire that burns out the barrenness, our last breath is the wind that sweeps the world at birth】

  【We will live forever in this cage with no exit, we will live forever in this **** with no redemption—only despair, hatred, pain and sorrow are with us】

Softly reciting this ballad full of pain, despair, and even curse, Ian slowly opened his eyes wide, and he has already noticed the key point: "We will live forever in this cage with no exit, and we will live forever In this **** where there is no redemption..."

  —The soul can last forever in the void, but it must be maintained in an area of ​​extreme heat and energy, and this type of area can only be realized in volcanic areas or around the sun.

  —The surrounding area of ​​the sun is not realistic at all, and it is too unstable to sustain for a long time.

  —However, on the planet, or to be precise, there is still a region in the planet that can meet this condition.

   That is the center of the earth.

   "A cage with no exit, a **** with no redemption..."

   Repeating this song again, Ian looked at Grand Duke Sorin who was silent and floating in the air.

  He said in disbelief: "It's the center of the earth!"

   "You want to create a **** in the center of the earth?!"