Stray Chapter 12: Follow up

   "The sound of the sky is gradually ringing, do all living beings know it? Music is played by the gods, and the ants are still unsolved. Of course, the earth listens to it. The sunken city, the dark cave, the dark pit, the gods listen. God understands its meaning, Fading the eternal sleep, the moment of awakening."

  Kevin A.Roth "The Sound of Heaven"

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  "Huh?"

   The Taoist man in white, who was teaching and preaching in the Taoist temple as always, seemed to have noticed something. He raised his eyebrows, turned his eyes and glanced, his eyes penetrated the dark universe.

   I saw that the adjacent plane was flowing in the river of time, gradually showing a fragmentation, the physical universe with a diameter of infinite light years, as if it was disintegrating, it was about to be completely disintegrated. On a specific time scale, this process does not happen overnight, and this cosmic disaster lasted for many years.

   But in the eyes of the gods who observe the three thousand worlds like three thousand dusts, in just a moment, they have already finished the process and seen the results.

  Since you already know the ins and outs of the whole thing, you naturally understand the specific cause

   is a huge rust-red planet made of gas, ash and hot liquid iron, with faults and rifts all over its outer shell, if it weren't for the vast ocean of liquid iron below forming a giant eye, it would seem very normal look.

  This has the appearance of a celestial body, the outer **** named "Gheros", drifting aimlessly in the universe, and constantly singing his ethereal chant.

   He is the precursor of destruction. His singing can even force the planets to change their orbits, and the entire galaxy will suffer great disasters because of his arrival.

   Any galaxy it passes will be affected by this singing, and the stars will gradually reach their correct positions. He traverses the orbits of countless stars, the tides on the planets change, volcanoes will erupt en masse, and huge storms, earthquakes, and tsunamis will follow.

   And the most terrifying thing is that he also uses this method to wake up the demons or ancient gods sleeping on each planet... in order to destroy all the celestial bodies he passes through.

   Any sleeping Old Ones, or Outer Gods that inhabit these stars will be awakened by him and brought into action. Then all other life on the planet ushered in destruction, and the celestial body itself ceased to exist.

   It will set the stars in their places, awaken their masters who slumber in the crypts and submerged tombs; it will raise the tombs submerged in the sea, and it will stare at those believers who think they are masters and shake their worlds , until everyone recognizes its existence and worships it.

  The reason why the Taoist man in white saw it was such a terrible and absurd scene

  Ghroth traversed the vast universe, singing to all the celestial bodies that passed by, making the stars cower and flee, and revive the will that sleeps above the celestial bodies...

   Well, this is a bit of a literary description. In fact, it is an oversized walking alarm clock that keeps bouncing around in the universe. No matter where it goes, it keeps making a loud BB. When it sees people, it sings to it. The ancient **** who slept soundly woke up from his eternal sleep.

   Even the celestial body itself can't bear the harassment of this outer **** running over and singing to him.

  If there is a pan-consciousness similar to Gaia's will in the stars, they have been polluted and corrupted by the songs of the outer gods, so they will emit invisible depraved and blasphemous crazy screams, and directly change their orbits and turn around and run away ...

   is like a human being who has witnessed an existence beyond human intelligence, because he can't bear the madness, and his reason is lost, or his eyeballs are melted, or his brain is exploded on the spot.

   In the same way, in the face of "gods" such as the outer gods or the old rulers, the celestial spirits of cosmic celestial bodies such as planets or stars are not much stronger than the fragile souls of mortals. Don't say hymns of courage, only those happy people who have never peered into that abyss are convinced of such foolishness.

  "It's so noisy, how can there be such an annoying guy..."

   The Taoist in white couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth. He just glanced at it over time, and he felt that his eyes were irritated.

  "No wonder he was kicked out of Azathoth's court musicians, even that choir doesn't want this stuff, it's too noisy, right?"

   That world actually has the background of the Cthulhu mythology, which he did not expect, but if he was surprised, it is not too surprising, after all, this kind of thing is too normal.

   is not just the case of Greek mythology, but the outermost territory of any **** system, which is basically a buffer zone of "three no-holds", occupying the home field advantage. Has the influence of the level of dominance, but it is not absolute.

   Not to mention encountering the Old Ones and the Outer Gods, it is not surprising to encounter anything.

   He waved his broad sleeves straight, reversed the time and space, and directly rolled back the expedition vanguard he sent out.

   Quietly, the universe changed, even the sky and the earth changed colors, and the super mechanical life with a body size of more than one million kilometers in diameter seemed to fall into the darkness of eternity in an instant, and even the reaction time was short. No, there is absolute emptiness all around.

   It seems that the emptiness where time does not exist, the smooth space-time continuum, and even the almost endless quantum foam in the vacuum can no longer be observed.

   is empty, as if nothing exists.

   But this group of people doesn't know this at this time. After all, they are all overwhelmed and are in a huge crisis...

   When Xia Ran waved his sleeves, he spread out his fingers and grabbed lightly, not only grabbing his vanguard back, but also pinching the huge rusty red planet that was singing happily. In the palm of his hand, he grabbed it directly.

  “…”

  “…”

   The "Mu private of the Spheres", which was as sharp as an air defense siren, stopped abruptly in an instant.

   The giant eye formed by the molten iron ocean hidden under the earth's crust seemed a little dull, as if he couldn't understand what was going on for a while. The giant eye looked up and could only see Honghan vaguely, so that even the universe could not accommodate it. Even he himself could not glimpse the outline of the face of the vast god.

  The wide robe and wide sleeves cover the four poles of the world. The condescending attitude seems to be that after the angler has reeled in the line, he finds that he is picking up a small fry, and is squinting his eyes and looking at it carefully

  Ghroth seems to see a feeling similar to disgust in it.

   the next moment.

   The Taoist man in white raised his foot, grabbed the huge rust-red planet, rubbed it on his boots, then threw it up and kicked it away!

   In the blink of an eye, the rusty-red planet pierced through countless voids, and in the turbulent layers of time and space, suddenly did not know where to fly... Xia Ran didn't make a move, this is just one of the countless incarnations of Gheros , in that universe does not mean that other worlds do not have it.

   is very troublesome...

   glanced at the world, Xia Ran lowered his eyes slightly, Ghroth had dealt with it, but the impact it caused before is a foregone conclusion, the stars are returning to their places, and the ancient gods have to wake up from the eternity, that The universe will eventually fall apart.

   But this is destined destiny, should we just give up?

   He pondered carefully, and soon made up his mind. But he didn't do anything, but turned his head back calmly, as if nothing had happened, slowly picked up the green slip in his hand, and continued with a flat expression:

   "There are feelings and beliefs, intangibles and intangibles, can be passed on but not accepted, can be obtained but not visible... Before Tai Chi, it is not high, below the six extremes, but not deep, and it is born from the innate and not long. , outlived the antiquity but not old..."

  Everything that just happened is in an extremely short event element, and no one else knows except himself.

   So indeed it was as if nothing had happened and the sermon went on.

   Below are the outer disciples who have been recruited by Li Wangguan over the years. They are anonymous and not true, but they are already famous outsiders. Now this group of Argoss are all wearing Taoist robes, shaking their heads and seeming to be very intoxicated.

   is headed by the former Princess Andromeda, or should be said to be Queen Andromeda now, but she is also dressed in Taoist robes, her face is like a girl of the past, her eyes are like autumn water, and she is dressed as a female crown... ... However, the characteristics of different races are obvious, and it really seems to be full of discord.

   is like a crooked nut with blond hair and blue eyes. It has to be a feather fan and a scarf. No matter how you match it, it can't have the feeling of Wei Jin style, it can only be a little nondescript.

   But they don't feel that, especially after receiving the scorpion, they have actually been empowered by Taoism, plus Li Wangguan's detached position in this new world order, and the benefits brought to them, they have already I sincerely identify with myself and others as Taoist priests.

  And

   Perhaps it is because of the Olympus gods that are in the game, or because of the fanaticism of the converts, this group of aliens have become very fanatical after becoming members of the Taoist sect.

   After receiving the scorpion, every day I think about how to accumulate merits to improve the rank of the scorpion, get more Taoism and other benefits...

   I couldn't understand those mysterious Taoist theories, so I kept trying to figure out and read it over and over again, and when I learned it, I forgot to eat and sleep...

   Committed to the combination of theory and practice, with constant homework every morning and evening, a group of Greek nobles from the Kingdom of Argos are stunned to indulge in cultivating immortals and refining alchemy...

   This style is really weird.

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   on the other side.

   Those who opened up new planes, but met the unlucky ones who held a concert by the Outer Gods.

  Because there is a constant gravitational field inside, it is very stable from beginning to end, and everyone has no feeling of being dragged or falling, and they don't even know what happened. Have you and others been out of danger? .

   At present, the interior of this planetary-level fortress is dark, all communication media have been cut off, and all the internal passages are tightly blocked.

  Some important areas flashed red warning lights at the same time, accompanied by a strong and high-pitched siren like an air defense siren!

In the conference room of the center, the huge 3D projection also showed a rust-red light, and the chaotic data was constantly being brushed out. It seemed that the will of the mechanical **** who had transformed into a planetary-level fortress had been seriously affected. Pollution eroded and fell into extreme chaos.

  "Chaos infection warning!..."

   "Data backup sync failed! Again warning..."

  "Secondary AI infection warning! Unknown distortion of information..."

  "Firewall is under attack! Activate data flow separation mode!..."

   The information turbulence is beating frantically, but the high-speed moving information column seems to be more and more rapid, and at the same time, more and more garbled codes are beating, which seems to show the seriousness and danger of the situation. The red warning lights flashing crazily, the atmosphere is extremely dignified.

   The mechanical **** body, huge like a planet, with a diameter of more than one million kilometers, trembled violently at this moment, and it seemed that it was about to be torn apart.

   Countless voices sounded from every part of this huge body, like every part of the robot's body had its own thoughts, and the will was divided, from hundreds of millions of hydraulic muscle units to sensors. , to gear engagement devices everywhere, to the giant stellarator reactor at the core...

   and even the outermost superalloy shell.

   Every inch of the body is screaming differently, making people crazy and nauseating, as if the monotonous low tone blown from an invisible and abominable flute, and it is like hitting the gap in the skull, And there was a low and crazy beating sound.

   trembling, trembling...

  As the chaotic infection becomes more and more serious, this mechanical planet gradually undergoes some kind of transformation, but in an instant, it is like moss growing wildly after the rain, from the outer superalloy shell to the inner mechanical Structure, including pods, pipes, link nodes, etc.

   began to have flesh and blood transforming and growing.

   He was the first to detect the arrival of "Judgment Star, Herald of Destruction" Ghroth, and he was still a few light-years away. With the powerful performance of a series of black technologies he carried, he detected it in advance. And the target is locked, and clear picture and audio are captured.

   However, because of this, it brought disaster to him.

   Even if it is a mechanized demigod body, even if it has a certain degree of anti-memetic and reality distortion immunity, it is only to a certain extent, not completely immune, so the captain cannot avoid it because Looking directly at the true body of the Outer God, and even looking directly at him, of course he fell into a frenzy.

   And his teammates were lucky enough to escape. The image of Ghroth was taken by the captain, and the anti-memetic ability of the mechanical **** was weakened in advance, and they did not have a direct relationship with Ghroth. Look at each other and save a life.

   It's just that his reason still disintegrates instantly, and the screams are heartbreaking one after another.

   so weak, so powerless.

   They never imagined that they thought that they and others already had the capital to surpass ordinary living beings, but... meaningless, everything is meaningless.

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   Argos.

  Because there is really not enough land, the outer island circle, which was reclaimed from the sea two years ago, is in the newly built civilian area.

  "There is a signal!"

  In the apartment-style suite, which is really out of tune with this era, there is a slender female team member who is putting a coin into the steam charging machine in front of the public bathroom, and then prepares to go in and take a shower.

   But at this moment, she keenly heard a beep from her room.

   Even though the distance is far away, separated by a few walls, and the sound insulation of the house is very good, it can’t hide the physical ability of more than ten times more than ordinary people. From before to now, I have been in charge of tracking and monitoring, trying to contact the external team. She immediately understood what was going on.

   in a minute.

   Everyone gathered in her room, staring at the particularly magical notebook on the table.

  "The signal appeared, the tokens of the five people are all there, the quantum signal is correct, it should be correct..."

  "It's just why I couldn't contact or track it before, and why it suddenly appears now, this is a problem..."

  "And, it doesn't seem to be in the solar system at all, what are they doing?"

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   Meanwhile.

  In a Greek city-state that has not yet embraced the times, the son of a great nobleman wakes up with a severe headache.

   The memories in his mind were shattering and surging constantly. He was lying on the beautiful big bed, his eyes widened, he couldn't believe what happened to him... He actually passed through? After reading novels for so many years, does such a thing really happen to you?

   He couldn't believe it, but he had to believe it, the headache in his mind became more and more severe, and the memories of the two lifespans were merging with each other.

   The broken information didn't have time to receive it in its entirety, but the fragmented fragments were enough for him to make judgments. He seemed to have traveled to the ancient Greek era, a terrifying world where humans and gods lived together... But that's all, in his mind The messy thoughts are mixed together, and it is not clear at all.

   He struggled to sit up from the bed, looked around weakly, hesitated for a moment, and said, "System, get me out!"

  “…”

  “…”

   Of course, nothing happened.

   What about Crossing Goldfinger? He opened his mouth, feeling that all the strength in his body would be exhausted, the self who had nothing, the self who didn't understand anything, coupled with this extremely weak body that would die at any time...

  "How do I survive..." He muttered to himself in extreme frustration, his face was pale and his eyes were blank.

   "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerate, it's still very easy to live, please don't join our organization, the future is promising..."

   A clear voice sounded, appearing without warning in this luxurious dark room.

  “…!!”

   The traveler was taken aback, he turned his head hastily and found a monk standing beside the bed at some point... Wait, monk? According to my own memory, isn't this a world similar to ancient Greece, in the age of city-states?

Where did    come from?

   And this monk is also too trendy, wearing a pair of gold glasses, a pair of bluetooth headphones hanging from his ears, colorful rosary beads in his hand, and actually holding a mobile phone in the other hand.

  Monk Chao looked at his mobile phone, compared the transmigrators in front of him, and put away his mobile phone with a smile: "It seems that this time I am going a step ahead, and I didn't let that old guy from "Atskaban" Take the lead, pull back a game..."

  “…”

  “…”

  The air froze.

   "Oh, I haven't introduced myself yet, the benefactor, the poor monk is a member of the sub-organization "Dadianyin Temple" under the Transmigrators Alliance, codenamed "Fahai". The monk seemed to have reacted and quickly introduced himself, "I'm a traveler just like you." "