Rochester flew up, and a compartment bulkhead opened in front of him.
Since his recovery, he automatically gained partial control of Valhalla.
Valhalla belongs to all the Apostles, and Fitzdurk is the manipulator, not the owner.
He flew directly out of the top of the ship, stood in front of Madeline, looked at her, then sighed and sat down next to her.
Rochester took out a pack of cigarettes from nowhere, lit it, took a deep breath, and said: "I can see that you have just awakened.
It must be difficult to accept this fact.
I was the same way at the time.
Until now, life in the decades before the war The experience is still vivid in my mind.”
Madeline said coldly: "You have a strong will in this world."
"So what?"
Rochester laughed, and said with the wisdom and calmness unique to the old man: "Retaining the will of this world is not all bad, it just depends on how you treat it.
Even if it is just a dream, a person who has dreamed it for dozens of years Years of dreams have become a part of our life experience, and there is no need to forcefully cleanse them.
Our lives are endless, and decades will pass by in a blink of an eye.
After hundreds or thousands of years, it seems impossible to let go.
Some things will gradually fade away and become just a dream.”
Madeline suddenly stretched out her hand to Rochester and said, "Give me one."
Rochester smiled, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, and handed it to Madeline.
Madeline frowned and looked at the cigarette carefully, then held it between her slender fingers, put it in her mouth, and tried to take a puff.
The moment the smoke enters your mouth, it ignites automatically.
The girl sucked slowly, thinly, and very long.
After one puff, half of the cigarette was gone.
She raised her lips slightly, blew out the wisps of smoke, frowned even more tightly, and said, "What's so attractive about this?"
Rochester laughed and said, "Of course there is nothing attractive to you now.
Our perception is too sharp and our analytical ability is too strong.
Cigarettes have no meaning to us, they are just a series of the simplest chemical The combination of substances cannot have an impact on us, but will only have an effect on ordinary humans.
I don’t need it to feel good when I smoke now.
It’s just a memory and nostalgia for the feeling of smoking before my instinct was awakened. " Madeline nodded in understanding, and instead of throwing away half of the cigarette, she finished it.
"We must learn to give up, especially those things that are destined to leave us.
Otherwise, there will be endless troubles and pain in the future.
But this is not easy, so you don't have to force yourself for the time being.
Even I still can't do it now.
There are too many things to put away.
We still have some time, you can think about it slowly."
Rochester said, stood up and walked into the starship.
After walking a few steps, he turned back and said, "I forgot to remind you.
Under certain circumstances, instinct will make decisions for you.
You must be prepared.
After all, instinct is our true self."
Madeline sat like a statue, not moving, but suddenly asked: "What is the purpose and meaning of our existence?"
This question made Rochester pause.
He was silent for a moment, and then said with a wry smile: "I am very reluctant to answer this question, but I have to say that we are apostles, so we exist without any meaning or purpose."
"There is no meaning or purpose."
Madeline was startled.
This was a completely unexpected answer.
"Yes.
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Even survival itself is not our goal."
Rochester replied solemnly.
Leaving Madeline to think alone, Rochester came to the central control room and said to Fitzdurk: "Start all the space furnaces and do your best to build a mechanical army.
It won't be long before we may have to face the creator.
The biochemical army may also include Su’s.”
"Su" Rochester nodded and said, "Yes, Su also has the ability to make biological weapons, and they are standard biological weapons."
Fitzdurk finally learned his lesson and never told the creations of primitive humans again.
However, he immediately realized the point of Rochester's words and couldn't help but change his mind: "If this is really the case with standard weapons, it would be too late to create a mechanical legion now." .
The expansion and replenishment speed of my mechanical army cannot be compared to standard weapons."
"I know, so we have to find a way to lure them out for a decisive battle before their biological army is formed.
As for the Spider Queen, let's avoid it first."
Rochester said.
"But the Spider Queen makes me feel even more terrifying.
She has an aura about her that we have always wanted to avoid."
Fitzdurk said with a frown.
Rochester shook his head and said: "Before Madeline can figure it out, we need to avoid a decisive battle with a super being as powerful as the Spider Queen.
You can transmit all the data from the last battle to me.
There is no way that this will happen on a planet."
Super life forms appear for no reason.
I’ll see if I can find some clues from them.
In addition, send out the rest of our mechanical army and continue to clean the planet.
This will force the creator out.”
Valhalla turned gracefully in the air and flew northwest.
In the rolling coastal mountains there, there are two space furnaces that Fitzdurk has already buried.
The belly of the mountain has long been hollowed out, and a new mechanical army of tens of millions of levels has been formed inside, waiting for Valhalla to be unsealed.
When Valhalla turned around, Madeline's eyes flickered, but those two weak sparks were extinguished immediately.
One day later, the entire continent shook slightly.
The Xihai Mountain Range split open from the center, and countless mechanical combat units rose up from the ground, blocking out the sky and the sun.
After the new mechanical legion was reorganized into formation, it slowly rushed towards the vibrant southern continent like a huge dark cloud.
When the mountains cracked, several strong men on the continent felt the sensation and looked in the direction of Valhalla.
What concerned them was not the vigorous earthquake, but the even more terrifying spatial instability.
Just now, Valhalla dropped a third space furnace.
Together with the space furnace inside the starship, there are already four space furnaces operating at the same time on this planet.
The third space furnace not only means that the generation speed of the mechanical army has increased by 50, but also means that the extraction of space energy has exceeded the limit that the planetary space itself can afford.
As long as the four space furnaces operate at full power for more than a certain period of time, space may collapse, forming a miniature black hole on the surface of the planet.
Even if such a black hole only exists for a few minutes, it will cause catastrophic damage to the life system on the planet.
In the past, when Valhalla dealt with planet-level civilization, it once dropped four space furnaces at the same time, completely annihilating that civilization.
This is a common method used by the apostles to deal with civilizations that have little recycling value.
The space furnace is a source of endless energy and a planet-level strategic weapon.
The moment the four space furnaces were activated at the same time, all the powerful life forms knew at the same time that there was not much time left for them.
Not only the strong, but also some ordinary people feel it.
There are not many places left alive in the Northern Continent, including Dragon City, the Arthur family territory, and a small settlement.
The territory is becoming more and more vibrant.
But the newly built synthetic food factory has been successfully operated, and even a thousand more people can survive.
People in the wilderness are satisfied as long as they have a steady bite to eat, not to mention that they can still be full here.
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It was still afternoon, but Sally suddenly screamed and sat up from the bed, breathing heavily, and her coarse nightgown was soaked with cold sweat.
She had not slept for two nights, and she had just slept for less than an hour when she was awakened by an inexplicable nightmare.
When she woke up, she could no longer remember the details of the dream.
She could only vaguely feel the endless darkness spreading from the horizon.
She wanted to escape, but was pulled towards that darkness by an irresistible attraction.
She felt her heart beating so fast, her chest felt like a huge stone was pressing on her, and she couldn't breathe at all.
She still felt tired.
She only slept for less than an hour when she was woken up by a nightmare.
Her head hurt so much that it almost split open.
Her body was so limp that she had no strength at all.
It was difficult to even raise her hands to wipe away the sweat.
After breathing for a long time, Sally felt a little better.
She checked the time and wanted to sleep for a while, but she couldn't fall asleep no matter what, so she simply got dressed and got out of bed and walked to the priest's residence.
The chapel has been completely built and even has some decorations.
In the square in front of the church, the statue of the seven apostles carved by the priest's hand has been mostly completed.
The six apostles are very abstract, but at a glance, you can feel the awe-inspiring momentum coming towards you.
Only the seventh apostle is still a stone, and has not been chipped yet.
Whenever she passed the statue of the Seven Apostles, Sally couldn't help but look at it for a while.
But a cold wind blew, and the chill almost penetrated into her bones and froze her.
She immediately wrapped herself tightly in her clothes, and her fingers holding the shawl turned blue-white from the cold.
Sally quickened her pace towards the back of the chapel.
The priest built a small wooden house behind the church as a residence.
As soon as Sally approached, a loud barking sounded in the hut, and then the priest scolded him a few times, and the dog quieted down.
"Is it Sally?
Come in, don't be afraid, I've tied up Xiaobai."
The priest's gentle voice came from the hut.
Sally pushed open the door and entered.
The priest lived in a small place and the furnishings were very simple.
There was a puppy tied in the corner of the room, staring at Sally with dark eyes and making low, threatening growls from time to time.
This dog is small in size and has mottled hair.
However, it does not have many mutations, so it does not have the ferocity of mutated creatures.
I really don’t know how it survives in the wilderness.
A month ago, the priest picked it up in the wilderness and kept it at home.
And for some reason, this puppy always had an inexplicable hostility towards Sally, which made her feel inexplicable.
The priest closed the Book of Revelation in his hand, looked at Sally, and said with concern: "You look very bad.
Did you not sleep well?
Don't be too tired.
There will be a long time ahead.
You are from this settlement.
Soul, without you, this place will soon become like any other place."
"But carrying the expectations of more than a thousand people is really tiring."
Sally sat down on the only sofa and buried her head in her arms.
The priest smiled and said: "You are a human being, not a machine.
You will always get tired.
But if we want to realize our dreams, we must make persistent efforts, and the efforts and rewards must not be directly proportional.
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Therefore, we can always persist in our dreams.
There are always a few people, and only a few people can finally realize their dreams.”
Sally lowered her head and whispered: "I really can't hold on anymore.
I've been thinking lately, is it really worth it to pay so much, including my earthly body and dignity, just for these people, these and me?"
People who don’t have many relationships?
Father, is there really a kingdom of heaven after death?
Or is it the kind of world where everyone can be happy?”
"No."
The priest gave her an unexpected answer.
"Why" "Because everyone has desires, and desires are endless."
The priest replied.
He stroked the Book of Revelation in his hand, thought for a moment, and continued: "In our world, reality will always have restrictions on desires in one way or another, and we all know that most wishes are impossible to come true.
But if one day, even When someone’s desires can be realized without limit, then heaven will become hell.”
Sally nodded in understanding.
These questions were too abstract and complicated for her.
She is actually just a simple girl.
The more complex the experience, the more she wants to be simple.
Although she has single-handedly established a complete system for ordinary people to survive in the wilderness, she is still simple.
Life in the wilderness is always overwhelming and does not allow people to be too complicated.
Sally's eyes suddenly glanced at a suitcase in the corner of the room.
It was a badly worn suitcase that the priest brought out when he left Longcheng.
The box was half open, with a few books and a change of clothes already inside.
Sally's heart felt inexplicably tight and she asked in a trembling voice: "Father, do you want to leave here?"
The priest nodded and said with a smile: "The seventh apostle statue has never been completed, so I need to go outside and see if the omnipotent Father will give me inspiration."
"Aren't you coming back again?"
Sally asked.
"Of course I will."
The priest stopped mid-sentence, then shook his head with a smile and said, "You are a good girl, I can't lie to you.
I may go to the Southern Continent to have a look.
It's a long way away.
What's going on?"
It can happen, so it wouldn't be a surprise if I didn't come back."
"Southern Continent" Sally stood up suddenly, looked at the priest, and wanted to stop him, but didn't know what to say.
She threw herself into the priest's arms and burst into tears.
She had a strong premonition that she would never see the priest again from now on.
The priest patted her back lovingly, and after she had cried enough, he pointed to his chest and said, "Although there is no heaven, we can still have faith.
The meaning of faith is actually a lighthouse we light for ourselves. , so as to move forward in the darkness without losing ourselves.
Therefore, the omnipotent Lord is actually in our hearts, and there is heaven under our feet.”
Sally nodded in confusion.
She was too tired.
After the intense emotions, tiredness surged into her heart unstoppably.
She fell down on the only sofa in the room and fell into a deep sleep.
I don't know how long it took, but she suddenly felt a little chilly and gradually woke up.
Just as she regained consciousness, she suddenly remembered something, shouted "Father" and jumped off the sofa.
The room has been almost tidied up, the suitcase is no longer where it was, and Xiaobai is not in the room either.
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The thick blanket covering Sally's body was the priest's own and the only thing he had left.
The priest's luggage was always simple, and a suitcase was more than enough.
That was because the scriptures and scriptures took up less than half of the space.
It was already dark outside the window.
Sally rushed out of the hut, and the cold wind that hit her face almost froze her.
She stood desperately, wrapped her clothes tightly, and looked into the distance with her full eyesight.
In the deep darkness, she seemed to see a lonely figure, carrying an old suitcase, walking slowly into the distance.
Next to that figure, there was a jumping puppy.
Suddenly, Sally had a feeling that the puppy seemed to be happier than herself.
Deep underground in the Southern Continent, Su Zheng stood on the clear water of an underground lake, looking at his two children.
Xiao Luo was still a little girl, but Persephone's child remained the same.
This was the first time the two little guys met, but they didn't feel any closeness at all.
They were far away from each other, and their center point was Su.
If Su was not here, it is very likely that the two little guys would immediately start a life-and-death duel until one side was completely destroyed.
This is an expression of instinctive hostility.
Sue was conflicted.
He had a strong urge to eat the two little guys completely.
On this planet, or even in this star field, apart from Su himself, there was no need for a second super life to exist.
To Su, any super life form was a natural enemy competing for food, even if it was his own child.
In fact, these two little guys are completely accidental by-products.
Oh no, there's a third little guy.
Therefore, not to mention one planet, but several star systems, four super beings crowded together would be too much.
The two little guys were floating one meter above the water.
Apart from looking at Su He and being hostile to each other, they spent most of the time staring at the lake.
These clear lake waters are actually nutrient solutions produced by Su's transformation from the biological matrix.
They contain a huge amount of energy, and their attraction to the two little guys is completely fatal.
Deep in the lake, the newly formed mastermind is also greedily absorbing the energy in the lake.
All lake water is converted from Rochester's biological matrix, but from an evolutionary perspective, it is much more advanced than the biological matrix.
Even a super life form cannot resist the pure temptation of the lake water.
"Come here" Su opened her arms.
This time it was the two little guys' turn to look at each other, but they immediately rushed into Su's arms.
Su held a little guy in one hand, but he couldn't laugh or cry.
The two little guys had no idea how hard it took him to suppress his instinctive impulse.
However, since he suppressed his instinct, Su would not do anything to his children, and they did not need to show such eagerness at all.
In fact, it was their instinctive fear that prevented them from disobeying Su's orders and not daring to anger Su
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