Chapter 634

"I..."

I did indeed touch something quite extraordinary...

After steadying his mind slightly, Li Ang looked at the Taurus Director in front of him and asked in disbelief:

"I just found out that humans... escaped from the Land of the Old Days?"

You just reached out and touched it, and you actually found out such a secret?

Upon hearing Li Ang's words, the Taurus Director was greatly surprised, then nodded and said:

"That's right. Our human ancestors did not live in this world, but were a branch of descendants who fled the Land of the Old Days. The predecessor of the star palace was the shifting tool chosen by human ancestors when they migrated. At that time, the ancestors were prepared to continue their long journey, but unfortunately, the star palace was shattered, so they had no choice but to stay in this world first."

Good fellow, it really is like that!

After smacking his lips in a daze, Li Ang continued to ask:

"Speaking of shattering... in the information I touched, the person who shattered the star palace was one of the Supreme Four Pillar Gods. Are they now..."

"They have all been killed."

"Ah?"

"The Supreme Four Pillar Gods who chased us from the Old Land are the King of the Old Days, the Cicada of All Things, the Crimson Sovereign, and the Sleep of Asur."

"The four of them are mortal enemies of humanity. Since our humans haven't been destroyed yet, they must be gone. Although most of their divinity and authority have been inherited by other true gods, it's no longer the same thing as those four pillar gods back then."

After recalling slightly, the Taurus Director spread her hands and said:

"That was all countless years ago. The Supreme Four Pillar Gods back then were, in the end, just four gods who had mastered powerful laws. If calculated using your Li Ang value, they would probably be around 70 points. They might be a bit stronger than Olivia, but the strength is limited."

"After living comfortably for many generations under the protection of the Watchtower, the Bureau's overall strength has declined quite a bit, but there are still seven or eight people whose level is similar to Olivia's. Those who can stably cross the true god threshold of 60 points by a significant margin probably number over thirty."

"The rest are branch directors who haven't crossed 60 points but can suppress true gods in cooperation with anomalous objects, as well as some elites among the first-level cleaners. Adding all these together, there are probably over a hundred people with the means to harm true gods, and this is already the result after we have been stable for so many generations."

"After the Watchtower was built, the generations of predecessors who grew up rapidly under its protection were much stronger than they are now. The Four Pillar Gods lasted less than a few hundred years before they were killed. The brain of the evil god currently soaking in the 【Illusion Can】 is the brain of the Sleep of Asur, one of the Four Pillar Gods."

"..."

Awesome, my ancestors...

Li Ang originally thought that the Bureau, which had always been surrounded by external enemies, was actually being watched by four powerful masterminds, ready to destroy the world at any time, and that he had luckily discovered it, and a new heroic epic was about to begin.

But he didn't expect that the so-called masterminds had been wiped out by the Bureau eight hundred years ago, and even their ashes had been recycled and fed to dogs at home. What he saw was just the awesome history of human predecessors, and what he got was a post-heroic era script where he could basically live a stable life. The most troublesome enemies had long been hacked to death by the big shots.

Well... thinking about it, it makes sense. In such a rich world, with so many true gods, demon gods, outer gods, and evil gods, all racking their brains to squeeze in and have a go, if the Bureau's predecessors weren't awesome enough, why would they have been able to occupy it so securely for so long?

Even if the Bureau's strength wasn't enough to block the joint efforts of all the true gods coveting this world, at the very least, they had to be the undisputed strongest among all "factions," with the ability to suppress a group of people alone. Otherwise, they would have been driven out to continue wandering eight hundred years ago.

"The predecessors are truly amazing (and fierce)..."

After sincerely sighing at the fierceness of the Bureau's predecessors, Li Ang asked with some confusion:

"Taurus, since you know all these things, why didn't you object when I said earlier that the Bureau didn't seem to understand the star palace?"

"Because what you said are historical facts, not the status of the star palace. As for the specific situation of the star palace, the Bureau indeed doesn't know much about it at present." The Taurus Director said helplessly:

"I told you before, the star palace is truly massive in volume. Moving them back from near the sun once is really too troublesome. A round trip might take more than ten years of effort and consume countless precious materials."

"So ever since the first generation of Virgo Directors made a trip and sent the eighty-eight star palaces over, the Bureau has never brought them back for inspection, so no one knows whether these things have been nourished well or not."

"Anyway, even if they aren't brought back and continue to be placed near the sun, it doesn't hinder everyone from continuing to use the star palace's abilities. And since we haven't encountered any world-ending crisis that requires escape, and summoning the star palace has always had a response, no one is willing to bring them back for inspection..."

"By the way, what is the status of the star palace? Is the nourishment complete?"

"..."

Indeed... according to human nature, for something like a doomsday ark, one certainly wouldn't be in a hurry to deal with it until the last moment. And the Bureau's upper management is also quite laid-back. If they were diligent enough to test it every three years and inspect it every five years, that would be the strange thing.

As for the status of the star palace...

Thinking about the descriptions in the evaluation like "one of the Bureau's most important trump cards" and "the last hope for the human race," Li Ang said firmly:

"Although it hasn't fully recovered and there are still a large number of scars on the back, the current star palace is no longer a 'fragment.' It should be considered that the nourishment is complete."

"That would be great."

The Taurus Director said happily:

"Although it might not be used, it's better to have this kind of thing than not... By the way, Li Ang, speaking of which, have you found a way to bypass the star palace to learn the secret art?"

"This... I don't know if it counts as found... By the way! Besides that history, I also discovered a very important thing!"

When he said this, Li Ang suddenly remembered something and reminded her with a frown:

"Taurus, my ability tells me that the person who holds the star palace will have their own divinity constantly drained!"

"It doesn't matter, this is intentional."

"Ah?"

"I mean, when the first generation of Taurus Directors forged the star palace, they deliberately designed this condition of use."

The Taurus Director explained with a smile:

"The star palace is so precious, and it's far away around the sun. We can't rush over in time. What if it's snatched away by other true gods? So we simply let everyone who touches it constantly drain their divinity, so no true god will be willing to snatch it."

"But those cleaners whose infection... Li Ang value has passed 60 points and have touched the threshold of true gods, won't they also have their divinity drained?"

"Let it drain!"

The Taurus Director spread her hands and said:

"To drain the lowest level of divinity dry, it would take three or four hundred years or even longer. And we humans don't have eternal life, we can only live for about 150 years at most. Why worry about such distant things?"

"..."

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(End of chapter)