Chapter 403: The Product of the Superimposed Phase Aspects of the Canghui Xing Xi?

Piloting a starship, drifting through the boundless expanse of the Star Sea……

To the old gem man, the feeling was like dreaming back to an ancient version, reliving the Great Age of Exploration——

After all, he was a disciple of King Solomon, an undying old man who had lived from BC to the present.

This Magic Marshal had naturally also experienced that era as a matter of course……

Therefore, in his view, there seemed to be truly not much difference.

At this moment, the old gem man gazed at the vast deep space outside the window, and could not help but feel deeply moved.

In the past Great Age of Exploration, a single voyage often took several months or even a year and a half, while now although the distance crossed is even longer, the physical sensation differs little from that time.

——Although compared to it, the distance the warship must cross is obviously far longer, a vast astronomical scale.

——But in terms of physical sensation, it is indeed too similar, likewise requiring one to endure long periods of solitude and loneliness.

Many people might feel that cruising in the universe and setting sail in the great sea are still very different.

However……

The fact is not so.

When the initial astonishment and novelty gradually fade, what replaces them is only unchanging boredom and monotony.

Although both the universe and the great sea display a boundless magnificence, the universe's emptiness inspires even greater awe.

But regrettably, many people perhaps have never truly realized that the universe's degree of emptiness far exceeds imagination.

Although the quantity of celestial bodies in the universe is numerous, the universe's scale range is even larger, far beyond the comprehension range of ordinary people.

Taking the Solar System as an example, Earth and the Moon, these two celestial bodies count as "pressed" especially close, yet the average distance between them is also Three Hundred Eighty Thousand Kilometers.

That is to say, between the two, there are Three Hundred Eighty Thousand Kilometers of space that are empty.

And this distance is enough to contain all the planets within the Solar System.

Imagine, when a person rides a spaceship traversing such empty space, everything around seems to have stagnated.

There are no rolling waves, no howling wind, only endless darkness and occasionally flashing starlight.

In this empty deep sea, humanity's tininess and sense of loneliness are infinitely magnified, making one involuntarily generate deeper awe and contemplation toward the universe.

「……」

「……」

The Mage took a deep breath, staring out the window for a good while.

After a long time, he slowly averted his gaze.

In that instant, the surrounding spaceship structure seemed to have sensed his will, that bizarre porthole part, seemingly fused with light and shadow, instantly recovered its original shape.

No longer any optical strangeness, it once again became solid and full of texture, as if it had never experienced any anomaly.

When it comes down to it, on this starship, there is fundamentally no such structure as a "window".

But here, any position can become a transparent interface according to need, allowing one to directly penetrate the hull and clearly gaze upon the vast deep space outside.

Thereby obtaining a visual experience transcending material boundaries, as if fused into one body with the universe.

"Next, we still have to drive like this for six months?"

The Mage turned his head, brows tightly knit, tone revealing helplessness difficult to disguise, directing this question at his temporary teammate.

"A little over six months, the engine's cooldown recharge period after use is two hundred days……" the young man touched his nose, answering somewhat embarrassedly.

「……」

「……」

The old gem man felt powerless to retort.

He recalled that heart-shaking scene from before——

The starship pierced reality's veil, instantly and precisely arriving at his coordinates, then reassembling and printing into form out of thin air right before his eyes.

The whole process was like an electric arc piercing the Void, precise and exact, making one sigh in admiration.

Especially the old gem man, could even instinctively perceive that extraordinary technical power from it.

Merely……

However shocking it was then, is how much he wants to retort now.

"You actually didn't need to warp directly at the time." The old gem man spoke slowly, tone carrying a trace of emotion, "You could already detect my reaction directly through sensors, at such a close distance, was there a necessity to use warp……"

The old man sighed at length, just short of beating his chest and sighing long.

Originally, according to these two unreliable fellows' account, the reason they could locate him so precisely and quickly traverse over was because the ship's sensors had already captured his reaction signal.

This meant that at the time this starship was actually very close——close to almost within reach.

That is to say, at the time they could have just driven over directly.

Fundamentally no need to make a mountain out of a molehill, kill a chicken with a cattle cleaver.

Wasting a warp opportunity for nothing, causing the group to now have to fly to the Nan Men Er Xi Tong side and hard-wait two hundred days for skill cooldown.

"Cough cough, this wasn't unexpected……"

The young man laughed it off, "Mr. Zelretch, you also need to understand us, from setting sail to now, this is the first time we've encountered this kind of thing……"

Indeed it is.

The Universe Great Age of Exploration is just like this, even more boring and dull.

At the start one might still embark on the exploration journey in high spirits, but very quickly one discovers that actually it's not that interesting.

——One won't frequently encounter any interesting events……

——If one doesn't explore every celestial body or star system encountered along the way, that is aimlessly drifting……

——If one explores every celestial body or star system encountered along the way, then ten-odd years or several decades might not be enough to leave a single celestial body system……

So from setting sail to now, the two's experience actually isn't too good.

Neither has the patience to discover new star systems, and investigate completely, upload records, make contributions for the Interstellar Federation Federal Government's pioneering……

They still haven't encountered anything interesting, like space creatures or anything……

So the sensors detecting a lone, solitary life signal in space really was the first time for them.

When the two received the Ship AI's notification, they immediately got fired up, afraid the event pop-up window they'd finally triggered would close and become impossible to find.

They only thought about how to get over as fast as possible, didn't consider anything else at all.

"……"

"……"

The Mage had no method for this either.

Two hundred days it is then, just need to be patient, even more patient…… actually there's no need to be this rushed.

Anyway, returning to that World Line Group, the operation for the entry time point shouldn't be affected, and I won't say I'm leaving for too long, causing me to miss it.

As for now……

Mainly the Nan Men Er side, even though it's very close, that's still a distance of four light-years.

Flying straight over like this definitely won't work, can only wait for the engine to finish cooling, then jump directly, and take that interstellar highway to leave here.

"Then let's wait, a mere two hundred days……" Gemstone Grandpa let out a long breath, his eyes revealing a composed, unhurried calm, "Anyway it's all the same waiting, these old bones of mine, surely can't be less patient than you two youngsters……"

"……"

"……"

The two on the opposite side glanced at each other, expressions slightly strange.

"What's wrong?" Gemstone Grandpa frowned, could there still be a problem?

"……"

"……"

"Cough cough, actually…… actually……"

The young man spoke with slight embarrassment, but after hesitating a moment, still nodded firmly, as if making some determination.

"Alright alright, old sir you're right, we'll just wait together……"

"Hey, brat! Speak clearly, how can you be so wishy-washy!"

Magic Marshal nearly blew his beard and stared, what's with these two wet-behind-the-ears brats: "Or is it that you don't have to wait here?"

"That—— indeed it's possible." The wet-behind-the-ears brat on the other side hehe'd a few times, scratched the back of his head, and said somewhat embarrassedly.

"For example, we weren't on the ship before, only came over after receiving the notification when the sensors detected your signal……"

Gemstone Grandpa: "……"

The old man's wrinkled eye corners twitched a few times: "Just came over now? How did you come over?"

"We're usually at Home, when there's a need, we transmit our thoughts directly through the pan-galactic FTL communication link nodes."

The young man said as if it were Naturally so.

"Using the ship's uplink and downlink link nodes, downloading our consciousness data stream into prepared Soul Vessels, this is very simple."

"……" A brief silence spread through the Air.

"……" Even more stillness, Fangfu time froze at this moment.

What the hell!

Is this the Advantage of Etherization? Even the Characteristics possessed by Servants can be Applied?

The Mage's First Time thought was Servant Summoning, ultimately its Essence is exchanging data with the Singularity Record through the Summoning Ritual, seizing Intelligence, completing the download……

——Then, pouring the downloaded Intelligence into the "Class" this Carrier.

——Thus, the Magecraft phenomenon of "Servant" comes into being.

"Then…… the ship? The ship just floats like this normally? Don't need to manage it?" Gemstone Grandpa was silent for a while, then asked again.

"The ship is a miniaturized version of a Nanomachine Mothership, entirely composed of Nanomachines, fundamentally doesn't need anything else, old sir didn't you see there aren't even other crew members?"

The young man had an inexplicably proud expression: "Not because we two can pilot it, but because it itself is a living Nanite Cluster, capable of self-disciplined maintenance, controlling navigation state."

So——

Fundamentally won't have any problems!

Even in many cases, for the intelligent Civilizations in the Canghui Xing Xi, the Spaceship is more like a mobile hotspot with WIFI on, freely and casually connecting to the Star Sea's information and wisdom.

Hao Le, very good very powerful.

But there's still one problem——

"You guys like this, aren't you afraid the Soul will have some problem?" Gemstone Grandpa struggled a bit, but still asked.

"The domain of the Soul falls under Cosmic Ereshkigal's jurisdiction, it's Absolutely impossible to have problems."

The young man had a serious face, seemingly not thinking this would have any problem at all.

"Cosmic…… Ereshkigal?"

The old Mage felt he seemed to have heard a familiar god name.

Is it the Ereshkigal in my Cognition? The Goddess of the Underworld in Sumerian Mythology?

But what's the situation with adding the prefix "Cosmic".

"Could there also be Goddess Ishtar?" The Mage tentatively asked.

"Huh? You know too?" The young man was somewhat surprised, "Space Ishtar, and Cosmic Ereshkigal, are the two Goddesses I mentioned before."

"They say They are a pair of Sisters, respectively representing heaven and earth, light and dark, matter and spirit……"

"Their domains symbolize the most basic order Cycle of the Canghui Xing Xi……"

Gemstone Grandpa listened silently.

Connecting with that sub-space from before, suspected to be an unknown Goddess's externalized mental pressure, he suddenly had a strange thought.

Could it be——

This entire world——

Is actually the concretization of different gods' powers and domains, right?

Each responsible for different aspects due to their different authorities and might, these multiple aspects intertwining and overlapping into phases……

Ultimately forming the Canghui Xing Xi's current universe appearance?

(Chapter End)