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Chapter 319

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Not long after, it was covered by white sand and ground to nothing.

It patrolled the gullies of the sand dunes, seeing no traces of any life.

The ruins in the desert towered like clouds, twisted and broken, like broken battle blades.

Not long after, the morning sun rose from the east, and the sunlight shone on the sand dunes, making the gravel warm, reflecting a gray and bleak scene.

Now, there was one sun in the sky, and a cold moon from another world.

The "Thing of Absence" seemed to realize something, raised its head, stood quietly on the top of the sand dune, facing the sun, motionless.

Until the sun fell once again.

The sky turned dark, countless stars twinkled, shining like diamonds, dotted in the black velvet night sky.

Some were as bright as fire, some as weak as candlelight, some flickered, and some were as quiet as usual.

Those starlights, after countless years, crossed countless light-years, projected from all directions of the universe.

Until the sun fell completely.

The "Thing of Absence" raised its hand.

The white sand robe flowed along its arm, until it spread its arms, aiming at the stars.

"!!!"

"??? What is the 'Thing of Absence' doing? Praising the moon? Or praising the stars?"

"Hard to say... I have a bad premonition. It is the 'Thing of Absence,' a supreme divinity, a great existence mastering supreme power, a conceptual existence. Perhaps it is going to do some extremely terrifying things."

"I suddenly remembered that the name of this file is 'The Stars Do Not Wait.' Is this big shot really going to do something to the stars?"

"Could it be... that what the 'Thing of Absence' is going to do next is to destroy the entire universe?"

"Don't, I feel a chill when I think that the civilization I am in was also destroyed by the 'Thing of Absence'!"

"Don't mess around, who knows how many years ago this file is from? The Foundation has restarted itself I don't know how many times... maybe when the 'Thing of Absence' destroyed the universe, the entire galaxy was still empty."

"..."

While the audience was discussing,

Kira Yoshikage's voice sounded again:

"The stars have never waited for you, my brother. When you took my power and burned yourself on the clear sky, they looked up at you and remained unmoved;"

"The stars have never waited for humanity either, not for all the promises it showed, not for any prayer of the observer. But what about that 'Thing of Absence'? What should I do?"

Inside the "Herta" space station.

Asta's heart beat wildly.

The girl who was incredibly familiar with the stars had an instinctive feeling that the stars in the footage were wailing, wanting to escape, wanting to refuse the fate of destruction.

But they were powerless.

Because the one who wanted to destroy them was a supreme divinity.

It was the supreme existence that defeated Pangloss and swallowed "The Stag."

Kira Yoshikage's voice continued:

"We, I, from all aspects, are the most terrifying monster since the birth of this world—perhaps also the most terrifying monster that all worlds have ever witnessed."

"However—brother, I see the stars looking forward to our arrival. Waiting for me."

"Where is the justice in this? Nowhere to be found, because it never existed."

"But the facts remain, brother, the stars have never waited for you. But now they are welcoming my arrival. Waiting for me to embrace them."

Xianzhou "Luo Fu," Divine Strategy Mansion.

"Cough, cough, cough—"

Fu Xuan spat out a mouthful of strong tea, coughing uncontrollably on her flat chest.

She thought that after the "Thing of Absence" destroyed a civilization, it would stop.

It looked like a program that would automatically destroy the world, not like a supreme divinity with the ability to think.

—Pangloss and "The Stag" could still communicate, but the "Thing of Absence" couldn't at all.

Fu Xuan really didn't dare to think that this supreme divinity, promoted from a reality warper, would really destroy the stars and destroy the universe.

One of the oldest methods of divination is to predict good and bad luck by observing the stars.

The "Thing of Absence" destroying the stars is undoubtedly overturning the pot that all diviners eat from.

Before Fu Xuan could calm down, the action of the "Thing of Absence" began.

It slowly extended its ten fingers.

White fine sand flowed between its fingers, scattered in the shrill wind.

Almost simultaneously, the starlight in the sky stopped flickering, and the black velvet-like deep space became smooth.

The entire starry sky became illusory and ethereal, not like reality.

Above the sky, the moon orbiting the Earth stopped rotating.

In the starry sky further away, black became blacker, white became whiter, red became redder, as if some magical filter had been added, turning the world into an over-saturated painting.

The light of all stars became sluggish.

That was a transcendental feeling. The audience seemed to see space twisting and the speed of light slowing down.

"Snap!"

Herta felt her body lose balance, woke up suddenly, and then felt a lingering fear.

She looked at the screen in front of her, then looked down at her hands, and only then did she recover.

She was actually affected by the power of the "Thing of Absence"!

Even though separated by countless years.

She, this "Erudition" Emanator, actually returned to that moment!

So, what about more ordinary people?

Could it be...

The Foundation wants everyone to witness with their own eyes the moment the "Thing of Absence" destroys the universe?!

The footage continued.

As the "Thing of Absence" closed its hands, the starry sky began to change.

The stars in the sky began to shrink, the starlight became dense, like a gorgeous band of light.

This band of light gradually deformed, twisted, and fell from the sky into the embrace of the "Thing of Absence."

The "Thing of Absence" was actually embracing the entire starry sky!

At the moment its ten fingers crossed.

Except for the sun, all the stars, the entire universe, were tightly held in its arms, turning into a beautiful sphere.

But there was still some residual starlight in the sky.

In a vacuum, the speed of light is ** meters/second. This supreme divinity that destroys everything had some special gentleness at this moment, not taking away all the starlight.

Soon.

The final starlight outside the sky also disappeared completely.

Many people have seen the end of the universe, in dreams, in film and television works, or in a wild imagination.

William Thomson once believed that the universe would end in heat death. When the last beam of light disappeared, everything would be infinitely cold and boundless.

Now, the universe has really ended.

In a very peculiar way.

In the entire universe, the entire universe except for the sun and the Earth was filled with the purest "emptiness."

There was nothing in it, nothing existed.

In the east, outside the horizon, another round of light came, and the last star in the universe rose alone.

While the sun was rising, trillions of stars fell in the arms of the "Thing of Absence."

"Crack—"

In the slight cracking sound, a crack appeared on the smooth sphere.

Several stars went out.

This crack gradually expanded, extending more branches, crisscrossing like a spider web.

Several galaxies went out.

The sphere vibrated slightly, and the cracks expanded, wriggling on the bottle like a snake.

The shape of the fragmentation became more complex, the textures intertwined, as if the sphere could not bear the burden. ===== CHAPTER 321 =====

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