In the vast gray and white desert, the vast and chaotic sky enveloped the fields. Ms. Ye's towering throne stood in the center of the Kingdom of God like a mountain in the center of the world. The ancient god was silent for a long time. After a while, it suddenly said to the distant voice: "Will you be surprised?"

"Not all living beings can choose to walk a difficult and lonely path after confirming the existence of the gods. There are very few mortals who refuse to bow their heads in front of the throne of God... "The distant voice said slowly. Just like many years in the past, Ms. Ye can hear this voice, but she will never be able to sense where the voice comes from. It is a great consciousness that directly casts traces in His cognition. "After all, if you can get everything you want in a relaxed environment, why should you pay a greater price to pursue the ethereal future?"

"...Aren't you angry?" Ms. Ye hesitated for a moment and asked, "You are willing to find a way to help, but mortals refuse to bow to you... As a true god, you..."

"The true gods are just some kind of more advanced civilization, some more powerful individuals. I reminded you of this at the beginning," the voice said with a smile, "and as for 'angry'... why am I angry? Because they refuse to prostrate themselves? Because 'Is there any mortals who refuse the kindness given by God'?"

Ms. Ye didn't speak, and He seemed to be in thought, and the voice spoke quietly after a moment of pause: "I just said that there are very few mortals who refuse to bow their heads in front of the throne of God. Since there are very few, it means that there are still some such tribes. They know the existence of the gods, but they still choose to move forward alone. They touched the fortress of the gods at the end of the voyage, but they still passed by with their heads held high. At the same time, more civilizations chose our protection and chose to join the sequence of family members, but this is no different for us.

"We take good care of those who receive protection, those who do not want to bow their heads, we treat them politely, we welcome the people and accept friends, because in the end, we all sail in the same void, and such a vast void... can accommodate everything.

“We call this idea ‘safeguarding the diversity of civilization’.”

Ms. Ye finally raised her head from her meditation, and He asked thoughtfully: "You once said that the 'vagin' is an endless and vast place, and the 'universe' that I live in is as vast as sand and dust. In so many universes, countless civilizations are flourishing or perishing every minute and every second. At that time, I kept asking...Is it so difficult for all worlds to survive?"

The voice was silent for a long time this time, and it seemed that even the gods outside the time and space order needed to carefully consider their words to answer this question. After a while, his voice finally came from the other side of time and space: "What is hardship? For civilizations at different stages of development, is there a standard for difficulties?

"For the primitive tribes in the cave, a wind and snow in the cold winter is a disaster for the extermination. For the ancient kingdom that just stood firm in the farming era, the rain in the past few months can overturn the entire kingdom. A prosperous industrial awakening civilization can be free from these disasters on earth, but a meteorite is still a disaster - the demon tide can destroy a primary stage of the home star civilization, but as you said, for the setter, the household mind calibration patch is even one-time, and every vending machine has inventory.

"On a mortal planet I once lived, there is a periodic disaster. The planet will fall into an extremely low temperature called the "Ice Age" every certain period. The long cold winter will extinct more than 90% of life on the planet. During the two ice rivers, there is only an extremely short "warm summer". In the warm summer that is short to nearly one breath compared to the entire planetary climate cycle, civilizations have reproduced and revived again and again. They rise, fade, rise again and fade again... Until the day when they are finally not afraid of the ice river, they have never received the help of the gods.

"Today, the civilizations that have reproduced on this planet have flourished. Driven by a culture that they claim to be "unable to leave their homeland", they even transformed their home planet into a long-distance aircraft carrier and named it "Terra Steel". As the first civilization in the Milky Way to break out of the barrier of light speed, they and their "Terra Steel" are still navigating the starry sky today...

"But even so, they still have the possibility of death at any time - the uncontrolled fragments of neutron stars and the surging gravitational discontinuities on the long journey may be the next "blizzard" they will face. They may fall in these blizzards, just like their ancient cave ancestors, who may return from the storm in a stronger and more majestic manner and be prepared to face the next life and death disaster.

"Child, if this is what you want to ask, then I will tell you the answer - yes, survival is so difficult, childhood is like this, adulthood is also the same, life is fragile and ill-fated, so that any natural phenomenon can become a catastrophe in front of a certain period of time, and even those who are protected by us will overturn in disasters - but that will be a bigger disaster, which is terrible to the point where even the gods will fall."

The voice stopped, and Ms. Ye was silent on the throne for a long time. After a few minutes, He finally broke the silence: "So, all the roads are covered with thorns."

"Yes, and the key to the problem lies in this: after knowing that all the worlds and all the roads are covered with thorns, does a civilization still have the courage to take the next step - compared to the whistling blizzard outside the cave, the 'next step' that still decides to take in the face of the blizzard is the greatest courage of a civilization and the biggest difficulty they have to face.

"And compared to this 'one step', all other choices are secondary."

Ms. Ye suddenly became a little curious: "So... is there a civilization that chooses not to take that step? I mean, after it has developed to a certain level, I suddenly realized that there is still danger outside the planet, and realized that no matter how powerful the power is, it cannot guarantee that it will last forever. Instead, it will encounter layers of difficulties in the process of development, so I chose to retract that step. Is this really true?"

The distant god was silent for two seconds and replied softly: "Yes, and many, even at all stages will appear - some will die in the primitive city-states, some will die in the empire era, and some will die in the end under the anesthesia of nerve agents. Most of them have disappeared silently before they can truly see what the world they live in, and it is difficult to leave even a trace."

Ms. Ye opened her eyes slightly: "Then you are about such a group..."

"They have the right to choose their own path, and every civilization has the right to choose their own path, but when they suddenly regret and start praying at the end of the end... we will not give any response, after all, we are very busy."

"...I understand," Ms. Ye finally breathed a light sigh. He seemed to relax a lot, his eyes clearer than before. Then he thought for a while and asked another question, "You said, can the setters really succeed in reaching the end of the cognizable universe?"

"I'm not sure," the voice said frankly, "Since the Battle of the Spiral Rift dragged hundreds of worlds into the Zero Quadrant, the observations of these universes by the gods have been greatly disturbed. Now the Zero Quadrant has become a stable area, and we have not found a way to rebuild the waterway in this quadrant.

"Perhaps as the prophet and the God of Omen said, the only way to rebuild the waterway in the zero quadrant is to break the deadlock from the inside out, a civilization that survived successfully in the ruins, a group willing to give up the opportunity to escape and choose to be a pioneer, this group will naturally have the talent to navigate in the zero quadrant. They may be the 'setting 'in' you call, or the successor after the celestial 'setting ', maybe Loren, maybe Neuy, or more likely the pioneering civilization in some other universe that is close to you, who knows?"

Ms. Ye thought for a moment and spoke with some uncertainty: "If one day, the Loren civilization became the 'trailblazer' who successfully reached the end of the cognizable universe, but did not choose to continue walking out, but stopped, and even turned back to pray to God, what would you... or your friend do?"

"We will accept that since they have arrived at their promised land, they have the reward they deserve," the voice said calmly, "Everyone has the right to make a choice. It is not despicable to ask God for help after doing their best. On the contrary, it is normal to refuse to pray. In the final analysis, it is just that not every world needs God's salvation, and not every civilization has the only choice of 'bending over to God'. It's just..."

The voice paused suddenly, and then He seemed to have a little smile: "It's just that if they can really walk alone to the end... they might be friends."

...

On the long bridge formed by the glimmer of dusk, Gao Wen suddenly stopped and looked back at the direction he was coming with a thoughtful look.

The towering throne had disappeared in the endless desert background at some point. Looking back at the way he came, he could see only a monotonous and pale chaotic mist. The faint light formed a barrier on both sides of the long bridge. Even the endless wind in the shadow desert was blocked from the barrier. From this perspective, he felt as if he was walking on a road that had been endless and repeated, and he had no way to judge how far he had walked on it.

He turned around and looked at the night city on the other side of the road. The silhouette-like city was standing on the border of sand and dust, but from the beginning, the silhouette seemed to have never approached the silhouette again.

"What are you looking at?" Amber's voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Gao Wen's look at it, "Do you forget to ask Ms. Ye?"

"...Not this," Gao Wen frowned, "I just feel like we have been on this road for a long time, so why don't we have the intention of 'arriving' at all?"

"Who knows? The things in the Kingdom of Shadow God are originally real and the scenes seen by the naked eye cannot be used as reference." Amber seemed quite relaxed, "Anyway, Ms. Ye said that she could just walk forward on this road. He would not joke with us in such matters."

Gao Wen glanced at the Shadow Assault Goose: "...You trust Him very much."

"There is no way, who made Him the 'source' of me? And he also helped me solve the problem of 'stability'. Anyway, from the moment I met, I felt that He could trust," Amber waved his hand as he said, "By the way, you haven't finished talking just now. You said that Ms. Ye created a test illusion for you, and then you stayed in it for fifty years. Ms. Ye pretended to be me to fool you, but you didn't fall for it at all? Did you really not fall for it? Could it be a bragging?"

"As for bragging in front of you?" Gao Wen pressed Amber's head casually, "Amber has not even been working overtime for a day, and she has not been late or left early for meetings for fifty years. Don't you think about who this can scare? I'm afraid that Hetty and Rebecca will be able to detect something wrong within twenty-four hours when they come."

Amber thought for a while and bared her teeth: "Although you are right, why do I always feel mocked by you?"

Gao Wen had no intention of denying it at all, but his steps did not stop at all, and continued to walk towards the night city at the end of his vision.

And the next second, the scene in front of him suddenly became dazed, and then the towering giant city suddenly "flashed" directly in front of him from a distance!

This scene was amazing and strange, as if he had skipped some kind of discontinuous time and space at the moment of this step. The city that was originally far away and could never reach was directly in front of him, which made him even feel like he heard a "boom" in a trance!

Amber next to him was also startled by the sudden change. The guy jumped up more than half a meter high and hung it on his arm. Then he grabbed his arm and pointed at the black city in front of him: "Mom... Mom! Why did this thing jump over!"

Gao Wen quickly calmed down, and while picking off the amber, he thought of the information he had obtained before: "...Do you still remember? It is said that from Ms. Ye's throne to the border of the Kingdom of Shadow God is a 'road' that cannot be reached in conventional ways. It is like a illusion of light and shadow mapped at a fixed distance, and there are always silhouettes that are visible and intangible in the distance... This may be the embodiment of this phenomenon."

Then he paused and said, "We came along the road constructed by Ms. Ye before we suddenly arrived at the city of Night. But if we were walking along the desert... no matter how far we walked, this city was in our original location."

"...I'm still so sarcastic when I'm rushing on the way," Amber also reacted at this time, and his slightly furious head gradually recovered. At the same time, he was talking nonsense about his "source", "It seems that he is too idle to do nothing, He just..."

Before Amber finished speaking, a young female voice suddenly came from the side: "I'm sorry, it seems that the border wall has caused trouble for you?"

Amber stopped instantly, she raised her head in shock and looked in the direction where the sound came with Gao Wen.

A woman in a black cloak is standing at the entrance to the city.

The woman was not wearing a hood, with long white hair hanging behind her casually, while her skin was as pale as paper, and even her eyes were as weird as pale.

At this moment, those pale eyes were staring at Amber and Gao Wen beside him.
Chapter completed!