Chapter 685: Silent Three

Rochester flew up, and a spacer bulkhead opened in front of him. Since his body recovered, he automatically gained some control of Valhalla. Valhalla belonged to all the apostles, and Fitzdek was the manipulator, not the owner.

He flew out of the top of the ship, stood in front of Medielli, looked at her, then sighed and sat down beside her. Rochester took out a box of cigarettes from somewhere, lit them, took a deep breath, and said, "It can be seen that you have just awakened, it must be difficult to accept this fact, right? I was the same at the beginning. Until now, my life experiences in the decades before the war are still vivid in my mind."

Medilly said coldly: "You have a strong will in this world."

"So what?" Rochester laughed and said with the old man's unique wisdom and calmness: "Retaining the will of this world is not all a bad thing, it only depends on how you treat it. Even if it is just a dream, a dream that has been done for decades has become a part of our life experience, and there is no need to force it to clean it. Our lives have not ended, and decades have passed in a blink of an eye. After hundreds of years, thousands of years, some things that seem to be completely unsatisfied will gradually fade away. At that time, it will be really just a dream."

Medierly suddenly reached out to Rochester and said, "Give me one."

Rochester smiled, took out a cigarette from the cigarette box and handed it to Medielli. Medielli frowned, looked at the cigarette carefully, then clamped it with her slender fingers and put it in her mouth, and tried to take a sip. The moment the cigarette entered the mouth, it was lit automatically. The girl sucked it very slowly, very thinly, and very long. After sucking it, the cigarette was half missing. She raised her lips slightly, blew out the wisps of smoke, her eyebrows frowned even more, and said, "What's there to attract?"

Rochester smiled 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, just a combination of the simplest chemicals that cannot affect us, but will only have an effect on ordinary humans. I smoke now, and I don't need it to be satisfied with it, it's just a memory and nostalgia, the feeling of smoking before the instinct."

Medilly nodded in a vague way, and did not abandon half of the cigarette, but sucked it.

"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 if I am, there is still too much to let go of. We still have some time, and you can think 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 that in certain specific situations, instinct will make decisions for you. You must be prepared, after all, instinct is our true self."

Medilly sat like a statue, without moving, but suddenly asked: "What is the purpose and meaning of our existence?"

This question made Rochester pause. He was silent for a moment before smiling bitterly: "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?" Medielli was stunned. This was a completely unexpected answer.

"Yes. Even survival itself is not our purpose." Rochester replied heavily.

Leaving Medierli alone to think, Rochester came to the central control room and said to Fitzdek: "Start up all the space furnaces and do your best to build the mechanical legion. In a short while, we may have to face the Creator's Biochemical Legion. Perhaps Su's."

"Su?"

Roches nodded in a characteristic way and said, "Yes, Su also has the ability to make biochemical weapons, and it is a standard biological weapon."

Fitzdek finally learned his lesson and never said the 'creature of primitive humans' again, but he immediately realized the point of Rochester's words and couldn't help but change his color: "Standard weapons?! If this is true, it would be too late to build the Mechanical Legion now. The expansion and replenishment speed of my Mechanical Legion cannot be comparable to that of Mechanical Weapons!"

"I know, so we have to find a way to lead their biological legion out to fight when it is not formed. As for the Spider Queen, let's avoid it first," said Rochester.

"But the Spider Queen made me feel even more terrible. She had a breath that we always wanted to avoid." Fitzdek said with a frown.

Rochester shook his head and said, "Before Medier understand, we need to avoid a powerful super life battle with Spider Queen. You transfer all the information from the last battle to me. There will be no super life in a planet for no reason. I can see if I can find some clues from it. In addition, send all the remaining mechanical legions out to continue cleaning the planets, which will force the creator out."

Valhalla turned gracefully in the air and flew northwest. In the stretch of coastal mountains there were two space furnaces that Fitzdek had already buried. The abdomen of the mountain had long been hollowed out, and a new mechanical legion of tens of millions of levels had been formed inside, waiting for Valhalla to unseal.

When Valhalla turned around, Medielli's eyes flashed, but the two faint sparks immediately extinguished.

One day later, the entire continent shook slightly. The West Sea Mountains cracked from the center, and countless mechanical combat units cracked from the ground to cover the sky and the sun. After the new mechanical legion was reorganized, it slowly rushed towards the vitality of the Southern Continent like a huge dark cloud.

When the mountains cracked, several strong men on the continent were sensation and looked in the direction where Valhalla was. What they cared about was not the vigorous earthquake, but the more terrifying spatial instability. Just now, Valhalla cast a third space furnace, and with the space furnace inside the starship, there were 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 legion increased by 50%, but also means that the extraction of space energy has exceeded the limit that the planet itself can bear. As long as the full power of the four space furnaces operated for more than a certain time limit, the space may collapse, thus forming a miniature black hole on the surface of the planet. Even if such a black hole exists for only a few minutes, it will cause extinction to the life system in the planet.

In the past, when Valhalla dealt with planetary civilizations, he threw four space furnaces at the same time, completely extermining that civilization. This is a common method for the apostles to deal with civilizations that do not have much recycling value. Space furnaces are the source of endless energy and are also strategic weapons at the planetary level.

The moment when the four space furnaces are activated at the same time, all the powerful living beings know at the same time that there is not much time left for them. Not only the strong people, but also some ordinary people have some feelings.

There are not many places where there is still vitality in the Northern Continent. Longcheng is the territory of the Arthur family, and a small settlement. This territory is becoming more and more vibrant. However, the newly built synthetic food factory has been successfully operated, and even if there is a thousand more people, they can survive. People in the wilderness will be satisfied as long as they have a stable bite, let alone eating enough here?

It was still afternoon, but Sally suddenly screamed, sat up from the bed, gasping for breath, and cold sweat was soaked in her coarse nightgown. She had not slept for two nights, and now she had just slept for less than an hour, but was awakened by an inexplicable nightmare. When she woke up, she could no longer remember the details of the dream, and only vaguely felt endless darkness spreading from the horizon. She wanted to escape, but was pulled towards the darkness by the irresistible attraction. She felt her heart beat fast, and her chest was like a huge stone pressing on her chest, and she couldn't breathe at all. She still felt tired, and she was awakened by the nightmare after only less than an hour of sleep, so her headache was almost cracked, and her body was soft and had no strength at all. It was difficult to even raise her hand to wipe the sweat.

After gasping for a long time, Sally felt a little better. She looked at the time and wanted to sleep for a while, but she couldn't sleep anyway, so she simply put on her clothes and got out of bed and walked towards the priest's residence.

The church has been completely built and even has some decorations. In the square in front of the church, most of the statues of the seven apostles carved by the priest by his hand have been completed. The six apostles are very abstract, but at a glance, people can feel awe-inspiring momentum coming to their faces. Only the seventh apostle is still a stone, and has not been moved yet.

Whenever she walked past 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 bone marrow to freeze her. She immediately wrapped her clothes tightly, and her fingers holding the shawl had frozen to blue-white. Sally accelerated her pace and walked to 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 of dogs sounded in the cottage. Then the priest scolded him a few times, and the dog calmed down.

"Is it Sally? Come in, don't be afraid, I've tied Xiaobai up." The priest's gentle voice came from the hut.

Sally pushed the door open. The priest lived in a small place and the furnishings were very simple. There was a puppy tied in the corner of the house. He was staring at Sally with his dark eyes, and he roared threateningly from time to time. The dog was not big in size and was covered in variegated hair, but there was not much mutant, so there was no ferocity of the mutant creature. I really don’t know how it survived in the wilderness. A month ago, the priest brought it back in the wilderness and kept it at home. And for some reason, the puppy always had inexplicable hostility towards Sally, which made her feel inexplicable.

The priest closed the Revelation in his hand, looked at Sally, and said with concern: "Your face is very bad. Have you not had a good sleep? Don't be too tired, the days will be long in the future. You are the soul of this settlement. If you were not for you, this place would soon become the same as other places."

"But, I'm really tired with the expectations of more than a thousand people on my back..." Sally sat down in the only sofa and buried her head in her arms.

The priest smiled and said, "You are a human, not a machine, and you will always be tired. But if we want to realize our dreams, we must always make persistent efforts, and the efforts and rewards must not be proportional. Therefore, there are always a few people who can always stick to their dreams, and the few people who can finally realize their dreams."

Sally lowered her head and whispered, "I really can't hold on anymore. I've been thinking lately that I've given so much... including my earthly body and dignity, is it really worth it? It's for these people, are these people who have nothing to do with me? Father, is there really a kingdom of heaven after death? Or is it a world that can make everyone happy?"

"No." The priest gave her an unexpected answer.

"Why?"

"Because everyone has desires, and desires are endless." The priest replied. He stroked the Revelation in his hand, thought for a moment, and continued: "In our world, reality always has limitations on desires, and we all know that most wishes are impossible to achieve. But if one day, even if someone's desires can be realized without limit, then heaven will become hell."

Sally nodded, but these questions were too abstract and complicated for her. She was actually just a simple girl. The more complicated the experience, the more she wanted to be simple. Although she had established a complete system for ordinary people to survive in the wilderness, she was still simple. Life in the wilderness always made people breathless and could not tolerate people being too complicated.

Sally's eyes suddenly swept to a suitcase in the corner of the house. It was a seriously worn suitcase, which was brought out by the priest when he left Longcheng. The box was half open, and there were several books and some changing clothes inside. Sally's heart tightened inexplicably and asked in a trembling voice: "Father, are you going to leave here?"

The priest nodded and smiled and said, "The seventh statue of the apostle can never be made, so I need to go outside and see if the omnipotent Father will inspire me."

"Are you not coming back?" Sally asked.

"Of course I will..." The priest stopped halfway, then smiled and shook his head, saying, "You are a good girl, I can't lie to you. I might go to the southern continent to see it. The road is far and everything can happen. So, it's not a strange thing if I can't come back."

"Southern Continent?" Sally stood up suddenly, looked at the priest, trying to stop it, but didn't know what to say. She suddenly rushed into the priest's arms and burst into tears. She had a strong premonition that from now on, she would never see the priest again.

The priest patted her back lovingly, and when she 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 that we ignite for ourselves, so that we can move forward in the darkness and not lose ourselves. Therefore, the omnipotent Lord is actually in our own hearts. As long as you have an omnipotent Lord in your heart, the kingdom of heaven is under your feet."

Sally nodded in confusion. She was too tired. After the intense emotions, her tiredness surged into her heart unstoppable, fell on the only sofa in the room, and fell asleep. After a while, she suddenly felt a little chill and gradually woke up. As soon as she woke up, she suddenly remembered something, shouted "Father!" and jumped off the sofa.

The room was almost done, the suitcase was no longer in its original place, and Xiaobai was not in the room. Sally covered her thick blanket, which was used by the priest himself, and it was the only thing he left behind. The priest's luggage was always simple, and a suitcase was more than enough, because the scriptures and scriptures occupied half of the space.

It was already dark outside the window.

Sally rushed out of the cottage, and the cold wind that rushed towards her almost frozen her! She stood desperately, wrapped her clothes tightly, and looked into the distance with her eyes. In the deep darkness, she seemed to see a lonely figure, carrying an old suitcase, walking towards the distance. Next to the figure, there was a jumping puppy. Suddenly, Sally felt that the puppy seemed to be happier than herself.

Deep underground in the southern continent, Su Zheng stood in the clear water of the underground lake, looking at his two children. Xiao Luo was still the little girl, while Persephine's child remained the same. This was the first time the two little guys met, but there was no feeling of being close to each other. The center point was Su. If Su was not there, it was likely that the two little guys would immediately start a life-and-death duel until one side was completely destroyed. This was an instinctive hostility.

Su is very contradictory.

He had a urge to completely eat the two little guys. On this planet, even in this star field, there was no need for a second super life except Su himself. Any super life is a natural enemy of fighting for food for Su, even his own child. In fact, these two little guys are completely accidental by-products. Oh, no, there is a third little guy. So not to mention a planet, even a few star systems, four super lives crowded together, it would be too many.

The two little guys floated one meter away from the water. In addition to looking at Su and being hostile to each other, they stared at the lake for most of the time. These clear lake waters were actually nutrient solution produced by Su's transformation from biological substrates. They contained a huge amount of energy, and their attraction to the two little guys was completely fatal. In the depths of the lake, the newly formed master brain was also greedily absorbing the energy in the lake. All the lake waters were converted from Rochester's biological substrate, but from an evolutionary perspective, they were much higher than biological substrates. Even super life could not resist the pure temptation of the lake.

"Come here!" Su spread his arms. This time it was the two little guys' turn to look at each other, but they rushed to Su's arms.

Su hugged a little guy in one hand, but he was amused and crying. The two little guys had no idea how much effort he had spent to suppress his instinct impulse. However, since he suppressed his instinct, Su would not do anything to his children, and they did not need to be so eager.
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