"The situation is turning grim," one said.
"Hasn't it always been like this?" came the reply.
...
Eagles soar through the sky, fish dart in the shallow waters,...
Spatial fluctuations, like a black veil being lifted, revealed a spaceship capable of swallowing two stars in one gulp, which suddenly appeared in the vacuum.
IAO - A spaceship with a 1-parity timescale.
The fireflies slowly separated, and the ring star, with no one to stop it, flew headlong into the deep space of the universe, as if it had made up its mind.
The sky above Konglu Star darkened, and then a few lights began to appear.
Li Changzhou sent the star to the edge of the solar system and placed it in Mars' orbit; it might be useful in the future.
He was gone for most of the day. When he returned to the spaceship, everyone had already gathered on the bridge of the Long Day.
"Captain, I thought you died in space!" Houhou exclaimed.
"Don't waste any more time. IAO said to go see him as soon as you get back and give us the mission bonus!" Yin Seli said impatiently.
Li Changzhou glanced at Li Qianxia, Yang Qinglan, Yaochi, and Bi, and after confirming that they were all alright, he smiled and said:
"Let's go."
The Long Day and Princess ships slowly sailed toward the IAO ship and docked at its pier—a testament to the ship's immense size.
There were already people waiting to greet them.
On the way to the reception room, I ran into Si, who was just leaving.
The other person was expressionless, with a tall and perfect body; judging by appearance alone, he certainly deserved the glory of the gods.
He hadn't planned to talk to her, but as they passed each other, Si took the initiative to speak.
"Didn't you hesitate even for a moment?" she asked, controlling her expression.
"Some unpleasantness must be endured in order to survive."
Watching Li Changzhou leave, God Valenti sensed danger from him for the second time. He was a man of unwavering faith, a man of his word, a man of kindness, and a man of calm and decisive action. It was as if he was born to play the game of value.
In the Protoss race, almost every child asks an adult the same question: Why can't we see all the possibilities?
The only answer children receive from adults is this: only a true God can see all possibilities.
The 'god' has been replaced by the 'victor'.
In contrast, there is another consensus among the Protoss—
The person who wins in all possibilities is the 'winner'.
This theory was immediately refuted upon its introduction, and a second consensus was proposed—
The person who survives all the possibilities is probably the 'winner'.
Goddess Valentine cannot see all possibilities, but in all the possibilities she sees, in this event, no matter how she tries to stop Li Changzhou, he succeeds.
Judging from this incident alone, the probability of Li Changzhou becoming the 'winner' is one in a billion.
If we can experience several events together and see more possibilities, it might increase the accuracy of our judgment.
Goddess Valenti snapped out of her thoughts. To her, this was merely an interlude, and Li Changzhou was just a passerby. Every qualified god had a chance of becoming the 'victor' that was more than one in a billion.
"Valenty doesn't look too good," Li Changzhou said to IAO with a smile.
"Compared to before, at least he's willing to talk to me now." IAO smiled, in a good mood.
IAO's rescue was planned, as was the transfer of Konglu Star's population to his territory, and winning Si's favor (which Li Changzhou doubted) was also planned.
"What's the plan?" Li Changzhou asked.
"It went very smoothly." IAO did not reveal any further details.
The real plan for this mission was to drag away a star as an experiment, an experiment by the IAO on 'possibility - predicting the future'.
He might genuinely want to teach the ungrateful Kong Lu a lesson, or he might be using this as an excuse to hide a major experiment in a trivial squabble over a girl. No one knows what he's really thinking.
"This is your bounty." IAO waved his hand, and the blue crystalline creature pushed over two boxes, which were piled up with special metals and aura like stacks of money.
Yoon Seul-ri pounced on him and grabbed one of the boxes in her arms.
She hugged the box like a child, rubbed her face against it with adoration, then looked up and said to IAO with a slightly shy expression, "Your Excellency IAO, what about the two barrels of ascension fluid you mentioned?"
"Oh, yes, that's right." IAO remembered, turned to the blue crystal servant and instructed it to prepare.
After chatting for a while, once Yin Seli received the two buckets of Ascension Liquid, Li Changzhou and the others said their goodbyes and left.
“I hope there will be another opportunity to cooperate,” IAO said to Li Changzhou as he stood up.
“There will definitely be an opportunity,” Li Changzhou said with a smile.
How could Li Changzhou possibly let go of such a grand stage as the Divine Will Great Wall?
The only troublesome thing is that traveling back and forth between the two is too troublesome, taking most of the day each time, during which time no news is received from Earth.
His main task now is to keep an eye on the solar system so that his home planet won't be occupied in the event of another planetary conflict in the future—Jupiter also needs to be monitored.
At the berth, Li Changzhou bid farewell to Yin Seli and the others.
"You can divide this money among yourselves. Those who want to buy flying cars, buy flying cars; those who want to buy equipment, buy equipment; those who want to ascend, ascend—"
"Captain! Spaceship!" Dayi and Houhou shouted in unison.
"If you have any money left, it's up to you," Li Changzhou said. "If I need to contact you, I'll leave a message at the tavern where we were fighting on IAO planet. You can do the same if you want to contact me."
“We’ll be resting on IAO for a long time this time,” Lorelei said, arms crossed. “His Excellency IAO will also welcome us to spend money there.”
Li Changzhou laughed and was about to speak when he suddenly looked out the porthole.
Everyone followed and looked.
"Meteor shower?!" Li Qianxia exclaimed.
Like a pilgrimage, or a school of fish, brilliant meteors travel together through the universe.
"They've rained this far; it seems the Keloid meteor shower season is almost over," Yin Seli said absentmindedly.
The brilliance of the meteor shower inadvertently formed words in the eyes of Li Changzhou, Yang Qinglan, and others.
[Task Completed]
[Countdown to Return: 9:59]
Li Changzhou, Yang Qinglan, Li Qianxia, Yaochi, Bi, and Xiaoluobo boarded the Princess and, together with the Changzhou, slowly sailed away from the berth.
After flying side by side in space for a distance, the two ships drifted apart by a tiny deviation until they disappeared from each other's sight.