Chapter 14: The Smile and Tears of the Stars (Part 2)
The great disaster caused by the plague began.
In fact, the number of people who were "selected" was more than one million.
However, when abilities are equal, only those with money and supplies can board the Ark. Those who cannot afford the money are abandoned by their compatriots and struggle to survive in this world rife with monsters.
Humans, animals, plants, and other creatures infected with the star poison died in large numbers, but there were also some with tenacious vitality who managed to survive and fought hard against the extremely harsh environment until the last moment.
The remaining humans abandoned all race, culture, status, and gender positions, and united in the most primitive way, supporting each other, fighting and retreating until they found a place with fewer star-poison monsters to rest temporarily - and then retreated and fled again after their stronghold was discovered by monsters.
In this way, I wander around the world.
In the end, the remaining people gathered together. Each of them was the most skilled warrior, each of them had an extremely intelligent mind, and each of them had a deep bond. They not only protected themselves, but also began to think of ways to protect various animals and plants that had not been contaminated by the star poison from the monster attacks, because they knew that animals and plants were also part of the environment. If even the environment was completely destroyed, then they would be completely unable to survive.
They began to call themselves "Tu Ling", which meant "wild dog" in the language of the time.
They bite their enemies like wild dogs, sleep in the open air like wild dogs, survive in the cold world like wild dogs, and support and warm each other like wild dogs, but they no longer hope that the abandoned themselves will be favored by their masters again.
It was not known whether it was the strength and resilience of the "Tu Zeros" that moved the consciousness of the planet - Feinheim, or whether he could not bear to let all the other plants and animals die, or whether there were too many of their own kind and too little food, causing the monsters to devour each other due to extreme hunger. In short, the momentum of the plague gradually faded, and the Star Spirit Mine began to be refilled with positive star spiritual power. At the same time, when the Tu Zeros came into contact with the Star Spirit Mine, they found that the positive star spiritual power poured into their bodies - but nothing bad happened.
Soon, some discovered that their bodies were stronger than before. They could see farther, easily leap several meters high, run like wolves, and lift objects heavier than their own weight with ease. They became like the native creatures of this planet, possessing the power of wild beasts.
The Tu Lings understood that this was the planet's consciousness expressing gratitude to them for protecting the environment, and that this power was the protection given by the planet.
The people on the Ark abandoned Tu Ling, but the planet saved them. Gradually, gratitude turned into a subtle consciousness of planet worship, which sprouted in their hearts.
What the Tu Zeros didn't know was that, in fact, this was Feinheim's regret.
After the conflict with Andre, Feinheim was furious and asked the ruler of the Star Spirit Mine, Wanzu Zan Zhakalla, to suppress the energy emission of the Star Spirit Mines in various places, and even to recycle the golden positive star spiritual power. This led to the outbreak of the plague and the beginning of the great disaster.
But when Feinheim gradually calmed down, he found that he had killed countless innocent people because of this.
Did those lovely scholars who chatted with him when he knew nothing, and who kept asking him questions with sparkling eyes, also die in this plague?
Unfortunately, after calming down, he found that the plague was out of control. Even if he stopped recovering the positive star spiritual power, the situation continued to escalate.
A million people went to the Ark, the rest died, and only a small group of warriors who called themselves Tu Ling were left to fight tenaciously against the environment.
As they fought, there were scenes of an elder brother feeding blood to his younger brother who was short of water, a wife volunteering to lure away the monster for her husband, an old man desperately protecting his grandson until half of his body was bitten off by the monster, and a teenager who stole someone else's food but was saved by someone regardless of past grudges, and finally bit a bullet and died together with the monster for that person.
Ahhhhh
If we want to adjust the ecology to its original state, it is probably impossible to accomplish it in the short term without highly intelligent creatures.
If we place our hopes on this group of people, there will definitely be no problem.
Moved and fond of them, Feinheim asked Wanzu to grant the Tulings the highest protection.
The Tulings lived up to Feinheim's expectations and worked hard to survive on the devastated land after the plague. They worked hard to rebuild the environment, sow seeds, protect reproduction, and deal with the corpses of monsters. As time passed, the barren land finally began to recover.
In contrast to Tu Ling and others, Andre is intensifying his ambition and desire for revenge.
Yes, he wanted revenge. He had merely extracted some of the star power and transferred it to two moons, not that it would never stop. Yet, Feinheim had gone to such extreme lengths, killing so many humans—he would never reconcile himself to this vengeance, and he must take it back double!
So Andre secretly left the Ark and traveled to one of the moons, the planet he had originally used as a refuge. He feared Theresa might spread rumors about him in his absence, so he took her with him. He actually intended to kill her, but she revealed that she had implanted a confession in the Senate database. This information corresponded to a chip implanted in her body. If her vital functions ceased, the confession would be announced to the world, revealing everything they had done.
Unable to find the confession letter and not 100% sure that Theresa was spreading rumors, Andre had no choice but to save her life, so he had to keep her by his side no matter what.
In addition to Theresa, Andre also brought with him many like-minded confidants he had made over the years, as well as many talented scholars who were threatened by Andrew. On the moon of the refuge base, he led these people to resume their research on star power, and this time, they succeeded.
They found a way to neutralize the two types of positive and negative star spiritual forces, and created a star spiritual force that is completely harmless to the human body - red star spiritual force.
This kind of star power is neither positive nor negative, but nothing - yet it carries extremely strong destructive power, and only a small amount is needed to trigger a large-scale explosion.
It is this star spiritual power that opens the curtain on a new round of tragedy.
Andre, who was shocked and ecstatic by the research results, immediately launched the next plan - he began to build a huge turret with the muzzle facing the sky - that is, a turret that can hit Feinheim, and the shells used - are naturally red star spiritual power with extremely strong destructive ability.
At the same time, he also began to privately research a device that could be placed in the human body to extract positive and negative star spiritual power and convert it into red star spiritual power.
Thus, the "Red Box" was born.
After trying this work several times and finding that its power was several times stronger than he had imagined, Andre developed a strong desire to monopolize the "Red Box".
Hoping that his strength was unique, that this absolute power gap would more effectively pave the way for his revenge—with this in mind, he configured the Red Box as a master recognition device with identity recognition capabilities. Then, after completing the construction of the turret, he used the Red Box to kill all researchers except for his trusted confidants. He then used red star energy to create a massive optical camouflage protective film, covering the entire planet in it—
So, looking up at the sky from Feinheim's perspective, one of the moons suddenly disappeared in the sky without anyone noticing. However, because the red star spiritual power can be recognized by the red box, Andre, the holder of the red box, can see the red moon above his head.
Andre thought that by doing this, the planet would completely become his property, his most solid barrier - but he overlooked one problem - under the immersion of the star spirit power, the red moon also had its own consciousness.
Although her consciousness was initially unclear, due to her constant interaction with high-tech equipment since birth, Chiyue's consciousness developed rapidly. She didn't quite understand Andre's purpose, but she understood one thing: he wanted to completely control her body, using and modifying it at will.
Chi Yue, who was very dissatisfied with this, also began to secretly manufacture his own weapons.
Because he has been exposed to negative and cold things since birth, Chiyue feels disgust and dissatisfaction with all living things on his body. Therefore, the huge stone giant - "the one who hates everything" was born.
The stone giants began to attack the fortress that Andre was most proud of - the Red Spirit Turret, and Andre and his confidants immediately operated the turret to fight against it, and finally defeated the stone giants - but not long after, new stone giants appeared and attacked their fortress.
Andre was caught in a fierce battle with the stone giant, and Theresa, who had long been extremely dissatisfied with Andre's actions, saw this opportunity, stole the research records of the Red Box and a small spaceship, and escaped from the Red Moon in the chaos.
It was good to escape from Andre, but the world was so big, where could she find a place to stay?
As a guilty person, she was always afraid of death and lived a miserable life, condoning Andre to expand his territory again and again, precisely because of her selfishness - but she, the person who indirectly caused two major disasters, is still living well in this world, and she only knows how to escape and retreat, but doesn't think about making amends and atonement?
...Is this really okay?
For a sinner of her level, even if she died, the current situation of such dilapidated chaos would not change at all. Therefore, now she is not even qualified to die - she must personally put an end to the disaster she has caused - at least eliminate Andre from this world, then she can die in peace, right?
She originally wanted to go back to Feinheim and wait for death, but she changed direction and flew the spaceship to another moon - a factory for producing toxic life forms.
However, when she landed on the moon, she discovered a scene that shocked her.
Originally, due to a shortage of manpower, the research on toxic life forms on the moon did not progress very quickly, and there was no plan to mass-produce toxic life forms. Therefore, there should have been only a small aerobic area on the moon where humans could move around, and a deserted large factory.
But when Theresa landed on the moon, she found that the area within her sight was filled with numerous buildings of varying heights - all factories - and blue streams of star energy flowed between the factories, connecting and flowing among them. The aerobic areas also extended to the entire surface of the planet, and there were many creatures that looked like they were suffering from star poisoning, moving around the planet, fighting and biting each other to fill their stomachs.
From then on, one moon became murderous red, and the other moon became poisonous blue.
Theresa was terrified. She flew her spaceship around the moon and finally found the original factory. Then she avoided the monsters and walked into the factory.
Then she discovered the bodies of the researchers, which had long since decayed, and a living computer similar to Feinheim's.
After carefully communicating with the person, Theresa confirmed her suspicion that it was the planet's consciousness, Poison Moon.
It turned out that after Du Yue became conscious, he curiously explored the behavior of the researchers conducting research as well as their equipment and data. He quickly absorbed knowledge from the computer and formed his own personality. He also learned from many documents that the star Feinheim above his head was a beautiful and vibrant planet.
He began to envy Feinheim, and then felt inferior because he had nothing on him, only a large workshop and a few humans, which made him look shabby and lonely.
So, he used the erosion of consciousness to control those researchers, making them start using the raw materials on the moon to build factories on a large scale. Then, he used the immature technology for manufacturing toxic life forms in advance and began to manufacture toxic life forms on a large scale - he also hoped to become a vibrant planet.
Unfortunately, because of his control, those researchers died one after another not long after their brains were overloaded, and the immature manufacturing technology could not create creatures with real rational thinking. It could only create some violent creatures with nothing but appetite. But when Du Yue knew all this, it was already too late.
All those who could have solved the situation were dead, and he was unable to improve the manufacturing technology. The violent creatures he had created were all over the earth, but it was far from what he wanted.
So the appearance of Theresa became Du Yue's life-saving straw.
When she met Theresa, Du Yue confessed everything she had done, and Theresa agreed to try the technology to transform the poisonous life form, but she did not have the level to do such a difficult task - after all, the technology to break the law of life is also very difficult.
So she changed the direction of her research - through the cores of those violent creatures - that is, the Protoss cores, the main terminal of the manufacturing plant, which is the computer to which Poison Moon's consciousness is attached, to uniformly input commands to the Protoss cores, so that these creatures can be comprehensively improved.
The order to "defend against outsiders" was successful - Andre's spaceship from the Red Moon was attacked fiercely as soon as it landed, and fled in panic.
The order of "no entry into the manufacturing plant to hunt humans" was also successful, so she could stay in the factory easily without having to worry about avoiding monster attacks.
But the command "do not be violent" is not acceptable, because that is the instinct of those creatures, and instinct cannot be changed.
No matter what, improvement is always a good thing. While Theresa was fine-tuning the characteristics of this group of poisonous life forms, she deepened her communication with Du Yue. Before long, a deep friendship developed between the two. Because she was the first friend in her life, Du Yue almost always responded to her requests and was very dependent on her.
Perhaps because she had been depressed for too long, Theresa confessed all her crimes and expressed her determination to defeat Andre. Duyue - he did not blame her, but simply promised to help.
So the first and most important thing is to return the stellar spiritual power absorbed from Feinheim to create an energy cycle.
──However, now that Du Yue has become conscious, we cannot easily shut down the huge star power extraction device. If we lose the star power, Du Yue’s consciousness will dissipate soon, right?
Theresa, who finally had a friend, couldn't bear to let Du Yue disappear like this, so she discussed with him for a long time and finally made a decision - to make those monsters into cocoons and airdrop them to Feinheim. The monsters would starve to death in the cocoons, and then they would emit negative star power, which was also a disguised way of returning the star power.
The current problem is how to make cocoons from those monsters. If new ones are made later, we can improve the factory's production methods and directly add the cocooning process - but what about those already distributed on the planet?
Theresa remembered the research data on the red box that she had stolen from Andre.
Perhaps the Crimson Star Spiritual Power could help her? Thinking this way, she began to study the information, and then she discovered a surprising problem.
The spiritual power of the red star can slow down human aging—even stop the passage of time in the body.
In other words, Andre will never grow old.
What should I do? Is this to say that the last glimmer of hope that the disaster will be resolved only by his natural death is gone?
Theresa finally gave up the last thought of escape in her heart.
Since he can't die naturally, the only way is to find a way to kill him.
She tried to imitate the Red Box, but her skill level was insufficient and she failed. However, the similar device she made could also help her gather a small amount of star power.
She began to soak up the red star spiritual power to delay her aging and strengthen her body - she had to ensure that she would not live shorter than Andre, as this battle might last a long time.
Then, she created a red giant sword of star power and used it to defeat the monsters wandering on the poisonous moon. Then, she used the capsule technology of humans drifting in the universe to develop a "cocoon", put the monsters' bodies into the cocoon, and airdropped it to Feinheim.
This practice has been going on for a full two hundred years.
For two hundred years, she killed people along the way and transformed the factory along the way. With the help of the Poison Moon Consciousness, she continuously sent batches of monsters, carrying the star spiritual power, back to Feinheim. It took her two hundred years to completely eliminate all the monsters on the moon.
Meanwhile, she had fought for two hundred years. Andrei, on the other side of the Red Moon, had learned of her presence on the Poison Moon and would periodically send men to search for her. She would fight when she could, and hide when she couldn't, employing guerrilla warfare, harassment, and surprise attacks that drove Andrei mad. But Andrei was different. While she had the support of the Poison Moon, he still had to contend with the Red Moon, so he was truly stretched thin. Consequently, the two remained tied.
And so, two hundred years passed.
The unaware people on the Ark found that the plague on the ground had faded away, so they returned to the ground in waves. On the Red Moon, the war between the turrets and the stone giants was still going on unknown to anyone. On the Poison Moon, cocoons wrapped with monsters were sent down in batches. The technology of the factory had been improved. Now, those monsters were put into cocoons and thrown into Feinheim before they could develop consciousness. This formed a cycle, and the star power of Feinheim began to gradually recover.
But Theresa and Duyue were too naive.
Monsters have a strong regenerative ability - they will not die completely until the poison is neutralized. Therefore, the monsters killed by Theresa and thrown here broke through their cocoons and began to run rampant in place of the deceased star poison patients; and later, those improved products that were thrown here before they woke up were also awakened by Feinheim's high concentration of star spiritual power. In short, the supposedly harmless delivery ended up causing a third crisis.
People's lives, the lives of Tu Lings, are once again forced into a dangerous and difficult situation by these monsters.
After witnessing the monsters falling from the sky, people gave them a new name: Possessed Moon Messengers.
The disaster is still going on, and people have never felt as much as they do today.
It is so difficult to obtain stability and peace.
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