After that, Fang Zheng took a short rest in the Starlight Tower for a few days, and also carefully looked at the situation of other people.
Tova and Tolisha managed the Starlight Tower very well, and with the Blue Fleet in Crossbell, nothing went wrong. In fact, strictly speaking, from Crossbell's perspective, Fang Zheng's absence was only two months, so it wouldn't be a big problem at all.
In the world of Demon Hunters, Elfin and Miaojie seem to like that place very much. They are now addicted to business simulation games. According to Altina's report, they seem to be planning to come back and report after making some achievements.
Of course, not all girls can be as obsessed as these two, and the threat level of monsters in the demon hunter world is not very high. Compared with the monsters in Semlia, there is no comparison at all. Therefore, the girls in the martial arts department hope that Fang Zheng can take them to some more challenging worlds.
This was especially true after listening to Ling and Tio's stories about the worlds they had traveled through with Fang Zheng. Whether it was the world of the Lord of the Rings, or the world where huge buildings such as space stations could be built in space, or monsters as big as the moon, these girls from the martial arts department were extremely excited and eager to try and join in the adventure.
But unfortunately, it is already the end of the year.
Except for the students from Crossbell, all other students have to go home for the New Year. After all, it is the once-a-year opportunity for family reunion. Although they can fool around during the summer vacation by wanting to study hard, at the end of the year, it is impossible to continue to be separated from their parents. Therefore, whether it is Alfin, Miaojie, Laura, Emma... even Lisha has to go back to the Republic - of course, she goes back mainly for reporting rather than for the New Year.
So soon, at the end of the year, only Ling, Tio, Qia, Fei, Illya, Xiao Hei and a few others remained in the Starlight Tower.
Even Tita returned to the Kingdom of Liberl to reunite with her family.
"Why does it feel so quiet all of a sudden?"
Leaning lazily on the sofa, looking at the night view of Crossbell outside through the floor-to-ceiling windows, Xiao Hei yawned and said boredly.
"After all, everyone has left, and we are the only ones left here..."
While typing on the keyboard, Theo replied nonchalantly.
"But we have new friends too."
As Illya spoke, she looked at the three people on the other side, they were Chihu, Yuri and Irena. Chihu and Yuri's world had been destroyed, so Fang Zheng agreed to let them live in the Starlight Tower and study at the Semlia Academy. After all, the two knew nothing about this world, and they still had a lot to learn if they wanted to survive in this world.
As for Irena, she simply decided to stay and join in the fun because she knew the New Year was approaching. It wouldn't be too late to leave after the New Year.
"By the way, Xiao Hei, what progress have you made in your investigation on the Body Devouring Snake?"
Fang Zheng was also leaning on the sofa, stroking Qiya who was sleeping in his arms like a cat, and asked.
"Don't mention it."
It would have been fine if Fang Zheng didn't ask, but as soon as he did, Xiao Hei's face immediately fell.
"These guys are just rats. I almost turned the whole continent of Semlia upside down but couldn't find them. Moreover, they seem to know that we are searching for them and have not been active for a long time. I also followed the clues and found some people who were in contact with the Snake, but they all said that the other party had unilaterally cut off contact with them a long time ago. Even they don't know what happened."
"These people are really not stupid..."
Hearing Xiao Hei's answer, Fang Zheng also sighed. But this is also normal, the other party is the chaos that occupies the body of the Goddess of the Sky, so it is natural that he will not reveal his true colors so easily.
"And what do you think?"
"I think their base should not be on the surface. After all, I have conducted a very detailed carpet search of the entire surface of the Zemuria continent with the Azure Fleet, but found nothing except some abandoned hiding places. So I think their base should be in a very special place, either in the underground core that radar cannot penetrate, or in another space."
"Um……"
After hearing Xiao Hei's answer, Fang Zheng nodded and agreed with Xiao Hei's opinion. After all, in order to avoid the erosion of chaos, the Goddess of Order sealed herself in the core of a certain planet. And judging from the previous events of the Ring of Radiance and Huangmo Castle, the Goddess of the Sky in this world does have an interest in hiding buildings in different dimensions.
Although Fang Zheng really hoped it was the former, his intuition was that it should be the latter.
This was not a good sign for Fang Zheng. After all, who asked this goddess of the sky to have a hobby of decrypting?
If the clone that was contaminated by chaos also had this hobby, it would mean that Fang Zheng might need to solve the puzzle, activate the mechanism, and then open the channel to the other dimension before he could find the headquarters of the Body-Eating Snake... Fang Zheng got a headache just thinking about this.
He hates decryption the most!
It is impossible to conduct a simple and crude search. Searching for objects in a different space is as difficult as randomly searching the car radio to find the exact content that the radio station you need is currently playing, word for word.
Without a program list, schedule and accurate frequency, you can only rely on luck.
"Anyway, keep working hard."
"Just working hard, big brother? That's not enough to motivate you!"
"It's okay. You just need to monitor them. After the new year, I will start a large-scale network expansion and gradually expand the scope. In this way, the other party will not be able to remain unresponsive. Once those guys make any moves, it will be up to you to catch them on the tail."
Fang Zheng certainly didn't want Xiao Hei to waste his efforts. Since the opponent was hiding and not showing up, he might as well just spread out defense towers all over the map.
There won't even be any fog of war left for you. By then, I'll see where you can run.
After deciding on the next strategy, Fang Zheng had dinner with the girls and then went back to his room to rest. Lying on the bed in his room, Fang Zheng yawned boredly while looking out the window.
He actually hoped to contact the girls in Tiandao Palace, but Fang Zheng had been forcing himself not to do so, because there was no benefit in doing so, and it could even be said to be very troublesome.
Just as the Goddess of Order once said, the Order Clan determines order through "observation", and the same is true for Fang Zheng as a Time Dragon. In simple terms, as long as he does not take the initiative to contact the Tiandao Palace and does not observe the other side, then for Fang Zheng, the time of reuniting with the girls of the Tiandao Palace is an "X", an unknown number that is not fixed, determined, or detected.
The result is that when Fang Zheng plans to return to Tiandao Palace, he can control the time gap at will. This means that even if Fang Zheng stays in this world for a thousand years, as long as he does not contact Tiandao Palace, he can limit the time to return to Tiandao Palace to within a few months.
Because it is X, you can fill in any value in this "X".
But once Fang Zheng made contact with the Tiandao Palace, the time value would be fixed, changing from "X" to "X+1", and then continue to "+1+1+1+1+1..."
In addition, due to the specificity of this world, Fang Zheng had only contacted the Goddess of Order. As for the Tiandao Palace, apart from the trouble caused by Ying Lili, he had no further contact with her in order to avoid the accumulation of information.
By then, it won’t be so easy for me to manipulate time.
So Fang Zheng decisively chose to focus his attention on the block in his hand.
"By the way, what on earth is this thing..."
Fang Zheng tossed the cube in his hand over and over again, frowning. The Goddess of Order had no good suggestions. As she said, her research specialty was not in archaeology. You couldn't expect a physicist to dig for cultural relics. And the Goddess of Sky couldn't be counted on either. She was just a complete idiot who used the Terracotta Warriors as a paperweight...
Although this thing reacted to his imprint, that was all. As for how to activate it, Fang Zheng had no idea at all. Of course, Fang Zheng probably had some ideas about what was hidden inside. After all, when he penetrated the white frost, he had seen what was inside through the gap of the star seed. If he was right, there should be a galaxy hidden inside.
If it was Fang Zheng who had just traveled through time, he would probably be scared to death, but now... he has gotten used to it.
This thing is weird though.
As soon as he looked away, it would disappear immediately, even if he held it in his hand, as if it could not exist without his eyes. This made Fang Zheng somewhat uneasy - after all, according to the Goddess of Order, star seeds were something that "existed as soon as they were observed", so conversely, once they were not observed, would they still exist?
Did it disappear directly? Or did it still exist but was not observed?
The latter is fine, but if it's the former, then his shelter plan is doomed. After all, something that needs to be constantly observed to exist, otherwise it will be destroyed and disappear, is really meaningless.
Moreover, the outer shell of this thing feels very strange. At first, it feels cold and hard like plastic, but if you use force, it will become soft like rubber. You can even penetrate the outer shell and reach deep into it, but you can't feel anything inside - maybe it's because you can't see it at all.
Because it has not been observed, it does not exist.
I have to say, this thing is really interesting.
But how should it be opened?
Lying on the bed, Fang Zheng was bored and fiddling with the cube in his hand. Then he seemed to have no idea and just instinctively injected a bit of divine power into the cube.
“Click.”
However, the next moment, suddenly, the cube that seemed to be one piece was instantly broken into dozens of small cubes and released, floating quietly in the air. At the same time, inside the cube, a shining galaxy emerged, and countless stars sparkled to form a galaxy, surrounding the shining stars.
"It's open already? So easy?"
Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng was more terrified than surprised. He still remembered that the Goddess of Order had told him that this thing was to be used as a blind box safe, which meant that there were good things hidden in each star seed.
And he hasn't washed his hands or changed his clothes yet! !
If I had known it was so easy to open, I would have burned incense, bathed, kowtowed three times to my ancestors, and given myself a blessing before opening it!
What if this turns out to be garbage?
However, at this moment, something strange happened again.
"call--!!!!"
The icy cold air whistled in all directions and spread to the surroundings. Then, a pitch-black sword appeared out of thin air in the blizzard.
Fang Zheng was of course familiar with this sword, it was...
"Frostmourne?"
Looking at Frostmourne in front of him, Fang Zheng was quite surprised, but before he could say anything, the phantom of the sword flashed in the void, and then turned into a beautiful girl with long silver-white hair. She stood in front of Fang Zheng, staring at him with a pair of deep blue eyes, without saying a word.
“…”
Looking at Frostmourne in front of him, and then looking at the activated Star Seed next to him, Fang Zheng touched his head.
It seems... things are getting troublesome...