Chapter 65 Gods' Chat Area: I Know You're Watching
Du Yu was puzzled, but Gu Yinglan clearly understood the villagers of Hongmu Village better. She swallowed what she wanted to say and smiled at Xiao Qi.
After Xiaoqi left, Du Yu, holding the puppy's paw, looked at Gu Yinglan standing behind him and asked, "Why didn't you tell her?"
A spacetime rift is a break in a linear timeline at a certain point, or another branch of the natural evolution of history that briefly creates a ripple in the spirit world after the timeline has moved in the same direction.
A spacetime rift is both a interception and preservation of a segment of the past timeline, and a distortion of past spacetime, just like Redwood Village.
In a normal timeline, it's impossible for ordinary people to live at the foot of Tai Sui Mountain. Let alone someone like Xiao Qi, an ordinary person, who could directly confront Du Yu and the fake Black Tai Sui and still survive. The Redwood Village built against the mountain is actually a metaphor for the Tai Sui worship customs of that timeline.
Without external interference, these spacetime rifts will collapse on their own after a few cycles, or once key figures become aware of the spacetime vulnerabilities.
However, in order to extract more resources, the people of Langge used Gu Yinglan's special ability, the "Sea of Reincarnation," to semi-fix this spacetime rift. But infinite reincarnation is not without its losses, not to mention that deep in the mountains, there is a pseudo-Black Tai Sui that plunders the villagers' spirituality.
This spacetime rift is like a small flowerpot, which the people of Lange tend to like gardeners, watering and fertilizing it from time to time, and worrying about pests and diseases, all in order to have a good harvest.
According to Qi Jinghuan, in order to maintain this spacetime rift, besides keeping the core figure Gu Yinglan in place, they had to replenish it with over a hundred spirits after each cycle. Judging from Qi Jinghuan's final fate, these "high-quality" spirits of these ability users were also part of replenishing this spacetime rift.
The spirit that was taken away has already dissipated beyond repair. Du Yu captured the fake Black Tai Sui alive. The only thing that can be released is the part that the Black Tai Sui plundered this time and had not yet had time to digest. Xiao Qi's mother is among them.
"Without memories, would a person still be themselves?"
Gu Yinglan looked at the villagers coming and going, her gaze sweeping over the white strips of cloth tied to their foreheads and cuffs, and suddenly asked this question.
Although Du Yu managed to retrieve them, those spirits were still deeply corrupted and are now slowly recuperating in the Redwood Village Ancestral Hall, the closest place to the spirit world within the entire spacetime rift. Based on the flow of time here, even the fastest spirit would need ten years to recover.
"Even if it is restored, the old memories have been lost, and to them, their former relatives and friends are no longer strangers."
Du Yu paused for a moment, then pressed her cold palm against a warm source—the puppy in her arms rubbing against her hand. "Even if we're strangers when we meet again, there will still be people who choose to see each other one more time."
"Once those villagers recover, I will let them choose for themselves."
Du Yu remained noncommittal, following Gu Yinglan through the village to the familiar ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall has changed dramatically.
The sacrificial area, which was once the core of the ancestral hall, remained unchanged; only the entrance was made more concealed to prevent villagers from disturbing the spirits that were recovering inside. A new stone house was built next to the ancestral hall, named after Du Yu. No statues were erected there, and a pit half a meter high was dug in the core area to build an altar.
The stone house has just been built on a foundation, and Gu Yinglan's design is still in its infancy, but it is already sufficient to deal with the rigid system.
[Ding-dong~ The system has detected that the player currently owns more than one church. The [Building - Church] management section has been unlocked. Players can perform various operations in this section, such as managing church personnel, interior decoration style, and collecting faith points.]
[Ding-dong~ Player has been detected to possess the special crafting ingredient [Dream Petri Dish K]. The current branch church meets the binding requirements. Would you like to bind [Dream Petri Dish] to this branch church?]
[Note: Special crafting items cannot be changed once bound. The special crafting item [Dream Petri Dish] will undergo unknown changes. Please choose carefully.]
Du Yu immediately agreed. She entered the spacetime rift again, her main purpose being to bind the [Dream Petri Dish] here.
It was only after acquiring the second church that Du Yu realized that each church could be bound to a special synthetic object, serving as a unique building for that church.
The main cathedral of Duyu, also known as the primary temple, is already bound to the [Altar] as its core building. The altars of each subsequent branch church are, in fact, sub-structures of the main cathedral. Duyu can restrict the functionality of these altars according to its own will.
For the second church's special architecture, the system gave Du Yu two choices: the [Dream Cultivation Dish] and the [Bloodthirsty Holy Blade].
Both of these are special composites. Once bound, they will have different effects on the current branch church depending on their different properties.
However, once bound, the composite cannot leave the independent space of the church it is currently in. Since Du Yu is becoming increasingly adept at using the Bloodthirsty Holy Blade, it's impossible for him to bind it to the church.
Moreover, with Gu Yinglan's trait [Sea of Reincarnation], combined with the characteristics of this spacetime rift, this branch church is inherently suitable for cultivating spirits, perfectly matching the characteristics of [Dream Cultivation Dish]. After binding, it might even have a synergistic effect greater than the sum of its parts.
Du Yu took a deep breath, took out the [Dream Cultivation Dish] from her backpack, looked at the flowing spirit fragments in the cultivation dish, her eyelashes lowered, and her eyes were complicated for a moment.
After Du Yu placed the two special soul fragments obtained from this mission into the [Dream Petri Dish], the progress bar for obtaining Wen Xi's spirit fragment instantly increased by a small increment. Although it was still far from the lengthy repair process, it was already several times more than the total amount repaired by the [Dream Petri Dish] after Du Yu obtained Wen Xi's spirit fragment.
As for the other one, perhaps because it was too broken, Du Yu couldn't find her name in the believer section after putting it in. She felt a vague sense of anticipation, but also a sense of trepidation, since the system had only given hints and made no promises.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment sometimes will be.
"Splash."
Du Yu stopped thinking about it and, holding the [Dream Petri Dish], pointed with his finger. A cluster of purple flames leaped out from it and landed at the spot where the pit had been dug, slowly burning in mid-air.
As the flames burned ever brighter, the space around the deep pit gradually blurred, and the phantom of an ancient altar appeared in the air, slowly descending and covering the pit. The building looked exactly like the altar in the temple.
[Ding-dong.]
A crisp sound came from the system: [The special building [Altar - Branch Altar] has been completed. Players can assign a bishop to manage the believers within this church.]
[Congratulations to the player for successfully unlocking the Follower Management module and the Follower career advancement zone. Currently available appointees: Bishop (0/1)]
This crappy game has never had any feature descriptions; you have to figure out how to do all the tasks by trial and error.
Like this time. Only when Du Yu possessed the second church did she realize that the main quest required appointing a new bishop. This appointment could only be made after acquiring the second church. If she hadn't acted promptly when the emergency mission triggered, and hadn't secured this spacetime rift, who knows when she would have been able to complete the task of appointing the bishop.
After all, the system has a very strict definition of a church. Only a prayer building for believers built in a space that belongs entirely to the church can be considered a branch church, and only one branch church can be built in the same space.
She was able to build her first church in the Misty Rift for two reasons: firstly, the space in the Misty Rift was inherently unstable; and secondly, the special church buildings [Altar] and [Primary Temple] given as a beginner's bonus provided Du Yu with an independent space.
Afterwards, when Du Yu wanted to obtain a private space, it wouldn't be that simple.
Du Yu's gaze lingered on the bishop appointment section. Since bishops cannot easily leave the space where the church is located, Du Yu directly appointed Gu Yinglan as the bishop of this place.
[Ding-dong~ Congratulations! You have successfully appointed your first follower as bishop, fulfilling the hidden condition and unlocking the new feature - [Gugu Communication]. Please explore it as soon as possible!]
Du Yu opened the game interface and saw that the first column on the left, which was originally the [Personal Information] section, had been changed to [Gugu Communication]. Du Yu clicked on it for a while, and the more he looked, the stranger his expression became.
The more she looked at it, the more this so-called "Gugu Communication" resembled certain forums she had browsed in her previous life. Clicking on it, the left column was her previous personal information panel, with her talents, titles, status, and so on still there, plus a new avatar, which was none other than the purple chibi pixelated figure that Du Yu recognized very well.
Below the profile picture, there is now a new section for "Nickname: Lord of Listening," which is currently set to "Cannot be modified at this time."
The right side is the chat area. There are three sections in total.
The pinned section was called "Listening Lord Believers Management Center." Curious, Du Yu clicked on it and took a look. The top section had four parts: [Chat Area], [Highlights Area], [Task Area], and [Management Area].
The chat area, task area, and best posts area are currently empty. Clicking on the management area, perhaps because Du Yu has the highest authority, a long list of forum user information pops up instantly. Subtracting 1 from the total number of users in the upper left corner gives you the total number of followers that Du Yu has developed.
Each believer's avatar has a very uniform style, consisting of two-headed pixelated figures with different hair and eye colors. Their nicknames are all unnamed. By clicking on the avatar, one can not only see the believer's real name but also a simplified version of a personal information panel.
The post button is lit up; perhaps because the chat area is newly opened, no one has posted yet. [Admin Area] Besides Du Yu, there is another administrator, the newly appointed Bishop Gu Yinglan.
After browsing through the various sections, Du Yu curiously clicked the post button at the bottom. A system prompt popped up: "[Does the player confirm sending the message 'Hello everyone, have you eaten yet?' to all believers as the first divine decree?]"
Du Yu's eyelids twitched. No matter how unreliable she was, she couldn't be this unreliable. She quickly canceled the post.
The second section of 【Gugu Communication】 is called "The Church of the Lord of Listening - Church Management Center". It's similar to the previous section, except there's no 【Management Area】, and the only members are Du Yu and Gu Yinglan. Du Yu tried it out, and although he didn't have the title of bishop, he still managed to bring Tian Yinuo in.
The third section is rather baffling. It has a very grand-sounding name, "Gods' Chat Area," but apart from the "Chat Area" and "Sequence," the other sections are all indistinct gray.
When Du Yu clicked into the chat area, the post button was grayed out, displaying "Unable to post in the current area".
Du Yu clicked on [Sequence] again, but the screen didn't redirect. Instead, a message appeared: "Player level is too low to view the [Sequence] section. Please upgrade your sequence level to view it."
Is this the "sequence" that Mimi Yin mentioned? Du Yu's eyelids twitched, but like the system, this thing had no instructions, so he could only ignore it for the time being. Just as Du Yu was about to close the section, a new post suddenly popped up in the grayed-out [Gods' Chat Room - Chat Area]:
[Subject: The Day of Ascension Has Arrived]
[Posted by: Anonymous User (Sequence: Month)]
[Main Text: Your ascension is unstoppable; this is your last chance to join us. Answer me, I know you're watching.]
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Author's Note: Ahhh, sorry I wrote too slowly today and didn't have time to revise, so I can only post the voice input part for now. orz
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