Chapter 499: Flame Mirage

"How's it going? Did you find it? What's sealed underneath?" Ever since he heard about the sealed gun, the Deng God has never returned to the oil lamp and has been standing guard next to Mu You. At this time, he didn't speak for a long time. I couldn't help but take the initiative to ask.

"I asked, there is something called a 'snake' sealed below." Muyou also just got this news from the game.

"Snake?" The lamp god was shocked when he heard this.

Mu You even felt a clear tremor from him, and couldn't help but be more curious about what could make a former god so scared.

"What is this thing?" Mu You asked hurriedly.

"Snake is a natural disaster..." The Djinn God sighed: "No wonder we need to use the sealing gun..."

"A natural disaster?"

"Yes, there are four types of natural disasters in the real world, namely Yan, Gu, Mirage, and Huang. Some people also call them Yan Niu, Ji Snake, Mirage, and Huang Wu based on their external animal characteristics. When any kind of natural disaster occurs, it can easily kill countless gods and cause unimaginable damage to the local environment. "

"The appearance of the four natural disaster beasts is seasonal. Each natural disaster beast only appears and is active in its own season. At other times, it will find an uninhabited place to lie dormant and recover its strength.

However, the 'season' here does not refer to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, such as the Astral World and the Forgotten Land, but the natural disaster seasons divided by the era of the appearance of natural disaster beasts, which are called the Fire Season, the Fear Season, and the Mirage Season. season and barren season. "

"The disaster season and mirage season are slightly shorter, while the fear season and desolation season are longer, but on average, each season can span about five thousand years! And the cycle of the entire four seasons is exactly twenty thousand years!"

"Twenty thousand years?"

Mu You was stunned when he heard this time, and immediately thought of the boundary keepers on the stone tablet, who happened to clock in every 20,000 years. The God of Order also specifically emphasized in his message that every 20,000 years, no matter whether the sealing gun is loose or not, the seal must be reinforced.

Now it seems that this should be in response to the periodic activity of this natural disaster beast?

"I didn't expect that the original creation would be so big..."

The djinn god had a strange look on his face. He was just an ordinary little god at the beginning. He was not able to participate in discussions of such core interests and was completely unaware of such matters.

It’s no wonder that since the creation of the Star Spirit Realm, there has been no sighting information of the snake in the subsequent season of fear. The snake was actually suppressed directly in the Star Spirit Realm!

"But it's too risky. If it escapes..." The Djinn muttered in a low voice.

Although he complained about the risks, he actually understood that this was the most appropriate choice at the time. Sealing the disaster beast would be worthwhile as long as it could save the Gods from spending one natural disaster season, not to mention that the snake had been sealed all the time. After so many years, judging from the results, it has been a bloody profit.

As for the risk issue... Anyway, it is in the Star Spirit World. Even if it really escapes, the Star Spirit World will be destroyed once at most, and the season of fear will return to normal. If the Star Spirit World is rebuilt afterwards, it will be just a virtual world after all. .

The problem is that now that the gods have been exterminated, the entire real world has been occupied by the God-Eating Beasts, and the Star Spirit Realm has become a place for surviving gods like him to linger. The result is that he is now told that there is a natural disaster beast sealed in the Star Spirit World, and Is it possible to escape at any time?

"What season is it in the real world now?" Mu You asked.

"Now……"

The Djinn frowned and pondered for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "According to time calculation, it should be at the end of the fear season and the beginning of the mirage season..."

"The end of the season of fear... You just said that the length of each season is more than five thousand years. In other words, the era four thousand years ago happened to be at the stage when the snake entered its active period?" Mu You asked with a frown.

"Yes..." the lamp god said with a bitter smile: "This is probably the reason why the snake awakened. In addition, after the extinction of the gods, the star spirit world has been unattended for 60,000 to 70,000 years, and the seal of the sealing gun may be It should have been loosened long ago..."

Just as the Djinn finished speaking, he remembered something again and said doubtfully: "However, you said before that the tail end of the snake is the so-called fairy mother tree. This mother tree stopped growing at the same time that you fools were born. How could time be like this? coincide?"

"And when some fools went to the Bitter Garden later, the snake's tail also reacted... From this point of view, there should be a direct connection between the snake's awakening and you fools..."

"Oh? You mean..." Mu You frowned.

The Djinn God said solemnly: "I estimate that this is specially designed by someone. As long as a fool is born in the star spirit world, the snake will wake up and gradually regain its strength until it breaks free from the shackles of the sealing gun and is born. With the help of the snake's The power will destroy the star spirit world, thereby indirectly destroying you fools."

"In other words, some of the gods don't want to see NPCs with self-awareness appear?" Mu You sighed.

This is actually understandable, just like humans now have mastered innovative AI and robotics technology, but with continuous iterations in the future, robots may one day awaken to self-awareness, and then humans will naturally be at risk of being overturned and replaced. .

In order to avoid this situation, it is necessary to set up a program in advance to prevent the disorderly expansion of the robot.

The snake is obviously a tool used by the gods to suppress the fool: as long as it is detected that a fool is born in the star spirit world and the gods are unable to supervise it, the snake will wake up and gradually regain its power. Destroy the world, thereby completing the strangulation of the Fool.

Even though the cost of doing this is that the Star Spirit World will be buried with them, it is still better than having the Fools grow up and replace the Gods.

"Did the God of Order do it?" Mu You looked at the Deng God uncertainly.

Judging from the unicorn arm sealed in the Order, the God of Order was obviously involved in sealing the snake and played an important role.

However, what is strange to Mu You is that if the God of Order did not want to see the birth of the Fool, why did he ask the Djinn to help him find a successor before he died?

"No, the God of Order would never do such a thing! On the contrary, he has always been happy to see the birth of lower beings." The Djinn God said flatly.

"Who could that be?" Mu You spread his hands.

"I think... it should be the 'God of Chaos' who did it." The Djinn said deeply.

"confusion……"

"Yes, as you can tell from the name, the God of Chaos is the opposite of the God of Order. If the God of Order is the leader of all the gods of the lawful system, then the God of Chaos is the leader of all the gods of the chaotic system. The two of them They are natural opposites. To be more precise, the entire lawful system and the chaotic system are natural enemies.”

"It is said that the last retreat of the snakes back then was initiated by the God of Chaos, led by a group of gods of the chaos system. In the end, it seemed that the snakes were successfully repelled. But now it seems that they not only repelled the snakes, but even captured the snakes alive. snake!"

"I wouldn't be surprised at all if this guy Chaos set up this kind of world-destroying back-up plan without telling other gods!"

After speaking, the Djinn God shook his head and said seriously: "In short, you must deal with the snake problem as soon as possible."

"Among the four natural disaster beasts, Snake is the most difficult to deal with, because no matter how strong the other three disaster beasts are, they can only cause physical damage at most, but Snake is a monster incarnated by emotions, and has the ability to manipulate people's hearts. the power of.

Wherever a snake passes by, it will bring not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters, that is, war! Snakes can easily provoke wars of faith between gods. Every time there is a season of fear, there are always wars on the earth. In every round of disaster season among the gods, 80% of the casualties are lost in the season of fear. Therefore, the season of fear has always been the season of disaster that the gods are least willing to face! "

"Is there any way to kill this thing completely?" Mu You asked.

"Kill the disaster beasts? You are thinking too much..." The Djinn God said funnyly: "The natural disaster beasts cannot be killed because they are the incarnation of disaster and can only be sealed or dismissed. Even if the current disaster passes, "Ji, they didn't disappear, but their strength declined. In order to avoid conflict with other disaster beasts, they found a place to hide and recuperate."

"As for the retreat, even in the heyday of the God Clan, it would have taken hundreds of gods to join forces to have a chance to repel the disaster beast. In the current star spirit world, there is nothing that can resist it!"

"So, you'd better seal this thing again as soon as possible. Once it accidentally escapes, the star spirit world will really be over!" the genie urged.

"All right."

Mu You nodded, understanding the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly returned to the game.

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"Why don't you leave yet?"

At the bottom of the dark cave, Fairy King Orenz frowned and looked at the few people outside the barrier.

After it clearly explained the situation of the snake to several people, instead of leaving, these people sat down around the barrier and discussed something in a low voice in a language he could not understand.

"Don't worry, uncle, aren't there still a lot of questions that you haven't figured out yet?" The watchman smiled and said, "You said that if the bitter mother tree is transformed from the tip of this snake's tail, then you all will bear fruit from the tree. Aren’t all fairies the children of this snake?”

"The child's statement is not accurate. It should be said that we are the incarnation of the power of snakes." The Goblin King said calmly: "The God of Creation uses a certain method to regularly strip away the power from the snake's body, and then uses this energy to create goblins. Therefore, fairies do not have the concept of lifespan, only the strength of energy. Fairies who are lucky enough to have more energy at birth will become high-level fairies, and those with less energy will become low-level fairies. "

"But it is precisely because the energy of the goblins is connected to the snake. If there is more on one side, there will be less on the other side. If a goblin dies and turns into a monster, the original energy in the goblin's body will return to the snake, and Once a large area of ​​goblins dies and the number of remaining goblins is reduced to a certain level, the energy in the snake's body will break through the critical point, giving it the ability to break free of the seal! "

"To put it simply, the Fairy Tribe and the Snakes are completely opposite. The more prosperous the Fairy Tribe and the larger the population of the tribe, the weaker the Snakes will be. On the contrary, when the Fairy Tribe begins to weaken and the population declines, the Snakes will also Getting stronger and stronger.

This is also the reason why the Bitter Mother Tree stopped growing immediately after Gu Snake woke up: only by cutting off the way for the birth of fairies, will the population of the fairies continue to lose, and will Gu Snake have the opportunity to slowly accumulate strength! "

"The number of fairies is so important..."

The watchman looked at the Goblin King strangely: "But what will you do during the Great Disaster? Won't the Great Disaster first wipe out all the races in the Star Spirit World? Then won't the Snakes directly gain all their power?"

"You actually know about the Catastrophe?" The Goblin King glanced at the watchman in surprise, but when he remembered that he was a fool, he was relieved. He shook his head and said: "The goblin race will not be destroyed in the Catastrophe, because the Bitter Garden It originally has the function of helping the creatures on it to avoid the Great Disaster, but during the Great Disaster, the memories of all fairies will be reset. After the Great Disaster, everything will start again..."

"Even your memory will be reset?"

"That's right..."

The Goblin King sighed, quickly regained his composure, and looked at the four people: "So, you should leave as soon as possible. I will continue to hold on here until the end of the era, but after that... go back and tell Olmedo that you don't have to miss me anymore. Everyone only has more than a hundred years left. Everyone cherishes their time and lives the last moments well..."

The Goblin King said this righteously, then closed his eyes and entered a meditative state again, no longer paying attention to the few people.

It was not until a few minutes later that it opened its eyes again, looking at the four people still sitting nearby, and frowned: "Didn't you understand what I said just now? How long are you going to waste here!"

As he said that, the giant beast above was panting again.

"Ahem, uncle, calm down, calm down!"

The night watchman waved his hand and laughed dryly: "The main reason is that we still have one person who hasn't come yet. Wait for him to come down and take a look. If he confirms that we can leave, we will leave immediately!"

"Who?" The Goblin King frowned.

"Our, uh, big brother... and uncle, you don't have to be so pessimistic, my big brother is very powerful, let him come and take a look, maybe there will be a turnaround!" said the night watchman.

The fairy king frowned even deeper, and just when he was about to say something, he saw the three people opposite him were all stunned and looked in one direction.

"Here we come!"

...

[You ride on a broom, break through the darkness, reach the light, and finally meet up with the three clones. ]

["You are finally here, the original body! I thought I was late... Eh? How can you fly?" The night watchman saw the broom under you and spoke in surprise. ]

Mu You looked up at the clock. It took a lot of time to get to the underground. It was already four o'clock in the morning. There were less than two hours left before the five-day mission deadline, but fortunately he made it.

When he arrived at the place, Mu You said nothing and first controlled the character and the three clones to synchronize their memories.

【“Wow? Kirin arm! Show me!” After the memories were synchronized, the night watchman shouted exaggeratedly, and hurriedly jumped to your side, lifted your sleeves, and admired the parasitic circuit on your right arm in amazement. 】

【The goblin king saw the circuit on your arm, his eyes widened, and he looked at you in disbelief: "The mark of the guardian! Are you the new guardian?!"】

【As the goblin king became excited, you heard heavy breathing from above, and looked up, a pair of huge snake pupils opened from the darkness and stared straight at you! 】

【An indescribable sense of fear rose from the bottom of your heart. 】

【The divine skin on your body automatically emerged, and quickly helped you suppress this inexplicable fear. 】

【“This is the power of the gods! Are you really the agent of the gods?” The goblin king looked at the energy coat around you with great excitement, tears on his face: “Great, the gods haven’t abandoned us yet...”】

【“Uncle, you... calm down...” The night watchman collapsed to the ground and spoke with difficulty. 】

【At this time, the three clones present were once again overwhelmed by the fear of the snake, and they were trembling all over. Gargamel even fell to the ground and fainted. 】

【The Goblin King also realized his loss of composure, and hurriedly closed his eyes and held his breath. After adjusting for a moment, his face returned to calm, and the snake pupils in the sky finally closed, and the surroundings returned to normal. 】

【You asked the Goblin King about the location of the Sealed Spear. 】

【"There..." The Goblin King pointed to somewhere behind. With its movement, a beam of light was automatically cast, illuminating a space in the distance. 】

【You all looked up and saw that on the ground in front of you, a section of a coiled snake body several tens of meters thick was exposed to the light, and on a certain part of the snake body, there was a huge golden spear inserted, the tip of the spear penetrated the snake body and pierced into the ground, but it was not solid. Under the years of crawling of the snake body, the spear that was supposed to be deep into the ground has become shaky at this moment and may collapse at any time. 】