socalfunplaces Chapter 335 Gods of the Subspace
Chapter 335 Gods of the Subspace
Chapter 335 Gods of the Subspace
After receiving a lot of information from Antasto, Yuri snapped out of his thoughts.
"Antasto, as you can see, your ancient people have vanished without a trace, and Antarctica is now our Epsilon territory," he said.
"Of course, I know that if you are willing, I implore you to take me in. For this, I am willing to offer up the lost technology of our race as a reward."
Antasto was clever and pragmatic; it not only understood Yuri's meaning but also gave the answer that would save its life.
"Very good," Yuri smiled slightly, "You're a smart man, I'm glad we reached an agreement."
"Even if we don't reach a consensus, I'm afraid you'll force us to agree." Antasto wondered to himself.
The Ancient Ones are not a benevolent race; they show no mercy to other races besides their own.
If Yuri hadn't immediately displayed his muscles, Antasto's first action upon waking would probably have been to attack the humans around him and, driven by curiosity, dissect them.
Fortunately, Epsilon's weapons made it more benevolent, and the threat posed by Yuri and the Blades made it put away its arrogance.
Antasto glanced at the surrounding ice blocks, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Lord Yuri, could you thaw these of my kin as well? I can communicate with them, and I'm sure they will make the same choice as me."
"No rush, I'll defrost them in a bit," Yuri said with a smile.
Antasto breathed a sigh of relief after receiving Yuri's assurance.
These ancient beings frozen in ice were its close companions; otherwise, they wouldn't have been hibernating together.
The ancients did not have a strict family structure, but they would form groups with their close companions and live together.
Modi deciphered this from the inscriptions on the stone wall in another timeline, but unfortunately, in that timeline, the stone wall had been destroyed long ago.
"Your Excellency," Antasto suddenly approached, not disturbing the others who were engrossed in their work, but instead speaking to Mordy, "may I ask your name?"
"Mormontes, Styx, Styx, Abaddon, any one of them will do."
"Um, Lord Mormontis, I have a question for you, you see..."
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"Just ask if you have something to say," Modi glanced at it speechlessly, "Or is everyone in your clan this indecisive?"
It carefully chose its words and asked:
"...What is the relationship between those Epsilon warriors, Lord Yuri, and the Collapsers, which you call demons?"
"That's simple. I implanted the essence of evil into their bodies, which is why you can sense their demonic aura."
"Oh, I see... Ah?"
Antasto's tentacles froze in mid-air, as if he had been petrified by shock.
"What did you just say? I didn't quite catch that."
"Stop fooling yourself. We're communicating telepathically. You couldn't possibly not have heard us." Modi glanced at it. "In all the transformation rituals I've conducted, this is nothing special."
It took it a long time to process the information in those words.
Although it couldn't believe it emotionally, its reason told it that it was all true.
After calming down, it glanced at Yuri and the Blades, and only after confirming that they didn't react much did it exclaim in surprise, "But how is this possible? The cognitive pollution that comes with the collapse body, the different concepts of the two... how can they coexist?"
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“Nothing is impossible,” Mordy said. “Even demons will face their destined death.”
After saying that, he pointed to the blades, "The demonic nature of them is essentially the corpse of demons."
Antasto was speechless; he felt completely numb.
As a survivor of a mass extinction event, it knows all too well just how terrifying those collapse bodies were.
Even though their numbers are far fewer than those of the ancient Antarctic, due to cognitive pollution, the ancient Antarctic cannot cause much of a stir in front of them.
"You know what a stargate is, right? If you don't mind, could you tell me more about it?"
Yuri walked over and asked, sensing that he would learn more about the Stargate from its words.
Antasto paused, then couldn't help but recall that past he didn't want to talk about.
"I remember when we were expanding the city underground, we unearthed an unidentified man-made object. It had a silver, circular outline, and we called it a stargate, possibly a stargate leading to another world."
"At first, we were very excited when we discovered it, thinking that our race would gain another colony planet. Little did we know that it was actually a cruel joke of fate..."
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"We activated the stargate and deployed numerous probes and artificial life forms to the other side, but without exception, none of them returned, nor did they transmit any information or data. All communication was severed the moment we crossed the gate."
Antasto paused for a moment after saying this in one breath, his five tentacles trembling unconsciously. He continued, "We thought this was just normal, but we were wrong. At first, it was just a minor accident, just an anomaly in the data, just a slight loss of memory... until it became intimately connected to us, we realized that the collapse bodies were already everywhere."
"That stargate is a gate of calamity; it brought disaster. In order to find a way to deal with the collapse, we survivors tried to investigate the stargate, and some even risked their lives to cross it to investigate."
"But in the end, only one returned. By then, its sanity was on the verge of collapse, but it still brought back valuable data..."
Seeing that it remained silent for a long time, Yuri urged, "What exactly is going on behind the door?"
"Behind the door... is hell, an abyss, the convergence of all emotions." At this, Antasto visibly panicked, his five tentacles twitching unnaturally, like a human having an epileptic seizure.
"We analyzed that set of data and saw one, no, maybe three? Or perhaps more deities being conceived... We discovered them, and they discovered us!"
"Teacher, be careful, something's not right with it!"
Seeing that Antasto was showing signs of being possessed and going mad, Antonio quickly shielded Yuri behind him and ordered the engineers and unrelated personnel to retreat, while the Blades stepped forward on their own.
"Time means nothing to them," Antasto murmured, "Time there is chaotic, and I can't even remember how many gods there are. What's certain is that they've set their sights on this place, a place that shouldn't have any connection with them."
"Alright, Antasto, calm down, stop thinking about those things." Yuri's expression was serious, and mental energy was accumulating in his hands.
"Calm down? How can you expect me to be cold?"
Antasto let out a sharp shriek and suddenly sprang up, his tentacles swirling with a mysterious and enigmatic quality.
Modi could see clearly that it was some kind of martial arts essence, which meant that it was currently using its alien body to practice alien martial arts.
"Could this be the legendary K-style martial arts?" He was greatly surprised, and the possibility of seeing it suddenly increased.
Another enormous variable was injected into this world, causing a surge in the timeline, and its source was the world beyond the stargate that Antasto spoke of.
At the moment the two worlds merged, Modi also saw that place and learned its name.
"Subspace?"
On the other side, Antasto seemed to transform into his former nemesis, the Star Familiar, his body wildly deforming and recombining, splitting into thousands of tentacles, each covered with mouthparts.
All of this happened in less than a second.
"Mentor, be careful!"
Antonio assumed a defensive stance, and the blades raised their weapons; in the next moment, the crazed Antasto would be stopped by them.
But there is one person who is faster than them.
Antonio only saw a blur flash by, and before he could figure out what it was, a crisp slap sound reached his ears.
Snapped!
The blades stopped in their tracks, glancing at the ancient man who had been slapped to the ground, and then at the mentor who had rushed forward at some point and was still waving.
"Are you awake now?" Yuri asked coldly.
"I'm... I'm awake now." Antasto nodded blankly. "Sorry, what happened just now? I can't quite remember."
Its whiskers had returned to normal, and it was scratching its head, looking deep in thought.
"Let me think... it seems to be after the Stargate, the Warp Gods... Strange, what is the Warp? And who are the gods..."
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The more Antasto thought about it, the more his head ached, and madness began to spread through his mind once again.
Snapped!
Yuri slapped him again, knocking him out of his daze, and asked again, "Are you awake now? If you are, don't think, don't think about anything."
"I...I understand."
Antasto covered his swollen, star-shaped head, trying to stop thinking about what had just happened.
It glanced fearfully at Yuri's raised right hand, which was still wreathed in lingering psychic energy... No wonder it hurt so much when it was hit.
"Antonio, you take some men and keep an eye on it."
After giving the order, Yuri turned around and looked at Mordi, who seemed to be in a daze, and said in a serious tone, "Mormontes, we need to talk."
"You want to ask about the warp, right?"
The two deliberately used encrypted telepathic communication to prevent others from hearing their conversation.
To ensure that the secret would not be leaked, Yuri not only used his mental abilities to set up multiple barriers, but also used anti-prophecy methods to prevent anyone from seeing the conversation through prophecy.
"That's right, subspace. That's the first word that comes to mind. Strangely, I've never had any impression of it before. It's like information that was stuffed in from the outside."
Seeing Modi nod, Yuri continued, "The moment I heard that word, I had a premonition, as if... something had disappeared, something had become fixed. Is it the origin of the Stargate?"
“Yes,” Mordy said, “You’ve chosen to learn about the origins of the Stargate through Antasto, and because of your choice, the origins of the Stargate are no longer ambiguous; they’ve been fixed.”
As he spoke, he let out a cold laugh.
"However, this is not a result of your own doing. All sorts of beings in those cesspools on the other side also put in a lot of effort to achieve this goal."
That stargate was like a bus that anyone could get on, whether they were demons, warp gods, or any other monsters or demons. As long as they found the right opportunity, they could get on the bus and come to this world.
However, none of the passengers were satisfied with the status quo and wanted to lock the bus and turn it into a private car.
The origin of the Stargate is ambiguous, a result of the convergence of multiple forces. Once one side prevails, the origin will no longer be ambiguous, which is equivalent to fixing the world behind the Stargate.
In retrospect, the Warp Gods, in conjunction with their previously planted agents, and with Yuri, a local resident, as witness, successfully pinpointed the origin of the Death Star Gate, achieving their goal of locking the bus.
If Yuri had chosen to learn about the Stargate through other means, he would have gotten a different result, and the world behind the gate would not have been the subspace.
"Is this choice good or bad?" Yuri asked calmly.
"That depends on you," Modi smiled mysteriously. "Misfortune may be a blessing in disguise, and a blessing may be a misfortune in disguise. No one can say for sure about these things, and I find myself increasingly unable to understand them."
In his eyes, Yuri's potential for an uncertain future was greater, indicating that he was more likely to stand on equal footing with him.
Yuri cleared his mind, carefully considering the implied meaning of the word "subspace." After a long while, he said in a deep voice, "But such a world is not a good thing for most humans."
Through this name, he could sense the deep malice it represented. For humanity, this was by no means a benevolent world, and the gods there were by no means benevolent either.
“You’re not wrong,” Modi affirmed. “That world has long been polluted into a cesspool. Perhaps it was good at first, but it turned into a cesspool later. In any case, the gods in it are not exactly good either.”
After drifting for a long time, Yuri recalled the information he had sworn from his name and the information he had sworn from Antasto, his eyes deep and thoughtful.
"When it sets its sights on our world, the emotions and beliefs of humankind will flow there. If no one receives these things, they will either be devoured by the gods or gather together to form a single god."
He suddenly turned his head, his gaze following the guidance of his spiritual energy, looking through layers of frozen soil at the giant tower on the ground.
In an instant, he knew what to do.
"Is there anyone more suitable to be a god of humanity than humans themselves?"
"Captain, I think we should take them on!"
Above the sea near the Antarctic permafrost, Miao Guang stood suspended in mid-air, surrounded by three talismans, gazing into the distance.
He focused his divine sense into a beam and swept it across the vast ocean, taking in every moving unit on the surface of the sea.
"The first to take up a command is the Federation Fleet. Tsk, no wonder they were once a global rogue state. Even after the Red Bear invaded their homeland, they can still organize such a fleet."
"Don't let your guard down. Be careful of the Federation's carrier battle groups and the Reincarnators." Hoven's voice echoed in his mind.
Xu Hui chimed in, "They must have sensed the anomaly in Antarctica. The mental energy released by the giant tower melted the glaciers, allowing the fleet to penetrate deeper."
"The enemy has also arrived on my side. It should be a dreadnought from the Latin Alliance. Strange, why is it them?" Fu Yuxi's words were tinged with confusion.
"The Europa Alliance has arrived too," Li Yu said. "Besides the fleet, they've also brought some sizable aircraft, which reminds me of the Blood God Cult's floating fortresses..."
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"Tsk, I really want to bring our interdimensional warship up here and let these natives see what they call a decisive weapon." Miao Guang squinted and counted down.
After the ten-second countdown reached zero, he didn't hesitate any longer and made a hand seal with one hand.
Suddenly, a deep, muffled roar came from the seabed, as if an underwater volcano had erupted, causing the sea surface to shake violently.
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