Evil Emperor Zun

Chapter 2009 Lost Galaxy
Although he was already the designated successor, Mo Feng had not yet officially become the Lord of Hell. He could neither mobilize the resources of Hell at will nor possess the privilege of omniscience and omnipotence. He was merely relying on the knowledge he had acquired in Hell and the information he observed to make analysis and inferences.

To put it bluntly, he couldn't grasp the situation accurately and could only rely on guessing. So there were things he couldn't figure out, and he would have repeated self-doubt and self-denial. But there was no suitable person to discuss these thoughts with. The demons were greedy, and the players had limited knowledge. Even with Feng Boliang, he was not used to being too frank about his inner thoughts. Therefore, as soon as the topic turned to the edge of taboo, he casually said:
"That's fine. It's none of our business anyway. What's going to happen will happen." He moved his arms and legs exaggeratedly. "It's about time to go play with Qin Jia. Let's go."

Feng Boliang stared at him, with a faint light flickering in her eyes. When he changed the subject abruptly for the first time, she wanted to ask what "that thing" meant. After all, she cared more about him than the conspiracy of the Gnawing Tribe. However, although she was closer to him than others, she still couldn't let him speak freely. His trust in her was always limited, which made her feel a little wronged.

But she also knew that if it was something he didn't want to talk about, he wouldn't say it even if she acted coquettishly, which would only add pressure to him. And she always knew when to "make a fuss to please the mood" and when it was best not to be willful. So at the moment, she just cooperated and put on a bright smile, showing that she had completely accepted the seamless change of topic. She put half of her arm on his shoulder and teased him with a smile: "Anyway, you just want to steal Qinjia's snacks!"

Although Baili Ji had promised Qin Jia that he could bring her relatives to accompany her, Qin Jia knew that the war was coming and the mysterious space would be the first battlefield to be hit, so she naturally couldn't let her relatives take risks. Therefore, despite the strong longing in her heart, she still sensibly refused. After making this decision, she did not show her emotions in front of the players who cared about her, but in the dead of night, she still buried her head in Sasaki Ikeya's arms and leaned quietly for a long time.

In order to please Qin Jia, the players showed their talents, and Chen Shiyu even made a lot of delicious snacks. During this period, Mo Feng often went to Qin Jia's place, but his behavior was more like making trouble - he kindly asked Qin Jia if he could have a bite of her cherry cake, and after getting permission, he swallowed it all in one gulp, and added "Next time, let Shiyu put more cherries in it."

From then on, Qin Jia's snacks basically all went into Mo Feng's stomach. Mo Feng even explained seriously, "When you're in a bad mood, you'll overeat. Overeating will make you fat, and after you get fat, you'll regret it. I'm taking precautions to stop Qin Jia from doing something that will make her regret. This is also for her own good."

Back to reality, Mo Feng also had a twisted reason: "That's because you, Xiao Mint, don't work hard enough. If you can learn to cook as well as Shi Yu, I can just eat the snacks you make for me."

——"Why do I have to learn it? Why don't you learn it yourself?"

——"Because I am lazy and like to eat."

The two of them played and joked all the way until they arrived at Qin Jia's door, where they saw a slender figure standing in a corner of the corridor. It was clearly a familiar companion, but Feng Boliang felt that it took him a while to recognize Chuchen Shiyu by his dazzling silver hair.

Chen Shiyu didn't greet them, and Mo Feng didn't say a word either. The atmosphere was inexplicably tense. Even the usually active Feng Boliang didn't react. It wasn't until the silver-haired boy took stiff steps and silently walked into the depths of the corridor that the frozen space began to crack and shattered like a mirror in front of them. The environment was still the same, but something was moving, and even the light was refracting different colors. This time, Feng Boliang personally experienced the "sense of disharmony" that Mo Feng mentioned.

Moreover, the pair of eyes that she had just seen, Chen Shiyu, were filled with an inky glow. But they were far apart at the time, and he was standing in the shadows with the backlight, so she couldn't be sure if she had seen it wrong, but the strange feeling that arose in that instant could not be shaken off.

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Ye Yunyan and Baili Ji's sorting work is still continuing.

Ye Yunyan tried to control herself, but she was still upset by the impetuousness that rose from time to time. She needed to read a huge amount of text to filter out some useful information, and Cain knew everything. He could save them countless hard work with just one sentence, but he was so unkind that it was hard for her not to blame him.

Even so, her rational part would feel wronged for him. When people encounter disasters, they will also curse the heaven, but they rarely hysterically demand that the heaven be responsible, because the heaven will not respond. No matter how they cry or beg, it will always be high above them, not watching or hearing. As for Cain, you know that he can hear you, he can respond to you, as vivid as every life around him, so while they are afraid of the meaning of his identity, they also give him expectations that go beyond that identity. Even she cannot avoid it.

She pounded her head in self-blame, lifted a strand of long hair that fell from her forehead, and forced herself to focus on the information in front of her.

Baili Ji liked to comment on those stories and make malicious comments about the characters in them. But when he realized that Ye Yunyan didn't like to listen, he just shut up and concentrated on being an emotionless recording machine.

It wasn't until he heard some familiar names, arranged in unexpected combinations, that he could no longer remain silent: "Wait a minute, what did you say?"

Ye Yunyan was also stunned for a moment, thinking that he was distracted for a moment. Although she was unhappy, she still patiently repeated it. Baili Ji's face also showed deeper doubts.

"This is not right. I participated in that battle myself. The Golden Winged Eagle King did not die at all."

That was the war he had experienced to protect Angela. It was a past event that meant a lot to him, and he knew he couldn't possibly remember it wrong.

Ye Yunyan frowned slightly and pushed the book in front of him. "But that's what Cain wrote. I don't think he would make a mistake."

She believed in Cain without hesitation, as if it would be reasonable if she was the one who made the mistake. Although this unconditional trust was more due to his identity, it was still not a happy thing for Baili Ji.

At this moment, he carefully read the records in the book, revisiting that period of history from a third-party perspective. Most of the events were the same as he remembered, and the abrupt line "The Golden-Winged Eagle King died in this battle" was particularly eye-catching.

"Yes, what Cain recorded must be absolutely true. He couldn't have been wrong." After staring at the words for a long time, Baili Ji pondered and said, "Then this matter is very strange."

Like Ye Yunyan, he had never doubted Cain. If there was a problem, it could only be on his side. However, he was also sure that his memory was correct, so there were only two possibilities.

The first one is that the Golden-Winged Eagle King he saw that year has died for some reason, but his body is being controlled by the power behind the scenes and continues to act in his current identity.

The second possibility is that in the timeline that he experienced, the Golden-Winged Eagle King did not die, but after that, history changed, and a new timeline was derived, covering the future.

These two speculations are more bizarre than the other. At the same time, there is another question that cannot be avoided. Even if there is a great master who planned all this, what is his purpose?
Ye Yunyan thought quietly for a while and asked, "Golden Winged Eagle King, have you ever fought against the Gnawing Tribe?"

"...In fact, I'm not that familiar with him." Although he had just vowed to guarantee the other party's fate, Baili Ji's answer this time was a little unconfident, "I know very little about what he went through in that war." After a pause, as if to explain something, he added, "I can only be sure that he is not dead."

"Then forget about it for now." Ye Yunyan made a decision very quickly. "Maybe it's just an irrelevant matter. The most important thing now is the Gnawing Tribe. We don't have much time."

She could hear the coldness in her voice, and the icy vibrations when they settled in the air, which seemed to make the entire space stagnant due to the extra dangerous atmosphere. This also reminded her that in this unequal cooperation, she was not the one in a superior position, and could not just give orders based on her own will. After comprehensive consideration, she chose to give both parties a way out:

"If you're really curious, once things are settled here, I'll go find some information that might be useful to you. Is that okay?"

This might be a good idea. Baili Ji thought, anyway, he didn't know about the death of the Golden Winged Eagle King for so many years, and nothing strange happened around him. Even if this was a conspiracy, it might not be aimed at him. If he could use this deal to touch something closer to the origin of the world, it would be worth it. And he keenly noticed that Ye Yunyan's tone slowed down for a moment. She was trying to adjust the atmosphere. They could finally discuss things, which was a good start.

"Okay, but I have to designate the entries in the book." He immediately made an unreasonable request. This episode was settled. There was no similar incident in the subsequent records. Of course, this was also because they did not encounter the incident they had participated in. Without the testimony of the eyewitnesses, even if there were deviations in history, it would be difficult to detect the clues.

Finally, Ye Yunyan stared at the map they had finally completed for a long time without saying a word, but her serious expression showed that she was thinking seriously.

"There is very little detail about the Gnawers." Baili Ji felt that he should say something. He was also looking at the notes he had written on the picture. "It shows that the role they played in the Pure Soul War was not important. At least this is what you believe Cain has personally confirmed."

"——This place," Ye Yunyan completely ignored his hint, her attention was always glued to the map. After an unknown amount of time, she raised a finger and pointed at a certain position on the map, "Did you notice that this is a vacuum area of ​​the Gnawing Tribe's activity range."

In every corner of the surrounding area, they made dense annotations, outlining the footprints of the Gnawing Tribe. In this way, the only part without any annotations became a stark blank.

"Also, the wars between these two planes broke out at very close times. The Gnawers could have just crossed over, but they didn't." Ye Yunyan drew circles with her fingers on the two battlefields adjacent to the target. Her usually cold eyes lit up slightly because of this new discovery. "This place must have some special meaning to them. It may be their base that they don't want outsiders to find, or they are very afraid of this place, so this place should have enough power to restrain them. What is this place?"

Baili Ji looked at the blank area that was separated. Through the iconic geographical environment, he could easily identify the place it represented. And the expression on his face was still as calm as the abyss.

If Ye Yunyan hadn't thought of marking the map, they wouldn't have discovered the mystery. From this perspective, she did a good job. However, it didn't mean much.

"This place is called the Lost Galaxy." He picked up the pen again, circled the area, and then slowly drew a cross in the middle. "It's a dangerous place that people who often hang out in the universe will avoid."

Lost galaxies are similar to black holes in the universe.

It is said that it is a chaotic and disordered space and time where all common sense and rules are invalid and once you fall into it, you can never get out.

Some people are trapped in the cracks of time for the rest of their lives, some are killed by the mysterious creatures living in it, and some are even hunted down by their future selves. After death, they turn into wronged spirits and continue to hunt down their first self in the lost galaxy under the distorted timeline, continuing this horrific and desperate cycle.

In addition, in many planes, there have been some people who suddenly appeared, claiming that they were not from this era, but from the distant past or future, and were survivors who had strayed into a lost galaxy. But they couldn't explain how they got out of there, perhaps as a redundant substance in the chaotic and distorted space and time, they were accidentally excluded.

Some of these self-proclaimed "space drifters" have been confirmed to be sensationalists, while others remain controversial. On the one hand, there are no obvious flaws in them, and their descriptions of the interior of the lost galaxy are also very realistic. But the inability to disprove does not mean confirmation. It is meaningless to be able to talk about well-known historical events, and as for future events, it is difficult to verify in the short term, which has become a mystery that is difficult to solve.

As the same things happened again and again, miracles became commonplace, and people gradually lost interest in these strange travelers. As for those forgotten by the times, their fates in the future were different.

Some people made the best of it and quickly adapted to the new time and space, and rebuilt their families here; some people spent their entire lives looking for a way to return to the original space, but because they failed, they eventually became mentally ill and mad; some were unfortunately caught by crazy scientists for research; some people, in order to avoid becoming experimental subjects, changed their words and said that what they said were all lies.

As a person who only cares about the world, Baili Ji was also enthusiastic about the legend of time travel for a while. Although he did not find anything, he did confirm that the Lost Galaxy was definitely a dangerous place. Even if a strong man from the upper plane went in, he would die. He was just a madman, not a fool, so he gave up the idea of ​​taking risks.

But later he went in again. Speaking of which, this was somewhat related to Ye Yunyan.

At that time, he was severely injured by Ye Yunyan's desperate attack, and his magic power was completely lost, and he declined into a weak little bat. According to the subordinates present, he looked quite miserable at that time, every feather was bleeding, and his drooping wings were like a dried specimen, without any response to the outside world, and even without the fluctuation of life.

The monsters that usually moved in human form would only reveal their true form after death. During the period when he lost consciousness and fell into a deep coma, if it weren't for his soul servants who were still alive, I'm afraid everyone would have thought he was dead.

His enemies got the news and swarmed over, all wanting to give him a final blow. Feng Gewu and Feng Wutong drove a spaceship and took him on the run, a chase that spanned several star systems. Faced with the enemy's relentless pursuit, Feng Yier decided to drive a small boat alone and flee in another direction.

They managed to make the pursuers think that the spaceship was a bait, and that he himself would be secretly transferred via a small boat - the plan worked, Feng Yier successfully diverted most of the firepower, and finally when she was desperate, she broke into the Lost Galaxy with the determination to die.

After returning to his heyday, he personally stepped into the Lost Galaxy to rescue Feng Yier. But he didn't want to tell Ye Yunyan about these things in detail, so when he introduced them to her, he only told her the part that he heard from others.

Ye Yunyan listened very attentively. In a split second, something flashed through her mind -

"Let me ask you a question." Her breathing was tense at this moment. "Since you haven't suffered directly from the Lost Galaxy, why do you know to go around it?"

Baili Ji didn't understand why she asked such an obvious question, but he still answered patiently: "I told you, I learned it from the rumors in the universe sea."

Ye Yunyan asked again: "If you hadn't heard the rumors, would you still avoid it when you passed by there?"

This question was even more knowingly asked than the previous one. If someone else asked it, Baili Ji would have wanted to hit the other person on the head with a brick. But he knew that Ye Yunyan was not the kind of person who would chat with him, so even though he was confused, he still agreed with her and said, "Then probably not?"

"Let me put it this way. When you first see it, you'll just think it's a beautiful galaxy. It doesn't look dangerous, so you'll want to go in and take a rest."

In order to show his profound knowledge, he also planned to give Ye Yunyan some popular science knowledge. Many dangerous places are not as dangerous as they appear. Instead, they often present a harmless or even charming illusion, so as to attract ignorant people to go in, just like highly poisonous plants are often more colorful. But before he could open his mouth, Ye Yunyan's next question made even him feel his heart skip a beat.

"Have the Gnawers also heard of the rumors about the universe?"

Silence is like a sharp blade striking you in the face.

Baili Ji finally realized what was happening: "Oh, what do you mean——?"

If the Gnawers are truly unintelligent and inferior creatures, they should not have the ability to obtain and understand rumors about the universe. Then why do they consciously avoid the Lost Galaxies when they act?