Everyone ascended, but I didn't get on board

Chapter 217 The Base is Sealed Again

"Ahem... well, don't cry." Qiu Ci touched her nose guiltily and silently sealed away the fact that she couldn't remember its name forever. What would happen if it knew?

[Waaaaah...I'm about to cry!] The dog system seemed genuinely heartbroken; its once round ball of light was now almost flattened from crying.

Already feeling guilty, Qiu Ci couldn't just stop it by slapping it. After thinking for a moment, she took out the system she had just recycled and handed it to the dog, saying, "Stop howling, do you want some of these?"

[Whoa, huh?!] The dog system was taken aback. A pair of wide eyes suddenly appeared on the ball of light, and after a long while, it made a sniffing sound [...Eat!]

"..." Okay, she's still relatively easy to appease.

After a while...

[Master, how come you have so many systems? Did you just go and rob the Supreme God?]

"This was extracted from those people in the temple," Qiu Ci explained. "Their energy should still be there, but they're all shut down now. Can you obtain their data?"

"Yes, yes!" Of course it can. The dog group nodded vigorously, its previous sadness completely gone, replaced by excitement. It grabbed a chip and stuffed it into its mouth while replying, "Master, don't worry (chew chew chew)... Their levels are similar to mine (chew chew chew)... but they can't fight back when they're powered off (chew chew chew)... I can read all their data (chew chew chew)... Leave it to me (chew chew chew)."

"Alright!" Qiu Ci put away the remaining half of the system and poked its bulging sphere. "Don't overeat."

The dog system stopped consuming and obediently began digesting the energy, having long forgotten about being shut down.

"That's right!" Qiu Ci suddenly remembered something and quickly said, "Open the map of the temple and mark all the cities where temples have been built." She still needed to retrieve them.

[Yes, Master! (chewing sounds)]

Dog Tong immediately popped up a light screen, marking the locations of all the temples. Qiu Ci quickly glanced at it, excluding some cities she had already visited, and with a thought, she propelled the numerous psionic machines behind her to fly rapidly towards the next city.

The psionic machine truly lived up to its reputation as the strongest weapon of war. With its enhancement, Qiu Ci moved with incredible speed, covering the entire temple grounds within a single day and retrieving all the psionic machines that had rioted within the temple.

Even if she was fast, one person's energy is limited. She couldn't reach most cities before they were destroyed. Some of the lucky ones were left in ruins, while the unlucky ones were completely reduced to ashes, along with the people of the temple.

No matter how high one's cultivation level, it is utterly ineffective against a war machine.

Qiu Ci didn't interfere much, but before sunset, he stopped the last batch of psionic machines that were crossing the temple area into the Federation.

This divine punishment, initiated by the temple in an attempt to steal the authority of the gods, directly led to the destruction of the entire temple. Ninety percent of the population was killed or injured, leaving only some people from remote cities to survive. The temple, which dominated the entire Mianzhou and was looked up to by all the other continents, came to an end. From then on, there was no more temple in Shenhui.

However, all of this was no longer relevant to Qiu Ci. After confirming that all the psionic machines had been retrieved, Qiu Ci returned to the dilapidated base.

She extracted only a small portion of the psionic machine and filled in all the coordinates of the lost storage devices in the base. The originally pitch-black far north instantly changed, and a large storm swept across the entire region. The leaked chaotic matter around it began to rush wildly towards the ground.

In less than an hour, all the chaotic matter was retrieved and resealed underground. Qiu Ci vaguely felt that there should be another space underground, the true home of the chaotic matter, but she had no intention of exploring it at the moment.

The entire far north has transformed. Though still desolate, the black mist that had perpetually shrouded the region has completely vanished, restoring its clear, bright skies. The strange beasts that once roamed the far north, now free from the influence of the chaotic matter, have lost their drive and collapsed like beans spilling from a well. They had actually died long before the chaotic matter invaded, which explains the rotting state of the beast after its death.

It can be said that all living beings in the far north have perished under the influence of the chaotic matter. Now that the black mist has disappeared, although the sky is clear, it is still exceptionally quiet all around, but it will eventually become lively again.

Qiu Ci sighed and focused her gaze back on the screen in the control room. With the return of the psionic machine, complete data on the sealed base appeared before her. After a closer look, she understood why the system had said that the chaotic matter had been permanently sealed.

Because that was indeed the case originally. The information states that beneath this base was actually a damaged world barrier. Blue Star had excluded chaotic matter from the world and sealed the gap.

Logically, the world has a self-repairing mechanism. Blue Star sealed this place away. As time slowly passes and the world's barriers are repaired, the chaotic matter will be forever banished from this world.

The exact time has been calculated by Earth, and it is estimated to be around 21,000 years.

But no one expected that someone would dig up the base ahead of time and take away the psionic machine aggregate that served as a storage device. Of course, the loss of one or two storage devices would not affect the entire base, because considering the time decay, Blue Star had actually left a self-replication function in the psionic machines, which means that new psionic machines can be continuously replicated.

Even so, it couldn't stop others from taking them continuously. Qiu Ci finally understood why the temple had so many psionic machines. It turned out that after the base detected the loss of the sealing device, it triggered a replenishment production order, causing them to self-replicate until... the entire base was dismantled, chaotic matter leaked, and the temple withdrew.

Even those people in the temple probably don't know why there are more and more psionic machines.

Qiu Ci looked at the remaining seal time displayed on the screen: 1007 years, 10 months and 7 days, and was speechless.

If you calculate the time, if it weren't for those people in the temple recklessly dismantling the base over the past thousand years, the chaotic matter would have been completely sealed away long ago.

She sighed and said directly to the system that had taken over the central control, "Damn system, is there any way to completely hide the sealing device so that no one can detect its existence, including the system itself?"

【Yes, Master! You only need to grant sufficient authorization to unlock its hidden location. Unless someone with higher privileges than you has access, they will absolutely not be able to find it.】

“Then let’s hide it!” Qiu Ci nodded, determined not to let it be unearthed again. “Also, give these sealing devices a counterattack order. If anyone tries to break the seal, allow them to retaliate.”

"Yes, Master." The dog system started accumulating data again.

Qiu Ci carefully checked everything to make sure nothing was missed, and then left an instruction for all psionic machines to self-destruct one hundred years after the sealing period was completed.

Such a dangerous war machine, without a master's control, must never be allowed to remain in the world; otherwise, the tragedy of the temple will repeat itself. She didn't want what her people had left behind to become a tool for world destruction.

After doing all this, Qiu Ci left the control room, and then, with a thought, destroyed the entire base except for the part underground where the chaotic matter was sealed, since it had already been reduced to an empty shell anyway.

The once massive base vanished into the yellow sand in an instant.

Qiu Ci sensed the location and, as expected, could no longer detect the base's location. She breathed a sigh of relief and then turned to look behind her at the blue machine group that almost occupied half the sky.

So... what should we do with the rest of these psionic machines?