The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 952 A Golden Crow (Twenty-Six)
"Stop babbling on!"

Shen Zhiyu gave the first evaluation.

But looking into the girl's determined eyes, an absurd thought inexplicably arose in my mind—

Perhaps, this child really can solve something.

But the thought was fleeting and quickly extinguished.

He gave a self-deprecating, cold laugh:
"Fine, let's just pretend it's the last moment of my life and have a casual chat."

Liu Sheng sat on the slide next to her.

The plastic was so hot from the heat that it melted like wax. Then, an idea struck her: she could turn it into a water slide, where the heat would be carried away by the flowing water, and she could finally sit down.

The only problem was that my clothes got a little wet, and the half-collapsed castle in the sandpit was completely washed away by the water.

"I didn't expect you to already understand the mechanisms here."

Shen Zhiyu seemed to notice Liu Sheng's behavior more closely, and said calmly with a hint of surprise.

"Of course, it was just a dream," Liu Sheng said casually.

Shen Zhiyu paused for a moment before continuing:

"Simply put, I deciphered part of the text in this ruin and obtained a cultivation technique from it. According to the technique, I swallowed the 'fire seed' guarded by the immortal artifact and attempted to refine it."

“I thought this was the beginning of my cultivation, and that I would soon be able to attain immortality like the ancient immortals.”

“At first, I was indeed able to gain extraordinary power from the ‘spark,’ and even be able to unleash such an incredible domain…”

The person in the light spread out their arms, and burning flames rose from their body, illuminating the entire space.

"At first, it was just a small room, but later it expanded into this small park."

"Then came a vast world."

[Hmph, what's so vast about this? Even the basic structure is a mess.] "The World" scoffed at this.

“But the price this world pays is… you’ve dragged so many people into this.” Liu Sheng’s voice had become much deeper.

“Yes, but as I said, this was not my intention.” Shen Zhiyu’s tone suddenly tightened. “You have no idea how terrifying it was when I first encountered someone else in my little world.”

Liu Sheng nodded. "Of course... I can imagine."

But Professor Shen couldn't have imagined how terrified those who were drawn into this situation were, amidst their recurring dreams.

"And the 'spark' within me also, as this world expanded and absorbed more and more energy, it reignited, becoming a flame, and then a raging fire!"

"It eventually burned so badly... I couldn't control it anymore."

"Only then did I realize that it wasn't some kind of spark, but something sealed away by an ancient immortal."

"What exists?" Liu Sheng asked. "Is it one of the suns—or rather, a star?"

"Oh, you can actually understand those murals?"

Shen Zhiyu's voice betrayed a hint of surprise.

Liu Sheng remained silent, which was taken as tacit agreement.

“That’s right,” Shen Zhiyu nodded. “Those immortals seem to live on a planet surrounded by ten suns—that is, ten stars.”

“But is that possible?” Liu Sheng frowned. “According to the existing celestial mechanics model, the gravitational pull between ten stars would cause the system to be extremely unstable, making it almost impossible for planets with stable orbits to exist, let alone for life to develop and civilization to flourish.”

"I didn't expect you to actually know this." Shen Zhiyu was genuinely surprised this time, and even showed a hint of unusual admiration. "We didn't believe it at first either, so we specially convened a seminar across the entire Federation and invited the top astrophysical experts to verify it."

"But in the end, there was no result. According to the mural, it is indeed so, and we have no way to prove it further."

"In short, the civilizations born on this planet survived entirely by relying on cultivation methods until the planet's spiritual energy was exhausted, and they could no longer sustain themselves and had to leave."

"But with ten stars surrounding it, leaving won't be easy."

"So the pioneers could only take them away one by one, using them as energy to travel through the universe, and also consuming them along the way. In the end, they even came to our planet."

"At this moment, the star had become a tiny spark, about to go out."

“As a result, your devouring will reignite it,” Liu Sheng said.

“That’s right.” The voice laughed, full of helplessness. “I only just learned about that cultivation method. It’s a cultivation method that uses extreme yin power to suppress and utilize the stars. It is also the secret method that can help them survive the extremely hot years of ten suns.”

"This extremely Yin power brought... a nightmare..."

Liu Sheng knew that the so-called "extreme Yin power" was probably the power of the abyss.

There is currently no relevant research or concept.

Those who cultivate this path will gradually become eccentric.

It can even create a bizarre and treacherous world, influencing more people to become bizarre as well.

The thing that sealed this fire was not some "immortal artifact," but rather a truly bizarre artifact, possessing the power of space and time, which is why it could seal an entire weakened star.

"And the suppressed substance that had already dissipated did not disappear, but instead flowed into everyone's bodies, continuing to generate extreme yin power for me."

The voice continued slowly.

"Later I discovered that every time someone died, every time bones piled up, it strengthened this extremely yin energy, suppressing the scorching, exploding fire by a trace." "So later on, you knowingly committed murder," Liu Sheng said in a deep voice.

"No, I'm saving people!"

Shen Zhiyu argued vehemently.

"Only when I find the right formula can I completely control this spark."

"Besides, haven't you noticed that all of this was chosen by fate?" Shen Zhiyu's voice held a hint of arrogance. "This 'spark' chose me, and that 'immortal artifact' chose you. Naturally, we all know who will ultimately achieve everything..."

"Of course, with that overwhelming aura of holiness around you, who wouldn't be eyeing you?" Liu Sheng curled her lip.

"...Who can only serve as bricks and tiles?" Shen Zhiyu, unaware of Liu Sheng's inner thoughts, continued, "This is the law of attraction. Even those who lose their lives, how can we be sure it wasn't due to the obsession of their most beloved ones?"

[Filthy logic!]

But it seems undeniable.

"Once I can truly control it, we will be able to traverse the Milky Way and reach other planets, just like the ancient immortals!"

The other person's words gradually became frantic, like the flames on their body growing increasingly chaotic, almost descending into disorder.

That's what we think too...

"It's just a pity..."

"I'm tired, I can't do it anymore."

The setting sun shone even brighter, like a star nearing its end, releasing its most dazzling brilliance in the final stage of its life.

The golden-red light seeped into every inch of the space like blood, illuminating the entire small park as if it were a fire.

Liu Sheng held her breath.

That immense energy was rapidly accumulating, the ground trembled slightly, the previously illusory breeze stopped, and the whole world seemed to be gripped tightly by an invisible hand, beginning to contract violently.

"Clearly, the ancient immortals did not successfully control this technique. Instead, they suppressed the fire to its extreme, turning it into an unstable supernova, which eventually exploded and caused a complete collapse."

Shen Zhiyu was already howling in excruciating pain, barely able to hear any sounds from the outside world, but Liu Sheng's murmurs seemed to penetrate her ears like silk threads.

"At the last moment, these ancient immortals barely managed to seal it using a strange artifact capable of operating this technique on its own, but you managed to open it..."

"Of course, the seal is not the end, it only delays the outbreak of the disaster. It will be released on its own in a few years."

Shen Zhiyu gritted her teeth and said, "Yes, we understood this at the seminar, but the key point is—if we could delay the release even a moment longer, if we had already figured out a way to break this..."

The shadows of the residential buildings in the distance were indistinct.

As the space compressed and gravity pulled them closer, they slowly came to see that they were actually cardboard cutouts of buildings, rough and childish, like reality, yet even more like a dream.

“That’s the apartment building where I lived when I was a child—yes, my mother was also a professor at the First Empire, and it was assigned to her by her work unit back then.”

There was a hint of arrogance in the muffled voice.

"What a bunch of academic cliques..." the world silently complained.

"Unfortunately, it's all gone now, only some vague impressions remain, so I can't imagine it anymore..."

As the cardboard boxes approached, they rapidly expanded, like the core of a star compressed by gravity rebounding instantly, swelling into a scene of towering buildings.

Thousands upon thousands of doors opened from within the buildings like rifts in the void, and everything behind them surged forth and poured out—

Folding dining tables, red plastic stools, bunk beds, posters, signboards, books, and everything else sputtered like a high-energy particle storm in the small park, then flew at high speed toward the light on Shen Zhiyu's body.

Liu Sheng also felt an unparalleled attraction to Shen Zhiyu.

That wasn't an emotional attraction, but rather a physical force of collapse.

She was almost dragged over, her fingers gripping the slide handrail tightly, her skin scorched by the heat, leaving charred spots, and then peeled away by radiation into mottled patterns.

The star's core is collapsing.

If no action is taken soon, the supernova explosion phase will begin, and everything will be annihilated.

Liu Sheng could imagine what the consequences would be.

No wonder Zhuo Caiyun was so frantic, trying to fill the gap with the lives of the researchers. Although she didn't understand what an "abyss" was, she knew that it could create another kind of gravitational force, a force that could fight back.

But Zhuo Caiyun was wrong.

The two different sources of gravity do not cancel each other out, but instead further tear each other apart, eventually forming a spacetime rift the size of a black hole, which may swallow countless lives.

The anticipated impact on many people has already been the least severe consequence.

"You see, I've finished telling my story, and you should have realized that there's no solution to this."

His voice was hoarse, with a hint of disappointment.

It seems they really did hope that Liu Sheng could provide a solution to break the deadlock.

"So, you can now rest assured and perish with me?"

(End of this chapter)