Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 475 Your home is a giant bathtub
Ah Li conjured up a rotating executive chair, plopped down on it, and, just like in a morning meeting, tapped on a blackboard that had also appeared out of thin air.

"Do you know how your house is different from mine?" Ali asked, crossing her legs.

Zhang Ze stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and then replied, "Different colors? Mine is blue, and yours is gold?"

“Wrong.” Ah Li continued tapping the blackboard. “Let’s broaden our horizons and not get bogged down in trivial things like color. Let’s look at the whole universe.”

As Ah Li patted it, the blackboard transformed into a giant golden screen.

The dense data flowed like water, eventually settling into icons, and Zhang Ze found his own data in the closest place to him.

All the data points are low, but two of them are frighteningly low compared to other universes.

A 1 and a 0.

Number of extraterrestrial civilizations: 1

Number of neighboring civilizations: 0

Although the second data point is somewhat redundant, whether or not it includes the zero, Zhang Ze's house is undeniably spacious.

The kind that is currently known to be at the bottom of the universe.

Fearing that Zhang Ze wouldn't understand, A Li told him about her family.

During their exile, the Amber Civilization explored countless universes.

But apart from the universes that have already been destroyed, even the most barren universes have at least four or five planets with civilizations.

In places like Ah Li's hometown, it was bustling with activity, like dumplings being boiled in a pot.

Before the Amber Civilization took to the skies, the closest civilization to them lived on a satellite of their home planet.

It's so close that you can see it clearly with a long telescope.

So, in the beginning, they worshipped each other as if they were gods from heaven.

Of course, the first thing Ah Li and her civilization did after leaving their home planet was to assimilate this 'good brother' who lived only a day apart.

For almost half of the next 40 millennia that the Amber Civilization unified the universe, they spent their time dealing with these 'good neighbors'.

Their 'good neighbors' include, but are not limited to, planet-eating insects, red-skinned bighorn bulls, blue-skinned birdmen, and iron-faced hunting monsters.
They are all very peaceful and friendly races.

It was precisely through the mutual assistance of these diverse and wonderful neighbors that the Amber Civilization was able to develop so rapidly and become so united.

Ah Li tapped the armrest of the boss's chair, drawing Zhang Ze's attention back to him.

"I was born during a time of exile and did not experience the glorious years of the empire."

"So I don't have much feeling about the past stories."

"However, there were still a few veterans from the old era left in the fleet at that time, and when they saw your house, they only said one sentence."

Zhang Ze: "What did you say?"

Ah Li moved her tongue, as if trying to figure out how to say it in her hometown dialect.

After holding it in for a long time, a string of strange syllables burst out of its mouth.

Zhang Ze didn't know what the word or sentence meant, but he could understand the tone.

His intuition told him that the sentence was either an insult or an exclamation.

It's somewhere between 'Holy crap, awesome' and 'Holy crap, idiot'.

Zhang Ze scratched his head. "Is it that strange?"

“Of course.” Ah Li nodded vigorously.

"And let me tell you, I was the first person to discover your house," Ah Li said proudly.

Ah Li sprang up from the boss's chair and jumped into Zhang Ze's arms.

"After discovering you, we did not make direct contact with you."

"Because according to the calculations and observations at that time, it would take at least three hundred cosmic years for the Earth Sea to spread to your universe."

"At the same time, although your universe is vast, it is very stable."

"Therefore, we have decided to take a short break in your universe and wait until your civilization is more unified before making contact with you again."

"Let's observe you carefully first, and also study the anomalies in your universe."

"And then what happened? How did my house explode?" Zhang Ze asked.

Ah Li sighed, "Because the resolution concerning your family was just passed by the council, the observers in the fleet issued an alarm."

"The Earth Sea suddenly rose, and the eruption point was near my home."

"If you broaden the scale to the entire universe, then your home is the core."

"You just saw what happened next. Because it happened so suddenly, we only had time to save a portion of the people."

Ah Li climbed onto Zhang Ze's shoulder and presented him with a crisis management plan.

According to the records, the method of dealing with a civilization of Zhang Ze's level was to seal it off.

After scanning, the data of the entire planet is copied as much as possible and sealed in a miniature ecosystem box.

When the time is right, restore it to its original state.

Zhang Ze frowned slightly. "So, the mountains and seas were the original ecological box?"

"Yes and no, anyway, let me continue."

Ah Li clapped her hands, signaling Zhang Ze not to ask any questions.

Ah Li continued, "Although it may seem ruthless, we put the matter of your family out of our minds after escaping your universe."

"Because we've experienced this kind of thing far too many times."

"I understand," Zhang Ze said softly.

Ah Li, "And the second time I returned to your home was at the end of the exile period."

"At that time, in addition to the fact that life forms had changed, our supplies were about to run out, and there was very little safe space left."

To make it easier for Zhang Ze to understand, A Li changed the scene back to the small island.

By this time, the island was almost completely submerged by the sea, surrounded by a vast expanse of water. As far as the eye could see, only a few rocks stubbornly peeked out from the surface from time to time.

Moving to the nearest safe location seems to be somewhat difficult.

"That was pretty much our situation. We were trapped in a remote universe that was about to be 'flooded,' and it was almost impossible to jump directly to the nearest safe universe."

Ah Li sighed, resting her head on Zhang Ze's head. "Despair, exhaustion, we get tired too."

"At that time, some of the fleet members had already decided to give up and spend their last few decades in that soon-to-be-extinct universe."

“So you…” Zhang Ze.

Ali knew what Zhang Ze was going to ask, and it shook its head. "It wasn't me. I was just a warehouse manager back then. I didn't have the intelligence or the authority."

Zhang Ze, "..."

"Ah Li is our flagship and the last surviving leader of our Amber Civilization. After exhausting his last quota, he came up with a crazy idea."

"It plans to use your home as a springboard for a brief transit before jumping to that safe universe as its target."

Zhang Ze: "My home? Wasn't it destroyed by the Earth Sea, and the entire universe became part of the Earth Sea?"

"At first we thought so too, but the leader's observations clearly showed that your family miraculously did not perish."

"The structure of the universe remains stable, and it 'floats' in the Earth Sea in a 'semi-immersed' form, um... like this."

Ah Li snapped her fingers and conjured a bathtub filled with water in the sea. It was slightly submerged but not completely submerged.

Immediately afterwards, using Zhang Ze's head as a platform, Fei Long did a 360-degree spin in the air and jumped into the bathtub with an elegant posture. He lightly touched the water with a dragonfly-like motion before jumping onto a distant reef.

Ah Li, "Theoretically speaking, those of us who can change life forms can withstand that level of erosion, but no one can guarantee that the plan will succeed."

"Because if there is just one more small fluctuation, we will be swallowed up."

Zhang Ze: "But you still did it."

Ah Li: "That's right, because adventure is always better than waiting to die."

"Moreover, as the most unique universe in this region, it is also very suitable as the end of the journey."

Ah Li pointed, and the surrounding scenery receded, revealing Zhang Ze and her in a council hall.

The council chamber was packed with all sorts of beings, most of whom had undergone physical mutations or appeared in some kind of mechanical or semi-mechanical form. There were also beings whose appearances remained normal, but the weariness in their eyes was not much different from the stopped wavelengths on the electronic screen.

The leader's calm voice echoed in the auditorium as he announced his final plan.

But no one in the hall objected, and many representatives of civilization breathed a sigh of relief.

Some of them cast their votes in favor and turned to leave before the leader had even finished speaking.

It's unclear whether they're preparing for the final transition or going to enjoy their last moments with family.

Zhang Ze, disguised as Ah Li, blends into the shadows of the past. The two timelines intersect at this moment, and his presence feels perfectly natural.

Although this was just a phantom of the past, a fact that had already been established, Zhang Ze still didn't want to disrupt the atmosphere of this resolution.

However, due to some uncontrollable force, Zhang Ze's eyes kept unconsciously glancing in one direction.

Because there was a long, gleaming golden strip there, which was rather eccentric.

The creature had fox-like eyes, a face shaped like a car seat painted with decorative gold lines, long horns extending backwards from its head, and a soft, fluffy mane that swayed gently.

Its long, elegant, and noble shape is completely out of place here.

"Who's that long strip? It's not you, is it?" Zhang Ze jumped up on tiptoe, staring at A Li's little belly like he was balancing a ball, and bounced it up.

"What do you mean by 'long strip'? What do you mean by 'That can't be me, can it?' That's me! The fleet's navigator! Can't you tell?"

Ah Li, who was initially pleased with Zhang Ze's attention, suddenly became angry and started pulling Zhang Ze's hair.

Zhang Ze: "But didn't you just say you were a warehouse keeper? How did you become a navigator?"

Ah Li said, "This is not important. It's just a few minor details. As long as you know that it is me, that's all that matters."

Zhang Ze, "Are you sure?"

"Why do you care so much? That's just how I am, whatever! Don't ask me anymore, or I'll get angry." Ah Li muttered, her head pointed.

Then came a bunch of strange, meaningless remarks like, "This is my dream, I can do whatever I want," "This is my territory, I'm in charge," and "The warehouse is huge, you'll get lost without a guide, why aren't you a navigator?"

Zhang Ze gave a meaningful "hmm" and did not continue arguing with A Li.

Instead, they began to recall a square, magical creature that Sister Wang and the others had recorded.

This is Ah Li's dream, and also Zhang Ze's dream.

Zhang Ze also dreams.

As Zhang Ze recalled, that elegant, noble, and out-of-place long strip disappeared.

Instead, it was replaced by a square, broad, majestic, and imposing figure.

The moment this square blob appeared, the entire atmosphere of the council chamber immediately became harmonious.

Ah Li then snatched Zhang Ze's head in her mouth.

Ah Li, "I'm going to eat you!"

After teasing her for a while, Ah Li angrily gave in, jumped off Zhang Ze's head, and skipped over this pointless topic.

Ah Li, "After the resolution was passed, we began the final preparations."

"However, when we crossed the barriers of the universe and came to your house again, we found that your house had been restored."

Zhang Ze, "Restore?"

Ah Li: "Yes, although there is no life on it, the planet has reappeared."

The scene in the council chamber disappeared, and Zhang Ze found himself in that familiar yet unfamiliar starry sky.

"Not only your home planet, but everything in the entire universe that should have been destroyed by the Earth Sea has been restored to its original state."

Two star charts appeared before Zhang Ze.

One of them is a cosmic image scanned and recorded when Ah Li and her friends first came here.

The second image is the result of the scan after that redirect.

The two pictures are almost identical.

"Besides being reset, the erosion and uplift of the Earth Sea are much lower than we imagined, and are within our tolerance."

"Therefore, instead of leaving immediately this time, we chose to stop and conduct a detailed scan and investigation of this restored universe."

"And the results surprised everyone. According to the scans and research, your universe has experienced more than one Earth-sea tide."

"It has been destroyed several times, but it has been restored each time."

Zhang Ze, “.”

Seeing that Zhang Ze didn't understand, Ah Li's bathtub explanation method was used again.

Ah Li transformed into a beach and pointed to the bathtub on the beach.

"To put it simply, before you floated on the sea, all other universes were dry land, and your home was a bathtub filled with water."

"So when other universes first gave birth to civilizations, your home had nothing, because your home was submerged in the sea of ​​earth."

"But just when the local sea started to rise and was about to drown us all, your bathtub started to float."

"No matter how deep the water is outside, the amount of water in your bathtub will always be the same."

Even if a big wave comes along occasionally, it will only splash some water into the bathtub, causing ripples.

"After the ripples subside, calm will return."

"Logically speaking, life should not be born in such a place, but life itself is a miracle, and you have appeared."

"On that blue planet."

"You, a civilization born in this lonely universe, are naturally resistant to the Earth Sea and are immune to its influence to a certain extent."

“Those ripples that are fatal to us, you won’t even feel a little bit.”

"The same applies to matter in your universe; it must also possess a certain degree of resistance."

Ah Li once again used his family's not-so-invincible Raman alloy as an example.

"In an environment eroded by the sea, our invincible metal is not even as good as the foxtail grass you pick up by the roadside."

"In other words, if the Earth Sea never rose, it was merely a phenomenon that existed only in your universe."

"When you master the technology of interstellar travel, your mere presence will be enough to easily destroy civilizations in other universes, without you having to do anything."

Zhang Ze: "That's amazing? Then how come we're still doomed?"

Ah Li, "Because there is resistance and also an upper limit. Although the water level of that Earth Sea tide did not drown you, it did drown your universe's mother planet."

"Your home planet was destroyed, so naturally you were destroyed too."

Zhang Ze: "So you mean that if we and our home planet had been stronger back then, we could have withstood that tide?"

He seemed to have guessed what the exiled fleet did in the end, and also guessed the origin of the Four Continents.

Ah Li nodded as well.

"Well, so we gave up on our escape to the next universe."

"Instead, we used all the remaining resources, including ourselves, to launch a project called New Life."

"The embers of the old era will be extinguished here, and the seeds of hope will be reborn in this desolate universe."

Ah Li stood with her hands on her hips, looking like she was the Commander-in-Chief of the Multiverse, and that he should praise her.

Zhang Ze gave a thumbs up, then changed the subject.

"Awesome, but isn't there something wrong with this freshman program?"

Recalling the history of Sizhou, Zhang Ze felt that this new student seemed a little too new.

Things that shouldn't have been forgotten, have all been forgotten.

I fell into all the traps I shouldn't have.

Upon hearing this, Ah Li's face fell, and she sighed.

"Yes, there is a problem."

(End of this chapter)