From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 356: Things going on simultaneously (Part 2)

Author: Dong Ali

Chapter 356: Things going on simultaneously (Part 2)

No matter in the past life or in this life, the desire for the starry sky has already penetrated into Nesta's bones;

In the previous life, it was a very romantic imagination;

But in this life, this imagination has not only been realized, but also seems to have a different meaning with its own large demand for materials.

Therefore, after learning the specific situation before, he immediately showed great excitement, and specially separated seven projections to descend along the corridor of faith;

After going through a journey of thoughts that cannot be described in words, he arrived at the seven destinations he had set in less than the blink of an eye.

That is, four Quasar Fortresses that have completed their deceleration and are performing the dual tasks of observation towers and construction stations, and three Trekkers that are still moving forward in the endless emptiness, and he was also able to see the infinite space in the distant starry sky.

grand scene

The extrasolar star system closest to the sun is also the chaotic three-star system mentioned before. There are three stars in their prime (Proxima 1-1, Proxima 1-2, and Proxima 1-3), two close and one far away.

standing around each other;

And I don’t know if it’s because these three big guys have eaten up all the matter during their growth period, or if it’s because of their chaotic mutual orbits. In short, at this time, there is no star of the same size inside the star system they form.

The only existence of the planet is the trapped interstellar dust cloud at the gravitational boundary, which is constantly undulating like ocean waves in the relatively distant deep space.

Furthermore, a binary star system composed of two stars (Proxima 2-1, 2-2) 0.35 light-years away from each other is the second closest alien star system to its parent star system;

Among them, one is a mid-term main sequence star, and the other is a late main sequence star that is about to become giant. They have given birth to or captured as many as 23 large and small planets that occasionally visit each other. In addition, there are also planets composed of millions of

A large outer ring composed of asteroids, comets, and satellites, and the outermost periphery is bound by many more interstellar dust clouds than the parent star system;

Taken together, this is a star system with extremely abundant resources and easy mining. Even if there is a main sequence star in it that is about to become giant, this "fast" is only in terms of the lifespan of the star. In fact, it is still

It will be a very long time span and will not affect the development actions that the Republic may carry out in the future.

Although no quasar spacecraft has accidentally arrived at the third closest star system, gravity surveys conducted in multiple directions have confirmed relatively detailed conditions. There is a small star with a mass of 0.75 times that of the Elf Sun (Proxima 3-

1), where it is dragging its only two planetary bodies, which are suspected to be rock foundations, dancing in its orbit around the core of the rod vortex.

The fourth closest star system has a single red giant star (Proxima 4-1) that has entered its middle and late years. It has swallowed up the two nearest rock-based planets (Proxima 1), leaving a total of 3 planets in its periphery.

The planet is being baptized by violent heat baths all day long.

The fifth nearest is another set of binary star systems, but the eldest brother has died, and its remains have turned into a neutron star (Proxima 5-1) that is spinning at high speed and releasing strong radiation from two stages, while the younger brother's body and energy

(Proxima 5-2) are constantly being accreted into disks by their elder brothers, and the starry sky around them is empty and empty, with only some dust that looks like explosion shock waves floating far away.

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Nesta's projection came to the various wandering ships, and found that this place was by no means the dead silence and loneliness he had imagined.

These seven spaceships were born in almost the same batch, each with a diameter of 500 kilometers, and their interiors are filled with hundreds of thousands of phantoms belonging to the elves;

The vast majority of them are the projections of scholars who have come here, and the remaining few are tourists similar to Nesta at the moment;

The former are always making use of the stable belief corridor of the spacecraft to carry out experiments or construction tasks across extremely long distances, while the latter are simply great elves who come to travel or watch the fun, or are brought to visit by their teachers.

the elves;

All in all, basically every spaceship seemed very lively, and there was no sense of loneliness at all being away from home.

Moreover, the spacecraft located in the resource-rich area has launched many "base vehicles" into the system, and production bases have been established on the surface of the rock base star. However, because of the stability of the corridor, special alloys containing flesh and blood must be used.

Wooden building materials are used, so most of these bases can only be constructed relatively inefficiently under the remote control of the spacecraft, and cannot lower the projection to leverage the virtual realm's spellcasting resources;

These buildings were all constructed on-site using materials taken from the site. Not only did the total amount of matter in the quasar itself not decrease as a result, it actually collected many precious heavy elements like a miser, hoping to bring them back one day.

Moreover, the Quasar Fortress was divided into half its body, and a main surface base was established in one of them, but this base has the function of a virtual tunnel;

When Nesta became interested and separated part of his thoughts to form a projection again and came to the past, he discovered some strange clues in it.

"Azshara is being dishonest. Everything here is built for the purpose of livability. There are also large-scale light concentrators and laser generators, and there is even a spaceship construction center?"

Continuously greeting the elven projections in the surface base, Nesta slowly walked around the entire area shrouded by the influence of the virtual realm, and analyzed the contents of the construction room in progress here.

Main theme.

It is obvious that the projections are creating a real habitable sanctuary here, and it is not just 'livable' for the elves, but also overall livable for all races on the home planet in a broader sense.

The more peripheral space laser equipment is used to accelerate or decelerate the spacecraft from here. They can accelerate the spacecraft that has spread out the "light sail field" to a maximum of 0.55 times the speed of light, while the spacecraft in the vacuum can accelerate or decelerate the spacecraft.

An extremely weak resistance environment allows the spacecraft to maintain this speed for a long time even after leaving the laser projection range;

In comparison, the built-in engine of the spacecraft, which has only barely reached 0.1 times the speed of light at this point in its development, is really not good enough in terms of speed, but fortunately, its flexibility and applicable environment are quite remarkable.

For these nearby star systems alone, the speed that the light sail field can generate seems to be enough to support effective transportation?

Looking at the ongoing construction tasks here, Nesta seems to have seen the actual arrival of batches of entity elves and believers from various races in the near future.

By then, this base will no longer be a 'ghost town' that will return to death after being cut off from the projection, and the corridor spacecraft built from here can also fly towards farther star systems, thus continuing to broaden the Republic's horizons.

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The actual controllable realm and projectable realm of the elves can also continue to expand like a snowball until they encounter some insurmountable obstacles.

While he was observing this base and couldn't help but fall into fantasy about the future, Nesta's other clones or projections were not idle either. Different perspectives one after another were constantly coming to him at this moment.

Import to the main thinking thread.

Among these perspectives are the joy felt by a five-meter-long body, serious research, and memories from traveling around.

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There is a psychedelic city like a fantasy in the center of the northern continent of the home star. Buildings more than a thousand meters high are just idle here. There are even three thousand-meter-level buildings standing like clouds in the center.

In the city, a ten-meter-tall Nesta is walking on the street. Because most of the elves that can be seen around him are about ten meters in size, he is not very tall here after changing his appearance.

Can attract attention.

But from time to time there will be curious eyes, and most of them are concentrated on the top of Nesta's head, because there is a beautiful Thumbelina sitting there, holding up his hair and constantly braiding it.

braid.

Along the way, Nesta was always smiling in response to the curious glances around her, and while talking to Thumbelina, she visited the city below her feet.

There are only about three million elven residents in the city, and they are not the only ones living here, because many other races of different sizes and shapes can often be seen, and they seem to also live in the city.

As far as Nesta has seen, almost all of these foreigners have a non-comprehensive attitude, are very proficient in using various elven creations, and usually live freely as merchants, travelers, and even settlers.

This is a place they know as the 'City of Angels'.

"Not all compatriots are willing to live in cities, or it should be said that most of them do not live in cities."

When Nesta was immersed in his own rank improvement and genetic research, too many changes had taken place in the world, so countless Azsharas above his head were always making such introductions everywhere.

"Well, on the ice sheet, in the forest, and under the sea, there are so many kinds of interests."

While simultaneously receiving various thoughts from the clones in other directions, Nesta answered with a smile.

To be honest, this kind of travel and conversation is not a very efficient way to get to know each other. No matter how many bodies are separated, it is always a waste of time;

But I am happy that money cannot buy it. After all, Nesta is not a training and research machine. He needs to have a life to adjust, so walking slowly and leisurely with his partner like this, looking at it, is a kind of comfort for him.

Comfortable choice.

"Also, did I see it?"

"What did you see?"

Thumbelina stepped on the hair ladder she had just braided, stepping on the hair in the middle step by step, descending from the top of her head to Nesta's eyes, then tilted her head and asked while swaying.

"Hey~ Where else could it be? Of course it would be the surface base on Linlin. You couldn't build the ecosystem there just for ghosts, right?"

"Hmph~ I'm not mature yet anyway!"

"Don't lie to me. Do you need me to look through the follow-up plan myself?"

As he spoke, Nesta raised her hand to her eyes and curled up her thumb and middle finger, then gently flicked it towards Azshara's waist, causing her to scream in surprise and swing outwards along with the ladder;

But obviously, this 'exclamation' was a little too exaggerated and too fake, and soon turned into a 'giggle' laugh, because when she fell back, Azshara bent her knees and hit Ness directly.

Tower's eyelids;

"Ouch! You cruel female elf!"

Nesta, who didn't feel much pain, and Azshara, who also knew it wouldn't hurt much, cooperated with each other for a while and then brought the topic back to the previous direction.

"There are too many uncertainties, I just won't let you go~"

Azshara, who was afraid that her partner would disappear again for a hundred or two hundred years, shook her head in denial almost as if she was cheating.

"Hey, no, you haven't reacted until now?"

"What's the reaction?"

"Forget it, Proximity 5 has picked up the call, let's continue watching the scenery."

"oh."

During the conversation, Nesta looked up at the two spheres in the sky that were the size of washbasins in his previous life. His super eyesight was enough to allow him to clearly see the situation there, as well as the oceans and continents above them.

, and even cities.

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Many avatars located in various places inside and outside the home star were browsing various situations in the vast area at the same time, and as if they had grown more than a million pairs of eyes to observe together, all the information was finally gathered together.

, it was summarized into the 'general thread' where, to be honest, Nesta didn't know where it existed.

So he saw that the elves' base was no longer restricted to the Black Forest. Although the once grand headquarters still maintained its splendor, the number of residents inside was actually not as large as in the past, so he could barely

The force maintained at around ten million;

However, after experiencing a great migration and proliferation due to environmental protection, even though the various factors that forced them to migrate and spread have now disappeared with the iteration of technology, their impact has been

Retained.

For example, the headquarters with a population of tens of millions is the largest existing city. The other more than a thousand metropolises also located on the surface of the three directions have an average of about 3 million elves living there, and there are also various foreign races living in them.

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The remaining elves have instead built settlements in some other strange places, ranging from just one person to perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, and most of them are populated only by elves.

area of ​​residence.

These settlements are spread all over Samsung, which is the mother star at your feet, as well as the two Purgatory Stars and Death Stars in the sky that have had their cores hollowed out and transformed. They are all remote but beautiful places at a certain distance from the metropolis.

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However, with the support of the gravitational field effect vehicle, the gravitational field magnetic field public transportation system, and the virtual environment, even in a remote location where only one elf settles, there is actually no problem of inconvenience;

Moreover, the ruling government usually does not care where the elves live, whether it is entering the city, digging a hole in the woods to live, or going to the tundra to build a tree house in the frozen soil.

, it’s all about coming and going as you please, leaving it to your own heart.

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On the other side, while some clones are exchanging living experiences with the elves on the Antarctic ice continent, the living conditions of the continent's various races are also issues that Nesta is investigating.

Although they often appear in elven cities, the number of settlers here is actually less than one-thousandth of the total number. The vast majority of the rest still maintain a gathering survival model based on sects, city-states, and races.

In terms of belief and culture, because after hundreds of years have passed, even the longest-lived ones among the various tribes have at least changed their population;

And as if in conjunction with this, in the "cultural transformation" carried out by the top leaders of various sects for the purpose of dominance, the near-god belief belonging to the old era has completely disappeared from this world, and many races belonging to the sect have

Of independent culture, only some trivial and incoherent residues remain.

On the contrary, as a plateau-affiliated city-state that was once a fugitive, it gradually formed a relatively diversified belief in gods due to its late entry into the world.

During this period, although the near-god belief was eradicated due to the tacit understanding of everyone, the independent cultures were fortunately preserved due to the concentration of a single race and the lack of consensus on cultural reconstruction among the sects, and continued to evolve with the times.

Go down.

In addition, the growth of individual strength and the development of productivity based entirely on divine grace are also very obvious, and the latter has led all countries to enter the era of industrialization and urbanization.

In terms of transportation, the facilities given by divine grace hundreds of years ago are still in operation, but the transportation vehicles have changed from beasts to imported inscription trams, and this has supported a relatively prosperous commerce between the countries.

web channel;

And its production role in breeding, mining, farming, fishing, food processing, divine industry, etc. is also needed by the Republic, or is deliberately formed to need it, and the output in this area is also produced by various states.

The main product when facing elves and other forces.

As far as politics is concerned, the elves are usually not very involved in the internal affairs of various sects and city-states. They only rely on the endorsement of the gods in the sky and their own strength that has exceeded countless eras, in a way similar to that of alliance leaders.

The identity established an overall alliance system, stabilized the economies of all parties, and constantly regulated the political situation between the religion and the city-state.

Generally speaking, the world today is considered very peaceful.

Minimal-scale sporadic conflicts may indeed still exist, but there is no chance for armed struggle based on the political system to form, because the Republic does not allow the emergence of war, and will force all conflicts to eventually come to an end.

It is resolved at the negotiation table under its own sanctions.

Therefore, after about three hundred years of cultivation and cultivation, various tribes belonging to different sects and different city-states have a population of more than 150 billion.

Especially for those races that can give birth to seven or eight children at a time, their population numbers are indeed growing too fast. If they didn't have a lifespan limit, they might not be able to quadruple their numbers now.

And reaching this level of population size has provided the Republic with a steady stream of virtual realm spellcasting resources, as well as the majestic path of faith that resulted from it. Only then have there been hundreds of thousands of starry skies that can carry massive projections.

Fortress, with the ongoing construction of bases like those in the Proxima star system;

Moreover, their number and scale also played a decisive role in the process of transforming the Purgatory Star, the Death Star, and the ecological environment.

After the Republic hollowed out their cores, turned them into two quasar fortresses, and dragged them to their current orbits, they then opened up more than a hundred livable ecosystems with shields, and allowed the mainland to

The various tribes became the first real settlers on its surface;

Then, they used methods such as "creating myths" to generate the required directional beliefs, thereby gradually completing the environmental transformation of the star's surface in a more energy-saving and time-saving way;

The way it is implemented is just like the original 'Holy Light Pool', which combines virtual concepts with the operation of the real world.

For example, the breath of the wind god blows from west to east, bringing us moist water vapor;

For another example, the god of the sky and the god of the earth gave birth to the god of the sea after a hundred years of intercourse.

The casters used virtual realm spellcasting resources to realize each of these myths one by one, and compiled a control system for the brain that could adapt to other conditions and operate stably;

Similar to this, there are also a series of myths about the water god, the air god, the monsoon god, the earth god, etc., which are all filled with new wine in old bottles according to the existing needs.

The contents are all abstractions and personifications of natural concepts, and correspond to the transformation process that occurs in reality.

Containing the escape of element 1, the generation and preservation of surface liquid water, the formation, rise and fall of plates, the extraction, deposition and exchange of the atmosphere, as well as the regulated temperature, controlled ocean currents and monsoons, and a large number of rapid births and deaths

The input of moss and microorganisms has played a role in accelerating the transformation of the ecology in a wider range outside the shelter circle.

In this process, the more firmly the tribes believe in the myths, the more high-quality sources of belief driving they can provide. When all the myths have been edited and realized, there will be an interaction that promotes and promotes each other.

, even if it has initially generated an ecological grid that is still very fragile, but has already been woven into shape.

During this period, the coverage area of ​​the livable sanctuary circle became larger and larger, and more and more believers lived within it. The natural ecology outside the sanctuary circle was completely stabilized after continuous operation for a period of time with the support of faith energy.

of inertia;

At this point, a sub-stable ecology that can operate on its own even if it no longer continues to burn thoughts of faith is born;

Then, in the process of adjustments and additions from time to time, this sub-stable ecology will transform towards true stability and become a truly natural operating state one day in the future.

Today, although the surface ecology of the two planets is still in a "sub-stable period", the residents there no longer need to survive in a shelter, but can freely move around every area on the planet's surface.

Therefore, in the orbit of the parent star of the three stars around the moon, there are three adjacent habitable stars at this time.

For the time being, the mother planet still has the largest total population. After including elves and other races, there are more than 56 billion residents living here;

In addition, there are a total of 500 million people living on the Purgatory Star, and about 400 million people living on the Death Star, and most of them are engaged in work related to mining, environmental protection, etc. However, the relatively barren land there cannot

Support the drinking water needs of residents of this size;

Therefore, at present, a large amount of basic materials such as food, feces, water, etc. are sent to two other celestial bodies very close to each other every day along the "gravitational field elevator" between the three parties and the Moon Master Control Center.

The 'very close' mentioned here is not a false reference, but means that the distance between the three parties is really very close.

With the huge moon as the center point, which plays a general regulatory role, they form an equilateral triangle with a side length of less than 1.3 million kilometers. When you look up from the surface of each side, you can even vaguely see each symbol.

Small dots of the city.

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When a projection of Nesta was looking at the Neutron Demon's dinner plate on the surface of the quasar, Azshara's shadow appeared in front of him.

"Sure enough, I knew you would come over here and talk about it. What are you planning?"

"I want to separate part of my body and go out to see it." Nesta replied.

After hearing this, Azshara's expression obviously relaxed a little. She was so concerned that she had ignored this matter before, always thinking that an elf as big as Nesta would run away.

"Hey, I understand;" she seemed to no longer object, but she still asked in confusion, "So, is there any special purpose?"

"The purpose is, I want to try to swallow stars."

"Huh? Is it like that?" Azshara raised her head and pointed at the neutron star accretion disk in the distance with her chin, and then asked doubtfully.

"No, I can't do this yet. At least I need to gain control at the atomic level, or even in the microscopic realm;"

After denying it with some regret, Nesta responded again,

"I mean, specially separate a part of the body to enter the interior of the rock base star, turn it into molecular liquid, eat the required ingredients efficiently, and convert them into my own cells."

Before they finished speaking, another shadow appeared next to them, and revealed the body belonging to the fang. He seemed to have heard the previous words, so he answered excitedly,

"Is it possible to achieve this level? No wonder you just asked about the stellar voyage."

"It should be possible. The only problem is that it takes time. The more molecules you invest, the more efficient it will be. If you throw in all the existing 230,000 tons, plus special star transformation, it should be able to maintain

Efficient growth over a long period of time;”

Nesta shook her head and sighed,

"This kind of assimilation ability is quite powerful, but if we rely entirely on the intake of farmed salamander meat to maintain growth, then in the future, the star field we control will probably become a salamander farm."

"Haha, what you said is very possible. Maybe volcanic salamanders can become the most numerous large creatures in the universe because of us~"

Yesterday's chapter was not reviewed, so today's chapter may feel a little out of order.

(End of chapter)