Monsters Will Die if They Are Killed

- Go to the moon.

At first glance, it sounds like an impossible task.

The technological level of the Shenmu world is approximately equivalent to that of the Earth (Earth in this article) around 1900, that is, that subtle point when industry has risen but has not yet begun to enter the electronic age.

Nowadays, the Tianzheng Alliance already has airships that can fly at subsonic speeds, but not to mention the airships dedicated to the Demon Subduing Bureau, which are the pinnacle in itself, and the airships are not made of pure mechanical technology, but It uses high-level spiritual power to activate the magic circle - of course, this is also a technology, and the technology of Shenmu World itself is based on true energy.

But even with the addition of true energy, the world of Shenmu is still extremely far away from landing on the moon, an operation that requires extremely high-tech content - they have not even launched a satellite.

Because of this, Zhou Buyi didn't understand what Shao Qiming said at all. He touched his chin in confusion, and then said: "I'm sorry, what does going to the moon... mean?"

At this time, Shao Qiming showed his patience as a teacher: "Literally - the only way to solve the bug that you and the Banyan Immortal Tree are not compatible on the same planet is to send your body to another planet." planet."

"Theoretically speaking, it is best to send you to Mars, and the development potential is much greater than that of the moon. However, even our side only realized this technology more than 20 years ago. I don't think you can do it."

But this time, Zhou Buyi vaguely understood. He stood on the edge of the top of the sacred tree, looking down at the earth and the city under his feet, and then said slowly: "It means that if I want to survive, I will not be killed by Pan Rong." If the immortal tree swallows it, do we have to leave this homeland?"

At this time, Su Zhou, who was communicating with the Banyan Immortal Tree, vaguely heard the anger in Zhou Buyi's tone. He remembered clearly how helpless and angry Zhou Buyi was when facing the immigrants who fled their homeland - -Although Qiming had no intention of doing so, Zhou Buyi heard that going to the moon itself was tantamount to leaving China and heading to other foreign lands in order to escape the demonic dynasty.

Regardless of whether he was going or not, just doing the thing itself was an escape for Zhou Buyi.

So Su Zhou stepped forward and patted the other party on the shoulder from behind: "Open your horizons, an old guy over a hundred years old, don't act out of emotion - from another perspective, you are opening up a way forward for your world. Woolen cloth."

Then, Su Zhou winked at Shao Qiming on one side, indicating that he would do the talking next, while Shao Qiming shrugged and stood aside.

"Listen, friend, let's not talk about the nature of this matter. Don't you want to lead the Tianzheng Alliance to continue to develop? But in fact, this matter will inevitably reach a bottleneck."

Ordinary trolls are just simple refutations, but as an epic troll, what Su Zhou is best at is finding out what a person is most concerned about, and then focusing on that aspect with eccentricity and repeated questioning, which will make the person angry enough to make him die. Of course, this ability is also a unique skill when used to persuade people: "Civilization is inert. After it develops to a certain level, without stimulation, it will not progress rapidly, but will stagnate."

This is of course not a boast by Su Zhou, but a fact - Earth's fairy civilization is a typical example. Their technological explosion stage occurred during the war with the mythical beast group, and the second technological explosion occurred internally. Factions fought, and after the status of many forces stabilized, their progress rate dropped greatly. Even the zero updates brought about by their extremely long lifespan made them lack new blood.

The same is true in the world of Shenmu - when everyone in a civilization has enough to eat, most people will not think about rebelling and overthrowing the existing regime. Naturally, there will be no large-scale chaos, but they will just keep getting by. Stability, technology is naturally the same, and then shows serious involution.

Zhou Buyi himself knew this very well, so he wanted to make civilization move forward by creating threats.

Therefore, Su Zhou gave a better suggestion: "First of all, if your body goes to the moon, it does not mean that your clones need to go - and I don't think that the 'space monsters' coming from the moon will bring Is the excitement of the Tianzheng Alliance far greater than any monster that appears on earth?"

This point impressed Zhou Buyi almost instantly. He frowned, then relaxed. The man pinched his chin and said suddenly: "That's right!"

In fact, before this, he was still worried about how to make up the origins of the monsters that would appear in the future. After all, the entire earth had been roughly explored by the Tianzheng Alliance. It was okay to hide it from ordinary people, but the top leaders of the alliance basically did not May be deceived.

However, if it is a space monster from the moon... that would be perfect! After all, who knows what space is like these days? Even Zhou Buyi himself only knew that the moon was an empty, uninhabited satellite with no atmosphere and an extremely harsh environment through the introduction of astronomers.

In this regard, Su Zhou struck while the iron was hot: "Think about it! Since the monsters come from the moon, and in order to eradicate the attacks of the monsters, the Tianzheng Alliance will always develop the technology to go to outer space, right? It may seem like a crisis, but it actually leads civilization to the direction of Guidance from the distant stars! This is also a way to promote social progress.”

"What's more, I feel that with your divine tree body, going to the moon is not just about avoiding the Banyan Immortal Tree...Zhou Buyi, you can use your own power to open up a future for mankind in this world!"

When Su Zhou's words reached this point, even Zhou Buyi felt that they were a bit overrated: "I've passed it, I've said it..."

But at this time, Su Zhou was immersed in his own thoughts. He lowered his head and said thoughtfully: "The sacred tree itself will transform the place into an environment suitable for one's own survival. If a sacred tree is thrown to the moon, Hundreds of years from now, there will be at least a large 'sacred tree ecosystem' on the moon. Yes, the changes of the sacred trees to the world's environment are sometimes not a bad thing. They are engineers born in the era of interstellar colonization, used to transform the planet's environment. !”

Naturally, Zhou Buyi in the sacred tree world did not understand the talk of interstellar colonization and transformation of the planet's environment, but he vaguely noticed that Su Zhou was getting more and more interested: "If this sacred tree still has human will, It can spontaneously convert spiritual energy and local materials to create a regional ecological cycle... Then as it advances, it will be easy to transform an entire planet and make it livable!"

After finishing talking to himself, Su Zhou raised his head and looked at Zhou Buyi. His eyes were full of eagerness to try: "Although it was Qi Ming who started it, now I really think that letting you go to the moon is a good idea!"

Zhou Buyi: "?"

Shao Qiming: "Did you think this was not a good idea before?"

"Of course not!"

Su Zhou, who knew that what he said was wrong, quickly made amends and explained: "What I mean is, apart from the purpose of letting Zhou Buyi survive in the first place, I found that this was unexpectedly consistent with Zhou Buyi's own thoughts and goals. "

After explaining that he was not casually agreeing but seriously agreeing, Su Zhou became more interested: "According to the development of the Tianzheng Alliance, as long as it does not collapse itself in the future, it is foreseeable that the World Alliance will be established in the next hundred years. And because there was no world war, the population explosion during this period would have been enough to crowd the entire planet.”

"At that time, even if they are unwilling, they will have only a few options - family planning, world war, and opening up a new world. The first two are to reduce the population, but the latter can be done through Zhou Buyi and a hundred years as time. Slowly guide them to the moon - and by then, Zhou Buyi's incarnation of the sacred tree should be able to create ecosystems on the moon. By then, whether they are starting from the moon, heading to other satellites, or continuing to transform the moon , establishing a lunar colony is a possibility for future development."

Hearing this, Shao Qiming also thought along this line of thinking: "Yes, and Zhou Buyi's incarnation of the sacred tree, the tree of inheritance, can be divided into clones, which is suitable for taking root in various places on the moon and creating independent ecologies. Circles, and then connect them in parallel in the future... The premise is that Zhou Buyi can go to the moon and survive on it."

That's a good question. In this regard, as the center of the topic, Zhou Buyi could only smile bitterly. He stared at the immortal Banyan tree at his feet for a while with a complex expression, and then shook his head: "Okay, I am indeed almost two hundred years old. Naturally, he won’t be as impulsive as he was when he was young.”

"Since the Banyan Immortal Tree and I cannot coexist on this planet, it is almost inevitable that I will go to other planets - as for whether I can survive, there is no need to worry about it. The toughness of the sacred tree is far beyond that of ordinary life. I It’s not like I’ve never been to the top of the atmosphere. The most important thing is how to get there.”

Whether he wants to go is a mental issue, and how to go is a technical issue. Shao Qiming was still hesitant about this. He felt that if some rocket-related technologies were handed over to Shenmu World, would it be an act of betrayal in a certain sense? , he also wanted to urge Su Zhou to transfer the technology without authorization just because the other party was his friend.

But his thinking mode is not pioneering enough, at least not as pioneering as Su Zhou's.

"This is not easy. After you calculate the data yourself, you can just fly there."

With that said, Su Zhou stretched out his hand, and hundreds of mist seeds soared out of his body like fireflies, and then turned into illusory light patterns, quickly condensing part of the rocket with spiritual energy as its structural guidance in the atmosphere. The driving force model.

He controlled the rocket model to fly in mid-air, and said in a matter-of-fact tone: "With your spiritual energy, you only need to push yourself. At the same time, prepare some spiritual energy formations to assist acceleration, and bring more spiritual energy to the world. With spiritual materials and elixirs, it shouldn’t be difficult to break through ten kilometers per second.”

Zhou Buyi thought thoughtfully and nodded: "That makes sense."

Shao Qiming: "?"

Although he was momentarily shocked by Su Zhou's overly extraordinary answer, when Shao Qiming thought about it carefully, he suddenly realized that for an extraordinary person, going to the moon is really not something that requires too much concern.

The reason why the earth landed on the moon in the past was because at that time, all the major forces in the world were competing with each other for the speed of space development. In terms of Zhengguo alone, not to mention preliminary research and development, launching satellites to explore the details of the lunar surface, selecting landing sites, etc., the entire project cost hundreds of billions, involving tens of thousands of enterprises and departments from all walks of life, and 108 A and B institutes. The other academies, as well as other major-level academies, all gave full support, and even the public opinion environment and the people of Zhengguo were willing to raise funds for this.

However, because the spiritual energy was cut off at that time, there were many things to worry about in this project - the safety of astronauts, landing details, rocket thrust-to-weight ratio, fuel selection, payload selection, repeated surveys of safe landing sites, Corresponding extravehicular activity training, etc... Human beings are a fragile species after all. They are not a one-time deal. After sending people up, they have to send them back safely.

However, in the extraordinary world, things are much simpler - rockets? Although the single-person output of extraordinary beings at the command level cannot match that of rockets, they only need to transport themselves. Coupled with the help of some magic circles and magic weapons, their ultimate speed may even be faster than that of rockets, and as long as they have spiritual power, With high control, they are more flexible than rockets. It is really not difficult to break through the gravity of the earth and go to the moon.

Material resistance? Zhou Buyi can travel to the mantle. As long as he continues to improve his practice and fine-tune the outer shell, it will only be a short-term adjustment problem comparable to rocket armor.

Landing position? Stop being funny, Zhou Buyi crashed into the moon, it was definitely the moon that was injured, not him.

As for vitality... If you have to compare the adaptability and vitality of the environment, even Su Zhou would not dare to say that he is stronger than the sacred trees. There is light and earth on the moon, and there is aura in space. This is enough for a commander-level leader. The strong ones survived.

These are also the reasons why Zhengguo chose Su Zhou as the leader of the exploration team to explore the back of the moon - there is nothing else. Even if the rocket going back explodes and everyone else is dead, Su Zhou can still survive until the first person sent by Zhengguo. Two spaceships took him home. This stability alone made him the perfect choice for captain.

The only problem may be the calculation of the moon's orbit and the selection of the launch time and location. This requires a long period of calculation and many trials and errors to find the perfect answer. After all, the Shenmu world is different from the earth. Even if Su Zhou He and Shao Qiming were willing to give the information to Zhou Buyi, but Zhou Buyi couldn't use it.

But Zhou Buyi himself expressed that he didn't care about this: "I have more than a hundred clones. Just try them one by one. Even if they are all used up, I can just create them again... In fact, those are actually my true body. It's just that the 'body' I'm using now has the greatest power."

After more than a hundred or even more trial and error opportunities, as long as he succeeds once, he can be declared a complete success. Shao Qiming has never heard of such a simple and convenient way to go to the moon without much trouble and fatigue.

Although many things are just an idea now, the general framework has been constructed. Whether it is the guidance of the future of the civilization of the sacred tree world or the incompatibility between Zhou Buyi and the Panyan Immortal Tree, it has now been roughly understood. Solution.

It was impossible for Su Zhou to do more about this. In the final analysis, this was Zhou Buyi and Shenmu World's own affairs. As a friend from another world, it was already his limit to reach this point.

In this regard, Zhou Buyi also sincerely thanked Shao Qiming and Su Zhou several times.

"Although it's just an idea, to me, the idea is the most important."

After saying this, he raised his head, looked at the sky, and smiled with a vicissitude: "Guiding a civilization to go to the stars, to the moon... This kind of thing is very romantic when you think about it."

An old man who was nearly two hundred years old was inspired to fight because of a seemingly absurd suggestion and plan.

In response, Shao Qiming shook his head: "Su Zhou's thoughts are always so romantic that he forgets about the difficulties and dangers along the way... Zhou Buyi, going to the moon is a very lonely thing, even if you really Although they have succeeded, the construction on it is also very boring, and the development of technology may not be that fast. It may take dozens or hundreds of years before they can barely reach the moon."

"Loneliness?"

While chanting in a low voice, Zhou Buyi looked at Su Zhou, and the two 'immortals' looked at each other.

Su Zhou could see that in the other person's eyes, there was a fire that was very similar to the fire that burned in the eyes of the young man who was about to eradicate the demon dynasty when he first met him more than a hundred years ago.

Difficulty is never a reason to stop action, it is just an adjective and it will be overcome.

"Immortal, immortal...Am I not lonely among this bustling crowd?"

After making eye contact with Su Zhou, Zhou Buyi burst out laughing. He turned around and walked towards the edge of the top of the sacred tree. The lonely man repeated: "It would be better to say that this is the only one with the power of the sacred tree. I, only the immortal, can do this!"

The long conversation with Zhou Buyi was over.

The communication with the Banyan Immortal Tree did not last long - the thinking of the sacred tree and humans were not on the same channel at all.

Through a brief exchange, Su Zhou knew that the Panyan Immortal Tree had indeed taken root on this planet, and in the past hundred years, no one had ever used the power of the sacred tree derived from it.

Zhou Buyi was different. He used a tricky method to obtain the powers that the Panyan Immortal Tree had separated out a long time ago and originated from the Demon Emperor and Demon Dynasty, so he happened to avoid the detection of the Panyan Immortal Tree.

After confirming this information, Su Zhou ended the call with the other party. Anyway, for this kind of sacred tree that lasts for one hundred and fifty years, everything in the world is just a fleeting drama, and they never I care about them and never observe them, because only all things exist through them, not the other way around.

And this unconscious arrogance may be the reason why the final fate of Shenmu in many myths is not so good.

"...Almost, all the things that should be done in this world are over. I have met my old friends, the situation of the Shenmu has been confirmed, the Blade of Destruction is about to advance, and my own practice has also passed through the battle with Zhou Buyi It has been confirmed and slightly improved, not to mention the technology and information, which is a great harvest."

Zhou Buyi's figure has gone away. He probably went to find his staff and astronomers to calculate basic information such as the moon's orbit. Su Zhou showed off to Shao Qiming on the top of the sacred tree, "This is me." The place where the Demon Emperor was impaled on the pillar with one shot! ’ After that, they stood on the edge with each other, looking down at the vast world around them.

The clouds are floating. The weather in Nantianjing has been very good recently. From time to time, white clouds like snow float towards the top of the sacred tree like ocean waves. Some flowing clouds cannot touch the top and can only pass below it, but there are still some The huge clouds can engulf the top of the towering sacred tree. Coupled with the strong wind howling high in the sky, it really feels like touching the clouds and waves.

After Su Zhou missed his original excitement, he sighed. He turned his head nostalgically and looked at the Victory Memorial Hall on the side. Then he stepped forward and walked slowly in that direction: "In a while, , it’s time to go back.”

Shao Qiming followed Su Zhou. He didn't understand what his friend wanted to do at first, but as Su Zhou reached into his arms and took out the photo of himself and Zhou Bu, he I vaguely understand.

——Even if it is just a temporary friendship, a short-term fight side by side, friendship is friendship, and it will not change due to time and the death of one party.

He followed Su Zhou's footsteps and saw him stepping into the Victory Memorial Hall. As the most famous heroes in the entire Shenmu world and praised by the world, all the forerunners of hundreds of families who participated in the fight against the Demon Dynasty and fought against the Demon Emperor and Demon Generals in the past have their ashes here, each one bearing the memory of all their lives. Stone tablets of deeds are erected in the museum, as if narrating that period of history and stories to all visitors.

Su Zhou walked past all the stone steles and tombstones. He remembered the names of most of the people and their faces - Da Zongjiang, Mo Ganxiu, Li Daoran, Wei Lie, Fang Hui, Liu Xizhao... Su Zhou He remembered clearly that his Lan Jia, bow skills and thunder skills all came from this world, and the national master was indeed the first difficult enemy he encountered.

Naturally, this is not something to be sad about. The people here are all heroes. They have achieved fame, their ideals have come true, and their achievements have been sung by the world and will be immortalized.

So Su Zhou just smiled and nodded to these stone tablets one by one, and then walked to the center of the innermost row of stone sculptures in the memorial hall.

He found his name.

[Kunlun Martial Saint-Su Zhou]

[——In the first year of the New Calendar, in New Nantianjing, in the first month of winter, Su Zhou, the martial saint of Kunlun, fought the Demon Emperor alone on the top of the Immortal Tree in the Yongning Heavenly Palace with a magic sword. They fought hard for a while. 】

[——The Martial Saint used a secret method to summon thunder to strike the Demon Emperor, killing him from heaven, and then split his four bodies with a divine sword, showing his head. 】

[——The Demon Emperor conferred the head, and the Demon Dynasty was destroyed. 】

【——The world is at peace. 】

[The birth and death are unknown, and the appearance is unknown, but only a monument can be erected to commemorate it]

Next to this stone monument, there is an empty space. Su Zhou knows very well that that is the space Zhou Buyi left for himself - if one day he dies, his monument will be erected here, with these old friends. Sleep together.

Standing in front of his monument, Su Zhou thought for a moment. Then, he turned around and looked at all the stone tablets in the entire memorial hall.

He threw the photo of Zhou Buyi and Zhou Buyi, the two remaining 'undead', behind him. The floating photo fell along a slow trajectory, and then it ignited purple-green flames in mid-air and slowly melted. As ashes, scattered on the ground.

"I'm back to see you - I hope you can still be here and be praised when I come back next time."

Said calmly, Su Zhou took another step and walked out of the memorial hall with Shao Qiming.

——Those things that should not be forgotten are the so-called things that are praised.

The day after tomorrow, evening.

The Blade of Annihilation has been advanced.

This chapter is a bit long, but the plot of returning to the world of the sacred tree is over, and I feel very satisfied. However, some points may be a bit obscure. For example, the thoughts of Su Zhou and Zhou Buyi should be made clearer.