Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Once upon a time, the “New Hope City” behind Shannua was a flourishing city with brilliant lights, where countless inhabitants thrived and lived for generations.

But as the vast majority of the residents moved to live on nearby starships, the town appeared spacious and depressed, and to date only those close to Shannua, such as the staff of the Dream Control Bureau, and the Guard.

Yes, the Guard, a very ridiculous organization, Pepe, just approaching the town, saw hundreds of armored warriors practiced by Commander Pepe's brother, Commander Richie, a sparkling weapon, like an ancient cold weapon, with all kinds of incredible geniuses, even tearing up space, and remotely controlling powerful unmanned shuttles, like hundreds of meteors all around, looking mighty —— but just looking.

Honestly, Pepe has never understood the meaning of the existence of the Guard. In theory, the so-called Guard is the organization that protects everyone, right? The problem is that humans, combined with the golden combination of void hunters, have traveled through the stars and oceans for thousands of years without encountering any opponents! Yes, some planets and stars, such as "mountain crabs”, exist in huge quantities that can be countered by void hunters, but the bigger they are, the milder their personality tends to be, the more well they do not break the river, and occasionally exchange valuable resources and information that do not pose any threat to them at all.

And the smaller predators, as Shannua said, as long as their hands waved freely, they were scared to escape hundreds of astronomical units, and with Shannua's protection, what was the raid for?

Pepe thought about this for a long time and finally realized it.

It's some kind of game, isn't it?

It's like staying home.

Because, as a subordinate race of void hunters, life is so boring - every resource, including spiritual energy, and no natural enemy threatens their security, every man has to find a way to please himself in such a boring life.

Pepe's way is to tell a story, and his brother and his friends, who have no way of letting their energy out, learn to play stupid old people, play ridiculous war games, pretend they're big heroes like Tetsuo —— what else can they do if they don't?

At this moment, the guard seemed to encounter something. Brother drank loudly under the closing part, clearly saw that Pepe did not greet her, his eyes and eyebrows were wrapped together, like enemies, his heart was heavy, like his father.

“Well, if you don't say hello to me, I won't say hello to you! ”

Pepe far away made a ghost face at his brother and the youth of the Guard, jumping into "New Hope City”.

The new City of Hope, now almost half occupied by the Dream Control Bureau, is full of three-dimensional, three-dimensional virtual lights, projecting images drawn from the depths of Shannua's mind folds - like a flowing yet incredibly sticky painting, from which experienced psychoanalytic experts can analyze Shannua's most subtle thoughts and emotional responses and develop different control schemes to better delight them.

There are, of course, images of Pepe and Shannua just telling stories that are repeated, every micro-expression on Pepe's face and every neurosynaptic change in Shannua are documented.

This is standard operating procedure, which has been the case for hundreds of years, and Pepe doesn't see anything wrong with it.

She was just surprised that today's Dream Control staff, like the Guard, were panicking and panicking, seemed to have something big going on.

There were also people looking at her with very strange eyes, as if she had caused a terrible disaster, but when she asked, they shook their heads and asked her to ask the director of DMC - her father, Ryan.

“Dad!”

Pepe returned to the mission center of DMC, where the atmosphere was more nervous and serious, his father's plain face was dark, and the shade was so sunk that he could drip ink. He held his thin lips and stared at the indeterminate orangutan on the light screen, caught in constant thinking.

Pepe looked over at Daddy and found that the line was: "Premium alert! ”

What's that supposed to mean?

Pepe was surprised. All she knew was that the last time Shannua jumped with them was a very powerful four-dimensional storm, or that Shannua took the initiative to break hundreds of tentacles to get people out of danger. That time, it was just a "level one alert state”. What kind of crisis could be called a “premium"!

Pepe thinks it has something to do with him.

Is it because you accepted the “Infinite Flowers" from Shannua? No way!

“Dad?”

The girl screamed carefully again, "What do you mean, we did something wrong? Yes, the flower? ”

“No, you didn't do anything wrong, and that flower wasn't the most critical factor. ”

Daddy finally retracted his gaze and blurred her, “It's none of your business here, go back and get some rest and let some mentors help you regain your spirituality - there's something important to do in the next few days, we're going to help Shannua ‘reborn’. ”

Perhaps it was Dad who said it too easily and calmly, and Pepe didn't react for a while to mean "rebirth," but when she carefully chewed the meaning of the two words, her face turned miserably white and her eyes left only tension and fear.

Unlike humans, void hunters reproduce in a way that resembles "split reproduction”, and when a void hunter moves to the end of his life, it explodes proactively and blows away several tentacles, one of which is bound to become a new void hunter.

So, “rebirth," which means “death."

But the normal life expectancy of a void hunter is long, measured even by human standards, and Shannua is still a “young man”. No, it is still a “child” who knows nothing, far away, far from the time of extinction!

They're gonna kill it!

Humans kill empty hunters on their own!

Daddy, Daddy and Brother, and all the people who live in Shannua, these Pepe loved ones, friends and compatriots, are going to kill Shannua!

“Why?”

Pepe came out of his mouth, "Because of a flower? ”

“It's not about flowers, it's about finally asking that question. ”

Dad explained to her peacefully, "Finally, it asks you, why is it 'Shannua’? ”

Pepe has no idea: "So what? That doesn't mean anything! ”

“This suggests that its mind is maturing, its self-consciousness is cohesive, touching and exceeding the threshold. ”

Dad says, "It starts thinking about an extremely dangerous question, ‘Who am I’? ”