Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Pepe hears dizziness and feels just a little red and dark in front of her. She instinctively feels Dad's words aren't right, but she doesn't know exactly what the problem is - she is a kind and simple girl who always thinks that "good” and “simple” can solve everything in the universe.

“Bullshit, bullshit! ”

She trembled all over herself, a sore collision deep in her nose, constantly telling herself, never cry, she has grown up, she is no longer the little girl who cries her nose if she has nothing to do, she must protect Shannua, if she wants to protect Shannua, she cannot cry, “These are Dad's guesses, it is you adults who are too much heart, I will not make Shannua monster, I promise! ”

“Promise? What do you guarantee? ”

Dad's voice got colder and colder, "Compared to us humans, it was a monster, a demon, and all we could do was slow it down for as long as we could, but in the end, no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you persevere, this day will come.

“Don't rush to refute it, think about it, and look at this information - this top-secret information is the void hunter of the past, the scourge of the past, keep your eyes open, face it, my daughter! ”

Daddy clicked on the light screen empty-handedly, showing Pepe the full spectrum of images and data of dozens of disasters.

Pepe cannot describe what he sees in words, nor can he describe his mood at this moment with pen ink.

In some images, the tentacle fragments of a void hunter and the debris of a broken starship blend together to become a cemetery drifting in the star sea.

In some images, the angry void hunter really came from a four-dimensional space, like Dad said, demons that humans couldn't understand, waving tens of thousands of kilometers of tentacles, grinding a ripple of destruction in a three-dimensional universe.

There are also images of a series of cold numbers, and a line of pale names, such as the River Pluto, that flow silently and silently, as if they never end up flowing.

“From the moment we humankind first encountered the Vacant Hunter, this enormous thing beyond our cognitive reach has existed in the form of 'two sides of the Divine Devil', which can shelter us from the threat of 90 per cent of the scourge in the universe and multiply our cruise thousands of times, but at the same time it has become our most horrific memory, a scourge that will kill hundreds of millions of people at any given time. ”

Dad said, "Yes, my dear girl, you have to tell me —— the void hunters are unintentional, they have no idea of the concept of life and death, they have no idea how much harm they've done to us, they have no idea of how terrible a havoc can be caused by their slight convulsions and tremors!

“But if you think about it, isn't that the scariest part?

“What do we do when a void hunter's 'unintentional' actions can cause the loss of hundreds of millions of human lives and one day it suddenly awakens a self that we cannot understand and suddenly decides to do something ‘consciously' and suddenly decides to become a true 'Shannua’? What should we do?”

Pepe doesn't know.

She suddenly felt like Daddy had teeth and claws, much like the frantic void hunters on the light screen.

She's scared.

But I don't know if I'm more afraid of my father in front of me, or the out-of-control, void hunters.

“You're kind, Pepe, it's not a bad thing - in today's dark universe, ‘goodness' has become a very rare quality, like the brightest gemstone, and I want you to be good forever. ”

Dad saw the fear on Pepe's face, his expression became somewhat tangled and sad, and he laughed bitterly, "But I hope you understand that what we are discussing now has nothing to do with ‘kindness', that a man with a gun and a man without a gun will never be able to be friends, even if a man with a gun is kinder, how can he promise never to use his gun, especially when there is only one bun in front of them?

“To maintain their friendship, unless both have guns, or both have no guns, do you understand what I'm saying? ”

“No.”

Pepe shook his head, "Dad and my brother loved dancing knives to get guns, but I just don't understand —— what do we need guns for? If you look at the stars, you won't find many heterosexuals. You need to shoot them. ”

“Silly boy, guns are not originally invented to kill heretics. ”

Dad laughed and said, "Forget it, these complicated and difficult things, if you can't figure them out, don't think about it. Anyway, we're not really going to kill Shannua, we're just going to reborn it —— you should know, the life form of a void hunter is very peculiar, in a way, it's 'immortal', and even if we help it ‘explode’ by artificial intervention, its tentacles will still survive and become a new generation of Shannua.

“Perhaps you can become a new Sannua dreamer and tell it all the stories. ”

Pepe frowned and thought for a long time.

Then the girl shook her head gently.

“No.”

She said earnestly, "The tentacles after the ‘blast' will lose the memories and consciousness of the past and turn into a horrible embryo, not today's Shannua, even if one day it will grow up again. ”

“It's all Shannua. ”

Dad said, "What's the difference? ”

“Yes.”

Pepe said, "None of the other Shannuas are 'my Shannuas', even though there are many, many empty hunters named Shannuas, but only one of them is' Prince of Shannuas’. ”

“Looks like you and your ‘Prince Shannua' have a really deep relationship. ”

Daddy closed his eyes and lowered his voice, “Or, our ‘Prince Shannua’ has developed an incredible neural network in the dark, controlling an extremely powerful spiritual force, able to interfere with the will of a human being! ”

“No!”

Pepe hastily said, "Everything I say is in my heart, it's my own idea, it has nothing to do with Sanua! ”

“We'll figure this out. Now, get some rest. ”

Daddy shrugged, “Wait, I changed my mind, Pepe, you should go to the hospital and rest for two days, and the next thing you know, let the other dreamers take care of it. - Richie? ”

Brother appeared behind Pepe and pressed her shoulder not lightly. The girl never felt her brother's armor was so cold.

“No...”

Pepe looked wide, "You can't do this! ”

“Send your sister to the hospital and have her head examined by a meditator. ”

Daddy said to his brother with no expression, "Don't let her leave the hospital for two, no, three days. ”