Chapter 904: A Kindred Understanding
Amidst chaotic thoughts, Miss Suzuka widened her eyes and gazed at the starry sky.
The stellar river was splendid, quietly lighting up the serene night, dazzlingly brilliant and eternally bright.
And on this star-studded night, it seemed as if Miss Suzuka’s mind unconsciously left her body, soaring towards the mountains, the earth, and the sky, eventually transcending the entire mortal world, flying towards the blazing sun, the spiraling galaxy, seemingly reaching the edge of cosmic space-time...
Well, truthfully, it wasn’t that mystical.
It was merely idle thoughts, daydreaming without focus, drifting who knows to which dimension in the universe...
Her head ached, truly ached dearly, even her brother’s issues were temporarily cast aside by Miss Suzuka. Although she did not realize it herself, indeed all her thinking circuits and processing threads were occupied, leaving no spare capacity to contemplate counteracting her brother’s problems.
A subtly momentary forgetfulness of these matters.
Due to receiving strange informational impacts, she did not feel well at all, inexplicably acquiring a daughter... yet she was still a young maiden herself, wasn’t it incredibly strange?
Even though she had long heard of the stories of the rare ones...
She knew these heroes from the past or future would invariably encounter each other because of the same brilliance...
Originally, there might be some entangled karma, perhaps the same legacy, perhaps a cross-era vendetta, or perhaps a joint grand demon opposition by generations...
These could all be important factors that drew the rare ones across ages to lend a hand, because it couldn’t magically summon Heroic Spirits from the past or the future without a binding artifact or special connection to meet by chance.
"The same brilliance" might also represent that kind of fateful connection and linkage.
Thus, it was indeed likely for them to have some entanglements and relationships, but never did she imagine it to be such a situation.
She didn’t even know how she returned, and couldn’t face that black-haired girl, or rather didn’t know how to face that black-haired girl... There was no concept of this before, naturally no mental preparation.
Daughter...
Her own daughter...
There was absolutely no real sense of it.
Miss Suzuka couldn’t help but sigh deeply and abruptly sat up. She wasn’t with those people, but in her tumult, she found a place on her own, resting at a high point in the village, claiming to keep watch or something, mainly wanting some quiet herself.
If she stayed with her daughter, she’d have no idea how to cope, terribly flustered, and clueless how to handle it.
Taking advantage of the high ground, she looked down towards the village, ideally overlooking the entire village, just managing to see the blazing bonfire in another resting place, where three people lit a fire in the village, appearing very warm in the still night.
After a slight hesitation, Miss Suzuka bit her lip once more—
She didn’t know how many times she did this action tonight; it seemed like the psychological pressure she was bearing today was magnitudes larger than her entire life’s encounters combined, causing worry to the point of potential hair loss.
As if making some form of decision, she continually encouraged herself in her heart, finally summoning the courage, or perhaps stiffening her resolve, to stand up and leap gently from the high ground, moving towards the bonfire at the village’s far end.
Anyway, she couldn’t sleep, the more she thought, the more confused, the more chaotic...
Trying to pretend not to see, she’d still unavoidably care, and with such a significant matter, how could it be as if nothing happened...
Miss Suzuka couldn’t find a time machine, but after half the night, she more or less calmed down, realizing constant avoidance wouldn’t solve anything, even if she was still very young and immature, her personality was steady and responsible.
If that’s the case—
Then face it!
With this determination and resolve, she walked toward the bonfire.
...
...
The flames roared, illuminating a broad area around.
This was a wide and level piece of land in the village, being relatively remote meant it wasn’t stained with bloodshed or murder. After all, those who could escape definitely tried to, whilst those who hid would only tremble in fear and despair in their homes.
Basically, no villagers would purposely come to this open space, after all, with no cover, it would just be to await slaughter...
Precisely because it was relatively clean, after some tidying, it became the chosen location where Gu Mo settled to rest tonight.
The firewood in the flames crackled continuously, and the young man casually broke another piece to place into the blaze.
The night was deep and silent, all sounds ceased, creating an atmosphere of peace and tranquility.
But upon closer inspection, this silence felt somewhat eerie, amidst the quiet night, even insects didn’t chirp, making the air seem more dead, perhaps due to being terrified by the earlier slaughter, or the fragile life forms were also impacted.
In short, the area near the village has become a desolate zone, akin to a forbidden zone of Life, silent and lifeless.
Only the campfire burning here brings traces of life back to this completely lifeless village for this night.
But it is limited to this night only. Once these few people depart, the village on this treacherous mountain path will become abandoned. Perhaps during this period, there might be a few shifts, with newcomers migrating into this secluded mountain village to escape war and famine. However, ultimately, it will be completely abandoned after eight hundred years...
As for what happens afterward, well, there probably won’t be any more changes.
"Unless those Demons fancy living in villages..."
Gu Mo looked around and murmured to himself.
He was measuring the environmental conditions of this area, planning to designate the region near Suzuka Sando as an undisturbed nature reserve in the future. It won’t be overly developed, and industrial construction will be kept at a distance, allowing the natural ecology and beauty here to be preserved.
Such ecological reserves are very necessary in terms of their existence.
Moreover, many mysterious-side residents who cooperate with management work and adhere to management regulations and registration laws aren’t particularly fond of urbanization and industrialization—
It’s just right to arrange for them or these creatures to live in these undisturbed nature reserves, forming a win-win situation.
After all, Earth is actually very large. If it can be organized under a single voice, without too much malicious competition and internal consumption, then for a very long time, there wouldn’t be a concern about a lack of living space and resources.
Furthermore, as long as the pre-set plan is executed smoothly, the inhabitants of Earth will be able to leave their home planet without reaching Earth’s limit of supply capacity. Gu Mo is fully confident in this, because the most suitable planet for colonization, Mars, has already had a starship directly dropped onto it by him—
Of course not in this era, but in the era he comes from, eight hundred years later.
That starship is a product of recreating the blueprint designs of the machine god Poseidon, which is a work ship for planetary environment modification. It allows the planetary environment to be transformed into pre-set parameters, with main functions related to climate rehabilitation and terrain modification.
It doesn’t require too much time for that starship to complete planetary environment modification. Mars will become a stepping stone to help intelligent civilizations on Earth transition to the stars and develop the entire Solar System... through the power of time, he slightly observed the future trajectory.
The mainstream timeline truly has a promising trend, very optimistic.
Investing more resources and energy into this world, treating it as the main focus of operation, is undoubtedly worthwhile. He abandoned the ultimate form of super-giant motherships for interstellar navigation and the celestial sphere-type space-time fortress. Although the scale and functions of Chaos made him envious, it wasn’t suitable to set the target too high at present.
The Sun is the central celestial body of the Solar System, holding over ninety-nine percent of the mass of the entire star system. Just attempting to create a Dyson Sphere structure capable of enveloping the entire star is already a matter where dismantling the entire Solar System wouldn’t suffice for the material needs.
It’s unknown how many star systems would need to be dismantled to reach that point—
All one can say is that a truly divine civilization is capable of initiating such a miracle project.
Gu Mo wasn’t planning on dismantling the entire Solar System, but instead adopted a different approach, preparing to thoroughly develop and utilize the Solar System and shape the entire star system into his own mirror reflection... although this requires a long time to create, it’s much simpler than directly building a star-system-sized spaceship.
Gazing at the silently spiraling galaxy that has burned for billions of years in the night sky, Gu Mo watched thoughtfully.
If one could roam the sea of stars like a Predatory Wandering Star, freely exploring the secrets of the universe... this realm is truly the desirable height.
Pat, pat, pat...
Soft footsteps came from not far away. He withdrew his gaze and raised an eyebrow.
Miss Suzuka approached. At first, she braced herself with a determined expression, but as she walked, she inevitably began to feel a bit timid, her steps slowing, growing heavier. However, the arrow was on the string and had to be released; having come this far, she couldn’t turn back now, could she?
Seeing the young man on night watch across from her turning his head to look, she instantly felt uneasy, almost wanting to flee.
"Good evening, Miss Suzuka..."
Gu Mo smiled as he spoke, then saw the two girls dressed as witches on the other side also become aware, opening their eyes.
"Good evening..."
Suzuka Imperial Lady slightly breathed a sigh of relief. At her strong suggestion, the other party at least returned to normal in terms of how they addressed her; she truly wasn’t prepared for this.
She gently bit her lower lip, looking past the flames to the black-haired girl opposite her who, at first glance, gave her a sense of closeness and familiarity. Still uncomfortably averting her gaze, she felt unable to withstand the scorching look from her daughter, even though the joy and intimacy were genuine...
Is she really my daughter?
This thought arose in her mind, then self-doubt quickly followed and was negated...
After all, there was no evidence from mere words, but the other party had indeed produced proof, proof that blood is thicker than water... that was the main reason Suzuka Imperial Lady felt deeply shocked and was completely at a loss for how to respond. Retracting her gaze, she smiled wryly and spoke helplessly:
"I... I don’t know what to say, this matter is really strange..."
"I understand, I understand..."
The young man with white clothes and black hair opposite nodded deeply, seemingly understanding very well.