The Captain also came over, the "creator" of the whole new world now sat with Yu Sheng by the mound of the excavated grave.The Captain did not express an opinion on Yu Sheng's "car accident site" conclusion, merely sighing after a moment of contemplation: "To be honest, you're indeed quite complex—I even dug in a shovel."
Yu Sheng turned his head, looking at the Captain with a curious expression, and the Captain spread his hands: "Back when I buried you, I casually stuck the shovel here as a gravestone, and the other day I came to check, the shovel was gone."
Yu Sheng slapped his forehead, sighed, and remained silent for a long while.
Then he felt the Captain next to him bump his arm, handing over something: "Want one?"
Yu Sheng waved his hand: "No thanks, I don't smoke."
"Not cigarettes, it's mint candy."
Yu Sheng turned his head in surprise, seeing the Captain's calm face: "My daughter won't let me smoke."
Yu Sheng didn't even know what expression he had on as he took the mint candy from the Captain, putting it in his mouth while muttering: "Honestly, this place, and you yourself, are nothing like I imagined."
"Your current state also doesn't match what I imagined," the Captain said slowly, "Agatha recently mentioned to me that she encountered the spirituality of the God of Death in the internal universe, and my first reaction was you would complain to me about the 'after-sales service,' after all, I promised eternal rest...what happened afterward was a whole heap of unexpected complications."
"You can't really blame yourself for that," Yu Sheng's face twitched, "Whose good grave ever got attacked twice by a Dark Angel? I can only blame my grave's bad feng shui..."
He paused for a moment, thoughtfully muttering: "In that case, the Boundary Land is actually the real first Angel...right? In all aspects, it fits the definition of a Dark Angel's descent."
"...You could say that," the Captain nodded, "The only difference is that upon descending into this universe, it immediately completed the 'local conversion' process, while retaining most of its information and mass—much luckier than other debris that fell into the reality universe."
Yu Sheng frowned, thoughtfully speaking: "Then can this process be directly applied to others..."
Before he finished, the Captain shook his head: "I'm afraid not."
"Why?"
"To put it simply, your grave is a non-renewable resource."
Yu Sheng: "...No need to put it so simply."
The Captain laughed.
"The 'complete conversion' of Boundary Land involved so many contingencies, but I did try to replicate the process since the Dark Angel descending directly into the internal universe carried pollution, making it harmless would be great."
Yu Sheng listened and suddenly felt a stirring in his heart, thinking: "That 'attempt' you mentioned..."
"The Feiyu Star Domain," the Captain said leisurely, "Another region originally not on the creation blueprint."
Yu Sheng slowly widened his eyes, longstanding questions and clues he discovered finally aligning in this moment.
The Taixu Spirit Hub and surrounding stars not initially on the creation blueprint, the unique local historical records of the Feiyu Star Domain, historical illusions revealed in some "Exotic Realms"...
"Right, I've been to that place," Yu Sheng said, "Wait, you mean that place is also...an 'invasion body' smashed in from outside the world?"
"I wouldn't say smashed in, nor invaded, because the process had my acquiescence and guidance," the Captain said calmly, "It was a meticulously planned experiment, and by the results, the experiment itself succeeded."
"Well, the Feiyu Star Domain seems to be operating well now," Yu Sheng immediately said, "Isn't the process replicable then? Why do you say..."
Before he could finish, the Captain cut him off: "The experiment itself succeeded, but at a high cost—the forced conversion and compatibility nearly tore a massive rift in the reality universe, even though the tear was roughly sealed later, it left a dangerous area filled with many gravitational fault lines and spatial tearing points…"
Yu Sheng couldn't help but blink, then heard the Captain continue after a brief pause: "You know the place—that not long ago, a group of cultists created an artificial World Bridge in the gravity fault point of that largest area, and tore a rift on the world barrier. Coincidence or not, you must admit their site selection was spot on."
Yu Sheng listened, dumbfounded: "Whoa...is that how the Dark Meteor Domain cesspit came to be?"
The Captain didn't speak, merely sighing then falling silent, seemingly indulging in thought, motionless for a long time.
And it was only at this moment that Yu Sheng suddenly noticed the fatigue seemingly hidden in the eyes of this "creator" for an unknown duration.
It was a kind of exhaustion from walking an endless journey, spending countless time, and trying innumerable paths but still finding the way ahead unclear.
The candy in my mouth had melted completely, leaving only a bit of chill.
Yu Sheng thought for a moment and said, "Anything I can help with..."
The Captain immediately turned his head: "Been waiting for you to say that."
Yu Sheng: "...Hey, no, why do I feel like I've been tricked?!"
Yet he saw that the Captain in front of him had an unchanged expression, even with a tinge of reflection in his tone: "Old Ba..."
"Stop, stop, stop, at least change your way of addressing," Yu Sheng almost lost his composure upon hearing the first two words, quickly gesturing while saying, "The 'Bartok' you're talking about is barely recognizable now, as someone from a series of car crashes, my current name is 'Yu Sheng.'"
"Lao Yu..."
Yu Sheng: "...Fine, call me whatever you like."
"I truly need your help," the Captain finally became serious, his tone changing accordingly, "Our time is running out—you should know, our Universe is a bright flame within the ruins of world clusters, and beyond the world barrier, many attracted Dark Angels are gathering from the endless Sea of Annihilation.
"Even though most Dark Angels will dissipate during this process, even though the pollution caused by a few Dark Angels entering the real world won't immediately deplete the Universe's lifespan, once this consumption begins, it will eventually render us unable to move an inch.
"The accumulation of numerous world remnants is causing increasingly severe information pollution and interference, so the ark must set sail before the route is entirely blocked, therefore I will start the world engine by any means necessary in the near future."
The Captain spoke, looking intently into Yu Sheng's eyes.
"Whether the calibration of the world engine can be completed before this will directly determine whether our voyage is a confident expedition or a desperate gamble.
"After the Boundary Land agreement with that Angel cluster failed years ago, I made some alternative plans but there are significant limitations to them, so upon learning that you might have unexpectedly awakened and successfully handled several Angel Descent incidents, I revised my plans."
Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow: "What's your plan?"
"The core part is only one, to build another calibrator," the Captain said solemnly, "The core reason for the failure of the Boundary Land plan was the inherent flaws of the Dark Angels—the 'Anchor Projector' itself was fine, but during projection, it couldn't achieve stable space-time anchoring, leading to eventual collapse, and the Boundary Land itself must be constructed from the 'calibration data' carried by the Dark Angels, which complicates the problem...
"But you can solve this problem—you can complete the transformation of the Dark Angels, correctly anchoring them into the space-time structure of the real world..."
Yu Sheng thought for a moment.
His grave cannot be renewed—but it seems like he can.
Although in terms of the specific operation process, his painstaking transformation efficiency on those few Dark Angels is far inferior to the earth-shattering collision on his grave in the Boundary Land back then, but looking at the results alone, the Captain's plan... seems really feasible?
Yu Sheng touched his chin, at this moment he thought of the crystal giant tree in the Soul Wilderness, now towering.
With the Inference Star Body as its framework, the Boundary Land as the blueprint, and Shadowless Skeleton as the nourishment, it has now grown to encompass the entire black church and a vast surrounding high wall, yet this is still not its final form—it can continue to grow, as long as there are suitable new blueprints and new nourishment...
"It's worth a try," Yu Sheng said thoughtfully, touching his chin, and then suddenly became curious, "By the way, what was your original alternative plan? If it weren't for me..."
"...The void engine can use Dark Angels as fuel."
Yu Sheng: "...Huh?!"
"If there's still no way in the end, the engine will still start as planned," the Captain said solemnly, "It is currently in low-power self-sustaining mode, used to maintain the field of order over the static sea, and in my alternative plan, once the engine is fully powered, its main drive sequence will unfold, turning into a massive... capture mechanism.
"At that time, I will lead the Lost Home Fleet to set out, throwing all the Dark Angels encountered along the route into the engine—the information they carry will be decomposed within the engine, used for calibrating deviations and updating the environmental parameters within the Sea of Annihilation.
"Compared with the 'calibrator' plan, this simple and brutal method has very low efficiency, a lot of valuable information will be wasted, and the engine's load will be extremely high, moreover all the Dark Angels along the route—whether they still have hope or not—will become fuel, and quite a few of them... were originally ones I was intending to help."
Yu Sheng: "Well, I'll be damned..."
"The void is just such a place," the Captain lifted his hand, gently patting Yu Sheng's shoulder, "It's not cold, nor hot, it simply... lacks temperature."