Volume 3 Chapter 159 Who is the second son of mankind?
There are quite a few oracles in the history of the earth, but they are all fake, made up by charlatans.
So when Lin Xu encountered a real oracle for the first time, he actually found it quite interesting.
Although, Lin Xu does not think that a planetary consciousness can be considered a god.
The leader of the descendants of the Protectors, the Grand Commander Erofat.
A large reception room was specially prepared for Lin Xu to meet the Archbishop of the Dur sect.
To be honest, in fact, over the years, the relationship between the Dur Sect and the Floating Continent has been far from good.
There are even conflicts from time to time.
The main reason is that the Dur sect developed the belief in the god Dur on the floating continent.
Although the Floating Continent has not publicly declared that believing in the god Dur is illegal, it has been cracking down on the Dur sect.
Therefore, the Durr sect's organization on the floating continent has gradually transformed into an underground secret organization.
This makes the attack on the floating continent even more difficult.
In short, the two sides have been fighting openly and secretly, so naturally their relationship will not be good.
But when the Archbishop of the Dur sect came to him openly, although Elofat was unhappy, he still received him according to etiquette.
It was not until Commander-in-Chief Erofat accompanied Lin Xu to the reception room and met the Archbishop of the Dur sect, who was shrouded in a colorful robe.
The archbishop first expressed his respect to Lin Xu, and then handed a list to Erofat before presenting the so-called oracle.
"What is this?" Erofat was a little surprised as he looked through the list, because there were even quite a few middle-level officials from the floating continent that he was familiar with on the list, and these middle-level officials even occupied very important positions.
"This is the latest list of all members of the Durr sect on the floating continent. Some of them have done many things that violate the sect's purpose under the banner of the sect. Recently, someone reported that they wanted to send someone to assassinate Mr. Lin Xu. So I handed over this list just to show the sincerity of my Durr sect. What they did was not instructed by the sect, but was merely their private behavior." The archbishop said righteously.
In fact, to put it bluntly, I am just deliberately showing weakness and goodwill, throwing out some small pawns to indicate that I don’t know about these things and they have nothing to do with me.
"Great, thank you for the honesty of the Dur sect. I will order people to arrest everyone on the list right away." Erofat said as he handed the list to the secretary beside him and gestured.
The secretary nodded and turned to leave.
On this side, after the show of goodwill was over, the archbishop finally spoke to Lin Xu.
"Mr. Lin Xu, I am here to express my respect to you on behalf of God Dur. God Dur has always respected humans and believes that there should be no conflicts between God Dur and humans." The archbishop observed Lin Xu's reaction cautiously.
I believe that he has not been so cautious since he became the archbishop.
But facing humans, he had to do so.
Everything has been explained in the oracle of the god Dur. His trip was to express submission to mankind on behalf of the god Dur.
I just hope that humans don’t crush him like they did with the Outer God Yogg-thas before.
As the archbishop, he could clearly feel the fear of God Dur.
The archbishop was actually somewhat relieved about this.
Fortunately, our god is still rational and can feel the gap between the two sides.
Otherwise, if he really went completely crazy like the Outer God Yogg-thas, it would be difficult for them as believers to deal with him.
"Of course, there is really no conflict between us, and if there is something, I might go to him later." Lin Xu said with a smile.
Of course, he could hear the archbishop's constant show of weakness and his attempt to preserve the dignity of God Dur, but he was not interested in delving into these issues.
There is still a lot to do for him, this is just a small episode.
However, when the archbishop heard Lin Xu's words, he did feel his heart tighten.
"What do you mean by going to find my Lord?" the archbishop asked cautiously.
"I'm still very curious about planetary consciousness, so I might go find him to do a small experiment later. Don't worry, he won't be hurt." Lin Xu said sincerely.
The archbishop felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry about this.
After all, if someone told you that they were going to use the god you believe in to do an experiment, you would probably be in a dilemma.
But the archbishop did not dare to refuse.
Because he believed that God Dur would definitely not dare to refuse.
"Well, well, I will tell God Dur." The archbishop could only reluctantly say this sentence in the end.
The great commander Erofat, who was standing by, saw Lin Xu casually saying that he wanted to use the god Dur for experiments. As the archbishop of the god Dur, he could only agree humiliatingly.
For a moment, I just wanted to laugh out loud.
Dur sect, oh Dur sect, you have finally come to this day.
Unfortunately, as a commander-in-chief, he needs to be careful about the impact and cannot laugh.
In the end, he could only retract his slightly upturned mouth corners before anyone noticed.
Also laughing secretly was Domore.
He didn't expect to see such a wonderful scene.
"By the way, this Mr. Domore should still be wanted by the Dur sect." Lin Xu looked at Domore and mentioned it.
"I have already resolved this matter before I came here. Please rest assured that the wanted warrant for Mr. Domore has been cancelled, and Mr. Domore can go home at any time." The archbishop showed a bright smile to Domore, an ordinary professor whom he had never even looked at in the past.
At that moment, Domore felt as if he had become a big shot too.
So this is what it feels like to be a fox taking advantage of the power of another?
After sending away the Archbishop of God Dur, Lin Xu originally wanted to send Domore back as well.
But Domore himself refused.
"Having such a fantastic adventure in my life may have used up all my luck for the rest of my life, so no matter what, I want to complete this adventure until everything is settled. So, if Mr. Lin Xu doesn't mind me holding you back, can you continue to take me with you?" Domore said to Lin Xu very seriously.
"If you continue to follow us, you might encounter danger." Lin Xu asked back.
"It's okay. I can be your cannon fodder to explore the way." Domore said nonchalantly.
"Okay, then before everything is over." Lin Xu thought about it and nodded.
Immediately afterwards, Commander-in-Chief Erofat originally planned to continue accompanying Lin Xu to check the information.
However, Lin Xu shook his head and refused.
Almost all the information that needed to be checked had been checked, and Yinghuo had even completely copied the database of the descendants of the maintainers.
After scanning them all, no more information was found.
Especially about what humans discovered tens of thousands of years ago that made them leave in a hurry.
There are also traces of human remains left in this river system.
There are no answers to either of these questions.
" Thank you for your hospitality, Mr. Erofat. It's time for us to leave now." Lin Xu said goodbye.
"Leave? Leave here?" Erofat was stunned.
"Yes, we have checked all the information that needs to be checked. There is no point in staying here any longer." Lin Xu said as a matter of course.
"Well, can I ask, where are you going next?" Erofat asked after thinking for a while.
Until now, he has not found conclusive evidence whether Lin Xu is a human being, and he is really unwilling to accept this.
"Go to the bottom of the sea, to the Cleaner's warship manufacturing factory." Lin Xu did not hide it.
"The Cleaner's factory, can I go with you?" Erofat's eyes lit up and he said without even thinking.
"You? Aren't you the commander-in-chief? Is it possible for you to just leave like this?" Nanzhu asked in surprise.
"To be honest, when I was young, I also wanted to go on adventures everywhere. Now that I have the opportunity to go to the Cleaner's factory, of course I can't miss it." Erofat said with a smile.
"Lord Lin Xu?" Nanzhu moved his lips and looked at Lin Xu again.
"Let's go. If you want to go, let's go together." Lin Xu said nonchalantly.
"Thank you for your generosity, but could you please give me some time to explain something?" Erofat requested.
"No problem, go ahead." Lin Xu nodded, appearing very tolerant.
So Erofat bowed, turned and left.
"Lord Lin Xu, it's obvious that he is not going there for adventure." Nanzhu complained.
"Yes, but they are descendants of the protectors after all, so let's be more tolerant towards them." Lin Xu said indifferently.
"Okay." Nanzhu thought about it and nodded, agreeing with Lin Xu's statement.
After all, they are the descendants of human servants, so they are half of our own.
On the other side, in a conference room in the distance.
The senior executives who were urgently summoned already knew that Erofat was going to follow Lin Xu to the bottom of the sea.
"Mr. Erofat, do you know your own identity? You are the commander-in-chief. Are you aware of the impact that your resolute departure will have on the entire floating continent?" someone reminded.
"Yes, please fulfill your responsibilities and don't let your youthful desire for adventure cloud your mind."
Someone said with great sorrow.
"Everyone, can you confirm Mr. Lin Xu's identity now? Are you sure he is a human being?" Unexpectedly, Erofat talked about another thing.
"Of course we can be sure of that. Even the god Dur has taken the initiative to beg for mercy. We saw it with our own eyes."
"Yes, all the Outer Gods were killed."
"No, we can only assume that he is a being with great power. We cannot be sure that he is a human being. But in the Cleansers' base, there must be a way to prove his human identity." Erofat explained.
And that was his purpose.
He wanted to confirm whether Lin Xu was a human being.
Domore, or God Dur, and the Archbishop of God Dur, can easily determine that Lin Xu is a human being.
Because it's just a name. Since Lin Xu calls himself a human being, let's just call him a human being.
But they can't, they are descendants of the maintainers.
They are descendants of human servants.
We cannot simply assume that a person is a human being.
The other senior executives also understood what Erofat meant.
For a moment everyone was silent.
"What if you can't come back?" someone asked hesitantly.
"If you can't come back, then don't come back. It's just like choosing a commander-in-chief." Erofat insisted.
"Okay, since you're prepared." Someone sighed.
"Erofat, you must come back. I won't accept someone else being the commander-in-chief."
"Go ahead. If you can't come back, then we'll prove that he's a fake. Although we are no match for him and can't avenge you, don't even think of asking us to tarnish the reputation of the defenders. We won't just surrender to someone who calls himself a civilized human being."
The meeting was very short. When Erofat returned, Lin Xu and others were on a balcony, looking at the street scene below which looked like a normal city street.
The only difference is that this street is floating in the sky.
"Is it over?" Lin Xu turned around and looked at him.
"Thank you for your tolerance." Erofat bowed to Lin Xu.
He knew that the meeting just now might not be hidden from Lin Xu and others.
In fact, he is now inclined to believe that Lin Xu is really a human being.
But he was still missing a crucial piece of evidence.
He is the commander-in-chief, he cannot act on his emotions.
Just like that, Lin Xu nodded and then waved to the sky.
The Skylark, which had been hovering in the air all the time, slowly descended and arrived in front of the balcony.
A staircase composed of light curtains extends to the balcony.
Lin Xu and his companions easily climbed the stairs and boarded the Skylark.
Domor and Erofat looked at each other, then mustered up their courage and stepped onto the transparent stairs that looked like they could not support a person.
Step by step, he boarded the Skylark.
Then, under the gaze of the people on the floating continent, the Skylark flew away into the distance.
For the Skylark, moving within the planet is as easy as going to the next neighborhood.
In just a short time, before Domore had even finished introducing the various facilities in the cockpit to Erofat, the Skylark had already arrived above the Cleaner's underwater base.
Then the Skylark rushed into the sea.
Outside the porthole, the first thing you see is the colorful underwater world, with all kinds of fish swimming in groups in the water.
Above are bands of light formed by sunlight shining through the sea water, and everything looks dreamy and beautiful.
Domore and Erofat had never seen such an underwater scene before, and they looked out the porthole curiously.
But soon, the Skylark dived to a depth of tens of thousands of meters.
The deep sea around was pitch black, without a single light.
Domore and Erofat finally experienced the pain of deep-sea phobia for the first time in their lives.
The two men turned their heads and dared not look out the porthole again.
As we dived deeper and deeper, we finally heard countless rays of light coming from below.
Everyone then looked out of the porthole and saw a trench deep in the seabed.
A huge factory, which appears to be still in operation, stands in the middle of it.
That is the Cleaner's underwater construction factory.
Every few decades, a batch of Cleansing warships would rush out of the sea and then out of the planet. Unfortunately, they could not break out of the galaxy and were swallowed by the largest planet on the outskirts of the galaxy, the Outer God Yogg-sass.
However, even so, this factory is still constantly executing the procedures, continuously building, and when a certain number has accumulated, it will send out warships.
And now, with the arrival of the Skylark, all the defense measures in the factory were alerted.
Various floating guns rose from the factory and aimed their muzzles at the Skylark.
At the same time, artillery batteries were erected in various parts of the factory. At the same time, some of the already built warships that were tens of thousands of meters long and were originally docked in the dock were now slowly lifted into the air and aimed their guns at the Skylark.
All of a sudden, all kinds of weapons and equipment were aimed at the Skylark.
Domore and Erofat looked at the various turrets. Just one floating gun was bigger than the Skylark.
There are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of such floating cannons.
In short, they had lost count of how many there were.
The Skylark, being pointed at by so many different weapons and equipment, looked like a cannon shooting at a mosquito.
If someone who doesn't know the situation sees this scene, they might wonder how the Skylark could have the ability to make such a base so nervous.
Well, at least Domore and Erofat now hold almost the same view.
What on earth is the Skylark capable of? This is too much.
At the same time, the two of them now had only one thought in their minds.
This time I'm dead.
"Yinghuo, did the shipyard respond to the signal we sent?" Lin Xu asked, looking at the huge factory complex that looked like a hedgehog with its fur standing on end.
If a fight really breaks out, Lin Xu is not afraid at all.
Judging from the existing military force in this factory, it only looks intimidating.
Or it can scare some people who have not seen the world.
But in reality, this level of defensive capability is nothing but a drizzle when it comes to a cosmic war.
"There is a reply. The computer in the shipbuilding factory responded to the signal we sent out, and it shows that it welcomes the return of mankind." Yinghuo answered and also displayed the information that had just been connected.
Erofat was shocked at first, out of surprise at having confirmed Lin Xu's identity as a human, but then he became confused.
In fact, it was not only Erofat who was confused, Lin Xu himself was also confused.
"Is this how the factory welcomes me?" Lin Xu pointed outside the porthole and pointed at the direction of the Skylark, constantly adjusting the muzzles of countless floating cannons.
"The other party replied that they are canceling the established program. The original program was authorized by humans ten thousand years ago, and your authorization is needed to cancel it." Yinghuo replied.
"Grant him permission."
In this way, Domore and Erofat spent the most difficult dozen seconds of their lives, looking at the endless gun muzzles outside the porthole.
They didn't know whether the next second those cannons would fire at the same time and leave them at the bottom of the sea forever.
It was not until more than ten seconds later that the endless floating guns outside the porthole slowly landed back into the factory.
All other various defensive measures were also lifted one by one.
Even those warships that were tens of thousands of meters long slowly landed back into the dock.
The crisis was resolved, or rather, that was how Sommer and Erofat saw it.
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Then the factory gate opened wide to welcome the Skylark. The small spaceship, only a hundred meters long, sailed into the huge gate that was tens of thousands of meters wide, as if it was entering the mouth of a giant.
If someone who doesn’t know sees this scene, they might think it is the mouth of the abyss.
Soon, under Lin Xu's authority, Yinghuo took over every corner of the base, including all databases, at the fastest speed.
After an inventory, it was found that the current situation in the base was not very good.
Currently, people throughout the galaxy believe that the Cleansers call themselves the Second Son of Humanity.
But in fact, the title of Second Son of Humanity was not originally used by the Cleansers.
After all, the Cleansing Fleet is just a bunch of machines that execute programs, so there is no way they can call themselves that.
Those who call themselves the second sons of humanity are actually the maintainers.
In other words, the earliest maintainers believed that the maintainers and the cleansers together were enough to deserve the title of the second son of mankind.
Therefore, when the maintainers at that time commanded the Cleansing Fleet to perform various tasks, they would act in the name of the Second Son of Humanity.
Until the great changes ten thousand years ago, the maintainers disappeared.
The Cleaners are the only ones left in the system.
The Cleansers began to carry out their mission according to the established procedures, and while carrying out their mission, they still called themselves the Second Sons of Humanity.
So over time, the intelligent life of the entire galaxy came to believe that it was the Cleanser who called himself the second son of humanity.
What people don’t know is that it was actually the Maintainers who first believed that the combination of the Maintainers and the Cleansers could bear the title of the Second Son of Humanity, and that’s why they called themselves that.
The reason why the Maintainers call themselves that is also related to the clans that have always followed humans.
The ancestors of the maintainers believed that the human clan was the eldest son of mankind.
Then these defenders can naturally be considered the second sons.
However, even the ancestors of the maintainers themselves knew that they could only call themselves the second son.
Because, from the beginning to the end, they have never been recognized as a clan by humans.
The Maintainers and the Cleaners are just a piece of chess left by humans in this river system.
Just like the Galactic Alliance in the previous galaxy.
It's optional.
Even so, they are working hard to complete the task.
I look forward to the day when I can be truly recognized by humans.
And even if the maintainers are not human relatives, the cleansers are still human creations! So it is not groundless to say that the maintainers and the cleansers are the second sons of mankind.
Unfortunately, this dream was shattered with a rebellion ten thousand years ago.
And this shipbuilding base of the Cleansers has become increasingly dilapidated after being eroded by inert filth for tens of thousands of years.
If it weren't for the high-dimensional bonus of human creations, it would have collapsed long ago. How could it have continued to produce warships?
"Lord Lin Xu, the database has been backed up. Some of the data has been distorted due to erosion and is no longer readable, but most of the data is intact." Yinghuo reported.
"What did humans discover ten thousand years ago?" This is the question that Lin Xu is most concerned about now.
"I'm sorry, there is no such information."
"Oh, I see." Lin Xu nodded. He was not surprised.
After a moment's silence, he continued to ask.
"Have you found the location of the human remains?"
"Found it." Yinghuo replied.
