Volume 3 Chapter 161: Glory comes from the favor of mankind
The fiery red surface of the planet, the violent hurricanes and the red-hot magma, rolled up huge tentacles that were tens or hundreds of kilometers thick. Those tentacles stretched out from the planet and extended hundreds of thousands of kilometers into the starry sky, as if to drag everything in the universe towards his body.
Like the Outer God Yogg-thas, Dur also instinctively desires to devour everything.
The only difference is that Dur is more rational than the Outer God Yogg-sas.
So he can still suppress this desire of his.
But in the long run, with the planet's lifespan measured in billions of years, it is foreseeable that in the future, God Dur will eventually go completely crazy.
Just like his followers, they were infected with madness and suppressed it with reason, but one day, reason could no longer suppress madness and they became complete monsters.
However, Dur is different from his followers.
His believers are originally intelligent beings, who have been infected with madness by the laziness and filth. Lin Xu only needs to remove the madness infected by the laziness and filth to restore his believers to their original state.
However, the so-called planetary consciousness of God Dur itself was born under the crazy distortion of the infection of inert filth.
It can be said that God Dur was born from crazy pollution. So after removing the crazy pollution, can his so-called planetary consciousness continue to exist?
This is exactly what Lin Xu is curious about.
So, he conducted the experiment himself.
As the nanorobots swept across the planet Dur, the entire planet, from the inside to the outside, was swept clean of all the inert filth.
And everything that was infected by the inertial filth was also cleansed of the influence of the inertial filth.
The voice of God Dur that reached the minds of Lin Xu and others became weaker and weaker.
Domor and Erofat no longer had splitting headaches because of the sound.
But my head still feels swollen because of the aftereffects of the headache I just had.
At this moment, listening to the constant pleading of God Dur in their brains, the two of them actually developed a feeling of sympathy.
Then, the two looked at each other and thought it was so ridiculous.
I was actually sympathizing with the gods? How could a tiny mortal like me have the right to sympathize with the high and mighty gods?
But things in the world are often so absurd.
"Great human, Dur is willing to be your believer, worship you forever, and kneel down to worship you." Although the voice of God Dur was weak, it was still ringing.
"Great human being, please have mercy on me."
Domore and Erofat looked at each other again, their eyes full of absurdity.
The high and mighty god actually prays to become someone else's believer.
I wonder what the believers of God Dur would think if they knew this scene.
Anyway, for Domore, a former believer of the god Dur, it will be impossible for him to believe in the god Dur again.
And it was at this moment that Lin Xu finally responded to God Dur.
"Congratulations, the experiment is over. All the inert has been removed. I am very happy to see that your consciousness has not dissipated." Lin Xu showed a heartfelt smile on his face.
The madness of God Dur has been cleared, although it seems that his consciousness has been greatly weakened. At least now God Dur can no longer roll up his huge tentacles on the surface of the planet.
But at least his planetary consciousness is still there, which means that even if his consciousness was born under the distortion of inertia and filth, once consciousness is born, it will no longer be bound by inertia and filth, even if the inertia and filth are cleared, consciousness is still there.
Although consciousness has been weakened, it is natural that consciousness born from inertia and filth is more affected by inertia and filth.
As long as consciousness has not dissipated, it is good news.
"I, I survived? And I am no longer affected by madness?" At this time, God Dur also reacted.
His voice continued to echo in the minds of several people. Although it was much weaker, it was much more normal.
"I have gotten rid of madness. I have finally gotten rid of the influence of madness and greed that is always there. It's great, it's great, great human. Praise you, great human." God Dur's voice was filled with joy, and his voice immediately became excited again.
Domore and Erofat's eyes were full of surprise. They didn't expect that God Dur, who had just been begging for mercy, would now thank Lin Xu.
"You seem very happy?" Lin Xu asked with a smile.
"Yes, yes, that madness has always been affecting me. That madness makes me always burn with a burning desire, a desire to devour everything. Although I am trying hard to suppress it, I know that I can't suppress it forever. Just like the Outer God Yogg-sas, one day I will succumb to that desire."
"But now, I don't feel that desire at all, which is great. This is really great."
As God Dur spoke, the entire planet seemed to feel his joy and began to vibrate slightly.
But compared to the raging storms and flames that the god Dur had previously been able to stir up, this was just child's play.
"However, your control over the planet seems to have decreased." Lin Xu said as he observed the experimental results.
"That kind of control is achieved by borrowing the power of inertia and filth that you mentioned. It is a shackle and a curse. Now that the shackles can be removed, it is naturally a great thing. Thank you, great human being." God Dur continued to express his gratitude.
Lin Xu was very satisfied with his statement, and didn't care whether he was sincere or insincere.
However, Erofat began to worry.
Now that Lin Xu is still here, God Dur will naturally be obedient.
But what if Lin Xu leaves in the future? Will the God Durr sprout in a solid state?
And Lin Xu seemed to see his worry, and did not avoid God Dur, or rather, he spoke to Erofat for God Dur to hear.
"It's okay. The Cleaner fleet will keep him under surveillance."
"But how many warships can the underwater base produce now?" Erofat still asked worriedly.
After all, in previous years, every time the underwater base gathered dozens of warships, it would set off towards the starry sky and then be swallowed by the Outer God Yogg-sass.
Not to mention the current underwater base, there are not even dozens of warships.
"Don't worry, soon the number of warships will not be just those. A huge fleet of warships gathered in the starry sky. It's just a planet and it won't cause any waves." Lin Xu comforted with a smile.
After hearing what Lin Xu said, although Erofat didn't understand how many so-called huge fleets of warships there were in the starry sky, he had to relax for the time being.
Erofat's understanding of the Cleansers comes mostly from the information left by his ancestors. Unfortunately, reading the information and experiencing it personally are two different things.
Lin Xu believed that he would understand soon.
In front of the maintainers and cleansers, a planet really means nothing.
It's like a tiger kept in a zoo.
If a tiger had wisdom, it would not dare to fight back even if a weak human cub pulled its beard and mocked it in person.
Not only did he not dare to fight back, he had to actively move the other side of his beard over , for fear that the human master would be unhappy and stew him.
Thinking of this, Lin Xu looked at Erofat now and felt only a sense of sadness.
The descendants of the once powerful protector of the entire vast galaxy have now fallen to the point where even a planet is afraid of them.
This is simply a disgrace to their ancestors.
And it's not just a disgrace to their ancestors, it's also a disgrace to humanity.
After all, their ancestors were once servants of humans.
Afterwards, Lin Xu stayed outside the red star body of God Dur for about a month.
It can be regarded as a close observation of the changes in the consciousness of the planet Dur.
After all, just because you are fine right after the purification, it doesn’t mean you will be fine in the future.
However, Lin Xu was still satisfied with the results of subsequent observations.
At the same time, God Dur himself also felt emotionally stable. After having humans help cure his madness, he no longer thought about the messy things every day.
In the past, I spent every day between going crazy and suppressing my madness, and I would drool at the huge stars in the distance.
If his reason had not told him otherwise, he would have no ability to devour a star and might even be vaporized by the star.
I guess he will have to fine-tune his orbit and fall into the embrace of the stars.
But now it’s better. I don’t want to eat anything.
There is no need to suppress the madness. All I have to do is report my situation to Lin Xu every day, and I can relax and daydream for the rest of the time.
To this end, he even conveyed the oracle directly to the archbishop of the Dur sect and directly disbanded the Dur sect.
The archbishop was caught off guard and he has not dared to announce the news yet.
Instead, he was trying to communicate with the god Dur, wanting him to take back his decision.
But God Dur has made up his mind.
In the past, the reason why God Dur established the Dur sect was, to put it bluntly, that he had some ideas about that planet. He was always thinking about eating up that planet sooner or later, so he established the Dur sect.
But now, he has become completely Buddhist and has no desires anymore.
Since you have no desire for that planet anymore, then why do you still want to keep this Durr sect? Do you want to let that archbishop and some chosen ones call you every day and listen to their nagging?
Therefore, I, God Dur, will disband the sect today. I want to see how you can continue to bother me.
Then I won’t answer your calls again. I won’t answer them. Let’s see what you can do?
Anyway, I have already disbanded the Dur sect, so it has nothing to do with me from now on, so don't come looking for me anymore.
I'm afraid that humans will misunderstand that my madness has not yet been cured.
In this way, with the death of the Outer God Yogg-sas, the Outer Gods sect fell into division and existed in name only.
The Cult of Dur was also disbanded.
Although the archbishop is still suppressing the news, he is not the only one who has received the oracle. I believe that sooner or later he will not be able to suppress it.
By then, it is unknown whether the Dur Cult will disband directly or fall into civil strife.
In short, this is not something that God Dur considers.
It’s not something Lin Xu needs to consider.
Of course, Lin Xu stayed here for a month not just to observe the planetary consciousness of God Dur.
While observing the strange phenomenon of planetary consciousness, Lin Xu was also constantly commanding a large number of temporary warships composed of autonomous mechanical aggregates to leap to various galaxies within a hundred light years.
These temporary warships arrive at a galaxy and spread nanorobots throughout the galaxy.
These nanorobots follow Lin Xu's orders to clear out the inert filth within every galaxy.
Although it will take a long time for the nanorobots to slowly spread to the large areas between galaxies and completely clean up the inert filth between the galaxies.
However, the inert filth inside the galaxy has been almost completely cleaned up very quickly in the past few days.
The remaining descendants of the defenders and the descendants of the rebels on each planet have gradually gotten rid of the influence of madness and the curse of the continuous degeneration of civilization.
At the same time, Lin Xu also used Erofat, a descendant of the Maintainer, as a special envoy to convey the news of the return of mankind to the branches of the descendants of the Maintainers on various planets.
Of course, Erofat did not go alone, but returned to the floating continent first. After announcing a series of good news, he led many high-level officials of the floating continent to form a special envoy group. They boarded the Cleaner's warships and, accompanied by the guidance of temporary warships, went to each planet to announce this important news.
The descendants of the defenders on those planets were all stunned.
Some descendants of the defenders are still fighting to the death with the descendants of the betrayers.
Now that support came from heaven, there was no need to fight to the death. The descendants of the traitor who still wanted to resist could be directly beaten to pieces.
On some planets, because of the harsh natural environment, the descendants of the protectors and the betrayers have forgotten their own heritage and merged into everything.
Faced with this situation, Erofat could only express regret, provide some basic help, and then leave.
After all, the descendants of the Maintainers who merged with the betrayers have lost the opportunity to regain the glory of the Maintainers.
On some other planets, the descendants of the maintainers and the descendants of the betrayers live in peace with each other. Although they are secretly scheming against each other, they appear to be at peace on the surface. This situation is similar to that on the floating continent where Erofat is located.
Over the long period of tens of thousands of years, the two sides compromised with each other for survival. Although they did not fight to the death, they did not merge either.
In this case, the leader of this group of descendants of the maintainers was also incorporated into the new maintainer council and became a member of the council, just like Erofat.
By the way, this new Council of Maintainers was just formed by Lin Xu a month ago.
The current Speaker is Erofat, and the senators are the leaders or clan leaders of the descendants of the maintainers on each planet.
There are currently thirteen members in the parliament, which can be regarded as the recovery of the thirteen branches of the descendants of the maintainers.
Coupled with the discovery of the remaining Cleansers' battleship manufacturing bases in various galaxies during this period, the Maintainer Council actually has a small fleet consisting of several hundred Cleansers' battleships.
In addition, during this period of time, while the temporary warships were performing missions in various galaxies, they also encountered several planets that had also developed planetary consciousness.
Some of these planets have gone completely crazy. After seeing the temporary battleships, their first reaction was to devour them.
As a result, some of them were directly reduced to ashes by the concentrated fire of the massive temporary warships that were summoned.
Some were directly blown into pieces by a few antimatter annihilation bombs.
The planetary consciousness that was a little more rational and not so crazy, after having its inert filth cleansed by the nanorobots, regained consciousness like the god Dur.
This made the consciousnesses of these planets as grateful as God Dur that they did not choose confrontation but chose cooperation.
The madness that had plagued him for countless years was finally cured, and it was a cause for celebration.
In short, within a month, all the inert filth existing in the galaxies in this star field that spread over a hundred light years was cleared away, and everything returned to normal.
Intelligent life on countless planets was also cheering, finally getting rid of the madness that was everywhere.
Especially the descendants of the defenders, who are always in a carnival.
Because they have finally regained the favor of mankind, they can finally regain their former glory.
However, some high-ranking officials from various branches of the Maintainers who knew the inside story, numbering over a hundred, were not as happy as the lower-class people. Instead, they gathered in a huge conference room on a Cleanser battleship for a meeting, and everyone at the meeting had sad faces.
"Everyone should have seen that the current situation is not optimistic."
"Hundreds of thousands, no, millions, or even tens of millions of Cleansers are gathering at the edge of the inert filth. They seem to be ready to jump directly into the interior of the galaxy at any time. What should we do?"
"Ninety-nine percent of this star field covering a hundred light years is still covered by inert filth, but that ninety-nine percent is basically empty space between galaxies. The areas within the galaxies have basically returned to the normal state of the universe under the cleaning of Lord Lin Xu. Under this circumstance, the large army of cleansers that had been isolated by inert filth will naturally return to eliminate us who, in their eyes, have been contaminated by inert filth." Someone sighed.
"Why don't they just warp? What are they waiting for?"
"Naturally, we have to wait until the concentration of inert pollution in the galaxy reaches zero."
"Should we report this to Lord Lin Xu and ask him to slow down the cleaning process of inert filth in the galaxy?" someone said hesitantly.
"Master Lin Xu will not agree to this. You will do it yourself to get scolded."
"It's just a suggestion." The man said weakly and stopped talking.
"Tens of millions of Cleansers are approaching us, but we only have a few hundred Cleansers, all of which are old, weak, sick and disabled. We have no way to resist them."
"Yes, although I don't want to trouble Master Lin Xu, I can only ask you for help at this time."
"Yes, we can't resist it at all."
Everyone was talking about it, and finally all eyes were focused on Speaker Erofat.
Especially the members of the Thirteenth Branch, they whispered to Erofat, because here, only Erofat and Lin Xu had the closest relationship.
Naturally, everyone regarded him as a channel of communication with Lin Xu.
After all, no one knew anything about Lin Xu's personality. If I went there and said something wrong, it would be a big trouble.
If Lin Xu is likened to the emperor, then Erofat would be his close minister.
Everyone was pointing at him to talk to the emperor.
"I understand. Although I don't want to disturb Lord Lin Xu, I have no choice in this situation. I will go find him." Erofat stood up and said solemnly.
In fact, he didn't have much contact with Lin Xu and didn't know Lin Xu's personality.
On the contrary, the scene where Lin Xu used the god Dur as an experimental subject from a close distance deepened the impression of Lin Xu's incomparable majesty in his eyes.
That is far greater than that of gods, a pressure from the supreme being.
He didn't know whether Lin Xu's silence in the face of the imminent attack by tens of millions of Cleansing warships was a test for the new maintainers.
But in order to prevent the new defender from dying prematurely, Erofat still plucked up the courage and decided to meet Lin Xu.
"Glory comes from the favor of mankind!" Erofat performed a unique ceremony.
That etiquette is an ancient etiquette of the maintainer clan from ten thousand years ago. These new maintainers just recently dug it out from the classics and then established it as the unified etiquette for the future.
It can be considered as a restoration of the ancient system.
As for the slogan, it is brand new and was just thought of recently.
This combination of the old and the new can be considered a footnote to the rebirth of maintainers.
"Glory to humanity." Countless congressmen and senior officials stood up and responded with the same courtesy.
Erofat nodded to the hundreds of people in the conference room, then turned and walked out.
The senior executives waited until Erofat walked away before looking at each other and leaving.
They still have a lot of things to do.
Whether it is on their respective planets, they are dealing with the aftermath of this major incident that happens once in a thousand years, or they are dealing with the crisis that is imminent.
There are all kinds of things and complicated matters that need them to deal with.
The rise of new defenders can never rely solely on the favor of great beings, but also requires their own practical efforts.
Human beings will eventually leave one day.
This river system cannot restrict human progress.
And they must never repeat the mistakes they made ten thousand years ago after humans left.
History has taught them lessons and also spurred them on.
Now, humans have given them a second chance, and they must seize it and learn lessons at the same time.
At the same time, on the other side, Erofat once again came to the Skylark, which was always stationed in the orbit of the planet Dur.
Compared to Erofat, who had a lot of things to do and left early, Domore is still here and has not left for a whole month.
However, even after staying for a month, Domore did not get bored. Instead, when he saw Erofat, he greeted him with great energy.
"Excuse me, where is Lord Lin Xu?" Erofat felt a little strange as he didn't see Lin Xu or even the group of girls.
"Oh, Lord Lin Xu is on the planet Dur, conducting on-site research and will be back soon." Domore gave a somewhat mysterious smile, as if he was hiding something.
