271: You are just a seed

“Why aren’t you thanking the Lord? The Lord has already left.” The plump wife stomped her foot in exasperation, quickly reminding him.

Gou San only then came to his senses, but where could he find the Lord? The Lord had long gone. The next day, Mu Jiu brought him the money and even sent robots to directly repair his house.

Today was different from the past; Tongtian City was bustling with people. Since the Undead invasion, plagues and diseases had spread worldwide. Soon, everyone discovered that people in Tongtian City would not get sick, and no matter what plague they contracted, upon arriving in Tongtian City, they would automatically recover, as if this place was a Blessed land.

The crowd surged in like a tide.

However, Han Huohuo, to resist the Undead, had created millions of Mechanical Army units, occupying a large number of slots.

Many people had no homes and simply found an empty plot to set up a tent, unwilling to leave Tongtian City.

Mu Jiu was a soft-hearted person and had never driven these refugees away, taking them all in.

It was said that Han Huohuo had successfully closed the Undead world’s passage, and Mozi arrived again.

This time, no one was with him.

Han Huohuo led Mozi to drink tea in the small reception room, instructing Liu Qiang not to let anyone in. Liu Qiang took the order and led mechanical guards to stand at the main entrance.

“You’re very lucky. I thought you would meet the Undead Monarch.”

“What? There’s an Undead Monarch too?”

Mozi realized he had let slip something he shouldn’t have and quickly changed the subject: “Oh, that’s not important. It’s just a big battle. It’s not that hard to throw an annihilation orb in during the chaos.”

“Throwing an orb in might not be hard, but will it be hard for me to leave safely?”

Han Huohuo was so smart now; one sentence made him think of many things. He was a bit annoyed; this old geezer wasn’t a good person either, not telling him all the dangers. Was he afraid that if he knew the dangers, he wouldn’t go?

Mozi rubbed his nose: “Let’s not discuss things that haven’t happened.”

Han Huohuo thought about it. These high and mighty figures were always like this. In fact, it was better to get used to it. If he was careful, he couldn’t blame others for being unpredictable.

How many good people have there been among leaders in thousands of years?

Once he figured it out, his anger subsided. Han Huohuo smiled: “Can you tell me the secret of the crystal now?”

Seeing that they had gotten to the main topic, Mozi also became serious: “I’ll tell you a huge secret: the crystal… is actually not a crystal, but a crystallization of space-time… and you foreign Lords… are the crystal seeds!”

Han Huohuo didn’t understand, but he suddenly felt very fearful: “What space-time crystallization? What crystal seeds? This secret of yours is too fantastical, isn’t it?”

Looking at the confused and fearful Han Huohuo, Mozi shook his head: “Hehe, how many Heroes wanted to solve the crystal problem, but all failed, precisely because they didn’t understand this principle.”

Han Huohuo’s intelligence was already extremely high, but he hadn’t read many books, so these terms sounded like gibberish to him.

“Da Ge, please explain in more detail. I’m quite dull and can’t understand such complex things.”

Mozi stared at Han Huohuo: “You come from space-time, you are the seeds of space-time, scientifically called crystal seeds, thrown into this world. Then, the power of space-time will gradually crystallize around you, turning into those crystals. The crystals contain extremely complex space-time power. It’s terrifying.”

Han Huohuo was stunned, thinking that his continuous leveling up was actually because he was constantly crystallizing, and his power was turning into crystals?

It was like a grain of salt thrown into saturated salt water, which would gradually grow into a large block of salt! And that grain of salt was himself, and the salt block was the crystal.

So he was actually part of the crystal?

No wonder if the crystal broke, they would die.

But what was that Black Fire?

His doubts did not lessen; they increased even more.

Indeed, the more knowledge one gained, the more one realized there was always something beyond, how complex and strange this universe was, until all scientists eventually broke down and ran off to believe in gods—believing in all sorts of gods, just not science.

Conversely, ordinary people believed it deeply.

Then he thought of something else, which made him extremely uncomfortable: that is, he had become a seed planted in someone else’s yard.

Enduring wind, frost, rain, and snow to grow, and when he grew up, he became a crop, and then someone would come to harvest the crop.

How terrifying, and truly unpleasant!

Was it the Seamstress?

At least, from this sentence, Han Huohuo learned one thing: all problems were space-time problems. Therefore, to solve this problem, one still had to start from space-time. So, the time-space shard might be the most crucial item.

Perhaps many ancient Heroes also discovered this, otherwise they wouldn’t have collected fragments everywhere, but no one had truly gathered all seven fragments.

Where could the remaining three fragments be?

Han Huohuo tapped the table with his fingers, unconsciously lost in thought.

Mozi lightly coughed twice: “That guy named Cold Blade started attacking the Southeast hinterland, but he ran into trouble at Seven Ridges Mountain and was blocked. There’s a group of Lords there who seem to have received some strange support and managed to block the Three-Eyed People’s army in the mountains.”

Han Huohuo was startled. He knew Seven Ridges and had traded with the Lords there. In his impression, the foreign Lords in Seven Ridges were of average strength; how could they block Cold Blade’s army? And how could they block Cold Blade’s army, which had poisonous ants all over the ground and poisonous bees filling the sky?

He was a bit disbelieving and confirmed: “You said those Lords in Seven Ridges really blocked Cold Blade?”

Mozi nodded: “This world truly has a counter for everything. They obtained a strange medicinal powder, scattered it all over Seven Ridges, and it has a great restraining effect on those poisonous insects. The Three-Eyed People can only enter the mountains themselves to fight. Of course, they can’t defeat the Three-Eyed People in direct combat, so they fight guerrilla warfare everywhere with the Three-Eyed People. You know, in the big mountains, how hard it is to catch a few mice.”

Han Huohuo didn’t understand: “Just a few mice, why is Cold Blade so persistent? He could just bypass Seven Ridges.”

Mozi sighed: “Because behind Seven Ridges is Sun City! Cold Blade is clearly heading for Sun City!”

“Sun City?”

He had heard this name several times. Han Huohuo’s only impression was that this city was by the sea and had a Seamstress’s God Temple on it.

Cold Blade wants to go to Sun City? Didn’t he constantly say he wanted to exterminate humanity? How could going to Sun City be more important than exterminating humanity?

Han Huohuo didn’t understand.

The two then discussed much more about coordinating battles.

“Some Undead have appeared near the Empire’s Capital City. The local officials and people are extremely panicked. Our Mo Family is blocking the Angels in the east and west, and the Three-Eyed People in the Southeast. So, you should handle the Undead incident in the Empire’s Capital City.”