Chapter 385: The End of the Void

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

[The civilization you call the scribe killed all the void usurpers, which is our… In your words, our comrades.]

[Of course, I don’t have any hatred for this. Death is an unfamiliar term to us. There is no such way of existence in the void.]

[In my opinion, their disappearance is just a change of form. There’s nothing to be sad about.]

[However, to our master, this is a matter worthy of being escalated to hatred.]

[Because not only is this a challenge to their authority, but it also hinders their process of gathering energy. Although there is no interstellar society in the universe, they are still thinking of ways to take revenge on the scribe.]

[The planet I’m on is a trap designed by them. They deliberately moved this planet to attract the attention of the scribe. At the same time, they set up a program for the control center on this planet.]

[As long as a scribe comes to check on the abnormality of this planet, this program will mark them and report to my master, attracting pursuit.]

Upon hearing this, Li Wenyuan remembered that the Sentry Organization had mentioned that the Hunter civilization had moved away from a mechanical planet.

Now, it seemed that the Hunter civilization had discovered that this planet was the work of a scribe and was trying to transform this planet into a trap to lure and kill the scribe.

“Maybe the Hunter has already done this when he destroyed many galaxies in the past… Since the entire galaxy will be destroyed, the Observation Terminal will definitely be no exception. Perhaps their enmity was formed a long time ago?”

“After all, a civilization likes to leave behind an observation station to observe silently. A civilization will even destroy the galaxy itself. Without observation, it’s very normal for it to be like fire and water.”

“So, this will be ancient hatred?”

Due to the conflict between the scribe and the Hunter, there was a sense of deja vu. Almost immediately, Li Wenyuan recalled the Battle of Heaven that had happened in the Milky Way.

The main characters of the Battle of Heaven were the Watcher and the Voyager, two lost civilizations that opposed each other.

These two civilizations became archenemies because of the hatred that had been passed down since ancient times. One day, it erupted and started a war that affected the entire Milky Way.

And the reason for this was ancient hatred and ancient archenemy.

Now, there seemed to be some kind of feud between the scribe and the Hunter. What happened looked like the Battle of Heaven on a cosmic battlefield, but this time, no civilization was asked to pick a side because these two civilizations could easily wipe out an entire galaxy group.

They did not need pawns. Ordinary civilizations did not even have the qualifications to become cannon fodder.

However, even though there were many differences, the collision of these two ancient civilizations still made people think of the Battle of Heaven that had once happened in the Milky Way.

If the war between the Watcher and the Voyager in the past was the opposite of materialism and idealism, then the war between the scribe and the Hunter now was the opposite of foreign-friendly and xenophobic.

Of course, the foreign-friendly and xenophobic here were a little distorted. The scribes regarded all civilizations as observation subjects. They did not favor or underestimate anyone. They would even leave things like the Variant Terminal to indirectly promote the growth of civilizations. However, once there was a problem with the observer, they would mercilessly restart the experiment.

The Hunter, on the other hand, would not have any ethical grounds and moral pressure to destroy all civilizations other than its own, but for certain purposes, they would nurture their servants to help them better carry out their careers.

“…Is this also planned? Or is it that when civilization reaches its end, there will inevitably be opposing sides on the path?”

Li Wenyuan thought of many things and quickly suppressed these thoughts. At present, everything that happened in the Milky Way could be found to be similar outside the Milky Way.

It was hard to say that this was not intentional. Even if it was really a coincidence, there must be something driving the formation of this coincidence.

After that, the Void Lord continued,

[But this is all in the past. In fact, I’ve already lost contact with my master.]

[Once upon a time, a pulse of a fixed frequency would be transmitted here, exerting a specific influence on us, who are still in an egg state. This helps to control us, but this pulse has not appeared for a long time.]

[Normally, they should be present at our incubation, but so far, I haven’t seen any Hunter. I haven’t even sensed their aura.]

[Can I take it that they have already disappeared?]

The Void Lord’s last sentence was a question. Perhaps for it, not being controlled was its greatest confusion at the moment, and Li Wenyuan wasn’t sure of the answer to this question.

“From what we know so far, the Hunter may be trapped somewhere, but it’s also possible that its disappearance was caused by some reason.”

“Of course, I’m more inclined to believe that they’re trapped because it’s not easy to destroy such a civilization. Perhaps even their enemy, the scribe, can’t do it.”

[I see. In that case, they must not have disappeared…]

The Void Lord also seemed to feel that the Hunter hadn’t perished.

[They’re a group of crazy people. Even if they’re destroyed, they won’t be silent. Perhaps they’re indeed trapped somewhere…]

After a signal that sounded like he was talking to himself, the Void Lord entered a short silence. Then, he did something unexpected.

Its body attached to the Observation Terminal, which could be said to have fused with machinery, began to separate. The circuits that were originally buried in its flesh were stripped away, producing a large number of sparks.

Logically speaking, the Void Lord’s fusion method would bind it to the fate of the planet, and its death would definitely be accompanied by the death of the planetary machines. This was because most of the routes had already been completely “fleshified”, replacing the original routes to take on the work.

What it was doing now looked like suicide. However, the circuits that were emitting large amounts of sparks quickly returned to where they should be.

The damaged parts gradually closed under the cover of some lifeforms’ cells and quickly formed a lifeform circuit that continued to maintain the normal operation of the planetary machines.

As for itself, it turned into a shrinking soft mud, squirming forward on the surface of the Observation Terminal until it gathered into a meatball in the control center.

The Voyager, who had been thinking about how to separate the Void Lord from the Observation Terminal, was stunned by this scene. They didn’t expect it to break away from this flesh-and-blood connection on its own and even repair the parts that had been damaged by the fusion with its body.

This process caused it to lose at least half of its body, and the Void Lord that had finished separating seemed a little dispirited.

Even Li Wenyuan was puzzled as to why it was doing this. The Void Lord paused for a moment before explaining,

[I think you need this planet, or perhaps you were originally looking for this planet?]

[Although I’m one with the planet, it doesn’t mean that I can control this planet. This planet is essentially the creation of a scribe.]

[Before I had intelligence, I was instinctively attracted to this planet and fused with it. With the help of the control center here, intelligence was born.]

[The Hunter can’t give us a chance to develop intelligence, but after connecting to this planet, I understand that this was done by the scribes. This planet has also been tampered with by them, and all the Observation Terminals may have been tampered with. The goal is to fuse us with this machine one day, and the Hunter didn’t discover such an abnormality.]

[This might also be one of the scribes’ experiments. They want to test the compatibility of the void to obtain something from it, or they just want to cause trouble for the Hunter.]

[But my departure has nothing to do with these things. It’s to prevent this interest from being implicated because the void is about to end..]