Chapter 2035: The Fulcrum to Pry Open Thousand Stars City
Black God withdrew his finger, a smug look spreading across his face. Finally, he'd managed to get one over on this kid—it felt satisfying.
"Don't worry, you can always trust Black God. I know better than you how to make things more interesting!"
"I'll return those words to you! Trust me this once, and I'll give you a Blue Star humanity that shines across the starry sky!"
Jiangnan grinned freely and extended his fist toward Black God. Their fists clashed heavily together.
"Solid!"
But Black God shifted the conversation: "Since we're doing this, let's make it big!"
"The Star-Swallowing level among the Starry Sky Races is still a problem we can't avoid. Once a Star-Swallower gets involved, my thirty thousand alt accounts plus your human elites thrown into Thousand Stars City won't even stir up a ripple!"
"We won't be able to stir anything up either. And Thousand Stars City is the center of civilization for all Starry Sky Races—every road leads there. Once we act, reinforcements from every race will arrive quickly!"
"We can't afford a war of attrition. And last time, Jiang Fan dismantled a chunk of it; now Thousand Stars City itself has extremely strong defensive measures. There are too many points we need to overcome!"
Jiangnan chuckled slyly: "Like I said, if there's no condition, we create one. The Star-Slaying Operation can't be a war of attrition—it has to be a blitzkrieg!"
"Cause the maximum amount of damage in the shortest possible time. As for the problem of reinforcements from the Ten Thousand Races..."
"Of course, use their own tactics against them. They sealed the star paths of the Laniakea Supercluster; why can't we do the same and seal the star paths of Thousand Stars City?"
Black God was stunned: "Good heavens! You're really playing big this time, but don't count on me to do that!"
"Even though I'm at my peak in the Dimensional Gap, my power has difficulty affecting the three-dimensional world, let alone sealing off Thousand Stars City!"
Jiangnan smirked wickedly: "I never expected you to do it from the start. Someone else can do it!"
"The Starry Sky Races aren't a monolith. To make the Star-Slaying Operation succeed, we must form alliances and find a fulcrum that can pry open Thousand Stars City!"
"If this action aligns with the interests of certain beings, they'll naturally be willing to help—for example, Noah of the Dark Cosmos Entity."
This wasn't just Jiangnan's wild imagination. Noah's attitude had always been ambiguous, even during the Sacred Law Trial Assembly.
He's a troublemaker who just wants to stir up the waters of the starry sky!
You could see it from his crazy distribution of guns at the Black Mark Assembly!
And the Dark Cosmos Entity holds the third position. They want the Bose Race to fall from grace, but they also don't want the Silicon-Based to rise!
They're in an awkward position!
Although they gained some benefits this time by boycotting the Bose Race, the Silicon-Based are the ultimate beneficiaries!
Noah should be feeling some crisis by now!
Black God clicked his tongue: "You want to convince Noah? Get them to lend a hand? Coordinate from inside and outside? Is that reliable?"
"If the Ten Thousand Races find out, the Dark Cosmos Entity's position becomes awkward. Would they take the risk to help?"
Jiangnan shook his head: "Not sure yet, but put yourself in their shoes. If I complete the Star-Slaying Operation right before the Sequence War, the impact won't be small!"
"For the Dark Cosmos Entity as a whole, the benefits outweigh the risks!"
"Risk always comes hand in hand with opportunity!"
"It just depends on whether Noah has the guts to play along with us!"
The more Black God heard, the more excited he got. This dungeon was intense enough—creating opportunities where there were none?
Getting to personally dismantle Thousand Stars City once? Just thinking about it was thrilling!
"What other arrangements do you have? Tell me. We're allies already, so I should know the plan, right?"
"And after you trash Thousand Stars City, what's the follow-up? How do you wrap it up? How do you ensure you won't repeat Jiang Fan's mistakes?"
Jiangnan grinned wickedly, turned his head, and began sharing his subsequent plans with Black God.
(ﾉ)ಡ3ಡ) "Grunya grunya grunya~"
(●⁰̷̴꒨⁰̷̴) "Oh? Ptu ptu?"
(ﾉ)՞3՞) "Grunya!"
As the two delved deeper into conversation, Black God let out exclamations of amazement from time to time!
When they got excited, they cackled together: "Hehehe~"
(〃◞ิ↼◟ิ)～Hehehe～(◞ิ⇀◟ิ◕)
Even Mo Mo and Olivia got goosebumps watching them. What kind of god-tier plans were these?
Could a human brain really come up with this? This was absolute peak mischief!
Jiang Ning kept wiping cold sweat beside them. She originally thought the Star-Slaying Operation was just an unrealistic fantasy, hard to achieve!
But now it seemed completely different!
Maybe it could really be done? Was this what Xiao Nan was willing to risk everything for?
The two grunyad on the rocking car for a long time, nearly draining its battery!
Black God said excitedly: "No time to waste—we need to secure Noah first, right? Let's go immediately. We only have half a month—can't afford to waste it!"
"I'll pick an alt and go with you!"
Jiangnan: ???
Why did Black God seem even more eager and invested than he was?
Black God snapped his fingers. The scenery shifted, space warped, and everyone found themselves in Black God's collection museum—a pure white space!
Countless glass orbs, like stars, contained organ puzzle pieces from the Starry Sky Races!
No doubt, this was where Ye Yuan had come from too!
Every time Jiangnan saw it, he felt an overwhelming shock. How long had it taken to collect all this?
Black God walked while stroking his chin in thought:
(◕͡°ก͡°) "Hmm... which alt should I pick?"
As for Mo Mo and Olivia, they were completely dazzled!
He really did have an entire museum of alts?
But as they walked, Olivia suddenly turned back, as if she'd discovered something unbelievable!
Σ(⚆口⚆◦)
She dashed like the wind to a glass orb. Inside was preserved a young man from the Apocalypse Race, glowing with blue light!
His eyes were closed, as if in slumber!
Olivia rubbed her eyes, her face full of shock:
(๑ʘ̅口ʘ̅๑) "Big Dummy? This... where did this come from?"
Black God tilted his head: (•́～•̀◕) "Oh? This Apocalypse youth? An early collection of mine—he offered his entire being to me as a contract item!"
"I'm quite fond of this one!"
Olivia immediately burst into tears with a wail. She dropped to her knees with a thud and performed the grand ritual of three kowtows and nine prostrations!
Madly kowtowing!
(*ง꒦ິ口꒦ີ)ง "Great Hero King! Your unworthy descendant Olivia greets you, wuwuwu~"
(งཀ◠ཀ)ง "Please rest assured, the Apocalypse Race is doing well now. We won the Star Ruins War. We're now the Fourth Starry Sequence of the Carbon-Based! You can rest in peace!"
At this moment, Olivia's face was full of respect and sorrow!
As a genius girl of the Apocalypse Race, how could she not recognize the Hero King?
On every planet belonging to the Apocalypse Race, there were statues of the Hero King standing tall. Every Apocalypse child, from their earliest history lessons, learned that the Hero King turned the tide and won the Star Ruins War—it was a compulsory course!
It made the children remember the bitter past and cherish the present!
But Olivia never imagined, to her dying day, that she would see the Hero King's real body here!
The Hero King, who sacrificed himself for the race back then, had ended up as one of Black God's collections?
Ptooey!
Jiangnan's forehead dripped with cold sweat: (•́ω•̀٥) "Meeting your own ancestor?"
How awkward was this?
But all the collections in Black God's museum were basically ancestor-level figures, right?
Olivia looked at the Hero King with reluctant attachment. She pleaded pitifully:
(๑ᵒ̴̶̷̥́◠ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀) "Big Dummy, can the Hero King still come back to life?"
"I'll play mahjong with you, okay?"
Black God waved his hand:
(︶～︶●)ﾉ "Don't think about it—no chance. His consciousness dissipated the moment he went all in. This is just a shell!"
"That was billions of years ago. Even if it hadn't dissipated, no matter how freakish the Apocalypse Race is, they couldn't live that long, right?"
Olivia looked dejected, but that was true. So let the Hero King live forever in legend—that was a good choice too!
Then she wiped her tears, stood up, and bowed deeply to the Hero King with full respect!
Black God watched this scene, his eyes flickering, his expression gradually turning wicked, and he couldn't help letting out a laugh!
Jiangnan: ???
"What are you laughing at?"
Black God shook his head and gave Jiangnan a look:
(●ಡ⥎ಡ) "Nothing. Just thinking of some fun stuff."
Jiangnan: (˵ಡжಡ) "Oh～I see~"
Jiang Ning: (•́﹏•̀٥)
These two masters of mischief together—nothing good would come of it!
After looking around, to keep a low profile, Black God ultimately chose his most recently acquired collection!
A human figure stepped out of a glass orb, infused with Black God's power!
It was a tall, handsome middle-aged man, with both masculine vigor and a hint of softness!
And this human's level reached Star Breaker!
Jiangnan's eye twitched. So he really pieced it together? I knew it—Black God collected human organs just to assemble alts for fun!
Black God grinned:
(∗❛ั͜ʖ❛ั) "I'll use this one. Since I'm working with humans, it'll be easier to get along, right?"
Jiang Ning tilted her head: (•︠～•︡) "Strange... this person gives me a familiar feeling, like I've seen him somewhere? But I don't recognize him at all?"
The most familiar stranger—that must be the feeling!
Jiangnan's eyes dodged, a guilty look on his face!
(๑◔﹏◔ิ๑)
No wonder she felt familiar—this human's entire body was pieced together from parts taken from various human elites!
The man subconsciously scratched his butt:
(๑ᵒ̴̶̷⍸ᵒ̴̶̷) "I need a name. Can't just call me Black God when I'm out and about, right? Any good ideas?"
"I have too many alts—ran out of good names ages ago."
Jiangnan stroked his chin, looking solemn:
(͡°ก͡°)✧ "How about Wang Youzhi? What do you think?"
Mo Mo: (´థжథ) Pfft~
South God! Could you be any more wicked?
Black God frowned: (๑•̌～•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Wang Youzhi? Not very impressive. Doesn't sound lofty?"
Jiangnan widened his eyes: "What do you know? You don't understand the meaning at all! You're the King of Dimensions, so you take the surname Wang, and you have great ambitions, so you're called Wang Youzhi!"
"Isn't that fitting?"
Wang Youzhi's eyes lit up:
(๑ớヮờ) "When you put it that way, it does have some charm. Fine, call me Wang Youzhi!"
As he spoke, he scratched his butt again...
Mo Mo turned her head sharply, her shoulders shaking uncontrollably. It's all about "hemorrhoids," isn't it? That "zhi" definitely means hemorrhoid!
His hemorrhoids and appendix must both be on Wang Youzhi's body now?
Thinking about it, Mo Mo had a strange feeling—did that mean she was somehow related to him by blood?
She hoped he would never know the truth!
Wang Youzhi said excitedly: (งᵒ̌`▿´ᵒ̌)ง "Now let's go find Noah!"
Jiangnan grinned:
(๑¯ิ↼¯ิ) "I've already contacted Yue Li. It just depends on whether Noah will join the game!"