Chapter 2917: A Year of Chaos!
Although the matter of cooperation between the Carbon Alliance and the Matter Alliance was not directly settled, because of this incident, the relationship between the two sides had broken the ice and was no longer as rigid as before!
But similarly, because of the Wanxiang Incident, the Final Legion also changed its strategy accordingly!
They no longer gave up advancing into Carbon Alliance territory because of the thorn-in-the-side humans, but instead became egalitarian!
Even if humans participated in the battle, when facing attacks from human warriors, the Final Legion simply would not counterattack!
I can defend, or I can imprison you, surround you, suppress you with force fields—that's still possible, right?
Not counterattacking does not mean being inactive; fighting can still happen!
It's not like the Carbon Alliance only has humans, right?
Although the battle was awkward because of Jiang Fan's strict order not to harm humans, they could still advance!
The Carbon Alliance also lost its former elegant posture of sitting high on the platform and began to go down to defend the terminal defensive line!
The war never stopped!
And during this process, the connection and cooperation between the Carbon Alliance and the Matter Alliance began to deepen gradually!
Exchanging resources, getting what each needed, and even jointly building defensive fortifications for the final defensive line!
When the war was tense, mutual reinforcement also began to appear!
They no longer maintained their previous hostile stance, the feeling of never interacting until death. Taking the Wanxiang Incident as an opportunity, they gradually began to cooperate!
For example, in the exchange of various resources and minerals, they opened up the Matter Alliance's usage rights to the Dimensional Gap!
They even sold some weapons and equipment to the Matter Alliance, and accepted some racial technology foundation upgrade commissions proposed by member races of the Matter Alliance!
Such as the construction of space teleportation arrays, which also included the home star domains of various Matter Alliance core members into the plan!
Even things like the Star Sea Source Flow Cosmic Array, as long as the Matter Alliance was willing to pay, the Carbon Alliance was willing to help build it!
On the overall grand strategy, although the Carbon Alliance and the Matter Alliance had no name for cooperation, they already had the substance of it!
The two big hands had silently grasped each other!
This was more like a short period of running-in!
After all, the two sides had been hostile before, fighting all the way down, accumulating many old grudges. Jiangnan had even farmed the Matter Alliance for resentment points!
It was impossible for them to just let bygones be bygones, put their arms around each other's shoulders, call each other brothers, laugh heartily, and say everything is fine just because the Carbon Alliance helped the Matter Alliance out during the Wanxiang Incident!
This wasn't a game of house!
Old grudges needed a process of settling and turning the page, and such running-in was precisely a warm-up and groundwork for future cooperation!
But even so, the Final Plan was still advancing in an orderly manner!
On one hand, the Silicon-based Star Anti and Star Mimic restrained most abilities!
On the other hand, even if the Carbon Alliance and the Matter Alliance could defend well, they couldn't possibly hold the entire starry sky's final defensive line!
The Final Legion's material delivery to the Final City never stopped!
Even the full Giant God Soldiers, Holy Wing Machines, and Original Machines had come out to work, okay?
That said, the Original Machine never appeared on the main battlefield!
Because once it appeared, Wanxiang would have to get involved. If that happened, Jiang Fan would act, and if Jiang Fan acted, then Jiangnan would certainly come to stop him!
The situation would develop back to the previous state!
Neither Jiangnan nor Jiang Fan wanted that, so they kept pushing it back. Wanxiang didn't want it either—he certainly didn't want to die!
The Original Machine quite wanted it, but it didn't get to decide!
So although the starry sky was ablaze with war, thick with smoke of battle, and filled with shouts of killing!
It was still just a confrontation between soldiers; the generals did not go down to the field!
The current starry sky was like a big chess game!
The final defensive line was the Chu River and Han Border, with Jiangnan and Jiang Fan as the old marshals, staying put in place!
And the various Star Devourers of each clan were like chariots, needing to go down and fight!
In this version, even Star Devourers could no longer be called marshals!
The Carbon Alliance and the Matter Alliance were locked in fierce fighting with the Final Legion, ceaselessly battling around the final defensive line!
Only the Bose Clan was the most Zen, sitting firmly on the fishing platform, not contending, not fighting, silently recruiting underlings and accumulating strength!
Xun Zu never stepped out of his gate, determined to get rid of the Shen Zang shackles!
Once the shackles were broken, everything would be theirs!
You go ahead and fight; in the end, it will all be mine!
Xun Zu even used the Four-Dimensional Sky Wall to block the Eternal World, making the boundary wall opaque!
It was impossible to see the progress of the Shen Zang refining, clearly planning a big move!
Months passed, one after another!
The overall trend of the Carbon Alliance was still rising, and the development of the human race was quite gratifying!
Although in a chaotic world, it had almost no impact on the development pace of the human race!
As the leader of the Carbon Alliance, humans had the top-tier resource configuration in the starry sky, plus the assistance of Ai Jiang's terminal, their development speed was like a little rocket, okay?
And Ai Jiang had said from the very beginning that many core things in the Wisdom Sect data terminal were incomplete, having become garbled code due to damage back then!
Now, as time passed, those garbled codes were gradually being combined and deciphered by Ai Jiang, bringing many new things with gratifying progress!
To speed up the deciphering progress and give Jiangnan a big surprise!
Ai Jiang expanded the terminal!
Originally, there was only one terminal, which was picked up from Little Carp's belly!
How could that be enough? With the technological and production foundation the humans had built so far, they were already capable of building new terminals!
If the Silicon-based could have so many backup terminals, capable of stacking computing power when needed, why couldn't Ai Jiang?
So, with resources piled in, Ai Jiang built three backup terminals in one go!
Two were used by Ai Jiang to stack computing power, continuing to decipher and combine garbled codes, digging for treasures!
And the third was given to the Watt Virus to use, so it wouldn't always borrow Ai Jiang's terminal computing power!
Ai Jiang had absolute control over the Watt Virus's life and death, so it wasn't afraid of backlash, allowing it to evolve with peace of mind!
In desperate times, it would also be a super trump card to deal with the Silicon-based Final Legion!
As for human experts, the number of transcendent groups entered an explosive period due to the concentrated stacking of resources!
The number of human transcendent experts began a blowout surge era!
People like Qin Shou, Qi Yu, Ye Xinghe, Yu Qingqing, Ning Youyou, Leng Yan, Hua Ling had all become transcendent!
Not to mention Qi Delong, Dong Qiang, Mo Tian, An Xiaoqi, Liuli, and the others!
In this chaotic world, the battlefield was the best touchstone, enough to temper them and make them grow quickly!
Plus, with Jiang Fan's strict order, these rookie human transcendents wouldn't have any life-threatening danger!
The entire starry sky was their training ground!
And the number of Black God's small class students gradually increased. Little brothers like Baldr and Xiong Er were all working hard, competing to see who would become a Star Devourer first!
But after discovering they couldn't understand a single feather, they just skipped class directly, finding it more practical to soak in the Star Sea Source Flow Spell Array!
Even Jiangnan didn't attend class much anymore, because during this period, Jiangnan really didn't stay in the real world much!
The strobing in the real world became more and more frequent. Jiangnan could only keep running to the Life Forbidden Zone, traveling back a few days, then coming out again, to stabilize reality!
Almost half the time, Jiangnan didn't get to experience it, just passing through directly. Thinking about it always felt like a huge loss!
Jiangnan himself also knew that continuing like this wouldn't work. One day, reality would become so fragile that even he staying in this reality couldn't bear it!
Could he just keep hiding in the Life Forbidden Zone?
Every day that passed, Jiangnan could feel the suffocating sense of reality on the verge of collapse, and his heart gradually became anxious!
System Baby's progress bar was still leaking, and the final big gift package still wasn't given to Jiangnan!
Obviously, the so-called "suitable" timing hadn't arrived yet!
Jiangnan was driven crazy by this matter. However, during this time, Jiangnan's cultivation hadn't slackened. The total amount of Realm Source Energy he could store in his body had been steadily increasing...
And the only listener left in Black God's small class was Xiao Chuihuo. Every time after the lecture, Xiao Chuihuo looked lost in thought!
His level had long stopped at the peak of the sixteenth transcendent period, but strangely, Xiao Chuihuo's aura growth hadn't stalled because of this, instead continuing to strengthen!
This left Black God a bit confused!
Historically, the sixteenth period was already very abnormal. A freak like Jiangnan with eighteen periods was unheard of!
Could it be that Grandpa Xiao also wanted to try an eighteenth advance?
During this period, Xiao Chuihuo even found Jiangnan, asking him to demonstrate Realm Source Energy for study!
Of course, Xiao Chuihuo couldn't absorb it, not even with idealistic methods plus soul-locking techniques!
He didn't have anything that could carry Realm Source Energy. His body couldn't handle it, let alone a small world!
But how could Jiangnan refuse Grandpa Xiao's request?
During the time he returned to reality, whenever he had a chance, he would show Realm Source Energy to Xiao Chuihuo!
In Jiangnan's view, Grandpa Xiao's talent surpassed his own. Not in substantive talent, but in philosophy and grand direction!
Jiangnan didn't know what Grandpa Xiao was up to, only that he was brewing something big!
And Jiangnan wasn't worried about Grandpa Xiao getting into trouble. With his current strength, there was no possibility of Grandpa Xiao getting hurt!
Thus, time flowed on month after month, like a train that never stops, always moving forward!
In the blink of an eye, a whole year had passed since the Wanxiang Incident!
During this period, the starry sky world spent its days in the midst of war. Not only did the war show no signs of stopping, but as the final defensive line advanced, it increasingly threatened the core interests of various races!
Conflicts and wars only intensified!
But there was one place that completely ignored this chaotic world and the war. None of this was on the mind of that true immortal!
Ice God Star, Dawn Laboratory!
Li Bing was wearing a white lab coat, black stockings, a pencil skirt, high heels, and a white shirt!
At the moment, her legs were crossed, resting on the experimental table. She leaned back, looking up at pieces of data projected by her virtual reality glasses, frowning deeply!
And she wasn't alone here!
Chong Feiyu was kneeling on the ground, rummaging through several huge cardboard boxes. Inside were piles of paper documents, some even yellowed, obviously old items!
Her face was full of excitement, licking her lips like a hamster digging for treasure!
The lab was in a mess!
Chong Feiyu emerged from the cardboard boxes, with several paper documents still on her head, holding several stacks in her hands, and said excitedly:
(๑❛ัꇴ❛ั)っ▓"Good bestie, what are all these?"
Without turning her head, Li Bing's lips curled into a slight smile:
(￢̫￢)"Good sister, what you're holding in your hands is called A4 paper. The writing on it is Chinese characters, printed using something called an inkjet printer!"
"They were carriers used by us humans in earlier years to record things. Even earlier, we used bamboo slips, bone pieces, and the like to record. Later, we started using paper!"
"How about it? Never seen it before, right? Ignorant, aren't you? Paper is rarely seen in the starry sky! Most things are recorded with data..."
But Chong Feiyu had an expression of speechlessness!
(≖_≖٥)"Do you think I'm stupid? Do you think I don't even know this is called paper?"
Li Bing was taken aback, then pretended to be surprised, covering her mouth and asked:
"(º口º*) 'Ah~ what? You actually know this thing is called paper? You... you're quite knowledgeable, aren't you!'"
Chong Feiyu stomped her feet in anger. Li Bing's skill at annoying people was definitely inherited from Southern God, wasn't it?
(≖～≖٥)"I'm asking what these things are that you've kept until now?"
But at this, a look of reminiscence appeared in Li Bing's eyes. She sighed emotionally: "Nothing much. They're just failed research projects I did during the Blue Star era. After all, there were always some whimsical ideas that couldn't be realized~"
"They're quite memorable, so I've kept them all along. I just haven't gone through them much!"
Chong Feiyu's eyes lit up. Research from her good bestie's Earth era? Let me see~