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At this moment, Zhizi is doing her best to control the area of the second-level containment space, compressing the "black hole" that seems to be summoning something as much as possible to its very center.
Now, Tomoko has deduced all of Tetsuo Uchiharado's plans using the available intelligence.
The sacrificial summoning rituals that the outside angelic cult has been making such a big fuss about are nothing more than bait to divert attention.
If the Angelic Cult and the Kirieloids who dedicate themselves around the world can attract TPC's attention to the maximum extent possible—and it would be best if they could also attract Ultraman Tiga's attention along with them—then all the better.
The Kiriel people, or rather the faceless people, truly placed their hopes on the cloned personalities that were previously imprisoned in the second-level receiving space.
First, the subspace where the replicated personality resides is independent of the material world and will not be affected by unexpected factors such as TPC.
Secondly, in order to better imprison the cloned personality, Lu Xuan used the subspace where the cloned personality resided, which possessed properties similar to dimensional rifts, allowing him to survive for a long time.
Therefore, using the subspace where the replicated personality resides as an intermediate transitional zone for summoning the gates of hell is perfectly appropriate.
However, if we want to summon the Gates of Hell on Lu Xuan's territory, there are two major unstable factors that need to be addressed.
The first one is undoubtedly Gaelvin.
If we cannot first resolve the biggest destabilizing factor, Gailwin, then summoning the Gates of Hell in the second containment space is an unrealistic hypothetical scenario.
Thus began the previous series of plans to exile Gaelvin.
In the Faceless Man's true plan, there was no need to actually exile Gaelvin for a long time; it was enough to buy enough time to summon the Gates of Hell.
The second unstable factor is Ultraman Tiga.
As a giant himself, if He discovers the anomaly in the second containment space, He will most likely appear to stop the summoning of the Gates of Hell.
In order to increase the success rate of summoning the gates of hell, the faceless man decided to carry out sacrificial and summoning rituals of the Angelic Cult worldwide.
Firstly, it allows for the large-scale exploitation of human society's fears and beliefs.
Secondly, it can also shift Ultraman Tiga's attention to other places around the world.
It can only be said that the person without a face had taken into account all aspects and influences in a thorough manner, and had calculated almost all possible accidents.
The only thing he overlooked was probably Sophon's contingency plans and capabilities.
In fact, long before Lu Xuan decided to venture into the lion's den, Zhi Zi's side had already considered all sorts of possible unforeseen circumstances, including the possibility of something happening on Sixth Avenue.
In a sense, the actions of the cloned personality are the result of Zhizi's indulgence.
Rather than letting the Kiriel continue causing trouble in the shadows.
Exposing a negligible "weakness" and then drawing all their energy and attention to that "weakness" is actually a one-time solution.
The only question now is whether Zhizi has the resources at her disposal to carry out this "closing the door and beating the dog" plan.
boom! boom! boom!
Thick cannon muzzles appeared through spatial ripples.
Powerful attacks relentlessly bombarded the summoned Gates of Hell.
Zhi Zi, who had never shown her power to the world, removed all the restrictions that Lu Xuan had placed on her at this moment.
Powerful drone mechs, endless artillery fire, convenient quantum teleportation...
With its outstanding computing power and resources, Zhizi fully demonstrated the terrifying power of being an army all by itself.
A continuous stream of artillery fire and mechs emerged from the spatial ripples, as various high-energy weapons, brimming with destructive power, were thrown into the seemingly endless "black hole."
Drones equipped with particle beam cannons, alien mechs wielding ship-slaying swords, cannons directly connected to space stations...
The firepower that the Zhizi unleashed in a short period of time completely exceeded the expectations and imagination of the Kiriel people.
In order to prevent the Gates of Hell from being destroyed before they appeared, the Kiriel people living in the spacetime rift had to expose their power in advance and rush out of the Gates of Hell.
In this subspace perfectly capable of sustaining the Kiriel people, they do not need to possess humans; they can directly transform into the form of Kirieloids and wage war against the Sophons.
One, two, three, four...
In less than a breath, more than a dozen powerful beings capable of transforming into Kirieloids appeared.
The black flames engulfed the surroundings in a sea of fire, and the materialized spiritual energy distorted space.
As far as the eye could see, even more Kirieloids were rushing out of the Gates of Hell, engaging in fierce battles with the Sophons who were firing at full power.
boom! boom! boom!
The entire containment space was transformed into a war zone at that moment, and the nearly insane individuals became cannon fodder in this war.
The cold, rational, and cruel Sophon, with power completely unimaginable to humans, wantonly slaughtered the Kyrielords, as if slaughtering a flock of lambs going to their deaths.
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Chapter 387 The Kiriel Civilization
A time-space fault, the homeland of the Kiriael.
In a dark spacetime beyond human comprehension, clusters of spiritual entities fearlessly charged through the portal, heading towards the material world they so desperately desired.
No one knows when the Kiriel appeared in the time rift.
In this spacetime rift inhabited by various extradimensional life forms, the Kiriel are a very special, yet not so special, existence.
Because the Kiriel are not native life forms from a time-space rift, but a civilized race that has evolved from the material world.
In the vast universe and the boundless sea of stars, countless civilizations have taken countless paths of development.
However, regardless of how civilizations develop, they generally break away from their home planet and become powerful civilizations on a cosmic scale.
However, since there are civilizations in the world that look up at the stars and the universe, there must also be races that explore the inner spirit.
Generally speaking, such races are often unable to leave their home planet and venture into space because their planet's resources are insufficient.
For the continuation of life, and also for the continuation of the race.
These inherently flawed civilizations would then spiritualize and digitize the consciousness of their individual members, and then upload it to the virtual network.
In this way, these civilizations can minimize the consumption of resources from their home planet and prolong their existence.
In most cases, these inherently flawed civilizations will gradually perish as a result, eventually becoming tombstones for other civilizations to explore.
There is a very small chance that these civilizations will be resurrected due to some opportunity and become part of a silicon-based civilization.
In fact, there are even some silicon-based civilizations in the universe that deliberately seek out such inherently flawed civilizations and want to make them one of their own.
After all, silicon-based civilizations are different from carbon-based civilizations; they do not require the uniformity of their internal races.
Regardless of their original race, all newcomers will eventually be transformed into completely mechanical beings.
For silicon-based civilizations, a civilization that exists only in consciousness but whose physical bodies have already perished presents a tremendous opportunity to rapidly increase the number of individuals.
Without a doubt, the original Kiriel were such a civilization.
Due to the extreme scarcity of resources on their home planet, the Kiriel people were completely unable to obtain the necessary qualifications for becoming a civilization in the universe, and they were acutely aware of this.
Therefore, in order to prevent their civilization from perishing.
The original Kyrie people made a decision that all inherently flawed civilizations would make—to enter a virtual network to preserve their civilization's flame.
However, unlike other civilizations that are inherently disadvantaged, not all members of the Kiriel people entered the virtual world.
Instead, in order to keep civilization moving forward, the Kiriel decided to send ordinary members into the virtual world, while elite individuals remained in the real world.
Due to the significant reduction in population size, the remaining resources are sufficient for elite individuals to conduct further research.
At the same time, the Kiriel people also knew that individual beings were not enough to drive the progress of the entire civilization.
Therefore, elite individuals who remain in the real world upload their new research findings to the online world as soon as possible, so that other individuals living in the virtual world can learn from them.
When the number of elite individuals in the real world decreases to a certain extent.
The remaining individuals will then use cloning technology to resurrect a member of their race from the virtual world.
After rigorous selection, this member of the same race who has returned to the real world will possess greater knowledge and technical experience than the previous individuals.
With just a little adaptation, he was able to inherit the former’s workflow and, on that basis, further advance the progress of civilization.
This unity of purpose and continuous cycle.
Before their home planet's resources were exhausted, the original Kyrie people successfully achieved racial advancement and civilization.
Perhaps it's due to their own racial experiences, or perhaps it's due to differences in the process of civilization development...
In short, the Kiriel did not follow the "ascension route" like normal civilizations, but instead became a more bizarre and mysterious spiritual civilization.
During an accidental experiment, the Kiriel discovered a spacetime rift far removed from the material world.
There is no concept of matter there; there are only fantastical rules that use the mind to influence reality...
To a normal civilization, it would be a desolate, empty place, a place with no value whatsoever.
But for the Kiriael people who collectively entered cyberspace, it was a place where they could perfectly connect with and integrate into the virtual world.
So for a considerable period of time afterward, the Kiriel people studied how to enter that spacetime rift.
Especially from the perspective of elite individuals in the material world, it is far more worthwhile to exhaust the resources of their home planet to travel into space and then search for such a negligible glimmer of hope in the boundless cosmos.
It would be better to take a gamble and enter the time-space rift, allowing the entire civilization to continue in another way.
It must be mentioned here that the Kiriel people's criteria for selecting "elite individuals" have never been based on strength and technology, but rather on a more rudimentary morality.
Elite individuals who can be kept in the real world by the Kiriel.
They are basically saints with a strong spirit of self-sacrifice, willing to do anything for the progress of their race.
Only such beings can eliminate their own selfishness to the greatest extent possible and burn themselves out for the progress and continuation of the race.
These elite individuals have never pursued individual survival.
They wanted everyone to survive, and they wanted every individual in civilization to no longer be limited by material constraints in their choices.
For them, a spacetime fault is undoubtedly a more rational and wiser choice than the universe and the stars.
In the end, the original Kiriel undoubtedly achieved their goal, ensuring the continuation of their race and civilization.
From that day on, the Kiriel people officially broke away from their home planet and became a unique spiritual civilization.
Within the temporal rift, the Kiriel people no longer need to worry about the lack of resources, nor do they need to fear the sudden and complete extinction of the world.
Compared to the vast and boundless universe, the spacetime fault is also a universe on another level.
Unfortunately, the original Kiriel never considered a very important question—would a Kiriel who left the material world still be a Kiriel?
When the first fish crawled onto land, they evolved into reptiles...
When a surface civilization ventures into space, they naturally cease to be the original surface-dwelling beings...
Environmental evolution, biological selection, and technological advancements can all cause organisms to change from their original forms.
Not to mention, the changes that occurred when the Kiriel people entered the spacetime rift from the material world were far more complex than normal biological evolution and the sublimation of civilization.
Abandon the physical body, abandon material possessions, abandon civilization, even abandon everything that can be abandoned...
The first generation of Kiriel, who left behind only a few imprints of their thoughts, could only leave their descendants a virtual network containing the wisdom of their race and infinite possibilities.
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Chapter 388 The Gods of Kiriel
—Mental network.
The Kiriel people call that virtual world, which is integrated with the spacetime fault line, "that's what it is."
Before entering the spacetime rift, it was just a virtual network technology for the general public to live and learn, and its essence was no different from other virtual reality technologies.
However, after entering the spacetime rift, this mental network merged with the spacetime rift, becoming a collective entity of all the Kiriel people.
Within the temporal and spatial rift, the Kiriel people collectively transformed into spiritual entities.
The spiritual network that originated from the same source as the Kiriel naturally became a spiritual entity that transcended the Kiriel.
However, this powerful spiritual entity does not have its own will.
Or rather, all the Kiriel are derivative wills of this spiritual entity, and are part of its key elements.
No one knows how long the Kiriel have lived in the time rift...
No one knows how this race, which was once on the verge of extinction, survived those early days...
The only certainty is that the Kiriel people did not have a smooth initial integration into the spacetime rift.