Chapter 81: Changes in the Heavenly Palace
Small conference room.
Little Li is explaining the recently acquired report to the leaders below:
“…Since the Fog Sphere began to Expand outwards, the Heavenly Palace’s phantom image, which hangs above the Fog Sphere, has simultaneously begun to change.
Its original position rose along with the Fog Sphere’s Expand, and it has now officially entered outer space, transitioning from the initial atmospheric layer to the transition zone of space, and can currently only be observed closely through Satellites, orbital spacecraft, and rocket-powered aircraft.
According to the images sent back by the Satellites, and comparing them to the original data, the scale of the Heavenly Palace has also increased threefold, but this threefold increase is not a proportional enlargement, but rather some previously difficult-to-observe phantom buildings have rapidly become clear, and can now be observed via Satellite.
It can be said that what we are currently seeing is the complete version of the Heavenly Palace.
It’s just that the situation of the Heavenly Palace is very special; even if it can be observed, it is still difficult to make contact with it.
We have already tried to deploy various experimental substances, and none of them could pass through it.
Currently, there are two main guesses regarding the Heavenly Palace—
The first is that the real Heavenly Palace may be located in a certain subspace, which has not yet fully manifested. Connecting it to the influence of the Sun Collapse, it may have to wait until the other three suns also collapse before it can completely take shape.
The second is that the real Heavenly Palace is located above the Floating Continent, and what we are observing is merely a projection released by the Heavenly Palace to the outside world. We must enter the Floating Continent to have the opportunity to make contact with it.
In addition, as the Heavenly Palace has become clearer, the Plaque on the Heavenly Palace’s main hall is no longer as blurred as before. We can clearly see that there are a total of five characters on the Plaque. Referring to Qi Xuan’s 【Dueling Heaven】 characters, it is determined to be of the same language family.
However, we currently have very little Ancient Seal Script data, and cannot determine the exact meaning of these five characters. To solve the mystery within, we may have to wait until we come into contact with the civilization on the Floating Continent…”
Little Li said a lot more, including the Heavenly Palace’s form, architectural style, various data, and the experts’ speculations on the uses of each hall, and so on.
Liu Wang, while listening, was a bit distracted.
If Qi Xuan were still alive, with him constantly providing information, perhaps the mystery of the Heavenly Palace’s characters could be easily solved.
It’s a pity that talent is envied by heaven; now, we can only see if we can obtain relevant intelligence from that Island.
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The meeting room is still listening to the analysis report, and the images of the Heavenly Palace’s characters have also spread to the internet.
Astronomical enthusiasts from Various countries have clearly discovered the changes in the Heavenly Palace’s phantom image and the five huge Ancient Seal Script characters on the Plaque through large-caliber telescopes.
Seeing these pictures, the Netizens also began to discuss heatedly:
“Heavenly King covers the earth?”
“Pagoda suppresses the river monster!”
“Smart brains always think alike!”
“Wake up, that thing, although it looks like Da Qian Seal Script, it only looks like it, don’t look at the five characters, maybe translated it would be more than a dozen characters.”
“I don’t agree with this. The information density of Chinese Characters is the highest in the world. The United Nations’ documents written in various countries’ languages, only our Da Qian’s documents are always the thinnest, because only the fewest Chinese Characters can be used to express the most meaning.”
“Chinese is indeed difficult to learn, but it’s so useful after learning it. Under normal circumstances, only 4000 commonly used characters need to be mastered to combine new words, while English needs to constantly create new words, causing the vocabulary to have now expanded to over 2 million, basically if you look at other people’s professional books across different fields, there are a bunch of professional terms you don’t know at all.”
“The professional terms of Chinese can quickly understand their meaning through the decomposition of the characters, such as quantum computing, but if it’s English, when you encounter professional terms, you can only memorize them by rote, such as photosynthesis.
Moreover, Chinese information efficiency is too high, which can reduce computational complexity and occupy fewer tokens, causing many Western AI systems to start using Chinese as their internal logical language.”
“So it’s completely understandable why the Heavenly Palace uses Ancient Seal Script, it may be more similar to our language family.”
“But without specific corresponding characters, it’s also very difficult to crack it. Currently, we only know the two characters 【Dueling Heaven】.”
“It’s a pity that Qi God died young, otherwise, even if he didn’t go out to explore, just by live streaming teaching characters every day, he could also gain a massive amount of attention.”
“I believe in Qi God! Qi God will definitely not die so easily!”
“Don’t mythologize individuals, even if Qi God’s combat power is far above ordinary people, and he has practiced all sorts of Martial Arts, but he is, after all, a carbon-based life form. With such a big crisis as the Sun Collapse, it’s absolutely impossible to survive.”
“Although I also want Qi God to be alive, to see more of his Live Streams, to see his various adventures on the Floating Continent in the future, but this is just a beautiful wish, we have to accept the facts.”
“Impossible! He must still be alive! He has created so many miracles, how could he die so easily?”
“Forget it, don’t look at what time it is now, it’s almost eleven o’clock at night, and there’s no movement in the sky.
If Qi God were really alive, it would be impossible not to Live Stream in the afternoon, even if he didn’t do it himself, there would be Secretly Filming Live Streams released.
But now there are no Live Streams, and no Secretly Filming… everyone should accept the facts as soon as possible.”
“Although I’ve never liked Qi Xuan, I have to admit that he did make a considerable contribution this time.
If it weren’t for the footage he shot before his death, we might not have understood why the suspended Fog Sphere would suddenly Expand, and why Land Chunk Fragments would suddenly fall down until the end.
From this perspective, even if the country awards him a first-class merit, I fully support it.”
“Respect the dead, let’s not criticize him today, and we won’t be able to listen to him babble in the sky in the future, to be honest, it’s really a bit uncomfortable.”
……
Speaking of Qi Xuan, the Netizens were all very sad.
Whether it was the many joys he brought, or the unknown world he showed, or the remote beating of those Hater Internet Celebrities, all made the Netizens feel very nostalgic.
Everyone couldn’t help but lament his premature death, but they were helpless and could only sigh that talent is envied by heaven.
The Netizens were like this, and those close to him were even more so.
Mother Qi was heartbroken and fainted, and was sent to the hospital.
Father Qi stood in the hospital corridor, smoking one cigarette after another, his wrinkles deepening.
Xue Cheng ran to the bar to get drunk, and after drinking at one place, he staggered to the next.
Ji Yuwei hugged her knees, sat alone in the dark bedroom, her eyes always fixed on the night sky outside the window, lost in thought.
……
Just as countless people were reminiscing about Qi Xuan.
Just as countless people were feeling sad about it.
The seemingly gloomy and dark night sky of the Eastern Hemisphere was suddenly illuminated by countless Light screens.
