It is either destruction, or closing one’s eyes and pretending not to see.
“What do you think?” Bai Xiaozhi turned to look at the Witch.
“I’ve seen your living conditions—they are harsh.” The Witch lowered her eyes and said,
“I think, no one in Nerrifa wants to experience that again. Besides, I have no right to make decisions for the lives of everyone in Nerrifa, much less to strip them of their right to survive.”
“My opinion is the opposite,” Bai Xiaozhi said after a moment of contemplation.
The Witch glanced sideways, and Wu Xiaomi also looked up at her.
“If I had not been born on Earth, I would have made the same choice as you.” Bai Xiaozhi revealed a faint, gentle smile. “But as you’ve seen, even without the Source of Spirits, we would still take that step.
We won’t resign ourselves to living under the dome like some gigantic screen, only gazing up at the stars, never reaching out to touch them.
We can’t just wait for death and wither away; we need to reach out to other civilizations, to actively seek a way out. Just like Earth met Nerrifa, just like Nerrifa met Yadeer…”
“So, even if all the people of Nerrifa become refugees, even if order collapses and despair is everywhere, should we still take that step?” the Witch asked.
“No, I know, the hellish scene after the apocalypse chills everyone to the bone; no one wants to go through it again.” Bai Xiaozhi shook her head. “But we won’t experience it again.”
Suddenly enlightened, the Witch said, “That’s right, last time it happened because there was no preparation at all. In the panic, people were forced into internal strife to survive.”
“Exactly. If we prepare in advance, know what’s about to happen, and plan accordingly,” Bai Xiaozhi said, “then not only will we not lose people, we can use our numbers to quickly complete the strategy and accumulate for reconstruction.”
It’s like the second playthrough of a game.
All the traps you fell into in the first playthrough can be avoided in the second, and you can clear it smoothly and joyfully.
In this way, through cycle after cycle, the Raiders become stronger and stronger, until one day, the Raiders are strong enough to fend off the sharks coming ashore, or even fight back.
“When that day comes, we can embrace the sky as much as we want! Embrace all possibilities in this boundless darkness!”
“Perhaps, this is what the stars truly intend.”
At this point, Bai Xiaozhi and the Witch both looked at the girl sitting on their knees.
They hoped the girl would make the final decision.
Although the girl was always a bit single-minded, sometimes, the simplest and purest thoughts are the answer to everything.
……
Huh?
When Wu Xiaomi realized the two girls were looking at her, she froze.
She put down the bread in her hand and tentatively wrote a note.
[Cream bread is so delicious~!]
“……”
“……”
The Witch and Bai Xiaozhi both put their hands to their foreheads, speechless.
So, after all this time discussing, she didn’t listen to a word!
“Forget it.”
The Witch flipped the page to the next one.
The little figure jumped out again.
“I cannot stop any of the choices you make. After all, by the time you see this book, I am certainly no longer in Nerrifa.”
The Enchantress on the book smiled gently, looking up at the three girls.
“But no matter what choice you make, you will always be daughters I, Nayi, and Lingguang are proud of.
After all, you have already taken that step. You have crossed the grievances among the three races that have lasted for hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of years.
You have overcome the commands and traps we left in your genes.
You have once again merged the powers of Nayi, Lingguang, and Divine Shaman, becoming the united force that once protected Nerrifa—and also destroyed Haiena.
For such outstanding children as you, the advice of your ancestors is no longer enough to decide—whether to lead Nerrifa back to the stars, or to continue upholding the facade of war.
This is your era. The right to choose is in your hands.
Choose bravely! No matter what the outcome!”
The little figure in the book disappeared, and before the statue, a portal opened.
That was the road back to the Nerrifa World.
There, countless people were still waiting for them, waiting to witness the result of this upheaval—
With Nayi, Lingguang, and Divine Shaman conducting the inheritance at the same time, who would ultimately win?
To whom would the Divine Shaman’s power belong? On which side would the scales of war tip?
……
“Your Highness!”
When the three girls appeared before the masses, everyone, regardless of faction, knelt in unison.
Wu Xiaomi held the Witch and Bai Xiaozhi’s hands, sandwiched between them.
She felt a little out of place facing the kneeling crowd’s submission.
So she slipped away.
[Guide Objective: Escort Princess Lingguang to Complete Marriage Alliance, objective achieved. Beginning return.]
“……”
As Raiders, Wu Xiaomi and Bai Xiaozhi were transported back to the White Space.
The Witch, unwilling to face the mess in front of her, also slipped away.
Before leaving, she didn’t forget to snatch up the already-fused three inheritances.
—Those are valuable, eheheh~
In an instant, only the bewildered soldiers from the three factions remained.
They couldn’t fight, but neither could they not fight; in the end, they could only withdraw.
……
Of course, Wu Xiaomi knew that running away wouldn’t solve the problem.
The three girls still hadn’t figured out how to face the leaders of each nation, nor how to tell them these truths.
As for the future… As princesses yet to inherit the throne, they had no way to decide.
But there was one thing they could decide:
“The Earth Reconstruction Project officially begins!”
Today was a big day in the Mongu District.
Thanks to earning a massive amount of points from the last mission, Miss Nuo could finally go all out and deploy her Engineering Starlink.
All those boasts Kang Jie made during his livestreams, Miss Nuo was now fulfilling them one by one.
“On Earth, the starlinks were for communications. This time we don’t need communications—we need Engineering Satellites to haul dirt.”
Yes, even though the Earth’s Raiders had lost the Source of Spirits and didn’t have the ability to mold planets with bare hands like Nayi and Lingguang,
They still found a way.
Step one: everyone transfers their points to Miss Nuo.
Next, it was time for a spectacular show.
Huang Xiao opened the livestream room.
“Boom!”
The first Engineering Satellite launch rocket was redeemed on the spot.
Then the second, the third.
Miss Nuo arranged them according to the rules, exchanging them for launches over what should have been the Pacific’s wasteland.
Then, wave after wave of launches.
“Whoa—!”
The crowd stared in awe.
Dense swarms of rockets lifted off together.
They rose from every corner of the vast land, trailing burning flames, their roars shaking the world.
Their angles and altitudes were perfectly aligned.
Just like all the times Earth reached for the sky before.
But this time, it was all at once.
One round done, then the second, then the third.
In just a few hours, a million satellites had launched.
They filled every corner of the White Space’s orbit.
Then they separated, leaving only the satellites beyond the atmosphere.
Those satellites began extending their arms in all directions, and all the branches linked together, forming a net.
A net as tough as iron, framing the outside of the White Space.
All the satellites were interconnected.
Then Miss Nuo switched to another set of models and continued launching.
The new satellites connected the iron net to the ground, leaving long elevator pipelines throughout the milky-white Space.
Those pipelines looked like elevators straight to space.
And, in fact, that’s exactly what they were.
“Ar Kang’s Atmospheric Tower Crane Plan.” Ah Lei murmured, “It’s Ar Kang’s big tower crane. He really used this method—this guy… this guy was right!”
Then came the third step.
Miss Nuo launched the third batch of satellites.
The third batch was built outside the iron net: two gigantic cylindrical launch devices aimed at Earth’s former orbit.
The Starlink iron net would collect the soil redeemed by the Raiders from the ground.
Then, it would hoist the soil and elements up to the iron net, and finally launch them from the first device toward Earth’s former position to begin construction.
As for the second device, it was a planetary propulsion thruster.
Its purpose was to push the entire White Space and iron net, allowing them to move anywhere in the solar system, ensuring the right launch angle for the soil.
Miss Nuo didn’t build an Engineering Space Station, because she had turned the entire White Space into a mobile space station.
And so, in this moment—
Reconstruction had begun.
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