booktalesy Chapter 3665: Sleeping Birthday
Chapter 3665: Sleeping Birthday
Chapter 3665: Sleeping Birthday
Could it be the monsters that Starworm mentioned before, encountered in the gap area?
"No." Starworm shook his head.
After a pause, Starworm thought for a moment and said, "But it is very similar."
Now, thanks to the owl's popularity, the monsters in this gap area have been temporarily pacified. Therefore, there is no need to worry about them chasing after the Star Sea Train.
However, most of the void monsters that chased the Star Sea Train actually encountered the same problems as the monsters in the gap area. However, there were owls to comfort this gap area, but not other places.
To put it simply...
The Star Sea Train often runs recklessly, and sometimes even breaks into the territories occupied by void monsters in order to reach the terminal quickly.
If a Void Monster is slightly weaker, or a Void Monster that is a little "smarter" and has more "insight", seeing the Star Sea Train passing through its territory, even if it feels resentful, it will turn a blind eye and allow the Star Sea Train to enter and exit.
But if this void monster does not have much intelligence, is still very powerful, and has a strong desire for revenge, it may hunt down the Star Train out of hatred.
"If it's the main train of the Starry Sea Train, you don't have to worry about these things. Even if it's a secondary train, if it's numbered in the first 100, you don't have to worry about those void monsters."
"But the Xinghai train I'm on is No. 199."
"In addition, many of the previous train conductors had very impulsive and eccentric personalities. When planning the routes, they would even deliberately provoke certain powerful void monsters..."
"For example, the previous demon conductor could have taken a detour for a few seconds to avoid the void monster. But he refused to do so and would actively move towards the void monster, treating the monster's limbs and bones as railways..."
Yes, the demon captain will drive the Star Sea Train into the bodies of those monsters.
Anyway, the Star Sea Train is extremely fast, and those monsters generally can't catch up with it, so they just provoke it unscrupulously.
"It's not just the Devil Captain. The other previous train captains also had the same personality... It's rare to find a conductor as gentle as the Owl Captain on the Xinghai Train."
Starworm didn't want to criticize the previous train conductors, but that was the fact.
Many times, there is actually no need to provoke those powerful void monsters, but those train conductors chose to rely on the Star Sea Train's extraordinary speed to provoke the monsters.
Also because of the outrageous actions of these train conductors, the No. 199 train attracted the hatred of many monsters.
There is no need to talk about those monsters with slightly weaker strength; but the strength of some monsters is not weaker than the monsters they encountered in the gap area, and there are even terrifying monsters that can mark the Star Train in the void.
These monsters rely on smelling the scent of the Star Sea Train to chase and kill in the void for a long time.
However, the Star Sea Train is very fast and almost never stays in one place, so generally speaking there is no need to worry too much.
But once the Star Sea Train stops at a certain place for too long, they may catch up.
"...That's how it is." Starworm sighed: "So, for the safety of the Star Sea Train, the Owl Train Captain was so anxious to drive the train away..."
After listening to Starworm's story, Angel and others were silent.
Who would have thought that the truth would be like this...
The previous train conductor provoked the monsters recklessly, and the current train conductor had no choice but to clean up the mess.
From Starworm's description, Angel could feel his deep helplessness towards the previous train conductors.
"I'm working hard to improve my star rank, but in fact, I also want to leave the No. 199 train as soon as possible..." Starworm murmured.
He is currently a three-star conductor, and once he reaches a four-star conductor, he will be promoted to a "Hidden World Attendant". The "Hidden World Attendant" is responsible for guarding the hidden world carriage, and only the first 100 trains have it.
In other words, as long as Starworm successfully becomes a four-star conductor, he can be transferred from train No. 199 to the first 100 trains.
The first 100 trains possessed a stronger power of miracles. Even if the train conductors provoked those low-intelligence void monsters, they would not dare to chase them just by smelling the breath of miracle power... Unlike train No. 199, although it also had a certain amount of miracle power protection, it was very little. At most, it could intimidate some intelligent and knowledgeable void monsters, but it had no deterrent effect on those low-intelligence and unintelligent void monsters.
Gleipnir: "I remember you said before that the Star Ocean Express has 360 trains and 360 conductors. So, most of the conductors have this kind of 'bad' personality?"
Starworm shook his head: "I don't know, I don't know much about train conductors. However, among the several train conductors I have experienced, only Sir Owl is the gentlest."
"And the previous few..." Starworm didn't continue speaking, but just when he mentioned it, his expression seemed a little helpless.
Gleipnir looked at the starworm with sympathy.
At this time, Laplace asked, "What is the strength level of those void monsters that are chasing after Deputy Column 199?"
Starworm thought for a moment and replied, "At least they are all monsters that have imprinted and mastered complete laws. Some even master multiple compound laws."
What does it mean to master the complete law?
Generally speaking, when you start to advance to a legendary creature, you will begin to come into contact with the power of laws.
For example, Laplace's body has now begun to come into contact with the laws.
However, it is just a touch. If you want to completely condense the laws, it will only be possible after you are promoted to Legend.
Therefore, any monster that masters the complete laws must be legendary or above.
If we use the wizard system to divide it, it would probably be around the level of fifth-level wizards or sixth-level wizards.
In other words, anyone who dares to chase the Star Sea Train in the void must be a legendary creature.
Laplace was not surprised by this answer. After all, no matter how weak the auxiliary train was, it was still a star train. Ordinary monsters would never dare to target a star train.
If it's a legendary monster, then I can understand it.
On the other hand, when Angel learned that it was a legendary monster... and a top legendary monster at that, that was chasing the Star Train, he was surprised and secretly relieved.
Fortunately, the owl drove the train away. If those monsters chased to the gap area and discovered the Dream Crystal Origin... then at that time, the Dream Crystal Origin would have no way out.
After finishing the conversation, Angel looked at Laplace and Gleipnir.
Use your eyes to ask them if they have any other questions. If they have no questions, then start the test.
Laplace shrugged, indicating that there was no problem.
After thinking for a few seconds, Gleipnir looked at the starworm and said, "Owl said that you are now a dissociated consciousness, or a clone consciousness. In other words, your main consciousness is still on the Star Sea Train as a conductor?"
The reason why Gleipnir suddenly mentioned this was because based on her observation of the star mark and her past experience, the star worm was more like a subjective consciousness.
But the owl said that he was a dissociative consciousness, just a fragment of the main consciousness, which made Gleipnir a little confused.
"No." Starworm directly denied it.
"Although my main consciousness is still on the Star Sea Train, it is now in a dormant state..."
Gleipnir was stunned. "Sleeping period? What is this?"
The Starworm seemed to be a little hesitant about whether to say it, but after thinking for a moment, he decided to speak frankly: "The sleep period is a unique ability possessed by my tribe."
"You can understand it as an alternative form of immortality..."
"Eternal life?!"
Facing the suspicious looks of the crowd, Starworm said softly: "It's not the immortality you understand, it's just some tricks..."
Then, Starworm explained the truth about the dormant period.
There are many star tribes in the Star Spirit Realm, and the tribe to which the starworms belong has a very special gift called: immortality.
The so-called "immortality" here does not mean true "immortality", but "no aging".
To put it simply, as long as the star worms do not encounter disasters or dangers, their bodies will always remain in the youngest state. This is the so-called "immortality."
This kind of "immortality" sounds pretty good, and in fact it is indeed envied by other star clans.
But since fate has gifted them with immortality, they will certainly be secretly attacked in other places.
In other words, although "immortality" is good, it also has some disadvantages.
The disadvantage of immortality is that consciousness wears out much faster than that of other races.
For other ethnic groups, even if their bodies are old, their consciousness is still at its most energetic stage. To put it more bluntly, their bodies are old, but their hearts are still young.
But the Starworms are different. Their bodies will not age, but their consciousness will age very quickly.
Others are hundreds of years old and still have a young heart. They are hundreds of years old, look young on the outside, but are actually old on the inside and don’t want to do anything…
Faced with this situation of "premature aging of consciousness", the community behind the Starworms developed an ability.
This ability is called "Reincarnation".
To put it simply, when their consciousness begins to enter the decline stage, they will actively eliminate the aging consciousness, leaving only "memory" in the body, and let the body enter the "dormant period".
When awakened from the "hibernation period", a new consciousness will be born in this body.
The new consciousness represents vigorous vitality, and it can also read the memories of the original body, which means that one has hundreds of years of knowledge and experience of the previous incarnation at birth.
This is "reincarnation".
……
"So, before you entered the Star Mark, you copied all your memories into your body...Once there is a problem with the consciousness here, a new consciousness will be born in your body?" Gleipnir asked.
Starworm nodded, then shook his head.
"You are basically right, but there is one thing you said that is wrong. Even if there is no problem with my consciousness, a new consciousness may be born in my body."
In other words, as long as his body wakes up from the "hibernation period", a new consciousness will be born.
By then, even if he returned to the Star Sea Train, he would not be able to enter his body again because his body had been replaced by a new consciousness.
Gleipnir stared at the starworm with complicated eyes.
Since Starworm did this, it means that he actually came to Dream Crystal Origin with the possibility of death...
"How long is this 'sleeping period'?" asked Angel.
Starworm thought for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, the hibernation period will end after about one to three months."
In other words, the starworm only has one month.
He must get back on the Star Sea Train within a month, otherwise his body will no longer be his.
Hearing this, Gleipnir, who was sweating for the starworms, breathed a sigh of relief.
If it's one month, there's still a chance.
After all, Starworm just said that the Star Train would be back in about three to six days. When the Starworm returns to the Star Train, his body will still be his.
After learning about the special talents of the starworms, although Gleipnir wanted to ask more about the Star Clan, considering that Angel was still waiting for the test, she suppressed the impulse and did not continue to ask.
Anyway, the starworm will stay here for at least three days.
Three days was enough for her to ask her fill.
Thinking of this, Gleipnir gave Angel and Laplace a look, indicating that he had finished asking questions.
Seeing this, Angel coughed quickly.
After attracting the star worm's attention, Angel whispered, "I just noticed that you were looking into the distance while we were performing the ceremony."
Starworm nodded, "I'm looking at the fog. I want to see how the words above the fog describe it. But some of them are too far away to see clearly."
“Are you interested in text space?”
Starworm did not refute: "Yes, this is the first time I have seen everything here."
"Since you are curious about everything here, let me show you two things. See if you can figure out anything."
Although he didn't know what Angel meant, Starworm nodded: "...What do you want me to see?"
Angel: “Not on me.”
As he spoke, Angel stepped back and moved away from the sight.
At this time, the Starworm discovered that Gleipnir and Laplace had both come closer, and they seemed to be holding something in their hands?
The starworm's attention was first attracted by Gleipnir.
Because Gleipnir was holding a shivering black kitten in his arms.
The kitten seemed to be uncomfortable with the external environment, or perhaps it was afraid of something. It didn't even dare to look up and was trembling all over.
Even his limbs were shaking.
Starworm looked at the little black cat, with a hint of surprise in his eyes: he actually likes cats quite a bit.
Previously, there was a passenger on the Xinghai Train named Cat Doss. He would give the passenger some extra conveniences just because the passenger looked like a cat.
Unfortunately, under the pressure of the devilish conductor, Mao Dos jumped out of the car.
I guess he is dead now?
Starworm shook his head, put aside irrelevant thoughts, and looked at the cat in Gleipnir's arms: "Is this... a cat? Is it a text creation? Can I touch it?"
Starworm did not see any text displayed on the black cat's head, but he did not care at this time.
Gleipnir took it out because he wanted the Starworm to touch it, so it was impossible for him to refuse:
"Of course, feel free to do so."