【Great Ancient God of the Blue Planet, we are sinners from Cinderleaf Planet in the outermost galaxy. We believe in the great God of Wind and Nature, Yuheng. We happened to pass through this galaxy, but due to a malfunction in our Divine Power detectors, we failed to perceive Your divine radiance and mistakenly believed this was a God-Forsaken Land, thus trespassing without Your permission.】
【We have no intention of offending the Great Deity, nor do we intend to commit blasphemy or provocation. This action was the individual act of all personnel aboard the Starship fleet. We shall return to the Union to receive the highest punishment. We humbly request that the Great Deity, for the sake of God Yuheng, forgive the other citizens of Cinderleaf Planet and refrain from descending Divine Punishment.】
【To make amends for our offense, Cinderleaf Planet is willing to exhaust all its resources to compensate Your children, including ten star-crystal mines, ten spiritual power mines, three hundred large starships, medium-sized planets…】
That humble voice rattled off a long list of names, ninety percent of which were terms the Blue Planet had never heard of. The broadcast continued for a full half hour before finally stopping.
【The sinners have notified the Galactic Union. In three days, a Union envoy will arrive in this galaxy to conduct a formal handover and guide the believers of this land to join the Union.】
【Great and Merciful Ancient God of the Blue Planet, please forgive our sins.】
The voice finished the final sentence respectfully. In the next instant, a flash of white light suddenly streaked across the sky. The small spacecraft that had been hovering near the moon suddenly went boom and self-destructed… exploded… completely…
Blue Planet Command: “…”
All inhabitants of the Blue Planet: “…”
The starry sky fell silent for a moment, followed by the emergence of countless question marks.
What was going on? Did they commit suicide out of fear? Did this ship travel all this way just to put on a suicide performance? And what on earth did that long speech mean? What Blue Planet deity? What Divine Punishment? What Galactic Union?
Can any of the billions of compatriots who understood this explain it, please?!
This day was destined to be a sleepless night for everyone on the Blue Planet, except for… a certain newly appointed deity who had fainted from pain and was still lying in a hospital bed.
In the Gregorian year 2036, the 5781st year of the Water God Calendar, the Blue Planet suffered an invasion by the fleet of Cinderleaf Planet, an extraterrestrial civilization. In the moment of life and death, the deity of the Blue Planet awakened, manifesting Divine Might to expel the invaders and save Her children.
Three days later, an envoy from the Galactic Union visited the Blue Planet, formally admitting it into the Union as the 52417th independent civilization. From then on, the Blue Planet officially entered the interstellar era.
It was also at this moment that the people of the Blue Planet learned that the hallmark of a high-level civilization was not the ability for interstellar travel, but—the awakening of a god.
That the end of technology is theology was not a joke, but a universally recognized truth of the universe.
Su Xi was woken up by noise. In her daze, she felt thin voices echoing in her mind, as faint as the buzzing of mosquitoes. Listening closely, she could only vaguely hear intermittent murmurs.
God… please bless… make me rich… get married… children… be well…
One sentence after another felt like noise, becoming irritating. As the noise continued, Su Xi finally couldn’t help but snap.
“Have you no sense of public decency!”
She opened her eyes irritably, intending to argue, but saw only a expanse of pure white. The noise in her ears vanished, and everything around her became silent.
Su Xi froze for two seconds before slowly turning her head to look around. She saw only the snow-white bedsheets in front of her and several unfamiliar medical devices beside her. Was she… in a hospital?
When did she get injured?
Slowly sitting up and regaining her senses, Su Xi began to recall previous events when the door was pushed open. A nurse in white glanced at her, checked the patient information at the head of the bed, and without a word, shoved a thermometer into her clothes, making her shiver from the cold.
“Su Xi, right? Let’s take your temperature first. Oh, by the way! You’ve been in arrears for a long time. Remember to pay your hospitalization fees; you can get seventy-five percent reimbursed with medical insurance.” The nurse gave a few reminders, signaled her to check the temperature in five minutes, and hurried off to other wards.
The chill of the thermometer cleared Su Xi’s mind, and she belatedly remembered what had happened.
Right, the Blue Planet… the old man… aliens!
She sat up abruptly and hurried out of bed to push open the window. Only after seeing the intact buildings, the ceaseless flow of traffic, and more importantly, a clear, bright blue sky, did her heart settle. Thank goodness, the Blue Planet was still here.
Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief. She rubbed her face and looked around for her phone but couldn’t find it, so she turned on the television in front of her. In the next moment, the sound of a news broadcast drifted out, though the content was somewhat incomprehensible.
[This station reports: Since the successful conclusion of the first Blue Planet Representative Assembly, regional management departments have completed preliminary integration. From now on, the Blue Planet will enter an era of unification. The first Blue Planet United Government was officially established today, among which…]
[The Galactic Union representative, Mr./Ms. ***, successfully arrived at City C, the capital of the Blue Planet, today. They will negotiate and make decisions on a series of major events, including the Blue Planet’s admission into the Galactic Union, assistance for civilization level upgrades, and compensation from Cinderleaf Planet to the Blue Planet.]
[The arrival of the Galactic Union representative signals the Blue Planet’s formal entry into the Great Interstellar Alliance, becoming a Level One Civilization planet. So far, the United Government has received friendly visit requests from planetary civilizations such as Haining, Ziwen, Jingzhi, and the Xingqiu Sector.]
[The first Academy of Divinity of the Blue Planet was officially inaugurated today. Admission requirements are…]
Su Xi: “…”
What the hell? What are the United Government and the Galactic Union? And isn’t the capital of Xia Country City A? When did it become City C? Did she just travel to another dimension after fainting?
No, looking at the street scene outside, this was clearly where she had always lived.
Su Xi glanced at the time on the news and did the math. Three days! She had only been unconscious for three days, not three hundred years.
Does the world change this fast?
Was what the old man said about passing the Divine Seat to her real or fake? She suddenly wondered if everything that happened before was a hallucination. She quickly checked her entire body but found nothing different, let alone any extra Divine Power. So, did she inherit this Divine Seat or not?
Su Xi studied it for a long time without reaching any conclusion, so she simply stopped thinking about it. Whatever, as long as the Blue Planet was safe.
Long live peace!
She lay back down, vaguely feeling as if she had forgotten something. Forget it, it’s not important!
For the next few days, Su Xi cooperatively underwent the hospital’s examinations and paid her overdue medical fees. Everything went smoothly until she was successfully discharged. The nurse handed her a bag, saying that after she fainted, the police officer who brought her in had asked to hand over her personal belongings.
Su Xi opened it casually. When she saw the phone and a few familiar broken strings inside, her hand trembled, and she suddenly remembered.
Holy crap! Her dog!
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