"Well... what do you think?"
The Golden-haired Leader smiled.
"Because of love?"
Takagi raised his eyebrows and said.
Lisa, Himeko, March 7th, and the others were momentarily speechless upon hearing Takagi's words.
Everyone fell silent once again.
"Hehe, then do you like me?"
The Golden-haired Leader was stunned for a moment, then smiled again.
Lord Takagi was silent for a moment, then quietly nodded.
Seeing this, the Gold-haired mercenary leader smiled even more happily.
She stretched out her blood-stained hand and stroked Lord Takagi's face.
"Leave this Planet. The war between the mercenaries and the army is about to end."
"However, the end of this war is merely the beginning of the real trouble."
"Before that one is born, leave. Take a spaceship and go far, far away..."
With those words, the Golden-haired Leader closed her eyes forever.
And as the Gold-haired mercenary leader died, the surrounding scene instantly dissipated.
In just the blink of an eye, everyone returned to the void space completely formed by data streams.
"In this situation, it must have been successful."
Himeko looked up and said, looking at the sky.
[Herta: Very good! It's successful. The Simulated Universe is jumping to the next scene.]
[Ruan Mei: Lord Takagi's judgment was correct. The mercenary he represented was probably indeed the person that Golden-haired Leader liked.]
[Screwllum: Lord Takagi and the Gold-haired mercenary leader confirming their love for each other allowed us to jump to the next scene.
Although I don't fully understand what love between organic life forms is.]
[Herta: There's nothing to understand. Things like love aren't important. Knowledge is the most important thing.]
[Herta: More than that, I'm curious why you, Takagi, can accurately determine how to proceed with the simulation every time?]
Lord Takagi: "What, judging by what you're saying, do you want the simulation to fail, Herta?"
[Herta: Of course not! It doesn't matter if it fails, it just requires a bit more trouble, restarting the simulation. With a few more simulations, we can definitely find a plan to make the simulation proceed smoothly.]
[Herta: But you yourself said you wouldn't stay at the Space Station forever. I don't want you to go to other worlds during the time it takes to restart the Simulated Universe.]
[Herta: I'm just quite curious. You can make the correct choice every time, as if you somehow knew the history displayed in the Simulated Universe from the beginning.]
Lord Takagi: "Curious?"
[Herta: Curious.]
Lord Takagi: "Then tell me about your love story first. I want to know why you think love isn't important."
[Herta: I don't have any love story at all!]
Lord Takagi: "Is that so? How pitiful!"
[Herta: Hey!]
Lord Takagi heard Herta's angry voice and smiled contentedly.
Himeko, on the other hand, looked at Lord Takagi with emotion and said,
"This is the first time I've seen Herta show such emotion."
"Is this what makes you Lord Takagi?"
Lord Takagi smiled and said, "Don't praise me too much, Himeko. I'll get arrogant."
[Herta: This guy, he's actually getting arrogant! Then let me ask you, have you ever been in love?]
Hearing this, Lisa immediately looked over curiously.
Not only that, Himeko, Signora, and others, as well as the people of Teyvat observing the situation through Cloud Retainer's perspective, also pricked up their ears curiously.
Lord Takagi: "Well, guess?"
[Herta: I'm not a child, I'm not guessing! Ahhh, this is driving me crazy!]
[Screwllum: Calm down, Herta. We still need to maintain the stability of the Simulated Universe.]
[Ruan Mei: Herta, aren't you curious about the existence the Gold-haired mercenary leader mentioned before losing her breath?]
Hearing Ruan Mei's words, Herta indeed calmed down quite a bit.
[Herta: That's right, could the mercenary Leader be referring to Tayzzyronth?]
[Screwllum: If that's the case, then her actions were to make Tayzzyronth be born? And her motive came from that unknown gibberish?]
[Ruan Mei: If that's the case, then the owner who left this gibberish might be the culprit who caused Tayzzyronth to be born.]
"Could the one who left this gibberish be Terminus?"
March 7th murmured with a curious expression.
"If that's truly the case, then Terminus might indeed be the culprit who caused the Aeon of Propagation to be born."
"However, with the concept of [Finality], it doesn't seem like someone who would do such a thing."
Himeko mused.
"In this situation, could it be that the Aeon of Elation is looking for fun?"
Signora said uncertainly.
"Aeon of Elation, it seems that's not impossible either."
"After all, that soldier seemed to have gotten the gibberish from the bug that received the Aeon of Elation's Blessing."
"You agree, right, Takagi?"
Lisa looked at Lord Takagi with a smiling expression.
"Who knows," Lord Takagi shrugged and said,
"More importantly, I think we should move on to the next scene."
As he spoke, the surrounding scene indeed began to undergo huge changes.
The familiar smell of gunpowder, the familiar smell of blood.
Himeko, Signora, and others all frowned involuntarily when they saw the battlefield appearing again.
But soon, everyone discovered that their identities were not mercenaries, but members of the army.
And what they were doing was not fighting mercenaries, but simply slaughtering various bugs.
"That's right, the mercenary's Leader is dead."
"Without an opponent, that Leader naturally continued her path of conquest."
Cloud Retainer said.
Nahida: "Are these bugs going to be completely slaughtered?"
Although the bugs were also instinctively escaping, devouring, and propagating.
Their speed simply couldn't keep up with the rate of annihilation.
"It's a bit of a shame."
Dottore sighed.
Hearing this, Signora immediately gave Dottore a look of disgust.
"Speaking of which, this scene feels somewhat familiar."
"During the previous Simulated Universe trip, the Aeon of Propagation seemed to have been born in a scene like this!"
Lisa looked around the surrounding environment for a while, then murmured with a slight frown.
[Kaveh: Now that Lisa mentions it, I realize this is indeed the scene we saw during the first simulation of the Swarm Disaster.]
[Faruzan: So, next we will see the birth of the Aeon of Propagation once again.]
[Alhaitham: Compared to the last time, we have learned a lot about what happened before the Aeon of Propagation's birth. Those events can be said to be the preconditions for the Aeon of Propagation's birth.]
[Venti: As expected, with three geniuses jointly maintaining the Simulated Universe, the Simulated Universe can display even more things.]
[Lyney: It's ironic that people were originally slaughtering the bug swarm, but soon, it will be the bug swarm's turn to slaughter humanity.]
Thinking of the scene from the first time seeing the bug swarms feeding on various creatures,
and then looking at the scene of the bug swarms being continuously slaughtered before them,
For some reason, everyone felt a little uneasy.
However, no matter how much people lamented,
It would not affect the scene displayed in the Simulated Universe.
"It should be starting."
Lord Takagi looked in one direction and murmured.
"Starting?"
Himeko blinked and looked in the direction Lord Takagi was staring.
Ahead, the bugs that were originally fighting or fleeing suddenly stopped all movement, either self-splitting or mating with each other.
All the bugs were propagating in their own ways.
In an instant, countless new individuals began to be born, and then even more individuals died due to the flames of war.
"What are they doing?"
"Why did they suddenly start rapid propagation?"
Signora asked, frowning.
"I think it's because they feel that fighting, fleeing, and so on are no longer effective."
"In order to preserve their species, they instinctively chose to constantly propagate."
Dottore said.
"Instinctive propagation, huh? It's just like Tayzzyronth."
"Indeed, the reason why the Aeon of Propagation opened up the Path of Propagation is closely related to what is happening here."
Welt said.
"Takagi, what are you looking at?"
Lisa saw Takagi staring intently in one direction and asked curiously.
"Over there, where the beetles are gathered."
Takagi said.
"Beetles?"
Lisa narrowed her eyes, and after a moment, indeed found the beetles whose numbers were rapidly decreasing.
"Is there anything special about these insects?"
Cloud Retainer asked.
"Of course, don't you think that among the many bugs present, the image of the lower half of the Aeon of Propagation's body is most similar to those beetles?"
Takagi said.
"It does seem that way."
"Wait, do you mean the Aeon of Propagation will be born from those beetles?"
Dottore asked curiously.
Takagi smiled mysteriously. In his eyes, the number of beetles was still constantly decreasing due to the war.
Soon their number reached the tens, then single digits, and finally became just one.
Just then, Lisa and the other Teyvat passengers, Himeko and the other Nameless, felt their bodies tremble involuntarily.
An inexplicable feeling made them instinctively look at that last beetle.
Afterwards, everyone saw a scene that was enough to astonish everyone.
They saw that the last beetle actually rushed towards the sky amidst flesh, broken shells, and mucus, leaving the slaughter and gunpowder smoke in an instant.
At the same time, vast energy gathered on its body, and its form was constantly expanding and changing.
After a few breaths, Tayzzyronth, familiar to Lisa, Dottore, and the others, appeared before everyone's eyes.
During this time, bugs continuously gathered towards it, spontaneously exchanging various pheromones and spontaneously propagating.
Dozens of different types of bugs intertwined and mated, and then quickly gave birth to completely new bug branches.
Then, the side branches mated with other side branches.
In an instant, countless completely new bug individuals were born,
and were clearly displayed in the eyes of Takagi, Lisa, Cloud Retainer, and the others.
[Navia: As expected, seeing the Aeon of Propagation again, I still feel a strong sense of unease.]
[Lyney: That being said, the authority of the Aeon of Propagation is indeed quite formidable.]
[Alhaitham: Even though they are all bugs, there must still be reproductive isolation between different types of bugs,]
[but the power of the Aeon of Propagation directly made the reproductive isolation between different types of bugs seem non-existent.]
[Kaveh: In just this instant, who knows how many completely new bug species have appeared.]
[Tighnari: And this is just the beginning. When Tayzzyronth leaves this world and goes to the vast Universe, surely even more bugs will be born.]
[Barbara: If... if Tayzzyronth were to descend upon Teyvat,]
[would the bugs of Teyvat also break reproductive isolation, constantly propagate, and give birth to bugs of different types?]
[Albedo: That should be correct, and the bugs born because of the Aeon of Propagation likely won't be those frail and weak ones.]
[Kaeya: Yes, even now, thinking about the bugs that have gained the power of propagation devouring living beings,]
[and using various living beings as nourishment to propagate their offspring, I still feel my scalp tingle.]
[Rosaria: Dottore's split self will turn into bugs. Given this, I even suspect that the authority of the Aeon of Propagation might even affect humans.]
[Yelan: Are you saying that Tayzzyronth would make humans also give birth to bugs?]
[Rosaria: Not only that, I even think that if the Aeon of Propagation were to pass through Teyvat,]
[the humans of Teyvat would frantically exchange pheromones like the bugs surrounding the Star of Decay and the Aeon of Propagation, constantly exchanging pheromones.]
[Yanfei: Exchanging pheromones... that's what happens between couples, right? Hiss, I suddenly feel so scared!]
[Faruzan: The power of the Aeon of Propagation wouldn't make human men and women forget themselves,]
[arbitrarily find someone, or even someone they don't like, to propagate with, or even give birth to bugs, right? And the offspring are bugs?!]
[Alhaitham: Although this conjecture is quite terrifying, I have to say it is very consistent with the authority of the Aeon of Propagation.]
[Dehya: It... it shouldn't be like that! We clearly saw before that the power of the Aeon of Propagation only affected bugs,]
[it shouldn't make humans forget themselves and casually find someone to propagate with, and even give birth to bugs, right?]
[Kaveh: That's only because there were only bugs around the Aeon of Propagation,]
[if there were human men and women around It, no one knows if such a thing would happen.]
[Dehya: This is too terrifying. As expected, I still don't want to believe that the authority of the Aeon of Propagation would affect humans.]
[Charlotte: Ye... Yes, the power of the Aeon of Propagation can definitely only affect bugs!!!]
The authority of the Aeon of Propagation affecting humans and making humans exchange pheromones like bugs is too terrifying.
And humans giving birth to bugs is even more frightening to the people of Teyvat.
Just thinking about such a scene, many people instinctively didn't want to believe that the power of the Aeon of Propagation would affect humans.
However, even so, the discussion surrounding the authority of the Aeon of Propagation was still hard to stop.
After all, as things stand, there is already one person from Teyvat who has embarked on the Path of Propagation.
This made the people of Teyvat have to pay more and more attention to the matter of Tayzzyronth.
What the intensely discussing people of Teyvat didn't notice was,
within the Simulated Universe, a giant eye had appeared on the horizon at some point,
taking in the birth of Tayzzyronth and the situation around It.
It wasn't until that giant eye seemed to sense something and suddenly turned towards Takagi's direction,
that Lisa and the others beside Takagi, and the audience in Teyvat, realized something was wrong.
Only a mysterious, grand voice, like a musical ensemble, was heard coming from the direction of the giant eye,
falling upon everyone, including Takagi.
"..[The Trailblaze]..."
"That is!" Lisa, Signora, and the others looked at the giant eyeball in surprise.
However, before everyone could ask Takagi questions out of surprise,
the surrounding space suddenly shattered, and everyone returned to the space composed of data streams.
[Herta: That was close, the Simulated Universe almost collapsed. Thankfully, the interruption was timely enough, otherwise, we would have had to simulate again.]
Within the space, Herta's voice echoed beside the bewildered crowd's ears.
"What just happened? What was that giant eye all about?"
"Why does It feel like It was monitoring Tayzzyronth?"
Cloud Retainer said in surprise.
"And why did It look at Lord Takagi afterwards and utter the words [The Trailblaze]..."
"Wait, why does this scene look so familiar?"
Signora seemed to have thought of something and looked at Takagi with extreme surprise.
"Could it be that eye belongs to a certain Aeon?"
"It couldn't be Terminus, could It?"