40,000 Years of Cultivation

"Compared with your story, my story is not so colorful, even boring."

In exchange, the Nuwa girl "moon-watcher" also told Li Yao her story, using the fusion of brain waves and sound waves to say, "I have stayed in the ancient ruins since I was born. Of course, that At that time, I didn't realize that there was a wider world outside, let alone find out how complicated, changeable, bizarre, and elusive the world within the Archaic Ruins was compared to the vast and stable world outside.

"Perhaps you have discovered that the space within the Primordial Relics is formed by the fusion of parts of many great worlds, or that the entire Primordial Relics is a'wormhole condensate', just like a single place extending in all directions. In the transportation hub, countless invisible tunnels leading to the four-dimensional space are criss-crossed here, forming a labyrinth and puzzle that has been exhausted by hundreds of civilizations for hundreds of millions of years.

"Such characteristics give the unpredictable characteristics of the ancient relics. Here, the continuity and stability of time and space are broken. It is very likely that it is summer, but 100 meters away is snowy, or Here is the colorful flowers blooming freely, and a hundred meters away is a monotonous fungus blanket in black and white, creating a variety of dull and rigid images. In my childhood, I also chased butterflies and walked through the flowers, only to find The butterfly instantly turned into a blazing flame, and the flame turned into countless stars and disappeared with the wind, like being reborn in the form of a firefly. When I did not listen to the adult’s advice, I stretched my finger to the place where the butterfly was annihilated. At that time, my fingers also turned into colorful fireworks, completely blooming in the vortex of time and space.

"In short, this is the case here. All inherent and stable laws can be broken. Any weird things can appear. The most well-behaved, cautious and powerful are likely to die tragically in the strangest way, and those who are crazy The madman might live longer.

"I heard from my father that the first batch of researchers and adventurers who entered the archaic ruins that year had only two ends. Either they faced the strange and unpredictable environment and the relics of civilization with their teeth and claws, and the ubiquitous weird radiation. Frightened to death and a complete mental breakdown; or, after studying the laws, formulas and theorems of a lifetime, they have been defeated by the unconventional things in the ancient ruins, and have since gotten into the horns of the horns, trying to capture the illusory laws of the ancient ruins and find out the hidden ones. The objective laws in it are like moths chasing the sun. They will never reach their goals, and will eventually waste their lives and die in depression.

"Because of this, the researchers and adventurers who later entered the ancient ruins had to seal most of their emotions and will to survive in this nightmare ruin.

"Of course, for innocent children, they have been in this kaleidoscope-like world since they were born, and are used to seeing all kinds of things that cannot be explained by common sense, but they regard these magical spells and even magical powers as objective existence. Before entering the real research, it is rare to have a mental breakdown. Therefore, it is not necessary to completely seal the emotion before the abnormal brain wave disorder is detected."

Accompanied by the chattering of the moon-watcher, the city of silver in Li Yao's mind, the smooth and mirror-like facade of the high-rise building, is also stained with circles and circles of brilliant patterns, like bunches of different patterns. The star flower blooms slowly, really turning this city built in the depths of the archaic relics, atop a hundred ancient civilization corpses, into a constantly tumbling, bizarre, whirlpool-like kaleidoscope.

"In my childhood, there were two most interesting games. Otherwise, I sneaked out to the countryside with my friends to explore, and different spaces came from which big world, or I went to study those that used to be. The corpses left by the ancient civilizations that fell here."

The Moonwatcher continued, "You know, when your childhood was spent with the ruins and corpses of a hundred ancient civilizations, when you knew that a whole hundred ancient civilizations of incomparably glorious ancient civilizations were silently annihilated. , When you see those war machines that are up to a hundred meters high have become riddled with holes and rusty remains, your worldview, civilization view, and universe view will be shaped very... strange.

"Perhaps, in your eyes, time and space are stable. Civilization is the result of millions of years of hard work by hundreds of millions of creatures, and the universe is a vast ocean.

"But in my eyes, at least in my childhood, time and space are neither stable nor continuous, and it doesn't make much sense-if a world separated by billions of light years can pass Wormholes are connected together, what is the meaning of space? If a civilization spends 10 million years from a hairless monkey to the extent that it can control a starship, absorb the energy of the stars, and change the environment of the galaxy, it just answers a wrong question , It will be wiped out in a second, so what is the meaning of time? If a hundred civilizations can die so silently, then, the essence of civilization, and a dead leaf in the wind, even a dead leaf What's the difference between an ant on the sky?

"To survive in such a universe, the universe may be a vast ocean, but this ocean is full of invisible traps. It is more like a doomed, cruel game. My childhood may still I didn’t realize the cruel truth. I just thought the game was very interesting, but I couldn’t bring up the slightest respect and cherishment of life and civilization. I thought I was living in a fragmented, mottled dream, and even myself a dream. Part of it is just a divine thought of the'primitive ancestor'."

When Li Yao heard this, he couldn't help asking: "The original ancestor was the prehistoric civilization that built the ancient ruins, the Tongtian Tower, and... the "black wall" that enveloped the entire Pangu universe?"

"Yes, it seems that you have discovered a lot of information on your own, but it saves most of my explanation."

Mochizuki said, "When I grow up, my father is forced to be in the'Temple of the Soul', and I receive massive amounts of information, so that the wisdom of all categories, fields, and civilizations will be impressed on my immature soul. My dissatisfaction and confusion become even stronger when the brand of my brain is even permanently changed.

"Because, in the eyes of my childhood friends and me, this world is like this, unpredictable, unexplainable, even unexplainable.

"Hundreds of civilizations that tried to explore the ultimate secrets of the ancient ruins have all fallen and annihilated.

"Even my father's colleagues, that is, the parents of my little friends, have many people who sacrificed in various strange and appalling ways when conducting dangerous experiments and exploratory work.

"Of the victims, only about one-tenth can recover the whole body. Among the remaining victims, there are even mysterious disappearances for a whole hundred years. Only after a hundred years did they fall from the sky in the form of a handful of dead bones, and they fell to pieces. ——According to the research of latecomers, it is very likely that the victim had stomped through the air and fell into a special space-time gap. In this way, he has been falling and falling in the gap. After falling for a whole hundred years, he starved to death on the way. The corpse fell into the endless gap for decades, and only reappeared when the energy to maintain the gap between time and space was exhausted.

"Although I was young at that time and didn't have a particularly strong fear of death, this kind of'stomping into the air, falling into the gap of time and space, falling in the void for a hundred years, and in the end is not falling to death, but starving to death or even scaring to death." , This way of death is still a bit too inexplicable.

"So, I asked my father where we came from, where are we going, and most importantly, what are we doing right now?

"Obviously, in the eyes of my childhood, we are rich in materials, advanced in technology, and do not have too many natural enemies and foreign troubles. Surrounded by the countryside around the Silver City, the most dangerous and unpredictable areas are also marked. , As long as we are more cautious and do not seek our own dead ends, we can live a very safe, comfortable and stable life.

"But why, my father and his colleagues have to challenge the taboo time and time again, to activate the rune formations that have been sealed for thousands of years, to repair the canine teeth and glint ancient war machines, to release them. A deadly virus that is very likely to lead to the extinction of ancient civilizations. Even during the rare rest time, they have to sit cross-legged around the Tongtian Tower. Looking at the top of the Tongtian Tower with dementia, the vast starry sky that can never be reached is like being It took away its soul, sucked all its vitality, and completely became its slave? What is all this for!"

"When I was young, no matter how I entangled my father, my father was often silent, unwilling to tell me the answer, even sinking his face, squeezing out his little emotions, and furious at me.

"In my impression, my father is most of the time gentle and gentle, Gu Jing Wubo's image-this makes it more and more obvious how vicious he is when he is angry.

"I won’t know until I grow up slowly. Once I know the truth, I will inevitably have to invest in real research. Like my parents and other elders, I will burn my life completely. Then, I My soul might be eroded by the unpredictable power and the eerie and unpredictable universe, and I have to seal my emotions and will, and my childhood will come to an end.

"My father hoped that my carefree childhood would last for a few more years, so he was reluctant to tell me the truth so early.

"But the day has finally arrived.

"I will never forget that day. That morning, my mother turned into a black iron statue."