Wasteland Echoer

"Wright, this is the 'door', the 'door' leading to the next realm." Luo Nie said with excitement, subconsciously covering his slightly swollen purple eyeballs with his right hand and looking at Wright.

"How far is it from... the divine realm of the 'Daughter of Tool Yuan'?" Wright asked Luo Nie, suppressing the pain and anger in his heart.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a rare calmness, as if he was in a deathly silent pool, without any waves or touches.

The excitement, longing, and longing for the realm of gods that were originally hidden in my heart gradually passed away like an hourglass, and by now, they were gone.

Just like Gurji, the famous poet of the Krusted Empire, said with emotion in his later years after witnessing the meteorite that destroyed the entire city of Uhatta with a population of one million in the central Far East:

"The splendid aurora at night, the noisy markets during the day, the trains traveling in the plains, and the towering buildings in the city. None of them belong to me, my life, or my era. The steel-solid existence will Disintegrated in an instant, only the poems that resonate are the profound things that last forever.”

Standing next to the "door", looking at the chaotic colors spiraling inside, Luo Nie tried his best to suppress the manic joy in his heart. He turned his head and pressed the threshold with one hand, feeling the full magic power belonging to the gods. He took the breath from the purple eyeball with one hand, saliva mixed with the smell of engine oil flowed from the corner of his mouth inadvertently, and urged:

"It's not far away. I think we can step into the 'door' now. I just listened to the teachings of the 'Ancient Mechanical God' and he reminded me that we are just one step away."

"Just one step away?" Wright felt a little unbelievable.

After all, the two battles of "Crimson Moon Arena" and "Silver Moon Temple" were already extremely difficult. Isn't it true that the subsequent "Messy Yellow Sand", "Chaotic Quicksand" and "Underground Laputa" were also in a certain sense? Is it a level that prevents humans from discovering the "Daughter of the Tool Element"?

Luo Nie seems to have some mind-reading abilities that only experienced [Seducers] or [Deceivers] have.

He seemed to have read through Wright's brain waves. He took a half step forward, made a mechanical, metallic sound, put his right hand on Wright's shoulder, and said interestingly:

"The messy yellow sand and chaotic quicksand are the outer constraints. The lost young man who sacrificed himself to pilot the 'Ancient God's Magical Machine' and the one who summoned the 'Blood Pillar' is a laser that falls from the sky, and its power is almost as powerful as that of the Steam Era. The 'Blood Wind' of one third of the 'Fire of Punishment' beam in Nabsk has destroyed them."

"'The Ancient Mechanical God' just said that the inside and outside of the Silent Highlands are two spaces of different dimensions. Our universe is the product of the superposition of different states. When the gods wake up from the hallucination and start to observe them, the universe will quickly change from Uncertain probability becomes certain existence. In this way, within a stable period of time, the two alien spaces will be connected, producing countless mysterious and extraordinary things."

"I... didn't quite understand what I heard." Wright said bluntly:

"I don't like physics, let alone philosophy. I want to hear something concrete and easy to understand."

After hearing Luo Nie's story, Wright suddenly felt dizzy, as if he was in a plateau snow-capped mountain where there was no oxygen, and he almost couldn't breathe.

"Easy to understand... something specific?" Luo held his chin, thought for a few seconds and then said:

"Because there is a dislocation of time and space in the center of Silent Highlands, even if the arrival times are different, you will not experience what we have experienced again, and next, we only have the last two steps left... Right...' Machinery The Ancient God made it very clear, there are only two steps left."

"Which two steps?" Wright's eyes widened and he looked at Luo Nie with expectant eyes, as if he was admiring the goddess who brought light!

"The ruins where the 'Vita Water' is located, and the stone door guarding the divine realm. And according to my guess, we have reached this point without using the 'Confused Song', so someone must have used it first to disperse some of the Quicksand. It’s just that they failed to continue due to various reasons. Perhaps, they are already paying attention to the changes in the situation in the dark. We need to compete with them for time." Luo Nie reminded.

"So...Luo Nie, is the area behind the 'door' where the Vita Water is?" Wright asked, his legs moving forward as if uncontrollably, and he walked straight to the front of the "door".

"Of course." Luo Nie nodded and said:

"Inside is the future, inside is the truth, inside... is the divine realm leading to 'desire'. Wright, I can feel the 'sorrow' is gradually disappearing, and the rich aura of the gods is occupying my senses."

"So, can we go in now?" Wright asked.

"Of course." Luo Nie replied, showing a strange and scary smile.

Immediately afterwards, Wright felt himself being pushed forward by a pair of extremely powerful hands, and he staggered forward a few steps.

Immediately, countless psychedelic colors occupied his field of vision, and he felt like he was stepping on a pile of cotton. It became increasingly difficult to move forward, until a violent feeling of weightlessness hit him...

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After an unknown amount of time, Wright was awakened by an increasingly bright and dazzling light.

He looked around in surprise, rubbing his eyes in disbelief.

This is a dark place, not even the chaotic color just now.

Looking as far as the eye could see, the faint starlight flickered a few times in response and then disappeared.

After almost half a minute, Wright heard the crunching sound of plants growing violently.

He looked back and saw, at some point, a towering tree rising from the ground.

It is so majestic, so majestic, with its trunk standing straight and straight, its branches and leaves extremely lush, showing a silvery glory, like countless crowns worn on the tops of the strong branches.

It was a silver-white tree. Although it did not bear any fruit, Wright could smell the sweet smell of the fruit among the countless "silver hairs".

It smells like Ringo, more like banana, even mixed with cantaloupe and kiwi.

Wright closed his eyes tightly and smelled carefully. All the sweet smell suddenly turned into the unique smell of metal, plus the pungent and choking smell of gasoline volatilization.

Wright couldn't help but feel startled. He opened his eyes suddenly and found that he was standing directly under the silver-white tree at some point. In front of him was a majestic tree trunk made of almost silver.

Wright stretched out his hand and gently stroked the metallic tree trunk, and couldn't help but sigh.

I have always been a quasi-monster dominated by emotion. Otherwise, if I looked at my time travel purely rationally and looked at any of the extraordinary things I encountered, I would instantly become crazy and lose my normal spirit.

As a college student who received higher education in the previous world, and also received the Zine Empire's official military education that emphasized morality in this world, Wright should be rational and calm when facing the silver-white trees in front of him.

But it is too bright. It was born in the long night, but it can emit such light. For them, the Empire [soldiers] who have not seen the light for a long time and are struggling in the wasteland, it is so majestic, huge, ingenious, and extremely useful to human beings. The trees that describe all the words of sublime love are shining with dazzling spots of light.

This does not seem to be an underground cave, or an underground space that the Church of the Lost has devoted its time and energy to excavating; nor is it a vast and boundless universe that lacks oxygen; nor is it a deep and humid underwater world.

This place is more like a silent world that was originally dotted with many extraordinary things, even temples, mountains, grasslands and residential buildings after most of the stars were wiped out.

His hand continued to touch the silver-white trees, and an electric current passed through Wright's mind, causing him to scream in surprise.

After calming down, he looked around and a terrible thought came to his mind:

If humans continue to retreat, and the lost and the "careless" continue to destroy the world, then once the remaining humans accept the concepts of the so-called "Paradise" and "R'lyeh's Dream" to close themselves off, abandon their bodies and fall into a VR world-like Sleeping, and the mutual killing of the unintentional and the lost exhausts the source of maintaining this world, that is, the magic source power, will our planet, and even the universe created by the Creator with endless reveries, become like this? Dark, so silent.

Indeed, countless brilliant flames will be born in the civilization of reincarnation, and our civilization is far from reaching the day of destruction.

And once the darkness falls and the life and death recedes, the endless ocean currents in the central lake, the everlasting strong winds on the silent highlands, the undisappeared fireworks under the Socra dome, and the vast sea of ​​stars that you see when you look up will disappear, becoming the last struggle in the world. In the dark night, ragged humans fall into a dream of comfort before finally falling asleep.

Thinking of this, Wright felt a chill on his back and took his hands away from the silver-white trees with trembling.

Then, the silver-white branches and leaves above his head began to shake violently, and a silver fruit with a star marrow-like appearance hit his head.

Immediately afterwards, he heard the guidance given to him by the old voice:

"The red brilliance is deeply embedded in your body, and your soul, consciousness and future have been integrated with it. Your destiny is the destiny of the world, and your spirit will last forever with the era of stars..."

While listening, Wright saw everything around him, including the majestic silver-white tree, begin to become broken and disintegrate.

The endless noisy whistles and the mechanical roar of factory production occupied all of his hearing.

A few seconds later, the familiar falling feeling began to wrap around his body...

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"Wright, Wright, wake up. We seem to be here."

The green young voice, mixed with the violent shaking feeling, made Wright instantly free from the shackles of the dream.

Rubbing his itchy eyes, Wright sat up suddenly and tried to open his eyes and look around.

After getting through the unbearable stinging and tearing sensations, as well as the initial blurry vision of suddenly waking up after a long sleep, Wright finally saw the surrounding situation clearly.

Looking for the voice, Wright found the familiar Luo Nie whose handsome face was ruined by his ugly purple eyeballs. He cleared his throat, coughed violently a few times, and asked:

"This is where?"

Heaving a sigh of relief, Luo Nie looked up at the old, moss-covered ceiling of the palace hall in the closed space and explained:

"This is an ancient transit station that connects the road to the Shimen of God's Domain."

As he spoke, Luo Nie showed a proud smile. He stood up and added in a high tone: "The 'Ancient Mechanical God' told me!"