Chapter 3076 The End of Childhood
"Compared with your story, my story is not so colorful, and it can even be called boring."
In exchange, the Nuwa girl "Moonwatcher" also told Li Yao her story, using the fusion of brain waves and sound waves, "I have been living in the ancient ruins since I was born. At that time, I didn't realize that there was a wider world outside, and I didn't realize how complicated, grotesque, and unpredictable the world inside the ancient ruins was compared to the vast and stable world outside.
"Perhaps you have already discovered that the space within the ancient ruins is formed by the fusion of many parts of the Great Thousand World, or in other words, the entire ancient ruins are a 'wormhole condensate', like an open space extending in all directions. The transportation hub, countless invisible tunnels leading to the four-dimensional space criss-cross here, forming a maze and puzzle that has been exhausted for hundreds of millions of years and has not been fully resolved.
"Such characteristics endow the ancient ruins with unpredictable characteristics. Here, the continuity and stability of time and space are broken. It is very likely that it is scorching summer here, but it is snow-covered a hundred meters away, or Here are the gorgeous and colorful flowers blooming to their heart’s content, while a hundred meters away is the monotonous black and white creep, creating a variety of rigid and rigid images. In my childhood, I used to chase butterflies and walk through the flowers, but found The butterfly turned into a blazing flame in an instant, and the flame turned into countless stars and disappeared with the wind, as if reborn in the form of a firefly. At that moment, my fingers also turned into colorful fireworks, completely blooming in the vortex of time and space.
"In short, this is how it is here. All inherent and stable laws can be broken, and any weird things may appear. The most disciplined and cautious powerhouses may die tragically in the strangest way, while those who are crazy A madman might live longer.
"I heard from my father that the first batch of researchers and adventurers who entered the ancient ruins back then had only two fates, either facing the treacherous and unpredictable environment and the relics of civilization with teeth and claws, as well as the ubiquitous strange radiation. Frightened to death, completely mentally broken down; or, the laws, formulas and theorems that have been studied for a lifetime are defeated by the unconventional things in the ancient ruins, and since then they have gotten into the horns, trying to capture the illusory laws in the ancient ruins, and find out what is hidden. The objective law in it is like a moth chasing the sun, never reaching the goal, and finally wasting life and dying in depression.
"Because of this, the researchers and adventurers who later entered the ancient ruins had to seal most of their emotions and wills in order to survive in this nightmarish ruins.
"Of course, for innocent children who 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, they regard these magical spells and even magic power as objective existence. Before entering the real research, it is rare to have a mental breakdown, so it is not necessary to completely seal the emotion before the abnormal disorder of the brain wave is detected."
Accompanied by Moonwatcher's narration, the City of Silver in Li Yao's mind, the smooth mirror-like facades of high-rise buildings, are also stained with circles of gorgeous patterns, like bunches of strange flowers. Star flowers are slowly blooming, really turning this city, which was built deep in the ancient ruins and on top of a hundred corpses of ancient civilizations, into a constantly tumbling, whirlpool-like kaleidoscope.
"During my childhood, there were two kinds of the most interesting games. Either I would sneak out to the countryside with my friends to explore, and tell which worlds different spaces came from, or I would study those who once lived. The corpses left by the ancient civilizations that fell here."
The moon watcher continued, "You know, when you spent your childhood with the relics and corpses of a hundred ancient civilizations, when you know that a whole hundred ancient civilizations that were incomparably brilliant were quietly annihilated , when you see those war machines with a height of 100 meters turned into riddled and rusty wreckage, your world view, civilization view and universe view will be shaped very... Strangely.
"Perhaps, in your eyes, time and space are stable. Civilization is the result of hundreds of millions of creatures working together for hundreds of millions of years, and the universe is a vast ocean.
"But in my eyes, at least in my childhood eyes, time and space are neither stable nor continuous, and they don't make much sense. If the worlds separated by hundreds of millions of light years can pass through wormholes What is the meaning of space when it is connected together? If a civilization spends 10 million years developing from a hairless monkey to the extent that it can control starships, absorb star energy, and change the environment of galaxies, but because of a wrong answer to a question, in What is the meaning of time if it is wiped out in a second? If a hundred civilizations can die so silently, then the essence of civilization is not the same as a dead leaf in the strong wind, or even a dead leaf on a dead leaf. An ant, what difference does it make?
"Living in such a universe, the universe may be a vast ocean, but this ocean is full of invisible traps, more like a cruel game doomed to failure, maybe I was still a child in my childhood." I didn't realize the cruel truth, I just thought this game was very interesting, but it couldn't bring up the slightest awe and cherishment of life and civilization. I thought I was living in a fragmented and mottled dream, and even I was a dream Part of it is just a divine thought of the 'Original Ancestor'."
Hearing this, Li Yao couldn't help asking: "The original ancestor was the prehistoric civilization that built the ancient ruins, the Tongtian Tower, and... the 'black wall' covering the entire Pangu universe?"
"Yes, it seems that you have discovered a lot of information on your own, which saves me most of the explanation."
Moonwatcher said, "When I grew up, my father forcibly pressed me into the 'spiritual temple', and received massive information indoctrination, allowing the wisdom of various categories, fields, and civilizations to leave a deep impression on my immature soul. My dissatisfaction and confusion intensified when I was imprinted on my brain, even permanently altering my cerebral cortex.
"Because, in the eyes of my friends and I in childhood, this world is like this, elusive, unexplainable, and 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, many people died in various weird and horrible ways when they were conducting dangerous experiments and exploration work.
"Among the victims, only about one-tenth of them were able to retrieve the whole body. Among the remaining victims, some even mysteriously disappeared for a whole hundred years, and only fell from the sky in the form of a handful of dry bones after a hundred years, and fell to pieces. According to the research of later generations, the victim most likely stepped into the air and fell into a special gap in time and space. He fell and fell in the gap for a whole hundred years. It fell for decades in the endless gap, and reappeared only after the energy maintaining the gap in time and space was exhausted.
"Although I was young at that time, I didn't have a particularly strong fear of death, but this kind of 'stepping into the air, falling into the gap of time and space, falling in the void for a hundred years, and finally not falling to death but starving to death or even frightened to death' , Such a way of dying is still too inexplicable.
"So I asked my father, where did we come from, where are we going, and most importantly, what are we doing now?
"Obviously, in my childhood eyes, we have abundant supplies and advanced technology, and we don't have too many natural enemies and foreign aggressors. In the suburbs surrounding the City of Silver, the most dangerous and unpredictable areas are also marked. , as long as we are cautious and don't seek our own death, we can live a very safe, comfortable and stable life.
"But why, my father and his colleagues insisted on challenging taboos again and again, to activate those talisman formations that have been sealed for thousands of years, to restore those ancient war machines that are criss-crossed and gleaming at first sight, to release The deadly virus that is very likely to cause the extinction of ancient civilizations, even during the rare rest time, has to sit cross-legged around the Tongtian Tower, staring at the vast starry sky that will never reach the top of the Tongtian Tower, as if being caught It took away its soul, sucked away all its vitality, and became its slave completely? What is the purpose of all this!"
"When I was young, no matter how much I pestered my father, my father was often silent, unwilling to tell me the answer, and even sullen, squeezed out what little emotion he had left, and was furious at me.
"In my impression, my father is gentle and refined most of the time, and the image of Gujing Wubo makes him even more ferocious when he gets angry.
"I didn't know until I grew up. Once I learned the truth, I would inevitably devote myself to real research. Like my parents and other elders, I would burn my life completely. Then, I My soul may be eroded by unpredictable forces and the treacherous universe, so I have to seal my emotions and will, and my childhood will come to an end.
"Father hoped that my carefree childhood could last for a few more years, so he was unwilling to tell me the truth so early.
"But the day has finally come.
"I will never forget that day, that morning, my mother was turned into a black iron statue."