Chapter 1015 Spiral

  Chapter 1015 Spiral

  In the camp in the forest, in the military tent made of animal skins, the once invincible king of Doma City was lying weakly on the bed.

  It rained all night last night. Perhaps because of the rain, his wounds became more and more swollen.

  It seems that not only the ancestor, but even the great Insof Tree stood by the side of the Qiu people.

  But why?

  Those guys obviously couldn’t hear the voice of the Insof Tree, but they got the favor of Him.

  Tunnan, lying on the bed, was puzzled, but his consciousness gradually became trance.

  At this moment, he still didn’t realize how insignificant he was in the world.

  The person who defeated him was never the Qiu people, nor the ancestor, nor the Insof Tree, but his own arrogance and greed in his heart.

  He thought he had understood the secret of the Insof Tree, but he didn’t expect that he was just an ant at the foot of the big tree. The little he understood was not even fur, but just some withered leaves and bark.

  But it was not his fault.

  The limitations of the times meant that he could only look at things from the perspective of an ant.

  The giants belonging to the forest tribes had not yet appeared, and the enlightenment of thought had not yet risen.

  Perhaps as time went by, when his descendants finally walked out of this forest, truly lit the fire of civilization, stepped into the starry sky, and re-recognized the Tree of Insof… perhaps there would be a different understanding.

  But that would be many thousands of years later.

  If their civilization could stand the test of time and reach that day…

  Looking at the weak leader, Sagui, who was sitting next to the bed, sighed softly and said in a trembling voice.

  ”…The prophecy finally happened.”

  Flames, corpses, death…

  That was the revelation he got from connecting to the Tree of Insof, and he had seen it before the war began.

  And all this really happened.

  The omniscient and omnipotent He was like penetrating cause and effect, or He was cause and effect itself!

  Shocked by the terrible karma, Sagui pressed his left hand on his chest, pinched a handful of beast ashes in his right hand and sprinkled them into the fire, muttering plausibly, confessing and praying to the great Tree of Insof and the ancestor.

  Tunnan, who had squinted his eyes, suddenly opened them. A rare trace of piety appeared on his angular and weak face.

  ”I saw the Tree of Insof… He is calling me.”

  Upon hearing this, Sagui’s face changed drastically, and he held the young leader’s hand, with a hint of pleading in his voice.

  ”Please don’t abandon us.”

  Tunnan sighed and spoke slowly with a weak breath.

  ”I don’t want to either, but I don’t have much time left… Not listening to the advice of the ancestor is my biggest mistake. The descendants of Doma City should remember this profound lesson.”

  When he said this, a trace of rosy luster suddenly emerged on his weak face.

  Like a last breath, he raised his arm and held Sagui’s wrist.

  ”I have to go back to Doma City, take me to the ancestor… I want to apologize to him in person.”

  That was his last wish and the revelation he saw through the Tree of Insof.

  That was the last thing he could do for his people.

  Seeing the piety and determination in those eyes, Sagui choked with tears and nodded, agreeing to the dying leader.

  ”Okay.”

  Escorted by 300 remnants, the soldiers of the Doma tribe traveled day and night, and finally brought Tunnan, who was still half-breathed, back to Doma City before the sun set for the third time.

  At this moment, outside the temple at the root of the holy tree, devout believers were crawling beside the tree roots as thick as mountains.

  Thousands of fireflies were lingering under the magnificent crown, turning the night into day and turning the green leaves into golden.

  Seeing this incredible scene, the tribal warriors returning from the front line opened their eyes wide, and the faces of the priests who followed the army were even more incredible.

  Even Tunnan, who had the most powerful “psychic power” in their tribe, could not drive so many “holy light insects”.

  The number of tribesmen who had awakened psychic power was only dozens or hundreds.

  At this moment, the “holy light bugs” lingering here have lit up the entire holy tree!

  The number is so large that it cannot be described in the language of the people of the Tree of Insof!

  ”Golden tree…”

  Sagui muttered to himself, staring at the treetop that seemed to be glowing.

  He remembered an ancient rumor.

  Legend has it that at the beginning of the distant barbaric era, when all the people on this land lived in the Forbidden Forest Valley, the original holy tree that sheltered all living things was shining like this!

  Now that long-lost scene has once again descended into this forest and on the holy tree of the Doma tribe.

  In addition to being ecstatic, Sagui’s heart is more confused.

  What happened? !

  At this moment, he saw the temple maid kneeling at the entrance of the temple to pray –

  Dora, who gave the prophecy on behalf of the ancestor.

  With his pulse and trembling steps, he walked quickly to the entrance of the temple through the winding tree roots.

  Kneeling beside her, the old man clasped his hands together and prayed, establishing a spiritual connection with her and asked.

  ”What happened here?”

  Dora closed her eyes, her pious face was calm, and her heart, as peaceful as a lake, echoed silently.

  ”…The Insof Tree has brought down a miracle, and the First Ancestor has heard His voice again.”

  Sagui was stunned when he heard this, and then his face suddenly changed.

  ”The First Ancestor is still inside?”

  Dora nodded gently.

  ”We asked him to come out, but he refused…”

  Sagui was stunned and stood there. After he came to his senses, he immediately got up from the ground and walked towards the entrance of the temple.

  Dora did not stop him, but just opened her eyes and watched the back disappear at the entrance of the temple.

  Not long after, the old priest walked out of the temple with two blank eyes.

  His face was full of confusion and astonishment… and gradually turned into panic and fear.

  He was clearly walking towards the depths of the temple just now! But as he walked, he returned to the entrance!

  Dora looked at him and said in that silent language.

  ”No one can enter the temple…”

  ”Without his permission.”

  She had tried it many times before…

  …

  It was as bright as day outside the temple, and the lights inside the temple were also bright.

  Sitting on the bed wrapped in vines, Ye Shi quietly stared at the murals on the wall, feeling that his spiritual world was more fulfilled than ever before.

  It was a wonderful feeling.

  It was as if two small accounts were opened on the same computer, and one of them entered the dungeon.

  He had experienced this wonderful feeling once before in the hyperspace channel, but he left in a hurry before he had time to think about it carefully.

  Now, as he immersed his consciousness in the surrounding environment and let the divergent spiritual perception spread to the surroundings, the feeling of consciousness traveling through time and space returned to him again!

  And unlike before, this time his consciousness in the “main world” did not fall asleep, but remained awake at the same time as his consciousness in the dungeon.

  However, in contrast, this time he could not touch anything in the dungeon, and could only watch the things behind the fog quietly happen through a layer of flickering fog.

  This is probably “psychic power”.

  At first, Ye Shi felt a little overwhelmed by this bizarre situation, but now he can skillfully control this ability and choose the target to establish a connection.

  For example, at this moment, he connected his consciousness to the holy tree in Doma City, and through the growth lines engraved on the roots of the holy tree, part of his consciousness returned to more than 150 years ago, when this towering tree was just planted in this forest.

  As he speculated, the holy tree in the forest was indeed planted by the crew of the Gemini.

  Not only that –

  after some tests, Ye Shi was pleasantly surprised to find that he could not only establish a mental connection with the mural at the root of the holy tree, but he could even continue to activate his ability while entering the dungeon, using the target in the dungeon as a “springboard” to enter a new dungeon! In

  other words, it is to continue to drag the “progress bar” forward! Drag it to more than 200 years ago when this holy tree was not planted!

  Of course, this iteration cannot be carried out indefinitely.

  When he entered the new dungeon using the target in the dungeon as a springboard, what he could see was already quite blurry, like a thicker layer of fog covering the outside of the fog.

  Through the mist of the void, he could only see vague shadows, and could only hear occasional words, and there was no way to find a new “springboard”.

  However, even if he could only hear and see a few words, it was quite good.

  At least for Ye Shi, it was enough to help him restore the history of the planet in the past 200 years based on the information on the murals!

  At the end of the three-year war, the Gemini and the Orion received orders about the “Final War” plan respectively.

  Just as Captain Zhao Tianhe had expected, they and the Gemini, which was a sister ship, received completely different orders.

  The Orion was the executor of the Final War plan, responsible for restarting the ecological environment of the earth, thoroughly cleaning up the remaining hazards of the Gaia Seed, and helping the shelter to better rebuild the order of the Human Union era.

  As for the Gemini, which had few ammunition, it was the supervisor of the plan, responsible for monitoring the execution of the order by the Orion.

  In fact, both sides had no choice from the beginning.

  Especially when the Gemini knew that the Orion was unlikely to carry out the mission, they could only strike first if they wanted to survive.

  Even if they strike first, the probability of their survival is quite low, and at most they will die together.

  Such a victory is meaningless and even worse than failure.

  Therefore, Song Yuchuan, the captain of the Gemini, made an extremely risky and bold decision –

  that is, to upload the minds of all the crew members to the circuit board!

  They will kill themselves before their opponents kill them, and revive after dying together with their opponents, and continue to execute orders as bionic people.

  This is the best solution they can think of.

  Between the survivors and the human connection, they chose the human connection without hesitation.

  This plan was recognized by most people. After all, they had no better choice, and most of their families were in the shelter.

  However, there are also a few people who think that uploading thoughts to the circuit board is no different from suicide, and the “Final Battle” plan formulated by the Lagrange Point Space Station is even more stupid. The

  correct way should be to talk to the Orion, and they believe that there must be a way to keep everyone alive.

  As for how this dispute happened and how it ended, Ye Shi could not see more information.

  Through the mist of the void, he could only see so much of the history of 200 years ago.

  After all, it was not easy for the sacred tree above his head to truly understand this memory of “belonging to the sky”.

  Moreover, the crew member who planted it obviously did not want to recall those things of the “old times”. The

  seventeen crew members were finally stuffed into the hibernation capsule and put into the landing craft and launched into synchronous orbit.

  Needless to say, what happened after that was basically the same as what Ye Shi saw in the hyperspace channel and the wreckage of the Orion.

  The Gemini fired a landing craft equipped with neutron bombs and the “souls” of all the crew members at the Orion, and the Orion fired a neutron torpedo at the former a moment before entering the hyperspace channel.

  The wreckage of the Gemini remained in the orbit of the planet Gaia, while the Orion jumped five light years away with the crew in a superposition state of life and death.

  As for the seventeen “exiled” crew members lying in the hibernation capsule, they slept in the synchronous orbit for nearly forty or fifty years, and finally woke up at the end of the Savage Era.

  They landed on the planet Gaia in a landing craft and found the descendants of the colonists on this planet – the group of green-skinned Gaians.

  In the study and observation of those Gaians, they gradually realized that the Human Union’s understanding of the planet Gaia was biased.

  It was even completely wrong!

  Whether this mistake was due to the intentional misleading of the “radical forces” in the colony or because of the arrogance and prejudice of the Human Union itself, it is unknown.

  After studying the living habits and cultural customs of the Gaians, the seventeen crew members finally came to the conclusion that

  there was once an infinitely prosperous civilization on this planet.

  And it is different from the Human Union that has just entered the starry sky.

  The prosperity of this advanced civilization is far more than just the Alpha Centauri galaxy, and its footprints have even far exceeded the scope of human civilization!

  As for Gaia –

  it is just the “ecological maintenance system” left by that advanced civilization on this planet.

  I have to say that this discovery is quite fascinating,

  both in terms of the existence of that advanced civilization and where they ended up.

  After all, if even this “pioneer” whose achievements far surpass those of human civilization eventually cannot escape the fate of self-destruction, the decline of human civilization seems to have nothing to regret.

  All things go from life to death, and from death to life, which is just a destined fate.

  With curiosity about the “pioneer” and the desire to reveal the “truth of the universe”, the 17 crew members temporarily gave up the idea of ​​going home, and with the help of limited tools, they launched a series of investigations on the Gaians and their sacred trees.

  After a series of explorations full of twists and turns, they finally discovered His existence!

  That happened on the eve of the “Age of Awakening”. The first person to discover Him was Qiu Shiye, a physicist from the Fifth Department.

  These guys who are usually useless can always prove that they are not as useless as they seem in inexplicable places, but their usefulness is not obvious.

  In short, after more than ten years of research, he finally analyzed the “psychic power” possessed by the Gaians, and discovered the existence of the “Tree of Insof” after awakening the psychic power, and then explained it with the theory of dimension!

  These are all the information left on the murals of the temple.

  When Ye Shi understood the contents of the mural, he naturally inherited these clues, and just like Qiu Shiye, who had “succeeded once”, he had a direct conversation with “Him”…

  It was that conversation that made Dr. Qiu Shiye completely crazy and fell into hysterical madness.

  In other words, he was obsessed.

  He learned from the pioneer that there is a “creator” in this universe, and everything in this universe, including himself, is just a character in a book or a mural on a wall.

  If you want to take your destiny into your own hands, you can only break the “window of vision”!

  That is to break the fourth wall!

  In Dr. Qiu’s opinion, that is the fate that all civilizations must eventually experience, and they will eventually face their creators!

  And there is a living example in front of him – the “pioneers” who once existed in this universe have successfully done it, breaking the barrier between them and the creator!

  In order to achieve this goal, he needs to conduct further experiments on the reactor on the Gemini missile cruiser, so he needs to dismantle the reactor and move it to the ground.

  The other sixteen crew members naturally expressed their opposition to this crazy plan, after all, it was their only hope to go home.

  In the eyes of the other sixteen crew members, they had successfully excavated the entire ruins, and it was time to leave here.

  Not to mention that they had all suffered from madmen and were kicked off the ship for this.

  In order to prevent this black sheep from doing outrageous operations, they tried to lock him up, but unfortunately he fled into the forest with his supporters.

  These people were later called “Qiu people” – those “materialistic” natives who could not perceive psychic energy.

  What happened later was the “Second Judgment Day” that all the natives in this forest were familiar with –

  the burning palace fell to the ground!

  It is worth mentioning that the murals in the temple of Doma City were not left by Dr. Qiu, but by one of the other sixteen crew members.

  They brought the seeds of the sacred tree into the forest, nurtured the new sacred tree with the help of the natives who awakened the “psychic energy”, and recorded this history at the roots of the sacred tree. It

  is precisely because of this that the information on the murals actually contains a strong subjective color.

  Ye Shi tried to unravel the clues on the mural from a third-party perspective, and was suddenly surprised to find that this period of history was so similar!

  The seventeen crew members disagreed on whether to follow the path of the “pioneer” and fought each other.

  Qiu Shiye, who led the “criminals” to conquer the Forbidden Forest Valley, undoubtedly won, but he was also undoubtedly a complete failure.

  If the fourth wall was so easy to break, the “pioneer” civilization would not have to spend so much effort.

  Although there is no record on the mural, Ye Shi has guessed what happened later.

  Just like himself.

  Dr. Qiu Shiye finally discovered the final truth.

  ”He” did break the fourth wall, but he did not become the “omnipotent” creator in his fantasy as a materialist.

  And the voice he heard was not made by Him as the “predecessor of the creator”, but just the echo of “Him” remaining in this universe.

  He never really talked to “Him”.

  He just said hello to the shadow of “Him” left in this world…

  ”Fuck! Isn’t this the same as the ‘First Judgment Day’?”

  The survivors of the three-year war fought again on the planet Gaia after the war for the truth they believed in.

  History is like a circle, and what happened is repeated again and again, even turning a circle right under his nose.

  Thinking of the rain that made all the natives happy and the self-righteous Tunnan, Ye Shi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and finally understood the meaningful ridicule of “Him” when he first saw him –

  you are always like this.

  ”Excuse me.”

  (End of this chapter)