above the sky

Chapter 818 Part of the Star God's Gift! (6000)

The virtual world does not need mechanics, only aesthetics.

The 'Heterogeneous Research Institute Central Control Room' that appeared in front of Ian is the product of this design.

It is a super giant sphere with a radius of more than 500 meters. The inner wall of the sphere is composed of millions of large and small monitoring screens, and the center of the sphere is the lonely control seat.

A broken corpse sat there quietly.

The reason why it is said to be broken is very simple... because the head of the skeleton has been removed and held in the arms of the corpse.

And this head was not only a head, but the spine below was also pulled out together.

But even with such a cruel and terrifying injury, this skeleton is very calm.

If it wasn't for holding his head in his arms, Ian would even think that it was a peaceful old man lying on his rocking chair.

"……is it you?"

After a brief moment of stupefaction, Ian shook his head. He looked at the corpse in front of him seriously, and then sighed for confirmation: "It is indeed. The skull was lifted precisely, which is the proof of the first self-peeling silver chip operation."

"It really is you, senior."

"forerunner."

The past history is right in front of you, and the black-haired knight is approaching step by step.

And the closer he was to the control seat, the more violently he felt the backtracking horizon vibrating.

The corpse of the person in front of him contained incredible emotions and memories.

Maybe it's because of the imaginary environment?Maybe it's because the silver chip finally met its original owner... or maybe it's because the forerunner himself also has psychic legacy.

At this moment, Ian felt that the backtracking horizon was extra active...and powerful.

——So, I can definitely see the scene I want to see.

——Forerunner, my predecessor.What exactly did you do at the end of your life, and the truth about the gift of the star god... Please tell me all about it!
Thinking of this, the 'pioneer' who came from the earth and walked in its original form stretched out its hand.

He pressed lightly on Terra 'harbinger' shoulder.

Followed by.

Endless lights flew from their points of contact, filling the world.

Between light and shadow, the young man seems to be in a dream.

However, this is the void, and this is the dream of all the dreams of all life in Terra——

So, this time, it wasn't the images of the past that turned into intertwined dreams and entered Ian's mind...

It was Ian himself who stepped into the dreamland.

Step into that moment 600 years ago.

【I made an unforgivable mistake】

The moment he stepped into the past, Ian heard these words.

He raised his head and looked in front of him.

An old man with gray hair, wrinkled face, and only bright eyes is lying on the control chair. The old man looks up at the monitoring light curtain above his head, and speaks to himself or to non-existent bystanders in a calm tone. : [But I don't regret it]

【Latecomers, in any case, please listen to my last words, my confusion and apology】

This is the main control room of the Alien Research Institute 600 years ago. Everything is exactly the same, and time seems to have not changed.

The only difference is the old man on the chair in the main control room, he is still alive, dying, but still has his last breath left.

Ian walked on the transparent passage and stood quietly beside the forerunner, as if he was really listening to his last words.

[From a long time ago, I have been thinking, can a civilization without human teachings really be considered a human civilization? 】

The old man said softly: [I have been thinking about this problem all the time]

[Those fire seeds... the fire seeds sent to our planet by the Star God and the True Dragon and entrusted to us for safekeeping...they are indeed the tombstones of a civilization, but can the civilization recovered from these fire seeds really be regarded as the original civilization? ? 】

[It’s a bit ashamed to say that this is actually a very insignificant issue. These civilizations have even produced and shipped fire seeds, which shows that they have no spare time to think about the ‘future’... as long as the fire seeds can be revived and rekindled The fire of civilization grows into a towering tree, so what difference does it make if it is catalyzed by the star gods or re-incubated by us humans? 】

[Even if these alien civilizations are integrated into our human beings in the end, it cannot be said that their civilization has disappeared. They just integrated into us. From then on, our continuation is their continuation]

【Obviously it is such a simple thing, but when things really happen to us humans, I feel very panic-I want to let human beings exist, to exist as human beings】

Having said that, the forerunner closed his eyes, and bowed his head with a wry smile, as if laughing at himself for becoming so naive when he got old.

But soon, he opened his eyes again, and his expression became calm: [The Star God told us that when the construction of the 'Cradle World·Ring of Tranquility' is completed, all the fires will be revived under their careful care——thousand thousand Hundreds of civilizations, their individuality, thought, culture, history and even memory will be reshaped and revived in their respective divided promised lands]

[This is the same as sleeping.Star God told me.The entire civilization is like a dream. They fell asleep in the destruction, and then woke up in the silence. Thousands of stars, thousands of races, and countless civilizations will be revived under the care of the cradle]

【Star God told me that they will definitely do it.Because the civilizations behind those fire seeds have either been destroyed, or they will use the power of the entire civilization to go to the "Abyss of the End" with the Star God to fight the battle in heaven with the demons of the end.]

【The Star God told me that we humans are lucky.We don't have to be tinder, we don't have to make choices]

[Because, when our ancient ancestors were still using stone tools to fight monsters, we who encountered the first "sky fall" were lucky to meet the star god and the real dragon, and they helped us stop the disaster that could destroy the entire planet , and then watched step by step our development to where we are today]

[Later, do you know? 】

【Our civilization is the miracle itself】

What the forerunner said was a bit confusing, but everyone could understand what he meant.

Because the entire sphere main control room began to change drastically.

Ian silently watched the infinite phantoms criss-crossing in front of his eyes. Soon, the surrounding emptiness changed into a vast wilderness. It was evening, and a group of primitive people from the Stone Age were warming up by the fire.

The long grass half a person's height swayed with the wind, and the air was filled with a moist and slightly chilly atmosphere. The cloudless night sky was full of stars, and thousands of stars shone with the brilliance of the double moon.

It was an evening that couldn't have been more ordinary.

But, it is at this time.

The first skyfall happened.

Raising his head and watching this scene with the forerunner beside him, even Ian couldn't help but feel stunned at this moment.

The entire night sky is filled with dense meteor showers. These meteor showers don't know where they come from, and they don't know where they are going. They burn in the dark, fall, and then go out... But they are not real meteors, but It's an incredible omen.

A harbinger of disaster.

The primitive people were also shocked by this scene. They raised their heads in astonishment and looked up at the starry sky... Immediately afterwards, they saw that in the middle of the sky, as countless meteors flew away, the light of many stars suddenly became extremely blazing. After blazing, it becomes red again, dark red, and finally continues to dim...reduces to black.

One after another, the stars turned red and black after a sudden burst of light, until they completely merged into the night sky and ceased to exist.

Ian swallowed.

Only the stars that are about to be extinguished and the temperature is extremely low will be red and dark red... and only the stars that are completely extinguished and no longer glow and heat will become pitch black.

That's not even a white dwarf, but a black dwarf, and even... a black hole.

Watching the scene, Ian didn't even have time to think 'why is this all happening at the same time?Even if countless stars go out at the same time, their light shouldn't arrive at Terra at the same time, right? 'This... because he saw a more terrifying scene.

As thousands of stars dimmed and turned into pitch black, a pitch-black crack that could not be ignored quietly appeared in the endless vast sea of ​​stars.

This rift tore apart the bright net of stars, and is still spreading at a speed visible to the naked eye, spreading towards the other end of the infinite universe.

And at the same time as the crack spread, a real meteor flew towards the land of Terra.

That was a tinder.

It hit the planet, setting off a torrential rain that covered the entire planet.

[This is the 'End of Heaven', which surpasses the speed of light and extinguishes the stars. It is an incredible cosmic disaster, the star god and the enemy of all civilizations]

The voice of the forerunner sounded again, and he said in a light tone that saw through everything: 【This is the first time that the 'Skyfall'... and the scene where the 'Beast of Thousand Stars' fell on our planet and transformed it】

[Latecomers, we are well protected.The civilization behind the Beast of Thousand Stars has been fighting side by side with the Star God until the last moment of destruction before throwing out the fire. Fortunately or unfortunately, it landed on our planet—Tara is special because of this, and is concerned by the Star God]

[Since then, all disasters have nothing to do with us. Our star field has been selected as the foundry of the 'Cradle World'. The fire seeds of thousands of planets and the hopes of hundreds of thousands of civilizations gather on this land ——They are all the wreckage after destruction, the last tombstone of civilization]

【And now, it's our turn】

Having said that, the pioneer smiled desolately: 【Finally.it's our turn]

[But the sad thing is that we didn't even have time to fight, to go to the end with glory, or to leave the real fire, waiting for the cradle to wake up... We suffered a devastating blow before we started, ushered in the second Skyfall]

[Our civilization has been destroyed, it is too late to make fire again]

[So, I created an echo]

"Tell me about the Star God and 'End Yan Tianyuan'!"

At this moment, even the indifferent temper of Ian on Earth couldn't help but speak, and said in a hurry: "I already knew you had an echo, don't act like everyone knows about Star God and End Yan Tianyuan—tsk, this part Only the core inheritors of the big powers will know about inheritance, and my status is still a little bit worse!"

Although the forerunner seems to be narrating to people all the time, he is still the image of the past in the final analysis, so no matter how anxious Ian is, the old man still quietly talks about what he thinks is important.

[Latecomers, at first I thought that the most important thing in civilization is people.Civilization without people is not civilization at all]

[Compared to preserving the gene pool and technology, it is better to preserve human thoughts and memories... Although these thoughts and memories are just echoes, not our real souls, the echoes with our memories and thinking patterns are definitely better than losing civilization and Knowledgeable humans are more like humans]

[They can continue our plan after my death, after our death, and maintain the existence of civilization until our civilization once again takes root and sprout under the teaching of human beings]

[However, I was wrong.I made an unforgivable mistake]

[I know that the echo will be distorted, but I didn't expect it to be alienated so quickly]

The words of the forerunner at this moment did not have any regrets, but he spoke calmly. As he said at the beginning, he did not regret making this mistake: [My original purpose was just to create an echo of me and my many disciples, Guaranteed that after the disaster, the knowledge about our civilization will not be misunderstood...]

[Their thinking patterns can correctly understand the meaning of classics and various materials, and ensure that my future descendants can become human beings, instead of a specious one who inherited our human body and technology, but lost civilization. Etiquette is regarded as a ritual of dueling, misinterpreting our festival as a cursed alien]

[My echo will exist longer than me, he will teach those new era humans who come out of the shelter, so that our wisdom and technology will not be lost, so that future geniuses can get the best education, let me Your painstaking efforts will not be lost]

[They will be the new 'Terra Humans' - and my echoes will be the Wardens of Terra Civilization.I hope so]

【However, when I created the echo, I found that my echo is far more extreme than me】

【yes.Losing the limitations of the brain and this already weakened physical body, not being affected by hormones, and not being impulsive because of a bad state, there is no desire to interfere with me and my disciple's echo]

[This group of the most extreme technical scholars reached a consensus as soon as they were born...their purpose is only one, and that is to create the 'human fire' at the fastest speed, leave this doomed Terra, and go to the outside world to find new home]

[As for the survivors on Terra, those survivors who are still struggling in the shelter, they don’t want to waste any resources to help them—as long as the fire is completed, it doesn’t matter whether these Terra people die now, anyway, wait until the future, in the future After the fire is revived, a new human civilization will be born]

【And the past will be forgotten】

[This is a mistake.I shouldn't have made them.The star god clearly told me that the fire seed only needs and can only contain the blood and information of civilization.Tinder should not carry a soul, not even an echo]

[They are destined to be alienated, become extreme, crazy...they will soon transform into another brand new life, and even 'civilization'...become completely no longer like human beings]

【So I blocked them.I blocked the permissions of the echoes, I blocked their permission to enter the virtual world, blocked their permission to enter the virtual world information database, and blocked their permission to enter the collective electronic memory of mankind]

[I have banned them from continuing to create fire - because the fire produced by the echo is absolutely impossible to be the fire of humans, but the echo of humans, which is completely different from humans, with human technology and memory, but Definitely not a human 'life']

At this point, the words of the forerunner came to an abrupt end.

He slowly turned his head and looked in the direction of Ian: [But, the latecomer]

The old man didn't look at Ian, but looked in the direction of the entrance of the main control room. He smiled calmly and said: [I don't regret it]

【Because I figured it out just now - things like humans are not important at all】

【We are just the dust of the universe, we are just passers-by in nothingness... You may not understand the latecomers, or you may want to refute me, but that is the truth】

【The difference between 'Terra Humans' and 'Echo Humans'?That doesn't matter at all, the sublimation has distorted its own life form. As the founder of the way of sublimation, why do I insist that future human beings must be human beings? 】

[We, the lives formed by the condensed dust between the stars, why should we be entangled in the shape of the dust?This is a bit too ridiculous]

[In the final analysis, who can say that echoing humans cannot be humans? 】

[So I am at the end, leaving my echoes a chance]

[As long as my echoes can cooperate with other intelligent life forms after I die, open the entrance to the subspace, and arrive at the place where my corpse is, so what if they become the sparks representing human beings and leave? 】

[This proves that they have means, strength, and true wisdom]

【That's enough】

At this moment, the forerunner closed his eyes.He slowly raised his hands and pressed them on both sides of his head.

The old man said lightly: [Latecomers.Whether you are my echo, the echo of others, or the brand-new civilization established by us Terra humans after the skyfall, or the visitor of other alien civilizations]

[Even... Star God?If you guys come back, then it will be a good ending】

[As long as you can touch this psionic phantom I set up, and there are intelligent beings arriving here, it will be enough to explain one thing]

【Our human existence...does have meaning】

Ian opened his mouth, he wanted to say something, but soon, he was shocked by the forerunner's next action.

Right in front of his eyes, the gray-haired old man stretched out his arms and pulled out his head and spine!

There was no blood, no sight of any cruelty, only muscles and bones wriggling.

As the sublimator of the civilization of the pre-epoch, the forerunner may not have the power to destroy the world, but he has indeed honed his body and soul to the highest peak.

Using the soul to control the body, the forerunner took off his own head, and the old man gently cut open the flesh and skull around his head, and then took out his brain from his head.

【I will divide the gift given to me by the Star God into three parts】

A hazy voice of psychic power sounded, with the same tone as the original old man: [Representing my belief, the 'star's light' bestowed on future humans]

At this moment, the silver star brilliance was extracted from the old man's brain and spinal cord... and then condensed into an extremely thin, but extremely complicated 'chip' that contained the entire starry sky!
[Representing my body, I will stay here and deliver it to the "body of light" of the latecomers]

The headless body of the forerunner pressed his hand on his chest, and the blazing white light lit up, and a 'jewel' condensed in the middle of the chest below the collarbone.

【There is also the last one, which represents the soul, and will be given to me and my disciples, the 'Soul of the Source'】

A staggering platinum phantom walked out of the old man's body. It was an extremely pure soul. Ian had never seen such a bright and pure soul, and even the fourth energy level definitely did not shine so brightly.

The hazy psychic voice laughed, then sighed: [I created the echo.I created without authorization, and I was disappointed because the result of creation was not what I wanted—I even declared my creation to be a mistake of failure without authorization]

[But I was actually wrong, so I want to apologize.Since Echo has no soul, I will give my soul to them—in any case, they are indeed human beings, a possibility of human beings]

[What a pity.Obviously learned a lesson that can be used next time, but there is no chance again】

The forerunner held his own head and lay on the main control seat.

[Latecomers...can you tell me? 】

He asked softly: [Is everything I do for mankind... meaningful? 】

Everything vanished.

Numerous phantoms were shattered, Ian stood in place, the world was constantly changing, thousands of different scenes and characters flashed, but in the end, it was still condensed into the 'now' after thousands of years.

Xenomorph Research Institute, central control room.

On the control seat, the dilapidated corpse sat peacefully in place.

Perhaps because of Ian's previous touch, the head that was originally held by the corpse lowered its head slightly, so it could be seen that there was a blazing white gem on the chest of the corpse.

At this moment, the silver chip...or in other words, the 'Starlight', was telling Ian with a slight tremor that it was another part of the 'Star God's Gift'.

It was there, waiting for millennia.

The black-haired youth was silent for a long time, then smiled.

"... Isn't that very meaningful?"

He stretched out his hand and grabbed the blazing white gemstone in the chest of the corpse—at this moment, the corpse of the forerunner shattered and disappeared into endless psionic fragments, leaving only the gemstone with the blazing temperature still in his palm.

Feeling the hot temperature that is still overflowing after this long time, Ian lowered his gaze, and he answered the pioneer's question after years: "I have seen your lesson. I have inherited your legacy."

"Humanity still exists, relying on your way of ascension, although there are some mistakes, but it exists quite prosperously. And, because of the brilliance of the stars you left behind, there is still a glimmer of hope in this world."

Bowing to the empty chair, Ian replied seriously: "This is inheritance. The greatest meaning."

"Then……"

As he said, the black-haired youth stepped forward.

Instead of the gone body of the forerunner, Ian sat on the main control seat.

The second pioneer of Terra smiled and stared at the complex light curtain in front of him: "Everything that comes next."

"It's up to me."

(End of this chapter)