Fortunately, I'm a Giant of Light

Aya continued to tell the old tale they had imagined.

"It's the endless poetry of history."

"I can imagine."

The history of animals is full of parallels.

"The Descents that remained on Earth also gradually underwent convergent evolution. This may have occurred in the Devonian mass extinction 6000 million years ago, and they were losing their technology and capabilities."

Aya guessed from the genealogy of animal birth.

Because in one painting, the descendants seem to be surprised that the fish in the water are crawling to the shore.

It's just that soon, this myth that took place in the ancient times is about to come to its... complete end.

"No one knows what happened at that time... and no one knows what the end is for the descendants who once spread all over the earth. But there is no doubt...something must have arrived on the earth. And the descendants We... can't beat it."

On the edge of the damaged staircase, in the final painting, only a whirlpool can be seen in the sky, a small star under the whirlpool, and the earth-moon system below.And on the edge of the painting are countless weird... tentacles that are reaching out to the earth.

The tentacles are a bit like the texture of a broken mirror.

The murals that tell the history of the Advent come to an end.Zion counted the grids and measured the distance. There should be more than 20 or more paintings in the future, but they have been damaged in the long history.

No one knows what kind of path to the end of the world these more than 20 paintings depict.

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Just thinking about it makes me feel cold.

He told Aya this.

Then the story of Aya's guess should be considered over.

When Zion was thinking this way, Aya rolled her eyes, and suddenly whispered:

"Perhaps I can use this information to tell another story that is less grand. Would you like to hear it?"

Zion likes to listen to stories, but he didn't know what else Aya could tell, so he said:

"Can you still see something from here?" Zion was surprised, "...tell me."

Zion started walking back.

He heard Aya continue:

"This is not a matter of a race, this is just a story belonging to a descendant. Even though it has been diverse, it may be the last descendant of this union. At that time, was it 1 million years ago or 2 million years ago? In short ...The descendants retreated to the Antarctic, and the Antarctic city was frozen and sank into the ground. And it also returned to this labyrinth city...Because this may be the only place where it, and perhaps the rest of its kin at that time, can still be safe place."

At their height, the Descents created their cities all over the planet.The Antarctic Subglacial Mountains and the Spiral City were the first to be built by them, and they were the only ones handed down in the end.

"I don't know how it wandered in this place...Maybe it has been missing the pinnacle miracles that belonged to it, its race, and its ancestors, using technology beyond three dimensions Build a great labyrinth to trap an impossible enemy."

she says.

"I don't know how it thinks about its joys and sorrows in this place, and for what purpose it began to hand-paint the scrolls of their race's past history here, because it doesn't want to be forgotten?"

Zion knew that Aya was telling the story of the painter of all the murals in this central spiral tower.

He took one step at a time, as if turning back time.

"But I know, it knows it is mortal, it knows its demise, and that of its race, is doomed. But it also knows that their creations will continue to exist on this planet, just as they did before As well as it thinks. But it knows better that the continuation of those creations will also disappear one day."

These countless paintings are the crystallization of many people?Or is it the creation of one person?

No one can know.

But once, surely... a being wandered in this tower like Zion.

Not to explore, but to stay.

"It clearly understands everything about its life and the ending, but it still doesn't want to die. It has a crazy power to survive in its heart. It wants to move, move! To leave a memory for the ruthless history, Tell all of this to future visitors!"

"It worked."

Zion has touched hundreds of murals.

"Yes, it succeeded," Aya folded her hands together, "In this ruins, with its own strength, it began to paint the paintings of the great history in these darkest years, and left it with its life. Understood the rise and fall of a world, and thus passed through the ages that neither they nor he could overcome."

"And in the future, there will be a day, at the end of countless future centuries, as long as their deeds still exist in this world... Those new intelligent races on the surface will definitely exist, for this vanished Will all, resting in the wreckage they destroyed, filled with admiration, disgust, pity, or... ridicule?"

Aya laughed.

Not mocking.

"Up or down, destruction or rebirth, are the bargaining chips on both sides of fate, and they are all great. Accept all these with joy, and then go to the end! It leaves a memory for those who descended, and it also leaves a memory for all subsequent beings. clues that can be understood without words. And then...it died."

At this time, Zion had returned to the first mural.He stared at the painting for a long time.

The painting depicts the first moment when the descendants were driven by the vortex and flew towards the stars of the solar system.

"But those who can appreciate both new life and destruction can understand the supreme value of life and the eternal sweetness of death. So it can be worthy of everything it has to face in hell, whether it is its enemies or Its ancestors . . . only then, for it, time ceased to pass."

——it has obtained supreme relief from the long river of time.

"I'm done."

Aya regained her composure.

"I'm so happy to hear stories like this."

From the tower of Zion, overlooking the mountains.

"I'm also very happy to see the traces of an era ... but I also hope that such stories will not be staged by humans."

Aya fell silent.

"why?"

Zion asked instinctively, but found that his question was stupid.

I only heard Aya answer quietly:

"Because, I suppose, people are like that too, Giant."

Contrary to what many people have guessed, this mountain and the city in the mountain may not be particularly evil, and naturally there are no monsters.

"The evil in Heivortex Town may be learned from here... Although it is much older and more refined than Heivortex Town, it is theoretically safer."

Just as a simple maze, it is mysterious enough.

Even if there are some unfathomable evils in it, it is impossible to escape from it. This is a great thing for Zion, for human beings, for the earth, and possibly for the universe.

Zion walks backwards in this small town.

"Looking at it this way, when I came here, I sensed many monsters frozen under the Antarctic..." Now there is no need for any superb associative ability, Zion can figure it out by himself, "Maybe it was the one who defeated them in the past." The frozen ruins of monsters may even be their biological weapons. For humans... it is indeed a treasure."

Zion hesitated a little.

But in this way, it is considered to be leaving.

"But how to escape this maze?"

Aya was puzzled.

"The way to leave is actually very simple. It depends on the path. The more you go, the more lost you will be, and you will go deep into this endless realm."

Zion looks back at the mountains.

He followed the way he came here, watching everything behind him slowly reach his eyes.He started to circle around the same way he had walked when he came here.

"Then, you just need to follow your original path... and go backwards. When TPC people go to the ice cliff, can't they go back normally? This is a symmetrical thing, but it must not go astray. Cha... I'm afraid I really can't escape forever."

There was a silence in the communication, and after a while, Mengmei yelled out in surprise.

"I see!"

Aya suddenly realized, and hammered her head:

"But it's really not something that ordinary people can think of or be able to do..."

This maze was originally just to seal off the "bad things" that the descendants encountered... All the ice fragments of the "bad things" were collected by the descendants and placed in the deepest part of the maze, no matter what they could not escape.

But for those who came in from the outside, as long as they walk backwards, they can easily return to the most primitive level and leave this forbidden area.

It's just that ordinary people can't figure it out at all, and they won't practice walking back along the way they came from.And wait until the back, the more you explore, the deeper you sink, you don't know which layer of space you are trapped in, and naturally you can't escape forever.

"Mengmei, pass this on to TPC."

Soon, there will be an outside wind.

In a few more steps, Zion, who had returned to his human form, was already standing on the edge of the ice cave, seeing the endless starry night above his head.

...It turns out that the polar night in Antarctica has begun.

He thought to himself, and added:

"I think those two robots have recorded their entire path, so they should be able to escape unscathed."

"it is good!"

In the communication, Mengmei responded and started to contact TPC.

Zion doesn't care about that side.He hadn't been to Antarctica before, so he wanted to wander around in Antarctica, and within a few steps, there was a group of penguins staggering around in the ice and snow.He thought it was amused, so he disappeared and began to pinch the penguin's buttocks, small wings and small head.

It was just at this moment that a series of chaotic voices suddenly sounded in his ears, making people uneasy.

The sound intensity does not attenuate with distance, no matter where you are, you can hear exactly the same.

"what is this……?"

The lingering sound is endless, and it has been heading into the distance.

Zion stood up immediately.

Then, within a few steps, he saw a familiar...a tall, thin black man wearing a TPC work uniform, who had just arrived among the penguins.

"Are you Hussein?"

Zion blurted out.

In the end, the man just showed a surprised expression, and said in a pure Japanese language:

"Hello, sir...you got it wrong, my name is Tetsuo Uchiharato."

Then, he showed a bright and cheerful smile.

The icy wind howled in the Antarctic, rolling up countless white snow and sprinkled the sky.

At that time, Aya was on the Retribution, and she was still thinking about a mystery that she didn't understand before.