in love with the lord of all

The mural on the No.13th floor is the process of the mermaid race from prosperity to decline and then to extinction. The murals are brightly colored and lifelike.

Below [-] meters in the deep sea, the mermaid tribe obtained a relatively complete language and writing system from the "gods". They communicated, mated, hunted and built nests, and initially formed a tribe.

When they entered the development period, the gold in the hole in the center of the round table turned black, representing the 'gods' sleeping deep in the ground.

This is the first mural, divided into two parts.

The upper part is the merman race, and the lower part is the origin of land species and insects in the same period.

Seeing this, Song Qing was thoughtful, put her cheek on Xu Congzhang's shoulder, rubbed it subconsciously for a while, and then said, "It's over."

Xu Congzhang carried him to the second mural, stopped, and waited for him to finish.

The second mural, also divided into two parts.

The mermaids have experienced several mass extinctions. Due to the sharp rise in seawater temperature, the splitting and shaking of the earth's crust, the frequent occurrence of submarine earthquakes and volcanoes, the number of mermaids has dropped sharply.

But in the end, they passed through several mass extinctions safely, and thus ushered in the most glorious era of the mermaid race.

They began to build cities, learned to smelt, irrigate, and raise fish, and built cities using shells, fish, and dinosaur skulls, and the population reached a peak for a period.

The lower part of the mural still shows the development of main land species and insects during the same period. The main land species changed from oviparous to mammals, humans walked upright, insects ushered in an outbreak period, and the number of species increased dramatically.

Song Qing looked at the hole in the center of the round platform, it was golden for a short time and then quickly returned to black.

Black represents that the 'god' is sleeping.

The mermaids survived and multiplied in the domain of the 'gods', but they were not blessed, because when they faced the disaster of extinction, the 'gods' were all watching with cold eyes.

Until the mermaids successfully survived the last mass extinction, the "gods" opened their eyes briefly and helped them enter the prosperous period of civilization.

It feels a little weird.

What does the 'God' think?

He brought characters and language to the Merman Race, but let them go through several crises of extinction alone, then woke up again, brought a very advanced civilization, and then fell into a deep sleep again.

The existence of 'gods' is too inconsistent.

He is like a huge, mysterious, and omnipotent bug, inserted into the time code of species evolution, directly causing the merman's fault-like and leaping development.

The development process of a civilization requires groping, progress, and a lot of sacrifices. In order to adapt to the extremely harsh environment, it has undergone painful tempering. In the end, the evolution of individual organisms, biological groups, natural environment, and civilization maintains the same step.

On the other hand, the mermaids lack several transitional stages, and may not be able to adapt to the evolutionary speed of nature.

— they will be eliminated.

Song Qing came to the third mural, which was in the same form as the previous two murals.

But the mermen began to decline.

The new generation of mermaid cubs can't bear the harsh environment of the deep sea, they can't even survive their first passion in adulthood!

Too many dead cubs!

However, the deep sea environment is many times more gentle than that of ancient times, and the mermaids are too fragile to adapt to it at all.

Song Qing was startled. Although natural selection was a competition, the mermaids were eliminated too quickly.

At this time, the mermaid appeared in the mural, as a subordinate, not much obsessed.

In the fourth mural, the mermaids suddenly ushered in a brighter civilization, which lasted for 200 years. They left the deep sea and came to the near sea and land, where they ate human evil desires and fears.

However, it was later killed by humans, and was imprisoned and trafficked because of its beauty, causing a large number of casualties.

Song Qing sighed unceasingly, the mermaids who once fought against ancient sea beasts were reduced to the prison of human beings.

Although she was once madly obsessed and sought after by humans because of her great looks and long period of passion.

In this mural, the 'God' opened his eyes more than the sum of the previous two times, because the golden pupils appeared in all timelines.

In other words, the 'God' has been awake for 200 years.

He watched what happened to the Merman Clan, and watched them perish, watching the whole process.

Song Qing: "Why?"

The "God" has a long life and is indifferent and ruthless. His seemingly generous behavior towards the merman is actually more like a random charity.

The first time was alms, the second time should be surprised by the tenacity of the mermaids, maybe a little bit of interest.

There was no reason for the third time, Song Qing didn't think that the 'god' would be interested in an endangered species, otherwise he would have already offered to help.

Did the 'gods' know that jumps in development would cause a species' evolution to be disconnected from the natural world?

Does he know that his actions will eventually lead to the extinction of the mermaid race?

What is the reason for giving the merman race 200 years of brilliant time for the third time?

What is the so-called 'god'?

In the fifth mural, the mermaids calmly die, forming the mermaid grave that Teng Luo said.

There are a total of five murals, and there is no mention of shark beads in the whole process.

In his cognition, shark beads are very important, but there are no shark beads in the history of sharks.

What went wrong?

Song Qing patted Xu Congzhang on the shoulder and said, "Put me down."

Xu Congzhang let him down.

The feet felt a little unreal when they landed on the ground, but Xu Congzhang could barely stand still. Song Qing looked from the leftmost mural to the rightmost side, imprinting them repeatedly in his mind, and extracting important information points.

"insect."

The protagonists of each mural have the same thing in common, mermen, gods, land overlords and insects. It is normal for the first three to be summarized into the history of mermans, but why are insects in it?

Tiny, fragile and short-lived insects run through the timeline of Merman history.

"The insect is still alive."

The merman and the countless species that once dominated the land are all extinct, and humans may become extinct one day, but insects always exist, and they are huge in number and various in variety.

"Xu Congzhang, why do the mermaids pay attention to insects?"

Song Qing was puzzled, so she took the initiative to ask Xu Congzhang.

For some reason, he felt that Xu Congzhang should know a lot of things, but he was reluctant to speak out.

"Insects are eyes."

"?"

"Omnipresent, small and subtle."

Xu Congzhang spread out his palm, and several faint blue butterflies appeared in his palm. They flew around twice, shattered into light spots and then reassembled into cocoons. They broke the cocoon, transformed, spread their wings, laid eggs, and died, ending their simple and short life.

The lifetime of most insects.

"Easy to handle."

A butterfly rested on Song Qing's fingertips. He tried to touch it, but it instantly shattered into spots of light, unable to be captured.

"Flexible, large in number, and manipulated at will, just like the Skynet in human society, monitoring, observing, and seeing all changes in the world." Xu Congzhang smiled softly: "And the living space of insects determines the species. Time for mass extinction."

Most of the plants on the earth that are pollinated by insects will die, and herbivores, carnivores, and humans will die, and the entire food chain in nature will collapse.

Controlling insects and training them to be your own eyes is equivalent to determining the direction of evolution and extinction of all things.

If you are not satisfied, can you set off a mass extinction at any time and annihilate all development and civilization?

The idea is creepy.

Song Qing looked at Xu Congzhang and found that he seemed really happy at the moment.

"You also want to control everything through insects?" Song Qing said, "Gu insects. Controlling Gu means controlling insects and reptiles."

"Yes."

Xu Congzhang lowered his head slowly, fixed his eyes on Song Qing, and asked a question: "Qingqing is afraid of me?"

Song Qing shook his head, he was not afraid of Xu Congzhang.

"You hate everything?"

Otherwise why take control?

It is too terrifying to hold the life and death of all things in your hands.

The "gods" on the seabed are like this, so is Xu Congzhang, they are all the same.

"I don't hate it, nor do I like it." Xu Congzhang said, "I like you the most besides Qingqing."

Don't be coquettish regardless of the occasion.

Song Qing was helpless, and suddenly remembered something: "You and the 'gods' of the seabed are fighting for the control of insects?"

Xu Congzhang said before that he and the "God" of the sea are enemies, so this is the reason for the hatred?

"No." Xu Zongzhang smiled, held Song Qing's cheeks, gnawed at the corner of his lips and said, "The reason for our enmity is——"

Song Qing listened carefully, but Xu Congzhang stopped talking.

"Giving civilization to the mermaids was a whim, and it was a charity for the tiny creatures that appeared in our own domain. The second time, I was surprised at the unexpected tenacity of the mermaids, so I became a little interested." Xu Zongzhang suddenly started another topic: " Compared to the merman race that will become extinct at any time, it is of course more important to find other species that can control the direction of biological evolution."

"???"

wait, what are you talking about?

Please go back to the previous topic, please tell me the reason for the feud!

Also, what he said is almost the same as what he guessed, so can you talk about the reason why he woke up for the third time for 200 years and helped the mermaids for the last time?

"We are the same kind." Xu Congzhang: "So you are not afraid now?"

"Not afraid."

Don't keep changing the subject suddenly!

Song Qing frowned, he felt that he should remind him, and said immediately after finishing this topic.

Xu Congzhang raised his eyes, and the evil desire, desire for control and coldness in his eyes could be seen at a glance.

"!"

No matter how dull Song Qing was, he could still sense something was wrong, not to mention that he was already smart.

"Xu Congzhang, what's wrong with you?"

At the beginning, Song Qing firmly believed that Xu Congzhang was well-behaved, innocent and kind. Although he later found that Xu Congzhang had a dark mind, with a stronger desire for monopoly and paranoia than ordinary people, he thought it was the painful experience in his youth that caused Xu Congzhang's mental abnormality. .

But Xu Congzhang in front of him suddenly changed into an unfamiliar appearance, like the appearance of constant aggression on the tenth floor, which was even more terrifying.

He couldn't help feeling flustered.

"Your mood is not right."

jingle.

The sound of the silver jewelry was crisp, echoing the ringing of the bell above the stele.

Xu Congzhang: "I was just thinking—"

Song Qing leaned back and stared at him in surprise.

"Control is our innate instinct. Why did we keep suppressing it before?"

Song Qing was speechless.

"When I saw the mural, I finally remembered something." Xu Zongzhang's face flashed gloomy, and he said, "You will be snatched away."

Song Qing couldn't help but said, "No one robbed me."

"It's just that Qingqing doesn't know. But it doesn't matter, you don't need to know, I will solve it."

Song Qing shook her head, and just as she was about to speak, Xu Congzhang pressed the back of her head, pressing on his shoulder and neck, and then heard him say: "One, two, three...a total of ten fish."

Where did it come from—

Before he could blurt out the question, he heard a big movement behind him. It seemed that there were indeed many foreign invaders.

"Song Qing!"

It was Teng Luo's voice, did she enter the stele? !

jingle.

Song Qing couldn't see Xu Congzhang's expression, the silver jewelry touched his cheek, it was cold.

Then he heard Xu Congzhang say for the first time without concealing his disgust: "I hate mermaids!"

..

mirror image real.

They are 'gods', high-dimensional beings, living beings who have survived countless eras of high civilization.

Countless species evolutions, countless cleansings, epochs change, from nothing to something, from nothing to nothing, and they will always exist.

They have a long life, powerful and terrifying abilities, enough to kill a species of an era, but their innate desire to control and dominate makes them prefer to wait for hundreds of millions of years, treat everything as a research object, slowly observe, filter.

They are the best hunters, because their patience can last for hundreds of millions of years, observing the origin, development, and end of a species, and then repeating the boring process with another species.

It may be mistaken for a generous god, but it may also be mistaken for a harmless and gentle creature, but it quietly devours and controls all things.

Such a terrifying and powerful creature will one day be tempted by a weak life.