Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 657
[Chapter 650 The Delayed Day of Destruction]
In the embers of cooling after the death of all things, the corpses of the ancient gods rule the ashes of the world, and something that “grows” from the corpses builds something between the ashes. The fakes and phantoms of the past – after stripping away all the halo of myths, and reorganizing the information he has mastered so far, the “Deep Sea Age” in front of Duncan presents the most realistic and chilling aspect.
Of course, he could describe this era in milder terms, or explain the current state of the gods in some acceptable way, but this does not change the essence of the matter.
He stood up and scratched the goat’s neck. The former “Creator” raised his head and observed Duncan’s expression: “You look worried.” Duncan sat back and suddenly said to himself after a moment of silence
. He spoke as if talking to himself: “…The whole world is just a pile of extinguishing embers…” “
I heard Lucretia mention this before.” Goat Head said immediately.
Duncan nodded and said nothing more. Instead, he reached out and dug around in his arms. After a moment of groping, he took out two things.
One of them is a “ball” that is emitting bright light. It is an ancient star that has been shrunk countless times. Flames flow on its surface, and the gentle flames continue to erupt, reflow, and surge, as if Maintaining the “operation” of stars.
This is the “gift” that Vanna received from Tarejin, the former sun of the Senjin people.
The other one is a piece of delicately cut pale golden crystal about the size of a fist. It has dozens of irregular and asymmetrical planes. Each side presents a smooth and perfect texture, and there seems to be something hidden in the crystal. It has a very precise and minute structure that spreads out from the center of the crystal like hair, forming a three-dimensional grid structure wrapped in the crystal.
The goat head’s attention was first attracted by the “little sun”, but then it fell on the strange light golden crystal. After being stunned for a moment, he became confused: “What is this?” “If you follow this,
” “The way the civilized world is divided, this is supposed to be some sort of ‘blasphemous archetype,'” Duncan said casually. “This is what separated from the Son of the Sun when it fell from the sky—before the flames consumed it. , Aiyi ‘picked’ it back.”
The goat head was startled for a moment, and then finally recalled the scene at that time –
the Sun’s descendants tried to escape from the Dream of the Nameless One at the last moment, but were intercepted in the sky. The form gave the freak a final blow, and the thing fell apart from the clouds. There seemed to be a shiny thing thrown out from the center of the fragments, but the situation was chaotic at the time, and the thing only flashed in the sky. It was “swept away” by a ball of green flames, and no one noticed…it turned out to be such a thing?
A sound of flapping wings came from the side. Ai flapped his wings and flew to the navigation table. He tilted his head and looked at the strange crystal he had picked up. After observing it for a long time, he stretched out his neck and opened the shell with his mouth. He pecked the surface of the crystal: “Crystal is full of hatred! Crystal is full of hatred!”
Duncan ignored the noise of the silly bird beside him. He looked at the crystal in front of him and fell into thinking, but in his mind he recalled those things called “suns”. The weird big umbrella held in the hands of the tall, thin man in black – he still remembered that inside those weird big umbrellas, in addition to mechanical and circuit structures that were so exquisite that they were far ahead of the times, there were also extremely precise cuts. crystal structure.
This crystal-based “blasphemous prototype” seems to be a unique “technological creation” mastered by the “Black Sun” and its descendants and remnants.
A long time ago, after seeing the strange big umbrellas in the hands of the men in black for the first time, Duncan realized one thing – the possession of technological artifacts in the hands of those followers of the sun meant that they were not a barbaric and chaotic primitive group. , the advanced manufacturing techniques embodied in these blasphemous prototypes actually show an extremely advanced civilization.
In other words, the “afterglow” left by an extremely advanced civilization.
But now, after witnessing the truth of the Great Annihilation with his own eyes, Duncan has a new understanding of this matter.
The collision and annihilation of the world brought about the Deep Sea Age, and the world that collided was not only the hometown of the elves and Sen’jin. The warrior who threw the sword, and his own home world, were obviously in the great annihilation. were destroyed together at that time, and extrapolating from this, every ethnic group in the world today, every style of relics, and every unexplained and contradictory historical record probably represents a destroyed civilization.
Some of these civilizations may come from different planets in the same universe, but those with extreme deviations that are enough to contaminate other “heritages” obviously come from universes with different laws.
So the black sun… is the orphan of which universe?
Duncan frowned slowly. He gently rubbed the surface of the crystal and said to himself thoughtfully: “So they are also homeless…” “
Who?” The goat head did not respond for a while. came over, but quickly understood what the captain meant, “You mean the Black Sun and his freaks?” “Everything
in the Deep Sea Age comes from the worlds that were destroyed during the Great Annihilation, and the ancient gods were just destroying A powerful individual who will survive half-dead in the future, the Black Sun cannot be created out of thin air – this crystal should represent the former civilization of the ‘Children of the Sun’.” “…But now this ‘civilization’ is standing on the opposite side of us
. , their existence itself is a kind of destruction to the entire real world,” the goat head thought for a while and said slowly, “The black sun hopes to extinguish itself, and his descendants are obsessed with destroying the real dimension and making black The sun is ‘reborn’ from the ruins of the world – they may have been a very brilliant civilization, but now they are crazy from top to bottom, and it is obviously impossible to coexist with the world.” “Yes, it is impossible to coexist, in this
world There are many things that cannot coexist with the civilized world, such as dangerous ancient gods, shadows in the spiritual world, and things in the subspace… But have you ever considered a deeper level – why can’t these things coexist with the earthly world? “
The goat head was stunned for a moment and seemed to start thinking.
“Everything is the ‘ashes’ left after the Great Annihilation. From the ashes, the corpses of the gods opened the current Deep Sea Age. In theory, today’s Deep Sea Age is already the product of the mutual integration, transformation, and compromise of various worlds in the Great Annihilation. , in other words, since the Great Annihilation is over, and since the Third Long Night has successfully reshaped the world, then what exists in the world is already the result of ‘rebalancing’, and should not be the same as when the world collided. Mutual pollution and erosion…
“But the fact is that there are still ancient gods like the Black Sun, and there are still many ‘pollutants’ that will cause disasters as long as they appear in the real world. This pollution and the Great Annihilation will cause Silanti The ‘erosion’ around Si is exactly the same, and it feels like…”
Duncan stopped here, as if he couldn’t find a suitable description for a while, but the goat head next to him suddenly said: “It’s like the Great Annihilation. Not over at all? “
Yes, it’s as if the Great Annihilation is not over at all,” Duncan nodded slowly and said with a particularly solemn expression, “It was just delayed, temporarily isolated somewhere, and slowly released to the world over time. In the world, erosion still exists, and conflicts and pollution between different worlds are still slowly progressing. The third long night has forcibly ‘pinched’ the embers together, but in this barely ‘pinched’ order, the opposition at the bottom of all things and destruction have been going on non-stop…”
The goat head gradually reacted: “This corresponds to the ‘twilight’ mentioned by the preacher of the end…” “
Self-pollution and self-destruction are the destined trends of the Deep Sea Age, and the Day of Destruction It has been destined at the beginning of history that the end will pollute history and will eventually be chased through the long river of time – this is the content of the ‘preaching’ of those evangelists of the end.” Duncan nodded slowly, “Always For a long time, this kind of doomsday theory has been refuted by mainstream society, but after learning the truth about the Great Annihilation, combined with the various ‘characteristics’ of today’s deep sea age, I had to start seriously thinking about the doomsday theories of those madmen. “
At this point, he paused and continued thinking: “Perhaps this is not a doomsday theory, but just some objective description of the third long night… The third long night is an incomplete and unsuccessful attempt. Genesis, it does not fundamentally resolve the ‘conflicts’ caused by the collision of multiple worlds, but only provides a buffer zone to allow the world to find its own way out within a period of 10,000 years… Therefore, it is necessary The fourth long night. “
…Do you think this ‘way out’ has emerged?” “
No,” Duncan shook his head, “Those final missionaries seem to know something, but they only know what the ‘hidden dangers’ left by the third long night are. They know that the conflict and collapse at the bottom of everything in the world is slowly progressing. If they really knew how to solve this problem, they would not treat the Annihilation Cult and the Children of the Sun as cannon fodder, and would not let them go to the Dream of the Nameless One to find the answer.
“The information they provided to the Annihilation Cults and Followers of the Sun was vague and vague. It didn’t sound like guidance with a clear purpose at all, but more like a test. This shows that the final preachers themselves don’t know what the right direction is. .”
The goat head was silent for a while, and then suddenly asked: “What are you going to do with this crystal? If it is really some kind of blasphemous prototype… then the longer this thing stays in the real world, the higher the risk. Even if it is placed on the Lost Home, it may not be safe for a long time.”
Duncan thought for a while and slowly raised his hand.
Wisps of flames rose from his fingertips and penetrated into the crystal.
“I’m interested in their secrets.”
(End of chapter)
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