High Above Chapter 818

  Virtual Realm 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 damaged is very simple... because the head of this skeleton has been removed and held in the arms of the corpse.

   And this head is not only a head, but the spine below was 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 this is 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 opened precisely, which is the original proof of the operation to peel off the silver chip."

   "It really is you, senior."

   "Forerunner."

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

  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 contains incredible emotions and memories.

  Maybe it's because of the virtual 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 what 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 everything!

  Thinking of this, the 'pioneer' who came from the earth and walked in its original form stretched out its hand.

  He lightly pressed on the shoulder of Terra's 'harbinger'.

   Immediately after.

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

  Among the interlaced light and shadow, the youth 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...

   Instead, Ian himself stepped into the dreamland.

   Step into the moment 1,600 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 Species Research Institute 1,600 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, standing 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 **** 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, civilization can be rekindled If the fire grows into a towering tree, what difference does it make if it is catalyzed by the star gods or re-hatched by us humans? 】

  【Even if these extraterrestrial 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's such a simple thing, but when things really happen to us humans, I feel very panic-I want to let humans exist, to exist as humans】

   Speaking of this, the pioneer closed his eyes, and he lowered 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—thousands of thousands of Hundreds of civilizations, their individuals, thoughts, cultures, history and even memories will be reshaped and resurrected 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 civilization behind those fire seeds has 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 demon 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 **** 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]

  【Latecomers, 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 intertwine in front of his eyes. Soon, the surrounding virtual environment changed into a vast wilderness. It is now evening, and a group of primitive people from the Stone Age are 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.

   This is an ordinary evening.

  But, at this moment.

  The first skyfall happened.

  He raised his head and watched 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 do not 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 An uncanny 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, but in the blazing Then it became bright red, dark red, and finally continued to dim...decayed into black.

   Stars one after another became red and black after bursting out of light, until they completely merged into the night sky and ceased to exist.

  Ian swallowed.

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

   That's not even a white dwarf, it's a black dwarf, or even... a black hole.

   Watching this 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 something even more terrifying.

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

  The 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.

   While the crack was spreading, a real meteor flew towards Terra.

   That's 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 **** and the enemy of all civilizations】

  The voice of the forerunner sounded again, and he said in an indifferent tone that saw through everything: [This is the first time 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】

   Speaking of this, 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 Tianzhu]

  【Our civilization has been destroyed, it is too late to make fire again】

  【So, I made 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 opening his mouth, and said in a hurry: "I already knew that you have an echo, don't act like everyone knows about Star God and End Yan Tianyuan—tsk, this part of the inheritance It is estimated that only the core inheritors of the big forces will know that my status is still a little bit worse!"

  Although the forerunner seems to be narrating to people all the time, he is still an 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, but the echoes with our memories and thinking patterns are definitely better than losing civilization and knowledge 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 under the teachings of humans】

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

  【I knew the echo would be distorted, but I didn't expect it to distort 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 catastrophe, 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 'Humans of Terra'—and my echoes will be the Wardens of Civilization on Terra. 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 debilitated 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 a '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 of the shelter who are still struggling, they don't want to waste a little bit of resources to rescue them—as long as the Tinder is completed, it doesn't matter if the current Terrans die or not, anyway, wait until the future, in Tinder After recovery, a new human civilization will be born]

  【The past will be forgotten】

  【This is an error. I shouldn't have made them. The star **** 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 their permission to continue to create tinder—because the tinder produced by echoes is absolutely impossible to be human tinder, but human echoes, a kind that is completely different from human beings, with human technology and memory, but absolutely Not a human 'life']

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

  He turned his head slowly, looking in the direction of Ian: 【However, 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...Latecomers, you may not understand, 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 Echo Human cannot be human? 】

  【So I am at the end, leaving my echoes a chance】

  【As long as after I die, my echoes can cooperate with other intelligent life forms to 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 real 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: [The 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 the psychic 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 move of the forerunner.

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

   No blood, no cruel sight, 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 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】

  The 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 starlight was extracted from the old man's brain and spinal cord...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 latecomer】

  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 stumbling 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 echoes have no soul, I will give them my soul—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 is holding his own head and lying on the main control seat.

  【Latecomers...can you tell me? 】

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

   Everything melted away.

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

  Heterogeneous 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 the corpse was originally holding lowered its head slightly, so it could be seen that there was a blazing white gemstone on the chest of the corpse.

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

   It's been there, waiting for millennia.

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

   “…doesn't that make sense?”

  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.

  Experienced the hot temperature that was still overflowing after this long time, Ian lowered his eyes, and he answered the question of the forerunner through the years: "I have seen your lesson. I have inherited your legacy."

   "Humanity still exists, relying on your way of sublimation. Although there are some mistakes, 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 spoke, the black-haired youth stepped forward.

  Instead of the forerunner's body that had disappeared, Ian sat on the main control seat.

  Tara's second pioneer smiled and stared at the complicated light curtain in front of him: “Everything that comes next.”

   "It's up to me."

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