Chapter 407: Flesh, Bitterness, Weakness (37) (1st update + 2nd update + 41.2w nutrient solution 3rd update) [VIP]

At the same time, in Rongguang Port, Zhang Lu, who was in invisible state, suddenly shouted.

"Look at the group!"

"What's wrong?"

The people around quickly opened their watches, and in an instant, everyone's expressions froze.

The rated number of personnel for [Blood, Flesh, Bitterness and Weakness] is eight, but because of the special nature of the poet as a teammate, there were only seven people in the temporary group chat at the beginning.

Now in the group chat of seven people, one name suddenly went dark.

It's impossible for someone's name to go dark inexplicably in the Foundation's temporary group chat. This could only happen...

Team member died.

"How is that possible!" Si Panxuan blurted out.

Is it possible that She Mochu would die in such a world?

"Impossible," Wei Ye blurted out, "Brother Chu will not get into trouble."

"There was nothing wrong with zone08 for the past twelve hours, so why did something go wrong at this time?" Ming Qingrong murmured in a low voice, "Could there be a problem with the temporary group chat?"

Obviously not possible.

Apart from the few people who expressed their emotions more strongly, Jia Li also frowned silently and fiddled with his watch.

Even Shi Liqun directly mentioned it in the group: [Shi Liqun: @She Mochu]

No response.

There were countless guards walking back and forth in the surrounding Rongguang Harbor. After Bai Jinshu left, the exploration team members who were left behind had been doing their best to stir up trouble.

Even Zhen Xianhong ate the invisibility fruit.

Her original plan was to wait until everyone had almost run away before trying to get out, but before she could prepare the escape pod, chaos seemed to break out outside.

The parking space where their aircraft was parked was too far back, and Zhen Xianhong, sitting in the driver's seat, could not see what was happening outside for a moment. Due to her status, she could not get off the aircraft to see, so she had to sit in the driver's seat, anxiously waiting for the result.

In the end, we didn't wait for the result, but instead waited for the closure of the navigation port of Rongguang Port.

Without caring about her identity, she grabbed a scarf from the side and wrapped it around the lower half of her face, quickly picked up a gun next to her in case of emergency, and got off the aircraft.

As soon as she got off the aircraft, the scene in front of her was breathtaking.

The berthing area of ​​Rongguang Port has never been so lively. The sky is full of aircraft preparing to escape, and even some large merchant ships have flown up. The navigation port that was originally on the edge of the berthing area has now been closed.

When it was closing, there must have been countless aircraft trying to fly out of the gap at the last moment. Zhen Xianhong took a casual glance and saw quite a few aircraft hanging on the edge of the gap, caught by the closed navigation opening and hanging in the sky.

As an aircraft pilot, she had excellent eyesight and could see at a glance that some of the aircraft had begun to drip fuel.

The transparent, colorless fuel fell from the sky, with a faint reddish-pink hue.

It's blood.

Blood mixed in the fuel.

The navigation opening that was closed in a hurry directly crushed someone to death.

Now, the airway in the sky was still dripping with fuel and blood. Cleaning machines that cleaned up the blood and aircraft wreckage were flying in an orderly manner. Zhen Xianhong looked at the team members who suddenly stopped around him, and whispered to Si Panxuan, "What's going on?"

At the same time, countless questions in the Foundation's barrage also exploded at this time.

【！ ！ ！ ！ ！ ！ ！ 】

[What's going on? Why are we suddenly kicked into this live broadcast room? ]

[What about split screen? @房管, what about split screen? ]

[What's going on? Why is there only one screen for the live broadcast of this project? 】

[…The split screen of the fund account will disappear only after the live broadcast team member dies on the screen.]

【You farted. 】

[I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it.]

[@, there is a bug in the anchor room. ]

[I am an old investor in the Krishna world. I just want to say that the Krishna world will also go black when the energy is too strong. ]

[But that was a black screen... Now the split screen is gone. ]

[If you can't speak, just shut up now. ]

【@Housing Manager@Housing Manager@Housing Manager, kick him out. 】

The barrage instantly became a mess.

Inside Rongguang Harbor, the expressions on the faces of the six exploration team members gradually changed from shock and disbelief to seriousness.

"Also..." Zhang Lu glanced at his watch, "Seventeen hours. Should I start filling in the rules first?"

Since they entered here, they have never tried any rule except the one they filled in at the beginning to verify the existence of these people on the earth.

It's not just because they haven't made any discoveries, but also because most of the information they get is just fragmentary clues that don't connect together. In this case, everyone tends to write down the answer thoroughly after getting the final answer.

But now it seems impossible to reach a final answer.

Zhang Lu took a deep breath and said, "Are there any rules that we can be sure of now, or that we need to try?"

This is already a tacit acknowledgement of She Mochu's death.

Before confirming that She Mochu was among the team members this time, Zhang Lu, as the only member of the high-end space team here, originally planned to take on the task of summarizing clues and organizing exploration. It was only after discovering that She Mochu had also entered here that she voluntarily gave up her command in such a special space.

But now that She Mochu is confirmed dead, she...

She had to take on the task of summarizing the clues in the remaining seventeen hours and provide the greatest possible help to the next wave of exploration team members entering here.

This is also the last resort that all teams will adopt when they are sure that they cannot summarize the final clues.

All the conjectures within the guesses, the confusing clues that are not connected, and some events that have no follow-up after they have just started are stuffed into the foundation's rule verification, and one or two clues should be hit as much as possible.

This behavior has a low success rate, but it is the last resort in projects where there is no hope.

In the field of computer network security, this behavior has another more accurate name to describe it: credential stuffing.

[No, no, no, no, no, no, don't do this now. ]

【Ahhhhh, can't you just trust the Lord? 】

[I'm really going to collapse. There are still 17 hours left. Can you guys drive a flying vehicle to zone01 to take a look? ]

[Although I understand Zhang Lu’s choice intellectually, I cannot accept it emotionally…]

[I can't accept +1 emotionally. Why are you starting to compete with the database when the results are not confirmed yet? 】

[Can’t you just wait a little longer…]

【What if a miracle happens? 】

「I’m going to say something you may not like to hear… The main thing is, if I die, then the Sealed Artifact will…」

[Okay, I know you don’t like it, so I won’t say it anymore. ]

On the screen, the battle-hardened exploration team members adjusted faster than the barrage of comments.

"This world is the Cthulhu worldview. Yog-Sothoth, one of the three pillars of the worldview, controls the development of the world." Si Panxuan whispered.

Zhang Lu: “No.”

"This world is Cthulhu's future worldview. In this worldview, the followers of Yog-Sothoth, one of the three pillars of gods, manipulate the development of the world." Wei Ye added this rule.

Zhang Lu: “No.”

The database collision has begun.

However, on the barrage, a small number of people have already accepted this result.

【So did the Lord lose the bet? 】

[The effect of NS-021 is only to absorb the rationality of people all over the world. It will take some time for the disaster to spread. ]

[Zhang Lu and his team should have brought this news to the Academy of Sciences earlier. They couldn’t leave such a deadly thing in zone01.]

[What the hell, NS-021 can't spread, the Lord didn't intend to blow up this world. ]

[…Have you forgotten that this thing is a miracle from the Foundation Mall? The Lord was the one who lent it out in the first place, and now that the team member who borrowed the miracle has died, this thing has been taken back by the Foundation.]

[So if the Lord fails, he will be the only one to die, right? You know how to kill me from a distance. I'm already broken. I don't want to see NS-021 again.]

[If NS-021 is still there, it means the master is fine, right? ]

[It's ok, how come it's ok? The screen is black, there's no point in deceiving myself now, I might as well see what will happen to this world in the last seventeen hours.]

[What can I do? I don't see what's the use. I can't get in. They have already started to collide with the database. What can I do? ]

[Where is zone07? Is he watching the live broadcast? Is there any way to pass on information or verify it? ]

[Brother, you are my only connection in this world of flesh and blood. ]

[Don't even think about it. Even if I rush from zone 07 to zone 10 now, it will be too late in 17 hours.]

[…My angel investment suddenly popped up a return notice. ]

[So what should the weak and vulnerable do? A high-level player died inside, but the rudiments of the rules have basically appeared here. Will anyone dare to enter in the future? ]

[Please seal the referendum. I will vote to seal it. 】

[What if? Most of the information in this world has already come out. Now it’s just the last step. Someone will come in eventually.]

[Then She Mochu is dead in the last step. Why don’t you ban him? I will. ]

【I block it.】

【I voted for the seal. 】

【Block it.】

[…I won’t watch it anymore. Bye. I can’t stand you guys. Why are you voting when you haven’t confirmed that you will fail completely this time?]

[Okay, you can watch it or not. You are not the only one in a bad mood. Who among us is in a good mood? The serious thing is to seal this project so that more people will not die in it. Otherwise, do you want to go in and explore or crash the database? ]

[Why don’t I believe it? Did I step on your tail? ]

There was a sudden quarrel on the barrage.

Everyone was in a bad mood, and things got pissed off, and the barrage turned into a melee in an instant.

At this moment, a name suddenly flashed outside the screen.

Then, the three words [She Mochu], which had already gone dark, suddenly lit up.

*

Bai Jinshu moved his eyebrows slightly and felt as if he was lying in a very empty environment.

This should not be the big pit in zone01, because the entire zone01 is shrouded in eternal night, and now, he feels that the space he is in is unusually bright.

His brain started to work awkwardly, and what happened not long ago flooded into his mind quickly.

He arrived at zone 01 in the aircraft piloted by Huai Jiamu, and then entered the deep pit and threatened the heavenly being with the lives of all the people in the universe and [NS-021] to tell him the answer.

The moment the countdown reached ten, the dark dice of [NS-021] also fell.

Logically speaking, he should have died at this moment, but now...

The secret dice was a big success and he didn't die?

Bai Jinshu struggled to open his eyes and saw that he was in a very empty room.

And in front of him, there was a face that looked like it was about to cry.

It’s actually... Gu Qiang?

"Fuck," Gu Qiang really burst into tears the moment he saw him open his eyes. The young man in his twenties threw his tears on Bai Jinshu's face like money, "Senior, you are so cruel, I, we really thought the world was going to end!"

Bai Jinshu's brain rarely froze for a moment.

Gu Qiang was crying and his voice was vague: "If the world didn't end nine hundred years ago but ended now...then wouldn't our nine hundred years of work be in vain? Senior, you are too cruel...you are even crueler to your own people than to your enemies..."

Bai Jinshu:?

What's going on?

Although he is not a materialist, given the current situation, it is impossible that he met Gu Qiang after his death, right?

At the same time, investors were also confused by the sudden appearance of a split screen.

【host! ! ! ! ! ! 】

【I knew you were okay ahhhhhh】

[My Lord, woo woo woo, my Lord, you are okay! ! ! ! ! ]

[Did my prayers work? Oh my Lord]

[No, don't worry, what happened to Gu Qiang? Isn't Gu Qiang dead? ]

[So the Lord is dead too? That's impossible? Then is the live broadcast here about the underworld after the Lord's death? ]

[Are there metal walls and high-tech equipment all around your underworld? ]

[So no one has noticed that the Lord's current body is strange? ]

【Ah? What kind of body is this? 】

[Off topic, the confused protagonist is adorable. ]

On the screen, Bai Jinshu was almost stunned by Gu Qiang's tears. It took him several seconds to react: "What...what happened?"

After he said it, he realized that his voice was not his usual voice, but a very strange mechanical voice.

Bai Jinshu lowered his head and realized that his current body was actually like a robot.

This is not his body.

"Don't cry first," he grabbed Gu Qiang and said, "Tell me clearly where this place is and what's going on?"

The Foundation's watch is missing, and it is impossible to obtain information from it about how much time has passed. What happened during the period between his attempt to descend to heaven and force the beings in heaven to tell him everything, and his current appearance in this strange space with this body?

"This is..." Gu Qiang cried until he hiccuped like crazy. While hiccuping and shedding tears, he still found time to speak, "This is the space station."

"Space station?" Bai Jinshu frowned.

This sounds like something from heaven.

He had seen it before when he entered this space. After the man in the sky stabbed the man underground, he destroyed all the data transmission equipment below and then destroyed all the aerospace engineering on the ground.

In this case, it is impossible for the space station in the sky to belong to the underground people.

"Wait a minute, senior, tell us first," Gu Qiang suddenly remembered, "Is that N... S still in your eyes?"

Bai Jinshu: "...NS-021?"

He really doubted that he was gone.

After all, this thing was stuffed into his eyeballs by Yig. Now it’s not certain whether his body is his own, and his eyeballs are probably gone.

But why did Gu Qiang appear here, and why did he appear in the space station of Tianshangren? These questions have not been answered yet.

Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes and looked at Gu Qiang, somewhat doubting his motive for asking this question.

Is this the real Gu Qiang, or is it that the people in heaven created a Gu Qiang to trick him?

"Woo..." Seeing his suspicious eyes, Gu Qiang broke down his defense, "Damn, senior, you actually doubted me, they really were right!"

Bai Jinshu: ...Although I don't know who "they" are, it is obvious that these people have predicted his prediction one step ahead of time, and have long expected that he will doubt his current environment and Gu Qiang who has cried like a fool.

Although this idea was not very moral, at this moment he actually believed that the Gu Qiang in front of him was the real Gu Qiang.

After all, if it was a celestial being pretending to be him, it would be hard for him to be so naturally stupid...

The idiot junior student said several words to himself before pointing outside: "They said if you don't believe me, go out and listen to them."

He covered his head and said, "Because they said I can't explain it clearly!"

Bai Jinshu: ...

Isn't what "they" said quite right?

You really didn't explain it clearly. He doesn't even know where he is, why he is here, and where the dead Gu Qiang came from.

Bai Jinshu was speechless for a moment, but decided to continue doing what he said.

If this Gu Qiang was really imitated by the person in heaven, he would accept it. The imitation was so similar and he looked stupid in nature.

Walking in the direction Gu Qiang pointed, Bai Jinshu pushed open the door and successfully saw several people standing at the door.

These people looked at Gu Qiang behind them, then looked at Bai Jinshu who was cautiously standing still, and finally spoke the first sentence to answer Bai Jinshu's doubts: "Hello, this is the Earth-1 Space Station, the only 'star' that can be seen on Earth now. We are the maintenance personnel left here."

The girl on the right had a face similar to that of the purple-skinned captain. She held her forehead slightly and threw a shameful look at Gu Qiang behind him: "We thought the world was going to end just now."

"Relax, don't be so hostile," the boy standing in the middle sighed, "Are you from Mittagong in another universe? Let's just say why we can't access your file."

Bai Jinshu: "What are you not going to tell me?"

"Senior, it's a misunderstanding! It's a complete misunderstanding!" Gu Qiang finally sorted out his feelings and spoke quickly, "We are the people in the sky. All students in the University of Michigan have a data consciousness backup. You suddenly blew yourself up just now and really scared us to death. There was only a ten-second countdown, and we couldn't find your consciousness at all. We thought the world was going to end. Fortunately, we temporarily captured part of your consciousness at the moment the countdown ended, and then we pulled you up from below."

"You are the people in the sky, the data and consciousness backup, and the ones who are pulled up from below," Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes. Although it was his first time here, he sat beside him naturally as if he had been here many times, with his arms folded across his chest: "I think I need a more detailed explanation."

He always believed that the people in heaven were related to Yig, so what was going on with this group of people?

Are the students of the University of Michigan the ones who are in heaven?

“To be honest, we are all shocked by your doing this,” someone said with a wry smile, “I will definitely explain it to you in detail.”

"Nine hundred years ago, the world broke through the last line of defense of consciousness uploading, and humans finally achieved mechanical ascension," the captain with purple skin spoke first. "After this technology was popularized and tested on mice and countless animals, it finally reached the stage of human experiments. Seven volunteers volunteered to enter the data world."

"The volunteers lived steadily in the data world for half a year, and then the first wave of experimenters lived in it for another three years. Then more people entered. Finally, after this technology had been successfully running for a hundred years, most people in the world became data life forms, living in a world without resource wars and survival pressure, just like the Garden of Eden." She said as she looked at Bai Jinshu.

"This is different from what is recorded." Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.

"The records say that when the seven volunteers entered the data world, a huge sudden event of the K-system struck the Earth, causing a global sanitation check," the man in the middle continued with a sigh. "In fact, the disaster occurred a hundred years later. A hundred years later, the world had almost gotten rid of suffering and war, and everyone was living in a world without worries. Suddenly, darkness invaded the Earth."

At first no one realized that this was a C-type event.

Most people on the planet have uploaded their consciousness and transformed into a piece of data. They live in an eternal data world and have no idea what is happening in real life.

By the time people realized something was wrong, "darkness" had already invaded most of the planet. As the few witnesses gradually fell into madness, someone finally realized that this thing was actually a kind of C-type creature.

"There is no record of this kind of creature in any of the records of the University of Michigan. It seems to be a concept, a monster that is spreading across the earth," the purple-skinned girl whispered. "Under such circumstances, the University of Michigan sent out many investigation teams, but all of them returned empty-handed. A large number of investigators went crazy. There was no way to solve this thing."

At that time, the only people who cared about this matter were those who were still living in the world. Most of the humans who had entered the data world had no idea that such a thing was happening on Earth.

When asked this question, many people have no attachment to this planet that only exists in their memories, and instead express that the data world is their home.

Under such circumstances, darkness quickly invaded the world, and finally at a certain point, the University of Michigan was out of options, and the concept of this monster was announced to everyone.

According to their estimates, the Earth will be swallowed up in a few months, and all life on it will come to an end.

The digital people living in data finally panicked.

However, the drawbacks of people entering the data world in large numbers a hundred years ago finally emerged. That is, there are not enough people to investigate and deal with these problems. As time runs out, whether it is a miracle or God's mercy, the darkness that has been expanding wildly has slowed down at this time.

So before things became irreversible, the University of Michigan finally made a decision.

Summon Yug and ask for a way to save the world, and do whatever it takes to get the answer.

"Is this the summoning I saw?" Bai Jinshu looked up, "What did Yug say at the end?"

"Yes," the four of them nodded together in answer to the previous question, and then fell into a long silence.

"He only said one sentence," the girl in the middle finally said with difficulty.

The last words he heard flashed through Bai Jinshu's mind:

——"Despair..." Yug's voice sighed, "It's a good thing."

"The person who summoned him was transformed into a creature of the Cthulhu type, and only received this ambiguous message," the person next to him continued. "After summoning him, we thought about this sentence for a long time, and finally got a very scary answer."

An answer that no one can accept.

"Darkness" appears because there is too little despair on this planet.

It is because they have achieved data immortality, because they have eliminated all inequalities, and because all misunderstandings, all disputes, and all wars on this planet have been smoothed over.

"Can you imagine?" he asked, his tone full of disbelief, "In such a universe, too much beauty, kindness, and understanding are not allowed to exist."

"Darkness" is the background color of this universe, just like Azathoth who will destroy the world after waking up from his sleep. He is also a part of this planet and one of the Kel's creatures wandering in the universe.

Just as humans are naturally attracted to light, He also likes warm and beautiful emotions, and He feeds on these things.

Everything in the world has two sides, so most people on this planet become data life forms. After completely entering the Garden of Eden, the less despair there is and the more hope there is, the more attractive this place becomes to Him.

So, they were targeted, just like humans who pass by a pedestrian street and follow a pleasant smell to see exquisite little cakes in the window.

"You mean to say..." Bai Jinshu was silent for a moment, "Overly beautiful emotions actually bring about destruction?"

He found it hard to accept this.

"We know this is hard to believe," the man on the left laughed bitterly, "but even if it is true, it was beautiful emotions that attracted Him here. If the world remained as oppressive, full of suffering, war, and conflict as before, nothing would happen."

Bai Jinshu opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know what to say.

【ah……? 】

[So this world does not allow beauty to exist? ]

[No, it should be that this world does not allow despair to exist. ]

[Although everyone often says that despair is the underlying color of the world of Ksitigarbha, but you guys...]

Gu Qiang scratched his head and took over the conversation: "At that time, we actually had two options."

The first is to completely abandon the earth. All human beings transform into data life and escape from the planet in a spacecraft. The servers carrying the data are not very heavy. With enough fuel, they can even float in the universe to the end of the world.

but……

"But in this way, won't humans become livestock raised by darkness? They will eventually perish." Bai Jinshu frowned.

“Yes,” the man in the middle sighed, “Everyone lives in the Garden of Eden without knowing it, leading an imaginary life in this imaginary world, producing beautiful emotions, waiting for the “darkness” to devour the last planet at the end of the universe, and then turn around to enjoy this delicious snack.

"So you chose option two," he whispered, "and you began to try to spread despair all over this land again."

Everything suddenly had an explanation.

These people who live in District 9, struggling painfully without any bright future, those students who died on the road to their ideals without knowing that they were being used, and many more people who are living this kind of precarious life.

What kind of desperate situation would make people make such a choice?

How can we create enough despair to drive away the darkness?

Wars, disputes, disagreements.

Losing a loved one, being separated from wife and children, and having a broken family.

Faith collapses, the road is winding down, and people are killing each other.

People living in the data world have their memories erased and are thrown back into heavy bodies, reliving the pain and despair they had long since left behind, just like Adam and Eve who were thrown out of the Garden of Eden and left the Land of Eternal Joy.

It’s just that no one ate the forbidden fruit, and no one was wrong, it’s just that this universe can’t accommodate more beauty.

No one was wrong, but the rolling fate swept them all away, and then they moved forward towards their end.

It's too heavy.

No matter which option is chosen, it is too heavy.

Even investors were silent.

【ah……】

[I suddenly don’t know what to say…]

【……】

【how so. 】

"Senior, you don't even know," Gu Qiang spoke up to break the silence, trying to liven up the atmosphere, "When you suddenly arrived at zone 01, no one knew what you were going to do. As a result, when you started the countdown, everyone was scared to death!"

No one expected that She Mochu would suddenly explode himself to threaten the "Heavenly Man" to tell him the truth. Everyone present was stunned. Ten seconds was not enough for them to find the consciousness belonging to this body. Before everyone was ready, he chose to explode himself.

It was at the moment when the countdown ended that they took great pains to use an immature technology to bring his consciousness back to life, which led to this conversation.

Gu Qiang's words failed to liven up the atmosphere.

"I thought you... were heretics who believed in Yug." Bai Jinshu was silent for a long time.

He chose to summon the gods because he thought these cultists had a way to stop this process. He never thought that the "mastermind" might not have the ability to stop him.

In those last ten seconds, the entire space station was in chaos.

"It's okay, we understand. After all, this is too much like being a villain. You did nothing wrong. No one will think of the truth. Everything related to the truth has been destroyed by us." Someone continued.

If he hadn't threatened to self-destruct, he would never have found out any truth underground.

Because all clues have been destroyed long ago.

This is an unsolvable deadlock. Anyone who discovers any clues will not be able to find any answers on the ground. Only She Mochu's determination and desperate gamble has torn open a corner of this grand plan.

If it weren't for this "self-destruction", the world might have become an abandoned project that was permanently sealed, and the truth would have been buried forever.

"Besides, creating pain, secretly manipulating the government, deliberately killing people... It really makes me look like a villain or a cultist..." Someone complained about his own behavior in a low voice, "After so many years, I feel like I'm going to become a pervert."

"...No," Bai Jinshu was silent for a longer time, "It's great."

He looked around, and suddenly a deep sense of relief overwhelmed him.

He suddenly began to be grateful that every moment of despair and pain was leading to hope.

"In fact, it was only after we started trying to create despair and launched a space station to observe the planet's conditions that we discovered that there are many such creatures in the universe."

One of the students from the University of Michigan whispered, "We discovered that the universe is actually very noisy, filled with various intelligent races."

The ultimate goal of every race's development is to make their lives better and better, and then "darkness" will find them.

"But now we are the only ones left." Gu Qiang said silently.

Following the direction they were looking, Bai Jinshu also looked towards the end of the corridor.

At the end of the corridor is a large floor-to-ceiling window.

"That's the porthole of the space station," Gu Qiang volunteered, "We used it to observe other races in the universe at first, but..."

The crowd moved toward the porthole.

Bai Jinshu walked to the window alone. Outside the huge porthole, the universe was pitch black.

Perhaps it is not pitch black, but in this darkness, something is vaguely surging.

It's "darkness".

He surged through the universe, capturing every planet and absorbing all the beauty and vitality from them.

There are countless gray-white planets floating in the space; those are the planets that have been "killed" by Him.

"Those starlights are actually their space stations," someone pointed out from behind him, "Some races chose to escape from the beginning, leaving their own planets in spacecraft and trying to escape to the end of the universe."

"Some races want to fight the darkness by creating despair just like us," Gu Qiang pointed to a gray-white planet on the edge. "That was once Mars, and there lived some races like humans on it. They have long lives and their technology is much more advanced than ours. They had already discovered the existence of 'darkness' before we entered the space station. Later they collapsed. They didn't want to live in this kind of pain anymore. That day we watched them pack up and leave the planet."

Become one of the stars in the sky.

"It's been too long," someone whispered, "No one knows when the darkness will end."

No one knows when a creature that feeds on emotions will be full and leave.

This universe was once filled with sparkling civilizations and beautiful planets, but now, the planets are fading one by one, and now, only they are still holding on.

It's not because they are more resilient, but because they have developed the technology to upload consciousness. People reincarnate from generation to generation, leaving behind the pain and despair in the previous life, and then plunging into the suffering of the next life.

In this dark universe, only the earth still has a faint light, illuminating everything around it.

They shouldn't live in such a K-verse.

How could anyone have imagined that they lived in such a universe.

Here, the world is full of despair, and then the world will be full of hope.

If the future gets better day by day, the future will get worse day by day.

There are no cultists, no apostates, only a group of people at the end of their rope.

Bai Jinshu looked out the window.

He looked out the porthole at the universe. In the dim galaxy formed by the space stations, the Earth that had not yet been parasitized was like a morning star.

This is the last watcher.

And no one knows when the darkness will leave.

It may leave tomorrow, or hopefully never come.

The author has something to say:

The new cover is the final long-distance illustration. The original picture was inserted horizontally, but in order to fit the Jinjiang cover, it was changed to vertical and some of it was cropped. wb@月渡寒塘含糖 posted the original panoramic picture.

——"He looked out the porthole at the universe. In the dim galaxy formed by the space stations, the Earth, which had not yet been parasitized, was like a morning star.

This is the last watcher.

And no one knows when the darkness will leave.

It may leave tomorrow, or hopefully never come back.”