Chapter 261: Where the Gods Fell (Part 7)
Chu Xiuyan followed? [Dadi] walked for a long, long time.
The system initially asked every two or three days, but as the host showed no signs of returning, it urged more frequently, even asking three times a day, which was really annoying.
However, the system also told Chu Xiuyan that if he continued to stay in this world, it could sense some kind of impending danger.
But Chu Xiuyan still stubbornly wanted to see what the end of this world would be. He also wanted to know what the truth was from the mouth of the Earth.
In the end, it was a very ordinary day.
The weather was about the same as usual, a cloudy day, with almost no clouds in the dark red sky.
When [Da Di] walked towards Chu Xiuyan, he was still eating barbecue in his hand.
"What's wrong?"
[Da Di]: "It's okay, wait until you finish eating."
"oh."
Chu Xiuyan ate the barbecue slowly and drank the soup. By the time he finished lunch, almost half an hour had passed. During this process, [Da Di] stood by and watched silently.
"alright?"
Chu Xiuyan nodded, and then saw [Da Di] bend down, clasp his arms with both hands, and lift him up while he was still sitting on the pile of rocks.
Chu Xiuyan lifted his feet off the ground, swung his toes, and slowly typed a question mark.
"What are you doing??"
The question had just come out when a loud bang sounded from below.
Chu Xiuyan lowered his head suddenly and saw that the ground below was deeply sunken. With them as the center, the deep pit began to expand in all directions like a living thing.
"The ground collapsed."
Chu Xiuyan murmured.
[Da Di] nodded, his tone was still the same as usual, very calm, as if he was not about to lose control, "The time is almost up, the truth you want is right in front of you."
After saying that, the deep pit below became deeper and deeper, and faintly, a hint of scarlet appeared.
Deep underground, beating? A huge scarlet heart, like a blood-red crystal, with something like branches wrapped around its irregular surface, beating up and down like a living thing.
And? Then, a blood-colored sapling emerged from the heart and grew at a terrifying speed, getting taller and taller, and bigger and bigger, straight into the sky.
For some reason, Chu Xiuyan suddenly remembered the "sun" of the previous palace owner that exploded in the sky.
He? calmed down, silently looking at the [land] in front of him.
Faintly, he seemed to see the collapsed forest, with countless animals wailing and running around, and the erupting volcano, which dyed the sky dark red, and the snow-capped mountains in the distance, avalanches, and landslides. Countless tragic scenes seemed to appear directly in his mind, and he couldn't tell whether they were his hallucinations or real things.
"The origin of the gods is like a tree, and the tree is rooted in the soil, and its branches rise to the sky. As for me, because I am the earth, and the earth is closely connected to this world, I am the [soil] in it."
"The moment I became a god, I discovered the truth of this world."
[Earth] slowly raised his head and looked towards the sky. The hollow sphere floating around him was spinning wildly and making a humming sound.
Chu Xiuyan also raised his head and looked at the dark red sky, which looked no different from before.
Until the voice of the Earth sounded in my ears.
"The world is trapped in a tree."
"And? That tree is called——【Origin】."
"Now, I'm going to try to force Him out."
As soon as the words fell, Chu Xiuyan's pupils suddenly shrank, reflecting the blood-red sky.
The originally dark sky broke apart, and scarlet branches slowly moved higher in the clouds like living things, covering the entire sky at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then began to move between the sky and the ground. The scarlet branches hanging in the air swayed gently, as if whispering silently. The entire sky was shrouded in this strange scene, like a nightmare that would never end.
"Okay, bow your head."
The voice of [Earth] was still calm, calling back Chu Xiuyan's attention.
But when he lowered his head, he found that the hollow spheres that were originally suspended around the [Earth] had fallen one by one into the deep pit underground... The pit was already very deep, so deep that it could be called an abyss.
[Earth] only had half of its body left, and the lower half had completely turned into flowing mud and sand.
But He is still explaining, why? Didn’t He have this patience during the first two encounters?!
"You can imagine a plant that grows in the ground and has fruits and tubers on its rhizomes. When there is plenty of nutrition, the tubers will sprout and grow new plants. But if there is not enough nutrition, or the original plant is unwilling to provide it with extra nutrients, it will actively absorb the nutrients in the tubers."
Earth's body was gradually blown away by the wind like dust, but His hands were still strong and steady.
Chu Xiuyan struggled to break free from the other person's tightly held hands, but failed completely.
His voice was muffled, "Are you trying to say that you are a potato?"
[Earth] was silent for a moment, skipped the topic, and said, "Well, it's getting late, you should go back."
He knew that Chu Xiuyan could return to the original timeline at any time.
Chu Xiuyan grabbed the Earth's arm and said word by word: "The world we live in will definitely move towards the best future!"
"Well, let's go."
[Da Di] gently let go of his hand, and the boy in front of him fell backwards.
The system is ready to return——
There's something wrong with the space here. It doesn't seem like a simple memory projection!
But at that moment, dense scarlet vines suddenly emerged from the abyss underground, one part of which wrapped up Chu Xiuyan and flew high into the sky, while the other part wrapped up the Earth and dragged it underground.
[The Earth] did not struggle. There were no hollow balls suspended around it. In the pitch-black perception, a clear voice suddenly sounded.
"I have one last question! After potatoes sprout, are they poisonous?!"
[Earth] did not respond.
But before he completely disappeared, he slightly raised the corners of his lips.
So smart.
…
"Okay, now it's my turn."
High in the sky, standing on the clouds, [Origin] looked at Chu Xiuyan who was being rolled up by the scarlet vines, ignoring his anger, and asked curiously: "How did you manage to get along well with [Earth]? Every time I get close to him, he almost wants to kill me."
Chu Xiuyan snorted coldly and turned his head away, not looking at Him.
"Okay, you're angry."
"But this is the closest you'll ever get to the truth. Look down there, those are all me."
[Origin] Entering His link, he pointed his finger downwards, pointing at the blood-red tree canopy that covered the sky, and the giant tree roots that were wreaking havoc on the ground. Now there was no other sight on the ground, only a large area of wriggling blood, and the remains of buildings rising and falling between the tree roots.
[Origin] He lowered his eyes, and those crystal clear eyes seemed filled with a kind of divine indifference at this moment, and his tone contained a strange feeling that made people shiver all over.
"I am like a cage, trapping the world and everyone else."
Chu Xiuyan finally couldn't help but lower his head. When he saw the bloody tree roots wriggling and undulating below, his face instantly turned ugly.
Weird, scary, and makes people physically uncomfortable.
"Don't you think it's ugly?" Chu Xiuyan couldn't believe that his classmate would become this weird. "This appearance——"
"It's ugly. It's so ugly. Every time I see these branches, I want to vomit. But what can I do? What can I do?"
[Origin] The voice was slightly cold, "That deformed world created a deformed me, and? Conversely, this ugly me also made this world become horrible and weird."
Chu Xiuyan's breath was choked, and suddenly he saw a figure standing on a building block among the blood-red vines. The figure had gray hair and opened his eyes, staring at this doomsday scene.
"He is the observer. Before the world is destroyed, he will return to the depths of the base with everything he has experienced and witnessed, and stay in that divine domain. The Icefield will use low temperatures to preserve his vitality. You have been to the wooden house, right? Are there many pillars and metal balls arranged in the base below? Those are all with the help of the observer's ability, so that the memories of these dozens of reincarnations can be continuously preserved and passed on to future generations."
"Only gods can hold the memory of countless reincarnations, but ordinary people cannot, so they need to adopt this technological method. By the way, don't worry that the residents of the Northwest Base will feel pain due to the arrival of Doomsday. My uncle and his team will use some methods to make everyone die painlessly, including themselves."
Chu Xiuyan fell silent, and then said: "I will stop you."
[Origin]: "Yeah, okay."
He thought of something else and said, "I have now figured out what [Blood Mist] is. If the gods of this world were killed by [Earth] and there were almost no gods left, then I would probably choose to release blood mist to increase the concentration of blood crystals in the air. And [Blood Mist] should be the humanity that I have worked hard to separate. After all, you see..."
Facing Chu Xiuyan's [Origin], he suddenly showed a perfect smile, but it was cold, fake, and emotionless, like a monster in a human shell, terrifying.
"No matter how I disguise myself, I can't smile naturally like a human. So if Blood Mist was split from me, I hope He can have human emotions... But you don't seem to get along well with Him."
Chu Xiuyan stared at the [Origin] in front of him quietly, "Is your session over? I can't wait to meet you in person."
[Origin] He raised his eyebrows?, still with that perfect but fake smile, but Chu Xiuyan's face was reflected in his light-colored pupils, and he looked particularly focused.
"Well, go ahead."
"I will be waiting for you in heaven."
"I am the origin."
“The origin of everything.”
"I will kill you and reshape you into blood mist. We will reach a new future together."
"Let's go."
[Origin] gave Chu Xiuyan a push.
At the moment of falling, the space began to fluctuate, and time and space began to distort.
The last scene that came into view was the dark red-haired boy hanging high in the sky, with his crystal clear eyes looking towards the sky entangled by countless scarlet branches.
…
The next second, all the surroundings disappeared, and various colors mixed together like an overturned paint palette, making people dizzy.
When he regains consciousness, the system's voice screams in his mind.
[Host! Oh no, we were forcibly dragged out——]
"I heard you can't wait, so you're calling me?"
A voice that was listening a few seconds ago? sounded gently from the back, interrupting the system's voice.
Then, a pair of hands embraced his shoulders.
"Okay, I heard you."
"I am here."
God whispers.
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