Chapter 106 Future Interstellar Dragon Aotian
Time stops at this moment.
Except for Mu Lingnan and Anderson, everything around them stopped. The wind died down, the swirling leaves were suspended in the wind, and the hands of the clock in the ancient church not far away no longer swung. All people and all things stopped at this moment.
But this strange scene in front of him was not as important as Anderson who suddenly appeared at this time.
Mu Lingnan finally cleared her confused mind. She stared at Anderson's all too familiar face and asked calmly, "Who are you?"
Anderson was very sad: "My little pudding, I am your dear father."
Mu Lingnan couldn't calm down. She was devastated. "It's already this late. Can you please stop playing tricks on me?"
I want the dad I had before, not this dramatic dad!
"Ah hey."
Mu Lingnan glared at Anderson. Anderson finally realized he had teased his daughter too much. He finally straightened his expression and produced the harp that Mu Lingnan was familiar with. He plucked it with his fingers. The sound was perfect. He said with satisfaction:
"Well, nice to meet you, my dear daughter. I am the Heavenly Dao of this world."
Mu Lingnan's brain crashed, ah
Tiantiandao was the first person to hear that Tiandao had self-awareness and could transform into a human. No, the most important thing wasn't this, it was...
"You are the way of heaven, so my mother is wrong. Do I have a mother? It can't be..." In an instant, the term "lone male reproduction" appeared in Mu Lingnan's mind, and her expression went blank in an instant.
Anderson seemed to see what Mu Lingnan was thinking. He paused plucking the harp. "Hmm... The direction of development in other worlds always surprises me. However, it may not be what you think. If the mother you are referring to is the one who gave birth to you, then I think you have already seen Him."
Mu Lingnan was puzzled. She thought hard but couldn't think of a suitable candidate.
"Berklein Hill, haven't you already seen Him?"
World Tree...
Mu Lingnan remembered that it was really her mother. She recalled the gentle aura of the World Tree. It turned out that it was not just her illusion.
"So...my memories, and Samuel and Cecil" she asked.
"Where should I even begin? This is a very long story. Perhaps you still have some recollection of it, but it doesn't matter. Once you return to the correct time, the corrections made by time and space to your memory will no longer affect you."
"Repair...correct" Mu Lingnan chewed over these two words, still confused.
"Time is supreme, space is king, destiny is undeniable, and cause and effect are king. Even the most powerful people in the world dare not say that they have fully comprehended these four great Dao fruits, let alone me who is just a rookie in the vast world." Anderson's eyes fell on Cecil and Xiao Mu Lingnan who were standing still not far away, with a faint emotion.
"Time can even erase my memories, so how can I prevent the fate of the end?"
"But I won't accept this. I've protected this world for more than an epoch, and I can't accept watching it undergo this ridiculous destruction, following the script written by fate."
"That bastard god created a huge mess, and in the end he was certain that I would clean it up."
Anderson forced a laugh. "I've strayed off topic. Actually, the laws of nature in most worlds are just like the ones you saw in your previous world: silent, ruthless, like a cold machine executing its program. But I seem to have mutated. For some unknown reason, this machine of mine has developed self-awareness."
"But this doesn't matter to the world. It's like Gaia, who already created herself, yet still hasn't done anything. To the world, it doesn't matter whether the administrator is a machine or a human, because the rules have been set from the beginning. The administrator only needs to maintain, supervise, and disinfect."
"Gaia!" Mu Lingnan's pupils trembled. That's right, she should have realized long ago that with Gaia's learning ability as a super artificial intelligence, the birth of self-awareness is only a matter of time.
"I'm surprised that Star Ocean, as the second world, isn't there a constant rumor about NPC reactions being too human? It's already too real to be a game, right? Perhaps Star Ocean will one day become the real world, and Gaia will transform into the Heavenly Dao of the new world."
"It sounds like you're very concerned about Gaia, father."
Anderson retracted his gaze, his silver-gray eyes fixed on Mu Lingnan: "Of course, I pay more attention to his growth than anyone else, because I see hope for the future in the computing power of super artificial intelligence."
"This world has been deformed from the beginning. It is destined not to go very far. A world that upholds light and tramples on darkness is doomed to be destroyed."
Mu Lingnan's lips trembled: "Trampling...Darkness"
The situation of half-bloods, the curse of corruption, the weakness of darkness... a series of experiences in this world flashed through her mind, and she suddenly realized something.
Yin cannot grow alone, Yang cannot be born alone; only when Yin and Yang are combined can it be the right way.
"You're right. The reason for all this is that the rules of this world are inherently incomplete. To have grown and sprouted in the soil of such twisted laws, and even to have persisted until now, this world and its inhabitants have worked incredibly hard."
"Remember the story I told you? At the end, the queen and her prince fell in love among the flowers. They later had a daughter, but the child died before she was ten years old."
"For the Celestials and Elves, who have long lifespans, to see her die at the age of ten, her parents were deeply grief-stricken. Even as overlords, they searched for treasures, but still could not save their daughter's life. However, the short lifespan of mixed-bloods is unavoidable in this world. In ancient times, very few mixed-bloods survived to adulthood."
"But at that time, the so-called fallen seed had not yet appeared."
"What do you mean?" Mu Lingnan licked her lips. "Isn't abortion a possibility from the beginning?"
Anderson laughed. "Of course not. In fact, the theory of longevity of hybrids and the erosion of fallen species are, in essence, two different things."
"Half-blood, come to think of it, I learned a lot from that little fellow who came with you."
Is the little guy referring to the system? Mu Lingnan didn't understand why he brought this up again. To be honest, she couldn't sense the system's signal at all before. The system... is it okay?
"The underlying logic of this world forbids the existence of hybrids. The emergence of hybrids will lead to the collapse of logic. Genes, that's the word, I think I remember correctly. The short lifespan of hybrids is a forbidden curse engraved in the genes of creatures in this world."
"Gene... lock?" Mu Lingnan was silent. This was really bad news. It showed that no matter how hard the mixed-bloods in this world tried, they could not break the shackles of lifespan.
"Gene lock, that's a good name. Indeed, it should be called gene lock." Anderson quite agreed with this new term. "As for the curse of corruption, let me explain it to you this way."
"In every world, there's a scale, with God on the left and Demon on the right. The power of light and darkness is always equal, allowing the world to thrive. But in our world, at the beginning of creation, the light and God side sank into the earth, while the darkness and Demon side floated lightly, as if nothing."
"This world worships the power of light. Yet, darkness is everywhere. People always complain, feel resentful, and resent. The power of the Seven Deadly Sins radiates throughout the heavens and the universe, for, like the Seven Virtues, they are the most powerful way—the way of the human world."
"The power of darkness continues to accumulate, and sooner or later it will transform into a giant wave that devours the heavens. As the embodiment of the world, the World Tree has long been plagued by darkness like a cancerous ulcer, crawling through its roots. The power that the World Tree cannot absorb and thus overflows becomes a curse, manifesting itself in the world."
But Mu Lingnan was still puzzled: "But what does this have to do with mixed blood?"
Hearing her question, Anderson's eyes dimmed for a moment before he slowly said, "Because mixed-bloods are the most vulnerable and most vulnerable part of this world."
"For this world, darkness, which should be seen as one, is being expelled like a virus. However, darkness has always been here, and in the end, the entire world will be destroyed by its increasingly frantic self-purgation."
Mu Lingnan understood. This is just like the human body's immune cells treating its own proteins as viruses and attacking them frantically, but they cannot eliminate them. If they cannot eliminate them, they must increase their combat power even more, thus triggering a cytokine storm. The virus will die, but the person will probably not survive.
Well, this analogy seems a bit wrong, because darkness seems to be doing the work of the virus.
Anderson didn't know what was going on in Mu Lingnan's mind at the moment. He continued, "So, I want to stop this."
"So, you want to create a god." Recalling the previous conversation, Mu Lingnan said affirmatively.
"That's right. The original God has passed away. I will create a new God and reshuffle the world. Only the new God can inherit the original authority and have the power to revise the laws of the world."
Mu Lingnan looked at him quietly: "Then you won't try it only once."
"As expected of my dear little pudding, you truly understand your father." Anderson said this frivolously, then his tone suddenly changed and he spoke bluntly, "Yes, I tried many times."
"Even as the Heavenly Dao, I have no way to interfere in the affairs of the world. There is very little I can do. The queen of the Celestial Tribe was one of the people I hoped to marry, but unfortunately, she failed."
"I later tried to invest in many people, but without exception, they all failed. In the interstellar era when elemental power gradually faded, even the demigod level was rarely reached."
"Later I discovered that the reason for the failure might be that they were all insiders, or in the words of other worlds, natives. And it is difficult for natives to break through the limitations of their native world on their own." It was at this time that Anderson discovered that what he needed was a genius who transcended the world.
"And after the death of the gods, only one thing outside the realm remained in this world."
Berkeley Hill, also known as the World Tree. Mu Lingnan took a deep breath.
"But the fruit of the World Tree is so precious. I only have one chance, and the World Tree will not allow me to overstep my bounds a second time."
"But the hundreds of failures I've experienced before have made me hesitate. I don't dare to try it lightly."
"Just then, the first generation Gaia appeared. Its appearance gave me renewed confidence, and I saw the future of computing. Capable of running 'Star Ocean,' after acquiring all the data in the present world, it was capable of simulating every possible outcome, allowing me to make countless fine-tuning adjustments, adjusting every variable, and finding the perfect solution."
"But to my disappointment, in these billions of simulated worlds, every time, it failed."
【Author’s words】
Ying.
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