Chapter 445 Scarlet Life - The Mystery of the Trend (6200 words)

Feng Qi had learned about the Scarlet Rune Crystal in detail from Wei Wei.

He had also seen related scenes in Mu Qing's memory fragments.

The origin of the Scarlet Rune Crystal can be traced back to the beginning of the establishment of the Scarlet Research Institute, that is, the first dean of the Scarlet Research Institute.

He established the Scarlet Research Institute with the help of Mu Qing.

And the task that Mu Qing gave to the first dean was to try to analyze and utilize the power of the Scarlet Rune Crystal.

Hundreds of years have passed, and the rune transformation technology has been continuously improved during this period, but the transformation plan of inlaying the Scarlet Rune Crystal has always been difficult to achieve.

This rune crystal is very special, and its uncontrollability far exceeds that of rune crystals of creatures in other fields.

For hundreds of years, countless transformers have tried to control the scarlet power, including some of the top warriors of mankind, but without exception, the transformation failed, and the endings of the transformed were all very miserable.

Until Mu Qing's parents appeared.

After entering Star City, the couple, who were already dying, voluntarily participated in the secret experiment released by the Scarlet Research Institute.

As a result, Wei Wei found that the scarlet rune crystal on Mu Qing's father actually had a hint of controllability.

This discovery was undoubtedly exciting.

Feng Qi now thought that Mu Qing's father might have activated some of the mysterious power, which was the miracle warrior that Mu Qing was looking for.

But unfortunately, Mu Qing's father was attacked by domain creatures during the migration and was dying. The experiment could not be sustained at the beginning.

Finally, Wei Wei found Mu Qing, who was already an orphan at the time.

Facing Wei Wei's inquiry, Mu Qing chose to continue the experiment without hesitation and expressed her willingness to give up her life in order to gain the power of revenge.

Although Mu Qing was young at that time, as a scavenger, she had been taught by her relatives to hate domain creatures since she was a child. In addition, her parents were severely poisoned by the attack of domain transcendent creatures, and her heart was filled with hatred.

So Wei Wei took Mu Qing back to the Scarlet Research Institute to continue the unfinished Scarlet Rune Project.

According to Wei Wei's description, Mu Qing's physique is very special. Whenever her consciousness is about to be devoured by the scarlet power, she can always suppress the violent scarlet power at a critical moment and recover herself.

In addition, Mu Qing's body has a far superior recovery ability than ordinary people.

It only takes Mu Qing a few days to recover from injuries that ordinary people need months or even years to recover from after surgery.

What surprised Wei Wei at the time was Mu Qing's willpower.

Facing physical torture, Mu Qing never showed pain in front of her, but always shed tears silently in places where she couldn't see, licking the wounds in her heart.

The special physique that is different from ordinary people, coupled with Mu Qing's willpower, made the experiment go very smoothly.

From the initial state of only being able to last for one minute after the scarlet rune crystal was inlaid, she began to gradually adapt to the power of the scarlet rune crystal.

Ten minutes, half an hour, one hour, twenty-four hours... Mu Qing's fit with the scarlet rune crystal became higher and higher, and the core of the scarlet rune crystal also grew in her body.

Finally, when Mu Qing was 9 years old, she completed the final rune transformation, completely merged with the scarlet rune crystal, and became the owner of this rune crystal.

It can also be said that the scarlet rune crystal has become a part of Mu Qing's body.

In Wei Wei's words, Mu Qing's ability to fuse the scarlet rune crystal was not luck, but her hard work, willpower, and special physique, all of which were indispensable.

As for the detailed origin of the scarlet rune crystal, Wei Wei was not clear.

She just speculated through Mu Qing's growth rate that this rune crystal might come from some kind of extremely powerful super-domain creature.

Only Mu Qi knew the truth of all this.

Looking at the messy dining table, Feng Qi asked about the scarlet rune crystal at this time.

Mu Qi heard this, lowered his head and spit out the remaining bones on the table with a "puff", then raised his head and pointed his index finger at his forehead.

Suddenly, ripples appeared in Feng Qi's eyes, and his vision was distorted. Then

the world in front of him gradually collapsed, and he found himself surrounded by darkness, unable to see the surrounding environment clearly, and even unable to see himself.

At this time, Mu Qi's voice sounded in his mind:

"Don't worry, this is a mental illusion. What you are seeing now is a replica of the scene I have experienced before."

"What scene is this replica of?" He immediately asked curiously.

"In the void world, there is no light, no spiritual particles. Except for a few void creatures, no life dares to be directly exposed in the void, otherwise they will be corroded by the void and turned into nothingness."

As Mu Xi's voice fell, a small golden sun appeared beside him.

The light instantly illuminated a nearby area, and Feng Qi could see himself immediately.

In the illusion, he still looked old in the outside world, suspended in the void.

Looking into the distance, the void world was still dark, and the sticky black seemed to be able to swallow the light, so that the light released by Mu Xi's little sun could not be extended.

At this time, the scene changed.

As the black in front of him surged, his sight quickly moved forward, and the vague dim light spots in the distance quickly enlarged in his eyes.

Soon, a huge island suddenly appeared in front of him.

This island was suspended in the void, extremely dilapidated, surrounded by rubble, and many buildings on it had been corroded by the void and time, and seemed to be broken at any time.

The vicissitudes of history belonging to the old era came to his face.

Just by looking at each other, countless information flashed through his mind.

These information were all complex symbols that he could not understand. They were forced into his mind, causing him to have a headache. His vision trembled and his mental illusion was on the verge of collapse.

As if realizing that Feng Qi could not withstand the residual power of the ruins island, the little sun incarnated by Mu Xi shone with dazzling light.

Suddenly, the scene in front of Feng Qi became blurred. When it became clear again, he found himself in a dark hall.

The palace was very dilapidated, and the top had collapsed. Through the broken gap, one could see the endless blackness surging outside. Looking elsewhere, he saw that the statues placed on the left and right sides of the hall had collapsed, and the faces of the statues had been corroded by time, and their appearances could not be seen clearly.

Under his feet was a mysterious formation that had already dimmed.

This formation looked very ordinary, and was not even as complicated as the formations that humans had explored in modern cultivation.

But Feng Qi quickly overturned his own ideas.

During a careful examination, the dim formation nodes under his feet seemed to have some kind of magic, attracting his sight, and then his sight suddenly zoomed in.

What appeared in front of him were countless dim light spots as vast as the starry sky.

Only then did he realize that each node on this formation was composed of countless micro-formations, which were stacked layer by layer, and finally formed this seemingly inconspicuous formation.

The complexity of this formation is simply beyond the measurement of humans' existing knowledge of formations.

Looking at the formation, he felt a strong discomfort again, and the unreadable knowledge symbols appeared in his mind again.

This was not the first time he had encountered such a situation.

In the previous timeline, he had a brief eye contact with the mysterious scarlet shadow that appeared above Mu Qing's head.

At that time, he felt as if a large amount of incomprehensible information was stuffed into his mind.

The narrator explained this situation as follows: this process of being forced to stuff knowledge is like the process of diluting from high concentration to low concentration. The mysterious shadow's eyes contain too much information and knowledge, and he is the one being diluted, so a large amount of incomprehensible mysterious information will appear in his mind.

If the stare continues, his spiritual sea of ​​consciousness will even burst and he will become a vegetable.

Feng Qi decisively shifted his gaze at this time and looked forward.

In front of the hall is a broken throne.

The throne is three meters high and is inlaid with countless formation nodes composed of micro-arrays. The hollow area on the throne cannot be seen through, and only a dim scarlet glow can be seen.

There are two holes in the center of the throne.

One of the holes is inlaid with a crystal blue gem.

The other hole is empty.

The shape of the gap reminded Feng Qi of the scarlet rune crystal on Mu Qing's arm.

Even after so many years, he could still clearly feel the domineering aura coming from the throne.

If he guessed correctly, the owner of this throne was the owner of the scarlet gem on Mu Qing's body.

One could imagine the supreme power that the owner of the throne possessed when he was still alive.

At this time, Mu Qing's voice sounded in his mind:

"The layout of this relic island is very complicated. Now I have only explored less than one-tenth of the area. I came to this temple by chance during the exploration and found the scarlet throne and the scarlet crystal inlaid in the center of the scarlet throne."

After listening to Mu Qing's explanation, Feng Qi immediately asked:

"So the scarlet gem on Mu Qing's body is not from the life of the domain world, but the inheritance of the pillar god, right?"

"Not sure, I explored this temple carefully and found several interesting things."

"After entering this temple, I first checked the formation under my feet and found that the complexity of this formation exceeded my cognition. After trying to activate several of the nodes that had not been completely damaged, I found that the function of this formation seemed to be to transmit information, but because the formation was already damaged by more than half, I didn't know where the signal was sent, and I didn't even understand how far the distance was that this kind of signal transmission formation that transcended common sense was needed to establish a connection... At that time, I even suspected that the information transmitted by this formation could transcend time."

"In addition to this mysterious communication formation, I also checked the collapsed statues in the temple. I found that after piecing together these statues that were already mostly broken, they showed a posture of kneeling and worshipping the Scarlet Throne from afar... I thought at the time that these statues were worshipping the owner of the Scarlet Throne, but subsequent discoveries made me deny my guess." "

The last thing I checked was the Scarlet Throne. On this throne, I found a scarlet gem containing mysterious power, and the blue gem you see now. The scarlet gem was not completely damaged by corrosion over time, but the other gem was seriously damaged."

"I checked the two gems separately and found that the structure of the scarlet gem was like a storage device, which contained unimaginable terrible energy, and this power was not under control. My spiritual consciousness extended into the scarlet gem, and it would be eaten up by the scarlet power inside in a short time."

"After checking the other severely damaged blue gem, I found that it was actually a communication gem, which was engraved with a communication formation similar to the one on the ground of the temple."

"Putting these clues together, I came up with a guess. The mysterious life worshipped by the pillar gods in the temple may not exist on this island at all, or even in the space we are in. The pillar gods have made a weak connection with each other through this mysterious formation and gems, across the barriers of space and time, and have gathered the power projection transmitted by the scarlet life, and finally condensed the scarlet rune crystal."

After listening to Mu Yu's explanation, Feng Qi's heart was in turmoil.

"You mean the scarlet rune crystal is just a crystal made by the projection of the power of the scarlet life?"

"This is just my guess. I don't know the specific truth. There are many other seemingly reasonable guesses. For example, the owner of the scarlet rune crystal may be one of the pillar gods. For some reason, he traveled far away, and then his people made a weak connection with the distant scarlet life through this mysterious formation. As for the scarlet rune crystal, it is a crystal made by them with the remaining power of the scarlet life. It is inlaid on the throne just for commemoration and worship."

Hearing this, Feng Qi suddenly thought of the most core project of the Scarlet Research Institute.

Anti-infiltration plan!

The core of this plan is to send humans transformed into domain life forms to the domain world, hoping that the warriors sent there can cut off the space node between the domain world and the human world, so that the endless domain invasion can end.

After listening to Mu Yu's story, he suddenly thought of whether there is such a possibility.

The scarlet life is the strong man selected by the pillar gods to intercept the coming of the great trend at the source.

Looking up at the dim scarlet throne, Feng Qi's eyes flickered.

The information about the ruins island has exceeded the scope of clues that can be pieced together by the existing intelligence, and completely touched his intelligence blind spot.

It is certain that the pillar gods before the birth of the human era must have encountered some kind of unstoppable trouble, and eventually fell one after another, and no one supported the birth of the new era.

Thinking of this, he asked:

"Mu Xing, what exactly is the advent of the great trend?"

In response to his question, Mu Xing's voice sounded again:

"Mo and I have analyzed the advent of the great trend and figured out many speculations. Here we will focus on two of them."

"The first speculation, assuming that the world we live in is really a very real simulation game world, then the advent of the great trend is very likely to be an update and iteration of the game version. If you have played the game, you will definitely know that the player's strength will continue to increase, and the existing dungeons and monster values ​​can no longer meet the player's growth. At this time, the game will be updated and new content will be launched for players to continue exploring... Based on the speculation that the world is a game, the advent of the great trend is very likely that our version will be destroyed and a new version will be born."

"And the pillar gods we have never seen are the lives of the previous version. Their traces of existence have been completely wiped out in the version update... Perhaps there are more versions before the pillar gods, and the lives of each version are wiped out without exception in the face of the update (the advent of the great trend)."

At this point, Mu Xing's voice changed:

"But this assumption has many unreasonable factors. If I were a game manufacturer, I should be able to completely determine the operation of the game. I would not let the Pillar God and other game lives transcend my control, let alone let them use bugs to leave information for the new life born in the next version."

"Of course, it is also possible that the game controller hiding behind the scenes knows all this, but does nothing, because he doesn't care about the bugs at all. Instead, he watches the accidents with interest and feels that everything is still under control."

"In short, the possibility of this speculation is not high. Mo has made a lot of efforts to confirm this speculation. In the end, the answer he got was that this world is very real. Although I really want to beat him, his research results have always been very convincing."

After listening to Mu Yu's conspiracy theory, Feng Qi was ashamed.

If this is the truth, then the future is too hopeless.

Everything is developing under the observation of the mysterious life behind the scenes. Even if unexpected situations occur in the middle, all life is destined to escape the ending arranged by fate.

He didn't think too much about this issue.

He also discussed with the narrator whether the world is real.

The narrator was dismissive of this, saying that there were not so many conspiracy theories. If this was the truth, then use your muscles and fists to fight your way out.

Thinking of this, he continued to ask:

"What is another speculation about the arrival of the great trend?"

"The arrival of the great trend may be the harvest of the super-dimensional life on the breeding farm."

"Farm?"

"Yes, assuming that our world is a breeding farm of super-dimensional life, this can explain why the final outcome of each era is destruction, just like the spring plowing and autumn harvest of humans in the farming period. The seeds sown in spring must be harvested when they mature. The life at the beginning of the new era is equivalent to the newly sown seeds, and the life at the end of the era is the mature stage. The arrival of the great trend is a ruthless sickle that harvests all the mature life."

"Is it so mysterious?" Feng Qi was stunned.

"It is so mysterious. Perhaps the pillar god of the last era was unwilling to succumb to the established fate and chose to challenge the super-dimensional life, but failed in the end."

"Is there any basis for this speculation?" Feng Qi couldn't help frowning.

"It's all speculation, of course there is no substantial basis, we can only find some clues from the changing trends of the world."

"For example, if I am a super-dimensional harvester and find that the leeks of the new era mature slowly, then I launch a slow invasion of the great trend. We can understand this process as spreading a catalyst to speed up the growth of leeks, which directly leads to crazy killing and competition among different races in order to cope with the great trend that may come in the future. The human world is the main battlefield for the fighting among various races. You can also understand it as a Gu breeding ground, during which various races grow rapidly through competition and plunder. This is exactly what I, as a super-dimensional harvester, am happy to see, and I look forward to the birth of the Gu King."

Having said this, Mu Yu paused for a while and then continued:

"It is undeniable that powerful races develop rapidly under this competitive environment. It is conceivable that one day in the future, when there are only a few peak races left in the world, perhaps they will be able to produce power that can rival the Pillar God of the last era, but this will also indicate that the final harvest is about to appear."

The second guess from Mu Qi's mouth gave Feng Qi a much stronger shock than the first guess.

It was like a frog in a well suddenly jumped out of the well, and then found that the world was vast, far from being comparable to the small fights at the bottom of the well.

Now that he thought about it, he still had a long way to go.

As for Mu Qi's saying that in the cruel fighting and plundering, strong people comparable to the Pillar God might be born among the peak races, he did not doubt it.

The 1,500 years he went to was only the time when human civilization would perish, not the time when the great trend would come.

The peak competition between the races has just started, and it is far from over.

In the words of the Lord of the Mist, even if the eight royal families are only the strongest forces temporarily, it does not mean that these eight races will inevitably be able to transcend all races and become one of the final winners.

Not to mention that there are potential powerful forces like the Blue Skin Clan in secret.

There must be many potential powerful clans who have the same idea as the Lord of Mist 1,500 years later and want to challenge the eight royal families.

Under the rapid development brought about by cruel competition, perhaps there will be a race that completes the transcendence of life form and becomes a new life form comparable to the Pillar God.

But these are too far away, and he is far from reaching the height of these issues.

Just as Feng Qi was thinking, he suddenly felt dizzy, and then the world in front of him cracked like broken glass, and spread at a very fast speed, and finally broke into pieces. After

a short trance, Feng Qi came back to his senses and found that he had left the mental illusion created by Mu Qi.

The heat from the stove beside him and the cold from the other side made him realize that he had returned to reality.

He subconsciously rubbed his sore temples.

The large amount of messy information received in the mental illusion made his mental sea of ​​consciousness a little unbearable. He couldn't imagine if he would be directly blown up by the mysterious knowledge that kept pouring into his mind if he went to the ruins island to explore in person.

Cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

He took a long time to relax, and the stinging feeling on the mental level finally subsided.

He looked up at Mu Xi.

At this time, Mu Xi had eaten most of the food on the table, but he was still eating with reluctance.

Mu Qi also looked up at him at this time, chewing food in his mouth, and said vaguely:

"It can be seen that your spiritual sea of ​​consciousness can no longer bear to continue to receive information. I can only remove the illusion scene. I originally wanted to take you to visit a few more ruins scenes, but it's a pity... If you have anything else to ask now, continue to ask, I will tell you everything I know."

Feng Qi nodded immediately.

He has not yet completely digested the information that Mu Qi just said.

The inheritance of life carriers, the era of the pillar gods, the game version update, the breeding farm of super-dimensional life... Each speculation contains a huge amount of information.

It is too early to think about these profound and complex issues now.

After all, the road must be taken step by step. There is no benefit in taking too big a step, and the existing intelligence cannot provide strong analytical support.

At the same time, there are still many questions in his heart that have not been answered.

Compared with those profound questions, these questions are the difficult problems facing him.

After pondering for a while, he looked at Mu Xi and continued to ask:

"Mu Xi, do you know the origin of Xiao Hei?"

"Are you talking about the mysterious thing created by Mo and that is hunting you down 1,500 years later?"

The update is a little late, and I'm not a full-time writer. I hope everyone understands. Here are today's 6,200 words.