Chapter 81 Utopia
There are still mountains outside, repeating mountains, layer upon layer, like ripples produced after space is wrinkled on a small scale.
After Yu Sheng recovered from the thrilling acceleration, deceleration and dizziness along the way, he saw the "repeating mountains" described by Hu Li.
The continuous mountains were like spreading ripples, extending infinitely in his field of vision. There was a hazy mist covering the mountains, and in the mist, no outline other than the "mountains" could be seen.
Yu Sheng frowned and stared at the mountains in the distance that seemed to be copied and repeated infinitely for a long time. Then he suddenly remembered the cafe where he and Baili Qing met - at that time, the cafe was also repeated and extended infinitely like this, until the end of the sight.
But the situation is different in another way: the cafe just repeats itself infinitely in the front and back directions. Apart from that, at least its street-facing windows are still a clear "boundary". However, the surrounding mountains in front of us... no matter from which direction we look, we can't see any obvious "end".
"This... we can't go any further, right?" Irene grabbed Yu Sheng's head and looked nervously across the ridge. "Should we keep going forward?"
Yu Sheng fell silent, yet silently concentrated his mind, recalling the perspectives he "saw" when he first established a connection with the valley, while sensing the surrounding environment.
After a while, he suddenly bent down, picked up a small stone from the ground, and threw it far away.
The stone flew into the air, but disappeared from everyone's sight before it landed.
"Huh?" Irene made a surprised sound when she saw this scene.
Yu Sheng walked forward slowly and cautiously came to the place where the stone disappeared.
There seemed to be nothing in front of him, but there seemed to be an invisible "border". He bent down again, picked up a small stone from the ground, and gently threw it forward.
This time, he saw more clearly the process of the pebble's disappearance - it instantly passed through a "boundary", and at the moment of its disappearance, brief and faint ripples appeared in the air, just like the surface of water.
Yu Sheng raised his head and looked to the left and right along the ridge line.
He felt it.
The mountains rise and fall, and then come together at the distant end, and the invisible boundary covers the entire valley, from the sky to the ground.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Yu Sheng finally took a deep breath and continued walking forward.
"Hey, hey, hey! Really move forward!" The little puppet suddenly shouted on his shoulder, "I feel like this is a bit weird! Will I be able to..."
Before she finished her words, Yu Sheng had already crossed the invisible boundary. As the slightly shaking ripples in the air spread, a brief feeling of weightlessness appeared and disappeared. The two of them saw a blur and found themselves standing somewhere in the center of the valley again.
"...I can't come back..." Irene was still yelling out of habit. She was stunned after saying the last two words and looked around in disbelief. "Ah, you're back?"
Then, she saw a larger ripple appearing beside her, and a huge silver-white fox flew through the air and appeared beside her and Yu Sheng.
"My benefactor!" Hu Li looked around nervously when he came over. He was relieved when he saw Yu Sheng and Irene standing next to him. He carefully rubbed Yu Sheng's body with the tip of his tail, "You suddenly disappeared and scared me!"
"The space is closed at the border and points one way to the center of the area," Yu Sheng thought for a long time and finally broke the silence, "I just don't know if other foreign regions have the same structure."
Irene listened in a daze, and after a while she realized, "So, you can't get out no matter what?"
"There is no 'outside' at all," Yu Sheng shook his head. "This valley is the only 'valid' area in the entire space. The infinite mountains we saw just now are actually the 'shadows' that are constantly superimposed and reflected in the curved space-time because of the closure of the boundary space. If you observe carefully, you will find that they are actually infinite copies of the mountains around the valley."
Irene opened her eyes wide, and after a long while she finally understood: "...Wow."
I don’t know whether I really understood it or just pretended to understand it.
Then after a while, Irene poked Yu Sheng's head and asked, "What are we going to do next?"
Yu Sheng turned his gaze to the silver-white demon fox next to him.
"Since this place will no longer generate entities and has become a stable place... perhaps we can rebury your parents properly, at least build a formal grave, what do you think?"
The fox girl tilted her head, and after a moment, she nodded slightly.
It didn't take much time to find the burial place of Hu Li's parents, and for Yu Sheng now, building a grave was not difficult either.
The two corpses that had been hastily buried that year were cleaned and collected again. Yu Sheng made the ground concave and solid, turning it into a regular tomb. He also made the stones fit together and fuse together, turning it into a solid sarcophagus. Compared to making large tracts of land heal and quickly grow vegetation, this series of operations was actually much easier for him.
The corpse was placed in a sarcophagus, and the sarcophagus was placed in the tomb. The soil moved and covered it layer by layer, and a tomb was soon formed.
"We also need a tombstone," Yu Sheng looked at the grave in front of him. After noticing the bewildered look in Hu Li's eyes, he explained, "Put it in front of the grave as a memorial..."
Hu Li nodded immediately: "I'll go get it."
As soon as she finished speaking, the silver-white fox turned and ran away. With a series of roars that tore through the air and a sonic boom, she disappeared from Yu Sheng and Irene's sight almost in the blink of an eye.
Then after a while, she came back in a hurry with a rumble, holding a strange silver-white metal plate in her mouth.
It's about half a person's height.
"This is a gift my parents bought for me," Hu Li put down the metal plate and explained to the student, "It's... a musical instrument. At that time, I insisted on signing up for an interest class, so they bought it for me, but I didn't have the time to learn... Now, it's broken."
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As she spoke, she flexibly rolled up the metal plate with her tail and stuck it into the soil in front of the grave. She then patted the soil with her claws, pressing it until it was as hard as stone.
"Actually, this isn't the tombstone..." Yu Sheng muttered subconsciously, but swallowed his words halfway through, "Forget it, if you think this one is suitable, then this is it."
"We don't have these rules over there," the silver-white fox lay down beside the grave and gently (really gently this time) rubbed Yu Sheng's arm with the tip of its nose. "When a demon dies, a small part of its bones is left behind as a memorial, such as teeth and finger bones. When an immortal dies, their hair is left behind. Other than that, the body returns to nature, or is refined into an artifact for future generations to use as a memorial. In any case, there is no need for additional 'burial'. In addition, some people will extract their spiritual intelligence while they are still alive and return it to the Great Dao. Their spiritual intelligence is immortal, and their bodies can be abandoned to heaven and earth."
As she spoke, she moved her head on the ground and turned her gaze to the brand new grave.
"But I heard from the immortals that a long, long time ago, before the heavenly beings came, there were also rules for burying the dead. At that time, people would bury the remains of their ancestors very solemnly or store them in bone storage pavilions. But that was a very ancient thing. According to what we teach in school, that was called the 'pre-interstellar era', which was a cultural feature when civilization was still thriving in the gravity circle... After leaving the gravity circle, people's thinking and way of life will no longer be strongly related to the 'surface', and the concept of life and death ethics will be reshaped, so 'funerals' will also change accordingly."
Irene was stunned when she heard this: "Why do I feel like you are talking about something very profound..."
"I learned all of this in school, and I can't remember a lot of the knowledge. At that time... my grades weren't very good." Hu Li swept the ground with his big tail, and then his eyes fell on the grave in front of him.
After being silent for two or three seconds, she spoke softly, "That's good too. I can come here and talk to my parents in the future... Your advice always makes sense."
Yu Sheng didn't say anything, he just walked over and sat next to the silver-white fox, leaning on her big tail.
He was curious about Hu Li's hometown, and tried hard to imagine what an "immortal and demon civilization" that had left the earth and could travel among the stars looked like. He wondered how to find that place in this vast universe. Then these thoughts gradually receded from his heart, and he emptied his mind, staring into the distance in a trance.
He looked at this "foreign land" that no longer generated any entities, no longer produced poison and corruption, and was closely connected to himself.
This place... seems to be a "base camp"? But what can such a huge "base camp" be used for... for living? His team now only has three people including himself, not to mention that he has No. 66 Wutong Road. Even if the house is old, it is more habitable than the wilderness... for farming? I don't know if vegetables can be grown in this foreign land. The sunlight is quite sufficient, and grass can grow on the ground... Maybe it's possible. If grass can grow, then food and vegetables can be grown... If you are bolder, it's not impossible to raise cattle and sheep...
Yu Sheng felt that he was about to fall asleep. He leaned on the furry tail of the civet cat. The feeling of comfort and relaxation made his thoughts float as if they were floating in a ball of cotton. He associated many random things with his mind, and then he couldn't help laughing because of some outrageous ideas.
The little doll on his shoulder suddenly leaned forward and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Yu Sheng said seriously: "I am thinking about what this place can be used for in the future. The current preliminary plan is to level the wasteland around the dilapidated temple and plant some radishes, beans and cabbages."
Irene: “……?”
(End of this chapter)
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