Chapter 242 Annihilation and History
Yu Sheng came to the edge of the broken floating island, staring in a trance at the endless chaos and nothingness outside, and the magnificent light that stretched across the darkness, as if he was lost in thought.
Baili Qing's voice came from behind him: "What are you thinking about?"
"Random thoughts, mainly about Ankaela," Yu Sheng did not hide it, with a sigh in his tone, "I know it may be a bit strange to say this, but in fact I have never had any real feeling about the existence of the 'Dark Angel', and Ankaela is the first Dark Angel I have communicated with... The things in its memory make it difficult for me to let go."
Footsteps were heard from the side, and Baili Qing came to Yu Sheng's side: "What are you referring to? Is it the disaster that its hometown encountered? Or is it the extinction of the civilization it represents?"
"Both," Yu Sheng scratched his hair. "The dead ecosphere is sad, but the disaster in Ankaela's memory is even more shocking. Maybe it's because I directly experienced the 'memory'. I even feel as if I witnessed the disaster with my own eyes..."
Baili Qing pursed her lips, looking as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
Yu Sheng felt that this was not the first time the other party had shown this expression. When he mentioned some details in Ankaela's memory just now, the reaction of this female director was always a little worrying.
He couldn't help but frowned: "...Do you know something that I don't know?"
Baili Qing did not answer directly, but asked a question instead: "What exactly was the disaster in Ankaela's memory like?"
Yu Sheng thought about it and did not hide it: "There are some very abstract 'impressions'. I don't know how to describe them in words. From the 'image', it seems that something has split the entire universe... Maybe it's a bit exaggerated to say this? But there is indeed a crack between the stars, a red crack. All celestial bodies are gradually disintegrating or burning. The exiled arks were captured by a red light. I couldn't see what was happening at all. They were 'dissolving' in the light one by one..."
Yu Sheng paused as he spoke, as if he felt dizzy just by recalling the scene he had seen in his mind. However, Baili Qing remained strangely silent for a few seconds after hearing his words, and then whispered, "It's not an exaggeration."
Yu Sheng was stunned for two seconds before he realized the hidden message in Baili Qing's whispered response: "...Ah?!"
Then he quickly added: "What do you mean? Do you know what that is? Isn't it said that everything about the Dark Angel is a mystery..."
"Everything about the Dark Angel is a mystery to us, but the red light you mentioned and the scene of the universe being torn apart are not," Baili Qing said calmly. "When I first heard you mention it, I was not sure, but now I am somewhat certain - the thing in Ankaela's memory also appeared in our world. Or to be more precise, it appeared before this world was born."
Yu Sheng stood there as if in a stagnation, with information rumbling in his head. After a long while, he blinked his eyes, and his thoughts finally caught up with the amount of information in Baili Qing's words: "...You said 'before the birth of the world', that crack and red light had appeared in this world? Wait, that means..."
Baili Qing raised her eyes and looked at him, calmly and solemnly: "This world has been destroyed."
Yu Sheng: “…What?!”
"This is not really a secret, but there are still only a few people who know about it, and even fewer who specialize in this field," Baili Qing said slowly, as if he was just talking about a legend far from reality. "It literally means that the world we live in was once destroyed - and everything you see now was born after the second 'singularity explosion'.
"In the ancient and obscure stories of the Bamosans, it was the greatest of the ancient holy spirits who accomplished this feat, and the ancient academies of Terra even record many legends about the old world. I am not an expert in this area, so my understanding of the second singularity explosion and the old world is limited to these, but I am very sure of one thing, that what you described, what Ankaela had experienced... is the 'annihilation' in the records."
Yu Sheng opened his mouth. After a long while, he finally made a sound of inhalation from his throat: "Wait a moment. This matter contains a lot of information. Let me sort it out first. I need to rebuild my worldview a little bit..."
As Yu Sheng spoke, he raised his hand and tapped his temple, quickly organizing the information in his mind, and finally sorting them out into a continuous clue.
In a way that is most convenient for him to understand.
"Okay, I understand what you said. What you mean is that our world has been destroyed once by that thing called 'Annihilation', right? And the Ancient Holy Spirits... I've heard you mention this. As I understand it, they are a group of beings similar to 'Gods'. The greatest among them recreated the world after the end of the world, which led to the current border area and the entire universe outside the border area. Is that right?" And now, a group of 'Dark Angels' have begun to 'invade' this world continuously, and their numbers are increasing as time goes by. The latest intelligence shows that at least one of the Dark Angels 'fell' in because its home world also suffered 'Annihilation'... This is the whole process, right? ”
After listening to this, Baili Qing nodded slowly: "I think that's the case."
Yu Sheng put his fist against his forehead and pressed hard.
He felt that the matter was a bit serious, very big.
"So can we use one sentence to interpret the meaning behind the phenomenon of the Dark Angel's continuous invasion? From the perspective of our 'world', it means that XX's annihilation is still chasing me?"
The corners of Baili Qing's eyes twitched noticeably, but her expression quickly tensed up again.
"This is the worst possibility, but it's unlikely," the female director shook her head cautiously after considering it for a moment, "because at least from the guidance of the ancient saints, 'Annihilation' has indeed ended. Even the destruction of the old world happened a long time ago. Ankaela's memory also confirms this: it wandered for a long, long time, until the red light that devoured all the other arks disappeared in its detector. So in my opinion, we should not have to worry about the so-called 'Annihilation' coming again."
"But more and more dark angels are indeed 'invading' this world," Yu Sheng said solemnly, "In the past we could say that they were coming in a menacing manner, but now I feel that they are being 'driven' here by something... and that thing 'driving' them is getting closer and closer."
Baili Qing's expression became obviously solemn. This was the most obvious change in expression Yu Sheng had seen on the face of this iron-faced sister in all the time he had known her.
Yu Shengze was silent for a long time, and then suddenly asked: "Those 'ancient holy spirits' you mentioned, have they always been in contact with the mortal world? It sounds like they still send 'guidance'... Is there any way to contact them now to ask about the situation?"
“It’s not easy,” Baili Qing shook her head slowly. “A long time ago, the ancient holy spirits had frequent contact with the mortal world, but as the entire universe gradually stabilized after the second singularity explosion, their contact with the mortal world has been decreasing. The Bamosas said that this is because the activities of the ancient holy spirits are gradually shifting to the end of the observable universe - they have a more important mission, they have to patrol the border of the star curtain there to maintain the stability of the real universe.
"Only occasionally will one of them return from there and have limited communication with the 'chosen' ones, but even such communication last happened more than a decade ago."
Yu Sheng frowned, digesting this information and thinking, and after a moment he asked, "What exactly do these 'Bamosans' you keep mentioning do? Are they closely connected to the Ancient Holy Spirit?"
"They are also mortals, but they are an older race in the universe. The entire race is keen on digging into history and exploring the 'truth', so they know a lot of ancient mysteries. The most famous of this race is the 'prophet' among them. The Bamosan people are rich in prophets. It is said that they can keenly perceive the direction of things, and can even predict the future in a short period of time and peek into the essence of all things. Their supreme leader is the greatest and oldest of all prophets," Baili Qing explained patiently, "As for the close connection with the ancient holy spirits... In fact, the Bamosan people are similar to other races. They just know more things."
"Oh," Yu Sheng nodded thoughtfully, his brows still furrowed, "The last communication was more than ten years ago... Usually, they don't show up when the Dark Angel invades?"
Baili Qing didn't say anything, just spread his hands.
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Yu Sheng did not pursue this issue any further.
He just had an idea lingering in his mind.
Those so-called "ancient holy spirits" do exist in reality. Since they are real, intelligent individuals that can communicate with mortals in the world, their actions must be rational and have reasons.
The Dark Angel invaded reality, but the Ancient Spirit did not come back to help directly. There must be a reason for this.
What could be the reason?
Yu Sheng pondered for a long time, and could only think of two answers - either these "holy spirits" who have been protecting the world don't really care about the lives of the mortals, or...
Things at the edge of the observable universe are even more fucking serious than the angel invasion here.
Bad news, and worse news.
Yu Sheng shook his head. He felt that Baili Qing would definitely be able to think of these things, and she might have thought of them a long time ago - many people like her had also thought of them.
"...Life must go on." He sighed softly.
"Yes, life must go on." Baili Qing said with a faint smile in the corner of his eyes.
However, at this moment, a pleasant cell phone ringtone suddenly rang out, interrupting her actions.
Baili Qing picked up the phone, took a look at it, then casually answered it and put it to her ear.
Yu Sheng blinked, not sure if he had seen it wrong - he felt that after Baili Qing said a few words on the phone, an expression of "this life is really unbearable" appeared on her face...
(End of this chapter)
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