Chapter 118 Jing Zhongtian
"—A large-scale breach has appeared in residential area No. 25! Where is the maintenance team?"
"All exits are blocked! We're screwed!"
The Pope in the "Kingdom of God" sat on his seat, receiving emergency communications from all over the "Kingdom of God" with a blank expression.
These are not the only ones in the "Kingdom of God". There are also distress signals from other homes, but the content is extremely single, and they lack their special ciphertext, which can be seen as camouflage.
Maybe the only "homeland" that is still barely maintained is the one he is in.
He understands that the reason for all this lies in the loss of the "evolution accelerator", this divine machine that endowed them with "civilization", can also help other life to advance.
It's just that he thought that as the chosen people of "God", they could resist the invasion of these foreign enemies, but it turned out that they were limited to this "world" and they were powerless against the enemy.
He is now thinking why "God" created them, and why didn't he come out to save them when they were about to perish?
He feels that they have done a good job, but these technologies that they are proud of are useless in the face of those unknown existences.
"...Maybe, 'upward' is the right path?" He suddenly muttered to himself, and the priest beside him lowered his head directly after hearing this sentence, pretending that he hadn't heard anything.
But this "pope" doesn't care anymore, and it doesn't matter if the matters that were strictly prohibited by him are announced now, after all, they are about to die.
"... Priest, tell me, what is 'upper'?" The Pope named the priest who had just bowed his head, his expression full of thought.
This period of history, which is regarded as taboo, is only known to a few people, and unfortunately, the priest who is the Pope's confidant knows about it.
However, after hearing such a question, the priest also realized the current situation, and no longer flinched as before.
He looked at the Pope's face, even though the surrounding earth was shaking and the screams were endless, he didn't care, he just hesitated for a while, and then replied sincerely:
"I thought that the 'above' is the real 'world', and the place we are in is actually just a part of this world..."
Their social regime—the scientific theocracy naturally cannot cultivate all fools, and there are not many smart people among them.
Even though many unscientific "common senses" have been formed due to the distorted living environment, there are always some gifted people who can detect subtle violations through various phenomena.
But everyone tacitly did not delve into this matter, but just lived like this.
It is not because of the strict prohibition of the Holy See, nor is it because their methods cannot continue to explore. They are very clear that their actions are deceiving their ears.
But they still chose to remain silent, because it was a huge shock to their worldview, and they couldn't accept that their "world" was actually just someone else's "experimental field".
They would rather lie to themselves than accept this kind of news that can make people commit suicide.
But at this moment of demise, the priest is the same as the Pope, it doesn't matter anymore.
But after hearing his answer, the Pope nodded, and through the gate of the temple, he saw more and more sea water pouring in here.
Their population of one million is probably only a few hundred left, and it is impossible to maintain the basic amount needed for population reproduction.
This is the deep sea thousands of meters below, the water pressure can kill them directly, and there are many ferocious deep sea fish here.
The moment they were entangled, their doom had already been declared.
Before the sea water was about to wash away here, the pope asked the priest a question for the last time:
“…Do you think someone would create a ‘world’ just for fun?”
At this time, only the priest was left beside him. Most of the other holy servants were looking for a chance to survive because of panic or survival instinct.
But the pope and the priest have already seen through the essence of this place, and it doesn't make much sense to live for them.
"You already have the answer, don't you?"
"...That's right. Does the 'God' who created us just live in someone else's 'world'..."
The torrent swept across, and everything it passed was reduced to ruins.
The last "homeland" of this amphibious civilization was also dragged into the deep sea and gradually disappeared.
At this time, Li Wenyuan had already left here, acting in a hurry.
He had a brief conversation with the "psychic octopus" and confirmed that this was a "battle between the natives".
Although the "spiritual octopus" behaved dishonestly at the beginning, after being beaten by Gray Wind, it became quite docile.
This species located in the deep sea was infected by the "evolution accelerator", and became extremely agile, and even managed to connect to the virtual world.
With the blessing of psychic power, their wisdom became more advanced, and it didn't take long to discover those "deep-sea observation stations" located in the middle of the ocean.
This "soft civilization" originally wanted to cooperate with that "amphibious civilization". After all, they didn't know the depth of science inside these "mechanical creations", but the amphibious civilization directly regarded them as "outland evil gods" and launched an attack.
The result is self-evident, the "soft civilization" that was irritated naturally launched a counterattack, and quickly wiped out these amphibians that had to rely on the "observation station" to live.
During this process, the soft civilization discovered that their enemies did not realize the "essence" of this world, and regarded this deep sea as the real "world".
As far as the cognition of the world view is concerned, this long-developed amphibious civilization is not even as advanced as the soft civilization. The evolution history of the "Observation Station" constrains their cognition and confines them in this narrow "well".
The current software civilization is trying to study the technology in these observation stations, and the "psychic octopus" that Li Wenyuan encountered is one of their scientists.
They want to leave this planet full of sea water and take a look at what the universe really looks like.
Before leaving, Li Wenyuan still left the blueprint of the hyperspace engine. After they can understand and successfully manufacture their first hyperspace engine, there may be another rare aquatic civilization in this galaxy.
But this is just a trivial matter during the journey. In view of the strong imagery of this "fish tank" planet, Li Wenyuan now has a sense of imminent crisis.
Only by intuition, he felt that his guess was correct, but there is currently no evidence to confirm this guess.
For this, he still needs more information and more production capacity, and he may not be able to understand all this until he can reach the level of human beings.
"...you have to speed up your pace..."
(end of this chapter)