In the ancient underwater temple, the dark thing that could not be seen sat on the throne, even if it was just sitting there, from its body was also exuding a dark, gloomy aura, that darkness made people feel frightened, trembling, as if the heart was clenched tightly, unable to breathe, involuntarily wanted to kneel on the ground to worship it.

It was as if there was an invisible black hole, distorting all the light around the throne.

And the erected snake pupil now crossed the barrier of the billions of tons of seawater, and observed the every move of the mortal named Noah on the earth without hindrance.

Mortals listening to the apocalypse learn of the imminent destruction of the world, and panicked men try to ask others for help, but who would believe the "Great Flood of Destruction"?

Contemptuous and sneering, the villagers refused to believe the pleading man, who was finally forced to take his only wife, who believed in him, and his three children, away from the crowd, and began to build the huge ship on the seashore on an unprecedented scale......

"Father, what are we not going to do?"

Next to the throne, the serpent woman standing in the dark asked softly.

The dark thing, whose face could not be seen clearly, did not answer, but raised his hand and looked at the white chess piece in his hand, which was a chess piece made up of a family.

A sturdy middle-aged man embraced his wife and children, surrounded by two older and younger children, while his wife held another infant son in her arms. The resoluteness on the husband's face, the ignorance of the child holding his parents, and the young son who is crying loudly, and the wife who is snuggling in her husband's arms, looking down at her young son with pity...... Between parents and children, brotherhood, parental love, husband and wife love, all family parent-child feelings are vividly reflected.

The cold erected snake pupils stared at the white chess piece that was not under his control, and the white chess piece was shattered in an instant.

"There's no need. ”

A calm, deep voice said.

The snake girl standing beside her didn't ask any more questions, just quietly bowed down, and then turned into a point of light and dissipated.

In the empty temple, only the one who sat on the throne was alone.

“......”

And at this moment, from the depths of the earth beneath the temple, a deep and loud voice gradually came, deep and melodious.

It was the dream cry of an ancient creature that had been sleeping beneath the sea since the beginning of the world, the monster that had eaten the world was still asleep, and the occasional movement of its body while it slept would cause a great change on the ocean floor and the earth that would divide the continent, and the whispering dreams that were occasionally heard by the creatures of the earth would cause it to transform into monsters, and the oldest vampires, werewolves, centaurs, etc., were all born from it.

The monster was still asleep because it wasn't hungry, but the dark thing knew that this large, ancient monster would one day wake up hungry, and that all sanity and wisdom would be torn apart in that never-ending hunger.

At that time, greedy and violent monsters will devour everything in this world.

"It's not time to wake up yet. ”

Listening to the whispering dream, the dark thing above the throne could not see clearly whispered, and then silently felt the brief commotion in the depths of the earth gradually calm down, and with his hand on his forehead, there was only endless darkness in the depths of the erected snake pupil, making it impossible to guess its thoughts.

......

On the seashore as far as the eye can see, there are several wooden houses in the midst of the lush forests by the sea.

"Japheth. ”

Looking at the straight and upright little son in front of him, as well as the young girl he was leading, Noah, who had a little more traces of vicissitudes on his face, rarely showed a pleased smile on his face.

Raising his hand, he patted his youngest son's shoulder, feeling his son's strong arms, Noah didn't know what to say for a while, but couldn't help but mutter.

"Good...... Very good. ”

Japheth, who was a little shy, looked at his father in front of him, and then snorted.

"That ......"

"Wedding, right, I know, next month. ”

But Noah seemed to see his son's thoughts, and nodded with a smile.

Immediately, in front of Noah, the two young people couldn't help but hug each other excitedly, cheering and celebrating.

And where they didn't notice, the smile on Noah's face faded a little, and he muttered.

"Next month...... yes, next month. ”

As he spoke, his eyes were full of complexity, and he turned to look in the direction of the sea......

There, lying quietly, was a huge ship, a huge ship about hundreds of meters long, which Noah's family had spent 120 years to build...... The great ship that God had revealed to him.

Just the next month, just when his youngest son got married, the ship was completed, but that also meant ......

Accompanied by the cheers of young men and women, there was a silent abruptness.

......

A month later.

"Boom la la ......"

In the wooden house, the sound of the tide crashing on the shore from the sea at night sounded from time to time, and Noah, who had long been accustomed to all this, did not feel that it was noisy.

The wedding during the day was very lively, although it was far away from the crowd, only Noah's family lived silently here and built a big ship, but the eldest son and the second son were already married, not to mention a few newborn children, and the family wedding of more than a dozen people still made the atmosphere quite warm and comfortable.

However, after the wedding, Noah's heart was only sad.

Tomorrow, the ship will be repaired, and the multitude of animals and plants will have been gathered, even ...... In fact, it was the animals that gathered here on their own initiative, as if there was some force that drove them to do so.

Unlike his sons and daughters-in-law, who were overwhelmed, Noah knew in his heart that the great Flood that God had revealed to him was coming.

Lying on the bed, Noah couldn't sleep with his eyes open, and finally, he reached out and took out the golden scroll from his side again......

The scroll that emits a faint golden glow even at night.

Looking at the scroll in his hand, which was still as clean as new even after a hundred and twenty years, Noah was silent.

One hundred and twenty years ago, he couldn't remember exactly what he felt when he first saw the golden scroll, he was shocked, panicked, incredulous, denied, hesitated?

Maybe they all had these feelings, but the only thing Noah still can't forget is ......

It's the deep fear.

"God, why do you want to destroy this world......

Noah muttered.

He didn't want this world to be destroyed, his family, his memories, his hometown, everything, it was too precious, he didn't want it to go away.

Once, he didn't know how many times he wished that it was all just a dream, but every time he opened his eyes, he could see this silent golden scroll.

One hundred and twenty years, I don't know why, the time of the Great Flood recorded in the golden scroll, no more, no less, is one hundred and twenty years. It was in this one hundred and twentieth year that he had just built the ship, as if a force had foreseen all this.

“......”

At this moment, a cold hand gently grasped his hand.

It is not as smooth and supple as it was more than a hundred years ago, and the scars left by the sewing of labor are uneven to the touch, witnessing the vicissitudes of the owner's hand.

For more than a hundred years, the owner of the hand endured too much hardship, but Noah never heard the owner of the hand complain to himself, not once. Even now, the owner of the hand is still silently comforting him.

Noah's eyes were complicated.

"We are a family and everything will be fine. ”

The woman gently stroked Noah's cheek with one hand, looked at her husband, and then gently buried her head in Noah's arms, felt the sound of her husband's heartbeat, and whispered.

"Everything will be fine......"

The man next to her hugged her silently.

In my ears, only the sound of the tide is still the same, and it has never changed.