The world used to be normal – just like other "normal" technological human civilizations.

Move forward bit by bit at your own pace, occasionally worrying about some problems such as artificial intelligence rebellion, World War III, etc., which have not yet happened.

Until that happens......

"At first, it was just some rumors on the Internet that 'I heard singing voices from unknown sources', which did not attract social attention. ”

With Roy's gesture, the dense and empty city around him quickly disappeared transparently, and the gloomy neighborhoods that everyone saw just now were all the results of holographic projections!

After removing the projection, what is left is not flat.

New images emerge from the air, and this time the city is still present.

A city that shines in the sun, unbaptized by any calamity.

Bustling crowds weave through the streets, cars fly like dragons along the air, looping neatly through the steel jungle, and behemoth-like man-made objects move slowly in the sky.

The sound in the ears is chaotic and familiar, thriving.

Looking at such a scene, the tension in many people's hearts couldn't help but ease a little.

But there are also some people who not only do not relax, but look more dignified.

If this was the situation of the world before the catastrophe struck, their technological level would have been at least a hundred years on Earth, and they would have fallen to the current situation in the face of the crisis......

The next thing to show them is the world influenced by singing.

"The True Name of Life" can be spread by the pan-spirit born by its influence, but it does not mean that it cannot be carried by other platforms. At the end of the day, it's just a song, and it can be spread by anything that can make music.

Where did the song come from before the first "source of transmission", the first animistic being born out of influence, appeared?

It couldn't have been the one who broke through the barriers of space and ran here from another world.

In any case, the fact has already happened, and once the spread has begun, it cannot be contained.

As Roy described, it was initially just a few rumors of "unidentified singing", just like the rumors that have appeared countless times in human history - some people believe and some don't, and there are more people who hang high and see the excitement if they don't care about themselves.

Hearing a song that can't be described in words, and I don't know which direction it's coming from? Can't even cover my ears or even lock the auditory nerve?

Is this some new urban legend?

What? You say that's true?

Don't make it up, see how many people will believe it?

You're saying that someone is in the same situation? You're in this group, right?

Otherwise...... What kind of Internet carnival is this? Isn't it boring to play all day long?

Yes, normal people would not believe such nonsense, not to mention that this kind of singing was not harmful at the beginning, and its lethality was probably similar to tinnitus, not as unbearable as tinnitus - after all, ultramarine is also one of the most top-level existences in the multiverse of musical art, even if the effect is weird, the musical quality of the "True Name of Life" created by him cannot be denied.

It's really a nice singing, so good to hear...... It can make people unconsciously indulge in it, indulging in the fantasy created by the song, until the moment when the light comes.

But the phenomenon of coma in thin air among citizens has attracted the attention of the world government. Roy explains the history of this world, and around them, holographic projections generate a real "reality" like history, instantly pulling everyone back to that era.

The intensity of the mental impact of singing is disturbed by many factors—the density of animistic bodies in the current spatial area, the mental strength of the affected person, and whether or not they have the will to resist......

To this day, no one knows exactly how the first animistic appeared.

No, it should be said that until now, the human beings of this world have not understood what it is that spreads that song.

They couldn't see the human figures floating in the space, and they didn't have someone like Lin Ye who knew the inside story to provide information. They can only judge what intangible things in the space carry the "sound source", they will move closer to human beings at a fixed speed, and the final gathered "sound source" will make the singing influence in the unit space infinitely enhanced.

Even the title of "animism" was brought by some hapless traverser, and the guy with negative luck quickly hung up, leaving no more useful information.

After years of experimenting with some of the basic characteristics of animism, humans tried a variety of methods, and used some "external technical support" received in the middle of the way, before locking in the current common mode of building a clean zone - low-earth orbit to expand space, using natural space walls to isolate the fire of civilization from the invisible remnants of the old era.

Turning the clock back to the beginning, humans who didn't know anything about "The True Name of Life" and didn't even believe in its existence only examined the unconscious with suspicion at first.

This seemingly "normal" behavior led to a further expansion of the spread.

will be unconscious because of the singing voice that is not very effective at that time, which means that their spiritual resistance is too weak, so that they are attracted to the false sea of light in the song.

Sinking with joy, with contented happiness and merging with that light.

And then - unconsciously washed away all memories and thoughts of being human, and became a new animism, the purest of sacrificial souls.

As a result, the sources of transmission have increased, and the intensity of influence has inevitably begun to increase.

The situation was still under control at this time, after all, it was just a sudden coma for unknown reasons, and the interpretation of some unknown infectious disease could stabilize public opinion, and the world government felt that it still had time and energy to solve the problem.

However, after the animism reaches a certain density, the true effect of "The True Name of Life" kicks into play in those affected - whether they are still conscious or not, as long as the body named "Human" is alive, it will be affected by the effect.

"In the regions where animism is most severe, individual cases of human reduction begin to emerge, and then rapidly escalate to the point of destabilizing the social order. Roy motioned for everyone to look in one direction.

In the place he was pointing, the face of the person who was only irritated by the lingering sound in his ears suddenly distorted, even if it was just a projection of the historical record, and the pain was still transmitted to the eyes of those who saw it through the isolation of time.

"He's ......"

"Slav—"

The clothes were torn, and bright red blood splattered out of the cracks, turning black in the air at a much faster rate than normal, and the scene of contact with the ground was like some kind of highly corrosive liquid accidentally poured out.

But few people pay attention to this detail now, and the scene that happened in front of them shocked everyone's eyes.

A creature that could only be described as strange broke free from the human shell, its elongated and twisted limbs curled up in a space that was too small for him, trying to move, but trembling unconsciously.

It's a terrifying sight...... Wretched?

“……”

Roy knew what they wanted to ask but couldn't, and said in a tone that didn't fluctuate much: "This is human reduction, and humanity will be reduced to another creature under the influence of song, in which the strong-willed will be able to maintain their will, and those who are not, or have lost consciousness before reduction...... All will become beasts that act on instinct. ”

Ourya suppressed the emotions that were churning in her heart, took two steps forward, and her gaze shot at him without fear, "Could it be that all those 'monsters' we see on the ground are human?"

Those weird and deformed animals are all alienated by humans?

If they stay longer, will they become like that?

Did Roy decide to kill those five people knowing that they were destined to become monsters?

"It's not. Roy didn't give everyone a chance to breathe a sigh of relief, and threw out an even more cruel truth, "To be precise, all living creatures in this world were once humans. ”

This is a human world, except that most of them have become inhuman.

In a moment of disbelief, the heavens took a step forward and asked a new question: "Why is your word 'reductive'? Shouldn't it be 'mutated' or 'dehumanized'?"

Restoration – refers to the restoration of things to their original condition or shape.

Similarly, he also clearly remembered that in the information provided by Lin Ye and Qiyan, it was shown that "The True Name of Life" only had a spiritual impact and the effect of "restoring the true appearance of life".

There is no such thing as "mutating organisms".

Won't it ......

"You know a lot more than they do. Roy gave him a slightly different look, "I guessed it." ”

The human ...... of this world

"In this world, there were no human beings in the beginning, and there were no conditions for human beings to evolve. ”

Never......

"The so-called 'humans' you see here are just the result of being forcibly distorted by some force. ”

"What the hell are you?"

"Who knows?"

Yes, reduction, not mutation nor evolution, but "reduction".

No one can see the original world.

But this world certainly didn't belong to humans in the first place.

The human civilization that discovered the monster thought it was a biological mutation, and while trying to eliminate them as much as possible, they were also looking for a way to avoid being affected by the song.

In such a volatile situation, the government's information control finally doesn't work for the people – perhaps they instinctively don't have much idea of control.

As depicted in countless post-apocalyptic works, the order of civilization gradually collapses in chaos, and everyone is forced to learn to fight and be vigilant in order to survive as much as possible!

But unlike those eschatological works, humanity here must face an additional crisis.

That song, the nameless song that resounded around the world bit by bit as more and more victims replenished it, became the final song of death that hung over the ears of all the survivors, like a shadow.

"It was almost in the final struggle before the demise that humanity found the props that could turn the tide. ”

Once again, what was projected was the thing that brought everyone to this place—the golden wheel that rotated endlessly, the patterns carved into the metal floor, the pure black entity of the inverted pyramid star.

Roy didn't sell the guanzi and introduced them one by one.

"The Sun Wheel of Theseus, it is still unclear what it is made of, and there is no way to probe it in any way. But it is undoubtedly for the protection of humanity and will only protect humanity. ”

Urya looked at him wrongly, "Protect the humans?" Are you sure?

The scene of the previous person being shaped into paddles is still vivid!

"Humans are only affected by the effects of the sun when they come into direct contact with it, while other creatures feel the effects when they get close to a certain distance and are molded into a part of it. The distance seems to be related to the strength of the organism, the safe range of plants is three meters, while animals are much farther away, and the more powerful the creature, the more dating, the hostility it will incur. ”

In contrast, humans are already treated very well, at least they will not be "actively" attacked by it.

"There's nothing to say about the patterns on the ground, the spatial teleportation array we used to enter the purification area. ”

"Why is it a teleportation array?" "If you look at your urban style, you will know that it is a technological civilization! Don't you think the painting style is wrong with this thing in teleportation array?

"The level of technology has not yet reached the point of lighting up the spatial leap technology, so for the time being, we can only use the magic teleportation technology of the other world. ”

Therefore, traversers are still very useful, especially those who travel with technology that is not available in this world.

"The black entity in the middle is the beginning of everything, and we generally call it the device of human heightening. ”

It may be a device left in this world by some super civilization, some super-temporal organization, with an unknown purpose.

There is only one function: to transform other life forms into human beings.

And so humanity was born.

Humanity has developed along the same path as humans in other worlds.

When "The Real Name of Life" breaks into this world, they have the opportunity to realize that they have never been human, just monsters who have been twisted into "human".

The saddest thing is not this.

The saddest thing is that he is a monster, but he has all the thoughts and habits of human beings, and he can't even accept his original appearance.

In the end, he can only sink into the sea of light in a mental breakdown, and abandon his memories to become a new animism.

"You from the earth should be real humans, how lucky you are......"

[In the face of Roy's exclamation, the heavens chose to ......

1. "So you're essentially that kind of monster too?"

2. "Don't care about the past, you're also human now, aren't you?"

3. "I wanted to ask before - do you know the earth?"

4. "Not necessarily, maybe we used to be weird too." ”】