Act XXI. dawn
Wander in the wilderness at night.
With the light of the stars, it casts a huge shadow that hides a bloody jaw into the subspace, enough to devour any living being.
It has forgotten how it was born, how it became what it is.
Only instinct is driving it to act.
Kill, devour, evolve.
At this moment, the [Shadow Curtain] is like a huge net, swimming in mid-air, it is looking for prey.
A car came into the eye of the [Nether], it quickly and quietly approached, and then, like a human catching a fish in the water, [Nether] shrouded the car with its own shadow, and in an instant, the person in the car was dragged into the subspace of the [Nether] without resistance, and soon, he would die because of the energy sucked up, and there would be no ashes left.
Wandering through the wasteland, it soon saw the light of a rotating lighthouse in the distance.
The light of this lighthouse was so dazzling that it was irritating.
The Veil was unaware of the source of the light, but vaguely remembered that some time ago, it seemed that a being from the light had attacked itself, and they tried to attack the hiding place of the Veil during the day, but unfortunately, they failed.
[The Veil] devoured all life, and it was satisfied.
It's just that the dazzling and obstructive light has always made it feel jealous.
Even the [Nether] itself does not know why it has such a deep obsession with that lighthouse, as long as there is an opportunity, [Nether] will approach there, looking for an opportunity to break through the blockade of the light and go to the core area, as if there is some kind of secret related to its own life and death.
Looking into the distance? Suddenly discovered? The light that had been swirling suddenly went out.
The beacon that has haunted it for so long? Seems to be finally coming to the end of life? After two flickerings, it fell into darkness.
[Shadow Curled up in an instant? Immediately, it sped towards the supply depot.
Silence in the mottled supply depot? It was as if all life had passed away.
See a building? The building had a similar aura to itself, and at one point even made [Nether] think it was its own kind.
Even though it's close to early morning, as is custom, the Netherworld needs to find a hiding place as soon as possible to avoid the sun? And yet soon? It just smelled a smell.
A smell of his sworn enemy.
It's a smell she's encountered before, and it's the smell of enemies trying to destroy where it's hiding.
As long as this breath still exists, he can't feel at ease, [Shadow Curtain] has such a premonition.
Therefore, it must finish destroying it.
Hundreds of billions of doppelgangers voted quickly? Having made a decision, [Shadow Curtain] follows the breath? Slipped into the building.
It was pitch black and there was no light in sight.
But can [the ghost] be seen? In the middle of a building with many bookshelves, there is a man.
That person is like a machine? Sitting quietly in a chair? It seems that something is waiting for you.
【Shadow Curtain】Getting closer to the past? I saw that person with a smile on the corner of his mouth, looking at the [Dark Curtain].
In an instant, more than half of the mechanized individuals in the [Nether] raised the alarm.
Boom –
All entrances and exits to the entire building were suddenly blocked.
Smack-
The light shone brightly, and the strong light left a deep shadow on the [Dark Curtain], and in the shadows, the subspace was trying to devour the things around it, but it was intimidated by some kind of force.
[Shadow Curtain] saw the other party's appearance clearly.
That's Bai Ge.
The plan of the survivors of the Eris civilization is simple.
Close the lighthouse that protects the supply station, use your aura to lure the Nether Curtain over, and lock it in the library until dawn.
However, if he were alone, the [Nether] would soon be able to devour it, and it would not be possible to achieve its plan to destroy the library during the day and expose it to the sun.
At the same time, if it is too close to the early morning, the [Nether] will not risk coming, they must have a presence to delay time.
This is Bai Ge.
After learning about the characteristics of [Nether], Bai Ge instead thought that this monster was not so difficult to deal with.
The essence of subspace is a degraded version of the [Domain] of the Ascender, then, under the influence of Bai Ge's [Domain] against the [Domain], it is entirely possible for him to deal with this monster.
The shadow of the [Nether Curtain] dragged due to the illumination of the light, and it sensed Bai Ge's presence, and moved quickly, like a wild beast, pounced on its prey.
Quietly, the shadow covered Bai Ge's body.
Buzz –
Some kind of powerful attraction engulfed Bai Ge's body, trying to wipe it out of this world.
But Bai Ge's eyes were dark, and he had already understood the essence of this shadow.
The abyssal giant mouth that originally tried to devour Bai Ge, at this moment, did not know that what it had swallowed was a Trojan horse with a hidden killing machine.
In Bai Ge's field of vision, he was in a dark field.
There is only eternal desert and cold, darkness, like a dead planet.
He held his right hand lightly, an invisible dagger appeared in the palm of his hand, and Bai Ge's eyes flashed with a little gray starlight.
In the next moment, a little cold light bloomed in this dark world.
[Trojan Horse of Contrarian Reason]!
In Bai Ge's vision, countless intertwined stars lit up from this dark world, and he knew that these star curtains, which were as bright as the real starry sky and the galaxy in the old era, were the souls of all the deceased of the Eris civilization.
It was only then that he finally understood.
After the members of the Eris civilization abandoned their flesh and blood and mechanized themselves, due to the remnants of the power of "evolution", these mechanical bodies also evolved on their own, becoming the most suitable form for the survival of mechanical life.
And the ants of the Eris civilization, which seem to have been devoured, are not actually dead, but have gained true immortality.
As long as this [Veil] is not destroyed, then the Eris civilization will survive forever until it envelops the entire planet.
This is also some degree of "evolution".
However, for the Eris civilization, for the civilization that aspires to the stars to evolve into such a form, such an "evolution" is undoubtedly a failure.
Even though they can fly to the universe, they have lost the consciousness to observe the universe and record what they see and hear.
This is probably the real reason why the survivor of the Eris civilization wants to destroy the Nether.
It was precisely because of the wisdom he gained that he was able to understand the difficulty of the development of civilization, and after knowing the possible impact of the [Shadow Curtain] on the whole world, he could not sit idly by, and did not choose to rest on this, but decided to stand up and destroy the destruction machine created by his civilization.
In Bai Ge's field of vision, countless silver threads intertwined, and he kept swinging the dagger to cut it off.
With each blow, countless mechanized ants are wiped out.
However, in contrast, the number of other parties is simply too much.
At Bai Ge's current speed, even if he was given tens of millions of years, he might not be able to kill all the mechanized ants in this [Nether Curtain].
He can only delay the other party's actions.
At this moment, in the library, the black [Nether] was constantly changing its form, as if it was being attacked from within, and countless mechanized ants were taking different measures, causing the monster to stop for a while.
On the side of the library, the survivors of the Eris civilization are ready for anything.
He stood in the corner of the room, straightening his clothes and hair, like a gentleman preparing to go out.
He also had fantasies that someone would appear and kill the Shadow Curtain once and for all, and at the same time bring out the materials in this library, so that the Eris civilization could continue.
But he also knew that in the long history, they were only a glimpse, there were more, countless more brilliant civilizations, and they did not even have a chance to let out the last cry of sorrow, and they were annihilated in this world.
The destruction of civilization is easier than the difficult growth of civilization.
Looking at the time, the survivor knew that there were less than thirty minutes before sunrise and less than thirty minutes before his duty was completed.
And on the Flyer One outside the library, the young Wilbur was holding a notebook and pen in his hand, carefully recording something, outside the car, Zhu Shuangluo stared at the library, trying to suppress the turmoil in her heart, she chose to believe Bai Ge.
And within the realm of [Shadow Curtain], Bai Ge was still standing in place, and around him, there were constantly black waves surging, but these monstrous waves would be torn apart by unknown forces just as soon as they were close to Bai Ge, turning into star chips and scattering.
For a while, by Bai Ge's side, a silver-white river appeared.
[Shadow Curtain] tried to completely "digest" Bai Ge, it was extremely confused, what kind of existence could be swallowed by this subspace without being destroyed, the other party exuded a strange and familiar smell, from this smell, [Shadow Curtain] felt fear for the first time in its life.
In the real world, the Shadow Curtain had already begun to try to escape, and it rushed towards the walls of the library, slamming into it with all its might, but it could only make a dull noise and not shake the walls in the slightest.
"If it weren't for your mechanized body, maybe you'd have evolved again and become a monster that even this library can't imprison."
The survivor said half sighing, half sighing.
He knew very well that once the mechanization transformation was completed, not to mention the fact that those ants lost their autonomous consciousness, when life became long and the body turned into steel, the evolution of this civilization would reach the end, and the real tombstone of the Eris civilization was not this library, but the [Nether].
Bang –
Bang –
Bang –
The sound of a heavy crash could be heard through the walls of the library, and Wilbur was so frightened to hear it that he could only concentrate on the notebook in his hand, writing with a slightly trembling hand.
Zhu Shuang's expression became more and more solemn, and she looked anxiously to the east, looking at the direction of the rising sun.
At this moment, the whole wasteland was silent, the sky was full of stars, and the bamboo frost suddenly felt something, raised his head, and looked at the sky on one side.
There, there was a gray star.
When she was at the Purple Mountain Observatory, Zhu Shuang had looked at that location countless times, that star, and she knew that as long as this star was still there, then that person would definitely have no problem.
Now, the Messier star with the number UN511 is gradually brightening, exuding a surprising brilliance.
In the eternal and long night, only that star is lighting up the dark sky that seems to never end.
Just as the light was blooming, Bamboo Frost saw a glimmer of light appear above the horizon.
At first it was just a ray of light, and then, far away, at the intersection of heaven and earth, a faint white appeared, and the clouds were dyed a brilliant gold, and then deep as orange.
Then, the outline of the sun appeared in view.
The sun was shivering in the turbulent atmosphere, and the sun gradually rose.
Almost at the same time, the dazzling morning light erupted, piercing the dark clouds of the night, shining brighter than the stars of Bai Ge.
The earth seemed to gradually wake up, and a faint mist filled it, and this golden light illuminated the entire wasteland under the refraction of the mist, and the new green buds shrouded in water vapor, reflecting the faint sunlight of the early morning.
The world has recovered.
Almost at the same time.
Inside the library, the [Nether] scurrying around seemed to sense something, and it frantically searched for the location of the last survivor, however, at this moment, in the subspace realm within its body, Bai Ge was suppressing the monster's actions with maximum strength.
A huge phantom appeared beside Bai Ge, which was a sign that the [Trojan Horse of Reason] began to erode the realm, and at this moment, in this eternal dark world, a star bloomed, eliminating the darkness and bringing the rising sun.
At this moment, the survivor standing in the corner of the library waved his hand softly, as if saying goodbye.
Boom Boom Boom Boom –
In an instant, the entire library began to shake violently, the shelves full of books began to fall, countless books flew out, and then, starting from the ceiling, the entire building began to collapse.
[The Nether] has understood its situation, and it tries to escape, trying to hide from the sun.
But the dawn has come.
Sunlight shone through the scattered rubble, shining into the great shadows of the Veil.
In an instant, the bright light distorted the space, which was the collapse of the unstable subspace caused by the interference of sunlight, and along with the collapse of the subspace domain, the corresponding mechanized ants also quickly lost their strength and fell towards the ground.
The last survivor's body gradually disintegrated, buried in the rubble, and disappeared from everyone's view.
Boom Boom Boom Boom –
Seeing that the gray library collapsed and fell apart in an instant, raising a cloud of dust.
And the twisted curtain, illuminated by the golden sunlight, like twilight, quickly melted and dissipated, leaving no trace.
From the shadow of the curtain, a figure lifted the black curtain and stepped into the sunlight.
Bai Ge stared at the collapsed library and the [curtain] that had completely melted in the sunlight, and was speechless for a long time.
With the rising sun, a civilization has come to an end.