Chapter 21: The Messenger's Past
Guiguzi felt that today's messenger was very strange, and when discussing the route with him, she was always distracted, looking thoughtful, and brushed a handful of hair on the top of Mengqi's head.
Guiguzi rolled up the map and poked the messenger sitting on the grass, and when she looked at him with puzzled eyes, he asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”
The messenger bent his knees, propped his face, looked intoxicated, and whispered, "I'm listening to their discussion. ”
"Huh?" Guiguzi knew that the messenger was communicating with her people through the Eye of Insight, but why today?
As if reading his thoughts, the messenger said, "You know what? Today is a special day for us. ”
Guiguzi thought for a moment, "Spring Festival?" ”
"Well, although the ark doesn't remember what year it is, the Spring Festival in the world is the same as our calendar, and I feel a little emotional when I think of it."
Guiguzi became curious, "What are you doing during the Spring Festival?" Will it be like the rest of the world? ”
"It's different, we don't blow up firecrackers, hang New Year's pictures or anything like that, because there's nothing on them. Every day, we will gather in the inverted city to light up the universe together...... The Tower of Command at the heart of the Ark. ”
At that time, the brilliant light will shine on the entire continent and bring blessings to the world.
Although the Ark claims to be a god, most of the members want to return to human beings in their hearts, but that would result in the loss of eternal life, so the gods are still high.
"The place we went to at that time, the Upside-Down Hanging Capital?" Guiguzi recalled the huge city hidden in the clouds and asked, "It is recorded in the history books that it has crashed, and you have repaired it?" ”
"Well, for 3,000 years, those robots have been repairing for a moment before finally rebuilding the upside-down capital."
"So, you didn't take me up at that time, because?"
"You're not part of the Ark yet, you can't pass through the barrier, and there's radiation in there, and with your demigod body, you can't stay there at all."
"What if I eat a golden apple?"
"The golden apple is useless to you, you have the navigator I gave you, it can allow you to change your physique, maybe one day you can become a god."
"Well, by the way, Hirsch, I've been traveling with you for so long, and I have a question that I want your answer."
"You say."
"What are you looking for? Or rather, what are you planning? ”
"Change the world as you think."
"You said that disaster will come in a hundred years, but you also said that all fate in the world will end in this generation...... Can't you tell me the truth? ”
"We ——!" The messenger opened his mouth, but he didn't say a few words, he was silent for a while, looked at him and said regretfully, "I want to too, but I can't help it!" ”
"When I was in Jixia Academy, you saw Luban Seven, I was similar to him, the difference is that he is free. And I, because the body is controlled by the Ark, can't say things that shouldn't be said. ”
"That's right...... So, where is your being? ”
"Far away, only when you step on the ark can you find me."
"Is that the planet you used to talk about? I have seen it in Zhuang Zhou's dream, it is indeed a very beautiful world, but the level of technology is obviously beyond this world for thousands of years, if ......"
"That's the world we came from, the Origin Star Earth, which has been destroyed in the cosmic star change, and this king planet is our second home, but now we must also abandon it."
"I know I can't save everyone, but I can't be the only one on the ark, right?"
"Indeed, there are others who have been chosen."
"Oh, who else?"
"Among the people we've met, those who are destined to be heroes."
"I had already met it, and I thought it was just me...... By the way, what are the conditions for the Ark to select survivors? ”
The messenger said, "The first is prophesied in the Book of Heaven, the second is for the ark, and the third is for the Creator." ”
"And I am?"
"It's all three."
"But I wonder, why did the Ark choose me? Compared to the three sages of Jixia, I am not the most knowledgeable and wise man, and compared to Yun Mengze's son of words and spirits, I am not an existence that can always talk to the world, and I am ...... I've lost even my human form. ”
Speaking of the third reason, the messenger clearly felt the sadness in his tone.
"The Ark doesn't care about this, the Ark has chosen you, you should work hard for the rights you deserve for this planet."
"Thank you...... Alas, aren't you going to chat with your companions? ”
"I'm listening to them chatting, but it's over."
"Oh, that's it! Speaking of which, I'm curious about what kind of person you are, you've traveled for so long, your past is a mystery, and I'm about to suspect that you're a puppet. ”
"I also think I'm like a tool man......" The messenger nodded, the corners of her mouth raised, but the smile was fleeting, she ravaged Mengqi's ears and asked, "Guiguzi, do you know why I don't want Mengqi or Daji to become gods?" ”
"Does it have anything to do with your past?"
"Well, what I'm talking about becoming a god is not what I said before, it must require your story to be passed down in the world for thousands of years. This is just the process of the ark choosing a new god, and the real reason is that the gods have given human beings a sense of ritual that is above heaven and earth. ”
"Oh, so what?"
"God is a super human." The messenger raised his right hand, and a soft ball of light condensed in his palm, as soft as a water balloon, with large and small ripples.
The messenger said, "We have infinite life and great power, and in order not to be bound by the sorrows of the past, we are deprived of unnecessary feelings. ”
"Gaining power naturally comes at a price, so your feelings are also deprived?" Guiguzi was stunned for a moment, he still thought that the envoy was born like this, "If human beings want to become gods, they have to be deprived of feelings?" ”
"Hmm." The messenger nodded, and continued, "I remember that the initial transformation operation did not deprive the feelings, and the gods could be combined with humans or the descendants of demons, and they could also have children, leaving behind their godhood and growing old with humans. ”
However, there is still a gap between man and God.
The length of life is different, and once a human dies, then the rest of the god's life will be spent in sorrow.
As a result, some gods want to bring their beloved children on this planet into the Ark, in the vain hope that they will also achieve immortality and be together forever through modification surgery.
Doing so would inevitably cause displeasure among the other members of the Ark and disrupt the order that the Ark had spent hundreds of years building, so the seven leaders rejected their applications and expelled them from the Ark.
So, that part of the gods rebelled.
They colluded with the ancient demon gods of this planet, attacked the Inverted Hanging Capital through various unexpected laws, and incited some of their compatriots to rebel against the Ark and the rule of the Seven Leaders.
"And then?"
"Later, huh." The envoy sneered and continued, "In order to suppress the ancient demon gods and the rebellious gods, the seven leaders decided to capture those rebellious gods and transform them, and put them into the battlefield with the ancient gods as the first humanoid machines to erase their feelings, so that they could merge with the ancient demon gods and seal them together. ”
Guiguzi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Could it be ...... The two demon gods we were in the desert of the clouds a long time ago, that is? ”
"Well, they are the gods who rebelled in the glorious war, although they were sealed, they did not erase the title of god, after all, we were once compatriots."
"In this world, there are still many sealed demon gods?"
"Well, the pollution of this planet is getting faster and faster, and it is beyond our control, not to mention that there is a bigger crisis in outer space......" The messenger stared at Guiguzi and said faintly, "Our time is only 100 years, and after 100 years, no matter what choice you make, I will take you aboard the ark, and when the time comes, Mengqi and Daji will be handed over to you." ”
"Okay, I got it...... What about you? ”
"When the time comes, I will have other tasks, and the Ark will also have tasks for you, and when we get to the new world, everything will be worth it."
"By the way, aren't you going to take Daji on a trip?"
"She has her journey, she shouldn't be with us, this world is vast, since Li Bai has conquered it, then Daji can too."
After a pause, she added, "Besides, I'm going to protect you, aren't I?" ”
"Guiguzi, do you want to know my story?"
"You say, I'm listening."
It was the winter of 374 years of the King's Era, they went all the way east from the King's Canyon, first walked out of a dead and silent place in the desert of the clouds, and then crossed the majestic Great Wall that stretched for thousands of miles, and arrived at the glorious land of the ancient era, the place of origin, and then arrived at the Jixia Academy where the heroes were competing for deer, and saw the three sages, on the eve of the Spring Festival, they went to the east wind altar in the third place, but they were trapped by the wind and snow in the woods at the junction of Shu and Wu.
I wanted to study the route and set off, but who knew that the messenger suddenly talked about her past, Guiguzi thought that this was an opportunity to understand that world, so he listened attentively.
The messenger said that she used to be an ordinary human being, and the only thing that was special was that she had a superior memory.
When she was 12 years old, her greatest wish was to follow in her parents' footsteps and become a member of the Cross Project.
The Cross Project, a project in her world to find extraterrestrial civilizations, was attended by volunteers ranging from 16 to 40 years old, with only 108 people in each batch.
At the age of nineteen, she was lucky enough to be chosen by the Cross Project to become the ninth member of the Seventh Sequence, and the number G19 of the star chart was her former number.
This number has been integrated into her blood and bones, and has become a part of her.
She doesn't remember her past name anymore, because once she was chosen by the Cross Project, it meant losing her name, and there was only one codename. G19。
And her parents, numbered A12 and A17, were the best of the starship commanders.
As far back as she can remember, the Cross Base, which was in charge of the Cross Project, had a different plan for each of the selected volunteers.
In addition to her regular training in memory, she also uses her brain to control robots.
At the time, she didn't know why she did that, until one time, they passed through a planet called Dragons.
It wasn't really an extraterrestrial civilization, but a colonized planet of the Earth, a creature that had been put into the experiment by Dawning Technology.
The Commander puts them in control of the robots to kill the monsters that thrive on the Dragonborn planet.
At this time, she realized that their main task was not to find extraterrestrial civilizations, but to find the planets that had been modified by those creatures, customize the rules and put the Eye of Surveillance, and once a mistake occurred, they would send robots to erase it.
The ultimate task of the Ark is to find energy.
Until one day, they got the news that the Earth was destroyed in the astral change.
The members of the Ark, who had lost their way forward, made a decisive choice in confusion.
It wasn't until there were few tens of thousands left on the Ark that the Commander told them the truth about the Cross Project.
It turned out that the Earth Alliance had long known when the star change would occur, and also knew that the earth would be destroyed by the star change, and they were powerless to save it, so they could only escape.
There are 26 groups of volunteers in the Cross Project, and in addition to other special floors, the Ark also has 26 floors as rest areas for members of different batches.
The floors are not connected to each other, and when she learns about her parents again, they are already separated by yin and yang.
When most of the psychologically weak members committed suicide in despair, and there were only a few dozen people left on each floor, the commander told the rest of the people the truth.
The First Commander told her that her parents had been killed because they had suppressed rebellions on other levels.
As for whether it is the truth or not, she is already fearless, and what she needs is a reason to live.
Even if it goes against your heart, you have to live.
"And then?" Guiguzi asked.
"A lot of things happened later, and although my narration was as plain as boiled water, ah, it was a really desperate time."
"If it weren't for my best friend, I might have chosen to commit suicide in despair of losing my parents......"
Later, it was a long hibernation in the hibernation pod through time and space.
The cold, the endless cold, was the only feeling during that time.
When she woke up again, the Ark had already found its first perch, which was the predecessor of the King Continent.
And she was selected as an assistant by the second commander He Xi.
Later, the Ark descended on that planet and began to transform it and sow the seeds of civilization.
In everything that followed, as recorded in history, the gods brought fire, dispersed wild beasts, passed on civilization, and granted demonic skills and tricks......
However, the process of conquering the planet did not go smoothly, and the primordial gods of this planet, like the old rulers of the old world legends, had no concept of good and evil.
In order to fight against this ancient demon god, her friend was transformed into a super human, with power above the gods, but he didn't know how to control it, and after destroying most of the strange realm, he was sealed by the ark in a place where she could not find it.
"Are you still looking for him?"
"No, if there is a change today, he will always appear before the world is destroyed."
"He'll be a threat to the Ark again, what should you do?"
"Kill him, naturally!"
"Why?"
"He was my only friend for a long time, and although my memory has been erased a lot, the boiling blood of life and death is still flowing in my chest."
"I made a pact with Lord Nuwa that I would finish him off when the time came!"
"So, what about later? In the primeval era, what were you doing? ”
The messenger said that three thousand years ago, at the end of the War of the Gods, the gods had broken up, and she, as the retinue of the leader of Fuxi, was supposed to go to the west with him, but she was left behind.
In order to prevent her from using more power than the shesthetic load, the leader cursed her, and if she exceeded the threshold, she would begin to crystallize from her fingers.
"You see, using Heavenly Damnation while on the Great Wall has caused my hands to change." The messenger took off the gloves he had been wearing on his hands, revealing his white fingers.
"This pattern is a curse?" Guiguzi looked at the lines on the back of her hand, raised her eyebrows, and asked.
"Hmm."
Guiguzi exclaimed, "This totem is very beautiful." ”
The messenger said, "The side effects are not small. ”
"Can't you get rid of it?"
"This is left by the leader, and I can't bear it."
"I don't understand your ......"
"The leader is a good commander." The messenger spoke, a look of nostalgia in his eyes.
"Huh?"
"He clearly knows that moving west is death, but he is still willing to enter the body of the organ giant and go to the far west."
"I waited for him for thousands of years, but I didn't expect that he had become a relic and would never come back!"
“……”
"Lord Nuwa probably doesn't know, I'm gradually remembering those pasts, and I remember that I once stayed to kill her."
"Huh? You're going to kill the Creator? Guiguzi had a frightened expression on his face, he didn't expect that such a loyal envoy to the ark would be for this purpose?
The messenger remembered that after she stayed, she went to see Nuwa.
By the time she entered the main hall, Nuwa had already swept everyone away, but she had not reckoned what the envoy had done under Fuxi, such as killing the runaway Kunlun Patrol in the Battle of Glory.
"You're still young, and you can make mistakes." She put her hand on the shoulder of the emissary who stood up and whispered.
That was the first thing the Creator Nuwa said to the messenger after the radicals moved west.
Later, after she gradually replaced the three blue birds, Nuwa said to her in front of all the attendants under the seat, "G, you will be my sword bearer. ”
Later, in the Battle of the Gods, Nuwa, who stayed behind in the upside-down capital, said to him, "It is my last order for you, go to the far north, and after three thousand years, find his successor!" ”
Then, a year ago.
"G, it's time for you to wake up."
"It's time for the world to get back under our control."
"Fu Xi used his sacrifice in exchange for today's peace, but peace is short-lived, for the continuation of civilization, we have to go to the new world."
I don't know when, the envoy had only one leader in his heart, Nuwa.
Even though the words of the leader of Fuxi echoed in her ears over and over again, she still chose to follow the orders of the leader of Nuwa.
Because, only Nuwa's voice is clear.
However, she came to Nuwa's command to kill her.
Even knowing that she was a moth to a fire, she wanted to kill the Creator.
As for the reason...... Maybe it was because she had ordered herself to do something she didn't want to do, to slaughter the infected demons in the Tower of the Sun.
But in retrospect, Nuwa was right.