Chapter 21: The Kingdom of God (1)
Li Zhen, Bai Xiaodang, and Enoch walk in a tunnel. The tunnel was long, deep, cold and damp, with only the occasional dripping sound except for the footsteps and echoes of the three men. A few minutes ago they could see the light at the entrance, but now it was gone—they had penetrated nearly two hundred meters into the mountain.
But make no mistake – this is not a secret passage. In fact, the tunnel has an official name from any map of Europe: Olympus Tunnel Line 103.
It is an integral part of the national railway network of the European Union and runs from 400 meters of the Olympus mountain mass into it with a total length of up to 2.3 kilometers. At the other end of the building is a high-speed railway to the Republic of Macedonia, which ran more than 10 times a day six years ago.
But now Macedonia has almost become a no-man's land, and the railway line has been deactivated. The force of nature quickly eroded the man-made ruins here, and the shiny railroad tracks were rusty and would drop reddish-brown debris at the slightest touch.
The original lights on both sides of the tunnel have now lost power. But when the three people passed, the lights turned on in turn, illuminating the distance of tens of meters in front and behind.
Bai Xiaodang kept frowning, and he couldn't help but ask until he walked a few hundred meters: "From here...... Not to get there? ”
"Yes." Enoch replied briefly.
Bai Xiaodang grinned, feeling very strange in his heart - in any case, if someone told him that the legendary "Kingdom of God" actually entered through an artificially dug tunnel, anyone would find it a little difficult to accept.
"But—this tunnel should have been created later than it was created, right?" Bai Xiaodang decided to figure out this matter. She asked, "When the tunnel was built, it happened to hit your doorstep?" ”
Enoch is clearly not at home to the popular notion that humans are human. In fact, he didn't want to deal with this human in the first place. But the problem is that this woman is still followed by a Li Zhen, and Li Zhen also happens to show the curiosity to adapt-
So he had to reluctantly say, "It's complicated. ”
"Tell me?" Bai Xiaodang asked reluctantly.
Enoch looked up and let out a sigh of helplessness, only to turn his face to look at Li Zhen - at least then he would feel that he was answering Li Zhen's confusion, not the mouthy human.
"The kingdom of God does not belong to this worldly realm. In a sense. Enoch slowed down—so that he felt that the unsettling moment would come later, "but there must always be an exit in this world." Exports are not static, but follow certain laws. Generally speaking, it is easier to form an outlet in a long and narrow depth. ”
Li Zhen thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "It's like a sharp and towering place that is more likely to be struck by lightning?" ”
"Yes."
Li Zhen nodded, a little surprised in his heart. If it is said that Zeus used some kind of spiritual energy to open up such a world. There was no doubt that the kind of psionic power he possessed was extremely powerful. And follow the laws that are very different from the world I am familiar with.
He couldn't help but think of what Shen Mu and Wang Yuanwei said to him. It is said that the collision and fusion between the two universes continues, and has a tendency to become more and more violent.
Several collisions in the past have led to the creation of psionic energy, and the most recent collisions have caused the power to fail and the barrier to fall. And Wang Yuanwei said that at least so far mankind is still happy.
Because there are only one or two laws of nature that have been changed. The vast majority of our world is still what we know – fire is hot. Ice is cold. Planck's constant is about 6.62. The speed of light is about 300,000 kilometers per second. Gravity pulls giant stars together instead of repelling them, and nuclear fusion will release energy instead of turning into scary little black holes.
And another universe...... Perhaps there is no such thing as the "speed of light" at all, or that one plus one does not equal two – it would be a world that humans simply cannot understand.
For the macrocosm, this collision may be just a "moment". But for humans, this process may last hundreds of millions of years – it can also be considered a kind of happiness.
And Zeus ...... Is there a certain law in that world? Li Zhen frowned slightly. He also had a similar amount of force—a force that he had received from Ueno Kanyanagi and could manipulate the void. In the first place, the saint deposited his heart in a void somewhere in order to continue to live.
But neither he nor Ueno Kanyanagi can do it to this extent - to create a small world!
Enoch observed Li Zhen's expression, but was disappointed. There was no obvious change on the other party's face, and he was not shocked. Is it assertiveness or forced composure? He didn't know. However, in his heart, he didn't think that the other party had a chance—he knew what kind of terrible power his father had.
Especially after losing some.
He had a lot of contact with humans, and he had even had human wives. So for something that is difficult to explain, he can understand it with certain human concepts. For example, the power that a father possesses.
There is a concept that clearly expresses the state of deep expression of the ability. It's called a "spell bit". It's a sort of in-game parlance, but Enoch discovered a long time ago that the concept had made him understand something thoroughly.
There's a limit to the number of "spells" a character can master in that game - a person with four spell slots can only carry four spells.
Similarly, whether it is a human or a species, there is a certain limit to the abilities that can be possessed. As a "devourer", he can absorb the power of others, but as Li Zhen said before, once the "spell slot" is full, and then continue to gain ability, it will "overflow". To explain it from a human point of view, it is a genetic collapse.
He can gain strength, but he can't lose it.
Unless like a father. Each of the two species loses something to create a new offspring, and the "spell slot" is vacated. Selectively lose some and then gain more and more of your own amount of force. As one of the strongest of the original race, how strong should the father be today?
In fact, he did such an attempt, but the consequences have left him with regret to this day. Together with one of his sisters, he created a descendant – though they were not strong enough to handle such a thing, and that offspring soon died. However, he still lost some of the abilities he didn't want.
It was this incident that he regretted. If he had ten spell slots, he had lost five. Enoch thought he would be supplemented by new abilities like his father, but to his despair...... His spell gauge became five.
He didn't understand what his father could do but he couldn't, so he turned to his father for help. But the King of the Gods was furious, and simply Enoch expelled him from the kingdom of God.
Enoch glanced at Li Zhen again. The man also had the power to "devour" - two hours earlier, he had gained the power of Adonis.
He noticed that Li Zhen coughed up a mouthful of blood, and there were fragments of internal organs inside. This means that the "slot" of the man named Li Zhen is about to be exhausted, and too much power has begun to take a heavy toll on his body.
Enoch continued to lead the way.
After 1.2 kilometers of tunneling, the air became dull and the biting chill became more and more obvious. But the scenery on both sides remains the same—not much at all—still mottled damp walls, with the occasional dull green moss growing in a few places.
It's depressing. So Bai Xiaodang couldn't help but break the silence: "You used to have to walk for so long every time you came out?" ”
This time, Enoch replied crisply.
"It used to be open to traffic."
Bai Xiaodang tightened his bloodstained coat. Shake your head. Then he asked, "How much longer?" Don't do any tricks. ”
Enoch smiled and continued to walk. The lights in front of him lit up, and Bai Xiaodang saw a dusty pile of stones beside the railroad tracks not far away. It wasn't like a stone that had fallen because of a tunnel collapse, because there were patterns on it. It looks like a relic of a building.
And continue to look forward. You will notice more and more such stones in front of you. Dozens of meters away, the rocks almost buried the railroad tracks. Some young grass and tiny branches poked their heads out of the cracks in the rocks, wondering how they had grown in such a place where the sun did not see the light of day.
But strangely enough, the walls on both sides are getting cleaner and cleaner. You can even see the metal nameplate that was embedded in the wall during construction. The pale gold copper base has black lacquer lettering: 0.9 km from the exit.
Enoch glanced back at Bai Xiaodang and Li Zhen as he walked, and said lightly, "We have already walked in." ”
Bai Xiao let out a conscious "ah" at the moment, and only after a while did he realize that Enoch meant that they had entered the legendary kingdom of God, Olympus.
However, she didn't feel anything unusual before.
She glanced behind her in utter surprise. Finding that the tunnel behind her had disappeared, she saw a flat wall. The material of this wall is no different from that of the two walls of the tunnel, as if it has always been there as a matter of course, rather than replacing the deep space.
There was only a dozen centimeters between the wall and her, and she couldn't help but reach out and want to touch it. But she didn't touch the wall - as her fingertips approached, the wall faded away, still a dozen centimeters away.
Enoch stopped and turned.
"I've brought you in." He smiled and pointed behind him, "Keep walking, you'll soon be at the end." ”
The smile came out of place and was a little weird. Li Zhen frowned slightly: "Then you are leaving?" ”
Enoch smiled even more: "Yes, I'm leaving." But unfortunately, you will never be able to get out of the road. ”
Li Zhen immediately stretched out his hand. He used three points of force. But even then, there was a pop in the air in front of him - the speed of his shot was not inferior to the speed at which a bullet was discharged. Very few people were able to dodge this blow, and Enoch was not either.
But the problem is that he didn't move. Li Zhen's palm appeared where he should have been, and the false grip—it should have held his neck, but it was empty—Enoch was just as far away from him.
The Son sighed and said, "Here, it's Olympus, mortal. ”
Then he walked straight to the side wall, and his body was gone. (To be continued......)