Chapter 29: The Rule of Chaos

As he walked down the streets, Neil saw more ancient humans, who were far less laid-back and happy than the citizens of Atlantis.

There were very few people walking on the street with their hands empty, most of them were engaged in some manual labor carried by carts, their clothes were ragged, their faces were sad, and to Neil's slight horror, there were some huge minotaurs and horseheads on the streets from time to time, and whenever these orcs appeared, the dwarf humans would hide from a distance, and their eyes showed a look of fear, which looked quite pitiful.

The red strip of cloth jumped before Neil's eyes, and the two continued to walk forward without saying a word. Neil saw a dozen humans in front of him carrying bricks and sand to build a castle-like building, and beside them, three or five horse-headed men with leather whips stood by to supervise the work.

As he walked past them, Neil looked back frequently, unable to tell what it was like. Walking forward, Neil, who had been worried, suddenly heard a crowd of footsteps behind him, and when he looked back, he saw a group of more than a dozen people walking behind, led by a pair of cattle and horses with swords, and behind them were eight humans carrying a huge wooden cabinet, followed by several humans who were struggling to walk with wooden boxes on their backs.

The large wooden cabinet, lifted by eight people, had curtains on the front and sides, which Neil recognized as an ancient Chinese name

The "sedan chair" is a means of human transportation. The big sedan chair passed by Neil's side, and there happened to be a breeze blowing, and at the moment when the curtain was lifted by the wind, Neil saw a strange-looking strange person sitting in the sedan chair, this person should be twice the size of a normal human, the whole face is blue-green, especially the eyes and lips are heavier, as if coated with heavy oil paint, so that people can't distinguish men and women from their faces, only feel a sense of eerie weirdness.

The man's head was slightly raised at the moment, his eyes were half-closed, as if he had fallen asleep, and from under his dress, a huge snake tail suddenly stretched out, the tip of the tail was raised high, and it trembled slightly with the ups and downs of the wooden sedan chair, and the scales on it rubbed against each other, making a rustling sound.

Neil stayed on the spot at a glance, but thankfully Disz pulled him so that he didn't collide with the sedan chair bearer.

Of course, several humans carrying large sedan chairs and carrying boxes did not feel the presence of Neil and Dis, and walked away with a heavy step with a blank face.

Further on, there was a high wall and a huge gate, and Dees and Neil slipped silently past the huge orcs guarding the gate.

Inside the city gates, the scene unfolded in their eyes was even more fantastical. The buildings here are taller than outside the city, and in addition to the regular buildings, you can see some huge installations that you don't know what to do with them; There were no more humans to be seen in the inner city, and they were full of these inhuman oxenmen and snake men, each of whom walked leisurely through the streets, talking and laughing in strange language, and roaring like beasts when they arose.

The strange feeling of such a magnificent city being controlled by orcs that only appear in fantasy stories strikes Neil's heart from time to time.

Suddenly, Neil saw two tall giants walking side by side with several minotaurs, the two giants were in the form of ancient Drowgins, they covered their faces with their hoods, revealing only two cold and deep eyes, and talked with the orcs all the way past the invisible Neil and Dice.

Neil followed the cloth strip silently through the orc city, and Dis probably just wanted to lead Neil to take a glimpse of the orc city, so he didn't stop along the way, and he never spoke to Neil, and Neil didn't ask him anything more.

Further on, the road gradually became deserted, and the cloth strip suddenly stopped in front of an inconspicuous gray-and-white building, and it seemed that Dees was preparing to take Neil inside.

Neil felt Diess lean close to his ear and said in a low voice, "Whatever you see, don't panic." Dees gently pushed open the large iron door and quietly walked in, and Neil followed closely and cautiously followed.

It looks like a huge factory building, dimly lit and with mottled walls. Neil followed Dees into the largest room, hearing a deafening noise of the machine and a foul smell in his nose.

Neil saw a dozen minotaurs and horseheads shuttling between several large machines, manipulating them to cut some white carcasses.

At the edge of the room, a warm scarlet liquid flowed from a large machine, bubbling obliquely between the iron troughs.

Neil felt inexplicably frightened, and a sense of foreboding arose in his heart. Skirting the roaring machine, Neil could dimly see a row of white flesh about his size in the depths of the room, slowly walking in line towards the entrance of a tall machine, flanked by several minotaurs and horseheads with clubs in their hands.

Neil suddenly felt dizzy and couldn't help but cover his mouth tightly with his hand...... Without looking any more, Dice quietly exited the room with Neil and walked quickly in the direction of the outside of the city.

Neil couldn't see Dies's body, nor could he see his own expression, but he believed that his face must have turned a dead gray in Dies's eyes that was even more ugly than the skin color of the Sierels.

The red strip of cloth kept beating in front of Neil's eyes, and the scene around Neil seemed to turn into a blood-red color along with the strip of cloth.

Dees had not spoken to Neil, and he understood that the other party was in no mood to speak at the moment. As it grew dark, Neil followed Dees out of the city to the wheat field he had passed by, where the people who had worked during the day had gone, leaving only the remnants of the sunset pouring on the finished stalks.

In Neil's dizzy and confused mind, the hideous smiling faces of the huge orcs, the dark eyes of the drowkins who talked and laughed freely with the orcs, and the miserable faces of the ragged humans, and even the thought of the humans waiting in line to enter the slaughtering machine, Neil was so angry that his stomach turned and he vomited.

After a while, Neil wiped the filth from his mouth with his hand, held his knees and gasped heavily, and he saw a red strip of cloth at his feet, so Neil looked up at the air above the strip of cloth, and asked Dees to tell him the truth about humanity in that era.

Dis's shrill voice echoed in the dim twilight: "Neil, you must first know that since the moment humans appeared on Earth, you have been an ordinary member of the vast universe, and you have always been just a link in this universe of the jungle, and the Almighty God has not given you any favor, and even more, your condition is even more miserable than that of other creatures that have evolved from nature, because you were created for the purpose of labor and sacrifice, but by very fortuitous chance, You have achieved the status of the ruler of the Earth today.

"I have told you before that the history of the earth is vast and billions of years, and your generation of human beings has only been around for thousands of years, which is really a drop in the ocean compared to the long and deep history of the earth. Perhaps in the distant past life before the dinosaurs appeared, countless generations of intelligent creatures appeared and then perished, and their stories were buried deep in the ground, disappearing without a trace, not even fossils, and thus those past events will not be known to anyone, as if they never happened. In fact, even the short history of your generation of human beings, which is less than 10,000 years old, has experienced great changes like the vicissitudes of the sea of white clouds and dogs. The Great Western Continent that I have taken you to see, and the situation in East Asia before the Flood now, is no longer known to you, but these are indeed real fragments of your human history.

"These scenes just now are the living conditions of your generation when they were mixed with orcs since the birth of the Flood and before the Great Flood. This history lasted for more than a thousand years. However, in large areas west of Kunlun, along the Iranian plateau to southwestern Europe and northern Africa, the human condition is not so bad. There, they have freed themselves from the control of the East Asian orcs and the Dzorkin people of the two river valleys, and some have even established their own states. Later, the vast majority of humanity, along with the East Asian orcs who enslaved you, perished in the terrible Flood, and only a handful of humans survived on the plateau. Weakness can prevail over strength, and history is often written in unexpected directions, but in fact, the choice of history will always have its own laws. Listening to Dies's calm narration, Neil's mood slowly calmed down.

But the sight of humans being driven into the slaughtering machine by the orcs was so strong that the scene lingered in his mind.

Neil felt a faint pain in his heart, isn't this scene an irony of the relationship between humans and other creatures today?

For those creatures that are intellectually inferior to us, why don't human beings also take what they want, and never think that they are all living beings, and they also have their own joys, sorrows, and sorrows?

If there is a higher order being who can be above humans, why can't they treat ourselves the way we treat other creatures today?

In a flash, Neil thought about what Schimer had told him

Things in which "God" will return to earth. Witnessing the enslavement and slaughter of humans in ancient times, Neil was even more convinced that it would be a catastrophe.

If he could really single-handedly prevent the Dzorkins from returning to Earth, then he was determined to stop it from happening, even if he was shattered.

The thought of these fierce and cruel creatures dying out on Earth once and for all once and for all was a doubt that had always arisen in Neil's heart.

He now understands that there was indeed a terrible super-massive flood on Earth, which washed away most of the life on Earth, and after the catastrophe, the Earth slowly became what it is today.

But Neil has always been ignorant about the cause of the flood. He remembered that he had asked Schimer about it, but he had been evasive, and today it was the opportunity for Neil to ask Dees for details of the Flood.

Dees was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "Neil, you can look up and see that the cause of the great flood is above your head. At this time, the twilight was four, and the night had already quietly fallen, but strangely, Neil, who had been listening to Dies's story, did not realize the existence of the night.

The moment Neil looked up, a scene flashed through his mind, it was before the time when Schimer led him to the Great Flood through the wormhole, he had experienced the twilight of the Ancient Earth with Schimer, when Neil was tired and asked if he could rest for the night before leaving, but Schimer sternly rejected his request, leaving a cold sentence: he believed that Neil would prefer to see the scene of the Great Flood than the night of the Ancient Earth.

At the time, Neil didn't know what Schimer really meant, but now, Neil was in the dark night of the ancient earth before the Flood.

In the sky, a giant celestial body like a giant silver plate, glittering with blinding white light, hung low above Neil's head, and Neil knew that it was the home planet of the Chapis from the Alpha Centauri galaxy 4.2 light-years away, the giant battleship transformed by the Dorgins, the devil who had destroyed Atlantis, and the mysterious celestial body that he had obsessively wanted to explore thousands of years later.

At this time, the moon hung above Neil at an incredible height, and it was so large and bright that it completely obscured the deep night sky and reflected the night on Earth as if it were day.

Neil also faintly saw that in the depths of the moon's light, there seemed to be three huge ones

The "Heavenly Pillar" stretches high from the earth to the sky, and the end of the giant pillar is inserted into the moon, and the three giant pillars are like the three arms of the giant, and the moon is firmly held in the sky.

Neil had never seen such a magnificent and strange scene in his life, and he couldn't help but stare at it as if he were petrified.

The troll-like moon above his head, so close to the Earth that he could touch it with his hand, Neil could even see the craters on the moon, the black saucer-shaped ships entering and exiting the craters, and the huge engineering vehicles and robotic arms on the lunar surface.

Busy in the spaceship and engineering vehicles, it should be the Zoljin people who created us; And inside the moon, which Neil can't see, there may be many humans like him who are working hard to build the moon.

Neil's faint recognizable white cables dangling from the moon stretched out at a very strange angle to Earth under the influence of gravity, and Neil realized that it was the ladder that Schimer had mentioned earlier...... This moon is the moon that Neil has been exploring for a long time in order to successfully implement the moon landing program, and it seems to be too familiar to be familiar anymore, but at this moment, in Neil's eyes, it is so unfamiliar, compared to what he sees now, all the research that NASA has done on it before is almost equivalent to a ridiculous zero.

Neil stared at it, and slowly hallucinated in his mind, this strange planet, as if gradually transformed into a man-eating demon, devouring all the essence of the earth, including human beings themselves.

Neil didn't dare to look up at it again, so he sighed softly, lowered his head silently and closed his eyes.