Chapter 37: Return to the Moon
"That's probably what your generation of Homo sapiens experienced before they had a history of faith." After some statement, Dees said to Neil, "If it weren't for your experience, then these past events would have drifted away in human memory over time, and there was no way to get back, but I never thought that this Pandora's box would be opened again because of your moon landing." So now, Neil, it's time for you to make a choice, a choice that is about the fate of humanity and the rest of your life. "Next, I can send you to one of the following three space-time nodes: first, you can go back to Earth before the moon landing, and I can also let you go back with all the memories so far, and see if you can find a way to stop you humans from landing on the moon; Second, you can go back to the moon again and meet the Drowin High Priest, and you know what he wants from you, then you can go and give him the answer you want, and I will not interfere with your heart's decision; Thirdly, if you feel too stressed to deal with these annoying things, I have another way - we can take you back to the planet of Auger, where you will spend the rest of your life with some 'smart people'. ”
Neil stared blankly into Dies's eyes, not responding for a long time. Victim also stopped working on the ship's touch screen and turned his head to look back at Neil. Neil's gaze was empty, as if he was flashing back to all this bizarre experience in his mind. After a long time, he slowly said his decision: "Dies, I want to choose the second option. This mess started because of me, and I think I should go on my own and get rid of it. ”
Dees smiled at Neil, then turned back to Victim and said loudly, "So, let's go, coordinates: 1969 A.D., Moon." ”
The moment he stepped on this barren and silent dusty land again, Neil was in a trance, as if he had returned to a dream. The magical feeling was so strong that he never felt so absurd when he recalled the time when his soul had been in the body of Tessyria or Noah. He remembered what Schimer had explained to him about time travel, the methods of racing against light, the tricks used against time...... After experiencing so many unbelievable events, he finally took a step back and stood at the starting point of all events, but he knew in his heart that this was no longer the ignorant and simple starting point at the beginning.
Dice and Victim's ship lowered Neil and disappeared, and Neil, standing on the surface of the moon, walked towards the bright spot ahead. Approaching the Dzorkin outpost on the lunar surface, Neil's eyes lit up with a huge searchlight source, two saucer-shaped ships hovered over his head, and ten minutes later, he was taken to the chief priest's office, which still sticks in his memory. Sitting behind the table was no longer Schimer, but an old Drogin he didn't know. When the new chief priest saw Neil, his surprised expression froze on his face, the human appearance in front of him had already been familiar to him when he learned about the "disappearance of Neil", but he never expected that the protagonist of the event would appear in front of him in this way. After Neil revealed his identity, he bluntly expressed his desire to meet with Schimer, and the new chief priest complied to Neil's request and arranged for him to meet with Schimer alone in a secret room.
Neil looked much older in front of him. After separating from the shores of the Red Sea, Neil has suddenly traveled thousands of years of time, through several generations and eons, but the days with Siqimer are still vividly engraved in his mind, and the scene of Siqimer fleeing from him in the early morning seems to have happened yesterday. Si Qimo, who was sitting opposite Neil, still looked like the awe-inspiring elder, and his gaze at Neil was still burning like a torch, but there was less hesitation and more hesitation and doubt in it. The two sat and stared at each other for a long time, and Si Qimo sighed and said, "Neil, you're finally back." ”
Neil said slowly, "Yes, I'm back. And I have become clear about the significance of my return, both for you and for me. High Priest, at this moment I surrender myself entirely to you, and I am willing to listen to everything you have to say to me, and I will face all that may happen. It's just that please stop using some secretive tricks on me, and I hope you'll be honest with me about anything. ”
Schimer looked at Neil, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he lowered his voice and said: "Neil, it's been a long time since the last goodbye, I don't know what you've been through during this time, but I can see that you've grown a lot." Speaking of honesty, I wish so, and now I tell you that we Drowgins really need your help to get rid of the impending doom. ”
Schimer's deep eyes stared at Neil, and Neil's heart couldn't help but sink. Before returning to the moon, what he thought was that the Zolgins, who had to return to the moon after being defeated in the war with the West Erels, had always coveted the land of the earth, and when they had the opportunity to see the humans of the earth again, they would definitely use various methods to try to persuade the humans to agree to their return to the earth, so that they could get rid of the poor living conditions of the moon and return to the earth with a good natural environment. At the same time, Neil also thought of a strategy in his mind. But now that Schimer was telling him that something was going to happen to the Dzorkins, Neil had never been prepared for this, and he didn't understand the meaning of the other party's words, so he settled down and listened to Schimer continue.
"Neil, maybe you don't understand why we have to go back to Earth. Not to mention that the moon has merged with the earth thousands of years ago, and we were once the de facto masters of the earth, and not to say that we left the earth in the first place, in fact, we were helpless under the oppression of alien powers, but the moon itself where we are located is the most fundamental reason why we have to leave it. This matter has been kept strictly sealed as a secret, and even the vast majority of the Drakin do not know the details, but now, in order to gain your sympathy, I am willing to tell you and to you: Do you remember the Chapis I described to you? The demons who destroyed our home planet are the natives of the moon where we live, but they are the ones who have set the most vicious curse on this planet......
"Neil, you know, when we were still living on Earth, we sent people to pull the Moon from the orbit of Drow Venus to the Earth's orbit, and I told you at the time that the interior of the Moon had become a dead city, and that the Chabis had been wiped out, and now I have to admit that what I said is not true, the truth is that there is still one last Chapis left in the Moon, and that is their former leader, Dietet.
"Dieter never gave us a clear explanation of the whereabouts of the other Chabes, and our suspicion was that there was infighting among the Chabis in the starship, that Diete's men had defected, or that Dieter had killed all of his men for some purpose, and that he was the only one left in it when we re-entered the moon. Unable to stop us from seizing the starship, Dietet brought him back as a prisoner of war when our task force brought it back to Earth. Since then, Dieter, who is afraid that microbes will not be able to come to Earth, has been imprisoned in the depths of the moon. According to the guard's journal, after being imprisoned, Dieter became slow to react and stiff, like a dormant reptile, or like a zombie that had not fully awakened, and the whole outside world seemed to be of little importance to him; But what he has always insisted and emphasized to us is that he cannot leave the moon or die, and if he does do so, it will happen to us that we cannot imagine. At first, we only thought that he was approaching old age and had become greedy for life and afraid of death, so as to find some excuses, and because he really would no longer pose a threat to us, we kept him in this way; But after we were defeated by the West Errelians and the whole clan retreated to the moon and away from Earth, Dietet suddenly returned to normal and became extremely excited. He asked to meet our priest at the time, Anlan, and revealed a terrible secret, telling Anlan that if he died, the whole moon, and all the Dorgins on the moon, would be buried with him, and more specifically, if he died, the moon would be blown to pieces like the original Drow Venus.
"At first my ancestors did not believe him, but Dieter was stern, saying that life and death did not matter to him, and that he had told us this out of sympathy for the Dzorkin people. My ancestors asked him about the exact circumstances of the matter, and Dietite stated that in their' At the beginning of the implementation of the 'Homeland of the Earth' project, he ordered his subordinates to build a device in a hidden location on the starship, which was a powerful antimatter fuel bomb large enough to destroy the entire moon, and this bomb was connected to a remote sensing receiver that could continuously receive his own brain waves, because Dieter's brain waves were different from ordinary people and had a strong transmission power, so in the whole lunar range, this remote sensing device could sense his brain waves, but if the receiver could not receive any wave rate from his brain, it would start to detonate the antimatter fuel bomb on its own!
"Dieter told us that this was done to ensure that his men were unconditionally loyal to him and that they would not dare to do anything wrong with him, and he said with regret that he did not expect this method to be used by us to blow up Drow Venus, and then laughed that he did not expect it to end up being the ultimate means of revenge against us. My ancestors were still skeptical of his words until he led them to see the horrific device in person. ”
Schimer's story is told vividly, Neil was surprised, Schimer suddenly "whirred" from his seat, grabbed Neil's arm, Neil was taken aback, I don't know what the other party is going to do, Schimer leaned down and looked directly at Neil and said word by word: "Let's go, Neil, I'll take you to see this nightmare that has haunted us Drogin people for thousands of years." ”