"Neil, as I said earlier, your ancestors and we have experienced the beginning and end of the reconstruction of the moon, and they have contributed a lot to the fact that the moon has become what it is today. So, when I first met you, I told you that you were just the first human to set foot on the moon under the modern earth civilization, and countless humans have been to the moon since far prehistory. The Bible says that Enoch, a descendant of Adam, walked with God, and that Enoch was actually one of the humans sent to the moon. Enoch and his descendants, who have lived on the moon for hundreds of years, have seen firsthand how this cosmic body, which is one-forty-nine times the Earth, has grown from a dark lair of the Chabis to a second home for the creatures of our solar system today. Schimmer gave Neil a meaningful look, and then continued: "As the moon develops better and better, the earthlings who landed on the moon in the first place do not want to return to Earth, where there are no flood beasts that threaten their lives, and there is no need to hunt or farm, they just need to do the work we have entrusted to them." What's more, in that dreamlike 'kingdom of heaven', they can finally realize their dream of walking with God, they can be closer to their gods than their kind living on earth, they can get God's care and listen to God's teachings every moment, they can open their minds, and their lives are sublimated, just like ...... Like you feel right now. Listening to Schimer's statement, Neil was silent.

The picture of the other party splitting the river and burning the trees just now flashed back in his mind like a movie. Schimer warned Neil so harshly not to be suspicious of him, but, perhaps because of human nature, the more categorically certain the other person's words, the more Neil would figure it over and over again.

Especially now, for the first time, Neil had a deep suspicion of the words of the alien elder in front of him.

His instincts told him that Schimer's words were illogical: the desire to walk with God was not the way of human thinking, unless the human mind was not yet developed in ancient times, or the other person was talking about a different kind of human being than today's human beings.

Schimer continued: "Compared to the humans who landed on the moon, your ancestors who remained on Earth have evolved over thousands of years to make the situation more complicated. First of all, due to the harsh nature of the environment, your lifespan is much shorter than when it was first created. At the same time, as the ancient Drowgins took a loose free-range approach to your highly intelligent creatures, your character has slowly deteriorated as the ancient humans have drifted away from my ancestors. At a certain point in history, due to the instigation of some undesirable elements among the alienated human beings, more and more primitive human beings defected from their gods. For the first time in your history, there is a leader within your race, who leads humanity step by step astray, and slowly you form classes, armies, and nations, and you fight and kill under the leadership of the so-called strong, and seize more land and wealth from other species and your kind, just to satisfy the ravines of your heart's desires that can never be filled, you are like a herd of lost lambs leaving the rich pastures, and like a group of ignorant children who have taken up dangerous swords and guns. From the day you lost the teachings of the Dzorkins, the evil that lurked in your hearts drove out the original good, and like an uncontrollable wildfire, it invaded the original pure body and mind. The story of Cain's murder of his brother Abel out of jealousy and his inability to please God is a harbinger of evil, a tragic metaphor for humanity that has become more greedy and vicious day by day. You have taken and plundered, you have taken the fruits of other species, your kind, and even your gods, and you have coveted power, land, and even the planet of God. Some of your ancestors returned to Earth from the Moon, and they told others about the beauty of the heavens, and there were some of the human beings who had never been to the Moon, and there were some who had the audacity to climb from the Earth to the Moon by the Ladder of Heaven, and our ancestors were overwhelmed by you......" Neil's thoughts were temporarily removed from the confusion by a fresh word: "The Ladder? What's that? "The ladder is a means of transportation that we set up to connect the earth and the moon, mainly used to transport materials and occasionally to carry people. You know, during the construction of the moon, there needs to be a lot of material to pass between the two stars, so we used very light and ultra-high-strength materials to build an orbit that connects the earth and the moon, so that the cargo compartment that carries the supplies can run in orbit, which is called the ladder. One end of the ladder connects to the surface of the moon, and the other end is erected on the lofty mountains of the earth, and they have been moving in an orderly manner for hundreds of years. Towards the end of the moon's infrastructure, ladders were rarely used, but as a backup transportation option, our ancestors did not dismantle all of them, and because of this, some crazy humans on Earth wanted to try to climb ladders to reach their mysterious kingdom of heaven. Out of the greatest kindness, the Dzolkins were unable to completely stop this behavior of the humans, and in the end they had to cut off all the ladders. However, mankind's dream of reaching heaven cannot be stopped, and the Tower of Babel recorded in your Bible, the Jacob Ladder in Greek mythology, and the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk all tell the story of the prehistoric ladder. Schimmer's explanation also brought back memories of the ladder in Neil's mind: borrowing it had been proposed in the early 20th century

"Ladder" to explore the universe (the principle is the same, but the name is different), and even during the implementation of the moon landing program,

The Ladder was also submitted to NASA as a proposal that was later criticized as more than fantasy and not feasible.

In fact

The most critical point that the "ladder" project has not been able to achieve is that mankind has so far not found a material that is both light, cheap, and strong enough to build such a direct orbit to heaven and earth.

However, although it is impossible for humans to achieve this, it should be entirely possible that it was successfully built by the Dorgin people, the creators of mankind, in ancient times.

But that's not the crux of the matter...... Neil couldn't help but ask Schimer again: "High Priest, I really don't mean to offend, it's just that as an astronaut, I really can't understand that the distance between the earth and the moon is 400,000 kilometers, and we need to sail for four days to reach it in a high-speed spaceship, so how did ancient human beings, with only a tiny physical body, climb from the earth to the moon?" The muscles on Schimer's face trembled slightly, and he smiled at Neil, but he was slightly embarrassed: "Neil, the situation on the ancient earth and the moon is slightly different from today, I can't answer your question at the moment, but you must understand that what I am telling you is a real story.

"The coexistence of man and God lasted for about 1,300 years, and in the end, as described in the Bible, we were disappointed in you again and again and decided to give you up. You are the children we created, but we have not been able to teach you better. Perhaps, it is true that you are already in your genes with depravity and self-destruction. More than 4,700 years before you were born, around 2,700 B.C., the Drowin decided to punish humanity on Earth the severest of all. ”

"The Great Flood?" Neil couldn't help but burst out.

"You're wrong, Neil, the Drowgins don't kill their own children, and although it was true that there was a cataclysmic flood on Earth at the same time, it wasn't the result of the Dorgins' will...... These are two different things, and I'll tell you about that later. Schimer was silent for a moment, then said, "Well, Neil, you just asked me about the human ladder to the moon, I thought about it, and decided to tell you that one of the facts you need to know is that the moon and the earth at that time were not as far apart as they are today. Neil was secretly surprised.

Schimer stopped the topic in time: "As benevolent creators, the Zolgin people have always maintained the greatest tolerance for the human beings we have created, and we have always believed that you can come out of the fog and return to the right path, but, more than a thousand years later, when we found that human beings are not as simple and good as we expected when we first created them, when we saw that you were becoming worse day by day but powerless to change, we decided to leave you and end the state of living with you.

"Our punishment for you is to drive away from the moon and leave you to fend for yourselves in the mire of evil.

However, just as the Chinese saying goes: Happiness is unequaled, and disaster is not a single line, and the natural environment on the earth has also undergone a great change at this time: when we left, the earth's attitude in cosmic space suddenly underwent a strange deflection, and the sunlight that was originally oblique on the northern hemisphere suddenly became direct. This upheaval caused the planet to heat up dramatically, and the ice caps covering the Arctic melted almost entirely under the sun's roasting, triggering a massive flood that swept across the entire hemisphere. The catastrophe came and went in a hurry, lasting only a few months, but even so, the huge flood still inundated large swathes of the Northern Hemisphere, leaving only some mountains and plateaus still above water level; Most of the plants and animals on land, including the orcs and prehistoric humans you see, were almost swallowed up by this flood. Neil exclaimed, "So, the Great Flood recorded in the Bible actually happened?" ”

"That's right," Schimer looked down at Neil, his tone becoming as low as he had told how Drow Venus had died,

"This painful experience is short and profound for you humans, and it has left an indelible mark on the hearts of those who survived, so that the story of the Great Flood has been preserved in great detail in the ancient legends of the people of your various regions through word of mouth. In fact, before this catastrophe, our ancestors had issued a warning to human beings on earth, so the story of Noah's Ark recorded in the Bible did indeed happen in a sense. Of course, Noah's Ark is just a fable, a small ark cannot save thousands of living beings on the earth, and human beings and birds and animals on land have been able to save their lives by escaping to the mountains and plateaus......" In Neil's eyes, Schimer's gushing lips slowly pushed away like a movie lens, and his voice gradually blurred like a layer of smoke, and at the same time, A huge mystery is rising more and more clearly in Neil's heart: since the natural conditions of the Earth and Drow Venus are very similar, why did the Dzorkin people still go to great lengths to renovate the moon - the lair of their enemies after they came to Earth?

And, after living on Earth for more than a thousand years, they were able to retreat to that small planet whose natural conditions and living environment were far inferior to those of Earth, just out of disgust with human beings, and surrender this blue planet, which was perfect in any case, to their creation?

Would the Dzolkins really be so noble? It's no longer a question of nobility or not, it's a completely perverse thing.

In a universe where the law of iron and blood follows, Neil does not believe in the existence of such intelligent beings.

What forced them to leave the earth was far from being a morally degraded human being. But what is that?

Instead of dispelling the doubt in Neil's mind, the answer given by Schimer tore the hole of the doubt bigger and bigger.

Neil had this mystery in his heart, and then thought about his current situation, and for a moment felt like he had fallen into a dark and cold valley.

But out of fear of Schimer's previous intimidation, Neil no longer dared to question his words.

As if he had suddenly remembered something, he said to Neil, "Neil, would you be interested in coming with me to see what it was like on Earth during the Flood?" "At this time, the sun has set in the west, the setting sun is slanting on the green field, and a small river not far away is also smeared with golden light by the sun, and the surface of the river is shining with sparkling waves, which is extremely beautiful.

Neil looked up and saw Schimer's tall figure bathed in the sun, his whole person outlined by the sunlight in a golden outline.

I don't know if it was due to the other party's tall stature or the illusion in his own mind, Neil saw that Schimer in the setting sun actually cast two shadows on the ground, one large and one small, and at the same time, his body was shining like an angel in the sun.

Neil hesitated and said, "I'm sorry, High Priest, my head is messing up right now, and my body is feeling a little weak, or can we take me here for a little rest, and you can take me to visit the time of the Great Flood tomorrow?" Neil refused Schimer's request for the first time, terrified.

Schimo looked at Neil, and a smile slowly appeared on his face, but this smile was completely different from what Neil had seen before, and the cold feeling made his heart feel cold.

Schimer said coldly, "Neil, you must not want to see me give you a second warning. We are not here for vacation and sightseeing, and I tell you honestly that the purpose of your return to Earth this time will be to welcome the sacred mission on behalf of mankind. Do not doubt your God, and do not question all that I have told you. I have a different meaning for all the arrangements you have for this trip. Believe me, you'd better not spend the night here, as you'd probably be more interested in seeing a flood than a cold, dreary night. Believe me. ”