Chapter 4 The Resident Traveler
In the void of the universe, there is no life in the cold and dead silence, and in the vacuum is the world of absolute peace.
This area is small and insignificant when you look at the vast universe, and although it is a small galaxy containing stars, gas, cosmic dust and dark matter, and bound by gravity, it all adds up to less than one billionth of the mass of the universe.
It is called the Solar System, and it is a system of celestial bodies formed by a star as the center and the super gravitational pull of the star constricts the celestial bodies. It includes eight planets of various sizes, as well as one hundred and seventy-three known moons, several identified dwarf planets, and hundreds of millions of small celestial bodies.
How to say it, it is an extremely remote corner of the galaxy, but it is blessed with such a unique position that it is like a stage at the center of the entire universe. On that blue planet, life born in the midst of all kinds of coincidences gradually multiplied and evolved, until it had intelligence, both the mind and the body evolved in a specific direction:
Person.
And man obviously does not know that at this time, in the void of 150 million kilometers away from the blue Monday of human life, the star called the sun is scattered with a grand and deep radiation, and the astronomical foreseeable future from eternity to distant time will continue like this forever. But occasionally, or suddenly, at this moment, the surface of the majestic star bursts out with leaping light and heat, and the black spots rise and dissolve, just this instantaneous fluctuation, the incomparably huge high heat, scientifically speaking, the flow of high-energy electrons instantly spreads out, sweeping to every corner of the entire solar system.
On the Arctic Circle, the lonely ice fields shimmer with a mesmerizing color, ghostly and unpredictable. Alaska Native little girl with cute eyes wide,
"Grandpa, grandpa, it's the Aurora !!"
The old man took a deep breath, the sparks in the cigarette gun burned the golden tobacco, he got up slowly and came to the door, wanting to see what his lovely granddaughter saw, and then his dry stare was round, and his old body burst out with amazing kinetic energy, holding his granddaughter at the door in three steps and two steps, regardless of his granddaughter's struggle, he carried her into the house, closed the door, and gasped violently against the back of the door.
"Granddaughter, that's not to be seen......"
Outside the door, nearly 1,000 kilometers above the ice field, the brilliant colorful light patterns gradually twisted towards the center, spiraling like a whirlpool, slowly forming its original appearance.
A gigantic eye.
The head is so heavy, so heavy, it's like being wrapped in a thick quilt, I want to open my eyes, but I can't open them, my eyelids are so heavy, the boy moved his lips, a little chapped feeling, so thirsty, I want to drink some water. Do you have a fever? If you want to get up and buy some medicine, and then do a ritual or something, the rosicrucian ceremony is very appropriate. It was a ritual to ward off sickness and calamity.
The boy thought so, tried a few times, and finally, moved his eyelids, so bright, the light was so dazzling, did he forget to draw the curtains last night......
Wait, last night...... The boy opened his eyes suddenly, and saw the far-reaching sky, vast and far-reaching, unobstructed, no clouds and no sun, but the light was a little dazzling, it was daytime. The night has passed, and the terror has dissipated.
The sky is high, the wind is light, and the boundless desert is below, this world is plain and uneventful, but there is a wordless magnificence. But after last night, the boy no longer felt so, although as long as he thought about it, his head would explode like pain, and he couldn't remember most things, but he still vaguely knew that he had seen something that he shouldn't see, some kind of horror that humans couldn't bear, and then looking around, the boy saw a man sitting cross-legged not far away with his eyes closed. As if sensing the sight of the young man, the man just opened his eyes and looked over, his short silver-white hair was the same as this desert, his eyes were dark gray, his complexion was dark, and his face was resolute, not so much resolute as bitter, there was a feeling that his life was very stressful. The specific point is that the salary can't support the dog, I have to work overtime tomorrow, the boss kills me every day, and my wife does it with others, why don't I die.
"Wake up", the man's voice was very gloomy in line with his temperament, "Didn't your guide over there teach you what not to see Chinese?"
"What is a guide...... I don't have a guide, I came to this place by accident, is this the Starlight Plain? How do I go back?", after a terrifying day and a night, suddenly there was a place to communicate with, and the boy felt a sense of being in a desperate situation, and his dry throat voice was a little hoarse.
The man frowned, and his already bitter face looked even more bitter, "Although I knew that it was unlikely that other travelers would come to this world again, I didn't expect it to be a lost lamb." I came here to take a look," he sighed, "Starlight Plains, of course this is not Starlight Plains, this is just a land that is about to die. ”
Affirmed by the aborigines, the boy also recognized the reality, and it was ridiculous that the supreme holy place pursued by countless cultivators and magicians in the legend was such a barren soil. What's more, last night's experience told him that this place is not only a barren soil, but also a great horror hidden here, and that terrifying light and shadow have always been lurking in his mind, although he can't really recall it, but it does exist in the depths of memory, stinging his mind again and again, so that he does not remember what that person cannot bear.
"And how am I going to get back?" asked the boy eagerly. The middle-aged man glanced at him, "Let's tell me how you got here." ”
"Follow me, talk as you go. The middle-aged man got up and swept the sand on his lower body, and the young man could only hug the only thigh under his eyes and follow. Although I don't know why this person can understand Chinese, and I don't know why I can understand his language, since it exists, it has its reason. Along the way, the boy explained the ins and outs of his magic ritual clearly, the middle-aged man just listened quietly, and when the boy finished speaking, he asked him again expectantly how to go back, and when he looked at him eagerly, he was only silent, silent, and said after a long time,
"It seems that my last piece of flint and steel was indeed wasted. He didn't say anything, just scratched his head, and his sullen face couldn't be any more bitter no matter how he looked at it.
"I'm the last traveler in this world, just call me Ilda. ”