Chapter 4: The World Only I Know (Part II)
"Are you going on a safari?" the Moon Demon gave him a blank look. No pop-up window update fast //
"Your example is inappropriate, I should say that you go to the cinema, where can you see this scene at the zoo. Tianyi said with a smile.
The moon demon sneered: "I'm not wrong, couples go to the cinema on a date and take their godson shopping...... Go to the zoo. ”
"Hmm...... This is good. Tianyi seemed to appreciate this impromptu sarcasm, and did not retort anymore, but said: "Okay, then go directly to the Third Kingdom, anyway, the Second Kingdom was terminated by God after about a hundred years of trouble." ”
The scenery before the two of them began to change again, and this time they came to a real city-state.
In the Moon Demon's imagination, the creatures of the Third Kingdom were supposed to resemble humans, living in stone buildings and wearing clothes made of animal skins. But what she saw at the moment was a port city built by the sea, a metropolis made of unknown metal. The inhabitants of this place do not look like people at all, but they look like penguins for eight points.
"Penguin...... Have you ruled the earth?" the Moon Demon looked at Tianyi and read word by word.
Tianyi replied: "Immediately after the fall of the Second Kingdom, the Third Kingdom was placed on the earth by the gods, and it was a period of pluralism, and all kinds of highly intelligent life were put into various parts of the world and established their own city-states. If you look at these guys, they're a lot like penguins, but not exactly, they have bigger heads, necks that are close to humans, which gives the brain more oxygen, and they have dexterous fingers, four on each hand, instead of flippers. ”
"So, the god used the penguin as a model to create the Third Kingdom?" the Moon Demon's tone remained unchanged.
Tianyi: "There are also koalas, kangaroos, pandas, and so on...... Civilization is different in every place. ”
"And you just said this wasn't a zoo?"
Tianyi was stunned: "Hmm...... Ha ha...... Well, let's skip over to the Fourth Kingdom. ”
"Wait. The Moon Demon said, "How did this lovely Third Kingdom come to be?"
"That's a good question. Tian Yi replied: "The Third Kingdom, tragically, was destroyed by the very few surviving creatures in the Second Kingdom. ”
"What?" the moon demon was puzzled, "Could it be that when the gods obliterate those monsters, there will also be mistakes?"
"Look, I've already stated it. Don't ask questions like that, who knows what God thinks, maybe he did it on purpose, to see if the civilizational power of the Third Kingdom could withstand the onslaught of those guys. Tianyi shrugged his shoulders and said, "After all, God directly endowed those 'cute' creatures in your mouth with an extremely high degree of technological civilization. ”
"Hmph...... And what is the Fourth Kingdom? the revival of the Second Kingdom?" the Moon Demon asked.
"There are indeed some creatures in the Second Kingdom that have been recorded. became objects of worship or reverence in later generations, such as the two we just saw, the Sphinx and the god Anubis. Tianyi replied, "But there is no revival of the Second Kingdom, in fact." The Third Kingdom civilization successfully resisted and destroyed many monsters left over from the mythological era, but the battle ended with the destruction of the Third Kingdom. But the creatures of the Second Kingdom are also a disastrous victory, and there are fewer of them than before.
After two catastrophes, the survivors of the mythical age have become cunning and no longer easily kill their own counterparts of equal strength. Instead, he chose to point the finger at the weaker creatures on Earth. ”
With Tianyi's narration, the two of them were directly above a canyon, and they could vaguely see in the air, in the depths of the dark canyon, a big black snake was lying in it like a dragon.
"Around 10,000 B.C., I came to earth. Tianyi said.
The Moon Demon laughed, a laugh that showed that she didn't quite believe what she was hearing, "What did you say?"
At this point, God seems to be tired of interfering with the planet. He decided to create two agents to help him with this. I am one of them, the narrator. Tianyi's tone was very ordinary, not like he was joking or lying.
The Moon Demon's expression also began to change: "You are already more than 12,000 years old?"
"Almost, I haven't counted it. Tianyi replied: "The other guy is called the Erasure, and he hasn't been able to live me for so long." After the fall of the Fourth Kingdom, he was disheartened. Wiped himself out. ”
The Moon Demon said, "What is the Fourth Kingdom?"
"Darkwaters. "Tianyi said.
The moon demon suddenly realized, and she had only now solved a mystery that had been haunting her for a long time - whether Darkwater was an alien or not.
"But there's more to go back. Tianyi: "Obviously. After three failed attempts at the kingdom, a race that was not favored came into the sights of God. That is a kind of intelligent life derived by this planet in the law of natural selection-Homo sapiens.
In the well-developed brain of Homo sapiens, a dangerous thing was born, to put it more simply and bluntly...... Vice.
You just said that the creatures of the First Kingdom are not higher intelligent beings, and this view comes from your self-awareness, your perception of the world as an individual, which leads you to this conclusion, and this self-consciousness is the difference between you and those creatures.
However, don't you think that this kind of thinking of yours is based on your own innate prejudice and pride?"
"You want to tell me...... The criterion for judging higher beings is sin?" the Moon Demon sneered.
"Dolphins, pigs, dogs, and chimpanzees, they're all smart. Tian Yi replied: "But they will have sex in public, because they have no concept of shame, and without this concept, they will not understand what it means to be in public." He smiled and said, "Then will you ...... with me in public?"
"I know what you mean, you don't have to say it completely. The Moon Demon interrupted.
Tianyi continued: "When people have good and evil in their hearts, they will know honor and disgrace, right and wrong, even if it is a situation like a blood lord. It is precisely because people can be aware of the existence of 'sin' that they are high.
All kinds of negative emotions can be extended to behavior, such as anger, jealousy, lust, greed, etc., etc., which can make people have countless desires to sin, but they may not all be put into action, because people realize that those actions will hurt others when they satisfy themselves, and those actions are 'crimes', and there is a price to be paid for crimes. ”
Tianyi pointed to the canyon below, only to see two people coming up the canyon, a giant about three meters tall, and a humanoid of ordinary size. "Didn't you see that handsome guy with long hair in animal skin. ”
"You're going to die if you want to have a face?" said the Moon Demon, but he did smile, the wild man below him with a disheveled hair and wearing animal skins. It's like Tianyi.
"The Slayer and I have spent more than a thousand years hunting down the creatures that remain on Earth in the Second Kingdom. We had gone our separate ways, but this black snake was the most powerful and deadly creature on the planet at the time, so he and I had to work together. Tianyi said: "Eight black snakes." Wiped out almost all the civilizations they encountered, including some that were older than the four ancient civilizations, and unfortunately, none of those civilizations remained. I asked the Darkwater people around the world to turn their city-states into closed fortresses and sink underground to hide from the creatures. They survived.
Thus, after the creatures left over from these mythological times were completely wiped out, the reign of the Fourth Kingdom began. ”
The Moon Demon thought for a moment and asked, "Then the Dark Water Clan is considered a remnant of the Third Kingdom?"
"No, they were created at the same time as me, and only appeared after the complete fall of the Third Kingdom. Tianyi: "The situation at that time was...... The rise of the human kingdom may well be the last thing God wants, but they seem to have the best hope. Humans are excellent at reproduction, adaptability, and expansion, and these three characteristics are completely comparable to those of other animals. Even the monsters of the Second Kingdom were unable to wipe out these creatures. Although at that time, human beings were not yet the rulers of the earth. But it also stubbornly continued.
In this situation, I was created as a human being, and God chose the yellow race, and perhaps he felt that this human race of skin color had evolved the most thoroughly. Very adaptable to the environment, cheekbones and brow bones are flat, hair is relatively clean, and there is a uniform skin tone, hair color, and pupils, which is basically a feeling of the final official version of Homo sapiens 1.26.
Because I was created to look like a human, I naturally wouldn't have the physical abilities of the Eraser. That guy gave me the feeling that he was a Super Saiyan blood lord, and his combat power was too ferocious. He was made to destroy everything that needs to be destroyed, imagine that......"
"Don't imagine it. I saw ......" Moon Demon was watching the scene of the Eradicator in the canyon beneath him tearing apart the black snake with his bare hands.
The black snake could actually fly, and it could swallow bursts of black corrosive poison, and the flesh and blood that spit out of its mouth turned into something like a corpse soldier to fight for it. But these forces are child's play in front of the Eraser.
Tianyi said, "Hmm...... That's probably it. Or again, I'm different from his mission, I'm the 'narrator', I need a more acceptable appearance, if I look like the Eraser, and when I go into a human village and try to make contact with them, I'm afraid they will either run away in fright, or offer food and kneel down to die. With all the variables of the future in mind, I was eventually shaped into what you see today. ”
"Why don't you look like a Dark Water Tribe?" the Moon Demon asked.
"There's no need, for the Darkwater Clan, appearance doesn't matter, and they won't be intimidated by anyone. Tianyi replied: "But if you are human, it is one of your nature to judge people by their appearance, and you have to accommodate them." ”
At this time, the scene in front of the two of them flew by again, and they came to the ruins of the Dark Water Tribe in an instant. Surrounded by a huge room, there was a statue of a human head in the middle, and the people of the Dark Water Tribes were standing neatly around the statue, they were lined up as accurately as dominoes, and their eyes were all glowing with green light, as if they were performing some kind of ritual.
Darkwater are very similar to humans, they are the same size as adult humans, but they are only the size of children, like a small version of humans. This is not quite the same as the Moon Demon imagined, because she has only seen dark water, so she has a preconceived idea, thinking that her people look like this. As a result, she found that the Darkwater Civilization in the Fourth Kingdom turned out to be like this. And her other discovery is that the facial contours of each Darkwater Tribe's people are actually slightly different, just like humans, and they can be completely distinguished.
"As I said, God created me and the Erasure Ones to basically prepare to be the shopkeeper. Tianyi said: "The Dark Water Tribes created at the same time are close to the most perfect, they have no human evil, they have a life force similar to that of the creatures of the First Kingdom, and they also have a more advanced and complete technological system and spiritual guidance than the Third Kingdom, that is, the Eternal Core. In theory, the Fourth Kingdom would be the most suitable ruler of the planet, and it was unlikely that it would perish.
Besides, there is the overseer of me, the narrator. When necessary, I can act as a diplomatic mission with humans or go undercover.
Of course, when the worst of the worst happens. I'll be used too, in that case...... I'm the last insurance. ”
The Moon Demon said, "Oh, our current world is the worst and worst situation?" she said in Tianyi's tone. I said four most words in a row.
Tianyi sighed: "Thousands of years have passed, and the Dark Water Tribe's pursuit of truth and correct thinking has finally led them into a logical circle, and the conclusion is that 'progress' is necessary. The best way to do this is to devour the Obliterator.
When they came to this conclusion, I knew that the Fourth Kingdom was over, and whether or not they could digest the Eraser was a foregone conclusion, and that the planet still belonged to humanity in the end. ”
The Moon Demon said, "Even if their devouring is successful, they will expand into the universe for the next 'progress', right?"
"Yes. So they're a failed kingdom too. The Eternal Core represents that kind of civilization. Truth means always following what is right. Humans are a race that will go against the truth, and they will always find an excuse to compromise, but the Darkwater people don't have that tendon. Tianyi: "In the end, the Darkwater Clan failed to swallow the Eraser, and the Darkwater people from all over the world gathered. Coming together to complete this devouring, they were countered by the energy of the Erasure. Go up in smoke. Only the guy in our reverse cross is still alive, like the last drop of juice in a glass that can never be drunk. Survived with a few remnants. ”
"You didn't stop them at that time?" the Moon Demon frowned slightly, looking puzzled: "Also, is the Eraser willing to be devoured by them?"
"I can't stop them, 'persuasion' is useless for the Darkwater people, 'orders' are useful, but only temporarily. The root nature of their race means that they will go down the same path repeatedly, that is, I can order them not to devour the Slayer, but they will make this decision again after I give the order. How so...... It's like an open faucet, you plug it with your hand, you can keep the water from flowing out for a while. But unless you screw it on or cut off the water source, the water will still flow as soon as you let go of your hand.
As for the Eraser, he is the same as I am, he understands this, so he will not refuse. However, the result was the expected tragic end, and the Fourth Kingdom was destroyed. The Erasure had long felt that his existence had lost its meaning, a world where there were no powerful creatures to erase was already very bleak, and the Dark Water Tribe had this thing happening again, so the Eraser gave up his vast power and ended himself. ”
"And what exactly is your duty?" the Moon Demon asked.
"The advisor had talked to me about it, and on the first phone call we had, I had hinted to him that my business was actually in charge of the fate of mankind. Tian Yi replied: "When the Fourth Kingdom is destroyed, my mission has changed, and the narrator is to provide management and service to the kingdom that rules the earth, and since mankind has become the new ruler, I am the narrator of mankind." ”
"It's strange how I haven't heard your name in history, let alone any narrator among the human race. The Moon Demon said in a relaxed tone.
"I've said so much from just now to now, you think I'm playing holograms while talking nonsense to you, right?" Tianyi certainly knew the Moon Demon's thoughts.
"Hmm. The Moon Demon shrugged and nodded.
No one will believe these unbelievable things, not to mention that these stories are still told from the mouth, so the credibility has to be folded in half.
Tianyi took a deep breath, and didn't seem to care very much, he pouted: "Okay...... I'll just say it anyway. He thought for a few seconds: "I only came up with the name Tianyi in the third century AD, and I used to call myself the narrator. As for history...... The first thing that every new human dynasty does when it is born is to change that part of its history. Repeatedly, only inconsequential things are recorded and passed down, and when a dynasty changes, countless important truths are forever obscured.
Take, for example, the chaotic world in front of us, if the empire falls apart and a new dynasty comes, such as ...... The Yanwu alliance eventually became the new regime. What will their image be like in the history they have written, and what will be written about what other rebel organizations have done and thought? And in that period of history, is it really necessary for an organization like the Reverse Cross, or the name Tianyi, to appear? They don't know the information of our organization at all, right? How should we write it? Even if there are people within our organization who want to leave the story of the Reverse Cross to future generations, after a few hundred years, it will become a few words of wild history and legends. At most, it was made up by a sullen literati who was unwilling to do so, add oil and vinegar, gather one hundred and eight members, and write a long story, and the full text was also filled with the author's own resentment and dissatisfaction with the society at that time. ”
The Moon Demon smiled: "Okay...... When I didn't ask, you continued, next is the Fifth Kingdom, right?" )