In the camp in the forest, in the tent made of animal skins, the former king of the city of Doma was lying weakly on his bed.

It had rained all night last night, and perhaps because of the rain, his wound was getting more and more swollen.

It seems that not only the ancestors, but even the great Tree of Insov are on the side of the Qiu people.

But why?

Those fellows could not hear the sound of the tree of Insov, but they won his favor.

Lying on the bed, Tunnan was puzzled, but his consciousness had gradually become trance.

At this moment, he has not yet realized how small he is to heaven and earth.

The person who defeated him was never the Qiu people, nor the ancestors, nor the tree of Insof, but the arrogance and greed in his own heart.

He thought he had understood the secrets of the Tree of Insov, but he did not realize that he was just an ant at the foot of the tree, and that what he had penetrated was not even fur, but just withered leaves and bark.

But it's not his fault.

The limitations of the times doomed him to look at the problem from the perspective of an ant.

The giants belonging to the tribes of the forest have not yet appeared, and the enlightenment of the mind has not yet arisen.

Perhaps as time goes by, when his descendants finally come out of this forest, truly light the fire of civilization, step into the starry sky with their feet, and reacquaint themselves with the tree of Insov...... There may be a different understanding.

But that will be thousands of years from now.

If their civilization can stand the test of time and come to that day......

Looking at the weak leader, Sakuy, who was sitting next to the bed, sighed softly and said in a trembling voice.

“…… The prophecy came true. ”

Flames, corpses, death......

It was the revelation he had received from connecting to the Tree of Insov, and he had seen it since before the war began.

And that's exactly what happened.

The all-knowing and all-powerful He seems to have penetrated cause and effect, or rather, He is cause and effect itself!

Shocked by the terrible karma, Sakoy pressed his left hand to his chest and threw a handful of the ashes of the beast into the fire with his right hand, muttering with vibrating words in his mouth, repenting and praying to the great Tree of Insov and the First Father.

Tun Nan, who was squinting slightly, suddenly opened his eyes, and a rare trace of piety appeared on his angular and weak face.

"I saw the tree of Insov...... He is calling me. ”

Hearing this, Sakuy's face changed drastically, and he took the young leader's hand, and his voice carried a hint of pleading.

"Please don't leave us behind."

Tun Nan sighed and said slowly in a gossamer.

"I don't want to, but my days are numbered...... Not heeding the admonition of my ancestors was the greatest mistake I made, and the descendants of the city of Dom should remember this profound lesson. ”

As he said this, a hint of ruddy luster suddenly welled up on his weak face.

As if in the light of day, he lifted his arm and took Saquay's wrist.

"I have to go back to the city of Dom and take me to the presence of the first father...... I want to apologize to him personally. ”

That was his last wish, and it was the revelation he saw through the Tree of Insov.

It was the last thing he could do for his people.

Looking at the piety and determination in those eyes, Saquay choked back tears and nodded his head, promising the leader who was about to die.

"Okay."

Escorted by 300 remnants of soldiers, the soldiers of the Doma tribe traveled day and night, and finally brought Tunnan back to Doma before the sun set for the third time.

And at this moment, outside the temple at the base of the sacred tree, devout believers are prostrate beside the roots of the tree, which is as thick as a mountain.

Thousands of fireflies are lingering under the majestic canopy of the trees, turning night into day, and the green leaves into gold.

Seeing this incredible scene, the eyes of the tribal warriors returning from the front line widened, and the priests who accompanied the army had even more incredible expressions on their faces.

Even Tunnan, who had the most powerful "psionic energy" in their tribe, couldn't drive so many "Holy Light Worms".

Ordinary clansmen who have awakened their spiritual energy can only drive dozens or hundreds.

And at this moment, the "Worm of Holy Light" that haunts this place lights up the entire sacred tree!

That's too many to describe in the language of the people of the Tree of Insov!

"Golden Tree ......"

Saquay muttered to himself, staring intently at the glowing canopy.

He remembered an old rumor.

Legend has it that at the beginning of the distant wilderness era, when all the people on this land lived in the valley of the Forbidden Forest, the original sacred tree that sheltered all living beings was like this!

Now the long-vanished scene has once again befallen this forest, and it has descended on the sacred tree of the tribe of Dom.

In addition to ecstasy, Sakuy's heart was more confused.

What the hell is going on?!

At this moment, he saw the temple maid kneeling at the entrance of the temple praying—

The one who prophesied in place of the first parent.

With trembling steps, he walked briskly through the winding roots to the entrance of the temple.

Kneeling beside her, the old man asked, clasping his hands together in prayer, establishing a spiritual connection with her.

"What's going on here?"

Dora's eyes were closed, there was no trace of waves on her pious face, and her peaceful state of mind like a lake echoed silently.

“…… The tree of Insof performed a miracle, and the Patriarch heard His voice once more. ”

Sakui was stunned for a moment, and then his face changed suddenly.

"The Ancestor is still inside?"

Dora nodded slightly.

"We begged him to come out, but he refused......"

Saquay froze in place, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately got up from the ground and walked towards the entrance of the temple.

Dora didn't stop him, but opened her eyes and watched as the figure disappeared into the entrance to the temple.

It didn't take long for the old priest to come out of the temple with blank eyes.

His face was full of confusion and bewilderment...... And gradually turned into panic and fear.

He was clearly walking towards the depths of the temple! However, as I walked, I returned to the entrance!

Dora looked at him and said in that silent language.

"No one can enter the temple......"

"Without his permission."

She'd tried it many times before that......

……

The outside of the temple was as bright as day, and the inside of the temple was as brightly lit.

Sitting on the bed entwined with vines, Ye Shi quietly stared at the murals on the wall, only to feel that the spiritual world was more full than ever.

It was an amazing feeling.

It's as if two trumpets were opened on the same computer, and one of the trumpets went into the copy.

When he was in the hyperspace channel before, he had experienced this wonderful feeling once, but he left in a hurry before he had time to think about it.

Now, as he sank his consciousness into his surroundings and allowed the divergent spiritual perception to spread to his surroundings, the feeling of consciousness traveling through time and space came back to him!

And unlike before, this time his consciousness in the "Overworld" did not fall into a deep sleep, but remained awake at the same time as the consciousness in the copy.

But on the other hand, this time he couldn't touch anything in the dungeon, and could only watch through a layer of flickering fog and watch what happened quietly behind the fog.

This is probably "psionics".

At first, Yashi was a little overwhelmed by this bizarre situation, but now he is proficient in controlling this ability and choosing the target to establish a connection with.

For example, he connected his consciousness to the sacred tree in the city of Doma, and through the growth patterns engraved on the roots of the sacred tree, he sent part of his consciousness back to more than 150 years ago, to the time when this towering tree was first planted in this forest.

As he had speculated, the sacred tree in the forest had indeed been planted by the crew of the Twins.

And that's not all.

After some testing, Night Ten was pleasantly surprised to find that he could not only establish a psychic connection with the mural at the root of the sacred tree, but also continue to activate his abilities while entering the dungeon, using the target in the dungeon as a "springboard" to enter a new dungeon!

In other words, drag the "progress bar" forward! Drag this sacred tree more than 200 years ago before it was planted!

Of course, this iteration is not infinite.

When he used the target in the dungeon as a springboard to enter a new dungeon, what he could see was already quite blurry, as if an even thicker layer of fog had shrouded the outside of the fog.

Through the fog of the void, all he could see was a vague shadow, and all he could hear was the occasional word, and he couldn't find a new "springboard" at all.

However, even if you can hear and see only a few words, it's pretty good.

At least for Night Ten, it was enough to help him restore the history of the planet in the past 200 years in combination with the information on the mural!

At the end of the three-year war, the Twins and Orion received orders for the "End War" plan, respectively.

As Captain Zhao Tianhe had a hunch, they received very different orders from the twin ships, which were sister ships.

The Orion is the executor of the Endwar plan, responsible for restarting the Earth's ecological environment and thoroughly cleaning up the remnants of the Gaia Seed, so as to help the Vault better rebuild the order of the Human Era.

As for the Twins, who have little ammunition in reserve, they are the overseers of the plan, and are responsible for monitoring the Orion's execution of orders.

In fact, the two sides had no choice from the start.

Especially when the Twins knew that the Orion would most likely not carry out the mission, they could only strike first if they wanted to survive.

And even if they strike first, the probability of them surviving is quite low, at most it is just a fight to the end.

A victory like that is meaningless, even worse than a defeat.

So, Song Yuchuan, the captain of the Twins, made an extremely risky and bold decision -

That is to upload the thoughts of the entire crew to the board!

They will kill themselves before their opponents kill them, and will resurrect them after they die with them, continuing their orders as androids.

This is the best solution they can come up with.

Between the survivors and the people, they did not hesitate to choose the people.

This plan was well received by most people, who had no better choice in the first place, and most of their families were in shelters.

However, there are a few people who believe that this act of uploading thoughts to the circuit board is no different from suicide, and that the "End-of-Doom" plan developed by the Lagrange point space station is even more stupid.

The right thing to do is to talk to the Orion, they believe there must be a way to keep everyone alive.

As for how this dispute happened and how it ended, Night Ten could not see any more information.

Through the fog of the void, there was only so much history he could see 200 years ago.

After all, for the sacred tree above his head, it is not easy to truly understand this memory that "belongs to heaven".

What's more, the crew who planted it obviously didn't want to recall those "old times" things either.

Seventeen crew members were eventually stuffed into a hibernation pod, stuffed into a landing craft and shot into a synchronous orbit.

Needless to say, what happened after that was pretty much the same as what Night Ten had seen in the hyperspace lanes and on the wreckage of the Orion.

The Twins fired a landing craft loaded with neutron bombs and the "souls" of the entire crew at the Orion, who fired a neutron torpedo at the former a split second before entering the hyperspace channel.

The wreckage of the Twin remained in orbit around the planet Gaia, while the Orion leaped five light-years away with its crew in a superimposed state of uncertainty about life and death.

As for the seventeen crew members who were "exiled" in the hibernation module, they had been sleeping in synchronous orbit for nearly forty or fifty years, and finally woke up at the end of the Age of Savage.

They landed on the planet Gaia in a landing craft and found the descendants of the colonists on the planet, the green-skinned Gaia.

In the study and observation of those Gaians, they gradually realized that there was a deviation in the understanding of the Gaian planet by the Human Union.

Or even downright wrong!

Whether this mistake was due to the deliberate misdirection of the "radical forces" in the colonies, or whether it was due to the condescending arrogance and prejudice of the Federation itself.

After studying the living habits and cultural customs of the Gaia people, the seventeen crew members finally came to the conclusion -

There was once an infinitely thriving civilization on this planet.

And it's different from the human association that has just stepped into the starry sky.

The prosperity of this advanced civilization is far beyond the galaxy of Nanmen II, and its footprints have even gone far beyond the scope of human civilization!

As for Gaia –

It's just the "ecological maintenance system" left by that advanced civilization on this planet.

I have to say that this discovery is quite fascinating.

Whether it's the existence of that higher civilization itself, or where they end up.

After all, if even this "forerunner" whose achievements far surpass that of human civilization cannot escape the end of self-destruction, the decline of human civilization seems to be nothing to regret.

All things go from life to death, from death to life, but it is a predestined fate.

Curious about the "pioneers" and eager to reveal the "truth of the universe", the seventeen crew members temporarily abandoned their plans to return home, and with the help of their limited tools, they launched a series of investigations into the Gaia and their sacred tree.

And after a series of twists and turns, they finally discovered His existence!

It was on the eve of the "Awakening Era", and it was Qiu Shiye, a physicist from the Five Divisions, who first discovered him.

These guys, who are usually useless, can always prove in inexplicable places that they are not as useless as they seem, but they are not very useful.

In short, after more than ten years of research, he finally analyzed the "psionic energy" possessed by the Gaians, and discovered the existence of the "Tree of Insof" after awakening the psionic energy, and then explained it with the theory of dimensions!

These are all messages that remain on the frescoes of the temple.

After Ye Shi understood the content of the mural, he naturally inherited these clues, and had a direct dialogue with "him" like Qiu Shi, who had "succeeded once"......

It was that conversation that made Dr. Qiu Shiye completely crazy and fell into hysterical madness.

Or to put it another way, it's crazy.

He learned from the pioneers that there is a "Creator" in this universe, and that everything in this universe, including himself, is just a character in a book or a mural on a wall.

If you want to take your destiny into your own hands, the only way is to break the "window of vision"!

That is, to break the fourth wall!

In Dr. Qiu's view, that is the fate that all civilizations must eventually go through, and they will eventually face their own Creator!

And there is a living example of it before him—the "pioneers" who once existed in this universe have succeeded in breaking down the barrier between them and the Creator!

In order to achieve this, he needed further tests of the reactors on the USS Twin missile cruisers, which needed to be dismantled and moved to the ground.

Naturally, the other sixteen crew members objected to this crazy plan, after all, it was their only hope of returning home.

In the eyes of the other sixteen crew members, they had successfully excavated the entire ruins and it was time to get out of here.

Not to mention that they have all suffered from madmen, and have been kicked off the boat for this.

In order to prevent the black sheep from doing something outrageous, they tried to lock the guy up, but unfortunately let him escape into the forest with his followers.

And these people were the later "Qiu people" - those "materialistic" natives who could not perceive psionic energy.

What happened then was the "Second Judgment Day" known to all the natives of this forest -

The burning palace fell to the ground!

It is worth mentioning that the murals in the temple of Doma City were not left by Dr. Qiu, but were one of the other sixteen crew members.

They brought the seeds of the sacred tree into the forest, and with the help of the natives who had awakened the "psionic energy", they nurtured the new sacred tree, and recorded this history at the roots of the sacred tree.

It is precisely for this reason that the information on the mural actually contains a strong subjective color.

Standing in the perspective of a third party, Ye Shi tried to peel back the clues on the mural, and was suddenly surprised to find that this history was so similar!

Seventeen crew members disagreed over whether to follow the path of the "pioneers" and got into a fight.

Qiu Shi, who led the "sinners" to conquer the Forbidden Forest Valley, undoubtedly won, but it was undoubtedly a complete defeat.

If the fourth wall were so easy to break, the "pioneer" civilization wouldn't have to make that much effort.

Although there is no record on the mural, Ye Shi has already guessed what happened later.

Same as yourself.

That Dr. Qiu Shiye finally discovered the final truth.

"He" did break the fourth wall, but he did not become the "omnipotent" creator of his fantasies as a materialist.

And the voice he heard was not made by Him, who was the "predecessor of the Creator", but only the echo of "Him" remaining in this universe.

He never really spoke to "Him."

Just to say hello to the shadow of "Him" left in this world......

"Gan! Isn't this the same as 'the First Judgment Day'? ”

The survivors of the three-year war fought again on the planet Gaia after the war with the unfinished guy for the sake of what they believed in the truth.

History is like what happened in a circle repeating itself again and again, even turning around again right under his nose.

Thinking of the rain that made all the natives rejoice and the self-proclaimed clever Tunnan, Ye Shi couldn't help but laugh in his heart, and finally understood the meaningful ridicule of "He" when he first saw him-

You always do.

"Laughing."

(End of chapter)