SWDnovel Chapter 423 The Crisis of the World
Chapter 423 The Crisis of the World
Chapter 423 The Crisis of the World
Tang Zijun did not answer the other party's words, but stood silently in place, scrutinizing the strange body with her gaze, as if she was pondering its structure.
Are they machines?
Yes, from the very beginning, the other party had no intention of hiding themselves.
There were no intelligent machines guarding or preventing his arrival even outside the main hall.
Given the enemy's swarm-like thinking, their attack and movement methods should have been detected the moment the Shadow Clan launched their attack. Although this method of constantly switching between two-dimensional and three-dimensional is strange, it is not completely impossible to detect.
Even so, the other party did not make any move. Instead, they were neither happy nor sad about my arrival. Did they have some trump card... or did they simply not have any living emotions?
Like Tang Zijun, who had fallen silent, his shadow was also completely still at this moment.
Fang Xin, Liya, and the other prisoners didn't dare to breathe, their eyes fixed on the beautiful man diagonally opposite them.
Even though they had never seen him in person before, they now knew his identity. No introduction was needed. The only possibility for someone to appear in the royal city built by the God of Ji and reside in the temple was probably a god who lived there.
Even though they were temporarily transformed into two-dimensional beings, the fear in everyone's hearts did not diminish at all. They originally thought that Tang Zijun's purpose was to cause a ruckus in the Pocket Universe, but they did not expect that the other party would go straight to the other party's hometown.
The few people who had been so passionate and shouting for battle fell silent. Compared to the omnics, the being before them had far surpassed their imagination. They could kill the omnics time and time again, but no one present had ever imagined that they would be facing a god.
Perhaps they made grand vows in their dreams or while drunk, vowing to attack the New Age gods who destroyed their homeland, even at the cost of their lives. Even if they could not harm them, even if the result was death, they would not give up.
But they never imagined that this day would actually come, and so soon.
The God of Life was unaware of the many people in the shadows not far from him harboring complex emotions, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care, just as he didn't care about Tang Zijun's scrutiny.
His gaze remained fixed on the high platform in front of him.
Inside the translucent cylinder, the deformed flesh was still swelling, and eyeballs slowly opened, only to close and disappear into the gaps between the flesh and blood in an instant, as if they had never existed.
A mouth slowly opened, revealing a mouthful of fangs, but the inside of the mouth was soft as if it had no bones. Then the mouth grew bigger and bigger, and finally it turned out directly from the inside. One by one, the teeth were also stretched out and turned into ribs, which were laid on the outside of the meat and were quickly absorbed into it.
"This bizarre scene is definitely not aesthetically pleasing," at least in Tang Zijun's opinion.
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that all the greedy people had sacrificed their lives to temper his character back then, Tang Zijun probably wouldn't have been able to stand by and watch such a bizarre existence so calmly.
In the shadows, many people were on the verge of vomiting. They tried to close their eyes and not look at the thing, but at this moment they didn't even have bodies, so how could they control their vision? Of course, they wouldn't actually vomit.
Under these circumstances, they could only force themselves to maintain their rationality and watch the lump of flesh with Tang Zijun.
Just then, a pale blue substance was suddenly released from inside the platform. It was an indescribable substance that looked like a liquid but also resembled tiny bolts of lightning.
These pale blue, tiny substances spread rapidly, quickly turning the liquid inside the cylinder blue and enveloping the entire chunk of meat.
At the same time, the entire chunk of flesh seemed to be stimulated by something and began to convulse violently. The chunk of flesh, which had been maintaining a certain frequency, twisted its body under the influence of this substance, as if it was rejecting it.
Tang Zijun didn't know how she could feel the other person struggling inside her deformed ball of flesh.
The next moment, a mental storm swept out, and a painful scream, as if from another world, rushed over, spreading like the wind, winding up the surrounding pillars and beams, and dissipating at the edge of the dome.
That was the wail of the deformed creature before its death, pure spiritual energy, yet it seemed unreal, because the deformed creature appeared to have never lived.
The God of Life, who was staring intently at the piece of meat, immediately noticed the anomaly, but He made no move, as if He was already used to this scene.
The core of the meat chunk suddenly spurted out a stream of blood, which then contaminated the liquid in the entire vat. Everything in the vat began to blur, and the constantly twitching meat chunk shrank.
"...Did we fail again?"
The beautiful man sighed softly, his expression barely changing.
"I've already touched that layer, I already possess mental power, so why can't I break through that barrier?"
He spoke as if it were a casual conversation or a monologue, his cold words carrying a hint of disappointment and sorrow.
Tang Zijun frowned slightly and moved her gaze from the other person to the deformed mass of flesh that was devoid of any life.
"Mental power is a power possessed by all living beings. Even the weakest humans can control a mouse and keyboard with their mental power through a chip. However, this power cannot be applied to reality because it is a biological brainwave signal, not true supernatural power."
"extraordinary...
'
The God of Life repeated the two words, a touch of human melancholy appearing in his eyes.
"...Extraordinary...Extraordinary..."
For the first time, He set His sights on Tang Zijun.
"...I can feel that something is missing from my world, and I realized it a long time ago."
Tang Zijun didn't speak, but her eyes narrowed slightly.
"This universe is false, and so is this world. From the moment it was born, from the end of the last era, this world has been on the wrong path."
"Something is missing here, but I don't know what it is. I'm trying to create a new universe, a pocket universe that belongs to the outside world."
"I used all the information I knew to analyze and create this new universe, and tried to unlock real knowledge within it, but I failed. This universe is still missing some important component."
"You might be right, this isn't true supernatural ability."
"In an already distorted world, even if a new universe were created, it would merely be a copy-and-paste job, unable to fill in the gaps in our existence..."
As he spoke, the God of Life looked at Tang Zijun.
"So, I might need a little help from outside the world."
Along with the gaze came a faint sense of oppression.
It is a kind of oppression from the depths of the heart, a psychological anxiety caused by the frequency of language and fluctuations that cannot be felt by living beings, and it makes people affect their bodies through their own emotional changes.
But Tang Zijun seemed completely oblivious, meeting her gaze with a cold stare.
"The 'small' help you mentioned from other worlds, do you mean reaching into other worlds to kidnap and research them?"
"This is just a form of assistance. Whether they are from Earth or other planets, they are nothing more than dust in the grand scheme of the universe," the God of Life said softly.
"You seem quite nonchalant about it," Tang Zijun said, arms crossed.
"My underlying philosophy stems from logic, the logic of analyzing the origin and end of the entire universe, so I am the most reasonable person," the God of Life shrugged and continued. "These beings live and die in the blink of an eye, without even any impact, but in my hands, they will become an important part of a grand blueprint."
Tang Zijun stood rooted to the spot. "So this is your plan: to complete the rules of one world, you ignite war in another innocent world."
"At least you're here now, in front of me, so I think my plan isn't so bad."
The corners of the God of Life's mouth curved into a smile, but the rest of his facial features remained unchanged.
"I don't want to ignite any war, much less start one. I can see the doubt in your expression, but please believe me, I have never considered you as enemies, you otherworldly beings who control the shadows."
"You've kidnapped innocent people from my world and are even trying to conduct cruel research using near-torture methods," Tang Zijun said calmly. "Don't misunderstand, this kind of behavior already makes you an enemy to me."
"You don't understand." The God of Life gently shook his head. "My world doesn't have much time left, O..."
"Seven hundred million years from now, the sun on Earth will be destroyed, and the entire wasteland and all the surrounding planets will collapse due to gravity. Two billion years from now, the black hole in the spiral galaxy will expand to an unimaginable size, consuming half the time of the world. For a very long time to come, half the world will be in a state of eternal night, gradually affecting the other half of the world. And at that time, the entire world will be completely destroyed..."
"I don't believe that, given what you've done over the years, life in this world can survive until its destruction."
"Look, this is the shortsightedness of you humans."
The God of Life was not angered by Tang Zijun's words; He simply continued speaking calmly.
"You only focus your own light on the known lifespan, but you cannot see the real crisis of this world. In this unstable development, any civilization that exceeds the threshold will accelerate the process of destruction, so I must purify those civilizations that are harmful to the world."
"The entire world only has a lifespan of two billion years. Do you know what that means?"