Chapter 1047

The life of those who pursue light is destined to be bumpy and drifting.

In the twilight area where there is no eternal light, the light seekers have to drive the huge mobile world cities, chase the tracks of stars and move to absorb their light and heat. In the whole nine days, there are very few stars that can be used by the mobile cities, either because they are too close to the land of steel to turn everything into ashes, or because they are too far away from the land, Light simply can't provide enough energy to make mobile cities move and maintain the inner world ecosystem.

Even if you are lucky enough to find a suitable star, because of the terrifying and changeable gravity of the steel continent, these hot suns will fall to the balance line at any time, and then fall to the earth. At that time, the mobile city must quickly shift its direction, avoid this area, and avoid the destruction caused by the star crash.

Although the steel continent will absorb all the kinetic energy of the explosion when the star collides with the earth, it will not cause a huge earthquake lasting for several light hours or even several light days, and will re condense the gas scattered by the star into a new star, anyway, it means that the mobile city will lose its energy source, and they must set sail as soon as possible, Go to the next available star.

Chasing the light, chasing the stars, sometimes as long as a thousand years, sometimes only a few decades - mobile city is a huge steel shell forever running on the mainland, which comes because of the stable operation of stars, and goes away because of the fall of stars, and the light chaser is the insect hiding in the shell - for most ordinary light chasers, Just the gravity of the steel continent and all kinds of radiation and pollution from the outside world are enough to threaten their lives. If they are not protected by the artificial world barrier in the city, ordinary people without extraordinary power will die in a few minutes.

Therefore, even in the shining area, there is no "stable" phenomenon. Even though the endless strong light brought by dense star clusters makes all living beings in the shining area not worry about energy problems, more and more dense stars also mean more "star drops" - every year, a mobile city will encounter "star rain" and be destroyed by hundreds or even thousands of star clusters falling at the same time, and this natural disaster is in the shining area, It happens almost every day.

Stars rise and fall, stars rise and fall. In this continent of steel, endless things are rotating and moving, and there is no stability at all. Besides the brilliance, there are endless chaotic families coming from the end of the world. They are afraid of the light, but they are shuttling through the dusk. All those who pursue the light are eager for stability, for eternal and peaceful light, You don't have to move and flee forever.

It sounds like a humble wish, but it is a difficult problem that has never been solved by anyone in the past 100000 years. Countless people have devoted themselves to astrology and astronomy, or explored the distant places of stars, trying to find out the laws of the operation of the stars, and try to solve the reasons behind all these turbulence. But up to now, no one has ever found an answer.

No one can even guess how the world was born or created. According to the models of stars, the basic properties of physics and supernatural power, the most intelligent scholars of the League of nations have speculated on numerous possible models for the birth of the world. However, there has never been a model that can give birth to such a strange and strange world as "Three Realms and nine heavens". For this, they can only reluctantly admit that there may really be a "creator" in this world, A real God.

It's not the gods, the gods of the age of the gods, but the "mighty ones" who can't even reach the "nine heavens" and can't enter either the sword world or the axe world. They are also creatures chasing light.

Therefore, everyone can only blame the Almighty "heavenly Father", the creator of the endless steel continent and the creator of all living beings, for they can find no other reason.

But now, Alfa farst, an ordinary Bachelor of astrology and a well-known explorer in the past, has found that he may now be on the way to the truth. In this distant and unlight area, he sees the black giant star spinning in the middle of the world, and countless dazzling stars vanishing into it, turning into a little light, It's like fuelwood for a fire.

"... anyway, I have no choice. They took my Alice, they took my daughter and my son. I lost everything, only the truth. "

The middle-aged man with silver hair grins bitterly. He shakes his head, turns around and looks behind him.

Instead of looking at the advanced exploration ship left by carlis, Alfa looked at the origin of the "hill" under his feet and the ultimate goal of his trip.

He is looking at a high mountain.

It's a mountain with a height of more than 400 million kilometers. Just going up and down, it takes light to walk for 24 minutes. It's extremely huge, even much larger than many stars.

However, in this vast continent, even such a huge mountain peak is not the highest. The "great God Mountain" in the shining area, the holy place where the gods used to live, is as high as two light hours. But even so, such a mountain peak and the continuous mountains around it are nothing more than the wrinkles on human skin.——The light seekers live in such a huge world, and the small ones struggle in this world.

It can be seen that at the top of the mountain, at a height beyond the sight of ordinary people, there is an extremely eye-catching tip - a sharp prismatic tip made entirely of silver, luminous crystal, which just shines like stars, releasing a little bit of starlight.

Alfa watched the light, he felt the blood in his body boiling, and an inexplicable feeling began to appear... What was the feeling? What's in your blood? Why does Mingming, who has been living in the shining area, feel "familiar" with the crystal tip on a high mountain in this distant zone of no light?

Is it true that I am not as ordinary as I think? Is that why Mr. carlis chose himself as a student? What does the so-called "son of the silver goblin" mean?

Countless problems linger in the heart of the tired middle-aged man. However, even if he has lost his wife, children and everything he has fought for in the shining area for his whole life, he has not lost his courage and curiosity - he has not lost his passion and impulse in his heart, and his will to move towards "truth"!

"Here we go."

In this way, with courage, alpha entered his exploration ship again. With the light of jump engine starting, he began to move towards the top of the "mountain"!

[-- Alfa's exploration log --]

[in the dark and lifeless area of the lightless area, I found something puzzling. It was a prismatic tip made entirely of crystal, crystal clear and emitting blue light.

It is located at the top of an unnamed mountain peak, emitting bright light, but without any cold light of temperature. I had done a full set of heat insulation measures, but it was in vain, but this can not be said to be a bad thing, because in this way, I can leave the exploration ship, together with other shipborne artificial intelligence, and take tools to observe it closely to explore its situation

[after several days of careful exploration, I can finally confirm with astonishment that the crystal prism shining at the top of the mountain is actually the top of a huge crystal Obelisk! Its main body is buried under the mountains, and the mountains - completely, completely! It's made up of the remains of chaotic demons! Father in heaven, it's hard to imagine that the main body of such a huge mountain range is actually piled up by endless chaotic demons. After a long time, these chaotic demons have lost their strange and maddening toxicity and become only a little bit of polluted earth and stone, and the obelisk is buried in it.

I'm sure there's a way to get into this obelisk. There must be a purpose for Mr. carlis to guide me here, not just to surprise me. Moreover, if such a huge obelisk is not for me to get in but for me to dig it out, it's really very difficult... And I don't know why, I think, There is something inside the Obelisk that is attracting me

[after searching for a long time - in fact, only two and a half hours, I found the way to enter the obelisk. The method is very simple. I don't carry any protective equipment. I enter the silver cold light and touch the crystal with my own hands. It will naturally inhale me... Seriously, if I didn't feel that the protective clothing was too stuffy and I was just ready to breathe, I would never do it. With my strength of gold medium level, In the lightless belt, I will die in any accident, but when the cold light shines on me, I feel that I can not even breathe, it will naturally provide me with all the energy I need to survive.

There's no other choice. I'm in it. At the moment of being inhaled, I felt that there was an extremely huge force, far more powerful than the stars, sweeping my whole body up and down - far more powerful than the supernova explosion observed by my teacher and I decades ago, which was enough to wipe out thousands of mobile world cities in an instant. If you think about it, those chaotic families must have rashly touched the crystal obelisk, so they were destroyed. They piled it up for tens of thousands of years or even longer, and buried the whole Obelisk in it

[and I found that the light in the crystal was transforming my body - I didn't need to breathe, the hunger and thirst disappeared, I could feel that the energy around me began to become closer to me, but at the same time, my ears began to sharpen, and my skin began to look a bit like metal, The demand for energy is also greatly increased... This should have been the ability of gold high level, even extreme level elementalization and psionicization, which is appearing in me... Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know. In short, when I woke up from my trance, I had come to a crystal hall with many tiny caves all around it.

In the center of the crystal hall, there is a narrow ladder for most light seekers, which leads to the depth of the obelisk. It seems that the obelisk is built by a creature smaller than ordinary light seekers, but the building is much larger than many stars. I have to say, it is a shocking miracle.Without hesitation, I chose to go further

After stopping the pen and continuing to keep the habit of more than ten years, Alfa took a deep breath and went to the central staircase of the crystal hall to further down.

At the beginning, the hall was semi-circular, with a radius of about 15 kilometers. With the optimized vision, alpha could see that the walls of the crystal hall were full of many large and small holes, from which the wind came out, which seemed to lead to other places. On the walls on both sides of the steps in the center, there are countless extremely complex runes, and many neat and beautiful inscriptions, but it is not clear what language they are.

Alfa felt that he could vaguely understand the meaning of the inscription. Maybe it was a rare ancient language? The exploration ship happens to have translation equipment. When the time comes, take these pictures back to the ship to have a try and see what they are talking about.

After a long distance, the inscriptions gradually disappeared and layers of murals gradually appeared. Alpha quickly took out the shooting equipment and recorded the layers of murals.

Unlike language, murals can be understood only by looking at them. It can be seen that the series of murals seem to tell the life of a "clergyman". He was born in an ordinary farmer's family. Because he was attacked by a magic tide (alpha felt like a chaotic demon attack, but he didn't know any of the chaotic demons on the murals), his parents died, and he was adopted by a kind priest in the village, To practice the extraordinary way.

There are seven gods that the priest serves, which is a rare thing, because these seven gods form a union of gods and share glory equally. The young clergyman has been devoting himself to practice, traveling in the cities of the world, helping the poor civilians. Until his middle age, he has no name, and his deeds have been praised by some ordinary people at most. However, after the abdication of the previous generation of Pope, he took part in the conference witnessed by the gods, and defeated all his opponents in knowledge and power to become Pope.

It's a very inspirational story - when Alfa saw this place, he was still a little envious. From ordinary people who had nothing to the Pope, who was the highest in the world, it was not something that anyone could do. He had to have great courage, determination, perseverance and wisdom, and he had a little courage, determination and perseverance at most, Let's not talk about wisdom.

Before the end of the mural, the story goes on - the clergyman has been trying to work for the well-being of all the people in the world since he became the queen of religion. He once fought with the monster group like a giant lizard and killed many chaotic demons. He once confronted with other evil gods and joined hands with the seven gods and many other powerful people, It's a black fog monster that seals many times more than a star.

The first half of his life was quiet and the second half was magnificent. At the end of his life, this holy man, with a giant god standing on the river of stars, rushed into the endless dark chaos cluster that seemed to be a lightless belt.

"This should be the story of the last remaining gods and their churches at the end of the age of the gods, fighting against the chaos swarming from the lightless belt? Which prehistoric mobile city experience is so legendary, but I have never heard of it? "

Alfa has no doubt about the authenticity of this mural - who would be bored to build a huge stele of stars just to deceive the latecomers? Compared with this, he was surprised that the logic of this matter was a little unsmooth.

Can the gods and their popes really build this magnificent monument of 24 light minutes? If it were the gods, alpha would have reluctantly believed it, but this mural is only about a pope.

And... Finally, the four armed giant god standing on the endless river of stars... Who is he? It is not one of the seven gods, nor is it any God in mythology and legend. There are no similar rumors and descriptions with him.

"Strange to say, is the defense facilities inside the Obelisk all failed?"

He shook his head and put his doubts behind him for a while - Alfa recorded all the words and murals, ready to translate them with the help of the translation system when he returned to the exploration ship. What's more strange than these intellectual problems is that along the way, he saw a lot of crystal sentry ring equipment, which was obviously used for defense. They were shining and had energy flowing in the translucent gun body. But I don't know why, these sentry ring guns didn't move when they found him, as if they were broken.

However, as soon as the UAV Alfa brought into the obelisk was released, it would disappear and be turned into ashes by the invisible light beam... This immediately made Alfa's legs soften and he almost knelt down. You know, the UAV is much harder than his head. It can burn the UAV instantly and burn his head by the way.

Today's advanced technology can instantly wipe out the gold level and severely damage the extreme. I don't know if this is the ultimate micro weapon equipment, even in the mobile urban relics of the age of the gods, even in the League of nations!What kind of architecture is it that has such a high technical force? On the great Tianshen mountain in the shining zone, the great temples of Pantheon are not as spectacular as this building. Although their decoration is luxurious, they are far less than the sense of strength. The most powerful God in the age of the gods is the star sea Voyager, the God of star sea and exploration, whose temple is not as solemn as this relic, let alone the deeds of a pope and a clergyman.

"Can we say that... This is the vestige of... Before the age of the gods, at the beginning of the birth of all beings?"

At the thought of this possibility, Alfa could not help shaking his head. This middle-aged man with silver hair did not look natural and unrestrained. On the contrary, he was very old and tired. But just because of this, his serious expression was very real. He murmured: "it is said that" heavenly Father "created three worlds and nine days. He drives out the original chaos in the darkness of nothingness and creates endless stars. In this initial light, gods are born from the stars

"However, it is too difficult to drive out chaos. Even the" heavenly Father "is tired and sleepy after destroying most of chaos. He leaves the world under the control of the gods, and then turns it into all things in the three realms and nine days. This prehistoric era of myth is the beginning of the birth of all beings."

Can we say that this relic is the ancient creation lost for 100000 years? And what this mural says is that the original gods and their believers fight against the original chaos with the heavenly father?

But how could it be!

"The 'Heavenly Father' is just a myth created by the light chasers in order to avoid despair... He doesn't exist at all, and there are no temples or relics... Well, this may be half of it, but it doesn't prove the existence of the heavenly father. I'd rather believe that this is the creation of the seven powerful gods in prehistoric history..."

almost, At the end of the ladder, alfa was shooting, but his mind drifted to the endless distance. He said to himself in a slightly bitter tone: "to put it bluntly," heavenly Father "and" trial "are just the fig leaf created by ancient scholars to explain the problems that are not yet understood. It's like putting off the answer to God when you don't know something - it doesn't matter whether the father exists or not. "

"No, you are wrong. The existence of the father is very important."

Suddenly, there was a voice behind alpha. The voice was loud and serious, just like a huge iron drum, and with the sound, a series of footsteps appeared behind the middle-aged man.

Alfa turned his head in shock - he didn't know when the sound and the footsteps appeared behind him. Just after he turned his head, the man saw a white haired man in a red and black coat like embers of fire standing on the ladder behind him. He was walking down the ladder step by step, Behind this man is a whole team of guards in the same "suit of ashes"!

These people are all members of the order of ashes!

In the face of Alfa, who seems to have no time to react, the leader should be the white haired old man of the high level of the ash order, standing firmly on the steps - he has a strong body, a dignified face, and he walks in a brisk manner. No one can see that his age has come to the aging stage except his white hair and wrinkled face.

"Alfa farst, don't talk about the father and God - even if he never shows his miracles, he is very important to our civilization."

Ignoring the move of alpha, who seems to be dodging, who seems to want to retreat, looking for an opportunity to escape, the high-ranking member of the order of ashes looks around at the murals on both sides of the ladder, then turns his head and looks at alpha in a solemn tone: "I know that for you scholars, neither the father nor the gods are as important as" knowledge and truth. ", Compared with the ancient and illusory glory, you think that all that actually exists in this steel continent is true - but have you ever thought that if we lose the gods and the heavenly Father, we might not be able to develop today's great civilization at all? "

"This..."

Although alfa was flustered on the surface, he was actually very calm in his heart - he understood many things in an instant, such as why the order of ashes seized his wife and children, but only warned himself not to come back and continue to explore the truth, instead of seizing himself. They just want to track themselves and find the location of this huge "crystal Obelisk"! The only thing he didn't quite understand was why the high-ranking member of the ash order did not ask his guards to arrest him, but looked at him and talked about these "rather strange" issues?

As for hatred... A rational person will not show his anger at a disadvantage. After all, he is a bachelor and can't be so stupid.

But it seems that seeing the disguise of alpha and the hatred hidden in the other party's calm expression, the old man with white hair smiles and doesn't think much of it. He started, went on, crossed alpha, and came to the end of the ladder behind him. He continued to say in a solemn tone: "it is difficult for many people, especially bachelors, to understand that at the beginning of civilization," rational thinking "did not bring progress. Do you understand? The reason of that old age was not used to explore truth and knowledge, but to think about how to defeat wild animals, how to find food, how to continue generations, and how to live as much as possible. ""Rational thinking" does not allow the ancient people to explore the truth between the stars and the law of the operation of all things, just to summarize the knowledge that is actually used in life, such as farming, animal husbandry, building houses and making traps. On the contrary, it is the original "perceptual thinking", the earliest romance, fantasy, and the original "imagination". Only these things can make us think about why the sun rises, why it sets, why the water flows towards the lower side, rather than towards the sky, Rational people don't waste their energy thinking about these meaningless problems for survival. Only the existence of sensibility and impulse can make up all kinds of "stories" for all these unknown phenomena, that is, the so-called "explanations". Similarly, only the "gods and religions" need to explain to all living beings and their believers, It's "why."

"Only this kind of irrational thinking can we think about the stories among the stars, and only the gods created by this primitive worship need to explain why fire can burn wood, why water can extinguish fire - why to stir up wings and spray flames can generate upward momentum and fly to the sky, why the stars will repeat the cycle of ups and downs, Let us suffer so much. "

In this way, the old man with white hair had come to an arch, which was the end of the steps. The guards of the ash order followed him. They totally ignored alfa, so they left him behind. They didn't seem to care whether he was running or staying at all. But Alfa had been fighting for a long time, and finally decided to follow him.

The old man seemed to have known that he would make such a choice, so, in this way, a group of alpha and the order of ashes crossed the arch and came to a huge and incomparable hall with no end.

It can be seen that the hall is flooded with gentle silver light, but there are seven colors of spectrum that linger on the top of the hall. There are countless undulating bubbles of light that merge and split up and rise and disappear. All these rays and all bubbles of light are surrounded by a crystal pillar hanging in the center of the hall.

And in this crystal column, there is a beautiful young man with long light golden hair, just like the same fetus, curling up and sleeping peacefully - endless colors of brilliance shrouded around him, showing a dreamy holy.

"God is the most romantic explanation of wisdom life to the truth behind all things in the world! Because we are curious about the truth behind the fire, so the God of fire appears. Because we worship the great power of the sun, so the God of sun is born. We respect water as the most important part of life, so the God of water appears on the throne of God - but all these are far less than the existence of the father in heaven! "

Looking up at the young man sleeping in the crystal pillar, staring at the "life" gestated in the huge, pangranfang obelisk, the tone of the old man of the ash order with white hair began to be gradually excited: "to believe in countless gods is to believe in no gods. People's good curiosity will be consumed by the false" explanation "of the gods. After all, Gods do not represent truth, they just hold power and exist as the final product of "perceptual thinking."

"But the heavenly father is different from the God who was created because of our need. The heavenly Father created the world, but made us suffer. This kind of" unwilling "or even" hate "is not the same, This feeling, which has nothing to do with belief and worship, makes countless people have to ask religion to give an "explanation". After all, there is no God whose "why" can't be explained clearly, and no one will believe in it. "

"So, the original pioneers, in order to explain the reason why the Father created all things and the law of the stars' movement, created the original mobile city. They chased the track of the stars and discovered the" universal gravitation ". They dissected the sun, decomposed matter and discovered the" power of division and integration "- but this is not the end, Gravity can't explain the existence of the steel continent, and the power of division and integration is not the most efficient way to use energy. At least the father of heaven could not use this method to obtain energy, so there is a higher truth on top of it! "

"The existence and belief of the heavenly father is very important. Civilization must have a target, in constant doubt, constant debate, in order to progress. Rational thinking must step on the bones of sensibility and spiral up little by little through the method of "negating imagination". Otherwise, it will never get out of the fence of rationality and will only live for the sake of being alive, just like a wise worm. "

"The heavenly father is the only and supreme creator. He is always right to create God, but where is he right? Some people set a good target and begin to explain how the heavenly Father created the world. Then another group of people will retort, pointing out that the other party's mistake is not correct. Human's confused and confused wisdom will progress with the "struggle."

"Just because of this, in endless struggle, laws and rules are discovered one by one, and the world we know is getting closer to reality. Because of this, society is gradually progressing, and productivity is gradually developed. Only in this way can you rational bachelors, instead of thinking about" how to live ", look up and share your wisdom, To look up at the sky. ""... I don't deny that your theory is really interesting, but..."

Hearing this, Alfa frowned tightly. He wanted to denounce the other party's nonsense. However, the other party was numerous and powerful, and everyone's strength was higher than him. Even for the safety of his wife and children, he could not be impulsive. So, after thinking about it, after thinking that the situation could not be worse, he could not help but ask in a voice, "but this old man, what does all this have to do with the ruins where we are now? What does it have to do with your order of ashes kidnapping my wife and children, banishing me from the shining zone, and following me here? "

"It's a big deal. Besides, don't call me old gentleman. I'm the grand judge of the order of ashes. You don't have to pretend. You can call me "damned old man" or "vicious kidnapper."

Grand judge groan turned his head. Instead of looking at the light blonde sleeping in the light, he looked at the middle-aged man with silver hair again. He narrowed his eyes and said solemnly, "Alfa farst, the Bachelor of the capital of knowledge, I say this mainly to tell you that the light chasers, even any intelligent creatures, can never be pure rational creatures. They are bound to be impulsive, emotional, romantic, impulsive and even for various reasons, Make "wrong" choices other than "right" - these mistakes are the ladder of our progress, so don't be bound by the habitual thinking of "father does not exist". Only in this way can you understand the true truth. "

"What's more, the" heavenly Father "does exist - compared with the speed of light, the laws of physics and all the so-called" truths "that may be changed, this is the only" truth "that can never be shaken! And whether it's you or me, or your disappearing teachers and superiors, it's all for him. "