Since Jia Yan enjoyed the freedom they gained by fighting to the death to kill the Insect King, he should also pay a certain price.
Defectors cannot survive anywhere.
As a member of the same tribe, Jia Yan did not help Xue Bo and the others fight hard at the critical moment of life and death; as a citizen, he did not protect the Insect King to the end.
Whether to his own people or to the dead insect king, he is a traitor with no loyalty at all, just like the Kasyapa snake lurking in the cold cave, always swallowing and spitting out its tongue in the darkness.
Helemis didn't mind that Jia Yan watched coldly, nor did he mind that Jia Yan was unwilling to resist, but he minded that he gave Lin Kong a fatal blow at the critical moment.
[If the Zerg are lucky enough to reproduce, perhaps thousands of years later, you will be able to find a king to whom you will offer your loyalty.]
This is a blessing that is not really a blessing.
After Helemis finished speaking, he didn't even look at Jia Yan, who had a bleak face. He waved his wings behind him and took Lin Kong back to the temple. The gloomy sky finally stopped rolling, and the dark clouds gradually dissipated, revealing a hint of clearness.
"Why will the Zerg perish when the God Servant dies?"
This was the first question Lin Kong asked after returning to the temple. He carefully examined the strange symbols on the broken walls, but after looking at them for a long time, he could not see anything. He only knew that there was a childish graffiti on it.
Lin Kong subconsciously said: "Impossible?"
It would be better to be a wild beast.
He knew that if he didn't continue to have this thought, he would never be able to settle down in this primitive society.
Lin Kong would not quarrel with Helemis, he would only despise the other's short-sightedness. As sad as Lin Daiyu was when she buried the flowers, Lin Kong was also sad when he buried his mobile phone. He casually plucked a handful of unknown wild flowers on the ground and stuffed them into the box, then closed the lid, as if to "bury" his mobile phone.
But as soon as he said this, he suddenly realized that he had traveled from Earth, and his face suddenly became strange: "How did you know?"
When he went to bed at night, Lin Kong was still fiddling with his phone, but this time he wasn't playing games. Instead, he was in a daze.
These two high-tech mobile phones are like Lin Kong’s thoughts about modern society. He is reluctant to throw them away, but they are actually of no use.
And Jiayan is the representative of evil.
[Like the sun and the moon, the sky and the earth, the birds and the beasts, and... good and evil.]
Helemis stared at the strange vein diagram on the temple wall and frowned. A low voice sounded in Lin Kong's mind, with an inexplicable sense of remoteness: [There is another possibility. ]
[His fate is closely related to ours.]
Seeing this, Helemis turned to look at him, supporting his head with one hand, his silver hair slipping quietly from his shoulders, with a somewhat cold demeanor: "What are you doing?"
Lin Kong thought that the cultural level of the two people was too different and they really couldn't communicate. "Who said they don't need to eat? Xuebo eats every day. They turned into beasts because they couldn't learn these things. Once they learn them, they are no longer beasts."
Helemis pointed at the carvings on the wall with his slender pale fingertips and explained word by word in a low voice:
"You know, you should build a career first and then start a family. Career is very important for men..."
Lin Kong then looked at the strange symbols and asked, "Where is it written?"
Helemis did not think that building a house and planting a field would lead to progress: [They are beasts, they do not need to live in houses, nor do they need to eat like you. ]
He has learned a little human language.
This is divine consciousness, which can only be understood by mental power.
Lin Kong held the box and muttered to himself for a long time before he dug a hole and buried all the electronic equipment in it, as if cutting off its last thoughts about the real world.
It’s so annoying!
Lin Kong stared at the phone for a while, and finally climbed up from the animal skin mattress. He rummaged around in the corner of the ruins of the temple for a long time, found a wooden box used for offerings, and then placed the phone in it with great care.
Lin Kong put himself in Helemis's shoes and felt that if Jia Yan died, he would be more or less sad, after all, they grew up together.
"Just stay in the box and no bugs will bite you. I'll dig you out when the house is built. Otherwise, I'll be too busy playing games and won't be able to focus on my career..."
They need balance.
Lin Kong: “…”
Lin Kong moved his ears: "What?"
Lin Kong seemed to understand: "It's the balance of yin and yang. We also have this saying over there, but what does it have to do with reproduction? You don't have genders, so killing Jia Yan won't affect reproduction, so God won't strike you down, right?"
[If Jiayan dies, our fate will also be disturbed, so God does not allow me to kill him. ]
Helemis asked back: [What is that? ]
He said seriously: "Someone like me."
Helemis raised his eyelids, unable to hide his disdain: [Someone as fragile as you? ]
[Because all things must come in pairs to reproduce, except the Insect King.]
Hermes stroked the crooked lines on the wall, his eyes thoughtful: [This is a prophecy left by the gods. If you cannot kill him, it means that your fate is tied to him.]
Helemis shook his head: [You don’t understand.]
"The north is so desolate, it's a punishment for Jia Yan. Since we've let him go, don't think too much about it. There are only a few servants of the gods, if they all die, it won't be good..."
If Helemis knew what Lin Kong was thinking, he would definitely think he was being stupid. Feelings? Maybe, but it was also for Xue Bo. He and Jia Yan had been plotting against each other since they were young, and they wanted to tear each other apart alive, so how could they talk about feelings
Lin Kong said seriously: "I will bury my phone. If I bury it, I won't think about playing with it every day. Tomorrow you can find those Zergs and I will teach them how to build houses and farm. There is no future for them if they keep standing still!"
Lin Kong still didn't know what time and space he was in, maybe in the future, maybe in the past, or maybe in a parallel time and space that had nothing to do with the earth. But he obviously didn't know Jia Yan before, so how could he interfere with their fate
Lin Kong was a little confused about this question, and after a moment he said:
As a modern man, he should play some role in primitive society, such as farming and building, and learning to read and write. Even if he doesn't do it very well, he can help those Zerg to make progress. Playing games every day is a bit too much of a waste of time.
Lin Kong looked up at the night sky, thought for a moment, and then said, "People."
Lin Kong buried the box in the ground, stepped on it twice, and then got back into bed. Helemis moved his ears and heard him swearing, "From tomorrow on, I will never play with my phone again. If I do, I'll be a dog!"
What did the dog do wrong
Helemis didn't know, he only knew that he seemed to have been a bad-mouthed person. Just after he finished talking about the fragility of human beings, Lin Kong suddenly developed a high fever in the middle of the night. His cheeks were red, he was incoherent, and kept talking nonsense.
"Lin Kong?! Lin Kong?!"
Helemis frowned and patted his face, the anxiety in his heart spreading again. He didn't know how to lower Lin Kong's temperature, so he could only carry him out of the temple and walk towards the stream. However, just after he took two steps, a shocking sound suddenly came from behind him.
“BOOM!!!!”
The pillars supporting the temple snapped without warning, and the roof collapsed with a loud bang, bricks and tiles flew everywhere, smoke and dust billowed. The animals around were frightened and fled quickly, and almost the entire ground shook for a moment.
Helemis immediately held Lin Kong and quickly retreated a long distance, thus avoiding the danger zone. He looked at the temple that had collapsed into ruins, his pupils shrank slightly, and he showed a rare look of surprise, obviously he did not expect the temple to collapse at this time.
Lin Kong was also awakened. He opened his eyes with difficulty and asked in a hoarse voice, "What happened?"
Helemis looked at his pale, cracked lips and paused: […Nothing.]
After saying that, he held him and walked quickly towards the stream. It was only at this time that Lin Kong finally realized that the temple behind him had collapsed. He stood up with difficulty and looked back, saying in surprise: "Why did the temple collapse?! My phone is still buried underneath?!"
Helemis thought that burying it was just right. Based on his understanding of Lin Kong, if the temple didn't collapse, he would be impatient to dig it out the next day: [Bury it, bury it. Anyway, you said you don't want to play. ]
Lin Kong frowned and coughed twice, looking visibly weak. He said feebly, "I said I don't want to play, but my luggage is still in there, and the antipyretic medicine is also in there... By the way, where are you going to take me?"
[In the water.]
[You are hot.]
Helemis's answer was always so formal. Lin Kong immediately struggled upon hearing this, his temple throbbing with pain: "I'm sick, how can I soak in cold water? Just find a place for me to sleep."
Hearing this, Helemis really stopped: [But you are hot. ]
Lin Kong managed to cheer himself up and said, "This is what happens when you have a fever. I'll go look for my luggage under the ruins tomorrow and take two fever-reducing pills and I'll be fine."
Although I don’t know if it’s expired, I can’t be too picky in the wild.
Hearing this, Helemis had no choice but to do as he was told. He brought Lin Kong to the cave where they had lived before, found a pile of animal skins to keep him warm, and then sat beside him and stared at Lin Kong motionlessly, as if he was afraid that the fragile human in front of him would suddenly lose his breath like last time.
In the wilderness where medicines are scarce, a minor cold or fever could become a fatal cause.
Lin Kong was dizzy from the fever. He saw Helemis staring at him. His red eyes were shockingly bright in the darkness. He occasionally suspected that the other party would eat him in the next second.
"I'm not going to die, I just have a fever..."
Lin Kong comforted Hermes: "It will be fine after a good sleep, don't rush to eat me..."
Helemis thought that he would never eat Lin Kong again, and he was reluctant to do so, but he did not argue when he heard it, and just said "hmm" silently.
Lin Kong then closed his eyes and fell asleep with peace of mind. He had never been sick since he was a child, but this time he was seriously ill. He was in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness for a whole week. After the high fever, he felt cold and was so weak that he couldn't even get out of bed.
Lin Kong was really worried that he would die, so he covered himself with thick animal skins to avoid catching a cold. He rarely left the cave. When he had nothing to do, he would use stones to draw house construction diagrams on the walls, thinking about how to build a solid house in this primitive society. Before he knew it, the walls were covered with his disassembly diagrams.
"Building a house requires nails, but we don't have them. We can use the barbs on the back of the stinger beasts instead. Their barbs are replaced every year. When the time comes, we can collect them and nail them into the wood like nails to fix the house."
"If you can't find enough barbs, you can dig out these mortise and tenon joints to fix them, but it's a bit time-consuming. I'll use a small branch to demonstrate it to you. You can just do it like this..."
"Also, the length of the wood also has requirements. You can use this straw rope to measure it. I tie a knot at a certain distance, and one knot represents one centimeter..."
Lin Kong squatted in the open space outside, carefully explaining the construction methods of the wooden houses to those low-level Zergs. His voice was still a little hoarse because he had just recovered from a serious illness. He held a branch in his hand and drew on the ground, trying to use a simple method to make them understand the principle.
Lin Kong had lived in the countryside when he was filming a program before. He had seen others build that kind of simple cowshed, so he remembered the general idea and made a small model with a bunch of simple wooden sticks for demonstration. He then understood most of what the Zerg were doing.
[We understand. We will do as you say.]
Those low-level Zerg were originally controlled by the God Servant, but some of them had already fled to the north with Jia Yan, and some belonged to Xue Amber. After Dong Ning's death, the people he once protected were nowhere to go. Lin Kong simply took them all in and gave the tribe a simple name -
Let’s call it the East.
It just so happens that he comes from the far East.
Helemis has become the new king of the Zerg. His daily routine is nothing more than hunting. It seems that there is no change from before. Looking at the huge number of his subjects, he occasionally feels a little confused.
What should he do
Or in other words, how to make the tribe stronger
In contrast, Lin Kong has countless things to do every day, such as looking for planting soil, collecting plant and flower seeds, and making straw ropes to weave clothes, like a busy bee.
Helemis still remembers what Lin Kong once said: "Helemis, do you know what my race looks like?"
"In the beginning, humans were similar to those low-level Zerg. They couldn't even fly or hunt like you, but they survived countless disasters and learned to use fire and tools..."
"They also lived in wooden houses at first, but by the time I was born, they had already built countless giant steel ships that could fly higher and farther than you, and even touch the moon..."
"One day... I mean, what if these Zerg can reach that point?"
When Helemis heard this, he just sneered. How could a human as fragile as Lin Kong fly as high as him and touch the moon
He has never touched the moon.
But Lin Kong spoke so seriously that it seemed as if he had no choice but to believe it.
Those low-level Zergs were not stupid, and they built the wooden house much faster than expected. During this period, they experienced three failures and accumulated a lot of experience. When they rebuilt it for the fourth time, a beautiful and solid wooden house appeared in front of Lin Kong.
[King, this is the palace we built for you, I hope you like it. ]
The eastern Zerg didn't know how to address Lin Kong, they only knew that his status was similar to that of Helemis, so they addressed him the same way. They all knelt in front of the cave, wanting to present this "palace" they had built with their own hands to Lin Kong.
When Lin Kong saw the wooden house, he couldn't help but laugh for a moment, thinking that this is not a palace at all, it is clearly just a small wooden house. However, in a sense, this wooden house in the wilderness is also equivalent to a palace.
"You guys built this, isn't it beautiful?"
Lin Kong was never stingy with praise. He walked around the wooden house and found flowers planted around the eaves. He thought that these insects already had human aesthetics and emotions, and if they did not perish, they might be able to go very far in the future.
Helemis stood beside him expressionlessly, wearing a pitch-black robe that made people tremble with fear. He glanced at the slightly "shabby" house in front of him, frowned and said: "I can build one too."
After saying this, he added: [It’s bigger than this.]
Lin Kong held a piece of grass in his mouth, thinking that the scumbag's promises were indeed not based on race or era, and said with a smile: "Let's talk about it after you build it. A house can't be built by just talking."
He suddenly remembered something and hooked his fingertips at Hermes, motioning him to come over: "By the way, we have even built a house, how about giving it a name?"
Lin Kong found a very beautiful big stone yesterday. It felt cool and round, like a large egg.
When Helemis heard that Lin Kong wanted to name this place, he was stunned for a moment. He walked to the green boulder and squatted down. He didn't even refuse such a boring thing: [What name do you want to give it? ]
"Well… "
Lin Kong wanted to choose a name that sounded more impressive, but he was uneducated, so he thought for a long time before tentatively saying two words: "Blue Star?"
Helemis was puzzled: [What is the blue star? ]
Lin Kong gestured roughly: "It's... a blue planet."
After he finished speaking, he felt that this sentence was too plain and would not sound good if carved, so he asked aloud: "What should this sentence be translated into your ancient language of the Zerg? Let's carve it on this big stone so that we won't forget it in the future."
Yes, I won't forget it.
Lin Kong sometimes worries that he will gradually forget his identity in the long years to come, and he wants to remind him of something and make him remember something.
Like the blue planet...
Hearing this, Helemis did not speak. He thought for a moment before slowly raising his sharp nails. He lowered his eyes and, with the rustling sound of the wind, he carved a line of words on the stone from right to left with great effort and slowly:
[Saliland Act.]
Helemis spoke in a low voice, as if he was telling an ancient story. He gently brushed away the debris with his hand and quietly stared at the forest in the warm summer breeze, with a touch of tenderness in his voice:
[Let’s call it, Saliland Law…]
At that time, Lin Kong didn't know that these four words would be passed down for a long, long time along with the name of the Insect God, so long that the Zerg would be able to fly to the sky with the help of tools and build countless steel behemoths-like skyscrapers, thus fulfilling his vision for the future.
After all, they had not learned to reproduce at that time. After all, their lifespan was limited. A lifespan of a hundred years would not allow them to witness the rise and fall of billions of years later.
Future generations have no way of knowing their stories, and can only speculate based on fragmentary historical materials that the Zerg once had a "god", and then write those vague past events according to their own imagination.
The insects in the south are exquisite and beautiful. It must be that the insect god liked their ancestors too much, so he gave them beauty that all living beings marveled at.
The Zerg in the north are insidious and cunning, with dark skin. They must have been expelled to the cold north because they were not liked by the Zerg God.
The Zerg in the west are born elegant and full of strategies. They are also called the descendants of the Zerg God.
And the tribe in the east, far away, mostly stays away from the world. They respect the gods, but they don't believe in them blindly, because their ancestors once said that no matter what the tribe will become in the future, it will be achieved by their own hands.
In history, that god only existed for a hundred years, and then disappeared quietly on a red moon night. Perhaps he just reached the end of his life and went to where he should go.
But the people were unwilling to believe the fall of the god. They would rather believe that he had gone to an unknown distance and continued to protect this land.
By the way, their insect god is called,
Helemis.
But the ancient East said that there was more than one god, because their god had black hair and black eyes...
(End of this chapter)