Messy and colorful fragments of memory rushed past like a torrent.
Gradually, it is no longer limited to the spiritual world of companions.
The spiritual images of more people appear in the spiritual flow that is as turbulent as a long river.
That is the memory of the many humans who have explored this place.
Many of them are sentinels, and there are also ordinary people. Their spiritual worlds have been merged into the spiritual sea of Queen Shi Pang, and they reside in this world forever.
Some of the images looked very old, like soldiers from hundreds of years ago. Some were very close, with the familiar white tower and Kyoto scenes appearing in Lin Yuan's memory.
Those painful and sad, or brilliant and warm memories, form deep whirlpools in the long river.
In the depths of the vortex, some people are crying, some are laughing crazily, and some are hugging their lovers tightly...
They are all real joys and sorrows, and real blood.
Lin Yuan would sometimes be attracted by the strong emotions contained therein, and it would be hard for him not to take another look and take a step in that direction.
In the spiritual world, once a thought arises, one will be drawn into the vortex.
Get involved in a long and complex spiritual world of human beings.
In the long river of colorful whirlpools, Lin Yuan had a hard time walking, and he stumbled forward with difficulty.
She once thought that the most powerful mental attack was to use visual and auditory hallucinations to touch and influence the enemy's spiritual world, causing the enemy to fall into terrible hallucinations.
Only now did she realize that the most powerful mental attack was not an illusion.
But it's real.
The things that are most likely to shake people's hearts and change their beliefs are always the truths that are peeled off from their hearts.
Those who were filled with pure love, hatred, resentment and disgust stretched out their slender white hands and grabbed the huge Kraken walking in the river like a thread.
Lin Yuan felt a fear from the bottom of his heart.
She passed through countless lives stranded here, so much pain, sorrow and joy.
The vivid joys and sorrows permeated her skin and were engraved into her bones.
She experienced all the seven emotions of the world and suffered all kinds of suffering.
But Lin Yuan was still walking, very slowly, the tentacles breaking off the sticky threads on her body bit by bit, slowly crawling forward.
Queen Shi Pang crossed her arms and stood quietly in the colorful pavilion in the distance, watching her.
It seems to be still very far away, but it also seems to be very close.
The torrent of mental power is gradually changing.
The fragments of human memory gradually decreased, and what appeared near the forest garden was the human world seen by the strange eyes of the deformed species.
The scenes become very strange, like a bystander from a high place, recording the history of human changes with a cold perspective.
From the invasion of deformed creatures to human resistance.
From humans raising monsters in the underground city's research institutes to extracting the monsters' blood, they developed powerful humanoid weapons - Sentinels and Guides.
The rolling and swirling river disappeared, and Lin Yuan's feet were on solid ground. She walked forward along the long transparent corridor with a long scroll hanging on both sides of the corridor.
The colors of the scroll are unusually saturated, and the human figures are abstract flat shapes.
The little black figures move, holding their powerful weapons high, and fighting against strange monsters.
Lin Yuan finally got a glimpse of the huge secret buried in history that no one had ever known.
That is the real reason for the total collapse of humanity.
After the warriors were injected with the blood of various types of deformed creatures, a large number of powerful fighting forces emerged among humans.
The Sentinels possess strong physical qualities, and the Guides are capable of maintaining a strong mental barrier.
The empire, now armed with humanoid weapons, began an ambitious plan to retake the land.
In the long scroll, the emperor of the empire, wearing a crown, sounded the clarion call for a full-scale expedition.
In the sky, various half-beast sentinels were flying, and the guides were riding in the center of the sentinel formation.
Further behind was a team pushing various hot weapons forward.
Facing a limited number of monsters, the human team was full of vigor.
People at that time thought they had obtained the power of God, and cheered and shouted in the painting.
In the research institute, the black man went even crazier and started researching on injecting monster blood into the entire population.
They didn't know that they had opened a terrifying Pandora's box.
Lin Yuan slowed down his pace.
In the long scroll, the warriors who have been fighting for a long time gradually cannot escape the fate of frenzy and become deformed creatures with distorted bodies.
The brave man who slays a dragon eventually becomes a dragon.
The berserk Sentinels became monsters and turned against their own compatriots.
The collapsed guide became the seedbed for hatching eggs and became a powerful pillar, propping up strange polluted areas for the mutants to survive.
The total collapse of mankind began from that moment.
By the time they found that the situation could not be contained, the genes of the Sentinels and Guides had already been engraved into the human blood and were irreversible.
Lin Yuan unknowingly reached the end of the scroll and stepped onto the small pavilion.
The waiting Queen Shi Pang pointed to the end of the scroll and told Lin Yuan,
"I was born in that era. Back then, I watched with my own eyes how humans began to destroy themselves from within."
Following her finger, at the end of the scroll, humans have shrunk to a small area.
But those little black figures were still killing each other and snatching resources.
Kings wearing crowns and princes and princesses wearing laurel wreaths on their heads compete for the position of the supreme ruler of the empire, pushing each other's warriors into the contaminated area representing death.
Now, from the perspective of the world outside the painting, the behavior of those tiny figures on the canvas seems so ridiculous.
But it is the old history of mankind.
Standing next to Lin Yuan, the mutant in a formal dress covered his mouth and sighed.
"I couldn't understand it at all at first. I didn't understand why humans, as creatures, would destroy their own species."
"In the years that followed, I collected a lot of books about human history and learned that this is their racial characteristic." She spread her hands elegantly. "Although I still don't understand it, I can only show respect."
"But by the time we reacted, we found that the human population had dwindled to the point of being endangered. It's terrible. There was once such a large race on this planet."
She touched the green gem she wore on her chest, "So, in order to protect humanity, we finally had to implement a plan."
When she finished saying this, the world suddenly became very quiet, and the little man in the scroll was still waving his weapon.
Outside the painting, a breeze blew across the boundless sea of flowers, creating colorful waves.
Lin Yuan shuddered, thinking of the word she had heard.
Captive humans.
The Giant-Eating Queen stood quietly beside Lin Yuan, her posture graceful, mimicking human behavior, with twisted monster limbs extending from under her skirt.
At that moment, Lin Yuan received a large amount of mental information from Queen Shi Pang. Those information rushed into his mind and merged with what he had known before.
All the strange and inexplicable things in this world have become reasonable at this moment.
When humans were on the verge of extinction, monsters began to keep humans in captivity.
This is an incredible truth.
In order to prevent the extinction of mankind, the powerful adult mutants took out a piece of their bone and used their huge skeletons to fuse into the white tower.
The White Tower is considered a holy place by humans today.
The Garden of Eden, the sanctuary praised by humans, is actually a fence where monsters keep humans captive.
The White Tower is made of the bones of powerful mutants, so it can serve as a deterrent and remind all the ignorant young mutants to stay away.
Do not approach, do not invade, and do not eat without permission.
The circle is their farm, where they keep humans captive. Therefore, the mutants never invade the area around the White Tower.
Don't even touch the sentry post where the white tower bone bricks are placed.
But what is the price of keeping humans in captivity? Lin Yuan was horrified.
"Keeping humans in captivity? Why?" Lin Yuan asked.
"We are a very fragile species." said Shi Pang next to him, "It is extremely difficult for us to survive and reproduce. We are not like the creatures on this planet that have strong reproductive abilities."
Mutants are humanity's nightmare and a deadly and powerful enemy.
It has a powerful vitality that is difficult to kill, can parasitize the human body, invade the spiritual world, and hatch distorted and independent pollution areas.
An almost invincible enemy.
Lin Yuan didn't expect that they would think of themselves as a fragile race
As if she had heard Lin Yuan's thoughts, Shi Pang turned around, her red lips curled up slightly under the black veil.
"What are you thinking about? The meaning of life is reproduction, not fighting."
At this moment, the queen with a slender waist has her back to the beautiful sea of flowers. Behind her, the flowers are blooming beautifully and countless tiny insects are flying around chasing their mates.
Even if the sunlight here destroys the earth once a day, these tenacious lives can figure out ways to continue their offspring.
"As a species, we can only survive by parasitizing other organisms. We are a very fragile species."
Queen Food Pang turned her back to the flourishing sea of flowers, her slender figure looked a little melancholy.
"Our reproduction is extremely difficult. The birth of an egg requires a harsh environment. The incubation process of the egg requires a long time and endless mental energy."
In this spiritual world, the queen raised her hand and pointed towards the sky.
The stars in the sky above his head disappeared, and Lin Yuan saw the real world outside through the sky.
She looked up and saw that in the real world outside of her mental image, her companions had already woken up and were fighting hard against the mutants.
Lin Yuan could even see himself with his eyes closed, standing still, being guarded by the sentries.
The ground in front of the sentinels cracked open, and two mutants were slowly crawling out of the ground.
These two mutants are very special. They are neither huge nor have sharp teeth or claws. Except for their expressionless faces, they are almost exactly like normal humans in appearance and body structure.
One was a man and the other was a woman. They both had the same face and dull expressions.
Lin Yuan remembered that when he entered the castle, he saw the broken shells of these two mutants outside the gate.
At that time, their shells were still huge and slightly strange. Now the two that have broken out of the ground are exactly the same as humans in every aspect.
When Lin Yuan came in, he saw countless molted shells of various deformed species that merged various biological forms on the outskirts of the castle, including these two.
This is very strange, as if someone has tried to mold different forms of life and made them evolve and transform repeatedly.
"Because I envy your reproduction method, I have done a lot of experiments over the years." Queen Shi Pang said,
"I have merged many creatures with strong reproductive abilities and let them simulate life in the human world. Unfortunately, they all failed in the end."
Lin Yuan thought for a moment, "But I have seen families of deformed creatures. They get married and take care of children."
She even came into contact with a small mutant that had devoured its mother. It looked like the mother's child.
"That is just a simple imitation of the human world. We do not have the ability to reproduce on our own. We can parasitize and infect others, but we cannot reproduce on our own without the host."
"Look at these two. I even spent a lot of effort to make them completely according to human physiological structure, and the genders are also divided into male and female. But in the end, they were unable to give birth to children in the way you do."
Through the curtain of the sky, Lin Yuan saw the two mutants.
In appearance, their actions, behaviors, and even their attack methods are no different from humans.
The male humanoid mutant was walking towards the sentinels.
He was not tall and had a slim figure, but he suddenly kicked out with a fierce kick, kicking away the huge panda blocking him. The kick came out without any warning and was as fast as an afterimage.
Du Yuanyuan's huge spiritual panda was kicked far away by him. Its round body hit the stone pillars in the hall hard, breaking a thick pillar with a loud bang.
He rolled over on the ground for a few rounds, then got up in frustration, let out a howl, and rushed towards the guy who had kicked him away using all four limbs.
Halfway through, a black shadow as fast as lightning descended from the sky, and its sword was as fast as the wind, and it was about to split the rolling ball in two with its falling momentum.
It was another female mutant. Her figure was as fast as a ghost, and she attacked from above with a knife, and the round panda was completely unable to react.
Fortunately, Ni Ji stepped aside and intercepted her halfway with a red blade in hand. The blades crossed, leaving a sharp sound in the air.
The two separated as soon as they touched.
The female mutant leapt back to her original position with an indifferent expression, and licked the blood on the blade with her tongue.
Ni Ji knelt on one knee and raised her face. A red bloodstain appeared on her pretty face.
On the other side, the male mutant kicked the panda away, turned over and kicked it continuously, knocking Rachel down with lightning speed, and mercilessly scratched Rachel's eyes with his fingers.
Yun Luo's unicorn rushed over in time and snatched Rachel from his claws. Even so, three red claw marks were still left on Rachel's face.
Two male and female mutants with identical faces stood back to back, one licking a knife, the other moving his bloody fingers.
The sentinels' faces became solemn. They stood in pairs to form a corner, carefully protecting Lin Yuan who had his eyes closed and Nicole who had just woken up.
Nicole frowned and said, "It's not easy. They have almost no mental fluctuations, so it's hard to influence them."
These two small humanoid mutants may not look impressive, but they are terrifyingly powerful.
After just one encounter, he easily injured GunGun, Ni Ji and Rachel one after another.
In the mental picture, Queen Shi Pang disdained to watch such a battle. She lifted her skirt, sat down in the pavilion, stretched out her fingers to tease the two butterflies in the flowers beside her.
"They are just two useless defective products. No matter how hard we tried to get them to intersect, they never succeeded in giving birth to life. I was very disappointed. In my eyes, they are not even as lovely as these two flying insects."
"We have no choice but to let them sleep underground, out of sight, out of mind."
At this point, Lin Yuan finally understood why humans became the objects of captivity for the mutant species.
Although the mutants are powerful, they are difficult to defeat.
But from another perspective, they do rely on humans for survival.
They need to parasitize humans to survive. Their eggs need to absorb a large amount of mental energy to hatch into a stable pollution zone.
The polluted area where Xunhua is located has few humans entering for many years due to Xunhua's wishes. Even after four hundred years, it has not been fully hatched.
I see.
This is why the practice of keeping humans in captivity exists.
Queen Shi Pang looked at Lin Yuan, "You look strange. I mean, you are special."
Her voice sounded peaceful and calm, like most of their kind, without much emotion in her tone.
"When you came in, I thought you were close to us."
"You have ancient pure blood. You should be a rational and calm life. I think after you know the truth, you should soon recognize the reality and become a good partner of mine."
"But you seem to be..." Shi Pang's voice was a little hesitant, "You seem to be a pure human being with rich emotions."
"You seem to have those human emotions."
"Really?" Lin Yuan raised his tentacles and crawled to the edge of the pavilion and sat down. "I'm very happy to hear that."
"Happy? Are you happy?"
"Yes, happy. An emotion. A unique emotion for humans." Lin Yuan glanced at her. "Are you very envious of me?"
While Queen Shi Pang was reading her, Lin Yuan was also reading the queen's thoughts.
I vaguely knew what was confusing her and what she wanted.
She didn't feel lonely or regretful as she appeared to.
In fact, there was no emotion in her heart when she made these movements and expressions.
It's just, as she said, a simple imitation of human behavior.
The feeling she gave him was very similar to that of the Queen in the White Tower, but there were many differences.
This difference may be Lin Yuan’s opportunity, and also everyone’s opportunity.
"Envious?" The queen tilted her head.
"Yes, envy. Another kind of emotion that is unique to humans. However, I don't think you can understand it."
Lin Yuan's tone revealed a hint of happiness.
It's like I've finally found the right person and can show off the skills I've worked so hard to master.
It seems that this is not a battlefield full of dangers, nor a mental trap where one can fall into it at any time and never survive.
There were no sentinels outside fighting desperately, guarding her body and fighting the monsters that kept appearing.
She seemed settled, had plenty of time, and was willing to stay and chat with a senior.
"I not only know envy and happiness, I also know what love is, what desire is, what sadness is, what friendship is... These emotions are very complicated and cannot be understood by just talking about them on paper."
"It took me a long time to go from a heartless Kraken to a creature that can feel emotions. It's very interesting."
"Is it interesting?" Shi Pang's voice was a little confused. "I have always felt that sentimentality is the biggest weakness of human beings. Unstable emotions are the reason for their destruction."
"Maybe it's a weakness," Lin Yuan said, "but it's also the greatest advantage of human beings. Because of these, we can know who we are, where we are, and where we are going. Only then can we truly become an independent individual. It's a pity that you can't understand."
"What is the greatest virtue of humanity?"
Queen Shi Pang murmured. She had lived for hundreds of years and had many things on her mind.
Lin Yuan's simple words touched her heart.
"You keep humans in captivity, but their numbers are decreasing. You imitate humans, but you don't really understand them. You rely on humans' spiritual power, but you are killing their spiritual world."
"It's hard to see powerful guides these days, isn't it?"
"You can't understand why humans are destroying themselves. I also don't understand you. Aren't you also watching yourself and the rest of humanity go to destruction?"
Queen Shi Pang showed a little confused look.
After a moment, she came to her senses and laughed.
"You actually want to influence me in my spiritual world?"
"No, I'm just stating the facts." Lin Yuan spread her hands like a queen, "The truth is always the most convincing."
"You are very special and courageous. In a place like this, you dare to try to influence my thinking and negotiate with me." Queen Shi Pang said, "I have lived for such a long time, and I only saw a human like you four hundred years ago."
"But she seems to have changed. At least now, she no longer gives me the feeling of a human being."
(End of this chapter)