When Ji Thrush realized that he had to figure out where he was, he began to look around.
Compared with the space that was too white to distinguish between the sky and the earth just now, the place he is in now is more like a corridor with an overly strong sense of technology.
The solid-colored floor tiles, the translucent walls made of unknown materials, the lighting facilities embedded in the walls, which can emit bright and soft light without seeing the specific shape, and the deep and endless space that cannot be seen from the top. dome.
Ji Thrush let out a low "ah".
He's pretty sure he's seen a similar "ceiling"—the hourglass cube they have to go into every draw.
"So, we're inside the hourglass cube now?"
Ji Thrush turned his head, trying to find approval from Ren Jianmo.
Mr. Ren smiled.
"You guessed it right, in a sense we are indeed 'inside' the Hourglass Cube."
Ji Thrush: "???"
The doubt in his eyes deepened.
In fact, Ji Xiaoniao has a lot of questions that he wants to ask his beautiful Ren Damei, one of the most urgent is—how do you know this
"I do know a little more than you do."
Ren Jianmo seemed to use "God said there must be light" to read Ji Thrush's heart, and easily saw through the other party's doubts.
As he spoke, he took Ji Thrush's hand and led him through the corridor step by step.
"Partly because of the answer I got from 'Van', and partly because of my ability."
If time permits, Ren Jianmo is willing to tell Ji Thrush carefully about his second ability "Hunyuan Youdao", but at this time, a sea of light has already appeared above their heads.
Ji Thrush: "!!"
He raised his head and looked at the top of his head in surprise.
For a moment, Ji Thrush felt that he had walked into the viewing tunnel of a large aquarium.
Because, in the endless darkness beyond his vision, there are a large number of fluorescent blue or fluorescent yellow luminous bodies floating.
They are like jellyfish blossoms, light and elegant, but when you look closely, there are no entities visible to the naked eye, just balls of light emitting bright fluorescent light.
At the bottom of these light clusters, countless slender and slender "tentacles" were dragged out, and the ends of the roots were connected to each other, forming a beautiful and huge spider web.
Ji Thrush: "What are these?"
"The guy who brought us into 'Peach Blossom Land'."
Ren Jian thought for a moment and added:
"Or, it's the spiritual body."
Ji Thrush: "??"
Pity him, a sports student who has never touched physics after taking the exam. What he is most afraid of is these very high-sounding and incomprehensible nouns.
Just when Ji Xiaoniao wanted Ren Jianmo to explain to him again, the "net" directly above the two of them suddenly opened a gap.
A few light blue "jellyfish" let go of some of their "tentacles", and then the quarter thrush saw those tentacles swinging gently and dangling down.
Xiaoniao took a step back almost reflexively, and like a frightened cat, the fur all over his body exploded, and he put on a defensive posture.
There is really no way. After staying in the "Peach Blossom Spring" for a long time, I have been forced to develop a strong sense of crisis. When I see an unknown object approaching, I will have this reaction.
"Tentacle" seemed to have seen Ji Thrush's vigilance, and didn't come any closer, but just drifted in the air, keeping a distance of one meter away from him, probing from a distance.
At this time, Ren Jianmo stretched out his hand and took the initiative to touch those "tentacles".
Ji Thrush: "!!"
He saw that these "tentacles", like their bodies, had no substance at all, but wisps of slender light like spider silk.
These filaments of light looked extremely soft, but the moment they touched Ren Jianmo's palm, they all stretched straight and "pierced" into his skin.
Ji Thrush was a little worried, and carefully observed Ren Jianmo's expression.
Ren Damei of his family's eyes are slightly closed at this moment, like an old monk in meditation.
So Ji Thrush could only imitate his appearance, and reached out to touch the "tentacles" floating in midair.
Immediately, several strands of silk thread gathered and stuck into his hand.
Ji Thrush: "!!"
For a moment, he felt his knees go limp, and he staggered backwards, almost sitting on the ground with his buttocks.
After a long absence of six months, he once again felt the shock of the first time he faced "God said there would be light".
Multiple thoughts penetrated into his brain at the same time, buzzing together, but none of them belonged to him.
People who have never experienced it for the first time have the illusion that they have suddenly gone crazy, and it is easy for people to doubt life.
But fortunately, Ji Xiaoniao is a smart kid, he soon learned by himself without a teacher, and learned to ignore these thoughts that suddenly flooded into his mind.
After blocking most of the messy voices, Ji Thrush began to talk to one of the "persons".
"Congratulations, you finally found us."
That voice said so to Ji Thrush.
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Finally, Ji Thrush figured out what he had experienced for a long time from the thoughts conveyed by Guangsi.
The ball of light floating in mid-air was once a life form living in a certain cosmic plane.
In terms of biological characteristics, these "aliens" have a high degree of genetic similarity with humans.
If we have to go back to the source, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the "ancestor" of human beings.
Of course, their history is much longer than the human beings on the earth, and their technological level is far better than the current level of the earth.
It's just that when their civilization developed to a certain stage, with the addition of high technology, many genetic modification, medicine, training and strengthening technologies came into being.
The people on the planet have become smarter and stronger, and newborns are the product of perfect splicing of gene fragments from the embryonic period.
Then, at a certain period, among these people, a particularly outstanding group of people appeared.
Just like Ji Thrush and Ren Jianmo, they possessed power far superior to ordinary people through constant "optimization" and "adjustment", or "artificial evolution".
The supernatural beings are divided into two directions, physical strengthening and spiritual strengthening.
In the beginning, people with supernatural powers were inevitably excluded and hostile, but as more and more such people gradually became the "majority" of the crowd, the evolution of supernatural powers became the mainstream of society.
Powerful abilities mean greater advantages, but also a transcendent status.
On the premise that the genes are controllable, people began to argue about the direction of the evolution of abilities.
The supernatural beings of the two factions gradually divided into two opposing camps, and in repeated conflicts, a global war was triggered.
The destructive power of supernatural powers and high technology is unbelievable. When the war ended, the planet was almost a wasteland.
The tragic battle ended with the victory of the spiritual evolution faction.
The survivors began to rebuild the city bit by bit, while never giving up further research on spiritual evolution.
It's just that they didn't know at the time that compared to war, this is the real end of civilization.
Because, for the humans on that planet, the end point of the evolution of spiritual powers is the separation of the spirit from the physical body, and the spiritual body transcends the dimension and becomes a higher-level existence...
…
Ji Thrush: "..."
He was really a little confused.
He tried to digest this concept silently, but as soon as the idea came up, it instantly spread throughout the entire network through the light thread connected to the spiritual body, and immediately many voices flooded into his brain, chattering Explain the concept of "higher-dimensional organisms".
Poor Ji Xiaoniao only felt a splitting headache, and confirmed once again that she really, really hates this way of communication.
In the end, after being bombarded with a lot of unknown physics terms, he finally figured out what was going on.
To put it simply, when people evolve to an advanced stage of separation of soul and body, the "mass" of the spirit is too large for the body to accommodate, and they will "sublimate" into a higher-dimensional space and exist in the form of pure consciousness.
But even Gaowei creatures are not immortal.
The conscious body still has energy consumed to the point where it cannot maintain thinking for a day, degenerates into a pure energy body, and after a long period of time, it completely dissipates.
[Those yellow light clusters you see are pure energy bodies.]
Ji Thrush caught this sentence in several different voices, couldn't help raising his head, and carefully observed the light net hanging above his head again.
Within the range of the field of vision, most of the "jellyfish" are fluorescent yellow, accounting for about three-quarters of the number, and only a few of them still emit bright green light.
—So, your days are numbered, right
Ji Thrush asked in his heart.
[Yes, we have no time.]
Many consciousnesses speak in unison at this time.
After the world war, the population of the planet was extremely withered, and the birth rate was shockingly low, but the more powerful the supernatural being, the faster the spiritual ascension would be.
What's more terrible is that although the spiritual body only needs to consume its own energy to survive, and has a long lifespan ten times that of human beings, it cannot reproduce, replicate or regenerate in any form.
In other words, when all the human beings who can ascend the dimension are completed, they will no longer be able to increase the number of spiritual bodies.
When these spiritual bodies "looked down" on their parent star in a higher dimension, they suddenly discovered that on a certain day, the once prosperous and beautiful blue planet had completely become a dusty, dirty and ugly death. star.
They destroyed a planet, a civilization.
-I see.
Ji thrush thought.
While listening to the spirits telling the history of their mother planet, Ji Xiaoniao also shared some of their memories.
Although it was just some broken fragments, he still felt a faint pain in his heart.
He has seen many movies, novels, comics, or documentaries about the end of the world, and occasionally comes into contact with some pessimistic doomsdayists, and hears from them an extremely bad future.
But these are far less touching than seeing it with your own eyes.
-Understood.
Ji thrush thought silently.
—When all the energy of the spiritual body is exhausted, you will be exterminated.
As soon as the idea came up, he felt a lot of sad emotions transmitted to his mind through the spiritual network.
— But what does it have to do with "Peach Blossom Spring"
Ji Xiaoniao continued to ask.