With a bang, Cen Jin closed the lid of the box and opened it again after a few seconds, staring at the word 'script' on the cowhide notebook, feeling blocked in his throat and chest.
He guaranteed that if Ding Yiqing appeared in front of him at this moment, he would definitely be broken.
Turn around and come to the molten place where the candle dragon is. The strange people in Kunlun are afraid of the candle dragon and usually dare not come over. The candle dragon often sleeps in the lava, so it is very quiet at the moment, and this place is also the most suitable place to be alone.
Turning to the page with the 'script' written on it, Cen Jin thought he would see an unorthodox conspiracy, abbreviated as plot arrangement, but it turned out to be a historical record with rather serious and serious words.
The timeline begins 10,000 years ago and ends this year.
The first third hastily recorded major events that occurred in the period from 10,000 years ago to 6,000 years ago, and sorted out the war lines of the new and old gods to seize power. stage.
About 6,000 years ago, the old god camp fought back, and the new god was hit hard, causing the old god camp to be almost wiped out, but the new god found that human emotions and beliefs could be eaten by them, so they frequently appeared in the human race with a holy and powerful image. in the world, gradually developed into a belief.
However, the early gods did not change their brutal nature. Humans paid their beliefs in exchange for blessings, but their lives were like a must. The situation did not improve, and they were still threatened with extinction at any time. At this time, there was the earliest human rebel alliance.
Through loyalty, sacrifice and faith in exchange for extraordinary power, wandering between the two species of gods and humans, long sleeves and good dance, eloquent words, win over friendly camps, split hostile forces, and seek the life of gods for years.
There are only a few brief strokes of each major event, but Cen Jin can see the difficulties and dangers involved.
The middle of the script focuses on describing the events that occurred in the period from 6,000 to 3,000 years ago. The four ancient civilizations of China, ancient Egypt, Babylon and ancient Bharat are the stage for the main events.
At that time, the powerful system of gods was basically based on the state, and theocracy was almost above the political power. When the power of the new gods reached its peak, it was time for internal contradictions to appear.
The new gods, represented by the Queen Mother of the West, tried to cultivate a faction of gods that was completely loyal to themselves, but raised swords against their former colleagues, did everything to kill them, colluded and cooperated with each other, and started a war between the new god factions. The glorious era of the gods quickly fell.
About three thousand years ago, powerful gods disappeared, and human beings had a period of time to recuperate and strengthen themselves.
The second half records what the gods who survived the New God War have done in the past three thousand years and how far their power has grown. It mainly records the Queen Mother of the West and her ghost kingdom, the plan of Emperor Shitian, and the independent god system created by Samuel. .
Then, according to the plans and purposes of these gods, a series of corresponding measures were formulated, and at the same time, it contacted the old and new gods to obtain their support and cooperation, and completed the grand script in Ding Yiqing's mind.
According to the timeline, the change of the age of the gods is simply divided into the old gods, the new gods and the new gods, and the new gods and the new gods. A new species born from the union of gods with new native gods.
This species combined with new native gods to develop a new group, the Sumerian gods.
Therefore, the civilization of the Sumerian gods, as well as their weapons and powerful weapons, are more advanced and perfect than other new god systems. They participated in two wars between the old and new gods at the same time, and were severely damaged in the second war.
Samuel joined the ancient Greek gods to take advantage of the situation and became the winner, while the glorious Sumerian civilization fell in the battle between the new gods and the old factions.
The ancient Bharata's Emperor Shitian also belonged to the old school of gods, while the Kunlun gods were new gods, and they fell in the battle between the old and the new led by the Queen Mother of the West.
"It's also amazing." Cen Jin hummed and whispered softly: "Although the Queen Mother of the West and Samuel are both anti-bone boys among the new gods, they also participated in the campaign to eradicate the old gods, and they are still enemies of Emperor Shitian.
He hated so much the human beings who converted to Bharatism, and the gods and Buddhas who hated Bharatism and Buddhism, but cooperated with his former enemies. Should he be able to bend or stretch, or bully the soft and fear the hard? "
Turning the page to browse to the next information point, Cen Jin's eyes narrowed, staring at the sentence for a long time before sighing: "I see. No wonder Di Shitian still remembers me when fate is buffed."
He raised his eyes and looked into the depths of the lava: "Because the buff of fate can't have much effect on the ancient old gods, right? Candle Dragon."
A dragon roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, the magma layer suddenly erupted like a tsunami, the world swirled in the cave, and the pebbles fell into the orange-red magma layer, making a chi chi sound.
Shaoqing, a rock-like strong, majestic and magnificent dragon head slowly floated out of the magma, the huge vertical pupil turned twice, and it settled on Cen Jin.
[You call me?]
Cen Jin hasn't answered yet, his gaze fell on the notebook in his hand, and he immediately understood: [Coming for Ding Baiqing again? I know he used to write and draw in a notebook, and he didn't know what to write. Can you show me?]
"Besides, I can't make up my mind without my consent."
[Then I guess I can't see it.]The candle dragon knew Ding Baiqing very well, and he sank, with lava bubbles in his mouth, and asked dazedly: [You mentioned fate just now... What the hell is he doing?]
"He? It sounds like fate is an adult with autonomy and independent thinking, not a cold force."
[There is no need to test me like this.]
Zhu Long said for a while, the Alzheimer's looks very serious, and after thinking for a moment, he slowly said: [The Kunlun Mountains and Seas derives self-consciousness, which can determine the life and death of all living beings, including the old gods, and the rough destiny. If self-consciousness is derived, thus It is also quite common to have the ambition to become a god.]
"Good guy, Shanhai Kunlun wants to be full at most, but fate still wants to be a god?"
[What's wrong with having a dream? If you don't have a dream, it's better to be a salted fish.]
"..." Cen Jin asked quietly: "Who taught you to say these words?"
Zhulong's eyes flickered, and it seemed to fall behind Cen Jin.
Cen Jin looked back subconsciously, moved away the bronze door and the rock wall for cover, and saw a wireless TV with sufficient power and full signal!
"Tell me, who did it?"
[Just Li Manyun and the others, those Buddhist monks... They bribed me, but I, I refused.]
Candle Dragon hesitated: [They always want to run out to play, other doors are locked - but I can guarantee that they are not causing trouble outside, they must come back within 24 hours, my tutor is very strict.]
Thanks to him, he felt that Kunlun was so weird that he was afraid that Zhulong would not dare to come. As a result, Zhulong took bribes and committed dereliction of duty.
"Forget it, go back and fix the cadres' style of work."
It feels like the style is off. Cen Jin complained in his heart, then squatted down and asked, "It is recorded in the notebook that you are also an ancient god."
[hold head high.]
Cen Jin felt uncomfortable: "Be normal."
[It's your mentality that's not good, you're too anxious.] Zhulong lowered his eyelids, resting his chin on the edge of the rock and said lazily: [Calm down, Ding Baiqing is dead, no matter how anxious you are, he will not delay his cooling down, not to mention the fate-prepared cage waiting for you to take the initiative to drill.
When you are in a hurry, you make mistakes, and you are caught in the trap of fate.]
"What's the meaning?"
[Have you not read the script yet? Two-thirds of the way through.]
Cen Jin flipped through the notebook suspiciously, glanced at ten lines, quickly grabbed important information, and became more and more horrified in his heart: "Fate is a weapon created to deal with gods. What about humans? What role do humans play in it? Or was it affected? It was not written in the book."
[Ding Baiqing is not the old god after all, and has never really experienced the glorious era of the old god, so the information he has investigated is limited.]The candle dragon flicked its tail, raising a string of magma sparks, like the grand scene of the extremely fire tree silver flower.
[I am indeed the old god hidden in the new god faction. I have seen the old god in its most prosperous and downcast form, and I have personally experienced the rise and struggle of the new god. A secret no humans or gods know yet: the ancient gods are fugitives from the depths of the stars.]
"They are the 'energy bodies' that maintain the stability and regular operation of the universe?"
[It seems that you know a lot.]
[Hundreds of millions or even tens of billions of years ago, the energy in the universe appeared in different forms, pinched into planets, meteorites, life or dust... It is mainly divided into material and non-material large forms. Among them, the stars belonged to the form of matter, which derived consciousness and became the first life forms in the universe, namely the scarlet stars, and became the ancient extraterrestrial old gods.
These living beings contain huge amounts of energy and cannot easily leave the depths of the stars, but over time, the evolution of the living beings has become more and more perfect, giving birth to higher intelligence and emotion, resulting in the desire for freedom and the idea of defection.
As a result, the first batch of ancient gods defected, fled to different galaxies, and even fled to lower dimensions. In the end, only the group of ancient gods who fled to the earth took root successfully.
When the ancient gods escaped, they took away high-dimensional advanced technology and powerful weapons, and also stole several cosmic rules, one of which was that high-dimensional wills must not harm low-dimensional beings.
Because of this cosmic rule, the cosmic will can't take action on the earth, and there is the emergence of destiny.]
"Why can't the high-dimensional will harm the low-dimensional beings?"
After thinking about it, Zhulong said: [For example, plankton in the ocean are insignificant, if extinction will bring a series of ecological collapses, and the mass extinction of low-dimensional life forms will also lead to the collapse of cosmic energy... Lifeforms Disappearance, energy overflow, and so on. Of course, this rule is not only for the earth, but for a large number of life forms in the universe.]
[Generally speaking, low-level planets will not give birth to high-intelligence life forms, let alone new gods, but you have also seen that the earth is an exception, very special, this special is not a preference, but woven by the will of the universe cage.
It caused the birth of new gods on the earth, eradicated the old gods with the hands of the new gods, and launched wars with the help of the new gods. , but it wasn't satisfied, so there was a sequel to Human Rebellion.]
Cen Jin was in a trance, "That's why human beings are so special, and faith can actually be transformed into energy!"
[That's right. After the war, a few survivors noticed that something was wrong, contacted secretly, and discovered that the cosmic will controls the historical trajectory of the earth through the hand of fate. If we want to avoid the surveillance and manipulation of the cosmic will forever, we must completely cut off the fate and the cosmic will. contact.]
Cen Jin opened his mouth and his eyes were dull: "Does Ding Baiqing know?"
[We didn't say it, maybe he already guessed it.]
"Will I be noticed by the will of the universe? It's not that I'm embarrassed to say this, it's because I seem to be blacklisted by fate and have been maliciously targeted."
[Fate and the will of the universe are not connected all the time, it is possible that the destiny that derives the will is aimed at you alone.]
"why?"
[Doesn't look good to you? Sometimes fate is so strange.]
"Okay, skip this topic." After a while, Cen Jin continued to ask: "According to the will of the universe, it is possible to kill the urine when it runs out, and the next step may be to point the butcher knife at humans."
[It is not possible, it is certain.]
"But I estimate that there are still thousands of years before the will of the universe kills all mankind. Maybe he didn't take action at that time, and mankind killed themselves first, so we don't have to worry about it now."
Huang Mao was about to throw his hands away regardless of the will of the universe and fate's deliberate actions against the earth, but by then he would be turned into ashes.
[Too.] Zhulong lowered his eyelids lazily, [I have lived long enough anyway.]
"I can't control what the future generations will be like in ten thousand years. I have to put Ding Baiqing's resurrection plan on the agenda immediately. Do you have any suggestions?"
[Book of the Dead.]
"Ding Baiqing doesn't even have a shadow. I have to find his body and resurrect him."
[world Tree.]
"Is there really such a thing in Northern Europe?"
[Nordic Protoss, that is also a perfect system that has experienced the changes of old gods and new gods. The World Tree is a different dimension opened up by them. It is in the torrent of time and space, and destiny is hidden in the torrent of time and space, so it is difficult to find.
All your doubts can be found there.]
"Thank you." Cen Jin stroked the surface of the notebook, one third of which remained unread.
When he opened the bronze door and was about to leave, Cen Jin suddenly remembered a question: "By the way, if I have been to the depths of the stars, will I be noticed by the will of the universe?"
[…]
[How many times have you been there?]
"Two or three times, maybe. The last time I chatted with the Crimson Stars, everyone was friendly."
[…Why are you not dead yet?]
"Don't bring such a curse on people."
[I pray that when you go to the depths of the stars as a guest, the will of the universe is not at home, otherwise he discovers that there is a human being on earth who can break into his hometown across dimensions, and he must rush to reduce the dimension.
Forget it, I will hurry up to eat, drink and have fun. Don't bother me if you have nothing to do. I always feel that I will encounter unlucky things when I see you.]
As soon as the words were finished, the candle dragon quickly sank into the molten lava, and couldn't come out no matter how loud it was.
Cen Jin scratched his cheeks, returned to the hut in the forest, lay down on the reclining chair that Ding Baiqing used to sit on, and flipped through the remaining third of Ding Baiqing's notebook.
"In the sixth millennium BC, the weather was fine. Good morning: I found the owner of Kunlun Mountains and Seas, a candle dragon with Alzheimer's dementia. It's a pity that I couldn't find out your whereabouts from his mouth.
But Zhulong said that he would remember your name and help me find it together. I didn't believe him. He even had to think about who the Queen Mother of the West was. "
It is in the form of a letter dialogue, but it is not signed.
Cen Jin's heart was beating violently, and he didn't need a signature, he knew who Ding Baiqing wrote to.
"At the beginning of the fifth millennium BC, the weather was cloudy. Good afternoon: I went to the Norwegian Sea in northern Europe again. The weather was bad at sea. I accidentally lost my way to the Mediterranean Sea and strayed into the infighting war of ancient Greek gods.
I politely asked them if they knew you, but they didn't answer. They even expelled me. When I met a fat idiot, he kept pushing me, saying that they took you away. I know this idiot deliberately used me.
But it doesn't matter, I doubted them in the first place, so I ended their war early.
… almost died, but still couldn’t find it. "
"In the 4th millennium BC, the weather was light rain. Good night: I heard that the fat fool in Europe said there were traces of you. I hurried over and fell into the trap of the Norse gods.
Trapped for a thousand years, almost cut off the root of the World Tree, and was rumored to be a poisonous dragon that bit the root of the tree... So dirty, who would bite? Insult who? "
"In the third millennium BC, the weather was cloudy. Good day: Recently, Kunlun jointly protested, and Zhulong refused me to enter Kunlun, mountains and seas.
I just asked them to help me find someone, and every time I asked in a good voice if I had seen you, they were the first to speak out. I never cared about them calling me a mad dog.
Oh, a bunch of idiots. "
Cen Jin held his cheeks and thought, but he didn't see Ding Baiqing's politeness, but he could see that his temper was not very good. It turned out that Ding Baiqing, who was yin and yang in the process of getting along with him, had a good temper.
"At the end of the third millennium BC, there were no clouds, and the weather was sunny. I wish you good morning, good afternoon, and good night in advance: the Queen Mother of the West and the dead fat man in Europe teamed up to cheat me, and may not be able to find you for a while.
... The Destiny Fragment that Fat Fatty hid secretly wrote the beginning of the meeting between you and me, and it is also its only function.
I have to go.
Looking forward to seeing you. "
It turned out that this was the reason why the Queen Mother of the West and Samuel had tricked Ding Baiqing into entering the underground reservoir and locked him up.
But what else happened? Why is the time span so large
Ding Yiqing is also too stingy with pen and ink. He only writes a letter every two or three hundred years, scribbled in a few words, without saying a word of miss or love, every word is telling the madness of his thoughts.
Cen Jin hugged his notebook, curled up on the reclining chair, his eyes were closed, and his voice was like a mosquito: "Ding Baiqing, I miss you too."
I didn't see Ding Baiqing every few days before, and I didn't miss him much, because I knew he was everywhere, and now I miss him all the time. After thinking and reading for a while, I got some traces of Ding Yiqing and wanted to talk about it for comfort. Unexpectedly, it was drinking poison to quench thirst.
Like a fish flopping in a shallow puddle, he was dying of thirst.
The doorbell rang, and Li Manyun, Gutong and Hei Bingqiu looked at him worriedly: "Cen Jin, do you want something to eat?"
"I have French fries, happy water and candy cake. Do you want it? I just paid for it." The poor and stingy complained boy said generously.
"Would you like us to accompany you to watch TV shows? Horror movies are also ok." The ghost-fearing resentful boy said obediently.
Li Manyun sighed: "Boss Long's map has been sent."
Cen Jin jumped up immediately, "Where?"
Li Manyun took out the map sent by Boss Long from his back, and said to him: "Wu Yujie negotiated with ancient Egypt and temporarily borrowed the Book of the Dead from Osiris, the god of the underworld."
Cen Jin: "Where?"
"Waiting for you at the entrance of the World Tree."
"?"
"Osiris, the god of the underworld, couldn't let the Book of the Dead leave his side, so he lent it along with Qiangwu."
"Fine."
Osiris, the god of the underworld, took the initiative to borrow it and spared him the process of learning how to use tools. He originally planned to snatch it, but he did not think that the other party was very generous.
Now that everything is ready, Cen Jin quickly packs his bags and reaches the Norwegian Sea across space. Before leaving, he sends a message to his teachers, relatives and friends. After sending a 'ding dong', he turns off his mobile phone and walks towards the ship going out to sea.
There is a sea area in the Norwegian Sea that has been blocked for many years. It has always been unknown and cannot be reached by ordinary ships. Li Daoyi and the others knew that Boss Long helped him find a map, and made an exception to give a compass to the sea area.
A storm-worn fishing boat is parked at the port. The hull is mottled and the paint is faded. Osiris, the god of the underworld, stands barefoot on the bow and looks at the sea horizon. At this time, the wind is calm, and the city behind is in a state of sleep. Haven't left completely, silence is the only color of the port.
Osiris took the map and compass, started the fishing boat, and steered silently.
The ship sailed to a group of chaotic reefs, and repeatedly avoided the reefs and whirlpools. The sea was getting dense fog, and it was almost impossible to see the direction. There were faintly sweet songs coming from all directions. The roar, occasionally accompanied by a tinkling sound.
It wasn't until the fishing boat skimmed over a reef on the sea that Cen Jin saw two white bones hanging from the reef tuyere that he knew where the clanging sound came from.
Osiris: "It was a pirate from the Viking period. After being caught, he was hanged in a reef vent, and died of starvation and thirst."
Cen Jin: "The Viking period is more than a thousand years ago. The bones that died at that time must have been weathered."
Osiris: "It's weathered. So there is a problem with this sea area. We have already arrived at the entrance of the World Tree. Next, find the correct 'door' and go in."
Cen Jin: "What is this song?"
Osiris: "Mermaid. During the Viking period, it was also imprisoned in this sea area. The World Tree is in the torrent of time and space, time and space are chaotic, and even the time and space of the entrance are also affected. Multiple time and space overlap. Without a compass and map, it is easy to get lost.
There have been legends in the past that fishermen go out to sea to fish and enter a wonderful world, only stay for two or three days, and when they come out, they find that a hundred years have passed. "
"Remember the story of Kanqi Lanke."
"What is it?"
Cen Jin briefly narrated it again, and Osiris pondered: "It seems that time and space are chaotic everywhere."
At this time, the fishing boat came to a vast sea, surrounded by thick fog, the sea was black and bottomless, the sky was gray and white, and there were many black reefs.
The compass in Osiris turned frantically, and without raising his head, he said: "The entrance to the World Tree is at the moving reef vent, the movement speed is too fast, but there is a pattern - found it, it changes every 0.5 seconds, and presses counterclockwise. direction to move."
He looked up at Cen Jin: "I'm waiting for you here. As long as you find the person you want to revive from the torrent of time and bring him out, I can revive him. But the world tree is the place of destiny, it is familiar with you , so as soon as you have a change, it will immediately find out.
So when you enter the World Tree, you must disguise. Only when there is a flash flood in time, you can take off your disguise, and you can also take the person you want to resurrect to escape the World Tree at this moment. "
"You take the compass and go in."
Cen Jin thanked him in a low voice, stared intently at the moving reef outlet, and suddenly disappeared, stepping into the entrance pointed by the compass.
After the darkness, the white light was dazzling, and Cen Jin's eyelids trembled. When he opened it, he sat up suddenly, gasping for breath. Looking around, he found that he was on a sunny beach with a blue sky and emerald green coconut trees above his head.
A volleyball was thrown in a parabolic shape. Cen Jin was startled and wanted to get up and dodge. With his hands on the beach chair, he kicked the volleyball in place and saw it smash into the beach and spin in a spiral for a long time. , stopped by a pale foot.
Bare feet, pale and bloodless, thin and well-proportioned, with slightly high arches, blue veins creeping on the instep, conspicuous and confusing.
The man was wearing loose trousers, which were folded two or three times, just revealing his ankles, which were stained with a lot of white fine sand from the ankles to the soles of his feet.
He hooked his toes, kicked the volleyball, threw it forward, and walked towards Cen Jin: "Look at your lack of energy, why did you run last night?"
The fog blocking his eyes and ears gradually dissipated, and Cen Jin gradually saw the face of the man in front of him.
Ding Baiqing, Ding Baiqing who is a little younger and brighter, has never experienced life and death, and there is no gloomy color in his eyes and no haze on his brows.
Cen Jin couldn't help but say, "Ding Baiqing."
"Um?"
Ding Baiqing lowered his eyes and approached, looking a little careless. At this time, he also had a long black hair, which fell down when he lowered his head. His appearance was undisguised and unsettled because of his youth, and he was beautiful and aggressive.
With a 'smack', Cen Jin held up Ding Baiqing's face with both hands, shook it from side to side, and a vicious joke sounded: "Ding Baiqing, your skin has no pores!"
Eh? What is this? Who is this
Ding Yiqing's expression was light, and he was about to break his wrist while holding Cen Jin. Unexpectedly, Cen Jin approached and made a gesture of kissing him involuntarily. He was stunned and at a loss.
"Ding Yiqing, do you have any sisters? Cousins and cousins are fine, just like you two or three points... No no, seven or eight points, I'm greedy, I need to be like seven or eight points. Introduce me, I want to pursue— "
Holy crap, am I so rude
Wait, that's not quite right.
Cen Jin was stunned to find that he seemed to be trapped in someone's body. He had all five senses, but he couldn't control his body or chat with the owner of this body. At first, he thought he was possessed by someone from a certain period of time in the past. , until he saw the possessor's face in Ding Baiqing's pupils.
It is Cen Jin with black hair!
Is it him? !
No, he has no memory of Ding Baiqing when he was young, and he has no memory of this sunny beach, so who is this person? What year is it now? In what time period are he and Ding Yiqing
Does stepping into the World Tree directly enter the chaotic time and space
Is this another time and space? Ding Yiqing and Cen Jin in another time and space
Cen Jin was full of panic, watching the black-haired Cen Jin interacting with the young Ding Yiqing in horror, and wondered in panic that this was the reason why Ding Yiqing was looking for him and loving him for no reason
Because they once fell in love in different time and space, different time lines, so Ding Baiqing cast his love on another Cen Jin
"I said Cen Xiaojin, don't tease Lao Ding, be careful that he will kill you while you are drunk."
"This means something." The black-haired 'Cen Jin' folded his arms and turned to look at a tall and strong young man.
Then another tall woman in a long skirt and swimsuit came over and laughed loudly: "The first time he saw Lao Ding, he knelt down to propose marriage and shouted at a beautiful girl, saying that he had misunderstood on the spot. Lao Ding went out on a mission and was drunk by the tasker. That night, the whole school saw him running naked and courting in the male dormitory downstairs.
There were no peach blossoms for the next three years. "
Ding Yiqing said lightly, "I stopped, but I didn't."
The tall and strong young man hummed: "Everyone knows that my wine is excellent, I will fall when I am drunk, and I will sleep when I am drunk."
The black-haired 'Cen Jin' finally adapted to the sunlight, and saw clearly the faces of the tall and sturdy young man and the tall slender woman. It was Boss Long and Wu Yujie, who were twenty years younger.
At this time, on the road full of cars and bicycles parked on Sunshine Beach, two people wearing loose shirts and beach pants waved to this side, and when they looked closely, it was Li Daoyi and Jiang Baipingcuo, who were in their 30s and 40s.