With a painful cry, the saber-toothed tiger fell powerlessly to the ground. The daunting pair of fangs had no effect in this swift and crushing encounter. After figuring out how it was injured, its heart was instantly roasted by the scorching blade of the plasma spear.
Hao Ren flicked the spear casually. Even though the blade of the plasma gun was never stained with blood, he still felt that this action could effectively increase his popularity. Then he looked at the surrounding environment and confirmed that there were no enemies except the saber-toothed tiger that popped out suddenly without eyes, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
The primitive and savage earth is full of dangers. Human beings are far from reaching the top of the food chain in this period. There are wild beasts everywhere that treat humans as food. Although they are not a threat to Hao Ren at all, it is necessary to disperse them. Stuff is a real pain in the ass.
Hao Ren glanced back, and saw a twisted crack about two people's width floating in mid-air. On the opposite side of the crack, the disintegrated ice tower fell quietly to the ground. The scenery of 7715 BC was imprisoned in the Inside that crack, it has been completely covered by the gray-white color that represents the stagnation of time and space.
In fact, he doesn't know how many years it was when he arrived back last time. This precise year can only be found in the records of the sandbox system. He just has an increasingly obvious intuition—as the more The closer you get to the starting point of this distorted space-time, the more clear this intuition becomes. He knows that he has stepped into the final realm, maybe here, or maybe in the next retrospective, he will reach the beginning of this long river of time that has been stripped out, and this long journey will eventually reach the end, which has been Not far away.
"By the way... so the saber-toothed tiger has survived until this period..." Hao Ren glanced at the long-toothed beast lying on the ground, shook his head and muttered to himself, "It would be crazy if some archaeologists came over. past… "
He wasn't really interested in saber-toothed tigers, but he had to find something to mutter. This wild and primitive world is full of depression, and traveling alone is not a pleasant experience. He felt that he needed to find something to distract himself. attention.
Leaving behind the space-time rift connecting the Ice Spire, Hao Ren embarked on the journey with the plasma spear in hand.
He trekked in the cold wilderness, trying to find traces of primitive tribes or intelligent creatures, but he found nothing until evening: this is the earth in ancient times, and the human beings at this moment are far from being as prosperous as in later generations. The sparsely populated primitive humans lived scattered in a few habitable areas in the form of tribes. Ninety percent of the lonely land was ruled by wilderness, and the ice age that lasted for a long time made it difficult for humans to expand at will. The range of their activities, to find people in the wilderness, can only count on luck.
Hao Ren knew this a long time ago, so he was not discouraged by this result. The journey backtracking has continued to this day. He has faced all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, and now there are few setbacks that can shake his resolve. .
When night falls, he rests temporarily in the cave. The food in the portable space has become a precious luxury now, and he only eats a little bit when he wants to savor the "outside world", so his dinner Or hunt in the wilderness. After dinner, he judged his current position with the help of the starry sky. Although the starry sky 10,000 years ago was very different from that of later generations, he had prepared for it long before he set off, and had memorized the starry sky images of various periods in history in advance. , so it is easy to confirm where he is now: it should be in the Nordic region.
Then he studied Vivienne's handwriting, roughly judged the time point of his arrival, and finally became more sure that he was close to that destination.
When the sun rose, he set off on his journey again and continued on the vast wilderness.
He is not wandering aimlessly, but follows the "guidance" deep in his heart. Although he has never been accustomed to relying on invisible and intangible things such as "intuition" to act, it must be admitted that, as a demigod who has established a deep connection with the will of the universe, his intuition has no clues. is a far more reliable guide than other means, including but not limited to shoe tosses and coin tosses.
And after entering this period of time and space, he found that his intuition became stronger, as if there was some kind of induction in the dark, which made him feel that he should move in a certain direction as soon as he opened his eyes. The traction in the movie is so clear, he can almost hear a voice in his mind calling himself: right in front, the person he is looking for is right in front.
Under this kind of guidance, he walked day after day in the wilderness and Gobi. On this cold and barbaric ancient earth, he was accompanied only by the rising sun every day and the starry sky falling every night. , and those beasts that have become extinct in the outer time and space.
Mammoths and saber-toothed tigers are actually not common. This is the earth after the end of the glaciers. The climate has gradually warmed up. The changes in the living environment have brought many glacial species including them to the end, although they will still be on this planet. It has survived for hundreds or even thousands of years, but the decline of the population is already an obvious fact-the grand scene of primitive people hunting mammoths will come to an end with the arrival of the warm season, but the next "age of the gods" will break this star. The original development trajectory of the planet.
When the sun rose to the horizon for the twelfth time, Hao Ren left the desolate wilderness of rocks and entered a lush grassland that grew with the warming of the climate. He found a small tribe of stone tools on the edge of the grassland. The residents of the city regard Hao Ren, who has supernatural power, as a god and treat him warmly, but they don't know anything about Vivienne or any other gods.
On the twentieth day, Hao Ren had already crossed the grassland and entered a mountainous area. On the way, he did not see any clues of suspected alien colonial strongholds—such as cracked landing cabins, detection antennas fixed with stones, and The purification circle near the water source and the swamp, these things can often be seen in the last time he went back, and even saw a lot in the last time back, they are the evidence of survival in the wilderness after the aliens landed on the earth, It can be seen everywhere in the hundreds of years since the age of mythology.
After all, even the glorious gods of Olympus began to build their homes by digging the first stone in the barren mountains.
There can only be one explanation for not finding these traces: he arrived at an earlier point in time, even before the aliens arrived on Earth!
This surprised Hao Ren at first, because he thought it was illogical: he was traveling in Vivienne's memory world, and theoretically the earliest time scale he could reach could only be limited to the time when Vivienne had just arrived on Earth. moment, but soon he vaguely guessed the reason:
This world is not only composed of Vivienne's memory, or Vivian's memory is not even the main "component" of this world. The most important part of this world is actually built by the sandbox system in the Sovereign Hub. The sandbox has created an almost real earth through information deduction and information reorganization, and everything about this mirrored earth is exactly the same as the original.
Vivienne's memory only provides a series of beacons and key scenes in this mirrored earth. Rather than saying that these memories are the whole of the retrospective journey, it is better to say that these memories only provide the function of navigation.
On the top of a high mountain, Hao Ren finally stopped and set up a small camp on the flat ground on the top of the mountain.
He knew where the problem was, because he "dived" too deeply in this long river of history and memory, even to a place that Vivian didn't even know. Here, Vivian's memory has been blurred Even when it is completely distorted, it is difficult for the sandbox system to use this memory for accurate positioning. Here, no one knows when the historical meeting between the Dream Plane and the Table World happened, not even Vivian's subconscious mind. There is no relevant record in -
The sandbox system can only send him to a place as close as possible.
Now it seems that he arrived a little early.
Hao Ren sat on a boulder on the top of the mountain, looking at the green mountains and plains in the distance, lost in thought. He wondered how early he was—months, years, or decades. He couldn't judge the exact year from the starry sky and the surrounding vegetation, but at least from the scenery he saw along the way, he could have a general inference: the ice age is over, and the glaciers are receding from all the warm regions and surviving the cold winter Humans began to thrive, and various large game species that had been weakened by maladaptation after the end of the Ice Age were providing these primitive people with a valuable food source.
Vivienne's earliest memories begin with the sight of the receding glaciers.
So he should not be too early, and the next thing to do is to wait.
On the 106th day, Hao Ren finished the last round of exploration of the surrounding environment, and the intuition from the soul was still working strongly, driving him back to his camp on the top of the mountain, crossing his legs on the boulder Sit down and plunge your plasma spear into the nearby rubble.
He released a divine spell that he rarely used, then closed his eyes and began to wait quietly.
He doesn't know how much time has passed, because time doesn't mean much to him, the sun rises and sets, the starry sky turns in the night, the cold wind blows over the hills day after day, and occasionally brings some plants Seeds that sprouted around him, then withered and died...
His mind entered a "quiet" state, he clearly perceived everything that happened around him, but he was silent as if dead.
Finally one day, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked sharply into the distance.
The sky on the plain curled up, the clouds were torn apart, and a large continuous, dancing light and shadow appeared above the blue sky, as if the ocean was hanging upside down.
Time is up.