The Shadow of The Beginning

Chapter 2: Pure white and life

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As time passed, the box under the incubation cabin suddenly trembled slightly. There were originally thousands of small light balls in the box. After absorbing the original power, the small light balls merged and devoured each other, and finally only four dim small light balls were left.

After the energy was completely consumed, the lid of the box slowly opened, and the unknown words that were originally shining on the box turned into ordinary textures.

The small balls of light rose into the air instinctively, and stretched out their spiritual tentacles one by one to explore this familiar yet unknown pure white space. They moved forward in one direction, gradually exploring this empty pure white space.

Except for the white color and the breeding chamber where they were just born, there seemed to be nothing around. ① As time passed, they gradually completed their exploration of the pure white space.

The four small light balls returned to the breeding cabin and gathered together, chasing each other and playing in the air. After a while, the small light balls exchanged information with each other through the contact of spiritual tentacles.

Apart from the central area where the incubator was located, there was an area in the north where white cubes of various sizes were piled up, but these cubes seemed to have lost their energy and were simply placed randomly on the ground.

There is an intricately crafted arched door in the south, with strange reliefs and textures similar to those on the incubator box carved on the door frame. But what makes them feel strange is that this door is not on the wall, but floating in the air. The material of the arch itself is also very strange, and it will be distorted over time but will not be damaged.

The small ball of light responsible for exploring the south tried to pass through the door, but nothing happened. It also tried to use its mental tentacles to touch the texture on the door, but was gently pushed away by a force. Obviously, it was not qualified to activate this slightly weird but harmless archway.

The small light group exploring the east found another door. Behind the door were various sticks and objects shining with different colors. The space behind the door was a world of its own, and in the middle was a large black light group that looked very similar to the small light groups.

The small ball of light did not immediately touch the large ball of light that looked different, but cautiously left the room.

Finally, in the sky above the west, there were six pieces of power that originated from the light balls. This power was very gentle and would not harm the small light balls.

This is the legacy that person left to the little light groups. It is also the inheritance and the glorious civilization belonging to this great ethnic group.

These spiritual powers come from the spiritual fragments left behind by the managers of the pure white space in the past. Each fragment contains an unknown history, and even the truth in the haze behind the history.

The Administrators once traveled through time and space, explored the origin of the universe, and acquired knowledge beyond that of other races. They once possessed the ability of mental communication.

Using the ability of mental interaction, they can exchange consciousness with intelligent creatures, thereby obtaining a physical body to personally understand the nature of the world. The past administrators left behind spiritual fragments for their newborn descendants to gain knowledge.

This is a relatively safe way to peek into the world, because you don’t need to put yourself in danger yourself. You can observe the world from a first-person perspective like watching a holographic projection, and gain experiences and knowledge related to that time period.

The development of spiritual fragments originated from the first manager of the pure white space.

At that time, this ancient race had not yet declined. They held some authority over time and could peek into future risks and travel to other timelines to avoid them.

However, this ability of time and space jumping and foresight is not completely flawless. These abilities are based on the great creation, pure white space.

Pure white space is a part of the authority stolen from an indescribable omniscient and omnipotent being. For that being, it does not mind temporarily "borrowing" some authority to guide a gorgeous farce in the future. For that being, it is a way to spice up life.

Therefore, it can be said that the existence of pure white space is a blasphemy against the omniscient and omnipotent One.

The power that can see through the long river of time will naturally be coveted by other mysterious beings. The great race thus transforms itself into a pure spiritual body, abandoning its physical body, and can use the ability to jump again and again to avoid future harm.

At the same time, the first generation saw that the tribe had encountered a catastrophic disaster, so they used the racial skill of sharing knowledge through spiritual bodies to divide and extract the spiritual fragments, and ordered the later generations to also leave the spiritual fragments for future generations to experience.

At the same time, some truths are concealed because too much knowledge means more unknowns, and the unknown is what is worthy of fear, and fear will bring disaster.

The tribesmen were unaware that there was also some darkness in the spiritual fragments, so they just passed them down as ordinary memories. Only when they really encountered the disaster would the hidden content be activated.

Therefore, for those who are destined to be calamity, reading the spiritual fragments cannot be done all at once, but needs to be done step by step starting from the sixth generation of spiritual fragments.

Only after reading these six spiritual fragments, can the tribe members start and activate the incomplete time and space authority, jump through time and space to explore the world, and obtain the method to redeem the tribe. ②

Faced with the six spiritual fragments that emitted familiar power fluctuations, the small light balls happily circled around the fragments, as surprised as human children seeing their favorite cartoon character dolls in a toy store.

It’s a pity that the little light balls are flawed. The process of their birth in the incubator is incomplete, which leads to their lack of intelligence.

At the same time, unlike their predecessors who could receive guidance from a guide when they were born and acquire all kinds of knowledge and language about their own race, the current small light balls only possess the instincts left over from the race.

It is the thirst for knowledge left over from the great race that makes them curious about the surrounding environment and explore it. It is the power of the same origin that makes the small light groups prioritize facing the familiar spiritual fragments after exploration.

But instinct is just instinct after all. They don’t know how to activate these spiritual fragments, but choose to revolve around it and get close to it.

The power overflowing from the spiritual fragments was slowly absorbed by the small light balls, and they extracted the most important cornerstone of civilization from the power of their ancestors: language.

After learning the language, they discovered the importance of names. Every special being has his or her own name, as well as a name of associated power.

Although they are still newborns, they also need names.

In the past, newborns would be named by their guides.

Although the Great Race is a spiritual entity, it still needs names to distinguish each different being.

A name may also affect one’s future character and destiny, and even change one’s mental and behavioral patterns.

The first light group that took the lead in naming itself shone with a cyan glow. It looked at the three companions around it and tried to express its thoughts using the language it had just mastered: "I've decided. My name is Wind. Why don't you call yourself Water, Fire, and Earth?"

"Great, great, this is a great idea!" said the ball of light surrounded by red stars.

"I...anything is fine..." After the blue light group finished speaking, he looked at the silent yellow light group, and saw the light on the yellow light group's body flashed as a response of agreement.

In the pure white space, four little lives have their own names, which also symbolize the four major elements in the world. It may be just a coincidence of fate, or it may be a trick of God. These simple but plain names have never been used by any predecessors.

Feng Shui, Fire and Earth continued to absorb strength around the spiritual fragments, and slowly resonated with the spiritual fragments at the soul level. The front piece of spiritual fragment belonging to the sixth generation manager lit up, and Feng Shui, Fire and Earth fell into a deep sleep at the same time, as if they had returned to the time when they were not yet spiritually intelligent in the incubator.

Deep in their souls, the four little guys were floating in their respective soul seas, with no boundaries and pitch blackness all around.

A dazzling white light suddenly broke through the boundless darkness in the sea of souls. That was the power of the sixth generation.

Huo, who has a lively personality, inadvertently exclaimed, "Wow, Senior's power is amazing."

Before they finished speaking, their consciousness was stretched into a straight line. The force was gentle and did not hurt the fragile little guys, and it smoothly led them to the sealed ocean of memories.

It was a century belonging to science and a civilization belonging to mankind.

"Those who are destined to be calamities, welcome to the civilized world of mankind!"

Such a sentence suddenly appeared in Fenghuoshuitu's consciousness, and at the same time, many pictures quickly passed by his consciousness, like jumping slides flashing by frame by frame.

The voice of the sixth generation of managers sounded again,

"Humans are carbon-based creatures with a very short history compared to ours. They don't know how to use ether, and they don't know how to communicate with dreams. It was not until the advent of extraordinary power that they opened up their own wisdom.

They are greedy, they are corrupt, they are lazy, they are cowardly; but at the same time they are brave, they are kind, they are hardworking.

Such a carbon-based organism with a simple structure is full of complexity and contradictions in its spirituality.

Their ordinariness leads to their extraordinaryness.

That was the favor of the noble superiors, who gave them the key to open civilization;

That was also the guidance of Chaos, leading to their eventual destruction.

At first it was just an invention, an accident, a fire, a plague, a war, the disappearance of a species,

With the decline of this civilization.

I don't have much strength left, you can explore the rest on your own.

The four-in-one calamity-recipients."

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“The origin of the universe is a secret that every race desires to know, and humans are no exception.

Throughout human history, there have been countless speculations that have created myths.

No one can be sure whether the myths are correct or whether the characters and gods in the myths really existed.

The truth hidden behind the long river of time may be a terrifying haze.

Humans, like other great races like me, are curious about things they don’t understand or know;

Want to touch it, want to grasp it, want to understand it,

It is this characteristic that makes humans, a lower-level creature, different from other predators.

The beasts that spy on civilization will bring about the end.

It is the faceless incarnation, the blind will, the lurking chaos.

It delights in despair and feeds on hope,

Howling and wailing, joy and bliss,

These are all ways it plays with reality.

It travels the universe, it has countless incarnations,

Just to ring the death knell of the end of the world,

Complete the mission of the end."

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March 14, 1879

It was a sunny afternoon. In a hospital in Ulm, Germany, the Kingdom of Württemberg, businessman Hermann was pacing outside the delivery room. His wife Pauline Kirk had been in the delivery room for a whole day and night.

Although the doctor who delivered the baby was the best obstetrician and gynecologist in Umr City, Yudkao, the anxious Hermann felt like an ant on hot pot. He stood up, sat down, and walked to the door of the delivery room to look around. He was looking forward to the new life, but also felt restless and hesitant.

A tall, thin man with dark skin took out a Chinese cigarette, lit it, and handed it to Hermann, who was standing outside the delivery room at a loss.

"Have a cigarette, my friend. Don't worry too much. Everything will go well. This is fate's arrangement."

The black man, who looked extremely sunny, said with a broad grin.

"Thank you for your blessing. I hope my wife and baby are safe. Wow, sir, your cigarette tastes really special. Very pure flavor."

Hermann took a puff of cigarette, raised his head, looked at the door of the delivery room, and his tightly furrowed brows relaxed. Perhaps the puff of smoke he just exhaled took away his nervousness.

With a clear cry, a new life was born.

The door of the delivery room was pushed open by the nurse. The doctor had just taken off his blood-stained gloves.

"Mr. Hermann, congratulations, your wife and baby are safe! Oh, I forgot to congratulate you, it's a lovely boy." The delivery doctor in charge of the delivery said to the businessman Hermann.

"Oh, thank God! This is really great! Doctor, you have worked hard too."

After saying this, Hermann extended his right hand to the doctor, and concealed twenty gold marks in his hand. The doctor hurriedly washed his hands, and then tacitly accepted the extra income during the handshake.

"Mr. Hermann, you should go see your wife now."

After saying this, the doctor put his hands in the pockets of his surgical gown, so that the nosy nurse would not see the twenty gold marks and want a share. He could go to the bar tonight and have a glass of authentic dark beer brewed from rye. Oh, maybe it would be a good combination with sauerkraut and roasted pork knuckle with black pepper. ⑥

At the same time, the nurse took the newborn baby to the nursery, while the head nurse was responsible for pushing Mrs. Kirk, who had just given birth, to the ward to rest.

"Okay, Dr. Youdekao. Our door is always open to you. You are welcome to visit us."

Hermann complimented.

Suddenly Herman remembered the tall thin black man who handed him the cigarette and wanted to thank him for the cigarette he had bought earlier. As a businessman, he knew that it was a high-end product.

Turning around, he saw that the corridor was empty. Seeing this, Hermann had no choice but to give up. He should first visit Pauline Kirk, his wife, who risked her life to give birth to the bloodline of the Einstein family.

Kirk lay flat on the bed with a pale face, her hair wet and hanging on the side, she looked tired and weak; giving birth was like walking through the gates of hell, she almost lost her life. But for Kirk, giving birth to her son was a blessing, thinking that the child would grow up happily beside her, she was exhausted but still smiled with motherly love.

Herman took the initiative to hold Kirk's hand and said affectionately, "My dear, you have worked hard. Thank the Holy Light! Mother and child are safe!"

"Honey, where is our child? I want to see him." Mrs. Kirk tried hard to support her body and said to her husband.

Seeing this, Hermann gently persuaded,

"The baby is still in the nursery, dear. You are still very weak and need to rest well. Taking good care of your body is your most important thing now. I will ask the nurse to bring the baby over for you to see."