This is the deepest part of the Hupo sub-base and the area with the highest authority. It is dark and humid all year round, the walls are covered with moss, and there is a smell of rust in the air.
It can be seen that there has been no maintenance here for a long time.
Many old-style light bulbs have almost reached their life limit, and various metal switches and other items are also covered with rust.
Only the cage is still brand new, without a trace of dust.
This is a special cage specially built for Tianshu. The metal railings are deep into the ground. The floor inside the cage is also made of special metal and is integrated with the cage.
Achieve 360-degree blockade without dead ends.
At the same time, there were eighteen chains hanging from the ceiling of the cage, which were wrapped around Tianshu's neck, limbs, and other parts, restricting his freedom.
At this time, it was confirmed that Tianshu was one of the miracles found in Mu Yan's memory.
Feng Qi became even more curious about him.
However, Tianshu was still unwilling to pay attention to him. He asked several times but received no response.
But it can be seen that he is very interested in Mu Qing. To be more precise, he is interested in the scarlet rune crystal on Mu Qing's arm, and he also calls it the "scarlet origin".
This shows that he may know the detailed origin of the scarlet rune crystal.
Realizing that asking directly would not attract Tianshu's attention, Feng Qi now needed a breakthrough.
After a moment of silence, he looked up at Tianshu again:
"Tianshu, do you know Mu Jun?"
Tianshu, who originally had an indifferent expression, changed his expression after hearing the word "Muzhen".
"Mu...暚."
It seemed that he hadn't spoken for a long time. These two words seemed to be squeezed out of Tianshu's throat, and his voice was hoarse.
"Yes, Mu Jun!" Feng Qi affirmed.
A brief trance appeared on Tianshu's face, as if he had opened a dusty memory and fell into a state of trance.
When he came back to his senses, his eyes became sharp:
"How...how do you know where this old woman, Mu Zhen, died?"
Feng Qi felt ashamed when he heard that Tianshu, a man who was over 400 years old, called Mu Yan an old woman.
But thinking about it carefully, in the memory picture he saw, Tianshu was still a little kid licking a lollipop at that time, while Mu Yan's appearance had never changed.
It can be seen that Mu Yao must be older than Tianshu.
The exact age is a complete mystery, and it could be any number of years he lived.
Tianshu is not the only one who calls Mu Yan an old woman, Wei Wei also calls her that.
"I don't know where she went, but maybe we can exchange information... Don't worry, I'm always on the side of the human camp."
Finally, fearing that Tianshu would misunderstand, he explained again.
When Tianshu heard this, purple light flashed in his eyes, and then he said softly:
"Tell me first, how did you know her name?"
Facing the inquiry, Feng Qi remained silent.
After much thought, he decided to confess his secret to Tianshu.
After all, he was on the sacrifice line for trial and error, and Tianshu was a trustworthy human camp warrior in his eyes, so he had nothing to worry about.
He is not the hero of a novel, so he does not need to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger.
Hiding one's own secrets is a matter of the main timeline and has nothing to do with him on the sacrifice line.
Thinking of this, he looked at Tianshu and said:
"Tianshu, what I'm going to tell you may be difficult for you to understand, but please believe that what I say is the truth."
"Say it." Tianshu said coldly.
"First of all, let me ask you a question. Do you believe that someone can travel to the future?"
Tianshu was obviously taken aback when he heard these words, the content was obviously beyond his expectation.
After a short silence, a smile appeared on Tianshu's face:
"Do you want to tell me next that you have the special ability to travel to the future?"
"That's right!"
Hearing Feng Qi's affirmative answer, the smile on Tianshu's face disappeared, and he became indifferent again:
"Even an old woman can't do this. Do you think it's possible for you?"
"I know you don't believe it, but what I said is true."
"Okay, give me a shuttle and let me see you disappear into my consciousness." As he said this, a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of Tianshu's mouth.
Feng Qi:......
Mu Qing:......
Traveling through time and space is true, but how to explain it is always a headache.
Facing Mu Qing, Lin Ran and others, he can use his experience to prove it. After all, the future timeline is at the same historical node, and there are many examples to prove it for him.
But Tianshu is completely different.
This guy has been self-imprisoned for more than four hundred years, completely isolated from the world.
He has no contact with the outside world, and has no interaction with him. He can't produce any evidence to prove that he has the ability to travel through the timeline.
After all, there will be no such person as Tianshu in the future time and information.
He guessed that Tianshu's ending would be to be imprisoned in this prison until he died of old age, and would never appear in future history.
It becomes a difficult problem to prove.
As for what Tianshu said, performing a time travel into the future in person is even more impossible.
He who was on the sacrifice line already had a set timeline and it was impossible to change it.
Facing Tianshu, who obviously didn't believe what he said, he really felt a little headache.
"Regarding this issue, you obviously can't provide any evidence that can prove it, and I won't believe it at all... It's the same question, where have you seen Mu Zhen? Just now you mentioned traveling into the future. Do you want to tell me that you are in the future?
Did you see the old woman?"
"That's right, I met Mu Jun in the future. It's up to you to believe it or not."
"Interesting, how far into the future is that?" Tianshu continued to ask.
"The future 1500 years later."
Tianshu couldn't help laughing when he heard this number.
"It seems that you just learned the old woman's name from somewhere. In fact, you have never met her at all, but I am curious about what you want to get from me by making up this story?"
"Who says I haven't seen her before? What I saw was that she was holding a silver gun and wearing broken armor. Her face was still that of 16 or 7 years old. She had never aged. At that time, she faced the surging beast tide alone.
, chose to fight to the death and not retreat, and eventually fell with the setting sun."
After hearing these words, the smile on Tianshu's face solidified.
His expression became serious, and he looked directly into Feng Qi's eyes, as if he wanted to find flaws in him and prove that everything he said was a lie.
But Feng Qi's face remained as usual, his breath was stable and there was no panic at all.
After all, what he said was true.
The atmosphere became a little solemn for a while.
Realizing that Tianshu still didn't believe what he said, Feng Qi was about to continue explaining, when suddenly he had an idea of what to say to prove it.
"By the way, I also saw you in Mu Jun's memory."
"Have you seen me in the old woman's memory?" Tianshu couldn't help but frown.
"To sort out what I said, I am traveling to a future world 1500 years later. At that time, human civilization has perished... at least the human civilization in Star City has perished. I am not able to explore other areas, so I don't
I know, but it’s most likely already dead.”
"At that time, Mu Zhen was already dead. She eventually turned into a statue and stood forever in a sinkhole to the east of Star City, losing the breath of life."
"In addition to having the ability to travel to the future, I also have a special ability. This ability I call nightmare, which can help me read other people's memory fragments."
"At that time, I also accidentally discovered Mu Jun who died in the battle. Contact with her statue inspired my nightmare ability. A large amount of information fragments flooded into my mind, so I learned a lot about her and knew that she had been looking for miracles.
, I want to find a glimmer of hope for the future of mankind.”
"I saw you in the fragments of broken memory."
After hearing this explanation, Tianshu's expression changed. His disbelief from the beginning seemed to be shaken.
"Go on, what did you see? If you can tell me something that only the old woman and I know, I will believe that what you said is true."
A smile appeared on Feng Qi's face:
"I don't know if only you and Mu Zi know about that experience, but I will describe it in as much detail as possible."
After being silent for a long time, recalling the contents of the memory fragments that came to mind at that time, he said in a deep voice:
"In that broken memory scene, you were sitting on a bench in the park, shaking your feet and licking a lollipop. At this time, Mu Zhen appeared next to you and circled you several times. After looking at you for a long time,
I will come to you with a face full of surprise and tell you."
"Little brat, I see your bones are amazing. You are a unique martial arts prodigy. Tell me what is your dream?"
"At that time, you didn't pay attention to Mu Zhen's inquiry and just lowered your head and gnawed on the lollipop."
"So Mu Yan asked you again what your dreams are, and said that she can meet all your requirements, but only if you agree that she must work hard for the rise of the human race for the rest of her life."
"You still ignored Mu Jun this time."
"So Mu Yan finally put his hands on his hips and pointed at your head to express that if he didn't say anything, he would treat it as your acquiescence."
"After that, the memory screen I read was cut off, and I don't know your subsequent story."
After listening to Feng Qi's story, an expression of incredible surprise appeared on Tianshu's face.
This memory left a deep impression on him.
Even though more than 400 years have passed, he still remembers it clearly.
It was his encounter with Mu Zhen that changed the rest of his life.
He was once an orphan, and his parents were originally combatants of the Seven Cities Military Department.
At that time, monsters in the domain were raging, the human cultivation system was in its infancy, and the cultivation methods had just been born.
The current Victory City was not built where the Seven Cities were located, but was a city agglomeration with many cities, of which the Seven Cities was just one city.
At that time, humans had relatively primitive means of fighting against invasions by domain monsters. Every time they encountered domain invasions, they would pay a heavy price. His parents also died in the confrontation with domain monsters.
He was only five years old at that time.
Without a father or mother, he was arranged to live in an orphanage in Qidu due to his parents' contribution.
It was during that period that he met Mu Jun, who changed his life.
At this time, Feng Qi accurately described the scene at that time, and he had to believe that what Feng Qi said might be true.
Only Mu Zhen and him knew about this matter, and he never told anyone else.
Thinking of this, Tianshu looked at Feng Qi with a serious expression and said:
"I believe you for the time being. Now tell me what is the purpose of coming to see me."
After hearing these words, Feng Qi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
He could choose to be ruthless when facing the enemy, or even use force to coerce him into submission, but he obviously couldn't do this when facing Tianshu.
If Tianshu doesn't get enough, he will never believe what he says.
Things will reach a deadlock.
"Tianshu, my first question is, why did you choose to imprison yourself in this underground cage?"
At this time, Tianshu lowered his guard a little. Faced with this problem, a trace of struggle appeared in his eyes:
"I had no choice."
"To be specific, what I want is not the answer, but the process and details. Any information you provide me may help me find a glimmer of hope for human civilization."
"What's the meaning?"
"As I just said, I can travel to the future, so I can know through the future which events or historical nodes in history have affected the decline of human civilization. As long as I change these historical nodes, I can save the future of human civilization.
, so I urgently need to know more information."
"I see."
Tianshu had a complicated expression after hearing these words, he was both excited and a little unbelievable.
After waiting for a long time, he continued to speak:
"I chose self-imprisonment because the power I gained is very uncontrollable, and I often enter a state of madness where I lose my mind. In this state, I will attack everything nearby indiscriminately, which is a great harm to mankind. If I don't take advantage of it,
Control me while I am still conscious, and when I lose control, human armed forces are simply not enough to restrain me."
After hearing these words, Feng Qi immediately thought of Mu Qing.
The same situation happened to Mu Qing.
But the difference is that Mu Qing's emotional out-of-control is relatively controllable, and she will consciously restrain herself. Especially when there are other humans around her, she will obviously restrain her out-of-control state.
From a historical perspective, Mu Qing's state did not always exist.
It will gradually disappear as she fuses with the scarlet rune crystal, and eventually disappears.
This point was also mentioned in the diary left by Mu Qing.
From this point of view, it is obvious that Tianshu's situation is more dangerous, and it is understandable that he chooses self-imprisonment.
At that time, human cultivation was still in its early stages of development. Facing a strong man of Tianshu's strength, it was obvious that he had no power to fight. If it really got out of control, it would definitely be a disaster.
All this is considered from the perspective of human development.
But he still had many doubts in his heart. Thinking of this, he continued to ask:
"Why did you lose control? Is it because there was something wrong with the power Mu Zi gave you?"
"It has nothing to do with the old woman. Everything is the bitter fruit of my own random attempts. The old woman gave me a long life and divine patterns. These powers are completely within my control."
"What are the divine patterns?"
Facing the inquiry, Tianshu slowly turned around and exposed his back.
There was a golden pattern tattooed on the center of his back that snaked upwards and reached his neck.
This pattern is very magical, as if it is alive, twisting and changing with Tianshu's breathing, sometimes like a beast, sometimes like a bird.
Turning around again, Tianshu said in a deep voice:
"This is the divine pattern, which allows me to practice any technique at a speed dozens of times that of ordinary people. It can also help me simulate the natural power of creatures in any field."
"For example, as long as I taste the blood of the Blood Soul Tiger, my divine patterns will automatically analyze the secrets, partially change my body, and gain the strength and abilities of the Blood Soul Tiger!"
As he spoke, Tianshu slowly raised his right arm.
I saw that his right arm continued to grow hair rapidly, and the nails became sharp, and finally turned into a huge tiger paw.
"The divine pattern allows me to adapt to fighting in any harsh conditions. There is no environmental disadvantage. As long as I continue to adapt to the power of other species, I can master a large number of practical abilities."
"So strong!" Feng Qi couldn't help but marvel.
Compared with his ability to directly plunder talents in the main timeline, Tianshu's ability is still far behind.
But from the perspective of an ordinary practitioner, such an ability is unparalleled.
"Since there is nothing wrong with the ability that Mu Zhen gave you, why did you lose control and go crazy? What on earth did you mean by trying randomly?"
Facing the inquiry, Tianshu's face showed a look of reminiscence.
After a brief recollection, he slowly said:
"My divine pattern ability is not without limits, as the old woman has told me many times, but in order to pursue stronger power, I want to fuse a drop of the blood of the Pillar God to get a glimpse of the power of the God-Stealing Realm."
"It was this attempt that completely fascinated me."
"Tell me in detail and be as specific as possible."
Tianshu nodded immediately and then recounted his experience:
"I have followed the old woman since I was a child, and she watched me grow up. I learned a lot of knowledge during the days of following her."
"She is a very contagious person. She always looks careless and careless on the surface, but deep down she has a determination that cannot be shaken even if mountains and seas break apart."
"She taught me courage, sacrifice, and calmness in the face of despair. She is considered my life mentor. During that time, the old woman took me around the world, and from time to time she would abandon me in a certain city.
It works on its own for a while, and then it disappears.”
"This time may be a few days, or it may be a few months. The longest time was 2 years. That time I almost thought I was forgotten by the old woman."
"The second turning point in my fate occurred when I was 16 years old."
"The old woman told me at that time that I already had the ability to stand alone and was going to take me to a brand new place, but she also said that if I go there, I might never come back."
"I was very confused at the time and asked her if I would never see her again."
"She just smiled and told me that maybe there would be a chance to meet again, but maybe we would never see her again."
"I asked her, is that place important? Do I have to go?"
"She told me that it is the first line of defense for mankind and is vital to the entire human civilization. I already have the strength to protect it, so it is time to take responsibility."
"But the old woman didn't force me. She just said that even if I didn't want to, she would leave and could no longer keep me by her side."
"I struggled for a long time at that time, but I understood that the old woman obviously had more important things to do. She seemed to be planning the future of mankind. Even if I could follow her, I would only be a burden, so I finally agreed with the old woman.
A woman’s decision to go to the mysterious first line of defense.”
"By the way, do you know the Road to Heaven?" Tianshu suddenly asked.
When Tianshu talked about the human defense line, the first thing that came to his mind was the Tongtian Road.
At this time, when he heard Tianshu say the three words "Tongtian Road", he knew that his guess was correct and immediately asked:
"The first line of defense for mankind you refer to is the Road to Heaven?"
"That's where I'm from!" Tianshu nodded without hesitation.
