Accompanied by a painful cry, the saber-toothed tiger fell to the ground helplessly. The pair of formidable fangs had no effect in this rapid and crushing encounter. This predator from the ancient earth did not even move at all.
After figuring out how it was injured, its heart was instantly roasted by the hot blade of the plasma spear.
Hao Ren flicked the spear casually. Although the plasma gun blade was never stained with blood, he still felt that this action could effectively increase his wind power. Then he looked at the surrounding environment and confirmed that there were no eyes except for the one in front of him.
There were no enemies except the saber-toothed tiger that suddenly popped out, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
The primitive and barbaric earth is really full of dangers. Human beings are far from climbing to the top of the food chain at this time. There are wild beasts everywhere that regard humans as food. Although they are not a threat to Hao Ren at all, they must be driven away.
This thing is really a headache.
Hao Ren looked back and saw a twisted crack about two people wide suspended in the air. Opposite the crack, the disintegrated ice spire fell quietly to the ground, and the scenery of 7715 BC was imprisoned.
The inside of that crack has been completely covered by the gray-white color that represents the stasis of time and space.
In fact, he didn't know the last time he arrived back in time. This precise year could only be found in the records of the sandbox system. He just had an increasingly obvious intuition as the time went by.
The closer he got to the starting point of this distorted time and space, the more this intuition became clearer. He knew that he had entered the final realm, maybe here, or maybe in the next backtracking, he would reach this stripped out realm.
The beginning of the long river of time, this long journey will finally reach the end, which is not far away.
"Speaking of... it turns out that saber-toothed tigers have survived until this period..." Hao Ren glanced at the long-toothed beast lying on the ground, shook his head and muttered to himself, "If there are a few archaeologists here, I guess...
The joy passed..."
He didn't really have any interest in saber-toothed tigers, but he had to find something to say. This wild and primitive world was full of depression, and traveling alone was 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 carried the plasma spear and embarked on his journey.
He trekked in the cold wilderness, trying to find traces of the activities of some primitive tribes or intelligent creatures, but he found nothing until evening: This is the earth in ancient times, and humans at this moment are far less prosperous than in later generations.
The sparsely populated primitive humans lived in scattered tribes in a few habitable areas. 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 scope of their activities means that if you want to find human settlements in the wilderness, you can only rely on luck.
Hao Ren has known this for a long time, so he is not discouraged by this result. The journey of retrospect continues to this day. He has faced various difficulties and obstacles, and now there are few setbacks that can shake his determination.
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When night fell, he took a short rest in the cave. The food in his pocket had now become a precious luxury. He would only eat a little when he wanted to reminisce about the "outside world", so his dinner
It was still a prey caught in the wilderness. After dinner, he used the stars to determine his current location. Although the starry sky 10,000 years ago was very different from that of later generations, he had been prepared for it before setting off.
I memorized starry sky images from various periods in history, so it was easy to confirm my current location: it should be in the Nordic region.
Then he studied Vivian's letters and roughly judged the time point he had arrived at, and finally became more certain that he was close to that destination.
When the sun rose, he embarked on the journey again and continued to move forward in the vast wilderness.
He is not wandering aimlessly, but follows the "guidance" deep in his heart. Although he has never been used to acting with something invisible and intangible like "intuition", he must admit that
, as a demigod who has established a deep connection with the will of the universe, his intuition is a far more reliable guide in the absence of clues than other means including but not limited to throwing shoes and tossing coins.
And after entering this period of time and space, he found that his intuition became stronger, as if there was some kind of induction that made him feel that he should move in a certain direction as soon as he opened his eyes.
The pull in his mind was so clear that he could almost hear a voice calling him in his head: right in front, the person he was looking for was right in front.
Under this guidance, he walked in the wilderness and Gobi day after day. On this cold and barbaric ancient earth, he was only accompanied by the sun rising every day and the starry sky falling every night. Of course,
, and those beasts that have become extinct in external space and time.
Mammoths and saber-toothed cats 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.
They have survived for hundreds or even thousands of years, but the decline of the population is already obvious. The spectacular scene of primitive man hunting mammoths will end with the arrival of the warm season, but the next "Age of the Gods" will break the planet.
the original development trajectory.
When the morning sun rose above the horizon for the twelfth time, Hao Ren left the desolate rocky wilderness and entered a lush grassland that grew with the warming climate. He discovered a small stone tool tribe on the edge of the grassland. The tribe
The residents regard Hao Ren, who possesses divine power, as a god and treat him warmly, but they know nothing about Vivian or any other god.
On the twentieth day, Hao Ren had crossed the grassland and entered a mountainous area. Along the way, he did not see any clues that might be suspected of alien colonial strongholds, such as cracked landing cabins, detection antennas fixed with stones, and placed at water sources.
And the purification circle near the swamp, these things can often be seen when he last traced back, and even saw a lot of them in the last traceback. They are evidence of the survival of the aliens 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 started building their homes by digging the first stone in the barren mountains.
Since these traces were not found, there can only be one explanation: he arrived at an earlier point in time, even before the aliens arrived on Earth!
This shocked Hao Ren at first, because he thought it was illogical: he was traveling through Vivian's memory world, and theoretically the earliest time scale he could reach could only be limited to the time when Vivian had just arrived on Earth.
moment, but soon he vaguely guessed the reason:
This world is not just made up of Vivian's memory, or Vivian's memory is not even the main "ingredient" of this world. The most important part of this world is actually built by the sandbox system in the Sovereign Hub.
The sandbox creates a nearly real Earth through information deduction and information reorganization, and everything about this mirror Earth is the same as the original version.
Vivian's memory only provides a series of landmarks and key scenes in this mirror earth. Rather than saying that these memories are the entire journey back, it is better to say that these memories only provide a navigation function.
At 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 what the problem was, because he had "diven" too deeply into this long river of history and memory, even going deep into places that Vivian had never known. Here, Vivian's memory had become blurred.
It is completely distorted, and it is difficult for the sandbox system to use this memory to accurately locate it. Here, no one knows when the historical convergence between the dream plane and the surface world occurred, not even Vivian's subconscious
There are no relevant records 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 and lost in thought. He was wondering how early he was, months, years, or decades. He couldn't see through the stars and the
The surrounding vegetation can determine the precise year, but at least from the scenery seen along the way, we can make a general inference: the ice age is over, glaciers are receding from all warm areas, and humans who have survived the cold winter are beginning to thrive.
, and the various large prey that became weak due to their inability to adapt to the environment after the ice age are providing precious food sources to these primitive people.
Vivian's earliest memory begins with the scene of the glacier receding.
So he shouldn't be too early, and all he has to do next is just wait.
On the 106th day, Hao Ren ended his last round of exploration of the surrounding environment. The intuition from his soul still had a strong effect, driving him back to his camp on the top of the mountain and cross-legged on the boulder.
Sit down and insert the plasma spear into the rubble next to it.
He unleashed a rarely used magical spell on himself, then closed his eyes and began to wait quietly.
He didn't know how long time had passed, because time didn't mean much to him. The sun rose and set, the stars circulated in the night, and the cold wind blew through the hills day after day, occasionally bringing some plants.
seeds, these seeds took root and sprouted around him, and then withered and died...
His mind entered a "quiet" state, and he clearly perceived everything happening around him, but it was as silent as death.
Finally one day, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked sharply into the distance.
The sky over the plain curled up, the clouds were torn apart, and a large, continuous, moving light and shadow, like an ocean hanging upside down, appeared on the blue sky.