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Thales opened his eyes gently.
where is he?
It does not matter.
What matters is what he feels.
There seemed to be some change in his thoughts - they seemed to become unstructured, like gurgling water separated by a layer of veil.
He seems to be... careless about everything?
how so.
Thales was vaguely aware of his situation - but he didn't want to change this feeling.
That's good, isn't it?
It's like entering another realm.
Thales raised his gaze.
In front of me is a gray patch of... round grains?
Yes, Thales saw a gray stone.
No, not one.
It is one of the countless stones embedded in it.
How amazing.
These stone particles are so far apart that no matter how much time passes, they cannot get even an inch closer to each other.
But they are so close, they are closer to each other than most other things in the world, tighter, and almost integrated into one body.
For thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years later, they have maintained this distance that is sometimes as far away as a chasm in the sky, and sometimes almost as close to each other.
A magical world, isn't it? There is such an interesting and vivid relationship between two stone grains solidified together.
What about all the other beings in this world? Do they also have such an interesting relationship?
Definitely yes.
Why haven't I noticed this before?
Haven't you noticed the wonder of this world?
Maybe he was really stupid before.
Thales thought this calmly.
His gaze slowly moved upward.
The stones were getting farther and farther away from him... maybe getting closer?
This still doesn't matter.
The important thing is that the distance between him and these stone grains is changing, and at every moment when these distances change, they also become different from each other - the stone grains are like this for him, and he is like the stone grains.
His gaze continued to rise.
Ah, it turns out that's it - Thales was a little surprised - these stone particles form the surface of a floor tile.
Rough, uneven surface.
What a wonderful combination.
They are obviously just stones, but because of the special distance and position between them, they have become another kind of existence.
There is an existence named "surface of floor tiles".
Just like humans.
When distance and location are lost, each individual becomes an independent person.
But when they increase or decrease the distance, change their positions, stand together... and stand in one dimension, one region, and one society at the same time, they become another kind of existence.
An existence called "the crowd".
Wait - a small voice told him in Thales' perception - maybe it can be reversed, because of their existence, the position and distance will be determined.
How could he know this?
Forget it, it's not important.
The important thing is - it's so much fun.
Come and see more.
Thales saw it: it was a gray-black octagonal floor tile, spliced together with countless floor tiles of the same type.
Are they artificially pieced together floor tiles? That’s why the distance between floor tiles is so uneven.
Or do the people who put them together actually feel that they are very even? Because they cannot perceive the beauty of uniformity? The beauty of balance?
Or, in fact, this is their "uniformity" - yes, if you zoom out a little further, isn't the ground paved with these floor tiles very uniform?
Thales raised his gaze to the highest level.
He knew it was daytime.
Because this existence called "daytime" is defined by the position of the ground and the sun.
The sun is past midheaven - forming a wonderful positive angle with the ground.
In front of him was an exotic house - strange flaky eaves tilted up at the four corners, a door made of heavy driftwood, windows inlaid with colored glazes, and black men in flowing robes coming and going.
A human with black eyes shuttles inside and outside a gorgeous house from time to time.
Without exception, they all looked nervous.
Why are you nervous?
Thales' thoughts moved slightly, and he knew why.
In that room, there was a woman - a young woman with black hair and black eyes, who was surrounded by a group of women and howling in pain in a pool of blood.
The woman's belly is bulging - she is giving birth.
They didn't need to be nervous - he saw that the life in the woman's belly was strong and vigorous, and it was constantly moving its limbs.
She will give birth naturally.
And a man who resembles a woman's husband, with elegant and noble clothes and accessories, is being blocked outside the house by another group of men, with a difficult expression.
That's it, Thales thought: the inside and outside of the house are isolated.
That's why there's so much tension inside and so much suffering outside - what a shame, if they could all see each other's condition...
Even...if they could see the woman in the woman's belly...
Is there no need to be nervous, worried, fearful and tormented?
Soon, the woman's screams stopped, and her belly slowly became flat.
And with a weak cry, a baby girl covered in blood was taken out.
The man outside the house got the news and desperately broke through the obstruction and rushed into the house.
The man knelt down tremblingly in front of the bed, held the woman's weak hand, and comforted his wife nervously and anxiously in a language he didn't understand.
The woman smiles.
Finally, someone respectfully handed the baby girl, whose eyes were tightly closed, to the man.
The man trembled and took his daughter.
OMG…
Thales, who was watching all this, looked at the excited man with black hair and black eyes, and then looked at the woman with black hair and black eyes, a pleased expression.
Can't help but want to laugh.
What would happen if they knew the truth?
The baby girl slowly opened her eyes and looked at the first person who came into the world.
The man holding the baby girl saw the baby girl clearly and trembled.
The man raised his head in astonishment, looked at the people around him in panic, spoke in a language he didn't understand, and seemed at a loss.
Someone came forward with a frown, glanced at the baby girl, and then froze in place.
There was an uproar in the house.
Immediately, the woman's trembling screams and howls, the servants' nervous comfort, and the man's roar came one after another...
Hahaha——Tales laughed when he saw all this.
Yes, he looked at the baby girl and her blue eyes - crystal blue eyes that were incompatible with the black eyes of her "father" and mother.
Probably that man wouldn't have thought that his wife's daughter was not his daughter, right?
How ridiculous.
Thales withdrew his gaze, and the thoughts in his heart turned mechanically:
If a man had seen a few months ago that his "daughter" had blue eyes that were not inherited from him...
No, it's more than that.
The baby girl's skin color is obviously white, her hair is curly, and her nose is slightly ridged. This was already obvious before she was born - unfortunately, the man didn't know it.
If he knew everything...
Then does he still need to face chills and pain, resentment and anger like today, after full of expectations and worries, suffering and waiting?
No.
He does not need it.
But a man cannot see through his wife's belly, and he cannot see his wife's betrayal - so he is destined to experience this.
His vision is too narrow and his knowledge is too limited.
This is the price of stupidity and ignorance.
Sad and ridiculous.
Thales was tired of all this and turned his head.
Um?
Not quite right.
He had expected to see the interior walls of the mansion.
But what did Thales see?
Rising sun.
besides……
Black, maybe with a little bit of white?
No.
Black is the color of water.
White is the foam and reflection on the water.
What he saw was the ocean under the rising sun.
Endless sea.
Endless?
No.
Too narrow.
This sea area.
From one end to the other, the sea is very small.
It has a smaller island on one side and a narrow coastline on the other side.
But it is very big, very big, almost boundless - especially for this long and narrow sailing ship that sails in the sea like a small boat.
Thales looked at the flag on the ship quietly.
On the flag is a white seagull holding an anchor in its mouth.
interesting.
Seagull and anchor.
The sky and the sea.
That distance seems far away, but is inseparable.
The sailors on the ship did their jobs conscientiously.
A young man without a beard, dressed cleanly and neatly, well behaved and polite - incompatible with the rude sailors who were surrounded by sweat and stains - stood by the helm of the ship, talking to the impatient helmsman.
They were chatting about something while looking at the sea level in front of them with excitement.
"Believe me, the previous troubles were just Errol's test... We have already passed the black whirlpool. According to my ancestral chart, we will find it soon..."
This time, Thales understood.
Although the man's lingua franca has a rather strange accent: the pitch rises and falls and the cadences are very obvious, which is different from the rude and vague, short and powerful accent of the Northland and the pretentious accent of the Star Kingdom.
This young man seems to be someone - the captain? Or an employee of this ship?
Unfortunately, Thales smiled again - once the man turned his head, he would see the contempt and disdain in the sailors' eyes.
"How could the boss listen to this young boy - I heard that he is a gangster from Wariel State, not a noble?" One of the sailors whispered to the old sailor companion who was packing the cable next to him: "Still following him?
Risk taking the ship to a place like this?"
"Of course he is a gangster, but he didn't know that his ancestors a few generations ago were elected to the thirty-six seats." The latter glared at the young man fiercely: "He owes a huge debt to the boss - somehow, not only did the boss not
To touch him, he immediately left Jingbi City and came to this cursed place, not even going to Evergreen Island, which was scheduled in the voyage."
"Terminal Sea Eye—is this place really so unlucky?" The first sailor frowned: "Everyone looks so bad."
"Of course, think about it," the old sailor snorted, with a bad expression: "Right under our feet, in the seabed of unknown depth, is the entire empire buried, and there are millions of imperial people, buried by the sea water.
Soaked into dry bones, chewed into pieces by sea fish..."
"Legend has it that their innocent souls have not been able to rest for six hundred years, and are full of resentment and pain..."
"Weird things happen here every year, very weird and weird..."
But the young man could not see the scene behind him.
Even when he turned his head, the sailors put away the emotions in their eyes and lowered their heads to do their own work - so he never knew his true position on the ship.
Why is he so stupid?
Doesn't he know that the heart of the helmsman beside him is beating faster and faster, the blood is flowing faster and faster, and the whole person is getting more and more irritable?
Why was he still chattering to the helmsman?
Didn't he know that when almost everyone on the ship looked at him, the pupils in their eyes would shrink, and then they would release disgust and disgust?
He didn't know that a piece of wood at the bottom of the boat was already overwhelmed and might be lifted up by a huge wave at any time?
Doesn't he know?
Of course - Thales continued to laugh - everyone on the boat could not see that in the thick fog about several thousand meters away, a ferocious warship with a blood-red parrot flag was coming towards them.
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The ferocious pirates above opened their smelly mouths, counting their harvests in the past few days amid the noise and drunkenness, wine and blood, and toying with the trembling captives - especially the women.
The pirate leader was still excitedly announcing that he would return to port after grabbing one more ship.
In the pirates' arsenal, polished blades and swords, crossbows and projectile bows are all waiting quietly.
That young man, and the ship he was on - why were they so stupid?
Why keep sailing forward?
It's so simple, so obvious...
Why don't they know?
They are in the most magical world, but they know nothing about everything around them?
What a waste.
It's really boring.
Thales couldn't help but feel irritated.
He turned his head again.
Huh?
He saw a grain of sand under the moonlight.
sand.
Wonderful creation.
It and countless of its kind are stacked together, using the same wonderful and even relative position to construct an entire desert.
In this way, countless pieces of sand rub, squeeze, and stick to each other.
In this way, countless sands push, resist, and move away from each other.
Thales looked at every grain of sand in the desert and sighed in his heart: They formed the same wonderful desert.
He turned his head again.
See - a leaf in the dark?
This time he has experience.
Not just leaves.
It's a forest, a dark forest under the night sky.
Pairs of fluorescent eyes were vaguely visible in the jungle - they were countless animals that were hunting or being hunted.
But they are still so pitiful.
Thales chuckled in his heart.
A badger happily dug an ant nest next to the wet soil. There was a huge beetle in the nest, which made the hungry badger overjoyed. Unfortunately, it had no idea that there was an ant nest hundreds of meters away from it.
The partner who had a one-night stand has become the prey of a lone wolf.
An old lone wolf who hunted a badger and was excited for his supper didn't know that a similar member of the same wolf pack as him was being hunted by a jungle panther jumping down from a branch under another tree.
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The black panther also didn't know that the offspring she gave birth to six years ago was dying under the hooves of an angry giant rhinoceros by the stream.
The giant rhinoceros didn't even know that upstream of the creek, a group of heavily armed humans were excitedly skinning, leaving bones and removing the remains of its cousins.
And this group of humans also didn't know that in the dense jungle behind them, countless eyes with purple light were staring at them coldly, and they silently opened the bows and arrows in their hands in the darkness.
These pointed-eared creatures with purple eyes probably would not have thought that at a sentry post in the forest a few miles away, one of their kind was engaging in a life-and-death fight with another white-skinned, pointed-eared creature in a life-and-death fight between scimitar and rapier.
, and was stabbed through the chest with a sword at the last moment.
The victor with fair skin and pointed ears took a strong sip, and left with disdain, leaving the corpse with purple eyes on the ground to slowly rot, and then turned into food by a group of ants next to it.
This group of ants had just migrated here a few days ago, and they were the disgraced losers of another battle - another powerful ant colony had driven them here. But they might be happy to know that they were driven out
The old enemy community in the habitat, but just after bringing back the carcass of an old beetle, it suffered a disaster at the claws of a naughty badger.
Thales watched quietly as the most complete food chain dominated everything here.
Don't they - these creatures know all this?
It's so funny and sad.
At this moment, Thales suddenly felt a strange heat flow.
From all over his—wait, all over?
Thales suddenly realized a problem.
Where is his body?
The next moment, a wonderful feeling was transmitted to every one of his senses.
Countless scenes, like curtains of water flowing rapidly, flashed before his eyes at the same time.
Eaves with different styles.
Sailing ship under the sea.
Quiet desert under the moon.
A jungle full of life.
Thales watched all this intently.
interesting.
Fun.
wonderful.
More and more scenes flashed before my eyes: glaciers in blizzards, castles on sea cliffs, warm wetlands, grasslands under sunset, vast plains at dusk, fortresses at night, sea surfaces reflecting moonlight...
Soon, Thales felt that the world in front of him became clearer and clearer.
It's getting weirder and weirder.
He became more and more excited and satisfied.
Everything in the world was displayed in front of him, and he saw, heard, and understood everything.
No.
It's not just that.
He knows everything.
He seemed to be standing where everything happened.
He is in everything.
He is everything!
Thales is getting happier and happier.
He is enjoying this feeling.
And want more.
More!
See more, know more, get more.
More!
The scene in front of him flashed faster and faster.
Getting more and more urgent.
The scenery becomes shorter and shorter.
next moment.
"Boom!"
It was like thunder exploding in my ears.
Thales felt his eyes go dark.
All the scenes no longer change, but remain constant before our eyes!
It's like watching countless movies at the same time, everything in the world is shown in the movie!
It was as if he was standing in every corner of the world at the same time.
More than that, more than that.
Thales suddenly felt a heavy squeezing sensation in his senses.
The next second.
Thales only felt a violent shaking!
A dull sound echoed in his consciousness.
And his consciousness seemed to have hit something unexpectedly.
Boom!
The sound... was like someone knocking on the door.
Boom!
His consciousness shook again.
Boom!
After the third sound, Thales was slightly shocked!
I don't know how much time passed, but Thales suddenly felt that all the beings around him moved for an instant.
At that moment, it was like a door being pushed open.
He entered a new world.
In this new world, his senses are extremely clear.
From the tiniest particles, to the deepest underground, to the vast sea and vast sky, he not only saw everything in the world.
At that moment, it was as if he was the world.
But at this moment, an accident happened.
A tingling sensation that irritated his skin approached from his consciousness.
Thales trembled slightly, with a faint doubt in his heart: What's wrong?
His consciousness seemed to suddenly rise into a silent and dark void.
Almost at the same time that he entered the void, Thales immediately had a strange feeling.
It's like instinct.
right.
It felt like someone was spying on me.
He didn't know how he sensed it, but his intuition told him: behind the darkness of the void, there were several pairs of strange eyes.
Thales subconsciously raised his gaze, trying to penetrate the darkness.
However, at the moment when he thought about it, he sensed the existence closest to him without any warning.
It was a ball of light.
Colorless ball of light.
Boom!
Another violent impact.
In the darkness, this colorless ball of light suddenly appeared, giving him a vague feeling of being covered by clouds and fog, as if it was untouchable.
Before he could react, the ball of light moved slightly.
Immediately, a lifeless word echoed in his ears:
"Not polite."
Thales' vision flickered.
What?
This ball of light... is it conscious?
"Huh?"
At this time, this colorless ball of light asked, but the words were still dry: "I haven't seen you before - where is your name?"
Threshold name?
Magician...Magic...Magic's first appointment...
From the memory that seemed to be separated by a layer, Thales recalled a few familiar terms.
He suddenly became excited!
But before he could think about it, his eyes suddenly turned away from the ball of light.
"Hello!"
The dry voice slowly decreased, as if shouting from a distance: "Who are you?"
Thales ignored it, his consciousness seemed to be sinking.
boom!
Thales felt his vision shake again.
He came across a pile of iron-grey—glittering shards?
Unlike the ball of light just now, this pile of fragments seems lifeless and unconscious.
But just when Thales was confused.
Another puff of brown smoke appeared in the face.
But the smoke gave him the same feeling as the iron-gray fragments.
It seems to lack vitality.
Not even able to speak.
Thales's heart moved, and then the pile of debris and the smoke slowly left.
Boom!
There was another collision - Thales was already somewhat used to it.
Soon, a blue light appeared in front of me.
But this time, the light was conscious.
Blue light has an ever-changing outline, varying from circular to rectangular, from elliptical to long strip.
"Ah, ah, ah," a soft but unceremonious voice came from the cyan light. The voice was like its owner, floating around: "Who is this idiot? Has his brain been broken?"
"You're actually knocking on the door?"
"Boss Fryland? Little Aisida? Old ghost Sagar? Fierce Jilai? Cute top student L? Or flat-chested girl Giza?"
These names... sound familiar?
Several doubts arose in Thales's mind.
This is……
where am I?
What am I doing?
Why...can't I remember anything?
"Hey, hey," the voice from the cyan light continued to laugh: "Don't tell me that you are the legendary Toros boss!"
After thinking about a few questions, Thales's thoughts suddenly became confused.
In panic, the cyan light suddenly disappeared in front of his eyes.
"Hey, why are you gone...it can't really be Toros..."
The voice of cyan light came from far away:
"Don't leave in a hurry...you are my idol...at least leave a signature..."
Thales struck twice more and encountered two strange, lifeless and soundless beings: a silver wall of light and a golden cube.
Just when Thales was confused and confused, a purple glimmer appeared in front of his eyes.
This purple light flickered slightly, but it gave him a sharp and sharp feeling, making it almost impossible to look directly at it.
And its response is also very simple:
"roll!"
He seems to be a bad-tempered guy.
"Leave far away!"
The vicious voice continued to come.
Immediately afterwards, the purple shimmer disappeared.
Thales was slightly startled, and a question appeared in his long mind:
what happened?
The next second.
Boom!
After another collision, Thales came to a glowing humanoid silhouette.
Humanoid silhouette?
It flashed a familiar blue light.
Another one?
This feeling - like it's constantly flowing and everywhere?
However, a familiar voice slowly came from that outline:
"Stop knocking on the door."
"Tiles."
Thales' thoughts moved.
Does it know me?
This familiar voice...
"All of us feel your presence."
Everyone?
my existence?
I?
At that moment, many memories seemed to suddenly come back to Thales' mind.
Thales's heart moved.
"Wait, you are..." Thales looked at the ball of light in confusion, and a vague name emerged in his mind:
"Are you Ashida?"
The outline of blue light flashed slightly.
Thales confirmed his guess.
"I'm trapped underground. I don't know what happened to you, let alone why you knocked on the door..."
The pleasant voice of the magician of air, Ashida Sarkon, slowly came from the light ball. She sounded calm and composed, without any unnecessary emotion: "But this is too dangerous, you must quit immediately
True state..."
Thales showed doubts: "What?"
But "Asheida" didn't respond to him, and only listened to the magician's anxious voice: