An Li heard the Void Bacteria Mother's rejection, but she didn't feel anxious at all.
She just stood under her, quietly listening to the story of the Void Mother and the girl named Beth, and talking to her like a friend.
Next.
An Li took her time and told a story to the Void Mother.
"I heard a story when I was in the human world."
"A man has two friends, one is poor and the other is rich."
"One day, they gave this man two items. The poor man took all the flour she had and made a cake and gave it to this man. The rich man opened his treasury and took out a gold coin and gave it to this man.
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"At the end of the story, we will ask, which is more precious, the cake or the gold coins?"
The Void Mother immediately said: "They are not precious."
But after thinking for a while, he said: "Gold coins should be more precious. They can buy a lot of bread and flour in the world?"
The mother of Void Bacteria felt that there was something wrong with Anli's question: "For me, it's still not precious."
An Li laughed and said to the Void Bacteria Mother.
"God of Nothingness, you are right."
"In fact, bread and gold coins are not precious to you, the eternal Ruhe, and they are meaningless to you."
"Because this is a mortal story, but there are some truths in it that seem to be more suitable for immortals."
"Because the value of every item in the world is defined by people."
"And for the eternal immortals, and for the gods."
"This is especially true for the definition of value of objects."
"You can define the value of an item, not even limited to real items. Whether it is valuable or not does not depend on the world or other people's opinions, nor does it depend on the rules of this world."
"It depends on whether it is important to you and whether it is meaningful."
Anli raised her head and looked into the eyes of the Void Mother.
"This story is about..."
"Although she only has one piece of cake, it is all she has, the only cake."
"Although another person paid a gold coin, it was only one of the countless gold coins he owned."
"That's what objects are for."
Anli looked into the glass jar and seemed to see a girl sleeping in it, waiting for her mother to wake her up.
"A moment with you is all there is to this existence called Beth."
"She is your unique piece of cake."
Anli lowered her head and said to the Void Bacteria Mother.
"If, she really left."
"You may have lost that unique piece of pie."
"When one day you have a mountain of gold coins, you will never be able to get back the unique thing you once had."
The Mother of Nothingness suddenly became somewhat silent.
Her eyes seemed to be obsessed with memories, while she was quietly thinking about Anli's words.
She recalled many scenes from Beth's childhood. She brought her toys, food, and all kinds of interesting things every day. She recalled the innocent laughter of the other person, and the yelling of the other person standing on her shoulder.
For the first time in this world, someone was so close to her.
Void Mother feels a little troubled. Are human problems always so troublesome?
She didn't want to think about this, but looked at Anli carefully.
"I seem to have remembered you. You seem to be from the Temple of Truth too."
"Are you here to take Beth away?"
"She is participating in reincarnation in my glass tank, and you can't take her away yet."
An Li said: "Originally, it was like this, but on the way here I changed my mind. It was even more like this after I just learned that she had turned into Beth."
"I don't want the chance of a myth, I want something more meaningful and important to me."
Anli's expression was calm, and her eyes shone with rationality and emotion.
"I want to help you in exchange."
She raised her hand and pointed at the glass jar on the head of the God of Nothingness.
"If I can end this reincarnation in the tank."
"If you can convince Beth to end all this voluntarily, can you exchange for this help?"
The Void Mother is a little confused. What else is more important and valuable than the power of a complete myth?
But after thinking for a while, she said stiffly.
"You are a myth and cannot enter."
Anri took off the Eye of True Knowledge around her neck. After this mythical prop left her body, her true power and form were revealed.
"look!"
"I am no longer a myth."
Only then did the Void Mother see Anli's whole face clearly and nodded.
"It turns out that you are one body and two spirits."
"Sanye people from the ancient times, you seem to have died once before, but someone forced you to stay."
"Then, another you was created."
"Do you still think you are you?"
An Li smiled and said confidently.
"I am also an eternal person."
"I will recognize and judge the meaning and value of my existence."
"I think so, that's it."
The Void Mother stood up, raised her head little by little, her huge mushroom cap pushed away the clouds in the sky, and she closed her eyes.
When she finally opened her eyes, she said something.
"It is determined that you have a role in this reincarnation of the world in the tank and meet the standards."
"Can."
When she finished speaking, she saw the world in the jar above her head slowly opening. You could see that the torrent of time stopped pouring, and the lid of the sky curtain floated up, revealing the aurora outside the sky.
After some conversation, Anli finally gained permission to enter the world in the vat.
Heavy snow fell all over the world, turning it into a blanket of white.
Anli flew up and fell towards that world.
The glass jar is closed and time starts running again.
And the Void Mother stood there, seeming to think of words in her mind that she didn't want to think of, but she cared about them very much.
"What if one day you also have to leave the mother of life?"
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Mirror of Heaven.
Sky Temple on the Holy Mountain.
The figure of the Void Mother fell following the light, and gradually transformed from a majestic mythical life form into a short mushroom man.
She stood outside the door of the hall, secretly peeking inside through the thick open door.
As his eyes passed by, he seemed to see the light of the divine moon gathering here, and saw the silvery clear light covering the entire world, extending into the endless void and beyond the universe.
She knew that the Creator was there.
The creator Yinsai stood under the pillar that sealed the holy objects, and those so-called holy objects seemed to be related to the three people present. Perhaps they were the original poems praising and describing them, or they were leftover from the era of divine gift.
thing.
Those unimaginably precious things seem to be just ordinary daily items in front of them.
At this moment, Sally was holding a painting and running around the God of Insai. Sheila chased her anxiously, as if she wanted to get the painting back.
"Look, the face painted by Sheila is crooked."
"Sally, that's because you were always looking at me from behind, so I was nervous and drew the wrong picture."
"Sheila has been painting for a long time. After finishing the painting, she wanted to destroy the body and eliminate the traces. I happened to see it."
"Sheila is mainly a literary person, so she is a little bad at painting. Also, I was trying a new and unprecedented technique, so I made a mistake. After practicing for a while, I will definitely be better next time."
"..."
The Void Mother stood outside the threshold of the hall, listening to the familiar voice.
The Creator who is always silent, the Master of Life who is always laughing and not knowing what is troubled, and the Master of Dreams who is always full of hope and expectation.
"They are a family."
The Void Mother seems to want to say that she is also a part of this place.
But she was standing in the corner, seemingly out of tune with that supreme world.
She held the glass jar on her head and stood quietly outside waiting as usual, listening to Sally's voice and paying full attention.
I am also waiting for the call from the Lord of Life.
She was motionless.
It's really like an item from the Temple of Insai, a glass jar.
Finally, the Lord of Life called out her "name".
"Glass jar!"
"Glass jar!"
The Void Germ Mother was shocked, moved quickly, and appeared at the door of the temple.
But after hurriedly crossing the threshold and letting the Lord of Life see me.
She immediately slowed down, lowered her posture, and ran cautiously on the stone slabs, heading towards the dominating god.
The shadow of the Creator disappeared, and Sheila, the master of dreams, was busy creating again, leaving only Lady Sally standing in the temple.
She stepped forward flatteringly and told Sally that Master had created a new species.
and.
The new species this time is a species of life, which looks tall and big.
"Tall and big?"
When Sally heard this, she immediately became interested.
She closed one eye, opened one, and looked into the glass jar.
This time was different from the last time. She quickly found her target and saw the species that the void fungus mother was talking about.
"good."
"It's barely big."
Sally finally nodded.
She tilted her head and stared at one eye, her mouth was slanted and her eyes were crooked, which made her look a little funny.
But at this time, no one dared to look at her, and the only glass tank present also lowered its head deeply.
She raised her head and let go of the glass jar in her hand.
Although she passed the test, she said that she just barely passed the test and that she had passed the test.
"In the next era, there will finally be someone you can take a look at."
"Those little guys before were so small that they couldn't be poked with a toothpick, but this one can barely be poked with a toothpick."
"However, it would be better if they could be as big as the big fireworks and dig them out with a spoon."
Void Germ Mother understands.
At a glance, this is not an adjective for Sally, but a real verb.
It really means you can take a look.
Looking at it from the perspective of Sally, the master of life, those guys who are too small can't be seen for a long time, and only such tall life forms can make her pay attention.
However, when Sally could poke it with a toothpick to describe this huge new species, and dig it out with a spoon to describe the giant god Ruhe.
It always feels like eating.
It makes people dare not think deeply and tremble.
Sally admired it quietly for a while, then lost interest again after reading it. Her thinking dimension switched to another angle, how to show off to others.
"That's it, I have one more work."
"In the future, I will also publish a picture album, in which I will draw all the great forms of the species I created, so that the little fairies can look up to them every day."
Looking at Sally's back as she turned away, Mother Void suddenly thought of that problem again.
She hesitated again and again, but finally asked.
"Sally-sama, will I leave your side one day?"
Lady Sally didn't seem to think about this issue, but many things seemed obvious.
Sally thought for a moment and answered affirmatively without thinking for too long.
"Um!"
"God has said that the next era will be the era of life."
"Big meteors, big jellyfish, big fireworks, they will all stay in this world. You are the god of microorganisms in the glass tank. I can't survive without you."
"Of course, I have to stay here."
The Master of Life grinned and looked at the Void Bacteria Mother happily.
"My time is coming."
"You guys have to work hard to build an era of life!"
Just thinking about it made Sally feel very happy and excited.
Just looking at her expression, it doesn't feel like my time and era is coming, but that my playground will be built soon.
The Void Mother knelt on the ground and raised her head to look at her creator, the eternal God.
She seemed to see a picture of destiny in her eyes.
She saw the Lord of Life being held by the hand of the Creator Yinsai, following the shadow of the majesty that transcended all to go to the other side of time, and she was destined to be left in this era.
She stood alone on the earth, looking up at the changing sky of stars, waiting for the return of God for hundreds of millions of years.
She is the Ruh of life, but she is different from other Ruhs.
She was born only a short time ago.
Although it is short, it is already very long for an ordinary life.
Suddenly she felt a little scared.
Although she didn't know what she was really afraid of, fear of leaving God, fear of the long years, fear of loneliness, or the void of destiny no longer bound by the Supreme God.
Some people want to escape the bottle and the constraints, while some people just want to live within the constraints.
"me……"
Her expression didn't change much, but her voice changed.
It's just that she seemed to be strangled by the throat. She opened her mouth for a long time, but she couldn't say a complete sentence.
It wasn't until the end that he said anything.
"Will that day come soon?"
The Void Mother never dared to disobey the will of the master of life, let alone put forward her own ideas, but this time, she spoke out.
The Void Mother lowered her head deeply and knelt on the ground as if praying.
"I don't want to leave your side."
The Master of Life looked at the Void Mother and seemed to feel that it was a pity that such an interesting prop as a glass jar was not around.
But after thinking about it for a while, I decided it didn't matter.
Anyway, isn't the other party in your back garden? You can just come back and pick it up when the time comes.
"Aren't you in my back garden?"
"I just left for a while."
The Master of Life came forward and rubbed her mushroom hat, pretending to be an adult.
"Even though you are just a few days old, you should learn to grow up."
"You can't just think about relying on the great and omnipotent Master of Life, Lady Sally."
After Sally finished speaking, she left in a hurry.
But the Void Mother stayed where she was, seemingly staying there.
"How many days?"
"grow up?"
The Void Mother felt that she had lived for a long, long time, and she also felt that she had grown big enough.
She has spent an unknown number of springs, summers, autumns and winters with the Lord of Life, watching the fireworks rising on the giant island of Luhe, flying over the sea together, passing through the void of the star realm, and boarding the divine moon with her.
She spent her whole life by Sally's side.
All the meaning of her existence was given to her by Sally.
She had said something to Anli before, describing her relationship with Beth.
"That's different."
What she wants to say is that her relationship with the Lord of life is different from her relationship with Beth.
But at this moment, she looked at the departing figure of the master of life.
Suddenly I discovered that the two are so similar.
His vision was blurry.
Mother Void suddenly completely understood Beth's feelings, and understood why Beth looked at her so sadly and shouted those words to herself.
Because she also wanted to shout out at this moment, shouting for the master of life not to abandon her.
But she looked at the master's back, but she didn't even have the courage to shout out loud.
"It turns out there is nothing different."
Mother Void suddenly felt a brand new emotion, which might be called sadness or sadness.
It's just that she won't shed tears or cry.
at last.
As usual, she bowed her head submissively.
"Owner!"
"I'll take care of your back garden."
"No matter how long it takes, I will be waiting for you to come again."
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the other side.
An Li entered the world in the vat. She passed through the airless and weightless void and passed through the atmosphere.
She broke through the sea of clouds and fell into the sea.
"Boom!"
The sea set off a torrent, and an ancient being who controlled the realm of infinite curses broke through the mist and came out, floating between the sky and the sea.
Anli looked at the world and felt everything here, and immediately felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"This is... the ancient times?"
Anli stood on the sea, waving her hand and the sea opened a ravine that stretched to the end of the sky.
She looked at all kinds of fish in the sea jumping around on the bottom of the sea. They were various fish that mutated under the distorted light and survived, but the characteristics of the ancestor fish could still be seen in them.
She saw a large number of ancient marine creatures and plants, all of which seemed familiar.
"Archaeozoans, Trilobites, Anomalocaris, Ancient Cups..."
Anli seems to be able to find a lot of shadows from the ancient times in this sea.
An Li couldn't believe it, but after thinking about where it was, she felt calm.
Only the power of the master of life can preserve all species templates of an era and then restore the world in his own vat.
She took a deep breath in this cruel and cold world, but she felt as if she had returned to her hometown and paradise, and a strong expectation and desire arose in her heart.
"what else?"
"What else can be found?"
Anli walked along the sea and towards the distance.
She stepped onto the coast and walked among the continents, mountains, and basins that the giant stone demons had spent millions of years shaping. Unfortunately, the giant stone demons had built the land, but they could not create the plants on the land.
Anli walked day after day, looking for something on this continent.
She walked through the center of the continent and saw a strange and huge basin here.
It looks like a big pit created by man.
"Is there something strange here?"
She found traces of the existence of civilization here. Although it was basically submerged in the years, there were still some traces left, allowing her to see the truth of the past.
"There are traces of carbonized trees. This is something from the Second Age. It should have been brought here by Briman."
"There are also signs of the existence of intelligent species, and the range is very vast. How is this possible?"
"It is the Kingdom of God, the power of myth."
"Use the power of the Kingdom of God to create a completely closed environment, and then start to create a brand new ecology?"
"Someone used the power of the Kingdom of God to build a civilized world underground?"
Even Anli never imagined that someone could accomplish such a miracle here.
"Who thought of it, Briman?"
"But why the destruction?"
"In the end what happened?"
Standing on the ruins of Luo Ya'an's world, looking at this vast basin, she once again felt the horror of time and years.
"Also, where did Briman go?"
finally.
She found several fishermen tribes on the other side of the continent, next to the coastline of the sea.
This is a group of strange life forms that rely on fishing for a living. They are not afraid of this cruel and harsh world and struggle to survive on the earth.
They have no written language, but many of them have the ability to communicate spiritually, and can even use this ability to drive away schools of fish and breed them at the same time.
Three-leaf people.
But even the Three-Leaf Man cannot break through the limitations of his power without the Cup of the Sun.
There are no wisdom texts, there are no Ruch monsters, there is no God-given era.
There is no god.
They cannot build civilization in such an environment.
Anli stood on the beach and looked at the tall figures living in caves on the rock walls and fishing, and her whole body couldn't help but tremble.
"Trefoil man?"
Anli almost ran towards those "people" wildly, her eyes filled with disbelief.
She felt like she had been in a dream, or had hallucinations before her eyes. She didn't speak until she actually touched the three-leaf people.
"Really, they are from Sanye."
"Really...really...really a Sanye person."
The three-leaf people were so frightened by this sudden appearance of the "monster" that they ran away screaming.
Anli was kneeling on the ground and couldn't help laughing.
The laughter is filled with unspeakable emotion and the sadness of waiting for endless years.
at last.
She found a Clover in a Trifoliate tribe who was obviously a little different from the others.
The mark of life on his body has disappeared, but a pattern still remains on his body. The pattern followed him through time and reincarnation, allowing Anli to find him.
Under the sun.
Waves erode the beach.
The three-leaf man was sitting on a rock on the coast, looking into the distance, as if waiting for something.
He always felt that he had forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it.
At this time, a strange figure came from the coast.
He sensed something and turned his head to look over.
In his eyes, the shadow was distorted in the violent sunlight, and became a little more solid as it got closer.
The figure walked up to him and called out his name.
"Breeman."
Then, reach out to him.
"I'm here to take you home."
The three-leaf man raised his head and looked at the beautiful and majestic figure in front of him.
He was speechless, but a bright smile appeared on his face.
He knew that he had finally waited.
At this time, more than one million years had passed since he came to this world in the Platinum Ship.