Chapter 724: The world ten thousand years from now
The artificial rock slabs with no end in sight and no gaps block the sky, which is shocking but also gives people a strong sense of depression.
The rock slabs are covered with a layer of fluorescent moss, emitting light that illuminates the majestic city below. The light is not dark, but it is not bright either. It just gives people a drowsy feeling.
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The gray-white stone has built tall buildings like pillars, exposing dense windows, and these tall buildings also support the rock slabs above.
The shadows of overlapping stone buildings are paved along the streets into the distance, but almost every building has signs of dilapidation and disrepair, with peeling damage everywhere, and some even partially collapsed.
It is simple yet civilized, dilapidated yet tall, decayed yet majestic.
It is used to describe the city in front of you.
Everything reveals a sense of loneliness at the end of prosperity. The air in this world seems to be gray, and even taking a breath makes people feel decadent.
“Ding-deng-deng!”
Strange footsteps came from the middle of the empty street, and a humanoid creature with wings walked slowly.
The winged man Sasi wears a white cloak with a red sword-like symbol on his clothes.
Some figures appeared in those buildings, and scattered whispers came out from the depths of the densely packed windows, but they did not dare to show their heads.
"He's a person from the upper level. He's very powerful."
"Three eyes or elements?"
"It seems to be the Holy Spirit of the Temple of Light."
"How did the Holy Spirit get here?"
Sasi entered a building.
There was no light in the building, and one could only see the crowds of people inside through the oblique shadows coming in from the door.
The group of people inside also looked at Sasi's figure against the light with fear and fear. They had never seen an existence like Sasi, a god-shaped sky angel with white wings.
That gesture is powerful and holy, but it also represents danger and makes people fearful.
Sasi knew that the people here lived in the form of tribes and families. They lived in buildings, searching for food and anything valuable in the wilderness outside, or fishing from the water left in the upper canal.
, occasionally there will be merchants who come down from the upper level to collect the things in their hands and conduct transactions with them.
They lived in the most civilized city in the past, but they lived like savages.
Sasi looked at the leader of the crowded crowd: "Have you ever heard of a spiritual prayer meeting?"
Sasi took out a bag of flour from the storage ring and handed it to these people: "Tell me useful information, this is yours."
The leader looked at the bag of flour longingly, but he didn't know whether he didn't dare to deceive such a powerful being, or whether he didn't dare to offend the other party's spiritual prayer meeting. Finally, he shook his head and said.
"Never heard of it."
Sasi didn't ask any more questions and left directly.
However, before leaving, he left the bag of flour behind. As soon as he left, the people behind him cheered excitedly, as if this ordinary bag of flour was something extraordinary.
In the dark alley, Sasi was waiting for something quietly.
As the fluorescent light on the artificial rock slab above his head went out, he leaned against the wall and took out an old dream player and slowly turned the mechanical turntable.
“Da da da da da da!”
Along with the sound of the mechanical turntable, there was also a strange noise coming from inside, as if someone was talking inside the prop, but intermittently.
This dream broadcaster is very rare. It is said to be a prop made by an ancient civilization nearly ten thousand years ago. It was made by a powerful profession called an alchemist. The inexhaustible daily necessities of the ancient civilization were made by them. They
As soon as the alchemy workshop was opened, it was able to continuously produce what people wanted.
The dream broadcaster props that Sasi has in his hands are still applied to the Temple of Light. These exquisite props are currently unable to be manufactured. If they break, they can only collect parts and repair them.
However, they are getting more and more broken, and now, the temple does not have many on hand. Instead, some props with simpler and more crude structures can be preserved forever.
As the sound gradually became clearer, Sasi stopped and put his ear against the machine to listen.
"Judge Sasi seems to have discovered traces of the spiritual prayer meeting on the 962nd floor."
"The Spiritual Prayer Society has found the entrance to the world of gods. We must find a way to find them, figure out how they entered the world of gods, and stop their actions."
"If necessary, you are allowed to conduct a comprehensive class trial and purge."
The next step is repetition, saying the above words again.
After receiving the order from the temple, he went to the lower city to find the headquarters of the Spiritual Prayer Society.
However, it seems that this organization called the Spiritual Prayer Society is not simple at present. It can actually open the door to the world of gods. This is definitely not something that ordinary powerful people can do.
The temple became very serious because of this, and even issued a comprehensive cleansing order for Sasi. This is an order that can only be issued to some sects that believe in ancient evil gods. The temple should be worried that there is something beyond its control inside the other party.
An evil presence or force.
Faced with the powerful evil that she might encounter, Sasi did not hesitate.
"Whoa!"
He put away the dream broadcaster, spread his wings and flew into the distance, making a sound of breaking wind when he flapped his wings.
He moved flexibly and freely through the dead buildings, passing through the densely packed empty windows. In those buildings that should have been filled with people and lit with lights, only darkness remained.
After flying for a long time, he finally arrived at the edge of the city.
According to the records of the temple, he found the elevator leading to the lower level here.
This elevator is made of unknown metal and has dense ritual circuits on it.
A low pillar stood in front of the locked door, with a crystal stone inlaid on it. Sasi pressed his hand on the crystal stone, and a ray of light swept across his body, and he saw that the door in front of him began to shake violently.
As if it had not been used for too long, a large amount of dust came out, and the door slowly opened completely.
Sasi closed her wings to isolate the dust, and then slowly retracted them.
Looking at the crystal lights lighting up in the elevator, he breathed a sigh of relief.
“It still works.”
Although there are spiral stairs connecting the upper and lower levels of the city, it is very inconvenient and time-consuming to go up and down there. Sasi does not want to waste time on it.
Fortunately, the elevators manufactured a long time ago are still usable.
Sasi started according to the ritual and set the target level.
At this time, a person suddenly got in.
"Wait for me."
"Wait for me."
"This really works. Wait for me, I want to go down too!"
A wingman child shouted and rushed over. Surprised and thrilling, he jumped in just before the door closed. He even threw himself directly against the wall because he was too hard and could only use his hand to hold down the cushioning force.
After the child rushed in, he gasped and then raised his head.
Only then did she see Sasi's appearance clearly, and Sasi also saw her.
She was thin and small, with a big tattered bag hanging around her neck, and she stared at Sassy with her mouth wide open as if she were looking at something incredible.
Sasi stood in the middle of the elevator and glanced at her sideways: "Why are you looking at me?"
The child still looked at him straightly and said matter-of-factly: "Because you are an angel!"
Sasi said nothing, but the child stretched out his hand excitedly, as if he had seen an idol.
"Hello angel, I am Sanna."
"He's an ordinary person."
When Sanna introduced herself like this, she sounded plain and indifferent.
Sasi didn't introduce himself. He didn't like to talk to people he didn't know, let alone spend effort to introduce himself.
"Boom!"
The elevator descended, and there was a lot of movement. It felt like a train was moving, although most people here no longer knew what a train was.
As they passed between the floors, light shone in from behind the two people along the elevator windows.
Looking outside along the window, you can see the land and rivers, and you can see the sun rising from under the clouds.
And the clouds were actually far away below.
"Wow!"
"Look."
"Outside, there really is an outside!"
The child was lying in front of the window, pressing his palms against the glass and looking out and yelling, which seemed a little noisy.
"Look, what is that? Is it a cloud?"
"River, that should be a river, right?"
"And the ground..."
But Sasi didn't care, because he was also attracted by the outside world. This was one of the few places where he could see the scenery outside the city.
The sky in the outside world is gray and the light is strange.
Strange smoke seems to be rising in many places on the earth. If you look closely, you can see strange threads and ash dancing in the air around the smoke.
But even so, the outside world still makes people here yearn for it, whether they are ordinary people or angels.
The beauty of the world is still engraved in people's blood no matter how long time has passed.
He could understand the child's excitement. It was the first time for a person who had lived here all his life to see the shock of the outside world. The strong impact was definitely directed to the deepest part of the soul.
Not to mention the flowing clouds and surging rivers, even things like the ground were enough to make Sanna scream in surprise.
At this time, a sound came from the elevator.
"We have reached the 1,005th floor."
That's right.
There are more than a thousand floors below such a city.
If you can turn your sight outside, you can see the true appearance of the building and the city from the outside.
It was an unprecedented large-scale building. It was piled up layer by layer from the earth to the sea of clouds. Each layer was hundreds of meters high, and the first layer was a city.
This is called Babel Tower.
As the name suggests, it is a huge tower built to reach the sky.
By climbing this tower, people eventually lead to the world belonging to the gods.
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The distance between dozens of floors is several kilometers.
The elevator descended a little slowly, and Sasi looked outside for a while and then sat down to eat.
However, he gave this little fellow traveler a portion while eating. He was not a nosy person, so he did not ask why the other person wanted to go to the lower level. He did not even ask the other person why he knew about this lift.
ladder.
Sanna took a bite of Sasi's food, and her eyes lit up because it was sweet.
"It's so sweet."
"Isn't it expensive?"
Sassy said nothing and let the child eat her food in peace.
Sanna's mouth didn't stop, she came over and said.
"I ate something from you, and I also gave you something as a gift."
Heartbroken, she took out something and handed it to Sassy.
Sasi took a look and saw that it was a book. He shook his head.
Sanna, who was a little reluctant to part with it, immediately took it back, but she still opened the book and ate while looking at it and said.
"This book records a lot of things. It tells how the Tower of Babel came to be. Do you know?"
The angel felt that the child was too noisy and wanted to shut him up.
He said: "Don't talk."
Sanna, who was originally enthusiastic, saw Saxi say this, her fiery expression holding the book slowly dimmed, and she lowered her head and nodded.
"Um!"
He saw the child's eyes, revealing longing in their loneliness.
Sasi suddenly understood that Sanna, who lived on this floor, had probably not seen anyone she could talk to for a long time, or that she had dared to get close to someone to talk to, so she clung to this holy and beautiful-looking sky angel and kept talking.
Loneliness can drive people crazy. She is not making a noise, she is just expressing her loneliness.
In the silence, Sasi suddenly asked: "How did the Tower of Babel come from?"
Sanna suddenly raised her head, she immediately opened her book, and then read the contents of the book loudly, as if reading a poem.
"Nearly 10,000 years ago, the Five-Colored Dragon God and the King of Angels came here, convened a witch council on the mountain of the origin of life and built this Tower of Babel. It is said that the most critical moment was the legendary ancestor of all snake people, the Ten Thousand Snakes.
Mother also appeared."
"The scale is unimaginable, because it gathers cities from all over the world. If there is anything in this era that can surpass the past, it is the Tower of Babel."
"The witches used the power of the Titan's children to transport cities from afar. The mother of all snakes coiled around the mountain of the origin of life. She built these cities layer by layer into towers and separated each city with huge stones.
, walls were built outside to protect the Tower of Babel from external erosion and changes.”
“They used fluorescent moss to illuminate the Tower of Babel and create air, created channels that continuously flowed down from the mountain where life originated, reclaimed land next to the channels, and tried their best to operate various facilities left over from ancient civilizations; although these facilities eventually
It is still gradually abandoned, but at least it allowed us to continue our glory for a while.”
"After the Tower of Babel was built, in addition to those people who were transported along with the city, people from all over the world also followed the guidance of the gods and came here and set foot on the tower leading to the world of the gods."
Sanna is a curious baby. She has read this book many times, but there are some things that are difficult to understand no matter how many times she reads it.
"But what is the mountain of origin of life?"
"Also, what are the Mother of Snakes and the Witch Council?"
"The descendant of the giant god is again..."
Sasi still didn't speak. He didn't want to say that he didn't know what many of the things inside were.
He probably knew about the Mountain of Origin of Life, which was probably the central pillar of the Tower of Babel. He knew a little about the Witches, but he had only vaguely heard of the convening of the Witches' Council.
Sanna kept chattering: "You know, the book says that hundreds of millions of people once lived in the Tower of Babel. It was very busy at that time."
She frowned: "But what is a billion?"
Sasi said casually: "Ten thousand times ten thousand."
Sanna opened her mouth wide. She couldn't imagine how many people there were. A picture seemed to appear in her little head.
People are piled up together, and the pile reaches the sky.
Sasi realized that this book was not simple: "Where did you get this book?"
Sanna immediately hid her precious book, but later took it out and handed it to Sassy with some distress.
Sasi said: "I don't want yours."
At this time, Sanna laughed happily.
This book is called "The Lost Age and the Tower of Babel", but Sasi just glanced at the signature of the book, and his expression immediately became serious.
Because the signature of this book called The Lost Age clearly says "Prayer Meeting", this is a book distributed by the other party to attract others to join the meeting.
"Prayer meeting."
Sasi's expression changed immediately, and he looked at Sanna: "Are you a member of the Spiritual Prayer Society?"
Sanna shook her head: "No, I'm about to go find them. I heard that they can allow ordinary people to go to the world of gods."
Sanna's eyes shone and she said loudly.
"I want to go there too."
When the Tower of Babel was at its largest, there were indeed hundreds of millions of people living there, and people were constantly migrating to the Tower of Babel, but now it looks so dilapidated.
Because starting from about two thousand years ago, the people living in the Tower of Babel began to change. A third special eye organ began to appear between the eyebrows. It was just a line when closed, and when opened it released magic power.
As soon as these three-eyed people are born in the Tower of Babel, they will be bathed in the light of God. After transforming into forms, they will go up layer by layer along the Tower of Babel to the world of the gods and live there from then on.
At the beginning, only a few people naturally grew third eyes, but later this proportion became larger and larger.
As time goes by, fewer and fewer people stay in the Tower of Babel, and even the eyes of the gods have completely shifted from the Tower to another world.
What remains.
Most of them are people who are unable to evolve the third eye, or it can be said that they are waiting for their descendants to evolve the third eye.
And Sanna is obviously the one who has not grown a third eye.
Sasi asked Sanna, in his opinion, this was an ignorant child who was deceived by the manifesto of an evil group.
"Do you know what a prayer meeting is like?"
Sanna held up the book: "I know about the spiritual prayer meeting."
"There are only three types of people in this world who can go to the world of gods, three-eyed spirits, elemental spirits and holy spirits like you."
Three-eyed spirits are the transformed spiritual beings of those who naturally evolved a third eye. Elemental spirits are people who are born with power and talent. They can transform into wind, stone, etc. after passing through the spiritual door.
Elemental spirits such as sand.
The Holy Spirit is an entity such as angels and dragons who are empowered by gods and even transformed themselves.
Sasi is a sky angel, but one day he will eventually go to the world of the gods and become a real angel.
An angel, or a Seraphim, or other angels.
Sanna turned to one of the pages and continued: "But the spiritual prayer meeting can allow ordinary people to go to the world of gods, just like me."
Sasi shook his head: "They are evil and just use the contents of this book to deceive you."
Sanna was a little angry as she grabbed her book. She seemed to believe in the contents of the book.
"How can you judge that they are evil if you haven't seen them?"
"An angel like you cannot understand ordinary people like us."
Sasi said: "Didn't you see it too?"
Sanna nodded: "So I want to go over and find them and have a look."
Sasi is a messenger of God, and he cannot see a winged man going astray like this.
Such children don't understand that some endings are more terrifying than death. Death is just returning to the sea of stars, while depravity is a darkness with no end in sight.
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"Clang!"
With vibrations and noises, the elevator opened its door, and what came into view was the 962-story city.
Under the fluorescent light, Sasi looked at the city with sharp eyes. First, he saw a huge obelisk, and then buildings.
He walked towards the outside, but the child behind him did not come out.
"Come on, don't you want to see what the spiritual prayer meeting is like?"
"They should be on this floor."
Sanna then grabbed her bag hanging on her chest and poked her head outside, then said suspiciously.
"Really?"
The two people walked towards the front. This place was even more desolate and quiet than the upper level. Not even a whisper could be heard. It seemed to be completely abandoned.
Sasi checked inside the buildings but found no one, only some signs that someone might have passed by a few months ago.
Thinking about it, there should be a small number of people gathering in the center of the city.
It was also the first time for Sasi to come below the thousandth floor, and he couldn't help but say when he saw this scene.
"There are fewer and fewer people in the lower class."
People in the Tower of Babel will continue to move to higher levels, and they start this step from the moment they move to this tower.
They will spend hundreds of thousands of years, generation after generation, migrating upwards layer by layer, and finally reach the thousandth floor, the place closest to the world of the gods.
As the population of the Tower of Babel becomes smaller and smaller, the lower floors become more and more empty, until no trace of human beings can be seen.
Five thousand years ago, few people from the outside world activated the guidance left by the gods and came to the Tower of Babel.
seem.
People from all over the world have gathered in the tower.
Only the upper level can barely be called lively. At least there are messengers of gods and temples there, and there are judges like Sasi who maintain order in the Tower of Babel.
It is precisely because of this that it seems strange for Sanna to walk towards the lower level.
Sasi flew up with Sanna and approached the center of the city. Gradually, they heard strange sounds.
"Winter buzz~"
"哐哐~"
Sasi looked over from a high place and saw a light on somewhere in the city.
Under them, a dilapidated rail steam car was running along the track. A nearby workshop was emitting billowing smoke, and the dense mechanical rods outside were twitching up and down, as if they were running.
Sassy was stunned and flew downwards.
Only then did he realize that it was clearly a strange spirit attached to the rail steam car. After discovering Sasi, the spirit immediately jumped out of the car and bared its teeth and claws towards Sasi.
Sasi held her child Sanna with one hand, and grabbed the sword at her waist with one hand and swung it at the evil spirit.
"Evil Detection!"
The white light shines, and after identifying the opponent's evil spirit, it annihilates it in an instant.
The evil detection magic also identified the identity of the other party: "Immortal evil spirit!"
Here, he found no trace of the spiritual prayer meeting, but instead found the figure of the Order of the Undead.
These undead cults are said to originate from an evil force in ancient civilizations. These people transform by devouring the power of others, thereby transforming into evil spirits. They want to go to the world of the gods in this way.
Sasi had just killed an evil spirit, and more evil spirits immediately ran out of the workshop below. Hundreds of spirits attacked Sasi, roaring wildly and filial piety.
Sasi was attacked by a large number of evil spirits and seemed to be surrounded.
Sasi immediately closed her eyes and waited until he opened them.
Two wings immediately appeared behind him again.
The two pairs of wings spread out, and the feathers fell with light and shadow, and Sasi's aura suddenly became serious.
"Judgement of Light!"
Blazing light gushed out from Sasi's body, and the surrounding evil spirits were instantly frightened, became terrified, and began to flee in all directions.
But Sasi's speed became even faster, chasing those spirits like a dancer in the air.
Under the intertwined afterimages, dozens of evil spirits were instantly killed by Sasi with a wave of his hand.
Sasi chased towards the workshop, and he happened to see a few figures running towards the distance. Those were the senior officials of the Undead Order who controlled these evil spirits or transformed them into evil spirits.
Sasi chased after him, and those people let out shrill screams of fear. Perhaps they never thought that the Holy Spirit who should live at the top would appear in such a corner.
"Holy Spirit?"
"How is it possible? How could an angel appear on this level?"
They fled separately, each taking care of his destiny.
But Sasi still caught up with them one by one while flying, cutting each of them in two from the sky with one sword, showing no mercy and not sparing any one of them.
When Sasi fell to the ground, she told Sanna seriously.
"look!"
"This is evil, or the end of believing in evil."
"There is no means in this world that allows ordinary people to directly enter the kingdom of the gods. All methods are just to degenerate people into evil spirits."
Sanna was a little scared when she saw those evil spirits, but she still hugged her bag and muttered.
"The spiritual meetings are different, that's what their book says."
Sasi didn't say anything. He knew that Sanna didn't so much believe in the spiritual prayer meeting, but that she couldn't accept the fact that she couldn't go to the world of gods.
Anyway, he was going to exterminate the prayer meeting this time, and he would let the other party take a look at it when the time came.
Sasi continued to search nearby, but found no other evildoers, nor any new extraordinary fluctuations.
He guessed that the temple probably mistook the traces of evil spirits and the activities of the Undead Cult on this level as a spiritual prayer meeting.
In this process.
The fluorescent light above the head slowly goes out again, which also represents the arrival of night in the Tower of Babel.
Sasi found an iron bucket in the darkness and lit a fire with the kerosene found in the Order of the Undead. The two of them gathered around the fire to keep warm.
Sasi fiddled with his dream radio and put it to his ears, but there was no sound today. Maybe the upper temple hadn't noticed the movement on his side yet.
And Sanna walked around the workshop, packing useful things. This was an essential skill for living in the Tower of Babel.
Soon, she saw something and exclaimed.
"Look."
"This thing again, why did they bring this thing in from outside?"
"This is so heavy, it won't be easy to move it in!"
Sasi put down the dream player and took a look inside.
"It's a magical obelisk."
Standing in the deepest part of the workshop is a small magical obelisk, and there are newly engraved ritual spell patterns on it, connecting the facilities of the workshop.
Sasi understood something. No wonder these Undead Cult people and evil spirits would appear on this level to carry out evil plans, because this level was the former Magic Network City, and many facilities have been preserved.
"They actually want to make the magic obelisk operate. It's really a wishful thinking."
"But the god represented by the magic obelisk is no longer there, and this ancient civilization facility can no longer operate."
These Orders of the Undead have also been interrupted for thousands of years. In other words, these so-called Orders of the Undead are actually just some lucky people or unlucky people who discovered the evil inheritance of the former Order of the Undead.
Then they imitate the opponent's methods to gain power, not knowing the horror and consequences of this power.
They knew something about ancient civilization, so they thought they had discovered some shocking secret, and wanted to gain the power of ancient civilization.
Sanna ran over again and found something on a nearby table, but it looked like a very sophisticated instrument, possibly related to extraordinary power.
She didn't dare touch it, so she told Sasi.
"What is it used for?"
Sasi took a look and saw that it was a metal object with a few beads inside.
He held it in his hand and looked at it over and over, thinking for a long time before finally speaking.
"Maybe it's a video camera."
Sanna was very curious: "What kind of baby is it?"
Sasi nodded: "It is very precious. It is a tool made by ancient alchemists. It can store the current scene and play back the past scene."
Sanna was very excited: "Can you see pictures left by people from the past there?"
Sasi said: "It depends on whether the people from the past have any photos."
Sassy also has some expectations.
He fiddled with it for a long time before finally opening the video camera and projecting it.
A beam of light suddenly shone on the top of their heads, startling both Sasi and Sanna, and then they couldn't help but laugh.
After arranging the light and projection.
What comes into view is the name of a movie called "Us" and a city under the sun.
Sanna stared at it for a long time: "When was this?"
Sasi was also stunned: "This is...an ancient civilization ten thousand years ago."
They didn't expect to see the world thousands of years ago.
They saw trains running across the land, and densely packed airships taking off and landing.
They saw the bustling city and saw everyone living under the sun.
They saw a dazzling array of goods in large stores and shops on the streets.
People laughed and walked under the sun, holding newspapers and talking about the past, the future, and the starry sky above their heads.
And in the dark and lonely city ten thousand years later.
Two lonely figures sat in front of the only lit bonfire in the city, staring intently at the lively and noisy world in the film, showing the same yearning gaze.
Sanna held her chin as if she wanted to put her head into the picture, and said with great envy: "Wow, people in ancient times were so happy!"
Saxi also raised the corners of her mouth slightly to express her agreement: "Yes, the ancient people were so happy!"
The world in the picture makes people feel happy even just looking at it.
Sanna said: "Did those members of the Order of the Undead want to activate the power of this magical obelisk after seeing these images? Do they want to recreate the past world?"
Sasi looked into Sanna's eyes: "Some of the madness comes from over-enthusiastic expectations and the bottom line of complete giving up."