You can create an "ark", but this does not mean that what you create must be an "ark".
Lin Sanjiu couldn't see Nuwa, and couldn't tell where she was - was she floating in the white mist, or still sitting on the grass in the dark night? - She couldn't feel her body, and she didn't even know where her eyes were.
Is it open or closed?
She could only hear Nuwa's voice; it sounded from the other side of her consciousness, like a figure standing across a bridge from a distance facing her on the other side.
"What do you mean?" Lin Sanjiu asked while facing the confusion in his mind. "Isn't polishing [Flat World] just to create an ark?"
The rarer and higher-level an ability is, under the influence of [Ability Polishing Agent], its power will increase, and the greater the possibility of qualitative change.
[Flat World] is such an ability.
Maybe it's not as good as my "Occasionally Perfect Plan", which can manipulate and reverse the flow of world affairs; maybe it's not as good as Gong Daoyi, who can read the world and stand on the balance point of cause and effect... But from another perspective, "Flat"
World] is a far more precious ability than both.
It is now about to undergo a qualitative change.
You look up.
But now she can't even feel her body, why——
As soon as the idea of "looking up" came to mind, Lin Sanjiu suddenly saw it.
Thick white mist rolled in this area, soft and thick. It seemed that if you stretched out your hand, your hand would be held up by the white mist, and would be shaken by the mist, rising and falling with it.
Originally nothing existed here.
The moment Lin Sanjiu saw the white mist world, he suddenly understood it - just like a person understands his own life.
For a long time, it has been unconscious, mute and quiet; there is no white mist, no heaven and earth, it seems to be just a sleeping white paper.
Whenever Lin Sanjiu turned an item into a card, a small piece of paper was torn off and fell into her hand in exchange, with words such as "Ren Nan's body" and "Community Iron Gate" written on it.
How could she ever think that those little pieces of paper were everything in the "Flat World"?
...Now it finally hears the sound that can wake it up.
It woke up, stretching upwards, downwards, and in every direction, stretching its body endlessly. It opened its eyes and looked back at Lin Sanjiu, its eyes filled with dense white mist, as if waiting for her to dispel the mist.
, from the deep and thick blank, capture a world that no one has ever seen before.
Nuwa's voice did not sound; Lin Sanjiu took a tentative step forward.
The white mist retreated obediently, as if it was pushed away by her presence, pushed away, and its texture faintly loosened - as if the scenery hidden under the thick fog was about to be revealed.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't hold back, inquiring, testing, and looked into the depths of the thick fog.
A long snow-white bird wing suddenly flew out of the fog, almost flying close to her face. As the owner of the bird wing soared rapidly, it disappeared in the blink of an eye - it rolled up
The wind stirred up the white mist into rapid waves, and a few bird feathers as long as one person were caught in the rapid waves. After a wave, they returned to nothingness.
...What, what's going on?
Lin Sanjiu hurriedly regained her composure, and when she looked intently again, there was still only the same billowing white mist in front of her eyes.
"It was the 'world above the world'."
Nuwa's voice became clearer and more real, as if she were an invisible guide following her.
"To be more precise, it is what you see through Fusiro and what you hope to see again, the 'world above the world'. As long as you stop here, walk into the depths of the mist, and embrace it...
…Your [flat world] will determine its future shape and create a 'world above the world' for you."
Lin Sanjiu stood still and digested it for a long time. "The future shape of [Flat World] will be decided by me?"
"That's right. [Ability Polishing Agent] is yours, and [Flat World] is also yours... As long as I give you time, you will reach this point on your own sooner or later.
"However, for those who are witnessing the qualitative change in evolutionary ability for the first time, the information you have is too little. If you walk in without knowing anything, you will probably be caught by the first 'future form' and be confused.
I made my decision knowingly, but I missed more choices ignorantly.”
Lin Sanjiu was startled. "You mean... there are many 'future forms' in [Flat World], and I need to make a choice?"
"That's right. Each of the 'future forms' that [Flat World] will present to you is rooted in your experience, knowledge, experience, thoughts, likes and dislikes - that is to say, in fact, each
Both options are good for you and are what you desire. In this way, you are more likely to make an early decision on the initial choice.
"But among all the choices, only one can create the ark."
Lin Sanjiu understood.
"How do I know which one is?"
"When you see it, you will naturally know it." After Nuwa said this, she paused and continued: "If you change your mind and decide to give up the Ark and choose another form, that's fine.
To me, there's no difference at all."
No wonder Nuwa said, "What you create may not be an ark." That's what she meant.
"Only the Ark can save me and the people I want to save, right?" Lin Sanjiu laughed softly, "If they are on the other side of the scale...then there is no other choice in the world that can make me hesitate.
seconds."
"It's exactly what you would say."
Nuwa's voice was lost in the mist, floating around her, following Lin Sanjiu's every step. "If it were the second person, it would probably become another observation for me. After all, [Flat World]
Among the forms, there are some that are hard to resist..."
When Lin Sanjiu heard this, she turned her eyes and glanced at the first form she left behind - "the world above the world".
"If [Flat World] opens a door to the 'world above the world', maybe I will think about it more... But that's just based on my memory and Fusiro's obsession.
, created by copying a cat into a tiger, right?" She whispered, "Even after it is created, the 'world above the world' will be equivalent to a real existence, but I still don't want to."
She doesn't want to play house; she wants to take Fu Xiro's obsession and find a bigger world with her friends.
"The second form is here." Nuwa whispered.
Lin Sanjiu raised her eyes, and through the mist that was about to disperse, she vaguely saw a world that was extremely familiar to her.
Among the high-rise buildings and busy traffic, people carrying bags, looking down at their mobile phones, and plugging headphones in their ears streamed past the streets. Advertising for new products was posted on the glass of the coffee shop, and bicycles jingled on the street corners.
On a small piano, someone is playing a song of nostalgia and nostalgia.
It was her home world, but it wasn't. With just one glance, Lin Sanjiu knew that it was far gentler and more complete than her home world.
"Choose it, walk in, and you can even close your memory and live there forever like an ordinary person." Nuwa seemed to stare at the distant world for a while, and whispered: "As long as you go back, you will be like a normal person."
It's like returning to the mother's womb, always safe and always warm... All pain and struggle, all scars and losses will be as if they never happened."
"But... now that I have been born," Lin Sanjiu smiled slightly and looked away from the world of her hometown. "I don't want to erase who I am now and return to my previous life."
The third form of [Flat World] is a bit confusing at first glance.
On the empty land, a few clumps of weeds stood sparsely; the pebbles on the river beach glowed in the sun. There seemed to be fish in the water, passing by in a flash, leaving a red tail in the memory of the river.
dream.
Lin Sanjiu was not sure whether she had the feeling of "Ah, that's it", and hesitantly asked: "This is..."
"Your doomsday world." Nuwa replied, "Everything you see is just the initial appearance of the 'future form'. Over time, this world will grow into a vast and rich doomsday world - that is to say,
Everything you need can be produced from this world. Whether it is food, medicine, weapons, special items, copies, evolutionary abilities..."
"Copy? Evolution ability?"
"Both of these are things that will only be produced in the apocalyptic world, right? If you choose it, then the copy it produces is a copy that you can use at any time; the evolutionary ability it produces is also a copy that you can use at any time
Ability. Although it takes time to grow, it is not impossible for you to reach or even surpass my or Fusiro's realm in the future."
"It is indeed a choice that is hard to resist."
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but look at the bare river bank a few more times. It was hard to imagine its potential in the future - it was even harder to imagine that she would give up on it. "But it doesn't seem to be an ark, right?"
"This is a question for you. Only you know which choice is the Ark."
Lin Sanjiu nodded and continued walking deeper into the white mist.
She saw several future forms of [Flat World] one after another; as Nuwa said, almost every one of them was so wonderful that it was irresistible. One of the forms turned out to be her own - according to Nuwa's explanation, if
Whichever one she chooses, one day in the future, Lin Sanjiu will break away from her human form, open up a new world with her physical body, and become its god with her spiritual consciousness.
"Then... exaggerated things are not suitable for me." Lin Sanjiu laughed sheepishly and said, "Although I did think that if I were to create a world, it would definitely not be so cruel... that's it.
The form that came out of my idea, right? But let’s forget about becoming a god in this world.”
When she stopped for the unknown number of times, Lin Sanjiu had already vaguely understood it before looking into the depths of the white mist.
She doesn't have to go any further, she has reached the end.
She found the ark.
Lin Sanjiu wanted to laugh and cry. She seemed to understand everything, even though it was still vague.
"It turns out...it turns out that the 'Ark' was born from that memory."
The closer we get to the end, the more difficult it becomes to write. I feel that these final chapters carry too much, and the words feel like they are burdened...
Because the end of the world is approaching, I naturally became curious about the endings of other works. Take Big Sword, which I finished reading last week, as an example. I think the ending is very clean and warm, and it fits the tone set from the first episode. It’s not bad.
Yeah? Why do you say it’s not finished? Are you so demanding? It’s terrible!