Hearing the answer from the tomb guard, Duncan didn't speak for a long time - the answer was so shocking, but for some reason, he seemed to have some kind of...expectation.
"...The 'creator' you keep mentioning is the Creeping King? Or...the Holy Lord of the Underworld?"
"We usually call him 'Pilot One'," the tomb guard slowly lowered his head, "or the cluster controller - but we also know the names of the Creeping King and the Holy Lord of the Deep. This is the end.
The survey team mentioned it from the intelligence returned at a certain point in time."
The tall tombkeeper was silent for a few seconds before speaking softly as if talking to himself: "We haven't heard from the creator for a long time."
Duncan did not respond, and chaotic thoughts filled his mind. After a brief thought, he raised his head and stared at the body on the throne: "In other words, 'Pilot One' collected dreams during the third long night.
He then relied on his special power of 'copying' to design the Cretan tribe based on the King of Dreams as his assistants... Is the entire Cretan tribe 'created' in this way?
Including those final survey teams?"
"Of course," the tombkeeper said calmly, "The world was still in chaos at that time. The creator briefly released some mortals into the unformed shelter, but found that they could not survive and were not of much use, so he just
I can seek help from a being as powerful as myself—Saslokar, who died during the previous creation process, is the most suitable choice."
Duncan listened quietly to the tombkeeper's story, but the expression on his face couldn't help but become more and more subtle. He suddenly realized that if we extrapolate from this fact... wouldn't it mean that all the final preachers are actually
Can all be counted as Saslokar’s “descendants”?!
This weird and astonishing idea flashed through his mind. Duncan was suddenly stunned, and then he couldn't help but think of another thing -
Those crazy "preachers" became excited and enthusiastic when they saw the Lost Home, and even called it the "Ark of Promise"... The main reason behind this is of course because the Lost Home had entered subspace and returned completely.
But could it... also be related to the fact that the current Homeless Ship is actually built on the "Spine of the Ancient God" in Sasloka?!
Could the madness and fanaticism of those final preachers actually be the stress reaction of some kind of "heir" after getting close to the "ancient god"?!
Once these astonishing associations appeared, it was difficult to suppress them. Duncan's thoughts instantly extended far away. After a while, his attention finally gradually converged and fell back on the throne and headless body in front of him.
He recalled what the tombkeeper said to him before entering the mausoleum.
"You said he doesn't have much time...meaning that this body doesn't have much time?"
"He has been guarding here for a long time, but the maintenance system here cannot run indefinitely," the tombkeeper said in a low voice, "All the ancient systems left by the creator are experiencing problems one after another, and they have expired.
It has served for too long... This throne once served as the starting point of 1,200 observation stations, maintaining the 'existence' of all Crete, but now it has become the last observation station, and the throne's operation is about to reach its end.
.”
Duncan suddenly frowned: "...What will happen if the throne stops running?"
The gravekeeper was silent for a moment and then slowly spoke: "It means that the first pillar system left by the creator completely collapsed - after that, the fourth long night began."
The fourth long night!
Duncan's eyes changed slightly - after so many messy and trivial clues, he finally obtained such precise information for the first time, and for the first time he determined what the iconic node was when the "Fourth Long Night" occurred!
Moreover, what the tombkeeper just said was that "all" the ancient systems left behind by the creator are having problems. The collapse of the throne is obviously just one of them, and Vision 001-The Sun is undoubtedly another system that is approaching its limit...
This is consistent with what is currently known!
Duncan's brows were already furrowed tightly, thoughts surging in his heart——
Judging from common sense, when the first "collapse" occurs in a series of complex interconnected systems, then a chain reaction will definitely occur. In other words, when the throne here stops running, the sun's failure and complete shutdown will also occur.
accelerate……
Every long night begins with the collapse of the last long night, and the third long night is no exception. The throne collapses, and the "Tomb of the Unknown King", the last Cretan observation station, stops operating. After that, the sun will
A series of failures accelerated the collapse until it was permanently extinguished, and the whole world fell into night...
The tombkeeper in front of him obviously knows a lot of things, some of which are even beyond the era he lived in and beyond the time flow so far. This information...may come from those who set out a long time ago to monitor the entire asylum in the time flow.
The Institute's "Final Survey Team"...
Thinking of the "gravekeeper" who brought him here, Duncan's thoughts couldn't help but spread:
This "Tombkeeper" and the mausoleum he guards have existed in the cracks of chaos for ten thousand years. However, from what Vana revealed, it seems that the "Mausoleum of the Unknown King" has never existed.
We have had rational and positive exchanges with the outside world like today. In the eyes of the world, this mausoleum is a chaotic and dangerous "vision 004", but now it seems that the tomb keeper and everything in the mausoleum are obviously "normal"
"of……
Duncan's thoughts suddenly stopped. He turned his head thoughtfully and looked at the tall tombkeeper standing next to him.
...is it really normal?
Could it be that he was the same as the "indescribables" he had come into contact with before, that only he could understand and see everything in front of him? And for the other "listeners" who were led into the tomb, this person
Are the tomb guards and the ruins of the ancient square at the end of the corridor completely different?
Duncan recalled the "cognitive offset model" proposed by Lu En at the rally not long ago. After thinking for a moment, he couldn't help but ask: "What other people who enter the tomb will see like what I saw?"
The same thing?”
"...I will try my best to blind their ears and eyes, and clean up the harmful parts of their memories before they leave - mortals should not see too many things, it is harmful to them."
Duncan nodded slowly.
The tombkeeper's answer was not exactly what he expected, but it confirmed his suspicion.
The world he sees is different from what ordinary people see, and the more "anomalies" and "visions" are involved in the fields, the more significant this "displacement effect" is.
Duncan exhaled softly and put aside these complicated questions for the time being. After a short silence, he suddenly asked: "How long?"
The tomb guard turned his head: "Huh?"
Duncan raised his head and pointed at the tall, dark throne: "I mean, how long can this throne last?"
"It's impossible to be sure. I'm just a caretaker, and the scholars who understand this complex system disappeared a long time ago. The only answer I can give you is... soon."
"What will happen to this body after the throne stops functioning?"
The tomb guard didn't answer anything this time, just shook his head in silence.
Duncan didn't ask further. He and the tombkeeper remained silent together, standing in the ruins illuminated by the dusk sky. After an unknown amount of time, Duncan suddenly asked: "I heard the bell... Is it because this place is on the verge of reaching its limit? Are you actively calling me?"
"Yes."
"Why?" Duncan turned his head with a confused and solemn expression, "What do you want me to do?"
To his surprise, the tombkeeper shook his head: "I don't know."
"you do not know?"
"I am just a watcher. Those who knew everything and knew everything disappeared a long time ago," the tomb guard looked into Duncan's eyes and slowly said, "But I still remember one thing... I only remember one thing. thing."
He turned around and looked at the open ruins in the distance, looking at the phantoms that occasionally emerged from the edge of the square, hurriedly passed through the many gates, and flashed past the timeline, and spoke softly:
"When they just set out, a message came from the most distant and impossible boundary of time. It arrived here almost instantly. A final surveyor who claimed to have trekked to the end sent a message -
"He said that dusk had fallen, and the fire-usper set the world on fire."
Duncan remained silent. When he heard the tombkeeper's narration, he hid all his emotions in his eyes as deep as water. No one knew what he was thinking at the moment.
But the tombkeeper obviously didn't care. He just continued calmly: "I don't know what you will think after seeing everything here, and I don't know what you will do one day in the future, let alone What impact will the things I tell you today have on your actions and decisions in the future?
"My duty is only to guard this site and activate it from time to time in accordance with the ancient protocol, allowing it to exchange limited data with the outside world... We are a race that has been carefully designed and created. Each of us has
It is not strictly my responsibility to bring you here just to complete a limited and necessary work.
"But those responsible for assigning work are no longer here, and there has been no news from the creator for a long time. I feel that I should at least...do something."
"...I understand," Duncan breathed softly. The expression on his face had relaxed at some point. Then he looked at the tombkeeper and nodded slowly and seriously, "Thank you for telling me so much.
Being able to know these things that happened in the past is already a great gain for me.”