Under the cover of the complex but straightforward material world, there were many things that were far beyond human understanding. What the naked eye could see was just the most insignificant layer of camouflage of the world. In the vision of the soul, the world was much more complicated than it appeared.
Ever since Tannagost was engulfed by an unreal disaster, the planet had been completely changed. Its material plane might have been scary enough, but its hidden illusory side was even more terrifying. There were countless restless ancient souls wandering on the planet. The tide of energy and information triggered by the First Born had been surging on the earth for 10,000 years, leaving behind countless visible and invisible supernatural legacies. The memories of the Tannaeans were separated from their bodies, drifting on the planet along with the tide, entangled and distorted with many other information into indescribable monsters. But at some points, it was still possible to contact the ancient souls that could still think — as long as the one in contact had a suitable talent.
When Hao Ren reached out to the distorted transparent air, he felt as if his consciousness had been pulled out of his body for a moment, as if there was a huge spiritual force pouring into his brain, cutting off his perception of the outside world. He felt as if he was standing in a vast void, surrounded by countless chaotic grayish-white mist, and one … or perhaps countless shadows were standing in the depths of the mist, watching him.
Hao Ren woke up from the momentary shock and subconsciously tried to get rid of this state. After experiencing many extraordinary experiences, he had now mastered the method of using spiritual power to resist this supernatural erosion. But just as he was about to act, a voice suddenly came from the direction of the shadows. "Please don't be nervous, stranger. We mean you no harm."
"Who are you?" Hao Ren asked as he looked down at his body. Not surprisingly, he was floating in this chaos in the form of pure consciousness. He could feel that his body was still in the real world, but he could not contact it for the time being. This reminded him of the experience when he was in contact with the giant brain.
"We are the natives of this planet," the shadow behind the mist said. It could not tell whether it was a man or a woman, nor could it tell the distance. It was hard to even tell whether it was a shadow or countless overlapping shadows. When it spoke, Hao Ren only felt a buzzing echo. "We are the Tannaeans."
Hao Ren was stunned, but he was not surprised. "Oh, as expected. I thought there were only those crazy vengeful spirits on this planet."
"It is true that there are only mad souls here," the apparition said unhurriedly. "All the spirits have lost themselves. Strictly speaking, the 'us' in front of you is just a group of data. We can no longer call ourselves any form of life... We are the crystallization of all the Tannaeans' memory. "
"I know about your change of life form." Hao Ren did not pursue the difference between 'crystallization of memory' and 'soul'. He noticed that his connection with the realm of chaos was weakening. Perhaps the psychic ability of the Tannaeans could not connect well with the mind of the people on Earth. "What went wrong? Why didn't you escape the disaster even after you changed your life form? How did you become that kind of irrational... monster? "
"We thought that we could escape the ecological disaster by getting rid of the flesh and blood, but we did not expect that the slaughter in the material world was only the mildest side of the whole disaster. After leaving the material world, we faced even more terrible distortion and chaos." The shadow floated slightly, and Hao Ren felt that there was another spiritual force coming to him. "Stranger, please see for yourself."
This spiritual force was not corrosive. It was just showing people a piece of memory. So after confirming that it was safe, Hao Ren calmed down and looked at the ancient memory from 10,000 years ago.
In a trance, he found himself standing on a magnificent city wall. Around him was a magnificent city that seemed to be made of gold. The wind was whistling in his ears, and there were countless translucent figures running around him, shouting loudly, "The third protective wall has been shattered! The robots can't stop those tentacles! " "Medics, we need medics here. The wounded who have been evacuated from the protective wall need treatment..." "Earthquake, earthquake again!" "The tentacles have pierced into the foundation, and the protective wall is cracking..."
Hao Ren realized that this was a scene from more than 10,000 years ago. He was looking at it from the perspective of a soldier standing on the wall.
He found that 'his' perspective was slowly sweeping across the wall and looking outside the city with a violent tremble. The tremble revealed indescribable fear.
Outside the city, the earth was cracked, and huge mountains were rolling around like living things. It was a real living thing because the mountains were part of the tentacles of the First Born!
The whole world seemed to be covered by those tentacles and giant trees. The boundless body of the First Born was surging and devouring everything. In the gap between those tentacles, there was a dark red liquid flowing slowly. It was a substance very similar to the lifeblood, decomposing the last residue of life outside the sanctuary. And the sanctuary was the last star of light in this hellish world: it was crumbling and insignificant. The First Born angrily whipped the last two or three layers of the protective wall of Alamanda. The geological structure of the entire city was constantly shaking, and even a large number of tentacles had spread over the wall to the energy shield of the city, almost completely burying the last light of the city.
To an ordinary person, even a single glance at this strange hellish scene was enough to make one tremble with fear.
Then Hao Ren felt his vision swaying again, and then he saw the scene of the 'leveling up' ceremony years ago.
The last surviving Tannaeans gathered in the square near the Promotion Tower and floated into the sky under some kind of inexplicable force. The golden tower released a nebula-like electric light, and the innate soul power of the Tannaeans was sublimated in resonance. Their spirits were extracted and materialized, and their bodies gradually disintegrated into light spots. At the last moment of the doomsday, the Tannaeans finally realized that the tentacles spreading on the earth were tracking the signs of life. So they had to completely abandon their own bodies, otherwise the tentacles would not stop strangling the city.
As the last group of people were sublimated into spiritual bodies, a brilliant brilliance fell from the dome of Alamanda. It was a deadly radioactive ray, the 'final life elimination order' set by the Tannaeans. All the conventional creatures in the entire city would die quickly in the radiation, including the most tenacious single-celled creatures.
Only when the breath of life was completely erased would the First Born's pursuit stop.
From that moment on, there was only one creature left on Tannagost: the First Born, which had become unprecedentedly strong. It had covered the whole world.
Hao Ren's consciousness continued to move forward along with the foreign memory, and he finally experienced the perspective of the Tannaeans after they became spiritual creatures. He "saw" himself gradually rising into the sky, with countless translucent souls floating around him. The owner of this memory was looking at the physical world and the spiritual world from a new perspective. After adapting to the new "body", he looked at the end of the horizon, at the surging tentacles and the huge, weird, and indescribable biological tissue in the tentacles.
A strong sense of horror surged from the memory.
An unprecedentedly terrifying huge shadow floated above the tentacles, and a large amount of frenzied spiritual power quickly spread out from the gaps of the tentacles, growing into a tide of darkness that enveloped the entire planet. The tentacles of the First Born waved wildly in the dark mud of chaos, as if laughing at the Tannaeans who thought they could escape by transforming into a life form.
No one had ever seen such a thing around the First Born. It was not until the Tannaeans turned into spiritual bodies that they realized their enemy was far more terrible than they had imagined.
In the vision of the soul, the soul form of the First Born was far more irresistible than the physical form.
"It has unparalleled soul power, even more powerful than its tentacles and the red tide. Unfortunately, we didn't realize this until we became spiritual bodies. This kind of transformation is one-off, irreversible, and time was running out. We didn't even have time to let some people transform first and then determine the situation. We encountered a disaster. "Hao Ren's consciousness separated from the horrifying memory. He heard the Tannaeans' soul aggregation 'talking to him." It shattered the' ego 'of every Tannaean. It should be a terrible electromagnetic storm. All the souls were mixed together in the storm, and the thoughts, memories, and personalities of millions of people were forcibly merged, and finally became... "
"Vengeful spirit," Hao Ren finally understood. "In essence, it is a kind of garbled code."
"Everything is over, and only we survived in the end," the phantom said flatly. "We are the memory bank that has been given a false personality, a copy of the Tannagost civilization. Perhaps the force of destruction does not think of us as a form of life: non-physical creatures, non-energy creatures, so we have survived to this day. "
Hao Ren sighed. "What can I help you with?"
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