East of Eden

The sun was engulfed by darkness, the huge Orion constellation rose in the southwest, and the Cangxi star, which symbolized endless war, moved to the center of the sky, like an ever-bright lighthouse, and meteors fell one after another, burning blazingly on the earth, and the sky was full of blood——Xing remembers This is the scene on the day of the natural disaster.

"Artry!"

The fourth holy object has been activated, and the temple deep in the snow mountain is shrouded in the light of the holy object.Liang Shiheng said that the sacred object could help them avoid natural disasters and lead them to a brand new world, but no one knew how it worked.

Cang Xing, as the "silent one" appointed by Liang Shiheng, is responsible for guarding the sacred objects until death.

At this time, some unusual sounds came from outside the temple, as if some huge monster had climbed the mountain, and the footsteps made the rocks of the whole mountain tremble one after another.

"alert."

Cang Xing said to the surroundings, and led a barbarian army out, at this time fine snowflakes began to float in the sky.

There was a downhill road ahead, and gradually, a white figure appeared between the snow line and the sky, and meteors passed over his head.He was wearing a white robe and the collar was pulled tightly, like a leaf that would be swallowed by the wind at any time.

"Liang Chen?" Cang Xing recognized him and signaled the troops to put down their weapons.

The man raised his hood, and his blond hair was blown away by the wind. He left a row of footprints in different shades on the snow, standing in front of Cang Xing, but did not get any closer.

"Why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be in the palace?" Cang Xing asked.

They agreed before that the four silent ones would activate the holy objects respectively, and Liang Chen would coordinate the overall situation in the Xizhou Imperial Palace, trying to lead the humans on the earth to escape, but now he appeared here.

"I'm here to get back the holy object." Liang Chen raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes were no longer as gentle as before, alienated and indifferent.

Cang Xing hesitated, feeling that the person in front of him was extremely strange.

Seeing behind the blond man rose a huge ship that Cang Xing had never seen before, like the halo behind a saint, Liang Chen raised his hand, and then, countless blue light beams pierced towards him.Cang Xing was pierced through his chest by a beam of light without warning, and fell face up in the snow. He stretched out his hand vigorously, trying to grab Liang Chen's collar, but he only managed to grab a few strands of hair in vain.

"Go to sleep."

He heard Liang Chen whisper in his ear.

Fingers slide down.Cang Xing's last impression of this world is the man's long golden hair passing between his fingers.

...

Reminiscing so far, Xing suddenly felt a throbbing pain in his heart, and suddenly woke up from his sleep.

The cold air around him made him shiver. He wrapped the thin and torn quilt tightly, and the white mist he exhaled seemed to be able to freeze instantly.

it's too cold.

He found himself in a dark cell with peeling paint walls, a hard plank bed, a sink, and a toilet.

A small rectangular window was opened on a higher place, and the iron grille covered the window, from which the cold wind mixed with snowflakes swished into the room.

Xing pulled back the quilt and looked at his abdomen, where he was shot by Helios, but he did not die, the wound has been properly treated, and now only a faint red mark remains.And on his chest was the fatal wound that killed him 3000 years ago, and the scar has never faded.

"It's Helios..." Xing touched his scar and muttered silently, as if he had awakened everything.

The scene of being shot in the museum coincides with the scene of falling on the snow mountain 3000 years ago. Xing suddenly understood that the person who appeared on the snow mountain at that time was actually Helios.

Blonde hair, golden pupils, exactly the same appearance as Liang Shiheng.

It was he who killed his former self.He used the same appearance as Liang Shiheng to deceive the Cang Xing who had not experienced death and rebirth at that time, and the young and pure black-eyed warrior who was only 21 years old.

But Xing didn't feel sad or angry, but his thinking was unprecedentedly clear, as if he was finally close to his own destiny.

But why did Helios appear 3000 years ago across time and space?

It is difficult for Xing to think about these issues, but he has a faint feeling that everything is trapped in a huge cycle.It wasn't the first time he fell down, nor was it the first time he woke up.

Hoshi prefers direct action to thinking.Right now he was trying to figure out what the hell he was being held in and try to get out if he could.

He put on his leather boots, tying them stiffly from the cold.Wrapped in a quilt, he stood up and gradually recovered the temperature of his hands and feet by jogging.

The faucet of the sink could no longer be turned on, and the water was frozen.So he grabbed the snow on the window sill and rubbed it away with his hands, washed his face briefly, then jumped up, supported the window sill with both hands, and looked towards the world outside the iron railing.

There is flying snow everywhere outside, the empty snow field, the sky is gray, and there are some mountain shadows in the distance.As far as the eye can see, there is no living thing to be seen.

Xing probably had an idea that this prison should be built in the northern part of the land, which was his hometown.Due to climate change in about 3000 years, this place has been completely covered by snow, and grasslands and tundras have ceased to exist.

He searched the implanted common sense memory, the key words "northern" and "prison", and a memory really popped up: on the cold Aberle Snowfield in the north of Xizhou, there was a prison for Su Huang to detain serious criminals , known as Black Lagoon, was decommissioned 20 years ago.

"Black Lagoon Prison." Xing whispered, and let go of his hands and jumped to the ground.At this time, there was only a clanging sound, like the sound of iron plates colliding.I saw a plate of meals stuffed under the door of the cell, with plastic knives and forks next to it.

Xing immediately put his ear on the door to listen, and the footsteps gradually faded away without stopping, which meant that only one prisoner was held in this row.

Today's meal is tofu with green vegetables, white rice, and a meatball.Both are relatively soft foods, in case prisoners use them to escape from prison.

Since someone delivered the food, it means that there are guards here, and someone is watching him.Su Huang's abandoned prison is now probably the stronghold of the Weaver Party. Helios imprisoned him in this place far away from the hustle and bustle, just to avoid people's eyes and ears.

I don't know what's the current situation in the world outside?As Xing thought about it, he picked up a simple rice plate from under the iron door. At this moment, a line of small characters engraved on the door caught his attention.

"Get out, as soon as possible"

The characters are very rough and shallow, as if they were scratched out with plastic utensils.

Xing found that it turned out to be his own handwriting.

It was the third day of detention at Black Lagoon.

The strange thing is that in this cell, Xing found more and more letterings left by him, they were hidden in the bed frame, on the corner of the wall, in the peeling paint, under the sink... In short, each of the cells in this cell There are traces of them in every hidden corner.

"There's no way out here."

"It doesn't work here either."

"You can only go to the third room from here."

The handwriting says so.

These handwritings were all discovered when Xing was thinking about how to escape from the prison. They dutifully appeared in every corner where Xing was about to dig, as if he had predicted that he would find this place and told him in advance that the road would not work.

They are the messages that Xing left for his future self in the past cycle.

How many times has he cycled?hundreds of times?Thousands of times?If each lettering represents a cycle, it has been cycled at least 55 times.

On the third night, Xing lay on the sloppy bed and did not fall asleep.At some point, he heard faint footsteps, and then the iron door was opened, and two dark thin figures flashed in, and then closed the door softly.All this happened in secret.

Xing pretended to be in a deep sleep, and slowed down his breathing. Feeling the two people's breath getting closer, he leaned over with one hand and gently probed his breath.At this moment, Xing grabbed the man's arm suddenly, got up and threw him to the ground.

"Hiss, leg...!" The man gasped in pain, his glasses reflected the moonlight, and said in a low voice, "Xing, I'm Shanmu Zhelang!"

And the uninvited guest standing behind him also took off his hat and said, "I'm Xiaowan Edifence."

Tetsuro Shanmu and Xiaowan Edifence were old comrades-in-arms. Later, one stayed in Suhuang to work, and the other joined the Weaver Party. However, they would contact each other privately from time to time to help each other.The two of them found this place beyond Xing's expectations.

"Doctor Shanmu?" Xing immediately let go, "Are you awake?"

"Yes, it's a long story." Dr. Shanmu stood up tremblingly with Xiao Wan's support, "We have something very important to see you this time, please listen calmly."

Xing Huan looked around: "But it's very dangerous here, someone from the Weaver Party is always watching."

"It's okay. Black Lagoon used to be Su Huang's prison. I used some internal means to hack into its management system. Now we have about two hours of free time." Xiao Wan, who was wearing a tailored black trench coat, glanced at his watch .

So Shan Mu Zhelang sat down on the bed, crossed his hands and fingers, and said: "Xing, I think you should be vaguely aware that we are in a huge cycle. Next, Xiao Wan and I will tell you the truth about this world."

"Holy object, the key to restart Yinqi technology. Activate four holy objects at the same time, that is, change time and space. Liang Shiheng led the Yinqi civilization to escape collectively by this means, and went to another world line. I will call it the new world later. .

However, creating a new world line must also abide by the basic laws. It cannot start out of thin air, but must have a "starting point". The starting point is the beginning of all things, the beginning of evolution.

So when the Yin Qi civilization escapes, they will not directly land in the new world like a spaceship, but will gradually gestate themselves again through this new world.

However, Liang Shiheng obviously overlooked one point in his calculations.It took 3000 years for the new world to give birth to Yin Qi civilization again from the starting point, and within these 3000 years, our old world developed in parallel with it and entered the period of Su Huang's rule.

Liang Shiheng did not expect that after natural disasters, there would still be life in the old world. Of course, he did not expect that natural disasters were actually caused by people in the old world. "

In the quiet cell, Shan Mu Zhelang's voice was deafening: "Did you know that Helios has now completely occupied Su Huang's headquarters and seized four holy relics. A week ago, he activated all the relics and opened the The gateway to a new world."

Xiao Wan added worriedly: "The new world is now in the Yin Qi period, and it is exactly the same as we were 3000 years ago. Helios is an ambitious man. He has conscripted countless warships to the new world, preparing to conquer the people there by force." .”

"So that natural disaster was actually caused by Helios?" Xing felt a splitting headache, and the cold wind at night made his hands and feet cold, but he was able to think calmly.

"That's right, Helios wants to conquer two world lines." Xiao Wan said, "It's useless to say more, I brought something that allows you to intuitively understand everything."

I saw the man take out something like a mirror frame from the bag, and pull it up, down, left, and right to form a door the size of a person.

Its shape is too simple, as if it will fall down when the wind blows.

"This is the F511 portal I stole from Tiangong Island. Through it, you can go to the new world, or your 3000 years ago."