Chapter 517: Angel

Lin Xian looked at Chu Yan, who was clean all over, and countless complex emotions surged in his heart for a time. He had many questions and many worries. He and she were once comrades-in-arms who fought side by side and partners with unified minds. But now, when Lin Xian saw her again, the first sentence he heard was asking Lin Xian to eat her.

He subconsciously wanted to understand the meaning of "eat" from other angles, but Lin Xian's personality still quickly anchored the most grotesque and literal result.

Even so, he still asked back:

"You... what did you say?"

"Believe me, this is the fastest way." Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian with deep meaning, then her gaze swept over the sea and mountains of this strange planet: "If you don't want to waste more time, or be eaten by them like me, and then completely lose some kind of perception."

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the strange biological bodies swallowing in the valley below and the absurd scene that was hard to describe, and then said to Chu Yan:

"I know this is a game, but I won't eat you, and I don't know why you appeared in this game. But no matter what the price is, I will save you."

Chu Yan's expression dimmed, her gaze avoided Lin Xian, and after a long while, she said in a low voice: "Why?"

"What else could it be?" Lin Xian smiled indifferently and said seriously: "Because of revolutionary friendship, because our minds are unified, because we are comrades-in-arms, and also partners who have fought together without pants!"

Chu Yan suddenly smiled when he said this. She raised her head and looked at Lin Xian quietly for a while. Looking at Chu Yan's eyes, Lin Xian had never seen this ace of the North American Allied Front reveal such feminine tenderness, so he felt a bit surprised.

"Go!"

At this time, Chu Yan suddenly pulled Lin Xian, and the two walked silently through the grass of strange vegetation, crossed the hillside jungle all the way, and came to a hillside on the coastline, then hid behind several huge flower stamens with gorgeous colors.

"Look."

Chu Yan pulled Lin Xian's wrist. Her fingertips were cold but carried unquestionable strength, guiding his gaze to the vast blue in the distance. Lin Xian looked as told, only to see the surging ocean presenting a magnificent deep blue under the strange sky light, waves surging, rolling up thousands of piles of snow foam, as if containing endless vitality and mystery.

However, the next moment, the suffocating mutation descended without any warning. When the huge and majestic giant creature that was indescribable in the sky slowly sank, and its huge shadow touched the sea surface, the vast ocean suddenly twisted! The magnificent blue faded and dissolved at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it had been drained of all color and liquid essence by an invisible giant hand. Replacing it was a piece of creepy, boundless white flesh!

That was no longer the ocean, but a huge human face spreading for thousands of miles! It floated silently where the ocean originally was, its skin smooth as fat, but cold and lifeless. The outline of the face was blurred and abstract, carrying inhuman indifference.

At its edge, countless arms, tentacles, or twisted limbs like towering pillars broke out of the "face" with a bang, stabbing straight into the sky. They stirred the space, and every swing caused violent shaking and roaring of the earth under his feet.

In this heaven and earth tremor, that abyss-like giant mouth, occupying the absolute position in the center of the "human face", opened to the limit silently, yet carrying a terrifying gravitational force that swallowed everything! The giant creature in the sky appeared small and fragile in front of that giant mouth, like a bird falling into the bottomless abyss. There was no earth-shattering collision sound, no dying wail, only a kind of swallowing of flesh and blood collision. The giant creature in the sky was instantly swallowed by the white "sea surface" giant mouth and disappeared without a trace!

The moment the swallowing was completed, the huge flesh human face that filled his vision seemed to have obtained some kind of indescribable nourishment. Its outline became clearer and more "perfect". A kind of cold and surging holy life radiance suddenly erupted from every inch of its skin and every giant pillar arm that stretched out! The radiance was pure to the point of blinding, yet carried a kind of terrifying divine halo originating from the abyss, instantly dyeing the entire coastline, mountains, and even the sky with a terrifying divine halo.

Lin Xian's heart was gripped hard by an invisible giant hand. Witnessing this magnificence and horror that exceeded the limit of cognition, his pupils contracted violently due to extreme shock, and he blurted out:

"What on earth is this doing?"

Chu Yan gazed at Lin Xian, her eyes changing slowly like a deep pool, flowing with indescribable complexity. She stretched out her arms and hugged him tightly. The embrace carried warm breath brushing past Lin Xian's ear, and her voice was low but clear: "Want to know?"

Before Lin Xian could react, Chu Yan's arms had already brought a gentle firmness, pushing him down gently. The two fell into the center of the huge and strange flower stamen behind them. The soft stamen silk supported them like a natural bed, and the huge petals closed instantly, wrapping them gently, isolating the bizarre world outside, forming a safe and private space.

Lin Xian only felt that his consciousness was like being thrown into a turbulent star river vortex, the world spinning, his thinking completely crushed. Chu Yan's warm body was close to him, but at this time it was no longer the touch of flesh and blood, but turned into a surging information torrent, directly and rudely breaking through the embankment of his consciousness, and pouring in with a bang!

Everything in front of him disappeared suddenly. Lin Xian's perspective was completely pulled away, as if his soul had been forcibly stuffed into Chu Yan's vision. Then, infinite light and shadow fragments exploded and reorganized in front of his "eyes" like the opening of the universe. The torrent of time wrapped him, flowing back in countless eras at a speed that made him suffocate.

He saw a hot and barren primitive planet surface. In the boiling ocean, the simplest organic matter collided and aggregated under the catalysis of lightning and geothermal heat... The spark of life was quietly ignited in chaos.

Hundreds of millions of years of time were compressed into an instant. Single-celled organisms floated and divided in the ancient sea. Strange wrist-footed and arthropod life were born in the warm shallow sea, climbed onto the muddy beach, and clumsily opened up the land. The spine was finalized in the long evolution. Fish covered with scales jumped out of the water, grew four feet, and crawled under the shadow of the fern forest.

Light and shadow flowed rapidly. Furry mammals rose in the dust of dinosaur extinction. Their nimble claws began to grasp tools, and their ignorant eyes reflected the trees and flames split by lightning.

The picture focused. A group of hairy primitive people hunted giant beasts with rough stone spears and bone tools. Beside the campfire, they made throat sounds with vague meanings, and simple murals left the first civilization marks on the rock walls.

Time continued to fly. Settlements expanded into villages. From the pottery and worship of the matrilineal clan to the bronze and wars of the patrilineal tribe, farmland crisscrossed, the city walls of the feudal dynasty stood towering, iron cavalry stepped over the beacon smoke, and ancient epics were sung in the mouths of wandering poets.

The giant beast of steam roared in mines and factories, gears engaged, thick smoke covered the sky, and steel tracks extended to the distance.

The light flow of the information age instantly submerged everything; a torrent of data surged through the invisible network. Massive starships broke free from planetary gravity, sailing toward the boundless deep space. One after another, towering spires with perfect geometric forms, made of materials neither metal nor stone, rose from the ground on strange planets, piercing straight into the vacuum of the universe, receiving energy converted from stars by the Sky-Veil Giant Screen and transmitted to the surface via microwaves—this was the starting point of the Tower Civilization.

The picture froze inside the magnificent tower. The precision synthesis factory operated silently, and viscous nutrient solution rich in all necessary substances flowed out from the pipeline. Lin Xian saw this, and Chu Yan's cold voice rang in his ears.

"What you see is simulated from a human perspective, not the Tower people themselves, including our civilization iteration, but the meaning to be conveyed is the same."

"The Tower people successfully synthesized all nutrients through cheap methods, got rid of all hunger through new technologies and population birth control, and increased their lifespan. In addition, the Tower people obtained efficient communication methods, so society began to be more stable."

The picture in front of Lin Xian turned. A magnificent city full of surging vitality and order appeared in front of him. It was a city group more advanced and brilliant than the 807th civilization under wisdomism before. Hundreds of billions of humans got rid of hunger, possessed almost infinite energy and productivity, and ushered in an incomparably happy era.

Chu Yan's voice continued to come: "Then the Tower people began to explore the road to eternal happiness, how to make the world enter eternal peace, plus eternal and renewable or seekable resources, and the wisdom and technology iteration pushed civilization, but... they found that to achieve this premise, it is necessary to eliminate communication barriers, including individual difference needs, that is, evil thoughts, private desires."

Lin Xian asked in confusion: "Can this also be eliminated?"

"They found a way."

The picture changed. Lin Xian appeared in a huge and precise laboratory. There were dense nutrient pods here, in which countless living humans were sleeping, half men and half women, of various ages, races, and countries. Seeing this scene, Lin Xian frowned immediately:

"Why do biochemical experiments to eliminate people's evil thoughts?"

"Because the Tower people found that if they want to eliminate individual difference needs, eliminate evil thoughts and private desires, the most important thing is gender, desire, pain, and death. As long as they are eliminated from the biological level, the foundation of an eternal civilization can be cast. They call it the life homogenization body, and there is another name..."

"Angel."

"Angel??" Lin Xian was very surprised: "Could it be the strange biological bodies I just saw?"

"Yes." Chu Yan answered.

At this time, the picture continued to change. Countless years later, the technology of "life homogenization body" leaped forward. On the gene editing operating table, gender characteristics were completely erased. Nerve blocking technology cut off the nerve pathways that perceived pain and death. Human gender began to disappear, flesh began to fuse. When one day life lost the need for reproduction, those humans who finally survived in the world became the "final life". These lives began to fuse continuously, because they lost 【social needs】 【reproductive needs】, angels no longer had aesthetics and forms, everything changed in a disordered way, so the form of "angel" began to have no rules.

"Angels are carefree, have no needs, and produce communication through predation and fusion. Because of such swallowing and fusion, the knowledge, happiness, and happiness between two individuals can be fused together. There is no pain, and no sadness. At the same time, the lifespan of angels is also almost infinite..."

A new picture appeared, showing the scene of these angels "living". There is no language, no conflict, only slow, religious-like mutual approach. When one angel gently hugs another, their flesh bodies begin to soften and fuse. The eternal satisfied smile on the face of the embraced individual has not changed in the slightest, as if it cannot feel any pain. Its body melts like warm wax and is slowly absorbed and swallowed by the crystal torso of another angel.

The moment the fusion is completed, the body of the swallower shines brighter, the form is more perfect, and even new, blurred facial outlines will appear on the torso. There is no sadness, no screaming, only a kind of bizarre tranquility and satisfaction being transmitted silently—this is their "communication" and "sharing happiness".

"Wouldn't such a civilization turn back into the beast era? How can it develop?" Lin Xian found it difficult to understand at this time. He thought of the giant beast in the sky just now. Thinking about it now, that might be the life of hundreds of millions of humans fused together, and the more terrifying human face in the sea might even be a geometric body of tens of billions of humans.

At this time, he suddenly remembered what Chen Yanxiu said to him in the submarine base before, "When all life fuses into one", it turned out to be this meaning... ===== CHAPTER 518 =====