Chapter 235

The next moment.

He suddenly felt his consciousness being stretched.

The world turned into a vast expanse of white.

When the white dissipated, what appeared before his eyes was the cosmic starry sky, with stars shining brightly.

The sea of stars was sparse and beautiful, with countless points of light slowly rotating around the bright galactic center.

This feeling was wonderful and peculiar...

Jing Jing Yuan felt that he was floating in the void, and all his senses were kneaded and reshaped, as if his body had become another form.

He saw a bright orange star, floating silently in the lonely and vast space, slowly rotating, surrounded by stars, dancing around it.

At this moment, he even forgot that he was "Jing Jing Yuan," the "Divine Strategist General" of the "Luofu" Luofu Luofu Xianzhou.

Instead, he was some kind of wonderful life form he had never seen before.

This was obvious—

He felt the universe was very warm.

This was quite unusual.

Because the universe was quite cold, only -270. °C, close to absolute zero.

Jing Jing Yuan tried to move his body, but found that except for his line of sight, everything else seemed to be nailed down, firmly fixed to something.

"How strange..."

Until he saw a group of huge and narrow "fish" swimming in the distance.

Alright.

He understood what he was now.

A "Leviathan."

He was experiencing the memory of "SCP-169" in the first person.

Suddenly.

He thought of a dangerous possibility.

"He wouldn't have pulled everyone into the memory, would he..."

This meant that he could drag all the living beings in the universe into an endless fantasy dream.

Replacing reality with a fake, beautiful dream, causing that civilization to collapse, and letting the universe head toward its end in a joyful dream.

Part of it was as he thought.

He was not the only one experiencing this magic, as if he had truly become a "Leviathan."

But there was no conspiracy theory part—

He did not want to harm the life in the universe.

Everyone saw that bright sun, surrounded by warmth, and felt the comfort from the universe.

The ancient voice continued to tell:

【There are other existences like me there. We are large creatures, so we don't live in a place crowded with rocks; the instinct system is like this.】

【Our home is not filled with stones, but with soft warmth, with the quiet light of a star that has found its own place.】

【I was once told that when we first arrived there, the star was still very young, and an old man claimed to remember when it could still speak.】

Herta was a person with quite a bit of experience in communicating with alien races.

In her limited life, she had come into contact with many non-human races, even "slimes" that looked like they shouldn't have intelligence at all.

But those not-so-cute little lives also successfully stepped into the sea of stars and became members of the big family of the sea of stars.

It's just that.

Even though Herta was battle-hardened and had seen a lot, she had never seen a life form like "Leviathan" before.

Relying solely on its physical body, it could cross the void, roam in the universe, and play against the solar wind...

Even the Swarm was slightly inferior.

"Leviathan" was probably a true ancient beast.

【When we spent a lot of time in our childhood, we couldn't recall it rationally.】

【No companion can remember this period of their life, although the caretaker told us it was very interesting.】

【We chased star debris with a joy of forgetting to grow old, and played in space with a kind of innocence; some companions spent a long time trying to reshape this innocence.】

【But, of course, you didn't come here to know this. You came here because you wanted to know what our purpose was, and what I was doing here?】

Yeah, why.

Why say you are going to die.

Do Supreme Divinities also have a day of falling?

Hearing this, everyone held their breath, waiting for this great existence to tell the follow-up part.

【Each of us has a seed inside. As we mature, it evolves. Eventually, it reproduces.】

【This process... is very complex, I'm afraid you can't understand. I want to say that we can have some control over this evolution, and many of our clansmen are proud of the complexity and beauty of their creations.】

As his words continued.

Endless biological blueprints flowed through everyone's minds.

For the vast majority of people, this was just meaningless information flow, and just recalling it afterward would cost them their lives.

But for those scholars who pursued truth and explored the origin of life.

This was an incomparably precious treasure.

He pointed out the path of life evolution, how to perform gene editing, and create a race from scratch.

"Creator!"

Someone shouted in their heart.

【We carry this seed all our lives, with thousands of tiny lives on the verge of budding within it.】

【Some choose never to let this seed grow; they are unwilling to give up the glory of roaming space for such mundane things as gardening.】

【But the rest of us, we know what must be done.】

【So we left. We left that warm, happy, and peaceful star, and plunged into the cold void. The leavers will never return.】

【No songs sing of their achievements, and no warnings return from their deaths. There is no more news of them.】

Since then.

The scenery in front of the audience changed rapidly.

Countless magnificent landscapes flashed before their eyes:

Exploding supernovae, black holes devouring galaxies, dust storms obscuring star fields, rotating neutron stars, cosmic voids without any life...

What he saw with his own eyes during his long journey was precious evidence that countless astronomers could hardly find even if they exhausted their lives.

And these scenes, even the most dull heart, would be shocked by the universe and worship it.

Then know the greatness of life.

【We search in star debris, rocks, and large areas of black void, looking for a place where a small seed can take root and sprout.】

【This is a long, impossible task, and I tell you it will take your whole life.】

【What I want to say is, after a lot of searching, I stumbled upon a small planet that looked promising. So I decided to take a risk.】

【This is not an experience I want to repeat. Before I could inhabit the ocean, the fire in the air burned me hot, and it took a long time for me to recover from it, and it felt very unpleasant. But I have dedicated myself to this mission, and I cannot escape.】

【The seed within us... cracked, that's the word. It cracked when we landed. After cracking, the seed was released. It grew within us and reproduced in our bodies.】

【As its numbers continued to increase, some might find their way to the world where we landed. I know that some small creatures have already found their way from my body to the waters of this planet, although most of them are still inside my body.】

【Eventually, I will die. This huge impact has shortened our lifespan, and the development of civilization within us has not alleviated this problem. Eventually, the creatures within me will find a way out.】

【Everything will change.】

The last words fell.

The audience felt everything moving away rapidly again, and they were being rejected, thrown back into their reality.

In the shuttle.

Dan Heng raised his hand, his fingertips slowly sliding across his cheek, bringing corresponding perception.

Only then did he confirm that he had truly returned to reality, rather than observing the deep sea from the perspective of "Leviathan."

He was silent for a moment, re-examining the surrounding environment.

The shuttle was still diving, reaching a depth where there was absolutely no light, and not far away, a snail with a beautiful shell was crawling slowly.. 0

Dan Heng's pupils dilated.

He clearly remembered that before his consciousness left, he had seen that snail in the light spot illuminated by the searchlight.