Chapter 402

The next moment.

They suddenly felt their consciousness being stretched.

The world turned into a vast expanse of white.

When the white dissipated, what appeared before their eyes was the cosmic starry sky, brilliant with starlight.

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

This feeling was strange and peculiar……

Jing Yuan felt as if he were floating in the void, his various senses being kneaded and reshaped, as if his body had turned into another form.

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

At this moment, he even forgot that he was "Jing Yuan," the "Divine Diviner General" of the "Luo Fu" Xianzhou.

Instead, he was some kind of unprecedented, incredibly wonderful life form.

This was obvious——

He felt the universe was very warm.

This was quite unusual.

Because the universe is quite cold, only -270.3°C, close to absolute zero.

Jing Yuan tried to move his body, only to find 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 elongated "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 of the entire universe into an endless phantasm.

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

In part, as he thought.

He was not the only one experiencing this wonder, 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, feeling the comfort from the universe.

The aged voice continued to narrate:

【There are others like me there. We are large creatures, so we do not live in a place crowded with rocks; the nature system is just 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, that star was still very young, and an elder 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, becoming members of the great family of the sea of stars.

Only.

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

Relying solely on its physical body, it could traverse the void, roam in the universe, playing in the solar wind……

Even the Swarm Disaster was slightly inferior.

The "Leviathan" was likely a true ancient beast.

【When we spent a great deal of time in our childhood, we could not rationally recall it.】

【No companions could remember this period of their lives, although the caretakers told us it was very interesting.】

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

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

Yes, why.

Why say that one is going to die.

Does a Supreme Divinity also have a day of falling?

Hearing this, everyone held their breath, waiting for this great existence to tell the subsequent 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 cannot understand it. What I want to say is that we can exert some control over this evolution; many of our kin 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; 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 how to create a race from scratch.

"Creator!"

Someone shouted in their heart.

【We carry this seed throughout 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 that cold void. Those who leave never return.】

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

Since then.

The scenery before the viewers' eyes changed rapidly.

Countless magnificent landscapes flashed before their eyes:

Erupting supernovae, black holes devouring galaxies, dust storms obscuring star domains, neutron stars dancing in rotation, cosmic voids without any life……

What He saw with His own eyes during His long journey was precious evidence that countless astronomers could not find even if they exhausted their lives.

And these various scenes, even the most dull heart, would feel shocked by the universe and bow down in worship.

Subsequently, they would know the greatness of life.

【We search among star debris, rocks, and vast stretches of black nothingness, looking for a place where a small seed might take root and sprout.】

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

【What I want to say is that 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 scorching hot; it took a long time to recover from it, and it felt very unpleasant. But I have dedicated myself to this mission; I cannot escape.】

【The seed within us…… cracked, that is the word. It cracked when we landed. After cracking, the seed was released. It grew within us, reproducing in our bodies.】

【As its numbers continue to increase, some might find their way to the world where we landed. I know 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 the civilization within us has not alleviated this problem. Eventually, those creatures within me will find a way out.】

【Everything will change.】

The final words fell.

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

In the shuttle.

Seeing Dan Heng raised his hand, his fingertips slowly brushing 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 a "Leviathan."

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

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

Seeing Dan Heng's pupils dilated.

He clearly remembered that before his consciousness left, he had seen that conch in the light spot lit by the searchlight. ===== CHAPTER 404 =====