Because of the scene when they first came up, Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an were shocked.
The two people's mentality at the beginning was actually very peaceful, even a little relaxed, because it was similar to the martial arts space in the early stages of their exploration of the world of Xianxia, that is, before the world was formed.
They are both in ancient feudal societies, and both of them are self-reliant on their own strength, and both think that even if the investigation fails, nothing else will happen. This is what is called the boldness of skilled people.
But as soon as they arrived here, the scene that had just happened immediately changed their mentality. They realized that this was the material universe, and the material universe was much more dangerous and strange than the dark matter universe of this era and those sequenced space sequenced worlds.
So after the two of them calmed down, they began to become more cautious. At the same time, they also used nano armor to fine-tune their appearance. Although they did not become the full appearance of the intelligent creatures on this planet, they began to be roughly similar.
After such a change, when the two came to the edge of the city, local intelligent creatures had already approached them. Although they still maintained respect for them, their attitude was no longer as far away as it was at the beginning, but more similar to Attitudes between lower social classes and higher social classes.
Just like that, the two entered the city and looked at the towering city wall. The mottled marks on the city wall left behind the vicissitudes of history. There were several soldiers guarding and inspecting the city gate, regardless of whether they were entering the city gate or The people leaving the city gate were all in good order, but seemed a little dull to the two of them.
It's not the kind of false sluggishness, or the sluggishness of a robot, but the kind of sluggishness that's similar to a human being, without sensitive reflexes, or a person who is relatively stupid. In fact, it doesn't look too abnormal. Even among humans, there are such people, who are basically so-called fools, or people with slower thinking speed and slightly lower intelligence.
But here everyone is like this, so the whole city seems abnormal and weird.
There must be something wrong here, Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an both had this idea, and then they followed the flow of people into the city.
The entire city is also in order. The planning and construction of various buildings are very regular. The ground is clean and the sewers are well planned and constructed. Except for the sluggish pedestrians, this city does not look like an ancient society at all.
In the next seven days, the two began their investigation centered on this city. Lu Yuanming was responsible for getting into the people and the grassroots. At the same time, he ran around in the wild and the countryside. He even went out to sea from the port to observe the world. Overseas situation.
And Tang Zhe'an hangs out in the wealthy area of the city. Although he doesn't understand the language of this world, he has a very high IQ and can achieve many goals without even using language. When Lu Yuanming went out to explore the wilderness, he had already become wealthy. More than a dozen wealthy families in the area, or guests of aristocratic squires, not only had a house as a residence, but also had dozens of servants and seven or eight maids. Lu Yuanming was speechless when he saw all this.
But Tang Zhe'an is not here to enjoy it, let alone what kind of enjoyment is this?
Compared with the convenience and comfort of the high-tech world, living in such a modern and ancient world is simply suffering.
Taking advantage of this convenience, Tang Zhe'an began to read a large number of books and learn the languages and characters of intelligent creatures in this world. While he was studying, he also used the nano-mecha to record these texts and books. Within seven days, he recorded almost everything There are more than two thousand books, which is almost more than half of the books in the city.
The writing in this world is also square script, but it is completely different from Chinese. It is more similar to a combination of square script and oracle bone inscriptions. Especially like Chinese, the same character has different pronunciations and different meanings in different environments. It is necessary to It is extremely difficult to learn and translate, and even Tang Zhe'an's wisdom cannot learn it quickly.
However, during the seven days, the two of them gained something. They already roughly understood the reason for the scene outside the city.
People in this world have a very strange sense of awe and religious rituals towards death.
They believe that death is a strange reincarnation, and the spirituality of life will be transferred from one medium to another. In this process, the spirituality of life will always continue to "decline", so the descendants of life will always become lower and lower. The only solution is to let higher beings kill lower beings with their own hands and cleanse the karma in the bodies of lower beings, so that their spiritual beings can jump to higher levels again.
This was also the reason for the scene that Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an encountered outside the city.
In this world, how to distinguish between low and high is to look at their appearance, body shape, skin, eyes, intelligence, etc. Their descriptions are almost the same as those of Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an before the modification.
In fact, the two learned that there are people like Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an in the wilderness. They are called "saints" and are very rare holy people who have never carried original sin. They practice asceticism in the wilderness, It is the purest life.
The death rituals in this world are not burial, cremation or water burial. Instead, people over fifty years old are carried in shrines to the wilderness, where they will not eat or drink until they die, praying to meet others before they die. To the saint, and then the saint will end their lives, so that their spirituality can rise. If they can meet the saint in the middle, then this is the greatest compliment to them.
Their relatives will humbly kneel on the ground, hand the tools of liberation (weapons) to the saints, and pray to the saints to perform the death rituals for their elders. This will be the highest ritual, and after the saints kill them After the death of the elders, the relatives will be overjoyed and spend all their wealth to thank the saint.
Even the etiquette in this world is very strange. The highest etiquette for the lower class to the upper class is to hand out a knife-like weapon, which means that they hope that the other party can perform a spiritual leap for them when they die.
This is a very strange world that worships and fears death.
Moreover, the two also discovered that there was a very obvious blood sacrifice and human sacrifice ritual in the religious ceremony.
Taoism and Buddhism, which were originally peaceful, play a very terrifying role in this world, that is, they are used to kill lives, and they kill lives on a large scale and for a long time.
This is not to please any gods. It is very strange. The intelligent beings in this world do not believe in any gods. The duty of the two religions is not to please the gods, but to wash away their karma or sins and restore their spirituality. obtain a leap, and at the same time use their sinful flesh and blood to feed evil spirits, in order to achieve a balance between life and death.
Evil ghost...
Abnormal species!
This is what Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an discovered.
Underneath the religious sites of Taoism and Buddhism, there are countless humanoid creatures, most of which are extremely deformed, with two heads, three heads, several hands, or transformed by mad scientists like those in horror movies. The kind, these are actually quite good, at least they can be seen as roughly human-like, and some are so distorted that they no longer have a human shape, like monsters in Cthulhu horror stories, with their internal organs and bones mixed together, A terrifying monster.
There are many such monsters. There are at least tens of thousands of these monsters in the underground of two major religious sites, the underground of city sewers, and even underground in some caves in the wild. It is said that they are all the soulless flesh and blood born of lowly people. , these flesh and blood will gradually grow into similar evil ghosts, and religious places are places to suppress these evil ghosts.
As for why not kill them?
The intelligent creatures in this world also say that these evil ghosts actually bear people's karma. Although they are evil ghosts, they are innocent people, so they should try not to kill them if they can. Besides, except for the rich and powerful people Apart from carrying a shrine to the wild to try their luck in finding a saint, and using gold to invite the saint on their behalf, most people's choice is actually to donate their bodies to religious occasions, and then have their flesh and blood eaten by evil spirits. This can also avoid spiritual decline. .
In short, according to the information that Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an found, there is something wrong with this world from the inside out, from the order of the entire society, to the intellectual sluggishness of the vast majority of people, to the so-called "evil ghosts" of fertility. , and that deformed and terrifying death cult...
All of this was connected together like a thread, but Lu Yuanming couldn't understand it. He only felt hazy and vague, with a sense of paradox. He also asked Tang Zhe'an, but Tang Zhe'an shook his head with a cold face. It was extremely rare that he didn't understand. There is no explanation of the reasons for everything here.
Just like that, seven days passed quickly. Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an were about to leave the planet and pick up the other eight intelligence personnel. Then just as he was about to fly out of the atmosphere, a very vague and hazy voice sounded. in his mind.
"...don't...go...help..."
Lu Yuanming stopped abruptly. He looked into the atmosphere, and Tang Zhe'an asked, "What's wrong?"
"...Just now, I seemed to hear something." Lu Yuanming said hesitantly.
Tang Zhe'an looked into the atmosphere with confusion. He thought for a while and said, "Can you still hear that sound now?"
Lu Yuanming shook his head: "No, it's very blurry. It seems like many people are talking at the same time, but it also seems like distracting thoughts in my own mind... In short, I'm not sure."
Tang Zhe'an frowned in thought, and then said: "Since he didn't continue talking, and he didn't confirm the direction, let's go back first. We have collected so many books this time, and there must be very important information in them, whether it is their strange death Worship, deformed religious beliefs, the so-called birth of evil spirits, and the mental retardation of the entire population... I think there must be very important factors involved, and all of these can only be analyzed by going back, so let's go."
Lu Yuanming took Tang Zhe'an directly to other planets.
There were no further setbacks along the way, and all the other intelligence personnel were safe. At that moment, he took the nine people away from the nine planets at near light speed, thinking about returning to the mothership Blue Star.
But I don't know if it was an illusion, but when he entered near light speed, there seemed to be an obvious sigh in his mind again, and this sigh was so desperate that it gave him a sense of sadness.
When everyone returned to the Blue Star, the senior government and military officials on the Blue Star were already looking forward to seeing what happened. When they saw that Lu Yuanming and others were all safe and sound, everyone heaved a sigh of relief and then received the reception at the scene. All the people applauded.
Not to mention Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an, the other eight intelligence officers have collected a large amount of intelligence information, including some of the flesh and blood of these races, including plants, fresh water, air, soil, and local society on eight planets. Information, death worship, and the deformed so-called "evil ghosts", etc. Three of the intelligence officers ventured into the underground and collected the flesh and blood of three different evil ghosts.
Of course, there is also a lot of information on books, texts, religious classics and other information about the nine planets. A total of more than 10,000 volumes of all books have been collected.
Naturally, many parties are busy at the moment, including testing the air, fresh water, bacteria and microorganisms of the nine planets, testing plants, genetic sequencing, genetic sequencing of the flesh and blood of local intelligent creatures, genetic sequencing of evil ghosts, and text analysis. Translation, translation of the contents of books and religious texts, etc…
Lu Yuanming naturally doesn't have to worry about all this.
Although these seven days were not long, Lu Yuanming had been under great psychological pressure since he witnessed the terrible death cult. Now that he was back home, he could naturally take a break.
After confirming that nothing happened, he returned home. After taking a hot bath, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep without even checking the Internet or his mobile phone.
Then, vaguely, Lu Yuanming seemed to have fallen into a dreamland...
"...Life is scattered like the wind and passed away like water. You really don't have to be sad for me."
Lu Yuanming sat cross-legged inexplicably. He looked around and in front of him. There were all people sitting cross-legged, with their hands clasped together, and there were tears in everyone's eyes, even him.
The most peculiar thing is that everyone is sitting cross-legged on something similar to a lotus platform, but this thing is composed of white light, and right in front of him and everyone, there is a bald giant about a hundred meters tall. Uh, Giant Buddha?
This man was wearing a golden-red cassock, had a bald head, was slightly fat, had lop-shouldered ears, and had a ring scar on his head. At first glance, he looked like a creature like the Buddha that Lu Yuanming recognized.
The Buddha smiled kindly and said: "Life is really the most wonderful place in this universe. It is so fragile and weak, yet so tenacious and powerful. Before the beginning of this golden age, all the futures we can imagine are... It’s scary and dark, but who knew that these weak younger beings could actually create such a glorious era?”
"What a beautiful era full of golden glory."
On the lotus platform to the left of the nearest Buddha, a figure said: "I am Buddha, but didn't you say that this era is about to end? Will this trip be a complete failure?"
"Did I say that?"
The Buddha scratched his bald head, then laughed loudly and said: "Yes, I think I said that, but... this trip also created hope."
On the lotus platform on the right closest to the Buddha, another figure said: "But if you die here, what will we do? What will happen in the future? From the spirit son supercomputing system we created, it shows that the future will be the Silver Age. Terror, dead silence, the entire universe is filled with the curse of silver, under the pressure of sterilization, biological distortion, mechanical puppets, and cannibalism, especially those of us who are the golden descendants will become the flesh and blood fruits of their breeding and slaughter... Such a future brings despair Got it!"
The Buddha sighed, reached out and gently touched the head of the person on the right and said: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I said, life is so wonderful, you will always find a way out in the future..."
"What do you think? Lu Yuanming..."
Lu Yuanming was horrified, and then he found that he was stuffed into a glass vessel, and then put into a culture chamber, and then turned into countless others. These he was slaughtered at regular intervals, and The rest of him was struggling and begging.
Opposite him, the one who massacred him was a terrifying existence with a silver weapon, a half-body machine, and a half-deformed evil ghost. It was just this terrifying existence... It seemed to be crying, crying blood and tears, and kept killing with weapons. he……
Lu Yuanming knew he should be angry, roar, and fight back...
But an inexplicable sense of compassion enveloped him.
"Flowers will bloom again, and people will never be young again... Think clearly, Lu Yuanming, think clearly..."
"Why is the golden age a golden age, why is a golden race a golden race..."
"Think clearly……"
Lu Yuanming jumped up from the bed. He looked around to confirm that he was indeed in the room and standing on the bed.
The scene just now was so clear that he mistakenly thought it was not a dream...
At this time, Lu Yuanming discovered that there were a lot of things on his mobile phone. He quickly looked through them, then immediately got dressed, jumped up, and ran towards the government building.
The translation of the Nine Star Text has been completed, and important information has indeed been found in those religious classics!
Information about the existence of highly civilized aliens! !
