"From the Fire Solar Calendar to the White Snake Calendar."
"From the White Snake Calendar to the Flower Mist Calendar."
"Then go back from the Flower Mist Calendar to the Fire Solar Calendar."
"It is a continuous cycle, and we have also multiplied and grown in this process, gradually forming a primitive worship of the roots of the three calendars."
"The objects of worship are the Fire Sun, the White Snake, and the Flower Mist. Later we discovered that the White Snake and the Flower Mist are actually linked together. The so-called White Snake is nothing more than the roots that Lana stretches out to bathe during the rainy season, and the flowers that emit mist are its act of seeding."
"The one who discovered this is called the Prophet. He is Her Majesty Julia's brother, Her Majesty Manion."
"He led the Mithros people on the road of civilization and broke the blind worship of the White Snake and Flower Mist. Although this caused a dispute that lasted for about a hundred years at the time - if the White Snake Calendar and Flower Mist Calendar were cancelled, it would mean that one of the priests would inevitably be abolished - but in the end people still accepted it all, and those blind beliefs were gathered together. From that moment on, we finally knew what kind of great life body we were living in. Her name is 'Lana'!"
Qiao Liu showed a fanatical expression on his face: "Lana is everything, the embodiment of everything! I think you should understand this more deeply than me, Sister Xia Sha."
"You have great respect for this Manion."
"Of course... Please call him Lord Prophet or His Majesty Manion. His Majesty Manion is not only a prophet, but also one of the three blazing sun gods."
"Is he still there?"
"…They are gone, just like Her Majesty Julia, probably lost in the tributaries of the past."
The Misros people's description of death was too polite, Xia Yibing snorted in her heart.
But she didn't mind.
Lost... Lost is good.
It would be best if none of them were dead. When I dig Ashun out of the ground, it would be best if I could also dig out a prophet so that I could ask him what the hell happened.
However, she soon discovered a logical contradiction.
Judging from Qiao Liu's words, she worshipped this prophet from the bottom of her heart. Although Xia Yibing had not heard the natives talk about the legends of the Manion tribe in the mine, she could still guess that the "not worship" that Qiao Liu talked about earlier should be related to this prophet.
He broke the superstition about Lana... is that what he meant?
Xia Yibing guessed that the so-called Blazing Sun Calendar was the normal sun turning into the "red giant" that Hitzfeld had mentioned to her. The red giant was the inevitable path for the sun to decay and die, so she couldn't help but wonder if this decay was a natural occurrence?
Aisuen said that this kind of natural transformation normally takes a long time, even hundreds of millions of years. If this happened naturally, it seems too coincidental.
It was at this critical juncture that the Sun failed, and it was at this critical juncture that the Mother of Deep Space invaded.
She didn't think that was the case.
It's definitely not natural.
She was more inclined to believe that something had caused this failure, and that this thing was most likely Lana, the world of Misros itself.
She had wanted to say this a long time ago... The people here seemed to have a morbid obsession with light. They simply didn't seem like normal flesh-and-blood beings. Even the houses they lived in had to be converted into mirrored glass that allowed light to pass through. All the light was focused on the bed where they would rest. When she first moved in, it took her several days to adjust before she could calm down and meditate.
So it is very likely that the truth is this: in order to deal with the invasion of the Mother of Deep Space, the Mithros - or perhaps Lana herself, were forced to drain the energy of the sun, causing the sun to decay rapidly into a red giant, thus starting the blazing solar calendar.
As for why the climate changes so greatly during the Chiyang calendar, it is easy to explain: because they have actually moved to a new place to live.
The original carrier planet of the Mithros world had been shattered in the invasion, and the place where they lived now was just a planet transformed by Lana on her own initiative. It was closer to the sun, just as she had seen at the outpost, enveloping the entire sun.
The planet has changed, so isn’t climate change normal?
What happened next was what Qiao Liu just explained: the Mithros people began to fight alongside Lana. They created the Yalai Warriors, Deep Space Outposts and many other plans to fight against the Mother of Deep Space. In the process, the worship of Lana was gradually transformed into a kind of exploitation mentality.
This was very different, and she suddenly remembered the combat uniform she had worn at the outpost.
That's the feeling of treating a tool.
No longer worship.
No more faith.
This is also the change brought about by the prophet Manion.
So, if this was a change brought about by Manion - a change brought about by the believers of the Chorus, why did she say that she wanted to reawaken the worship of Lana in people's hearts?
Isn't this contradictory and conflicting?
"This brings us to the question about the battle situation that you asked about at the beginning." Qiao Liu's tone became unprecedentedly serious.
"You know it without me telling you... From the fact that they can touch Yuya, the situation on the front line is not optimistic. More than 70% of the outposts in deep space have been occupied and eroded by the Deep Space Mother. Those spore chambers are completely contaminated and necrotic. This is why they were abandoned and why this plan cannot be used later."
"And the blazing sun is getting weaker and weaker..." Her voice was filled with sorrow. "When I was very young, I remember that the refracted light collected in the house could easily reach 7 degrees every day. But now that I have grown up, even when the weather is the best and most perfect, the refracted light is only 5 degrees at most."
"This weakening ratio is astonishing... and Lana is also seriously affected. Her consciousness has become unclear. There is not enough sunlight for her to absorb, and she can't repair the lost outposts through the stem tube."
"I know what I'm saying now is horrific, but we can't go on like this."
"Our only hope is Lana. The Mithros people are powerless to resist the Mother of Deep Space by themselves. Only Lana - only by reinvesting our faith in her and replenishing her missing energy, can we defeat the Mother of Deep Space completely, instead of just severely damaging it like the decisive battle a thousand years ago!"
Can faith be used to replenish energy?
"How to make up for it?"
"Through the rhizomes... Sister Xia Sha, what era did you come from? Don't you know that the 'White Snake' can absorb faith?"
She said absorb-
Xia Yibing's heart was filled with shock and she recalled the legend about the "body-eating phantom snake".
Oh, is this the way to make up for it?
Your idea is indeed very horrifying...
"Can't you do it now?" she asked Qiao Liu.
"It's impossible, because the disciples of the prophet control the newly reborn Mingling Holy Temple. They strictly prohibit such behavior. Anyone who is found to be sacrificing to the 'White Snake' will be imprisoned forever."
If, like the legend of the body-eating phantom snake, this kind of sacrifice requires the use of living people as food, then it would be abnormal for them not to put an end to this behavior...
Xia Yibing curled her lips in her heart.
Then she remembered that Qiao Liu had just said a very crucial piece of information.
decisive battle?
Hit hard?
Almost at the same time, the young face of Matt (in insect-man form, temporarily occupied by Li Lan-Yondor) appeared before her eyes.
……
"Because I am Lilan-Yondor!"
"You may not know who I am, Xia Lan... To be frank, if the history of Misros civilization were to rank the heroes, I would be either first or second. Because I killed the incarnation of the 'Mother of the Void'! I was once contaminated by it with the heart of the 'Heart Devouring Demon'...
This is the method used by the Void Mother to deal with our Leia warriors. No one before me could escape this trick. All those who were contaminated became its slaves! I was the only one who did not lose my mind! I took advantage of its omission and killed it!"
……
"You guys are in this decisive battle."
After a pause, Xia Yibing asked.
"Has it produced some... relatively well-known, uh, heroes?"
"Oh, of course." Qiao Lu raised his small chin, "The most representative one among them is Mr. Li Lan."
"He is a Yalai man, and like the three of you, he was born in the Holy Temple of the Bright Spirit. He sacrificed himself to win the decisive battle. He is a hero that every Misros person should remember! Without him, we would not be alive today!"
"and many more."
Xia Yibing glared, "You said he——"
"He died." Qiao Su nodded. "Who could survive in that situation? Although no one knows how he did it, he first pretended to betray us, approached the Void Mother as a traitor of Yalai, and killed its descended incarnation at the back of the battle line. No one can escape unscathed after doing such a thing."
"So... Sister Xia Sha, what do you want to know by asking me this?"
"Sister Xia Sha? Sister Xia Sha?"
Xia Yibing narrowed her eyes and stared at the void. Although it seemed that her gaze was on Qiao Liu's face, Qiao Liu always had a feeling that she was actually looking at something else through him.
In fact, it is true.
Xia Yibing was thinking about the letter.
If this is the history that should have happened in Misros' dream world, and this history has not been changed artificially.
The Lilan-Yongdor in real history is also dead.
It doesn’t really matter whether he dies or not, but how he dies—where he dies—is very important.
If he died on the ground, that is, in Lana's body, his soul might be devoured and absorbed by Lana after death, thus forming something like a residual soul. It was this thing that possessed Matt before and asked me for help.
But what if he died outside?
Death in deep space.
Died in...the territory of Deep Space Mother.
So how did he come back?
The guy who called himself "Li Lan" in real life before, is he really... himself?
I stayed up all night but still got stuck. I took last night off and will make up for it later.
I have listed many plans but I am not satisfied with any of them. There are many plans that seemed good when I was planning them, but when it comes to writing them out, I immediately feel that "this way of writing won’t work". I should think about it more and polish it before presenting it.
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Chapter 6: Dreams Beyond Time ( in k)
After comprehensive consideration of all circumstances, Xia Yibing finally agreed to start formal cooperation with the Sulfur Stone Company. That is, both parties will stand on the same boat from this moment on and jointly explore the spore chamber hidden deep in the bottom.
"The shelter is actually the spore chamber." This is Qiao Liu's original words, "Lana is life, Lana is death... This is a slang in Mithros. It means that everything is made of Lana. Although this statement seems a bit exaggerated in reality, I think Lana does make up more than half of the matter in the world."
"You may ask, since all shelters are spore chambers and are part of Lana's body, why don't we just ask Lana for help? Why do we have to search and dig?"
"But it's not that easy... I've already said that Lana is unconscious due to lack of energy. That in itself is an extremely vast and grand will. She can't communicate with us at all now. We suspect that she has fallen into a deep sleep due to exhaustion."
This is indeed an imminent threat, and Xia Yibing can somewhat understand why Sulfur Stone Company chose to do these rebellious things.
But understanding doesn't mean she can really accept it, because she just heard a similar argument in real life not long ago, right... the wonderful sophistry from Mr. Malone Exxon, claiming that the goal of the Eclipse Church is not to destroy everything, saying that they also want to be saviors in essence, and the only difference between them and this side is the method.
Substituting the conversion, the Sulfur Stone Company is equivalent to playing the role of Eclipse. They are also secretly planning under the banner of saving the world. Once they really get what they want and replenish Lana with enough energy in one go through the sacrifice of the "White Snake Roots", they will take the lead in the first place and become the first group to communicate with Lana after the achievement of "saving Lana" is achieved.
What wishes will they make?
It was certain that they would continue to fight against the Mother of Deep Space with the help of Lana, but what about beyond that? Didn't they have any desire for the secular world?
Xia Yibing had seen all kinds of evil followers in her career of investigating cases, and she had to admit that there were quite a few real lunatics among them, that is, those who were qualified to be called "world destroyers". They may have developed a cynical mood because of their childhood experiences or because of the dramatic changes in their lives. After knowing that they were about to be destroyed, they fantasized about dragging more people into the water; but more and most of the evil followers were actually opportunistic and ambitious people. They had nothing that could be called dreams. What they wanted was nothing more than strength, life, and power. Joining the Gray Mist was not an end but a means - if they had not been excluded in the human kingdom and could not survive, I believe these people would not have become rats in the ditch.
If it were in reality, Xia Yibing would definitely not cooperate with such people.
But this was a dream, a dreamland, or even a dreamland that kept looping back. It didn't matter what happened here, not to mention that this dream world was not familiar to her at all, so she had no psychological burden in doing such a thing.
She had it all figured out: Finding Hitzfeld was the top priority, and she had to make that clear, and everything else could take a backseat.
The cooperation between the two parties then started quickly and progressed very smoothly.
In just one day, the Sulfur Stone Company registered and established a branch that focused on the exploration and excavation of terrazine. At the same time, Xia Yibing and the Flint Knights she summoned gathered together, and three days later they went to the first exploration site to start excavation.
A week later, the exploration site was conquered. An exploration expert named "Qiao Xi" began to gain fame, and investors from Yuya City and surrounding areas came closer like sharks smelling blood. Sulfur Stone Company instantly received a large amount of capital injection, and took the opportunity to pull in many forces that were waiting and watching, at least allowing them to remain neutral on the plan of "rebuilding faith."
Two weeks later, the first prehistoric shelter buried deep in the ground was excavated. People found a large number of documents about the period before the "decisive battle". The Sulfur Stone Company became a "star" in Mithros, and the matter began to be officially paid attention to by the Holy Temple of the Bright Spirit.
More than 2,000 years ago, the Mingling Holy Temple was just a school. At that time, there were already people from Yalai, but the use of them was not clear. Although the temple was destroyed during the invasion, it was quickly rebuilt in society because of the birth of mythical figures such as the "Three Blazing Gods". Later, other functions were derived from the school. In Xia Yibing's words, it also served as an administrative role.
So this attention was not actually a good thing for her. She had no concern about the plans of the Sulfur Stone Company, but if the exploration was stopped, she would have no chance to find Hitzfeld.
So she worked even harder, organizing the documents almost day and night.
It was these prehistoric documents opened from the shelter that forced her to make up her mind to follow this path until the end.
In addition to a large number of records about major historical events of the time, these documents also contain an even more numerous and almost dazzling arrangement of trivial matters.
There are all kinds of documents, including reports, applications, letters, and suicide notes.
These things will not directly tell the readers what happened, but if you dig carefully, some of the things mentioned can actually be connected to each other and combined with those major historical events.
Xia Yibing got what she really wanted from these miscellaneous materials. The first thing that comforted her was a letter, an apology letter written by "Mi Mo" to an unknown person.
[My life is coming to an end. I want to confess to Your Majesty here... Confess the lies I have told, and the interference of my personal actions with the great... Please forgive a young soul for making a big mistake for something as ridiculous as love out of ignorance. This is an eternal nightmare for me. I even dream about the same scene again and again. It seems that this is not the first time I have written this paragraph.]
There is nothing special about this letter. It has been screened three times, but none of them have attracted attention. This is because this kind of confession was so common in the past. Anyone with something on their mind could confess in this way. The letter didn’t even have a specific sender. It was fine to just treat it as one’s own ramblings.
As for the so-called "big mistake made for love"... no one thinks that a little girl can make any mistakes when she is young, right?
Lying? Having an affair? Murder for passion? That's about it.
