Chapter 132: The Sky From the Well
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“A large-scale crack has appeared in Residential Area 25! Where is the maintenance team?”
“All the exits have been sealed! We’re doomed!”
The Pope in God’s Kingdom sat on his chair, expressionlessly receiving emergency communications from all parts of God’s Kingdom.”
It wasn’t just the ones in God’s Kingdom. SOS signals were also constantly coming from other homes, but the content was extremely simple, and they lacked the secret code that they used. It was obvious that they were disguised.
Perhaps the only home that was still barely maintained was the one he was in.
He understood that the reason for all of this was the loss of the evolution accelerator. This divine machine that gave them civilization could also help other lives advance.
However, he thought that as the chosen ones of God, they could resist the invasion of these foreign enemies, but reality proved that they were powerless against the enemy due to the limitations of this world.
He was now wondering why God created them, and why didn’t He come out to save them when they were about to perish.
He felt that they had done a good job, but the technology that they were proud of was useless against those unknown existences.
“Perhaps, going up is the correct path?” He suddenly muttered to himself. When the priest beside him heard this, he lowered his head and pretended not to hear anything.
However, the Pope didn’t care anymore. It didn’t matter if the things that were strictly forbidden by him were announced now. After all, they were about to be finished.
“Priest, tell me, what exactly is up there?” The Pope asked the priest who had just lowered his head, his expression full of thought.
Only a few people knew about this taboo history, and unfortunately, the priest, who was a trusted aide of the Pope, knew about it.
However, after hearing such a question, the priest realized the current situation and no longer acted as timid as before.
He looked at the Pope’s face. Even if the surrounding earth was shaking and screams were endless, he did not care. He only hesitated for a moment before answering sincerely,
“I privately believe that the above is the true world. The place we are in is actually only a part of this world…”
Their social regime, the scientific theocracy, naturally could not produce fools. There were many smart people among them.
Even though much unscientific common sense had been formed due to the distorted living environment, there were always some talented people who could detect subtle anomalies through various phenomena.
However, everyone tacitly didn’t delve into this matter and just continued to live like this.
It wasn’t because of the strict ban of the theocratic church, nor was it because they couldn’t continue to explore their methods. They knew very well that their actions were deceiving themselves.
However, they still chose to remain silent because it was a huge impact on their worldview. They could not accept that their world was actually just someone else’s experimental field.”
They would rather lie to themselves than accept this kind of news that could make people commit suicide collectively.
However, at this moment of destruction, this priest was just like the Pope, indifferent.
After hearing his answer, the Pope nodded. Through the door of the temple, he saw more and more seawater pouring in.
Only a few hundred of their million people were left. It was impossible to maintain the basic population needed for reproduction.
Although they could survive in the water for a period of time, it depended on where they were.
They were in the deep sea thousands of meters below. The water pressure could kill them directly. Moreover, there were many ferocious deep-sea fish here.
The moment they were entangled, they had already announced their death.
Before the seawater washed over the place, the Pope asked the priest one last question, “Do you think anyone would create a world just for fun?”
At this moment, the priest was the only one left beside him. The other saint attendants were either panicking or searching for a chance to survive.
However, the Pope and the priest had already seen through the nature of this place. There was no longer much meaning in living for them.
“You already have the answer, don’t you?”
“That’s right. Is the God who created us only in someone else’s world?”
The torrent swept through, turning everything it passed into ruins.
The last home of the civilization was also dragged into the deep sea and gradually disappeared.
At this moment, Li Wenyuan had already left the place. He appeared to be in a hurry.
He had a simple conversation with the psionic octopus and confirmed that it was a battle between the natives.
Although the psionic octopus was very disobedient at first, it became quite docile after being beaten by Gray Wind.
The species in the deep sea had been infected by the evolution accelerator and had become extremely agile. It had even found a way to connect to the void realm.
With the enhancement of psionic, their intelligence was even higher. It did not take them long to discover the Deep Sea Observation Stations in the middle of the ocean.
This soft-bodied civilization initially wanted to cooperate with the amphibious civilization. After all, they did not know the depth of science inside these mechanical creations. However, the amphibious civilization directly regarded them as evil gods from the outer world and launched an attack.
The result was self-evident. The enraged soft-bodied civilization naturally launched a counterattack and quickly destroyed the amphibian lifeforms that had to rely on the observation station for survival.
During this process, the soft-bodied civilization realized that their enemies did not recognize the essence of the world and treated the deep sea as the real world.
In terms of worldview, this long-developed, amphibious civilization was not even as advanced as the soft-bodied civilization. The evolutionary history of the observation station restricted their knowledge and confined them to this narrow well.
The current soft-bodied civilization was trying to find ways to study the technology in these observation stations. The psionic octopus that Li Wenyuan met was one of their scientists.
They wanted to leave this planet filled with seawater and see the true appearance of this universe.
Before he left, Li Wenyuan left behind the blueprint of the hyperspace engine. Until they could understand it and successfully build their first hyperspace engine, there might be another rare aquatic civilization in the galaxy.
However, this was only a small matter during the journey. In view of the strong image of this Fish Tank planet, Li Wenyuan now had a sense of imminent crisis.
Based on his intuition, he felt that his guess was correct, but there was no evidence to prove it.
For this, he needed more information and more production. Perhaps he would understand all of this when he reached the level of humans.
“I have to speed up….”