The Path Toward Heaven

Nothing will happen. Jing Jiu walked deep into the ice field.

When the soles of ordinary boots come into contact with the frozen ice and snow, it is like flower petals falling on the water surface, causing microwaves, without any sound.

Ran Handong looked at his back, and suddenly said: I will tell my father.

This is the second time she has said this sentence.

Jing Jiu didn't stop, and ignored her, and continued walking forward.

Ran Handong was silent for a while, then quickened his pace and followed without saying anything.

As long as her father and the Galaxy Alliance authorities have not made a decision, she is still Jing Jiu's secretary and officer, so she should do what she should do.

This is what Jing Jiu is most satisfied with her.

We didn't go far on the ice field before we saw the entrance.

The wristband leaned up and made an annoying beeping sound, the passage opened, and the two of them came to the ground.

The underground is not a top-secret military base, but a very ordinary corridor.

There are some portraits of celebrities on the walls on both sides of the corridor, as well as some famous quotes, and there is a brief introduction next to each portrait.

It seems that the most tourists here should be elementary school students.

This is the Xinghe Art Museum. Today is the first day, the closing day. Ran Handong glanced at him and said, I don't know why you guys agreed to meet here. It may be related to the inheritance of the Xingmen priests, but there are indeed many precious relics here.

This art museum is the most advanced place in the Galaxy Alliance with the richest collections, even the museums and art galleries in Shouer City are not as good as this place. Today is the day when the museum is closed, and the usual continuous stream of visitors and crowds of students are gone, and only the footsteps of two people can be heard dully in the empty passage.

It didn't take long before they came to the Museum of Contemporary Art.

The building space here has become more open and huge, the monotonous ice field is outside the glass windows like hills, and the sky in the distance is dark blue like black.

Compared with the previous museums, the artworks displayed here are more diverse, less intuitive, difficult to understand, and even a little weird to ordinary people.

Ran Handong introduced the origins of those works of art and the usual sayings of the critics, perfectly fulfilling the duties of the secretary, and by the way, being a tour guide.

Jing Jiu didn't stop in front of those works of art to admire them for a while, and he admired this young officer even more.

It really doesn't matter whether Lu Qing can ascend or not.

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Since more than a thousand years ago, the Galaxy Alliance has ushered in an explosive period of technology and civilization.

There are new discoveries and new achievements every day.

A new ore star can be rediscovered every once in a while.

The problem of energy depletion has been fundamentally solved long ago.

The difficulty of interstellar navigation has already been overcome by the rediscovery of the torsion hole circuit and the full application of the gravitational field.

It is no exaggeration to say that although the current human society is not as good as the glorious period of ancient civilizations, it is already qualified to be called highly developed.

As an appendage of the social ontology, art has naturally ushered in rapid development, coupled with the pressure of the sea of ​​dark things in the universe, the art form of contemporary society has become more extreme and profound. If you discard those art forms, you may be able to discover the fierce collision between richness and despair, life and death hidden in it.

There is a deep blue swimming pool at the end of the Museum of Contemporary Art, which looks like a clean sky.

The pipes that filled the swimming pool poured out black oil. Accompanied by a low voice, the oily dirt kept hitting the bottom of the swimming pool, devouring the blue tiles, and finally slowly sank from a hole in the distance, like a picture of a black hole swallowing everything.

Those black oil stains are very simple and clear, representing death or the sea of ​​dark things that are still.

These primitive oils from a certain planet are said to be naturally produced by plants hundreds of millions of years ago through geological changes. They were an important source of energy in the early days of ancient civilizations. They don't feel dirty, they pile up and then drip, but instead hide some kind of order or law.

This art installation was installed here 31 years ago, and it caused a lot of controversy at that time, Ran Handong introduced.

Jing Jiu motioned her not to say any more.

Ran Handong understood something, looked outside, turned around and walked into the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Jing Jiu turned around and walked to the other side.

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The entire Xinghe Art Museum is under the Antarctic ice sheet, while the Contemporary Art Museum is at the outermost edge, and it is a cliff when you walk out.

Below the cliff is the famous trough of the Antarctic ice sheet, and there is endless snow and ice as far as the eye can see. The cliff itself is black, like the oil stains in the previous swimming pool.

In other places on the main star, such as the capital city, such as the priest's manor, such as the grassland behind the mountains, the sky is occupied by the light of the stars, and no clear blue can be seen. The sky here is obviously different, it is blue, very close to the color of the tiles in the swimming pool. Some classical beauty, more like Chaotian Continent.

Where the stars are easily visible, people look at them at night, but no one screams in shock.

Get used to it, and naturally don't take it seriously.

In the eyes of Jing Jiu, who is used to seeing the blue sea and blue sky, the world in front of him is still only white snow and black mountains.

Black and white form a perfect balance, like those pieces on a chessboard that he doesn't like, giving him a feeling of being too stable for his liking.

At this moment, a bright red color appeared in the black world.

That smear of red is not like the sword light of Furth Sword, it has a bloody meaning.

It's also not like the magma in the ground, it has a warm feeling.

Jing Jiu thought for a while before he realized that it should be the color of wild flowers on the cliffside of Tianguang Peak.

Just when he was thinking about these things, the red color came close, fluttering with the wind, making a whistling sound, as if turning into a flag.

The protective cover of the art gallery kept out the wind and snow, and the red cloak fluttered down, standing still.

General Li looked at the world beyond the cliff with profound and calm eyes.

He didn't speak.

Jing Jiu didn't speak either.

It was so quiet outside the cliff.

The sound of wind and snow is outside.

The sound of oil falling into the pool was inside.

This is a cross-section of the Antarctic ice cap. The star is on the other side of the black cliff, and its figure cannot be seen at all, but the changes in the light it sheds can be seen.

The light of the sky gradually shifted, and the stars rose higher and higher.

It was noon, and the whole planet ushered in its brightest moment.

Cities near the equator can get extremely hot even with protective shields. Probably because of the thermal air current, the ice and snow outside the cliff became more violent, and the color of the sky gradually faded. Miraculously, the blue sky became transparent, and you can see farther places. They stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the dark universe beyond the transparent sky, looking at the space battles and satellites that seemed to be right in front of them, looking at those warships, and even being able to see the nearest planet...

It's been so long, you should know what's going on in this world.

General Lee's voice was calm and deep, like his eyes, like the perfect chime of a bell.

Jing Jiu said: According to the definition in science fiction novels and games, this is the main universe, and Chaotian Continent is a time domain that drifts on the same orbit but is independent from the outside world.

General Li said: Some people like to use the space domain concept of bubbles. I agree with you more. This has nothing to do with the difference in time flow rate, because there is no clear space boundary between the two.

Jing Jiu said, The question I am concerned about is, was Chaotian Continent discovered by that god of ancient civilization, or created by him?

Based on our understanding of ancient civilizations, that god does not have the ability to create the world, so he should have discovered it in the universe.

General Li said: But since the human beings in the two worlds are of the same origin, the Chaotian Continent must have been designed by him.

Jing Jiu said, The boundary between the two worlds cannot be broken. How did he do all this?

General Lee said: The priestess did not disclose any information in this regard.

Jing Jiu knew that the priestess he was talking about was not the priests scattered on more than one hundred planets in the Galaxy Alliance, but the one he was referring to.

General Li withdrew his gaze, looked at him and said calmly, I want to know what conclusion you have come to during this time.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, due to the abuse of gravitational field weapons or higher-level weapons and the deformation of torsion holes, the dimensional barriers of the universe were torn apart, and dark matter came to the main material world. Human civilization was facing destruction, and that god was faced with a choice, either to leave this galaxy, or to fight to the death with the sea of ​​dark matter. The distance between the large galaxy groups is too far away, and that distance is more terrifying than death. In the end, the god chose the latter, but he had no confidence, so he wanted to leave a spark for human civilization. At that time, he discovered the time domain where the Chaotian Continent was located, and started to transform it. He put humans and some other lives into that world, and... also put some biological replicas soaked in the dark sea into it, that is, those monsters in the snow country. On the one hand, he felt that human beings and other lives might evolve into a more powerful race in that world, and he also hoped that those humans could find a way to completely defeat the dark sea.

This is the longest sentence that Jing Jiu has said for more than a thousand years.

His voice has no ups and downs, it sounds like an emotionless robot, making the most boring narration and talking about the most boring things.

But in fact, these are the most important secrets of human civilization, the most hidden truths.

At least one approach to the truth.

General Li was silent for a while, then said, Probably so.

Jing Jiu looked into the distance.

There is a dark universe, planets, stars, nebulae, battleships, everything.

He closed his eyes, then opened them, and said, In other words, we are all experimental subjects.