Chapter 550: Chapter 359: Since Things Have Come to This, Let’s Plant Trees First_2
The Insect-devouring Tree began to slowly retract its authority, gathering the planet’s energy and water sphere, adjusting the functions of the entire planet’s ecology.
Though the Insect-devouring Tree couldn’t become the real World Consciousness, it should be able to replace it for a period, maintaining the planet’s basic ecology until a new World Consciousness is born.
Just like those ancestors from the Interstellar Corps who planted a Divine Tree on the Dead Star.
Meanwhile, the tens of thousands of people originally brought back from Hell had already fervently started to build their new homes. Despite it being nighttime, they still constructed simple houses on the ground and began dividing labor to build their new homes.
The buildings from the original world were all unusable. After all, the entire world had nearly collided with Hell, and the atmospheres had begun to contact and rub against each other, causing the ground structures and even the entire surface layer to be overturned repeatedly.
Now the whole land is actually full of potholes, a scene of the apocalypse. The structures originally built on this land look as if they’d experienced a catastrophic earthquake.
Even the trees on the ground were overturned again and again, most now fragmented or uprooted, and original rivers were sucked up into the sky and now just flow wherever on returning to the ground.
If there were no Divine Tree to regulate the ecology, Xue Dili feels this world would take tens of millions of years to recover.
After finishing everything, Xue Dili finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked into the distance, where people continue to build their new homes in the dark, relying solely on torches. These people, who had been tormented by Hell’s demons for over a year, had not completely forgotten their basic knowledge.
It might be difficult to restore their former civilization, but merely returning to a basic form, forging ancient waterwheels and farmlands, then slowly creating iron furnaces until steam engines... and internal combustion engines...
Even without complete industrial inheritance, perhaps within a few centuries they can restore their civilization.
After all, the planet’s original civilizational state seemed similar to Earth’s; if not for the interference from demons and evil ghosts, they might have been more advanced technologically than Earth.
It’s a pity, because of the demons and evil ghosts’ harassment, they misdirected their civilization towards a path of demonization.
Xue Dili thought this to himself and soon discontinued his involvement in these people’s construction of their new home.
He returned to Hell, which now appeared worse than ever, as if the planet had been torn apart by a gigantic Husky. The ground was upheaving, the atmosphere twisting, storms, and frequent earthquakes made the entire planet seem ready to crack any moment.
This was actually because when it almost contacted Green Star, mutual gravity caused Hell’s mantle layer to shift. Now, after leaving the gravitational pull, the moving mantle needed to slowly restore under its own gravity.
After all, Hell is only a tenth the size of Green Star. This mutual gravitational impact was merely minor tremors for Green Star but extinction-level earthquakes for Hell.
Under such conditions, it’s a cataclysmic earthquake and storm that ensures no creature in this world can survive.
Xue Dili had to release the Divine Tree again, not the Insect-devouring Tree this time, but the tree sealed from the Ninth Apostle’s home planet.
Since now there were no other macroscopic life forms in Hell, perhaps only some microorganisms could survive in such an environment, it might take billions of years to see civilization arise anew.
In contrast, it’s more realistic to wait for humans on Green Star to restore civilization, then reach here by spaceship.
After all, Hell is a satellite of Green Star, only 420,000 kilometers apart.
But Xue Dili didn’t completely let the Divine Tree go unchecked; being an Apostle’s Divine Tree, Xue Dili couldn’t fully control it. Therefore, a world-class seal still functioned upon it, leaving only a one-percent gap for simple ecological adjustments in Hell.
Meanwhile, he attempted to arduously use the Divine Tree’s roots to investigate some remnants of information in this world.
Soon, as the roots spread across Hell, Xue Dili finally discovered some information left behind here.
This place seemed to be a structure crafted by a demon; even after such drastic planetary changes, this enclosed room buried several kilometers underground hadn’t been destroyed.
Enclosed Demon? Or maybe Imprisoned Demon?
In Xue Dili’s hand, the Eight-Section Light Wheel slowly cut through the enclosed space like an electric saw, revealing a skeleton of an astronaut who’d been bisected at the waist.
An astronaut?
Xue Dili observed the area, finding the astronaut had been dead for a long time, his upper and lower body separated, the whole body seemed severed at the waist, splitting the spacesuit. The corpse had long dried into a skeleton inside the suit, dead for at least over a year.
It seems shortly after the demon outbreak he died, even enduring inhumane torture before death while trapped here.
Was it the Enclosed Demon? The Bisecting Demon? Or was it the 2.5 Demon’s doing?
Xue Dili couldn’t determine, but he started collecting information left on the astronaut, discovering a watch on his wrist.
It was a type of watch Xue Dili hadn’t seen before, appearing to be a high-tech item specially provided to astronauts.
Upon Xue Dili picking up the watch, it seemed to automatically trigger some program.
"Hello, to the person who picked up this watch, if you are a demon, I request you pass this watch to the remaining humans. They can use the knowledge within to reproduce and proliferate more humans. If you’re human, then listen carefully..."
"I’m the station chief of Space Station Kallis Three, we were attacked by demons, it’s cosmic demons responsible, our space station was consumed, we were all controlled by demons..."
"Perhaps all the cities on the ground were attacked by demons too, but demons won’t kill us all. They must rely on human numbers to maintain their existence, so everyone, if we live, living means victory!"
The voice from the watch seemed like a man’s heavy breathing, even mixed with sounds of pain and fear.
"Demons will never defeat us..."
"Please, everyone, survive, even in Hell, persevere, we will surely win..."
"Kallis Three Station’s Chief, leaving a message in World Calendar year 8754."
The information disappeared from the watch, and Xue Dili silently looked at the bisected astronaut.
Despite this enclosed space rolling and lying dormant beneath Hell’s surface for unknown durations, the bizarre posture of the skeleton indicated he was killed by demons, even forced to take extremely distorted actions before dying, seemingly intent on instilling terror in the astronaut.
Yet in the astronaut’s final moments, he still chose to record his words, hoping to leave the most valuable legacy for those who come later.
Its name is Civilization.
Xue Dili quietly put away the watch in his hand. It might not represent an entire civilization, but for those planning to rebuild homes on Green Star, many documents and knowledge might save them from countless wrong paths, reducing the time to restore industrialization by several folds.
As for the humans on the ground... the Insect-devouring Tree will provide them with basic food and fresh water until they complete their sowing and achieve the first harvest.
Xue Dili closed his eyes, and at that moment, continued exploring more of Hell through the roots. Not only did he wish to find information left by the civilization on Green Star, he also sought to discover the native civilization and humans originally from Hell, the remnants of their information.
Xue Dili believes there was civilization in Hell, even its degree of development was not low, considering Hell had "Human Demons" and "Mechanical Demons." This at least proves when interfacing with Green Star, the prior civilization had already reached the industrial era.
